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PAGE 10 Saturday, Sept. 6, 1947 hie

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Responsibilities of Lawyers

MEMBERS of the Indiana State Bar association, meeting

now at Evansville in their 51st annual session, have an opportunity to promote several reforms which will ex- | pedite trials and increase the prestige of the courts and of | their profession. iq Charles A. Lowe, Lawrenceburg, association president, | told the lawyers yesterday that study should be mzde of | procedures before trial, simplification of instructions to Juries, eliminating cumbersome aspects of appealing from| decisions of lower courts, change of venue and the pro| tem systém of judges. The bar has a serious responsibility to take the lead | in obtaining needed reforms. And it should not permit the! question of non-political selection of judges to die of inattention, At its fall meeting last year, the association took steps to improve the method of selecting judges and attracting high caliber lawyers to the bench, but permitted the 1947 | pession of the legislature to go by without effectively seek-

Threat to Marshall Plan.

"THE Marshall plan for saving Europe is threatened by Britain's economic crisis and France's fear of Ruhr! revival. . It is possible, however difficult, to restore western Europe despite Stalin's disastrous division of the continent. | But it is not possible if Britain is too weak to co-operate | effectively or France is too shortsighted. The situation in western Europe is so serious that Secretary Marshall, just back from the Rio conference, is | faced with the possibility of asking a special session of con=| gress to consider emergency aid. The point of the Marshall plan is that no ’ Kutpean naiton can be saved alone—not even if there were an endless | supply of dollars, which there is not. It is based on the twin truism that western Europé is interdependent and’ that outside aid is futile without self-help. Hence the! hope that an integrated western European program of self- | help, with Arherican support, would be the best aid to Britain and France individually. That hope is now strained. Not because thete is any- | thing wrong with the Marshall approach, but because we are falling behind in a race against time. More than two, months have gone and several more will pass before Euro-! pean governments can work out the details, which in turn | Meanwhile Europe is stumbling down |

MERGENCY + ation is s called for, Even it the Marshall | plan in six months or so is developed to the full by | Europeans and supported to the hilt by congress, that will be too late—unless Britain's decline has been halted and] Ruhr production increased. Nevertheless, this crisis cannot be met simply by re- | turning to the discredited system of piecemeal aid for single | nations, much less by supinely waiting on the slow fruition) of the Marshall plan. In our judgment, the solution can be found in a flexible policy which insists on the long- term | plan but also furnishes any prompt emergency relief necesgary to hold the line until then. - In the case of Britain, London and Washington should be able to agree on £émporary adjustment in enforcement | terms of the old loan required to tide her over pending |” n new and better deal under the Marshall plan. As for the Ruhr, unless Washington and London cease their bizonal bickering dnd get those coal mines and steel plants going | — ~with French co-operation if possible, but without that | if necessary—any western European blueprint for recovery] signed and sealed next winter or spring will be just another academic futility, .- Production is the key to the European problem, political as well as economic. Production is the answer to Soviet | sapping of the western democracies. Production is the promise of the Marshall plan. Any direct emergency aid | by the United States now to Britain, to France and to the Ruhr heart of industrial Europe, can be and should be tied | Yo more production.

- . Legion Mistake HE American Legion's New York convention made a mistake, we think, when it urged an ‘amendment to,

the United States constitution providing that— “No guarantee of freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly or freedom of elections, by this | constitution or the constitution of any state, shall constitute a valid defense in court to a charge of profioting the overthrow of the government of the United States by force." Conspiracy to overthrow the government is, by federal law, a felony. Under the legion's proposed amend-

" ment, it seems to ug, persons accused of this crime would

be deprived of any opportunity to try to prove that they had merely exercized civil liberties guaranteed by the constitution's bill of rights. This legion resolution is of resentment against Communists who, claiming proteetion of the hill of rights,

which we and many other Americans, believe to be sub-| versive,

the evidence, after a fair trial. A charge of promotin overthrow of the government by force is not proof of guilt. It is, certainly, brought against innocent persons who—undér the amend-. ~ment urged by the legion—would be forbidden in advance ~of trial to attempt to ‘defend themselves by invoking the. bill of rights, It should be left’ for judges and Juries to determine; whether the constitutional guarantees of freedom are "al valid | defense.” There is?we believe; little danger that any | court would accept this defense if offered by persons ac-| i tually proved to have promoted overthrow of the government. There is grave danger

I gold. \ from his cabinet colleague, Sir Stafford

Fay I thought I might be favored an understandable outgrowth py having the street oiled, which 1s

Jonily one block long. preach and practice doctrines! street commissioner's office and re-

| voice over the wire told me they But whether, in any given case, preac hing or practice had no funds appropriated to. oil ae actually. is subversive is a question for courts to decide, on/® £| publican party.

will use for money conceivable that such a charge might be ime comes.

