Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 January 1949 — Page 10

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A LASTING national labor policy,” says Secretary of + ®® Labor Tobin, “can be founded only upon understanding and justice.” Correct. : "Therefore, Mr. Tobin says, it will not be enough to repeal the Taft-Hartley Law and restore the Wagner Act with ) ts suggested by President Truman. Congress

the Taft-Hartley Act and why. it needed to be repealed,” 80 that no future Congress will enact a similar law. , Well, just exactly what is wrong with the Taft-Hartley Act? In what specific ways has it injured, or could it injure, | the country’s workers? Mr. Tobin should explain that to + Congress and the people, if he can. ve years of hard experience created wide underwhat was wrong with the Wagner Act. As administered, it strayed far from justice. Ungovernment fostered the growth of labor organin and their leaders tremendous power, hold them accountable for how the power was inevitably, the power often was abused at the. of workers, employers and the public. AS AN effort to provide fairer balance in national labor ~ nolicy the Taft-Hartley Act may go too far in some respects. Yet in 17 months under it union membership has grown | und union wages have risen, while strikes and strike costs he earnings lost by striking workers, in production logt try=-~have declined. oi fen ’ are actual reasons the Taft-Hartley Act needs Congress first should find out and let the at those reasons are. Secretary Tobin, other advocates of repeal should be ret proof in public hearings instead of merely the Taft-Hartley Act is not perfect. no better basis for Mr. Tobin's , most of it is “unfair, unworkable or for union leaders’ cry that it is a

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the foreign reaction to the President's inaugural program for expanding American leadership in world affairs, jt appears that one basic point has been missed. There are cheers for the help Uncle Sam is supposed to give. Little is said about the self-help which is the requirement for American aid. ;

he Sandpoint of what we can contribute, he indicated t that he had in mind a co-operative effort with others. Nevertheless, what he said is less important than what our foreign friends think he meant. Failure abroad to understand that co-operation is a two-way street would the Truman program. That idea is taken for ~~ granted here. It is not abroad. - :

. tion of Marshall Plan aid, the European countries are sup- _ posed to lower trade barriers, integrate their economic systems and stabilize finances. Little progress is being made in these requirements. Many of the countries involved are living far beyond their means, instead of following the British example. The current report of the European committee itself admits there is no chance of those countries becoming self-supporting by 1952, as planned, at the present slow rate. » Of course paft of the difficulty is inherent—self-sur-gery is neither easy nor popular. But other factors contribute to the “let Uncle Sam do it" attitude. Receiving outside aid quickly becomes a habit, and in the end can do far more harm than good. Aside from that, there is widespread self-deception that the conflict is between Russia and the United States, rather than between Russia and the free world, and that therefore Uncle Sam should carry . virtually the entire load. ; These foreign misconceptions can wreck the Marshall Plan, the proposed North Atlantic defense pact, American military lend-lease, and the suggested development of colonial areas. The required joint effort calls for a much larger contribution by" European nations--economic, po"litical and military—than they realize. They forget that the purpose of American aid is to _help them help themselves.

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Reorganization Power PRESIDENT TRUMAN should be given the permanent muthority, for which he has asked Congress, to reor- " ganize any or all of the government's executive agencies, subject to consent of the House and Senate. : Unless he gets such authority, the country can. have * little hope of any important gain in governmental efficiency and economy through the reorganization plans now being worked out by the Hoover Commission. © Mr. Truman proposes adequate safeguards for the grant of power he seeks. Each reorganization plan submitted would have to lie before Congress for 60 calendar days of continuous session before it could become effective. During the 60-day period, any plan could be rejected by a simple majority vote of both branches of Congress. fact that Herbert Hoover favors giving Mr. Tru.

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the human family is heir. There are few, if any, of us who have life unfold to our. entire

best thing—if we can find out what the next best thing is. If not, we may have to blindly seek the door marked “exit,” and do the best we can, And often while groping in the dark

up to. us to walk with care, step softly and feel our way as we proceed-—or else . . . \ I have often thought how lucky we are if and when we may see our way ahead and know what may be around the bend for us, as we travel along on our uphill trail ness or light—as the eventually to arrive. But)the big things that we cannot. solve, are down. If we are at a to know whi

that is sheerest folly Usually, if we take our time to decide, light may be thrown on our pathway and we may have a better chance, without going down unawares to our everlasting doom. We must not hurry until we are sure we are on the right track--then proceed safely. .- AUNT PITIPAT, Anderso

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THE NATION'S HEART

And fathers hurry home At close of day.

