Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 August 1949 — Page 16

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Telephone RI ley 8581 Give Light and the People Will Ping Ther Own way

fren $35,000 a Year— = And Their Backs Not Sicher ONE. day last May John L. Lewis was & witness before a

Senate Committee. considering mining safety legislaion. He pointed an accu i

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finger; banged. his fist on the |

El Rent Lids OF

Fed

By-Edrl Richert

zn ‘Many Areas

Also Rates Going Up. Where wan ;

Controls Are Being Kept

“WABHINGTON, Aug. 5—-Rent lids have been | * popping off with great. rapidity nnder-the new rent-control law which President Truman called. | “a crushing defeat for the real estate. lobby.”

And rents are going up generally in areas

where rent controls are being kept, by means of the “fair net operating income” formula for landlordsc—which the law ordered, a "Buf the Bureair of Labor Statistics reports that, nationwide, rents have gone up only 15.6 per cent since 1939, while food, for example, hax

it one-up-118.3 per cent in the same period.

Ninety-six cities have exercised the local option clause of the new Jaw to decontrol themselves since Apr. 1 ‘When it became effective, Largest are City. “ivi m= Four “states have set dates for ending fed eral controls—-Nebraska, Texas, Alabama and | Wisconsin. | Nebraska's Acton, taken by the

table. ; In the last 19 years, he said, 1,250,081 miners had been’ “maimed, mangled and killed.” His voice thundered through the Senate vaucus room. “If 1 had the powers of a Merlin, I would march that million and a quarter men past the Congress of the United States, the quick and the dead. Wold [He tory injured drag the dead after them. I would have the concourse flanked by five weeping members of each man's _ family, six and a quarter million people wailing ad " lamenting. 4 . That testimony of last spring, dramatizing the hazards’ of mining coal and the cruel consequences to the human beings involved, explains why. there has been so little complaint by coal consumers to the assessment of 20 cents a i ton for the miners’ welfare fund. The money was supi posed to be used only to provide pensions for aged miners, medical care for the sick and disabled, support for families “of those who by death or disability had lost their earning _ power. Humane and Just purposes. Io nr & . Tw rr BUT IT DOES tome as something of a shock to learn now among the first charges against that fund are salaries of $35,000 each to two of the trustees who hive a-spare-time job of administering it. Sen. Styles Bridges is drawing full-time pay of $15,000 as U. 8. Senator from New Hamp-

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a mine owners’ organization. Neither could classify as a __broken-down miner. John L. Lewis, who earns $50,000 a year as president | of the United Mine Workers is the third trustee. He does

not collect that added $35,000, though apparently he could

if he wanted to. He was a party to fixing the salaries col-

lected by Sen. Bridges and Mr. Van Horn. Men who mine, the coal, and people ‘who-buy it, “had |

hosay:

~ Community Responsibility

AN EXCELLENT example of how a corporation aa well as individuals can contribute substantially to the - healthy development of Indianapolis was shown by Eli Lilly & Co. this week when it opened its playground at Howard and Harding Sts. for use by neighborhood childfen. Tt was a demonstration of the kind of leadership in community responsibility that the city needs to help establish a & more solid foundation for social advancement. get A new playground that will keep the children out of a juvenile delinquency and adult. L erime, a : valuable contri: “bution: AARP ORY: cman “Indianapolis — more of these geitures for the: com- | ‘mon good and we hope the Lilly Company's project will in. , spire others to devote some of their time and facilities for community developments that will pay big dividends for all | in the future,

‘Byrd Machine’ Wins -

RESIDENT TRUMAN recently remarked there were too’ many men in Congress like Sen. Byrd of Virginia. If this was meant to suggest a purge of Sén. Byrd, it did not make “puch headway in Virginia's gubernatorial primary. Mr. Byrd himself was not a candidate. But John S. ‘Bat | tle, backed by the “Byrd machine” —a term which was made the issue » by three- "opposition candidates—won the ) nom“ination.” R True; Mr. Battle did not receive a clear majority. ‘But make of that what you will. Francis Pickens Miller, with New Deal leanings and supported by labor unions and “pro= gressives,” did not win. The other candidates, both on the : Sonssrvative Side, Ha some friends in Weir ows Fight,

with corruption or inefficiericy. It was denounced as tightfisted where a dollar is concerned, an indictment to which Sen: Byrd would be the first to plead guilty. In the-Senate he stands well ‘to the right of Sen. Taft in opposing big spending programs. Candidate Miller urged better schonls, improvement of public health, hospitalization and welfare programs, adequate refirement pay for state workers, ‘a- just and nondiscriminatory tax system” for financing state services, and as a last resort, a sales tax. Mr. Battle favored living within the state's present income.

