Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 March 1947 — Page 20

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NOBODY CAN AFFORD PHONE STRIKE NLY those who want congress to pass drastically restrictive labor legislation can find pleasure in the . thought of a nation-wide telephone strike. It is possible that such a strike may begin on April 7. The government, through the labor department, is trying to avert it. We hope that effort will succeed. The country cannot afford, and in our opinion will not tolerate, the stoppage of a service so essential by a battle betweeen telephone management and a union of telephone employees. The union—the National Federation of Telephone Workers—has made 10 demands. The first is for a wage

* increase of $12 a week for some 337,000 employees. This

would increase telephone payrolls by over $200 million a year, and the public surely would pay 4 large part of that in higher phone bills. The union has insisted, that the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. bargain with it on a nation-wide basis. ; : : The A. T. & T. has refused to bargain on that basis. It has referred the demands to its individual associated companies in the Bell system, and a number of these have said they were willing to submit to arbitration of the wage issue.

- " " ® = = E believe that if this controversy should result in a strike things would happen which both management and labor throughout al! industry would have cause to regret. - . For one thing, congress almost certainly would authorgovernment seizure of strike-threatened vital industries rmanent peacetime policy. That, under the supreme L. Lewis decision, would make striking unions subject to h nalties, For another, congress probably would . outlaw indus ide bargaining. But employers need not think that unions alone would suffer. Government intervention in labor-management controversies, except in the role of peacemaker, can hardly fail to lead to compulsory arbitration, with all its dangers to freedom of business enterprise. . -

WRONG TO SPEND OUR OWN? SENATORS Claude Pepper-of Florida and Glen Taylor of Idaho have renounced the Truman doctrine of helping free peoples remain free. They insist that only “nonmilitary” aid shall be given to Greece and Turkey, and even that must be administered by the United Nations. Apparently they want a revival of something like

UNRRA, which was chiefly financed by American taxpay-

ers, and if revived probably would have to be wholly financed by us. No other nations seem to be capable of or interested in contributing. : Only a fool would stick his bandaged finger again into that fire. The United States contributed nearly $3 billion to UNRRA. Not much of it was wisely spent, at least not the $354 millions spent in Greece. Else’ why should Greece

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Hoosier Forum

"l do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death” your right to “say- it.” — Voltaire.

"Help Beautify City, Bring ~~ . - Garbage Collection Up-to-Date”

: By Genevieve Sherril] Heckman, 4225 Ralston Ave. Yes, Mrs. H. H. Mitchell, I agree with you entirely about “trash day on Kingsley Drive.” Not .only Kingsley Dfive but also the whole community suffers exactly as you and your neighbors do on that eventful day. This is only one otfier instance which proves again that the area north of the fairgrounds is forgotten by the city officials. 9 If we housewives gathered up all our tin cans, ashes and garbage pails and each Monday morning industriously distributed them and

their contents (breaking a few bottles among items for good measure) over the street and lawn, we would be arrested, and rightly. The trash

and garbage collectors do this. Per- oat ee it not purposely, but the ns | Way & anything Wan A oR trash po do, or they will have an inferiority time they reach us that when the complex—or shoot you or something. men fling our contribution to the You are certainly behind the times. top of the heap, it promptly runs| WHY, We even teach sex. In our high back down and onto the street and Schools to mixed classes. jawn. As for a collection to help pay a The garbage man is in such a defense attorney for those “poor great rush that he spills one-fourth | babies” who were supposed to have the contents of the pail on the way | Shot that state cop—well, theze it to the truck, one-fourth in the |S 8€8in, youre old-fashioned. That truck, one-fourth on the ground OP had no business getting in these

darlings’ way—that was mi . and leaves one-fourth in the bot- ings — y—that ore self

tom for us to clean out and dis-

now be in such poor shape and in need of immediate and direct relief? | Of course, one other big reason for Greece's troubles was the hundreds of millions UNRRA poured into Yugo- | slavia which the Communist dictator Tito freely appro- | priated for his military establishment and doubtless used | in part to provide training and supplies for guerrilla warriors to send across the border to harass the Greek government,

. » td = » t J CONSIDERABLE hullabaloo has been raised in congress about the $300 million with which President Truman proposes to help Greece help herself. A considerable hullabaloo, indeed, in view of the fact that the United States, through loans, lend-lease, surplus supplies, UNRRA and other forms of relief in the last two years, already has spent or has pledged itself to spend more than $15 billion to support civilians in foreign countries. : The different thing about the Greek proposal is that this time the United States proposes to spend its own money, instead of permitting others to spend it for us. This time we propose to spend the money to stop, rather than promote, creeping totalitarianism. Is that what the global intellects of Senators Pepper and Taylor oppose?