: OLGA ADAMS, Peru. * oo

: ‘MY ANCESTORS They did not leave me thousand dollar bills,

They left me valleys, And a merry heart that sings.

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And still the plaintive chirping wrung From ‘sparrow throat that grieves. Attune your song to longing hearts, ‘Who walt by dying fires, d weave their thoughts with dream-threat arts Into fulfilled desires.

ELSIE PEARL OLIVER, Greenwood. ¢ 9 ¢

SING ME A SONG

Sing me a song of Mother ; ’ And our old home so dear, When life's bright sun was shining, And our hearts were full of cheer.

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Sing to me of the Homeland, And all that home can mean; Let me live again in the Homeland, Rest again in that Heavenly scene.

Sing me a song of Heaven, As Mother and homo were then; Take from my heart the briars, And heal my soul again,

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. By Anton Scherrer

Indiana Linked to French Past?

FRENCH schoolchildren are

brought up to believe that Marshal Michel Ney (called “brav-

est of the brave” by Napoleon) was condemned to a traitor's death after the Battle of Waterloo; moreover, that he was hauled to the garden of the Luxembourg Palace where, on Dec. 7, 1815, he faced a firing squad. In support of which there is a fancy French monument in Pere Lachaise

linas (U. 8. A.) don’t believe ° a word of the story—least of all the French

version of Marshal Ney's ignominious death. -

To support what appears to be an outrageous example of heresy, the Carolina kids cite two historical facts—first of all, the arrival in Charleston, 8. C. in January, 1816, of a French fencing master who called himself Peter Stuart Ney; and, secondly, the deathbed state-

ment made by him in North Carolina in 1846, “I am Marshal Ney of ’ \ a Peter Stuart Ney with simple y, but fot

enough for everybody to 3 Visited Knightstown? IF THE documentary evidence Keeps piling up the way it has of late, it won't be long now until Indiana schoolchildren share the unorthodox opinion of their Carolina colleagues. Indeed, as matters stand today, it now appears that Marshal Ney, one-time Duke of and Prince of Moskowa, actually visited Knightstown, Ind.—at a time, mind you, when according to the French version, he was supposed to be resting in a Paris graveyard for, goodness knows, how many years. To my knowledge, the last to shed light on Marshal Ney’s visit to Knightstown was Miss Christine A. Reising of Louisville who. a decade or so ago, related a story she heard straight from her grandmother's own lips. The identity of her grandmother is signifi cant because of the fact that she was Mrs. Nicholas Reising; a daughter of John Jacob Lehmanowsky. This may turn out to be somewhat complicated, but it will be worth your while if you exercise a little patience. T “One summer evening,” said Miss Reisling, “when my" was in her early teens, a stranger appeared at the gate of the family home in Knightstown, Ind., and asked if it were the home of John Lehmanowsky. On being informed that it was, he came through tie gate and was met by her father (Miss Reising's great-grandfather, of course), who had hurried from his chair on the porch at the sound of the stranger's voice. “The two embraced and cried, talking in French, and glving every evidence of being friends long parted 'who had had no hope of

meeting again. They talked most of the night, and not until the gentleman had gone the next day did the father tell certain members of the family that their guest was none other than Marshal Ney, but that the secret must not be revealed to anyone.”

