Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 May 1948 — Page 4

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Schricker's 5 Hat in the Ring

HENRY SCHRICKER'S decision, yesterday, to accept the Democratic nomination for governor has changed the “whole Indiana political picture.

From an election that Republicans, at least, have com: placently considered “in the bag,” November's election now becomes a contest that. even the strongest GOP nominee might lose. . Mr. Schricker was a good governor . . . less than four years ago. He was personally popular then, and we believe he is more so now, with a following that cuts across party lines. He is a man of sound ideas and of unquestioned intcgfs rity, and the voters of Indiana know it. He is, in short, 1 ~~ about the one -man-in the Democratic camp who could pos- - sibly reverse the powerful Republican tide that has “een running here for the last six or seven years. And his election next fall might well mean more than x just the office of governor. A Schricker victory also might tip the scales in every close congressional race in Indiana, might very well result in a gain of three or four... or even five or six Democratic seats in the lower house.

FOR THIS SITUATION we believe Indiana Republicans may thank Senator William E. Jenner and the crowd of strong-arm politicos behind him. Democrats apparently had small hopes of victory next November . .. certainly nothing that would bring out a candidate as potent us Henry Schricker. Then the little group intent upon wrapping up really tight machine control of this state produced the Jenner “steam roller. And the resulting fight within their party has given the opposition its best chance in years. There may be candidates for the Republican nomination who could win, even against Mr, Schricker, next November. There is nothing to indicate that Mr. Jenner comes in that category. It would, in our opinion, take a Republican national and -state landslide, bigger than any we see in the.

out of two in the race against Mr. Schricker.

» ” - . * » » MR. JENNER has had much to say, alreddy, about his complete and self-sacrificing loyalty to his party, and his | willingness to do anything . ... just anything , . , that | might help the party.

. He could greatly enhance his party's chances at the polls next fall by withdrawing from his ill-advised campaign for the gubernatorial nomination right now, and staying on . in the United States Senate to fill out the five years still | : ;ahead which he promised to serve when he was elected to | that office.

Much to Remember

will feel the gentle pressure of bended knees tomorrow in military cemeteries over the world. Flowers, their stems warm with the moisture of tense fingers, will be strewn or placed near the headstones in little green tin vases, There will be people, mostly fathers, mothers and wives, walking slowly through the Cities of the Dead, or standing’ silently with expressionless faces beside the not-so-old mounds where sons and husbands lie. There will be tear-wet handkerchiefs wadded into the palms of mothers’ hands. And there will be fathers confused at the price of war—and “the talk of more.

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“offing, Yo carry Mr. Jenner into a better position than second |

Assuming that he does mean that, here's his chance. i

mo -(GRAVESID SIDE sod, softened by the eternal rains of spring, |

living their lives with their sons from cradles to uniforms.

dust of human folly over all the world's habitable land and sea. That isn't all. There will be countless thousands in tne military hospitals fighting and hoping their way back, with fingers and arms, eyes and legs mutilated, with minds

_. blighted and nerves still torn apart, to all of whom Memorial Day will have a deeper meaning. For them the cinema of

asia I

‘minds.

THEN THERE WILL be public orators. In carefully chosen words they will unroll speeches calculated to "heighten our appreciation of war's sacrifices. Some of them may not know too much about it, other than what they've | read. But they'll be doing their best to soothe the suffering left behind. There will be mothers, too, of the very young who will watch their sons playing in the yard. They'll be wondering what future Memorial Days will mean to them, whether it will be their sons who are to be remembered in a world with an untiring appetite for death and destruction.

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that their sons are home with nothing lost but a few ycars

Then there will be others, sitting quietly at home, re-

They won't be able to visit the graves, scattered like the |

. ‘war's horrors agai will unreel in the backdrops of their

. But there will be mothers and fathers who are glad

“In Tune. With the Times

THE WORLD FORGETS

How soon the world forgets Great deeds so nobly done, Courageous hearts now lost from view, 'Ere victory has been won. tae

How soon the world forgets The sorrow, strife and pain; ly spent, Thik pretious peace to gain.

