Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1947 — Page 14

SR 1 : the mother is Russian British, Polish or Amer- SRT awy"’ ra 4 . Sputiered apyihing Site must duce by Seemng 40 It that they got all the raw included the premature scuttling of wage controls, which | tan. What a tragedy it is that the mothers’ time (such as It was).” Hardware merchants had have been a pretty sight. material that they need to fill the demand of . made fair and effective price control impossible; and the | voices can't be heard at the United Nations Coun- Boras Silvey Dadlucas ‘ad, Someuimes, keys) ~ Which brings me to the very first Indianapolis our buying power, then we would net have (o a S ra * : : - . le! —VETERAN. ¢ ) ir entrance doors; Indians, carved sign that suggested an association of ideas by way worry about comn m o vy other isms. he encouragement of costly strike hy President Truman's “ey of wood or cast in metal, indicated the locations of an abstraction. It was a half dozen yards of red way to fight n isms, ig to build a strong espousal of the CIO's phony theory that industry could=and Ne y : ] a of cigar stores, and even undertakers made the most flannel swung over a door and draped down its sides. America and not send our resources abroad and should grant large wage increases without raisine . A eq Rep. Join Faber saw no suffering in | of their opportunity by displaying elaborate coffins It was an infallible symbol that somebody .had weaken our people. In the long run it will create 4 g eas t alsing prices, Europe Maybe hardening of the heart affected In their darkly-draped’ show windows. something to sell inside--like as nbt, anything from dis ty in this country and will do very little yn TE his eyesight. | Some of the stores went even farther, I remember. calico to salted mackerel. good abroad. : WEL l fro e NAM Its convention meet — - : nh er. If it can ofl NOT atesmanship, * li : wane veo eno: SOCialism Falls Flat as Theory Is Put to Trial By E. T. Leech { I ) { { 1 1 » S \ 1 1 ' { 1: ni oO } : : or Mess) M na bung marci AT LEAST ONE THING has become quite clear in these times of proving again that the twp won't mix. Russia went “whole hog; the individual liberties that En men love and the dictation } 5 production, Pp { na more | rodue- SYear uns ertainty-—socialism doesn’t work whatever pffectiveness Russia got out of socialism came from frank, inherent in socialism ' tion" 18 not bright. In p tice it fails to live up to the glowing promises long made brutal recognition that it can't be teamed with freedom. America may postpone if it keeps British socialism _ It 1sn't the cure-all it was pictured C ddli H F il d | on a dole. It's like lending 1 a relative who doesn't like Whatever capitalism's faults, socialism isn't the cure. It only | ° 0 ing as alle : steady work. The crisis will come when and if the lending stops and Commissars and Workers make em worse, It spreads poverty, not wealth, : NOW ENGLAND 1S TENDING more and more toward the kind of he is finally put on his own ¥ Was + Socialism is.one of the big obstacles as th. United States pours | State control which found complete expression in Riissia. This involves In one form or another, socialism promises better times for the *THEY tell a story to illustrate one of the dif fences hie out food nd dollars in an effort to help Europe save itself, | such things as sconomie dictation on the business side and such workers. It is based on ie olde t of hun n Qesiras. something for I © differ ces bee In addition to the natural dislocations and wreckage left by war, | Power over labor as deciding how and where a man may work. It nothing. More money for less work. A good time at somebody else's tween communism and democ free.enterprise. this man-made barrier stands in the way of /récovery, andl of gives a vast system of bureaus authority to say what businesses and expense.

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he Indianapolis Times PAGE 14 Wednesday, Oct. 15, 1947

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor Business Manager

HOW NEWSPAPE A SCRIPPS-HOWARD PER pow

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le Will Find Thetr Own Woy

More Production—or More Demagogery?

" TE must, we can and we will world challenge to American production genius, The

situation demands production, production and more pro- | j : , I ! I tbusiness years ago, the original need for drain tile

duction.”-—President Philip Murray of the Congress of Industrial Organizations. “Production, production production—this is the key to prosperity and world peace.”=President Earl Bunting of the National Association of Manufacturers.

