Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1947 — Page 12

would like to see unions made powerless. But it does u public responsibility for what is done with labor §' power, and that's what the country wants. a The committee's task was difficult. It began work with twomeasures before it—one, passed by a 308-to-107 Vote in the house, which went much too far in many respects; the “other, passed by a 68-to-24 .vote in the senate, which was milder, fairer and more carefully considered. Out of these two, it had to make one. 4 Wisely, the committee decided that it would try to fashion legislation in which President Truman could find no valid grounds for a veto and which would deserve to become law in spite of a veto. In that effort, we think, it has been admirably suecessful, The house members agreed to discard most of their more stringent provisions. The final version, with a few exceptions which seem to us minor and unobjectionable, follows closely the lines of the original senate bill.

THE house and "senate are expected to go through the formality of accepting the committee's product this week and the bill will be sent to Mr. Truman. He will then have 10 days to decide whether to sign it, to veto it, or to let it become law withgut his signature. We hope his decision will be to sign. Careful study of this bill will show, we believe, that it does not contain the dangers alleged by William Green, Philip Murray and other union leaders; that it would not “destroy unions,” or “enslave labor,” or “put workers at the mercy of grasping employers”; that it is, in fact, a moderate, thoughtful response to public demand for correction of intolerable abuses. But if there is a veto, congress will be thoroughly justi. fied in overriding it. That would require two-thirds majorities in both branches. The original house and senate measwere passed by nearly three-fourths majorities. All resentatives and senators who supported them could |of istently vote to override a veto of the conference comEr mittee’ $ bill, and we believe they should.

" RUNNING OUT AS RIS Run it, the senate armed services commit-

tee has decided we should have & secretary of national sevurity rather than a secretary of national defense. That's all right with us and undoubtedly so with others who want unification of our armed forces. -A secretary of national seeurity or defense would have top supervision of the three arms of our military establishment, ‘air, sea-and land. 4 The senate probably will get the unification bill this week, Chairman Gurney of the armed services committee says it will meetWednesday for a final vote. Even the bill's bitterest opponents concede it will be reported favorably. . This is some measure of encouragement to friends of unification. Unfortunately, however, congressmen seem determined to start their vacations by Aug. 1. And that means a great deal must be done in a short time. Even after Senator Gurney’s committee reports, unification has no priority on the senate majority's “must” calendar. The senate Republican steering committee sééms determined to ignore national defense. In the house, the outlook isn’t much better. Chairman Hoffman of the committee on executive expenditures has discontinued hearings on unification to discuss placement of the U. S. unemployment service in Washington’s bureaucracy. Some day, perhaps, he will get around to unification again. Mr. Hoffman isn’t sure when that will be. But one thing -is certain—unification wasn’t on the calendar last week and won't be this week. Even after Mr. Hoffman's committee resumes its leisurely consideration of this vital measure, no one can say how much longer it will take. f The American people long ago made their decision. They want a unified command. We venture they. will hold this congress strictly to account if it fails to produce.

roe YE OF LITTLE FAITH ‘much dismal talk has been heard of late about our § ~ school system going to pot that it is, to put it mildly, an inspiration to read about the 1947 winner of the national spelling bee. Who won? A 14-year-old girl. From where? A country school in Georgia—a one-room school, where one teacher handles all the classes, the three R’s and all the trimmings. Out of this environment, from a state often referred to as the backward South, comes the champ—Mattie Lou Pollard. The teacher—Mrs. G. H. Phillips, who for 34 years has been on the teaching job; as typical a member of America’s finest profession as we have ever laid eyes on. Second, Sonya Rodolfo. From the Philippines, where he went through the war on Luzon. Only two years in this country. To get into the finals, held in Washington, she

events in the Chicago area. Third, Suzanne Gelin of Cleveland. To all who need assurance that our educational system ‘has not lost its verve, and that the teachers of our nation have. not lost their interest, we recommend this contest # has the thrill of the 500-mile race, the Derby, the ‘world series, or the Army-Navy football game. But don’t let what we say be interpreted as meaning think our teachers are sufficiently paid; we merely an | despite their underpayment, they have carried th ond fight and have kept the faith. -

with appreciation the announcethis important thorough-

, which: start with construc. m Rochester ave. to Tremont » and federal governments.

down 475,000 contestants entered in the runner-up |

Hoosier

do not

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agree with a word that you

I say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

Can a town be judged by its

city” crack about Indianapolis.

