Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 December 1947 — Page 10

Times

HENRY W. MANZ

The Indianapolis

ROY Ww. HOWARD ‘WALTER LECKRONE _

President Editor : ol Business Manager | PAGE 10 Monday, Dec. 29, 1047 A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER =n gree —- Owned and published dally. ‘exeept Bunday) by Indianapolis Times Publishing” Co, 214:W. Maryland 8t. Postal Zone § . Member of United Press, Beripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit-"Bureau of Circulation: : Price in Marion County, 5 cents a copy, delivered

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Give Light and

vear: all other states, and Mexico, $1.10 Telephone RI ley 5551

the Pepple Will Find Thelr Own Wo

ee to the Coal Miners

RITISH coal miners now certain to Jreach their government's 1947 200 million tons, Such an achievement appeared all but impossible up to a few months ago. It is a vastly important contribution to brightening their country's economic outlook,

seem. almost

production goal

Americans also can be happy abdut the fine job our coal m have been doing. As of Dec. 20, the U, S. Bureau of Mines has just reported, their 1947 output totaled 603,671,000 tons. By come close to the all-time record in wartime 1944.

mers

this month's end they are sure to

620° million tong made

hich this country is

For

Here, certainly, is one respect in w

far better off: than. it was the vear before that we

can thank the [fact that 1947, like 1044, saw comparative peace in the coal fields. This year there were two general production stoppages—the two-week “mourning period” last April for victims of the Centralia, Ill, mine disaster, and the 10-day official holiday in June. But atherwise the miners worked steadily and well, and doubtless would have boosted output even higher if more coal cars had ‘been available » N- » ~ y ” - IT HASN'T been high enough, unfortunately, to repafr the damage done gn the had year 1946, when two nation-wide

| sfrikes cost more than 10 weeks of production,

cod These, following a long steel strike, dealt the country blows from which it is still suffering. But mourning over the terrible price paid for past industrial conflicts can do no good. We have reason to be thankful that the miners are now producing mightily in return for wages which, by former standards, give them much better returns for their hard and dangeérous toil. The average wage in the soft-coal mines is nearly $1.80 an hour, and average weekly earnings are above $70. Let's hope that they will see the advantages, to themselves and to the rest of us, of maintaining industrial peace in 1948 and beyond, For in America, as in Britain and in many other countries, coal is the foundation essential to sound and lasting recovery,

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| Stalin Looks at Iran | RU SSIA is reported ready to make troubleyin Iran again. | This comes- on top of the Kremlin decision to set up a puppet Red “government” in the Greek mawntains, the

Jewiz-Arab strife in Palestine nnd general tens Mideast,

It is further indication that Russian pre 08s! porarily turning south after being blocked for thé ioment |

in Western Europe. XT The Soviet ambassador in Tehran and most of § hk en- | tourage are reported recalled to Moscow. A break in Aiplo-

mati

relations or some other

form of Red pressure ify the war of nerves is expected, !

Stalin

: angry because the Shah has asked Dr Hakimi

to form a cabinet

. Ibrahim , following the fall of the Ghavam

A oa

ministry on domestic issues. The aged Hakimi was premier tn 1945 when Iran requested withdrawal of all foreign troog 1 request honored by the United States and Briain but not then by Russia. He is even more suspicious of loscow and. friendly fo Washington and London. than Ghavam, whom the Russians first liked and then hated.

RELATIONS BETWEEN the

Blrained nee 1

” ~ » two countries have heen he Iranian parliament rejected the agreement for Soviet oil concessions in the north. Any desire of the Iranian nationalists to play up to Russia, as a counterpoise against the western powers, was destroyed by Stalin's unsuccessful effort to enslave the country through military occupation and his short-lived stooge government in Ajerbaijan. , having lost face in that fiasco, has been trying

to get control in Tehran. Unsatisfactory devel-

en Af Russia's own oil fields has whetted his appetite confessions in the still unexplored fields in Iran—and all

> more ‘so because of British and American concessions further south, Though the Iranians. are distrustful of all foreigners, the have chosen Americans as the least dangerous to

ell fependence. This is part

regeiv a result of An

a matter of distance but

3 erica’'s beneficent, record. in the Mideast 8 intly, the United States government «at Tehrar I t has recently signed an agreement for.an A 1 ntary mission to advise the Iranian minister 0 and train his army, Ti hard for Stalin to take.

