Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1948 — Page 18

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_@ive Light end the oon Will Find how Own Wey

Pe Ring out, Ring In

WE feel more than usually reluctant to see the books

year—a year when much that needed to be done was not done—and the impulse is strong to wish for a ‘little more . time to improve the record, [ki Then, too, it is difficult to look ahead into 1948 ‘without ‘a certain apprehension. Its problems, domestic and foreign, will be tremendous. That we know, ust as we know that its opportunities will be great. ' " What we cannot know as yet is whdther, despite the temptations to rish words and selfish actions certain to _ arise in the heat of a campaign year, the American people and their political leaders can achieve and ‘maintain that | degree of unity which is essential if the problems are to be | | solved and the opportunities grasped. - > | Yet if we remember the lessons taught by 1947 and

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"firmly on the paths of prosperity and peace. ‘Here, then, is to 1948! : i * May it be indeed, for America and for the people of other lands, a Hap} New Year. 4

the renunciation of the British throne by Edward VIIL

Britain. *- What really has occurred in Bucharest is not Known, : and probably will not be for a long time. The Red dictatorship there has published a proclamation by the king, which he may or may not have signed in that form. If he did sign -. ithe is a weaker person than was supposed—and fone ever credit for character. None, that is, except 0 him a Russian mela) for-Soviet

_ The document broadcast in his name says he abdicated his own right and for his descendants because “The Roto build a new form of state

hands. Their sovereignty has been usurped by Stalin, who

is ruling them Htoagh puppets of his own choosing. r . . "Nn THE SIMPLEST explanation probably is the accurate ones ‘Stalin allowed Michael to_hold the throne as long as ‘he was u useful in keeping the peasants quiet while the Reds: | perfected their terrorist’ police regime. Now that he is no longer of value, even as a symbor of Vanjsives-royal power;Sie 4 damped = ~ Thus the Re of 4 king in a Comm

are ¢ free to rule without - the Sromaly (nist state, and the king is free to leave cess. So everybody is free except the Romanian people who aré still ensiaved==and-the-demo-- - cratic leaders, A are eith rigged “trials.” = Doubtless the Romania p ifito their own hands” some EE yet. ..

splendid Misery’

MANY Republicans think that Dec. 29, 1047, must have been a pretty blue Monday for President Truman. On that day his personal White House physician was revealed to have been a grain speculator, and Henry Wallace announced. himself as a third-party candidate for President."

will “take the state’

Mr. ‘Truman might have reflected on “these words of Thomas Jefferson: “The second office of the government is honorable and easy; the first is but a splendid misery: ". Yet a remarkably large number of Republicans are eager to risk the miseries of the first office in order to enjoy its -splendors:—And-as for that honorable and easy. second office, we haven't observed any rush of candidates for the vice presidency on the Wallace ticket. In fact, Sen. Claude Pepper of Florida eliminated himself almost before Mr. Wallace . had finished his radio speech, and even Sen. (Cowboy) Taylor of Idaho said he would have to take time to think it over.

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‘A Timely Reprieve

Just before the deadline for sinking Italy’ s 31 remaining submarines; the Big Four ambassadors to that country relented ‘and, modifiéd the Italian peace treaty. As a result

Girculations. uy Price in Marion Go ‘County, 5 cents & copy: devered. co

closing on 1947. It has been a disturbed and disturbing | .

élavichord,” but I am definitely ignorant. All I

. the years that ‘preceded it, we can avoid the dangers of di- | lke it) v « « but ‘it would have ‘been vision. We can go forward together, having set our feet ar u dud _Those vo Se —

F THOUGHTS. oN NEW. YEAR'S DAY

- Do 1 believe in democracy? ba Then I must try to be democratic . bo my_thoughts and in my. actions, Eo

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‘WHEN IGNORANCE IS BLISS"

inor Concerto , Eircourt at the n ignorant of it. It is exaggeration ) say that I do not “bossoon’ from a “well tempered

| do is to listen and without “feeling in the least obliged to in defend my pleasure. Your simon pure expert can't do that. He forfeits his diplonia if he just says, “I liked it.” What he has to say is, “1 liked it (or didn’t

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in our nation, production we have ever tried. And now, we believe. we can also put religion into mass production in’ America. Time is yet on our side while a loving and merciful God stands ready to help. We want to favorably balance the moral scales. before a just ~God takes over. “Of course there will be those who will : and laugh and scoff, but such like will only sétvg’ to make us-humble. Humility, too, is a § - with God. You see, we are in a race with

AN oLD RED CUSTOM . The Newest Russian Foe—Love

. By George Weller

bomb and we want to beat it to the punch, every new scientific knowledge we mn .| a new moral integrity; o

triumphant, the event seems to have little resemblance to 1

Michael is as different from Edward as Romania is from ;

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IO OE at A Te oe -FRANCIS H. INSLEY.