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Boston convention. Mr. Bunting was stating the dominant theme of the NAM's coming convention in New York. |

As to what ig needed, they agree. And they are abso-

hat I'l Will their two organizations, hig labor and big industry -agree on how to g Mr. Murray has the floor { His convention is in ion, formulating CIO poli for the coming year. Mr. Murray is positive aboul what ind must do. I must limit its profits, lower its prices and raise wages, It must Increase capacity, It must have he same faith in our future as has American labor.” Ile says corporation |

net profits, after taxes, will be nearly $1714 billion in 1947, He does not mention the government report that business and industry are spending more than $15 billion on new plants and equipment in 1947, although that increase of | capacity seems a material evidence of faith in the future, | Mr. Murray says little about what labor should do. He | says that labor's successful drive for higher wages in the last year has given the mass of workers power and so *

: | added purchasing |

venting a collapse in our economy.” He says that higher

prices were not caused by higher wages, but by industry's | “avaricious appetite for profits.” :

He say nothing about the fact that increased purchas- +

ing power is bound to push prices up unless there is at least | an equivalent increase in the supply of goods to buy. asserts that “the last year has seen labo producing as much as possible wherever it was peirmitied to produce.” ignores the almost unanimous testimony o that labor's productivity—its output per man per hour--

of management

meet this domestic and |

Telephone Rlley 8551 | ¢he state that is entitled to a little ballyhoo, | especially in this busy building age.

business could handle any greater volume of orders,

| provement with glazes, | lutionizing the ancient methods of burning or ME MURRAY was making his annual report to the CIO's | :

| fangled kilns that do not even slightly resemble

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a headline

{ Mary

played an extremely important part in pre- | To face So 1 saw you walk your crowded path,

And though the erowd cast scornful 10oks your way,

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With the Times |

Donald D. Hoover -

EGYPT TO INDIANA

X 7E'VE HEARD a great deal lately about the revival of Indiana's great limestone induse try, and its progress in adapting stone to modern building methods. Likewise, there has been considerable publicity about the prefabricated homes industry in the state, We have another natural resources industry in

I do not know whether the state brick and building tile

but It is entitled to some public credit for the work it is doing. Indiana's clay, especialy that found around, above or below some of the coal deposits, has always been noted for its usefulness in ceramics, And the state used to be dotted with brickyards and tile plants, Many of the makers have quit

having been pretty well filed (we have about 100,000 miles of tile drains, public and private, in the state) and earlier demands for brick construction having slowed down or stabilized. Remaining clay products operators are progresive. They have of course made wonderful imAnd lately they are revo-

baking the clay. Over at Brazil are a couple newthe old “beehives”. They are built like doughnuts,

the clay. products, travel around inside the circumference through varying degrees of heat,

gas-fired, They shorten production time from around 20 days to about 100 hours! (The old Egyptians and Assyrians took all summer, using the sun for baking!) And more men are at

rk in the business than ever before, in Indiana. This 16 a great business for the state, beca.se not merely fabricate, it makes wealth out tural resources, ~-JONATHAN BROOKS, * & Anent the lengthened skirt: A-hem and a haw-haw! ~ANON, » ¢ 4 “Italian Reds Call For March On Rome,” says But they still object to being called

wed- Fascists,

soap Va

Plowed Himself Under

" & not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say MH."

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Save Food for Our Allies

By Alph J. Sampson, 2004 N. New Jersey St. During this postwar period we are the only nation to whom the war-stricken countries can look for material assistance. Yes, we have won the war. But we must not forget that the nations who have suffered atrocities, untold misery and desolation rather than submit to the demands of the enemy are our true friends. Under the lease= lend bill their defense was essential to our own security and safety, We are today enjoying life, liberty and pursuit of happiness because they were willing to sacrifice, | Now they are hungry and homeless while we are living in luxury and ease, They must satisfy themselves with dry loaf while we relish beefsteak and chops. Is this the true spirit of Americanism? Surely not, Let every one of us take note of the wise saying in the Baha'i Faith: “It is noble to love one's country but it is divine to love his kind.” This world is rapidly becoming one great neighborhood. The sufferings of any one, even the smallest of nations, place = upon us the responsibility we cannot throw off, Our government is asking us to conserve food and stop waste and now we are threatened with the possibility of rationed food, It is a divine ordinance that we respect and obey those in authority; but as true Americans we must be willing to co-operate with our government in its effort to diminish the dire need for food. We can do this without denying the type of {ood we should have to maine tain health and vigor. Every person should take time to think and adjust his needs according to the requirement. It is a dirty shame to whtch people in the restaurants order food and leave so much of it on the untouched. Slices of crumbled bread, pieces of meat and goodly pore tions of salads are left to be thrown in thé garbage wise thing to ask every eating

can, It would be a place to post a nolice asking the people not te

plate

waste food and also grocery stores advising the housewives against hoarding. ‘ RY

¢ y Land Reform Is the Answer By Thomas Lloyd, R. R. 6, Indianapolis Help those af home and Europe who need help to help themselves without making ourselves help« less, which we are in a fair way of doing. We are not as rich as before the war and never will be,

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MARY AND YOU

Queen of 8cots, once walked like that, With head held high and pride deep in her

OUR TOWN . .. By Anton Scherrer

£5, the scorning crowd and taunting shouts—

SIXTY YEARS AGO, when I was a little boy, The rioting throng wherein no pity lies,

it was possible t6 identify the stores of Indianapolis not only by their signs, but also by their symbols, Which is to say that it was possible to find your way around town without the bother of having to learn to read.

