Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 June 1948 — Page 16

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Give Light end the People Will Pind Thew Vwn Way

‘One More Push QUr thanks to the Senate Finance Committee for giving its unanimous approval to the bill for repeal of the fedi eral taxes and license feed which discriminate unfairly £4 against margarine and its users. 3 Now if the bill is put before the Senate promptly it seems certain to pass there as it did in the House, and to become law. “ | But this fight isn't won yet. There is still danger that “Senate consideration of the margarine-tax repealer will be 80 long delayed that it will be lost in the adjourment rush. _.Or that its passage will be blocked by last-minute shenanigans. : :

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ps determined to get rid of these unjust taxes have been the most potent force behind the bill's progress thus far, Now is the time for them to tell their Senators in _ no upcertain terms that they want quick, decisive action to enact this measure before Congress quits.

From the Senate to Stalin IF Stalin is wise he will take time out from reading Wal- " lace letters and Molotov reports on American foreign port on the Vandenberg resolution. It warns aggressors | the United States will go to war to resist “any armed attack | affecting national security”; it also favors regional defense | alliances such as the Western European Union. The committee repeats the State Department's warning to Russia in the now famous conversation of Ambassador Bedell Smith with Foreign Minister Molotov. “Ambassador _. Smith said the United States would not waver in its firm “policy, which is supported overwhelmingly by American. public opinion—despite Communist and Wallace propaganda to the contrary. But Stalin did not take thé Smith warning seriously; he merely tried to pervert it for purposes of another Soviet propaganda campaign. lace or an isolationist Republican will be the next President

Ill-informed as he is about all things American, presumably Stalin knows that the ‘control the Senate and that Chairman Vandenberg and the Foreign Relations Committee majority are Republicans. He ought to know that a unanimous committee decision—such as this 13-to-0 vote—is absolute proof of the bipartisan nature and powerful public support of that policy. , ! ; If Stalin is as smart as he is supposed to be, a reading of this committee report and resolution will show him that Chairman Vandenberg and other Republicans have set up a test of his “peace offensive.” They demand strengthen- * ing of the United Nations by abolishing the veto power eacept on the use of force, and by organizing the delayed United Nations police force. Russia has opposed both. Sen.. Vandenberg and his colleagues hope this resolution of warning will discourage Stalin from future aggression and in United Nations sabotage. If it doesn’t, Russia may be surprised to find Republican leaders even more hard-

"boiled than the Democrats.

They Wouldn't Like It

. ©" demand from leaders of 21 railroad unions that the _government nationalize the railroads and “proceed to bargain upon wages and working conditions.” Granted, present dealing with labor-management controversies on the railways has become unsatisfactory to all concerned, strikes or strike threats to enforce demands for more than unions can get peaceably under the Railway ‘Labor Act; government seizure; court injunctions against strikes—those aren't good. Unless a better method is de-

_.....We won't argue here about whether the country would be better served by railways permanently under govern__ment ownership and bureaucratic management. We think | it would not be. : But we don’t bélieve the rail union leaders really want . that, and we're sure they wouldn't like it if they got it. The government already fixes railroad rates, and denies railroad owners the right to stop or curtail service without official permission. Under nationalization, the government | | {

would fix railway wages and forbid strikes, and there would be no collective bargaining. For the unions’ members would become government employees, holding their jobs subject to the following principles: “All government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be translated into the public service . . . the very nature and purposes of government make it impossible for administrative officials to represent fully or to bind the employer in mutual discussions with government employee organizations. The employér is the whole people, who speak by means of laws enacted by their representatives in Congress . . . a strike of public employees manifests nothing less than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of government until their demands are met. Such action, looking toward the paralysis of government by those who ‘iave sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.” Those principles were stated by President Franklin D. © Roosevelt. We can’t imagine any President or any Congress failing to apply them to railway labor if the railroads are ever nationalized. ’

ight Be Worth ‘a Try President has offered Congress a $27,323,000 Jbar- ~~ gem. He wants that sum to hire 10,000 more tax." enforcement officers and raise the pay of others in the in--terest of better collecti Moiitid ~*~ The treasury claims that we lose a billion dollars

& year through fax evasion. If this is true, something

should be dome, especially with-the present tax cut

1 ‘may not bé a gus bargain. But if there ® to recover that billion for about one-fortieth of

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Governor, because of the atomic bomb } "The present canal, completed in 1914, employs a set of three | jocks to raise ships from the Atlanti¢ to the higher Pacific side of the Isthmus of Panama. Opponents of the sea-level canal would merely expand the locks to accommodate larger ships.

