Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 June 1948 — Page 12
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ROY W.-HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE BuNRY W. MANZ President Editor Business Manager
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Wednesday, June 2, 1948 “i
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Give Light end the People Will Pind Thew un. Way
How to , Untangle Traffic R the most part, the handling of traffic to and from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Monday was as good a performance as we've ever seen here. The concentration of 175,000 fans, at least half of them in automobiles and trucks, presented a formidable traffic problem. City and state police and the Marion County Sheriff's office did a good job. There were some minor jam ups outside the gates of the track, but they were corrected quickly. The movement of 175,000 persons to and from the Speedway with efficiency and dispatch. shows what law enforcement agencies can do here when they make the effort.”
—The-seeret-of handling Monday's race traffic was plan. |
‘ning. If we can handle Speedway. crowds, we can certainly untangle our own rush hour traffic tangles with sppliation. of the same treatment: Intelligent planning.
More Pay for Less Work
A BIG manufacturing corporation - complains that the -union. representing. its. employees demands ' “more money for less work.” The choice of words seems unfortunate. . The mistake of many union members is not that they want higher wages for less work—but that they believe they can benefit by more pay for less production. Workers in American industry today get four, five or more times as much money for a 40-hour week as their ‘ancestors got a century ago for a week or 60 or 70 or more ‘hours, And American living standards are vastly higher. So more pay for less work has long been a proper and an attainable desire. Attainable because the tools of production—the machines of industry—were constantly in‘creased in number and improved in efficiency. Using more and better tools, the workers could earn far more dollars in far fewer hours. At the same time they could make more a better goods available to themselves and to other people.
ibe made posible for the workers to earn still more money, iin still fewer hours, and for living standards to rise still ‘higher. : But not unless workers realize that high wages and short hours, of themselves, are not wealth—just as employers should realize that high profits, of themselves, are not wealth.
WAGE DOLLARS aad profit dollars are maiely measuring sticks of wealth. It takes production to give meaning to those measuring sticks. “1 Wealth must be ereated before it can be measured, dis“stributed and enjoyed. It is the result of applied energy,
{wealth is prod from the soil, dug from the imines, fashioned from raw materials, put into usable form ~—it benefits nobody. The amount of new wealth created day by day determines, how high the American standard of living can be. Workers have every right to demand a fair and wide distribution of the wealth they create with the help of manage
~~ ment and the tools provided by-capital———
But productivity and wealth will not increase it all the -Sprotential benefits of technological advance—or more efficient tools—go into shortened hours and feather-bed jobs for workers or higher profits for employers. Schemes to boost wages or profits without creating at Jeast the equivalent in new wealth are self-defeating. - The rule applies to workers just as it does to employers: Those who appear to gain by more pay for less peoducition must do so at the expense of other people—and, in the dlong run, of themselves.
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FAERIE
A Question “of § Security . 4 |ARESIDENTE. TRUMAN has urged the Senate- Appropria- | i" _ tions Committee to approve a $4 million allocation “for | the Tennessee Valley ‘Authority to begin construction of a $54 million steam-electric plant in West Tennessee. i Heretofore, TVA has told Congress that its best esti‘mates of future peacetime power requirements in its area ‘show such a plant will be required. Mr. Truman now has put the appeal on a broader basis ‘of direct national interest. He says the plant is “urgently ‘needed at this time to meet potential requirements in the event of an emergency affecting national security.” His position is backed by the National Security Resources ‘Board, made up of the Secretary of Defense and other Cabinet officers.
The private-power lobby persuaded the House the °
‘steam plant should not be approved. It argued TVA has no obligation to furnish all the power needed in the area; ‘that TVA's legal and constitutional authority is limited to the sale of surplus power generated as a by-product of navigation and flood control dams. The same lobby challenges the President's position. It says the statements by him and by the Security Resources Board are not “the result of a complete weighing of ‘ail the factors.” But in the recent war, Congress did authorize TVA to build and operate one steam-electric plant. And the Oak Ridge atomic plant and other industries vital to national security, as well as to’ our F peacetime ‘economy, are in the TVA area. : It would be folly to risk having them handicapped by a ‘power shortage at a time of urgent need for their products. Congress can't afford to rely on the statements of [private power interests which never have stopped fighting TVA. The commander in chief says the new plant is needed, It would take strong and unimpeachable evidence to Joonvinee us—and, we think, the country—that it is not..
| hy Too Much for Science =~ ; [— made $67,000 worth of improvements - on the ln of Philadelphia's Convention Hall. Let
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rogTe s8_of that kind has not neared its limit. It can- | Thats sowed
‘manpower made more productive by machine power. Und 1 hen Re Siar Fai
tor's cap to his motorman’s cap.
candidate.
