Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1948 — Page 22

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Stabbed From Within : we are, again in a perilous world crisis—and tied "up by a national cos! strike. : a e have been many queer strikes. But this “pension strike” in the coal fields is one of the strangest, and perhaps the most dangerous, of all. It sneaked up on the country witheut being called. John L. Lewis shot off some fancy language about the mine operators having “dishonored” a contract. Then he gave the miners an ehvious signal by pointing out the clause in their t agreement which says they need work only when “willing and able.” That clause—or joker—is a typical Lewis device, now used in the typical Lewis way. gither he nor the operators took the trouble to tell the public just why this catastrephe was approaching. ~ Mr. Lewis is reported, though he has refused to confirm ar deny the report, to want pensions of §100 a month for all miners past 60 years old. These would be paid from his union's se-called health and welfare fund, created by " nicking the public 10 cents for every ton of coal mined. Trustees of the fund—now ameunting to about $30 , million—have net agreed on the pension issue. One trus+tee, Mr, Lewis, represents the union. Another, Ezra Van "Harn, represents the operators. A neutral third trustee quit because he could not persuade the other two to get

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: 0 ss ¥ MR. VAN HORN now says that the pension plan Mr. - Lewis demands would bankrupt the fund and violate the “law. He has challenged Mr. Lewis to join him in asking the Federal Courts to appoint another neutral trustee, so “that the pension deadlock can be ended. If this challenge _is not accepted quickly, Mr. Van Horn says, the operators acting alone will appeal to the courts. ‘ The issue, involving a dispute over the meaning of a contract, seems to us a proper one for court determination. But the dispute was permitted to become a strike without either side taking the trouble to explain to the public what it was all about or why the deadlock had developed. Yet the Publ pays for the strike, and will pay for the miners’

doe LA : 80 HERE we are, talking about national peril and the tion of world freedom, with very little coal being And with most of the nation's mest supply threat: by a packing-house strike, called despite a plea from President Truman for delay se the governmeflt might try for § settlement. If the coal strike continues only a few days, it will begin to affect steel and other vital industries. A long stoppage of mining would paralyze the country, Ever sineé the war ended, we have been discussing what it takes to make America safe and effective as a force for world peace. And here, once mare, the fact is rammed home that & single union boss has the power te render America helpless and the ruthless temerity to use that pewer -of public welfare.

Get a Margarine Vote 2” | BUTTER prices shot up 5 to § cents a pound Wednesday = on the New York and Chicago markets.

Why? Because in Washington 16 members of the House Agriculture Committee—15 Republicans and one

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In Tune With the Times ———— SR. "MY SON, MY SON" yp ohare

He leaps upon the bannister, Comes flying down pell mell.

He hellers for his breakfast Then he holts it en the run— 2 He hasn't time to bother, Other things are much more fun.

He lassos baby brother, “See, mom, I'm roping steers.” His lusty shouts and "giddups Accompany baby's tears.

He builds a castle with his blocks Just so to knack it down, Because, you see, it's much mare fun To scatter them around.

This continues until bedtime " And he sighs, “We have such fun, fle mamma prays for stronger nerves To help her raise her san. —BETTY ABRETT. * ¢ ¢

Tt taok hours te work out the income tax * and find out you knew less than yeu did hours

0. hod v ¢ 9

FULL UP

Any resemblance of an empty house To & rental, Or vacant space to 3 parking place Is purely coincidental. —F. P. M. ® + ¢ Work never hurts 3 man uniess he keeps sway fram it.

¢ * ¢ ASLEEP Asleep—

Into the days of yesteryears Into the land of dreams The place that knows no sorrows And everything's good it seems.

Slowly Wwe drift As with the tide And just for awhile With God abide.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

_munist?” a facetious mood, it should be

assumption that nothing can anywhere.

of living the czars.

this self-consumin, little could be sai

the whole world.

fascism, n

and purge.

down by the government is born for the slave of its citizens. state owns everything, inclu lives. But to make this m

Actually it is a theology envisioned diseased mind af iconoclast Karl Marx, The word theology is used advisedly, inasmueh 5 communism and any divine religion abide in the same heart. The weirdly eye mind of Marx has set down the tenets @ communism in no uncertain terms. ods was adopted in the whole by the Ry. sian revolutionists to rectify eenditions Under