The Occidental Mind

. (YENERALISSIMO CHIANG KAI-SHEK of China and Lae i President Syngman Rhee of South Korea are meeting at ———a’Koreannavel-base to diseuss a Pacifie: defeusypest-aguinmt-+- ~ communism,

taken into the government. We withdrew our financial support from Chiang Kai-shek because he did not take Communists into his government. The reflections of these two eminent Orientals on the | , vagaries of the Occidental mind should be most interesting, - Jt America’s. role in the. Pacific is included in their con. 'versations.

our: Export Program ih a

NZ ALL of our exports to Europe, apparently, are confined to Marshall Plan categories. An American girl re-

shire. Ezra Van Horn is head of the Ohio Coal Association,

IN THE campaign no.one charged that Byrd organization |

| decontroled 182. communities since

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lead: the world in demotracy

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It would seem that that is what Virginia is gang té do. |

legislature over the veto of the governor, is being opposed by veterans’ groups. They are try. ing ‘to get 10,000 signatures on a referendum petition to force a vote on the ‘legislature's acy tion in. the 1950 elections, This would keep Nebraska Qaeontrol, from going into effect. Nov. 15. :

ing editor of The(Times, writing from Honolulu has termed the Hawaiian dock it-in a nw

THE TEXAS legislature voted decontrol effective Oct. 19. Alabama voted a state decontrol bill effective May 10, 1850, but It is tangled up in a legal snarl tute state rent controls for federal controls and ‘per cent. A 'Afth state legislature, Florida's, voted decontrol, but the governor's veto was sustained. The legisiature then took action providing for the decontrol of Miami in September, before the start of the tourist season. Housing Expediter Tighe Woods himself has Apr Among the larger ones were Bpokane,— Boise, Phoenix and 8t, Petersburg, Tt is estimated the decontrol gctions already final and those to become effective this fall will free more- than one million houses and apartments from rent control—one out of every 14 under control when the new law became effective, Mr. Woods said he was not “particularly alarmed” at the decontrol actions of the various cities, with -the exception of Dallas, Knoxville and Balt Lake City.

Action in Small Areas

MOST of the local option actions are being

. taken In small areas and their situation “was

beginning to be on the doubtful side” he said. anized real estate people would like fo use the local option decontrol route in the larger [° cities and they have met a stone wall. “In the areas where you need rent control the most—the Northeast, the Midwest and the West Coast—there has been. very little local

option decontrol”

In “these areas, landlords are devoting the

most - efforts to getting rent Incréases via the fair net operating tncome formula, And thex're meeting with success in many instances. . “We're letting rents go up very definitely.” said Mr. Woods. “Congress wanted us te be lib eral in granting rent adjustments. But we're not doing it in an effort to cajole Congress into ng the rent-control law next year as

~ some people have said.”

Most of the rent increases that have been granted average between 10 and 15 per cent.

GRANDDADDY STONER

My granddaddy Stoner on my mother’s side’ . Wore a wide sombrero and smile just as wide." He was tall, he was handsome, his coat tails were long, And when he went riding, he'd burst into song.

ete al Now the ladies and lasses all knew him by sight,

And herd. all flock ardund him, on Saturday :

RL dance. and. they'd. trip. to. an old fiddle band.

‘While each surely- thought that he'd ask for |

their hand,

But granddaddy Stoner was sly so to speak. He cherished his sweethearts, but a mate didn't seek, For while he was having. the best time of his Tife, ‘He thought it a pity to chain t a wife,

But then came a gal who was pretty and prim, And ‘hough he scarce saw her. she looked over him, Bhe called to her sisters and said that the tall, Good looking Stoner would be hers by fall.

How she managed his notice nobody could guess ‘|

But she claimed he was lured with an Alice blue dress, And a pert little-hat made of flowers and lace With a ribbon that tied at thie side. of her tace.