OUR LITTLE WORLD

“Here In this world where you and I live, There's so much to take and so much to gvie.

ITEMS EROM THE CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE

Ble Sank Dry fused 5) bl wie tf Wik ty » s radio put in their car.

order house an’ also from ever'budy at

. Gertie Muchow come down from the city fer I

Christmas wearin’ purty red stuff all over her Augernatis Gertle's Jes natcherly got class. : - =~~CATFISH PETE. * % &

WASHINGTON, Jan. ‘1—Having wiped out almosh every other foe, Romania’s Communist ‘dic-

pe tatorship has begun working on love.

Instead of undermining this bourgeois sentiment from below as they usually prefer to do, the Reds ‘are now attacking love from the top. The first lovers to be unmasked are young King Michael and

"the Danish Princess Anne. Anne once worked as a New York shop girl and |

Michael has given Romania's Russian-installed oligarchy little cause for complaint. But put these two jogether and they spell trouble for the Communist regime. Michael's’ wild oats, sown plentifully—as is Romanian custom—have pleased rather than troubled Romania's Communist clique. But his London trip started him thinking about imitating Elizabeth and Phillip. ~At that point Michael, hitherto an easy object lesson in royal parasitism, suddenly became dangerous. NG The only thing- bigger and more throbbing than

"a love affair in Romania is a wedding. With the

Soviet Army still Bolt, tight to its fictitious “lines of SomeALOn" [

Can't Permit Battle with Love

BUT WHAT if that dignified but slightly pathetic pageantry which invaded Westminster Abbey shotiid * wend its carnival way to Bucharest? What if those scores of correspondents now barred by Communist red tape were allowed into Romania to tell its story? What if the impatient populace, muffled by dictatorship, were given the vehicle of a royal wed-

ding to express their suppressed hatred for commuy/

'FOSTER'S FOLLIES

We felt awtully gay and clever : Seeing in the “glad” New Year; - ‘But today we know that never Have we ever been so drear.

So we're not quite up 6 rhyming: (Read the comic strips instead).

_hism by demonstrating affection for its opposite?

“Romurita’s—Commtnist--state—council--is- alpéady. -

~ 0 To /eontinue

-trying —too—many ether hazardous attempt a dingdong battle with love.

taking Romania along he road-of state eollectivism- }--

toward eventual membership in a wopld Soviet of nations, the Soviets needed more than the 90 per cent of Michael they already possessed. They could

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gimes, parties and principles. { It had to be all or nothing at all. That's munism’s way as well as love's. Lenin's a on eliminating opposition to the proletariat explains that the Communists when meeting traditional or other formidable opposition must not try to wipe Jt out quickly but must rather aim at creating a situation in which the enemy is dependent on Communist tolerance for political existence. Then, by pushing the Communist program, Lenin says, the Communists can systematically destroy the

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ies’ first’ friend, Maniu. |

heir A lawyer whose father before

€ A first sign of independence was » re- - stay in Bucharest when Bulgaria's dictator “Dimitrov was due to arrive for signature of

ignore Dimitrov. by hibernating in the snowy Carpathians during the Bulgarian's visit. Then.came. the showdown on love and Anne with | lives big and bosomy Ana Pauker; Romania's new foreign minister, helping to grease Michael's abdication: Michael's surrender eliminates one possible challenge to Russia’s exploitation of Romania's resources. ‘While Michael ruled there was always an outside chance that -he-might screw-up his courage -to -de--

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America up to date. W, aT, Shick up Wotally

The hour is late; the task, ” . we believe it is the job of American munist time table for liquidating all dissenting re- | to help the ordained ters of religion get

him was a lawyer and had a lawyer for a grandfather does not work too hard for his profession and has an attitude he was born to rule. A man that has never done a hard’ day's labor with a shovel or any-8ther kind of work has missed a great deal of the general knowledge that is so necessary in order that they might know from experience how the other half

“This “like father, like son” attitude is. the case" of unjust laws and unfair courts. for: the decisions of some of these Indiana judges prove they never should have _ entered the law profession in the

