Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 May 1948 — Page 22

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Friday May. 21, 1948

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

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L. hd walked out of contract negotiations eoal operators almost before they got going. And

is whether the impending coal strike will 30, when the contract expires. ‘performance was a playback of the ‘we all know so well—~John L. defying had a little novelty this time, for he

ATIONS are pertinent. of the Labor-Management Act says: an unfair labor practice for a labor organ-

or its agents to restrain or coerce an employer in of his representatives for the purposes of col

the adjustment of grievances.” s either side to dictate who shall repre= | Mr. Lewis vetoed that law Wednesday. quotation is from a government petition

sent 2 filed the preceding day before Federal Judge Goldsborough. The petition asked dismissal of the anti-strike injunction

recent Lewis “pension strike.” It said yoses had been achieved and “the secure against cessation in full pro-

ore coal mines of the nation.” Judge Goldsborough balked, telling the government lawgot to give me a good reason for that.” reason colfld be stated, Mr. Lewis gave the

Judge Goldsborough’s caution. “and humiliating effort of the government

, Lewis has had its inevitable result. time,

the same thing has happened. Mr, 0 law, the President and Congress. He people. all aver fhe’ lof. The. ad: a erin, be than. 18. gavessiment, Bus. in_the end jt

WITH ALL HIS victories, with all the political grovel. "Ing to him, Mr. Lewis’ ego has swelled and swelled. And what is the answer? ? at rt othe Quotation: t i from sui editorial: last Apk 21, She day fish John 1. LANs ora Shoal

For a Mess of Pottage

Jat does an old-fashioned liberal think about the ‘beautiful concept that a modern- government should take over a social responsibility for the welfare of all its

There are plenty of old-fashioned liberals still around "in this country (though they may be called reactionaries by some) still retaining their prejudices for freedom in a government controlled by the people. Do they find their . beliefs compromised now as other self-proclaimed “libera- - tors” of mankind press for a socialistic government? «Certainly Donald-Richberg is. one.of .our old-fashioned. . liberals, To those questions he has provided some thought- “~~ ful-anewers-in-a-spesch- before. the Third. National. Con... ference on Citizenship in- Washington. Mr. Richberg is clearly disturbed by the suggestion . that some sort. of irresistible “wave of the future” is sweeping humanity into a new way of life, He acknowledges that millions of Americans earnestly desire a sort of benevolent "despotism which assures every man a good living. But they fnake the mistake, he says, of believing that such a government can lead us into a promised land of state socialism without exercising the tyrannical authority of a Communist dictatorship.’ How pleasant, indeed, would it be if our government could guarantee every citizen a good living while at the same time preserving his individual liberty in the making and spending of his income. But it's the old story, as Mr. Richberg points out, of having one’s cake after eating it. If we, as free citizens want to be relieved from the pains and problems of self-government for a mess of pottage in the form of promised security, let us not overlook the pricetag attached: That in re suffer the humiliation of/an accepted slavery. So this old-fashioned liberal bids us to be “resolute and uncompromising in our opposition to reactionary reform that calls itself liberalism. Let us have strength in our conviction that when men lose faith in the only form of govern. ment in which individual liberty is preserved, they lose in themselves. Then they are no longer free men and women, They ae willing to sell liberty for a Promise of

for this “security,”

We join with Mr. Richberg in the prayer tint the ma- { fority of Americans will continue to remain faithful to the | "only form of government under which they can remain

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: WASHINGTON, May 21—Spokesmen’ “for some of the “little peoples” of the United Nations are convinged the United States should call Russia's bluff by: demanding a general peace conference like that which followed World War L Stalin-and Molotov, they point out, are doing their utmost to put the United States on the

spot. Having blocked the peace for. nearly three years, they now seek to “the. world believe America is to blame, to , the horse

before the cart, therefore, the should tell them: “You say you want peace. All right. Let's invite all interested countries to the table the way it was done at Paris, in 1919,

-Resent Being Shoved Aside

“HOWEVER, until we reach complete agree“ment the United States will go right ahead with its national defense measures, European Recovery Program and the r The !ittle members of the United Nations | have long resented being shoved asid great powers in matters relating to peace. In this, Russia has been and remains the chief offender. It was Russia that insisted on Juling China out of the picture and keeping waiting on the doorstep. But the little nations object just as much to the Big Four or Big Five formula. They are an integral part of the United Nations, they remark with some bitterness, hence are just as much bound by its rules as Russia, the United Btates or any other member, however big.

