Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1949 — Page 26

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‘What's in a Name?’ WHEN Mr. Shakespeare asked that question, he was "The potency of the political magic in that name now is “io got another test, James Roosevelt, eldest ROH-of the late FDR, has announced himself a candidate for governor of California in 1950. Under that state's cross-filing system, he will seek both Democratic and Republican nominations in ‘the primaries Meanwhile, FranklinD. Jr., having won election to Congress last May, is being prominently mentioned as a prospective Democratic candidate for governor of New York. If each great state elects a Gov. Roosevelt, political seers are saying, one brother or the other will be the logical Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1052 on a ticket headed by Harry 8. Truman. : Well, the young men seem to think better of Mr. Truman than they did in 1948 when James was a “draft Eisenhower” shouter, He promises now to “bring the fair deal ‘to California,” and he and Franklin Jr. are down-the-line supporters of the Truman program. re But it isn't sure that Mr. Truman will choose to run again. His retirement might open the way for a doublewhammie—a Roosevelt-Roosevelt ticket—James for President, Franklin D. Jr., for Veep or vice versa. Then, after a couple of terms, they could in brotherly fashion switch places and keep both jobs in the family until a new generation of Although we don't hear much about him any more, an-

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~ ‘Willing and Able’ sii PUBLIC, through the government, has a right to insist that any new contract the coal mine owners sign with John Lewis’ union shall not contain the silly clause © Bo long as that language remains in a contract, it is obviously no contract at all, The whole American economy, so dependent on coal, is at the whim of John Lewis. We * have learned the miners are “willing and able” only when They are suddenly “willing and able” to work a three- - day week, and then a no-day week, until Mr, Lewis changes his mind again. Then over night all the miners in the country miraculously acquire the willingness and ability to return 16 the pits on a full-week schedule. Mine owners who in the past have agreed to that ridicu- . lous clause may feel that individually they have no responsibility to maintain a steady coal supply. But the coal indus-

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government should see to it that the public is protected.

See No Evil

hh. an Eastern Airlines pilot reported another near"collision in the vicinity of the Washington airport, a Civil Aeronautics Administration spokesman said he could mot understand why Eastern’s pilots keep talking about things of this sort.

“They're destroying public confidence day by day,” he

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from the Tito and the men around fim aré trying to con-

vert Yugoslavia from a peasant economy to a.

Under total communism every effort is directed toward new construction—rallroads, factories, highways, government bulldings. After they put in a full day from 7 a. m. to 2 p. m. on their regular job, most workers are réquired to do “voluntary” labor on government §rojects

for another six or seven hours. Political prisoners are commonly sentenced to do “socially useful work,” which is often

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ly Sveryone fh : visitor gets two directly views of this experiment. Younger pr t, ardent Communists and flerce

ciety from bourgeols decadence to worker's paradise, :

estimated at from 2000 to 4000. Today the newly reconverted are being admitted to grace again. Borba, the Communist Party newspaper, recently published a letter signed by 222 students of Belgrade University who had been sentenced to “socially useful work” after the break. It reads like a religious confession: “We have now understood the gravity and shamelessness of our betrayal. We have deserved to be the more so in view of the fact that, as students, we were surrounded

with the greatest possible care of our people's authority . . . our awareness of all this compels us to express our gratitude to our party for its magnanimity; to thank it for having forgiven us possible for us to recorrect ourselves. , . .” the denial of freedom hods of the police state are so reany material achievement small minority who knew the freedoms and Juivildges of the Western World life is grim One is told of arrests without trial on ‘associating with forwomen who simply disviewpoints is the great known little but of bloody con‘feuds, They are in this Commu-

NT farmers are forced into col lectives, you | hear much grumbling. Land and crops are taken from the reluctant and the

recaleitrant, Ad ull 9 But the informed opiian o trained observers

grow with greater trade. They want to be sure all the escape hatches are nailed down. The face that efficialdom turns-to-the West Is more and more le. That has been conspicuous in recent pegotiations for the right of entry by an American airline into Belgrade. The American film, “Boomerang,” which presents the courage of a priest in a favorable way, is playing to crowded houses in Belgrade.

help from. the * West “ts vitals’

whether the regime will falter without it—no outsider can say, The men around Tito insist that either with or without machines and as sistance the transformation will be worked.

