Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1949 — Page 12

Hungary obviously was more than an isolated attack "upon either an individual or a single institution. It followed i" ehrlier action against Bishop Lajos Ordas of the Hungarian Just as obviously, these persecutions have the approval of MOBOOW, The drive is not confined to Eastern Europe. It is world-wide. Witness the fact that Paul Yu-pin, noted archbishop of China, heads the latest list of “war criminals”

all the accused had “fully confessed” to spy charges accom‘the window dressing for Red purges since Andrei Vishinsky set the precedent in Russia in 1937, fo

RITZ,

MY VALENTINE = With silver sequins, glittering and bright, A missive came to me; WE Its dainty silken folds, of purest white, And slats of ivory = a Conveyed the méssage it was sent to bring, In accénts quite divine, The magic words which glow and breathe and = Ari re : 1 love you, love you, Valentine!

With every movement of my silken fan The rhythmic tidings blew, cadénce ever ran

je melody. found, Ruston. I love you, love you, Valentine!

The many fleeting years have come and gone, Into oblividn waned, :

ok ‘GRANDMA'S VALENTINE' “Mother, may I have a dime?” Asked my little son, “1 want to buy a Valentine, An extra special one.”

Some lucky little girl, thought I Will have a happy day, He'll choose the gayest Valentine, In all that bright display.

Then pencil tightly clasped, In frowning concentration,

. “Will you alwaysbe, 9 My own dear Valentine?” His Valentine is sixty-eight,

kd EN Ex ADANS, Toa diana; TE TTT

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—In a small VALENTINE GREETINGS os AR TL Now don’t think I'm stupid sits penned in by close-pressed Resorting to Cupid tators. Outside is a long file of citizens waiting But being blase, dear, This is the hearing on the new labor legisla. How else could I say : tion that will come out of the 81st Congress. It The words on the lace valentine? vitally affects every citizen no matter what his Th calling or trgde or lack of one, since this whole

repeal Taft-Hartley at once and the country with no federal labor-relations law ~~ while a committee labor, management and the __public considers restoring the Wagner Act “plus amend. ments, if any.” * Though certainly imperfect and possibly unfair in some respects, the Taft-Hartley Act is not a “thrust of fascism.” It is an attempt, in the democratic American tradition, to in private hands—hands like those of Mr. Lewis. It is an inevitable consequence of earlier federal legislation demanded by union leaders when organized labor was and at the mercy of powerful employers. :

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which sought to give unions immunity from anti-trust law Becuti ;

"And the 1932 Norris-La Guardia Act, which made the

-And the 1935 Wagner Act, which made the government the active promoter and protector of unionism’s

The Times and other Scripps-Howard newspapers: supported all this legislation. They believed, as they still do, t a strong, flourishing labor movement is essential to national welfare. But they have never believed that organized labor or any other group safely can be trusted to exercise great strength without public responsibility. Aided by government under the Wagner Act, unionism - tremendously increased its power and the country suffered from countless abuses of that power. Immunity to anti-

eral publie, i _ THE public demanded protection. The union leaders long blocked moderate amendment of the Wagner Act, refused to curb their own excesses—and so, finally, got the Taft-Hartley Act. If Mr. Lewis and other union leaders were now proosing Taft-Hartley repeal with nowestoration of the Wagr Act, they would be on logical ground. But if they want the continued help of federal law in maintaining their movement's giant strength they should, and in our opinion «must, accept an adequate measure of federal law against its

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= ~-oRm-you thin ~ anything -more oan -provision. nnd mrasiumm—g; nauseatin’ than that last bit o’ cold cracklin’s? | Democratic leaders will have to think a long BROWN time before rejecting the Morse-Ives compro- * 0 & mise, In order to counter the votes of southern Democrats certain to favor the sterner TaftPALS Hartley requirements, the Democrats must en-

the middle-ground Republicans who are

When new and nice to know, likely to be with Sens. Morse and Ives. That shower us with their goodness Both Mr. Morse and Mr. Ives are opposed to "As through the years we go. giving the federal courts power to enjoin a oy unien from calling a strike, as can be done now Pals are friends at noonday, under the Tart-Hartley ‘Act. They both feel Like warm and tender light, That stay our friends—true always, Barbs— day may chance to night. Pas aie % ot sate WHAT this country needs is a girl's com-

