Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 April 1947 — Page 14

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AKE BARGAINING WORK: | news that General Motors Corp. and the C.1O.

Union have made a new wage agree15 cents an hour for more than

Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, Cansda and Mexico, 87 cents a

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't know. We are sure, though, that cal workers have acted wisely. ong fight than they And they have proher employers and other unions. Their agreement, says aYjoint statement, recognizgs increased living costs and the nec tinued, maximum production, and direct collective bargaining.” We're glad to see a large union and a large corporation do a little bragging about success in making collective bargaining work. That, after all, is what. industrial peace with justice. Good bad laws can hinder, but no law can ever i substitute for the process of genuine, goodfaith bargaining. Whatever new labor legislation reaches the federal statute books, as a result of the debates now beginning in congress, will be judged finally by this simple test: Does it help to make collective bargaining work better? Congress should pray for wisdom to enact legislation ! that can meet that test successfully.

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Y.M.CA-Y.W. C. A. WORLD WORK WO current activities in Indianapolis focus attention on the excellent work being done on a global scale by thes ! Y.M C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. The world youth fund campaign of the Y. M. C. A. began Friday and continues for one month. Purpose of the drive is to help boys and young men in war-wrecked countries, to help the generation that will provide the leaders of the future. Through the Y. M. C. A,, these younger people around the world feel the influence of Christian { democratic thinking. Doing much the same thing for young women of the world, the Y. W. C. A. is seeking to raise funds to send | American workers abroad to train leaders in other lands, 80 of them. The campaign also will, if successful as it | should be, provide minimum essential replacements of war destroyed facilities.. Theme of this drive ‘is “Woman's - Work Is Just Begun.” s— We are impressed by a statement f emphasizes that self-help has been proved the sure way to build individual strength and character. A.” says this statement, “is certain it is the only way that . the character of nations also can be built in a world of peace, understanding and good will.” . Both of these world-wide educational institutions are doing excellent jobs on the home front—and particularly | here in Indianapolis—but the emphasis now is being placed . on safeguarding human values, strengthening international . understanding and helping to build a more solid founda- ! tion for world security and peace. Their campaigns deserve full support.

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’ ENRY A. WALLACE accuses his critics in congress of : being hysterical. Quite naturally, he completely mis- * interprets the reactions of normal, patriotic Americans. \ Such-misinterpretation was to be expected of one who has been guilty of gross misconduct and bad taste. No, Mr. Wallace, Americans in congress and out are not hysterical. They are shocked and indignant. And ap- : palled. Appalled by the thought that once only a heart_beat stood between Henry Wallace and the presidency of the United States. . ; The world may be in a bad fix today. But it staggers the imagination to think of the state of affairs:which might : have existed if F. D. R. had not ditched Henry Wallace : in favor of Harry Truman. : a " But the man’s nuisance value is not to be underestimated, even as a former vice president who couldn’t carry a precinct in the United States, now that he isn’t riding someone's coattails. . : ‘He is abroad, talking to hungry people and building the impression that we have enough in America to feed the world if only we can be persuaded to disgorge. One of his proposals in England—that we should take the initiative in establishing a world-wide pool of resources from which all nations could draw according to need—will| : appeal to millions on starvation rations. And why shouldn't ; such desperate people hate us when they are told, ofr what | 1 they may regard as good authority, that, instead of supply- & ing their wants, “the immense power and wealth of America { is being used for strategic and military purposes”?

THIS “hate-America” campaign, initiated by the Soviet § Union and now being carried into England, Sweden and France by Henry Wallace, over-looks all we have done to : save civilization and set the world in order. Forgotten are g the $11 billion we contributed to the Soviets in lend-lease i —the nearly $3 billion in UNRRA goods we supplied our ‘war-ravaged allies, half of which went to the Soviet Union and its satellites—the blood Americans shed, not on our pwn soil, but in Europe, Asia and Africa. Henry Wallace ig us back in the old Uncle Shylock role again, paintrica as the nation which has but will not give. It y stuff. : nt Trumap and the Democratic partys should s ‘man and mitigate, so far as they can, the doing. Nor should My. Wallace receive furth- | | : ourylegations abroad. It was a blunder [| . - eived by the American ambassador in Lon- And

