Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1949 — Page 10

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Traffic Traps + + + Regardless

WEEE Indianapolis police intend to

“people think it’s legal” because “it's for their own good.” Perhaps what people think about its legality isn’t important. But the courts, which have the last word on sich things, have plainly and firmly and repeatedly said that it

along in the hope of finding somebody who might be about to break a traffic law. . Aside from the fact that it is never for the public good "to break laws in order to “enforce” other laws, it is perfectly clear. that. these traffic blockades, even if they were legal, burt, Tather thay Jelp, in making the Mreets safer.

THEY " concentrate all or nearly all the traffic police- * men jh four or five spots. While they are there they can 't be’ patrolling elsewhere. That leaves nearly all the city streets unguarded, with no traffic regulation at all.- " The driver who misses one of the “traps” by a city block In any direction can be as drunken or as dangerous you please—there’ll be no policeman available to stop him, ra chance of eatching a truly dangerous driver in a “traffic trap” can hardly be better than 1 to 1000. And even if -caught, under Standing | court decisions, he could not be

THERE is nothing to indicate that’ ‘these street blockdes have ever prevented a single traffic accident, ever taken dangerous driver out of circulation, ever contributed inthe slightest degree to traffic safety. ~ Tonight, with many bibulous New Year's Eve parties scheduled, there is reason to assume the number of dangerous drunken drivers on the streets will be greater than usual: They will be on any street, anywhere in town, not just in a couple of selected spots where the police are waitIngt their breaths. way to cope with them best, it seems to us, is to spread the police patrols over as many miles of city streets Aa possible. A Besides the definite advantage of being legal, such a patel lao could get some dangerous drivers oft the streets.

| Wehn at Peace With Japan

§ JP his New Your mosmpe io the Japavess peopl. Gen. Dduglas MacArthur remarked that, although Japan is | still thchnically at war-—"there are few places on earth mors at peace.” ii en geile gee too much concerned about the “global jdeological brought close to Japan by the Communist roll over

a Japanese peace settlement.” > Ce I brine mio Torus the new son peace and war which have been forced upon the Russian imperialism and the cold war techniques % Soviet fifth. ‘columns CW THE war German, slid and Japanese : WE fond mruelves by tireumatance in the same camp-with the Russians. But victory in that war did not « bring*peace. We found that, though the ‘Russians had wartime

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enemies in common with us, their post-war objectives.were in direct conflict with ours.

dominated by the Kremlin. Because of this conflict, we remain in a technical state of wir with Germany and Japan, with Russia as our nominal ally. But at the same time the Soviets confront us with #<old war, in which we are forced to treat the Japanese and half of the Germans as at least potential allies. It isa as iituation unique in world politics.

: BECAUSE of this situation the United States and the

Wistérn Germany, in the form of an occupational statute. We have established an even less formal, but realistic, working arrangement with Japan. This being the case, why 4 Shou we worry about a formal peace settlement of the war type, when a settlement satisfactory to both Russia AB Dhrseives is beyond the realm of possibility? : be sure, certain technicalities must’ be dispensed with our temporary arrangements in Germany and Japan ard tb be made permanent. But we might as well; proceed this direction without further concern about the Soviet atfity We are nd longer at war with Germany and Sous te rr ought to show. it.

Path Unfrod’

; \ NINETEENTH CENTURY poet once wrote of the hee New Year as “a flower unhlown; a book unread . auntrod.” “+ In these days it is fashionable—or 80, at least, many of ug:seem to believe—to be cynical about such gentle ghts. The great need of our times, we hear constantly, . “realistic,” to “face facts.” And, indeed, there are ‘many and ominous facts that cannot be evaded by a generation which, having produced the atom bomb, now learns ih, — new Einstein formula may unlock all secrets of the