Little” Goouder the average citizen shakes ane’

say, is the fast th:

other party by bypassing, ignoring and overruling it, were required to. g disembowelling its prestige before making it uw consulate “here T lawful. science of man’s a hits data including: mam violence has been e cause religion ; Successful Until Anne Arrived the past due to the a oa oF Ilse ne THE COMMUNISTS used these tac Auiiens- cults. Hence we are going to ask the co-operation porary certificate. fully with Michael until Anne came of all of them in this National Campaign of is a pretty good he Russians forced’ Communist Petru Groza on him as | Prayer. X : ever feel like twis premier and he took it. In brutal preview of Rus- We further believe, that while we are going some reluctant re) ‘sia’s recent 10 to one devaluatiorief the ruble, Ro- to continue sending all the food and clothing we i] 200 Reds ( mania’s lei was devalued 20,000 to one last August. possibly can to Europe~it is by doing these other . Farmers and industrialists alike’ were wiped out, but | things, that we will in the end, do the most for ‘Some 8500 White Michael was silent. Europe. ever, MEVEF. even In Septémber the Comprunists rin off a Moscow= @ figure doesn’t incl dred Russian Jes

joined the Whites’ aL 1

Jn hiding or dead or awaiting

Why Wage-Price Rat Race Never Ends

“| management says even this won't be enough to ~ Looking back to the time when he was Vice President, ’

“There'll be bromides, with good timing== Bromides for—not nour head.

—not;-for-example,-risk Anne's _getfing pregnant and thus interfering, on humane groinds, with the Com-

‘mand an accounting of how ch and means to take.

‘Russia has ‘taken. | shivers as he stands before the almighty Judge.

“We rieed iew blood in-our courtst-- congeicnd,

IN WASHINGTON .. . By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—The Interstate Commerce Commissjoh has granted the American railroads’ petition to raise freight rateé 20 per cent, 10 per cent above present ‘temporary rates.’ It has beex estimated this will add $2 billion to the nation's 1948 freight bill. ‘Railroad t recent and ‘anticipated wage and operating cost rises. J “At the same time in Chicago, the engineers, firemen and switchmen were winding up four weeks of National Mediation Board negotiations with the carriers for a_wage increase, Strike votes are being counted. If these three brotherhoods don’t get what they want, they'll presumably threaten’ ‘a strike. Last September, the 17 non-opepsting brotherhoods settled for a 151% cents an hour wage increase, In October, two of the operating brotherhoods—conductors and trainmen--took the same raise. “But the three other operating unions—engineers, firemen and switchmen— said this wasn't enough, and are holding out for more. If they get it,

demands. additional freight rate incredses.

going on since the end of the war,

1 Cost of Living Setting the Pace

_PACE- -SETTER in this race has, of course, been the runaway cost tying: “Iv the case of the railroad workers, they had to be given their first-round wagé increases in 1041 and 1943, because the cost of living had not been brought under control. _ Rallfoad management applied for the, first rate increase in 1042,

representations that, bécause of increased war traffic, the roads would

the Italians may scrap the vessels instead of sinking them. _ This will give a hard-up Italian industry several thousand tons of scrap steel and machinery. The. salvage operation will give a winter's work to a lot of unemployed.

yecpversion policy.

| Chicken-Feed Mystery

Treas GY Department has reported a

Wg “mystery,”

the demand for new coins has fallen off.

: What puzzles us is why we so seldom

The good sense and agreement of the four governments |

“are encouraging, if belated. It seems to have occurred fo | | July, 1046; 10C approved a 6 percent freight rate increase, In them in the nick of time that the scriptural wisdom of beat- | January, 1947, the roads got another 11 per cent increase. That made

ing swords into plowshares is not only a hépeful symbol of | freight rates 17 per cent above pre-war. peace but, under the circumstances, a sound and modern

“In spite of full ‘employment, ready money and heavy Ic Cron Half of Request ) :

refuse to be puzzled by the slackening demand for | seem a dollar any more—no matter what

have increased revenue without higher rates. That's the (way matters stood until the war was over. Then, in the spring of 11046, railroad labor won {ts first post-war round of wage, increases, to keep step with all other labor.

rate increfses to meet the greater operating costs of the wage Increases.

