Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1947 — Page 20

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Dirty Restaurants TIMES Writer Robert Bloem and public health officials, who have been examining Indianapolis restaurants, report, we are pleased to note, that there has beefi some improvement in the general level of cleanliness over thé past year or two. They are cleaner, generally, by five 10 tenper cent. That is to say, as Mr. Bloem points out, that some restaurants that last year were very, very dirty are now only very dirty, ' A perfect rating on sanitation for a restaurant is 100, The fact that a cross-section check of downtown restaurants

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| 7 WILL O' THE WISP People sometimes fail because they mistake a motion for a movement, They forsake the fields where sustenance is assured to follow a | will o' the wisp to a desert, They have nol the analytical reasoning necessary to distinguish the really valuable from the merely attractive. They are satisfied with one angle of observation. ‘If the sun shines at that point they look no further, It is a good plan to walk clear around the house -F,

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UNKNOWN’ SOLDIER SPEAKS

Nightly, they come, the lonely ones, Sunk in bewildered misery. Homeless, they wander in the dark, Pausing sometimes to speak to me; Crying their pain (these living ones With sick awakening tremulous) : “Our brothers, those for whom we bled "Already have forgotten us.” But when the sky shines blue and bright Come bolder men. Their speeches boom; They hurl their arms; with pious mien They lay a wreath upon my tomb! Their banners rend the startled alr, Blazoning wide this cruel caprice; Mocking the quick, why do they bring Their gifts to one who is at peace?

finds half of those examined rating no better than 60, and only one out of five scoring above 75, is a municipal disgrace, and it ought to result in a few padlockings. We are familiar with the routine excuses that equip- | ment is hard to come by, these days, and that help is expensive and has a very casual attitude toward work. There is not, however, so far as we've heard, any shortage of hot water, soap and cleaning brushes. And any place that invites the public in to eat food and then for any reason offers food that isn’t clean should go out of business, and fast, There is no excuse that justifies trifling with public health, or risking a dangerous epidemic,

WE KNOW the problems of the public health agencies, as to personnel and funds, but wo suspect the reasons | for this scandalous condition in our public edting places | goes deeper than just that. There are some weaknesses | in the laws under which they operate, too. For instance, when a restaurant is found to be too filthy to be fit for human beings to enter—with a sanitation score of maybe 12 or 15, as some Indianapolis restaurants have shown— the only course of the inspector appears to he to warn the proprietor that he has to.clean up. Meanwhile he goes on serving filthy food, and what happens to him, if anything, if his place is found to be still dirty on reinspection isn't yet quite clear. We haven't published the names of restaurants inspected, either the relatively few clean ones or the rather larger number of dirty ones, for the reason that the inspection did not cover every eating place in town, and it seemed unfair to the others, which also presumably are divided between clean, passable and filthy, to do so. We feel that official public health agencies, however, should publish a complete list with the cleanliness rating of every one, One immediate change in the regulations suggests itself, too. Why not require every restaurant in town to post

the score it made in its most recent inspection in letters at | least one inch high, and keep it posted where every patron |

could see it as he came in?

Scary, but Not True (COUNTLESS times, in the last few years, we've heard it said that the tendency toward concentration of eco-

Blind to my brothers standing by Shall they cast up, in steel and stone Shafts in my name, and yet deny Shelter to men of flesh and bone? Harry me not with hollow words; Hark to my brothers in torment. Ralse up strong walls o'er Freedom's sons; Build these to be my monument, ~M. BURKETT.

> 4 4 A DOUGHBOY'S MOTHER

Have you seen this little Lady? Yes, no doubt you've passed her byHer faded halr is graying, And a tear bedims her eye, Her steps are slow and falt'ring, Pale face is fraught with cares, The mouth, it seemed, was quivering— See the GOLD STAR that she wears!