Communism is that theory of under which every citizen-subject x the benefit of and as a slave of gov with no rights, liberties or privileges not vernment. This is con with our awn form of Forernment under efit of Under commun the indi ® of life sem beargble, it is necessary for the dictator

By A. J. Schasider, #04 West Drive, Woedruff Plage, City ; Mr. M. E. Jones asks “What is

* Om

Although I suspect the question is

answered. mt I to resort to the same facetiousness in rey, ‘I should say that communism is g A

ever he Tight n tn

That |

Had these Russian revolutionists adc code for themselves : in eriticism. But like fanatics they felt that they could not ¢ elbow-room unless and until they had converte

Such 3 program, as with true naziism, or any other “ism”, oy aperated by a ruthless dictator with a persons! army for enforcement, p

born fy

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Aslee : ow is the time when Qur minds are at rest, No longer put to the test Of dgily needs and cares; —

But peaceful and quiet— —Aslesp. = PANNE H. PEARSEY.

Better to wink than to stare, says & selentist. Dangerous advice for the gals during

Year. Legp Yooy 4 ’

"DAD'

I had 2 pal, he was my Dad, And what a pal was he; There was no cause to e're be sad With him there beside me.

Every day was a happy day, * I knew he was my friend; And his heart too wis always gay And happy to the end.

For long as my dead Dad did live He Mads the world more bright, And tribute now te him I give was my heart's delight. : —ROB ELL.

* * ¢ One campaign song we'd like to see adopted is the refrain om banding

sUSY I'm busy as the proverbial bee, Gat mare work than an ant, J Ee aut 4 otRer, 1-Jul . LAURA MA COMSTOCK. There ‘are too many fighters whe sheuld got the gate instead of ml part of It. FOSTER'S FOLLIES ("PHILADELPHIA—Bubble Gum Shipped to Africa.")

No ene wants to leave the Cange, In the song which falks are humming, But there'll be real Daga-benge, When they get to bubble-gumming.

Added to the clacks and popping, , » There will be a new nate twangy— And some bubbles really whoppin

hy direct

Congress Must Act Quickly

WASHINGTON, Mar. 18—What President Truman said in his message to Congress should convince the teugh-minded men wha make up the Politburo in the Kremlin in Moscow that the United States ‘will not permit the conquest of Western Eurape by Communist tyranny, whether tary means or by jan Horse infiltration.

The great majority of the American people have come to understand that the United States has a paramount interest in the freedom of Western | . Should that area come under the domination of a single power with a far-reaching instrument of tyranny, then this country would be isolated.

There are. of course, dissenters. Henry Wallace going his blind way toward some obscure 3nd tel deatiny, is ane of them. He moves further fram reality with each bo At the opposite pole are the qldists. Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio seemed to speak Jot them, v—. day er Bi hetary ihe B Seident's , when he said he could see no threa this SqUALEY hat might bring war. The best answer to that was the cartoon showing the Taft head in the sand and the Taft rear rather plainly expased to the world. This is the same kind of isolationism that Sen. Taft expressed in the years before Pearl Harbor, The record is studded with his remarks—almost right up ta the day of Pearl Harbor—to the effect that Japan had no aggressive intentions,

Decay Has Gene Too Far

AT ROTH of these pales is a body of opinion. It includes honest pacifists and sincere isolationists who believe that the United States can best defend itself by ignoring the fate of Europe and up vast aments here at home. Ww 13rge this body of opinion is, no one can say accurately, But it is not large. Certainly the number of dissenters today is far smaller than the number in 1940. and ‘41, when the two oceans were still | to be a barrier that no enemy nat ia {portant now is quick act 8 now quick action from ( ; This does not mean slavish acceptsnes of President Truman's recommendations. But RO one can dispute that decay snd deteriorgtion have gone toa far in our military establishment in Ney the threat to the uneasy peace of the past WO Years. In his initial reaction to the President's speech,

¢ isolatian-

lective Bervice other than that it would be given consideration. “Sen. Taft has, of course, the pewer to decide what the Senate dees. Reluctance to take such a step so soon after V-J Day is understandable quite apart from the pressure of election-year politics. The gap to be filled by Selective Service is only about 235,000

men at present levels for the Army and Navy. The.

