Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1948 — Page 14
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Why We Must Make ERP Work
JRICES, after resting a bit, have got a sixth or seventh t wind and started climbing again. Preliminary figures from the National Industrial Conference Board show that consumer prices in May passed their previous all-time high,
reached in January.
Closing one eye it is easy to see that workers ought to ‘rescue the nation from inflation by passing up raises so a# not to push up prices any higher. Obviously industry
cdn’t go on absorbing pay boosts forever.
«, Closing the other eye it is easy to see that business ofight to absorb rising costs for the good of the country. Obviously workers can’t be expected to be satisfied with
present pay chécks when the cost of living goes up. "- Being realistic, it is safe to predict that workers will do
ir best to maintain their buying power, and capital will its best to make a bit of profit above costs, The see-saw will keep going until one of two things happens. + The balloon may burst with a loud pop, and then we
would have another terrible depression.
Or production
may, eventually, satisfy the huge remaining demand for consumer goods. Then the curve ought to flatten out at
same level of inflation yet to be determined.
- » . » . " MEANWHILE our already small supply of many items istcalled on to provide for the European Relief Program. Our contribution to the ERP is not dollars. It is goods. It is our coal, more than half of 1 per cent of our steel, 8 per cént of our farm machinery, 3 per cent of our trucks, more héavy electrical equipment than we can spare. The fundamental long-range reason prices are too high, afid rising again, is because as a people we have more money to spend than our store-keepers have goods to sell. Take more off the store shelves, and the tendency will be
for prices to rise yet higher.
"This is no argument against ERP. The fats of the world and of our country depends upon the success of ERP. : It is an argument for making ERP work. Not as a
relief program, though we want to give relief, but as a recov-.
y program. The best thing ERP could do would be to 4 Europe self-sufficient, to the extent that she had sémething to sell us for everything we sell her. .. We are paying billions in taxes to finance ERP. That is something to gripe about as income tax installments come due.
_ But the big price we may pay is in added inflation. For that, it is utterly essential that we get our money’s worth in a sound, self-supporting, democratic western Europe that will stand with us against all forms of authoritarianism
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including the Bolshevik.
Punishment for Parents
UNISHMENT for delinquent parents has been-tried in © a good many cities. It doesn’t curb’ juvenile delinquengy, according to one experimenter, Judge Paul Alexander of Toledo. But it does make some people aware of -
their parental responsibilities.
". Many called into court leave in a more
serious mood,
promising to do better. If that could seatter through the adult population, maybe the kids would profit.
What constitutes a delinquent parent?
court lists them in five categories,
The Toledo
Runaways: Those people who leave their children with inadequate or no supervision; working mother; parents who drink to excess or wholly abandon their families. "Vicious parents: Those who deliberately expose their
children to vice.
Aiders and abettors: Those who encourage delinquency By allowing truancy from school, defiance of au-
thorities, or social misbehavior.
Triangular parents: Those involved in extra-marital
love affairs.
Inadequate parents: Those who fail to give their ¢hildren adequate moral and ethical teaching, especially of a religious nature, or to train them to obedience and respect
for the rights of others. - ‘
+ How many of us can claim exemption from that last category? No matter how hard we try, we fail at one of those points. Many of our children are not taught to obey or to respect the rights of others—the two basic causes
for all delinquency.
-« Obedience develops the self-disciplined individual; respect for others’ rights creates the good citizen. All other
rules are unnecessary if those are observed.
Laws can scare people into being good for awhile. But those who have to be scared that way, will never be firstrate parents or citizens, whatever the reformers say.
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Safe Flying
INCE it is the unscheduled or unexpected occurrence that usually makes Page One, a recent award for routine
performance may have escaped the busy reader.