. PROTECTION FOR THE LOYAL HE American Civil Liberties Union sees cause for “grave concern” in President. Truman's order .dealing with

." - The ordet, it thinks, is: too broad in’ scope; not clear

for the civil liberties of public. servants. An A. C. L. U. committee will propose changes to overcome these alleged

Such proposals from any group that recognizes, as the A. C, L. U. does, “the proper interest of the government in the loyalty of its employees,” deserve earnest consideration. Disloyal persons must be driven out and kept out of

If he runs all day as I see him do gy I'm ashamed of myself, for not

jon our street, from one-house ia one of those children has shot (the next, he should win any wack |anyone yet. So I'm going to buy parents, keep your children out of {meet he'd attempt. He gets plenty|gyns for all my grandchildren—by the theaters at night. I'll wager

of practice at a regular dog trot, .racky—and tell them I don't want hardly missing a beat between pails. | them to let anyone’ interfere with Don’t we have enough trash wag- their “self-expression,” and if someons to accommodate us? Why can’t one does—shoot 'em down. For you the full ones be emptied before they see the different. courts— juvenile get to us? Is the city still paying and criminal—and the law enforcesuch poor wages to these men that ment officers will just get in a wranonly a few will work? Does our poor {gle and not know what to do—or garbage collector have to run all how to do it. So they will not have over north Indianapolis all day at | to lose their “self-expression” in a dog trot? Does he get paid by any old jall or prison. : the bucket instead of per hour? Is, So now, Mr. Seay, maybe I've that why he is in such a rush? [helped you to see more clearly how Beautify the city of Indianapolis? things are done nowdays, and would How about helping us help ourselves |You please help me now? Answer to beautify this community as a |this question, “Who is on trial down whole? Let's have less stone monu- |at Columbus, the state police or ments for lost causes and more those hoodlums?” Maybe it's a good beautiful streets in our city. thing those cops did smack ‘em 2.8 8 .|around, for it looks like that’s all “WHO'S ON TRIAL— the punishment theyll get. : tJ ”

POLICE OR HOODLUMS?” > hd = “SOVOLA NEEDS LESSON

By Maude Newman, 1320 N. New Jersey St, City IN REAL RAILROADING” May I please use your paper 10|p, an Ex-Friend of Inside address Paul J. Seay? Dear Mr.| I would’ suggest that your Mr. soay—1 read your letter in the|py goiyoly get himself a brake club and lantern and take a few more

Forum, and I wonder if you realize what a “back number” you are. You lessons in railroading. Obviously

sdy you have raised thrée children

‘land there were some things they

were not allowed to do. Oh my, how wrong you were.. Do you know children are never, no never fimicd anything these days? Do you-know we teach ‘a child, and by golly by

he failed to get over the hump in his article on the switching of railroad carson the New York Central EOD. Ie the Usa? dom the il. lustration he refers fo a bokcar, and anybody with any steam and

paid teachers too—“self-expres-sion”?2. You must let them have their

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government jobs. But it is equally necessary—and Mr. Truman's order so states—to protect loyal employees from unfounded accusations of disloyalty. or We believe the President hagtried sificerely to i : ( nt I a provide. this protection, and we think he willwelcome suggestions for making it more effective without destroying the order's

essential purpose. He certainly doesn’t want to foster a |

reckless witch hunt, or to penalize government workers for + legitimate exercise of their civil rights. yl

HIGH COST OF LIVING OL. ROBERT ROSSOW, superintendent. of the Indiana State police, reports that increased costs of automobile repairs are a major factor in raising the minimym .for ‘required reports under what is known as the motor vehicle safety responsibility law. rah The last legislature raised, from $25 to $50, the minimum damage in an automobile accident which must be reported to state police. One result of the change, in addi- ) the reflection of higher costs, will be a reduction of | 16 per cent in the number of reports to be sub-

he: were 17 4,000 reports on 69,000 accidents | interests of the driving public would || the legislature cleaned up the | L_cor responsibility law, which has | .. -

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“PARENTS ARE TO BLAME FOR TEEN-AGE TROUBLE” By Benita, Indianapolis Child delinquency is one of our

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Aayor’s Race Not THE GAMBLERS, the policemen (many of whom are’ suspected of being bribe-takers for protecting petty rackets around town) and the political workers are spending a lot of time these days conjecturing on who is to be next mayor of Indianapolis. But mighty few of the “good citizens” are paying much attention to the maneuvering that precedes the fina] filing deadline a week from Saturday midnight . « + candidates for the nominations for mayor, city council and city clerk have until then to file, The challenge to those interested in good government is to exert pressure on the county chairman of each party to support the best candidate available.

