Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1948 — Page 14

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: # Telephone RI ley 5551 in | Give Light end the Peopls Wl Find Thewr Own Way ‘~And Goal to Go . . .’ : , Indianapolis Community Fund team has what ‘amounts to a first down and five days to go with victory in the hig annual drive,in sight. Jt has been a tremendous job this year. The goal is bigger than it ever has been in a peace-time campaign. That reflects not only the higher costs of services, but also the growth of the city and county. And it is an accurate picture of the basic needs of the community in all the fields served by the 47 Red Feather agencies which this fund maintains. i

THE decision to extend the drive for a full week beyond the date when it originally was scheduled to close was the only wise one under the circumstances. Campaign workers simply have not been able to see all the folks who want to give to this fund in the crowded time that was allotted. Contributions have been well up to standard in the partial reports it has been possible so far to record. But the reports aren’t nearly all in yet. There's still a lot to be done. a real, intensive effort—witth team work from the whole community—can wind up this drive with victory Fri-

day evening. There's a Law on Gambling

JFOR several months there has been a dispute raging at Jeffersonville on the question of whether a majority of residents of that city want gambling “joints” to operate there. The mayor has been identified as the leader of those * who favor gambling and the Circuit Court judge is leading those who are against it. : So, Col. Robert Rossow, superintendent of State Police, ignoting or forgetting that Indiana has some very specific laws on the question of gambling, set out to take a poll in Jeffersonville to settle the dispute. * The returns from the State Police poll showed a majority of Jeffersonville residents don’t want gambling in their community.

. ” . SUCH a poll ‘seems ridiculous, especially since it was by an agency of government charged specifically with enforcement of all laws regardless of what a group ‘of “individuals in one community might think of them. The only kind of “poll” that could be considered sériously would be a referendum authorized by the Legislature "at the ballot boxes. { Any attempt to establish police policy on the basis of

likes or dislikes for laws already on the books, merely leads to lack of public confidence in law enforcement.

History Would Repeat AH'S Sen. Elbert D. Thomas, who will be chairman of > the Senate Labor Committee in the new Democratic Congress, has just outlined some of the things he hopes to do to the Taft-Hartley Act. : His committee, he predicts, will wish to eliminate all changes made by that law in the intent of the original Wagner Act. “The evils in labor-management relations cannot be corrected by legislative enactments,” he says. “The only * remedy is through moral law, education and evolution.” For instance, if coal miners or telephone operators threaten a nation-wide strike, Sen. Thomas says, ‘they must recognize that the public interest is greater than their own. But a law will not, convince them. There must be an educational program to show them that they shouldn't strike.” He adds: # - . > » » 2 “TO BAN jurisdictional strikes by law will not stop them. The closed shop is another instance. Labor leaders who use the closed nop unwisely cannot stand up against

responsible for them—but in the forum of public opinion rather than by trying to pass a law.” The intent of the original Wagner Act—for which Sen. Thomas fought in 1935 and to which he now wants to return—was to correct certain evils in labor-mangement relations. Those evils were on management's side. Sen. Thomas obviously did not believe they could be corrected by “moral law, education and evolution.” So the Wagner Act made it the federal government's duty to protect labor's rights. It forbade management to deny those rights. It did not make labor in any way responsible for what was done with those rights.

» - 8 = s THESE consequences followed and were, we think, inevitable: : ‘ Unions grew vastly in size and power. Their power was increasingly abused. : Although for a long time Sen. Thomas and others blocked all efforts to correct the Wagner Act's bias, a Congress finally was elected in which majorities both of Democrats and Republicans voted to pass the Taft-Hartley Act. If we understand him correctly, Sen. Thomas now wants to restore that condition of labor-management relations in which one side was under stern restraints of federal law while the other side was left free to defy moral law and public opinion. If that is done, we believe a siniilar train of consequences will follow as inevitably as before. Cheers for Mr. Harriman - * A MBASSADOR W. Averell Harriman has cracked down on somebody’s scheme to use Marshall Plan moneysto underwrite the séle of comic books and detective stories in Germany. “Ridiculous!” he said. Stronger language ‘would have x Mr. Harriman, who is chief economic co-operation ad- + . ministration official in Europe, also said an emphatic “no” to a proposal by ECA's public relations office in Washington _ for a “Gallup” poll in Europe to find out what people there