So we
should like to call attention to the records of 24 airlines re- - cently honored by the National Safety Council. All 24 went through 1947 without a passenger or crew fatality. Two have flown more than a billion passenger miles since their last fatal accident. Of two others, one has npt had a fatal accident since it started operating in 1929, and the second has a clean record since 1930. These accident-free records are not accidents. They indicate a scrupulous regard for leaving nothing to chance. This painstaking search for increasing flight safety and the improvement in airline service and courtesy are bright pages in our air history that deserve equal attention with the occasional and tragically spectacular crashes.
What Price Volume?
A GIGANTIC carillon, costing $100,000, has been installed : at the Canadian approach to Rainbow Bridge at Ni-
ing
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~~ agara Falls. "Its tones can be heard above the roar of fall- ; ters. As a tribute to Anglo-American war leaders, 0st is well justified. * But our neighbors get music that Gould drown out both the Falls and the carillon, from a radio
With the Times Barton Rees Pogue YOU FOLKS MUST COME AND SEE US
I HAVE SEEN IT so many times in the rural districts of Indiana: Big Sunday dinner, several families gathered for the noon meal and afternoon visit; grown-ups sitting around on the lawn through the lazy hours following the “big feed”; children running around the house, play= sousing each other
and screaming; perhaps some croquet-games; lots of talk about crops and croup and canning; mid-afternoon a freezer of home-made ice cream with a tousle-headed coconut cake for companfonship. . . . : Before too late in the afternoon you'll hear some talk like this: “John, don’t you think we had better get home to do the chores?” “Now, don't hurry away, folks. That work’ll be there when you get home, B8it a while.” And they “sit a while.” - Then John will say, “Guess we had better be going home; Mary. Gettin’ late.” “Say, you can go home when you can't go anywhere else! Sit a while!” And they “sit a while,” At last John and Mary do get out into the barnlot and into the car. John turns on the ignition and starts the engine, but he doesn’t
the ignition off, after a time, and they “sit a while” longer, ‘ Finally he starts “her” up again, wheels “her” around the barnlot, heads for the highway and home. ® % ¢
BUT BEFORE he gets the old bus out on the pike they all hear the glad refrain of fellowship, the chorus of a perfect day of visiting . . . When you've spent the day with very dear friends, A body could scarce believe There could be so much to say When you're loaded up to leave; And last of all you'll hear these word, When you've cranked the fam'’ly bus, “Well, come again!” “Oh, yes we will! You folks. must come an’ seé us!”
“Well, come again!” What a glad refrain To the song of fellowship, That friends may sing, that never ends Where there is comradeship! We like to come, and we like to feel That we may “come again,” It warms the heart of everyone Like an anthem’s grand “Amen.”
We answer back, “Yes, come an’ see us!” We know it's not in vain, You'll come to spend the day with us, . And then you'll come A 80 back and forth, and time about, We visit each other here. . . ® ¢
80 MANY TIMES, following church, I've heard them say, “Better go home with us for dinner.” “No, you people go home with us.” . “Now see here, we were at your house last. It is your turn to come home with us.” : None of which means that these good people stand on the “turn about is fair play” theory of fellowship, or that no.one comes to my house till I have gone to his . . . they do not count the “turns,” but » “. + . back and forth, and time about; We visit each other here Till life plays out its melodies And friendships disappear.” Our friendships do disappear . . . the children make their friends, and long after our fellowships have been ended, by the tolling of the bell «for us, happy meetings, such as these, will go onandon... I wonder if in-heaven to come We'll visit around this way, And hear such words as we used to hear, When we're ready to drive away? They say that things will be greatly changed, But I want it ever thus, “Well, come again!” “Oh, yes we willl You folks must come and see us!” * % ¢ 2
“WHEN YOU READ that poem about You Folks Must Come and See Us you: were fun of farm people, weren't you?” a acquaintance once asked me. (What wrong ideas some people do get!) Let's have anyone so much as imagine that the verses were intended to make sport of rural people. Never! Ever! Friendship is one of life's most pleasant institutions. Life without friends is worthless. Life without friends is a serious form of poverty. There is no room for jest in friendship! For friends to tarry Jong, and part in peace (enemies get it over with in a hurry . . . unless it be they stay to fight) is one of the most homey and beautiful traditions of life, rural or urban. City or hamlet, We like to come, and we like to feel That we may “come again,” It warms thé heart of everyone. Like an anthem’s grand “Amen.”
