Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1949 — Page 26

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"W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Bor W. SowasD RONE HENRY

Sunday, May 8, 1949

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Planning a Bigger City HAS been said many times of metropolitan areas that the bigger cities get, the worse they become as places to live. This is a major problem residents of Indianapolis will | have to face unless more adequate planning for a rapidly growing metropolitan area is started by government officials, business and civic organizations. i Indianapolis has been spilling far out of its boundaries for many years with resulting confusion in lack of sewers, hodge-podge traffic, dead-end streets and the menace of future slums. We have vast city areas that have no part in any metropolitan plan of the future and little government supervision. They are under the jurisdiction of the county government but the present structure of this branch of government is inadequate to cope with mushrooming urban problems.

- ” - . THERE'S ‘something about a thriving industrial community that sets it snowballing. Indianapolis is a good, lively spot for a great variety of enterprises. We have the - sort of transportation and power and community spirit that make us 8 magnet, even if we don’t want to be big, Thus, it is up to all of us to make urban development a reality, to fight for a metropolitan district government, streamlining services and supervision in one, efficient operation and to stop neighborhood factionalism that handicaps orderly growth of any city. If we are going to bg bigger, and it looks as though we don’t have much choice, we must also have a bigger horizon so we can see where we want to go instead of finding ourselves in a mess after we get there, ht

The Pladform’s Pledge a

PRESIDENT TRUMAN said he intends to keep fighting for a labor bill that would fulfill the Democratic platform pledge to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act. He said that he still wanted a new law which would carry out the platform; that he was not convinced he would have to make any concessions to gét it from Congress; that he did not know how long he might have to wait for it, but that his administration would run for four years. ~ The Taft-Hartley Act could be repealed this year, and replaced by a fair new law in full accord with the Democratic platform. For the only specifications laid down in that platform are these: -

: : : . “WE advocate stich legislation as is desirable to establish a just body of rules to assure free and effective collective bargaining, to determine, in the public interest, the rights of employees and employers, to reduce to a minimum their conflict of interests, and to enable unions to keep their membership free from Communisti¢ influences.” * But if Mr. Truman insists on the kind of new law he so far has demanded—a law thoroughly acceptable to the big union leaders, a law relieving them of public responsibility for abuse of their power—he will not get it this year, and he should not get it ever. For such a law would not establish just rules for collective bargaining. It would not be in the public interest. It would not protect the rights of employers. It would not reduce conflicts to & minimum. It would not help unions to freedom from Communistic influences. It would not carry out the Democratic platform. It would violate that platform's pledge. }

Beyond Understanding THERE may be other issues in the Ford strike that we ~ don’t understand. But what seems to be the main issue involved something we simply can’t understand. The union charges that an assembly-line “speedup” violates its contract with the company. The company denies that, but offers to submit the question of whether it has violated the contract to arbitration. The union refuses to arbitrate. ; ‘80, 65,000 Ford workers are striking. But their idleness threatens hundreds of thousands more all over the country in various allied businesses with involuntary unemployment and loss of wages or profits. If long continued, it will hurt the whole nation seriously. i

» J * SUPPOSE two citizens signed a contract, then disagreed about whether one of them had broken it. Would they be permitted to fight out their difference of opinion in ‘the middle of busy traffic, inconveniencing or endangering "a lot of innocent bystanders? : “ They would not. The law would tell them to take their controversy to court, or to let some impartial third party settle it. For the meaning of a contract is a question of fact and legal interpretation. . What we cannot understand is why a contract between a union and an employer should be considered different— why the law shouldn't compel a difference of opinion about the meaning of a labor-management contract to be settled peacefully by arbitration or court adjudication. xr

Got Any Chic Bushes, Elsa? x business of going swimming becomes more and more 7 complicated for the fairer sex. Now the famous Pari- * sian dressmaker, Elsa Schiaparelli, has come up with a beach coat which can be pegged out like a tent for undresson the beach, Trouble is, milady has to bring along a henchman to dhe pegs and then unstake her beach coat after she ts Into her bathing costume. ky time now, you can expect to hear the wife wail @ can’t possibly go swimming with last year's peg-