They did not ask for glory, _ Those who sleep beneath the cross, They did Hot 2% ask the Woy for pay; —-Or-Piy-for-their-loss,

Their valiant hearts sent forth a call, The=tyrant's rule to ban, And by their answer lost and gained, And served both God and man.

Though mortal memory be so-brief, It shames us to regret, Let all the world remember That God will not forget. La. LOWLETT. > + #

Alarm clocks in the city and roosters in the country can be depended on mot to make getting up any easier. ¢ ¢

MAY

Oh, May -is-such-a-winsome lass. With lilacs in her hair . She sings a lilting round-s-lay That echoes everywhere.

And, as she runs with laughing feet, She scatters on the breeze. Memories of other Mays . . . Entrancing days, like these!

Oh, her arms are full of apple bloom, Her feet are sweet with clover— Entangled in the honey-cups TT Bhe #pills perTume all over! RUTH RICKLEFS. oer Drugstores should stay “open ‘Monday. : Think of the sunburn lotion they'll sell after the 500. > oo

REFLECTIONS

Oh, little pigtailed girl so gay, Where are you going this bright summer day; Off to the river to catfish, you say? Wait for me, wait for me, don't run away.

Oh, lovely maiden, slim and fair, With silv'ry moonbeams in Jour | hair; Your regal beauty was proud and rare; Where has it goné to now, oh, where?.

All too soon youth fades sway; The golden hair is touched with gray: 1 Oh, pigtailed girl, where are you, pray, “Didn't you happen’ “Just yesterday? Bp

JUNE

—June-had-roses-in-her blushes, ' Voice as low as whispering rushes, Growing where the streamlet gushes, Oh June, my peerless June.-

But grim Death, the deft, the bold one Bowed his skuil head to her gold one; Took her warm hand in his cold one, My June, my blue-eyed June.

Yet beyond that valley ridden By the shadows dimly hidden, I am beckoned, beckoned, bidden, By my June, my waiting June.

Though I linger here behind her In life's twilight I shall find her, And in love eternal bind her My June, my new-found June. - ==LEWIS RB, RICHARDSON. * + Credit to the folks whe enter checker tournaments this summer, We'll be too lazy to move. * ¢ ¢

WANT. TO LIVE LONGER

Worry less and work more, 2s Jess and walk more; - Smoke less and breathe more, Eat less and chew more, Complain: less and praise more. : owl, P.M. J * * + Many a grievance is washed away with a little application ” soft Soap. ®

SMILE AND PRAISE

You can make life worth while, With a few wards of praise, Or by saying howdy with a smile, It's better than medicine, these days. ~-ROBERT VV. MAPLE , ¢ & Elephant Steals Purse—headline. Are party finances low? > > o

.FOSTER'S. FOLLIES.

("JACKSONVILLE — Oleanders’ amo ke e found dangerous, even fatal. ")

1 through tropics you meander, In far places of the earth, You should give the oleander - A most wide and spacious berth.

«Quite some censure it's evoking, It is of the poppy's ilk; For the joys of simple smoking We'll go back to sweet eorn silk.

Hull's Sizeup of

IN WASHINGTON . .'. By Peter Edson .

Cold, Factual Record

{ WASHINGTON, May 20 -0f.all the people who knew Frank-

| THE WAGE-PRICE RACE=

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.'More Rises Then

Higher Pay Scales

» ' Fan Inflation Fires By FRED PERKINS Seripps-Howard Stall Writer | WASHINGTON, May 29—Some leading members of Congress, specializing in economics, are dubious or openly critical about a tie-in be- - tween wages and the cost of living. .They. fear it means trouble for the country. ‘Such a scheme has just been used by General Motors Corp., largest private employer in the world, In wage settlements with 250,000 produc tion employees, members of the CIO Auto Work#ri, and With 40,000 others in the CIO ‘Electrical - Workers. . The. idea is expected to. Apread. Among the critics are Sen. Robert ®. 0.) and Sen. Wayne Morse (R. RA

Far]

, who

represent opposite schools of thought in the |

Senate majority, and are usually apart on labor questions.

