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John L. and Public Interest JouN L. LEWIS now professes. great concern for “the | public interest.” Having put himself on a coal-strike hook, he wants | the governors of Indiana and Illinois to help him off. + People in these states are suffering for lack of coal. The governors appeal to Mr. Lewis, He proposed that | they put pressure on mine operators in their states to nego- | tiate a separate strike settlement with his union. They | declined. “These practical suggestions,” said Mr. Lewis, “are | made constructively in the public interest.” Some people may believe him: - Some may conclude as he would like all to conclude—-that when the Illinois and Indiana operators refused to make a separate agreement. with him they were rejecting a fair proposal for. strike . settlements. J . » » ” » » » 80 LET'S see what acceptance of Mr. Lewis’ proposal would mean’ is Saimin Seve ir ie It would mean scheme. The operators in two states, standing apart from all the rest of the coal-mining industry, would negotiate with an industry-wide union which is conducting an industry- - wide strike. Two pigmies against a monopoly giant. If, through desire to relieve the suffering of people who "peed coal and under pressure from the governors, they | signed an ¢ nt with the union, Mr. Lewis would im- | mediately make that agreement his pattern for an industry- | wide settlement. i uy THAT'S JUST what his old friend and present rival, ‘Philip Murray, has done with his steel workers’ union separate agreement with Bethlehem Steel. ei All other steel companies, Mr. Murray says, must meet the terms on which Bethlehem settled. Yet President Truman’s steel fact-finding board said plainly that all comnies, large or small and regardless of their ability to pay, should not be forced to meet identical terms. - Bethlehem already had a pension system financed _ wholly by the company. Many other tompanies do not. Starting such systems would increase their costs more than benefits of its present system will increase Beth-

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aiding him in a “divide-and-conquer”

smaller ones, under a ruinous competitive handicap. 47 0 > . - a BUT 70 ‘get back to Mr. Lewis: If hie is genuinely for the public interest, why doesn’t he tell the exactly what his terms for settlement of this .coal * ?."Why did he give s-phoiiy reason for ordering ’ That adn dom on en ST Ste

If he wants $6 serve the public interest, why doesn't. he op hurting the public, stop trying to. use governors as tspaws, stop using his monopoly power in attempts to coerce the industry by segments, and tell the miners to go _ back to work and produce some coal while he makes an honest effort to settle on reasonable terms?

Now—Who Told the Truth? THE CIO was busy last week kicking out Commies. ? That makes it nearly unanimous. ,The Reds have lost almost their last respectable refuge. : : The CIO is a tardy convert. It nearly missed the boat, before taking the commendable action which Philip Murray Back a few years, when Communists and party-liners were helping organize and direct the CIO, things were differerit. In those days exploited right-wingers in unions that had fallen under Communist domination appealed in “vain to Mr. Murray for help. CIO policy then was to avoid | “disunity” —that is, play ball with the Commies. 7] “Tn “those days: The Times was hotly assailed 3s “anti labor” and “fascist” for charging that such unions as the ° United Eléctrical Workers were dominated by Communists. But what happened in Cleveland this week was open confession and final proof of the charges we theh made. In the light of events, we may be pardoned for asking: “Who really told the truth?

y v moll “IT WAS interesting to observe Mr. Murray's chief lieutenants in the Communist purge— President Walter Reuther |

Transport Workers and President Joe Curran of ~the | National Maritime Union. Time was when all three of them snuggled up closely with the Commies. Mr. Curran, at least, admitted that for a time he followed the party line. In early New Deal days, when the CIO was born in a wave of strikes, the Reuther brothers—Walter and Victor were working in a factory over in Russia. Walter Reuther then wrote of “the daily inspiration as we work side by side with our Russian comrades.” : Now, however, it isn't fashionable or expedient to play with the Reds. But the philosophy which caused these CIO leaders to welcome and use the services of Communist organizers and agitators still prevails. This is the philosophy .. of the planned .state—planned along the lines that have been followed in Britain. 1 Communists and Socialists and those other planners who want the state to run everything are basically of the same family.

3 AMERICAN "workers have been spared the sort of

killing free unionism in England.

