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Indianapolis, with one of the worst records in the nation for discriminatory hiring, also has one of the best’ examples of voluntary fair employment hiring. At RCA-Victor, workers such as (left to right) Mrs. Nanny Ford, Miss Katharyn Robertson and Mrs. Faye Harlan work side by side, judged on individual merit rather than artificial standards. ;

rei shop at Crispus Attucks is good as far as: goes; but-it's been judged under-equipped.som-pared to other city high schools. In the past, boys like Hunter Brown, Henry Goens, James Franklin had to be content with what they could learn here. Now they may learn trade skills at any pub-

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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1949

Fair Employment Bill Opponents

Groups Now Agree on Policy Calling for Co-operation

First of a Series

“ By DONNA MIKELS each of the last four legislatures a bill seeking equal job opportunities for all, regardless of race, creed or color, has been put before Hoosier lawmakers. Each time the issue has been surrounded by controversy, with the group of minority leaders backing a “Fair Employment bill” with enforcement powers in bitter conflict with the opposing lobby, headed by the Indiana State

Chamber of Commerce.

Each time the opposing group was victorious

the fair employ-

ment bill with teeth was four times defeated. Last week these opponents in legislation became allies over a

conference table. Out of this conference grew what they hope will

be the answer to one of the major problems in Indiana to-day--a co-ordinating comrhittee to work out plans for voluntary “fair employment” in industries and business places in Indianapolis and over the state. The meeting came about when backers of the fair employment bill reminded their opponents, the state Chamber of Commerce, of an argument they used frequently in defeating FEPC bills. » » & ’ THE CHAMBER'S opposition to a fair employment bill has always been to the method, rather than the motive. Their argument was that “the problem of discrimination in employment cannot be solved by law.” Co-operation, they contended, was the only answer,

Belgian Priest Credited With New Explanation

MEN great and men small have stood since

| the beginning of time in the

darkness of night and looked to the starry

heavens.

And as they stood, feeling insignificant in the vastness of space, they have speculated on

| the origin of: their spinning

world and the pinpoints of light

gleaming above them. Most eventually shrugged It was not

fp?" them to fathom. A few éep thinkers and they puzzled the why of existence. The Bible reads: “In the beginning Ged ecre-

! ated the heaven and the earth. { And the earth was

without form, and void; and darkness was‘ upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit. of God moved - upon the face of the waters.” MM ” . ASTRONOMERS. DO not deny the hand of a Deity In the

It was this “dajuntary cooperation method that was discussed when members\ of the Chamber met with their legis. lative lobbying opponents, state and city representatives of minority groups such as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Jewish Community Relations Council, the Federation of Asseciated clubs and other allied groups.

There were other interested persons present. State Labor Commissioner Thomas Hutson, who directs Indiana's ‘Fair Employment Commission and representatives of factories which already have veluntarily instituted non-discriminatory job and advancement policies, Under the plan evolved in this conference, a committee will be

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appointed by Labor Commis sioner Hutson representing employers, the Chamber of Commerce, labor organizations, minority groups and the Department of Labor. Its aim is not to force any employment policy but rather to seek through education the

é¢limination of practices which keep minority groups off the payrolls and often on the relief rolls. The voluntary plan is not a new idea. It was instituted and is being carried on with some degree of success in Cleveland, 0. There, too, the Chamber of

Commerce helped organize the voluntary plan to defeat proposed legislation. .

» » WHILE THEY still do not agree entirely on what the de-

creation of the universe. They readily admit there are points beyond which they dare not speculate. And most scientific explanations can. be reconciled with Biblical interpretation,

Down through history have come a number of theories. Today one is most popularly accepted. The others have been discredited by scientists ‘always seeking ‘perfection. According to Frank Edmondson, Indiana University as-: tronomy department chairman, a Belgian Catholic priest, has evolved the most logical explanation to date. His is an awe inspiring interpretation in which the universe was exploded in oné cataclysmic atomic action. Within seconds, the earth and its solar system and all solar systems were born. . = * ORIGINALLY THERE is believed to have existed but one super-complex atom composed of all the atomic particles which exist. today. It. ..means . that _. everything in the universe was collected in a great mass, unfathomable in size, in shape, in density.

But it was far to complex, and for reasons unknown became unstable, There was nothing to- contain it. Within seconds of the initial explosion it hurled with supernatural celestial thunder and fireworks into illimitable space every particle of our universe. The date—three billion years ago. Since then everything has been spinning, whirling in vastness, moving farther and farther from the source of the first atomic explosion. Even now, it is believed, the universe is expanding with new worlds congealing on the fringes. » ~ . RELATIVELY RECENT discoveries by Dr. V. M. Slipher, an Indiana University graduate, tends to substantiate LeMaitre. About 1912 Dr. Slipher noted a color change in stars farthest in space. In the spectrum of light, they were changing to a

reddish pindicated they were moving ay from the earth at incredible speed.”

Calculations now have determined that those distant obJects, a million light years away,

Earth Born By Atomic Action, Says Scientist

are hurtling through space at 100 miles per second. The speed which other heavenly bodies are moving decreases in proportion to their proximity to earth. Putting this observation in reverse, astronomers theoretically have brought the universe together in one great mass. They estimate it would take three billion years for everything in space to return to a given point. ta In this heavenly welter were all the parts which wers to form the earth we live upon today. It took time, however, for 4 semblance of order to come out of the atomic confusion. » . r SO FAR, geological data has not given an accurate birthdate for the world. Astronomers estimate, however, that the spinning globe congealed roughly its present form at least two billion years ago. When life appeared is a factor

while a voluntary tion, it will be infinitely more successful

Hoosier Traveler Tells How To Make Our Fair City Even Fairer

‘This Oversized Village’ Needs New Way of Life, Says Observant Resident

MARY E. STUDEBAKER, 1832 Central Ave. is a| . native Hoosier who traveled about the nation before return-!

ing here “18 years ago to make her home. She is

Indiana University graduate, a librarian, a legal secretary,

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{Studebaker wrote. | These are her thoughts in brief:

. Transportation — “This is our an

line converging on the down[town district. We will have to

Recently she wrote The Times a long letter. She looked institute crosstown lines and sev-|

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|eral more north-south routes. All|

basis.”

Parks — “Indianapolis’

trip to a park is an all-day affair.” . » ” ‘Monument Cirele—'"‘This could

park setbacks.

{to 157§tories with garden terraced ernment offices in a suitable build-/of the walk.” Also, the Monument ing possibly 20 stories high.” system just ‘growed’. How much sidewalk could be reduced five | better is the European system of feet. In this small space.could be| Civile Auditorlum—"“An up-and- drastic is needed. Shabby in ap-|. most obvious flaw. Regard the little parks adjacent to every planted shrubs and decorative COMIng metropolis would plan for pearance, it is lined east and crazy pattern of every street car neighborhood in the city. Now a trees.”

. . Washington St. — “Something

{an’ auditorium’ adequate for its west for blocks with insignificant

PR own needs and for conventions in- one and two-story buildings.” Parking Problem—"“We have a duced to meet here.”

rustic perspective, Abandon curb parking on all ma

Streets. and Curbs—"Curbs are main thorough- iy, en and crumbling everywhere POUrs out to fight the crowds at

» " . Buiiness Hours — “Everybody

honest mother does upon her history, romance and tragedy. trolieys and bus lines must be D® a source of pride. No ordinary|fares, make all side streets one in the city. And the strangely noon and again at 5 p. m. Offices

HP owever, I have given thought to removed fromthe four diagonal commercial build: should be , tak downtown -| could hours, 8 % child—lovingly yet critically. | he ngs. The removed Irom. the Tour wn: loop uilding way e trolleys and busses off narrow down streets com stagger to 4.9 to

“We have a city that is full of (bs at hand for & new way of

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lifeiline servicing the heart of the

permitted to rise on the site ofall narrow downtown streets.”

the English Hotel. Nowszis the Municipal and County Building walks are relics of our

{bined with the wide, wide side-|5 and 10 to 6. The: village, problem

would be eased, the res-

taurant situation improved. I would add to the list of downtown department stores closing on Sate urday.

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