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, Sept. 3,.1947 : a Wetlnesday, Sep Lib RE : "THE first question you ask is: Do we WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W.. MANZ
~~ The Indianapolis Times|J. 5 loan Destroyed British Economy
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Success at Rio "THE Rio treaty for hemisphere defense is a light in the of affairs. The basic cause of our being gathering international darkness. While Europe disin- in the present condition, instead of being tegrates, the Orient suffers in strife and the United Nations well on the way to recovery, is the loan is paralyzed by Soviet veto, the Americas advanee toward (American) and the conditions under
collective security. wh ich .it This is United States leadership The much maligned was ac“Collosus ‘of the North,” or “Yankee imperialism,” or cepted. It “dollar diplomacy”’—or whatever fearsome phrase Red provided propagandists or Latin-American chauvinists, have used easy money to describe the force which emanates from Washington— for Brithas operated as a peaceful blessing at this inter-American ain, It deconference. fT stroyed Two tests of the effectiveness of the treaty, and at the our prosgame time of the self-denying sincerity of the United States, pect of rehave been met. One is that treaty decisions shall be by two- co nstructthirds vote. Our government asked no’ veto power——in- ing our deed it led the fight against the unanimity rule desired by economy Peronista Argentina. So the new hemisphere defense on sou nd system is safe from the tragic weakness of the San Fran-| lines. cisco charter which cursed the security council with a i The ie 'nited Nations veto device, lines entail Lord Beaverbrook the devel
The second test is whether the treaty shall apply to aggressors from inside, as well as outside, the hemisphere. Here again our government proved its own peaceful inten-| tions, and closed the security ‘loophole desired by LatinAmerican Fascists, by insisting that the defense pact apply against all aggressors.
THIS treaty
to all the world. It is an example and should be an| ith aid, and with encouragement from
inspiration to
to-achieve the common unity for peace evolved by the new |. Europedtisonites of food and .raw world. Far from ignoring or undermining the United Na-| terials we had to replace the deficit by
tions, it is a
which it is a regional part. ; Before the hemisphere security structure is complete, [nstead, the country listened to seemingly however, to this political agreement must be added support- pleasant counsels which recommended the ing military and can defense hoard mus joint staff with closer co-operation and standardization in| | weapons, training and planning. this treaty. - Moreover, the Bogota conference, scheduled the Socialists but the Conservatives as for next January, has been instiucted to call a general eco- well. But certainly no blame attaches to nomic meeting for the hemisphere in the autumn of 1948, Congratulations for a most efficient and fruitful international conference are due all the delegations joining in its final ‘decisions—not least, of course, to the team of Marshall and Vandenberg which set the pace. »
Worth .Considering, Mr. President . - THE American Legion proposed that congress be «ii Hoosier Forum
into special session to deal exclusively with universal ~ military training. UMT has been an active issue in the last two regular
blame the Socialists for the mess Editor Business er | 53. : : > irom ee «| Britain is in? : 4 : A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER : "We do, We blame them a_ ¢ deal, Owned and published dally (except Sunday) by Practically every paper in Great Britain Indianapolis Toutes Publishing Co. 214 W. Maryland hag from time to time, severely criticized " Postal Zone 3. a . Sertpps-Howard ‘News. the government. The outstanding exceppaper. Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of tion is the Daily Herald, which is owned nl fee ‘by the trades union congress, The T. U. C ty, ts : deliv ji . ery Prive in a eens 3 COPY provides the .government with political Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a Pear; all other states, and financial support. It is commonly u. g possessions, Canada Sud Mexia wa Y8sg) consulted before big decisions are taken enw ans wad thn Fev rid Fae ion Wo ‘and in effect shapes government policy. - FH w » » ” UT it is not the Socialists alone who are responsible for the present state
opment of our empire potentialities with speed and vigor. If we had adopted that
policy from the beginning by now we {should have been self-supporting, or well on the road to becoming so. We had to work out our own salvation ‘in the early days of the war, before the
Editor's Note ard, was asked
is important not only to the hemisphere but ~ The Times and
the London Daily Express and the Evening Stand-
to Britain and the cause of that country’s present difficulties. His answers appear exclusively in
Compensation here is on a more generous scale than the United States provides. I. was against nationalization of the Bank of England. But there is a precedent in America. 1 think your federal
: Lord Beaverbrook, publisher of
to analyze the effect of the loan
other Scripps-Howard newspapers,
\United States came in. True, we did so
other continents and regions, which have yet |, (1nited States. In 1940, when we lost
new prop for that sagging organization of | developing new lines of supply. What we did before we could. have done again,
ages pacts. The loose inter-Ameri-/joan as an easier way out,” Baldwin, and
ge given permanent status as al # nn “+ OR those counsels we apportion blame That will give teethe to to atl who supported the loan; not only course.