‘Music’ With Their Meals

THE a Inited Press dispatch, are to be told of the benefits of American aid by means of a “singing commercial” broadcast from the U. 8. Army's radio station in The verse, Here Again” b to rhyme in

Austrian people, {AVE

Vienna. to be sung to the {une of “Happy Days Are

a double quartet of men and women. is said

German words: T ite English, it

ranslated

goes approximately as follows “Everything comes from the 1 nited States that I have in my provision-room. Yes, happy days are here again and

I recognize fully, Well, we probably have | And there's a lot - to be said for the idea that people mm Austria, and in other countries, should be informed of what America .is doing to help them. But this “singing commercial” can go much, much tos far, as American radio listeners have excellent reason to know. As deve loped to its present . peak of perfection in this country, it has all the subtlety of a sledge hammer, and its cuteness is enough to turn strong stomachs. So, if it absolutely must be tried on the unsuspecting Austrians, we suggest that it be on a one-time-only basis. . That Js, Af we want. them to listen to our radio programs . with gratitude rather than repugnance, For we can think |

of Practidalls" Dothing that t loses appeal with repetition as

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nem Jo

CAT WOISse

technique easily

| Like Edison and Lincoln and Franklin,

In Tune ‘With the Times

"WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER"

In these days of atomic bombs, global on. Se | ¢ |

and. the «eompetition of belligerent ideologies, nld romances of chivalry with their bland simp) ity and almost child-like charm are a refreshment and delight. Their world, is younger and braver than ours, alive with wonder and the knowledge that anything can happen , . . and probably will! There is a giant in every castle, an ogre on every hill, a knight-errant thirsting for

battle behind every bush. All the men are:brave |

and all the women are beautiful and young and there is rio such thing as boredom.’ When Caxton published the first edition of the “Morte Darthur” In 1485 he said of it that it treated of “the noble acts, feats of arms of chivalry, prowess, hardiness, humanity, love, courtesy, and very gentleness, with many wonderful histories and adventures,’ a classic description and one

worthy of its great Inspiration. The “Morte Darthur” is the most amiable and friendly of books, and if you do not know Arthur and his

knights it is there that you should make their acquaintance (not, 1 hasten to add, in Tennyson whose incredibly virtuous plaster’ saints are embarrassingly awkward and out of place in Malory's lusty and athletie world.) A worthy pendant -to the Bedier's modern French version of “Tristan et Iseut,” a beautiful translation and combination into a unified whole of the medieval legends makIng up that greatest of.all love stories. If your French is shaky there is an English translation to be had “And for to pass the time (says Caxton ngain) this book shall be pleasant to read in.' ~FRANCIS H. INSLEY.

. 4 4% THE CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

Enifter Myers hez gone on the waggon again Beem’s if he stépt on a open tube of shavin' cream on the floor,” an’ thet shavin’' cream wigglin' out wuz too much fer him. The boys at the store wuz talkin’

“Morte Darthur” (s

‘bout guineas

bein’ sech good watch dogs, an’ Willie shuggs popped, “Guinea imagin' thet!” Willie kills us Jimmie Johnson hez a new pet His paw's

red sow hed a exter pig an’ no place to feed it, so Jimmie's raisin’ it on a bettie, ~CATFISH PETE, >» 4 * A grocer in Missouri has~been using the same

razor blade for two years. He probably hasn't figured out how to. get rid of it, “ ¢ bd DO'ERS Many are those on the side-lines, To whom accomplishment means naught but working, Stil the leader's the man who, keeps plugging along,

At his task with no thought of shirking There are some who think in terms of failure, & Through life's span their progress is nil, Those who say “Can't” often fall in defeat, Those who say “Can” usually will,

Where would this world be today, If the leaders of yester-year,

Had stood on the sidelines to cheer. ~WILLARD MARION SHANNON. ee &¢ o A doctor says heefsteak has no curative value

when applied to a black eye. Many a beel, however, has caused a shiner, * * ¢

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

| (WASHINGTON—Europe to Get Tést Corn Seed)

At experimental stations, Hybrid corn seed gets a test, To improve some situations, Where the crops are not the best

Bhould the idea fail to flowér, Here's some ald they could suborn, Without having farmed an hour, I've produced my share of corn! LI All for one and one for all Wold be candidates by their own selection— Would be President at the next election -IMA RHYMESTER. * * ¢ During hunting season, savs a game warden, a gun should be loaded with caution. And a hunter With common sense,

WORLD AFFAIRS ...By E. T. Leech

Red Press Reverses Policy in America

THIS OR any other normal American newspaper is just a capitalThey claim its object is to in plots to “exploit the workers.” . So it's “Interesting for an American editor to get a translated copy of what the Commies call a true workers paper I recently got

Istic organ, according to the Communists,

help “Wall Street monopolists”

such a copy of Izvestia, one of Moscow's biggest

other being: Pravda, They speak the official voice

not only for Russia, but for Communists throughout the world Iavestia is a four-page paper, six columns to the page: it's name means The News ® What does such a true workers’ newspaper play up as its chief

news stories? American labor leaders left—ought to see promises to the workers

especially the

Biggest Page 1 story in this not along the traditional American lines having to do Increases, shorter hours, welfare funds and John L This was a story about same rate of pay Waorker whoop for higher pay and less work miners who had dohe more work for the same pay.

