Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1947 — Page 12

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PAGE 12 Tuesday, Aug. 26, 1947

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Taft-Hartloy Law Mis-Information

(YNEY of the biggest obstacles to fair operation of the

Taft-Hartley law is the amazing amount of misinfor- |

mation in circulation as to what the law contains. A good many of its most severe critics obviously haven't even read it. So we find, for instance, a writer as generally well informed on such matters as our own columnist, Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, “resenting” provisions which she says it contains—but which we haven't been able to find in it ourselves. Such as: “It compgls union leaders to declare they are not Communists,” It doesn’t do anything of the sort. A union leader may be a Communist if he wishes so far as this statute goes, But he cannot get certain aids for his union from the government unless he declares he 8 not a Communist, “It forbids a union to expel a member for any reason except failure to pay dues.” The law doesn’t do that either, members for any reason under the sun—or for no reason— as long as it does not demand that expulsion from the union also be expulsion from his job—as in a “union shop” where compulsory union membership is a requirement for

A union can expel its |

E language around our house gets pretty rugged at nights. A stranger entering the front door might think he had fallen amongst gangsters, For instance, the other evening:

and angry voice of a woman up.inyoung daughter's room. “You poor shiveling, weak-kneed, lilylivered. . . . “You scum! You rotten piece of scum. You're scared, aren't you? “I'll tell you what to do, you spineless fish. .. . Go on, kill yourself!" 2. Now is that nice language for a little girl's room? Yet it's the sort of talk that goes on, | night after night, in millions of American homes “while the young folks are doing their lesson or preparing for the night's rest. Nothing to be alarmed about. The man didn’t kill himself—although later on he did kill the woman, and stuffed her body into a basket. for the evening's radio cemetery, already plentifully supplied with corpses. The drama in this instance was being provided by “Mr, District Attorney—

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truth—guardian of our fundamental rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” And my young daughtbr was merely enjoying the fundamental rights of making the house sound like a gangsters’ hide~ out. J

» ” y Nw a lot of people don't like this car. nival of butchery into which radio has turned the children’s hour. The Fraternal Order of Police, for example, recently passed resolutions in convention at Indianapolis against. “unrestrained, bold, vicious, salacious and immoral comic books, , motion pictures and radio programs.” But at least in the case of radio, it's doubtful that this parade of murder leaves any permanent and injurious twisting of the young offshoot. For even a child is too smart to be influenced when murder is mass-produced on such a commonplace and routine level as to lose all attributes of thrill or novelty. When you have to pack three windy commercials and one to six killings all into a half-hour—and when the same thing has been happening according to the same pattern on several preceding programs— the various killings have no more individ-

Who Threw Whisky in the Well?

staying at work. | It has “set apart a group of people for the first time

in our country . . . the labor union group.” We don't believe it does that. On the contrary it undertakes to restore this group to the responsibilities and privileges from which an earlier law—the Wagner act-— ® set them apart a dozen years ago. That has been the principal objection to it. : One of C. 1. O.'s leaders is quoted, in their convention just ending, as saying that “the government is not on our side any longer.” should not be on the union side, nor on management side, nor on anybody's side. That isn't what government is for. There may turn out to be great deal to criticize in this new law, once it has undergone the test of actual operation. Nobody-not even the congress which so carefully and so sincerely wrote it—contends that it is the ultimate perflect answer to all industrial disagreement. But, pending such revision as may finally prove desirable, nothing much is going to be gained either by slick schemes to nullify and evade it, or by loose criticism of it for things it doesn’t contain.

Here's Real Preparedness

N these hectic days of warld upheaval, it is particularly encouraging tg read such news as that which appears in Victor Petersan’s dispatch today from the naval ammunition depot at Crane, some 60 miles southwest of Indianapolis. In this 110-square-mile ara are stored enough explosives and equipment of naval warfare to keep the American fleets supplied until industry could be geared to wartime production. From the depot, the present needs of the Atlantic and Pacific fleets are supplied. And in it, constant inspection a8 conducted to make certain that all stores are up-to-date and usable, Crane ammunition depot, the largest in the nation, is located in a relatively isolated, wooded and hilly area ideal for storage of explosives yet near enough to sources of personnel to énable it to expand in time of emergency. Wartime employment approximated 10,000 men and women | ~today thewe are 2380 civilians and a small naval detachment. * The $6 million payroll is distributed to workers from 15 counties, thus placing this naval installation in the class of a large-sized business. A visit to Crane is reassuring. It is one of the many signs that the professional guardians of the peace are not asleep at the switch,

