Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 April 1947 — Page 14

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TO UNREASON | iE Federation of Labor makes what it calls “gs 1947 appeal to reason” in the first of a series of ts attacking the labor legislation now pendin congress. ; “A threadbare appeal to unreason” would describe this advertisement more accurately. ; - . It is filled with such phrases as “this vicious anti-labor bill” . . . “the first step toward totalitarianism” . . . “the shackling of labor” . . . “the enslavement of the working man” . : . “designed to destroy labor by powerful reactionary interests” . .. “written in a spirit of blind vindictiveness” . . . “an open invitation to national disaster.” . These. are the phrases always used as substitutes for logic when union leaders fight to retain the special privilege of doing as they please with their great power. The A..F. of L. would—in fact, last year it did—use just such phrases against a bill saying nothing more than that labor unions must not practice robbery and extortion (the Hobbs bill). “When government assumes comprehensive control over labor,” says the advertisement, “the complete regimentation of business must follow. And this is totalitarianism.” : : In 1985, by the Wagner act, the federal government assumed comprehensive control over employers in their dealings with unions. That step had the glad approval of the A. F. of L. It led to a mighty growth of unionism. It led to such power for union officials as they could not have | ©. attained by their own unaided efforts. It led to countless ross abuses. It led, finally, to insistent public demand for law to require responsibility for what is done with labor’s strength. £ . We do not say that the pending legislation is a perfect answer to this demand. We do say that if, in some respects, it goes too far the fault is chiefly that of the men who presume to speak for members of the A. F. of L, C. I. O. and other labor organizations. Instead of acknowledging reality, instead of helping to ghape wise and moderate measures, they have blindly, stubbornly resisted any correction of wrongs committed and excesses practiced in the name of labor. They have called for continued and even tightened government control over employers—but cried “Regimentation! Fascism! Slavery!” at every suggestion for any degree of government restraint on their own actions. 3a If the A. F. of L. officials still have nothing more than this to say, they will waste their members’ money by publishing these advertisements.

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THE WAY OUT? HE Newburyport experiment seems to be taking hold

tem that a lot of Ph. D. economists overlook.

100 per cent and still go broke. without gouging the customer.

besides margin. One is volume. The other is turnover.

volume and turnover which recalls a story we heard some years ago. : A “five-and-ten” operated its candy department on a 4-cent margin. Which meant that the customer paid only 4 cents profit on a dollar spent. But this low margin at-

over” once a week. Which figured up to 208 per cent gross per year. Allowing half of that for light, heat, rent, clerk. hire, financing, management and all other costs, still the profit was 104 per cent. : ; Was that profiteering? Or just good management, in Which the customer and the owners shared equitably? { When you get the answer to that, you have the answer fo some of the high-priced economists like Robert Nathan, Who don’t operate on any 4 per cent margin when they Bend in their bills. Also, perhaps you have the answer Yo why Newburyport is setting a pattern that may help to get us out of our present price-inflation trouble.

WHY UN CAN'T ACT OME well-meaning people still feel that such programs . § as Greek-Turkish aid should be handled exclusively by §he United Nations. They overlook the point that a program of this kind can be disapproved by any one of the Big Five powers—Russia, the United States, Britain, ‘France and China. B 2 The Soviet Union is putting pressure on Greece and | Furker. and could be expected to veto any measure which Bought to relieve those countries from the conseqyences of #hat pressure.

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Majority in the security council, i - We would have had a somewhat similar situation in the United States had our Constitution provided that any one

out respect to the wishes of the other states.

dina, for example, could have prevented repeal of prohidition, even if 47 states had wanted repeal. This structural weakness in the United Nations charter be and probably “will ‘be corrected. But until the ler is amended, by abolishing the veto right, the zation’s scope will be severely limited. In no way we weakened the United Nations by recognizing its ity to deal with such a situation as that in Greece furkey. On the contrary, we have saved the organizabarrassment by not asking it to do something we I't do under its existing restrictions. SR. camaro bems———

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The Newburyport operation apparently assures both |“A TREE GROWS THE WAY IT'S BENT”

By Anita E. Monree, 1536 Linden st. A tree always grows the way it!

is bent; one tall and straight, the ‘should be run out of this city or}

other crooked.