(the United States. The terms of the loan were generous and the rate of interest was negligible. Your second question—is: (Conservatives no policy? They have. A very bad one. | ~sTheir industrial charter tacitly ac-
“direction. . Socialism
Have the the measures
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cepts a considerable degree of socialization. Its studied avoidance of the subject of empire economy ranges the Conservative supporters with. those who are indifferent to that development. Fof these reasons we are not disposed to trust again too readily those who misled us; who misled us ‘also’ so grievously, .under. the
in the years 1931-39. HIS does
those years, and had no part in this mis-
condition. Of course it is. But it has not gone far in this country.
reserve system is wiser in conception. It already has proved more elastic in operation. . :
UR difficulty ‘over coal lies mainly in the restrictions of output by the trade unions. We in this country have, unhappily, = “feather-bed” "unions. Lewis “(John L.), whatever may be said against - him, has never been a feather-bed' man. "But our feather-bed: system grew up "under Conservative governments. Its increased hold during the war years is something for. which Conservatives must _ share responsibility with the Socialists. Our government's steel policy is an egregious blunder. We have yet to see, in view of the turn events have taken, whether this policy will be put in operation. tm 1
Chamberlain. governments,
” » » . . not include Churchill, of
He was not in office during
is a factor in our present
I would judge adopted here as falling short
"| do not agree with a word that yoii say, but | will ‘WORLD AFFAIRS
defend to the death your right to say it."=Voltaire. |
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Low Speed Limit Causes Traffic
sessions. But, in both sessions, advocates of the legisla- Jams, 20-Mile Zone Not Needed
tion failed to force a showdown vote in either house. With calendars crowded, it was easy for opponents of UMT to! delay and thereby avoid a decision. outcome again, if again this important and politically hot
By Stephen Dugan, 3047 Central ave. It's about time that someone would point out, as you and Mr. Feeney That could well be the did, the real cause of all the downtown traffic jams. When cars are only allowed to creep along the streets at a snail's pace, how can traffic jams be avoided? Twenty niiles an hour is too
measure is left to take its turn with all the other bills and slow for any traffic in this city with the exception, perhaps,-of the Circle.
appropriations of a regular gession.
This speed limit has long been one of my pet peeves. Even before
read Mr, Feeney's statement and the article by The Times I had
But, in a special session called for that specific purpose, giready decided to tell someone what I thought about the present mess.
a showdown could not-be avoided. able to believe that, once the roll is called, congress will first time in
Thursday afternoon I was driving’ north on Capitol ave. for the several weeks. Having read about the mass arrests, I was cautious than usual, ™ TI a
And it is quite reason-
being more
reflect general American public sentiment, which is about i, keep within the speed limit. Each [38th st.? It's a long way into town
2 to 1 in favor of UMT. Governor
block I looked for the 30-mile-an- from. theré- to the fairgrounds; A hour ‘sign, but each - block: boldly [50 or a 45-mile speed zone would
Dewey's - ringing indorsement of military === “ot ie 20-mile limit. It|be reasonable, but a 30—!
training has done much ta lift -the issue above partisan- was only at 17th st. that the\speed| I sincerely hope that you will
ship. A special session this fall, as the Legion proposes, could mean adoption of military training without undue And this measure, so vital to national defense, would not be left to the political maneuverings of an electionyear regular session, in which tod many: congressmen will be siriving not to be éoufited on issues that might alienate
delay.
votes.
