Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 September 1949 — Page 16

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“Fair Employment Plan’ That Will Work

THE various attempts to dictate by law that members of racial or other minority groups shall have an equal

chance at jobs have all failed, and in our opinion will

always fail to produce what they promise.

You can't repeal prejudice by statute. > You can, however, overcome it by patience, and cooperation, and common sense. That's what is being tried in Indiana right now, as described this week by Times Writer Donna Mikels. It appears to us to be likely to do more good than all the statutes we've seen proposed, federal, state and city.

. . . ~ - ~ INITIATIVE came from employer groups who had fought enactment of proposed laws because they believed, with sound reason, that laws wouldn't do the trick. They

have been joined immediately by most of the folks who.

wanted those same laws enacted. In that co-operation the first big obstacle to real fair employment practices in Indiana has been passed. Of course there are others. It will take a lot of understanding and good-will and tolerance to make this program succeed. It is vital to the welfare of everyone in town—and not just of the folks in the “minority” groups—that there

“be no racial bar to a man’s right to earn a living.

In Indiana an encouraging beginning has been made on a program that must succeed if we are to have a genuinely healthy community. We hope it continues to get the sincere support’ of employers, of unions, and of “minority” groups who can make it succeed by working together. oli .

‘Man to Man’ for Safety

FPONIGHT in Caleb Mills Hall at Shortridge High School the Indianapolis Auto Trades Association will help settle the question how teen-age sons and daughters should behave

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It'is an explosive question in most families when Junior asks his father if he can use the family car for the evening. The same goes for the daughters, too. Fathers know traffic hazards. They also love their. children. They cringe at the thought of risking both their children and their cars in the swift and untertain stream of today's cars. . These hazards are emphasized by official records showing that teen-age drivers have more accidents than any

other age group in automobile traffic. Most of the mishaps -

among teen-agers are the result of immature judgment and lack of knowledge of safety rules. ,

THE Auto Trades Association has found what seems

; to be an acceptable answer to this problem. It is offering, { at a mass meeting at Shortridge tonight, an opportunity « for fathers and sons to sign the “Man to Man" agreement, . or the “Dads and Daughters” contract on how the car . shall be operated.

‘The Auto Trades Association in conjunction with

PTAs and police court judges and the policé themselves

have produced a set of rules, to be carried in the car, and

to be signed with due ceremony by fathers and their teen-age offspring.

The rules are sensible. Nearly every adult knows them, but not every under-20 driver does. So the rules will be explained tonight before fathers and their sons angd

+ daughters set their names on the dotted lines. It will : do away with most of the dinner table quibbling over . driving rules, and the use of the family car.

It is an excellent idea. Nothing but improved driving

+, by the beginners can result.

' Put No Trust in Promises :

HE Soviet government's news agency, Tass, reports that Russia has had the atomic bomb for a couple of years and suggests that the way to arrest the world's fears is by outlawing the weapon. Whether Russia has accumulated a two-year stockpile of hombs—or has only recently acquired the know-how, as

indicated by President Truman last week—the United States

will not likely put any faith in a mere agreement not to use the bomb. Peace could not be guaranteed even if the nations of the world also outlawed blockbusters, long-range bombers, germ warfare, V-2 rockets, fifth columns, poison gas and all other weapons and instruments of aggression. For the same reason that the Kellogg-Briand pact outlawing war as an instrument of national policy did not deter Germany and, Japan in starting World War II. For the same reason that infernal laws forbidding murder, arson

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and larceny are effective only to the extent that law en- |

forcement officers have the power to detect and punish offenses,

THE U. 8. proposal, long since approved by a majority |

of United Nations members, might possibly work—if Russia |

withdrew. her veto and permitted its adoption. “That proposal would vest in an international agency all control of

, atomic energy, with power to inspect and\regulate atomic

activities in all countries and to mete out swift and decisive |

punishment to offenders. : But until Russia lowers her iron curtain to permit the working of whats President Truman calls “enforceable control,” we have no choice except to build our own military power, strengthen our Allies, and trust that Russia will be constrained to hold her fire by fear of the consequences, incidentally, wouldn't this be a good time to-have another look at those suggested war-mobilization standby