Does 100 Days Work in Month

production.-

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Q La t MINER BORIS CHAPAKHIN, for example, WHE nTAised : because A “norm.” In short, he had produced 100 days’ quota in a month. A Comrade Spirin, continued the story,

he “has fulfilled 100 dally norms for the month” the Stalin economy, is a quota.

filled his monthly coal quota three and a third times, of other advanced workers” had set example to “pull the level of the vanguard.”

All to the glory of Stalin and the latest five-year plan:

Next biggest story on Page 1 was about “increased yield. in agriIt criticized various farm leaders for faulty direction and urged better leadership and harder work to produce bigger crops. —-

A third Page 1 story dealt with efforts to “liquidate idle time of

cultural crops.”

maciunery” in lumber production—in other wards using the machines more steadily of a “socialist competition" workers of different plants -

. So the news ran on various pages dominated throughout this “workers' paper.”

those who lean te Por it answers a lot about what Communism

livestia was on coal mining

Lewis -greater production at Here in America such Commie papers as The Daily But this

A story about oil production told to raise output by contests between the

The theme of more work preNot one {tem mentioned

oe)

& ‘iy ga

OUR TOWN . .

.By Anton Scherrer *

Homesickness Proves a Boon

COME TOMORROW, IT WILL BE 44 YEARS since Carl J, Prinzler and John L. Geiger got a new lease on life which, thank goodness, shows no signs of expiration, On that day (Dec. 30, 1903), happened to be in Chicago, None of your business why. For the purpose of today's piece, it is enough th know that Mr. Gejger woke up that morning and reminded Mr. Pringler that they yet had to see Eddie Foy in “Mr, Bluebeard” before returning to Indianapolis. Else nobody would believe. that they had been in Chicago.

Carl and Johnny

Seems, though, that Mr, Prinzler was in no mood -

for anything so frivolous. The truth of the matter was that he was so homesick to be with his family the last day of the year that he wanted to take the first train out for Indianapolis. And that's exactly what happened. What's more, Mr: Geiger was so moved by Mr, Prinzler's nostalgic behavior that, right then and there he decided to come home, too. Their sudden departure left Eddie Foy with a smaller audience than he might have had,

Almost immediately upon their return, they learned what might have happened to them had they stayed to see Eddie Foy—for that, my children, was the day the newsboys of Indianapolis peddled the list of 596 people who lost their lives. in the horrible Iroquois Theater, mainly because they couldn't get-out of the building alive. The exit doors wouldn't work that day.

Fire Makes Him Make Up His Mind

I DON'T LIKE TO USE THIS COLUMN to dwell on the ghastly details of the Iroquois fire, hut today I just have to. Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible explain what went on in Mr. Prinzler's head at the time. As soon as he read about the piled-up dead behind the closed doors of the theater, he made up his mind that something had to be done to prevent similar occurrences, With such a start, Mr. Prinzler got the idea that It. was up to people like himself to do something gbout it: Which is to say that it was » to the

Side Glances—By Galbraith

- work on a self- -releasing panic-exit device.

hardware people. 1 hope I don’t have to remind you that it is nigh on to 60 years now that Carl Prinzler has: been connected with the Vonnegut Hardware Co, Well, that brings me to the point of today's piece— namely, the historical fact that the Iroquois fire inspired Mr, Prinzler to take off his coat and get to Sure enough, it was a piece of hardware. After a lot of swealing—mostly in his home after business hours— Mr. Prinzler finally got the contraption to work: with such unfailing regularity, indeed, that he thought the time propitious to apply for & patent. To apply for a patent, he learned somewhat to his amazement that he had to meticulously prepare drawings of the idea if he wanted tol impress ‘the people at Washington.