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I es . “ * f TODAY MARKS the 90th anniversary of the most - memorable auction’ ever staged in Indianapolis. On that-occasion (April 16, 1857), the governor's mansion, located in the center of the Circle, was knocked down to David Macy for $655. When built in 1827-28, the two-story . 50 - foot - square brick house cost $6500, including the picket fence. Despite the appalling depreciation, the state was tickled pink to get what it did. . To rid the Circle of its 30of ‘the salvaged materials were hauled to the south®ast corner of Illinois and Market sts.—a block away where they were again used to build the Macy House, a business structure which remained intact until not so very long ago when it was torn down to make room for the present Illinois building. The idea of housing the governors in the ceuter of the Circle was part of Alexander Ralston's grandiose plan for the capital of Indiana. It had its good points. For one thing, the Circle was the exact center of town and within easy walking distance of the area allocated for a future statehoute. Moreover, the Circle embraced the highest elevation of any ground in the mile square. It was as if nature had deliberately designed a throne upon which to set the governors, “He that sitteth on the circle of the earth,” says the Good Book (Isaiah XI:22).

Too Damp for Governor Ray ie HOWEVER, the impractical features outweighed the poetic implications. James B. Ray, the first governor to be invited to occupy the house, would have none of it. It.was damp, he said. - As for its location, it was too noisy and too public. Indeed, there is a legend—more or less apocryphal, no doubt —that he (Or his spouse) ventured the opinion that only a bachelor could have set a domestic domicile in the center of the Circle, a mathematical shape so devoid of privacy that it doesn't even permit a backyard in which to hang and hide the week's washing. (Sounds more as if a woman had said it.) Cursed. as it -was. right fromthe start, the governor’s mansion was never used as a residence. For a while, the clerk and judges of the supreme court had

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can't find a house. A Washington dispatch says that! we loaned Great Britain $3,750,000 to increase our foreign trade -and bolster their phony empire against communism. What do you think the 50 G. 1's who are living west of town- in trailers think of such a foolish arrangement? . .. .. > On March 1 the Plain Dealer tells us that we must loan or give Greece and Turkey $4 milliof to keep them from going Communist. I understand we have spent abodt a million to keep China from going | Communist. Why should we be| trying to extend our Monroe Doc-| trine all oyer the world? An editorial in our Plain Dealer says that'a Communist government is one in which the factories, mines and railroads are run for the benefit of all the people instead of the capitalists.

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our relief goods are spoiling on the Greek docks because their merchants say it would hurt their business to diswibute it and that our relief goods in Japan are being sold on the black market. Admiral Cook's 23,000 G. L's in China and Admiral Halsey's remark that “we will go any place we please and it is nobody's damned business,” is just about as near Fascist as anything I can think of. How do you think the United Nations will get any place with that kind of talk? Is it any wonder Capt. Fielding told a crowded audience at the armory that the democracies are losing the ideological war? I suggest that we turn these problems over to the United Nations and keep our dollars out of Europe. » » » “WHAT ABOUT RUSSIA'S GERMAN ‘MORTGAGES'?” By L. L. Patton, Crawfordsville While you are vicariously engaged

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By Carl R. Haupt, Wabash | isgus i cashed i 111 Tam sod ted with our foreign policy that I have ol in | spent and iat there-is uot enough my war bonds and used the money to finance homes-.for 26 G. 1.'s. An | money available to maintain tracks I am not surprised that our congressman, the Plain Dealer’ as saying communism is spreading like wildfire all

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democracy say it seems like no one gives a damn if they have a home| vo) the attention of. Philip or not. I have one G. I. who has a wife and eight children and has yyurray to the statement that 51 had his goods stored in my storage for almost four years because he per cent of the rairoad dollar is

