Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 August 1949 — Page 20

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American people, in our opinion, have heard more than enough to convince them that President Truman should fire his military aide, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. Failure to do that, or delay in doing it, would imply that Mr. Truman approves of Gen. Vaughan's extra-curric-ular activities as a member of the Wihte House inter circle. It is true that the Senate committee now investigating ‘ those activities has not yet fully explored their extent and their implications or heard the geéneral's own testimony. And it is true that persons other than Gen. Vaughan have a great deal to explain, if they can. But what is already on the record proves conclusively, we think, that Gen. Vaughan should no longer be tolerated in the President's official family, : ri "0" CR

' THE SENATE investigation is an outgrowth of charges by Paul Grindle, a Massachusetts furniture manufacturer, who has testified: 4 That Col. James V, Hunt, a former Army officer now _a Washington “management counselor,” offered to help him get a government contract if Mr. Grindle would pay him $1000, plus $500 a month, plus five per cent of the contract's

value; that Col. Hunt told him, “I have only one thing to -

sell and that is influence”; that Col. Hunt boasted of being a welcome guest at the White House and a close friend of Gen. Vaughan,

— Tighe E. Woods, the President’s housing expediter, has |

testified that Gen. Vaughan put successful pressure on him

to permit use of scarde materials for rebuilding a California -

racetrack, at a time when many veterans could not obtain such materials for building homes. - Maj. Gen. Alden H. Waitt, suspended chief of the Army Chemical Corps, has testified that he wrote in Col. Hunt's office, at Gen. Vaughan's request, a memorandum for the White House in which Gen. Waitt praised his own qualifications and belittled other officers who might be considered for appointment to his job.

Gen. Vaughan, himself, has attempted to explain the matter of the deep freezers which he acknowledges asking

officials of a Chicago perfume company to send te him, to Mr. Truman's home in Missouri, to the present Chief Justice of the United States, to the present Secretary of the Treasury, and to others connected with the White House in 1945, His explanation is thoroughly unconvincing. His statement

that there was “nothing improper” about these gifts of “no

commercial value,” for which the Chicago concern paid some $2625, is an insult to public intelligence.

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cei LOYALTY TO his old friend and military aide does not

Justify Mr. Truman in saying—as he did at his most recent news conference—that it is not his job to get the facts regarding Gen. Vaughan's activities. It is emphatically the President's job to keep himself the conduct of those whom he places in

whether others have abused

his confidence and his friend.

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TURNING TO the Republican side of the political fence, we are glad to see Sen. H. Styles Bridges of New - Hampshire quoted as saying that he intends to resign next month from hig $35,000-a-year post as a trustee of the Uinted Mine Workers’ pension and welfare fund. This month—today—would be “better. A Senator “whose duty it is to pass on legislation affecting labor unions and their leaders ought never to have accepted a salary for servicés to the John L. Lewis union. .

‘That Old Debbil’

THE United States not only helps fill England's treasury, but provides handy excuses for most of her troubles, according to Editor-Reporter E. T. Leech in his series of articles on British socialism in action.

Our high prices were blamed for swallowing up the

U. 8. loan to Britain three years ago. When our prices fell this year, we were blamed for causing Englénd’s “dollar shortage.” In both instances, Mr. Leech observes, the goat was “that old debbil Uncle Sam.” ’ There was just enough truth in both explanations to make Uncle Sam a convenient whipping boy for British politicians. ’ Immediately after the war our prices were much too high. It was inevitable, and desirable, that they should come down as supply was balanced against demand. We took both situations in stride. Britain could not do that. Its economy is tied:into too many strait-jackets to adapt itself readily to a fluctuating market.

" LONG BEFORE Britain took up socialism its economy operated behind the protective barriers of “empire prefer. ences.” Trading inside this restricted area with its com. monwealth members, colonies, dependencies and debtor nations, Britain repeated a three-fold profit, as banker, manufacturer and shipper, fixing both buying and selling prices, But today Britain is a borrower, not a lender. Her monopolistic practices are.self-defeating in a competitive market.