The head of the G. O. P. is Henry Ostrom . , , top man in the ‘Democratic ranks is Walter Boetcher.

Point of Frustration

THIS APATHY OF VOTERS in general is extremely discouraging to leaders in both parties who realize that the citizens who seemingly don't care who is nominated . . , who don't realize that their self-interest is involved just as surely as is that of the racketeers and jobholders or job-seekers ... will be among the first to criticize when things go wrong. As of today . . . and considering candidates who have filed or who are kn :

80 . . .’ it looks like the Republican primary race may be ‘split between five or more candidates, with the major battle between “county” and city hall factions. On the Democratic side; the organization candidate is Joseph G. Wood, former president of the city council, while the anti<Organization candidate is George S. Dalley, one-fithe deputy prosecuting attorney. Al Feeney, ex-sheriff and former state safety director,

| entered the’ race for the Democratic nomination yes- ¥ x of : y

Middle East Aid Is

WASHINGTON, March 27.—The words “ald to Greece” have a simple, reassuring sound. They

milk and fruit juice and warm clothing to relieve the aching poverty that has degraded most of Greece. » Going into Greece, we should face up to the fact that it's a lot more complicated than that. It is perhaps the most complicated political tangle of our time.

British Unloading Trouble IN PASSING it on to us, the British are unloading a lot of trouble. For one thing they are getting rid of an issue that has divided the labor government in London. Labor members of parliament on the left ‘have charged the British military, and for-

greatest problems in this period. We wail and moan over the sad

state of affairs, ‘but too many parents just shake their heads in despair and don't do anything about it. : It seems to me that a great deal of this lies in the fact that our youth, living in an imaginative world anyway, see and hear too much about crime. There should be rules and regulations at theaters banning most of the younger generation from seeing murders and suggestive pictures. What happened to our “Peter {Pan,” “Alice in Wonderland,” “Pan\dora and Her Box,” and so many {of the really wonderful pictures? Isn't life full of grief and sorrow without aiding our new generation to seek out the sordid and unclean things most of us want to steer! clear of? i It is wonderful to think we are having regular matinees for our

Now, me, I'd modern. I'm almost |children in most of the theaters] pose of to the best of our ability.|gy years old, rated seven children. now. Keep it that way. You adults | {stay home. Then why don't you, | lif you are

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a great many youngsters will keep out of trouble, be off the streets] and also be helping our health program. They will do better school work and you will be building and preparing them for a good adult life. Not only this, but more adults who really go to the theater for relaxation will go from the theater greatly refreshed. Theaters are trying to help you. Why can’t you co-operate? Your matinees are complete in entertainment for your children. I know, for I, as a parent, went to see what was taking place. “Donald Duck,” “Porkey” and so many others. Isn't that enough? I certainly, as a mother, would hate to think that by the time my girls were 16, that the greatest part of their show entertainment was nothing but murder mysteries and all about the lovelorn. No wonder you, as parents, every time you pick up a newspaper to read, shake your heads and say, “Mercy, mercy, another teen-age crime.” Who is to blame? The motion picture industry? No. Shame on you. It is you. You mothers and dads. j ; » i ” y ”. ‘ - :

“IT'S REALLY GREAT : TO BE A FIREMAN® ~*~ 'g By sa Onlooker; Indianapolis A year ago after several letters written by different citizens in our fair city on the equipment and all of our fire department, several of the city officials squared their shoulders, cdlled a few newspaper photographers and. bravely climbed on an antique fire wagon, Bulbs popped and stories were written that very soon the best would be bought for the fire laddies. What do you think, the fire lad-

drawn wagons, without the horse of course, An engine was installed! Just a few weeks ago one man was tossed off on his head. He had very little to hold onto and the sudden stopping of the truck gave him little choice. There are new types of trucks, with cabs large enough for an entire crew. They'd be just dandy, and then the city officials wouldn't have that queer feeling in their knees when they climbed onto a fire truck to have pictures taken. It's really great to be a fireman. You're out in all kinds of weather. Sometimes your shoes freeze to the

buy your own soap, tollet tissue, pay for your meals and launder your bed clothes. The salary is:wonderful, though of course most of it is left at the fire station. The fireman’s wife can't have a new fur ‘coat and they in their pockets and wonder or can have a new pair of shoes. The city hall boys just have to have more salary

| eign office with supporting Greek Quislings who had

made themselves part of the Nazi. occupation. Latest of these charges comes from Lyall Wilkes, a young Labor M. P. who fought in North Africa, Italy and Greece from 1942 into 1945. In a recent

