Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1949 — Page 26

rE GEPSHOWARD NEWEST “Sv WW. HOWARD WALTER LECERONE HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

PAGE 26 Sunday, Oct. 23, 1949

Give Liohs ond the Peovie Will Pind Their Own Wow

Y es, There Must Be Something Wrong

(QUT of a closed meeting in a Washington hotel where ‘President Truman was addressing a group of employers the other evening came a voice that bystanders identified as Bil Noite af President Truman, saying: “If you gentlemen won't sit down with the people who ‘work for you and work out your problems there is some‘thing wrong with you.” Mr. Truman, if it was Mr. Truman, was mighty close to the roots of the labor strife that so grievously afflicts us right now. Sitting down “with the people who work for you” to work out problems like wages and pensions and working is not only the best, but as far as we know the only ‘such problems can be solved with fairness and satis4 all around. : "8 0 . 8 are moved to wonder, could the a coal mine in Linton, Ind., sit down with the people who work for him and even talk about, much less solve, any such problems? Or the owner of a steel plant in Marion?

"Obviously he could not. ‘ The coal miners of Indiana were out on strike before either they or the mine owners knew what issues were to be in dispute, if, indeed, they know even now. In‘mine owners are not at the current negotiations with John L. Lewis, although he, at least technically, does represent the men who work for them. There was never & point, before or since the steel strike ‘began, when the owner of an Indiana steel plant could sit down with the men who work for him to talk about wages te a cue Yo Nor could he now take any part in the negotiations between Philip Murray and the United States Steel Corp. which nevertheless are going fix the wages he pays and the working conditions in

a 8 0 a ® » picture is in focus a little more clearly than usual because of these industry-wide strikes in coal and steel.

~ Very few employers, these days, in any industry can down with the people who work for them” to make a a Bona fide ting between an employer people who work for him has all but disappeared. To any employer of local members of nation-wide “unions it is an old and sorry story, that varies only a little rom industry to industry: tik uid, pr dosalona} nlen union officer, usually from out of : ‘with any knowledge of ocd ponditions, Spény’ | ‘He presents a fixed contract form, with wage ‘working conditions firmly set in advance.

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Gi may, or may not, meet the needs and wishes of a He has no authority to change them. Nor have the local workers. os are warned, represent “standards” set on and any deviation from them can bring

ie to and sometimes including mass exa i Smiployer wid and the people who work for him- are

shielded from contact with each other. More often not they wind up with a labor contract they didn’t ‘and neither of them particularly likes. ! . & » ‘80 THE employer who wants to ait wa with the people who work for him to work out problems can't do it. 3 And the worker who wants to sit down with him can’t do it either. And along the way collective bargaining has vanished, dimen before we could note its passing. As the voice which may have been Mr, Truman's said, there certainly is something wrong. And hardly with the people who work for them, either. "But hardly, on this score, with the employers.

‘From This Moment’

House Armed Services Committee has ended—at least, until the new session of Congress in January-—its inquiry into the Navy-Air Force-Army controversy. To many citizens it must seem that the public hearings have developed far more heat than light. The bitterness revealed among service leaders who should be working together as an effective defense team is deeply disturbing. ‘Yet it was better to bring the quarrels out into the open than to let them fester longer inside the Pentagon. As Herbert Hoover said when he appeared before the committee to urge full support for efforts to make the “unification law succeed in eliminating waste and duplication in the armed forces: «a» 0» ‘we # » “IT MUST be a matter of regret for our country and the nations of Western Europe that differences of view on these questions have not been resolved within the walls of military services. However, I suppose one of the requirements of maintaining freedom is the public washing of linen. But an equal requirement is that we settle down afterward to loyal co-operation and constructive action.” As Gen. Marshall testified, funds available for the serv- * Joes must be divided in a way “that has only in mind the security of the country . . . unification is absolutely mandatory, in my opinfon.” And as Gen. Eisenhower told the committee: “We are dealing here with distinguished Americans, en hia have the country 4t heart, and we should not be $00 ready to call names on either side . . . from this moment we can actually make unification work.”

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney - New ‘Line’ for Hoosier GOP?

Rep. Saylor Expected to List What's Wrong With Policy

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Dear Boss—Young

Dec. 3 he will talk more like Phil Wil than Sen. William E. Jenner.

Ikie ALL are young, vis Tip Saylor and Willkie do not believe that the

like to pass a law Jeguiating us h he out of the 20th Century—it's too dangerous. Not so State Rep. Philip H. Willkie. He is a young Republican who follows the progressive p of his late father, Wendell L. Willkie, the GOP presidential nominee in 1940. And the new Congressman from Pennsylvania will tell the Hoosier young Republicans they will have to “adapt or die” He already has told such old guardsmen as Minority Leader Joseph W. Martin Jr. (R. Mass.) that such is the case in his opinion.