In a world of falling prices and buyer. resistance, Britain hasn't been able to turn out enough goods at prices’ the world will pay. British production costs are too high, too low. Her obsolete plant isn't geared to compete with modern machines. American subsidies have concealed the truth ‘Britain from the British people. But when those subsidies

‘cease, as inqvitably they must, the hard facts will begin to ~ tell their own story. Then the soul searchers in Britiin, if

any, may conclude that the “old debbil” wasn't such a bad

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IPs Biggest Show Since Judy's All That's Lacking in Senate

Is Strutting Archie Palmer

WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—It seems like old times up at that Senate investigation of our 5 per centers and their fixings, like free deep freezers to big-shot politicos. All you need is fat little Archie Palmer strutting around, chomping on cough drops and spraying -the alr with participles, to be back in Distriet Court watching the Judy Coplon trial. This is definitely the biggest show to hit

curious, characters | Room 357 In the Senate office bullding, just as a few weeks ago they formed outside J Albert Reeves’ away, The faces are the same—you're always. bumping into that plump little woman with th ‘big shopping bag who never seemed. to \get seat for the Coplon excitement. It's a lot more cramped, of course. Room may not be the smallest hearing room in Capitol, but it's a long way from the It almost seems as if the boys wanted to the shenanigans private and then decided

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45 Reporters There ; IT HASN'T kept the professional observers |

the proceedings every day—a Jot. of ’em the same ones who were in on Judy's ordeal-—and

As far as the hearing itself, the best sideshow is the way the Republicans have crept in and stolen the investigation away from the Democrats. This always happens, of course, whenever an administration is sticking its nose into the affairs of its own family, ; Sen. Joe McCarthy (R. Wis.) is the chief bandit with his mutterings about those deep freezers and how we're going to hear a lot more about ‘em. And the. way he's always taking over the questioning and never giting up the floor till he's got what he wanted from the witness. Then there's Sen. Kar! Mundt (R. - 8. D.) sitting there in a half-erouch, ready to pounce: the moment Mr. McCarthy stops tor |

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Sen, Herbert O'Connor (D. Md.) from tiyie to time tries valiantly to recover the ball, even Sen. Clyde Hoey .(D. N. C.), the ire man, whose Old South temperament is unaccustomed to such impertinent ings-on, -jumps in once in awhile. But the trouble is neither of them have as many or as tough questions to ask as do thetf Republican brethren. :

No Stranger to Quibble

IT'S SEN. McCarthy,” with an occasional assist from the bro: Mr. Mundt, who keeps hammering away at (Gen. Alden 3. Waitt, suspended boss of the Army's chemical corps. Gen. | Waitt is a skillful fencer and he is no stranger to’ the quibble, but Mr. McCarthy is a patient man. He keeps at his job. fy ~All this 1 terribly embarrassing for Gen. Waitt, the general insists. It's too bad, for Instance, “that one has to discuss one’s close friends here in public.” And he hates to think how thie press will kid him about that memo-. random he wrote calling himself one of the world's leading authorities on chemical warfare. But, as he says, it's true. Gen. Waitt gives the impression of & man who's trying to make his listeners understand things. He is always laughing a soft, sighing, exasperated little laugh, a laugh that says he's trying not to be impatient,

And Archie Missed It

SEN. McCARTHY hears him out and then goes on. For this hearing, Sen. McCarthy has the air of a man who is saddened by the state of the world but feels it his painful duty to try to set things right. He's gentle—"Now

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Gen. Waitt threads his way in and out of the questioning, and when Mr. McCarthy won't

words in my mouth” dnd “you're asking me a leading question.” But sometimes, when he's pinned down, he gives up and says he just doesn’t know why he did some things that he did—like leaving that officers’ evaluation memo inthe office-of James V. Hunt. bee The hearing drones on, stumbling through the technicalities, with the witness cautiously weighing his phrases, trying a word here for size, rushing in an explanation there when the going gets hot. The photographers maneuver fretfully. Outside, thie plump little woman with the big shopping bag is still trying to get in to see the show. It's a shame Archie Palmer has to miss it all :

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 18—Three lawyers for the American Federation of Labor have analyzed recent decisions of the Supreme Court affecting unions and reached these conclusions: “Labor must look primarily to the legislative bodies rather than to the courts for protection against abusive anti-labor enactments, ’ . “It 1s only when such Jaws threaten wctual destruction’ of labor unions and their ability to function effectively, or when there is a direct conflict between a state law and a federal law, that labor can go into the courts with any hope of success.”

