Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 February 1949 — Page 18

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Jregation Should End is rot, ahd as far as we can learn there never

ah , any good reason for running two public school in Indiana~—one for Negro children and the other

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The double system is needlessly expensive to the tax‘payer, obviously un-American in principle, and unfair, ‘alike; to the children of both races. White children and Negro children will grow into white mien gid women and Negro men and women--and throughall their adult lives will live together in this community as

bE citizens of Indianapolis. It is poor preparation for adult

children to be segregated, but sometimes we feel it injures white children even more. ba OO Ae A : ® no» “THINKING .school authorities in Indianapolis have, indeed, realized this for some years past, and undertaken a long-range program to correct it. One by one, over

the children of both races until now some 15 such “unsegregated” schools are operating here. rl ' We realize there are certain physical obstacles to ~ immediate restoration of our entire pubs Ri Sys in - Indiana to the status it had before segregation ol pe ago, and that it will take be to worl ‘éut all the problems it involves. None of those problems is insuperable. But it is highly important that they be worked out in an orderly and onable.and’ co-operative manner. A bill now pending in the Indiana legislature proposes to do just that. . | “law now stands any local board of

£. are mi . like Indi napolis, have partly segregated and partly open "THE proposéd change in the laws would require that . the same policy on segregation, and that all eo be ended within six years—certainly an ample | and reasonable ‘period in which to work out the necessary This measure already has passed the lower House. It now awaits a vote in the Senate. We believe it should be enacted into law. ou Indiana certainly cannot longer afford to be the only modern 1 1_state to cling to obsolete racial ideas that are # disappearing even in the miost back

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Mr. Truman Pours 1t On. i RESIDENT TRUMAN'S address to the Jackson Day din ners was a fighting political speech, reminiscent in tone of his successful election campaign. ; \ He poured it on “the special interests” —which he did not identify—for opposing his “measures for the welfare -of the people.” . He asserted that their “selfish opposition” cannot pre3 vail, “because the people are aroused.” ~~ -And-he intimated that he might find it necessary to

people some more. Why? Because his program is having slow going and tough sledding in a Congress controlled, in both branches, by members of his own party. . : It would be an interesting spectacle—the Democratic President barnstorming the United States to work up _pub- * lic pressure against a “do-nothing” Democratic Congress. It is proper for Mr. Truman to fight to keep his campaign promises and the Democratic platform pledges, such pledges being what he wanted in the platform although Es ‘stretches quite a point to represent his election ~~ as an overwhelming peoples’ mandate for quick and undiscriminating enactment of his whole far-reaching legislative program, He got, after all, less than a majority of the votes ~ that were cast and a small minority of the votes that could have béen cast. ei lif rites

. » . . ” AND many of the Truman promises and platform me Pledges were appeals to “special interests” the special in 1. tervests of agriculture, the special interests of labor. as presented by union leaders, the special interests of CIO leaders’ particular brand of “social progress.” Millions of Americans who are not members of “selfish groups,” whose concern for the welfare of the workers and farmers is as sincere as Mr. Truman's, who want as

economic disaster, are profoundly apprehensive about his program. Gi They fear it would put the country at the mercy of labor-union leaders wielding vast power but held to no public responsibility. They fear at would load the people with great and growing tax burdens beyond their ability to carry. They fear it would so far commit the federal government to paternalistic; bureaucratic ventures, intended to serve the people's welfare and security, that the unintended end result would be government control of the people and loss of their liberties. no These citizens cannot fairly be denounced as “special interests” There was nothing in Mr. Truman's fighting | speech to reassure them, There was much in it to increase

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"Barton Rees Pogue SONG OF LOVED AND LOVELY

The merning bright, The autumn leaves red and brown,’ The purplé-gold of sunset fp The odils and birds of spring, . The hills and vales, trees that grow, The Sunday morn church bells ring.

The churéh I love with mellow light From stained glass to lend repose, Where worshipets may learn the right And gain the vict'ry o'er all foes.