The Legion's proposal is worth.considering, Mr. Presi-
dent,
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limit was lifted to 30 miles an) Jour, | wage a campaign for more reasonWhat, pray tell, is the object ‘of a able speed zones in this city. I'm 20-mile zone all the way to 17th \st.? sure that you will find ample .sup-
on pointing out- the foolishness of apolis. this traffic limit. It's something I yw» have long wanted to do myself. op ge .” Andi while I'm putting in my two Capitalism Heading cents worth, I'd like to add that I Toward a Collapse think the zones in the residential By R. Sprunger, Indianapolis. areas should be at least 35-mile-an-hour: zones
another pet peeve. Why is it that capitalism is heading toward col-
the junction of road 65 and east “doctrines”
“REPORT Truman Hoping to Talk Prices Down?" —head-. Side Glances = By Galbraith
line),
IY the President decides to try this method, we trust
that he will
Canute and the tide.
A Hero,
IN. JONATHAN M. WAINWRIGHT, retiring from the
army at
rightfully praised as one of the great American heroes of
world war 11,
* terest defeats in this country's history, and thereafter for more than three years to be a prisoner of the Japanese, | His fate, from Bataan, hopeless odds, he provided inspiring leadership. unpreparedness, not lack of gallantry on the part of Wain-
wright “and
* chapter, : Gen. Wainwright carries with him into civilian life the admiration and. respect of the American ‘people.
should sever
and theirs, in the Philippines in early 1942,
No Balloon « Td
American pilot; flying a Chinese relief plane, had to jettison a huge cargo of Chinese money to keep from ||. c ing into a mountain when his plane developed. engine L
trouble,
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Ale Who would have dreamed that anything ob lglaly ine - flated as Chinese currency copld be so heavy! |
I congratulate you and Mr. Feeney|port from the citizens of “Indian-|
It is becoming ever more obvious This reminds ‘me .of that nationally and internationally
the 30-mile speed limit begins at/lapse. New economic plans and new follow each other with | bomb is a poor weapon of war be-
|fansastio regularity and each is {despaired of before they reach full
operation, The Truman Doctrine,” LONDON, Sept. .3.—Britain's coal mines produce | Marshall Plan, "Monnet Plan jor less than a fifth as much coal per miner as American |France, a new “Attlee Plan" for), ec do, They might be made twice as efficient as (England. None has or will accom-| hey are—engineers would settle for that. plish anything towards demorcratic) qy,¢ js the opinion gathered from talking with justice. Oh yes, let's not-forget capi- gschnjcal ‘men and others on the staff of the coal talism’s: United - Nations, a -tragic| par the mational company which operates the socomedy and about as effective as & | ciglized coal mines. A doubling of the mines’ effiBuddha contemplating its navel.| jency seems to be within reach, but it would take World capitalism finds itself totter- | years and much money. ing. American capitalism, faced! 1f the output were expanded only 25 per cent, or with its own contradictions is be-| py 50 million tons a year, the British would be seeing Einnitg WL Xebel RERing further | their way out of the economic. woods. ons of dollars in loans to other| ? capitalist nations. But without|Use Obsolete Methods these loans to other capitalist| BRITISH MINES were well mechanized in. certain nations, American exports will fall| respects under private ownership which ended last off at an increasing rate and speed| January, particularly in the cutting of the coal, but an American depression. At ‘the|they are far behind American practice in moving same time if America does continue|coal from where it is being cut to the mouth of the to dole out loans, it is cutting its| Mine. Ten times as many men are required here in own throat by placing its competi-| England to get the coal to the bottom of the hoist. tors back on their-feet and speeds | Ponies pull the little cars, or “tubs,” but miners drive the day they will contest the mar-| the ponies. ir ian {kets the United States now monop- A new means of transportation is new available. lolizes. Which reminds one that|Il's the belt conveyor. To Akron, O., the home of the international commercial rivalry of | miles-long conveyor belt, the British are looking for capitalism for world markets is the Delp. A British engineer ‘is on his way there now. |geed of war, | Prof. Douglas Hay, the coal board's engineer and Now listen to the depravity of the president of the British Institute of Mining Encapitalism A viset Iretitent in| SiNCers, told me the belt conveyor was the solution charge of en toe " tak of the immediate problem in British mining, with g ng O° A IA8E the ultimate solution to be'a combination of Eurocorporation said this, “The atom pean and American practices, using mine locomotives. Former owners of She mines spent’ millions of