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Takes Issue With UMT Editorial By Mrs. Lois Schrag, 201 8. Edwards St, Franklin,

The editorial “Mr. Truman on UMT" in Wednesday night's paper (Dec. 3) had some statements which were very misleading. It stated that the distinguished Compton ‘Commission, appointed by Mr. Truman, has reported its “clear unanimous ‘and strong conviction” that UMT must be an essential element in a program.for the protection of the United States and of world peace. Might it be pointed out that though the commission may have been composed of distinquished , individuals it was, in reality, a rubberstamp commission. The chairman, Dr. Carl Compton, as early as April 20, 1945, spoke in favor of conscription and has consistently favored it since that time. Dr. Daniel Poling, who supposedly represented American Protestantism, has long been vig~ orous in his support 8f UMT. Yet, to this date, not one of the 26 member churches of the Federal Council of Churches has gone on record in favor of peace time conscription. The Rev. E. R. Walsh, also on the commission, Vice President of Georgetown University, is a former Army instructor and-taught geopolitics to officers above the rank of major durng the war, Unlike the president of Georgetown, or the Roman Catholic bishops, or the leading Roman Catholic periodicals, Pr. Walsh is believed to favor conscription and is known to be sympathetic to the War Department point of view. Careful study of the thought and action of all nine members of the commission will reveal a bias in favor of UMT, Such a group could hardly be expected to make a fair study of the issue. Likewise, the editorial extols the merits of UMT as proved by the Ft. Knox experiment. May two facts be pointed out here which, if realized, will make the American people grateful to a Cone gress that has so far evaded its “responsibility” to enact a military training law. The trainees at Ft. Knox are not a cross section of American youth; they are a hand-picked lot. The same is true of the officer and training cadre of non-commissioned men. A total of 560 men train and supervise a group 2 664 trainees, Clearly this is a situation which could not be dupli« cated were UMT to be enacted.

Have you seen this little Mother? Yes, perhaps you've passed her by, Yet she gave Her son, A FIGHTER, That your son might not die! —DR. H, LATELLE GREGORY. eo 4 %

| SHALL REMEMBER

When winter comes to cradle earth In deep and dreamless sleep, When early dusk her curtains drop, These memories 1°shall keep: The loveliness of blossom time, The flash of a feathered wing Aloft in April's sun-kissed sky . , , Sweet harbingers of spring— I shall femember summer's gold In fields of ripened wheat, The orchards bending low to drop Their wealth of frultage sweet— 1 shall recall the rhythm Of autumn’'s gentle rain As she deftly spread her tapestries Outside my window-pane-— These things I shall remember: Each season lends its worth In beauty, bounty, livelihood, To all the waiting earth =: ~FLORENCE HINCHMAN. LI

SEAMSTRESSES TOO MANY

Blundering we— Gathering erroneous scraps To make a nicely fitted crazy quilt Of misinformation,

the Nineties,

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nomic power in this country had been greatly and alarming- | ly speeded up by the recent war, The picture was black. A few big corporations had grown bigger, at the ‘expense of a host of smaller ones. Monopoly had made tremendous gains, At the rate things were going, a couple of hundred industrial giants soon would | hog three- fourths of the entire field. That was the story, and it has been good for many a shudder, Bat now it turns out that it isn't true. The U. the records oi what were, in 1939, the largest 200 manufacturing corporations, It also has been studying the records of 800 smaller corporations,

They. show that the big 200 and the smaller 800 both |

have grown since 1939—but the smaller at a much faster rate, : HE 200 giants owned 50 per cent of all the country's corporate manufacturing assets in 1939. Their share

fell to 45 per cent in 1946, Their share of total corporate |

manufacturing sales dropped from 39 per cent to 36 per cent.

Meanwhile the 800 smaller corporations increased their | share of the total manufacturing assets from 9 per cent to |

12 per cent, and their sales volume grew almost half as much again as that of the big 200, So, it appears, the war didn't speed up the trend toward monopoly, but slowed it down and even reversed it to some extent. That doesn't mean we can afford to forget the danger of too much concentration of economic power, It does suggest that in this matter—and, perhaps, in a good many others—we might have avoided scaring ourselves into conniption fits if we'd take the trouble to get the facts.

Gen. Surles

HEN it came to dealing with over-all public policy,

wherever you saw Gen. Marshall during the war you | Then when Gen. Eisen- |

saw Maj. Gen. Alexander D. Surles. hower became chief of staff he kept Gen. Surles with him. That is, until bad health took Gen. Surles out.

