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mor . Ln : ; Ji Pe i LAghs nd the People Wiki Fing Thow Own Woy LITTLE STRANGER . e first time since June 80, 1930, the United

rs bureau estimates that the government's jurplus for th 12 months now ending will be about $750 sillion. Expenditures will total more than $41,750,000, but receipts will be $42,500,000,000. © 'This is a neat little surplus. And welcome, too. The _bigg previous government surplus was in fiscal 1927. So day may be a day to celebrate, cautiously, with enthusi- ~ asm tempered by sober realization that Uncle Sam has barely begun to struggle out of the financial woods, ~. For the time being, and for a long time to come, we : #1 hope, the treasury’s red ink bottle is corked, so far as cur- . garent bookkeeping is concerned. But let's not forget that our 8 pablic debt still stands at nearly $258 billion.

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3 ton meeting. 5 5 ge Both sides asserted eagerness to stimulate building I! ““ietivity of all types. They agreed that costs must be held e gelaw as possible: that budders ml be aH he ite cost estimates, with reasonable assurance that they 3 RPwo 't be exceeded and that projects, once undertaken, Li BR.

d be completed without undue delay. Spokesmen for the A. F. of L. building trades unions y~-amnounesd that they intended to work for repeal of the * Taft-Hartley act, but that meanwhile they would comply | with its provisions and fulfill all contracts. And they | promised that at least until 1950, when current labor-man-oc “Hgement contracts expire, the unions would put no limita- ~ DUA fons on the output of workers; would settle jurisdictional ee aid agreement disputes by mediation or arbitration, with..1, out strikes or

lockouts; would man all jobs with sufficient charge.

the right of employers to hire and dis- * Such a pledge, faithfully kept, can do much to encour£8 age building. More than that, it can be a fine example of . he patience and moderation which President Truman has “1o_ealled upon labor and management to exercise in accommo£P dating themselves to changes made necessary by the new law.

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iP Ext > eh, The vital responsibility for complying with the law in spirit of tolerance and fair play, of which Mr. Truman om rests just as heavily on management as on labor. But members who feel that the Taft-Hartley act is unfair to

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r , in all sincerity. ¥ So doing, they can most surely regain public good will, .'=and most quickly enlist public support for correction of any vi of the law which a fair test may reveal to be ununworkable or destructive of laber’s essential rights. The most recent statements of responsible labor leaders have shown a determination to test the new law in

be .L 0)S NEW EDITOR \ congratulate the Congress of Industrial Organizapoe tions upon the appointment of Allan L. Swim as edi1 or of its publication, “The C. I. O. News.” E | Mr. Swim is a fine newspaperman as well as a mili- | tant labor leader. We have known and admired him in both capacities. For many years he was a reporter and assistgiant city editor on the Memphis Press-Sciitar, a Scripps“Howard newspaper, and articles by him on national labor _.+subjeets frequently have appeared in The Times. PB, He was an organizer and officer of the American . Newspaper Guild in Memphis, and has served as president 00” the C. I. 0.’s Memphis industrial council. i WM: Nobody can justly accuse “Pete” Swim of sympathy wv, with communism. As clearly as any man we know, he 3 recognizes that menace to the labor movement, and he has battled fearlessly and successfully to prevent Communist api f tration of unions in Memphis. In him, we are sure, the iG 1. 0. has selected an able editor who will do his utmost E oe present its cause with vigor, fairness and deep sincerity. ~—PEACE TREATY WITH JAPAN $ FAILURE to conclude a peace treaty with Japan is costing the United States a million dollars a day for occu- } pation of the defeated country, says Gen. Douglas Maci Arthur, urging an early peace conference. ] ; The state department should make this its first order of business. It is evident that the German and Austrian

