Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 May 1948 — Page 12
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Don’t Let a Rail Strike Start: THIS country cannot and will not tolerate a strike that
shuts down its railroads. That fact, we believe, is known to the officers and the “150,000 members of the Brotherhood—of Engineers; the; go Brotherhood of Firemen and the Switchmen’s Union. So we still see basis for hope that these three unions | will not commit the incredible folly of striking next week in an attempt to enforce their demand for a 30 per cent wage rise. As matters stand, they are legally free to strike. That is, they have gone through all the preliminary steps required by the Railway Labor Act in its present form. «They have turned down the recommendation of a " Tact-finding board, named by President Truman under that ‘law, that they accept an increase of 154 cents an hour plus other concessions, ‘which the railroads are willing to grant. And ley have givén notice of : strike date.
CBT, WE SAY, they are not worslly free to strike:to+ bring disaster upon the American people. If they start a strike, the government will have to stop it.
gress for authority to draft strikers into the Army and | J operate trains with troops. The House voted overwhelmbr ingly to give him that authority; the Senate probably would have agreed if the strike had continued. | We should hate to see such drastic measures as Mr. Fi Truman advocated then adopted now. But drastic meas- | ~~ yres will be demanded—and adopted—if the engineers, firemen and switchmen undertake to conduct a strike. | Under the Taft-Hartley Aet..the government can ob:
the “country” with irreparable injury. It has used. this * authority against John L. Lewis and the coal miners’ union. The rail unions, however, are not- subject to the Taft‘Hartley Act, and the Railway Labor Act gives the government no injunctive authority over them. We think it should, - : 3 50 a a . . i _ A NATION-WIDE strike by these three key | railway unions would paralyze the couptry far more swiftly and completely than even a coal strike. It would mean immediate idleness for 1,250,000 other ¢ railroad workers, members of unions which have accepted E the wage settlement rejected by the engineers, Sremen and X Within hours, it would begin to cut off the food and | ~ fuel supplies of cities, spread unemployment throughout | Li industry aod commerce, and cause unbearable suffering, |
gress should act swiftly. : believe it should, by a simple amendment, add to | the Railway Labor Act the same government power to obtain eoust injunctions that is already in the Taft-Hart-ley Act. : If the railway unions recover the sense of responsibility they used to display, this power would not be invoked against them. But it should be made available now.
The Protestant Peace Program
THE ‘ peace program which the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America presented to President cin Truman is on the whole admirable. It is inadequate om _.... fhe question of military preparedness. But it has the virtue of asserting the importance of seonofnie, social and
y in maintaining peace. : “A comparison of this program with the actual Tights tisan policy of our government will show that Protestant churchmen and American statesmen are surprisingly close
blind hatred. our statesmen have made the same appeal. ‘Third, “war is not inevitable.” Few, if any, of our I responsible officials’ are fatalists. : : The fourth and fifth points state: not rely on military strategy to meet Communist aggres- ' sion . i . there should be greater concentration on positive programs of an economic, social, political and moral character. "
THIS, OF COURSE; ist heart. of the * roblem. While the statement admits that under present conditions ‘“‘na- | tiorial military strength is necessary,” this is not stressed - sufficiently in our judgment.” The further implication that American policy is under control “of those who think primarily in military terms” is inaccurate. If this were true our defense establishment hever would have béen allowed to sink to its present low level. ¢ Official American policy relies on military” prepared3 ness not exclusively or even chiefly—but as an essential supplement and support of the positive non-military weap- « ons praised by the Federal Council. - ; The Marshall Plan is the biggest in history for “greater economic well-being’ abroad—which the council properly desires as a peace measure. The request for ‘greater use of processes of international conversation and negotiation” is in line with Washington policy. t * » . = » : THERE HAS NOT been a single month, probably not one week, since V-E day when our government has failed to push negotiations on one level or another, with Russia. There have been hundreds of meetings on scores of subjects—with few agreements and those promptly broken by the Russians. = 1f'it is possible to “increase the chance of averting war © without compromise of basic convictions”<to quote the council's sixth point—surely our high officials are as sin. | *. eerely desirous of that as are the Protestant leaders.
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majority of the American people favor UMT. ‘cepted the idea of merging the UMT with the draft.
