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~The Indianapolis Times

Saturday, July 5, 1947

WALTER LECKRONE Editor .

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ROY W. HOWARD President ~

HENRY TW. MANZ

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Give Light and the People Will Find Thew Uwn W aw

- PULLING TOGETHER

E'VE been saying for some time now that there's nothing the matter with this country that hard work and | production won't-cure. . Along comes the current issue of Mill and Factory | magazine with a collection of statements from union leaders, manufacturers, economists and others all agreeing on one thing—that a good day's work is the key to steadily | rising living standards for everyone. | Here's what ‘Mill and Factory's productivity forum | quotes: : William Green, president, American Federation of Labor—“We must achieve increasing productivity (output per man-hour) so that all may benefit,” ; Paul G. Hoffman, chairman, Committee for Economic Déevelopment—*Increased productivity (output per manhowr) is essential to a steadily rising living standard.” Philip Murray, president, C. I. O.— "Productivity in industry is of intense interest to the C. 1. O. It is the end result of the labor of its members.” Earl Bunting, president, National Association of Manufacturers—"“Only through increased output can the Americant worker—everyone who works for a living—enjoy more job apportunities and be paid more for his services.” Yohn L. Lewis, president, United Mine Workers of America—"1t is sound economic policy to encourage tech‘nological improvement.” Lewis Schwellenbach, secretary of labor in the Tru-| man cabinet—"Increasing productivity promotes economic stabilijy—and increases the flow of goods and services to all our people.” ; Robert J. Watt, A. F. of L. official—"The real way to | get wage increases without raising prices and living costs is to increase production and improve efficiegey.” | W. Averell Harriman, secretary of commerce in the Truman cabinet—"Ever-increasing productivity is the! only way we can attain higher standards of living and security fior all our people.” Emil Rieve, president, Textile Workers Union of America—"The current barrage of propaganda to the contrary, labor is generally disposed to co-operate with management | in achievingr full production.”

» r > » ” » YES, there's nothing the matter with the United States that hard work and production won't cure. “Why don't we all pull together for that fuller production, that exonomic stability that co-operation between managementyand labor can assure?

LEST WE FORGET |

T WAS happy news all right, that for the first time in \ © 17 years our national intake has exceeded the outgo., That black ink on Uncle Sam's books is mighty pretty. | But lest we grow too serene—we should remind ourselves that wet are still $258,375,903,293.83 in. debt. That js almost exactly two-and-a-half times the total assets of all the membership of what the United Press calls the billion-dollar club. In the UP's annual survey, | 45 businesses qualify with assets above the billion line, | for a total of $03,456,016,995. The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. leads the list with $8 billion plus. Without enumerating all the mem- | bership, suffice it to say that included are such giants as Bell Telephone, Standard of New Jersey, General Motors, U. S. Steel, Du Pont, Pennsylvania railway, New York Central, Southern’ Pacific, Sante Fe, not to mention all the larger banks and insurance companies, such as Bank of America, National City, Chase National, Prudential “Insurance, Equitable, and New York Life. ‘- If all these assets were applied on the national debt there still would remain a debt of $154,919 886,298.83.

.. HUNGARY'S MIAN OF ‘THE HOUR UNHAPPY Hungary has had many heroic figures in its long, unsuccesstul fight for freedom and independence. But no Hungfirian patriot of the past could have been more | courageous than Desro Sulyok, Liberty party leader, who is making history today. : Mr. Sulyok fightis not from the safety of exile, but in Budapest, seat of the latest Soviet dictatorship. In parlia- | ment and out, he exercises the right of free speech in a land where that rightyofficially is denied and brutally is suppressed. His scathing demunciations of Communist terrorism, which have created a sensation in the free world, are not printed in ‘Hungary. But he goes on speaking to the few who dare to hear him. - He has been threatened with death and denied police protection. He has seen less hardy compatriots seek refuge in wompromise or flight. Yet he goes on, fighting the good fight, true to his faith, in the face of threatening mobs, hostile “police and a resentful, allpowerful government, This brave man may meet death by violence long before any vestige of human dignity is restored in his native land. ‘But the cause of (Hungarian liberty will live so long as there are such men.