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And paint our sky with gold; kindness kéeps us younger, When age says we are old. ~—OLIVE BODE BROWN, Fountain Oity.

plexion that will look good on a young man’ coat lapel. ’ as ® 4% WE wonder how many have written extortion letters to Santa Claus?

effective by forbidding federal court in- |

PEACE TALK IN ASIA .. . By Clyde Farnsworth

SHANGHAI Feb. 14-—-The Chinese Nationalist peacemakers are still angling for a chance to talk terms with the Chinese Communist Jeaders while rumor had it President Chiang Kai-shek soon would emerge from “retirement” to regroup the Kuomintang (Government Party). . . : }

and party than Acting President Ii Tsung-Jen tion-wide bargain with the Reds. In the 20 days since Chiang Jeft Li to the almost impossible task of seeking a compromise peace with the victory.fired Communists, Li and his peacemakers, mostly’ old men, have gone about their business with persistence. ‘

Localized Surrender

BUT so far they haven't even got their foot in the Communist door, unless it's been to offer a localized surrender. Foreign pbservers wonder how long they will decline to take no for an answer. One of the latest refusals through the Reds’ mouth piece, the North Shensi radio, was addressed to the people of Shanghal. ’ It said: “All those who fall into a trap and take the present peace movement as a movement for real peace, and help promote “the movement will become sinners against the democratic cause of the people.” You can just about cancel Li's chance of negotiating with the Reds for antyhing except a localized surrender of Nanking and Shanghai, an unlikely possibility even so, and start thinking again about Chiang Kai-shek. .

tang. ant” Kuomintang conference would be held there Mar, 20 under Chiang’s chairmanship. rs From Changsha, capital of Hunan Province. it was reported that the deputy director of Kuomintang publicity stated & plenary session of the Kuomintang’s central executive committee would be convened at Canton with Chiang presiding. 2 ¢ One dispatch said this had inspired the rumor that Chiang “will soon come out to head the government again.”

Plan for Party Reform PE aT MEANWHILE, some 20 members of the executive and advisory committees of Central Kuomintang who met days ago sent a asking the central Kuomintang quarters in Canton to voke a plenary session and appoint committee to draft a plan for party reform to be submitted the plenary session and Chiang. At one pewsbaper at ‘the ania tine eked i to K

Will Chiang Return? |

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His withdrawal from Nanking has been rejected at its face val by Red commentators from the beginning. : Just before he was linked with the reported plans to reform - the Kuomintang, Shanghai newspapers quoted “a certain high government official” who had visited the generalissimo at Chikow

CONTROL OF STRIKERS . . . By Marquis Childs

Labor's Future

rows of spec- thé railway labor act, witha provision

: No ht i so amd gaining is directly related to the role governTo plerce me as “I'm glad you're mins!” ment plays in our lives. For Cupid, impassioned, Yet, it sometimes seems that Congress is goMy heart goes old-fashion ing about finding a solution ip the most backAs those on a lace valentine! handed sort of way. Political partisanship has ~ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Terre Haute. produced’ quarrels and name-calling. The Re‘ss, Suliican SINomY accuses the a * hearings in * _HOOSIERANA | ("he dictate of the CIO. espana Off-hand, can you- . that That is one reason for the tension in the tastes better'n the first bite o' het 's? | crowded court room. The Republicans complain, + +. Wonder what ever happened to the magazine and with considerable reason, that cutting off teller that perdicted we wus about to run out o’ | the hearings arbitrarily would prevent a full water, . . , If it hadn't a-been for a stall in the | Analysis of the whole issue. : first place, we wouldn't have all this race-horse Fai la basketball now... Lote o vetrans would trade r Balance I bonus gi thirty dollars ever’ Thurs- YET, in spite of the unhappy a ch, ‘day, even if it wus only fer oné Thursday. .. . final legislation Is Hkely to represent a fair bale The reason Hoosiers are such commen folks, | ance freedom of action and essential nowadays, is because they know that if they | regulation. The balance of power rests, fortuturn up their noses, they're liable to git drownd- | nately, with two men—Sen. Wayne Morse of ed. . . . Hoosier mothers 'll always wonder how Ogun 414 Ssh. Hving Ives of Few

youngsters already

rN | COPA. 1940 BY NEA SERVIOL, WC. ¥. WM. REO. U. &. PAT. OFF.

