Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1947 — Page 8

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NILES st of the coal mines in Indiana shut down, of the 10-day paid vacation for miners fana's miners, along with 250,000 uslon there, had quit work because they did not

n't pass a law to make a man’ work” runs a refrain from the idle coal fields.

One might mote that “they” can pass a law to make a man work, and have, in Russia, and in Nazi Germany, and in a good many other places. But only in places where an . ied minority has seized power by force or threat of force, set aside constitutional government and taken the “making of laws away from a free congress freely elected by the people. : : If an organized minority, such as the United Mine Workers (fewer than 500,000 out of America’s 140 million people), or even all of organized labor (fewer than 12 million out of nearly 60 million people now at work in this country) could frighten our elected government into doing its bidding by a threat to shut off a vital necessity, such as coal, for instance, the only protection workers, or anybody else, have against tyranny would be gone. An overwhelming majority of uniohs and of union members in this country has flatly rejected any such idea, ignoring the clamor of the Communists, an organized minority themselves dedicated to destroying the freedom of workers,

¥ » » » » » R the Indiana miners who wandered into this boobytrap we can feel only sympathy. Of course they can quit work if they want to quit. But they can ill afford to lose the wages they didn't earn this week, especially after - the heavy loss they suffered from the senseless and pur- _ poseless strike into which they were ordered last winter. Apparently they have simply believed the intemperate and unfounded propaganda that called this law a “slave labor” law.’ They have yet to learn that it takes away from them no right that they have ever possessed, but on the contrary restores to them some rights of which they have long been deprived—the right to a vote on their union affairs, for example, and the right to belong or not belong to'any union as they choose. And, of course, right to work, or not to work, of their own free will, without dictation from anybody. ‘ They are free men—so far. They will continue to be free, and so will we all, just so long as the tactics they invoked this week do not succeed.

SOME SAY GOOD POLITICS JOUSE Republican leaders apparently are prepared to pass the new Knutson tax bill as soon as they can get assurance that the senate wilk follow suit. And several Democratic senators, who voted against the original Knutson tax cut for this year, have announced . they will vote for the new measure which makes the same + lower rates effective with the start of the next calendar year. But-the senate G. O. P. leaders are less than enthusiastic. They are saying maybe so, maybe no. Is it that they would rather keep an issue alive than give the people assurance of lower taxes? Are they trying to preserve the issue until 1948, an election year, then vote retroactive re- ~ ductions and give the taxpayers refunds? Some say that’s good politics. But it’s poor economics . and bad fiscal practice. It means for the taxpayer months of uncertainty about what will be expected of him next year. The time to fix next year’s tax rate is now. Why wait until next year to fix next year’s tax? Why wait until the government already has started on one rate of payroll withholding, and then cause confusion by shifting to another schedule of “deducts”? That was one big flaw in the original Knutson bill which President Truman vetoed, It would have changed the tax collection bookkeeping July 1, and would have forced the government to make millions of refunds. The principal virtue of the new Knutson bill is that it would start the lower rates at the beginning of the next calendar year— thus enabling people to plan their business and personal activities knowing exactly what they face in 1948, That virtue would be lost if congress waited until next year before taking action.

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'S a reassuring thought that the cost of living isn't the only thing that's high just now. : . The U. S. bureau of labor statistics reported that employment by business and industry stood firm at record levels in May. Forty-two million wage and salary earners had non-farm jobs. (Total civilian employment last month, including agricultural workers and self-employed persons, reached an all-time peak of 58,330,000, according to the census bureau.) ~'. The labor statistics bureau also said that May’s average - weekly earnings by persons employed in manufatturing lustries set a new record—$48.86, compared with $47.50 in April. ; ; And the Institute of Life Insurance reported that longterm savings of individuals in the first three months of 1947 increased about $3 billion to an all-time high of $154.6

i These reports seem to us to justify a fairly high degree optimism among the American people.

CAREFULLY RDING to studies made by the Indianapolis Safety neil, two-thirds of all traffic fatalities are pedestri-

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

"Get Some Rugged Older Scouts And Stage Downtown Rat-Hunt"

By Pied Piper, Alabama st. This anti-fly campaign is a fine and wonderful thing, but how about giving the Boy Scouts -the thrill of chasing even bigger game? Just after dusk in the mile square's gloomy, grimy alleys, there's & patter of little feet. Beady eyes look craftily around, whiskers ‘twitch as the city’s rat population come out like the stag at eve to drink their fill in stagnant puddles.