Difficult for Little Panama

“ARTICLE I of the Charter declares the United Nations is “based on the principle of sovereign equality for all its members.” All’ are equally bound by its provisions. All “shall give the United Nations every assistance in any astian 4 It takes" to maintain world ‘peace and secu It the United Nations should so , it woud be every bit as difficult for little Panama to provide 35,000 soldiers—five per cent of her population--as it would be for the United States to provide seven million or Russia nine million. And there would be the same relative strain if the requirement was money, materials or any “other “form of nationsl effort. ~~ “THUS, 1t 1s argued, the great powers have no moral—or, for that matter, legal—right to get together and dictate a peace which the little fellows would be expected to defend. " Buch a pesce might require United Nations members to shed their blood to maintain bor ders which they believed to be wholly unjust, It might require them to join in a'war to make millions of uprooted peoples stay where they had been put, or to defend “territorial changes that do not accord with the freely. patel wishes of the peoples concerned”—as the Atlantic Charter puts it. . If members of the United Nations are to be expected to maintain and defend the peace after ~smaller: members

Jd. have. a. hand in. its. making. That. they.

, is elementary, pn is afrived at fn any other wag, they” warn, --it. almost certainly would

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MAY? -. ©

May T use my gift of sight to see i The beauteous things of life, > May I never waste it wantonly f On sordid scenes of strife. :

May I use my gift of hearing And attune to pleasant sounds And linger . . . only briefly where Unpleasantness abounds. :

And may I do a kindly deed Before the setting of each sun, © 80 in my heart I feel secure Of one small task I've done! . =-ANNA E. YOUNG, ® oO In London & hit-skip driver was shot Ours usually are oy hat shot,

POOR POETRY EDIT OR I don't see how he lives each day Readin’ and correctin’ rhymes But I'm the one—who worries him “Trying to Tune Up the Times. ~~ WILLOW PLUME. ® o ! The majority of folks go to. a lot of {trouble they should avs. " wd

JUDGE NOT

When sore provoked by another's act Consider well ‘ere aught you shy Could be, if you were he; in fact. The deed you ‘d do the self same way. -—H. E. DROLL. ® & Too many soul mates and up as skippers. ®

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

Suit Is Newest Trick.”) All. may not be gold that glistens, ..

[7 With so mARy 10VeTy sisters, Sunning in a golden suit.

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‘Side Glances—By Galbraith

"You needn't laugh—it is a fittle different from when | was your Hpawitort”

BY WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS Scripps-Howard Foreign Editor

United Nations. The chances are that the first

time the United Nations seriously called for en--

__forcement, most of its members would refuse

to march, on the ground that they did not like. _ the peace oy the first place and had not been

nited States consulted in the second. -

“the ‘war against the central powers

\The akiswar 19 all these probisuma—the phony drive launched by the Kremlin as well as:

" the eventual success of the United Nations--

seems to lie in the direction of a general peace conference’ rather than one limited to four or five powers, The Paris peace conference of 1b19, t is re-

‘called, was such an assembly. All allied and

associated nations which had participated in re rep: resented. Not all had the same number of delegates. But they had a voice, J

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REMEMBER PROHIBITION?

Mundt Bill Viewed as Parallel

(Second of Three Articles) oe WASHINGTON, May 21—In the aftermath

| of World War I, the country allopted prohibi-

tion. Alcohol used in excess was a proved evil and therefore it should be abolished by law. In the aftermath of World War II, Congress proposes to abolish the political evil of communis by PASSING & Taw oF several laws, For it is clear that the Mundt Bill is only the beginning of a drive to legislate communism out of existence. - This reflects something deep in the Amerfcan character—‘there oughta be a law.” It looks so simple. The abuse of alcohol causes a waste of resources and incalculable social harm; therefore prohibit it -by legislative fiat. We fail to realize that deep-rooted social evils cannot be eradicated by a law. We fall, too, to realize that the consequences of such-a law may be more disastrous than the evil it was meant to cure. We saw that in the case of

_prohibjtion. In my opinion, the effort to wipe

out communism by legislative flat would have even more serious consequences.