The. further coficlusion is drawn that the Supreme Court's recent history “impels labor organizations to enter into the field of political activity, not only to achieve improvements but to obtain protections.”

od This advice is already being followed. The various political

.arms of ‘organized labor are concentrating for the present on

election of their friends to the 48 state legislatures as well as to the Federal Congress. )

The three AFL lawyers making the conclusions are J. Albert Woll, James A. Glenn and Herbert 8. Thatcher.

Decisions Mostly Against Labor

THEY SAID that “since the present Supreme Court is a young. court as Supreme Courts go, and since its opinions will determine and affect the rights of labor for years to dome, it Is of utmost importance to the labor movement that it have some comprehension of what it can expect by way of constitutional protection against hostile federal and state laws.” These lawyers list five groups of decisions In the term recently ended as the most important affecting organized labor. Four of the five were adverse to unions! Their meanings were summarized as follows: , : ONE: States may outlaw all types of union-security agreements and may prevent any form of employer discrimination in favor of union members and against non-union employees. (This was the result of the unions’ challenge to the anti-closed-shop enactments of about 15 states.) vile TWO: The state can prevent even peaceful picketing if is * purpose is to require an employer to perform an act made unlawful under a valid state law, THREE: Intermittent and unannounced work stoppages are not protected ‘as concerted activities or strike action and may be outlawed by the state. “ » :

Two-Thirds Vote Upheld

FOUR: A STATE law requiring a two-thirds vote as a condition for entering into a union-security agreement is not in conflict with either the Wagner Act or the Taft-Hartley Law and thus cannot be held invalid on that: ground. ” + FIVE: It is an unfair practice for an employer to refuse during an organizing A, 4

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It was a trade ‘worth 1 having not only because of the wealth of that ' neighborhood, but also becausé of its social stature. Indeed, the parties pulled off in that area were of such opulence and magnificence that the quality of Mr. Van Camp's stock became known all over town; with the result that in no time at all, the Fruit House Grocery also enjoyed a carriage trade, With the coming of the carriage trade, Mr, Van Camp was obliged to carry a bigger stock. And, right away, he was confronted with a merchandising problem of such magnitude that it might have licked a grocer of less imagination. For one thing, he never knew how much

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Sherre? Van Camp’s Fruit House Grocery

FOUR ORE and eight. years ago, the Grocery” of Gilbert €. Van Camp identified the southwest corner of New York and Missour{ Sts, It was a little one-story, one-room at the time. Mr. Van Camp’s business was bigger than" 3é sign indicated. Besides Aealing in fresh fruits, he also handled vegetables. InA 1—deed, it may have been the first green grocery around here—certainly one of the good ones. - ¢ause it enjoyed that reputation, tt got all the trade of the Military Palk neighborhood.

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- Secret Venture Pays Off THERE'S NO telling what might have hap- , pened had not Gilbert Van Camp married Hester Jane Raymond, a forthright Westchester County, New York, girl. ¢olved the idea of canning the surplus unsold stock. Legend has it that she did her canning | at night in the family kitchen. venture a secret until winter ca day right around Christmas when other grocery stores ‘had pitifully little to contribute to the holiday spirit, the Fruit House Grocery had its shelves piled high with products of Hester's

‘Mrs. Van Camp's canned vegetables and hat it. taxed everybody's patience to . ng space anywhere near the Fruit House Grocery. To solve the parking problem, the Van Camps decided to sell direct to the ‘grocers and thus distribute their wares all over town without creating a congestion in any one