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| I have heard a lot about juvenile] tracted so much business that the candy stock “turned |9¢!nuency, but today, April 19, Is), security. saw a small example of it and won-| workers were fired and a good many der. My son, four years old, was of these were war veterans. The water, R. H. Staeffler, directors, [playing around his grandparents’|

"As a Teen-Ager, | Believe in Universal Military Training"

By One of Those Affected, City

This is in accordance with your article on experiment at Pt. Knox. OL Several thousand civic-minded I am a 17-year-old boy and I am still classed as a teen-ager, but when I see ah of the teen-agers are doing it makes me ashamed of | PATE of our city. It is the only civic my own generation. By this remark I mean in the sense that some people think of teen-agers as robbers, gunmen and murderers. some of the things that these teen-agers have done I cannot blame people for saying this. I feel however, that if the congress will pass this UMT bill now in question, it would reduce these statements. would be required to have one or more years at training I think a lot of this under- | = handed vandalism would cease. |“TEEN-AGE BOYS HIRED Why should we, the teen-agers TO that try to be good, have to be By Ome of the Striking Majority, Indiclassed with these others? There At*Pelis is no sound reason for it. } : ) Therefore if every person in the!Run Utilities in Emergency.” United States would write to his|

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REAK GAS STRIKE”

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congressman and give his opinion gentleman to propose that an auxmaybe that would help. Congress| would be doing the greatest thing that it has ever done for this na- operate any one or all of the essention. I was especially impressed by [tial utilities. However, if workers the fact that there is no swearingiat any one or all of these same / = . at Pt. Knox and thif"Weny boy is and doing well. It points up a phase of the profit sys- | required to go to church on Sunday | ; There are quite a few fellows in our ar® given . . A great nation that have never seen free men in a free country, then Profit doesn’t come just from margin. You can charge | the inside of a church, and would this proposal is unnecessary. Big profits can be made | not know how to act if they entered I hope you will article so that we can prove to our

Involved in profit-making are two other vital elements | elders that not all teen-agers are|., =~: 1. Gealt with as “natural

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utilities, whe are already trained the rights due them as

In the gas strike case in particular. The people who would shut off your gas are the gas officials and

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enemies of our families, friends and the security of our homes.” When [they will stoop to hiring teen-age boys as strike breakers and thus !starting them in life as scabs, well, a group of men (?) such as these

any city if for no other reason. The strikers are attempting to get better working conditions and Because of this, 17

utility is being operated by a few stay-in or returning workers and

home when a boy of 10 or so came] ae e the guts to along down the alley and deliber- scabs Who di g

ately took my boy's cap. pistol. What kind of yarn did. the unknown boy tell his parents about his possession of the gun? price of the gun did not matter I was sad about my son's unhappiness over the loss of his prized possession, but the cold fact is, what type of future will this other boy fall heir to? In the court room mothers say of their accused sons, “My boy was a good boy, so kind, etc.” takes a glimpse into a child's future to see if the tree will be bent or grow tall and straight.

pass up the directors’ offer of big wages, free movies, free cigarets, etc., to live on the utility's property, and who by so doing would give up their birthright as men. I'm sure they cannot look the striking members in the’ eye. And I doubt if they are able to sleep in peace. They are all brothers of Judas, with their greed for the 30 pieces of silver. Yes, this is no longer a laughing matter and there must be a show» down with the throwing out of (king) Kemp and his stooges (directors, that is) from the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility.

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“CITY WOULD BENEFIT BY THIS EXPERIENCE”

By Venard G. Trester, President, Indianapelis Civie League, Ine.

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EIGHTY-TWO YEARS ago tonight Louls Henri Reed, an Indianapolis artist, unlocked the door of the statehouse and cast a death mask of Abraham Lincoln, And until somebody comes forth with a reasonable argument to the contrary, I'll go on bebelieving that the mysterious and unattributed relic mow in the basement of the statehouse is the one made by Mr, Reed. This much is certain: -Abraham Lincoln's body arrived atthe Union depot at 7 o'clock on the Sunday morning of April 30, 1865, niidst the tolling of bells and the booming of cannon. The rain was falling in torrents and the air was tense with emotion. The crowd had been waiting since daybreak, having been awakened at sunrise by the roar of 36 guns. After the funeral train arrived, the coffin was lifted into the waiting hearse by 10 pallbearers, one of whom was Judge Jeremiah Sullivan (Reginald's great-grandfather). At Washington and Illinois sts. (where four years before Lincoln had addressed an enormous crowd from a Bates house balcony), the military was drawn up forming a line of bayonets all the way to the old statehpuse (not the present one, but the one that looked like a Greek temple with a dome on top of it).

