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HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

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this page yesterday we published a letter from Ben Cohen, chairman of the Communist Party of Marion County, the effort of Indiana employers and workers to join hands in a common effort to wipe out discrimination against minority groups—principally Negroes— in getting jobs. = .. We call attention to it because it reveals more clearly than anything we've seen what is back of the persistent attempts to get Indiana to pass compulsory so-called “fair employment” laws, some of them tricky and dishonest measures in which “fair employment” is only incidental to their real purpose. ~ Of course the Communists oppose‘any effort of any employer tq make life better for any worker. Unless they can convince workers that any man who provides a job for another man is a public enemy there could be no Communist Party. Voluntary co-operation of any kind by workers and employers to solve their common problems is fatal to communism. Without a single exception you'll find them clamoring for laws to produce hatred and confusion and strife. That's what they live on.

» . MR. COHEN'S high-flown liné about the Communist desire to “protect the rights of minorities” is just the usual Communist double-talk. Under communism there are no minorities. Wherever Communists have come to power all minorities have been crushed, their members “liquidated” —a Communist word usually meaning “murdered.” Indiana workers, and voters, have seen through this red smoke-screen, and haven't been much impressed by the Marx-Lenin-Stalin hokum. Last time the Communists ran a ticket at a state election more than 400,000 Hoosiers voted, but only about 800 of them voted for any Communist candidate. Here in Indiana most people would rather get together and solve a problem like fair employment in the only way it can be solved—by voluntary, friendly, neighborly 1 the voluntary fair employment program now going forward in this state needed any indorsement it couldn't have & better one than the opposition of Indiana's misguided

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THE great steel industry, except for a few relatively minor 1 is closed by a strike, It seems a deplorably unnecessary siike. Tho issue boiled down to disagreement over what ¢ A better employers should or should not pay the whole cost of retirement pensions for steel workers. U. 8. Steel, biggest factor in the industry, had offered to contribute toward an insurance and pension system the full amount recommended by President Truman's factboard, but had insisted that the workers also make a small’ contribution. . Many other companies doubtless would have settled on that basis, But Union President Philip Murray scorned the offer, saying—foolishly, we think—that the U. 8. Steel had proposed a cut. of Ry. the effect of workers’ contributions would have been only to cause them to save a little from their wages each week to increase the benefits in future illness or retirement.

: x . . . AS IT'S, the workers will get no wages as long as the strike continues. And no one now can say how long that be. : joule the fact is that, regardless of what Mr. Murray or the steel companies might have done, this industry might have been closed down anyway in a comparatively short time. "Closed down by John L. Lewis and his bituminous coal strike. For, without coal, steel cannot be made. What Mr. Lewis expects or hopes to gain strike is beyond our understanding. : If he extorts bigger per-ton payments for his union’s welfare and pension fund he will force coal prices higher, shrink coal markets further, destroy jobs for miners and cut down the source of revenue for miners’ pensions. Anyway, while the coal strike continues the steel industry has little incentive to settle the steel strike. And it possible, if not probable, that the coal industry has decided to fight for its own life in a great show-down battle with Mr. Lewis.

MEANWHILE, we have another defnonstration that two men—~John L. Lewis and Philip Murray—have power to close down the country’s two most essential industries, no matter how badly they hurt the country. We have, indeed, a demonstration that Mr. Lewis, all by himself, has the to close them both. In St. Paul, Minn., AFL President William Green, once friend and ally of Messrs. Lewis and Murray but now their rival, made & speech. reen said that organized labor must mobilize all {ts political strength to defeat Sen. Taft and every other supporter of the Taft-Hartley Act, and to wipe that law off the statute books. Poor old Mr. Green. Can’t he understand that, so long as union leaders have such dangerous power as Messrs. Lewis and Murray are wielding, the public will and must demand protection against abuse of that power through enforcement of a law at least as strong as the Taft-Hartley Act? :

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“Cripps Plays a Wild One

IF you don’t play Canasta, disregard this. Canasta being the latest Rummy game, originating down Argentine way, and having swept this country, regardless of card competition and tariff barriers. If you do play it, here's the point. .. Sir Stafford Cripps has tossed a wild-card on the pile. Which means the freeze. Freeze, that is, until as the rule book says the pile can be taken up only by the player who ut down two natural cards of the same rank as the top 8 pile, as the saying goes, is of the essence. ~~ have a hunch that Sir Stafford is familiar with that he’s hoping for the turn of a third

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PRICES . . . By Earl Rickert Cost of Farm

Plan May Rise Increased Taxes for Branpan System Argued WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—Our government last year tied up 84 cents of every $1 you paid in federal taxes to hold up farm prices. Our British brethren, on the other hand, paid the equivalent of 11 cents of every $1 In taxes to have food prices kept low at the

grocery. But we may not let the British keep their supremacy in this subsidy field for long. Sir Stafford Cripps, Chancellor of the Exchequer; has called a halt—saying the British government cannot afford to pay subsidies to consumers—11 per cent of total British tax collections of four billion pounds. No one in our administration has made any such statement, In fact, the administration is pushing just as hard as ever for the Brannan plan which with the use of Treasury money would keep farm prices high and give consumers low prices.