“Coast beginning" ” . Ld
year or no. This is a time of tremendous
public ..i8 the President's duty to learn what the peop.
in return, give his own stand on
And he has had no opportunity to go to-the
rear-platform, off-the-cuff talks.
In Tune With the Times
GRADUATION Our- high school s are through With all their work and fun,
‘There's no use in“fe€ling blue ‘Because What's done 1s dong:
* We had our dances and games : Our plays and clubs galore, Ahd knowledge aplenty our mind” retains, These great times we'll see no more.
Our chums we may lose forever ‘ Their friendship and mirth forsaken, To not forget them we'll endeavor Although new thoughts our minds awaken.
Down the road ‘of life we walk ge away rom our--joyful - The road is long and hard to walk And leads to good and evil ways.
“We leave our school with untold sorrow -
Upon our face, our mind and heart. To teachers and pals we tell our woe,
~RICHARD P. BECK : ‘eo Drake University coeds have given up daylight kissing on the campus. After dark they kiss and make up for it. : ¢ © ¢
A LOAF OF BREAD
When a loaf of bread is fashioned, Warm and I think of all that's To the wheat.
I visualize the seed - So perfect, small, with so much care si. In early fall.
=n And then the snow, a blanket . to keep Quite warm and safe the young shoots As they sleep.
Quietly, under the snow ~All winter long : They le, lulled by North Wind's » Mournful song. In spring the wheat grows sturdy, Strong and high.
Lifting young green arms To April's sky.
From yellow § to deep golden Turns the grain,
"happened
rain.
Soon ‘tis time to harvest This: rich yield, 80 to the mill it goes From the ravaged field.
And from ‘the flour is fashioned . Loaves of bread So that the hungry ones May now be. fed. RUTH M. COFFIN, 1801 NT Emerson-Ave: & a ® The easier a man’s job the ‘more. time he: “has to become Baatifieg 3 with it. - }
TASK, VISIONS AND GOD
I had a task but there wap no vision, So It tailed and-I-forgot-it I had a vision but didn't p— to achieve it It faded and was lost forever! 1 had a vision and applied it; God approved it and it is now a reality My vision and task combined to make a victory! I. —J. H. P. eo Not all of the men who have been caught stealing home ver played | baseball.
“POST ER'S. FOLLIES
(“MOSCOW = Prolonged Sleep Advocated as Treatment for Ulcers.”) In a recent public statement, At once both profound and deep, A good doctor sees abatement Of all ulcer #ls, through sleep.
Now we know why ulcer trouble Some folks' health ne'er doth impair; “They could sleep through noise and rubble Of an atom. raid by air!
By CHARLES T. LUCEY, Seppe Howard Staft Writer ASHINGTON, June 2—A chief Republican chore in coming days will be to watch Harry Truman shift from his conduc-
The "Republicans will protest that while Mr. Truman's roam~ ing the country as President, he's feally only a presidential
Mr. Truman tours out of Washington on a A SWing' to the West tomorrow:
THE ‘STORM BIGNALS showed plainly todiy that for three weeks his GOP adversaries will badger him just as they did Franklin Roosevelt for his election year “inspection trips.” The Democrats say Mr. Truman, as President, has every right to go before the country in a coast-to-coast tour—election
. And they hold it are saying—and,
questions. . Mr. Truman's friends point out that in his three years in the White House his trips have been by air, hurried and harassed.
people. Now he will make five major speeches and a couple dozen
Goodby, Alma Mater, thanks for the start,
| runs the tale, brought with
im about the President's tri
Let Mr. Truman's. Feriends call it SH ORPOTIIEAT “Mr; Reece sald, but it will be as “nonpolitical” as the Pendergast machine. Mr. Reece thought it mysterious that a “non-political” label “an obvious campaign trip.” But he said light might 1f*the public were told ‘whether the U. 8. Treasury or the ratic National Committee was paying the bill,
be pinned o "be sh Dem
GOP's Chief ‘Chore in Coming, Days: ‘Blast President’s Trip’
His friends say his attitude is that if the GOP hows, Tet it. National GOP Chairman Carroll Reece, in a letter yesterday to party officials, was dgpant-—13 the. extent of 1200 words—
Te
travel fund,
along for most of the trip.
