Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1949 — Page 12

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Telephone Rlley 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

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PRILADELPHIA'S street car strike was settled this week, "as such things always are eventually, when’ both parties "to the dispute found it was so costly they just couldn't goons: ©. . There are all kinds of estimates, running as high as $80

know, exactly. But we can know exactly what it cost any street railway worker who was involved.

hour, which was the average wage reported, each worker thus lost $104.00 in wages. But he got a pay increase. He had asked for 25 cents, had been offered three cents, finally _settled for eight cents an hour increase. That's 64 cents a day. So, if he works for the next 162 days—or a little more than 32 weeks—without missing a day, at his new wage, he'll be just exactly even. By the middle of next October he will have earned just as much "money as he would have earned by then without any strike, + Of course, after that the eight cent increase will >ontinue, so he will be ahead by that amount from then on.

» ~ ~ : THE point is that the eight cent Increase for which he went back to work isn't quite as good a deal as utility

disputes in Indiana—without any strike, without any loss of The difference is that in Indiana such things are settled by reason and common sense—or have been, up to now. This one in Philadelphia was settled by reason and common sense, too—but not until after the workers had lost $104 each—and the community countless millions. Our way seems to us a lot better than © way. Better for the workers. Eiri Better for the utilities. , : 2h And immeasurably better-for-the community. ; We hope the Philadelphia lesson will be very vivid in ‘the minds of Indiana’s Senators this week when they cast their final vote on utilities arbitration repeal. ‘ So vivid that they will vote down the thoughtless demand to scrap & good law, and go back to the obsolete club and fang method they still use in Pennsylvania.

William H. Wemmer ce progress through good government and improved community relations has lost a champion in the death of Willlam H. Wemmer, attorney and well-known civic His contributions fo the community, many of them

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the Indianapolis Bar Associa tion to improve legal a for the people and his ¢ivic work in behalf tidns among community groups for the ¢ a ofall. - His desire for good government led him™ rifice ie and energy to run for Mayor of Indianapolis in 1047.

ment. 1 Indianapolis needs more citizens of Mr. Wemmer's stature to help build a better city.

Lincoln on Washington

©" ‘eat of all Americans were sons of February. ° One was the Father of his Country and its first President. Today, as we celebrate the anniversary of his birth, it seems fitting to recall what was said of him by the other .—the patient, humble President who led that country through its darkest years of civil strife and saved the union. . This, then, is from Abraham Lincoln's oration at Springfield, Ill, 107 years ago today: “Washington is the mightiest name on earth — long since mightiest in the cause of civil liberty, still mightiest in moral reformation. On that name no eulogy is expected. It cannot be. To add brightness to the sun or glory to the nameof Washington alike is impossible. -Let none attempt it. In colemn awe pronounce the name, and in its naked, -

Murray and Taft PHILP MURRAY, CIO president, charges that Sen. Taft has made “a reluctant confession” that the Taft-Hart-ley Ags is “unworkable ana foreign .to sound labor rela-

_Of course, Sen. Taft has done nothing .of the kind. |

What he has done is something Mr. Murray can't be expected to understand. He has displayed, in the current . Senate Labor Committee hearings and for many months before they began, an attitude of open-minded fairness. He has acknowledged what obviously is true—that the Taft-Hartley Act is not a perfect law; that it is not un. changeable; that, while he believes its basic purposes are sound and necessary, some of its sections are too vaguely worded and sorfie of its provisions could conceivably prove injurious to labor's essential rights. And he has shown willingness to welcome and support changes demonstrated to be needed to make it a better, clearer, fairer law and to remove from it any actual threat to the welfare of workers. . Contrast Sen. Taft's attitude with the attitude of Mr. Murray and other union officials.

n ~ » ” . . THEY cry that the Taft-Hartley Act is all wrong; that it is 4 “slavery law”; that évery word of it must be wiped from the statute books. They demand a return to the Wagner Act principles

organized labor, thus helping unions to achieve wnprecedented growth and union leaders to attain unprecedented

They refuse to acknowledge any right of employers, «workers and ‘the public to have any government protec-

‘tion from abuses of unionism's power, ‘Taft, in our opinion \is more truly a friend of than many of those who profess to be the voices

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Bewildered, scarcely knowing what to do; .And yet his mother called him to her side On that dark day, and when her tears were dried She told him that, although his years were few, He would not fail her need of him, she knew,

' His boyish heart was torn with grief and pride.