Our Dwindling Air Power

N-the recent air forces day celebration, Lt. Gen. Ennis,

Ww hitehead could put only 50 B-29's over Tokyo. Near the wind-up of the war, a little more than two years ago, Wwe put as many as 800 B-29's—and could have put 1000— over Tokyo in a single raid. What has happened in the disintegration of our air forces ought not happen in any country with a decent respect for its security. And it has occurred over a period in which Russia has shoved around every country she's rubbed up against, and has shown constantly increasing indications that she fully intends to shove the United States around as soon as she feels strong enough to undertake it. | Scripps-Howard Staff Writer Charles T. Lucey, in the first of a series of articles, tells elsewhere in The Times today of present-day American air power. What he has written will not be news to the Russians, who know all too well the story of our chaotic demobilization. But it may be news to some Americans who, because we were the No. 1 air power at the end of the war, have taken for granted that somehow we would remain so. Meanwhile the American military knows little, and the American public less, about what Russia has done to build up air power since the war's end. It is known that Russia hasn't stopped building, It costs a lot of money to keep going the research, production and training essential to modern air power, even on a peacetime scale. But over many years, it would add up to much less than the cost of another Pearl Harbor,

Safety Crackdown

fi ARREST of a record number of motorists yesterday for exceeding the limits set for the 20-mile-an-hour zone will increase the business of the traffic courts, but we doubt y if it helps the cause of safety very much. There is little justification for such a low speed limit for moving traffic over arteries which could accommodate JAY Sole Sare if the limit were bigher and ghte were

We trust he is right. “The government :

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Hoosier Forum

“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will

defend to the death your right tq say it."—Voltaire.

Away With Sloppy Sentimentalism About Germany; Help Our Friends

By M. T. L., Morningside dr., City How can any American look at the and how can any flnance schools and the chaplains

I say, too, to H. with Germany! crippled and maimed soldiers of this last war,

American think of our dear dead of this last war, and say help schools. Away with this sloppy sentimentalism about Germany. i irene Time has proven without & doubt that Germany is a “bandit nation,”

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and, as such, should be treated with disdain.

We were helpful to Germany after world war I, remember?

«war I, R. R. engineers and during {war II, it trained all these branches of the regular military services and {in addition to these, many fine 'young men and officers in the

Also there were the fine military training corps jepare young men were trained to be tter citizens,

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how were we repaid, remember? Then who amongst us would dare says help Germany. I'll venture to say this, that today the powers that be in Germany are once again plotting a third world war, not openly of course, but in that deadly lcunning way they have. I'll shgjineams,

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| venture to say this—that if you having rendered a great service to!

asked if they were beaten in this, the nation by having trained .inbust war, the arrogant reply would|fantry motorized field artillery,

“NO.” You see, (Germany never tank battalions, medical corps, quar- | Rs defeat. Smal] wonder when| rmaster. battalions and regiments,

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Iserve the nation in time of stress

and keep its honor unstained by commercialism.

Editor's Note: The secretary of the army notified members of the Indiana congressional delegation Monday that Ft. Harrison would be withdrawn from the army's surplus list and would be retained as an army post.

beat H. out of them. Now, let's get sane thinking on| this subject. Help the needy coun | ene tries of Europe who were our,

[well that this is the treatment we {would ny our positions were reversed. member there are still German sympathizers here in this country, and don't be deceived by their gullible talk about world trade, ete. We'll get along very well, indeed, without Germany,

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Preserve Memory of Ft. Harrison Service

By J. CO, EMA st. I for one am strictly. against, Harrison as a State park. Indiana has a number of state parks now if the state would only centralize its efforts and resources under its pl

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Script: A Mug Fires A Slug, Then A Pig.

uality than does a single soda cracker in a whole box. Then, too, there's always the commercial to snap one back from the horrors of illicit passion into the reality of highpressure salesmanship, . Shakespeare often followed his climactic scenes with a little comedy—like the “knocking on the door” in Macbeth. Radio follows its murders with a good, strong plug guaranteed to, relieve any‘body’s tension. For example, in this particular exploit of Mr, District Attorney, the gangster who had just been invited to commit suicide turned his gun on Baby Mae (that was the name of the moll in this case) and shot her. The script reads: falls.” And then, out of the smoke of murder, comes the voice of the announcer: “We'll hear the nexf unusual development inthis case in just a moment, but first.” Whereupon follows the middle commercial (“183 words—1 minute. 5° seconds”) advertising that “good looks begin with good looking hair” and how natural Yeguialle oils “helps keep your hair under control . . . and... with a natural, mas.