Rooted in Rural America ors IT 18 INTERESTING that the present.drive has in large medsure the same origin as the drive for prohibition had. It comes from rural America, from the Middle West, from the region broadly described by. H. L. Mencken as the Bible Belt.

Rep. Karl Mundt is a former South Dakota

school teacher. Hard working, ambitious, he believes sincerely in the American virtues of self-help, free enterprise. Along with his conversion to the necessity for America to assume a leading rol¥ in the world, he has learned a little about the Com-

-munist: movement: and: its. conspiratorial plot to

bring about Communist. domination in every country. Communists are plotters who defy

the: laws of man and God: “They are-often-of-

foreign origin; they live in cities,

A Chance to Step Up

CREP. MUNDT HONESTLY believed that the evil represented by these plotters can be abolished by law. Besides, it is a popular political fssue and he is running for the Senate, with

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-A GRADE B ARMY? ‘Brass’ Rejects Sissies, Bums and Derelicts

WASHINGTON, May 21—To many Army men, one of the most disturbing features of the congressional debate on national security has been the type of question frequently asked by Sen. Edwin Johnson (D. Colo.) and others: “OK, you say you need men; why don't you lower your

That never falls to send cold chills shooting up general staff It is safe to say the Army never voluntarily will lower its educational and physical requirements for . enlistment. it does, it wiil be over the heated protests of Lt, Gen. Willard 8. Paul, director of personnel,

Generals Paul and Dahlquist have founght a grim battle since the end of the war to raise Army standards. They will fight just as hard tp maintain them.

Are Our Standards ‘Artificial’? THE REASONING of those who would lower the bars runs .

The Army needs men--numbers or bodies, as It sometimes eke them. But it rejects several hundred men each week: it were less choosy it would accept those men. Presto--no Unis versal Military Training, -no draft. Army,” something Congress ardently desires. The “Letterhead Lobby"-—which opposes the draft and Uni Military Training--insists that the Army maintains “artificial” standards deliberately.

Two Ways to Fill Up Army

IT SAYS the Army wants its manpower charts to show a

NATIONAL AFFAIRS By Marquis Childs

a good chance to step up from the lower

chamber to the upper. In discussing the bill with Rep. Mundt, I pointed out: the parallel between the effort to eradicate the sin of alcohol by the prohibition law and the effort to wipe out the political sin of SoHnynism by passing laws. Hs. came back with this:

You Can't Screen a Saloon

“WHAT OUR bill does is to say you can’t put a screen in front of a saloon. A saloon must ‘be publicly labeled & saloon. This is all we are doing. That is a shrewd answer. But the fact remains that laws to label saloons as a public evil were merely one step in the drive of those seeking to abolish the evil by law. A few courageous members of the House— John Carroll of Colorado, Jacob Javits of New York, Chet Holifield of California—pointed out

“tn the ‘House debate that communism can take: = hold in Amerjca only if there are grave social

maladjustments and a mounting sense of inJustice. They pointed out that there are laws now 'on the books to safeguard the country from plotters. if those. laws. are only. properly enforced.

Shouters Do the Least

“IT 18 SIGNIFICANT,” Mf. Carroll said, “that those who cry the loudest about the threat

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| By dohn Alvah Dilworth, 11644 Broadway, City, -

nes) Be ok to citizens as fast as Possible

Fra : phony | will defend to the death your right ok go

s and Dollars By Mrs. H. W. Howisnd, City If anyone, including Mr,

Flanner. ts . Know where the dog population 18 coming frors

just read the “Dogs for Sale" Solumng Jn pers... Hundreds of them are.