slop HasquCRdIng as food? Where die

are reasonable, but the doggone menu never changes, what choice has he got? : Well, he can go fo one of the hotels, where they seem to think food is jewelry and price it accordingly. He can pay, as I did recently, $1.75 for a “dinner” consist-

and three mouse-sized wads of vegetables. That's o. k. if you're in the chips. I aint. If he shops around, he can find such as rib roast pooked like pot roast, complete with trans-mission-oil gravy. If he hungers for something different, he can pay $1.90 for a “shore dinner” made up of unidentifiable quick-thawed fish carcass encased in greasy blankets the color and texture of a G. IL woolen blouse. Indianapolis restaurant food is like the weather. Everybody talks about it, but nobody does anything about “it. . 2 os

“ADULTS BAD AS KIDS IN BEHAVIOR AT SHOW” By Mrs. Lucille Lipp, 431% Lansing st. To Movie Goer, College ave. I think you should have more to worry about than kids munching popcorn and enjoying life a little. I bet you do lots worse things in the. show, such as talking loudly with your pals and not removing your hat. I've noticed adults doing worse things in the movies than enjoying a little popcorn. * I ate popcorn in the show all my life. I am 39 now and expect to keep on doing it. Why don’t you move if kids annoy you? To some kids, that’s all the pleasure they have is a show once a week and a little ‘popcorn. How many kids have you? I have none, but I don’t expect all the kids to be silent just to pamper me. I think the average child behaves nicely in the movies. It’s the ones of age I see being the most bothersome. * If you never ate popcorn in the show when you were a girl you never had fun, I bet. It's people like you who have forgotten what it

ing of one well-cooked veal chop]

"|Thats without tangible

"Restaurant Food Like Weather, We Talk, but Do Nothing About It"

By Furnished Roomer, Alabama st.

restaurants?

If John Gunther hadn’t been lucky enough to eat at clubs, as he’, probably did when here, he might -have added something to his “dirtiest|

Where else “Inside U.S. A” do you pay upward of $1.75 for dreary,

do you find so little variety? do restaurants spend thousands on interior decoration ® Ds cut down on interior decoration of the customer? When a guy gets tired of the family-style restaurant, where prices

is to be young, who want others to forget, too. I say let kids be kids while they can so they won't grow up with ideas like yours. Enjoy your popcorn, kids, and bubble-gum, too. + You're only kids such a short: time. No wonder you didn't sign your name, Movie Goer. ” » ® “WHEN HAS KINDNESS BEEN CARRIED TOO FAR?” By Charies Hunter, Age 13, City : In reply to the letter by T. L. C., “Get Rid of Homeless Dogs by Killing Them,” I think, T. L. C, that you have the wrong view on everything, although there are two views to almost anything, the wrong view and the right view. How would you feel if you were homeless and somebody for no reason at all except the fact that you were homeless (and I doubt whether you are) took you out and killed you? And when do you think kindness has ever been calried too far? Just think how many lives have been saved by dogs, and just who do you think is man's best friend? One of the ten com"mandments in the Bible is “Thou shalt not kill.” .Or do you read the Bible?

‘# . “FINISH PEACE TREATIES SO WORLD CAN GO TO WORK” By P. B. H., Salem st. There is too much delay in completing the treaties with the defeated enemy nations. Why doesn’t the United States take the lead and insist on completing these treaties 50 that the world can get back to a normal economic balance and production be resumed on a global scale? I believe our own state department has been lax and wobbly in the past, but maybe Gen. Marshall will put a little iron into our policies. There are entirely too many meetings of Big Three, Big Four and Big and Little Thises and results. Fewer meetings and more-agtion| would help get the world off the

now.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“WHAT IS WRONG WITH CHECK ON AIR LINES?” By R. L L, Tibbs ave. Two fatal air crashes within 24

hours have led me to Believe there must be something very wrong in {this country’s commercial air set-

Not only do the companies and i pilots deserve a strict investigation, but it is also time someone took up a broom in the office of civil aeronautics administration. It is upon its shoulders that the weight of the blame should be placed. To the C. A. A. falls the Job of inspecting every commercial flight. . The office and the personnel which staff it are dangerously lax. A few days ago, during preliminary practice at Speedway, a large two-engine plane “buzzed” thé garages and working area of the track. The ship was barely above the roof

Thousands of dollars of expensive racing equipment was endangered as were the lives of several hundred persons. But this is the payoff—the plane carried the orange-stripe markings of the C. A. A. It was a ship which C. A. A personnel fly. It was the C. A A State police called the field, but the plane did not leave until it had made a couple more low passes at the garages. It's time we got to the “top” of these air crashes.