No Estimaie Made

AGRICULTURE BECRETARY CHARLES BRANNAN has never estimated the cost of his program, saying only that he didn’t think fit would cost more than what we're now spending. The price support ante on 1948 crops was $3.4 billion—814 per cent of tax revenues of $40 billion. Republicans, however, contend the Brannan plan would cost much more than the current program, Sen? Robert A. Taft (R. 0.) estimates $6 billion a year; Rep. Clifford Hope (R. Kas.), $6 to $10 billion, * Any farm-consumer subsidy program of this size would outstrip the British. A $8 billion-a-year outlay for the Brannan plan would equal 15 per cent of tax receipts of $40 billion. A $10 billion-a-year outlay would take 25 per cent of U, 8. tax revenues, if they remain at present levels. Without the Brannan plan, however, it doesn’t seem likely that U. 8. price support outlays will go much above their current rate because of acreage cutbacks being imposed on the major crops next year, : Mr. Brannan, too, already has cut price floors from 90 to 60 per cent of parity on this year's potato crop and has announced the same reduction tor the 1950 flaxseed crop.

Total Loss

THE one big difference in the fiscal aspect of the British and U, 8, programs is that the British food subsidies represent a total loss— the government gets-nothing back. Our government, however, acquires huge stocks of surplus farm commodities, which it sells or gives away under various programs, and Lit sometimes takes vears to determine actual losses. Pre-war surplus stock were disposed of at a profit during wartime. Of the $3.4 billion committed to support farm prices last year, actual losses ran to $600 million, Of this, $429 million was charged to the $500 million special fund voted by Congress for the post-war readjustment period. This fund is now wiped out.

Authority to Borrow

THE Commodity Credit Corp., the price support agency, has authority under law to borrow up to $4% billion from the Treasury to support farm prices. The department now has about $2.8 billion tied up in inventory and price support loans and some officials say that the entire $4% billion will be committed within the next year. CCC officials say they aren't worried about this happening. But Rep. Jesse Wolcott (R, Mich.) has introduced a bill to give CCC additional borrowing power of $1 billion, raising the limit to $5% billion. Rep. Wolcott said an analysis of the latest CCC finaneial statement convinced him -that the agency soon will be scraping the bottom ot financial barrel, possibly before year's end.

PARADE OF LEAVES

I stood upon a hill, and mused at the thrill, At the beauty and pomp of it all. Down under my feet and on yonder hill Was Brown County dressed up in the fall,

The sky was so clear, I could almost hear The leaves boasting one to another, But after a while it seemed to appear One was as gorgeous as the other.

The crow flying high, dipped down from the sky And joined in the parade of the leaves, While I stood there with a stare in my eyes And marveled at the beauty of trees,

—HANSEL T. JOHNSON, 825 N. Gladstone. ®* ¢

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“New York--Zoot-Suited Youth Robs Subway Agent.”)

Said the sharply dressed z200t-suiter (As he coined more than a phrase), | “You would look a whole lot cuter,

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“And let's keep our business local, “Just express no untoward sound, “For the moment you get vocal, “You'll be headed underground!”

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‘Sheath’ Gown Sensation in 1908

I DOUBT WHETHER adequate analysis has yet been made of the apparent fact that Indianapolis women constantly strive to attain the slender dimensions of a needle, than which there is nothing narrower this side of the spirit world.

The reason women no longer have depth or thickness of body may be attributed to two frctors— namely, dress and/or dieting. The less said about the latter as a means to an end, the better for everybody concernéd. Which, of course, leaves me to discuss what women have achieved by way of dressing their bodies to make them approximate the shape of needles, The first intimation I had that women were determined to suppress the dimension of depth came by way of a dress called the “Directoire” which, appropriately enough, was also called the Ysheath” gown (a word which, if traced to its Anglo-8axon root, means “shade”; thence, by exiension, a thin covesing for defense). It made its appearance in Indianapolis in 1008, almost immediately after it had created a sensation in Paris. The date is firmly fixed in my mind because that was the year Frederick Charles Merkle executed his classic’ bonehead play at second base in the New York-Chicago baseball game which was supposed to settie the pennant aspirations of the two teams. Will I ever forget that historic year? Snug Fit AS NEARLY as I recall, the Directoire gown was a garment, the fit of which was so spug that it necessitated slitting the left side of the skirt to enable the wearer to walk. The slit extended about four inches above the top of the high shoes women wore at the time thus revealing Just about the same expanse of stocking— provided, of course, that the spectator was lucky enough to station his stance to take it all in. It wasn't worth the designer's effort. The historical implications of the sheath gown were something else, however. For one thing, it rang the knell of the rustling petticoat which, up until that time, was the source of the musical sound known as ‘“frou-frou.” Moreover, the Directoire gown suppressed a woman's hips which came as something of a shock, for up until then most of us males had just made up our minds that amplitude of hips was a desirable thing ih women. The suppression of the frou-frou and the contraction of the hips have been preserved for posterity in the shape of two revealing poems. Concerning the petticoat, the poet proclaimed: “Katie Keith, she wears a sheath With very little underneath.” As for the hips, the poet lamented: “We don’t wish to insinuate That they were not real before; But where, oh where, are the hips that we Don’t notice anymore?” The Directoire gown turned up first in Indianapolis in the women’s suit department. of the old New York Store then in charge of Edward