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' Behind K.ot C. Clubhouse ~~ that the big brick house at 1308 at 1308 N. Delaware st. with its tourelles, orlels and high-pitched roofs is not unlike a French chateau. In due time, Mr. Jenney incorporated all the ‘fancy details called for in Mr, Bates’ dream, including several additional and original ideas which had their birth in Chicago. Shover & Christian followed the gpecifications without having to be watched, When finished in 1874, the house cost Mr. Bates exactly $80,000, & fabulous sum for those days—or any other time, if you ask this impecunious reporter. - », For some reason, however, Mr. Bates didn't stay "in his French chateau any length of time. He de cided to sell it after the marriage of his daughters, It then became the property of Elijah B. Martine dale whose daughter, Susan, had married Mr. Bates® son. Some time around 1880, the house was bough$ by Dr. Horace R. Allen. In 1806, David M. Parry ace quired it. It wasn't a bit too big for Mr, Parry's grows ing family which, by that time, had to have suf. ficient elbow room to move around in. After that, it became the home of Hugh McGowan, When he died, the chateau was sold to the K. of C. people which is the way' matters stand today and, probably, for & long time to come,

Designs 'Skeleton Construction’ : AND NOW to clear up the mystery of the Amer fcan skyscraper. Some time around 1883—nine years after the completion of the Bates residence—Mr. Jenney was commissioned to design a building to house the Chicago.branch of the Home Insurance Co. of New York. It was to be fireproof and have the maximum number of well-lighted offices that could be placed on a comparatively small and very expens sive site. For this building, erected in 1884, Mr, Jenney designed what he called a “skeleton’ cone - struction,” a manner of building in which, while the exterior is of masonry, the whole structure is of iron or steel which supports the exterior walls as

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Hoosier Forum

"Don't Start 'Junior Police’ Until Seniors Are Cleaned Up"

By P. H. E, Park ave. Two recent news reports concerning the police cause me some con-

The first is the investigation by the chief of police into a report that three auxiliary policemen shot at three boys at Ellenberger park pool. The second is the discussion about “junior police.” 1 believe the city and county are making mistakes in permitting any auxiliaries of any kind with the color of authorities and badges and, in the case of the auxiliary police, apparently with the right to carry revolvers. The auxiliary police were created as a war-time emergency, I understand, because of the manpower shortage. While I agree we probably don’t! have enough police, as it is claimed - frequently in the press, I can’t feel Views on the News By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

that the answer is to have auxiliauthority Stalin will be glad to learn that our army has slipped so far and

should be taken from this emergency force, along with théir guns, fast that the chief of staff is ready to quit and teach school.

and their law-enforcing responsif J » FJ When union labor loses decisions

bility, if any, terminated. While I'm on that subject, Ialso in the G. O. P. congress and the F. D. R. supreme court on the same

feel that there are too many deputy sheriffs who have no responsibility and are on the official payroll. I'm reminded of that point by the re- « dgy the leaders should start some cent account in your newspaper of self- ination. ” ” . An unfair employer is one whe wants maximum work for a minimum wage. v

> » . . Maybe the strikers are trying to prove that their slogan “Slave La~

those “deputies.” This business of a junior police force is silly, and especially so as long as any members of the real adult department are under sus-

*1 do not agree with a word that you

your right to say it." — Voltaire.

It appears that Mr. Bates had just returned from a trip through Europe including the Loire country of France. In that district he came across the kind of house he liked. Indeed, he brought a picture of it ‘| home with him which is why the big brick house

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert

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AT SEA, June 30.—I had forgotten what it was like to go to sea in peacetime. I had forgotten that it could be so pleasant. When night falls, I still reach gt 5 clons the Jorta, although the Seetasity uo longer For the first couple of nights, I found myself pacing the decks outside our cabin, wishing I could have a cigaret. Then it suddenly occurred to me that I could smoke a cigaret at night on deck, if I wanted to. That seemed very funny, in view of the fact that,