Arguments Indefensible

IN AN ARTICLE in “The Shipmate” U. 8. Naval Academy Alumni Association,

Riggs writes: : “The atomic bomb scare-mongers are

but themselves, and their panic indefensible at best. Attack by both types of canal. nerability of the -seaon Jan. 20 before a subcomm Committee when he sald ‘wha

he Tndiananolis Times| THE PANAMA LINK . . . By Jim G. locas The Indianapolis Times|T M LUNE + y Jim Gi leGs TEE By Opposition Growing T WASHINGTON, June 1—Opposition to President Truman's = proposed $2.5 billion sea-level Panama Canal appears to be growing in the Navy and in commercial shipping” circles. “he President recommended the sea-level canal on the advice _of Maj. Gen, J. C. Mehaffey, who recently re

Gen. Mehaffey said a sea-level canal 18 necessary threat,

must have adequate defenses.’

tired as Canal Zone

publication of the Cmdr. Arthur 8.

frightening nobody has led them into arguments atomic missiles: would affect Gov. Mehaffey admitted the compléte vullevel, or any canal, in his testimony ittee of the House Appropriations tever kind of canal you have, you

Navy and Commercial Shipping Want Bigger Locks for Vessels

level canal affords a greater security, and shows the inconsistency of the thinking of sea-level advocates.”

Enemy Might Need Canal aa

CMDR. RIGGS argues that “even a nearsighted bomber could hardly fail to note that 30 miles of channel blasted at sea level is a bigger and more obvious target than the seven miles of the present cut” a : — But, he says, Germany and-Japan did not attack the canal in the last war “despite ample opportunity.”” He says it is “an entirely reasonsble assumption that if the canal has any strategic value to us it has the same value to any foe capable of defeating us.” '

‘Misconstrues Law’ “NO POWER is likely to attack it seriously,” he wrote, “for ‘ the éxcellent reason that it might wish to use the canal for its own purposes, .,. Altogether, the atom bomb in itself seems negligible as a serious factor In any remodeling or new construction. “The governor in his report to Congregs has misconstrued

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Sea-Level Cana

that 15 years from now we will

_ is the thrifty, safe and business-like to to whether we are going to serve ourselves 3 utility or almost perpetual headaches and bills.” *

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which can be economically achieved: mended” something that not even faulty interpretation of a ‘mischievously Wordeq law can legitimize.” $A TN a REY If be

Omar. Riggs pointed tothe engloering dicts dupa canal. He sald it would require removal of fou fourths rock-as for the present canal. tio is-simple,” he sald, “We know J need greater it

as much ear ‘world and commerce continues their usual growth.

BP oho thing is Lo Tncreas th capacity of the Draont cAgak Tin a a °

Plan Is Totally Deficient ve Janel IN ANOTHER article in “Engineering News-Récord,” Henry 0.-Cole, former construction engineer for the cansl’s Pacific plans were sent to Congress “without the advice of those who have first-hand knowledge of the difficulties and ‘encoun. tered in bul the | canal” Sh

t Mr. Cole contended the sea-level canal will creafe a “fog canyon” which will delay shipping far more than fogs now in

policy to study the Senate Foreign Relations Committee re--|

"1 says to me, to I, oh my;

—and in either case the firm American policy will be |

«AMONG the things. we don’t take too seriously is the |

“This demolishes the argument in his report that the sea-

Come On, Boys

In Tune With the Times

BUDDY POPPY DAY

It is just a bit of coral That grows in a sea of blue, Not even a palm or an orchid Breaks the bright blue hue.

But on this tiny island As far as the eye can see, Row. on row of white crosses Mark someone's Bravery.

This is only ohe spot in many Around the whote wide world. That they gave their life for -peace And to keep our flag unfurled.

Today is Buddy Poppy Day And I bow my head in shame, ¥or I am wondering if again They have given their all, in vain. —By FLORENCE EILER. ® © o More people are making fortunes these days. The trouble is, it takes three or four of

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For a chicken business I will sigh, So to town I strutted with my money; And hoped for a profit nice and sunny.

DREAMING

The night is quietly slipping by And oh, that moon up in the sky, It's telling me of love, Of you, my honey dove.