And queenly pride was etched upon your brow;

Like Mary, too, your head, your heart refused

urns—one filled with a red fluid

* OS % and the other with a liquid of a

A furrier,

wash bowl and a pitcher. in the china business—see?

Labor's Fall Campaign SOMETHING new has been added to the

Signs of Times—60 Years Ago

The Original Eagle, the progenitor of the L. Strauss people, had a—guess what? their show window. escaped me, had a big black bear standing outside his entrance door,

Sure, a live eagle whose

To indicate that he was And not to be caught

Reason, observers’ reports’ on conditions at home and in Europe connected with European relief tell us a large part of money and food is not neces= sary. We are asked to eat less, save more to ine crease aid for Europe and bring down prices of food by officials who support a subsidized agricul tural program whereby the government is mane dated to insure a scarcity of farm products by buying up with people’s money and dumping any alleged surplus. Also guaranteeing over all prices and profits. Reports the well-to-do and rich of Europe live as well as ever and those big landed

in has

name

. estates (the curse of civilization) are II intac to bow. : The drug stores, I remember, The ‘Boot Upside Down’ T Sn li : : he > ne o i Saal man, * @ won M. BYRD. | aways Ind 3 mora And pestle THE CATALOG OF OLD-TIME trade symbols | unfair and inequitabl® dist: ion of the land, | Suspended from the outside of here appears to be inexhaustible. W. J. Holiday, and the heritage of all. The signs No wonder Communist diplomats feel frustrated their establishments. On the the iron-monger, had a gigantic anvil on the top t of this European mess will emerge at United Nations. There. they have to harangue inside, displayed in their own of his building, and Chris Schrader utilized the inte tional economic setup on the nstead of hang the opposition. { windows, they had two enormous exterior - of "his ‘burding’'s sidewall to illustrate a 81 agricultural

program of y and guaranteed prices and profits rs,"all controlled by a few persons.

planned scareit for the produce

: . ; TH R VY | suspiciously greenish color. Or, ’ i i A land reform that wil de resnonsibilit has lagged far behind the advance of wages and costs E EAL OICE Maybe. the’ ims wer d iored gis d happing, Louis Holweg made the most of his A land re TH ! 14 will divide responsibility and “ " | MANY YEARS AGO I attended the funeral : : S$ Were made of colored glass and Ging too, and decorated its north wall with | give to their inherent right to live a normal life It must he remembered,” Mr. Murray says, “that { regtly Ie d old lady The U8. col ii filled with nothing more expensive than well-water, a monumental rendering of an enormous stoneware | that alone will save us from totalitarianism or : i of a greatly love ady. LAS, COS j= Jo , g i a a kin " tA i j American labor cannot reduce the prices of American prod- | ered her casket To a few intimates her son said: | I never did find out. Even as far back as 60 years jug which, I distinctly recall, was equipped with two | worse. : . : x : ‘ er cas § ates her son sald. ago, the druggists had a gift for fooling people. handles | Gb ucts, But labor “will not shirk its, duty” if industry will | “You may not understand the reason for the fag. As a rule, though, most of the stores around Se though. that Y b too late to ith : I This is 8 expe as P : : ’ : A ems, though, tha was born too late see | . join with it in creating national industrial councils to “de- Tus 8 he % iP ARRLON: Whi hon a lag of here got along with only one symbol. Mr. Renner, some of the best signs of Indianapolis, To listen Set Qur House in Order ? or i kbs ge ys nsx 8 I enlisted in the Union Army. On my return the blacksmith in our neighborhood, displayed & | ERY » WR Warm i : velop a pattern of production teamwork. Which seems | home from the recruiting office she met me at horseshoe over his. doors Bae py oe to the old-timers, there used to be a life-size statue By W. 8S. Warren, Indianapolis to mean that labor is wiser than management. has more | the door and said: ‘My son, you are all your Hake a Ts co Hd he Packet gtop in front of Butterfield’s music house on N. Pennsyl- | I would like to express wh I think of the . Wh 4 rR . “va 1 5 ‘ OF ps : : ' vania St. portraying Calliope with a book under her | Marshall, Truma an. If tk oples the faith in the future and must he given an equal voice in the father and } nave, Our hopes. and dreams of the had a saddle hanging out, in front; and Mr. Fromshold, Po 2 Pp au B pian DS are one on

future are centered in you, yet you must go and {| we: could not have you stay at home. 8o,” the He does not recall that it was labor which, at the war's | son continued, “I feel she deserves the flag. Her end, had so little faith in the future—was so wrongly cer- | Sacrifice was more than mine” On three acca-

