Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1948 — Page 12

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_ Telephone RI ley 55851 “Give Light and the People Will Pind Ther Own Way

A Public Service Well Done (CITIZENS of Indianapolis are grateful to hundreds of MM volunteer workers, team captains and General Chairman Stephen C. Noland for their tireless efforts over a period of many weeks in raising $1,256,227.94 for the Community Fund agencies. : Although collections were short of the increased budget goal by some $248,000 the workers are to be congratulated

to raise the fund above that of any peacetime year in history.

- . ” . - . THESE workers made a good showing in the face of a marked decline in the number of donors this year due mostly to the high cost of living that kept many families from making their usual donations. The money raised in the face of these handicaps is a testimonial to the high caliber of service and sacrifice these volunteers are willing to make for the welfare of the cont® munity. It is a public service well done because every .dollar will be stretched to provide countless community services which go a long way toward reducing crime, juvenile delinquency and the tragedies that would follow the failure of society to give a helping hand to those in need.

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It Wouldn't Stop There

THE economic program outlined in President Philip Murray's report to the CIO convention at Portland, Ore., contains nothing new. It is the same program long advocated by the CIO. But Mr. Murray believes he now has new ‘authority to demand its prompt adoption by President Truman and the coming Democratic Congress, in whose election he says the CIO played a “tremendous role.” Objective of the program, according to Mr. Murray, is to maintain a “full-employment and full-production economy.” Here are its chief proposals: The government must control prices and adjust them downward, but maintain a floor under basic farm prices. It must allocate, ration and control essential materials, commodities and food, so théy will “get to the proper places, the proper people, at the proper time.” It must raise the minimum wage to $1 an hour, provide workers with lowcost public housing, increase Social Security benefits and extend them to more people, . ss 8 A i . . ALSO, the government must cut down the incomes of “great corporations and the wealthy” by taxing them more heavily and make “an all;out attack on monopolistic practices.” Pal Mr. Murray's program does not mention government control of wages. It does not mention the monopolistic practices of labor unions. On the contrary, CIO leaders obviously expect government support in their forth-coming drive for a fourth postwar round of wage increases. And they expect Mr. Truman and Congress to remove such mild curbs on union monopolistic practices as the Taft-Hartley Act imposes. ; : Some of Mr. Murray's proposals seem to us totally (nconsistent with others. We think his program, as a whole, would lead to a national economy planned and managed, so far as business and industry are concerned, by the gov-

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IN SUCH an economy, Mr. Murray and his associates doubtless believe, labor could preserve its freedom by using its political power to control the government. We doubt it. We believe that government planning‘and management of the operation of business and industry would go beyond that. The government might intend to stop with telling business and industry what and how much to produce, what prices to charge, what profits to make. But eventually the government would find it necessary

management. Eventually the government would tell labor where to work, how long to work, what wages to take.

The Ruhr Dispute

THE French challenge of American-British policy in the Ruhr helps Stalin to split the Western Allies. While the Paris government is very much alive to the danger of Russian subsidized strikes in France, it is not sensitive enough to the perils which threaten Allied unity. French fears of a future strong Germany are partly justified. Frenchmen who have suffered from three German invasions cannot be convinced that their militaristic neighbor is now finally defeated.

” » 8 . » 2 THUS the French see Germany as essentially a security problem while the more distant British and Ameri-

stands that both security and recovery are important—the difference is a matter of emphasis. Naturally the United States government, which is subsidizing defeated Germany and pouring out billions to Marshall Plan countries, looks 0 the Ruhr as the key to European recovery and relief for American taxpayer. > ; : The immediate occasion for revival of this recurring dispute is the British-American decision to appoint German trustees for Ruhr industry under international control. The French object that this external control is not adequate and,

J ” » © THOUGH we sympathize with the French attitude, it seems to us one-gided. The immediate threat is Russia— not Germany. The future threat is a combination of the two, with Germany as the puppet and munitions powerhouse ‘of Russia. That is why Stalin is reaching for the Ruhr. A starving Germany is more apt to turn to Russia. And an isolated France can stand against neither Russia Germany, much less dgainst both. For those reasons » cannot afford to sabotage economic recovery of a | Germany or to strain American-British-French

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for the extra effort they put into the campaign this year.

. But they held to sure horizons—

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue

THANKSGIVINGS LONG AGO

In the days when bees were hummin’, I recall . How we ust to wait the comin’ Of the fall For the time in bleak November, "Twixt the middle and December, That we always shall remember Best of all, .

When the trainman loudly warned us, “Francesville,” Then I donned my cap and followed— What a thrill! _ There was Grandpa at the station, ‘Gayest man in all creation, Huggin’, kissin’ his relation With a will,

It seems but yesterday she waited In the door, With a love as unabated As of yore. In her eye a merry twinkle, On her face a little wrinkle, But the very kind of wrinkle - You'd adore.