+ Lambeth, Fully aware of the opportunity which

is supposed to knock but once on a man’s door, Mr, Lambeth advertised the arrival of the reve olutionary dress in all the newspapers. Then with the proverbial prescience of department store executives, he set up a time table to accomodate the anticipated crowds. If I remember correctly, the Directoire gown was on view in Mr. Lambeth’'s department from 9:30 until 11 in the morning, after which it was

Showing the Way

brought down from upstairs and draped over a real-for-sure human model who was picked not only for her pulchritude but also for her ability to wear clothes which isn't necsssarily a corollary, For the next 15 minutes the dressed-up woman was put on display in the New York Store show window. The sidewalk crowd was so dense the first day that it spilled over the curb into Washington St., and for a ‘while it looked as if the show window might cave in. Indeed, it almost precipitated a panic for, right in the midst of the excitement, some bewildered male in the front row yelled: “It's all off,” an inflammatory remark that moved the mob to surge forward, It turned out, of course, to be nothing more than an exaggerated rumor. The emotional boob merely wanted to say that the show was over for that day. Immediately after that historical remark, however, an Irvington woman red with righteous indignation went to the police station and complained about the goings-on at the New York Store. She said the exhibitfon had insulted her sex and, to give point to her indignation, she volunteered to swear out a warrant for the arrest of the woman wearing the Directoire gown. I can’t recall (such is the fraiky of age) whether or not the enraged woman carried out her threat. It appears, however, that she got the police interested. Anyway, the very next morning there was a little sign in the New York Store show window informing thé public that the dressed-up Directoire woman wouldn't appear in the show window anymore. And human nature being what it is, that of course drove everybody up to Mr, Lambeth's department. Legend has it that Mr. Lambeth had 3000 women milling through hig department when the store opened the next morning. And what is even more to the point, just as many men. téo. Inaeed, there were so many men intent on seeing the Directoire gown that morning that Mr, Lambeth had to revise his time table; with the result that thereafter he limited the men to one hour a day. For some reason, he picked the first hour of the morning—the very hour most Indianapolis men spent getting shaved. It worked all right for. the New York Store, but it spelled disaster for the barber shops of Indianapolis.

‘The "sheath gown of 1908

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"War Comes High’ . By Clarence Love, Ind The main reason for the devaluation of British pound and the resultant devaluation of other currency is war. This remedy is just & sedative. The day of reckoning is coming. War comes high. i

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DR billion to members of the sterling I bloe. She owed us huge sums, that anyone with the slightest idea of finance knows she can never repay. With much of her merchant marine sunk, with an increased population, her place as the manufacturing center gone forever, her fron ore nearly exhausted and her coal deep down, it is hardly necessary to blame the labor ~ government or any other government for her plight. Such is the price of war and its glories —and fool advice from friends. Her remedy is to find natural markets for her manufactured goods and a place to export her surplus population. Any attempt to maintain the status quo by American gifts is futile and only prolongs the agony. Above all, she and all peoples should forget about this wonderful new world. The war was to create {t—it is all

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‘Why Not Ban War’ By Nevin Taylor I can’t think of a single good reason why the A-bomb should be outlawed. If it is possible to prohibit such a terrible weapon, then it must be just as possible to ban war itself. War is not a game to be played according to any set of rules. War is hell. It is a fight to be won. It is at least one time when the end justifies the. means.

use it we deserve to be bombed. Russia keeps only the promises that benefit her. That has been proved time and again. 80 why should we be foolish enough to enter-into an atomie agreement with her? What about women and children who will die if the bomb 1s used? If we fight another war without it, by the time it is over they'll have starved to death anyway. So what have they got to lose? ; Instead of another war, I suggest a nice, peaceful game of Russian roulette between the top “brass” of all nations. The winner could be awarded a hole in the Head 2s first prize. ® 9°