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Sam to rule, how about considering the first mortgages that exist on each plot? Russia proclaimed loudly all through the war that she would hold the German people responsible for all destruction in Russia and that she would hold German prisoners and bleed Germany until the last bit of destruction had been repaired. Mr. Marshall was with Mr. Roosevelt when Stalin advanced these objectives and will have to | vouch that neither Mr. Roosevelt or his aides voiced objection. There was no hue and cry in the American press at the time against these Russian objectives and there was a

ly the Russian people have a right to feel that they hawe established a first mortgage on Germany. That is just one first mortgage on one plot. What are you as a vicarious Uncle Sam going to do about satisfying the first “mortgage before you start improving the plot? 1 think you will have to take refuge the same as I do, and the same as our congressmen do, in the admission that you have been kept too uninformed and misinformed to be able to give a rational and logical answer. You are still an isolationist lost in a one-world dream. You aren't ready yet to live that dream. ? If you want to alibi it onto the past President and -his state department, why not be frank and admit that neither were they prepared to live in the one-world dream. - If you refuse to answer; then pleasant dreams to you for you

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“HOW MUCH OF RAILROAD DOLLAR GOES FOR WAGES?” By Aj Stephenson, Cartersburg : In an editorial the other day on the subject of recent wrecks, you explain how the railroad dollar is

in safe condition. The iiference seems to be that accidents are the direct result of the cupidity of

spent for wages and salaries. Doubtless Mr. Murray could tell us if he had access to your columns but some ‘of us would like to know what part of the 51 per cent is salary and what part wages. Also what percentage of people get salaries and what wages. Please answer in the Forum. .

American Railroads advises The Times that available reports do not segregate payments as between wages and salaries, so we cannot answer your question. Salaries paid last year to executives, officials and staff assistants amounted to 1.4 per cent of the revenue dollar, according to that source, which alse says that latest interstate commerce commission: figures (1945) show that salaries above $10,000 amounted to three-tenths of 1 per cent of the revenue dollar. s » .

KES ME BOIL INSIDE” By Anns Mae Dunn, Elweod I wish to express my appreciation for your efforts in sponsoring campaigns to better our times. And I think it is time we start a war lon the poets and ‘cartoonists who persist in portraying the schoolboy as hating school. ’ It makes me. bofl inside when I read poems. like Barton Reese Pogue's “Boy Eternal” which you published March 29, 1947. If Mr. Pogue will look out the windows, I am sure he will have to look for days and’ days before he will see & “whining schoolboy creeping tw school.” Instead theyll rush by his window, shouting, full of pep and joy. And if hell follow them to school, he'll find the fron: walks crowded with - children waiting eagerly for the doors to open. If he does find a child. hating |school, it is probably because adults have instilled into his mind that that is the thing for him to do. Just as a child is not afraid of the dark or snakes until someone has taught him to be afraid of them. It is high time poets and cartoonists start portraying the school child as he really is—an active doer, eagerly looking forward to any change, rushing to school and rushing home again; and to do all they can to encourage their like for school instead of their dislike. Maybe they did creep to school years ago, but I doubt it even then. I know they didn’t in my day and they are not today. If Mr. Pogue had asked that boy why he was kicking the tin can, he would have probably found out that he was only practicing football. Arithme- | tic is loved by the majority of children.” There is always a thrill in solving a problem just as there is in solving a riddle. Children will work hard to get a chance to perform and even tests give them a thrill if there is no one around to scare them about tests. Teachers work - under a .great handicap when there are adults around trying to undo all that we teachers have tried to build up ‘in or pupils. .

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théir . offices there. Indeed, tradition has it that Judge Blackford used one of the second story rooms

to compile his celebrated taw veports. For.a long.

time, too, the first floor was used to display Cox & Waugh's hair-raising murals depicting horrible consequences of drunkenness, And there is also a legend that at certain times when nobody was looking, the lovesick boys and girls of Indianapolis used the 10-foot-wide corridors to play, ‘of all things, the game of battledore and shuttlecock. (The excessively wide corridors was another of Mrs. Ray's kicks.) Indianapolis had even harder Iuck with its second executive mansion, notwithstanding the fact that this time the house was located on a rectangular lot. In 1839—just 12 years after the first governor's man sion was erected—the legislature again wrestled with the problem of housing its governors. This time it authorized the purchase of Dr. John M. Saunders résidence at the northwest corner of Illinois and Market sts. where the Terminal building now: stands. The Saunders house was damp, too. A hard rain always produced a pond which surrounded the property and cut it off from the rest of the world. Governor Wallace, a man of hardy stock (Brookville) and the first to occupy the second mansion, managed to get through it all right with no ill effects.