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“DON'T LIKE LOOKS OF 500-MILE RACE VICTORY” By W. A. 8, N. Capitol ave. In the interest of automobile racign, I believe the A. A. A, and Speedway officials should conduct the most searching investigation into the argument over whether Bill Holland thought he had won the race Priday because he was led to believe it and then the other member of his racing team did so. Nobody can question the right of Lou Moore as owner of both cars to direct the drivers. But it looks like the element of genuine competition was removed when—if that is what happened—the man in the lead was slowed down by his boss and the man in second place was allowed to get the checkered flag first. ? tJ » ” “TICKET SCALPERS GOT CAUGHT SHORT THIS TIME” By D. G., Hotel Lobbyist As one who spends a lot’ of time in hotel lobbies, I should like to shed a tear in behalf of a well‘established and traditional group of entrepeneurs—the ticket scalpers. * This highly speculative activity, while - generally considered dishonorable, is possible only because there usually are enough “good people” seeking tickets to various aporting events, regardless of price, An exception, it appeared from the hotel end, was the Speedway race. - Scalpers, including veterans who should know better, were caught with more ducats than they could possibly sell. Prices plummeted and a lot of the “boys” were victims of a

1“squeeze.” Poor lads. Whatever the

law's opinion of these rugged individualists, they remain a group of operators with the pioneers spirit of chance-taking. . " » “POLICE DESERVE PAT ON BACK FOR TRAFFIC JOB” . H. 0, W, 16th st. I'm the Forum Fan who wrote in

“Jam like we've always had before. Well, I can admit it if I'm wrong as soon as the next man. I think the cops did a good job this year. There's still room for improvement, but it sure was a lot better than last year. know, because I missed the start { the race in '46 and was there in lenty of time this year. And times, I left home about the same time.

DAILY THOUGHT For weé brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we carry nothing out.~I Timothy 8:7.

| ONLY what we have wrought into

our character during life ‘can we

FOR FEAR of incurring the interested in my boyhood

than I am, I have ab.

subject. Today, however, I can contain myself no longer. I'l bust if IT don’t tell you what the kids of

It all depended in of town, the kid lived. South side, for instance to pull a green

appear, It disappeared, all right,

A Long-Winded Process

ON THE EAST SIDE, the kids had a different and much slower technique. The wart was rubbed with a rough side of a bean leaf. The process had to be repeated seven consecutive days without letting a soul know anything about it. It also worked, but it was a long-winded process compared with ours.

side first had to steal a piece of raw meat. After the wart was rubbed with it, the pilfered meat had to be secretly buried. It worked all right, too, provided the kid wasn’t caught stealing the cure. As for the kids on the West side they didn't do anything abot their warts. Just let ‘em grow, which explains why certain distinguished, Indianapolis citizens like Charlie McGarvey and Joe Sullivan, to men-

their 50-year-old warts around with them. The Negroes of 60 years ago, no matter in what part of town they live, always practiced the same

DEAR BOSS

WASHINGTON, June 2.—When the house took a $340,469,342 bite out of President Truman's agriculture budget last week they had some under-cover help from two staff members of the Indiana State Chamber of Commerce. They are Howard Friend, reserach director, and Robert Hammer, head of the business-agriculture department of the state chamber. Loaned to the house appropriations committee, they worked here for some weeks gathering data to support the budget slicing in the agricyiture department.

Hoosiers Aid Cuts

THEIR FINDINGS WERE turned over to Rep. Everett M. Dirksen (R. IIL), chairman of the house appropriations subcommittee on agriculture. While the appropriations committee declined to make public the data, Dirksen used it to sharpen his knife. Similar slashes have been made in other department appropriations on data dug up by chamber of commerce men on loan from various states. The business lobbies are riding as high in congress under G. O. P. leadership as labor did under F. D. R.. Majority Leader Charley Halleck (R. Ind.) will debate any one who challenges this course. He considers absurd and cynical any of the increasingly numerous critics who predict thai our current economics are riding for a fall. : There is a joke built out of the fact that despite all the “business management” of government the stock market stays static on good days and falls on most of the others. It also involves a Hoosier—Emil Schram. - It goes like this: “As head of the New York stock exchange, Emil Schram is the only businessman who really has lived up to President Truman's plea to cut prices.” That he would rather they would go up instead of down isn't included in the joke. Maybe because it isn't tunny. While working to cut the agriculture budget, Mr. Friend, who “used to be a newspaperman,” took a little time out to write his boss, Clarence A. Jackson, regarding one of the things he found. It was on the subject “the importance of the pea-