- Labor Relations Board. Only when a union de-

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strongly that this violates a fundamental right. Sen. Ives favors a measure. patterned er or a fact-finding board to look into the causes of a dispute. During a specified period, while the board was reaching its conclusion, both sides to the dispute would refrain from any action. In Sen. Ives’ view much of the debate over the powers of the President to seek an injunc‘tion in the event of a national emergency produced by a strike is purely academic. As he sensibly points out, such an emergency calls almost inevitably for action by Congress.

Railway Strike Cited

WHAT happened in-the emergency produced

tus-at Stake

by the railway strike of May, 1946, is a good -

example, As the movement of goods and supplies slowed to- a standstill, President. Truman riished up to Capitol Hill to ask for emergency powers so sweeping that many, and particularly the heads of railway labor, were shocked and angered. Before Congress could act, the strike

was called off. ’

Sen. Robert A. Taft argues that the dispute law, which bears his name, makes it possible through the power of injunction to prevent a nation-wide strike and thereby prevent the emergency. This was sharply challenged by Sen. Morse during the hearings. The latter pointed out that the coal strike continued for eight days after the injunction was issued in Washington. John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers were fined. But no one went to jail and, therefore, the injunction process in its’ ultimate application was not tested. .

on the injunction as used to stop a strike. He

he is still in favor of allowing the coirts to enjoin a union that violates the law against jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts.

Restraining Action

AT THIS point Sen. Taft and the Morse-Ives combination are likely to part company. Sens. Morse and Ives believe that the ban on jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts should “e- carefully spelled out in the law; which would provide for restraining action by the National

fied the board would the courts have the power. to step in. : In other words, these two men believe that _ the power of government to force a settlement should be the ultimate and last resort. Their goal is to keep collective bargaining as free as possible from the heavy hand of government in-

~My Vt KEAINSE-1t-Tn-the-fnat-showdown—But | —ihere will be no other place to go, for the whole

‘Don’t Stifle Free Speech’

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keeping out. of the public eye for the Communist reaction.

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ted out this week consumer dollar has dropped from 54 cents titles” now, with a corresponding inérease in the m h

“1 "1 do not agree with » wee | will defend to the death your

beep are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be pre. served, for here the People Speak in Freedom,

By W. M. Ferree, ge wad : Thank God we 8 _the press and fearless publishers, such as The Times. 1 often

the things that are ican. . Ch icle and editorial regarding the Your, ticle literature sent to or. sug-

is the only salvation in regard to

that good old slogan of The Times, wri many years ago by a fellow named Vol i I have read the literature in question and: have known the writer, Mr, Osman, for 30: years. I have known him to be always a gentle man, a public-spirited American and to be vitally interested in the future of the U.8. A, As to the literature, like yourself, I do not wholly agree with all of the principles, but I can, in my opinion, see lots of logic and good points, Mr. Osman was acting as an individual and not affiliated with any group or society, It ig too bad that our lawmakers are so ready to stir up so much trouble over a suggestion; They must not forget that they are the servants of the people who, as I understand it, are the

to be patient and understanding rega the many suggestions that are offered for “ineir

approval, : Let us not intimidate and investigate to the

point whereby we stifie the rights of the indi« vidual that are still afforded us under the Constitution. : * © o

‘Cut Taxes for Veterans’ . By William R. Schultz, 319 W. Blaine St. I am a veteran of World War .II and have

naturally watched with interest the battle. eon. cerning paymefit of a’ soldiers’ bonus. ih It seems to me that-I-have a painless plan