BU Brand dAddy Stoner TVR Heard ortén sald”

‘Grandmother's modesty went to his head, And grandmother knowing her schemes gave a wink, Shrugged her shoulders and left folks to think. ~OPAL:McGUIRE, 814 Broadway. * % >

TIS SAID That the world is a better place for hav: ing a good old U, 8. A. Perhaps we may never but, like Paris, we are a style center for many imitators." B.C, Indinnapolis,

Wisconsin voted to substi. 4

, She goes on to say that

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areas ‘where force and Violence are ‘ruled out. Radio Moscow confirms this

irr nr * technique” to” éxtond Russian control Tn a Is beigg Biggin 41 2

tbe ng the pert quest is being carefully oudied Mr. - Heinke re

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"OUR TOWN

INTOLERABLE as last week was tor eve erybody, mine was made all the more difficult because of a letter sent by a lady living in

—behind the Iron Curtain. My sequestered - correspondent, whosé identity completely baffies me, writes in to ask whether the number of widows residing in Indianapolis exceeds that - of comparative American communities. And, if so, why? :

her tortured mind has ter when she spent a week in Indianapolis. In the course of her incognito stay, she took in everything we had to offer including one of the last performances at English Theater. Appar-

later in her letter, she refers to it as a “liqui- - dated institution.” It turns out that it'was by way, of our lig- ‘ uidated -institution. ‘that. she’ first observed the

ah Appaling number of widows in our midst. THEY"

CHAPTER HIT the Boker ant most “of the Sests in the pit the night she was there. The number of males was negligible, she says, “Indeed, the absence of males on that occasion was such a pitiful sight that it moved her - to ‘wonder | whether the Kremlin had capitalized all the | frailties of democratic gbvernments.

| Gift of Spotting Widows

EVEN more alarming was the discovery i that nowhere in the letter was there as much as « hint regarding her God-given gift of spot- | ting “windows without knowing -anything of | their backgrounds, an omission that got me to | stewing whether the people in Washington are fully cognizant of. the Russians’ power of pene~ tration. — She closes her letter, with the query: “What | do Indianapolis women ‘do to their men to make them die before their time?” It's a fair question, the answering of which CERIN TOF a SUPVEY or Tite Aid “Ged th “Including a squint at marital conditions as they exist to1 day. Let's start at the beginning and compare | the risk of widowhood with that of death. So {| far as“Indianapolis is concerned, {| widowhood” (in the case of women) is generally greater than the risk of death. For men, the reverse is true. Hence the war ery: “The Power of Woman." Two factors contribute to this situation. In- {- dianapolis married men havé’ a higher mortality rate than married women. This is true Ven Wher both are of the same age: which is | to say that there is every probability (im Ine

| Dnepropetrovsk, a town of 322,800 tucked away

wrestled with this problem ever since last win-

ently, news has reached her that the old piay--heuse has. been carted away since her visit; for; -

the risk of.

. By Anton i Schereor

Surplus of Widows Reviewed

dianapolis ‘at least) that the ‘wife will lose a

husband before she herself will die, Indeed, the chances around here are that he will leave this world a year or so before she is ready to go. -Gosh:-I-had-no-idea I-was-getting-into-anything so lugubrious today. That's only the half of it however. The second contributing factor—and the more realistic of the two—is the pathetic fact that most Indianapolis women are married to. men older than thémselves. This arrangement ends disastrously, too. Even more

so. In support of which I submit some quanti- |

tative data. According to the last government census,

Indianapolis had 6967 widowers and 19.307 wid-

ows. Chances are that the ratio hasn't improved much in the meantime. In either case, the exces of -widows is more than enough to fill a theater the size of what was once English’s.

Jumped to Conclusions

IT MAY just ‘be possible, though, that my correspondent jumped to conclusions. have been known to do that. Maybe, ‘the ladies who attended English Theater that night weren't widows at all.

"pose, are “women: . Indeed, it may even be gomsibie. that a ma“jority of the women. who attended English's Theater that night were women who can’t account for their husbands. A World Almanac of

ancient vintage once went on record that In- |

dianapolis had 88411 wives and 87,756 husbands; the corollary of which’is, of course, that 655-wives don’t know the whereabouts of their men or, for some reason, aren't telling. It, too, represents a sizable theater audience. Most probably of all, however, is a suspicion "that the men stayed away from English's that night because of their hostility to art. It's no secret that Indianapolis males are indifferent to art, no matter whether “it's dished yp in the shape of painted pletures, cacophonous music, T. 8. Eliot, functional architecture, tea room food or the drah-ma.