When the women got wind of this innovation, they stampeded the groceries with the inevitable result, of course, that the Van Camps {couldn't supply the demand. In orderto-remedy this situation, they moved to the corner of Market and Missourl Sts. At this location the business grew at a fabulous rate. Every year revealed one or more new buildings until finally their plant had the appearance of a flourishing village consisting for the most part of an unbelievable number of little frame houses, every one of which received a coat of whitewash every

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responCOPR, 190 BY NEA SERVICE. WG. T, M. Afi, U; PAT. DI. sibilities; it does not seek to unioad them on the federal govern- . ment, . ’ "Sorry, George, | never lend money, | only borrow it—if I'm - The Swiss know what federation is for: It is to provide for the common defense, and by removing trade ;

going to lose a friend, | want to be the one to make a profit!"

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“In spite of their prodigious output, however, the Van Camps were never able to supply all the women of Indianapolis. The anomaly can be traced to a type of housekeeper which at that time nursed a notion that the art of canning was a privileged and sacred home industry. Sixty years ago when I was a kid, the women ‘of Indianapolis who deemed themselves selfsufficient couldn't have gotten anywhere with their home canning—especially the preserving of asparagus and tomatoes—without the help of tinsmiths, To start with, the tinsmiths fabricated the necéssary tin cans. That was the -least part of their coptribution, however. The exciting part came when the tinsmiths actually participated in the process of home canning. I still remember that the appointed tinsmith always arrived with his brazier and soldering tools at the home of the conservator at 8 o'clock in the morning. I never could figure out why the women insisted on his coming so early, for the way things turned out his services were never needed until 4 o'clock or later in the afternoon.

~Why Tinsmiths Were Well Read APPARENTLY, the tinsmiths were aware of this practice for, I recall, they always brought a lot of reading matter. with them; enough, indeed, to last them a whole day. Which, incidentally, explains why the tinsmiths of my generation were the most informed of all craftsmen. Indeed, I remember one tinsmith who read the whole of Aristotle's “Nicomachean Ethics” while waiting for Mother's tomatoes to achieve the proper consistency to be canned. At 4 o'clock or thereabouts, the tinsmith stopped reading and stripped for action, With ordinary luck, that was the time the cooked vegetable was supposed to be ready for further treatment. It was the dramatic moment the tinsmith had been waiting. for all day. He got

She kept her 1 otit his soldering tool and sealed the lids of

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Back in those days, a tinsmith’'s reputation was measured by his- ability to keep. canned goods tight regardless of the outside temperature. I happen to remember that because of a day a tinsmith failed Mother, He had turned s.up. on the appointed day at 8 o'clock in the mbdroing, but when it tomatoes, he wasn't At this precise moment; I recall, Father showed up, sensed the situation, and said he'd ~handle the job. He sent me to a neighborhood hardware store to get some solder, and when I returned I found him in his shirt sleeves prepared to go to work with some tools he had improvised during my absence. It looked like a mighty neat job when he finished sealing the caps. One night that winter, however, our whole cellar started popping. Father refused to accept any responsibility. To the very last, he insisted ‘that Mother had cooked the tomatoes too long. Well, that was the year I first tasted Van Camp's canned tomatoes-—the first time, too, in my life that I was confronted with the diplomatic problem of framing words in appreciation of something made outside of our kitchen without hurting Mother's feelings.

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‘when the employees live In a company town and all available mevting places are owned or controlled by the company, It is | unfair for an employer, after wage negotiations have brgken down, to grant on his own a larger wage Increase thas he Yad offered during the negotiations. One of the favorable factors found by the AFL lawyers is what they describe as the clear indication by the Supreme Court that it will give a free hand to the state in passing laws sponsored or requested by organized labor. Another is that the court will not inquire into ‘the wisdom, necessity oF. public” need for pro-labor legislation but will leave such considerations entirely - ‘within the discretion of the state legislatures. yh - Thus, the heat appears definitely to be on the state legiita-

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Another Carrie Nation?

By John Alvah Dilworth, 816!; Broadway ~ ONE: Is it going to be necessary to have & 3 swinging career Carrie Nation? " 8 : TWO: Does not Gov. Henry F. Schricker, as commander in chief of the state police force, or the superintendent of the state police, have a personal responsibility to their own integrity, as well as a criminal lability to enforce the state laws as regard gambling? . THREE: With the superintendent of sta police asserting, according to the press, that the state police force is a “policy-making agency,” is Indiana’s share of the more than $10-billion=-a-year illegal gambling in the United States coming under their jurisdiction? It appears, as attested by the Gary, Ind. conditions, that someone is playing footie and/or politics. FOUR: It does not matter what is written about the racket, you cannot educate the sucker. He does not want to be told. FIVE: However, as food for thought for the Governor, how can we expect to stamp out petty, one-horse gambling if big-time clubs and lodges permit gambling in private clubs that are presumed to be interested in adult and child delinquency, the church and general welfare of the community? ? SIX: The public, Indeed, will judge the state lice as being a very dangerous and expensive epartment in our state government and to soclety in general throughout Indiana if rigid law inforcement does not prevail pursuant to state laws.

+ SEVEN: It would be well for the Governor to remember the jingle about the tremendous

consequences which once followed the lack of a horseshoe nail. It can well happen in the lack of all-out law enforcement.

= ®-% * ‘Soft-Hearted Foreign Policy’ By Edward F. Maddox, City One valuable lesson we must learn is that to get laws enforced, we must have officials who

keep their oath to enforce them. In the field of foreign policy we must have a Becretary of State who will adhere strictly to a single standard of policy in all nations. Since Secretary of State Dean Acheson is the man whose handling of our China policy led to Communist success, what American of any intelligence can feel very confident of any policy to check communism anywhere in the world so long as Mr. Acheson is Secretary of State? Our State Department policy is soft toward communism in Europe, Asia and here

can wreck American security. We need a’rew Secretary of -State. I nominate Gen. Eisenhower. ‘We are losing the diplomatic war with

7 communism by default. When we pulled out

~ of China, We invited the Reds to take control.

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A HEN In Maryland laid a lavender egg. What, no old lace? y * ¢ o THERE are more than 10,000 earthquakes a Year in the world, according to scientists. Shocking, to say the least! ) * &

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‘create a wide area of prosperity, Best-Prepared Country . y WE HAVE forgotten that in this country; we have made our fedegal: government too big and powerful, and our states snd cities have become weaker, v . The Swiss have for all time settled the question of pacifism and militarism... They are at the same time the most peace-loving country in Europe, and for its size, the best } Hitler did not think it would be worth the price to spike the always ready Swiss guns. | Only by federation can free peoples be safe; only by strictly limiting the scope of the federal government does federation The Swiss in both these respects have pointed the way, Let us'study Switzertand. ~*~ 4

tight driver.

For the Swiss have shown how federation protects the free om of the pedple composing the federation; protects them from ttack from without, and can respect their local character and.

The tides of war waged by the French, Germans and Italians on each other for cefituries have swirled about Switzerland, yet within Switzerland live Frenchmen, Germans and Italians not - only in peace, but in complete friendship with each other, ¥ these Frenchmen, Germans and Italians, though they speak dite ferent languages, think of themselves only as Swiss,

Government Respects Groups -" THE ‘SWISS fefleral government shows its respect for the different language groups which compose the nation by publishe ing its notices in three languages. Part of Switzerland is intensely Proféstant. Another part is intensely Catholic. bitterness, for again difference is respected. We have made one part of the United States look like ar

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Yet there are no religious wars, or even

flattening standardization. One part of ‘little much different. from another, for local ‘customs

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FEDERALIZATION . .. By Edward 1. Mesman | Swiss Show Sense

I HAVE been reading “The Heart of Europe,” which is the story of Switzerland. It was written by Denis de Rougemont and Charlotte Muret. : The authors allude to Switzerland as “a small scale model of a working federalized Europe,” It is that, but it 1§ also the: model of something better, a federation not only of western Europe, but of all the Atlantic democracies, Including the Uhited

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