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FUTURE OF UNITED NATIONS United Nations security council has decided to limit ‘the proposed international police force:in size to one at can handle only disputes among small and medium ers. This is a formal recognition that the organization not free to act against any of the great powers. We will have one law for the strong, another for the k, ‘so long as the big-power veto is held by the United tes, Britain, France, China and Russia. ‘That is net democracy. It isn’t even good morals. It

right of the big powers to veto any action directed Bgainst them is abolished, United Nations cannot fulfill the expectations of a peace-hungry world. Pending that needed ‘and basic reform, the organization can, however, be a useful institutior. As the “town meeting of the world,” the United Nations can turn the spotlight on dangerous situations which may be developing anywhere, even if it can do no more than talk about them. This can serve to mobilize world opinion against any troublemaker, great or small. The organiza‘tion can develop further strength in the field of inquiry, if it can profit by some of the mistakes incident to the Balkan investigation and prevent their repetition. = © But the biggest, most vital thing about the United * Nations is the idea behind it and which brought it into _ being. Most countries want a strong, responsible agency for world security, and only a few do not. Given time, those

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GARY'S PUBLIC SCHOOLS have attracted much attention ever since Ora L. Wildermuth, now president of Indiana university's board of trustees, taught the first classes in a one-room

world famous with his work-study-play program, which he began developing when he became superintendent of the burgeoning system in 1908. For 30“years the name of Wirt, like “steel,” was almost a synonym for Gary. : !

Strike Against Dual Policy TWO YEARS AGO the Gary schools made a different kind of news. White students at Fruebel school went on strike against the presence of Negro youngsters, against Froebel being the only one of eight high schools enrolling both Caucasian and Negro students. They Jost their strike, but it wasn't a complete defeat. | For now the city of Gary, where one out of every five resident, is a Negro, is about to eliminate all “Jim Crow" restrictions in its public schools. Gary schools didn’t start out on the segregation basis. But Negroes could find homes only in the “central district,” and in the ‘mid-20s an all-Negro high ‘school was built. Then, in 1927, white students at Emerson high school walked out when a handful of Negro youngsters were ordered transferred there. The school board backed down, and a pattern was | set. Froebel has continued as a mixed school, but there has been segregation otherwise throughout

Editor's Note: Don F. Datisman, managing editor of the Gary Post-Tribune, is Donald D. Hoover's guest columnist today in “It's Our Business.”

The Froebel strike of 1945 wasn't quite a fight for segregation. It was a protest against a dual policy that meant segregation generally, but nonsegregation in one school. The strike posed a problem which the school board had to resolve. It did so last fall by adopting a non-segregation policy, by asserting that youngsters in the future would go to the school in the district where they lived regardless of their color,

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September. At the start students from kindg® J through the sixth grade probably will be though the board hasn't made its deg!

now. Mayor Joseph E. Finerty appointed board members who voted to end segregs

second term. Supporters of a major candid democratic mayoral nomination are gation sentiment in behalf of their man,

the fall—though not openly.

culty in putting the new plan in effect. it is the only practical and honorable

teachers to encourage its support. trators have been explaining it in de types of community groups. .

a hundred Negro youngiters white schools.

the matter is left up be any difficulty

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-Americans; an students, both public sters themselves formed early in sold war bonds and stamps, co paper and scrap metal, and even trainy =d baby-sitters. The A. O. A. was so successful that / ‘he students are keeping it going at top speed. }

0. A. youngsters have used money

‘|SAGA OF INDIANA . . .. By Wiliam A. Marlow Rise and Fall of. Greenback Party

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death

- . " * I your right to say it." — Voltaire.

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and we are Beaten

“A BLOODY-SHIRT campaign with money and ndiana is safe. A financial campaign and no money,

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that yet. : makeshift building 40 years ago. ! What will happen next fall when the § hange is The late Willlam A. Wirt made the schools made? ;

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jon may be a top campaign issue this sp But school authorities don't expect

real difhey think

eachers’ committee has been working with other ol adminis-

before all

And after all, when rumors have been; swept away, t's found that the plan initially will sen¢ i only about into four Phe viously all-

Of one thing, ‘school authorities aryel the youngsters mentioning.

