Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 March 1947 — Page 14

‘of the wage dispute in the rubber indusSo try ‘raises hope that in still other industries compro- * mises ‘can be reached that will keep production going. * The pay increase of 1115 cents an hour was less than

the rubber workers union asked, more than the companies |

offered. But there can be little doubt that both the workers ‘and the owners have gained more by this peaceful settlemet than/would have been the case had their differences been hammered out ina prolonged and bitter strike.

ro news to the general public is the industry spokes- |

‘man's statement that rubber officials are “hopeful prices will not rise because of the-wage increases, but i I} go down.” That is a pattesy "yhich, if followed in other industries, will bring benefits to everybody—to workers and the public through lower prices of things they want to bay, to investors in industry in broadening markets. Wage negotiations are already under way in the steel - industry; will start soon in the automobile ‘industry, and then in coal mining. The good example set by rubber management and union in reaching an argreement by peaceful bargaining suggests that it is possible this year to avoid the disastrous strikes of last year which sacrificed so much in wages lost; production disrupted and - ‘prices and living costs increased. With continued. production and increased efficiency, ‘the country may get over that price hump and start making ‘available more steel products, rubber products, automobiles and other things people want to buy, at prices they can af- - ford to pay. Only. when that historic American formula

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Hoosier

- say, but |

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"| do not agree with a word that you +

will defend to the death

your right to say it." — Voltaire.

"Progress in Morality Lagging

for spreading plenty has been firmly re-established—only | Because Conscience Insensitive"

then can we say that reconversion has been accomplished.

THE LOYALTY ORDER

r is right, and urgently necessary, for the government of the United States to make certain of the loyalty of its employees.

By L. A. Jackson, Vernon Millions of the world’s finest young men have been slaughtered on the battlefields during the last few years. Thousands of crimes are committed every day. Crime costs our country billions of dollars every year. Many of our people occupying important social, economic and governmental positions are guilty of all sorts of unethical conduct. What is the fundamental cause of all this? The cause of all un-

If we are to help other countries resist “political infil- | etheical conduct is lack of altruism. If ail people were as altruistic as

tration,” we must resist it firmly here at home. So we welcome President Truman's order that persons 5 ‘whom there are reasonable grounds to believe disloyal must be barred or removed from the federal service. The order is aimed not only at members of “totalitarian, Fascist, Communist or subversive” organizations, but

far behind our progress in other,

our rapid progress in meglicine, technology, etc, has been due to our making use of our scientific

fields. Why is this? To me the reason is obvious. We know that uo , A 4. Indis:sapetis

our best people, unethical conduct would practically Sisappes. Progress in- morality has lagged!

= “WHY CAN POLICEMEN ACCEPT CASH GIFTS?”

I see where they are going to

also at persons in “sympathetic association” with such knowledge. But in morality we have resigned to keep from appearing

: In practical effect, that means Communists and their fellow travelers. There probably aren't many members of or sympathizers with Fascist organizations on the govern- ~ ment payroll, or trying to get on—although, of course, any that may be found should get the bounce in a hurry. There are few, if any, avowed Conimunists amongthe government's employees. But there are a lot of people who have a marked affinity for communism, who follow the “party line,” who belong or have ‘belonged to various “fronts” and “transmission belts.” Such people have no business holding federal jobs. Only last week, the U. S. * supreme court upheld the government’s right to discharge employees because of membership .in “Communist-front” organizations. Of course there is danger of injustice to loyal persons in carrying out the President’s order. But we think Mr. Truman has been careful to guard against this danger. He has set up a process of investigation, hearings and appeals which should be adequate to protect the rights of innocent employees. In fact, the new procedure is a great improvement on the haphazard methods heretofore used in efforts to keep the government service free of borers from“within.

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CENTRALIZED DEFENSE

SECRETARY OF WAR PATTERSON advanced some sound reasons why substantial economies should result | + from establishment of a single national defense organiza--tion in his testimony in behalf of that legislation. We have two organizations, war and navy, operating in the same field, each as an independent unit, he said. Each department has made its own plans, setting its own. requirements in manpower, money and equipment. Each has made heavy and competing demands on, the na40's -resources. - Bach -ias got all the money it-could, eit hOuE any agreement’ between“ them-as to. what constituted a comprehensive plan of national defense. : Cuts might be made by the budget bureau, Mr. Pater: son said, but he added, “I have never heard it claimed that’ either the cuts or the reduced amounts left to the two departments were related in the slightest degree to any overall plan for the defense of the nation.” : Having spent seven years in the war department, including the period of world war II, Mr. Patterson is a competent witness on this subject. Plainly, neither intelligent budgeting nor adequate * planning can be established under such a system. If this _ fails to explain why we do not have a balanced budget, it + @t least makes clear why we never had an adequate peace- + time defense organization. During the war unity in command in the field was obligated. Now we should put the horse in its proper place "in front of the cart and have unity of command in Wash. | ington. It should give us better service at a substantial saving in money.