Young, With Time to Kill

THAT'S HOW HENRY DUPONT was drawn .into the enterprise. He was an architect who lived on the floor above Mr, Prinzler in the Alexandria Apartments on N. New Jersey St. Architect Dupont, who was & bachelor with a lot of time on his hands after business hours, readily fell for the idea with result that he made the realistically abstract pictures called for by Washington, Finally came the day of christening the baby, Mr. Prinzier attended to that al] by himself without any help from the outside. He called the device “Von Duprin,” a cute way of bringing in everybody conected with the birth—the Vonnegut people, Mr. Dupon, and himself. See? The first Von Duprin device—anywhere in the world—was used on the west exit of the old Shortridge High 8chool. That was back in 1908—five vears after the Iroquois fire. As soon as Capt. John E. Cleland (business manager of the School Board) saw how it worked, he ordered all Indianapolis schools to be equipped with it. { Chances are that you can go anywhere in the world today and see the doors of public buildings provided with Mr, Prinzler's device—ay/, any rate, in those parts that are still intact. It appears that somewhere in this column I lost Johnny Geiger. Well, ergs a new year coming

and with it, new resolutions:

two papers--the

of the Kremlin,

But with strikes pay

the

story praised

under

had fulwhile “hundreds the backward to

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stems from the

ings on, Most U.

just the same.

12-29

call them is known as

keep the bovs

Soviet production bosses.

or energetic fellow-workers; wards.

"Well, if Dinkey Jones' mother is almost ready to let him smoke, just tell him Your parents almost gave you ? sin on too! 8 UStakhanovite''—after Alexi Russian who turned out so much work that he became a hero with the

The Stakhanovite not oniv gets far better pay than his less able he gets other, L2Yen more attractive reHe can rent a better flat, eat in i plant restaurant serving

Sta ov, khan 3 way lies peace.

the o

Before the war, Forgotten Factor,”

Hoosier Forum

“ldo not -agree-with-a word that you say, but |

will defend to the death your right to say it."

‘Why Jo They Have Kings? By oy Morris, City This is my first letter to the Porum and I am wondering if my letter will be printed. To begin with, 1 see that little Pinland has made another payment to us three days before it was due, and it would be fine if we .were' allowed to keep the money to pay some of our government debts instead of having to send it over to John Bull, namely England. About three days before we received the money from Finland, dear old England nicked us for mare than we received, No matter what people say or the King of England himself says, there were a lot of American ‘dollars ‘went into his

- daughter's ‘wedding of recent date, and now the

poor, sweet daughter has got to live and, of course, support her husband on a measly $200,000 per _ year. Boy, is that going to be tough. Don't worry that a large part of that support is going to come out of American taxpayers. The

old man says he will support them for a while, .. =

but where does he get his dough? .Out of the English government, which we are keeping filled. Mr. Roosevelt gave them the Navy and Mr. bad man is giving away the Treasury. Why do they have to have kings, lords and dukes, etc, for someone else to look after? “Hundreds of Americans arose at 4 a. m. to hear the wedding, and I hope they enjoyed the show, as they certainly paid for it. If she had taken the value of one present ghe received and bought bread for the really poor over there it would have lasted until the end of the year. Some people may be up against it over there, but there always 1s, and we have people over here that need help a8 much or more. France went on strike a short time ago (while we were begging ald for them over here), and if they had stayed on the job it would have saved us millions. All they have to say over there is give me money, give me food, clothing and fuel or I won't like you any moore. I'll be real angry, I'll Join the Reds or Blues or something else, and right away we jump. If they are holding that thieat over our heads, let's call their bluff and stop the arguing back .and forth, There should be enough work over there to keep them busy tor a long time. I am wondering if we were in dire need, as they all claim to be, how much aid that France, England, Italy or Russia would give us. Well, Just give us time. We'll have them nice and fat and supplied so in a few years they can slap us in the face again. As I see it, there will always be an England as long as there are more suckers to pay more taxes so they ean import more kings to have more weddings to marry more queens to raise more kids to be more kings to borrow more money,

ERE ‘Need Another Trolley Company’

By Jane Thornburg, City.

So the streetcar people slipped one over on the public? What this city needs is another company lo operate and give us service. After all it is the public that pays these bills so come on, let us do something about this, not the lawyers nor the Chamber of Commerce, but we the people. tot

‘Somebody Is Wrong’ By Josephine Buck, R. R. 1, Westfield, Ind. I saw’ a movie where the mouse turned up his nose at the smelly limburger in the trap, and left a sign, "Quit Yer Kidding.” That's how we should feel as we read the statistics on the cost of living against mcome, = Somebody is wrong! According to the figures we aren't free Americans; we are slaves, and evidently many are going practically hungry. ooo &

‘It Would Be a Good Thing’ By John Boston, 122 N. Illinois St, I think it would be a good thing if the State Board of Health would give drug stores the once over and loek after the soda fountains that use cold water instead of hot to wash glasses with and serve all classes of people. on o» w»

‘Democracy’s Only Defense’ By Richard E. Miller, City

As 1 see it, democracy’s only deféhise is the battery" of thought which advocates the positive right to the fréedom of speech, the positive right

to vote, and the positive right to vpte positively secretly.