; Conmimunist leadership of that important labor organi . gation finally has been averted. But the basic philosophy which would kill the American system of economic freedom still prevails. The drive toward a planned welfare state still

~The Times told the truth before about the danger of Communism in

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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

of the United Auto Workers, President Mike Quill of the |

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No Recess for

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Hoosier Delegation Workers |

Doing Busin as Usual WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—Dear Boss—Although Senators and Congressmen Rep, at home or. (except hard- ; , Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat, who just moved into a house next door to his office) their office staff members are still here and doing business as usual, : His being here to dictate the personal mall, t the Marion County Congressman's staff working overtime, but they would be likely to do so anyhow. It is an old habit they learned from Mr. Jacobs’ longtime Democratic predecessor, Louis Lud-

Head of the Jacobs office staff is Mrs. Herbert Pillen, who was Mr. Ludlow’s “Girl Friday” and has cared for 11th District constituents. and often those outside district, for more than two decades. 5 With Mrs. Pillen are two other Ludlow staffers, Mrs. Violet Markwarda and Mrs. Thelma Shirley. The latter was on the Ludlow staff throughout the 20 years Mr. Ludlow served in Congress and the former for 10 years. Also on the Jacobs staff is Miss Josephine Good, who previously was on the staff of two Eighth District Congressmen and Miss Nancy Olasson, who is a part-timer and George Washington University student.

Hard-Working Staff SEN. HOMER E. CAPEHART (R, Ind.) has one of the biggest, best organized and busiest offices on Capitol Hill and the congressional journment has brought no respite to his hard. working staff, : " His administrative assistant, Ray 8. Donald-. son; one-time city attorney in Washington, Ind., and a captain {n World War II, keeps the wheels turning with clockiike precision.’ i ? or With. the Senator. out in. Indiana making. 8. flying start for renomination and re-election

for a second term in 1050, the “case work” still 4

continues to.pour in from all parts of the Btate. Veterans penaions get fouled up and Capehart staffers contact the Veterans Administration to get them straightened out. / ome folks feel the need for sofis in the armed service and sometimes the Bénator 1s able to expedite their discharge through, his competent staff. There are export and import problems, displaced persons with relatives in Indiana, farmers wanting storage for grain and businessmen seeking reconstruc‘ion finance corporation loans,

Flood of Letters THIS past week more than 100 letiers came to the Capehart office asking the Senator to intercede with the State Department not to recognize thé Communist regime in China. Some of them suggested it would be better to help Franco Spain, The Senator agrees with them and they get a letter telling them so Each of these personal pleas is filed away and next year anyone who asked a favor from Sen. Capehart is likely to be reminded of the . fact in a nice personal letter which he hopes will net him a re-election vote. _ The Capehart files have outgrown his vast suite of offices In the Senate office buiiding and hundreds of pieces of cross-filed correspondence have been shifted to the attic. It is easily avall-: able there as the senate office building attic bears no relation to the old fashioned raftertype attic of a hoosier.small town home. ;.

Wilma Miller of Wabash continues tc greet

- lehem's costs. That could put some ‘companies, especially {hg “visiting firemen” from the state who stop

in the Capehart office and her cheery smile seems never to fall or appear forced. She really likes people, she confesses, ?

Writes Speeches « : CHARLES BEGENROAD, South Bend, continues to grind -out the Senator's speeches and publicity with the regularity of a record-changer on a juke-box. Other staffers include Florence Barr, Gary; Welby Brinton, Winchester; Lois Dunfee, Plymouth; William Bolles, Indianapolis, and Elizabeth Gergley, East Chicago Rep. Ray Madden took Mary Sobek and ShirJee Enders of his staff back to Hammond, where the Congressman opened a First District office in the federal building. Only Mrs. A. E.