And as I see the morning light, My dreams of you fade from sight Because now I must close my eyes, ..For.a_ long day before me lies. ~MARY SPITZNAGEL. * ¢ o Home-grown radishes and onions are those little red and white things you didn’t know

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TO THE LITTLE STARS 1 love you, twinkling little stars, You shine with all your might. You burst your little sides five ways, t Trying hard to give us light. |

You sparkle so with happiness, Like lovers’ beaming eyes. ~ You twinkle brightly from all five points, And glorify the deep dark skies. —MILDRED C. YOUNG. ¢ oo . re. Women are outliving men, says a doctor. Well, the attention of Wofién “ps@éstrinms 4s. not distracted by men’s hats. Cp lpi A

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He who first this gal did steal, Then in manner most alarming, Chased her fast and with great zeal. .

Bit ‘he proved the cost of living Has brought on a strange new mood,

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

British Press, Hel

d to 4 Pages,

Saddle Blame on Marshall Plan

WASHINGTON, June 1—S8ir Eric Bowater,

“British” industriadist, says. it is. “little short of

tragedy” that the newspapers of Britain, this long after the war, should be held to a four-page basis. For months the British press and public have been clamoring for bigger newspapers. De-

mocracy, they urge, does not live by bread i

alone. . Some have baen inclined to put part of the blame on the workings of the Marshall Plan. Marshall Plan paper, these observe, is every bit as important ass Marshall Plan steel or wheat. ~

.B!:me the Government

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OTHERS, HOWEVER, hlame the British

government, and the weight of expert opinion definitely seems to be on the other side. Those whose business it is to produce and distribute newsprint, for example, share this view almost to a man. Instead of asking for more Marshall Plan newsprint from the United States or Canada, say these experts, Britain could and should import the far cheaper pulp, and process it in British mills, now idle.

Supply in Newfoundland RIGHT NOW there is sald to be 100,000 cords of wood at hand in Newfoundland

enough to produce some 130,000 tons of newsprint. The same authorities say there are sufficlent idle machines in Britain’ 6 handre it at the rate of 550,000 tonsa year. This would be ample to increase newspapers to eight pages instead of the present four and six. If the order were placed now, publishers say,

British newspapers could almost double their | They could begin by drawing on reserves, knowing that the additional supply |

size overnight.

would be made available. when needed.

The cost of pulpwood is roughly one-third |

that of finished newsprint. British mills, Brit«ish labor. and pounds sterling could provide the rest. -The same amount of dollars, ‘therefore, would go three times as far.

Britain Wants to Produce

AMERICAN publishers generally are in agreement that before U, 8. dollars are made available to buy newsprint in Canada and Newfoundland—which, of course, are dollar areas— there should be a restoration of maximum production in the United Kingdom.

American newsprint machines are already | operating to capacity. Even so, American pub- |

lishers are, still unable to secure their full requirements. :

Hoosier Forum rT will defend to the death your right fo say it."

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As a person who is vitally interested in the

. |‘ education of the youth of today, I certainly

hope that the man chosen by the school offitials to fill the job of principalship jn the new build. ing will be a man who has the high moral integrity and ethical standards which are tial to guide the young Alt n schoolteact out from under the burden, they cannot escape the fact that they do set an example which

our children follow. : ‘ The appointment of the new principal Soa ere

to have been long in 2 \s someone in the teaching profession who can meet these qualifications. Ee wi

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to 55 cents per 3 shipped in for weeks and sold at what was a fair price, but no when the hot house growers come along after they do not have to fire the hot houses they are being sold at 45 to 60 cents per pound, which | amounts to about $1000 per ton which without, |#one single exception the biggest hold we have had yet. : Here's a suggestion to householders, refuse | to buy these hot houses products and prices will +--come- GOWN... ~ . | * & ¢ Father Flanagan By Frederic O. Rusher, 2020 N. New Jersey The world has lost one of its most beloved men. in Father Flanagan. A noted leader and a Father Flanagan. so Christ-like, sheltered and gave refuge to forgotten and homeless children. Race, creed, or faith made no difference. All found good will and peace of mind in this | most humble of places, Boys Town. Fiath, hope, courage, and a steadfast belief in the uplifting of mankind caused Father Flanagan to believe that all boys would become | real men and worthwhile American citizens if given a chance. : His leadership and guidance proved to the | world that homeless boys with proper teaching a -and. Christian environment. could become the | honored men of tomorrow. : ! 1 believe a nation-wide tribute should honor Father Flanagan, and a national shrine should

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Would I, as a Republican voter, be naive

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"He's so, disappointed siting all these years to cast his first vote, and now he says there isn't a candidate worth voting for!’