He was the household's head; he knew her right—

_ Responsibility was his just due.

But I, who read the tale in history 8it. musing here, and hoping wistfully That she still tucked him in when day was through, Then stooped and kissed a little boy good night, ~MABEL NEWMAN, Oakland City. * &

MY DADDY'S SMILE

Of all the smiles I've ever seen, the one that means the most to me 2%eldngs to my Dad. Of course, he has a friendly grin he wears for everyday, but the smile I love is reserved for very special occafions. He wore that smile the day I was married, and again when he saw each of my three babies for the first time. Somehow this special smile reaches down into his heart and shows all the words he is unable to say. It is made of pure love and tenderness, and it makes me certain that wherever I may be, my Dad is somewhere in this world, loving and caring and always ready to give me that same steady, helping hand that guided my first footsteps. ~DOROTHY M. PARKE, Indianapolis,

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—-MY- GIRLS

God gave me boys: He knew that I—an only child— Knew little less than nothing of His young; And boys will surge to manhood, blissfully Regardless of pale petticoat restraint And “mother-hen” ado. The years went on: One day the ggown-up ‘boys came home And brought their mates—two shy and trusting girls Who fitted in our family circle like They always had belonged. And then God smiled, And said: “You have your girls.” " =LAVERNE BROWN: PRICE, Plymouth.

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THE EXPLORER

Dickie in the crawling stage, Exploring nook and angle, Pulling, prodding, pushing, To see what makes a jangle.

Insists on tests by tasting, Things he shouldn't try, Like, puppy's ear or kitty's tall, Which cease, with startled cry!

Packed in. every waking hour, Meddling, without pelitic, “What funny times have 1.” Thinks our curious Baby Dick.

~MARY HELEN ADAMS, Indianapolis. ¢ ¢ o

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He 1 radio! “9. That's’! here, cold and still, “0 As dead . from head to foe.

To sales-talks he could not say: “No!” (It was that last and final pill!) He listened to the radio! . - That's why he lies here, cold and still.

—+»~VIRGINIA FORTNEY, Indianapolis. ¢ oo

THE TWO LOVES

Love was not blind, alas, but wide awake, Beating its jealous wings against suspicion,

Undue apology, abject contrition, Uptil at last the hope of two lives died And happiness lay buried by its side.

Love was not blind, but saw with understanding, Wooing its own with gentleness and care, Never with angry doubt, and not demanding Too much perfection, too much goodness there, Until at last love's patience won success, And two lives found enduring happiness,

—MILDRED M. SHARTLE, Danville.

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GEORGE WASHINGTON

U. S. DEFENSE POLICY . . .

By Peter Edson

Confusion Over Atlantic Pact

WASHINGTON, Feb. 22 — Hullabaloo over the North Atlantic Pact has now reached the silly stage. Washington skies are so full of trial balloon feel-outs om this subject that the place looks like London's wartime cover of captive, sausage gas bags before a Luftwaffe air raid. Meanwhile, the transoceanic buzz-bombs of propaganda which the British are firing in this direction, accusing the U. 8. of “welshing” on original commitments, add mightily to the fun. Under all this pressure, Secretary of State Dean Acheson has thus far given an outward show of keeping his own sense of balance and —more important—his sense of humor. Privately the premature congressional debate, started by Senators Connally and Vandenberg, may make Acheson snap at his mustachios and pluck at his eyebrows. But at his press conference, when he was questioned about all the foreign and domestic criticism of the pact, he was the good humor man. “I could add a great deal to the confusion by commenting on all these charges,” said Acheson, “but I won't.”