UNITED NATIONS NEWS

IN AND OUT of the United Nations this week, there were several significant statements made which indicate that the statesmen are growing weary of Soviet Russia's consistent policy of blocking the plans for international security. First, General Mark Clark, upon his arrival in the United States from Europe, spoke in strong terms against the Russians continued stripping of Austria. Secondly, Herbert Hoover, speaking before a congressional committee, urged that Prance, Britain and the United States go forward toward a tri-part settlement of European affairs. He emphasized the critical status of European economy and warned that the situation for the people of Europe is acute and desperate.

Nations Grow Restive IN CHICAGO, Professor Harold Urey issued a statement through the national committee on atomic information in which he said that it would be necessary to ride over Russian objections and achieve the best plan possible for the control of atomic energy

even if it were necessary to leave the Soviet Union out.

Editor's Note: Mr. Eldridge is Midwest field director for the American Association for the United Nations.

Significantly, at Lake Success this week Mr. Gromyko, speaking in the atomic energy conimission, continued the Soviet policy of emphasizing what seemed to the other members to be unimportant technicalities. In the debate the impatience of the other nations is pbvious. All of this causes a recurrent question to be asked again—what is the truth about the situation inside Russia? In this week's “World Report”—there is an appraisal drawn from official as well as unofficial sources of Russia's internal strength and weaknesses. The Soviets Union: 13-10 Hors HDH from. Posi

WORLD AFFAIRS .

JBUENOS AIRES, Argentina, June 2. — United Sthtes military men here are inclined to believe that Juan Domingo Peron can be counted on to line Argentina up on the side of the United States and the rest of the western hemisphere in event of another world conflict. This premise appears to be borne out in assurances disclosed last week to have been recently given to the state department by the Argentine dictator,

President Military Minded

THESE ASSURANCES, it is believed, will help pave the way for the signing of a hemisphere defense pact at the coming Rio de Janeiro foreign ministers conference.

They will also permit Argentina to arm by direct purchases of military equipment or under President Truman's proposed arms standardization program.

minded.

Army men here say-that he would line this country up immediately if the h became involved in another conflict. He is a mortal enemy of, political groups that had presidents in power d two world wars. It is argued that he would co-operate in the next, if for no other reason than his intense

dislike of ieverything concerned: with Hithn: partion

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OUR TOWN . “a's WA Anton Shore at How Young ‘uns Used to Cure V

wrath of those less technique. To start out, they plekad.a stained for ral days from any mention of the .kind of night. Then they'd start

To get rid of their warts, the kids of the North’

tion only two born and bred Westsiders, still carry

Peron, a Professional soldier, is extremely. miitiasy :

the last: They include the offices of military

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the moon was full. To Wouldnt Work on sy ome walking due When they thought it was time, they'd stop, and pick up the first thing their hand totiched. this, they rubbed the wart vigorously until they stand the irritation no longer—all the time looking at the moon, mind you. That done, they went home as

hi ;

fast as they could, and inside of a ‘week the wary

WAS gone. 1 remember something, too, about the treatment

of corns which, 60 years ago, also was considered an

excessive growth of the papillae. One Southsider always made it a practice when his corns started acting up, to go in search of a snall. If he was lucky enough to find one, he broke the shell and with the soft body rubbed the corn. The pain stopped simon immediately. No fooling.