~~MINNIE WALLS NOBLITT, Columbus. * oo ©

MODERN PROVERBS +

: Pe _ Truly GREAT minds are blessed with divine wisdom and are divinely commissioned to guide mankind , , , GOOD thinking is h ficult because

you 8 . . . Learning HOW fo live with others, pledsantly and honestly, and seeking to develop 4 keen sense of humor, always improves Mving . . . Entrusted with responsibilities, 6ne must prove capacity and power , . ,7A truly wise man practices what he preaches . + + Seek not counsel from fools seeds of self-neglect, mismanagement and improvidence , . . Reprove an intelligent and prudent man and he will thank you , . . you waste your time reproving a fool . . . «THE BROWN COUNTY SAGE, Nashville.

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THE PEACE DOVE TARRIES

The Light shows from the window above And the peace dove tarries there, “She sees no rest for the sole of her foot” And trembles in her despair.

“Lo, in her mouth is the olive leaf” . , . (But our guns keep firing on) *' | The better world dreamed of is here, Or is now forever gone.

—~OLIVE BODE BROWN, Fountain City.

DID YOU KNOW

That a descendant of Henry W. Longfellow lives at the old home of the poet? This is annually visited by thousands of adfrom all over the world, where so many f possessions that he owned away back then are housed. That the little girl “with the golden hair” was the mother of the present own- = That the same chair in which he sat with

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That the present owner of the home is a bachelor? That the spot where the “Village Blacksmith” used to work “under the spreading chestnut tree” is still there and marked for visitors to see? That the Lomgfeliow home is one of the most cultural and sought-out places in the East, and that he and other writers of his day have added more to our national thought than almost any others? That they have been most instrumental in setting examples of good citizenship for generations to come? ¢

~MARY LARKIN COOK, Anderson. eo oo

TLTLE THINGS

-An artist may paint ‘a picture, Or a poet may pen a lay, But the little things And the homey things , . . Just the things of every day ... A lark's song, high in a treetop, The light of a baby's smile, The dew on a rose at dawning... Are things that make life worth while.

—BINA T. SARVER, Orawfordsville, *e @

FOR IRENE

Memory holds a sacred spot For friends like you to fill— For self I'll ask “forget-me-not.,” Of you I'll say, “I never wiih!" ~VIVIAN W, PIERSON, Greenfield. * ¢ ©

WAY OF ALL FLESH

Buoyant youth is gay with joys galore; Then comes a slower, rhythmic beat To go with dull and lagging step to greet Someone—Age is fingering the door. . " «==ALAN WAYNE, Indianapolis.’

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SIGNS OF TIMES . . . By Marquis Childs

Politics in U. S. Economic Picture

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 — The economic medicine men are anxiously studying the signs and portents to try to determine just what is happening to us. They come up with strange words such as “disinflation,” which may or may not mean the same thing as deflation. Inevitably, of course, politics enters in. %vitnin the Truman administration the belief is growing that Republicans in a kind of secret alliance with big business are trying to talk the country into a depression. This belief is shared by important officials directly concerned with fiscal policy. 3 Contributing to that belief is the confidential

‘report of a waiter who served a luncheon of top-

levél Republicans meeting with Gov. Thomas E. Dewey during his recent visit to Washington. The waiter reported that the conferring Republicans' agreed the one sure way to defeat the Democrats in 1950 and '52 was a depression which would bear Truman's name in the same way the depression beginning in 1929.carried the Hoover label.