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culine look” which gives “distinctive scalp. tingling stimulation.” No, even thé dumbest child isn't going to be turned to the-primrose path by murder under Shue Sonditions. 3

THE trouble with “hese programs isn't the killings—they’re too trite and. : slap-bang and casual. It’s the language. How are you going to instill any gentility and restraint into the speech of a& child when the home is constantly echoing. with gangster names and gutter words? The murders have become artificial; ‘but the threats .and pleas and terms of ¢ontempt and hatred are quite natural when done in the best voices of trained actors. * Maybe they won't turn Junior or Mary

into youngsters who talk like Pretty Boy

Floyd “or Light-Fingered Molly. But it gives them & heavy dose of underworld lingo at a time when they are developing one of the most precious of human posses sions—-spegch. Of course, there's another alternative. They might be influenced to a greiter degree by the announcers—and develop the oily, unctious, sanctimonious wheedling of the commercials, It's a toss-up which would be worse.

IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 28.—The first curtain has now gone up on the new capital extravaganza entitled “High Prices, They're All Your Fault.” Compared to the last show, which just closed here for the summer, and which starred Howard Hughes and Senator Brewster, this one previews like a real turkey.

Much Talk ALMOST THE FIRST ACTOR on the stage is Emil Rieve, a C. 1. O. vice president. His lines go something like this: “The high cost of living is the fault of big business. It is taking excess profits. The promises of the National Association of Manufacturers and the

haven't’ materialized.” ! He says the President should call a conference of labor, industtial and agricultural leaders to work out a voluhtary program of price reduction. But it develops in ensuing action that Mr. Rieve admits such a conference probably wouldn't be successful anyway, and that his idea of co-operation is to have industry and agriculture co-operate with the C. I. O. as a sort of moderator. He also throws in a vague line about return to controls which, naturally, wouldn't include any wage controls, Next actor is from the N. A.M. He rushes on the stage, throwing handouts and press releases to the audience. He says that if it weren't for high wages and decreasing productivity of labor, prices would go down.

was borrowed at the last minute from the HughesBrewster production. It is known as the “I'm-right-you're wrong’ technique. In this show it just doesn't have the same effect. You have the feeling hay the

WORLD AFFAIRS .

GENEVA, Switzerland, Aug. 26.—Everybody, seems, has a plan for Palestine, Some of these plans are as unsound and impractical as the emotional hysteria that beclouds so much of the whole tangled controversy. Others read beautifully, but make no sense in face of hard reality. Amid all the muddled thinking, distorted facts and vicious propaganda surrounding Palestine, a workable solution must be found—and soon.

Newsmen Agree It's Workable THE UNITED NATIONS special committee on Palestine has not yet worked out the formula it is due to present to the general assembly next Monday. On the basis of firsthand observation of its sources and seven weeks’ intense discussions with Jews and Arabs of all shades and degrees of opinion, I venture herewith to put down my own idea for a Palestine plan. It is a middle-way compromise “solution” that finds acceptance with the majority of my journalistic colleagues with UNSCOP. Many of the less fanatical Jews and Arabs in Palestine privately agree it makes sense. "This is it: Create two sthtes in Palestine, one Jewish and one ficfas, with geographical boundaries set on the general idea -of the old partition plan, Govern these two states by a joiht board or committee of "Arabs and Jews, under a measure of United Nations overall control. Put all customs, public services and other common interests under joint management government. ‘Give the United Nations a clear directive that its form of implied trusgeeship must be eased gradually as the two states, and especially the dual control board, show increasing ability to co-operate and demonstrate good will, This plan, I feel, has more nearly a chance of sucgess than other less moderate ideas. It is ‘based on appreciation of the bitter realities of religious fanaticism, hatreds and ancient superstitions which the outside world cannot realize fully without firsthand experience.

DOWN IN KENTUCKY they feud. The bitterness of one of these feuds would make quinine seem sugar. They bring the venom of hate to the murder of him

| (who stirs it. As 1019 eased into’ its, last half, there

came creeping with it a feud that touched Indiana, embittered America and scrantbled the affairs of the world. This was the feud over the peace treaty of world war I. The feudists were President Woodrow Wilson and the United Sites senate.