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WHO COULD possibly sit in the scorner's seat on such a state of amity as this? Not me, lover of people and builder of a fortune in the friend that I am. I want to make friends and keep them, so I never laugh at them. This wholesomeness, the spirit of good-will and cheerfulness, has made us a great people, As long as that sense of unity and fellowship continues we shall remafn strong. Only those who wish us ili could laugh at friendship! —B. R. P.'
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what? My wife is much more ‘read the book.”
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"Oh, he's serious all right! When he gave me the ring he said engaged
The Better to Eat You With
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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer
Women Too Smart to Be Fooled By That Report on Human Male
THEOPHILIUS, the Harvard-bred bartender who permits me to call him Tiff, had t finished serving two customers—a Scotch td one; a Bourbon to the other—when I dropped into his place to begin the morning exercise prescribed by my physician. Says the Scotch:
“Know
tolerant to me since she's Says the Bourbon: “Well, what do you know! Mine, too, has discovered I'm not as bad as she thought.” “Pardon the intrusion,” says Tiff. “Are the gentlemen, by any chance, discussing Dr. Kinsey's ‘Sexual Behavior in the Human Male'?” “Tiff, your perspicacity does your Alma Mater credit,” says the Scotch, . - “Sure,” says the Bourbon who never got beyond Junior High, “but how the hell did you catch the drift of our veiled conversation?” “Because of its label.. Ecce signum!” says Tiff, fondling his Phi Beta Kappa key. “Don’t talk to me about labels,” says the Scotch. “I've been fooled by them all my life.” “That's because yqu're a male,” says Tiff. “Now, if you were a female ,..” : “I've always wondered what it would be like to bé a woman,” says the Bourbon.
“What I was about to say when rudely interrupted,” says Tiff, “was that men have always accepted labels at their face value whereas women are much too smart to be fobled by them. ' And it is because of this discernment that wives have a higher opinion of their husbands since the publication of the Kinsey Re, rt.” x “Do tell,” says the three of us including the Dry Martini (me). :
Their Wives Never Were Fooled
+ PLEASED as Punch with the way his remarks were being received, Tiff continues: “It is perfectly safe to say, I think, that with possibly one exception, women have discovered nothing in the Kinsey Report that they didn’t already know.” . “Granted,” says the three of us, “but what about the exception?” “The exception,” says Tiff, “lies in the discovery that, up till now, women have always identified the fabulous exploits enumerated in the Kinsey Report with a comparatively small group of men of heroic stature which, for want
of a better term, I shall catalog as the classic reprobates. Given their proper names, they were
Don Juan, Casanova and Benvenuto Cellini, Without giving us time to appreciate his
|_authentic accent, Tiff continues: “Dr. Kinsey's
book is a scholarly attempt to change this point of view with the result that what was once the prerogative of a small and select group of heroes is now the privilege of the common man of
this country is politics.
lot of innovations.
advice."
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in their positions.
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union rivalry.
Their
Not politicsof the ordinary party type played by Democrats and Republicans. But an even more vigorous type which rages both within unions and between rival union organizations, Unionism not only has become big business, but also big politics. It offers attractive jobs and great power to those who can get its offices. Those offices depend usually on politics and ° patronage. So the union leaders play a type of politics which combines all the worst evils of the old machine variety with a
In most unions there is a struggle for offices. As the unions become bigger and the jobs more important and lucrative, the battle grows intense. At the top of the heap it is fought by a handful of leaders of rival groups who want to dominate the whole American labor movement. ; The rank-and-file union member plays about the same role In labor's political warfare that the average Democratic or Republican voter does in the control of those two parties. He is a pawn. His vote is eagerly desired, but not his interference or
Union leaders, like party candidates, figure.that promises are the best bait to win votes. Like party politicians, they enter into all sorts of alliances and deals to gain personal advantages. Labor negotiators for the big employers have learned that it is as important to study union politics as to be familiar with wages, hours and working conditions.