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THEY CITE THE EXAMPLE ¢ ¥ 8 3 ' FE : and parochial, why's!ich the youngth of war. They waste fats,

4 { In its setup. A. om their salvage drives for the Red Cross and Co unity Chest, and also in part to finance summer cf amps im Indiana

There's never been any color line

Dunes state park. Negro and wh’ jite children have

played happily together in camp for several years. and they'll do so again this mer, ‘They can do it in school, too, if parental prejuan Yi don't interfere.

~The high tide of the Green They polled about a million and 40,000 in Indiana.

der right | pe school He to seek a te for the

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This is James Buchanan, an Indianapolis lawyer elected, six from the East,

few will see the light or fall by the wayside. In either event, the “United Nations then can go on to achieve its _ rightful destiny. .

NOW IS THE TIME THIS country’s chances of escaping a wave of strikes in * big industries have improved remarkably in the last few days. : "Thanks to the C. I. O. electrical workers’ bargained agreements with General Motors and Westinghouse, the 1947 wage-rise pattern was fixed at about 15 cents an hour. The C. I O. steel workers have settled with U. S. Steel on much the same basis. The C. I. O. auto workers perhaps will agree to something like that. = Of course, there's always John L. Lewis. Nobody knows what he may try to do when the coal mines go back to private owners July 1. But if the Republicans in congress will stop their transparent scheming to put President Truman in a political hole, they can send him a fair labor bill ‘containing no ‘justification for a veto and giving the government adequate authority to deal with Mr. Lewis. - Uncertainty as to the wage future-has been an obstacle | to price cuts on manufactured goods. Much of that uncertainty now is being cleared away. Industrial wages are going up, but not as far as the C. I O. talked of driving them. The wage rises will lower the present high level of profits... In/many cases, though, we think there still will be a margin for price reductions, and we hope these will now come quickly. ; !

» » » » MAJOR strikes are avoided—and now that a steel “agreement insutes a steady supply of steel—a lot of industries can maintain high-volume production as a firm basis for reasonable profits. "It's true that farm and food prices have risen much " . further than manufacturing” prices, and have much more to do with the cost of living, which hit a new high March 15. But it’s also true that, contrary to the usual trend at this time of year, food prices dropped slightly between _mid-March and mid-April. Their tendency to fall ‘ would be encouraged by industrial price reductions. Some industries, and concerns within industries, are honestly unable to cut prices. The large profits are not evenly distributed. But everybody who can possibly let any inflationary gas out of the price balloon had better do that fast, before it bursts in the stratosphere and dumps cargo and passengers with a dull, sickening thud. Every company should be its own judge of whether it can afford to lower prices, and if so, how much. However, the almost unanimous economic warnings that the country is in peril of a painful recession suggest that the real question facing a great many companies is whether they can afford not-to lower prices now.

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"Get People in Office Who

“CITY HAS OPPORTUNITY TO GET EFFICIENT MAYOR"

writing to Rutherford B. Hayes of Ohio, candidate West, three from the South. for President of the United States. He was giving

Hayes a straight tip on how the Republicans could

Widely — Known Ministe

Will Stick to Campaign Pledge”

By HARRY L. Wright, Indianapolis I am a reader of The Times and I am a veteran, too. I have lived one foxhole to another and I've eaten the K rations. I had 25 E T.O., U. S. A, and also had a few months in North Africa. wife stayed home and kept our home together until I got back so

a few days ago for just half a year and as we paid last year. The ones that are in Indiana—I might have been guilty of voting for guilty of it again. Yes, they promised to the big loan to Greece and Turkey? were ss = = “VOLUNTEERS TO RUN UTILITIES IN EMERGENCY” By Tedd Vance, 1521 N. Tuxedo st. 1 propose and offer myself as a volunteer member of a citizens’ auxiliary police force to be created by the city under proper authority for the purpose of learning to operate anyone or all of the city’s essential utilities and services in an emergency. And without pay, if necessary. ¢ I'll wager that the mayor can get a thousand volunteers just for the asking and that many businesses

EEL “POLICE ARE HUMAN AND FATHERS”