Turner remains in his office here to handle

routine and the office af Rep. Thurman C. Crook, * South Bend, is closed. we ] Miss Marie Blowers is handling the office here for Rep. Edward H. Kruse Jr, Ft. Wayne Democrat, who is on an Appropriations Subcommittee tour of the orient. Miss Catherine Lewis runs the office for Rep. John R. Walsh, Anderson Democrat, and also is house-hunting here for the Congressman and his family. Paul R. Squires, Indianapolis, is Rep. Cecil M. Harden's secretary and turns a master-hand to writing Republican speeches for the many speaking dates she has back in the Sixth District. His assistant here is Peggy Palmer and the third member of the staff is Dorothy Delich, Clinton, who is back. in the district.

Touring Europe ry - SECRETARY GARLAND GODWIN, Princetno, holds the fort for. Rep. James E Noland, Bloomington Democrat, while the Congressman and his wife tour Europe. Another staffer, Mary L. Benson, also ls abroad. 4 ’ Maxine Brown and Mrs. Norma Schépman’ remain. busy -here while Rep, Winfield 'K. Deénton, Evansville Democrat; is back hohe "Nye" M. Jackson, Seymour, runs Rep. Earl Wilson's office while the Bedford Republican is away. His helpers are Florence O. Timko and. Betty Crane. ‘ ” . "Rep. who is returning from Europe, keeps his office

here turning out the usual mail and keeping |

up his weekly letter to constituents. They are

Robert Baker, New Castle, and Frances Eesley, |

College Corner. The latter had long years of service as secretary to the.late Rep, Raymond Springer, Connersville Republican, The junior Republican Senator from Indiana, William E. Jenner; is flying around the world, but his. secretary. Horace Coats, Indianapolis, and such able assistants as Wilma Wood, Bed- - ford, continue with business as usual. Others on the Jenner staff are Harlan L. Kays, Princeton;

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Crib Crowding

Ralph Harvey, Newcastle Republican

Catherine Covell, Angola; Naka Macknight, Ft, | Wayne; Harriet Bury and Leah Delph, Terre |

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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

Life and Times of Widow Finn

EVERY year on the first Monday of November—the last possible day to straighten out my affairs with the of Marion County—I take time off to celebrate the Widow Finn who has top billing in a Saints’ Calendar of my own making. She was the only - person I ever knew who deemed it a privilege and pleasure to pay taxes. Sixty years ago when I was a little boy, the Widow - Finn lived in solitude, but by no means seclusion, on: the west side of Union St. between McCarty and Ray, in a little brick cottage which is still standing. It's now identified as

No. 818, a geographical location hardly half =

block from where I spent my boyhood; thus putting ‘me in the enviable position today of speaking with some authority. Like most personages who have achieved the distinction of “characters,” Fran Finn also traveled under two names. When addressed, for instance, she was always called “Tante”

when talked about, she was always referred to as the “Violet Lady” (the English equivalent. for “Veilchen Finn”). When I was a kid, we South Siders had the gift of speaking bilin-

guajpy. ‘Bouquet Lady’ Lo : TANTE FINN might just as well have been called the “Bouquet Lady” for I still remember that her mignonette and lilies-of-the-valley were” every bit as pretty and fragrant as her sweet-

lieve, she was the first to cultivate around here. The Violet Lady's house was set close to the street, an architectural arrangement of advantage in that it left her considerable room to cultivate a garden in the rear of her property.

thank God, still have their good points, it was the prettiest plot on the South Side. At any rate, I never saw a neater or more orderly garden. Indeed, young as I was at the time, I remember that on one occasion I' was struck ‘with the thought that, maybe, a pretty garden

“into. it. »~Be that as it may, it was.apparent. that the Violet Lady loved her garden, for everytime I called on her, I found her puttering among the

wouldn't find her at home. One

day when one r . at Sacred Heart Churth

Was the hour she spent to pay ) 7 took place before anybody else had breakfast. Around 11 o'clock in the morning, she again abandoned her gardén—this time to walk up town and dispose of her{violets.