intention of the Department of National Defense is to limit the draft to younger men who are not veterans of World War II. They would be chiefly in the 19 to 20 age group. Fhe plan now en paper is to avoid calling 18-year-olds who would be subject to military trainunder universal military Ling. There is little probability, however, that this ess will do guything about Universal Military Training. The wisdom of this megsure at the present moment ia doubtful in any event, since a great deal

_of trained manpower would be required to put it

into gpergtion. : Selective Service on the Books

WITH ONLY 235000 additional men needed, Congregs is likely te heggle at putting the sweeping power of the draft back inte the hands of the military. The immediate need, is not what U. 8, military planners have primarily in view. They want Selective Service on the boaks, with the machinery set up. Then, in the event of a sudden emergency, it could be thrown into high gear. One avenye of gscape for unhappy Congressmen who may not want te vote an the draft this

‘year is 3 super-duper Air Force such as has heen

recommended hy at least two surveys. Undoubtedly our force in the air dees need to be expand£d, particularly by builging 8 strong aviation industry. But that can na substitute for the minimum pumber of men to carry out American responsibilities and maintain at least a thin line of trained reserves.

In fact, approval of a super-duper Air Force, |

our superior technology. Ay the Russian glacier moves westward, no one can\ he excused for contributing further to that ill 3 There is little use in dewllipg on past mistakes, such as the cry after V-J Day to “bring the boys home.” What is happening tQday is part of the cost of the complacence and

his bootlickers to make every other way of lif seem futile, undesirable and impractical, It i necessary to send agents all qver the stirring up trouble, for the home Propagands mills. This requires glertness to every dis gruntled individual er group, with demonstn. tions and confusion on every issue. The real menace in this cquntry, an traitors ameng us, are the cowards who are ig low and unprincipled to admit openly that they are Communists, yet they will carry the tore for the Communists, finance them, and adve cate adoption of all ar parts of the Communist program which has — St ows in e Qn 3a n r of occ CIE IAER ot Daily Worker. ols 13 It is true that the Communist Party in country does not openly advocate revolution o overthrow of our government by violence. Bu if I had a dollar in the bank for every tig they have used the expression “capture the ernment hy whatever means may be ne » 1d have no financial worries the rest of my ys. Current issues which will help the Com munists te capture our government: The continuous and bitter over-emphasis of the racial problem.

The Fair Employment Practices bill—unde sirgble to thinking Negroes as well as white The cradle-to-grave health-and-medicin program. : Return to rationing and price control, with consequent shortages and worsening of condk

tions. * Rent control ' and taxpayer suppor housing. Labor's property right in management o industry. SR ® o ¢ Against Daylight Saving Time By Max W. Wilson I'm sure that the Mayor realizes oe jority of Indianapolis and Marion County | do not want daylight saving time, Couldn't you, Mayor Feeney, put it to 3 volt! Undoubtedly many people want dayligh saving time, but they are not 8 majority. My personal poll of last year showed ax cent in favor of daylight saving time and per cent against. Declaring daylight saving time to begin # 8 certain date is mot consistent with fair ani

In Eagle (

ing their appearan Some

toofishing worms 1¢ any furthe! ward reports that number of anglers on his Foul » days—an ol) have bee! angler reported t string of bluegills in Eagle Creek las suckers are stil py the early seasc a number of cal taken from local 8

Angling Arm) with spring aIT week-end, Hoosier anglers is into action, even if on an pug 8 by the disp nel ho flies, P! paits at the Sport anglers have bee! for the coming sea There is = | for e a way except that pe taken legally ur closed season on Apr. 1, continuing month. All specie: fish, carp, and oth the single exceptio! pe taken during th March and through

Await Panfish Anglers are an! Conservation Deps will open the way fishing for bluegill other panfish thr on of the which has banned these species betwe une 15. ! A hearing on thi staged by the Co partment on Mar. | elimination of the on panfish was urg of Pa merdath william Ricker of versity, who heads tive lake and ¢ project maintainec sion of Fish and University.

Fire Season A

A reminder that geason is here ag week in an annot the Diamond Mat will distribute boo bearing a warning lessness with fire will be centered England and Wes where the match a quaster-million timber. It's unfortunate mond Company 1 holdings in Indi Hoosiers and tow this timely warni carelessness whic hundreds of acres ber each year.

Need More Fi

Expansion of In chain on 22 towe watch is kept ove! during the spring seasons, has been Wilcox, state fore: tion of 25 additi held necessary to fire protection in guarded. Groups of high given instruction est fires under

program, and a wardens make u force” to battle fis

From the lips of those Ubangi.