National Prominence

MR. MARTIN and Rep. Charles A. Halleck, dean of the Indiana Republicans on Capitol Hill, entertained the newcomer shortly after he arrived here from the Keystone state. Mr. Baylor had won national prominence by defeating Mrs, Robert L. Coffey Sr. mother of the Democratic Congressman who was killed in an airplane accident, in a special election. The old guardsmen of the House had asked him to come to a dinner and tell them how he did it. He told them all right. He told them that the way he did it was to get down and mix with the men in the plants and not just call un management and join in the anvil chorus against labor. He told them that the Republican Party ean never be a majority party again by merely catering to snobs. These views of ‘he husky former fullback from Franklin and Marshall and World War II Navy veteran got into the papers. Reps. Martin and Halleck took a dim view of that,

Learning ‘Hard Way’

A 40-YEAR-OLD who hasn't lost his idealism, Mr} Saylor has no notion of backing down. Pointing out that this freshman from Pennsylvania was learning “the hard way,” Tony Smith of the Bcripps-Howard Pitisburgh Press listed four pointers which Mr. picked up during his short time here before Congress adjourned. They are: “ONE: Old Guard GOP leaders in the House do not like to be called a ‘bunch of snobs’ to their ‘aces. “TWO: That the national Republican strategists do not like to have their campaign techniques criticized, no matter how ineffectual be

might be. “THREE: That a freshman is not supposed to speak his mind, even when there's something on it that might be of help to the party

leaders. “FOUR: That a caucus decision dictated by the Republican leaders of the House is not to be questioned,” Just before adjournment, Rep. Saylor was given an assignment on the House Public Lands Committee. When Minority Leader Martin handed it to him he slapped down a copy of the Press and growled: “That kind of stuff isn't good for the party.” Be John the Saylor couldn’t care less. Strings to Pull ' HE BAID that hs does have a soft spot for Charlie Halleck though, even if they don't agree on GOP policy. For nobody in Congress knows the proper strings to pull to get things done in the House better than the man from Rensselaer. When he learned that the Saylor family was here to sed the .new Congressman take the oath and couldn't get in the temporary House quarters in the new House office building to witness it—Rep. Halleck got them in. He also arranged for the Saylor speech at Indianapolis. He hopes to attend. Maybe they can convert each other.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“Cambridge, Mass.—Electrain brains may help solve economic problems.”)

Though we studied economics For a year or two at college, It now seems that electronics Would have proved a sounder knowledge.

BY

For the problem in our household (and believe us it's not funny), Is to keep our loving spouse told That the trees SpEOUL le leaves—not money!

Saylor has’

OUR TOWN

By Anton Scherrer

Troubles of a ‘Divine Healer

AGAIN I feel an urge tw dip Into that narrow margin separating the materialistic and the make-believe where any and everything is possible including even a personage as strange and fantastic as Francis, Schlatter the so-called “divine healer” of his time. Faith-healer Schlatter picked a Sunday afternoon in the spring of 1900 to make his debut in Indianapolis. The lilacs were in bloom, I remember, Moreover, the sycamores in Armstrong Park, where Mr. Schlatter had pitched his tabernacle, were far enough advanced to cast the pattern of their leaves had the sun been willing to do its part. That was the unfortunate feature of the divine healer's debut. The sun just wouldn't co-operate. It rained cats and dogs that afternoon. Even so, Mr. Schlatter had an audience of something like 500. The afflicted came from all parts of the state, from places as far away, indeed as Rockville and Mishawaka. All had come in the hope that the healer would live up to his reputation. In Denver, for instance, he had cured 3000 people in a single afternoon with nothing more to help him than the laying on of hands. And on another occasion, he had allowed himself to be buried for a period of 40 days and nights with no appreciable ill €..008,