Bi; YET, however hard-boiled we may try {o be, there is a ay BE ANTIRE grace withis us al. Its name is hope. If we seek cen it, lest our fellows scoff, still we cling to it, and it, and nurture it in our quieter interludes. { For some it may glow, in the silence of a dad ‘chapel. Others may feel its greatest warmth when they Jook upon the faces of their children. But, happily, iEis there in all of us. © efaatach as @tnged since the post wists ia Yes, One has not changed. Though we preoccupy ourselves pubts and dreads at other times—though we are con- ¢ 0 by endless res which often stem beyond ou r to solve—still, in the best and worst of us, when New Be wi si 2 the one we've waited for. , a8 another Nineteenth Century poet said: ! on ou A ut i

? Congress fixes a national

run “traffic traps” again tonight, regardless of whether

is nof Jegal to blockade streets and stop everyone who comes

, and the international procedural conflict delaying

™ We sought a free world; the Soviets wanted a world

“Western powers have made their own war settlement with‘

secumry el Loy Fred Perking Pension Policy

For U. S. Urged

Cyrus Ching Sees Trouble “if No Plan Is Adopted

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 — If Congress follows the advice of Cyrus B. Ching, director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Bervice, ft will act early next session to find “whither are we drifting” in the pension business, ‘His concern was made known today in a

.. lengthy statement on the problems with which

Mr. Ching fears that; unless ‘policy, the labor Tunions™ drives to win pension systems from employers will bring trouble on the industrial front. : “Before the drift goes too- far” he sas] “it would be well to take our bearings and devise a national policy which-witi-heip us-to-set-our future course. If this Is not done promptly, the

nation ‘may have to pay a high price In additional stoppages called to compel institution of private-employer pension plans.”

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Predicts Trouble

MR. CHING noted that it took a long strike to settle the issue in the basic steel industry. When the steel union or others try to extend the pension plan to smaller business concerns not able to pass the costs on to the consuming pubUe, he said there would be trouble. Many of the smaller employers, he said, “claim perhaps with justification, that their economic condition will not permit them to assume the increased cost of production represented by the institution of such plans. Their employees can be expected to demand the same economic security through private plans as have been afforded to members of other locals of their international union by employers’ “in a more favorable position. The situation foreshadows difficulties around the bargaining table.”

Social Security Extension

MR. CHING said he ‘wasn’t trying to advise on the kind of national policy that should be set up, but he indicated he preférred a wide extension and improvement of the Federal Social Security System. “If it is social. security that is sought” he sald, “its attainment should not depend upon the economic ‘success or failure of a particular business enterprise.” Referring to some objections against present law requirements that employers must bargain on pension plans when a union demands them, he asked: “If it 1s our national policy:-to assure satis. factory old-age security to workers and there are strong objections to achieving it through collective bargaining procedures, how else is it to be done except by such a legislative reorganization of our national Social Security System as would minimize the need for private plans to provide adequate living standards for workers

_ upon retirement from the labor market?”

MY GIANT

My giant on the lawn is tall And oh, so big around, And when the sun is shining bright: His shadows on the ground ~—— Are sure a frightfull sight to see, But my giant is just a tree,

My giant In summer wears his hair All bushed out like he's crowned, But Al the autumn breezes blow ’ He lets it fly around, : Until our yard is covered deep, In leaves that fall, when he's asleep. But oh, in winter you should see My giant bare and tall, Without a leaf upon his head Or any robe at all, Until the snow begins to cling, And then my giant's an ermined king.

~Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway

PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR

The aged year has gone—there lies ahead New shining days wherein to sing. My prayer, Oh God: (let it be humbly sald) May 1 be worthy of the gifts they bring.

‘May I be daily mindful of my task,

And not to faint beneath thy rod. When mercy and forgiveness I am ask, May I forgive—as thou forgave mé, God.

The future is unknown except to thee; The pathway upward leads the way. My Ged-—deep in man’s soul and knowledge be, A guiding light through every day.

Paul K. McAfee

EXPERT APPRAISERS . . . By Marquis Childs

Economic Forecasts

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—A great deal of wrangling has gone on backstage over the series of reports which the President's Council of Ecoriomiic Advisers is issuing on the state of the na-

tion's economy and the prospects for 1950.