‘Preferred Customers’

customers. Her best patron was Louis Hollweg | who ran the big chinaware store on 8. Meridian St. For some reason, Mr. Hollweg always got |. Tante Finn's first violets of the season; and, | strangely enough, also the last to bloom, This arbitrary and high-handed way of. doing business struck everybody as a bit irregular, but

weg bought so many violets—a bouquet a day that it was only right that he should haye not only the first, but also the last to bloom. Charlie Mayer who ran the fabulous: toystore (and side lines) was Tante Finn's second

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two shoeshine instead of a

(the German equivalent: for “Auntie”),. And 5

scented violets which, I have good reason to be- ~

Measured by old-fashioned standards which,

‘reflects. the Tove and tenderness a woman puts

flowers. Indeed, there were only tWo' times a

Homage. fo her Lord. — AS: a rule; this. 3

TANTE FINN. I recall, had her preferred:

the widow justified it by saying that Mr. Holl-—

NATION'S CAPITAL. . . By Douglas Larsen |

Big Change in Washingto

war this town resembles a normal community, what with Congress out of town and everything relatively peaceful. It

city for the benefit of the millions who passed through here in | the process of winning the war; and -who haven't been back since. You wouldn't recognize it as the same place. : Start with Union Station, which you probably saw first unless you arrived by plane or hitch-hiked. Except for special holidays it's practically deserted. They've thrown away the heavy maroon cord that used to keep crowds out of the dining room MPs around. No Shore Patrol, No line for a shoeshine. Only No fight for a taxi i Taxis. There's a big change. They're looking for customers ing them. No sass all the way to your destination. No flat demand for a tip. Occasionally a thank you. Correct change. You can even ask the driver not to pick up | Building. What used to be t extra fares along the way if you're in a hurry. ;

You Can Even Renta Place ,

ALL the fancy new buildings would knock your eye You wouldn't believe the number of tremendous apartments which have gone up on every vacant l6t. And all the way out | past suburban Sflyer Spring and into Virginia and Maryland - building more of them, Across from Dupont Circle there's

best customer. He didn’t buy a bouquet a day, but_hé made up for it sometimes by buying a dozen at a time. This was explained at the time by the fact that Mr. Mayer bought the violets to sell to his customers—at a little profit, of course. The injection of a middleman annoyed some South Siders but not my mother, who, on one occasion, advanced the fancy argument that the Mayer-Finn arrangement was a valid business transaction inasmuch as Tante aigntt charge enough for her violets in the first place. ; The money Tante Finn collected by way of her viotets-was enough to pay the taxes on her property which, come to think of it, was what I started out to tell. ! Tante Finn was mighty particular about paying her taxes-—motre so than anybody else around here. For a long time nobody could figure out-why she was always the first, every

spring and ‘autumn, to appear at the: Court-

house, demand to see the county treasurer in person and reverently press the tribute money “into his hand. No middleman this time. Finally, it leaked out: that her singular behavior was prompted by .pride of possession. And it sounded reasonable enough when we learned that the Widow Finn's Unior St. property rep-

resented the savings of a tifetime, every penny

of which had been earned by bending over a washboard. :

Finicky Bachelors

IN"HER younger days Tante Finn did all the

laundry work for the finicky bachelors residing -at the Circle’ Park Hotel, to say nothing of substantial and abundant families of the stature of the Vonneguts, Schnulls and Liebers. When it came time to retire, the accumulated savings proved to be enough to acquire the little brick cottage on Union St. surplus in the shape of an impressive bank account. Preparatory to establishing her garden of violets, Tante Finn appropriated part of her bank account to finance a trip to Germany, her old home. And in the bottom of her trunk she carried an American washboard to show. the folks over there the instrument with which she had acquired her Indianapolis house and garden.

Widow Finn's home in Union St.

goes in the station bar. No |

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out,

Indeed, there was a

Wartime Scenes Gone

UNIFORMS have disappeared. So have the mobs of giggling G-girls wandering around. Picking up a gal in a bar or on the street ‘is tough. Of course all the USOs have disappeared. After ‘seven the downtown is practically deserted, A ——— Guards are all gons from the government buil £ at the Atomic Energy Soins me of de reno are stored in the old OPA headquarters. 3

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“I do not agree with & werd that you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo say it."

‘Open Our Civic Eyes’ ‘Open Our CivicEyer

thus far, about the only tion tried is to tear down dwelling In the mile square and turn the ground into parking lots. Such a “solutjon” is a crime in these days of housing shortage, and it is also ineffectual. It is only putting the cart before the horse.