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How about a few public-spirited citizens getting some of those “electric-eye” rat traps which are supposed to be the best contraption blundering man has so far invented to outwit shrewd rat? With some of the older, more rugged Scouts in charge, there might. be competitions for the highest number of rodent carcasses in each night's setting of the traps. And the health board would get new and valuable statistics on the geographical distribution of our dangerous pests, . Not a savory enterprise, to be sure, but one that needs undertaking. >

“HOPE LOCAL FOLK WILL STRONGLY OPPOSE CO-OPS”

I want to express the very sincers appreciation of the members of our committee for the splendid editorials

that you have recently carried on the subject of “Co-Ops and Taxes.” Your editorial on co-op growth on June 17 called attention to a situation of grave importance and farreaching implications upon which there is great need for an informed public opinion. The statement of your policy on “Co-ops and Taxes” on June 23 was clear, brief and in all the most excellent expression on the subject that I have seen. - Announcement has been made by the house ways and means committee that hearings en revision of Section 101 exemptions will be held for five days starting July 21. It is anticipated that two days will be assigned to the advocates of tax equality and two days for the defense OF the present status with one day for consideration of miscellaneous groups such as foundations, ete. It is obvious that alk of the witnesses from Indiana who have applied cannot be heard by the committee... We are hoping that a strong delegation of representative businessmen will attend the hearings to demonstrate their interest in the subject.

» » -. “ALL LOTTERIES VIOLATE LAW; WHY PERMIT THEM?" By Civitieus, Anderson ne, In your edition dated May 23, you published an article on gambling in Anderson. To this writer it would appear that your representative could not see the forest because of the trees. He evidently was not here when the big gambles were being worked up. : Several of Anderson's active patriotic and civic groups, Jaycees or

feet of the sale said in a query, “I take my the chief.” The Legion men said, “It’s for a good purpose.” The Optimists said, “It’s always been done.” Even though it is very much against the anti-gambling law on statute books these people must et permission somewhere and it that the mayor, the

cuting attorney, are all delinquent in the duties pertaining to their

, » » . “TAXPAYER-OWNERS WANT TO KNOW ABOUT GAS UTILITY” By RB. E,, Talbot ave. I see the courts are in the squabble now between the city council and the gas company. It's about time we citizens find out what the situation is. As a customer of the company and one of the taxpayerowners, I'd like to know what it.is all about. After all, we taxpayers and customers own the utility. We haven't had a real rate reduction in years, and the company seems to be able to get away with defying the men we elected to run our city, I'm

Just a housewife, but I do like to know what my money goes for.

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“MONSTER TRUCKS ARE A MENACE TO CAR DRIVER"

By Clyde E. Gregory, 1415 N. Warman ave. The accident toll on our highways today is becoming an alarming situation. It has come to my attention that a great number of these accidents involve truck drivers—especially the “tractor-trailer jockey” type. This situation is not accidental —I assure you. I would almost go to the point to say that it is criminal —the way these “cowboys” hog the road and violate every law of the state and decency on the highways today. . My work requires me to drive on an average of 2000 miles per month or more on our very fine highway system of Indiana. It is with great pride and satisfaction that I am able to return to my family all in one piece and with “Old Nellie” still with fenders and wheels — each week-end—and I am not jesting: I guess maybe I am getting to be a good “dodger” or possibly my number is a little farther down in the barrel than some of the more unfortunate ones who meet up with these “Tarzans of the Road.” It has taken me some time to “get down” on these boys who manipulate these monster trucks down the highways loaded with tons of merchandise for our daily markets tand manufacturing concerns — but —if the brand of drivers do not im-~ prove and the law enforcement agencies such as the state police and I. C. C. men don't do something—these “jockeys” are going to force everyone else to hit the back roads for self protection. I have been forced off the road not once but several times during the past few months by these truck drivers passing each other or the line of trafic on two lane highways—even in “no passing” areas. Fortunately on these occasions. I have been able to hit the berm and stay out of the ditches. Others as we see by the papers every day—have not been as lucky. ; I do not profess to know the answers or have a “cure-all” for this dreadful highway condition today but it would be a pleasure to have someone that does start the wheels rolling toward clearing up this very dangerous situation. We peddlers who travel the same roads as the truck drivers in order to establish markets for the merchandise that they haul—would appreciate a fighting chance for our part of the road. It isn’t a pleasant thought when you start out at the beginning of the week to “bring home the bacon” to your wife and kiddies to feel that if your luck is not with you—they will be bringing you home instead—in a basket, ” n - “WE LONG-LEGGED GALS HAVE CLOTHES PROBLEM” By Leis Henderson, Indianapolis I°have been reading of the grief and woes of the ladies who wear size 38-44 and size 7 dresses. They don't have a monopoly on dress trouble. The large lady can find dresses to fit her, even if they aren't too appealing, and the size 7 can get a size 9, of which there are plenty, and take it up a little here and there. But what of the tall slender woman who wears a 12 or 14, but usually finds them too short, even with the hem out? The short women get a break with the shortie skirts and the