Therefore, he will accept. th ‘step in the right direction. My
= ~years- ago Mr, Truman did stop a strike of the | pen Brotherhoods. of Engineers and Firemen by asking Con-|
~tain 80-day court injunctions against strikes that threaten |
“hours none
Facing a possible emergency of that’ magnitudes Coli hn
together. More so, we believe, thas the churchmen realize. ieee Te first point in the seven-point pro gram: reafirms |... opposition to war. All agree to A ———"
Second, Americans are urged to combat hysteria and |
“Our people should |
"The council's seventh point is directed at the churches’
'E can 't go along: with President Truman in actopting the - proposed compromise under which a modified Universal Military Training program would be consolidated —
“AN EDITORIAL _
UNIVERSAL Miltary Training 1s based oi the prin. ciple that defense of this country is a universal obligation, and there should be equality of sacrifice.
with the revived Selective Service. Our stand is firmly in favor of the “Universal Milita Training program as recommended by the Compton Comssion ‘a year ago. : We believe it is a sound and far-sighted answer to the problem of preparing this country militarily for any eventualfty threatening. world peace. And our conviction is strengthened by the fact that various popular polls show
“The nt has explained that he reluctantly ac-
distinct UMT which’ trained 18-year-old youths, universally, for.‘meeting future military obligations. But he doubts that Congress will approve at this time such a program.
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With the Times.
THE WITCH-DEER
In -a forest dark and. wide fs Years and years and years ago Dwelt a young Virginia beau Close boside a river's side.
AND
On a balmy night in June. ¥ Came a spolted deer and gazed Toward the cabin as she grazed ‘Neath the splendog, of the moon.
For, the youth, with gun in hand Issued from the cabin door,
Yet she calmly kept her stand.
‘When his bullets all were gone With the buckle from his shoe Loaded he the gun anew— ‘Silver foils the evil one:
At the rifie’s deadly sound When he ficed the silver ball
: There ‘was left no deer at ail But his sweetheart on the ground.
She a witch could change at will *'From a maiden to a deer— Ride the wind from there to here Over-forest-flood-and-hill.
~LEWIS BRADFORD | RICHARDSON. ®
CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE
Pud Galimore an’ Caleb Abreil went up to the city specially to ride on a two-story bus but Caleb wouldn't stay upstairs. “Too dadblamed risky.” sed’ Caleb. “Why they warn't no driver up there.” Daylight savin’ time won't affect the store's “Bin openin’ ‘fore daylight an’ closin’ after dark,” sed Mr. Kay. “An’] don't see ennyplace a feller could squeeze in a exter sr of daylight.” Curly Grant, our war veteran, air fightin’ his
second battle of the bulge . his waistline. —OATFISH PETE. . ® & o OH, ME!
id old granddaddy used to balk * At “prosy” words, in rhymes he'd talk. “So that my little flair for verse (Sometimes a gift, sometimes a curse), Was wished upon poor Hapless me To Jeave me fettered, never free!
. And, as I earn my daily bread At letter writing; it is said That at a.not too distant day I'll slip a-cog and go astray. Our customers will bat their eyes— So taken by complete surprise, Instead of routine mail they'll get Business notes with rhymes beset! ~RUTH M. COFFIN. . ® ¢ o Aren't husbands who rebel at the price of swomen's hats falling to consider their enter- - talnment value? ¢. 9.
SPRING FLOWERS While you are cleaning house today, I'll make a flower bed . . . Because I realize each spring, Souls with beauty must be. fed.
80 When you've chased the cobwebs, And. ridded rooms of dust . .. eres “a DOW 8f’ ye GE “For with me, they are = must? - er - ~—RUTH RICKLEFS. Cee 9 It's sometimes necessary to wire a Congressman for wation-tut une for sound. <>
FOSTERS. FOLLIES ("CHICAGO—Spring fever can be " sanity, doctor declares”) This good doctor's timely ‘warning, . Of the dangers of the spring, Indicates that some bright merning Stark insanity may bring.
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In voting for Mr. Stassen,
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS .
What About Our Next Congress?