Repeated Act in Chicago OTHER parts of the world, Mr. Schlatter’s record was even more impressive. In London he had revived four people, all of whom had been declared officially dead by the coroner. He repeated the act in Chicago. On that occasion, he embarrassed the coroner only three times. The failure to equal the London record didn’t impair his reputation at all. Those

who believed in him said it was because Cook -

County coroners are notoriously more efficient than those practicing in England. Others pointed to the inescapable fact that London had a greater population of dead than Chicago could ever hope to have, After almost half a century, it's difficult for me to determine whether it was because of the failure of the sun to co-operate that Sunday in Armstrong Park, or whether Mr. Schlatter had one of his off days—an experience which even the greatest of artists can't escape, I'm told. Whatever the reason, Mr. Schlatter’'s first appearance in Indianapolis wasn't anything to brag about. The woman from Rockville (internal hemorrhages) let everybody know that he didn't do her a bit of good. Nor did any-

body notice any appreciable improvement in the condition of the man from Mishawaka (hip and joint disease). That was nothing, though, compared with what happened the following morning. Mr. Schlatter was still at breakfast (Enterprise Hotel) when a man from Kokomo turned up. He looked exactly like Mr. Schlatter—same unkempt, long, hlack beard, same shiny Prince Albert coat. And take my word for it, he was fighting mad. Faith-healer Schlatter wasn't feeling any too good himself-that morning. The man from Kokomo came to the point immediately and said he was the original Schlatter, What's more, that he had made the trip to Indianapolis especially to show up the imposter (hereinafter referred to as “our Mr. Schlatter).

Change of Name IT WAS a pretty kettle of fish. When things got more or less untangled, our Mr. Schlatter admitted that his name was a pseudonym cov-

. ering the identity of Dr. Charles McLean. How-

ever, he crossed his heart and hoped to die if he wasn’t the original Schlatter who had cured 3000 people in Denver in a single day. He accounted for the pseudonym by sawing that the Germans of Denver had nicknamed him “Schlaefer” (the Teutonic equivalent for “sleep er”) because of his ability to go into a trance, a state of ecstatic rapture that enabled him to perform miracles. The pronunciation of the difficult umlaut, he went on to say, finally resulted in the corrupted form of Schlatter. The man from Kokomo said he didn’t believe a word of it, the validity of which was considerably enhanced by the fact that the denunciation was wrapped in an ear-piercing Mephhistophelian laugh. This so enraged our Mr. Schlatter that he promised to raise the dead before he left Indianapolis. So far as I know, nothing came of it. That same night, under cover of darkness, both men slipped out of town

‘never to be heard of again; at any rate, not

under that pseudonym.

Didn't Measure Up I NEVER did learn who of the two was the original Schlatter. However, I have an opinion the nature of which, like that of all columnists, is based on circumstantial evidence. Our Mr. Schlatter, it struck me at the time, didn’t quite measure up to a man gifted with divine powers. ' That Sunday afternoon in Arngstrong Park, for instance, he persisted in call our town “Minneapolis.” What's more, he wore spectacles. Young as I was around the turn of the century, it didn't escape me that a man endowed with the power Mr. Schlatter was supposed to have might have fixed up his own eyes before tackling the infirmities of other people.

NEW WS NOTEBOOK ... By Douglas Larsen

Behind the Scenes

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—At one stage in the Navy's revolt

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the funds, that is, by levying a tax on the membership, many of whom, bé it said in all fairness, are not at all certaih that the Taft-Hartley law is definitely against their over-all in it, To be sure, along with Mr. Taft are ked for political death all those other members of Congress who voted to retain the law with modifications. But Sen. Taft is the fountain-head first to be destroyed. We cannot hope to change the plans of the arrogant union leaders. We may not always find enough four-square men to run for office, but we should be able by intelligent electioneering to convince the rank and file of union labor that blind obedience to their leaders can conceivably eventuate in the complete collapse of the trade union movement. PE

‘Close Veterans’ Hospitals’ By J. W. Vinson Sr. I suggest In deepest humility and without malice and in the interest of the nation as a whole that all veterans’ hospitals be closed up immediately, that veterans administration be reduced to one office—that in Washington— staffed by one head and him given 10 assistants, stenographers, file clerks and a boy to wake them up occasionally as they fall asleep at their typewriters.

Thus, we could finance the worthy and needy.

of both world wars and then have several bil. lions (if not hundreds of billions) of dollars for purposes other than keeping open institutions for the purpose of absorbinb the overflow of doctors. *¢ ¢ 9

‘Bitter Pill to Swallow’ By a War Bride. I heartily agree the British people do not want loans from U.8. A They are a proud people and the thought that they are reliant on any other country must be a bitter pill to swallow. Just reverse the situation in your mind and see how you would like it,

What Others Say—

THE calmer the American peopls take this, the better.~Joint Chief of Staff Omar Bradley, on Russian atom bomb. ® ¢ o¢

TO the extent that we cannot solve thems. today, we must endure them.—Secre ot

State Dean Acheson, on problems by United Nations. ¢ ¢ 0

WE (Germans) must break our ties with the day before yesterday (the Weimar republic), for it contained the seed that became the curse of yesteryear (the Nazi government).—Bishop Otte Dibelius of Berlin and Brandenburg. ® 9