THE ANSWER to that, on the word. of party officials, is that the cost of the trip wil come Tight out of the President's regular
It will cover the expenses of 8 a party ford, Charles Rogs and Matthew Connolly, of Mr. Truman's White House staff; his military aides and a half-dozen clerks and stenographers. Mrs. Truman and daughter Margaret will be
The
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question whether mitten to be Spreseted on the ren. Toe pol To pint i aa mig be easier for Democrats to adopt a dead-pan ‘monpolitical pose they aren’t officially aboard. White House has said no party officidl—as such—would be along. And National Chairman J. Howard McGrath will stick to his Senate knitting. :
IF ANYONE goes, it probably will be Jack Redding, Bational lic. relations chief. But only as an “observer,” Ot paid-by-the- federal-treasury, or. - the Democratic committee.
But nons of this fools Mr. Reece He is Mr. Truman's obvious purpose “in traveling across the coun apopmppnied by a retinue of newspaper hers and newscasters
reporters, photograp! is to bolster up the waning prospects of his party and of his own
And he raises many questions intended. to embarrass the President. Such as:
With so much going on in Washington, why wt Mr. Tru. man stil o is Job there” WII be tell the pa failed to “co-operate” with Congress as he said — -
he tell about the Commies on the Federal payroll? Will he stop - at Kansas City to pay respects to the “ghosts” who voted him into
the U. B. Senate?
Knee Deep in June
CAMPAIGN. POLITICS
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‘OUR TOWN .
THERE 9 A LEGEND in Southern California that the flourishing town of Pasadena was thought up in Indianapolis. And, in this case, the story is so well documented that the natives out there don’t dare question its authenticity; which ‘is all the more amazing when one reflects that Californians have been brought up to believe that everything new and -original has its source on the Pacific Coast. The winter of 1872-3, so
it one of the worst blizzards ~~ that ever swept the Middle West. Seventy people In Minnesota alone lost their ves. e loss almost Tey as héavy., The annual urge to escape the erratic climate of Indianapolis reached its height in the midst of that Distorie storm, Meeting at the home of Dr. T. B. Elliott (west end Michigan St.) the disgruntled group decided to delay no longer in taking definite action. A letter from a recent visitor to Southern California helped the plot a lot. It told of the everlasting sunshine out there, of the _equable femperature which permitted the wearhg “of "one weight underwear: Ale year. round, The. letter was handed from one to the other. And among its readers, besides Dr. Elliott and his wife, were D. M. Berry, Calvin Fletcher II, John H. Baker, J. M. Matthews and Ji K. Ruddell. . The group decided to ask others to join in a co-operative colony which should include at least 50 families. * oo OTHER MEETINGS were called. Soon they became so large that they had to be held in
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the freight “house of the C. . H. & LL railroad
BACK UP OUR—
Challenge
By JIM G. LUCAS
THE PRESIDENT, at the grave of the Unknown Soldier, called for “strength to enforce the peace.’ . . Gen. Bradley, at the open grave of a Medal of Honor Soldier. of World War II, said: “Wars can be prevented just as surely as they are pro- | voked; therefore, we who fail | to prevent them must share in the guilt for the dead.” True words. Challenging words. But it takes more than" words to prevent wars and enforce peace. ” ” LJ MANY WEEKS and millions of words have been wasted . since the President asked for universal military training and the draft. Each week our Army is dwindling by 1000 men. Our Congress, once apparently determined to provide men and weapons in adequate numbers, now seems strangely irresolute, The inaction of Congress ‘tragically misrepresents . the people’s will. Many polls of public opinion have shown that a great majority of the : people want univetaal
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o_one imagine, however, that this will eliminate either milliry raining. or t we need. is courageous hoes of and apots from tie forthoming politisal oratory by the men who write Wl "Pitocey on % > ge Gam J ; i our Taw “have to go. i rs lm Hm oh 5 of A to a
Side Glances—By Seluraith
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bad wi saving! We gef to the fifth inning. and |
while it's: iil gh entugh Yortinjeh the game
in Illinois and Indiana was”
. By Anton Scherrer
A Leg end—‘Hoosier’ Pasadena
where Mr. Matthews was employed. An organization known as the California Colony of Indiana was effected with Dr. Elliott as president; Mr. Matthews, secretary; Mr. Ruddell, treasurer; Mr. Fletcher, general agent—and
Mr. Baker ghd Mr. Berry as additional mem- . ‘bers of an executive committee.