Memento of Visit

ARRIVING AT THE black-draped south entrance of the statehouse, the pallbearers again lifted their precious burden and placed it on a catafalque under the anachronistic domex The Journal reporting the event described the President's face as “bathed in the flood of sdft mellow light from the chandeliers.” At 9 o'clock the people were admitted—for the first two hours only children with their mothers; after that, everybody, All that day they came at the rate of 150 a minute, and it is probably no exaggeration to say (as was said at the time) that no less than 100,000 people passed through the statehouse that day—this at a time when Indianapolis boasted a population of 20,000.

WASHINGTON, April 30. — Secretary of State George C. Marshall's report on the Moscow conference is not likely to become a party issue. Most members of congress will give their approval with varying degrees of enthusiasm or reluctance. . That was apparent after the secretary’s Sundayevening session with congressional leaders at the White House. Both Republicans and Democrats came away from that session with the sober realization that Mr. Marshall had gone as far as he could go at Moscow without compromising our basic interest in securing a decent peace between free and indes pendent nations. :

Criticism Will Continue

the membership. It 1s located at 821 Congress ave At our regular mee'in~ ¥ = we appointed a committee to select an outstanding ciuize.. « munity and persuade him to become a candidate for city ‘council man of the second district. One month later this committee reported they had selected Harmon A. Campbell and he agreed to file as their candidate. The organization at that time voted unanimonsly to indorse and work for his nomination and election. Mr. Campbell has resided at 1167 W. 36th st. for the past 27 years and has been a business man in north Indianapolis for 25 years. During {this time he has worked untiringly for the betterment of our city. He ihas been a director of The Indian|apolis Federation of Community | Civic Clubs for 14 years. Mr. Campbell also served as a city councilman from 1939 to 1942, was ia member of the city plan commis|sion from 1939 to 1943, was president {of the board of works and sanitation during 1943, and we feel that he always diff a good job. We be{lieve the city administration would {benefit by his experience.

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Editor's Note: The above letter | was also signed by Florence A. Miles, |secretary; C. L. Freeman, H. S. | Ellis, 0. Wayt, Mrs. Charles Kyger, | |R- E. Singleton, W. C. Marlow, John Bales, Lucien L. Green, G. W. Brede-

{North Indianapolis Civic League, Ine. * 2 = | “STATE DEPARTMENT {DISLOYAL, UNCONCERNED” {By Bull Mooser, Crawfordsville Most Republicans have looked on Henry Wallace as something like | a cross between a dead pig and a long-haired college professor.. But on the present question of foreign policy he undoubtedly has expressed the opinion and belief of the rank and file of Republican voters. The pity is that we had no Republican cgngressman with enough courage fo take the stand. There is no disloyalty involved in |criticizing proposed foreign policy |any more than there is a disloyalty {involved in criticizing a tax schedule. Any disloyalty involved is on the part of Mr. Truman and the state department in the dictatorial way they are trying to rush the measure through without giving the | people and congress a chance to become informed. | Why should a few “special in- | terest”

oil-rich men in the state department be able to draw up a foreign policy suitable to their own interest and force it upon 1s as an emergency measure, denouncing all who dared to oppose the proposal as disloyal. Disloyal to what? We have had tod many emergencies such as this during the past 30 years, and they have all led inevitably to war. No informed person can truthfully deny that our state department is dominated by special interest imperialists completely out of step with the will of the American people; and that it is secretly allied with tory British and Dutch imperialism, The whole record of our state department during the past 30 years has been one 6f disloyalty and unconcern toward the expressed will of the American people. It's time for the investigation which Republicans promised. If the Republicans won't investigate, then we'll follow Henry Wallace.

DAILY THOUGHT

Tt is not for you to know the times or the seasons, which the Father hath’ put in his éwn power.—The Acts 1:7.