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JUSTIGE TO VETERANS |

THERE is good prospect for early action by congress to permit G.I" war veterans to cash their terminal-leave | pay bonds at any time after; Sept. 1. . . =». , A bill for that purpose has unanimous approval from the house armed services committee. The house is expected to pass it next week, and the senate should follow suit quickly. The bill gives veterans their choice. Those who |

~ wish-to keep their bonds until, they Mature five years’ hence, meanwhile getting 214 per cent interest on them, | may do so, and will find them an excellent investment. But | » those who prefer cash can have it, with interest from the

. date of their discharge. - : EAR That is a matter of simple justice to the G. L's, since

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

(“HERE'S MORE ABOUT SUBJECT OF RENTALS” By “Robert Heller, 234 E. 9th st. Now since President Truman . By Harry O. Brown, City. : signed the new rent law, we can It looks like the old story of “deadlock” again in the discussions Athout taki ts h of ald for Europe, with Russia again inh the role of casting the monkey | y ut saking far OW n= wrench into the machinery of rehabilitating the continent. Doesn't that {8ir our poor landlords were treated

want a planned program of economic recovery to get together without help from congress. Russia and get up a plan of their own? ' Let us take two average citizens: - 1 realize that.it would be better if Russia and ‘her stooge countries We shall call one Jones and the were in on any plan, but it looks to me like it is better to go ahead other Smith. Let us assume that

we're doing. I heard a speaker say the other evening that Uncle Sam. was like a fireman v.00 saw a bad fire, rushed in and rescued the victims

|which amount’ Wé wanted to invest. Well, our Mr. Jones was a careful s man and put his money into a savTHE NEWS ings account. Mr. Smith bought a house which he rented out. “Jones who were trapped in the burning By DANIEL M. KIDNEY {got punctually every half year his building, brought them safely out judging from the congressional] interest and his account grew up and then dumped them on the appropriations jam, the Republicans to $6000. Our poor Mr. Smith, on ground suffering from shock and have “never met a payroll.” | the other hand, after a short time We've got a lot of a a {of making some money, had to enTaking his Texas patronage fight! dure the rent control and the soartold them they have to advance to the floor, “Pappy” O'Daniel | ing costs of maintenance. If we their own plan, and we seem to proved he can waste senate time! want to be as generous as we were believe it should be for some sort as well as space. when we allowed Mr. Jones such a of U. 8. of Europe. 1 say let's go iu good rate of interest, we forgot the ahead with the nations that want Henry Wallace few" dollars Mr. Smith made and to make a plan and do the best the country once more with his .00 gat) that he did not make a job that can be done. We have Soviet sword-swallowing act. Some ony out of his investment. taken responsibility, but I don't people think he should be pinched" Thre we are: Jones got $1000, for carrying concealed weapons. the - poor landlord . has received

8-8 SE han nothing. Is it fair? “YOUTH OF TODAY NEEDS Dictators have discovered a new Well, is it fair? Let us have a

TASTE OF TOUGH LIVING” phrase to soften up their satellite . By Parent, OMy {slaves. They call them “democratic| SO% lod, 28 J: swims boll A-}i-year-old Bronx boy kills his elements.” _ ment. Now Mr. Jones gets os

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THE OTHER EVENING, I heard a story of. the suffering of devasiated Europe which was so moving in its sincerity that the speaker obviously was under great emotional strain as he told of conditions

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He graciously agreed to answer questions and, after his formal talk, to discuss ‘with anyone who was further interested the things he had seen and

the reasons for his opinion the people of the U. 8B. must dig deep for years to assist the unfortunate victims of the war. 8 A well-groomed woman came up to him with her question. It was: “I am going to Europe in a few weeks. Do you believe an unescorted woman will be in any personal danger?” »

Vacation in Misery THE SPEAKER courteously asked where she was going and the object of the trip. Her answer was: “Oh, T'm going over to spend my vacation and have a good time.” | To have a good time! In torn and suffering Europe where most people can hardly find enough food to get along on! In a Europe that is living at minimum existence levels of food, clothing and housing! In a Europe where communism grows as more and more people lose out in their struggle for a future and for hope! Yet, this woman's viewpoint was little different from that of so many of the folk who are going to other countries . . . whether it be for “vacations” or on the increasing number of so-called good-will Junkets. It is amazing how insensitive we Americans are to other peoples’ feelings . . . how frequently we are guilty of what the British call throwing our weight around. 3 We go into a country where rationing is in effect and the strictest austerity of living ‘is practiced, again to borrow an English phrase, and spend lavishly and flashily with the attitude of the motorist who drives into a filling station in his shining new. car and calls: “Fill ‘er "up, Gus.” Our tourists were just as offensive before the war. I recall walking down the street of a Caribbean town