In August, 1873, a delegation composed of Mr. Baker, Mr. Berry, Nathan Kimball and Albert Bruxton, a surveyor, actually set out
hy rail to San Francisco and thence by steam-
boat to Los Angeles (there being no railroad south) to find a suitable site for the colonists.
Most .of Southern California was explored
“ina desperate effort to find a place sulted to
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the Hoqsiers back hore. And so thorough was the search that Berry wrote back to Indianapolis that he “was tired of knocking around canyons, cactus, nettles, jungles and dry-river bottoms." wanted to resign. The panic of 1873 saved him the trouble.
LES THE PROSPECTING FOUR found them-
selves stranded in Los Angeles with only $130
among them, They made a living as best they could. But the folks back in Indianapolis would not give up hope. One by-one they made: their way to California; each seeking a new
home ’ They Were yoted" BF others from every part-1-.of the country. Benjamin 8. Eaton made fit
his business to get acquainted with most of them. Mr. Eaton, an engineer, ngwspaper man, and later a superior judge of Los Angeles County. Rad come across the plains by ox team in 1850 after having graduated from Harvard. He had dug for gold near Sacramento with little or no result. In 1858 he came south and raised cattle on Rancho San Pasqual. It appears that the doctor had acquired the fabulous property by way of a mortgage, the foreclosure of which enabled him to get the real estate at less than 50 cents an acre.
Dr. Griffin turned the huge ranch over to
the management of his friend. Ben Eaton, with the understanding that he would make it worth his while to find a buyer for it, or indeed any part of ft,
When next I appear in print, I'll tell you of
a memorable meeting, the “principal characters of which were Benjamin Eaton and a dis--gruntled Hoos Hoosier, from Indianapolis. >
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Hoosier: Forum
"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
Truth About Trailers By Leena Page Lonsford In re ly to your article, “Bums? They Lived in Trail I live. 1 want to give those who look down their noses at us trailer folk a better perspective, My grandfather was food administrator, and my uncle was ambassador to the Court of St. James in the First World War. Another uncle
who consider themselves better than those of us who live in trailers try to beat that for social background. I feel no better than anyone else who lives in a trailer. The peogle in our trailer, park are
“the happiest, as & group; that I-have seen. - .-. I get contentment here I could not get any-
where else. People here are just as enthusiastic
{about their little yards as anyone with a large
estate. They plant grass and flowers and are proud of their beauty. If one took the same number of houses in the city and compared them to our trailers, the trailers would not suffer by comparison. If anyone is sick and in need, these trailer people give their all. The children are happy and well-m They do not roam the streets. We all have well fed pets. We “Trailer Bums” or “Trailer Trash” as we. are sometimes called, have a deep inner happiness and a profound love of life that should arouse the envy of those who condemn
ne. ee Telephone Pests By Mrs. Elliott
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the phone rings and someone wants to store my furs for the summer. I hang up and start my dishes and it rings again. This time the voice says, “You have been chosen the lucky one to get our 8x10 enlargement from Blank Photography Studio.” Then another lady calls and wants to sell me magazines. Another man wants to sell me a set of encyclopedias. I was called eight times by one photo studio. I called the telephone company and they said there was nothing they could do about it, but if it keeps up much longer, I think I'll go insane. It is bad enought to have to answer the door repeatedly for salesmen and peddlers, The telephone adds to the fret and worry and steals my time, I hope other housewives will express their views. The calls start about 7:30 a. m. and stop about 5:30 p. m. So, won't someone please help us housewives? - + ¢ ¢
Love, Not Guns By Vivian Wooten Pierson My dictionary says, the word universal means “pertaining to, or characteristic of all
or the whole, as universal experience of mankind, etc.”
Tt this 1s true, why do-we-refer-to Universal
Military Training? If it is to be a law for the ple, we could not correctly call it universal, unless in a subconscious manner, for it is true when a nation that calls to her bosom the needy, hungry, freedom-loving peoples of the earth then all people of the countries will, no doubt, for. war. A third world war may, mean total destruction. Then why do we insist upon preparing? We will spend millions. A few millions spent on peace and true civilization and we might all live longer and happier lives. We've never yet set ourselves serious to work for universal peace. Drill more love into the hearts of our young, and fewer military steps and we will be far less kely to have a third world war. On UMT : By B. W. Willhoite This is in reply to Frederick 0, Rusher’s fete ‘ter a few weeks ago. 1 suggest that Mr. Rusher read Page 14 i the May issue of Readers Digest. It will answer most of his questions. Everyone knows, or should know that modern warfare calls for highly educated and technically trained men, so don't think that disrupting youth's education helps our defense system. If the government has so much money it should help some of the poor dads to get their boys through college. Or would that be uhAmerican? I have given seven years of my. life to gov* ernment services because I appreciate my Con* stitutional rights. It has been discouraging In these recent years to see those rights being whittled away.