Would Be Mad ntist has just discovered how to make that tic tipple—champagne—in only 45 days. Blushing at such un-Marxian frivolity, the has awarded him a Stalin medal. « ar it. It's possible that if we wait long

DEAR BOSS . , . By Dan Kidney

Backs Federal Reform Program Bridgeport Brass Head Gives Views as New C. of C. President WASHINGTON, May. T—Dear " Boss—Herman W. Bteinkrauis, who was elected president of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States at the 37th annual meeting here this

week, is a Hoosier by industrial marriage. As president of the Bridgeport Brass Co., he

is head man of their Indianapolis plant, as well -

as boss of the two hig parent plants at Bridgeport and those in Canada as well. itis The Indianapolis factoryiis a war baby.in which Mr. Steinkraus takes a great deal of paternal pride, He has high praise for its wartime contribution and high hopes for peacetime production there. : As successor to Earl O. Shreve as president of the National Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Steinkraus did something that has become more unusual since Eric Johnston left that post— he agreed with a policy of the President of the United States. An hour before new Chamber President 8teinkraus held his first press conference, President Truman had one in which he said he asked congressional leaders daily to get action on governmental reorganization.

Nothing Happens

THEY always say that action is forthcoming but nothing happens, the President said, That this plea should no longer be ignored was stressed by Mr, Steinkraus in urging support for the findings of the now famed Hoover Commission on governmental reorganization, “How can you get Congress to act?” Mr. Bteinkraus was asked,

“I think that when the people learn what |

action,” Mr. Steinkraus said. “Then I am sure that Congress will respond. ’ “Reorganization should be carried out with dispatch. Each citizen should see that he is doing his share to get the government to do a good job of housekeeping. There is plenty of room for savings. It is only logical to revise such a vast setup and the Hoover findings have plenty of facts with which to make a good start.” He cited the apparent deathlessness of bhureaucracy by pointing out that a government survey found a commission still functioning to promote production of spruce for wood propellers for World War I airplanes. “I don't say that is a typical case,” Mr, Steinkraus laughed. “But anyone would admit that it has been quite awhile since the armed

that Hoover report contains they will demand

planes.”

: Mervices used spruce propellers on their war

For General Welfare

IN AGREEMENT with President Truman on the need for prompt and efficient government organization, Mr. Steinkraus parts company with him on Taft-Hartley repeal. He testified for retention of “good features” of that labor. management law, but added that he was always ready to see this or any other law improved for the general welfare, “Labor-management co-operation is essential in this cructal period,” Mr. Steinkraus said. “We had that during the war and we can have it again. The areas of agreement between the two groups are far larger than the area of disagree-

ment, Both need each other and each must cooperate. It is not the best policy to play politics

with labor-management relations.” Over-all planning by the government was roundly condemned by the new chamber president. He doesn't think that this or any other “government is that smart. : “No government can do things better for people than they can do things for themselves,” he said. “An all-wise government might not even be good for us. We alf know that whatever

the government does, it does expensively.

“Of course there will be changes made based on trial ‘and error in Taft-Hartley as in other laws. But we shouldn't go back, we should go

forward. I have sufficient confidence to feel.

that those in Congress who actually fepresent the grass-root sentiment will act wisely and we will do well.” %

‘Wholesome Adjustment’

FALLING prices and slower sales were termed a “wholesome adjustment” by Mr. Steinkraus. :

“If we are returning to a peacetime economy

“we shouldn't be alarmed about it,” he declared.

“The present downward trend is more healthy for out economy than a continued upward spiral.” At 59, Mr, Steinkraus is the active, dynamic type of business leader who doesn't look or show any signs of slowing down.

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NEWS NOTEBOOK . .