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E are not “upset, tary Bevin feared Americans might by the fact that he calls attention to

" as Foreign Secre-

he, the uneven distribution of the world's

Nor are we upset by the reminder

Cripps, that the United States cannot go on selling goods abroad without buVing more. Both of these truisms are well known to most Americans, even ‘college freshmen. Certainly there cannot be world recovery or stable prosperity in any single country—including the United States— until ways are found to correct the fearfully lopsided world trade and exchange balances. Frequent ‘reminders of the obvious are needed,

BUT what uphets us is . that two highly responsible British statesmen should voice these platitutes in such an irresponsible manner. For Mr. Bevin to blame the United States for “failure to redistribute the gold in Ft. Knox” is economic illiterarcy or political quackery. It is one thing for a doctor to point out that a patient has a broken leg; it another for him to prescribe a salve to set it. If the foreign secretary wants the United States to make a huge gold gift to Britain, he should be honest and say so. Gifts have been made before. But to hint that a free “redistribution” of wealth will cure these economic ills is.absurd. The chief kind of redistribution need-

—jedof the world’s gold is a basic improve-

ment in British and other foreign production, which will stabilize their exchanges,

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stop the flight of capital, and restore the normal equilibrium of gold supplies. The gold buried at Ft. Knox is not inactive. It backs the dollar, and billions in credit— not to mention gifts—for foreign relief and rehabilitation. The root -problem is .not more credit but more productive use abroad of that credit,

That brings us to Sir Stafford, and his

- admonition that we must buy more

abroad. There is nothing Americans would enjoy more. In fact they are so

. eager to buy. British—Scotch and woolens,

to name only two ‘products—that they are paying high tariffs and sky prices for And calling for more. 1f Sir Stafford will read his official commerical reports from this country, he will find that Britain today could sell us two or three times as much. But she hasn't the things to sell. So we come back to our good friend Ernie Bevin, Europe's greatest foreign minister and worst gold expert. There's nothing wrong with Britain that more production won't cure. But without that she never will be able to export enough to live, never be able to help "us restore healthy world trade and gold balances. : » " . T isn't digging yellow gold out of Ft. Knox vaults that should be worrying Ernie. are failing to get out of British coal pits. And we know it is troubling him—except on an occasional off day when he indulges in the cousinly pastime of plucking the eagle's tail, as our politicos ‘sometimes | twist the lion's.

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DEAR BOSS ..

WASHINGTON, Sept. §~—~The handful of Hoo"

whether elections next month will be a weather-

| Republicans who come from towns and cities {where they feel assured thé G.O.P. will win, are confident that this will be a prelude to complete victory one year hence. But some who feel that present icity regimes are threatened say it will not mean a ‘thing. Local issues only are involved they explain.

Gossip of Governorship : CANDIDATES FOR '48 provide much of ‘the speculation. Since there will be no U. 8. senate vacancy, the talk surrounds the governofship. One of the questions still being’ put is “will Bill Jenner run?”

{Those who want him to be governor hedge a bit by | declaring he is certain to do so only if the situation [is unrisky at the time, Others, including some vitally {interested in his welfare, have advised the youthful | senator to keep hig seat here since it's “for sure.” | Lieutenant Governor “Dick” James is mentioned (as the candidate of Governor Ralph Gates. Then the | debates begin as to whether that is a help or a handi|cap. You can find ready takers on both sides. | Inter-party rows now raging around Republican | State Chairman Clark Springer seem to be making {some G. O. P. partisans here feel uncertain of vietory next year. There is plenty of open talk that the Democrafs might well elect the next governor of Indiana. Then of course the question arises as to iwho will be the Democratic nominee. | Old-line Democrats talk up f{8rmer Governor [Henry F. Schricker and the New Dealers tear their (hair. Around Democratic national committee head{quarters the name of U. S. District Attorney Howard Caughran, Indianapolis, has been mentioned as well

IT'S"OUR BUSINESS

By Daniel M. Kidney

Capital Hoosiers Talk State Politics

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at Ft. Wayne. Also Director job himself, is the son of Mt. Wayne im the "Whether Postmaster

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nation-wide radio rally Tuesday night. They said he .showed a thorough-going knowledge of what it takes to win elections—organize and get out the vote. But that idea is not exclusively a Democratic one —not in Indiana anyway. As you recall, both parties had machines so perfectly souped up that the 1944 tickets were named top to bottam before the first gavel fell, ‘DAN KINNEY,

By E. T. Leech

Union Wheel Makes a Complete Turn

WE HAVE UNIONS because employers made them. And now, strangely enough, some unions seem determined to unmake them. There was a long period when employers took unfair advantage of their great power. They gave jobs on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. The boss fixed employment conditions, and the worker accepted them of he didn't work. He got fired without warning or explanation.