AYE, AYE, SIR . . . By Andrew Tully

‘Good Old Days’

Now that the British House of Commons has stepped in and decided the House of Lords can't delay a bill longer than a year in the future, the Lords might as well go on home. They've got nothing much else to do except reminisce about the good old days, 600 years ago, when a sir was really sométhing. : «Jr-&- Way, you can't blame the Lords for being kind of put

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Plain People Hurt Worst

THE PUBLIC generally doesn't figure this way. It knows, of

This is no theoretical, obscure or technical °

matter which affects only bankers, financiers and big businessmen. It hits them hard—of course. But it hits plain people even harder. Such as the man who invested in a $75 bond back in 1939. ple with fixed incomes—such as pentions or life insurance payments—suffer the same

«fate a8-the buyer of the savings bond.

A 1939 pension of’ $100, if not changed since then, today is worth only $60. The same thing has happened to a widow still getting the same insurance payment she received then.

money always falls.

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And the same thing will happen to today’s pension if the value of money continues to fall ~that is, if prices keep rising. This is known

as “inflation.” It has been cutting the value of

money throughout the world, and making life tough for people of modest and fixed incomes. The reason is the same everywhere, The world; including our country, is spending more

than its income or production justify. Huge

debts and deficits create a lot of cheap money. Steel and automabile and other workers who are rejoicing over $100 minimum pensions should understand that they will shrink in value if this trend continues, If spending and debt keep cutting the value of money, the buying power of pensions will fall—just as happened to our war bonds, For money has no value In itself. It is merely a stamped piece of metal or printed piece of paper, It is just a token for what it will buy.

Yet those very persons to whom pensions

and other forms of security mean the most are "the ones chiefly in favor of schemes which cut

the value of the dollar, They have been favoring policies which cause heavy spending, higher taxes, higher prices — all of ‘which make for cheaper money. ‘os -

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HEAVY spending. rising taxes and costly benefits result: in rising prices. These cut the buying power of money. As government debts go up, the value of This has

government debt, huge public

been true throughout history. When a government spends more than its income it has to borrow, It does this by printing more money or by borrowing from the bapks. : All of this puts more money into circulation —and the added money is used to bid for the supply of goods and services, There is more money, but no more wealth. Bo prices go up— and the buying power of dollars goes down.

The people now winning pensions will de:

stroy or greatly cut their future value if they continue to vote for heavier: and bigger debts. They have won something of value, provided they protect that value, Only sound business and government finance can safeguard it. .

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In these four years neither labor or management has ventured to produce a method of resolving their differences without the defense, the social, economic and the po-

litical well-being of the nation. Utterly failed not only in tackling their job but America and hers,

The rank and file citizens are the ones most affected with these mass production stoppages. The question I put in a previous letter, “Can the citizenry within the framework of our Constitution do anything?” Taking into consideration the ramification of this question, I still believe we, as Americans, can do something. ° I think I have a way, a start at least, but I am only one, a rank and filer. Can we get toe gether? Yes, Why? Because we are Americans.