IN WASHINGTON . “he . By Peter Edson Ry Buchman? He's Back Again

WASHINGTON, Moral Re-Armament pageant country, aiming to point the way to world peace. In this spectacle, a volunteer, unpaid-—so they say-—cast of 195 Americans and 80 Europeans from 10 countries show in dramatic form how easy it is for everybody to love everybody else,

You are supposed to begin at. home ‘by being polite and considerate to members of your own family. It spreads from there so that people get along with their own agement and vice- versa by banishing from Heir negotiations a troublemaking hussy called * Miss¥Trust.” Next thing you know, as simple as that on the stage, with St. Francis, Joan of Arc, Tom Jeflerson, Ben Franklin and Abe Lincoln Uttermg great truths in trick lighting effect blackouts. You may recall that this Moral Re-Armame ut—~MRA-—movement Oxford movement, Divinity) Frank N, Buchman, It spread to America through organized, week-end house-party confessionals for young folk, with strahge- go 8. colleges soon kicked the moral movement off their campus as not living up to its name.

Some MRA Members Tried to Beat Draft

IN ENGLAND, during the war, the outfit was clamped down on for having certain Nazi influences. In the U. 8. a number of MRA aliens tried to beat the draft on the ground they were aiding the war effort in other directions, but Uncle Sam ordered”,

Dec. 29—Dr. Frank N. Buchman's second big

“The Good Road,” is now touring the

yjghbors. Then labor starts loving man-

nations start a polite to each other. It's

started in England by .Doctor

tof

em to put on uniforms

the movement's first dramatic spectacle, “The

had quite a build-up and run here and in England

The new vehicle for this propaganda effort, “The Good Road.”

as something that would bring on industrial peace. “a. Last summer, Moral Re-Armament held assemblies at Mackinac Island, Mich., and Caux, Switzerland. At the latter, a number of U. 8. congressmen were exposed to the movement briefly, back filled with enthusiasm and testimonials. Now Dr. Buchman himself is back in the U. 8. with a “task force’ of 300, intent on showing how America can save the world and which

and they came

is a

strange mixture of an uplift musical revue and an old-fashioned =a

rality play

with overtones of amateurism, corn and hokum.

But the new Buchmanite cast is s6 young, so scrubbed-looking. so eager and so enthusiastic that it almost puts over the message, This

rates of pay, Hours, working conditions, labor relations or strikes,

This is proletarian patriotism in Moscow. Can you imagine how the Commies would yell if an American paper ever printed such stuff?

Speedup Is the National Policy

IT ALL GETS back to the fact that in Russia the speedup today | Is national policy, So are the piecework system—and the imposition | of “norm” or assigned tasks—with rewards for those who exceed them | apd penalties for those who fall below them. Differentials and inequalities among various grades of workers, and between the speedy and the slow of the same Ende, are Sharper in Russia’ than in any Other country, “AU the worst evils ot greedy capitalism punishments. pay pay | ‘equalities, ge Production basic principle of

ie ney wor Ye betes 8.

more and better food than that where the rank-and-file eat. take vacations and holidays—and, incsome exceptional cases, even have the | privilege of buying and driving an auto, Workers—particularly uniofi members—who want to know the I truth about labor in Russia ought to get a little U. 8. government

pamphlet which is the best source of such“information. Known as { | “Communism in Action,” it was preparéd by the Legislative Reference

| Service of the Library of Congress. (You can get it for 25 cents from y| the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Wash-

ington 25, D. €) a Meanwhile. the paper you are now reading not being a wake

Aiur, steol rey : _to the

peper” in the Moscow sense—youll search it in ‘vain for storiss about } Jac am hand wh. has cov {EBIN. i= hairas of the National Couuiies of Invitation,

seems to be that Materialism with its co-partners of Fear, Confusion,

| Doubt and such characters, must be banished before Anyman-mean-

ing Any American—can see which way to go to bring on world peace.

Big Names Associated With Movement

SEATS FOR four performances of this play in a big ‘Washington auditorium were for free. It obviously takes a good bit of jack to keep 8 cast of nearly 300 on the road and in hamburgers, efen if they are working for love and not for meney. } Dr. Buchman's name is now quietly submerged in the literature and ballyhoo, but a lot of leading Americans, who aren't necessarily. ihead. have been sucked in and their names tacked’ Je He

Adm. Richard E. Byrd, of the Virginia, North and south Pole

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