House are apparently determined to put “tis decision over until next.year—through a year's extension which would leave the power of the Chief Executive to adjust tariff schedules more or: dems
WASHINGTON; May 4-—As the presidential campaign draws on; the headlines give us the
variety of subjects, We of what the presidential candidates stand for.
we would have a reasonable expectaAlon of the kind of President we would get. of the kind of government we would have with a Republican sweep we can haye no real assur-
The mystery les in the complexion of the
Reading thie headlifies,” the visitor “ from"
«A Sweeping Republican victory. “might ‘well bring in a hopelessly reactionary Congress. A William McKinley Congress elected in the middle of the Twentieth Century would be just as much of ~ Juaastet as a William McKinley President.
ing Republican President.
“Trying to Defer Decisions?
"the behavior of the present Republican Congress, Increasingly, the tendency is to try to defer . decisions. until next year. The voter has every right to demand to know what this means. The latest and most significant example is
pires next month, . Republican leaders “in the
enacted and becomes fully effective.
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~ THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
Stassen & Co. on a wide to get some idea untouched. Taft, Mr. Dewey or Mr.
But
with a Republican Presi-
that gets very little atten- Teally want.
the Ereeldont and his cab-
know it now.
in fact, make.mincemeat
By ‘Marquis Childs
- BUT IT'S NOT a step forward—it's a faltering zigzag. The i Merger IAT as proposed in the Senate is=like most congressional deals—a weasel-worded document. Designed to please everyone in an election year, it will, in the long run, please no one. It is suspiciously like the compromise on unification which Congress approved last a Year, the inadequacy of which has been revealed day after day In the Army-Navy-Air fight for funds. Pe # It should be clear by now that a revived draft is an ex. re dient in the face of current world conditions. It was As he has told Congress several times, he wanted & necessary to ask for it only because Congress has been. dragging its feet on UMT since 1045. Selective Service should be maintained even under present conditions only
compromise proposal as a until a complete Universal Military Fraining program is
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BARRIER, OR—
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Free Trade
By JOHN W. LOVE
WASHINGTON, May 4-—8up-porters of the 14-year-old policy of reciprocal trade agreements, caught off balance by the speed. of the Republican attack upon it, have been rallied. Possibly they have but a bare two-weeks campaign to save it. Republican opponents hope. to have the trade agreements act revised by May 15. This is the first time the law has come before a Congress-domi-nated by Republicans. In the past the GOP has given it little support. Apparently the act will be revised in one or more important respects, ” » . | . THE MAIN question now seems to be whether or not these revisions will be sufficiently “crippling” to destroy the practical . usefulness of the policy Cordell Hull installed in 1934 for easing tariffs and other barriers to in‘ternational trade. Friends of the legislation will emphasize the bearing it hhs upon Paul Hoffman's Econamic Cooperation Administration. And the new American policy of encouraging European countries | to-do away with obstacles to com« merce among themselves, ss -
10. be modifying an older Ameri.
are increasingly awaie,
/ a ‘ They will insist this is no time | j |
can policy of participation and leadership if. the same direction.
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“UMT would turn out 840,000 trained reserves a year.
But under the Senate compromise plan only 161,000 “youths 18 to 19% would be called up annually for a year's training in the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps, In addition, another 190,000 men between: 19%; and 26 would be drafted each year for two years’ Army service. It would conscript one boy and let two of his neighbors evade all responsibility. = . Phere are a lot of other complexities to confuse the * public. Moreover, the Senate plan would put teen-age boys
under full military con
the Compton Com-
mission and Army sought'to avoid. - There have been forecasts that such a fuzzy-edged program would not get through the House. We hope not, for we see no merit in or necessity for trying to combine UMT and the draft. And we are confident the public will continue to de-
mand A Universal Military Training.
This maneuver originates with such men “us 1 Chairman. Harold Knutson of the House Ways and Means Committee and Rep. Bertrand W.' Gearhart of California, tariff protectionism in the best McKinley tradition. In postponing such a vital decision, they are: plainly hinting at a sly belief that the time is | not yet quite ready for the kind of action they
They stand for high
Essential to World Recovery
L...... JHE TRADE PROGRAM is essential to world. ....recovery. If a. Republican victory, Ix to’ mean .an end to that program-—and a revival of oldfashioned protectionism—then we are entitled to
- Last summer at Geneva and then this fall and winter in Havana, an enormous amount of work went into “the outline ‘of .an International , ANG Great: Britain in particular, have made important con= ~-Ceéssions to the United States. They have sur rendered certain advantages in order to go along - with the American concept of world trade on. a’ more or less free basis. To throw that over now would be to nullify most of what has. been done for European re-
It would be a signal that the U. 8. intended to sit behind its own high tariff wall and let the rest of the world get along as best At: may,
FOREIGN AFFAIRS—
Lend-Lease
By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON, May 4—Deifinitely there will be military lend lease aid to Western Europe. This, despite White House denial that President Truman plans a message to Congress on the subject © this week. The only thing wrong with reports from London, Brussels, Paris and Washington along line is the timing. They were a trifie premature. | The situation seems to be this: Western Europe like her economy, are shot to pieces.
's defenses,
: . 8» . TO REMEDY this, the five Brussels mutual - defense ~ pact . powers last week set up a permanent joint military committee of some 15 sénior officers represent- " ingrthe land, sea and air forces of Britain, France, Belgium. This committee will begin at once to take stock of defense re‘thelr command. Then A blueprint will be presented to the United States and this country Is expected to lend-lease |, as much equipment as possible. The = United asked to specify just how it would utilize its ‘own forces in * She event Western Europe is in
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| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
Let's Rid City of Stray Dogs
By Frank B. Flanner, City At the height of this long expected rabies epidemic in our city, it seems fit to go back a few years as to the probable causes of this condition. In January, 1943, the Animal Welfare League was formed. It had for its pri mary object the elimination of strays from the city streets, and the reconditioning and’
and disposal. of oid At that time she predicted this epidemic which has struck out city and state. She also deplored the lack of law enforcement here,
Sloane Kittle, then president of the A. W. L. and Mrs. Carlos Recker, its secretary, explaining the seriousness of the situation to — At Mrs. Kittle’s request, Mr. Smiley Chambers of the Board of Safety called a meeting of dog owners at the City Hall. Dr. Rice explained the dangers or rabies and its prevention. A film, such, as Judge Clarke is now having shown to law violators was exhibited showing the deadly effects of rabies infection. Believe it or not, almost every “dog lover” there walked out on Dr. Rice who was trying to teach them protection of their very lives! The present outbreak of rabies in our city is ‘due, more than any other source, to the careless sale of mongrel, unfit, untreated strays running the streets everywhere, unlicensed and uncontrolled. The best medical authorities and veterinarians concur that strays must not be sold promiscuously; that the citizens of Indianapolis must be made to obey the existing laws regarding licensing, shots, control, etc. or be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Perhaps it will take just such a horrible epidemic as we are having now to arouse both the authorities and indifferent citizens to their
, duty in preventing such a needless disaster.
“tell you any comparison
* Dr.. Fagan's program should be" rigidly folwed. Wake -up; ‘public; dog-lovers, dog-haters; let's be intelligent—rid the city of all strays and sick dogs. Let's be humane but helpful
at the same time. License the dog OWNER: - + hae :
Scars Paople Con Be Wrong.
By €. D.C. The Japs, believed their Emperor was a divinity descended from the Jap Sun God. The Commies all over the world believe
| Stalin man in the world. Jon, 8 finio the greaiatt ma and-no-doubt bes
ve he was a martyr. eve. dyed in the wool New Dealers-believe Franklin Roosevelt was the greatest American that ever lived. Now : of course’ a rabid New Dealer will between: Mr. Roosevelt and the other three is absurd and preposterous.
. However, from the standpoint of a Jap, a
‘Commie or a Nazi any comparison between their own hero and the other three would be
just as absurd and preposterous. -
The reason I mention .this is because most of the mistakes of history in bath the past and present were made by sincere ‘people who believed wrong.
Under Mr. Roosevelt's leadership we built up
the Commies of Russia into a first rate military power and an enemy who is til more
. dangerous than Hitler,
Shades ¢f Lincoln, Jefferson and Jackson. You were.4ll great, though humble, men. And Jet no ohe detract from your memory because the people made the mistake of ‘electing Mr. Roosevelt President te thing and fourth time:
‘May We Have More Like Him" : By “Annie” i I noticed in the papers of the death ‘of a former street car motorman, Charles Graves,
formerly on the aly line and - later the Illinois Fair Ground I would like to emi a little credit to this man as one of the finest men that I ever Te-.
cheerful at all times happen. to ride the trolley the second time with him he almost knew your name and he always made a point
aside Metrop "ance Co., reg the “club™ ai 1044, when over for four $114,422, Total assets dollar” firms amounted compared wi for the same: 31, 1946. World War
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