8mell of wood smoke so delicious Filled the place, And the weight-clock, still ambitious, Wiped his face With his hands and called out gaily, “Time for supper, friends,” and railly I could hardly wait the daily Words of grace.

And when Grandma did her bakin’, Turkey-day, There was nothin’ could have taken Us away. : Pies and cookies, bread and chicken, And we didn't fear a lickin’ If she caught us slyly pickin’ From a tray. * .

Those Thanksgiving Days of pleasur Are no more, ’ We must go to memory’s treasure For the lore Of her cookies and her dressin’, Her gentleness and blessin’, v But we're happy that she’s restin’

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a - 3 A Theory on Elections 1 By C. D. C., Terre Haute : x There have been many theories advanced as to why the pollsters were all wrong in their election predictions. : % Lo The labor leaders were first to announce that the labor vote had elected Mr. Truman and had repudiated the ones who voted for.the Taft-Hartley Law. There is no basis at all for this assertion as many of the highly ized centers voted for Mr. Dewey. Pi Another theory advanced was that a sharp decline in farm prices caused farmers to. become panicky and they were afraid that price supports would be removed if the Republicans

were elected. : si This does not seem to be a fact eithe¥ as

many agricultural areas went strongly Republican. v However, without any question of doubt, there was a whispering campaign emongsoiq age pensfoners, retired coal miners and ably to some lesser extent among retired Falls roaders that a Republican victory ‘meant’

loss of their pension. ia There is no way of telling whether this had the election was

any effect on the election. My own opinion is that decided by the government payroll vote or & votes of government employees although thers is no way of proving it. + There are approximately two million govs ernment employees whom politicians claim can deliver a total of eight million votes and ths majority of these are New Deal political ape pointees, which was enough to swing the elece tion, and we can assume that not many wanted to vote themselves out of a job. It seems to me, however, if we are going to have anything that resembles a democratic form of governs ment in the future, we will have to disfranchise all the tax eaters and let the tax payers decide on who is going to run‘the government. ® & : ; . Lo ‘Lived Up to Promises’ E: By Zenobia Fisher, 313 Camp st.

Evermore. ' —BARTON REES POGUE, Upland. * ¢ 9

LOOK TO THE SKY

Our forefathers crossed the ocean In their ships, o’er stormy seas, And they kept their faces skyward While to God they made their pleas.’ They had plans for life and freedom, They had set far-distant goals,

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

Dock Strike Sample of Trouble Truman Faces in

WASHINGTON, Nov.

24—Returning to boylotts would be kept.

Next 4 Years

barring jurisdictional strikes and secondary

THere are always good things as well as bad about any administration. In looking over the good things in the past administration, one eannot overlook the fact that Auditor of State A. V. Burch did live up to his promises. and the program he outlined for himself, : Among the many things he set out to accome plish was to clean up the State Capitol building, both inside and out, and one has only to look at it to see the improvements which have beem . made during his regime. From the beautiful approach, both on the

For the sky was in their souls!

On a windswept coast they landed And looked upward to the sun. For them now old ties were ended And a strange, new life begun. They had reason to be fearful— What might be tomorrow's roles— But they kept their strong convictions, For the sky was in their souls.

They built cabins from the timbers That they cut with their own hands, And kept nature their handmaiden As they fought with savage bands. Boll and forest gave bare living, Comfort came in meager doles, But they held steadfast and bravely, For the sky was in their souls.

Now we're bled with much misery, Greed and hatred blight our land, We have moved indoors from nature, Easy living we demand. That's the reason we have floundered And are grounded on the shoals, We no longer stop, look upward To keep sky within our souls.

Go outdoors and look to Heaven, See the sun rise in the east With the promise it is bringing, Color vivid, soon increased. Ah, a splendor all revealing Tells a plan complete and whole That you also, like your fathers, Need the sky within your soul.

See the sunset’s benediction: The world should be at peace, Deepest hues are God's perfection, Troubles now may,find release. Blazing glory, dimming slowly, Like the virtue darkness stole, But there'll be a bright tomorrow, Keep the sky within your soul! —LUIS B. WRENS, Indianapolis.

Washington from his Florida vacation, President Truman will discover in the dock workers’ strike a sample of the troubles he is likely to face during the coming four years. Foreign aid, inflation, campaign promises, all are tied together in the crippling strike on the East and West coasts that has already held up nearly 200,000 tons of Marshall Plan aid. At the same time the two big trade union associations, AFL and CIO, in annual convention are calling for outright repeal of the TaftHartley act. To officials responsible for administering collective bargaining laws, these sweeping demands have a fearsome sound. Should the Congress go the whole way, adminstration would be left in a defenseless position.