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¥ W marks the golden jubilee of the Pat association, an organization that much to develop co-operation between schools and

elsewhere the P.-T. A. has a splendid | iment through its group in each school, | specific needs of that school but also or oni the eduentional tem

founding of |

relied on the hope of reward and! the fear of punishment in a future life, "We are Tiow beginniiz 0 uss our knowledge of psychology in mak-!,, ing people more altruistic. The only way to increase altruism in an individual is to develop in him a more sensitive conscience. Threat fof punishment and promise of reward in another world will not do this. If all parents and teachers would begin now to learn all they

dren a sensitive conscience, our moral progress would, in my opinion, overtake our mechanical progress within a few decades. I believe every person should be required to pass a test in child trdinthg Before given a marriage license or a license '0 teach 1 our pulilis Schools,

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PROUD OF NEW STATION”

By a Radice Fam; Olney st. Over at Anderson, Ind, a new

commercial radio station has been broadcasting the last few days and I have found so much pleasure in listening to its good, clean, uninterrupted programs, 1 want to tell your readers so they may also tune in.

It was the surprise of my life last Priday when never a commercial came over the ether waves of WCBC, 1470 on my dial. No socapbox serials. But in their stead were programs intended for both. rural land eity -folks, for religious and non-religious radio audiences, ‘and music to suit all people and all moods. I listen to them each day

offensiye features whatéver. Anderson might well be proud of her-new radio-station and I_hope your readers will get enjoyment from WCBC as I do. -

can about how to develop in chil- |

with. pleasure -and..profit, and._»na,

before the board. By all means,

| three and four-room reinstate one of our policemen who

“RESTRICT RENT INCREASES RIGIDLY” Richards, 127 E. New York st. Bor to The Times our wise city fathers have decided to tear down all the houses in four city half blocks to make room for large garage buildings to accommodate the cars that are crowding the streets. It is true that the parking problem is a tough one, but to carry out that plan would throw posssibly 200 families out on the street when there is not a place for them to get shelter. If it is so necessary that parking space should be provided, let it be by building high buildings with say three floors for parking and above them several stories made into two, apartments to be rented at a reasonable rate to house not only those the proposition had displaced, but making

let's have him back becduse they only got $50 this time and maybe the next time they can get $150

ytrgngeriuill lish give YOR o gift of

he would part with as a gift, and not for a bribe. I wonder if I would get by with it? I know I wouldn't because I don’t wear a blue suit gold colored buttons on ‘it.

f stood on a corner and for money with which to know what the po-! Lock -him up for | on the other hand, if sd on the same with a police uniform on, he could get by with it because it wouldn't be begging or stealing, | but merely a “gift” they would be

duty and, try to=keep the law and peace while others do as little as possible. But I feel this way, why should this policeman. be allowed back on the force when they took money which they did not earn? Why aren't they treated like others when one takes anything that doesn’t belong to them? Why didn’t they get 30 or 60 days? To me, taking money like that is stealing because they didn’t say anything about the $50 gift until the 17-year-old complained. You know money talks (or so they say—and now. I. believe) so maybe they had a little more “gift” money to put \yith their, “450. and. got out-of it. Maybe if we had any “gift” ‘money around when one of our loved ones got into trouble, the pfisons and reformatories wouldn't be so full.

Who agrees with me? -

Side Glances—By. Galbraith

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homes for 1000 or more families available. : In regard to rent control: It may be only fair that owners of

“as a gift.” Its wonderful when a Property be permitted to raise rents,

but there should be rigid restric-

tion to an increase of not more $50 just because you're having eco- | than 0 or at most 15 per cent. To nomic troubles. I'd sure like to]

They boy ‘| father, after a

‘| in pioneer Indiana.

gave him pills, calomel, Davis powders, castor ofl, and

Fembroil, then calm Nm They gave ‘him ipecac, rhubarb, and weak brandy,

is virgin snakeweed. Seneca is crude petroleum used by Seneca Indians, and so named. All these were given to him in varied rotation,

in different amounts, at varying intervals by one to

several attending physicians, over a period of 10

‘| days. Then the patient died early in the morning

of April 4, 1841, : The patient was Willlam Henry Harrison, who had been President of the United States a few hours less than one month.