Just before Gen. Marshall, as Secretary of State, left | he spent a half hour with Gen. |

for Europe last month, Surles in the Surles’ Washington apartment. The three—Gen. Marshall, Gen. Eisenhower and Gen. Surles—possessed a rare combination. Though they were essentially rilitary men, they had the gift of understanding the importance of civilian reaction in wartime. Most mili« tary leaders, having been trained in order-giving, don’t have that quality,

Gen. Surles, a first-class fighter who would rather

have been at the front than in the job he drew, did more |

toward winning the war than ever will be fully realized. For, as head of public relations, he handled problems which, if juggled, could have created incalculable damage at home and abroad. As counselor to Gen. Marshall his contribution couldn’t be charted or book-kept.. But Gen. Marshall knows.

And Gen. Eisenhower, in picking Gen. Surles as a principal

adviser after Gen. Marshall ceased to be chief of staff, paid

the highest tribute possible to the war performance, the

wisdom and the personality of Gen. Surles. Always through those tough years Gen. Surles was

: frail “But doggedly he worked all hours. He is as much a |

war casualty as if he had been killed in action. » § be ' A

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. Commerce Department has been studying |

FOSTER! S FOLLIES (“ATLANTIC CITY=Mr. Lilienthal Says Atom | Secrecy Can Go Too Far.”) Too much secrecy. decrying, | In some scientific fields, i Lilienthal admits we're trying | For improved nuclear yields. Word of progress with our fission, (That much which we could afford) Might not be a bad admission In some trouble spots gbroad!

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trades. They are denied this chance even though there is a great demand for their services. 5 A striking example is in the printing trades—although it is by { no means confined to them, Virtually every newspaper and commercial printing plant needs skilled workmen. In some departments and cities the shortage is acute, Yet thousands of young men, including veterans, would like to learn good trades. Their opportunity to do so may depend to a con- | siderable degree on a newspaper strike now going on in Chicago. “On the surface it looks like an ordinary row between employers {| and a union-—in this case, the printers of the Typographical Union. But it is actually a fight over a federal law. And its outcome will personally affect many young men who would like good Jobs, Since the strike began the Chicago papers have been publishing without printers. Their stories are typed on a novel kind of electric typewriter, pasted on page forms and then engraved.

Adopted ‘No Contract’ Policy

BUT NOVELTY of appearance is only one of the novelties in this strike. ers to Ignore a federal law—the T Taft- Hartley Act,

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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| Sn “You go down and tell them how late it is—1 remember | used to 9 home withing I could take a sock at your father!

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OUR TOWN . Lost Art of the Nineties

NOBODY TO MY KNOWLEDGE has ever taken the pains to analyze the unbelievable mechanics of the Serpentine Dance, an art form which identified

The Serpentine Dance was thought up by Loie embraced in its widest sense all that was classed under the branches of mixed and applied mathematics and natural philosophy. Which is to say that it included the whole of our knowledge regarding the physical wonders of the material universe, ! I know what I am talking about, the audience of first-nighters when Miss Fuller brought her act to Dickson's Grand Opera House. I can't say as much for the literary significance of Miss Fuller's act. For one thing, I never could fig~ ure out why it was billed a Serpentine Dance. Cer= tainly it wasn't a dance if by that connotation we mean an exercise of the legs. Miss Fuller didn’t move her legs by as much as an inch during the greater part of her performance. Notwithstanding her static Miss Puller's act was charged with dynamic movement, the secret of which I am prepared to reveal today.

Not Related to Serpents :

AS FOR THE “SERPENTINE” part of her performance, it was a misnomer, too. Not by the widest stretch of the imagination did it have anything to do with the behavior of snakes. Quite the contrary. It was headed in just the other direction—toward the sky or. maybe, even heaven. Indeed, now that TI think back, Miss Fuller's performance was the nearest thing, this side of heaven, that looked like a reasonable facsimile of the piling up of clouds. Which brings me to the point of today's plece— the mechanics involved that enabled Miss Puller to achieve her ethereal effects. In this branch of physics whicly, treats of forces and their effects In nroducineg and changing motion, I would place. first of a'l. the kind of dress Miss Fuller wore. It was £0 Important, indeed, that had she tried to interpret

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tickled to call a “cheese,”

Smith.

the 100 yards of silk

fiddling away for dear life.

blown away.

signing contracts, but of imposing “conditions of employment” on the It's an ultimatum procedure which would do-away with

| collective bargaining.