Directly at stake is the willingness of the public, on the one hand, and the professional economists and business analysts, on

the other hand, to continue to

Steady Decline.

One Resolution We Hope He Keeps

PLL NEVER TOUCH THE STUFF 9 AGAIN;

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ELECTION ISSUE .

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—8teady declines in voter participation in national elections is jolting both major parties into action for 1950. President Truman himself is expected to take the issue to the country fairly soon. . Both Democratic and ‘Republican leaders think a larger vote will benefit their réspective sides in the congressional election next year but the issue is In fact non-partisan. Whatever Mr. Truman does about trying to get out a bigger vote will be on the basis of citizenship and not partisanship. Only slightly more than half the eligible voting population went to the polls in the 1948

: Presidential election, and in the last off-year

congressional elections in 1946-—comparable to the 1950 election—only 39 per cent voted.

THERE has beén a fairly steady decline in the past 50 years—85 per cent of the eligibles voted in the McKinley-Bryan election in 1896. Radio picked up voter interest for a while but it didn’t last. Ten per cent more of the eligibles voted in the Willkie-Roosevelt 1940 election than in the Truman-Dewey contest in 1948, All this has been placed before President Truman by National Democratic Chairman William M. Boyle Jr. Mr. Boyle believes there are more Democrats than Republicans in the country, and that the only problem is for his organization to get-them

But the Republicans are hunting for bigger

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IT WAS so foggy in a western olty a4 man was hired to walk ahead of a bus and tell the driver where Hé should go. How often we've wanted to do that!

PARENTS can at least be thankful that their kids keep out of more trouble than they get into.

A MAN was pinched for blowing his auto. horn for 20 minutes. The penalty for being on a tot.

CAUSE divorce: Falling in love at first sight an ht out again -at first slight,

SIDE GLLANCES

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. By Charles Lucey

Larger Vote Sought i in 1950

game, too. At the Republican Policy Committee meeting in Chicago last week, Arthur Summerfleld, national committeeman from Michigan and policy chairman, announced that GOP hopes are centered in the “happy hunting ground” of 46 million eligible voters who stayed out of the election in 1948. ‘ The Democrats in 1948, said Mr. Summerfield, “squeezed the juice out of the apple.” Because the Republicans thought Tom Dewey would coast in, they did only a so-so job of turning out their voters. Mr. Summerfield said that in some GOP districts the vote was only a third of what it should have been. While in some Democratic districts it was two-thirds. »

Door-Bell Ringing

THE Republicans, in their recent unhappy

years, have talked a lot about doorbell-ringing and block-to-block drives tp get out the vote, but they've had nothing to match the zeal shown at times—the 1944 election may have been the best example-—by the political wing of the CIO. But there is no denying the ambitious nature of Republican plans for next year. It takes money to get out the vote and, district by district, the GOP nationally is out to help its congressional candidates as Perdape never before, The budget for a single wing of the Republican campaign, for example—that to be run by the House GOP Congressional Committee under Rep. Leonard Hall (R. N. Y.)—will run close to $750,000. Historically, in recent off-year elections, it has been harder for the Democrats to turn out their vote than for the Republicans.

Vote in Large’. Cities

MUCH of the Democratic vote has been con- - centrated in large cities and has been roused by the personalities of presidential campaigns but not. by the less spectacular congressional ‘elections. But the Democrats have made some casehistory studies, recently on what can be done when a real effort is applied. The findings are to be placed before state and local organizations. In some states, studies show, there have been heavy percentage drops in the number voting at the same time there have been big percentage gains in the number who were eligible.

By Galbraith New

‘Hobsiar, Forgm..

"OL a ok ages with 4 ord that sy. bot} will defend to the death your Lid ‘Insurance Is No Cure’ By Pat Hogan, Columbus, Ind. : Senator. Wayne Morse says: | “Unless ‘the

doctors are willing to sit down and help work out a sound program of health insurance, they will get legislation they won't care for a bit” And unless the people come to their serises and look straight and deép at bald facts, no doctor or insurance will help.