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They make men’s pajamas and suits in longs and slims for tall men. I'm of the same opinion as Mrs. Henning, a store ca to hard-to-fit sizes would do wi 1 would like to disagree with the first lady about the average-sized woman. I have been told on sev. eral occasions by salesladies that size 16 is average. : DAILY THOUGHT

"You mean to say you're afraid a car that's hauled us 85,000 miles over all kinds of roads won't take us Ia Yolowstons Park de 2200 miles away?"

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Speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee.—Job 12:8. :

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WASHINGTON, June 28—Overriding of President Truman's veto message on the Taft-Hirtley bill served to point up the trend which the U. 8. A. has taken a sort of solo flight in this post-war world. After world war I, we came to the very comforting conclusion that while there was a worldwide depression with vast unemployment problems our country had found the philosopher's stone of permanent

prosperity and all we had to do was “Keep Cool With Coolidge.”

Not Showing Adaptability

THAT THIS WAS certainly not so was proved when President Hoover inherited the results of all the bad political and economiq policies of his predecessors and the U. S. A. had the greatest and most prolonged unemployment and depression of any country. Jim Parley is taking considerable credit to himself in his current Collier's series for putting Pranklin Delano Roosevelt in the Presidency at that time. Perhaps he deserves some for obtaining the nomination for F. D. R. in 1932. But any Democrat nominated would have been elected in those depression days. : I want to recite these things merely 40 show that instead of swinging with the punch and trying to give some intelligent direction to our part of the world trend leftward, we again are saying we are and will remain immune. In fact, we are taking sharp swings to the right, while even such rightist dictators as Pranco and Peron are preaching the “distributist state” with more share for the workers who create the wealth. ‘ As a member of the senate education and labor

MRS. FULLER LIVED there. Her neighbors were two little bands of Wea-Miami Indians. They came to her house to sell game and Indian baskets. The game they killed in the forests where they built their cabins of poles stuck in the ground and tied together with strips of bark. An occasional cabin they made of small logs was covered with bark.

Founding of a Fortune

IN 1819, THE FULLER HOME was the boarding

house of Chauncy Rose of Terre Haute. It was near Raccoon Creek and Rosedale in Parke county, Ind. Rose was up there in the woods operating a grist mill and a sawmill. Prom his sawmill came lumber to build the first court house in Vigo county. Rose was a Scotsman out of highlands of Scotland by race and breeding, and a Connetticut Yankee from Wethersfield by birth, With only. the scant education that he got in the village school at Wethersfield, he came West at 23. With canny Scotch foresight, however, he decided to look the country over before settling down permanently. He visited Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama. This area of 206615 square miles was nearly four and one-half times as big as New England from which he had come. But in all this stretch of interior America, Indiana's Terre Haute with its two cabins and its nearest boarding house three miles away at Ft. Harrison looked the best to him. So he settled down there in 1818 to stay. When Rose returned to Terre Haute from Mrs. Fuller's home and the woods up north in 1825, the county seat of Vigo county had been located there. The court house had been finished and occupied. Not the least of all for- him and the town, he had $2000

WASHINGTON, June 28-A roving editor who has made Greece one of his stopping points on a tour of Europe sends an urgent message. The editor is Willam R. Mathews of the Arizona Dally Star in Tucson—a robustious westerner in the Teddy Roosevelt tradition, From Athens he writes: “Unless Governor Griswold gets a move on and gets over here with real help, this thing will blow up in his face. It is getting worse as America takes her time. “The banditry has become a virtual civil war, All (nearly all) road and railroad travel between big cities has been stopped. The Russians are out to play for keeps. This is not a football game. Their propaganda ié going over, too. And we have none.”

Same Note of Warning

THAT WARNING, it so happens, is expressed in similar language in confidential cables coming both from the U. 8, embassy in Athens and from Greek officials by way of the Greek embassy in Washington. The same note of warning is stressed by every one who comes from Athens. Our chances of success in Cireece diminish with every ‘day's delay, It is now nearly four months since President Truman's message on Greece and Turkey which was meant to sound a three-alarm

diplomatic fire on the Near Eastern front,

Dwight Griswold, administrator of the aid program, is working hard here in ‘Washington to assemble the staff he will take to Greece with him. It is not easy. Thousands of volunteers would like

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lege at Richmond, organized Jones is one of those earnest cates of upholding the dignity of the principle that on self-respect.