Political Division

YOU can see the clear line of a political division over the significance of the present eco-

nomie-trend.--To administration Democrats and most of their economists recent reports of unemployment in certain areas are indicative merely of a few soft spots in the economy. They quickly point to the fact that more people are working than ever before as proof that the trend is still inflationary. . But the Republicans in Congress make speeches predicting depression and insisting the preliminary manifestations are already with us. A-tax Increase, they argue, would only serve to speed up the decline. They are counting on signs of depression to block not alone the administration’s proposed $4,000,000,000 tax increase but the whole anti-inflation program with its standby price controls. : In one arena the contest between inflationists and deflationists has been going on for

some time. That is the Federal Reserve Board,”

which was given power by Congress last summer to control consumer credit, Focus of the battle is the board’s Regulation W. Regulation W, which. became effective last September, establishes the ratio of installment credit to purchase price. On automobiles, for example, the buyer must make a down payment of one-third of the price and pay the balance in 18 months. :

pressure to change Regulation W comes from several sources. Certain automobile manufacturers, conspicuously Kaisé?-Frazer, say it must be modified. They claim that it discriminates against lower income families who would like to buy new cars but are prevented by Regulation W.

Urge Easier Payments

DEALERS who find it harder to sell washing machines, radios and other durable con-

sumer, goods are also agitating for a change in .

the ruling. At least, they say, extend the time of payments from. 18. to 24 months. Pressure has come, too, from second-hand car dealers. ‘Within the Federal Reserve Board the chief defender of Regulation W is Marriner 8. Eccles. Mr. Eccles, it will be recalled, stepped down as chairman of the board when President Truman named Thomas B. McCabe, a Philadelphia manufacturer, in his place. As a member, however, he retains a potent influence and he is allergic to what he considers political pressures aimed at altering economic policy. In the inher sanctum of the board Mr. Eccles makes two principal points against any change in Regulation W at this time. He says, first, that to -relax the ruling now would have the effect of sustaining prices at their present levels by enabling those least able to buy to sign up for lengthy installment payments at inflated prices. If it is true that the trend is still inflationary, then keep Regulation W in ‘effect and let prices drop in what will be, in part at least, a buyer's market. Second, he points out that the tothl of outstanding credit is still growing. There will be time enough, Mr. Eccles argues, to change the ruling when credit stops expanding.

Easy Way Out

WHILE- these are powerful arguments, the indications are that a majority of the board will eventually decide to let the buyer take more time to pay for his auto or his washing machine. That is the easy way out of the political pressure building up from day to day. \ But those who remember the crash of 1929 =the beginning of that Republican depression— cannot forget the bubble of installment credit 6f the late Twenties. That was not a sound base for prosperity nor is it today. The first step—from 18 to 24 months-—is bound to be followed by more pressure for more relaxation.

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‘New Deal-Secialist Party’

By Joseph L. Jones, 1202 E. Kelly St. © Mrs. Walter Haggerty really deserves some

thoughtfulness. Just one question to justify her opinion; Could “Jud” Haggerty, a member of the House of Representatives, be one to whom she “points with"pride”? Also, could it be at all possible that Mrs. Walter and “Jud” are related? I enjoy reading the Hoosier Forum, but after several years of a steady diet of Mrs. Walter and Judson Haggerty, I think I'll start reading “Fantastic Stories.” She reminds me of a die hard New Deal Socialist—they are not. Demo« crats—who blamed a recent layoff of 300 ployees in a local factory on the fact ‘Hoover is in Washington.” , I am laboring une der the delusion that Harry 8. Truman is

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majority in Congress. We are in the position of having three political parties—the Republican, Democrat and New Deal-Socialist. The New Deal is not an acknowledged party because it is still (lying under the banner of the tic Party, The Socialist Party in other countries believes in “cradle to the grave” legislation at the expense of the taxpayer, also. “+ “Furthermore, 1 challenge Mrs. Walter Haggerty, Mr. Judson Haggerty, or any other New Deal-Socialist to prove one instance in which the Taft-Hartley law Has in any way hindered or hurt any union, especially when that union was working for the good of its members and not for the increased power dnd enrichment of the union officials. a Also, would I'be rude if I pointed out the fact that “Jud” Haggerty's bill to outlaw the death penalty was defeated in the House. Evie dently some of the “young,” “point with pride” Democrats believe in “premediated murder.” One more thing, Mrs. Haggerty, Governor Schricker is opposed to the sales tax to pay the soldiers’ bonus. Please state facts, The Ree publicans cannot be responsible for all the things which are wrong, 4nd especially after 16 years of New Deal Zocialinm,