A Series of Tragedies

HOWEVER, his successors didn't fare so well. In support of which I cite the following tragedies: Governor Bigger, who succeeded Mr. Wallace, appears to have contracted there the. disease which carried him off soon after he left office. Governor Whitcomb, who married while occupying the house, lost his young wife there. Governor Wright lost his wife there, too. He remarried and, Delieve it or not, his second wife died there. Governor Willard's wife was sick all the time her husband was in office. Governor Lane held office only two days. Then came Governor Morton. He stood it as long as could and then moved to the Bates House. By this time it was 1863. Two years later the state sold the hexed house. Until 25 years ago or so, the state did nothing to provide its governors with Indianapolis homes. At that time it acquired the Kahn house on Fall Creek. that time it acquired the Kahn house on’ Fall Creek

~Which now. houses. the Indianapolis park-department:- «

Governor Gates is the first Indiana executive to be housed in what was once the Trimble estate on N. Meridian st. So far as I know, everybody éonnected with the Gates family is enjoying the hest of health.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs : Stockmen Attempt Land Grab in West

WASHINGTON, April: 16.—An aroused public opinion seems to have checked for the time at least, one of the rawest grabs that has been proposed in

| many a year. That. was to hand over to cattle and | sheep raisers, for an insignificant price, some 200,000,-

000 acres of public land, with.mineral rights of an unknown value thrown in as a bonus. About 20 per cent of all stockmen in the west have permits to graze their sheep and cattle on the public lands administered by the U. S. forest service. They get this privilege from the government at a rate considerably less than thé commercial grazing rate. § :

Seek to Cut Restrictions

SENSING WHAT THEY BELIEVED to be a drift back to the political ice age, these stockmen decided to improve on this situation. They would take over the lands outright and then they could turn loose as many cattle and sheep as they saw fit. If that destroyed the water supply and started large areas of the West on the way to becoming desert, then future generatioris would have to worry about that. An organization called the joint livestock committee on public lands started a high-powered propaganda drive. Federal ownership or control of land, said propagandists for the stockmen, is a form of communism and therefore wicked and‘ un-American. Shades of Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford

Editor's Note: The Association of | pinchot! Federal administration of public lands was

the heart and soul of T. R.’s conservation program. that saved the last of the American heritage. This summer thousands upon thousands of Americans who visit the national parks and the wilderness

NEW YORK, April 16.—Charwes of a nationwide smallpox epidemic are considerably slimmer now, as sach day lessens probability of coast-to-coast infection by the people who shared a bus with the Mexican whose disease started an outbreak of smallpox in New York. a Public health people are breathing easier, put for a few days they were frantic. The episode of the Mexican smallpox carrier, to the guardians of national health, is stern warning for the future, and admonition that modern travel forbids complacent assumption that any disease, from smallpox to plague to cholera, is thoroughly conquered. *The Mexican, after exposing himself to the occupants of a bus, a New York hotel, and a ward at two nospitals, died of the most virulent type of smallpox. It was never suspected that he was afflicted with that

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Disease Unfamiliar to Doctors : WHEN HE DIED, official cause of death was listed as “hemorrhagic bronchitis.” According to Dr. Samwel Prant, deputy health commissioner, “the Mexican nad been dead and gone for two weeks before the first cases of smallpox showed up, and but for that we would never have suspected he had smallpox at all.” J : The Mexican's disease was atypical, 'in that it was an especially fast moving kind which causes death before the rash assumes the look of ordinary smallpox. It was only because patients who had been near him came down With the affliction that he was indisputably labeled as carrier of the disease. It was then that New York was thrown into a tumult. The mayor dropped everything else to get the machinery of mass vaccination started. The United States public health department bent a frantic stare on the route through which the Mexican passed, As

WASHINGTON, April 16.—This is Pan-American week and it finds the whole new world confronted with probably the mos perilous situation it has had to face in its peacetime history. : rane, The world is divided into two apparently irreconcilable camps: Totalitarian and democratic. One is headed ‘by Russia, the othe} by the United States. Just as tryly as at any during the war against the brown and black Fascists of Hitler and Mussolini, the democracies are on the defensive against the red fascism of Stalin. ’ : Two recent developments, however, serve to brighten the picture. One is that statesmen all- the $ay from Hudson's bay to the Straits of Magellan, generally recognize that the western hemisphere: The other. is thay Pan-Amer-jean” understanding again is on nasty skid, « &.*-

