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"PAGE 10 Saturday, Oct. 4, 1947 ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ| ~~ "President ‘Editor ? Business Manager

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Consistent, Anyway

T'S sort of interesting to hear Leon Henderson laughing off President Truman's plan for saving food, and demanding, instead, that Congress meet right now and restore price controls and food rationing to meet the current emergency. : Mr. Henderson was the leading, or anyway the loudest, exponent of price controls as far back as 1934. As a minor, and then a major, NRA executive, he demanded, and until the Supreme Court disagreed, got, a kind of government price-fixing of a great many commodities. It didn’t work then, either, He wanted price fixing to make prices higher in those days. He wants it to make prices lower, now. He's wanted

it, for one reason or another, right along all this time. » n M ~ - ~

NOBODY will dispute with Mr. Henderson, or anyone else, that prices, especially food prices, are inordinately high. They didn’t get high by governmental decree (Mr. Hender-

son and his colleagues of NRA tried that, years ago). It seems improbable that they can be reduced by governmental decree, either. At least no government has ever yet suc- | ceeded in reducing them that way, though many have tried. | Even a good try, now, would take quite a lot more doing | than Mr. Henderson and the “planned economy” thinkers, contemplate, or at least more than they mention.

High prices today are created out of scarcity of goods, | § y extraordinary demand, high wages, low production, last |

spring's cold ghd rain, hunger in Europe, and a number of other factors, including the failure to enact the tax reduetion bill which Mr, Truman twice vetoed. To get prices down, Mr, Henderson's way, it would be | necessary to ration all foods much more rigidly than we did during the war, sharply reduce all wages, place a tight and very low limit on all profits, imposé complete federal control over all production, both farm and industrial and let the government decide where, apd at what, and for how many

There is no assurance that this would succeed, All we know is that it never has succeeded. To us Mr. Truman's plan seems better.

Our Ambassador . . . to You

LOT of vastly different things go into the making of your newspaper, between the timé when its main raw ingredient is a tree growing in a northern forest and the time when it arrives, neatly folded, on your doorstep in the afternoon. Writers, printers, editors, pressmen, engravers, foreign correspondents, radio technicians, photographers, columnists, stereotypers, skilled experts in scores of highly specialized fields, contribute to its production. No step in that whole long process is more important : than the last one. Your newspaper wouldn't mean very much to you if it DIDN'T arrive on your door-step in the afternoon, °* The boy who puts it there is a full partner in that whole publishing enterprise, The job he does, in our books, rates right along with the job any of the rest of us do. Yesterday a picture story gave you a glimpse of Roland Graves, a typical Times newspaper boy at home, at work, at school, at play. Typical, we believed, of the 1200 Indianapolis boys who deliver The Times to many thousands of doorsteps évery afternoon. Typical, it turned out, also of the very finest in American youth. Alert, ambitious, courteous, with ideas and independence and initiative of! their own, and very definitely on their way up. A good many of these lads will be leaders in this com- | munity some day, starting just as a good many of the] leaders in this dommunity of today started, with news-| paper routes of their own. < We're proud of our newspaper boys, here at The Times | + + « all 1200 of them, and proud to join, today, with the] newspapers of this whole country, in a salute to them, and| to the job they do, and to the part they play in making and keeping this nation the best-informed on earth.

Stopping the Machinery

OHN-' L. Lewis brags that, by refusing to make an affidavit that he isn't a Communist, he has brought administration of the Taft-Hartley act to “the verge of a complete breakdown.” That law, as interpreted by the National Labor Relations Board's general counsel, requires all AFL and CIO officers to sign gich affidavits before any AFL or CIO union can carry cases to the NLRB. Mr. Lewis, the AFL's 11th vice president, not only refused to sign. He browbeat the other officers into saying they wouldn't sign. And now, through his “United Mine Workers Journal,” he lathers himself with praige for this achievement. Predicting that CIO officers will take the same stand, the “Journal” asserts that, as a result, “no cases involving AFL or C10 unions can be processed by ‘the board.” Mr, Lewis may think he has won a great victory. The truth is that he has dealt many AFL unions a serious blow. And he has high-lighted the fact that the Taft-Hartley act ~despite all the “slave-law” yelling by Mr. Lewis and other| union bosses—offers protections and benefits to which a

great number of unions feel they must have access. »~ ~ ” » - ~

THE metal trades and building trades unions, which make ~ up nearly half of the AFL's total membership, are in open rebellion against the policy of which Mr. Lewis is so proud, Their national officials have adopted resolutions, calling on the AFL's San Francisco convention to require all AFL officers to sign the non-Communist affidavits. The e, as stated by President John P, Frey of the Metal Department, is to make it clear that no man has the y, “Ti stop the machinery of the whole trade

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the old i There are drawhacks, however, greatest of which is the abominably fine print of most complete editions, And the sentimentality is rather hard to bear, The pleasantest way to savor “Bleak House"- (the best of the novels) or “Great Expectations” is by reading aloud, thus overcoming the temptation to skip. They should be re-read in partnership and unabridged. Perhaps it is pleasanter to re-read Dickens than to read him today. Try it as the evenings grow long and cool. It may make you feel that human nature actually has improved in the last hundred years.

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BIG BROTHER

While sitting here alone today With thoughts of days gone by, I find it most amusing To write of you and I.

I'm thinking of the many things We used to like to do, Like riding bean-pole horses— Me, tagging after you, ~

You were my sole protector From bigger boys who might Decide at any moment To make me take my flight.

And yet at times—quite often— You also sent me, son, With threats of violent treatment, Bound homeward—on the run.

Then Mom would meet me at the door To soothe away the tears— To calm my wild, excited heart And vanish all my fears,

But things were not so easy The way you thought they'd be, For when ybu turned around to look Who's standing there but me!

I always knew right where to go There was no rendezvous Where you could hide and keep me From always finding you.

But you were much my elder. Let's see—two years and more, So I suppose you had a right For being good and sore.

Today I'd be so happy If we could spend a few Of those dear days—together— Big brother—me and you. ~ROBERT 0. REYNOLDS. * > 9

PUN of the weak: A wastebaskét in the kitchen

caught fire, and Mrs, W. hastened to beat out the flame with a broom, which promptly caught and blazed. As she held the broom under the faucet in

the kitchen sink, she groaned “This is the last straw.”

Add discarded suggestions:” Call the conductor

of this column “pun-gent.”

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RE-READING DICKENS

A TETORN to Dickens after a lapse of years

gives to the reader a compound recognition

and surprise—immediate recognition of the singlemannerism characters, and surprise that they appear now like puppets with their expressions permanently painted. The modern critics may be right in calling it allegorical writing, but to the | mature reader Christian is a more believable person than Quilp, has made us skeptical of such a simple formula | as that of Schoolmaster Squeers? Or is it that we have seen through the eyes of Henry James | the complex confusion of good and evil in a real man?

Is it our course in Freud that

Yet it-is fun to come back to Dickens and find flavor—even the smell—still pungent.

~A. WHITEHILL, * 4

WERE not too happy about some of those

puns, either. If you think you can do better, let's see 'em, One-liners are hard to write, too. Calling all authors!

LINES found on the fiyleaf of a mother’s Bible:

Lord, let me live from day to, day Io sigh » spit Sorgetiul way, That hen I kneel to pray My prayer hal be for others, s+ 0

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Fancy Language Gone; | |: Diplomats Talk Tough

WASHINGTON, Oct. 4.—U. S. diplomacy has reached 4 néw high—or few low

~—in strong language.

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The state department will almost have to start using four-letter words if it

wants to talk any tougher.

~ Walter Bedell Smith of Indianapolis, American ambassador to Moscow,

the latest example of the average new U. S.

diplomatic style:

In the newest of many protests to the Russian foreign office, Mr. Smith reminds nds the Soviets that they collaborated with N azi Germany the first 21 months of the war. A diplomat used to have to smile when he said a thing like that.

It's like reflecting on a man’s ancestry.

Mr. Smith made this point in protesting against

the recent attack by a Soviet writer on President Truman, “ In his article, the writer sneered at President Enrico Dutra of Brazil in connection with President Truman's recent visit there. Mr. Dutra once accepted decorations from Hitler and Mussolini, the writer said, implying that this showed sympathy with the Axis. “Any unprejudiced observer familiar with the course of history since 1939 would agree that such criticism comes with extraordinarily fo bad grace from a Soviet writer,” Mr. Smith said in his note of protest.

This is a clear reference—in 3 “diplomatic” language-~to the Nazi- ° Communist pact of 1939-1941, The U. 8. has been using this kind of language more and more ce lately in its official protests to Rus- sy sia and the Soviet satellites. The State Department is doing this, because it has decided it's the only kind of language that suits Mr. Devel the people whom it's addressed to and the things the U. 8. is protesting against. Once Used Courtly Language OLD-FASHIONED diplomacy developed in a world run mostly by the gentry. These people were no angels. ; They knew the world, however, and when they did something vicious they knew the risks they were running. : These people also knew the value of words, , They used courtly language and understatement and euphemisms, accordingly, in discussing even-their worst crimes and misdemeanors, and they understood

“each other perfectly.

But much of the world is now run by revolutionists, conspirators and thugs,

These mew ruling classes go right cabinet ministers and ambassadors, they did before as plotters, bank robbers and asasstrd. They shoot down the unarmed planes of friendly nations, sow mines where other countries’ run onto them, kidnap allied Soldiers, hang the nents they can get their hands on and publicly accuse the others of being monsters of depravity and corruption. A gbod many of these new elites have no idea of the appalling dangers of what they are doing, and some of them don’t hear any of voice below a shout or pay attention to any language milder than Billingsgate. “So, in dealing with these individuals, the U. 8. has decided to use language that they will understand and that is appropriate to some of the things they are doin This language will also make sense to the Amenican people, too, the State Department believes,

‘Very Foolish and Dangerous’

POLITE PALAVER in the 18th Century tradition of the silk knee-britches and snuffbox set would sound

"silly in a protest against certain recent events in

eastern Europe, Washington thinks. Strong language also helps keep the record clear, even when it doesn’t seem to have any other immediate effect, the State Department hopes. “You are acting like a gangster and you are violad= ing our rights and interests,” the American protests says, in effect, “and this is very foolish and vesy dangerous. “Maybe there's nothing we can .do about it right now. “But we want the record to be complete—in terms that will even make an impression on you. —#A-day will probably come when we will be able to do something about it, even if it's only the day when you want to berrow some money. “When that day comes and we don’t

friendly, don’t say you're surprised.” .

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“the course finally decided upon ‘after the two-hour session,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By

Note Progress in WASHINGTON, Oct. 4—Now that the whitewash of Lt. Gen, John C. H. Lee's Italian theater command is out of the way, the Army has made available a progress checkup on what it has done to carry out the democratic reforms recommended by the Doolittle Board, * During the war, there were many loud complaints about Army brass and its lack of democracy. The Doolittle Board was created by Secretary of War Robert P. Patterson in March, 1046, to investigate these gripes and recommend what might be done about them to improve the relationship between officers and enlisted men, so as to make a better Army. ? The board was made up of two generals, a lieutenant colonel, a captain and two sergeants. None was a West Pointer. All had risen from the ranks, and all had been discharged from the Army after service in World War II. Chairman was Lt. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle of raid-on-Tokyo and “Eighth Air Force fame, > The board got over 1000 letters of complaint, and it heard from 42 witnesses. Its report, with 15 major recommendations, was made May 27, 1946. Today the Army can report back on progress it has made in carrying out the suggested reforms.

Orders May Have Been Ignored MIND YOU these are orders issued from the Pentagon héadquarters. They are in no way a checkup on how these orders have been carried out. In the fleld, as in the Gen. Lee case uncovered by Bob Ruark, it may be found that not enough attention has been paid to such things. It would be interesting to hear, Perhaps the most important of all Doolittle Board

DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel

Halleck ‘Hero’ of

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Tecommendations called for definite equality of treatment for all ranks in the administration of military Justice. One bill now before Congress has a large bearing on this reform. Congress never got around to acting on it last session, but, if made into “law, this bill would revise the courts-martial system to provide better means of appeal, to equalize sentences, and to permit enlisted men to sit on general and special courts. Complete modernization of the Army's Articles of War, its criminal code, is also called for, Pending passage of this bill, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall last month issued orders to all officers to give personal attention to the improvement of military justice. The last session of Congress passed a new law changing the system of promotion for Army officers, putting it on a merit basis.

Raises Give More Job Security

THE DOOLITTLE BOARD recommended that Army men needed more security in their jobs. Pirst step to fix that was a pay raise ranging from 50 per cent for enlisted personnel to 10 per cent for generals. Congress gave enlisted men the same terminal leave pay as officers. . On the recommendation that military personnel off duty be allowed to pursue a more social and democratic way of life, the Army can report that it provides clubs for officers, non-coms and enlisted men at Army posts. Signs, such as “Officers and Their Ladies,” or “Enlisted Men and Their Wives,” have, however, been dropped. But on Doolittle’s recommendations that the terms “officer” and ‘‘enlisted man” be dropped, and that Army personnel of all ranks be referred to as “soldiers,” the Army has issued a flat “No”!

M. Kidney Conference

DEAR BOSS: | would have had to issue such a call, trict camapign. That being about

OUR CHARLIE HALLECK| emerged as somewhat the Nero of that White House conference of Republican congressional leaders with President Truman this week.

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invitation, Mr. Halleck was high man present from the House side, That didn't prevent the Senators present from saying their pieces first. But when they got through, Mr. Halleck brought the business right down to cases by saying something like this: “In the past, the Administration and the Senate have had all of the say in regard to foreign affairs. So I'm glad to be here and see that

Rensselaer where

ducting an early-bird second dis-'

or they could not reassemble. before the most Republican district in the the regular session in January, Instead the advice of the young him has been mostly educational, statesman was and a resolution drafted which per-|Halleck had gone to California #nd mits the Republican well as the President, to issue a In programs with Sen, Robert A. special session call. A This divided responsibility gave trip helped the party. - President Truman the ideal op-| portunity to use the committee 90Wn to Atlanta and collecting $35 device to which Mr. Halleck so ® plate at a GOP dinner which strenuously objected. | Mr. Halleck hurried here from Such invasions of Georgia since

state, this personal campaign by rejected| Before stumping his district, Mr. leaders, as crossed the picket lines to take part Taft (R. O.). He thinks the Taft

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he has been con- | Sherman’s march to the sea. ~DAN KIDNEY.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

the House has finally come in for some recognition in these matters, Of course I know that the Constitution gives us the power of the purse (since all appropriations and tax bills must originate in the House) and that is why we were in

No Pledges “PERSONALLY, Mr. President, I feel that if you have sufficient facts to conclude that Congress should be called into special session to make a $580 million appropriation, you should issue the call. That is your prerogative. Then it will be up to us to accept or reject whatever plan you propose; or maybe substitute some proposals of our own, ! “I'm sure that the House will not ’ be restricted by any prior actions ) of committees in considering the whole problem of exports and domestic prices, which are all part of the same pattern.” So I for one would not want to make any pledges here.” Th to can the

foreign affairs and relations committees and appropriations received the blessing of Senator Vandenberg (R. Mich.) and others, so that was

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Ss Housing Crisis Grows

By Maria Burkett, 1428 Park ave, Indianapolis What's become of home?” asks Mrs. Collins with justified nostalgia. I used to ‘wonder, too, A housing committee assignment provided the heart breaking answer, lack of room. Writes one desperate young couple: “We do so want to raise a family, but under present conditions it is impossible. We have waited five years. We are forced to pay much more rent than we can possibly afford, and simply cannot raise the enormous down payment demanded for even

the poorest shack. Builders won't even talk to us. What ‘are we to do?” !

Another couple, evicted from a house sold from under them: “Our four children are boarded out with strangers. We are temporarily staying with seven other people.in a small three-room house, We are never alone for & moment.” Writes a hopeless yo veteran: wifi and child are in Seattiv: T sive not oat in two years, as I am studying under the G. I. bill and working long hours to supplement the government allowance. Why doesn’t Indianapolis have housing like other cities, that a poor @. I. can afford?” “Why” indeed? The young and lonely ohes may well ask. But if loneliness were the only price our young ones paid for giving up their homes to go fight a war for their stupid elders we might still shrug it off. Are we our children’s keepers? “Let them solve their own problems,” a realtor advised, “It's good for them not to have it too easy.” But what of the blind veteran seeking a home for himself #nd a 15-year-old son, on a subsistence allowance? Or the veteran who returned from Iwo Jima so nerve-wracked that life in his small noisy apartment is driving him slowly but surely insane? Or. the young veteran whose 50 per cent disability prevents His “solving his own problems.” Or the Spanish War veteran and his wife, evicted after years of residence in a rental, Can they wait until “private builders catch up?” They cannot, Nor can the children boarded out among strangers, recently reported by the Council of Social agencies; (which does not include numerous others whose parents made similar arrangements_independently). Where the taxpayers shoulder the burden of placing these hapless youngsters it costs infinitely more than it would cost to keep the family together in cheap, decent municipal housing, which might eventually pay for itself out of rentals, It need not be federal housing. It has been out boast that Indianapoils could solve its own problems. “So far our “solution” has been to tear down houses to pro de parking lots without providing substitute h for the evicted tenants, a crazy and cruel procedure worthy of the Nazis, LEE A o

Finds Help in Persian’s Words By Alph J. Sampson, Indianapolis, . In these days of turmoil, insecurity and lack of understanding of our condition and how to remedy it, I feel that the words of Abdul Baha, a great Persian writer, lecturer and pious man who exemplified the teachings of his faith and spoke on them in a large number of coll and clubs in the United States in 1912, should is to better understand our relationship to God and our fellow

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