LUST ...ByE. T. Leech.

Sen. Taft said nothing about re-enactment of Se-

‘Demacrat—~had voted te shelve all bills for repeal of the

time that now seems so infini special federal taxes and license fees on margarine.

conscientious behavier as a governing officish

Spring fires

The 16 undertook to prevent the House from considering any of these bills. And to maintain, for the butter business, an unfair competitive advantage over an equally wholesome and nutritious product. The immediate boost of butter prices was enly one effect of their action. Another was to condemn the millions of families that can't afford butter to ge on paying for margarine more than it would cost if the taxes were repealed. A third was te continue the heavy penalty on sale of yellow margarine which is responsible for the fact that most housewives who use this product have to buy it white and color it in their kitchens. But if a majority of the members of the House want to act on repeal of the margarine fees and taxes, they can do so in spite of the 16 friends of the butter lobby on the Agriculture Committee, They can do so by signing a “discharge petition.” This would take the issue away from the committee and bring it before the House for debate and a vote. Such a petition is pending. It requires 218 signatures, and late yesterday 90 Congressmen had signed it. ’ (We regret that we can’t tell you their names, which in our opinion ‘constitute a roll of honor. But Speaker Joe Martin says House rules forbid making this information public.) We hope and believe that at least 128 more signatures can be added promptly, Certainly they should be. Most of . the Democrats in Congress favor repeal of the margarine taxes and fees. Their conspicuous defenders are Republicans on the House Agriculture Committee, and Republicans in the Senate who yesterday defeated an attempt by Sen. Fulbright of Arkansas to add a margarine repealer to the pending tax bill. But there must be aot of other Republicans fair-mind- " ed.and smart enough to want to disassociate themselves and their campaign hopes from the reputation their party is ‘getting as the defender of taxes on the spread for the poor man's bread. Let them declare themselves. oF

Battle of the Century

a : A BOTH President Truman and one of his arch-critics from Dixie, Gov." Tuck of Virginia, are to receive honorary

degrees on Apr. 2 from the College of William and Mary, in the governor's home state.

We haven't heard what ticket scalpers are getting for a ringside 4 seat. ; is Betting

Dictatorship Fosters

All the Other Crimes

OF ‘ALL man's evil deeds toward min, dictatorship is the supreme crime. It fosters and feeds all the other crimes. First te establish, then to preserve itself, dictatorship has employed murder, treason, enslavement, tovture, perjury, robbery and extortion. No its followers and agents are trained and aosustemed to those crimes in the name of the state, their personal offenses —such as killing, rape, petiy thievery, blackmail—becqme matters of course. It is impossible to Ingiat Ht Se be crimingls offi"olally and expeet them to be decent privately. Thus dictatorahip lives on violence, lust end indecency, and tends to destray religion, personal morality, humanity and every higher instinct among those who serve .it or fall under its influence.

Never Does Good It Claims :

DICTATORSHIP is never benevolent; it never does the good it claims to seek by an end-justifies-the-means procedure. Nor does dictatorship ever voluntarily give up its power. Invariably it claims its methods are tempararily necessary to meet an emergency, but once it has gained power the emergency never ends. ~

Hitler was a dictator, Stalin is one, and Mussolini was a |

.second-grade imitation. All were cut to a very old pattern, much warn in the fashioning of Sargon, Cyrus, Xerxes, Alaric, Genhis Xhan, Tammerlano, Alexander, the Caesars, Ivan, Napoleon and many, many others. In this present great world crisis, the. most comforting thought is that there have been so many of those tyrants.

And that today they are only names—all except Stalin.

Carried Seeds of Destruction IN THE end all other tyrannies fell. seemed well-nigh invincible. They carried in them the seeds of their awn destruction. History repeats; it produces characters and events closely parallel to those of the past. But history has no identical twins. Variations of idea and method have led each conqueror to think he ‘could succeed where his predecessors failed—that, finally, one man could dominate the world. Stalin's outstanding variation is a superb employment of intrigud—of spying, conspiracy and treason to sap a nation's internal strength, and make it a pushover for his police or troops. Hitler, also, was adept at this fifth column technique; but events since World War II have proved Stalin its master. Nazism and communism were in fact, substitutes for religion—in Hitler's case a sort of German divinity he had-dreamed up; in Stalin’s the worship of a doctrine of another German, Karl Marx. ' It's evangelical arm--the preaching of Marxism—has been able to win support from some who are not afraid, not abused, noi oppressed, not poor, These converts include such persons as highly paid writers and artists, college and high school professors, a good many professionals and a considerable number of others well. placed in political, labor, social, religious and publie life. ¢ Theae are the converts of Marx—fanatics captured by theory. They close their eyes to the Stalin dictatorship, hoping it will end When Marxism has crushed capitalism, ignoring the fact that dictatorship-mever voluntarily quits, .