WASHINGTON, July 5—~When Attorney General Tom C. Clark appeared before the President's civil rights commission in closed session not long-ago, he came in for something of a grilling. Members of the commission wanted to know whether the

Truman administration did not itself threaten civil rights through the executive order on loyalty among government workers, Most persistent questioning came from Bishop Francis J. Haas of Grand Rapids, Mich., and from Boris Shishkin of the A. F. of L. They pressed down hard on Mr. Clark, demanding to know what right of appeal individual employees would have from the arbitrary action of department and agency heads. Mr. Clark replied, as he has to all such queries, that he intends to be sure that the broad powers under the loyalty order are not abused. Bishop Haas —one of the most liberal’ and courageous churchmen in America—suggested that the order already had contributed to something very much like a witchhunt in the government

The ‘Problem of Our Time HERE, ONCE AGAIN, is the dilemma of our, time.- At the root is the perverted loyalty of the Communist and the fellow-traveling stooge. Their loyalty is to an ideology opposed to our form of society and our government. Serving that ideology with blind allegiance, they will go to any length to do the bidding of the ‘bosses of communism. Now no one—except the members of the house un-American activities committee who tremble at shadows—believes that many individuals of questionable loyalty have infiltrated into our government. But no one can doubt that there have been some. Their very presence, even though they may have done a minimum of harm to national security, has raised a cloud of suspicion. The other day the state department announced dismissal of 10 employees whose loyalty was in question. They were summarily dismissed under the McCarran rider to the state department appro-

mother with a hammer this week «TRUMAN WEAKEST CHIEF his hand, a full $1000 more than he put into the bank. But Smith, the By H. F. C.. City poor property owner, can sell his hirvile Watwinliss President Truman's veto of the property easily for , $12500. That Fairy reminiscent, isn't it; of ‘the Tabor GE meant noting to me, ymeans he made 150% or 35% a local boy who, shot his step-mother I'm a hardworking labor union Year, while Mr. Jones made 20% in a rage and now awaits trial for po... and 1 suppose I shoyld have altogether or 4°, a year. There is the killing? said “Wonderful, MF. President, the mistake most people make too A boy 17 years old certainly ought you did the right thing.” But I easily as they count the money only to be working, edrning his own have no such sentiments because spending money and saving a part|Truman in my mind is still the of what he earns. I'm not being weakest President we have ever old-fashiond when I say that money | had That includes Warren G.| and work don’t mean what-théy did | Harding. I hope the Democrats when 1 was a boy. I carried the can trot out a decent candidate, Indiana Daily Times and, in the and I don't mean Henry Wallace, summer, turned my route over to/I don't want to ever have to vote my younger brother while I worked | for Harry Truman. I might even in a factory. And when I went to|go Republican, who knows? But it ‘ollege, I worked there, too, tend- | doesn't look like’ they have any ing furnacés and doing odd jobs in| candidates, either the town, | LE EN My boys are following the same |“SAVING YELLOW STUBS pattern. We're middle class people FOR POSSIBLE BUS RIDES” ¢ The 15% increase of rent was with a fairly good income. But they! By J. W. C., City only fair to the poor landlords. earn their own spending money and; So we still don't know about the an 8 do their share of the work around [little yellow stubs we get from the | “NEW LABOR LAWS PUTS the house, I believe all youngsters. trolley bus operators, and won't un-| UNION MEMBERS ON TRIAL! and particularly boys, need at least til next fall. I'm still holding onto by Richard A. Calkins, a contact with. the facts of life. the stack that accumulates two a| The Ae Be Hetil relations That is, that you have to work to day, in the hope that I can use each | earn money. It doesn't grow on one for a ride. That is probably a 8C¢t (Taft-Hartley) definitely puts trees. And they might as well learn {false hope, but I am going to keep every member of organized labor on the habits of work’ and responsi-| mine in that old cream pitcher In trial as ‘to his adherence to demobility now. the pantry cupboard, [Ce principles. The bill was passed

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crease of value does not count. Even if it amount to 1507. Let us take another point of view now. The dollar lost of its value about 50%. When our Mr. Jones received his $6000 they were worth $3000 only. Mr. Smith on the other hand, got $12,500. That means he did not only preserve the full value of his invested dollars, but he got a nice surplus of $2500. Well, one has to be sorry for the poor landlord.