The pioneers who founded this nation ‘often lived to 100 years and never visited ad ; many of them lived 20 .to 50 miles from tor. They scoffed common iis

we Fol made so. fashionable hospital to have treated. - The trouble is deeper than any doctor can help; it is a by-product of the “gimme” age. We have lost all self respect, self reliance and self discipline. When compelled to visit a ‘doctor recently for a case of blood-poisoning and infection, daily I found the office full of young Swomen, giggling and cracking jokes. I did not learn’ their troubles, but they could not have been in a dangerous condition. I was, and had to wait for hours while the girls enjoyed the visit. The Reader's Digest recently published an article that hit the problem squarely on the

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head. It showed that| too many people with , too much time and money on their hands, go

to, or call, sympathy. No pension, health insurance, socialized medicine or cradle-to-grave theories will cure this evil; and although doctors are cashing in on the notion, I can't believe they favor ft. At one time China had a law—may have yet—that if the people were sick the doctors received no pay; they also had a law that when a bank failed, the banker was beheaded, As a civilized nation we should be able to strike a common sense plan between the prese ent nightmare and the extreme of the Chinese plan.

‘History of Socialist Party’ By Charles Ginsberg.

The letter captioned “Confusion on Social. 1sm” by M. O. Crawfordsville, should have been labeled “Moré Confusion on Socialism.” M. O. is lacking Th a knowledge of the his tory of the Socialist movement in America, He says, “The original Socialist Party in the U. 8. for a short time was. ‘Social Democrat.’ I believe the first split-off was the Socialist Labor group.” In 1876 there was organized in this country what is known as the “Socialistic Labor Party.”

a doctor when all they want is

It was organized and predominated by German «

emigrants. In 1887 Fredrick Engels, co-worker of Marx, wrote: “This party (Soclalistic Labor Party) is called upon to play a very important part in the movement. But in order to do so they will have to doff every remnant of their foreign garb. They will have to become out and out American. They cannot expect the Americans to come to them; they, the minority and the

"emigrants, must go to the Americans who are

the vast majority and the natives. And to do that they must above all learn English.” With the advent of Daniel DeLeon to the Socialistic Labor Party in the late "80's things began to change. In 1890 a national convention was held which was the turning point. The party was placed upon a sound scientific basis, the German predominance was cast out and the “IC” was dropped, from the name. Since then it has been known as the Socialist Labor Party, r has been in every national election since 1892, In 1800 there was a split in the Socialist Lahor Party. The Socialist Party was later organized. Many who were thrown out of the Socialist Labor Party joined with the Socialist

Party. 1 challenge M. O. to prove the “Marxian Socialism” stands-for anything but “production for use,” as he implies in his letter,

What Others Say

WATER in the ground is like money in the bank. So long as there is plenty of it, checks in the form of new wells are honored promptly. When there is an overdraft the consequences are disastrous.—C. V. Youngquist, Ohio water expert, on diminishing water resources. 4

THE record . . . has not been satisfactory and the mairf cause is that the General Assembly has refused to condemn preparations for a pew war.—Andrel Vishinsky, on recent UN Gen~ era) Assembly meeting.

THE basic purpose of all schooling in Amer. -

jca is to make our children effective citizens in a free country. It is the thing a free people need if they are to govern themselves —giuf, Dwight Eisenhower.

NEW developments are revolutionizing the entire field of munitions and may deeply affect the respective roles of the Army, Navy and Air Force.—Defense Secretary Louis Johnson.