_.... He referred.fo all the comments now. flying...

around as “backing and filling” without, he said, knowing exactly what “filling” meant.

Privacy and Calmness Needed

USING a figure of speech with which he was obviously more familiar, Secretary Acheson referred to the present confusion as another example of “why diplomats became dipsomaniacs.” In the smaller, pocket-size dictionaries, the words aren't so far apart at that, even though their meanings should be. Speaking seriously, the secretary said that, at the present time, the need was for a certain amount of privacy in the preliminary discussions, and calm consideration of the points at issue, ’ Within the near future, the State Department hopes to make public a draft of the proposed North Atlantic Pact. The time to start arguing about it will be then. In the meantime, the first Senate debate doesn’t seem to have helped the negotiations to any great degree. The Connally-Vandenberg statements that the U, 8. Congress would not give up its right to declare war, or not to declare war in event of aggression against a pact member, was what upsét Western European statesmen. That

caused the European press—particularly the British—to charge that the U. 8. was now backing out on its agreements. The Senators’ statements were at best unnecessary, because the U. 8. Constitution says clearly that Congress shall ‘have the right to declare war, If Europeans depending on future U. 8. military aid don't know this, it's high time they learned it.

Clear American Policy

IT HAS been clearly understood in this country since the proposition of military aid for a Western European Union has been considered. It is fully understood in the inter-American reciprocal assistance pact, signed at Rio de

Janeiro In Séptember, 1947. "No North Atlantis ™ or other pact could be signed which would pro-

vide otherwise. That's why all the current excitement is beside the point. As Secretary Acheson pointed out; all dis-

cussions on the North Atlantic Pact, which

have been going on since last summer, have been based on very definite and repeated statements of American policy. = #¥st 1s the United Nations Charter. Its first. article calls on all member nations “. .. to take effective collective measures for the prevention and removal of threats to the peace, and for the suppression of acts of aggression or other breaches of the peace. ...” Second is the Vandenberg resolution of last June. “It reaffirms U. 8B. policy to achieve peace and security through the United Nations. Two of “the Vandenberg resolution’s six specific proposals to achieve this end are: One, development of regional arrangements for individual and collective self-defense in accordance with the Charter. Two, assoctation of the United States “by constitutional process” with such regional and other collective arrangements. Here is a clear statement and warning that the U. 8. Constitution will not be by-passed.

Definite U. S.. Commitment

THIRD IS a unanimous report of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, stating principles similar to the Vandenberg resolution. . Finally, there is President Truman's inaugural address of last month. His “point three” was a definite commitment to “strengthen freedom-loving nations against the dangers of aggression.” ‘ i What more could they ask for than these assurances? ’

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‘Political Shadow-Boxing' . : By John Alvah Dilworth, 816); ay There is’ more than meets the eye behind unemployment come. pensation, passed 69-25 in the House. ° 4 1 imaginé there are powerful interests which,” for unselfish reasons of their own, want this bill. An understanding of this is BeceaslyF for an understanding of the maneuvers you’ see from now on, on and off stage. .~ But it is necessary, I believe, to go behind shadows

.As the program now stands, it works with" a near maximum fairness to the employer,’ A little under maximum fairness to the workers who are out of jobs through no fault of their own. Indiana unemployed workers receive $20 a week up to 20 weeks. Those who quit their’ jobs without cause, or those who quit to mary are out, presumably. Contrary to popular bé< lief, the total cost of the program is bofh¥ by the employers, rate based on number 6f their employees and on their success as’ én ployers. Employers doing the best job of prée. viding steady employment are rewarded with’ a reduction in rate. 3 4 H. B. 199 would make driistic changes the present system. Increase maximum bene« fits to $25 for 25 weeks. No waiting period, Payment to those who refuse to take new jobs. Embodies same payment in benefits foF employees who quit their job without cause, or,