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Wage ‘Heat’ ‘Now Is on Ford
WASHINGTON, Jufie 2—Interest of the official audience here in organized labor's battle for third-round wage boosts now has turned to the Ford Motor Co.
face of capitulation last week
by General Motors and Chry- Accessories.”
U. S. Affairs By Fred W. Perkins
they predict Ford eventually will settle for something ap proximating the GM and Chrysler contracts. Their view is that Ford will
— EE t risk a strike while 118 If Ford can stand against - no | another pay gland Sp ag: nat straight 13-cent increase, with- rivals are going full blast. out the General Motors “fancy .." =
THE FORD pay-cut proposd
a trailer and I'm not ashamed of § it.
1 am wondering if you can do anything about ~telephone-pests—in-Indianapolis. If seems I
sler—nothing convincing has come out of Detroit to indicate it. . ”
THIS, despite the fact that
two weeks ago Ford made a .
bid for industry leadership by ~
requesting the CIO United Auto Workers to accept wa cuts as a contribution’ to * ‘public security.” Since then General Motors
has agreed to an immediate -.
wage rise of 11 cepts an hour.
| Tt has assured another 3-cent
| "also has agreed to further:
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increase a year from now. And
_boosts every three months, be- ' inning next fall—if the of‘barometer of he cost of living. continues to rise. Chrysler agreed to a
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An important point is that both GM and Chrysler have signed two-year contracts—in the Chrysler case with one wage-reopening privilege after June 15, 19490, These contracts ‘give them insurance. against companywide strikes, and at the same they increase the heat on their principal competitor—
Ford--something that is Pleas-.
ing to the union.
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UNDER these conditions ob-
servers here see little chance
that Yord wii male mole thin
through its _pay-reduction de-
. Union men say it has been knocked out completely,» And
appeared at first to be a Pp of the “solid front” of big in dustry to block further wag increases—with home promis of price reductions. This was led off severs) weeks ago by United States
industry front “third
round has bee?
hardly get my hands in the dish water when
WEDNESDA
Miss Gad i To John
On n June
Dr. Fre —At-Seht . Miss Robin flarkness will be Hotel Antlers.
McHenry, aunts of will be married at
The guests wil “pective bride; Mr. i pective bridegroom Ww. 1. Coons III & Mrs. Ervin Lutz, 3 ponald Harkness, and Miss Be The out-of-tow let, Dr. and Mrs. 1 de ee
Mrs. Sou Directs P
For Conv
Two sororities are tivities in the nea two others have an newly Slotted office:
Mrs. E 3 is a man.of the Sigma Delta Tau Sorority convention to be held Tune 12-and 13 in the Hotel AntJers.
The dinnerdance planned for June 12 is “under the: tion of Mrs, Eldon Beghtel, ! Mrs. Ann_Clampit &
Miss Billle Rech w program at the tea meeting.
Mrs. Jack Steffy installed president o ! tor, Omega Phi Ta tion services were |
ing, to include final a; about the biennial 1 vention to be held olis next month.
»Marian Cc Will Grac
—Seventeen—Indiana; at Marian College wi Sees in commencem: at 10 a. m.- tomorro Rev. Paul C. Shulte, of Indianapolis, will degrees and presen mencement address.
ney, May Jo Dohert Doyle, Joan Ponery Gardner, Jane Gaug Kraeszig, Sara J. toinette Pan, Wood, Bachelos of A atricia Gar Gaughan, Marianne 1 Costello, Mary Stieff Ward, Bachelor of .
grees ot
3 Other graduates anne Gallagher, M haus. Lots" Tenbleg Toke, all of Cine
Baumer, And ar ie Davey, Fra Kathleen Holtel, Olde Jorothy Bersch, Ma %an Wolff, Dayton; ] Baldez, Park View,
S Gladys Puerto LA Sousa
CAR to F Conventio
the Indiana Society, he American Revolu for, Saturday int —. Harrison DA in Mrs. Leroy H eral chairman, There will be a bu ~ t 10 a. m. and a "in the Propylae: