Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 August 1949 — Page 12

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Thomas J. Blackwell Jr.

PAGE 12 Tuesday, Aug. 23, 1949

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Communism Shows Its Hand ANYONE who doubts either that communism believes in

the violent overthrow of governments or that it gets its orders directly from Moscow should listen to the Moscow broadcasts on the current situations in Yugoslavia and Fin-

The Moscow radio has‘ instructed Yugoslav followers of the Cominform to “remove” the leaders of their government, if they do not admit their mistakes and correct them. Their “mistakes” have been the refusal of Marsh:. Tito to accept orders from the Kremlin, “In all Marxist parties where there is internal democracy, such a method of changing the leadership is natural and normal,” the broadcast said. This reference to “internal

democracy” is an example of the “Aesopean” language we have heard so much about. It means accepting orders from

the Kremlin,

OBVIOUSLY, the removal of Marshal Tito could be ef-

* fected only by assassination or armed revolt.

Communists in Finland, right now, are staging something approximating an armed revolt. They have called for nation-wide rallies against the government and have threatened to invite Russian intervention. This threat has been quoted with approval by the Moscow radio, which seeks to intimidate the Finnish government in its attempts to combat a movement aimed at its overthrow. : The Finnish Afth column contends that the gavernment’s efforts to maintain order violate, the Russian peace

treaty. Thus the Finnish Communists drop all pretense that

they are a legitimate political party by inviting foreign intervention in an internal situation. . . - ~ -. ” THEIR revolt against the government began with a series of Communist-sponsored strikes. But this movement

j lost momentum when loyal trade unionists began throwing © out Red leaders or refusing to follow their orders. So, in-

stead of more strikes, anti-government “rallies” are being Yugoslavia and Finland are the only countries in Eastern Europe not subservient to Moscow, so the Soviet intrigues in both have the same purpose—to purge the Russian “ of influence” of all dissenting elements. And

Communist attacks against organized religion in Poland,

Romania, Czechoslovakia and Hungary are part of the same pattern. ‘ ?

| Taft-Hartley at Two

abior- Management Relations Act of 1947, better.

SE wn aa the o $

lent attack by union officials who profess to speak for all-of

organized labor. nh

Its quick repeal was one of President Truman's major

promises in the 1948 political campaign which resulted. in

his own election and in the substitution of Democratic for Republican majorities in both branches of Congress. ; Yet Mr. Truman has been unable to keep this promise. Aug: 22, 1940—the Taft-Hartley Act's second birthday— found it still on the statute books, unaltered and with little apparent likelihood of early repeal or change. Why? ’

-FOR one reason, because its enemies have absurdly I

overplayed their hands, While certainly not a perfect code of rules for labor-management relations, the act obviously does not deserve the “slaverydaw” label union officials have

“tried to fasten on it. And there 1s much evidence that, in many respects, it has proved beneficial to the public interest,

including the interest of union members and other workers.

For another reason, because need for the sort of law | {" phrase, “thé forgotten man.”

that will provide protection against abuses of organized labor's power as well as management's power, we believe, is widely recognized by the American people.

; . sssniidiah-for. 8.third and. compelling .reason,. we think, be-.

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Act, has gow been int effeet |

cause this country does not want to return to what pre- |

vailed before, and led up to, passage of the Taft-Hartley Act. . : » on - THE Democratic Party's 1948 platform pledged much more than Taft-Hartley repeal. It pledged “legislation to establish a just body of rules to assure free and effective collective bargaining, to deterinine, in the public interest, the rights of employees and employers, to reduce to a minimum their congict of interests, and to enable unions ta keep their membership free from Communistic influences.” We believe legislation fairly and honestly designed to carry out that pledge could and would have been passed, long before now, by both branches of the present Congress. But Mr. Truman and the union leaders have insisted that the only acceptable replacement for hr TaiHALY Act must be thie one-sided and discredited Wagne 1 Act of 1035, with a few puny “improvements.” a]

. Congress has refused to agree to that. The public ob-

“viously does not want that. Rather than that, in our opinion,

_ this country would see the Taft-Hartley Act live to observe

many mbre birthdays.

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I’ THE death of Thomas J. Blackwell Jr., Indianapolis has lost a comparatively young attorney whose career in civie and political affairs had begun to show promise of outstanding service to the community,

{ .ewing around Europe, are well aware of this situation.

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Although never prominent in Democratic Party leader-

ship, Mr, Blackwell on several occasions showed the kind of

integrity needed here in thetdevelopment of political parties -

for better performance in local government services. _ ph The community needs more young men of Mr. Black_well's stature to help build sound practices in politics and

Congress’ Tour Plans Stymied

Legislative Jam Delaying World Inspection Trips

WASHINGTON Aug. 23—-A feuding, rebellous Congress that has tied itself in session-end knots is delaying a flock of junkets that will

sprinkle U. 8. Senators and Representatives all

around the world, : Many Congressmen have their bags packed and passages reserved. The guessing had been that the session certainly would be adjourned by Labor Day. Now, though, there's talk of running the show right into Qctober or November. But unless a lot of plans are changed it

Since the United States took over the job of arming or financing a large chunk of the ‘world, there has been Increasing insistence In Congress that the men who appropriate the money should see how it is being spemt. It's a provincial Congressman who hasn't whipped across a few. oceans since the war years, + Many of these trips abroad are earnest efforts to help Congress to legislate more inteillgently, But there have been some trips mostly for fun and not much else,

Going to Germany ONE of the first fo! excursions wo get rolling will be that of a S€nate Armed Service Subcommittee scheduled for takeoff next week. Sens. Raymond win (R., Conn.), Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.), and Lester C. Hunt (D. Wyo.) will go to Germany for a final-phase study of the Malmedy trials. This inquiry re-

lates to charges of improper practices by U. 8. Germans i

sible for the mass shooting of American prisoners during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge. The committee has had a long study here; this is to wind it up, : : The next overseas trip scheduled was by a Benate Appropriations Subcommittee planning an Inspection trip through Europe to see how foreign aid funds are being spent. Passage has been booked for Sept. 21, but with Con rupning late nobody knows whether it will come off, The House Appropriations Committee {is trying quietly to drum up a.jaunt to Japan for at look-see at Gen. Douglas MacArthur's operation there. It's not sure yet it will come off.

Overseas Projects

VICE PRESIDENT ALBEN W. BARKLEY and Sen. Homer Ferguson (R. Mich.), will represent the United States at a meeting of the Interparliamentary Union in Stockholm Sept. 6 to 12. The House Judiciary Committee has an overseas project built .around an investigation of passport and visa frauds, A study of slum clearance and co-operative housing probably will haul some members of the House Banking and Currency Committee overseas. - A resolution authorizing the study is pending. There's talk of a House Ways and Means Bubcommitiee inquiry in Puerto Rico. There will be numerous other foreign forays if Congress winds up in time. And these listIngs here include only committee of subcommittee trips abroad—a lot of members individually are taking their wives and going off on foreign study tours- of their own. & But it's getting 80 late in summer, now, at many oth ongressmen who were goi abroad are giving it up, and one report Sapitol Hh joday had it that at least a dozen rs for trips the had planned. passage " y

LOVE'S TEST We thought we knew what love was all about That day we walked together down the aisle, But now we know that we had only guessed At. what those words “I love you” can

We know that life with happiness and care With sadness and with joy, down through Brings love, with which that first love, can't compare : : And makes us to each other seem more dear, ~—MARGIE YOUNG HILL, 3420 N. Riley Ave. *-.®

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

“BLOOMSBURG, Pa.—Married in Gilding Plane.” : They were happy and contented, Bride and bridegroom riding high, Far from worldly ways demented, As they glided through the sky.

As their married life they're starting On this high and lofty plane. Just a word we are imparting: Don’t come down to earth again!

SOUTH OF THE

which concealed his deep feeling: “The ‘forgotten man’?

he is today” He lives south of your border,

the Colossus of the North.”

This is a feeling that is growing with ever-increasing bitter. It i= one reason why the hostile propaganda of Soviet Russia, on the one hand,’ and Franco Spain, on the other, is finding a more and more

ness throughout Central and South America.

sympathetic reception.

Businessmen from this country trying to do business in | Latin America find it difficult or impossible to get approval from | the European Co-operdtion Administration for purchase of raw materials in the other AMiericas with ECA dollars. They report that this is true even though the price south of the border may

“privilege ‘to spit into the palms o _and make a wish. None of my wishes ever

~All Changed in 20. Years

BORDER : : 3 By Marquis Childs

Signs of Trouble

WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — Into a conversation at a Washington dinner party the other evening came that now timeworn It drew from a Latin-American diplomat the following comment, spoken with surface humor

Surely you do not have to ask who He is any citizen Of any. of the American republics long. since. forgotten by. the |... great power that wicked demagogs in my country sometimes call

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Sc

herrer

Story Behind Red Hair Craze

I CAN'T REMEMBER ever going to school with a red-haired girl. Indeed, I can’t even recall one who was blessed with what in my generation was called “auburn” hair. There were plenty of blonds and a plethora of brunets but, for some reason, 1 was denied the privilege of growing up with a red head when. I attended Public School 6. ee Which doesn't necessarily mean that the South "Bide was entirely devoid of red heads. To be sure “we had some, but they were mighty rare. As a matter of fact, the red heads in our midst ‘some 60 years ago never exceeded the number’ of white horses, a count so pitifully small for a town of our size as to render it practically negligible. I know whereof I speak because when I was a kid,

it was part of every boy's credo to believe that.

the sight of a white horse would be rewarded by the sight of a red-haired girl-—if not immediately, certainly within the course of the next half hour. J When everything went well and the redhaired girl actually turned up after the white horse had predicted her coming, it a boy's his hands

came true. Indeed, I had so little luck on those occasions that very early in my career I made

“upamy mind: that I wasn’t cut-out for mysticism;

Ray ’ at any rate, not when white horses and red-

haired girls were involved.

YOU HA took place in the course of the next 20 years--not only 'n Indianapols, but all over the country. By the time 1900 rolled around redhaired women were so plentiful that it had

everybody guessing where they all came from,

a problem made all the more complicated because of the fact that the number of white horses hadn't increased appreciably 1a that time. Only those who shared the secrets of Indianapolis knew that Grace Akass was the girl responsible for changing the color scheme of the American scene. Grace lived with her parents and her two sisters, Minnie and Lottie, in the 2200 block of N. Meridian St. All three girls were gifted. Minnie had a talent for art and Lottie played the organ. As tor Grace, she was equipped with a rich contraito voice and an extraordinary mop of red hair, a combination of gifts that didn't

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escape anybody, least of all Professor Alexander Ernestinoff who lived right across the street at the time. : Prof. Ernestinoff whipped the voice into shape and, In ro time at all, Grace had a

_ position with salary in a stylish Indianapolis

church choir, Occasionally, too, she sang solo parts in Maennerchor concerts. No tutelage was necessary to improve her hair. It was perfect the way it was.

‘Girl With Auburn Hair’ SOMETIME in the late Nineties, Grace went to Chicago where John J. Murdock billed her in a concert at Masonic Temple, an institution he was managing at the time. Mr, Murdock had come up in the entertainment world by way of a wagon show. Grace gave such a good account

- of herself on that occasion that her impresario

built a vaudeville act around her. He called it “The Girl With the Auburn Hair.” : : To get his customers worked up, Mr. Murdock wouldn't reveal the identity of his star. As a matter of fact, the first colored posters he sent out didu’t show anything but the back of her head. It looked for all the world like an Indian summer sunset. And, right away, it had everybody wondering what she looked like. They guessed every red head they could think of including Anna Held, Leslie Carter, Amy Leslie and even Princess Chimay, a questionable character in American vaudeville at the time—so . questionable, indeed, that even her hair was off The title . into believing that Mr, Murdock's anonymous’ star was a naughty French dancer. That's why

_...it surprised everybody when it turned out that | the ot aiprItos ah ‘ecclesiastical ‘scene with --|- ‘Lottie playing the organ and Grace singing

church songs including “The Heavenly Light” especially composed for the occasion.

Cultivated New Color

“THE VOGUE of “The Girl With the Auburn |

Hair” was so enormous that women all over the country spent all their spare time cultivating the color of their hair. Mr. Murdock, astute as tmpresarios come, played it for all it worth ‘and even advertised “Auburn Hair Matinees” limhted fo women whose hair matched that of Grace Akass. On those occasions the doorman stationed at theater entrances requested every woman to remove her hat to make sure no wigs t in illegitimately. oil Eventually Grace Akass married John J. Murdock. Thank goodness, some of my stories have a happy ending.

color... ER SE fi a am ¢1 a - of the act also fc ve - know and doesn’t believe that he carries the malignant germs of the police state around |

"316,000 gallons under the same period last year. And arriv Scofch whisky ran so far ahead of consumption during the first half of the year that some 220,000 cases of surplus Scotch went, into warehouses. emnee A . : Harry L. Lourie, executive vice president of the National Association of Alcoholic Beverage Importers, situation in large country with more and more persons being forced to quit buying such luxury items as Scotch whisky. :

Limiting Stocks

ANOTHER factor is the possible devaluation of the British

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ment not long ago to commemorate his Yes, he gave comfort and solace to Remember, “The only thing we have is’ fear itself.” * 9 9

‘House Clean the Court House' By a Taxpayer While my husband pald our taxes one day, my little daughter and I toured the court house. We kept as near the center gf the corridor as possible, lest we should contract crobe lurking In the dust. We expensive walls and at the if pigeons have reunjons, etc. They all be there. They looked aristocra

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What Is the Menace? By a Worker, ; After seeing the picture “The Red Menace” at one of the local theaters, I tried to figure out just what the menace was that the people of the city should fear. I hope someone will

be kind enough to explain-th the Forum. Not being able to ses a me to the city t The Times

by looking at the picture, I and through

the editorial page, I read

an article by Earl Richert, entitled “$72 Mil. lon Eggs.” This article said each person in the U.S.A. paid 50 cents for eggs t by our government to dispose of in order to keep up the:price of eggs, which my wife just paid T4cents a dozen for. He further says this amount will be peanuts to what we'll pay next year to take from our people eggs, potatoes, butter and essential foods they cannot buy,

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I AM sure that Mr, Truman is against the Stalinist state or brass-knuckle state; that Mr. Truman':is" against statism; ‘that “he ‘doesn’t

in his ideologies , . , But he is the “Typhoid Harry" of statism.Hugh Republican National Chairman. +>

* ¢ MY ce proves that the atom can

save life as well as destroy, Today we. stand

_on the threshold of a new era of scientifia | progress.—Advertising executive I. 8, Randall,

treated with radioactive lodine for a cancer condition, ®* 4% 9

WE are the only one of the 12 nations (in the Atlantic Pact) who has the atomic bomb. We are the only one capable of carrying out strategic bombing.—Gen. Omar Bradley, Army chief of staff, * ® ¢

* IT is time we realized that a government, like a family, will go broke if it continues to spend more money than it recelves.—Republican national committeeman Jouett Ross Todd.

LESS DRINKING ...By Earl Richert ..

Scotch Whisky Woes WASHINGTON, Aug. 23—Scotch whisky ‘consumption 1s slipping in the Unitéd States—adding to Britain's mountain of economic woes, , = And, as trade expérts see it, Britain's immediate Scotch problem Is not how to:sell us more Scotch in order to get more dollars, but how to keep us drinking as much as we have been. During the first half of this year, Scotch consumption turned downward for the first time since the end of the war, dORRng.. 80

blames the part on the economic downturn' in this

be considerably lower than that of the North American supplier Here, according to businessmen, is how the discrimination works Cash Crops to Sell

ONE of the small Central American repfiblics has perhaps two or three cash commodity crops to sell. ¥ The dollase the

couptry needs to import a minimum of manufactured goods de- |

pend on the sale of those two or three commodities But the middleman finds that in many instances he i¥ not even permitted to make a bid on a sale to Europe to be oi vet by ECA. - This is true, it is charged, even though the Central or South American price is considerably lower than the North American price, ’ In this way, Latin-American countries are being excluded from commodity markets. They find themselves as pinched for dollars and -as desperate for essential imports as European nations.” This makes for political instability in which appeals of extremists on the right and left have a special force. Administrator Paul Hoffman of ECA and his able deputy, William C. Foster, in charge in Mr. Hoffman's absence on a Their -orders are to make offshore purchases in every instance in which the price is lower than the U. 8, price. izing ECA, an exception to this rule is provided when a commodity shall declared by the Department of Agriculture to be in surplus, eo commodities—wool, wheat and soybeans among them are in surplus.

Congress On Its Neck BUT Mr. Hoffman and Mr. Foster cannot possibly supervise the actions of their subordinates. subordinates seem almost invariably to favor commodity suppliers in this country, often regardiess of the price differential. It ‘must always be remembered, of course, that ECA operates with the hot breath of Congress on its neck. A tremendous effort was required to knock out the McClellan amendment, which would have-compelleg/ECA to spend up to $1,600,000,000 for farm products in this country. . becial interest groups are continually on the alert to try to prevent U. 8. dollars from going to buy commodities abroad. Mr. Hoffman once pointed out 129 such groups, each determined

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to protect itself from any foreign competition, In every foreign aid bill the special interest groups try to jam as many safeguards as possible, so that foreign nations cannot earn necessary dollars even through such traditional services as shipping. This gets to the heart of the matter, If the United States insists on behaving as though it were still a debtos nation dependent on the production of raw materials, instead of the greatest dreditor and manufacturer the world has ever seen, then there will be little hope that the present lurching unbalance can be corrected, « The situation in Latin America, in the meantime, is serious. Not only economically but diplomatically, the United States seerfis ‘to be bent on bungling. In several countries, firm friends of Nofth America have been overthrown by military. dictators. There are some who take such a gloomy view that see in. Latin America “another China.” 4 7 ' This’ may be unnecessarily pessimistic. i But. the signs of casually ignored.

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pound. Many U, 8. wholesalers and retailers are limiting their stocks of Scotch in order fo avoid losses if Scotch prices should be reduced as a result of the pound’s devaluation. . Mr. Lourie says the way to hold the present Scotch market and even increase it is to cut prices. He thinks the British would have little trouble boosting Scotch sales here to about four milllon cases a year (it's now a little over three million) if ordinary Scotch could be sold generally at about $4.50 a bottle. In most places, this Scotch now sells from $5.50 to $5.70. . - ‘But where's the price cut coming from? 1 gg Mr. Lourie says he can't see how the British can lower their prices since they are seiling the ordinary Scotch at only $12 a case-—$1 a bottle, This is only a fraction above the pre-war price. And the British, if the pound is devalyated, almost certainly will take some action to - maintain this $12 a case price. They can do this either by Increasing the price in shillings or by quoting the Scotch to our importers in dollars -$12 a case. If the pound is devaluated from $4 to $3, as has been suggested,

| that would cut the per-case price of Scotch from $12 to $9 under

the present setup.

Tax Only Place to Cut : : © ONLY WAY to get the price down, as §ir. Lourie sees it, fs in the $9 per gallon tax thé U. 8. now levies on whisky-—$1.80 a bottle. A $3-a-galiyn reduction in this tax would effect a saving of 60 cents a bottle. And this 60 cents would mount up to a saving of about 75 cents at the retail level through elimination of wholesaler and retailer markups.

The wholesaler puts a 15 cent markup on the a which pe

always includes the tax. And the retailer puts on & r cert markup in most cases, ; : 3 Mr. Lourie pointed out that while the British get $12 a case for their ordinary Scotch, the U, 8. government collects in direct taxes $22.50 on the same case—over $2 a bottle. “Counting their shipping and insurance proceeds and the $12 a case price, thé British gel about $40 million a year from their

current Scotch -sales to uel” Mr. Lourie said, “This same three’. ¥

million casks of Scotch nets our. government more than $75 million in direct taxss alone. And that doesn't count the income

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