I THINK Tito is extremely popular and very able. He is profoundly interested in the United States and never was against this country.— Novelist Louis Adamic. * 5 THERE can be no depresgion because nearly 59 million are employed, personal incomes are high, and there is a record increase in savings.— L. M/ Giannini, president of the world’s largest bank. : * & o

MAN has now flown and lived at speeds hundreds of miles faster than the speed of sound, the latter being 760 miles an hour at sea level.—Air Secretary W. Stuart Symington,

‘Down at the Friendly Tavern’

BONUS FOR ORE . . . By James Daniel

$10,000 Atomic Prize

against unification some consideration was given to preparing a blast at the President for keeping the big battleship Missouri in operation against the better judgment of the admirals. Twice the Navy has tried to put the huge vessel in mothballs on grounds that it was far more costly to keep active than it is worth to the Navy. Both times, apparently for sentimental reasons, President Truman has had the order changed. Two big carriers can be kept afloat for what it costs to keep the Missouri going. If the Navy is being cut back only for economy reasons, the admirals reason, is the Missouri kept in commission? It was temporarily decided not to make a public fssue of this point, pending the outcome of the whole dispute.

Pork-Barrel Plight

POLITICIANS are predicting that public power will be a major issue at the New England Democratic Conference in Boston | next month, Reason: There are no government-built power plants in all of the New England states. And as a result, it is claimed, New England electric rates are highest in the nation.

Whistle-Stop

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS has "been forced into a very unusual decision. It has had to rule that it can no longer furnish the words to songs over the telephone. And its music experts are not permitted to give opinions on the titles of songs which are whistled or hummed over the telephone. . Copies of all copyrighted music are kept in the library. Teen-agers in Washington discovered this and have pestered library employees to death on the telephone and in person with requests for the words to their favorite popular tunes. : All the radio quiz programs offering prizes to persons who can identify song titles of tunes played on the air inspired the ban against answering the whistling and hummed queries.

Washington Cold Snap

CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION now reveals that last August saw the fewest number of federal employees hired during one month than any period since before the war. Reason given was the freeze put on new hiring by the agencies, pending the outcome of their budgets in Congress.

High Finance OAD HINT DEPARTMENT: In a publication of the Democratic National Committee which goes to all key party members it is noted that all high government officials got & fat raise, from $14,000 to $22,500. Right below that statement was the announcement that the national Democratic fund-raising dinner would be held in New York in December, With 8 $250,000

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gressmen, to send planes to participate. This has proved an extrémely expensive and dangerous activity. Many service pilots have been killéd in these demonstrations. Usually they are held on Sunday afternoon, when the pilots would normally be with their families. In making a unified policy it is planned to evaluate each request for military participation in terms of “operational feasibility, economy and the training afforded participating crews.” | Price of $350 a pound for recoverable uranium

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—Nobody has yet qualified for that $10,000 bonus the Atomic Energy Commission is offering for a big new uranium strike in this country, but 2000 ore samples are received here each month from hopefuls, Ore tests are carried out by the Geological Survey acting for the Commission. The assay office employs 90 persons. Ore samples are received from 100 government geologists who are systematically prospecting at great depths for uranium ore in areas where rock formations indicate it is most likely to occur. But old sourdoughs are digging too, along with a host of week-end amateurs. Even gardeners are getting ‘info the act. Some folks in the Washington area have sent in boxes of fine garden loam. The amateurs got interested through a manual for uranium prospecting, compiled by the Atomic Commission and the survey. For 30 cents some 30,000 book buyers got a fill-in on tracing down the stuff from which atom bombs are made.

Black or Yellow SOME of them seemed not to have read beyond the instruetion where it says that uranium ore is sometimes black and sometimes yellow. Black slag, cinders and yellow clay have come in from claimants for that $10,000 reward, also common sandstone stained yellow by iron rust. The instructions are to send in four-pound samples. Actually the assay office has received from an ounce to 93 pounds. Quite a few “mantle-piece stones” came in. That is what the Jaborstory specialists call the big polished rocks which they sus either came from somebody's fireplace, or ought to be there, for all the uranium they contain. ugh Jog Some useless though radioactive material is received. For instance, Carolinians have sent in mozanite sand, which contains 3aces o thorium. Toe Asomie Commission’ provides no market ‘or thorium, a near relative of uranium, exce, in minute quantities for research. ”

Lodestone Received

stuff ancient mariners used for their compasses. ho sent in some of this magnetic iron was ao ature he was & winner e instruc mmission on where and in ‘ denominations to send his money. what To get the $10,000 bonus offer the uranium ore must de in

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