[a two-thirds majority of both ‘houses of congress. It virtually is | impossible 18. such overwhelming | congressional action—supported by | members of both political parties— |to occur without reflecting the {wishes of a majority of the citizens. | It definitely is up to each individual | {union member to abide by majority | {rule by refusing to participate in| unauthorized walkouts. - The radicals who stage wild-cat strikes or slow-downs, if the practices are widespread and continued, will only hasten less prosperous busi ness conditions with lay-offs nad {smaller pay-envelopes resulting. Reason: Pent-up demand, deferred too long by’ wasteful means, consumes, itself through the cost of bare living. Surely everyone has had enough of bare living and should realize that better living can be obtained only through greater production. . If union men individually can not recognize such democratic principles and economic facts, ' they are doomed to learn the hard way. A minority of even 15 million can not -}1 rule this country, nor can they dis- | prove. the fact that “there ain't no -}| such thing as a free lunch."

DAILY THOUGHT

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the | wise.—~Proverhs 15:31. .

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| DAVID STARR JORDAN was wont to say: “The {world stands aside and lets that man pass who | knows where he is going.” Another man said: “Public sentiment must be

{ changed in regard to free schools. Though it is the work of years, it can and must be done. It can be | effected only by convincing the common people that the’ scheme we propose is practical—is the best and most economical way of educating iheir children.” This man also had the vision to know where he was going. He also had the wisdom to choose the only practical way open. His name was Caleb Mills, In this Mr. Mills stands apart from all the men who tackled the problem of education in Indiana down to the early 1850's.

Lived on Farm in Early Years ALL THE OTHERS were of the school that apparently believed that a tree grows from its top down instead of from the roots up. At any rate; in the province of education by the state for all the state, for a good part of half a century, they fuddled along on education from the university down to the kindergarten instead of heading the other way, Mr. Mills was a Scotch-Irishnman of the fourth generation in America. The original Mills came direct from northern Ireland to Londonderry, N. H, | not far from Dumbarton, where Mills was born July 29, 1806. 2 Until he was 16, he lived on a farm. He then spent four years at Dartmouth college, graduating in 1824. Two years he was a Sabbath school agent in Indiana and Tennessee. He was graduated from

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Russia Nears Goal

A DIVISION OF EUROPE with Russia in con-

[trol of the eastern half has been the objective of

the Kremlin group since bef@ife the war ended. Looking back to the days when tHe Red armies were driving through Romania and Hungary, to the time when the American armies were held up at the gates of Berlin, Russian determination to split Europe is visible in every move. : At Bretton Woods, Dumbarton Oaks, San Francisco and Paris, endless obstructive tactics, seemingly senseless refusal to act for the common good of nations, foreshadowed what is now glaringly apparent. Russia is going to hold all of the German territo occupfed by its armies. Turning Point in World Relations = - BY FAIR MEANS OR FOUL, the fanatical Marx-

Europe, the Kremlin has refused to go along: The western nations have reached a turning point in their relations with Russia. -They know that any further proposals for a real

ee mend by it, if ne is not wise, is in |We used to be a nice ieighborhood until those “a fair way of being so~Benjamin ‘=. mgvea in—they've had that. clothesline up tan” FOS Wp Be

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with asyoung woman on ‘ne of the days when «a " U. 8. tourist ship was in town. The girl wore a lovely

pear! fecklace her father had gotten for her whet he »

was stationed at the embassy in Paris. We were | stopped by one of those plush-horse-type females with the brusque demand, as she ‘felt the necklace on the . neck of one she assumed lived on thé island: * “Where can I get one like that?” “Cartier, in Paris,” my companion answered swéetly as we walked away from the perspiring questioner. Every American is an ambassador of his country when he is abroad . .. and too few of them realize it, or care if they do. Most tourists do not know the language of the countries they visit, and adopt an aggressive attitude perhaps as a defense against “those foreigners.” They don't realize that while a native of another may be a foreigner when he is in the United States, it is we who are foreigners when we get away from our own homeland. And we are foreigners who are not particularly popular in an increasing number of areas. Americans Know the Answers AT A BAZAAR IN CAIRO'S old market, I received an insight into the reaction of at least one merchant who had reached an opinion regarding Americans which was broadened by his having had a shop at the New York exposition. “I like to do business with Americans,” this Egyptian told me after I had gained his confidence through a Syrian-born officer stationed in the Middle East. “I make more off of them. The dragomen guides steer them into my shop and they come in belligerently, determined to beat my prices down. So instead of my first price being twice what my goods are worth, I tell them three times the price at which I'd sell. Then I permit them to beat me down to half of that, and end up getting half again what I'd sell to anyone else for . . . or to them if they kept on bargaining. They go away satisfied. And I, too, am pleased. I've made extra money.” Riffing a stack of Egyptian pourids as we drank sweet coffee, he added: - gids “Yes, I like to deal with Americans. They think they know so much it is easy to make a bigger profit on them. And they never know the difference.”