‘Religious Teaching in Schools’ By Maurice L. Donnellan, Mooresville, Ind. To State Senator Russell D. Bontrager: Who is the man in the world today who would dare say that the grace of God finds more co-0 tion in Russia than in the United States? where is the man among us who fears for the future of America? But I am surprised at a man of your religious background demonstrating such a lack of co operation in this regard, especially in the work of teaching religion in our public schools. You are a Presbyterian. You have a neighbor who is a Methodist. But how about that third neighbor of yours who does not go to any church; because he was not raised that way? Many times it has been said that the home and the church are the proper places to teach religion. But how about those children from the homes where the parents themselves have never been taught? Who is going to teach those chile dren? We have millions of them. We are coming into the atomic age. With new scientific knowledge ,we must acquire a new moral integrity; otherwise the danger is always present that the scientific child will destroy itself by the creation of its own handiwork. Religion must take on a deeper and fuller meaning in the hearts of all Americans, and our public schools present the one great oppor tunity to bring this about. } My idea of separation of church and state is that we are not to have a state religion In America, and that you and I are to be left free to follow the religion of our own free choice,

‘denied the opportunity and the right to learn the simple truths about God. Millions of our children can be reached in no other way except in our public schools, because their parents "have been denied this opportunity of learning.

What Others Say—

WHAT the country needs is not something alternately to quiet its nerves or hop- the people up. More solid information and less bedside manner and few sedatives would suit the site uation and the American temperament better. —David E. Lilienthal, chairman, Atomie Energy Commission. ems * &

I FEEL that by reason of the debates (in the

prospects for world peace have improved. —Warren R. Austin, chief U, 8S, delegate to

the UN.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— A review of the authoritative

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CAMPAIGN ISSUE . . . By Edwin A. Lahey

Long Labor Debate

dent and that the so-called Democrats are in the

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UN), and the positions taken by 58 nations, the

“Americans that they would hardly dare turn around and make

‘emphasize “any particular subject but to give a comprehensive’

.... earnestly as he does to maintain sound prosperity and avoid |

people’s courts. It is a familiar figure used.

rly. when there was no opposition ticket. But we ovidered what happened to the .01 per cent who

incorporate western Germany “Into the American military system,” gnd the purpose of the Marshall Plan is “to reduce cul-

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"Current Digest of the Soviet Press” indicates that the Kremlin has burned its bridges behind it. An understanding between Russia and the West now appears ifficult if not imposcible, Stalin and those about him are so vilifying America and

friends with such terrible people as we are, even if they wanted to." ’ >

Quoted in the Digest are current books, magazines and important dailies such as Pravda and Izvestia. The idea is not to

cross-section of the Soviet Press. A glance reveals that the Russian people are currently being told that: . The United States already had in mind the domination of the Pacific and Far East--including Manchuria, Korea and Siberia-— when it acquired Alaska in 1867. Siberia offered "a land route from America to Europe.” .

U. S. Plot Charged

“TO PLEASE the money scoundrels” and “under pretext of liberating them,” the “hired executioners” of the United States “strangled” the Philippines in 1808. The U. 8, plotted with Japan to seize Siberia and the TransSiherian railway, but later we bought Japan off at the expense

of China. ; ; ‘ perfidious U. 8. government” triad to destroy the Bovfet state at the beginning by “tightly drawing the ring of hunger blockade around Russia.” And by “lying words,” Presideat Wilson “concealed a political program: against the Soviet Union.” Che American Red Cross, under pretext of aid, made itself “a center af American espionage in Russia.” The Hoover Relief Commission jas nierely “to serve the goals of intervention.” The U. 8. Council of National Defense (in 1917) sought to gain control of the Trans-Siberian railroad, and the in conference at Paris aimed at “transforming Russia into a colonial country” with the U. 8, Britain and France dividing the spoils. y a : An monopolistic capi developed program of further enslavement of Russia by means of granting” loans and credits.” And the British and Americans d in Moscow in 1917 to destroy railway communications between Moscow and Petrograd /‘with the aim of organizing a famine there.” . . RA :