| An Era of Yarbs

WHETHER THIS PATIENT died because of, or in spite of, the remedies given him, is beside the question, He lived in the midst of the era of yarbs and doctors then administering to the nations, with pioneer Indiana including both the yarb doctor era and its honored William Henry Harrison. Keeping well, or getting well, once he became ili, was a major problem to a pioneer Hoosier. Consider him from a modern look-back: He lived on a diet limited in ranfe and often of diminishing quantity in a way to make. guod health

beyond many folks. Linc: oln ence suggested to bis

ked 44: over, potatoes, that he Reds NN

were a mighty poor blessing. «w=. ~The. scene. in. essence was: voustiess times At best, the diet of the Indiana pioneer was skimpy or faulty. His house and clothes

' WASHINGTON, March 25.—Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg has just had a birthday. Sixty-three years old on March 22, he finds himself under a staggering load of responsibility. IN the capitol and the senate office building he has three offices and 11 telephone extensions which ring most of the time. In the morning he presides over the senate foreign relations committee. In the afternoon he presides over the senate. And very often in the evening he meets with his Republican: colleagues to try, to shape policy.

Reactionaries Abuse Him

JUST AHEAD of the senator from Michigan is a stiff schedule. On the emergency list is passage of aid to Greece and Turkey. Backed behind that is confirmation of David E. Lililenthal. Peace treaties with Italy, Rumania, Bulgaria and Hungary must be ratified. These are only the major steps to be taken in a senate that has no limitation on debate. The senator counts on an inheritance of toughness from his Dutch ancestors to see him through. His mood cusomarily is one of half humorous resignation to his lot. And he has a self-esteem sufficient to give him a degree of pleasure in the honors and praise that go along with the dead cats and overripe vegetables. The evolution that has taken place in this stout Michigander is one of the most interesting political phenomena of our time. Ten years ago he was an easy-going, rather cynical Washington party-goer. He was an isolationist, scoffing at idealistic talk about - international co-operation, demanding that America build up her armaments and stay within her own borders. World war II brought home to him the terrible meaning of the new weapons that have . destroyed space and time. If he were to describe his own position, it would probably be middle of center, and that would be a fairly accurate description.

cases as miuch as 200 per cent. That | would cause riots and rebellion on| | the part ol the people who are un-

Vandenberg is abused by both extremes of the | political spectrum. The one-worlders and the Wal-lace-ites regard him as far too cautious and 'con-

) THEY OUPPED HIM-blistered him with a hot ‘| cup. They bled him. from a ven in the arm. They

- demulcents--soothing stuff. The process was Bi : tvi

tapering off with serpentaria and seneca. Serpentaria’

war

SAGA oF INDIANA fee . By Willan A Madow ~~. ~~ 0 |Pioneer ii a Home-Made Process

WB Yi & bg

Rigas fen sot Sh inden for wholeson ps, lies, mougions, some oF all of tht w

from & atively. oi wiki

thinly scattered over the state, pe i om

made process in pioneer Indiana. At the end of pioneer days about 1860, there wash’ a medical school in the state, and only 43 medical schools in the United States. There was a total of 67 in the United States and Canada. Thus a doctor in Indiana learned how to be a doctor by watching another doctor administer to the sick. He read a few medical books; watched his mentor at work; mixed the two into whatever good horse sense he had, and was on his way to be a pioneer doctor in pioneer Indiana.

Fake Way to Success TO PLAGUE these hard-working, scantily trained | A

ploneer doctors were men always trying to fake their |

way to success in the profession. One Saturday morning, June 18, 1887, they got one of these—a little pock-marked Irishimane-inte 4 court in Rush county as a prosecuting witness in a ' malpractice case against an able surgeon.

The case was one of whitlow, an inflammatory 5

tumor on the finger. The defending -attorney asked the faker: Is this a case of paranoychia? (He was | being very technical. It made the ignorant faker | sweat). - Or of ornychia maligma? Or of lunar caustic or other escharotics? In each case the faker’ ‘refused to answer, ~The judge dismissed the case. Yet ule a sprinkle of such fakers

BY rec eC re With yAYDSE SAG doctors, with an an occasiénal §

faker snouting in” nearly. 100 years later, lasted | all through the plonéer days in Indiana. In retrospect, they did a gocd job.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs Vandenberg Carries Staggering Load

ducting & campaign of vilification and abuse against’ him that equals the polsoh poured out on President Roosevelt and the New Deal. The Tribune treats news on Vandenberg with a!

press. When Vandenberg charged Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Democratic national committee, with playing politics on foreign policy, the story made the front pages of most newspapers. The Tribune carried not a line. ; : This is a recognition, of course, of Vandenberg's strength in the country and in his party. Col. Rob- | ; ert R. McCormick, publisher of the Tribune, would | i like to push the party back to dead-end isolationism. | He would like to dictate the G. O. P. nominatiofi next * year. In.1936, he insisted that Vandenberg take the | vice presidential nomination with Alf Landon. Vandenberg’s unequivocal statement in Life maga-' zine that he would not be a candidate for President grew out of a deep resentment at the practice of imputing his every mode to presidential ambition. With this went stories about the bitter rivalry be- | tween Vandenberg and Senator Taft. Vandenberg | says that he and Taft once kept count and that for 13 days running there were reports in one or another of the Washington newspapers describing the “feud” between the two.