"for all concerned and I believe it is highly

feasible in view of the continuous bickering by our law-makers, : It consists of merely passing the bonus with the stipulation that the amount each veteran has be subtracted from his taxes until his full bonus is paid. For instance, if a veteran would have $300 coming, and his taxes the first year amounted to $100, then the $100 would be subtracted from his bonus of $300, leaving him balance of $200. In the following year, he might owe $85 which would be subtracted from the $200, leaving him $115. In third year he might owe $95, which would be subtracted from the balance, leaving him $20 to be ‘subtracted from what owes the fourth year. r : z *Usder this plan each veteran would get his bonus, no certain’ group would pay too much, and most of the friction would be gone, Too, it would be about like getting cash at a time when it is needed. ® ¢

‘On Your Guard, Americans’ By Roy Adams, Martinsville, Ind. “America is like Heaven” Everyone in America should have heard these words come from a Hungarian girl who appeared on the

* amateur hour program. She had just been

admitted to this country and while trying to tell of some of her past experiences she broke into tears. Shé has not been here long enough yet to know that we, too, have some rats who are trying to change it to hell on earth. But the traps are set to rid the place of these rats before they get beyond control.

wo On--your- guard, Americans, because if this.

earth will be hell

What Others Say—

THE Russians watch us so closely. They taunt us. with incidents, saying, “Do you call this democracy?” ... If we can prove democracy really preserves the ends all people aspire to, we will have won. our fight—Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt.

® © 9 IT IS a basic error to believe that communism can be beaten by bullets alone... . Neither can the battle in western Europe be won solely by operations on the economic front. , . , Ours must be a three-front operation, and that means military preparedness, as well as political and economic stability.—Paul G. Hoffman, ECA administrator. ’

MIDDLEMEN PROFITS . ..By Earl Richert

Food Price Probe.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—The middlerien whom Sen. Burnet Maybank (D: 8.C.) proposes to investigate, say this is one invese tigation they welcome and will enjoy. ~~ : It will, say their spokesmen, give them a chance to spread before the public their side of the story on food prices. And they are sure they can give a good account of themselves, ~--They-recatl-that-there Have been numerous investigations in the past of the spread between farm and consumer. prices

4n a-charge of unfair profits along the line.

Tyre Taylor of the National Retail Grocers Association, said the Department of Agriculture conducted an exhaustive investi gation on this matter 4 few years ago and concluded that.elimie nation of ‘the grocers’ net profits altogether would have no appreciable effect on prices to consumers,

Profits Squeezed : i co L HE SAD price competition among grocers was "terrific" ow an at grocers’ profits had bee ed hat n squeezed notably during An official of the U. 8. Wholesale Grocers Association, said - his industry's profits averaged betwee \ on sales before taxes. 1 084: 1%per ott et He recalled that a special committee headed by Sen. Ralph Flanders (R. Vt) had investigated the food industry within the past two years without finding that there was undue profits or markups either by manufacturers, wholesalers or retailers. All this is the old cry that if it weren't for the middlemen you could buy Florida oranges in New York for the same price , Spy sei at Me groves he said. “It would be nice if we could tance, ey forget about ~ tion and delivery," he said. Hexwng, Sting, anspor Joseph M. Creed of the American Assoc reduction in ingredient costs had not tere ition. aig the cost situation in his industry,

Costs ‘Increased . WHILE ingredient costs la: cost of automotive have gone down some, he sald the labor contracts

bakery workers for higher wages . vania and New gh R88 Were going on now in Pennayl

The baking Industry has been one of th - ment targets in recent weeks because the he Fol oy price’ of in the price

been enough to change

equipment and machinery had gone up and are .about to be reopened. He rio by

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flour and other ingredients has brought of bread. Mr. Creed said the eo vi wheat and oussprics drop from weren't prices last January comme prices at that time, he said. If they hed. they cog Lin Sout more for bread, he sald. !

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government was measuring the the peak of last January. Bakers

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ling, vice chairman of the Council of Economie that the farmer's share of the

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