Mrs. Studebaker It is time that we viewed our city as a metropolis—and when that happens, we will recognize that taking the public ‘transportation vehicles. down into the city is the smart thing to do, and leave private automobiles at home

except for evening driving and holiday trips. So, if Indianapolis is ready at last to look upon itself as a real city, then it is time that we considered the following solutions to our parks ing problem: - Relinquish the small-town privilege of driv. ing private pleasure cars into the congested downtown area and to park them at curbs. Sient Designate -all narrow downtown streets as one-way thoroughfares and permit parking on the left side. : "Require new buildings, which may be erected fn the. downtown, district, .to provide serviced

underground parking levels, tors. Roof areas are going to waste which might provide parking facilities for thousands of cars. But the most important thing is to modernize our perspectfve toward this matter of drive ing private pleasure cars into the congested downtown metropolitan arg. +

‘Stalin Wants Strikes’

By Norman C. Koon To those who strike or who have any intene tion of striking: i Joe Stalin wants you to strike. He wants to create a spirit of unrest. Don't you realize the ranks of communism are strengthened by strikes? If you did get a raise on the hour, the manufacturer would retaliate with higher prices. Think intelligently. Reason things out. Thought is invisible, but it does rule the world, causes industries to flourish and tends toward progressiveness and world prosperity. Don’t’ jump over the fence just because the other fellow does. We need more individualism, Man's greatest accomplishment is mastery of himself. Humanitarianism and civilization are kindred spirits. Continue to rate and work for the better things of life. No strikes in America. > oo @° ‘It's Time for Prayer" : By Edward Maddox, Indianapolis “A natiorial emergency exists. The American people are being deprived of work, fuel and food by t union and government officials who refuse to comply with the laws of the land. Cold and hunger and suffering face millions of people. This, my friends, is a time for prayer, not for hatred and strife. The United States is. founded on Christian principles. Therefore, let us pray for those who despitéfully use you and persecute you. Yes, let us pray for President Truman, John L. Lewis, Philip Murray, the stubborn steel and coal operators who have brought this great crisis of want, fear and danger to our people, ‘Let those fathers and mothers who have no coal, no money, no work to provide for their children, pray for help in this time of trouble,

What Others Say

IS THE present immigration policy (of the United States) as liberal as the natural resources permit in a country so lavishly blessed by the Crestor te-Pups Plus XIL * IT IS best for Japan to remain unarmed and to leave herself entirely open to the judgment of world opinion.—Premier Shigeru Yoshida of Japan. chs Z ’ arn lsicr ~ WORLD pressure in these days is far too strong to be harnessed within the cofines of a

1 single camp—or Insulated" from one another

by any Iron Curtain. However, there is still time for a curtain raiser and a new act.—Defense Secretary Louis Johnson. : *® °°

THERE can be no doubt that a world government must: come sometime or.other, for the

TY : ® ¢ } : + BHOW business is in such bad shape today S. Kaufman, playwrigh . ~

* eo TROLLEY-CAR windows are what it takes Jacks or better to open—Jimmy Durante, radio comedian. * +

+ IL OSOPHY is of account only if ., . It affords guidance to action.—John Dewey of American philosophers. $40 ® * : WE MUST constantly bear in mind... . that the great majority of women who attend college will marry and have children, and that for rhost of them their home will be the focus

of their lives.—Benjamin Fletcher Wright, president of Smith College. Hem,

n Since the War

No queues in any of the restaurants and lots of new restaurants. No queues at any of the movies. Not even in front 3 of the Capitol - Sunasy afternoon. Cocktail hour at the Mayi «| flower, er, Carleton and Wardman Park is a pret seems like a good time to make a report on the status of the business, exeept maybe on Friday afternoon. ar ed ously nto the Blue Room of the Shoreham any time of the e get a ‘fable, plus courteous service. Senng and

Park and the golf course and polo grounds restored. Barracks are gone trom Haines’ Point and the tourist court is back.

- Some Things the Same ul

STILL, a few things haven't changed. Rock Creek Park is about the same. Saturday night downtown is fairly I'7ely. The

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