{article in the New Statesman and Nation, liberal-

Labor weekly, he makes charges based on his detailed knowledge of Greece and Greek politics. He cites a letter from the British foreign office, stating that 228 former members of the Germansponsored armed security battalions now hold active service commissions in the Greek army. Mr. Wilkes believes that the number is nearer 1000. “But even if one takes the foreign office figures,” he writes, Greece remains the one country in Europe outside Spain whose. army contains in positions of authority a greater number of ex-pro-Nazis and collaborators than those identified with the resistance. And if the 228 were actually members of the security

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IN WASHINGTON « « « By Marquis Childs

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Arousing Interest

, terday and is expected to pull heavy support as a candidate without factional affiliation but with proved vote-getting ability. Mr, Feeney's announcement pledged elimination of graft and racketeering in the police department, amoiig other reforms. Every candidate should come it Rimasit on this question . , , ssid without equtvo cation, The Tyndall administration has proved itself incapable of cleaning up the mess, The Democrats will have a field day in the fall general election attacking the record of the present administration, Reverting to the general lack of interest in the selection of their chief executive , + . a mayor and their board of directors , , . the city council. , , the sentiment of those sincerely interested in getting good candidates was summed up by one such leader who said he felt frustrated every time hg tried to arouse discussion of the city's leadership. : “I almost believe that people don't care,” he said. “They either are too busy with problems that are closer to.them or else they take a cynical attitude that they can't do anything about it until fall.’

Test in November

IT IS TRUE that unless there is a stepped-up interest in the primary election, factional candidates will be nonsinated because the rank and file of voters won't go to the polls, Both parties, however, should bear in mind that there are enough independent voters in Indianapolis ++ . and voters who have demonstrated that they will cross party lines . . . to swing the election. And the

weight of the organization should be thrown in May = |

to the man who can make the best race in the fall on a basis of platform and qualification.

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battalions, how many more officers must have at best been acquieseent during the occupation?” There is abundant evidence that “ald to Greece” is not just giving out dried milk nor even giving out tanks and guns, The American missions that go into Greece are going to have to be much smarter and muth more exacting than the British or they will repeat the same mistakes. The economist for the mission sent into Greece by the United Nations food and agriculture organizations was Mordecal Ezekiel, adviser of the bureau of agricultural economics in the U. 8. department of agriculture. In his special report on Greek economic problems he said: “Military expenditures make up such a large part of the Greek expenditure budget that it will be difficult to prevent inflationary pressure until these expenditures are materially reduced. While the armed forces cannot be reduced immediately with the political tensions now prevailing, a considerable part of the men and equipment might well be put to useful civilian work. Part of the time could be spent building roads and bridges, repairing ports and harbors and other productive public works.” ‘

U.S. Would Get Blame

THE MILITARY takes roughly 55 per cent of a budget that is 50 per cent unbalanced. Merely to arm and train that out-of-balance army will be to invite a war. The British spent millions of pounds in Greece and millions of man hours. Yet they failed to do more than maintain precarious order by repression. Their failure will be forgotten as we move onto the stage. But if we in turn fail, then the cumulative blame will fall on us. :

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow

1860 Political Fight

UNTIL THE twentieth century came, the Civil war was the greatest event in the history of the United States. This ties in with the considered judg-

ment of Albert Bushnell Hart of Harvard university, one of the able historians of the American nation. At the crucial spot in the presidential campaign of 1860 that flashed the signal for the Civil war, Indiana was the deciding factor that made it click for freedom and a great America. o

Campaign a Witches' Brew :

‘ NO LOYAL Hoosier can rightly be ignorant o that fact, nor indifferent to the full import of it. To both the state and to the nation, it was a great moment. The presidential] campaign of 1860 was a witches’ brew, a politically hot one unmatched. It singed every political party in the nation. It alarmed, elated, hatassed every man on the political boards that year. It was raw and rough, and deeply’ important to its America. In Indiana the political pot boiled over as only an Indiana political pot can. The brew got hot when Michael C. Garber, owner of the Madison Courier, and the Republican party state chairman, issued the call for the Republican state convention. The convention, which met at Indianapolis, Feb. 22, 1861, nominated Henry 8. Lane for governor, and Oliver P. Morton for lieutenant governor. This was the convention at which it was agreed that if the Republican ticket won, Lane should become United States senator, and Morton should succeed him as governor. This pact was carried out when Morton became governor, Jan. 16, and Lane

‘United States senator, March 4, 1861.