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polio, the presumption seems to be they should be left to buss their way unharmed as a concession to cats. A ‘couple of acquaintances of mine are allergic to cats, physically allergic, that is. Their solution to the problem has been to stay away from cats, cross cat-loving friends off their calling lists. There are those who can't sleep when cats yowl at night. Some dog lovers object to paying tax on their pets while cats go tax free. Rabbit raisers have to take some special pains to cat-proof hutches against marauding felines, somé of which probably are the very ones who rub against fly-proofed garbage cans and come e sick. So you see, cats are a problem to some folks, too, just as DDT is a problem to cat-lovers. Tabby’s friends would be among the first ito squawk, and rightly so, if the asthma sufferers got together and screamed for eradication of all cats, Suppose then, the cat lovers just take their own precautions and not ask the public to pass up the best flyskiller ever compounded. When all is said and done, they don’t have to DDT their own premises if they don’t want to, and their cats have no durned business around other folks’ gar-

OUR SHIP IS A FREIGHTER, the Express, owned by the American Export-lines. During the war she an APA—an attack transport—and she was called the USS Adair. She has been freshly reconas a freighter, and is heading. for India. She is going to pause briefly in Gibraltar, to allow my

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IN WASHINGTON : . . By Truman Has Major

Ge ements will be delayed indefinitely, and the Japanese

Major geographical issues in the Japanese situation : and it f sh ould not be difficult to reach allied agreement on other

Our occupation costs are not the only factor arguing: The longer the technical ; state of war prevents the Japanese from resuming normal k commercial operations, the more difficult will it become for {Jes county to find its economic feet. We have a prostrate

on our hands, and we can’t afford to have a pros-

TRUMAN vetoed the indefensible wool

time, the President gave advance approval 100 per cent parity floor on the

nsumers still will have to pay And at a time when there's arehouses, and millions of

picion of protecting racketeers, as they will be until the prosecutor acts on the six-months-old charges to that effect.

. EJ . “LETTER TO CHIEF OF POLICE ON DOG BEATING” By A Citizen, Indianapolis 1 am inclosing a copy of a letter which I have sent to our chief of police. : As your paper is making such effort to bring to light some of these violations of law and order 1 thought you might be interested.

Every day we read about such incidents as this. Small things that are passed off as just something that nothing can be done about, But they are growing more numerous, and I ‘am speaking for many other “citizens” whom I know, when I say it is time to expose this petty barbarism and put a stop to it. The letter to the ghiet of police follows: “I was shocked and sickened upon reading the account of the brutal beating of a dog by two of our Indianapolis police , . .

shameful.

“The unintelligent manner manifested by these two policemen was

“Their excuse for such a display

bor Bill” was just a phony,

» “ = Utopia is a place where the government can make laws without making lawsuits.

” ” # A fellow-traveler is a Red taking a free ride with the Communist party.

children standing about might be bitten by the dog. “It would seem that two policemen of such strength would be able to disband a group of children without having to subject them to such a scene. “No effort was made to determine whether the dog was mad. “As a citizen who wants to see law and order upheld in a decent civilized way in our city I am protesting against such incidents as this.

“There have been far too many such stories in the papers recently.” t J » . “RATHER GET RID OF CATS THAN RISK FLY DANGERS” By P. W., Guilford ave. Come now the cat-lovers, who protest - that DDT spraying of garbage cans, screen doors and such, is injurious to their pets. Although flies are known to carry a number of deadly diseases, suspected of carrying the dreaded

of primitive cruelty was that the

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WASHINGTON, June 30.—Now that the Taft-)

well as the roof—in such an unbelievable way, ine deed, that the structure may be completed and the roof put on before any part of the walls are in place. It made the skyscraper possible, the trick the world had been waiting for.’

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The Ocean Is Different in Peacetime

The old man has us in for cocktails, and once more the guilt comes back. You weren't supposed to drink at sea. A lot of people did, but they did it on the sneak, and it was considered bad taste to go around breathing gin on other people. There was a lot of strife during the war, between the merchant sailors and the navy gun crews aboard their ships. But I find now that the navy guys are remembered with considerable kindness and “some nostalgia. Each officer has a long repertoire of stories about “my gunnery officer,” and somehow the navy seems to be tied up in most of the fun the merchant people had during the war. The youth of the officers today is surprising. The ships I rode three or four years ago had a heavy quota of oldtimers, grizzled old guys with sun-creased skins and heavy tattoo. I haven't seen one tattoo so far. Most of these kids are graduates of the wartime training schools. If they are typical of the new genere ation of merchant officers, the are going to be a better advertisement abroad for the U. 8S. than some of the old roughnecks who stopped at the first saloon they saw and never got out of the dock area.