' laws? Remember? That plan of what to do when and -if

war comes-—s0 as not to repeat our mistakes of the last

i two wars, That plan worked out, long ago when the National

DECISIONS TO MAKE, . . By Marquis Childs

Need for New Look at U. S. Det

WASHINGTON, Sept. 27—At a conference of civilians in the Pentagoh, top military men gave details of Russia's military might. In planes _ahd tanks, both in numbers produced annually and in being, in the number of troops in divisions at full strength or nearly full strength. and in.almost every other category Soviet totals vastly exceed those of the United States and the North Atlantic nations combined When this graphic recital was ended, one of the civilians asked a question. He wanted to know why Russi tstripping this country. The mili%ary ad a simple answer for phat one, for a year after the war ended the fet Union continyed military production at the peak wartime level, turning out great reserves of planes, tanks and guns. Since then, at least 15 per cent of all Russian production has been for military purposes,

‘No Longer a Secret

WHEN the military men spoke, they knew what their civilian audience did not know that Russia conclusively and beyond any doubt had the atomic bomb. Now the Soviet government has stated flatly that ever since Molotov's announcement in November, 1947, that atomic fission was no longer a secrét, they have had the means to make the weapon. _ _ All this serves to {lluminate the dangerous fllusion that has dominated much of American thinking and therefore, to a certain degree, American policy. In the flash of that Russian explosion we should look honestly at our position. Irving Langmuir, distinguished American chemist who won the Nobel Prize in 1932, visited Moscow in 1945 for the 100th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Science. Not long after his- return he contributed an essay to “One World or None,” a volume on the significance of atomic fission. s

Atomic Race

MR, LANGUIER, director of research for General Electric, pointed out the advantages he believed the Russians would have in an atomic weapons race. What he said then has great relevance at this moment. He gave the followIng reasons: “ONE: They have a large population. It can be regimented and is willing to sacrifice living standards for a long-range defense program. “TWO: They have a remarkable system of Incentives, which is rapidly increasing the efficlency of their industrial production. “THREE: They have no unemployment. “FOUR: They have no strikes. “FIVE: They have a deep appreciation of pure and applied science, and have placed a high priority on it. “SIX: They have planned a far more extensive program in science than is contemplated by any other nation.” You may disagree with some of the terms in the above—for example the word “willing.” But for whatever reason, the Russian people are sacrificing their living standard to construct and maintain a military machine far greater in numbers and in arms than was Hitler's in 1039. To this has now been added the atomic weapon.

Dangerous Talk

IN VIEW of these facts, there can no longer be the slightest excuse for talking about winning a war with an atomic blitz aimed at strategic Russian centers. That dangerous talk has come in the recent past from supposedly responsible members of Congress. Nor is it enough to talk about “keeping ahead” in the race for bigger and more destructive atomic weapons. Two choices seem to me open to this country. Since the oVer-all approach for international control of all atomic energy will not

work, the time has come to try a limited ap- |

prbach to get agreement to restrict not merely Weapons of mass destruction, bit mass armies. In the Sunday statement by Tass, the Soviet governm e first time that “control

CLOTHESLINE PUPPETS

From line stretched taut against the sky A puppet dance now charms the eye, Just like white clouds against the blue Full billowed sleeves will wave at you.

White shirts are stuffed with air and sun “Fat children's stockings jump and run And giddy dresses swing in line Held back by clothespins clamped behind.

- Old grandpa’s union suit blows there Full filled with half a pound of air, No blue, Monday for this gay crowd, White sheets, full sail, and shirts so proud. ~—MARCELLINE SPENCER BRUCKER,

“ 3502 N. LaSalle St, ¢ 9 CONTENTMENT

Do we get out of life, my friend, The real and the worthwhile things; Can we say that we honestly strive For the peack that contentment brings®

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Do we really adjust ourselves To surroundings ¢ . . and try to be The person who really inspires And helps , . . all humanity? —Anna E. Young, 3547 N. DeQuincy. LA

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(Azusa, Cal.—Two Fined for Attempt to Carry Off Sidewalk.”) You may think it's only snide talk When we offer to defend oo Those two guys who stole a’ sidewalk— But stay with us to the end!