"those who quit to marry. Such benefits, I am

of the opinion, would encourage a number of workers to quit their jobs—even to the extent, of basking in southern sun in the winter un Canadian woods in summer—since the somg-~_ thing-for-nothing benefits would be only a few dollars less than their pay. Increased employer rates under H, B. 189 could easily become economically serious -by dige couraging new industries from coming to Indi»: lished ones from expanding up to 5 per cent. The State legislature, as I see it, will make a grave error if it goes through with the bill, ® © ‘Women Fighting Mad’ By Mrs. G. K,, City . The women of Indianapolis-are fighting We are mighty tired of these fiendish, das , attacks upon women and more disgusted with the infinitesimal penalties imposed (if ). when these hoodlums are caught. Doesn't. kid. naping carry a life penalty, and isn't kidnaping defined as “someone holding another against - his will,” and isn’t forcibly grabbing women off the public streets and beating and raping them against their will? Why in Heaven's nama don’t we punish these criminals with some real penalties instead of 30 days or something equally ridiculous which is just enough to make

‘then TEUZH “dnd orhers URATFATE “16 Committ TIRE"

crimes, : f -~ Even the few who are arrested after multiple attacks and murders, are certainly allowed &n'° over amount of lenience. ae If we women don't see justice done soon, We are going to organize and see that somethihg is done. We are rallying everywhere in ofir clubs and talking of it with indignation, to put it mildly. We want action, Sinead > Ce

What Others Say— Sl

THE people in November didn’t “buy” record of the GOP-controlied 80th Congress but it was well publicized. . . . It is true that a “selling” campaign can help a good produit} but no amount of canned-speeches, radio records ings and fine words can sell 2 bad producti Rep. Michael J. isan (D) of Ohio. ® @

LET'S face it—if we (Republicans) are * sidered representing the cream when most the nation considers itself milk, we'd bette homogenize.—Charles T. Vetter Jr., spea for veterans and young Republicans at i lican National Committee meeting, Omaha. ee oo WHEN we can afford it (a 70-group Air Force), 1 think it's essential to the security of the United States.—Air Secretary Symington, ® * < a

THERE ‘is need for a great spiritual se awakening to precepts on which lasting peace can be built, Until that time, we must not be lulled into a false sense of security. To he

, secure, we must be prepared for any emergency

which may be thrust upon us.—Gen. Jacob. L, Devers, chief, Army Field Forces.

- WASHINGTON, Feb. 22-— Democratic

has been informed.

Furthermore, the White House

OLD-AGE BENEFITS . . . By Tony Smith _

Social Security Lag

“notified ‘President "Truman there is no chance of extending social '|- security benefits to all workers at this session of Congress. ‘ Administrative difficulties will make it impossible to include the nation’s 20 million farmers in the employer-employee contribution plan for security to workers in their old age, Mr. Truman

has received advice from leaders in Congress that there is grave doubt whether state and local government-empioyees -and-persons-who -work-for religious; charitable and educational institutions can be included. Practically all appraisals of what the President can expect “from Congress run contrary to-the optimistic views “of - rT

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SELF-GOVERNMENT . . . By James Thrasher

Washington’s Faith WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—For almost three-quarters of hi§ ‘Washington ‘was the Sibject own granted considerable power to its monarchs. He-waw a soldier in the service of tnose monarchs, And even when he assumed the leadership of the .new self-governing republic fri" America, it was. in. a. world .where absolutism was still the accepted and usual form of government. £ : 4 It would have been easy for Washington, had he been &° lesser man, to perpetuate himself in office. He was not only the first President of the United States, but the only one cho unanimously. Though hitter p “améhg”

of a British crown

political diffefences developed ;

those around him, his place in the public esteem was high and

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“Security Administration officials.” They want to jam through legislation extending social security coverage to all groups right away and let the administrative details go until later. Democratic members of the Ways and Means Committee argue that is putting the cart before the horse and will leave them with an Impossible job.