WASHINGTON, May T7--Washington embassy representatives of the 16 Marshall Plan .countries meet frequently to talk over their common problems of European recovery. They have nicknamed their group ‘The Beggars’ Union.” t LC WHEN Chester Bowles was running- for governor of Connecticut, a friend asked ex-Con-gresswoman Clara Boothe Luce for some political advice on how to get elected in the Nutmeg State. She gave five rules: “Explain nothing. Deny everything. Demand the proof. Don't listen to it. Attack the opposition.” : Mr. Bowles paid no attention to this cynical and sinister advice which so belittles the in-

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More Women Working WHILE total U. 8. employment has been dropping steadily since last November, the employment of women has been rising. Last month there were nearly half a million more women working than a year agn. Total n er of women now employed jn the U. 8. is 16,550,000. Roughly ‘three out of every 10 U. 8S. women are now considered in the labor force. The ratio of women workers to men is one to four. . ®» VERMONT Senators Aiken and Flanders recently guided 36 members of the Green Mountain state legislature through the Capitol. They all went into Vice President Barkley's office for a chat. One of the Vermonters said to Barkley, “Mr. Vice President, they tell us you're an exceptionally good judge of character ang human beings. Two of us here are Democrais. Do you suppose you ¢an pick them out just by looking at them?” . Mr. Barkley, never at a toss for a word, im-

handsome and infelligent 1 had assumed that you were all Democrats.”

¢ & STATE DEPARTMENT success in getting tentative agreement rrom Russia for lifting of Berlin blockade is not expected to result in

telligence of the American voter, He got elected,

mediately shot back: “Why friend, you are all so

Behind Scenes at the Capital

reduced U. 8, expenditures for European aid. Instead, request will be made to keep on hitting European assistance programs all the harder. When a foreign policy is working, that's when it needs fullest support. The time to cut is when a foreign policy isn’t achieving desired obJectives. E 5 > SS

‘Beef’ by Cattle Men REPRESENTATIVES of the big western livestock raisers associations came to Washington to testify on the Brannan plan. They said they were strong men and wanted no part of it. because they could support themselves without government aid. This statement caused considerable eyebrow raising in Washington, If the cattlemen meant that, it might save the taxpayers many millions of dollars. It would mean that the government might stop its anti-hoof-and-mouth disease campaign in Mexico. It would mean lifting of tariffs against Argentine peef. It would mean increasing grazing fees on public lands, so that

the cattlemen paid full costs of preserving the |

range As a matter of record, the livestock industry has depended on government assistance just as much as any other part of agricultural economy, and couldn't get along without it. &

> 2 ‘For Free’ Philosophy EXPLAINING the workings of Marshall Plan “counterpart funds’ ‘is one of Economic Co-operation Administrator Paul Hoffman's ever-present problems, Before a group of British workers in the U. 8. on a technical training mission, Hoffman analyzed it this way: Once in South Bend, Ind., he brought home five bottles of medicine guaranteed to cure athlete's foot. When Mrs. Hoffman reminded him he didn’t have athlete's foot he said, “Yes, I know, But I might get it some day and these samples were free.” It's the same way with European recovery, Hoffman explained. If 10-ton tractors were being given away free, everybody in Europe would want one.

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Yaasier Forum ° “1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | # will defend to the death your right fo say W." - Keep letters 200 words or less om any sub- . used will be edited but contest will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom:

. : @ 9 * ‘Police Need More Boats > By Walter L. Hoss, 2544 N. Delaware 8t. ~~ Every time an emergency a

about a boat capsizing or

ou can see a police emergency squad or sher-: rs patrol car racing out to some suburban place with a little rowboat in tow. However these good officers try to make the best of speed, al-° ways encountering the danger of being struck by some reckless driver, it takes them at the - best 15 minutes to reach Ravenswood or other SE oats are not costly, and I think: we should have at least four boats stored away at four different outlying places at the edge of the city. They could be stationed at four different fire stations or some township fire de- ~ partment, so that in case of an alarm, the next a ‘cruising police or sheriff's squad could pull up * at those fire stations and hook the boat up.’y There is always a police cruiser around, and many a life could be saved by speeding up this . boat operation and reaching the scene of an; accident in a much shorter time. .