Familiar Abuses

THERE ARE TWO PARTIES to employment, but in those days only one party had any choice. And so employers drove their workers into unjonizing. | Fob unfairness. fails in the end, though it may seem to succeed for a while. Workers had to organize for self-protection. ' Not only to win better pay and hours and conditions, {but to attain human dignity. The one-sidedness of ‘their employment , was intplerable and degrading. Employers would “not exercise their great power with wisdom and restraint. And so workers fought {a long and often bitter struggle to unionize. One of the chief ‘reasons they succeeded was that they were backed by public opinion. Reasonable men {in every walk of life saw the unfairness of a twoisided bargain in which one side had all the power. Out of the growth of public opinion grew America’s strong faith in collective bargaining. The simple, |basic principle of collective bargaining is that the {two sides—boss and workers—sit down together and. {talk things over. Out of mutual discussion, on a [give-and-take basis, they Analy reach an under|standing. Laws, decisions, directives and ie growth of huge companies and -vast unions have complicated this simple procedure. Bargaining now may be between {groups who know next to nothing about a partigular |piant, its local problems or even the names of its

WORLD AFFAIRS

management and workers. Local committees find °

themselves bound to follow rules laid down for them by headquarters which are far away and officials they have never seen. Emphasis today is not on local unions, but on all-powerful international organizations. The pendulum has swung to the other extseme— as so often happens. A new set of bosses is in command. Once again it has been demonstrated that men cannot have great power without abusing it. The same old wrongs turned up on the other side of the street. Finally government had to curb some of the abuses

of the union bosses, as it had previously done with

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business bosses. Union bosses no more like to yield

personal powers than did business bosses. Therefore they are fighting the new labor law in the same spirit and manner business bosses fought the old one. Public opinion probably will determine the result +—as it did in the original struggle to unionize, The people, over a period; will support what is fair. v Some union leaders, ir their anger against the new law, seem determined to kill collective bargaining. Believing they how have enough strength, they

. to substitute force—on the same. one-sided; take-it-

or-leave-it plan the employer once used.

Experience Is Teacher : SO THE WHEEL makes a complete turn. The employer is now to get his conditions of operation in some industries—take them or leave them—and can be closed down without warning or explanation. The

_exact reverse of the situation of old. Complete

absence of collective bargaining. : To all this there is only the oid answer that two wrongs, still do not make a right.

However, why blame union bosses for doing exactly

what business bosses once did? Experience seems to be the only teacher—bitter and costly as the price often is—by which ‘most folks learn.

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By Nat Barrows .

U.S. Position on Palestine Not Clear

NEW YORK, Sept. 6—Point No. 1 on which {all 11 members of the United Nations Palestine committee agreed says that “the mandate for Palestine shall be terminated at the earliest practicable date.” " During the transitional period proposed by the majority, Britain would be permitted to carry on administration of Palestine’ under auspices of the United Nations and on such conditions and under such supervision as the United Kingdom and the United Nations may agree upon.

Hoosier Forum

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

“If so desired,” the majority recommend—“administration will be carried on with the assistance of one or more members of the United Nations.”

‘None of Those Below- Ankle

Dresses for This Female'

By Jeannette Eversole, 3526 E. Vermont st. T { {rope co-operate for world peace and

No long skirts!

|Europe's Countries

Should Work for Peace

By R. C. 8, city Why do not the countries of Eu-

80 a French designer has decided to make ladies out of us by harmony?

putting inches onto our skirt lines.

throughout the war, cided we should retire to our knitting It isn’t entirely the women's fault more on us, even around the home lawn looking like grandma?)

age American women have enjoyed

too long the comfort of shorts WAY

mingling with the rough and tough,

a public official

The United Nations does not want After years of we women holding men's jobs and responsibilities their countries or industries, but all they've de- countries need this co-operation to; icarry on in this great world of The men have depended more and ours, (Wouldn't we look cute mowing the

should do.

Islacks and short skirts to adopt It would be interesting to see the POWer.

such a style,

Low-heeled shoes would hecome same way

Indianapolis police operate in the

but disappointment and remorse.