Among those who see a possible bad result is Rep. Jesse P. Wolcott (R. Mich.), chairs of |

the House Banking and Currency Committee. I the wage tie-in plan were applied generally in’ American industry,” Mr. Wolcott sald, “it would tend to destroy one of the strongest

stabilizing and anti-inflation influences—that is; |

consumer resistance against rising prices and consumer pressure to force prices down.

Le:ing Personal Interest

“IF A MAN has a guarantee that his income will go up more or less proportionately with the-cost of -living,-it- is obvious. that that

individual is likely to lose his personal Jet

in keeping prices down snd in forcing them lower. Multiply that individual by the millions —as must be done if the plan is adopted gen- . erally—-and you tend to neutralize a large | section of public opinion, a section which now “is the most vocal against high prices. : “However, we can hope for counter-balanc- | ing influences. If the result is uninterrupted high production the manufacturing cost of auto-

mobiles and other products could fall, bringing |

—priee-reductions. when the market is saturated with automobiles or any 6ther important product, prices are likely to fall, anyway. What

will“ happen to wages then ix too far ig the }

future to be guessed. | Whipsaw Up and Up

“THE WORST POSSIBLE result, which of course no one wants, is that wages and living costs will whipsaw each other higher and higher

| with the unorganized workers and the mil |

lions of fixed- income people caught ‘in th

middle.”

Sen. Taft said he agreed in general with

| Mr. Wolcott, and added: “This plan ténds to | speed up a spiral of inflation, and also to speed | upw spiral of deflation.” “Sen. Morse as a member of the War Labor Board had experience with’ a somewhat similar ‘plan in the “little steel” formula of ‘wartime - wage control. a wage formula hitched to changes In the cost of Hving was economically sound" - —-Such-a formula, he said, “is not as. fexible.

He said he had “never felt that 1g

as a first Took would indicate. It 1s based In fact upon an concept of a static wage and ignores many factors which must be taken into account for determination of a fair wage. “In times of inflation this plan would feed inflation, and in times of depression it would dig deeper economic graves for workers.” : No law prevents any union or employer from adopting such a plan. Scores of smaller labor contracts embody variations of the scheme. The General Motors contracts, because of their size, brought the subject wide attention.

Angling Permission

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LEGISLATIVE CIVIL WAR—

WASHINGTON, May 29--On every political front, in Congress and out, the issue finally gets | down to how power is to be exercised under the American form of government. { We are facing the fact that, with responsi- | bility divided between the states and the federal government, there are gaping holes in which no authority can function. | The absence of any government-—anarchy— may be. in theory.a highly desirable condition. What is more, change will come in the yeasty time in which we are living. It will cone through the processes of democracy, or it will come in ways that can only be harmful and destructive to what we cherish most. These thoughts are stirred by an editorial in the Mobile (Ala.) Press. The editorial agrees that there is a threat to freedom in recent proposals to curb information and thought. True, says. ihe. editorial, this. police state.” But it goes on to say that President Tru- | man’s Civil-Rights program is likewise the | shadow of a coercive state. ‘The language used | is strong:

' FEPC Bill at Core

“ONE PARTICULARLY alarming measure

“HIhaorssd ‘BY “the Président 1s the FEPC bill”

That shadow of the police state grows even darker when one studies carefully this measure, which would create a dictatorial agency that could destroy the constitutional rights of citizens, This bureaucratic agency could tell an employer whom he could hire or not hire. It . could dictate to unions as to membership, forcing them to admit persons they did not want.

{ Political demagogy and expediency to one

| side, here is the root of the southern revolt ainst the Truman proposals, It is in the | profound fear of coercion—of having an: alien

CRY OT Tie CC IMPOSed” BY UTTER WHIeH would

shatter a pattern cherished with blood and 1 tears, | be brushed aside as mere rhetoric. If any proof I~ were needed; it-is inthe reaction of southern | liberals such as Hodding Carter of Greenville, Miss, who have considered themselves New Dealers. They cannot accept the Imposition of the civil-rights program by the federal government. | Visiting | the South even briefly, you realize

is. the ‘shadow of the...