asked. - ce TR Sa i ons that our recovery funds aren't to be a lot of boondoggling ratholes are heartily If we must indulge in occasional governmental ns, let's not make them an export item. ; Bess * {

a “questionnaire” among citizens of one community on their -

- public opinion. We can get rid of the evils by making labor

think of the Marshall Plan. “Aren't there enough Red faces

In Tune With the Times

» Barton Rees Pogue THRILLS

How keen is the thrill of a good mystery story, The chill and the awe in a sight that is gory, The plot and the words that are chosen to tell it May well give a shiver and no power to quell it. The number of corpses, the difficult witness, The elusive clue and the detective’s fitness, The bin in the cellar, the trunk in the garret Have often been searched and no answer, I swear it! S The good mystery story, the chill mystery story, The sight that is gory gives people a thrill,

The murder so perfect, the theft sans solution, A skeleton, white, hanging high in the barn, A fire or a wreck made to cover pollution, Put these all together to make a fine yarn; A child that is missing. a wild speeding taxi, A scream that is gurgling and causes a chill A shot from a gun that is left by the body No fingerprints on it, the killer has skill.

The finger-print expert, the smooth, smug detective, Policemen, reporters are tagging the crime, For exhibit A—~B—C are now most effective, The only thing lacking is plenty of time. With clews and with clues they will track down the criminal His cell is put far from the curious crowd, The newspaper story is sold on the corners, To this dangerous criminal no visitors allowed. -~CORA SHIRLEY, Terre Haute.

® o o LIFE BEGINS TO TARNISH

All this shaving and washing and dressing, Sponging and drying and pressing Is very distressing!

All this hunting and sorting and packing, Shining and cleaning and blacking Is very nerve-wracking!

All this rushing and brushing and going, Rushing through crowds, elbowing, Is certainly slowing!

All this “get there” and “sell 'em” and hurry. All this “quick boy” and “rush it” and flurry Is a very grea! worry!

It all sets a fellow to wishin’ He was somewhere in Africa fishin’, Where a little twisted rag Would be all the clothes he'd wag, And he'd never hear the cussed word “ambition”! -BARION REES POGUE, Upland. ® *

PORTRAIT

You carry yourself like a princess of the blood; but your nose is tip-tilted and saucy, 80 how can I say you are regal? Your opinions are your own, and you are governed by them, so you are free. The years touch you gently. Youth is gone, but you are young, and I think you will always be. You give yourself generously and life rewards you. You have a grand time, and share it. I liké you! ‘* -—MABEL REWIAN, Oakland City.

THE BUS DRIVER AND THE LADY “Tokens, Ma'am?” I hear the driver ask. (His voice was business-like and terse.) “Thank you, no,” she brightly chirped, “I think 1 have one in my purse.”

The driver was a patient man, & His will was forged of steel, But he had seen this kind before And nervous fingers drummed the wheel.

She peered into the darkness Of the jungle that she carried, Then bravely reached into its depths, (Her arm was almost buried).

Down, down her fingers probed Through that wild and clutered den, She had to surface once for air, Then dived back in again.

It was then the driver went berserk. Few things have happened worse, He snatched the lady by the heels And locked her in her purse. . —MARION V. BROWN, New Castle. > S o :

WELL DONE

Often today in factory or shop, Where the wheels of industry run, We file a report at the end of the day, A summary of what we have done, Truly it is in all walks of life, Either business, recreation or fun, At the end of the day we're sure to retrace In memory, the things we have done. ° When we come to the end and the pay roll's made up, . ‘ «And we're facing lites 1ast setting sun, May we reap our reward and be able to hear The Paymaster say, “Well done.”