ATOMIC ENERGY .. . By Bruce Biossat

Science Hopes

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—We average citizens don't get much help from the scientists in grasping the complexities of atomie energy. The air of mystery is, of course, deliberately contrived in the interest of national security. But every once in a while the experts come up with a statement that partially shatters the ~ » "

. bright sky. This is

put credence in the Council's reports, From professional economists on the Council's staff came most of the criticism. They are fearful that the original purpose in creating the council, which was to establish a group of experts who could objectively and dispassionately appraise the nation’s economic balance sheet, is being perverted. hy ” . u

IT IS not that they were necessarily in accord with the viewpoint of former Chairman Edwin G. Nourse when he quit in sharp disagreement with the two other Council members. But they were behind Mr, Nourse In his conviction that the Counell should be a’ professional body with a professional apprgach. . This difference came out sharply in the preparation. of the Council's economic report to Congress, (Not to be confused with the report to the President on business and govs ernment that is out this week.) Both acting Chairman Leon Keyserling and the second member, John D. Clark, see 1950 in the rosy glow of optimism. ©. " » LJ THEY see high production levels and high employment with hardly a cloud to mar the especially true of Mr. Clark who after becoming a vice president and director of Standard Oil of Indiana resigned to get a Ph. D. in economics at Johns Hopkins University. In general, members of the Council's staff are in agree-

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all-important report to Congress should say more than, in the refrain of the popular song, “it's a big, “vide, wonderful world.” They were for introducing some caution, arguing through long sessions with the Council that there are elements Phat may dim the optimistic perspective of the present, . » "

ONE of them, obviously, Is

the spiral of wages, prices and -

profits which continues to soar. The American Federation of Labor has just announced that it will seek wage Increases of at least 10 cents an hour, adding the now. familiar argument that industry can grant such increases without raising prices. While union wages may Keep pace with price raises, danger is that the mass of non-

‘union workers will increasingly

be priced out of the market. Some signs that this is taking place are already evident. Final proofs of the report to Congress are still being worked over. ‘Before it Is released to the publie, it may contain some of the caution urged by the experts. ” » »

THE immediate futuresof the Council depends on finding a suitable "chairman to replace Mr. Nourse. Apparently the decision has now gone against

. Mr. Keyserling who was at one

time considered. Presidential assistant John R. Steelman has sounded several economists of top rank as to whether they would be will-

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flon at Harvard. Prof. Mason, who has held various advisory posts in Washington, refused the offer. Another prospect intimated that he would be Interested only if there.were one more resignation from the council. That is to say he felt that if he accepted the chairmanship, he would find himself in a minority of one, ag Mr. Nourse was prior to his resignation. - » .

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and capacity. But the object to his tendency to fall back on free-flowing rhetoric instead of sticking to hard facts. In this political year the reaction to the newest report to Congress is likely to be tinged with politics, especially as Mr.

. Nourse has become something

of a hero with conservatives since his resignation, But far more is at stake than. - the future of any oné’ Individual. The whole concept of the Council--a body of {8 Sapert FAR my be lost sight. of and that will a serious

secrecy. y Such a statement came In New York the other day at a meeting of top scientists, Dr John R. Dunning, Columbia University physicist, announced that the cost of producing uraplum fuel — a hasic result of atomic fission — had been reduced virtually to the price of

‘coal. ~ . r

ASIDE from natural gas,/ coal is the nation’s cheapest fuel and the United States has it In tremendous abundance. Despite wartime and postwar boosts in its cost, coal still supplies nearly half the counLry’s fuel needs.

Yet there are important new

industrial processes on the horizon which are crying for a new and cheaper fuel. If sea water could be distilled for general use, New York and

other coastal cities might for-

get forever about water shortages. ]

BUT fuel costs of the process X

to refine the billions of tons of low-grade ore on hand. But again, a cheaper fuel is needed. Ever since the first announcement that the atom had been split, the people of America

DR. DUNNING did not ene lighten us too much on the meaning of his statement about uranium fuel costs. But cere

tainly its production at costs

comparable to those of coal is a great step toward the making of a truly cheap atomic fuel, : There is no hint how much closer that goal now is than it was before this advance was completed. Right after the war scientists were saying atomic power probably was a decade off —at least. We've gone al-

most half way through that

10-year span, The achieyements so far give rise to hope that we may clip a few years off their prediction, [A - IN telling us of this first great stride toward low-cost fuel, Dr, Dunning offered some details but they actually tended only to increase the mystery of atomic energy. He spoke vaguely about “gaseous diffusion,” the use of

buildings. None of this adds much to our understanding. But the scientist aid say

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