President's Attitude Changes

Aug. 31, 1019, goes to the core of the matter. In part it says: “If we ask where the first refusal to entertain this reciprocal status of powers and duties obtained, the truth is that it came from the White House itself, until the fruits of the council came to be gathe of the league seemed beset with insurmountable obstacles in the senate, did the President's attitude - aloofness

A few days later, on Sept. 8, 1919, Will H. Hays added this touch: “I agree with President Wilson oe be ratified. bd: fhe Fifcytion wii

‘Republicans, of lower prices with high production,

It is obvious that this particular dramatic action:

AN EDITORIAL in an Indianapolis papef of .

not until the way of the treaty and

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Capital Cost-of- Living Farce Procseds

audience suspects it is more of a “both-of-us-aree -

wrong” sort of thing. In the next scene you see Attorney General Tom Clark, fingering. his bow tie and announcing that he has launched a “program aimed at conspiracies to maintain or to increase present prices in the food,. clothing and housing flelds.” Then, like in the ancient Greek theater, you hear choruses either moaning or applauding to point up the action. In this scene you get moans from the N.A.M. side of the stage and applause from the labor chorus. Scene three is the office of Tom Clark's boss, President Truman. He says yes, he approves of his boy Tom's action. But then the audience moans when the boss admits it probably won't have anything to do with lowering prices.

And Little Action YOU ALSO KEEP GETTING bulletins of off-stage action. Congress is investigating high prices in Coloma, Mich, Labaddie, Mo. and other places. There's the inference that catsup at a half-buck a bottle is more significant in Labaddie than in New York. Anyway, it's probably cooler investigating out in the country than it.would be in Washington. But it certainly isn't going to surprise anybody when they report that shirts and bloomers are too expensive in Coloma as well as Pittsburgh. The word is that the show promises to improve as” it goes along. That's welcome news because any change in it would be for the better. It couldn't be more corny than it has been so far. Anybody in the audience gould tell the actors or producers in a minute what is wrong with the show. To make it a success, dil somébody has to do is : rush out on the 'stage and say, “I'm going to do something about lowering prices.” Or they could just say, “Here's an idea for lowering prices.” The crowd would just go wild.

By Nat A. Barrows ‘Here Is Corbroris Palestine Plan’

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Such a plan, any plan, must be imposed; must th refore be something that can actually be ime p —will furnish a vehicle for easing grievances and healing old wounds. By analysis over other plans, it seems to have the merit of more nearly meeting demands of all sides and hurting the least

.when it must be enforced.

The all-Jewish state sought by Zionists, with the all-Arab state demanded by the Arabs, obviously is an unwerkable and fantastic idea. The cantonization scheme so many favor has the advantage of recogmyzing the acute geogiaphical problems of Palestine, bit it means continuance of British: mandate and that means unceasing under ground warfare. What is more, cantonization does not recognize that emotion and outright fanaticism are all bound up in any Palestine solution and, cane not be ignored. Third most popular 1s bi-nationalism: Two states equally divided in theory, with dual government equally representative, It is intriguing, but again an idea that overlooks reality. It would mean deadlock. Until Palestine’s Jews and Arabs show they are able to get along together with a spirit of good will, any such plan is out of the question—no matter how zealously Zionist spokesmen maintain the contrary. The story of Jewish-Arab relations has been good on the whole among the little people.

Time Is Running Out TOO MUEH EMOTION already has been fed into Palestine and too many people, safely and snugly far away from the land mines and snipers’ bullets, have been sounding off emotionally without danger of facing responsibility for their big talk—too many irresponsible outside influences have been at work. Meanwhile, time is fast running out in Palestine. A declining Britain is reaching the end of its rope financially under the burden of supporting 100,000 troops. Jewish desperation and fanatical frenzy over immigration are literally at the bursting point. And always, Arab resistance to further Jewish advances inside Palestine looms starkly on the horizon with the threat of another uprising as in 1936-39,

SAGA OF INDIANA « « + By William A. Marlow

World War | Treaty Embittered State

Sullivan county. It was typical of the thinking of thousands of Hoosiers and millions of loyal Americans in the early fall of 1019, as the nation

would appeal to the nation dt in a 10,000-mile® speaking D. C., to the Pacific coast and

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