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs Peril to Liberty in U.S. Purge of Reds

priation bill. Under the terms of that rider, they have no right of appeal. Here is the danger and it is a serious one. By this procedure the individual is prejudiced and founc guilty without appeal. In at least two recent instances, it has beer proposed in the senate that the FBI be given the right to pass on all new employees of a particulal bureau. That would in effect be giving to a police agency the supreme power of government. It woulc be a long step in the direction of the police state The deeply troubling thought in the minds of many men is that—in scourging the few who are disloyal—we. may endanger the whole structure of liberty on which our free society depends. In this there is a terrible irony. In combating communism we can get the very kind of totalitarian controls on which communism inevitably rests. The President's civil rights commission has made

a well intentioned move to point up the dangers in ¢

this troubled time and the need for further safeguards in law. Public hearings were held. A digpst of the hearir-s was used in an effective nation-wide broadcast.

Report to Be Ready Soon HORTLY THE commission will begin putting together the over-all report. A lively discussion is certain on whether it should include a warning on the approach.of the Truman administration to the loyalty investigation. It is, of course, a presidential commission and the final form of the report will be determined by the White House. The eflectiveness of turning over a major problem to a commission of public-spirited citizens is open to question. The members of the civil rights commission all have compelling outside interests, which means that they can give, at most, only part time to the inquiry. The chairman is Charles BE. Wilson of General Electric. With congress in the midst of a chaotic rush to get out, no new legislation is likely. We may" wake up one day to discover that civil liberties are

_not just a spare-time preoccupation,

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow

Caleb Mills Built From Ground Up

Andover Theological Seminary, and married Sarah Marshall, ‘his. hometown sweetheart, Sept. 13. 1833. Then he came to Indiana, where on Dec. 3, 1833, he opened the “Wabash Manual Labor College and Teachers Seminary,” with 12 students and’ $1543 pledged to-support it. The next major move Mr. Mills made was the fundamental one of a lifetime. For nearly half a century, till he died Oct. 17, 1879, he fought a dogged fight for a complete free public school system in Irfana.

6 Pamphlets Outlined Problem MR. MILLS’ major contribution to Indiana was his ability to see and to act on the fact that education in Indiana’ and America, to be the best in the broadést sense, must be of and for the common man —the masses of the nation. He tackled the problem in six pamphlets, written and distributed in the state in the years 1849-50-51. These covered adequate school revenues, based on Joll tax and property; competent teachers; good text books; schools backed by public opinion; a state school superintendent: ‘and a great state university of solid worth and high standing. Caleb Mills’ final contribution to education in Indiana came in his work in the second constitutional convention of 1852, and as the second state school superintendent of public instruction, 1854-1857. . For the next nine years, till 1876, he was professor of Greek at Wabash college. His last three years before his death in Crawfordsville were spent in a remarkable last effort to make the Wabash college library a great library. :

Hal O'Flaherty

of Split Europe

While other nations bind up their wounds and repair their war damage, Russia continues to bleed and moan. For two years every international conference has listened with growing impatience to the demands for reparations; for gifts of territory involving a callous disregard of human rights, The western powers have clung tenaciously to the dream of world co-operation. Up to the second month of the Paris conference a year ago, hopes persisted that Russia could be made to see the advantages of working with its wartime allies instead of against them. Fantastic compromises with conscience were made by both British and American statesmen keep Russian friendship.

Can Now Go Ahead Ts YH ~ IT WOULD HAVE BEEN far better. for all‘concerned if Russia had now and then bent its will to

. the dictates of the majority, but some few advent

ages derived from its refusal! + Furst, the division of Burope gives ‘the U. 8. and Britain a free hand to proceed with restoration of western Germany. Intolerable delays can be avoided. . Second, the area to be relieved can ne narrowed

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