Action Up to Congress

. . THE Congressmen’s advice probably will not affect the Pres!dent's specific recommendations to carry out his original proposals to the 81st Congress, Democratic leaders conceded. They expect the President to send up programs embracing all points covered in the 1948 Democratic platform and in his messages to Congress. This will enable Mr. Truman to say he’s done his best and that the rest is up to Congress, Congressional . leaders won their point on the question of handling social security revision separately from legislation for compulsory medical insurance. The hotly disputed national health plan will be sent to Congress as a special program. Democrats on the Ways and Means Committee convinced the President. the enemies of social security would like nothing better than to have the medical plan brought up first. They said the health plan contfoversy would give these groups an instrument for trying to wreck the entire program. : - : Consequently, the committee will .open four weeks of hearings on the social security phases next Monday.

Hearings Opposed SOME Democrats opposed lengthy public hearings, insisting the time could be put to better use in executive session. work. _ They pointed out the matters at issue have been gone over so many times that the committee will know in advance what witnesses are going to say. } At present, the committee is attempting to settle the question of who shall be hired as an expert adviser on social security. Some sentiment exists for borrowing a man from the Federal Security Agency. The Democratic members of the committee met briefly Friday to discuss the question, re :

Means Committee on social security legislation: To approach

tion of the administfation’s proposals, As ohe member put it: “Social theory will have to prove its ability to work out in practice so far as we're concerned.” :

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One major conclusion has been reached by the Ways and

the problem with the utmost realism as to the practical applica :

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"I should think you'd be tactful enough to wait till we're better

acquainted ‘with those people before asking them what income taxes they pay!”

committee to change the basic concept on the social security system, in which the employer pays 1 per cent on the amount of his employee's wages and the worker pays 1 per cent into the federal fund. ¥ . Yet, most of them feel there ts no fair way to extend the program along the lines outlined by the White House under this method of contribution. 4 “io For example, there is the question of who pays the farmer's wages. Thus, if they are taxed 1 per cent but draw benefits at the national rate, the federal fund is being robbed of someone else’s contributions to pay half of the farmer's benefits, If the government makes up the other 1 per cent, the money still would come ‘from taxpayers, including those who don’t work on farms.

_ “We've been over it a thousand times,” one committee source

explained. “There just jsn't any sound, practical way to do it.”

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~The spirit of ‘ndependence In Washington's America ‘was CF

intense. But the spirit of democracy as we define it today was not unanimous. Considering the environment and education and

habits of Americans so recently British, it scarcely could have

been. - Further, there was no constitutional limit put upon the President's tenure of office.

Retired From Office

80 Washington might have made himself dictator or even king. But with a wisdom prophetic in its depth of vision, he did not. At the end of two terms he retired from office. In doing so he proclaimed his faith in the principle of selfe government. He relinquished the presidency at a time when the infant republic was still’ struggling for recognition and survival.” An his departure gave evidence of his belief that the American republic, in infancy or maturity, in weakness or strength, would find within. itself the leadership that would guide it to growth and greatness. ' Today the wisdom amd faith of Washington are remembered in a world of new absolutism—a world of Stalin and Franco and Peron and, until recently, of Hitler and Mussolini, It is a world in which millions have accepted the loss of liberty

_ and the onerous yoke of tyranny in exchange for an escape

from responsibility,

No. Indispensable Man :

SUCH a bargain is not for the American people. It never has been. Only once, in time of grave crisis, has a President sought and the people granted a longer period in office than the two terms Washington chose. Now, as a tangible evidence of the abiding. power of Washington's example, Congress has asked the’ people, through their 48 legislatures, to sustain by law the first President's renunciation of the theory of the indispensable man, , . Half the necessary legislatures have already ratified the proposed 224 Amendment, which would limit any. President to two, terms in office. It Is likely that, in the five remaining years allowed, the amendment will be put in force. a Ts If that happens, then the country will have decided that while there have been many military heroes, there has been only one Washington, and that the instinctive wisdom :that guided him had best be put into law lest some fitture ge tion Ehoose and support a President who will yield to the semptation which Washington spurned. ~~ . pp

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