By O. Hagen, 142 E. Ohio st, City more of their employees or staff

would excuse, with full pay, one or

By M. R., Indanapelis * I now have some hope that it will be possible for the city of Indianapolis to elect an honest, sincere, efficient and industrious man as mayor. I had about given up on the idea of ever being able to vote for anyone other than a wornout politician. ’ I am going to vote in the Republican primary for William H. Wemmer. It will be a privilege to do my small part to help in throwing out the hypocrites, gamblers, chiselers and beer and politically greedy individuals who have infested the municipal administrations of Indianapolis for many years. I know that Bill Wemmers being mayor will inspire many men of similar ability, ‘integrity, and sincerty to become interested in our government and only when that day comes when responsible’ people can sacrifice their personal desires for the public good can we have hope to obtain the type government which we do direly need. I would be for Bill Wemmer if for no other reason than knowing the supporters of his chief op-

party in Indiana. of him: Party, with an ability and shrewdness that compel respect however much his theories may be ridiculed and abused.”

dianapolis May 17, 1876. twenty-one states.

carry Indiana that fall. The year was 1876.

Buchanan was the spearhead of the Greenback The Chicago Tribune had said “He is the political Moses of the ‘New

As editor of the Sun, a weekly paper in Indian-

apolis in the interest of farmers, Buchanan, in November, 1874, called a conference at Indianapolis to launch what came to be the Greenback party of the United States.

Organize New Pa CONFEREN

vention at Cleveland, O., March 11, 1875, to organize

the new party. The a nominee of the party for the campaign of 1876.

rt CE issued a call for a con-

conference issued a call for nominating convention to name the presidential The national Greenback convention met at InIt had 240 delegates:

Peter Cooper of New York, 85 years old, the founder of the Cooper Union, and one of the wise philanthropists of America, was nominated for President. He reluctantly accepted the nomination, and took no active part in the campaign.

frome lapse in Indiana and the

ONE OF THE SIX from Gilbert De LaMatyr of known minister of the ! for four years ping in 1878 . a and Grace ch es in India napolis. The crux of the Greenback, ‘ers as a political force in Imdiana and American pc ilitics is illustrated by the following simple incident ) : . During a Greenback camp) aign of the 1870's, two boys, 7 and 8 years old, we we standing at an improvised bank counter in tif ie woods of a southern Indiana farm. One boy was cashier, the; other a customer come to deposit $5000 to. pay for: an Indiana farm. He was depositing fifty green of ak leaves valued at $100 per oak leaf. This business pased on oak-leaf money, movement as a political f

transaction! of these two little boys, pitomizes the Greenback It explains its colation in the presidential

campaign of 1830.

The reason for this collapse was: A greenback |

five dollar bill of those jffears, unsupported legally by gold or silver metal or ¢ Jtherwise, was in the last analysis worth no more t'/nan the green oak leaves

of the two little hoys.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs

I would like to know why you waste the ink and space for all the gripes that write in to you. Stuff that even the writer doesn’t know what he’s talking about, and what good does it do. Griping about trash collections, radio, crime, unionism, elevations, streetcar fare, gambling and giving the police hell for tow fee kick-back, so what? If you and I, and all of the readers were in police - uniform, and we had a chance to make a little extra we would, sure its a racket and everything else is a racket now days, with the lousy pay they get, and the expense they have to pay out, I don’t blame them, I can state three different cases where the police are not asleep, even after six years. They are human, and fathers, just like my dad and if they have to worry where to get an extra $50 to pay their tax, and you bunch of gripers know that Uncle Sam don’t care if you're a hod-carrier or a cop in uniform, you get the fifty, period. And as far as the state police, I think theyre o. k. And they should have beat the living day-lights out of those two young punks for killing that trooper, and given the girls 10 years (straight time) and their lawyers gave me a laugh, bringing in parts of the Bible in that trial, but they didn’t bring in the one main part of the 10 commandments,

members to serve.

This is no longer a laughing matter. These people who would shut off our water, gas, heat, lights, or other essential services, are the natural enemies of our families, friends and the security of our homes, and they should be treated as such. If we must have a showdown, let's prepare for it now. > » » » -

“WHERE DO CANDIDATES STAND ON LIQUOR QUESTION?” By Herman A. Cook, 1723 N. Meridian st. Now that the campaigns have been launched for mayor of this city, I for one would like to know how these various candidates stand on the liquor situation. Two years ago the good people of this city exercised their franchise on election day to stamp out the evil of liquor and politics. We will have to continue that fight in this city election and I am anxious to know just what alignments have been made by the candidates. A fight was led against what some termed B-0O. I think that those people who have chosen to become mayor -of this fair city should let it be. known whether any sinister influences are forwarding their respective candidacies. The voter has a right to know these things, and tHe speakers and press should definitely establish

“Thou Shalt Not Kill.”

these facts.

EQUALIZE TAXES

FEDERAL taxes should be equalized as well as reduced. The law should be changed, for instance, to permit resi-

into lower surtax brackets.

with the same income who happen to live in New York.

dents in 39 states to pay the same federal income tax that £44‘. is paid by the residents of the nine community property ; states. Under community property law a woman can claim half of her husband’s income. That division puts the income

A married couple with $10,000 net income, residing in Ohio, pays $342 larger federal tax than a couple with the same income residing in the community property state of California. A couple with $25,000 income, living in com- | ‘munity-property Texas, pays $2622 less tax than couple

, The nine states, naturally, are not going to give up their community property laws. The wise and fair thing or Congress to do would be to permit taxpayers in all States to use the community property technique in filing federal tax returns. Equalize first, then cut the rates for all. Another inequity is in the double-taxation of risk inThe owner of common stock in a corporation take;

bigger risk than the owner of bonds. Yet a corporation,

3 computing the corporate income tax, deducts th

the bondholder’s income is taxed only once.

tax an it;

that goes to pay the bondholder’s clipped coupon.

e corporation pays its 38 per cent corporate inpassing out any dividends to-the holder of | when the stockholder gets the dividend, in whatever sugtax bracket his should change the law so ® would be taxed only once.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

ponent.

”“ellow citizens of Indianapolis, to take ourselves out of the political quagmire in which we now {find ourselves.

Here is our opportunity,

» » » “IN JUSTICE TO NUMBER OF FINE POLICEMEN" By Herbert F. Mitchell, 312 Northern ave. In reference to “Police Tow-In" case, it seems incredible that Prosecutor Stark should have made such a wild statement to the effect that

the Indianapolis public be thrown open to the police department to be “sold out” on a “help you out of trouble—for a consideration” basis. These police officers are gentlemen of "high standing, according to the rightful belief of the common public, and all (perhaps with the exception of the very few found guilty) will take definite objection to such thought being expressed by such power as the prosecutor, irrespective of his affiliations. The public in. general realizes weaknesses in the police department, as in all other major organizations, hut I doubt if they will condone with the condemnation of the force, which, generally speaking, are darn good fellows, intending to help, without making a “service charge.” Definitely the boys: who accepted money should be permanently discharged from the force. They know (it, and took their chance, and as men will be willing to accept the verdict. Prosecutor Stark should not be called to their defense. If he is, why? I submit this merely in justice to a number of fine men I know on the police force, none of them personally, merely by a passing friendly: nod day after day, year after year. We know each other by sight only, not by name or exchange of favors, In justice to these officers, please do not permit their integrity and honor to be placed alongside those few who should apparently be selling vacuum cleaners, according to the statement of Prosecutor Stark.

. = “THERE WILL BE ANOTHER MOSES” By Grover C. Lowe, 1624 Asbury st.

fied to insist on

Danger to Industry Demonstrz

Since when has your paper qualiDemocrats repudiating Henry Wallace, or any--{one else for that matter? If your

WASHINGTON, April 22—In letters of fire and smoke, the meaning of the terrible disaster at Texas City is written acress the American horizon. It is a minute example of what can happen to our concentrated industrial centers in the event of another War.

report in the locked files of the joint chiefs of staff. This is a report on concentration in the petroleum industry in the United States. It shows that the number of concentration points is very small indeed. Because they were~well located in relation to cheap transportation and sources of supply,. these points are particularly vulnerable to attack. One of them was Texas City and its environs, which is

now a blackened ruin.

Study Protection of Industry THE REPORT was prepared by leaders in the industry working in co-operation with military men and technicians. It is the first in a series being done under the direction of the army and navy munitions board, which has the responsibility for producing a new plan of industrial mobilization. A great deal of talking has been done about how vulnerable ‘American industry is to bombing attack, and particularly to atomic bombing. But whether anything definite ever will be done is a large question. The cost of decentralizing industry is staggering. One estimate put it at a minimum of $300 billion. That is more than the cost of world war II to the

United States. Top estimates cover the cost of putting essential

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert May-Garsson Trial

long, fancy. courthouse epics in this country of” ours

such a long, long time. » This trial is a sort of crystalli

high fever of production. Rep, ay, who comes

fraud in connection with war contracts. The Roman holiday is the result of the

presidential timber.