‘| THEIRS not to make reply,

FROM THE extreme left and the extreme right, the criticism will continue. These same extremes— senator Glen H. Taylor, Idaho, on the one hand nd Senator Albert W. Hawkes, New Jersey, on the other—contributed the chief opposition to the program for aiding Greece and Turkey. But the important fact is that the great majority in congress is behind the present policy. And this means that the great majority of the American people will be found more or less in accord with the firm line that Secretary Marshall has taken. It does not, of course, mean that a bipartisan foreign policy will inevitably bring agreement on all phases of that policy. The truth is tha: the term bipartisan has been greatly overworked in this connection. If we can avoid partisan quarrels over doctrine. But the task of conviction and persuasion

NEW YORK, April 30.—I hate to wave the flag, but dammit to hell, every now and them you get mad. Between 15 and 20 million guys collect a bad time out of the war, and thén a lowercase louse like Serge Rubenstein rates a better deal as a convicted draft dodger than some of our’ congressional medal men, If Serge is a good boy, he spends 10 months in the cooler. I know one guy who never got out of the Pacific for four years, and 1 fetched back a chief once who was raving nuts. He was raving nuts because he had been on the same destroyer for 26 months, going’ from nowhere to nowhere. Twenty-six months on the same can is a long time. It was my idea at the time that selective service was designed to fit ewerybody, even international financiers of Russian origin who were operating the stock fharket here. I am wrong, evidently. Remind me, next war, to go puncture my eardrums or jump on my feet until the croaker calls 'em flat. There ain't any profit in a war—at least not the $5 million that our boy Serge sucked out of the effort.

It's Less Than Hay

RUBINSTEIN, convicted of wilfully conspiring to elude Uncle Sugar’s elementary school for healthy civilians, has been punished by a sentence of 2% years in hack, plus a fine of $50,000. Fifty grand to. Ruibenstein is less than hay. And the 2%: years comes down to 10 months, if Serge's tractable—if his dough doesn’t spring him before that. I will trade 10 months in a nice cozy jail right now for three months on any one of several islands in the central Pacific. You can't find a boredom in a jug to outmatch the every-day routine of an 8-knot convoy. As I recall, we got some people back from the Japs when we overran Manila in 1945. They had been waiting around behind bars since Corregidor. I ‘met

OUR TOWN... by Anton Schomar «© . 1 © 1, Lincoln's Death Mask in State House?

everythifiggever written on the subject,

At 10 o'clock that night, while the band was playing “Old Hundred," the coffin was lifted from the catafalque to the shoulders of 10 soldiers and carried to the waiting hearse whence through a line of armed troops and torch bearers it was brought back to the Union depot. That same night the train left for Chicago on its circuitous way to Springfield. One aftermath was a bas-relief of Lincoln modeled by Louis Henri Reed. A plaster cast, pos-

sibly the only one in existence, is now under lock

and key in the state library. Legend has it that this portrait was inspired by a death mask made by Mr. Reed on the night of April 30, 1865. It may be true, notwithstanding the fact that nobody has ever Sipinined how My Reed got permission to make the mask. On the other hand, there are two good reasons why Mr. Reed could" have done what he did without asking anybody's permission. For one thing, he was the son of Enos Reed, Influential editor of The People, whom nobody could deny for fear of reprisal. And for another thing, Young Reed was a nephew of B. K. Foster, state librariaii at the time. Back In the 60's, the librarian was the custodian of the statehouse keys—a trivial point, perhaps, but certainly one that Sherlock Holmes wouldn't dismiss,

Another Achievement

UP UNTIL the night of April 30, 1865, little was known of Louis Henri Reed's achievements as a sculptor. Right after the casting of the death mask, however, he was a busy man around hele. Not only did he complete Lincoln's bas-relief, but he began wondering about the original appearance of the Venus of Milo. Thirty years later, sometime around the turn of the century, Mr. Reed had his mind made up. 8

To make up his mind, Mr. Reed had to digest

including the theory that the mutilated statue wasn't a Venus at

all, but a sculptural connotation for Victory. The Victorians argued that her muscles weren't soft enough to be a Venus. Mr. Reed, I am happy to report, stuck to the Venus theory, and after 30 years of intengive study restored the broken figure.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Margiis Childs Doubt Marshall Report Party Issue

the basic line to be taken, that is probably all that can be expected under our system of divided powers. Co-operation depends on the skill and tact of Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg. He has no official mandate from his party to speak for the party on foreign policy. At a time of intense rivalry for position, the senator from Michigan must move

warily. If he goes too far, he can destroy his own usefulness, '