The ‘Truman Mandate’

RESPONSIBLE unions that helped to create the “Truman. Mandate” might not abuse their privilege under the old Wagner Act. But unions still dominated by Communists, and there are some, would like nothing better than to embarrass the administration. s If winter comes, can John L. Lewis be far behind, to paraphrase a much quoted line from Keats. Reports are that Mr. Lewis, who once again demonstrated that his political huffing and puffing has no effect whatsoever, is spoiling for a chance to upend his old enemy, the President. A nice, long coal strike, free of TaftHartley restraints would do it. Nor has the President forgotten his painful dilemma when the railway strike of two years ago threatened to bring the nation to a standstill. Responsible officials who must deal with labor are talking about a compromise which would combine about a fourth of the Taft-Hart-ley Act. with three-fourths of the old Wagner Act. As they see it, the Taft-Hartley provisions

President Truman is on record in a state of the union message favoring such restraints. In addition, there would be retained some means of bringing to a halt strikes threatening services vital to the security of the nation. Here, of course, the opposition of organized labor would be loud and real. What labor officials fear most is a three or four-month interval following outright repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act when there would be nothing in its place. Just now some of the tougher Taft-Hartley decisions are beginning to come down from the National Labor Relations Board. In the limbo left by repeal, something like chaos is possible. On the inflation front the battle line seems to be clearly drawn. Walter Reuther of the United Auto Workers has promised a fourth round of wage increases. He has said that this must not mean an increase in the price of cars. Here, of course is Mr. Truman’s stickiest problem. He might persuade Congress to mop up excess profits, which Sen. Ralph Flanders of Vermont points to as amazing and fantastic, with an excess profits tax. But whether it is possible to get workable price. control that would cover automobiles seems highly doubtful.

Fourth Round of Pay Hikes

EVEN before Reuther spoke, Henry Ford II said that a fourth round of wage increases would mean a fourth round of price rises. This, it so happens, is part of the rationalization of prominent Republicans in the aftermath of defeat. A depression, they are saying, is almost inevitable and it would have been so even if Gov. Dewey had been elected. The New Deal remedies the President recommended in .-his campaign will be discredited and the Democrats will be out of power after 1952 for 20 years. IJow that he is in harness again, even the triumphant President must see in the dock strike an unhappy portent.

Capitol Ave. side as well as the Senate Ave, side of the building, to the new Senate and House chambers, one realizes the task he set out to do in the few short years he was here. Above all, he awakened the taxpayers to the great need of a direct primary. Although he is leaving the State House, I am sure he does not mean to give up his fight for the direct primary —something badly esith » this state. ¥

‘Smoke and Sinus Trouble’ By M. Walker This is an answer to the person that wrote a letter in and sald smoke doesn’t hurt anyone, I don’t suppose this person has ever heard about sinus trouble. Well, there are thousands of people in Indianapolis that have sinus-trouble and most of it is caused by smoke and dampness. We can’t do anything about the damphess but we sure can do something about smoke, Other cities do something about i» so we can, There are a lot of people who have sinus trouble so bad they have to leave Indianapolis and I will be one of them if théy don't do something about this smoke, and if that person ever suffered with sinus like I have, he wouldn't say smoke doesn’t hurt anyone. I am in favor of smoke control. r : > ¢ .

‘Pistol Packing Mamas’ By Mrs. Stella Martin, City : i Is there no law or justice in Indiana? Why not unlock the doors of all the jails and penitentiaries in-Indiana and let them all out? Surely none of them are guilty of any crime. Maybe if someone stole an apple he should be put in prison for life but certainly not for killing a man. : 1 wonder how 12 jurors of a trial a couple weeks past can go to sleep at night after such a verdict of not guilty. : «pistol Packing Mamas” are a dime a dozea these days. . i

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cans are intent on the recovery problem. Each side under-

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CONSERVATION . . . By Peter Edson Long-Range Power, Soil Plan Pushed

‘WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Recently returned from a six weeks’ inspection of Department of Interior projects in every western state except Nevada, Secretary J. A. Krug is preparing to push forward a long-range program for his bureaus of the government. Mr. Krug neither talks nor shows signs of leaving the cabinet. Twice before in the last three years he has been ready to resign and return to private business. But at those particular moments he has been under attack in Congress or from some lobby that has wanted to get him out of office. Mr. Krug is not one to quit under fire. He will probably be around for some time to come. He believes that President Truman now has an opportunity even better than President Roosevelt ever had to expand conservation programs. Mr. Krug admits that these programs may cost a lot of money—perhaps twice this year’s $400 million annual appropriations for all Department of Interior activities. But he says all these things begin to pay off as fast as the investments are completed. “Roosevelt's power program, as carried through by President Truman, has provided more spark for free enterprise than any other one business incentive,” says Mr. Krug. “It was choked o by the 80th Congress, but there is now a chance to revitalize