Negotiators realize that union officials seldom are very secure They have formidable rivals who are constantly claiming they could “get more for the boys” if given a chance. Often the negotiation of a contract is greatly prolonged by skirmishing between rival factions on the union side of the
System Leads to Suspicion
SMART COMPANY negotiators watch that play of interSometimes they can However, this is tricky business for the employer. For in the last analysis, he is the common enemy of all the union political progress is going to depend largely on how >
which there appear to be billions. The assumption is so absurd and extreme that the women with their discernment refuse to accept it. Indeed, they repudiate it. “I can string along with you on that,” says the Scotch. “My wife has never been fooled into believing that I am a Don Juan.” “Count me in, too,” says the Bourbon. “Fact is, my wife has told me to my face that I am
* no Casanova.”
“Nor has my wife ever confused my identity
with that of Mr. Cellini,” says the Dry Martini.
What Makes Women So Clever?
“THANK you, gentlemen,” says Tiff. “The next step is to guess how women ever acquired the discernment that makes them. what they are.” : The three of us take a quick swallow not to lose the train of thought, “My guess,” says Tiff, “is that women are the realists, no matter what the world has thought heretofore.” . “The fantastic corollary of which “is, of course, that men are the romanticists” shoots back the Bourbon viciously. “Precisely,” says Tiff. “And it was because
of the corollary that Dr. Kinsey was able to
compile his big book.” “You're spoofing, Tiff,” says the three of us. “Not at all,” says Tiff. “Given the opportunity by Dr. Kinsey to be the heroes of dreamed-up emotional experiences, the sentimental romanticists went hog-wild to excel the
adventures of Don Juan, Casanova and Cellinl.”
“Tiff,” says the Bourbon, “you'll have. us believing that the case histories recorded in the Kinsey Report are a pack of lies.” ; “It's a harsh word,” says Tiff. “Let's settle for. the .established fact that, ever since the beginning of time, women the world over have accepted the male animal for the incorrigible braggart that he is.” By this time our glasses were drained. “The same,” asks Tiff. “The same,” says the three of us.
Embarrassed French
PARIS, June 28—The dollar prize for embarrassing moments goes to the French finance ministry. Is its face red. Recently heated discussions took place between the finance and foreign ministries over
the nationality of the elevators scheduled to go
into the Palais de Chaillot—September home of the United Nations. It seems that the finance ministry in a fit of Nationalism, insisted they be made in France. The Quai D’'Orsay, however, impressed
~with- the Marshall Plan—favored an Ameri-
can make.. Finally, a compromise was reached. Two elevators were to be French, two American. However, when it came to passing the order, mo French elevators wére to be had.
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who would ever give another woman a When “the other woman's setup was, she dig everything. No help at all from friend h i T've also been in their “china shop” homes and "wondered how the average he-man would evep get through the place without wrecking it, My opinion is that homes were made to hg lived “in, by a family, not just show places, { wouldn’t want to be responsible for the effect on one of these ladies with such high ideas, If they could really see themselves, as some see them. I think most husbands never ge anything wrong after their training has taken, And some don’t take to the training. Now, I'y truly not a disgruntled wife at all, 3 I think any man should help if there ig fliness in the home. Especially so, if it is thy wife who is ill. And they should be willing to help in any emergency. Where the makes the living then, the woman should be able to care for the home, only as in stated. Another thing, if a wife works to help keep the home, then he has a right to help her with the housework. 3 F ® ¢ ©
Is a 4-Leaf Clover Lucky? | By A Purdue Subscriber, 1 Do _you want to find a four-leaf clover? If Yo do your seeking in a hot dry spell, Your chances will be better if you can fing clover growing close to a sidewalk—because thy walk draws additional ‘heat. ; Authority for these statements is Emil curator of botany exhibits at the Chicago Nate ral History Museum. : ‘ But are four-leaf clovers lucky? ; If you are a landowner the answer is YES in capital letters—and so are all ‘clovers, Clover is lucky because it is a legume and draws nitrogen from the air to enrich the soil, Plowed under, it adds rich humus that ali growing crops need. ; ®* ¢ o
‘Draft Defense Plant Joes’ By A Times Reader. : It's too bad that along with the boys whe will have to sign up for the new draft, that they also, don't include the “Joes” who rushed to defense plant jobs during the past war in order ‘to obtain .deferments from military service. ; Many of them who were and still are healthy enough to sweat out the sugar and butter ration lines could now sweat during basie training. i . ,- These same “Joes” can save their postage writing an answer to ask if I were “in it.” Only for four years, 18 months overseas, and came out with a service connected disability. Of course, I was only 38 at the time, 10 or 12 years senior to most of them who fought the bittles of the home front.