SPCA is busy rescuing from the streets * turning them to their owners, or finding mor,

“ responsible owners.

Mr. Flanner.was an officer in the very Tul Agimal Weitate League. 1 atafdes’ theiy eeting and never once heard anything

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suggested spending ore Tors tuck Or PE ur Al GORE street whether licensed or not. This would be . a great incentive in my opinion to the 1 of dogs. In ordinary times, a person should have a right to expect some benefit from hig licénse. But the AWL did not get much back. ing for its ideas so it tried something else. The AWL arranged a meeting before the City Coun. —~ cil where two kennel men whom they had taken into the society, admitted that if the eity sola dogs for four dollars it would hurt their Bley of dogs they were 10-sell. In an- effort to frighten us into the dog extermination plan we were to be entertaineq with a horrible movie of a dog dying of rabies, But the presiding city official was. decent enough to announce the nature of the picture and gave us the opportunity to leave, We left in a body. How any refined person could look at such a thing I wouldn’t understand. When commercial interest and other personal ambitions creep into a society, sincerity goes out. There is al. ways an element who will try to run down op

. destroy fine and sincere things but fhe BPCA

he work and the in. . tel i co-operation of the public, to build up

hopes with humane education

an organization such as so many other cities have, - ® 9 Cocktails Are Out .

B§ Martha Barnhart, 809 8: Biitmore Ave., City

cme T- ould - Hike to-make a -few suggestions to my-fellow Methodist - who signed -his

Name “Fearful.” First, I urge you to go to the pastor of your church and ask him to explain what the difference is'between a feligionist and a Christian,

Then get a copy of. the Discipline of the

Methodist Church and read in the appendix Article 2013, the stand the. Methodist Church takes on alcohol. If you do not believe this, then ia your membership from our

If you are up to date on Methodism, you would know that we have been known as the Methodist Church and not Methodist Episcopal since the merger nine years ago... “Your claim of having a good time at a cockteachings

party and abiding by Christian nconsistent.’

T agree that legislation will never solve the liquor. problem. but -the Living Christ in men’s hearts can, if we lét Him.

eM W Mockery?

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. "It is my opinion that the people in the City Council chambers Monday night, May 3, heard the greatest mockery of the laws governing dogs, in our time. Laws governing dogs protect dog own They have adequate escape and hardship. safe. ds. All respecters of other people’s rights recognize that it is important to our heaith and well-being to enforce the dog laws, Are the taxpayers, city councilmen, to pay for free inoculation of dogs so their owners can order special expensive crockery for their dogs and manicure their nails, take them to salons to be washed and combed and their coats tinted? Had members of the City Council

been compelled to watch the 16-year-old boy from .

Claypool, Ind, die in the James Whitcomb Riley ‘Hospital Friday, Apr. 23, from rabies, I believe the action taken May 3 Ls Wb been different. . * oo o

Slow Compensation By Oliver A. Gross, City.

My father, 70, who lives at 613 E. New York St., was employed at Dillings Candy Co. until February, He was laid off. He applied for compensation. After several weeks he was told he would receive no checks until « certain meeting was held. After six weeks the meeting was held and a board determined” who were faithful employees deserving compensation. They were told

you will receive your. checks in from a week .

to 10 days.” Another four weeks elapsed and still’ no money. We have been supporting them in hope of their getting’ the check. Finally my father found a man who said he would receive a check for nine weeks and this would bring him a week short of up to date. waited. Yesterday he was told that because of the law he will have to wait another 15 days.

and danger of communism do the least to pre- |

sent a re program with which to cut

ott trom under tho who advocate! communism. " He was referring, of course, to the fact that TR IEETE group of IeRdErs In "the “House have persistently ‘blocked even- the mild Taft Hous: ing Bill and every other form of social legislation intended to relieve some of the pressures of This: period of Inflation. The a8 & following ‘article will show, has even dealt meagerly and penuriously with the safeguards intended to protect American security.

By Jim G. Lucas

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Don't Link Them

f FBy EC Adlemni; Oty

I liked your edtorial “Palestine” in May 17th

paper but please get a little more clear-headed about it.