{cause it destroys too much property,
| although it sounds cold-blooded; the |type of weapon we should use if we OUR TOWN “eo By Anton Scherrer
first reread and ponder the story of King
Retires
3. ! - . the age of 64, after 45 vears of service, was
Yet it was his fate to suffer one of the bit-
but not his fault. In the agonizing retreat in the long defense of Corregidor against America's
his troops, was responsible for that dark
They forget the lesson taught by his humiliation,
wage war at all is one that will kill only people.” Such a weapon would
{to rehabilitate land and property on
80 vast and costly a scale.” THUS FAR I have been reasonably conscientious {| Well, the capitalist apologist about, keeping love affairs out of this column. Today, {murder can now be committed however: I can contain myself no longer. Civic pride, {without harming machinery and | if nothing else, compels me to reveal the historic fact {buildings., For example: Eleven|that, once upon a time in.the dim past, Gughielms {pounds of diptheria - toxin would Marconi fell in love with an In{suffice to wipe out the entire popu-|dianapolis girl. {lation of the United States accord-| News of Josephine Bowen Hol|ing. to a current issue of the Bullet- man's engagement to the Italian in of Atomic Scientists. To retain scientist leaked out in the spring |capitalidm means to suffer its con-fof 1901. It wasn't until eight | sequences such as war, want amidst months later, however, that the {plenty anda variety of crime, We [skeptics were silenced. On that {are at the grossroads, it is either|/day (Dec. 20), Miss Holman's [capitalist - serfdom of bona fide grandmother, Mrs. Silas T. Bowen, socialist freedom. threw a big party at her Woodruff Place home; afte |which there wasn't any doubt about it anymore. Mrs. Bowen's party released a lot of conflicting stories. It was pretty well agreed, however, that i | Josephine Holman met Marconi on an ocean liner Keep Me Awake and that they weré engaged at the end of the voyage. By £. 0. J.. Washingion bivd, Everybody agreed, too, that the Indianapolis girl was There is a dog in our nelghbor-|(he first woman to hear from Mr. Marconi's own lips hodd that barks constantly at night, {that the electric current readily passes through any and as soOr'ias he starts, the other substance. . dogs in the neighborhood take up Interview With an Inventor the noise and .the bedlam keeps] INDEED, AN HOUR AFTER the adjournment of |everyone awake. During the hot Grandmother Bowen's party, it was common knowlweather, this is particularly trying edge in Indianapolis that Marconi had just begun since it is so hard anyway to get| his first experiment in trans-Atlantic telegraphy withto sleep. I don't believe people out wires at a station set up in Newfoundland. should be permitted to keep dogs if| As a matter of fact, Indianapolis knew they can't be housed without dis-|there was to know about Marconi and Miss Holman turbance to the neighbors. TI'velexcept the date of their wedding. It wasn't long
Barking Dogs
» : iY v “ 3 ; 4 “Phone me at the Joneses af 2:30—+'m sure all the boy has is . mumps, but about that time Mrs. Jones will start telling me
A the rest of the family, symplomsl”
~ 2m,
never owned a dog, but I like them. until we heard about that, too. On Jan. 21, 1902 However, I've no patience with/(just a month after Grandmother Bowen's party), owners who have their dogs penned Miss Holman's mother announced there wouldn't be in such a manner that they howljany wedding. : Jat all the time, That seme dey, Marconi wed found in hie apart
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Coal One Answer to British Problem
| make it unnecessary in a future w Ma rconi’s Indiana polis Loss : in Love