“This reeling 18 deép ‘and Teal and it éannot

Low-Wage South Fears Coercion In Truman Civil Rights Proposal

National Affairs By Marquis Childs

that Southerners are acutely aware of what the rest of the country may be thinking. They want to believe that their way of life is good, is workable and is capable of change: What is more, they want the visitor to believe it.

They tell him of changes—of how Negro mem- |

bers of northern football teams came to the South and played with their teams against the all-white teams of the South. To the Northener, who brings his own preju-

dices with him, these changes are likely to seem

very small gains indeed.

Weakness of South...

HERE, IN MY opinion, is the weakness of the South's position. Granted that their problem is of a kind and a magnitude which the Northerner cannot comprehend. Granted that their fear of coercion and the police state comes out of a belief in freedom and in the rights of the individual that is perhaps deeper than in _.. any other part of the country.

Meanwhile, Sen. William rn Rnowlasid (R

"Cal.), head of the Benate conferees om Labor Department appropriations, said that because of

the new load placed on the “consumers’ price index” of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, that agency ‘should DAYS IUCIsnt TODAY. The Senate has restored funds cut by the House, and A final outcome awaits Soafarence meetings. They have been faiaved until Con. gress ‘acts on a supplemental SpprOpEiation or

, the Federal Security Agency.

Hoosier Forum

"| do not agree with a word that you say, but |

will defend to the death your right te sey it." Rd

Those Slots

By Cameron I see where the police confiscated six slot

| machines at the Purple Heart Club on W. ed

St.—right in the heart of downtown. . 1 don't see how this could go on in the midst of so many people without the police having found it out sooner,

There is one thing sure, we do not want

an open town. When a town Is “open,” every body is taking all he can and so many people get their fingers in one another's pockets that we forget all about law enforcement in the race to get the easy money. 1 want to spend my money for groceries and clothing, and I don't want a lot of other peo: ple neglecting to pay their bills because they lose their money in slot machines, When they don’t pay, my grocer or merchant has to write

| his losses into higher prices which are paid by

used the powers of the states to channel the |

process of change. been the reaction to the President's proposals. Instead of political conventions devoted to ways and means of resisting Mr. Truman personally, the- South might have held a conyention to study how opportunity might be equalized within the framework of states’ rights and the pattern of southern conduct. Such a meeting would have made a deep impression on the country. Two facts tend to becloud the passionate be“jr the rights of the separate states and .the individual man. One is that some southern in-

differential based mainly on the Negro for economic gain. The other and more damaging fact is that #0 many southern Representatives in Congress seem always ready to vote forthe measures Jat repress and coerce those whom they do not like yourself that you constantly séek to deny to others,

Tier of the honest Southerner in freedom and |

_terests seem determined to keep & lower wage.

Consider what might have |

You cannot claim rights and freedoms for

“father just teen-agers who like money.

those who are faithful with their bills: T hope Mayor Feeney keeps the lid on. “The slot machines never got any of my money, but

ips weak. who. pour thouYet the fact remams that the South has not | ~there-are.a-lot-of people mo

sands of good nickels. in after the bad ones they have lost trying to get even with a machine which mechanically takes about 50 per cent of every dollar put into it. ® o_o

Little David By G. D. We saw Little David's picture in the paper last night. It seems to me the word “little” should be dropped. Just call him David. He apparently resents discipline from his because fe iv 3 seems to be 18 or 20, and may be like other I never-saw-an- “evangelist several collections during a meeting. Little David is pot an exception. He doesn’t want advice from his father, the one who really has his interest at heart, and apparently should have a much-needed rest in his family where he belongs. I won't believe his father is as bad as David thinks he is. .

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| Side: Glances—By Galbraith

DEEN

"DEAR BOSS... By Daniel M. Kidney

~_ + Halleck, Like Watson, In Backing Trade Act

WASHINGTON, May 20—Dear Boss: Majority Leader

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of education and ribbons to show that they served and where.

to ponder. Wars of the past.