In the state election, the Republicans, headed: by Lane arid Morton, with Benjamin Harrison running for supreme court reporter; won: over.the Democratic ticket ‘headed by Thomas A. Hendricks and David

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Turple, Democratic governor and lieutenant governor candidates, by about 10,000 votes. But the Indiana political machinery of 1861 was geared for the Republican national convention, which met at Chicago May 16, 1860. This was the crucial spot where Indiana basically decided the presidential election of 1860, and the outcorge of the Civil war. This was the situation: As the convention squared away for the first ballot, Caleb Smith, who became secretary of the interior under Lincoln, arose and said; “I am instructed by the state of Indiana to second the nomination of Abraham Lincoln.” There the Indiana delegation stuck as the ballot proceeded—every ballot solid for Lincoln. That was all. But it was enough to nominate Lincoln. i When the convention was over, and the politically astute ones analyzed the convention proceedings, their verdict was that the strategy of the Indiana delegation at thé convention was the deciding factor in the nomination of Lincoln. Horace Greeley, over his initials, commented in the New York Tribune: “The Indiana delegation, having no candidate in their own state, were most efficient in their canvass, while their early adhesion to him nearly narrowed the contest to him and Governor Seward.”

Won Tough Battle

AN EDITORIAL in the Indianapolis Journal May 25, 1861, commenting on the convention, said: “The firmness and unanimity of Indiana was acknowledged on all hands at Chicago to be the primary and potentia] cause of Lincoln's nomination.” * No wonder this Indiana delegation to their national convention clicked as they did.” They had

battled in their state with political rivals’ as smart. |

Turpie, English, Bright, as examples. or : -They had fought tough politica] battles ‘with bitter rivals of every kind, and they had landed on top.

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politically as they were—Héndricks, Kerr, Voorhees,

William Philip Simms

Russia's Patent Charge Is Nonsense

WASHINGTON, March 27. — The Russian claim that the United States eady has received more than $10 billion worth of reparations from Germany in the form of patents is characterized here as misleading nonsense. ‘ i As the average American knows little of patents, either foreign or domestic—not to mention international law governing such matters—the following memo on the subject was prepared for Scripps-How-ard readers by one of the best known legal authorities in the country. In terms which any layman can understand, it reveals just how ridiculous the Soviet charges are, It says:

There Are No Secret Patents “A PATENT, by its very nature, is a publication. Like other publications, all patents of all countries are available for anyone to read in any library. For this reason there can be no such thing as a secret patent. There are many libraries where a copy of every patent ever issued by any country can be obtained merely by paying the cost of making a photo stat. “The only thing that makes a patent more valuable than a corresponding disclosure in a magazine article or other publication is the fact that patents usually provide the inventor certain exclusive rights to practice the invention. : “No German patents have any value at the present time because they do not carry with them any exclusive rights. Such exclusive rights terminated with the end of the government which granted the patents. As far as the technical information which they contain, virtually all of it can be found in contemporary German technical periodicals, . quently it may be fairly stated that the total value of all German patents ever issued is roughly equivalent to a corresponding quantity of old magazines.

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United States patents is somewhat different. Tt ‘might

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it is impossible to tell whether or not reference is made to German patents or to German-owned United States patents which, of course, are two different things. “All United States patents, where German ownership could be established, are now owned by the United States alien property custodian. The custodian’s office has shorn these patents of wil exeNEve rights by its announced policy of issuing royalty free licenses under them to anyone for a fee of $15. “As pointed out above, a patent shorn of its exclusive rights is distinguishable in terms of value from a magazine article disclosing the same subject matter, It is clear therefore, that while there were a great many German-owned United States patents of considerable value, these values have been destroyed.” . ! In his third report on his mission to Burope, Herbert Hoover/ agreed that Germany must not be allowed to rearm. But he suggested she must be allowed to become self-supporting, otherwise she ‘would continue to be a heavy drain on American

taxpayers. We are now spending more than $300

million a year to keep her from starving. Russian Assertion Is Absurd

Germany should pay $30 billion reparations, one half of it to her. The United Slates, she asserted, has collected far more than its share in the f It is important, therefore, that ‘the claim be exposed. If Germany ; more reparations than she can pay, it would be the Bo at fe a

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