‘First everything 18 clear to the Jews; ft may

not be to the Arabs. You should know that the Jews have more brains than the Arabs— don’t link ‘them Just because they're both fighting. The settlers are simply defending life and property. : ® oo

The highest possible is 150; the national average is 100. In some cases, 70 is a passing grade. are accepted even if they flunk. The physical tests aim at getting mén who won't break under the stress of military life—and become permanent penIn one respect at least, the examinations have been

Veterans of known qualifications

liberalized. Army doctors now “look at the whole man, not -just

and Maj. Gen. John E. Dahl

a chunk of him,” .Gen. Dahlquist says, The old Army would reject a man if he had flat feet. Now, the condition of a man's feet is important but fallen .arches don’t automatically eliminate him. They can be ignored if he is otherwise good material.

Men Over 35 a Liability

GEN: DAHLQUIST says it would be poor econemy to accept men over 35—8ern. Johnson's latest. “solution.” over 35 who decides to become gn Army private fs almost certain to be a liability. If he serves 20 years, he'll be over 55 when he retires, His productivity would be limited.

He says A man

Gen, Dahlquist speaks from experience. He commanded the

We'd have a “volunteer

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36th Division in the war, 1500 men who couldn't make the grade. Most of them, he said, now are on the pension rolls, There's no Years ago, the Army took anything it could § sult, it suffered in public respect. Judges parol petty con men on condition they join the Army; Now, Gens. Paul and Dahlquist want an Army which can attract decent

Before it finished training, he had

ting them off—ever. fess. As a re drunks and

The Good Ones Will Drop out : IT HAS THOUSANDS of them. But Gen. Dahlquist is quit®

loss. each month: so it can stampede Congress into Universal blunt about it—start he calls “the clunks” again “Military ning and Selective Service. It maintains the Army and the good bnes will trop out. 3 io would have no manpower -problem if it would (1) mocept men Gen. Dahlquist says the Army is no place fob sissies. But 5-21) mentally substandard, (2) lower its physical Fequirements-and it is no place Tor bums, ‘derelicts and sick men. If it is to b n middie iol "Army cesspvely Be better, wl corainy Just 48 says, it oad oni the out a y no py. than those on ’ Mo ma tf ee se of 3 ot Sh Tt aly 0 Wurse ; at

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6835. : wilt ulations ha pleted on the retul Jocals and a parti proximatel 5500 om N total numbe med here so far

of 20, Earlier returns pent ITU officers four to three in ar of one-sixth of the votes cast. ‘The members, 66.000 in a recent ballot. —i—

Jenner Ac Butler Stu

gen. William E. schools as one concerns today in to the Butler Uni for-Governor” Ch “We must cons {mprove our scho made every effort told the Butler st is in the upper fin field of school teachers’ salaries first six in averag ing, but we still of term a class size is too g

Sous to be one o! campaigni speak to convent! Anderson tonight, ing week-end swin uled to appear {i diana next week.

Bell to In:

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er wala He Pell ou more than 60 ye before Indiana Be 000 telephones in ond quarter mil reached in only el carry an engrave to the base of the might be installe communities in I Indiana Bell.

“ will be installed 1

Beottish Rite Cath They are Col. Al sen, president; Lt. Schultz, first vice Cmdr. John E. } + Vies president;

Judge Harry 0. Ch advocate; Lt, Col. surgeon; Lt. historian; Capt. W marshal, and Lt. \ rod, color bearer. Tippecanoe Camp, were Col. Frank J mander-and Maj. 1

Church to Pre The F g irst Pil Church will press evangelist, Chief in a series of wee beginning tonight in the church, 30t] Se wilh “same hour tomorre The evangelist vis ~Xefervations-. in ef past. winter, He. w nfed here by a gr GI's of the Cross Hist him-in-the-se Re ——————— State Police Cites Personr If Indiana is to law enforcement t force must have Soopers, Col. Rot ate Poli today olice super He ‘said the ad Would bring the Which, he said, is

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enforcement, The State Poljc Will confer wit} %oon to discuss pi PRign in the next additiona) appro

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