These chaps’ time is not spent kicking Or in stirring up dissent. To much finer things they're sticking — Better “ways” they would cement!

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will be essential in order to check up on fulfillment of a decision of the prohibition of production of the atomic weapon.” This is a significant concession. » The other ¢hoice is to begin to arm .on a realistic scale in every department and not just In, atomic weapons. To do this would mean major

"sacrifices by the American people. It could well

mean drastic changes in our way of life, Responsible military men have always known that the atomic bomb could not win a war,.and certainly not win a peace.

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"and preserving the Western democracies.

A limited agreement on mass wekpons anid mass armies would not mean an end to the American policy of containing Soviet aggression

As we are too apt to forget, the real weapon there is economic rather than military. But it ‘would mean an end to the dangerous delusion that we in America can enjoy the fruits of a boomtime peace and then, if and when the time comes, polish off Russia with a few atom bombs in a few high-flying bombers. . k . wide.

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

Old Conflict of Art on Circle

EVERY TIME I enter the Circle I'm gripped by a fear that the statue of Oliver P. Morton may be a rendezvous for ghosts. I'm that scared. 2 ’ My uneasiness of mind has its source in Miss India Underhill, the woman in the case. She was the gifted daughjer of Robert Underhill, a wealthy foundryman who had his home on the southeast corner of North and Pennsylvania Sts. In its day (circa 1870) it was one of the show places in Indianapolis. India Underhill was cut , out to be an artist and the first to sense it was her father. At any rate, it was he who made all the arrangements with Jacob Cox to take her onasapupll,” - ——— «Jacob Cox, in case you youngsters have to be told, was one of the pioneer painters areund here, and the first to put the business on a paying basis. He had the guts to advertise. As early as 1844, for instance, The Journal accepted 23 cents of his money to announce: “Jacob Cox, portrait painter; room on Washington 8t., opposite Post Office. where all are invited to call and examine his specimens of art.”

A Go-Getter THE RESULTS were phenomenal and demonstrated the fallacy of the Biblical injunction to hold one's light under a bushel (Matt. 5:15). Jacob Cox was a go-getter, you bet. A man of Jacob Cox's perspicacity was quick to discover that Miss Underhill had the makings of a sculptor rather than those of a painter, as her father had suspetted. Accordingly, she was persuaded to drop the brush and adopt the chisel, By the time 1880 rolled around she was a pretty good sculptor—good enough, ait any rate, td enter the nation-wide competition for the Oliver P. Morton statue on the Circle. For some reason, though (and to everybody's surprise), the judges didn't think “enough ‘of Miss Underhill's entry to. give it the prize. Franklin Simmons landed the commission. Mr. Simmons, a Yankee born in Maine, was a stulptor of considerable ‘reputation -at the time. Which is to say that he had completed an unbelievable number of statues, including just about everybody who had anything to do

with fighting the Civil War—sailors like F&rra—"

gut for Instance, and soldiers like Meade, Sheridan, 8herman and Grant. , A statue of the war governor of Indiana was right up his alley.

SIDE GLANCES

By Galbraith

WABHINGTON, Sept. 27

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«ful frame of mind. . , ,-Of the statue, he said:

ANTI-MONOPOLY TRENDS . . . By E. T. Leech

‘Bigness Doesn’t Always Mean Badness’

government should know this, even if a lot of citizens It constantly has to combat

because dt is big, In the eyes of many people America's size has

After two victorious wars we did nat try to seize the land

The selection of Mr. Simmons created no end of talk and criticism. Mr. Cox, for one, was terribly upset. For one thing, he couldn't get it through his head why Miss Underhill with the best model in the competition should have been euchred out of the job. And to support his contention, Mr. Cox repeatedly pointed out that his pupil had caught the Leonine character of Mr, Morton's head, a detail Mr, Simmons had muffed altogether.

Judges Stuck to Guns

IT DIDN'T do any good. The judges stuck by their guns with the result that Mr. Simmons got the job, notwithstanding the fact that India Underhill had all the self-appointed art critics | on her side. The unveiling of Gov. Morton's statue took place on Tuesday, June 135, 1884. Exgovernor Conrad Baker (Evans —Woollen's grandfather) presided and Sen. Benjamin Harrison and Col. Dudley also had speeches up their sleeves. Prof. John Clark Ridpath came al' the way from Greencastle to read an original piece of poetry at the end of which everybody agreed that a historian should mind his own business and not tackle verse. As for the hol pollai, they stood on their tiptoes to see what the unveiling would disclose. ~ Soon as they saw what Mr. Simmons had delivered, the old quarrel broke loose again, The fight lasted all week -as a matter of fact, until the following Saturday when the weelly edition of The Herald appeared with a story the like of which had never been heard in In-

‘Spiritual Seance’ ...

“IT IS said,” reported The Herald, “that Gov. Morton materialized and appeared at a spiritual seance in this city one evening since the unveiling ceremonies took place in his honor. He spoke freely of the.event and was in a cheer-

‘It is a good likeness and the sculptor has done all he could to throw around it the august spirit of the war-like times in which I'flived , .”. Then bowing and turning as if to go, Mr. Morton's ghost said: - ‘The only-incident connected with the unveiling ceremonies of which I disapproved was Prof. Ridpath's poem. I wish it had been omitted.” . Chances are that any dark night now, the spifits will gather round Mr. ‘Morton's statue and. render an ex-cathedra opfhion regarding

| going to do it.

™ do not agree with a word that you say, but | will ‘defend to the death your right fo say i.

‘Mendce of Socialism’ By Edward F. Maddox, City.

Mr. Sprunger objects bitterly to. having the truth told about socialism. He rants against somebody who “'slanders socialism” by charging that the method of forcing the Marxist system on we free American citizens is to tax and spend us into Socialist slavery, Well, I am the fellow «who-‘said that in the Hoosier Forum, so Mr, Sprunger was complaining because as an Ameri. can citizen I have for lo, these many years been trying my best to expose the menace of socialism, The Socialists have Karl Marx as their founding father, the same as the Communists and here is a quotation from Marx: “You reproach us with intending to do away with your property. Precisely so. That is just what we intend.” The Communists admit this as their objective but the Socialists seek to hide thelr intention by confiscating private property by taxation, The Socialists and Communists have been slandering, excoriating, maligning, attacking, sabotaging, sneering at and threatening our American system for over 50 years. Notice how violently they object when an American citizen attacks and attempts to expose the alien Socialist system which they intend to force on us. "All honor to Mr. E. T. Leech for laying some plain truth about the devil's brew of socialism on the line for American citizens to read

Sprunger calls it slander to say that the Socialists intend to tax our people into socialism, If this is slander, he ought to be able to take some of his own medicine,

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‘Actors’ Deaths Mourned’ By Daniel Friedman

Two well-known actors of the film world passed away in the same week—Frank Morgan and Richard Dix. Both were beloved by the crowds of movie fans who went to see them. : Death leaves no choice. Whenever we get a summons we humbly go. But more or less we are more impressed when people of fame who made themselves a name in a certain artistic field pass away. More people’ know of them and have admired them for their poise and personal charm as well as their talent.

Life goes on as usual. Their earthly existence has ceased. But in spirit they will be remembered with respect and admiration in our hearts and minds, They performed their life's wouk faithfully and those who appreciated their roles in life will remember them.

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‘Can’t Serve Two Masters’ By E. Reiss.

I am opposed to any judge of a court of law serving on the board of directors of a corporation or engaging in any side business except to dispense justice with good judgment, honestly, and the law and evidence of the case. If this is treason, make the most of it. No man can serve well as a judge and businessman at the same time. Law is a jealous mistress, and a judge who itches to dabble in business. owes it to himself, the bar and the people to resign from the bench.