Yes... that’s the way of dem co but a WAY most of us are too lazy to follow. It requires exertion to “earn the right to form a judgment.”

DEAR BOSS + « « By Daniel M. Kidney "a =

‘We Are Not Riding With the Punches’

committee, bright, young Senator “Bill" Jenner has

caught on to all of this: He says privately that h thinks his party (Republican of course) i o halt the trend toward leftist-labor government, but he Intends to stick with their trying. He of urging the G. O. P. to take up the best progressiv-

ism which President Roosevelt inaugdrated and carry

it on to prevent violent upheavals.

“We can't turn back the clock but we are trying!™

Sigs 3p his attitude. t there have been plenty of abuses gant labor leaders, such as the wartime striking Jona L. Lewis, is admitted by all the fair-minded. Also it was Lewis who gave the Commies a grip on C. I. O. unions by upping Harry Bridges to west coast leadership. The Taft-Hartley law resulted. One of the conferees reporting that bill which became law was Rep. Gerald W. Landis, Linton Republican. Unlike some of his Hoosier colleagues he is not basically anti-labor. But he listed in the Con-~ gressional Record a score of unfair labor practices which unions have resorted to while riding-high.

What Will Jenner Do?

PERHAPS THIS PROVES that no group can be

intrusted with too much power.

Stalinism is state slavery, while our strikers are proving that

the Taft-Hartley law is not. Slave¥ don't strike and live. And no American wants slavery. But it re-

mains debatable whether trying to repeal two world

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wars and taking sharp right turns will not bring it faster than intelligent direction of non-Communist

progressive movements, : It is this that Bill Jenner sees and admits privately, but intends to do nothing about as the junior U. 8. senator from Indiana. DAN KIDNEY:

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow . That's How Terre Haute Grew Up

capital, and the vision and driving force to make

it work for both him and the town.

His first big chance came 12 years later in 1837 .

in a real estate deal involving the biggest piece of real estate in one block ever by a citizen of Terre Haute. Rose bought the land from Rapp owners who sold New Harmony to Robert Owen for

. $140,000 about the time Rose returned to Terre Haute

from the Parke county woods. Rapp was foreclosing a mortgage on a 320-acre block qf land lying west of Seventh street in downtown modern Terre Haute: The mortgage was foreclosed by Rapp for $2187.02 In 1829. He sold it to Rose in two payments on Jam 22 and July 18, 1831, for $3300. On this basis, he

built a fortune and won his rightful place among

Indiana’s honored men.

Plays Leading Part

HE PLAYED A LEADING PART in making Terre Haute a railroad center. He organized and was the first president of the Terre Haute and Evansville railroad. He promoted railroads from Terre Haute to Crawfordsville and to Danville, Ill. He built the Terre Haute House in 1840, which was a prized spot in the town until well into the 20th century. He was one of the leaging philanthropists of the state, with the Rose Orphans home and Rose Poly Technical institute in Terre Haute as outstanding instances. Rose was of sturdy stock. He had six brothers and one sister. His mother died in 1822, aged 73, and his father in 1838, aged 80. His brothers, George and John, were cotton brokers in Charleston, 8. C., and New Orleans. John died in New York, worth $900,000. Rose, his sister, and his six brothers all died child-

less, as he himself did Aug. 13, 1877, aged 80, to

become the “last of his race.”

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs . . ’ ‘U.S. Takes Time, Greece Gets Worse

governor. As his labor expert, Mr. Griswold has chosen Clinton 8. Golden, who has had long. experience in the trade-union movement, in government and in education. Mr. Golden, currently giving a series of lectures at the Harvard school of business administration, began his union career with one of the railway brotherhoods. ; . Barly in the formation of the United Steel Workers union and the C. I. O. he became assoclated with Philip Murray. Since 1042 he has been Mr. Murray's No. 1 assistant, What makes this choice perticularly remarkable is the fact that it was approved by the A. F. of L.

Asked if Mr. Golden would be satisfactory, top .

A, PF of L. leaders gave him their indorsement.

This is a measure both of Mr. Golden's stature and the way in which adversity is closing the gap" between the rival factions of labor, "It ‘is also’ a tribute to the efforts of the department of labor to persuade the I,O. and’ A. PF. of L. of the importance of ting a united front when they go beyond American shores.

Members Thoroughly Briefed

MEMBERS of the group that wil administer American relief in Greece will be expert in their

respective fields. But they must also have knowl-

edge of the particular problem they face. Therefore,

they are being intensively briefed the re-

maining 10 days or two weeks before they take off. .

Greece is not now on the front pages.

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