New Type Sailors THEY ARE GOOD looking kids of good family, and ‘they are going to sea today because # merchant

sailor is no longer ranked somewhere between bum

and bad actor. The standard of living and the salaries have mounted so high that seafaring under its pres. ent circumstances is a desirable profession. That is why there is general indignation among the mates and engineers over Joe Curran’s latest maritime strike. They feel that men at sea never had it so good before, and that Curran's latest tie-up is apt to backfire disastrously for all hands.

Peter Edson

NLRB “Jobs to Fill

they can tell the voters in 1048, “Look what a fine new labor law we gave you, and note that it took

Hartley labor bill is law whether you like it or not, the next question is how to make it work. All these laws have & way of panning out different from what was intended. Labor lawyers are looking®for loophqles.

“DIESEL AIR HORNS LIKE TRAPPED CALF CRY”. By Railbird, City

Republican administrators to bring you peace.”

While none of the members of congressional labor committees who wrote this new law would want theses

I want to add my objection to those against the blatant air horns on the new Monon Diesel engines. The fellow who dreamed up the new horns must have been inspired by a trapped calf or a squawling baby with laryngitis. No longer is there any romance connected with hearing the afternoon “Hoosier” leave town or the night train from Chicago arrive. If this be progress, give me the good old days when locomotive whistles played mellow music that lullabyed one to sleep. . ” F J “ABUSE OF DOG BY POLICE 18 WRONG” By Thelma Lyons, 3502 Central ave. Cruelty to animals has hit an alltime high in our city and the story leaves me aghast. A child's pet dog is injured by a car. The dog, craged with pain, emits a few growls and spectators call the police and report the dog is. mad. By the time police arrive, the dog has been covered up by & card-board box. It isn’t enough that the dog is already in pain; no, our “brave” police proceed to beat the dog, which is still covered by the

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box, into insensibility. Then they drag the hapless creature to an empty lot and shoot it. Hail the heroes! Where it comes to apprehending criminals and murderers, where is all the bravery the police display when rounding up the defenseless? And when is some action going to be taken to stop this indiscriminate killing of dogs by city police, same dogs being left wounded in the street? s ” » “NEED ANALYSIS OF CITY ILLS, NOT MAYOR BALLYHO0O” By R. 0. W., Broadway A fine situation—the mayor of ‘our city employing a press agent to | ballyhoo his administration. Why doesn’t Mayor Tyndall let the record speak for itself? Is he afraid? 1 think the administration of Mayor

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Tyndall and that of his predecessor, | Reg Sullivan are poor examples of | municipal government. Rather than the history of the Tyndall admin. istration. I would like to see a treatise of the ills of, Indianapolis. municipal government, the causes thereof and the suggested cures.

DAILY THOUGHT And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?—I Peter 4:18. i

Say, heavenly pow'rs, where shall we find such love?

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| Which of ye will be mortal to re-

So many of the predictions of dire consequences may go haywire. First challenge to President Truman will come in naming two new national labor relations board members and a new general counsel who will now be a separte prosecutor before the board. While the changes in the Wagner act do not become effective until Aug. 22, the President “may” appoint the three new officials at once.