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AMERICAN reporters are “newspaper reptiles.” and the U. 8. Committee of Public Information back in World War I “direct. ed the dissemination of lies, slander and forgeries” against Rus“sla. It was then, in 1017, that “U. 8. imperialists . . . clearly saw that a solution of the ‘Russian question’ would require war against the Russian people.” . : 2 Today, according to Pravda, the American objective is to

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tured European people to the level of natives’ of some Puerto Rico or other.” Meg: Today, says Izvestia, it is openly admitted in the U. 8. that the way out of the advancing depression is “an arms race.” And it adds, “Wall Street bosses fear peace and international co-oper-ation.” _ ’ Just how Russia expects to advance “co-operation” by pictur ing, the Ainerican government as a gang of “strangers” and “scoundrels,” is not made clear. Yet incredible as it may seem, Stalin is painted as seeking to become pals with that same gov« ernment. Pr ; ; on Two things would. clear. The first is that Stalin's peace talk is nothing but a gthoke scréen and, second, that, like Hitler - did ‘with his Nazis, Stalin is needling’ the Russian masses into a.

warlike frenzy of hate for purposes which still rgmain to be seen,

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25—Members of Congress are not going

to get themselves off the hook of labor relations for a long time .

to come. Whatever happens in the 81st Congress, the debates on labor legislation will dominate the 1950 and 1952 elections. The re-election campaign of Sen. Taft of Ohio is already cer

tain to be the big political show of 1950. If Sen. Taft in the next few months rounds up enough support in the Senate to preserve

most of the Taft-Hartley law, as seems very probable, the entire

labor movement will concentrate its resources to defeat him. Even if a miracle should happen; and the admintstration labor bill replaces the Taft-Hartley Act, the fight for stronger

legislation is certiin to go on, with employer groups taking the offensive. :

No Middle Ground

THE public hearings of the Senate Labor Committee raise

the unhappy suspicion that there is no middle ground in labor law. © ¥ - There is good reison for this pessimistic view, because the test of any labor law is the Injunction. A law with injunctive power is “repressive” to labor. A law without injunctive power is “weak” to the employer mind. And thers is np middle ground that will satisfy both. It's eggs or shells. s . President Truman was his old shabby self when he tried to prove that there was a solution to the dilemma of the injunction. He let Secretary of Labor Tobin send a bill down with no injunction provisions, and then let his lawyer, Atty. Gen. Clark, tell Congress that the President had “inherent powers” to get an injunction in national emergencies. He was simply trying to please everybody, and it can't be done. ’ The real alignment of forces in Congress seems to indicate that the Democrats. are ready to violate the spirit, if not the let- + ter, of their pledge to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. Every week's delay makes the friends of Taft-Hartley a little stronger, They have already shown strength by forcing the majority on the Senate Labor Commitiee to their hearings two weeks beyond the deadline originally set by the chairman of the committee, Sen. Thomas (Dem. Utah). °

Disappointment Seen

IN THE meantime, Sen. Taft, the dominant member of the committee, has drawn from administration witnesses indorsement of one after another of the provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act. The rd Sen. Taft has rade will enable him to appeal

strongly for Democratic support for the amendments he will tack

.on to the committee bill, °° : : The one thing certain about the labor legislation program is that a large segment of the voting community is going to be bit~ terly disappointed in the final product. k .

At this reading it appears that the unions will-be the disap ‘happens, elections of 1950 will doubts

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