‘Decisions Must Be Made’ By Charles Dugan

With the news of the exploding of an atom bomb by the Russians the question that is in all our minds is: Where do we go from here? The answer to this most difficult—of questions is, I believe: we go to Russid. By this I mean that with the tremendous power we have in our hands—our own stockpile of atom bombs—we hold the answer. Some time within the next five years we will have to bring this whole business to a head, and the sooner the better. We must force the abdication of the present evil regime even if it means the risk of war. This will be a calculated risk. - To wait until the Soviet is as powerful as we in atomic weaports. would be the most dan~ gerous thing we ever could do. We have two to five years, but ho more. The masters of the Kremlin realize this fact and are working like mad to make up this lost time. We must see to it that they never do. * © ¢

‘Bigots Cannot Understand’ By ‘Pat Hogan, Columbus Ind. Recently a Forum writer complained about socialism being ‘“‘slandered” by other writers who exposed it for what it is, a cousin to come munism, ‘ » Now comes Mr. Maddox with more brutal truth about this curse which enjoys freedom and protection under the Stars and Stripes while it employs every method possible to tear it down. No, Mr.- Maddox, you are wasting your times You cannot insult, aiander or libel a rotten egg, and the deaf, dumb, blind bigots who advocate the curse of socialism cannot understand, even when our cousins across the pond have come to grief after their cataleptic nightmare, have been subsidized by Uncle, Sam. ; They come back for more. The most pitiable thing on- earth is the sucker who is hooked, knows he is hooked and begs for a bigger hook. <

* ‘Saddled With Debt’ By Blasius Blazer When the dust of devaluation has cleared away, our taxpayers will find that they have been saddled with more foreign commitments. The British burned our capitol in 1812 and are now burning up our capital. It is hoped that they did not have any American collaborators in 1812.

What Others Say

REACTIONS deterrent to the constructive progress of the industry.—John L. Lewis’ definition of the word “strike.” © ¢ IT does not make any difference whether a plane rises from the water, land or from a catapult. The important thing is what it is designed to do after it becomes airborne.—Plane Designer Alexander Seversky. ®

® ¢ IN this difficult and troubled time, the American people seek the leadership and vision that only militant liberalism can provide.—Herbert Lehman, accepting Liberal Party nomination as senatorial candidate.

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PUBLIC HEALTH CARE . . . By Charles Lucey

Find Britain's Medical System ‘Not for U. S.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—Great Britain's system is “not for the United States.” : That is the gist of a report brought back here by a commit- |

The Congressmen found more favor for Sweden’s medical care system than any other, but some said even that would not be

One estimate was that of more than a dozen members of the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee who made the European swing, not more than two or three would favor a tightly run system of government medicine. : Rep. Andrew Blemiller (D. Wis.), a co-author of the Truman administration’s compulsory prepaid medical care plan, termed the British plan “out-and-out socialization of medicine, including the hospitals,” and said he did not think “it would fit into the

But he sald he found no evidence that a medical insurance | system means deterioration of medical care. Some doctors, he said, told him they could practice better medicine if patients knew | they were not burdened with heavy costs.

MR. BIEMILLER said he especially disliked nationalization of hospitals. He wants ours left in local, private hands, He be- | lieves the administration's bill has some of the best features of | European plans while avoiding their defects. He said Sweden had found a voluntary health plan cannot cover all the people who

~ Most of the Congressmen object to the British plan because they believe nationalized medicine would lead to wiping out other

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how the government had gone into_the because it had felt they cost too’ much. They said he was uncon- | cerned about the firms which might be driven out of business and indicated a similar course might be followed in the drug field, Rep. Lindley Beckworth (D. Tex.) commented: “When you nationalize something as big as health care, one of your problems is trying to find out where to stop, The question is whether you really can stop where you want to or whether you get into related businesses. I don’t think the British plan would work under our government. Before we take any radical step, we should evaluate what the final step would be,” :

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REP. LEONARD W. HALL (R. N. Y.), another who made the trip, expressed similar fears about nationalization of medicine leading to wiping out drug and related businesses. He cited the red tape which has entered into medical and dental care. Although a dentist may extract teeth, Mr. Hall said, he must get permission from London before he can provide a bridge to replace

Aneurin Bevan, British Minister of Health, told

{ on the British system before, I haven't now. It is costing three times what had been estimated and is inefficient for many who

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The quality of British medicine seemed to Rep. James I. Dolliver (R. Iowa) to be deteriorating because of lack of incentive

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Mr. Hall sald the Swedish system, calling for greater contri | butions from those participating than in England, has been effective in minimizing abuses. ’

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Rep. John A. McGuire (D. Conn.) said he saw in the British system the danger that “any time the government can save money by driving out private business, it apparently is O. K. with Mr,

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