The Chicago papers, when their printers’ contract expired, in-

| sisted on new contracts as a condition of granting wage increases,

They had had such contracts for many years,' In fact, only a few months ago the union presented a scroll ta the Chicago Tribune—one of the six strutk papers—to mark 95 years of contractual relations in which there had never been a printers’ strike. Under those contracts, the printers had a closed shop. Over the years the Typographical Union gained a virtual monopoly on the supply of the newspaper printers,

Number of Apprentices Limited IN RECENT YEARS this monopoly has tightened. The number of apprentices .was severely limited by contract. The newcomer had to

| serve a six-year apprenticeship, although a bright boy can learn the

It is highly unusual because its object is to force the employ~ | Because of that law |

trade in much less time, and the union has now recognized this fact by permitting upgrading of apprentices. The supply of new printers hasn't been nearly enough to meet increased printing demands and offset deaths and retirements. The average age in newspaper composing rooms has risen sharply because of the shortage of young men. The printers in some cities to a certain extent, and some other unions to a much greater extent, have been-doing what is known in labor circles as “work hogging.” Much of the work had to be done at overtime rates because there weren't enough men to do it at regular pay. Along came the Taft-Hartley Act—which eliminates the “closed shop” but permits negotiations for the ‘union shop” if a majority

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From the standpoint of protecting t fon there isn't much difference between the two.

her dance in tights, without the help of skirts, it would have made her look kind of silly, el Miss Fuller's dancing costume consisted of 100 yards of silk. No fooling. As a matter of fact, it was so big around the bottom that when a gust of wind blew it into what little girls of the Nineties were it made a circle of 55 yards circumference. Which translated into applied mathematical terms, is the same as saying that it was possible to pull the dress 82 feet and 6 inches away from Miss Fuller's body without straining the silk. I haven't the space nor the time to explain the phenomenon today. You have to take the word of a boy who, at that time, had the advantage of studying physics at High School: No. 2 under the tutelage of Theodore

Manipulated Skirt Into Rolling Mass

WELL, WHEN MISS FULLER came on the stage dressed in her 100 yards of silk, she immediately started waving the long sticks held in her hands. To be sure, nobody saw the sticks nor the hands, but anybody in his right senses knew they were there. Otherwise, Mis§ Fuller couldn't possibly have made her skirts behave the way they did. She manipulated in every conceivable way until the fullness of her skirt piled up in soft cloudlike masses that rose and fell, reappeared and disappeared, as smoke rolls up from a green wood fire. All this time, of course, the orchestra stationed down in the pit under the direction of Reinhold Miller was

The limelight man up in the gallery was doing his part, too, you bet. He bathed Miss Fuller in constantly changing colored light. The effect was immense. The fleecy-like puffs of silk followed and chased one another incessantly. At times, indeed, Miss Fuller actually seemed to be wrestling with the clouds. First she went after those around her feet; then she worked up higher, finally tackling those 'way above her head. That finished, she looked like a goddess planted in the sky in command of everything she surveyed. At this precise moment, the lights went out as if she had turned into vapor and

The Basic Issue In The Chicago Newspaper Sirke.

THOUSANDS OF young men can't enter the better-paid, skilled | the high command of the Typographical Union adopted a policy of not

However, since this 1s the basis on which the War Department is claiming glowing success for the Ft. Knox, experiment the public has a right to expect such training for every young man cone scripted. The expense for such a program has been estimated at well over $6 billion a year, + Such a figure calls for very sober consideration.

Sometime, some nation has to stop the made dening race that can lead only to the holocaust of World War 1II. The world looks to America for leadership. Our adoption of peacetime military training would make a mockery of the trust bestowed on us. > & &

Urges Cancer Benefit Fund By Dave Donaldson, 701 E. Jefferson St. Franklin.

pall teams, Michigan and Notre Dame. From week to week they have traded places in the national poll. It has been said that Notre Dame would be willing to play Michigan to decide who is the national champion. However, there is a Big Nine ruling that states that the only poste season game a Big Nine team can play is the Rose Bowl game and that contract is for only five years. Undoubtedly this is not the first time a situation like this has come up nor will it be the last. At the present time, there are many needy families to provide for. .There are many starving people throughout Europe that must be helped. Something like a plague has struck this world. That plague is cancer. An unconceivable amount of people die from it every year. These are only a few of the problems this country must provide for. This, perhaps, is superfluous, for most of us are aware of the fact but as yet nothing of great value has been done. Why not play a football game between these schools, not only to determine who is the best, but for charity or some other needy organization, A game as this could get a capacity crowd of onehundred thousand people. A uniform price of $5 could bring a net profit of $500,000. A gift like this, say, to cancer research would certainly fure ther its progress. Perhaps this is impossible this year, but in the future it is not. America, let's face the facts and petition the Big® Nine athletic directors so as to end disputes and help a much needed charity.