—OTTIS SHIRK, Muncie.

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PREPAREDNESS . . . By Jim yg Blueprint for Civilian Defense Prepared in Case War Comes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—Defense Secretary James Forrestal and the 48 governors today have a blueprint for defense of the ordinary citizen in any third world war—an attack which experts say is “no longer difficult to visualize” and whose “killing power will be incredible.”

It was delivered to Mr. Forrestal by Russell J. Hopley of Omaha, chairman of the Office of Civil Defense Planning. It represents several months’ study. Civil defense, Mr. Hopley says, is no panacea. 1t is simply '‘the organization of our people to minimize the effect of enemy action . . . to maintain and restore those facilities essential to civil life and preserve the maximum civilian support of the war effort.” Mr. Hopley’s report deals with all phases of modern war, but particular emphasis is put on defense against atomic attacks and chemical warfare. If an atomic bomb is dropped on this country without warning, Mr. Hopley said, “little can be done to protect persons within 3000 yards (nearly two miles) of the point of bomb detonation.” “Truly protective clothing is nonexistent and there is little reason to believe its future development is possible,” he said. :

Sees 100,000 Casualties

HE ESTIMATES there will be 100,000 casualties if an A-bomb is dropped on a densely populated area. An estimated 20,000 persons would be killed outright; another 20,000 would die within a week. He predicts 60,000 persons would be injured —20,000 serious injuries reported within a week, another 20,000 developing within three weeks, and 20,000 more less seriously hurt. Not all would be killed by radiation. Some would die from shock, burns and flash. Others, however, would die or suffer serious injuries from radiation. The symptoms would become apparent within 3 to 21 days after exposure. They would include a general feeling of discomfort, nausea, bloody diarrhea, prolonged blood clotting and reduced resistance to diséase and infection. & Administration of whole blood plasma is the only known remedy. Promptly given, Mr. Hopley said; “it may be expected to save many borderline cases.” Within 500 yards of the bomb, Mr. Hopley said, “nearly 100 per cent immediate fatalities may be expected.” Between 500 and 1000 yards, 100 per cent

fatalities would result, with deaths spaced over a three-week period. One thousand to 1500 yards from the bomb, 50 per cent of the persons present would die. Mr. Hopley says “the likelihood of serious injury remains high” in this area. At least 15 per cent of the persons 1500 to 2500 yards away would be killed, he predicts. Only one to two per cent of those 2500 to 3000 yards away are expected to be killed, however.

Dec:h for Thousands MR. HOPLEY also is worried about chemical warfare. ¢ “If a thousand enemy bombers dropped full loads of modern chemical bombs on a major American industrial city unprepared for such an attack, the result would be death and inJury for thousands,” he told Mr, Forrestal. To us, Mr. Hopley says, such an attack “seems incredible.” “Yet,” he adds, “this nation has no choice except to anticipate such an attack; it cannot fail to take every precaution to protect itself against the possibilities of a chemical attack as well as against the atomic and other conventional weapons.” r In addition, he says there are “many other types of special weapons that could be employed in modern warfare. ... It is reasonable to expect the future will bring them forth.” Mr. Hopley recommends: : ONE: A National Office of Civil Defense to furnish leadership.

Mobile Units Needed

TWO: Basis responsibility in the states and communities with mutual assistance plans and mobile supporting units. THREE: Maximum use of volunteers, existing facilities and organizations. FOUR: Well organized and trained units equipped to meet the problems of enemy attack and to be ready against any weapon the enemy may use. FIVE: Intensive planning to meet the hazards of atomic or any other modern weapons. SIX: A peacetime organization which can be used in natural disasters even though it may never be used -in war.

“In the event of future war, which might’

come to ave shores, all of the people, ajl of the facilities and all of the skills and energies ‘of the nation must be utilized,” he said. “To carry out this program successfully will require the co-operation of every man, woman and child in the nation.”