Job Fell to Vandenberg

MOST OF the burden of support for the GreekTurkish program in the senate fell on Senator Vandenberg. The Democratic leader, Senator Alben Barkley, Kentucky, was out of the country while the issue was being debated. Senator Tom Connally, Texas, ranking Democrat on the foreign relations committee, raised an emotional plea for the Truman plan. It was Senator Vandenberg who worked out the amendments intended to bring the policy in line with United Nations co-operation. Senator Vandenberg is not now a member of the American delegation to the U. N. assembly. Under United Nations regulations, a new delegation must be named for each new assembly. It is not likely that Senator Vandenberg will accept membership on our delegation so long as the Republicans have a majority In congress and a Democrat is in the White House. The fact that the delegation is subject to the “orders” of the President would complicate Senator Vandenberg's position in the senate and inside the G. O. P.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark ‘Serge Rubenstein’s a Lowercase Louse’

some of them on the way home. at the slightest provocation. Rubinstein to jailors: “I will not ride in this car.” We went into Africa in the fall of '42. Some of the guys got back after V-E day. It gets cold in Africa. Dysentery was tough in Italy. Fellow I know ain't got any feet. Froze 'em off in Germany. I doubt if a man with as much dough as Rubinstein will go stir-crazy in 10 months, .especially if they let him out now and again to visit a dame or rip off a rhumba in the nightclubs, but‘a rockhappy G.I. is a very unpretty sight. He gets to talking to palm trees and one day he walks up and slugs the C.O. or hangs himself from the ridgepole and you can put it down to solitary confinement, The confinement is nat punishment for a crime, of course. It is a necessary wartime measure, Somebody has to live on*those islands,

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It's Just a Long Time

ANOTHER fellow gets drafted when the act first comes in. Serves his nine months, and then there is Pearl Harbor, and back he goes. They spring him in October, 1945. So he never gets out of Texas? Five years is a long time to be a private. Even in Texas. Five years is a Icng time to be a colonel, if you do not particularly care to be a colonel. But we are losing sight of Rubinstein, who presently is howling for anether hearing. And in between howls he is proving to be a very unco-operative boy with the law. His classic features, I note, are still neatly arranged. They tell me that at Parris island, where they manufactured marines, lack of co-opera-tion was frowned on. = I have two hopes for Rubinstein. When his appeal comes up, I hope they hand him life, to be spent on the island of Pelleliu. Or else, when he goes to jail to toy with his 10 months penalty, I hope they give him an ex-marine for a cellmate,

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Specter of World Explosion Seen

WASHINGTON, April 30.—A specter much more foreboding than the Palestine situation hovers over the special session of the United Nations general assembly at Lake Success. The specter is of a new world explosion unless the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China soon make peace in Europe and Asia or, if they fall,

Nations can find a way to effect a world seitlement despite Soviet sabotage. Nothing that. Secretary of State Marshall or any others of the Big Four may say can hide the frightening fact that the Moscow parley was a failure insofar as any major accomplishment was concerned. It .did only one thing, it revealed how completely at odds are Russia, on the one hand, and the United States, Britain and France on the other.

Only Two. Courses Open / TWO THINGS, therefore, are now clear. One is the imperative necessity for thé United States at once to implement the Truman doctrine and the Act of Chapultepec and the other for the United Nations as rapidly as possible, to put itself in a" position to carry out its commitments to safeguard the ace. : ve Another unwelcome revelation is that Russia .is using the United Nations and-the various peace conferences to shape Europe, Asia and the world to her liking or else sabotage all efforts at international peace and disarmament. BEN Already the new Russian empire has taken in

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more than a million square miles of territory by con“quest, in Europe and

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the entire Balkans, except Greece and Turkey, pius large slices of China and Korea. It has set up puppet governments in Warsaw, Bucharest, Sofia and Belgrade and has similar plans for other capitals, It has gone back on its pledge to support the recognized government of China and is backing a Red army there. “ Now it is blocking peace with Germany and Aus-

further expansion will be facilitated. The rest of the world—Moscow's satellites don’t count—is crying for peace. If Russia continues to block a decent peace, the rest of the nations will have to do something about it or civilization will collapse. The bill of rights would disappear along with everything the United Nations charter means by mankind's “fundamental freedom.”

Assembly Has Power to Act .

THE GENERAL assembly is not powerless. It can discuss anything within the scope of its charter including “the general principles of co-operation in the maintenance of international peace and security.” Beyond doubt, the failure of the Big Five to make peace in Europe and-°Asia while Russia takes ad vantage of the confusion to expand her empire, con stitutes an appalling threat. ° : . After world war I, every nation that declared war against the Central powers—some 30 of them—had ga voice at the peace table. s Every nation that declared

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