Attending Lodge Meeting \

“TF THTS be true. and it most certainly is, there is every reason to believe that had my correspondent stayed long enough in Indianapolis to pursue the subject to its logical end,

she ‘might have reached an entirely different |

conclusion. -In that case she might have discovered that the women in the‘ audience that night werelft widows, as she suspected, but married women whose husbands still had enough life im them to attend a lodge meeting hurriedly called to circumvent the latest manifestation of art.

Shows what Wierd results you get when you~

open an argument with a Vishinsky gambit:

ATLANTIC PACT... By Marquis Childs

‘Arms Compromise?

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 -Behind the closed 4 Ate Foreign Relations Committees Serr. Arthur made a plea as eloguent As

‘In the withess chalr

Sen. Vapdenherg Was pleading. for 4 new approach by the admfhistration to the Arms aid program, He was arguing for a

compromise that would assure Furope that the

President were not in any fundamental disagreement over the need to build up through mutual ald the security of the western

powers

Committee members, both Republicans and Democrats, were impressed with the<case made by¥the Senator from Michigan.

| | Mey Nulify Benefits

President Truman has proposed a $150 million recovery. | program for Seuth Korea, providing no Communists are |

REPEATEDLY Mr. Yandeibor stressed the: need to convince Europe that there is a wide area of agreement. gets the idea that the Senate Is beating the State Department to

its knees, then the psycholygical reaction will be s much-of the benefit from any arms program.

The difficulty of those who stand in the middle positions on

the arms issue has not been fully appreciated.

includes Sens. John Foster Dulles of New York, Alexander Smith of New Jersey and Henry Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts is Just | |” a8 ednvinced as anyone in the administration that failure to approve any arms ald at this session would be a calamity.

But they also dre convinced that an ynyfeldi

the administration bill calling for $1.450,000.000 of aid will bring about that calamity, This, the middle-of-the-roaders believe, is playing directly into the hands of those who hope to see the aid

program killed off. Sweeping Provision

ONE feature of the administration bin certain to be killed an { no matter what’ the" final outcome |§ the sweeping provision authorizing the President to send arms Anywhere in his own.

any fn his long career. addressed primarily to Becretary of State Dean Acheson who sat

| SIDE GLANCES

oors of the SenH. Vandenberg It was a plea

Senate and the

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The might just as well have . “= been divorced women. Bear in mind that In-, ~dianapolis. has something like 10,000 divorced persons half of whom, t is reasonable to Fup."

ported. 77" On the same day Ric Moscow -boaste—ed that the recent wave of strikes in varis ous non-Communist countries was a part ~*of a.Ystruggle” being waged by the Com ist-dominated World Federation n of le Unions. Pr -_ Among the trade unions which Moscow lauded for supporting the Soviet hills. position in the cold war ‘were the United Electrical, Radio .and Machine Workers, the Farm Equipment Workers,

and the West Coast Longshoremen's Union, headed by Harry Bridges. °°

‘Harry Bridges is directing. the Ha. waiian strike. : a

“A BROAD united front is developing

in the local trade union committees to fight

for "adherence to the Communist peace.

campaign and against the arrogant reac-

ake

tionaries and the monopolies,” according

to Trud, Moscow _ Trade Union daily,

JUOLE UY LU Ussiall Ae)

In similar vein, Mr. Heinke said that while the percentage of loyal Americans in Hawaiian unions probably runs as high ag

"it does in labor unions in the United States,

“the leadership itself undeniably is heavily loaded with Marxists and agents of - the Moscow-Communist international.” That would seem to make it unanimous except for a dissent from the Truman ad--ministration, which continues to treat the

= Sargarons Hawaiian Situation as “Just an- org

‘other labor dispute.”

Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say i.”

‘Had Right to Opinion’ By C.D. C., Terre Haute Iam quite willing to-agree with Forrest W. Davis that a bad precedent was set if Professor

George F. Parker was fired from Evansville Col=

: lege for supporting Henry Wallace for President. "In view of Henry's record, however, I believe the

professor m have been fairly dumb. Never-

theless, 1 believe he had a right to his-own

opinion. Henry, you may remember, back in 1040 led the parade for the warmakers. In his speech which opened the Roosevelt third term campaign he lambasted appeasers. isplationists, reactionaries and every one that didn't agreé with the ‘Roosevelt Toreign policy that was leading us like sheep to the slaughter, without even mentioning the name of his Republican opponent. 3 Now, of course, Henry claims to be a great peacemaker. However, the record of Harry Truman is not one that every mother would want her son to follow in order to become President. He was part and parcel of the corrupt Pendergast machine and has still remained friends with the Pendergasts after old Tom was sent to prison.