Think of it, chief of police and sheriff; it is orth a try. 5 y By ® ¢ ¢ -

‘Taxes Don’t Build Homes’ By Frank Walton, Campbellsburg, Ind. If we were working to build homes for our children and neighbors so all could have a roof over their heads, taxes wouldn't be so bad. But it isn’t that way. We have income tax, inheritance tax, sales tax, land tax, poll tax and many more taxes. ‘ When the tax man gets what he wants, what's left is the tax slave's part. The tax man isn’t building homes; he is selling the other fellow’s home to pay himself off. The tax man , gets the money. There are lots of men and women who ‘would be glad to take care of the county offices for half the money it now Sots the taxpayers. ® 9 ®

04 ° or ‘Clinics in Genetics Needed’ ie By J. F. Woodard : : Listed at the last World Eugenics Conference at the Hague were some 15 types of inherited blindness. One speaker insisted that in 200 cases of intermarriage between carriers of defective ° genes, 192 sightless children were born. Should wetnot have clinics in human genetics in all our larger Fitles? * A .

‘Appeasements Continue’ By William Albert Lloyd . Leaving Spain out of the Atlantic Pact is proof that the appeasement of Dictator Stalin’ and his puppets and Quislings behind the Iron ,Curtain, still continues, desipte all the double. talk about fighting communism. As an example witness our policy in China and then ask your- .. self: “Are we fighting-communism?”

What Others Say—

EVENTS of this century have taught us that’; we cannot achieve peace independently. The world has grown too small. The oceans to our east and west no longer protect us from the reach of “brutality or agression.—President Truman. EER * © 9

THE Democratic Party and the states of the v= South have had a long and fruitful partnership. : It would be a tragic thing if that partnership * were to be destroyed. —Vice President Barkley. ¢ © 9 ; £2 YOU know, women talk a lot when they are -* choosing hats, I guess it's like men with their "'< barbers.—Lily Dache, hat SSaigner. ®

I LOOK for a pretty good scramble until ** July and then I believe it will resolve itself into a two-team race with the Indians winning out. ... The Red Box look to be the toughest ° threat. to us.—~Manager Lou Boudreau of the * Cleveland Indians. : ® o THIS drive for self-help (the Marshall Plan) = and mutual aid is not only economic. Already it envisions co-operation for security; and it is political in its ultimate aspirations. Here stems the ultimate United States of Europe or its ef- ° fective equivalent.—Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg

(R.) of Michigan.

AGRICULTURE . . . By Earl Richert

Farm Bureau Tieups | =isss=a

WASHINGTON, May 7A long-simmering farm-organization fight over the close tieup in many areas between the Farm Bureau Federation and the tax-financed government Extension Service is

due to break out in Congress soon.

This will come when Chairman Elmer Thomas (D. Okla.) of the Senate Agriculture Committee begins public hearings on his bill to divorce the Extension Service from the Farm Bureau

wherever a close affiliation exists.

Sparkplugging the drive for the Thomas bill is the Farmers

Union, and on its side is the National Grange.

Farmers Union officials contend that, in many areas, govern-ment-paid Extension Service employees are collecting dues and keeping records for the Farm Bureau—a private organization. In some cases, they say, the words, “Farm Bureau,” are painted on the doors of Extension Service offices. agents, they say, conduct membership drives for the Farm Bureau.

Pressure for Members “IN. New York, said Ben Stong of the

“membership in the Farm Bureau is required before a farmer can

even get an Extension Service bulletin.” + Farm Bureau officials contend that this is

rights fight and that each state should decide—~not Washington—

how its Extension Service should be operated.

The close relationship between the Farm Bureau and the Extension Service goes back to pre-World War I days when many

states decided something must be done to get

cerning technological developments at state agricultural colleges

into the hands of farmers.

Some of them passed laws providing that, if associations of farmers were formed, agents would be placed in each county and appropriations made available for extension work. These sponsoring county associations grew into the American Farm Bureau Federatign and the close relationship with the Extension Service

has continued in many areas.

The Extension Service is operated by state agricultural colfinanced by both state and federal funds-—and, in

leges and some instances, county appropriations,

Oppose State Basis

FARM BUREAU officials contend that "big government” | advocates have never liked the idea of the Extension Service being run on a state-by-state basis without direct control from Washington, as is the case, for example, of the Soil Conservation

Service.

On the other side of the picture, a Farmers Union official said his organization “would have a million members; too, if we had half of the Extension workers soliciting memberships for us.” The Farm Bureau claims more than one million members; the Farmers Union, 185,000, and the National Grange one million’

families,

The Thomas bill proposes to ban payment of federal funds to states which permit close ties between the Farm Bureau and the |

Extension Service,

Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan wrote Sen. Thomas | that he agreed with the major purpose of his bill but disagreed |

with some proposals.