The cry for peace would mean {more than the cry for war and The new skirtline appears graceful to- some perhaps, but the aver-|the offerings of fine, young, useful lives and the destruction of home ‘and country for selfish aims and

These in the end bring nothing

taboo, menacing our health. Soon

[the hair styles will change, with Side: Glances =By Galbraith

"buns on the ears, Cigarets will

“British Welcome Way Out HOWEVER CAUTIQUSLY the British govern{ment may approach the majority plan of UNSCOP, {I'am convinced that Sir Alexander Cadogan, Brit ain’s United Nations delegate, will’ be instructed to give it ultimate support. ; Private talks at Whitehall, both in the foreign !office and in the colonial office, left me with the feeling, in mid-June and again in late August, that | Britain seeks a face-saving escape from its Palestine | headache: As much as they desire to maintain a strategic foothold in the vicinity of the Middle East oil fields, the British simply cannot afford to maintain an army of 100,000 troops in Palestine, particularly when American interests in the Middle East And the Mediterranean seem to require—to the British—more tangible sharing of the responsibilities. It is, however, a delicate and difficult position for Britain as it faces the long weeks of frenzied controversy ahead at thé general assembly. American participation in policing ‘Palestine

BACKGROUND

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I for one speak and for thousands of pthers, not just below the ankle, but just below the knee.

No Money Available | For Oiling Streets?

By Mrs. Elvie Sharks, 1208 Standard ave The writer is a taxpayer of Mafion

RO The street I live on is not aved, Bince I am a victim of hay

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layed my complaint to them. The

I am truly sorry for the ReI wonder. what they when campaign

Good for the State Police

Evidently our superintendent of the state police force isn't going to be bluffed by politicians’ or anyone else into failure to enforce the law. - His raids in: touchy political '

that. Governor Gates obviously is

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France Also Facing

PARIS, Sept. as Britain's. Americans qualified to judge the situation say it is incredible that the United States and Britain seem so determined that Russia must not be allowed a foothold in Greece or Turkey while at the same |time they appear to ignore the Kremlin's relentless {drive to control France. | If France falls the entire continent will be added {© the Sovietized Balkans.

Wu. S. Has Large Stake

BRITAIN'S PLIGHT has been dramatized to the | world. Most Américans now are aware of her, perils. Few, however, seem to realize that the fate of France will go a long way - toward deciding the fate of | England; that events here will determine whether our billions insure Europe's recovery or mostly disappear down a rathole, Washington and London, these Americans believe, {must come to an understanding with regard to 'Prance. Their policy which existed since world war I

6.—France’s situation is as critical

{| must be changed. Mostly this policy has been one

of bored indifference to French requirements, notably FRANCE HAB BEEN ILL-FED since 1 The about her national security. old and yeung are noticeably undernouris ReOur policy on France must have both a short and duction of the ‘bread ration from 250 to 200 grams a long-term phase, First, Prance desperately needs day is adding to the unrest. Already bread strikes immediate aid ifn the form of food and coal to. have become nation-wide. The bread is hardly tide ber over the coming winter, Owing to crop edible and now there is not even enough of that. failtfes, this winter almost certaintly will be the It is symbolic of France's troubles. : darkest since the war. Second, whatever fila] Ger- Antoinette is said to have remarked, “Let man settiement is reached.(jt ‘must be with (them eat cake,” when told the populace lacked

| co-operation, not despite her opposition. + Certain circles in London and Washington usually | avn tmpatient over French anxiety 2

inevitably brings up the question of what Russia will say and do. Andrei Gromyko, the Kremlin's bully-boy at the United Nations, obviously isn't going to sit back and allow UNSCOP, Britain, the United States, or anybody else to create even a temporary Anglo-American sphere of influence in Palestine, no matter how disguised that influence may be. He, as Stalin's spokesman, has already giv U. 8. 8. R. support to afpartition plan, if it is Sod impossible to create “one dual, democratic ArabJewish state.” What his ‘reaction will be to the majority report can only. be assumed, but it seems reasonable that

“he will not like the idea of the “British mandate

being continued for the transitional period, even for two years and under auspices of United Nations. And where stands the country whose attitude toward Palestine really can swing the whole balance— the United States? That is the missing link.

Russia and U.S. Could Bring Order

AMERICAN POLICY all through the summer has been to “wait 4nd see” until UNSCOP’s report comes before the general assembly. . State department policy-makers said they wished to avoid prejudicing the work of the committee. All of which brings us back to.the same old stand in world diplomacy: - What the United States and Russia have to say about Palestine, as in almost everything else before the United Nations will : be just about it. If they agree, Palestine can be made peaceful, in time. If not—chaos.

By William Philip Simms

Dramatic Problems

f living ‘memory their country has been invaded from across the Rhine and that even after world war I, London and Washington made light of French warnings against-a German comeback. Today French leaders observe, not without bitterness, that their fears still are unheeded. : France mostly is concerned lest an industrial revival will lead to repetition of the German upsurge of the 1930's. All she asks‘is precautions now, while there is yet time, against, rebirth of another warlike Germany.

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