Prosecutions to Be Pressed * ALTHOUGH ANDY MAY is old and sick and un horsed, uv is my understanding that the departmen

Underscoring the Texas tragedy is a top secret

industries underground. Other countries are said to

WASHINGTON, April 22—We have had a lot of

but the trial here of the Garsson boys ‘and ex-Rep. Andy May, which begins this week, has everything in it but bubble dancers. And it's due to continue for

fon of the aftermath of war, when a government gets time to sit down and study about what went on during the

from Kentucky, is being charged ‘with bribery. The Freres Garsson, notably Brother Murray, are being charged with bribery and

hot political potato which former Senator James Mead found in his pink palms, when he'was bossing the senate committee to investigate war contracts—the same committee which built Harry Truman into

of justice is going to do its best to tuck him away.

advice or suggestions in editorial of April 15 were remotely adhered to by anyone, it shculd be Carroll Reece of the Republican. national | committee. I remember a statement of former President Roosevelt—"95

its military affairs committee, was serving as Wash ington representative for the Garssons who ran 1 different companies, including munitions factories.

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per cent of the press was against me, and that no one was for me but the people”—or words to that effect. He seemed to have done alright. Four times in a row. Keep up the ballyhoo, Mr. Editor, and the cause of

to intercede for Murray

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The prosecution will attempt to prove that Mr. May, while a member of the house and the head of

The enormity of Mr. May's governmental power during a war will be shown in a revival of previous testimony. One of thé items is the fact that Maj. Gen. Alden Waitt, boss of army's chemical warfare branch, testified that he flew all the way to Europe with a note from May to Gen. Eisenhower, intended Garsson’s boy Joe, a captain

essential factories underve come reports that cerbuilt into natural caves.

be also planning to put ground. From Sweden h tain plants already are Military planners ha economy-minded this con with a request for for even the preliminary 8 tion. ,

place in industry, without any assistance from the government. Large corporations are breaking up their big units. They are see new resources of labor and cheaper transportation.} In a century, perhaps, American industry will be §ar more dispersed than it is today. : Demonstrate Effect of ) Bombs DURING THE WAR, one( of the Monsanto Chemical Co. plants at Texas Citjy supplied 25 per tent of the government's requirements for’ styrene. is the basic ingredient in synthetic rubber.’ If an accident could knock out per cent of our capacity, think what a few bombs d do. As the memory of the| war recedes, we tend to forget about these things. The men who directed our forces in the last wary do not forget so easliy. They believe that if F allow our military establishment to go down as we did after the last war, within, 10 years an enemy could take the strategic centers in this country without necessarily destroying them. { Parachutists could do (the job while nerve centers such as New York and /Whshington were being destroyéd by a few bombs Anyway, the planners go on with their studies anf Texas City is a tragic laboratory example of the forces man has created.

C. Ruark

Has Everything

was advanced to him by the Garssons—and that the company never produced a stick of lumber. The astounding life of Murray Garsson, tycoon of the clan, will unfold step by step, from its rowdy start in New York gutters to Murray's dominance as a war profitder who allegedly garnered fat contracts before he found the companies to fulfill them. Rarely have many dead men’ been involved fn a trial, or with so many men whose hearts may kill them before the thing winds to a close. Albert Jacobsen, a disharred D. C. lawyer who nevertheless found it easy to be chief counsel for the chemical warfare service, died a short time back.

Defendants Have Weak Hearts

HENHY QUINN, the lawyer for Joe Freeman, Washington representative of the Garssons, killed

Wayne Johnson, another lawyer who was the. early Garsson representative, died not long ago. The heart conditions of Mr. May and Murray Garsson hdve consistently kept them from testifying and Mr. eman har had such a miserably sore throat thal he has found it hard te talk. The people of our government have been walking ip and out of the act. War Secretary Robert Pattdson has testified both before the grand jury and fie investigating committee, and undoubtedly will appear in the dock again. Part the cast of characters have been Rep. Adolph Fabath. John McCormack, former .Democratic nijority leader, Alben Barkley—Dear Alben, whose sf. turned up as a $10,000-a-year employee of

the Gapsons, and Samuel Dickstein, now a New York jyge. . ia J this is not the first time that a congress-

been accused of being on the

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