A-e--ies Working Together MR. KRUG believes soil conservation is the most important thing on his program. Department of Agriculture has responsibility on privately owned land, Department of Interior on the public domain. The two agencies are working together on it. The probelm of erosion control is particularly bad in Arizona and New Mexico, extending up into Oklahoma. But it needs attention over. : This can come best through systematic development of river valleys. Mr. Krug himself favors the Tennessee Valley type of “Authority,” which has many management advantages in working across the state lines. Department of Interior is now ready to go ahead on nearly all major valley projects, says Mr. Krug. The Missouri basin plan has been agreed on. Bureau of Reclamation has completed its surveys of the Columbia valley, but six months more will be needed to complete Army Corps of Engineers plans, then reconcile e two. The Colorado basin plan is complete, except for reconciliation of the Nevada-Arizona-California water rights problem, which

‘will require congressional action. Rio Grande and St. Lawrence

valley engineering plans are complete. Only the Arkansas, Red and White River valley projects are still in the planning stage. “This,” says Mr. Krug, “is the Garden of Eden opportunity.”

20-Year Plan Needed

ON MINERAL tesources, Mr. Krug says a 20-year plan is needed to find out what we have and what policies are necessary to save metals in short supply. As an example, he mentions that aluminum and magnesium are plentiful, although processes for

refining low grade ores are not fully developed. These metals .

Sheule be used more widely so as to conserve supplies of copper n. : Regardless of arguments over the size of America’s oil re-

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, WC. T. M. REQ. U. 8. PAY. OFF, on "But, doctor, | can't discuss my ailment with friends when you give it such a commonplace name!"

serves, Mr. Krug points to the still rapidly increasing consumption to show the need for perfecting processes for producing synthetic oils from shale and coal. What's needed is the construction of three commercial plants to produce shale oil and oil from Soul by hydrogenation and synthesis processes now in pilot plant sts. + Development of more electric power will save fuel oil. More power ‘is thé crying need of the Northwest. Congress is to be asked for deficiency appropriations for additional installations at Coulee. McNary and Hungry Horse dams on the Columbia will have to be speeded up and the new Hell's Canyon dam on the Idaho-Oregon border brought into production. America’s new west coast tuna fishing industry needs protection from Japanese and Russian competition in the Pacific. A long program to care for America’s own displaced persons —the Indians—is in order. Many neglected tribes are now the victims of shyster lawyers and exploiters. : : “The whole domestic economy has been neglected for war summing up. “Maybe we can get the new Congress to do something.”

POLITICAL STRATEGY . . . By James Thrasher |

GOP Seen Facing Decision on Policy

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—The loss of the presidential and congressional elections left the Republican Party a choice of two courses. It can liberalize its congressional leadership:: Of! it can continue under the conservative leadership that has long directed its policies in Congress, and thereby run the risk of a still longer losing streak. It has been assumed that the election results would be the 8 signal for a shakeup, particularly in the Senate. But now a story from Washington says that a move in that direction has broken down almost as soon as it started. The liberal GOP Senators, it seems, could not agree on a leader. There are several intelligent, experienced and forward-look« ing men in this liberal group. One might think that from. &

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collection of such names as Aiken, Flanders, Saltonstall, Lodge,

Ives, Morse and Knowland, somebody might have been found who would grab a new broom and start to work. Their reported inability to do so is particularly surprising in view of the’imse pelling reasons why the liberal Republicans should pull together.

Little Hope Offered :

IF THE Senate housecleaning has really been abandoned & good many people are going to be disappointed. It won't ens courage the more liberal Republicans, certainly. It won't offer much hope to the faithful party members of conservative outs look who neverthelegs would like to see the GOP get back on the winning side by any means. It won't even please those no strong party leanings who want to see our two-party system kept strong and active. oh Unless the GOP liberals get together and try again, the big decision will certainly be up to Sen. Taft, the big wheel in their opposition. He has not yet revealed what his party’s surprising defeat signifies’ to him, or what he intends to do about it, = One thing is certain. Sen. Taft will make his own decision, Though his political philosophy clearly represents a minority view, he sincerely believes in it." He is thoroughly honest and intelligent. His actions are dietated by the highest motives, whatever one may think of the reasoning behind them. The question is how he will reconcile his own strong and influential views with the future of his party. :

Repudiation of Platforms

AS ONE writer put it, the Republican Party cannot expect to win by running a liberal presidential candidate on a liberal platform for three months every four years when, in the . vening time, the majority of Republicans in Congress re d ate both platform and candidate. i If Mr. Taft sees and believes that, he might resign’ his leadership—possibly in favor of Sen. Vandenberg. For “Mr, Vandenberg has greatly strengthened his party by taking it to a position of coequal leadership with the administration in the § field of foreign affairs, = or ee g ¢ The same could, be possible in the domestic field without, sacrifice of the s individuality or integrity.

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