There will be much to remember tomorrow, and much Wars of the future. And the

inevitable price which we reckon anew each year on the 30th of May.

Bipartisan Labor Policy

FL President Green turned down Paul Hoffman's request that an AFL representative serve with a CIO

member as administrative advisers to the Economic Co operation Administration on labor matters, Mr. Green gave as grounds for his refusal the CIO's affiliation with the

World Federation of Trade .Unions, which is said to be J

Communist-controlled.

Mr. Green has a point, but does it outweigh the advisa-

bility of labor co-operation in this matter? The CIO's affili-

ation with the WFTU is not necessarily permanent. Mean‘while, the Marshall Plan has official CIO support.

If we need bipartisan political policy on European aid,

It deems equally necessary to have bipartisan labor backing.

's hold is strongest in the field of labor. It ay, Yatcen 1 that hold if Europe's workers were’

nie 0 waited in support of/ |

lin D. Rogseveit and wrote books about him, Cordell Hull's new 1742 pages of “Memoirs” —written in collaboration with Washington correspondent Andy Berding-—offer the most honest appraisal, Ray Moley, Al Smith, Jim Farley, Jack Garner and the others in their club fell out with Mr. Roosevelt. When they wrote their books it was to find FDR wrong and show how right the authors were, In the other corner, Fanny Perkins, Charlie Michelson, Henry Morgenthau and now perhaps the new Harry Hopkins Memoirs compiled by Bob Sherwood overglamorize “the boss.” Mr. Hull's sizeup is pretty cold. He strives for historical ac curacy. Soma of it is a bit tedious, but it is the record.

Stopped Off to See Hull

THE TWO men first met in 1918, when Mr. Roosevelt was Assistant Becretary of the Navy and Mr. Hull was in Congress. It was 10 years belOre they hecagne closely associated. From 1929 to 1032, Mr. Roosevelt used to stop over in Washington on his way from Albany to Warm Springs. Mr, Hull was one of the few Washingtonians he consulted. IT was a complete surprise to Mr. Hull when Mr. Roosevelt offered him the secretaryship of state In January, 1932, Mr. Hull took a month decide. “Ir I accept, I do not have in mind the mere carrying on of correspondence with foreign governments.” Mr, Hull told the President, Mr. Hull admits that he had “a few” emphatic differences with the President. They threshed them out bluntly, but in friendly spirit. In his first term, Mr. Roosevelt was chiefly concerned with domestic policies, It was not until 1936 that Mr, Roosevelt stepped. inte foreign affairs in a big way.

While the two men were in general nt on foreign

policies, Mr. Hull confesses he didn't go along on many of the |

domestic Policies. Frequently he'told the President he was too fast nd too far on’ his reforms: On wueh occasion Hull says Mr, Roosevelt listened, then shania the » Subject

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vote for it. Maybe "his B Republicans 4 Are not

Charles A. Halleck is the man who sent the GOP one-year ex tension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreement law through the House with the whopping vote of 234 to 149. He lashed ouf at Secretary of State Marshall's saying that 3 one-year extension was worse than no law at all and denount the Democrats for insisting that it be extended for three. The vigorous young Hoosier reminded old-timers in the Lo leries of Be _ Senator “Jim” Watson when he was in DB prime and shouting about “tinkering with the tariff.” The House measure may be watered down .some in the Sen ate, Chairman Vandenberg of the Foreign Relations Committet Teportedly wants the provision for jonal review remove from the measure. That would leave the tréaty making largely in the hands of the old tariff commission, And that is where Mr. Halleck wants it. Why? Because that will benefit “the little people” of course, -Here is what he told his colleagues:

Give ‘Little People’ o Voice . “THE LITTLE PEOPLE in your own district have a much right to live as anyone else any place in the world. them will give them some measure of protection. This will give os some opportunity te be heard, and it will assure the carry! forward of the 1 this “Some well-informed people have told me that after: an ts ends here and there, the whole trade agreg:nent. bas been perfected and carried out. . me ds

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