Coolness Born of War I THE PAN-AMERICAN

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danger exists and that it is common to every one of the 22 nations of the

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inion, as President. Truman pointed out in his proclamation; was founded ‘| “to serve the ‘cause of rhutual understanding and cooperation among the nations of the Western hemisphere.” Thereafter, at one conference after another, was stated to be mutual and inde-

areas will have reason to be grateful to those who fought the conservation battle. \ Public reaction to the stockmen’s little deal was immediate and violent. Organized sportsmen and conservationists passed resolutions. Newspapers condemned ft. In spite of the build-up, no bill has been introduced in congress which would authorize sale of the land to those stockmen who now have grazing rights. This would, of course, freeze out veterans and anyone else who does not happen to be fortunate enough to hold a grazing permit. : While this deal may have been too raw to get through congress, this doés not mean that organized stockmen have given up the effort to scale down forest service restrictions. One way is to cut down the appropriation for the forest service. If you cut the appropriation and thereby cut the number of men employed, you invite wholesale violation of grazing regulations. You are asking for trouble in a part of the world where a proper balance between water supply and land use is essential to life.

Resources Need Defense oe TECHNIQUE OF UNDERMINING a law by cutting an appropriation is being pushed a long way in this congress. It's a device of those who cannot achieve their ends honestly and openly by direct legislation. There are other ways to cut the heart out of the conservation program of the forest service. Livestock men are copstantly demanding .transfer of this or that official whom they accuse of being too arbitrary. It would not be hard to demoralize a service that must stand up to such pressures. Thus far, Secretary of Agriculture Clinton P.- Anderson. has given the service stanch support.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark New York City's Smallpox Scare Over

the maximum period of incubation runs out, the department is beginning to relax, admits that this time the whole country was lucky. The last smallpox epidemic was in 1800 to 1902. Last death recorded here was in 1912. There were non-fatal cases in 1922 and 1939. According to Dr. Frant, the great majority of our doctors have never seen, diagnosed or treated a case of smallpox. Mandatory vaccination for school children and efficacy. of vaccine had made smallpox so nearly nil that medical science has racked it up as completely conquered. “We no longer,” says Dr. Prant, “can afford to be smug about it. This one Mexican might have caused a nation-wide epidemic.” Medical lack of experience with smallpox is so great that it is not surprising the Mexican was arst taken to Bellevue, under the assumption that. his slight rash and odd condition were due to an overdose of sleeping pills. ’

Closer Scrutiny May Be Made IT IS A SOMEWHAT GRISLY FACT that from here in the enforcers of public health can afford to take nothing for granted. Passengers pour in by the planeload from the pestholes of the globe. Health inspections at ordinary customs stops are cursory at vest, non-existent at worst. I've personally been in and out of enough odd places in the last few years to \bring back .germs for nine different kinds of epidemic: . ; ; Also, it's too early yet to say that presence of one bus-riding Mexican may or may not have visited New York with major catastrophe. While the range of the Mexican's infection spread has been curtailed by incupation time, nobody yet can say that the potential menace of those who were exposed to him is as yet exhausted.’

WORLD AFFAIRS ives By William Philip Simms | World Split Into Rival Camps

up between the United States and Argentina, reaching a climax in the state department's “Blue Book” of 1046 which charged that “trust and confidence

could not be reposed” in the government at Buenos

Aires” 3 Coming as it tina's presidential elections, the publication was widely held to amount to U. 8. intervention. In addition, the United States caused to be postponed several times a scheduled-inter-American confem=ce. But recent weeks have brought improvement. ' Not only has our new ambassador, George 8. Messersmith, greatly aided the healing process without yielding on matters of principle, but the Presifient himself has contributed his share. : i

Supports Non-Intervention : ONLY RECENTLY, at Meixco City( he reaffirméd this country’s loyalty to the good neighbor policy of non-intervention. ‘““The-whole-hearted acceptance of this doctrine by all of us,” he said, “is the keystone ‘of the inter-American system. Without it, we could not exist as a community dt good neighbors.” i "Secretary of State Marshall is known to attach tremendous importance to hemisphere solidarity. The

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