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‘We Pay for Everything’ By C.D.C. : Harry Truman predicted the pollsters would have red faces after the election and he was quite right. : : He had hardly been elected, however, when various labor leaders announced they had elected him when as a matter of fact many of the highly industrialized centers did not supe

full support. Before committing ourselves too strongly let's take a look at the record. § The New Deal has never worked except as a war time economy or a cold war economy such as we now have or had just before the war. Furthermore, Mr. Truman, who is quite human, is not infallible and is likely to err. While there was less distress for the first seven years of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's administration than under Mr. Hoover, it was merely because the people were being fed at government expense by doing deeper in debt each yar. ' Lt us all remember one thing. The government never gives us anything. We pay for everything we get and the cost of administration by the government is added on our tax bill, : 3 *

‘Throw Trash Out of Car’ By E. P. Robinson, 856 Earhart St. Just a few words in answer to Merrit V. Reed in regard to smoke and what he terms'a health menace., - This summer the Highway Commission started at Rural St. and went east on Southeastern Ave. and cleaned up the trash and filth that citizens of Indianapolis had thrown out of their cars. Within one week the road on both sides had garbage, tin cans, dead chickens, dead dogs dumped by citizens of Indianapolis. : = On Nov. 8, I called the city to come and remove two dead dogs that citizens of Indianapolis had dumped in the street right her® in Center Township. And I presume these same people go back home and call the Mayor and smoke abatement engineer and rave about the health menace of smoke. I say use the money paid to smoke abatement officers to hire more policemen and health inspectors. ¢ & 9

Stay-at-Home Voters By Tom Brown, 5817 Morningside Drive. It is felt by Mr. Dewey and others that the stay-at-home Republicans lost: the election for him. What about the stay-at-home Democrats who believed: the Ropers, Gallups, Lewis Jr, Winchell and the rest of them, and stayed home as a consequence, believing “it was in the bag and there was really no need for an election because Dewey was ‘in’.” The majority of votes were, cast for President Truman, so I know that if the stay-at-homes of both parties had voted, Truman would be the winner hands Sowa: * ¢

On Socialized Medicine

By Dr. Frederick E. Jackson, 224 N. Meridian. Now that Mr. Truman is’ elected, the controversial issue of socialized medicine will come to the front. While there is much to be said on some socialization of the health problem, let's hope that the politicians use some conservative sense as to the extent of the field which they take over. In the government's approach to this problem, is it too much to hope that the political devotees of socialized medicine ill use common sense in taking first things first and building the system step by step in the same way industrial machinery has been developed?

Barbs—

The most expensive things about a home is carelessness. ¢ &

Advice usually can be had for nothing—just about what it’s worth, Be SS Why. is it that learning to drive slowly is s0 much harder than learning to drive fast?

A A student in a western college was dismissed for giving false entrance information. He might at least have waited until exams to do his cheating.

FATE OF ASIA . .. By Peter Edson

Reds Push China

To Final Showdown

WASHINGTON, Nov. 15—It is anybody's guess what will

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

AVIATION ...By Max B. Cook

New Landing Aids To Boost Air Trips

NEW YORK, Nov. 15—The scheduled airlinés announced to-

happen in China if Chiang Kai-shek’s government falls. One good proverb to apply is that things never happen in China as fast as they should. But the alternatives are many. There is much concern lest the Chinese Communists of the North, under Mao Tse tung, take over the whole couatry. NorthSouth rail line are all broken and the roads are worse. But it is claimed there are enough Communist converts in South China to do the taking over when the time comes. An alternative would be that the Communists will stop their advance when they reach the Yellow River. That wquld divide the country into Communist North China, anti-Communist South China. Another alternative is that South China will break up into a number of separate provinces under war lords. Still another prospect is that there will be a coalition of North and South, resulting in a “unified” China with the Communists dominant. This possibility frightens anti-Communists in the United States more than any of the others, For it is now considered a cinch that whenever the Communists enter a coalition on a united front basis, they sooner or later take over the whole works and run it. “Faced with these conditions, American government policymakers have a real problem in trying to decide what to do next. There is a tendency among some critics outside the government— notably . William C. Bullitt—{o criticize President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall for having failed to back Chiang’s government with all-out support, right from V-J Day on.