Helped to Prevent Cramps

AND WHILE I'm on the subject of materia medica, I might as well tell you about, Another Southsider who always thrust his jack knife into the head of his bed when he retired. He said it kept him from getting cramps during the night. Well, one day in the fantastic '90’s when sudden changes took place over night, this Southsider’s wife succumbed to a new style in furniture and surprised

her husband with a brass bed. That night the man .

pulled out his long-blade knife preparatory to warding off the cramps when, to his dismay, he discovered that no portion of the new-fangled bed could be used for the purpose, Just then he remembered that a friend had told him that a pair of slippers turned upside down at the foot of the bed was every bit as effective as a knife stuck into a bed. He decided to try the slipper technique. cramps of his entire life. He made his wife trade the brass bed for an old-fashioned wooden one, after which everything was all right again,

. By Daniel M. Kidney . ™

Business Lobby Rides High in Congress

nut,” and his letter read in part: “Bob and I have discovered that we (meaning the

great and wise U. 8. A) are planning to spend-—or rather to lose—$16 million next year on peanuts we

+ don’t need. On second thought, we must need them,

for why else would we spend $16 million on peanuts we don't need. “It seems that during the war peanut production went up because somebody wanted peanut oil for something. Now we don't need the oil, but peanut producers still like the idea of producing lots of peanuts whether anybody wants peanut oil or peanut bytter or not. Of course, we can't let the price drop because maybe peanuts would go back to a nickel a bag, or If it stayed at 10c a bag, peanut eaters might get too many peanuts for a dime and thereby get the bellyache. “Besides, it wouldn't be any fun producing. too many pearuts unless somebody like Uncle Serj spent a bagful of money (and we don’t mean just a dime peanut bagful) 0 keep: these old Jie up _Whare we like them.” The letter continues in the same light vein. Since both Friend and Hammer were working on commodity credit corporation price supports, it “does sound silly and doesn't make sense. But rewarding the farmers for keeping sons home and raising huge crops at wartime. is a continuing political purpose of both the Republican and Democratic parties. They jointly guaranteed to underwrite farm prices for two years after the war was over. And that it why peanuts and potatoes pile up.

Senate May Oppose Cut

FARMERS LIKE PRICE SUPPORTS but they hate acreage controls. S0 a congress opposed to economic planning let them klep their high prices and tossed controls out the window. They can plant and plant whatever they please and the taxpayers will foot the bill as long as they still have money. Anyway the Hoosier Republican congressmen voted for the appropriation cut, although it may be restored in the senate. DAN KIDNEY

By James A. Eldridge

Red Quibbling Is Growing More Irksome

war troubles than any other nation. But because of her difference in philosophy of government, Russia

ficial has said that the Soviet Union is.in a state of crisis, but what these officials have done both inside and outside the “iron curtain” add up to a situation that might be dangerous. The continued Semand in all United Nations meetings on the part of the sians for collecting reparations is a clear admission that the Soviet Union needs help at home. Attempts to get steel from Germany, oil from Austria, textiles from Italy, heavy machinery from Manchuria, is in sharp contrast to the United States’ decision to ask for nothing. World Report also points out that Russia's fiveyear plan, begun last year, also reveals weaknesses in the Soviet economy. If the war had not intervened, the five-year plan, ending in 1942, was to have

. pushed Russia's industrial output to a figure twice

that of 1937 and nearly twenty times that of Czarist days. The current plan reveals cutbacks which in some cases are even below actual output before world war II. Russia's masses are living on a slim diet. Food is neither plentiful nor cheap. Reports from the Ukraine, and Byelorussia indicate widespread malnutrition.

Tense Summer Situation

SIZING IT ALL UP, outsiders, who have studied the Soviet Union closely are inclined to agree that Russia is in a critical stage. Good weather and a good crop this summer would ease the tension but meantime, in the security council and in the atomic energy commission this summer sessions are expected to be tense. The fall seéhsions of the general assembly and the London meeting in November of the foreign ministers will be the turning point in the history of the United Nations.

. By Ernie Hill

Believe Argentina Would Support LL: S.

During most of the last war, Ramon 8. Castillo was president. He bejonged to the conservative party which has virtually disappeared since Peron declared war against the country’s 50 richest families. Castillo tried to wreck the last Rio conference

a month after Pearl Harbor. He insisted that .

Argentine remain neutral. It did and grew rich.

During party member, was president, t amount ‘of sympathy for France in, that ‘conflict but not enough to impel Argentina to take ita ,8o it again remained neutral, ik

U.S. Mission in Argentine a RADICAL AND CONSERVATIVE parties tvs fought Peron and his new labor party from the beginning. He is the enemy of both ther

and their tions. :

At present the US. has 13 cmisost ors

in the Argentine capital in four different

attaches, an aviation mission and a new ne 4 y of navy personnel aging a. advisers 0 the

That night the poor man had the worst