- It is not probable Mr. Truman would be PresiWomen . |

dent today if Old Tom had been put where the dogs wouldn't bite'him when he first deserved it. : The well-ofied, high-geared political machine of Tom Dewey which ran roughshod over his

- opponents and nominated him for President im

1948 .at Philadelphia was ynot too corrupt from a “political standpoint.

They] merely J several del tes a j “as Vice President who would swing

{eit votes to Dewey for President. "After all, we will have to admit when you cast a vote for President in 1048, any businessman knew he was voting wrong and was already whipped, which was probably why a lot of people didn’t vote at all. Let's give Prof. Parker the bepefit of the ddubt. "Probably he, merely thought it was a question of which ones were the worst instead of who was the best. »

‘What Others Say

I AM not strike-happy,. but’ there comes—4 time when you've got to take a final stand. TI, et them get away with laying off four men here and they'll pr to lay off 40 next month. Michael Quill, esjdent, CIO Transport Work ‘ers Union, Gectaing a New York bus strike over the firing of four mechanics. > So THE [North Atlantic) Pact will not solve the fundamental jlls that afflict the western world, but it will help give us .a bréathing spell during which, if we are wise, we may be able to find the solutions to our real problems. Sen. William J. Fulbright (D.) of Arkansas. ro S$ SL OUR interests call for maintenance of a fleet in. the Mediterranean—we are a Mediter“ranean power now.—Admi. Richard L. Conelly, “commander of U. 8. Naval Forces in Europe.

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The Senators. i D subject “of that $35,000-a-year salary Sen. Styles Bridges . N.H.) draws for his spare-time work as a trustee- of the U hited Mine Workers welfare and retirement fund. That is, they're silent for quotation. with strong statements of disapproval. “to a liberal sampling, exists in-both parties. “No comment” Francis J. Myers (Pa.) and Allen J. Ellender (La.) and Republeans Robert A. Taft (0.) and Wayne Morse (Ore.)

Apparent Team Work

© SENATORIAL reaction emphasized the apparent team work’ between Sen. Bridges and John L. Lewis, a union Jeader who in recent years has been in frequent conflict with’ the governSome Senators “thought Mr. Lewis was so much : the "boss of any enterprise that concerns him, that Sen. Bridges’ title of “neutral”

BRIDGES’ MINE PAY ... By Fred W. Perkins ‘Heat’ on a Senator

WASHINGTON, Aug. 5—“Senatorial courtesy” ik getting a

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for Sen. Bridges’ $35,000 piece of change, it was noted: r Senators have professions or businesses, and some pursue them in time-off from their legislative duties. 2 thrge of the 96 Senators are lawyers, but many of this group have been in public. life so long their practices have dwindled

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‘Sen. Bridges told reporters the ‘bulk-of his $35,000 trustee salary goes for legal and atfarnel expenses in connection with his trusteeship.. - .

' Payment of Expenses i ted 4 “I TOOK this job h¥'a public service, but I wouldn’ t keep

it' a day without prov igion- for payment qf expenses it: entails. I have heen subjected fo -a: number. of:dnjunctions and law-

i | L | cently was arrested in Paris on charges of teaching the discretion. { | suits in connection with the fund, and for my own protection agin | + Essentially, however, the compromise of the middle-of-the- | I must have the best personal lL. "~The f 1 i ncl | how to play strip poker; crap games have been: intro- | roaders ls concerned with the amount to be voted at this session { Oh. you “Me Anderson wfters with his cost an But he took it { gontonl ‘counsel, of ie pot I teed 1 must’ ‘have “Personal dr "9 Monte Carlo, and t Othe o da tour r bandits used of a. Sen. Vandenberg's argument before the committee bos Satiad} 4 as well” , : 1 toxumy-guss to hold up the A y 3 was t rattfication of She. Atants Fa has-tuesiad. 3 2%. ite 2 the. cther day and the b miter pS Sen. Biidges suid hie legal coats were * “substantial” but iation. ty RE Ea ; NEE woopr be declined to give. breakdown. : i oe TH g i og Aus Xai autemipee : EL ceif ; 2 : i re Ta i P RE ¥ 3 » oe tes oh 1 ; * + In 2 : ss » PB res A >» . oa z ¥ oo Wn rm wim Sow mn ire rent Raat ho I AY hn a hr LT en x ieee ga fain pid i : fo i

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