Put Burden on G.O.P.? THAT GIVES HIM two possible courses. He can let thésé appointments go until congress adjourns about » month from now, then make recess appointments. The new officials would not have to be confirmed by the senate till it convenes in special session next fall or in regular session next January. Thus the President might appoint men who would administer the law more to Jabor’s liking. Mr. Truman's other choice is to say to the Rein the senate: “Okay, this is you baby. Since you think it will grow up to amount to something, you tell me what men you want to nurse it, and I'll appoint ‘em.” There is recent precedent for this kind of appointment—Republican Congressman Robert PF. Jones of Ohio being named to the FCC. From purely political points of view there are advantages to both Republicans and Democrats in letting G. O. P. leaders pick the new NLRB officials, , If the bill doesn’t work and gets labor relations all snarled up in the next year, Democrats can enter the 1048 elections saying, “We told you so. Look how the Taft-Hartley act brought on more strikes.” If the new law is all the Republicans say it is,

NABLUS, Palestine, June 30.—In this mud-brick Arab town, where linger the few survivors of the 3000-year-old Samaritan community, UNBCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine) again has siiffered the Arab cold shoulder, As at Beerslieba; the inquiry committee has failed to receive a single Arab luncheon invitation. Forewarned, Chairman Emil -Sandstroem ‘and his party brought picnic boxes with them from Jerusalem, ‘

Custom Is One Reason ; THIS CALCULATED AVOIDANCE of the slight-. est display of hospitality for strangers within the gates has been riecessary because of the traditional Arab code, which requires protection and assistance for anyone sharing food. If the 1l-nation investigating body from Lake Success were given hospitality during fits tour, it would embarrass Arab officials in carrying out the stringent boycott orders from from exiled Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin El Husseinl, Arab

.| religious leader.

Hence when the Palestine government arranged this tour of Arab areas, local officials quickly made it clear that they technically were not at home, Arab boycott of all the committee's activities and

forthcoming hearings in the ¥. M. C. A. in Jeru-

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jobs, early speculation on possible nominees has brought ‘up the names of the men who played sn important behind-the-scenes. part in drafting the measure. —- ; They include Theodore R. Iserman bf New York and William Ingles of Washington, both high-priced labor consultants who probably couldn’t afford to work for government salares. Iserman is a Chrysler lawyer who has written and spoken a great deal against the Wagner act. Ingles is Washington lobby= ist for Allis-Chalmers, J. I. Case, Fruehalf, Inland Steel, American Mining Congress and the Falk Corp. He is also representative of the Foremen’s League for Education, organized to combat unionization of

supervisory employees.

Challenge Comes Next Spring GERHARD P. VAN ARKEL, who served as counsel to the present three-member labor board, resigned almost. immediately after the senate voted to overe ride the President's veto because he has doubts about the law's workability. Present members of the board besides Chairman Herzog, whose term expires in August, 1950, are. ex« Congressman John M. Houston, whose term ends in August, 1948, and James H. Reynolds, whose term runs until 1951. One of the new appointees will serve till August, 1949, the other till August, 1952. The pay is $12,000. v The first year of the new five-man board's service will be the hardest. It will take that long to get a few test cases through the courts and find how the law will be interpreted. The real payoff under the bill may not come until next spring, when most of the big labor contracts come up for renewal. | coi

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Nat A. Barrows Arabs Shun UN Palestine Committee

and Palestine Arabs do not dare disobey his nrder, however they may feel personally. The committee is in the awkward position of not being able to get formal Arab testimony for the report on Palestine's future, which must be turned over to the United Nations general assembly by Sept, 1. That, in all likelihood, is one of the grand mufti’s strategems behind his boycott order. But the plot of the mufti, whatever it portends, can easily backfire. King Abdullah of Transjordan already is kicking up the traces with a demand for Arab co-operation. That may be enough to bring to a head conflicts simmering close to the surface of the seven Arab league countries, five of which are United Nations members. (The Arab league consists

of Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt

and Transjordan.) : It the boycott is continued until the committee

leaves Palestine next month, it is not impossible that the majority of the delegates may deliberately avoid further Arab complications and cross off official ine spections of displaced persons camps in Europe, which the Zionists demand.

Arab Story Untold ALREADY IN PRIVATE HEARINGS of the committee a strong wave of opposition is developing even to British detention camps on where captured illegal Jewish immigrants are held. The committee is bending .backwards to equalize

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