} a : : : J | sions since that day 85 years ago, Indiana mothers tain that vast unemployment was imminent—that it pan- have thought the same thoughts, made the same

icked the government into a whole series of unwise, totally | sacrifice and in some instances a greater one. inappropriate and almost disastrous policy decisions. These | Mother love is the same the world over, whether

making of industrial decisions.

our butcher, invited the public to enter his shop byway of a set of polished steer's horns.

Barber Poles, Naturally

IT WAS THAT WAY all

INDEED, line. The barbers

parlors; the jewelers displayed street clocks—at first, dummy ones, later on, real-for-sure ones that kept

along the

had striped poles in front of their Glorious Union” in letters 30

like it

arm labeled: “Beethoven's Sonatas.” about ever having seen the first illunminated sign in Indianapolis. It was erected in 1861 and extended across the entire front of Glenn Bros. store which at that time occupied the known as 25 E. Washington St.

letter was composed of 24 gas jets, and if the gas does now it

Nor can I brag world thought that it was for 'charity that this plan was set, they would be 100 per cent for it,

but most people think it is a political and eco

dry goods nomic war against other governments. site now The majority of people in this country think It spelled “Our the way to fight a political and economic war is inches high. Each to set our hduse in order in this country by giving

the people of this country an opportunity to pro=I :

democracy A Detroit automobile man was in :

pecting

ting His guide was a Russian engineer.

an auto fac- Socialism, as basic front

duction; it

compared to capitalism, which weakens all_the others. doesn’t make enough goods.

tory in Soviet Russia.

“Who owns this factory?” the Detroit man asked.

is falling It can't ge Capitalism,

OWN on one enough prowhatever its

what jobs shall be permitted, what articles can be made, where they can be sold, and how their manufacture and sale shall be carried out and financed. The British socidlists tried to soft-soap, ownership and coddle

at public production for the publie And so, instead

To be specific, socialism aims good. The trouwhle is that it doesn’t get production, of spreading good, it spreads want and hardship,

Work Is Basic Requirement

® other faults, does manage to produce. . So a socialistic world turns to | workers, in an effort to make it appear that the new system would “The workers own the fac tory,” the Russian answer d capitalistic America—hostile to our system but eager to share®in its | be quite painless and democratic. Now, more and more, the gov- IT IS ONE OF HISTORY'S GREAT TRONIES that this take-ite l flood of productions. ernment is having to resort to threats and compulsion. Law, rather | easier system should be tried so widely after the vast destruction by ciallsm means about anything that its particular advocates in than voluntary co-operation, is becoming its mainstay. war of real wealth which can he réplaced only b¥ hard work. It came chine ! n irticular country or time think it means. la ranges from the The coal miners, for example, were told they would own the | at a time when the world was starved for goods—which can be proe CY the workers dwn | fo readied ions rttal oct ilism of England and France to the total socialism of Russia mines. They would be working for themselves; the profits would be duced only by applying toil and mana ability to the. fashioning { clon ¥ and is struggling to be socialist and fémain democratic—and theirs, the work would be easier and production would rise. But . of raw materials. ud W ets them?" : A —- — r—p———————— after their celebration they found themselves working in the same Much of the world let down. In the time of greatest crisis, . . oy old way, for the same bosses—plus a whole new layer of politicians politicans took over the control of industries”from men who were nate i tt Heathers Qo to Side Glances—By Galbraith and bureaucrats on top of the Pe bosses. skilled and trained in them. ‘ : ‘ & 10] 10 and ( i : When production slipped and coddling failed, the government But Uncle Sam went back to work at his old job in the old way, In RUSSian. enwine tod Dretinid nd hi | tried to enforce more production, The miners resisted and the | And, in spite of a lot of disputes and interruptions, he managed to aud : y : : ’ vlraiiol, ahd his government surrendered. But it will have to make the same attempt | increase industrial output by 90 per cent over pre-war levels. rie 0 gee how an Am in auto factory | | over and over again, not only in mining but in other industries. And | Much of the world thinks he is wrong. Yet all the world wants ppel : Cored out of this effort will come the final, inevitable showdown between |! to share ih the products of his “errqrs.” * * \ foot lle . . WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms ine M f Those Getting Aid Sh ey “nfo emory o ose Getting Al ort The Russia: ATTA WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—~The Paris report on the Marshall plan 248 Million cans of fruit juices, re hlidaldl : 1 conttrmed what he had been only recently has reached Washington. 228 Million pounds of eggs. told. Under capitalism, the {o production’ are owned Yet in Europe the griping already has commenced. Our “friends” 23% Billion pounds of grain, by capitalists. are grumbling because we are too slow with out aid while the Com- 1% Billion pounds of cotton. th : Zo | | munists are jeering at the loss of Europe's “national sovereignty.” 542 Million pounds of sugar and 52 million pounds of sirup. : “And the automobiles? Who them 2" At Topeka, Kas, Monday, former Gov, Alf M. Landon answered 501 Million pounds of tobacco; seven million pounds of medicine, It was the Detroit man’s turn to smile | all such critics In a single blast. That was not his purpose—for he But that was not all. Billions of dollars worth of other. goods