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THE CASE OF GEORGE KONISHI— Japanese-Born Father

LAST SEPTEMBER Yugoslav troops attempted to force their way into the free territory of Trieste by bluff and intimidation. - They chose a point guarded by an American platoon commander and a half dozen GI's. ‘ ) The Americans stood firm, even though the Yugoslavs brought up reinforcements and deployed as if they were going to give battle, F8r three hours ranking Allied officers waited tensely to see whether the Yugoslavs would carry out their threat to break through. It might have touched off the Trieste powder keg and started a war. Finally the commander of the Yugoslay detachment backed down, announcing at the roadblock that he would refer the incident to higher duthority. Commander of the American unit, who later was commended | for his firmness and tact, was a second lieutenant named Harry | XKonishi-—five feet two inches tall and wearing glasses.

Home Folks Not Surprised:

FOLKS AROUND Platteville; Colo., near Denver, werén't

| Yugoslav army how far_it could go. They'd been used to this “wiry wisp of a boy accomplishing feats beyond his poundi. For | ‘three years he was a star on the Platteville High School basketball team, and was football captain in his senior year when he weighed 115, Guts and avoitdupols are not as closely related as some people think. iv : Lt: Konishi volunteered for Army service in 1045 when he 17 years old. He was accepted on his 18th birthday, was

tember, 1046, as a second lieutenant, This month Lt. Konishi came home on an emergency leave

nishi, operates a 160-acre ranch near Platteville and has in nited States since 1911. ~~. :

-ath® Was Born in Japan

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Trieste Appeals in Vdin for U. S. Citizenship

greatly surprised when they héard Harry Konishi had told the

chosen for éfficer candidate school, and went overseas in Sep- -

‘because of the illness of his father. His father, George H. Kolived

privileges to the Japanese, presently excluded Pacige peoples. that Sxientedly, ..& burst of fraternal fervor—to the e, | a i * Bast Indians in sp egial: in al d THE FATHER ¢ame to this countrfy when 9years Under the Bill, Color George Ko _ old with his parents. He has lived here ever since. He cannot’ ‘becomé a citizen. But the Judd Bill isn't getting far nd De SHR mt BATE el Sg ME EL : 3 J i 4 ie ; ~ 8 Sd

if I requested Sen. Jenner tq inform the Repub- Office lican voters of Indiana if he would resign as ll yg cert Will be elect Governor of Indiana after serving for two Distriet. meeting the | years as he is about to do after serving in the Bf ‘gg, vA gieions Leg | Senate for two ‘years? ’ hold at 7: _— — i i—— ri SR y in the West the War Memorial Build

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become a. citizen because he was born in Japan. His sor is af American citizen because he was born in this coufitry--and no one will question Lt; Ronishi’s worthiness. But it is-a source of humiliation—and in some cases hardship—to both parents and children that the parents may not gain citizenship. There is a bill before Congress Which would permit the elder’

Korilshi to become & citizen—if he is spared from death in his km, The present illness. ; ho Teport and ome, oho Originally, legislation was introduced last year by Rep. Fd ead, Plans will be _ Gossett (D, Tex.) providing that ail parents, irrespective of Tact he state convention. whose sons were killed in action should be made eligible for ci A card party at the izenship. This was of particular benefit to parents of the Jar will be anese-Americans who made up the 442d regimental combat tes® Tuesaday night irom and the 100th Infantry Battalion, the two most decorated unl! ll Narpay yuo OV © in the American Army in World War IL ff Owes Ny . On the House floor it was amended $0 include all parents” Ublts, Prizes ety And ‘soldiers who had received the purple heart. .In that amen Povideq, cigare form it was passed by the House last July, 7--uhanimously. In . A It has been pigeoh-holed in the Senate Judiciary Subco lee of plans | mittee on immigration since that time. 5 on, Mery ods; Jun Judd Has Another Bill . 4; 5 Ruth Browder and Lenor IN THE MEANTIME Congressman Waiter H. Jud’ ® s = Minn.) has introduced Lo It natoralizatls The June card party a

privileges to all aliens who have been la ‘admitted United States and also provides limited immigration, quotas What Rep. Judd’s bill actually does le to gat, the samt