St, ort for Coalition THIS MAY BE largely the wisdom of hindsight. At the end of the war, Stalin had agreed to lay off China, Communist leader Mao had been brought to Chungking by Maj. Gen. Pat Hurley for conferences with Chiang Kai-shek. American policy at the time was to support coalition of Communists and Nationalists in a unified China. When the unity conferences broke down and Mr. Marshall came home in January, 1947, to become secretary of state, he blamed his failure on the extremists of both sides. He-said the only hope lay in the liberals in both movernents taking over from the extremists.

That is just about where American policy has stood ever .

since, except that President Truman declared last March that the United States did not contemplate inclusion of Communists in the Chinese government, and never had. His memory may have tricked him. : It is generally believed that the Republican-dominated 80th Congress upset this policy by voting China $400 million aid. That isn’t quite the story. Mr. Truman had asked for $570 million for ‘15 months, Congress cut it to $463 million for 12 months, then

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cut further to $275 million civilian aid plus $125 million military aid. . In appropriating this military aid, however, Congress stopped far short of providing for American intervention in China and full underwriting of the Chiang Kai-shek government as part of the Truman doctrine drive against world communism. The $125 million military aid was given China to spend as it saw fit in its war against the Communists. No American government super-

Vandenberg put it, there must be no implication that “we are underwriting the military campaign of the Nationalist government.” % : 2

That's what U. S. presidential and congressional policy is today. If it is changed, the next Congress will have to do it. * Fp +

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day that newly installed landing aids at airports would insure some 12,500 additional winter flights carrying 225,000 passengers. They predicted “the best and sdfest winter flying season in: many years, with remarkably few delays in the air or on the’ ground.” The prediction came in a report released here today by the Air Transport Association representing the scheduled airlines. It was based on a special program undertaken in co-operation with the Civil Aeronautics Administration, to improve dependability and reliability of schedules. Due to the program, the association announced, great progress was shown last December and January, and will be greatly improved this winter. Brig. Gen. Milton W. Arnold, association vice president of Operations-Engineering, listed several examples of spectacular progress in the field, at a meeting here. :

Flights Cancelled “DURING the 1946-47 December-January season,” he said, “a total of 3877 flights were canceled at New York's La Guardia Airport, due solely to traffic congestion. But not one airline flight in canceled for this reason during December and January in -48. “The program reduced the December-January 1947-48 badweather delays throughout the Unjted States by 62 per cent over the year before; servicing delays by 42 per cent; cargo delays by 52 per cent and passenger-handling’ delays (ticketing, etc.) by -64 per cent. On-time performance, based ‘on the number of times each flight arrived on or before schedule, increased 65 per cent. The instrument capacity and capacity of the approach system feeding the airports at New York alone have been in-

_creased 300 per cent.”

Control Area Increased THE AIRLINE program included introduction of the Instrument Landing System (ILS), Ground Controlled Approach (GCARadar), improvement of approach procedure, better radio communications, improved operating technique and more practical scheduling. : ; : Tower-control areas were increased to as much as 50 miles; radio-control frequencies of airline and CAA control towers were doubled and converted to Very High ney (VHF), static free radio. New routes and channels were s¢t up in and out of airports. These improvements have been completed at New York, Clean Los Angeles, Ban Francisco, Atlanta and Pittsburgh.

Dallas-Ft. Worth, Cleveland, Seattle, Houston, Detroit and Kansas City. Seventy-nine airports in the United States are now equipped with ILS and 66 more are to receive it soon.

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