Among the states listed by Farmers Union officials where the | close relationship between the Farm Bureau and the Extension | Service exists are Alabama, Texas, Tennessee, California, New York, West Virginia, Iowa, Illinois and parts of Pennsylvania. ‘Among the states without close tieups are Ohio, Indiana, New

Mexico and Colorado.

A special committee of ‘Agriculture Department and land- | grant college officials studied the situation and reported last fall |

that it was not sound public policy for the Extension Service to be. | atilatied with such farm organizations. The committee said the

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people in the various states shogld take the initiative to end the

Sen. Thomas said he would push his bill because he “did not think any private organization should be permitted to dominate

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Allies’ Top Cards

WASHINGTON, May 7--The United States, Britain and France will sit down at the forthcoming Big Four conference in a . vastly stronger position than some now seem to think. By demanding a unified Germany and an early termination of the Allied occupation—both of which every German wants re- ~ gardless of zone or politics—Russia hrores to put the West on the defensive at the start. 34 But the Western Powers hold some high cards of their own. They are expected to propose: ONE: The return of most of Eastern Germany to the Ger-

TWO: Free and unfettered elections for all Germany under United Nations supervision, to make certain that Germany will be free not a police state.

Abolition of East and West zones and a unified .

country just as soon as a German peace can be arranged, to be followed by the withdrawal of Allied troops. ‘ FOUR: Consent to Soviet participation in the Ruhr if Russia permits British, French and American participation in control of the coal and iron areas in Eastern Germany,

Positive Program ; SOVIET propaganda is seeking to convince Germans that the West wants partition, and more or less permanent occupation of their country. The West cannot disabuse their minds merely by denying what the Russians are saying. The West has to have a positive, concrete program of its own. ; : One of the highest cards in the West's hand is Russia's treat-’ ment of Eastern Germany. > Section VI of the Yalta protocol stipulated that “the final ° delineation of the western frontier of Poland should await the ‘° peace conference.” Stalin disregarded this pledge, drove approximately 6,000,000 Germans out of their homes and gave the terri- - tory to the Poles. : Both Mr. Roosevelt and Mr. Churchill—who also signed the Yalta agreement—strongly objected. . Stalin blandly replied that “* their objections were “irrelevant.” 2 “The western frontier of Poland is open,” he added, to London and Washington's amazement, “and the Soviet Union is not ‘*

When the looting of Eastern Germany got under way, Mr. Roosevelt and Mr, Churchill again protested. Stalin replied that it was part of reparations. Ee

What Reparations? “HOW,” Mr. Roosevelt replied, “can the reparations issue ever -

be settled if part of ‘German territory is gone before we reach .“: agreement on what reparations should be?”

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AN ILLINOIS woman paid for her sweetheart's false teeth and then he jilted her. He's now in a position to snap at other opportunities, ! * > ¢

courtesy to folks on the personal property tax list. At least to those who pay! * 0 »

A LOT of the better things come to people who wait—on themselves. * ¢

PIN YOUR faith on a fat man, won't stoop to anything low. * © o GARLIC is recommended for colds. You eat it and the per son with a'cold will keep away from you. .

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Moscow's reply to that was to continue with the job of ecarry- x ing off, into Russia, whatever suited its fancy. 3

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Millions of Germans whose ancestors had lived in that part of the country for a thousand years were driven out of Eastern | Germany. Without consulting the United States or Great Britain, iu Russia confronted her former allies with an accomplished fact. | In cynical disregard of his signature at Yalta, Stalin ordered all | German territory east of the River Niesse turned over to Poland. ~, Of course, Stalin owed something to Poland: In 1939, he and | Hitler partitioned Poland, 50-50, between them. “To “compensate” '* | post-war Communist Poland for the area taken in 1939, Stalin “gave” her a large slice of Germany. . | Insistence by the West on the righting of this wrong at the | coming conference will bring cheers from every German except the Communists, If they oppose the return of this territory, it will cost them support. To give it back would get Moscow in bad with the Communists in Po! ih oe

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