... Seven months later, the roads were back again, This time they wanted. an additional 17 per cent—double what they had. When the 17 “non-op” brotherhoods got their 15% cents an hour increase in September, ICC authorized a temporary rate increase of approximately 10: per gent. That made freight rates about 37 | above pre-war. But the railroads. said it sn't enough, so they

| for a 37 per cent increase, ¢

THEN, WHEN conductors and trainmen took the 151; ~tent raise,

3 per cent more,

pes vn woud ba band fretght,

the other 19 will probably feel justified in coming back with new: | And the railroads will then feel justified in demanding |

Thisis the kihd of rat race between wages and prices that has been |

Railroad management promptly replied with demands for freight,

per cent

| amended their original petition for a 17 per, cent increase and asked .

| Side Glances—By Galbraith

and got it temporarily. But it was taken away in 1943 after government |

| less’ tha. before, the war, or. that

the railfoads again amended thelr request, on Dec. 3, and asked fof | _percentage- “wise, brought their total demand to 20 per cent above ||

’ to ovr 30 nd Ta dean l,

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"It was the funniest New Years party ever—you should have seen tha look on your bess's- face when you pushed him into that fountain!”

per cent above pre-war and wartime rates, before the 1046 increases. The ICC, however, granted only 10 per cent more. on top of. the “temporary 10 per cent, or & total of 20 per tent. The railroads argue that increasing freight rates. does not ‘add

materially to the cost of living. Transportation charges represent only

About 7 per cent of the wholesale cost of goods, they say. Even so, a 30 or more per cent increase on 7 per cent of the wholesale price levél amounts to a 2 to 3 per cent rise. And it is this unbeatable combination of 2 per cent increases shere and 3, per cent increases there ‘which keeps all price levels going up.

Statisticians and “economists” drive each other crazy, throwing

figures ground 0 prove that the purchasing power. of real wages is now ‘have risen’ more than prices,

All the average consumer knows is that in this never-ending rt |

|e ary ate, 30 per cent above the rate as of last race between prices and wages, nods i winning. Sa “i | This is something fo thi Sh M06 wales Ui suk ioe ie

[WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Showdown in Greece

-{ 50 bad that only American assistance in some new and more aggressive

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Appears Inevitable

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—The situation in Greece has now become

form can prevent that country from becoming another Soviet satellite. Observers in Greece early last September informed this writer that, on orders from Moscow, the Greek guerrillas intended to set up | an “independent” Communist government as soon as they gained. sufficient toehold inside the country, After being “recognized” by Russia, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia and Albania, this new “government” would get the backilmg of these countries for a real war against the government at Athens. : Today, according to reports, this plan is all ready munists have seized the country around Konitza, in a Cheer Greece. and, on Christmas Eve, Gen. Markos Vifiades, the Red gofhmander, announced formation of a “government. " So

Greece Seems to Be: Losing Battle

{ THE UNITED STATES is expected to follow Britain's lead in stating her opposition to foreign recognitiol of the so-called Vifiades regime. London warned that recognition would cause a “grave | deterioration in the world situation.” In Washington it is remarked that this is considerable Gnderstatement. - Recognition would mean that Moscow and her puppeis are now prepared to back the Greek Communists to the limit, They "doubtless would claim they were merely helping » new and friendly “democracy.” Already Groove stems 1 be losing hist ttle. against the Moscow's backed guerrillas, If the new threat materializes—as ft will unless obstacles are thrown in the way—she will go the way of the rest of the Balkans and Uncle Sam will take it on the chin again,

Backed by the United States, Britain and other members, Gree is likely to bring the new situation to the attention of the United Nations. If the Security Council doesn't act promptly—and Russi will certainly stall as usual and then veto whatever action the oth members Propose -the “Little Assembly” can and probably will take steps. ‘ 3

Red Agents Foment Revolution:

ARTICLE 51 of the Charter provides that nothing “shall impr the inherent right of individual or collective self-defense” pending action by the Security Council. But whether or not the UN gave the United States the mandate to ald Greece aghinst Mtack, a showdown seems inevitable. Moscow's aid to the Greek guerrillas is just another of the “innumerable violations of international agreements by Russia, During the war for strategic and other reasons, the allies divided Burope into military spheres. Gireece fell into the British sphere. Russias ¥&4 | to keep hands off. Yet Russian agents have been fomenting revold” | tion and trying to qretthrow. the elected ovr at Athens frof | the start. Britain's tallied or inability to amy ' national load put the Un 1 new. turn of events there mean abdioats in An and 1