: cone mina Be Wet an Swimmers, Be Careful By Sara Little, City. I wish there were some way to impress on our young people that they must be careful
. when they go swimming, Vacation from s¢hool has brought almost one ‘drowning a day,
almost all cases it is unnecessary.
aren't an expert swi ] unknown waters. Obey the life guard. There are many more.’ And every summer the same thing happens. : he. ~ What cdn we do to impress the facts on our youngsters so that they won't be victims or be sorrowed BY Tat oes of friends?
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Wants More Conventions By Convention Fan, City. Presidential conventions may be scoffed at .'by some. There is a lot of tomfoolery and foolish goings-on which maybe some could do without. 5 But most Americans, no. matter what their party, follow the proceedings with great ine terest. ; It 1s indeed a pleasure to get a respite from the ‘worries of the international scene. Ne Russia on the front page. Wonderful! 8 1 wish there were 10 political parties. @ ih
Thanks for Street Repairs - By A City Resident } I wish to extend my thanks to the City Street Commissioners for repairing our 8 Davidson Street witich needed it badly. I also think they are doing a good job of collecting
trash. :
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Union Politics. One Obstacle to Labor Peace
By E. T. Leech
ONE OF THE great obstacles to lasting industrial peace in
they can take away from the boss. Everybody on the union side is trying to display larger benefits which he won—at the eme ployer’s expense.
This struggle makes for a lot of unrest and suspicion among
ganda.
Sometimes it is more
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gain advantage from it. the cost. rivals.
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Complicated at the Top Level :
Worse still
workers. They are constantly being subjected to high-power propaganda, just as voters are during election campaigns. Union politiclans try to outdo each other in criticising the employer his methods and profits and the whole economic system unde? ‘ which he operates. 3 The ordinary member, who doesn’t go below the surface to § study the politics which motivates much of the show, comes to believe things which are preposterous and imposs the ordinary voter does when he is subjected to election propa:
THE BASIC danger of this system is that there can never F b¢ any let-up, no matter what the conditions of a parti or industry or of business as a whole. The union politicians ma relentlessly. press for higher and higher pay, shorter hours, be conditions and bigger benefits, : by When this union politics gets on the top level—as played! those who head the great international unions and the rival 1 groups—then it hecomes really complicated. it gets all tied in with ordinary party politics. g fo . Party politicians want to win the so-called “labor vote ab do so, they play ball with union politicians. Ur fel want favors and benefits which government can bestow. : like the power and prestige that comes from being catered to? the party bosses. : nad For over a dozen years this country pretty largely has a labor government. There have been close alliances and rd deals between inion and party politicians. i iat] v This labor government is complicated by the fact tha LI union side is divided into big and antagonistic and am , groups, such as AFL, CIO, United Mine Workers, railroad bres erhoods and others. The top men in those groups are apd i among themselves to dominate the whole labor: movemen ; this makes it hard for the party politicians to play ball with pays Pig warfare the public is the innocent bystander, It PE |
, the public suffers from the industrial disputes | which are both fomented and prolonged by the battles betwees I
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