gel the cars.

“The workers

tactical program of local labor unions for next month's ( ity election. A secret list of candidates “to be defeated” has heen drafted by the AFL, as compared with tlie past policy of announcing publicly the candidates who Would he supported. This new systenris not likely to be much mor than the old, when labor indorsement meant litfle when the returns were counted. Labor is) likely to vote as a |. bloe in this city election than are the veterans or other groups, So, secret or public, the AFL action does not carry ! much significance except that of negative retaliation rather

e effective

0 more

"| was practising 10 «Making thi

years before | earned as much as my son is

was addressing a group of war veterans. look at the record.”

‘Loss of Sovereignty’

But, said he: “Let's take a |

| |

DURING THE WAR, he pointed out, we gave Soviet Russia 14.500 |

planes; 12400 tanks, armored cars and ordnance vehicles; 52.000 jeeps;

363,000 trucks; 35,000° motorcycles; 8200 anti-aircraft guns: 135000 |

machine guns; 343,000 tons of explosives; 300 sub-chasers and torpedo boats; 7600 diesel engines; $3556 million worth of machine tools; $43 million worth of oil refining equipment; $171 million worth of electrie generators;. 810,000 tons of non-ferrous metals; 17,600 tons of alloys; 2,688,000 tons of steel, entire railroads, countless tons of food stuffs, including butter—which many Americans did without. Yet apparently Russia's “national sovereignty” has not suffered. In fact, Mr. Landon reminded, in addition to the above, America con

tributed several hundred ships and hundreds of millions “of good old |

American dollars.” : Citing U. 8S. export figures ending July 1, this year, the former GOP presidential nominee said the vast bulk has been “our gift to the starving peoples of the world.” f These included: > hs 501 Million pounds of meat and meat products. 552 Million pounds of fats and oils. 1% Billion pounds of vegetables. 669 Miilion pounds of fresh, dried and osuued duis,

were sent overseas. Only a fraction of the total was paid for. There were, for example: 163.000 plows; 42800 harrows. 42,800 cultivators; 99.400 tractors; 62,336 sewing machines; 4004 road graders, Coal ex~ ports for the first 11 months totaled 53833,155 40hs. ™ = ° Yet the London “Economist,” in discussing the Marshall plan, "says: 3 “The present outlook is tragic . . The European governments will be prodded (by the U. 8.), lectured, urged and admonished on every aspect of their policy,” and all sorts of guarantees demanded in return for aid. Meanwhile, “in the ear of every European government will re-echo Mr. Molotov's bitter jeer at their 'loss of national sovereignty’ and the local Communist clamor over ‘dollar impesial«

Then the London periodical goes on {o say thab “in the next few months the eombination of political intervention and economic inace tion (on the part of. the U. 8.) is likely to turn the Europear nations from grateful partners into sour clients,” and Intensify the “already widespread” anti-Americanism,

Ly The tragedy, many Americans like Mr, Landon are likely to ob«

serve, lies in Europe's strangely short memory plus our own inefficient propaganda methods. Europe will get iftterim aid. The Marshall aid

plan will follow. Meantime, if Western European opinion can be sold

on Russia—which has done nothing for Europe but grab territory and destroy its freedom—and be turned against the U. S. despite the ree~ ond, then Europe's oase would seem 10 be well nigh hopeless,

Hoosier Forum

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