His Son Assists

AT 63, VANDENBERG resists the blandishments | of the social lobby. No celebrity is so sought after to adorn a Washington dinner table as the chairman of the senate foreign relations "committee. Vanden~ § berg allows his wife to select a social engagement for one night a week. The other six nights he is in his study or in bed by nine o'clock. One of his satisfactions in this crowded time is that his son, Arthur H. Jr, is his personal assistant, They work well togethgr as a team, and, as Arthur Sr, is quick to admit, he needs all the help and all the teamwork he can get these days. f

able to pay exorbitant rates =| REFLECTIONS ode By Robert C. Ruark

the enc of the capialist profit-grab- |

with four or five chil- hing and exploitation of the cam- | \

mon people, whom God must have loved or He would not have made S50 many of Shey. . “WANT PEACE, "HAPPINESS INSTEAD OF WAR”

By Bud Kaesel, Indisnapolis As I sit here tonight by my | radio and hear the reports of con-| [fusion and unrest and suspicion of | [Russian expansion, it makes me | think back to days of 1938 when war dark clouds hung over Europe and everyone was saying there wouldn't be any war, But it came and we paid a heavy price in Amer- | ican’ boys lives which we can never. bring back. During the foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow, where many problems are to be solved and the burden lies on the shoulders of Gen. Marshall, our secretary of state, whether we have peace or the last war in our time, instead of just worrying. about it, let us all get down on our knees and pray to God in Heaven to watch over Mr. Marshall at the meeting and give him wisdom and vision and spare him from sickness 80 _he-ean work oul a durable-nesce:; for this sick world of ours. JI know no one wants _another bloody war {like the one Just over. I know many gold star mothers will agree ‘with me because they know what a shock and loss of a smiling young kid means to them. We want peace

and happiness instead of war, [J

” ” “WHY PAY THE FAEMERS [FOR RAISING TOO MUCH?” By W. Cash, 726 N. Sheffield ave. 1 would like for someone that knows to téll me why the .government pays the farmer for raising

L [too much. You never heard of the

government paying the farmer anything until the insurance companies | and banks bought up most of the good farms. You never heard of a good farmer spending any ‘money for something to eat. If they want sugar or coffee they take a basket of eggs and trade them for what they want. It takes all a laboring man can make to pay rent and buy a few groceries. The government buys all surplus and dumps it when they should give it to the people that need it. I have worked at Pt. Harrison and Camp Atterbury and seen enough food thrown away to feed more people than they feed.

DAILY THOUGHT * GIVE God “thy "broken heart, He

¥ whole will make it. ~Edmiund Prest-

wich. -

. My friends scorn | me: but aye pouretht out tears unto,

Gob.

YET despair not of His final . pardon,

: ~Job 16:20.

Raw’ Justice in the

NEW YORK; March 25.—The bones and sinew of * American jurisprudence are taking something of a bouncing around in this town lately, for, I hasten to | add, purely humanitarian and practical reasons, but neverthless old man Moses must be quivering in his crypt. We base our law on the Mosaic law: An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth. He that steals shall repay or be punished, he that kills will get killed right back, in order to keep other people from indiscriminately knocking off innocent bystanders. I am not the man to say whether this is wrong or right. I merely state that this is the way we work it.

Killer Was a Nice Man

RECENTLY, a private copper for the New York Central railroad, a burly man named Joseph Kelly, got tearing drunk. Kelly was licensed to carry a gun in New York and New Jersey. While drunk, Kelly ghot and killed a stranger, a little Puerto Rican busboy named Hector Orta. They were strangers. Kelly; sobered up, told police that in his foggy, drunken state, he suffered a delusion that someone was trying to pick his pocket. This inchoate resentment was evidently focussed on Orta, who is just as dead as if he had been shot in a bahk heist. In the same -lweath, Kelly: SES Otte. prked: Hie get ‘off the subway on which ‘they. “both ST in order to have a drink. The sentencing date for Kelly, a married man and a father, got buried; somehow, and the press missed the sentence. No‘ commotion was made here. Kelly came before Judge George L. Donnellan, received a suspended sentence, probation of five years, and the order Yo pay the slain Puerto Rican’'s widow $1500 in graduated payments, By his own admission, Judge Donnellan was puzzled by the case. “I debated on this thing a long

| time because I didn't know what to do with it. This

WORLD AFFAIRS « + + By William Philip Simms ‘Anniversary of a Tragic Betrayal’