Carefully Guarded Secret

TODAY'S story is given an additional punch by the discovery that the Indiana State Library has in its archives the extremely rare “Life of Napoleon Bonaparte” written by “A Citizen of the United States.” Published in 1818 by Patrick & Booth (an ancestor of Booth Tarkington), it represents one of the earliest books printed in Indiana and, certainly, one of the most extraordinary. A carefully guarded secret at the time (probably for sound political reasons), it is now common knowledge that “A Citizen of the . United States” was none other than Col. John Jacob Lehmanowsky, great-grandfather of Miss Christine A. Reising. : Col. Lehmanowsky fought under Napoleon

of Waterloo. On that occasion in company with several generals (including the Marshal),

he J traitor’s death-—like as not, on trumped-up

- However, Col. Lehmanowsky escaped, came to America, and made a Nving lecturing, the material of which was eventually gathered in a book. Prior to moving to Knightstown, lived in Clark Harrison Counties. The book was a revelation and did much soften the feeling America en against Napol at the time. As for his lectures, they are supposed to embody the roots of the word “Hoosier.” At any rate, that’s one version of the legend. Col. Lehmanowsky, it

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pro the word with a sibilant sound not unlike that of “Hoosier.” And probably because the pioneers of southern Indiana recognized the same virtues as part of their gallant make-up, they readily adopted the word as a fair description of

Stopped in Indianapolis? AND WHAT has all this to do with Our Town? Simply this: If Marshal Ney visited Knightstown (as I, for one, believe), he must have approached the town by way of southern Indiana. In that case, there is every likelihood that he stopped off in Indianapolis. However,

~ there isn’t a record of any kind that he did.

ch, of course, leads to only one conclusion— n ly, the unique historical fact that Marshal Ney was the only important personage ever to pass through Indianapolis without the newspapers getting wind of his identity.

used will be edited but content will be pre- * served, for here the People Spesk in Freedom.

the sion may get bids for sale of the property un known to the owner through any means it so dsiires, 4nd ise 14 hotbing In the Maw tat compels them to make such bids known to the Assuming sat your haute 1s assessed for taxes at per year, under the plan of Tedevelopment it may be purchased by the Come mission and torn down, leaving nothing but the bare lot which the Commission has no power whatsoever to build upon, when at the same time thousands of persons in’ the city are suf. fering from want of a place to live. The statute is void for the reason that it is purely discriminatory. The Commission has set no standard of the house, or the kind of house, to be built in that district, leaving it to the sole discretion of the real estate dealer who buys the and sells it back to the people at the I see no reason why amendments to this law Shovian's be passed. +e

I propose that a rider be attached to those bills that would exempt the veteran from pay-

ing the tax providing he (the veteran) refuses to collect the bonus due him. ® ¢

‘May Get Results’

By Cecil A. Taylor, 512 Odd Fellows Bullding I should like to congratulate The Times upon series of articles: “Murder On the HighI think it probable that an article

fic mishaps and save lives, I am a member of The Trafic Enforcement Committee of The Indianapolis Safety Coun cil, of which Dr. R. N. Harger is chairman, and, as you know, it has been the committee's hope and desire to make our streets and highways safer for both life and property.

IT looks like the only ever get into the White House is to marry Cantor.

DENMARK'S DECISION ...By Jim G.

Key in Defense Pact

WASHINGTON, Jan. 25—The strength of the

defense chain now depends upon decisions in Copenhagen rather than in Washington, London or Paris, it was learned today. Denmark must decide, perhaps this week, whether she will Canada and Western

align herself ‘vith the United States,

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 25--A. rising tics of onal Republican Chairman Hugh Scott promises to pump to a Committee meeting, beginning today in Omaha. Mr. Scott's critics say these

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Europe. The Danes say they are determined to rearm, although Premier Hans Hedtoft says they face it “with a gloomy heart.” They want a defense pact with Norway and Sweden. Norway wants to join with the western powers. Swaden wants to stay neutral and is Jressuring Denmark to do the same. Informed sources here say there will be a North Atlantic pact-—with or without Denmark. President Truman said In his inaugural address he Intended to send a treaty to the Senate soon. With Denmark in, it would offer “maximum security,” would let us strengthen and build our defenses, Without Denmark, there will be weak links in the chain so that the western powers will never be rid of the fear they can outflanked and must continue to look for better security arrangements,

| Greenland Is Key Defense

DENMARK'S strategic value in any North Atlantic plan is ‘Greenland, which was included as part of the western hemi sphere in the -inter-American treaty of reciprocal assistance signed at Rio De Janeiro on Aug. 30, 1047. Former Secretary of State George C. Marshall said Greenland was “of the great-

States and the hemisphere.” U. 8. assumed responsibility for Greenland in 1941

With Greenland a formal member of the North Atlantic security alliDenmark

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