I am in favor-of passing a law requiring that a judge resign from law partnerships and refrain from serving in any capacity for profit or otherwise in any commereial corporation, firm or assoctation.

A man, according to the Scriptures, cannot serve two masters, ‘

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‘Old Pledge Recalled’

By J. W, Holmes Surely we are very short In our memory

when we seem to be at a loss to the reason of the impasse in the steel situation.

Mr. Truman as President could not come taken the oath to support the Constitution. However, it would seem that his first loyalty

was to a promise that he would not abide by a law which he was set against.

What Others Say |

COMMUNISM'S basic structure is trembling,

|: tomorrow it “will shake, and the day after to-

morrow it will -collapse.—Chancéllor Leopold Figl of Austria. ‘

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- WE won the national election“last November without New York, without the industrial East and without the Solid South. I am prouder of - that than anything that has ever happened to me.—President Truman.

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IT WAS a terrible fight, ‘particularly after it got dark. But I 'made up my mind I was The water got desperately cold, but ., I just kept on stroking. Eighteen-year-old Philip Mickman, youngest swimmer of the English Channel.

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I WISH there could Be a bugler there to sound the final call for us, but none of the

the architectural merits of the projected Penney building on the Circle.

the belief that it is bad just

remaining. boys is a bugler.—Theodors A. Pent land, '100-yedr-old commander of the Grand Army of the Republic.

Clearly, it isn't & monopoly, for it sells only around. six per cont of the nation's food. It has formidable "hain and independent. Food retailing, in fact, is perhaps most competitive of atl U, 8. Tay pe Be America, as a nation, is plaint made against A. & P. competition. Britain, in particular, and other countries to lesser

competitors, both

up against the same sort of eome We are too tough and too big in our

Hoosier Forum

Yet, in the face of the present facts, Mr,

into possession of his high office until he had -

or property of any people, or try to oppress them. "On the contrary, since World War 1 this country has spent nearly a hundred billion dollars trying to help other nations. Yet, because of its size and wealth, there is widespread belief that America’s intentions are bad. The Commies, in particular, try to spread and use this suspicion, The American government seeks to counteract this But in domestic affairs it follows the It has become politically That is, anything except political fire,

The anti-trust suit, against A. & P. stores is a case in point. It is a vital case, because it may determine American economic policy for all business. It seems to be based on bigness rather than actual monopsly; on too low prices rather than too high;

on too stiff competition rather than any action to stifie competition. '

feeling. same line of thought. } popular to attack anything big. a labor union. Bigness is under constant

Must Show Evils

THUS far it has revealed none of the normal dspects of an anti-monopoly suit, It will be up to the government to show something about the evils of monopely and restraint of competi tion —npt just too vigprous competition unless the whole intent of the Anti-Trust Acts is to be changed, ;

The A. & P: has charged, and the facts seem to indicate,

degrees, want rélief from U. 8. competition. Our prices are too low, pur producing and selling methods too eMeient. Many of our products are of better quality, more attractively designed and packaged, more vigorously peddled and promoted, and sold at lower prices. This is one of the chief causes of the so-called pdollar crisis* and the appeals for help in meeting it, .

Drive and Efficiency ‘

THIS toughness of competition isn't due to our government, caused by the drive and eficiency of private U. 8. business, However, the efficiency and competition of U, 8. industry has been promoted for nearly 60 years by various laws against restraints of trade. These laws are aimed both against monopoly and against deals among different companies to fix production 54 prices. Their basic purpose is to protect and promote comon. . . Z ” Fierce competition among American firms made Low prices, mass production and selling, made some markets, J Such- firms. grew big by giving value. potentially,

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them strong, research and prometion U. 8. firms powerful both in the home and the world

Being big, they are dangerous. They must be watched lest they use their

‘bigness in a bad way. We have laws and means to do this. But + Unless and until they use bigness for such

evil ends as crushing competition, ‘and forcing up prices, ‘there

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