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‘In Interest of Railways Safety’ By Mrs. L. M. D,, Greenwood, Ind. I have a few questions and remarks that I would like to make in the interest of safety to passengers of our local transportation system-— occasioned by an accident I witnessed as passenger on Trolley. No. 908, driven by Operator

No. 311, this week, Ly, First, what are the qualifications and ments for an operator? BK

Second, what length of training period does

an operator have’ before he is given the respon-

sibility of many lives day after day? 3 Third, what are the chief points of interest in the training period? Is making a schedule more important than safety and courtesy? The above questions came to me in an experience I had during one short noon hour my office. ; I had a brief errand from downtown to ] tain Square, and when ready to return to downtown seapn inquired where would or trolley,

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and recover her belongings for her, hat, purse and other miscellan the purse—yet the driver did not. seat, say he was sorry or utter

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a doctor, or any move to indicate that he anything unusual had happened. i Another employee of the Indianapolis Raflway Co. was § passenger, and took charge of the situation, helping the lady as he could and even asked the driver give him some assistance, but none was given even after that. This lady fell at my feet, and I was near the driver and know that he did not make a move to help in any way. I asked for a transfer and took an-

ga tor 1had to be back at my office, but other. bus. for 1 had to be back at my.

our ‘bus met an" the scenes of the accident, and other passengers later transferred to another bus. $s Is that the way for a driver to act?

~ By Galbraith LABOR... By Fred Perkins

Prefer U. S. Pensions _ ASIINOTON, Nov 16ers + ghod indalr of bow

t few years. Bas A big labor union says that the pensions being won in the

steel and other industries are all right but an adequate federal system for old-age security would

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try as a whole cannot evadé that responsibility. And the

lations which will save lives and preserve public confidence

out.” They started ‘this ‘whole

business of Parliament back in

the 13th Century when a bunch of barons ganged up on King John and made him issue the Magna Carta; which said the barons could help the King run the country. Ever since .then, the plain people have been cutting themselves in on these privileges. ‘Today the House of Lords— ‘which descended from a gov- , erning committee of 15 barons named in 1258--is not even as important as a rubber stamp, since Commons eventually does what it wants whether Lords approve or not. r ~ » # A LOT of historians figure it serves the House of Lords right, though, because although the Magna Carta has had a lot of publicity as being the people's guarantee of basic freedoms, it really didn't help the common people half as

much as it did the barons. The

only reason the barons bothered at all was because they were worried at the way King John was cracking down on their Individual kingdoms, claiming’ that the serfs owed their allegiance—and taxes

has been making laws con. tinuously ever since—a record no other country even can approach.

a » # THE HOUSE OF LORDS, of course, always has been the swankier of the two branches, Its real name is the Lords Spiritual and Temporal. And although they're just heads now, they still get the red carpet treatment when Parliament opens. While they loll on their benches, the members of Commons--being just people~have to scramble for standing room. ; Most members of the House of Lords inherited their titles and seats, but the 766 members also include guys who were knighted by the king. Like archbishops and prominent judges who get in because of their office, some Irish peers who are elected for life, and some tish peers who are

been getting travel allowances from their homes to London.

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p.m. and usually knock off after a couple of hours of

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«The International . Associas. tion of Machinists — 600,000 members, largest union not affiliated with either the AFL or C10-~declared in an official, publication that “as far as working people are concerned, there would be far more security under an ‘adequate old age and survivors insurance system operated by the government than there is in any pension plan limited to a single corporation.” ; This union points out that under the pension plans recent ly agreed to by the Ford Motor

Co. and by Bethlehem Bteel .

Corp., that “a man gets nothing at all if for any reason he leaves the company before he reaches retirement age. A man may work at Ford for 20 years, but if he quits to take a better job somewhere else he loses his entire stake in his pension. The same thing happens if he is "

BUT UNDER the contributory Federal Social Security System, the union says, “it doesn’t matter where we work, or how many times we change jobs. We are still eligible for pensions when we reach 65.” That is true, according to’ a

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and this would net be eligivle for pensions. The pension plan is the reason given by the companies when they refuse to hire men over 40. The opportunity

‘ to work until he reaches retire-

ment age is at least as import ant to a man as is his pensio after he retires.” :

The pension question will be...

important in the next pession of Congress, It will be before the Senate in a bill the House passed just before adjourn ment. It provides for increases in social security pensions, but still considerably short of the $100 a month that is fairly standard in the industrial plans,

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