that we must reconcile-surselves to a long. - and dreary journey in the shadows. Great: Britain's empire, as. we knew it, is damaged. There are many forces working for its disintegration. ie be oN ‘We have had Lord Mountbatten acting as & Santa Claus in India. He has given the Indians not what they need but what they ask for. World-wide hostility has “been ranged against us over the Jews. That is to say, it has been ranged against ‘us in Palestine and other countries. It is worthy of note that the Jews in Britain have no Tot or part in this hostility. There has been a determination out. side the United Kingdom to- break down our system of imperial preference (tariff preference). It has been backed by a “dubious and irresolute attitude here. We have great resources if we are permitted to develop them. I don’t blame Clayton (William L.; U. S. under secretary of state) for his attack on imperial preference. From the American point of view he may be right. His attitude has been strengthened by the folly of the loan, ‘Nevertheless America is much inter “ested in our economic survival. So far, a large part of the loan has been used to finance British purchases in countries such as the Argentine, which have used these dollars to buy their own requirements in the United States. Thus the process which has impoverished us has contributed to America’s prosperity. " Films, tobacco, oil and cottoh represent immense expenditures of dollars in. the uv. S 3
, x= E buy our oil from dollar sources because the United States owns roughly one-third of our system of distribution, ~ We agreed under article 9 that these sources of supply should not be disturbed. Article 9 is the one which says in effect that if this country reduces imports of . any commodity from America, it must re. duce in the same proportion imports of that commodity from empire sources, - Otherwise we could buy in Abadan all the ..0il that we require, for payments in sterling. i Af our import of American films goes, the American film habit will be destroyed. The film people in Hollywood: will suffer, If we substitute Rhodesian for American tobacco, the Rhodesian habit will grow, and American tobacco will be neglected. Have I hope? Yes. Some Elijah or “Elisha will arise, and the structure of this : empire will be reconstituted, its resources * will be developed, and its prosperity will be expanded. Under such a leader world relations to the United Kingdom will be
of the drastic developments of the Ten- As to the future, there isno reason to ~~ be redressed. British ' prestige will be Nessee Valley Authority, for instance. conceal the feeling, shared by many here, restored. ‘ . By “os x : « ux =»
By John W. Love
pounds in mechanization, in spite of all the socialist talk, and during the war the British government spent millions for U, 8. lend-lease. But the mechanizing apparently could do no more than make up for the decline of the mining population-and the dimin« ishing thickness and greater depth of the seams. American mines generally use the room-and-pillar method. That is, to leave 20 per cent of the coal to support the roof and have rooms big enough to admit large machine loaders. The British take out all the coal, with what they call the long-wall method, letting the roof down as they retreat. Many pit props. - must be used, because of the great depth and the condition of the roofs, and a new law requires them to be only four feet apart. U. S. loaders are too large for such work. /British miners use small bucket éonveyors to drag the coal up into the cars, but they have to shovel the coal onto the conveyor. This hand loading, the high cost of haulage and a few other things account for,failure of the British miners to average much more than one ton of coal a day, compared with the 5% tons or six tons average in America. {| . .
Enough Coal in Ground NEW MINES can be opened up, in new seams—and there are several in this country—as in Fireshire—the engineers are able not only to mechs anize but to use the American room-and-pillar method. . . . It costs upward of $8 million to open one of these new mines, but it produces 1,500,000 tons of coal a year. Ultimately the British hope to have a hundred or more of them, and apparently enough coal is in sight. y
ment in the Hoffman House. He was sitting at a table opening letters and telegrams (wire) when the New York reporters got to him. In answer to a question for a confirmation or denial of the alleged breaking off of the engagement, he said: “Yes, it is true, and furthérmore I am very sorry to have to say it.” : “Was the engagement broken off at Miss Holman's request?” - “Yes, at Miss Josephine's request.” “Mr. Marconi, was the breaking off of your en= gagement owing in any way to the delay in the com« pletion of your experiments?” we “I can only say,* replied Mr. Marconi, “that it was
“Was the decision reached hastily?” ' “No, she requested it, and I took a couple of days
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