Side Glances—By Galbraith

Yet each of them once |

! 2 COPR. 1948 BY WEA SERVIGEIING. TW. WG

"They're giving billions te ‘Europe to halt communism—I'll bet they'd send you a tax refund if you wrote and tald the government you're thinking about becoming a Communist yoursalf!"

LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

The Republicans in Congress are approaching it (the world crisis) with . . . humanitarianism . . . tempered with a realization there is a bottom to the barrel. former governor of Kansas. . ¢ & » Soviet Russia's strength is overemphasized and overadvertised. The iron curtain could be penetrated by the force of a better life than that under a totalitarian regime.—Secretary of Commerce Harriman. ® * Who is going to do the protecting? It’s going to be the same poor-old-Gl.—Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, deriding the idea that atom bombs make large armies unnecessary. * & It would mean that 25000°more American seamen would hit the beach and be unemployed.—Harry Lundeberg; t, In

presiden ternational Seafarers’ Union, on transfer of U. S. ships to Eurepean nations.

N WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

ruman Offered Finney

ASHINGTON, Mar. 19—President Truman is usually §¥

cious

and kindly. But he didn’t like it a little bit when he had

to present the Raymond Clapper award and a $500 prize to Nat 8. Finney of the Cowles publications fer outstanding Washingtod

correspondence in 1947. The award was made at thie annual White House correspondents’ dinner for the President. Mir. Finney was named for the honor, by a panel of five distinguished newspaper editors} for a series of articles exposing peacetime censorship. The President shook hands with Mr. Finney as| the $500 check and the award eertificate \were handed over. But the President did not gffer his congratulations. Instead, he remarked quietly, so only Mr. Finney could hear it, enough, {you got a kiek in the pants.

Dr. Condes

hat if you keep monkeying around with these things out The President made

stronger {than that, but it's against the rules to quote him d "

‘Most-Kicked-Areund’ Award

DR. [EDWARD U. CONDON, National Bureau of Standard} director, [has a gagged-up idea for a new kind of “man of the

e has in jest tried to sell the idea to pu

be confified to the field of government service. And go to *)

ing the y ably go

Commissi

from Sen

par.

nm for the public beating and abuse h MeKellar,

't Win Hands Down

ts by Congressman John Rankin of

te give it a new twist, Dr. Condon says the public servant who gets the worst kickin For instance, last year's award would unquestio® jo Chairman David Lillienthal of the Atomic a. ®

Un-American Activities Committee.

nstead of giving the award for distinguis the arts and letters, however. Dr. Condon says it she

prize shoud g around 4"

DR. CONDON explained his gag award to sovert) rmen, they accused him of wanting the prize and n has been accused of consorting with Communists por]

Dr.

t this prize hands down, however, He has com ¥ this year.! Consider the kicking around that Dean James Landis tocsk when he was bounced out of Civil Aeronautics chairmanship. Or how about the summary firing given Surge

General T.homas Parran after a 12-year unblemished

record ¥

head of Public Health Service? Or take the case of Marriner §

Eccles’ Fed eral Reserve Board demotion. : . =» ss = BEFOR Czech ladie

» the Communists took over Czechoslovakia, in Washington were planning to have a benefit

for relief in | their native country. Madame Juraj Slasik, wif® the Czech fAmbassador, had lined up all the Czech ladies

Washington away on ga

to help with the benefit. They were

peasant aprons and doing fancy embroidery

madly work

for which Cz ech women are famous. Then came the coup.

came Am nunciation Embassy,

ssador Slavik's resignation and his

e sale was called off. {

dramati¢

f the Communists. The Siaviks moved out of ¥

traced to carelessr ing of brush and the custom, still p: parts of the stat over” fields on th stimulates the gr £2 asurage.

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