WASHINGTON, March 25.—This week marks the sixth anniversary of one of the turning points of world war IT—overthrow of the pro-axis regime in Belgrade and entry of the Serbs on our side. © Up to March 27, 1941, Hitler had had almost everything his-own way. His one setback had been in “Greece where Mussolini's blackshirts had been thrown for a loss}

Shame to U.S. and Britain

TO. REPAIR THAT LOSS the Nazis wished to cross Yugoslavia. Regent Prince Paul gave this consent. As soon as the news got abroad, the Serbs rose, overthrew Paul, placed 17-year-old pro-allied King Peter in power, did what’ they.could to defend their country against invasion. True, the conflict was short-lived. Germans entered Athens 30 days later. But the march across Yugoslavia had been slowed, two or three weeks had been lost, Hitler's timetable had been upset. The hard-pressed British in Greece had won a respite— all of which constituted a blow from which Hitler .was never to recover. ;

Donnellan Style

man took the law into his own hands and shot this = man. . “I “received many letters from priests and other : people, attesting the good character of Kelly . .. all of the letters show that he is industrious, supports : wife and children. I also received a letter from this man’s (Kelly's) wife—a very pitiful letter. She told how she would be left destitute with her children if they sent her husband to jail.” After considering that you cannot bring back the dead; and wondering whether society would be benefitted by tucking Kelly away, Judge Donnellan says he decided to suspend the sentence, with the proviso that Kelly stay away from the hard stuff for five years. It is interesting that Judge Donnellan once sentenced Daniel Spencer Moran, a dealer in phony | securities, to from two to four years for peddling $5100 worth of bum paper to a widow. On.a lawyer's plea, the sentence was stayed for 10 days, during | which time the lawyer said Moran, who had pleaded | ! guilty, hoped to make partial restitution.

Those Mitigating’ Circumstances | WHEN MORAN CAME UP again, Judge Donnellan | let him off with a’ suspended sentence, éven though | he had called Moran ‘a cheap, stupid, confirmed |

. cheat, who stole from widows and orphans, associated |

“with crimisfale eng spent hile wlney on. wemen-and- = drink. -The judge defended his suspension of -sen--tence by saying that, although Moran was wanted | by the FBI and elsewhere, he came of a fine family, | | and anyhow, the woman's loss was not so great as it |

first appeared.

That sort of thinking, obviously, has entered into the decision, on the Kelly case. If a man is a pseudo cop, has a good former record, is licensed to carry a | gun, is defended by the miayor's brother, has $1500 and is sorry he rubbed out a stranger while stupid | drunk, then he is eligible to get off scot free, or wha amounts to it.

The United States categorically pledged all possible

material aid under lend-lease and the full moral 1]

support in ‘diplomatic and other fields. Both went back on their promises. In March, 1941, Soviet Russia was collaborating with - Adolf | Hitler and had been since August, 1939. Tits was in Moscow. Not until later in the year—after Hitler and Stalin had started fighting each other—did Tito appear on the Yugoslav scene. Even then, he devoted himself primarily to organizing Communist bands and fighting Mikhailoviteh and his guerrillas. Under pressure from Moscow, London and Washington - withdrew their support from Mikhallovitch and gave it to Tito. The outcome, of ‘course, was! inevitable.

Shoe on Other Foot GREECE CAME WITHIN an ace of going the way of Yugoslavia. Only in her case British intervened to ‘prevent the Communists from taking over after Nazi evacuation. Moscow- had promised Britain the Greek crumb from for the rest of the

European table in exchange | |

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Seventh Day A randed as “dangero tion of the princiy church and state (congress to make gal holiday. ! Included in the hich the church o ere bills providing g of "Observe Si nd the the paym peretarian instituti easury. The action was ntis)s at the Lak nce in Grand Rapi ay by a delegation tion~from Indian The Rev. S. E. _ pnference presiden plegates and visi He reported Indiana conduct p50 members. Fi dings have bes o are in the pre h the state, the d. The president in: prence that 16 ¢ jurchased for new d that new A ildings are comy 0 mpleted in Vince and La Porte on to the Cicer lormitory at a cost x also was disclo that the 3909 A ons in Indiana