But under the “closed shop” the union supplies all printers to fill vacancies. They have to belong to the union to get work. By cone trolling the number of apprentices, the union can thus limit the supply of available journeymen.

Wages Not the Issue

UNDER THE “union shop” the employer can hire any avallabld man to fill a vacancy. The man need not belong to the union. But the Taft-Hartley Act provides that, if there is a “union shop,” then the new employee must join the union within 30 days after starte ing work. He must remain a member and pay dues to hold his job. This gives the union security, But it also gives the employer a chance to hire men to overcome a shortage of workers. That's the basic issue in the Chicago strike. 4 If newspapers can hire new men for skilled trades—men who must later join the union—they can fill their depleted ranks. And many thousands of young men can get steady work at high pay in skilled trade in printing and other “closed shop” industries. Wages aren't the real bone of contention in Chicago—as is usually

the case in labor disputes. The papers said they were willing to pay higher rates, provided they could do so under legal contracts—as | they have been doing for nearly a century.

Among Better Paid Crafts

BUT THE Typographical Union, under the aggressive leadership of its international president, Woodruff Randolph, is following a policy of signing no contracts. It is demanding the right to lay down rules and rates of employment, without collective bargaining. The object is to retain the closed shop instead of substituting the union shop. Printers are among the better paid crafts. Under the contract which expired recently in Chicago; the day rate was $85.50 and the night rate $91 for a five-day, 36%-hour week. In larger cities the annual wage of printers runs from about $3500 to $5000 and the hours usually are not over 37% a week.

Things Are Looking Up in Britain By Ludwell Denny

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10—Good news from abroad is scarce these days. That makes all the more welcome the reports from Great Britain. For the first time in many months things are looking up. Production in several key industries is rising, Exports are growing. For a nation which must export or die, this has brought a new lift in morale when it was most needed. As everybody had a good.chance to learn when output of the mines was falling off for so long, coal is the basis of Britain's in. dustrial life in both domestic and export trade, It is a sick industry as a result. of two generations of mismanagement under private ownership, worked-out seams, antiquated equipment and aging personnel. The switch-over to nationalization, on Which there was general agreement, coincided with the. worst winter in 50 years. Inadequate food and housing reduced the stamina of over-aged miners, absentee-

| ism increased, and wildcat strikes cut production more.

Reserve Stocks Now Double BUT ALMOST miraculously this autumn the disastrous trend was ‘reversed. For the fifth week running, codl production is above .the target figure. It is now the highest in five years and even, on output per man-shift basis, with the pre-war average. Absenteeism has dropped. By voluntary overtime and giving up the five-day week, and by an increase in the number of young recruits, there is promise of continued increase. Reserve stocks are double those of ‘a year ago. Already small coal exports have been resumed, . . - .

At the same time steel production has passed the 1947 quota and reached the 1048 figure, Within two months cotton textile output has jumped 10 per cent: Tractors are being turned out seven times as fast as pre-war. With freight car shortage the chief bottleneck there as here, turn-around time has been reduced 43 per cent under last year. Of cotirse these encouraging figures do not mean that Britain 1s yet in sight of recovery—far from it. Though she is now exporting 20 per cent more than pre-war, she will have to boost it to 75 per cent.to. break even. To do this she is pulling her belt even tighter for stricter rationing—eating less, wearing less, existing on a lower austerity level than in wartime,

Working Out Own Salvation : BRITAIN IS practicing the self-help method of recovery with a heroic effort unequalled anywhere else. The early post-war loans

from the United States and Canada enabled her to import endugh food and enough raw materials for manufacture to get a bare start.

Plan aid were in sight, ‘even though all the experts agree she canriot succeed without American help.

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are proud of the fight Britain is making to come back. Not proud but relieved, because our own

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This year this country has two top rate foot~ .

By E. T. Leech

Now she is going hungry and working her best as though no ‘Marshall

We think she will get the American help she deserves. Americana and our own .

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