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‘Aetion ‘Under Law . PRESIDENT TRUMAN waited over-long to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act in the nation-wide coal strike. His delay has played into the hands of John L. Lewis. Throughout a 10-month period of three-day and noday mining weeks Mr, Lewis has been trying to enhance his bargaining power by creating a shortage of coal. The shortage is now critical. It will become more so before Mr. Truman's fact-finding board reports to him next Monday. The already grave danger of widespread suffering and industrial paralysis will be increased. We hope the President's belated action will prove
effective. Certainly, if the strike continues; he will be eom-
pletely justified in seeking a federal court injunction to stop it for 80-days. That's what the Taft-Hartley Act authorizes.
» ~ ~ » » » THERE IS, unfortunately, no assurance that such an
injunction would be obeyed. And, unfortunately, Mr. Truman has seemed to encourage defiance of such an injunction by denouncing the Taft-Hartley Act and promising 1 union leaders to wipe it from the statute books. — ; Just a year ago he contended vigorously that he did not need, spelled ouf in law, power to seek injunctions against national-emergency strikes. Before that he had used or moved toward using that power, as spelled out in the Taft-Hartley Act, on seven occasions. But, Mr. Truman said in February, 1949, Attorney General Clark—now a Supreme Court Justice—had assured him that his “exceedingly great inherent powers” under the Constitution were adequate to deal with national emergencies. Congress wisely refused to be impressed by that contention and the Taft-Hartley Act was not repealed. » " THE PRESIDENT'S “inherent powers” to deal with _ strikes have never been defined. The country should be glad that in the present ooal-strike situation Mr. Truman has not attempted to use any such vague and dubious authority, but instead is following a process plainly laid down in written law. If Mr. Truman finds his Taft-Hartley Act powers inadequate to cope with developments of the present situation, we believe Congress and the country should and would give earnest consideration to a request for stronger law.
War Is the Real Problem
SE LYE of the country's leading United States to make a public declaration that we will
never use the H-bomb in warfare unless an enemy uses it first against us or our Allies, That would be a foolish thing to do. “Tt would tie our hands, and give notice to a potential aggressor that our hands were tied. That might invite an attack. It certainly would not deter one. % Such a policy would destroy the morale of our armed forces. Would our fighting men want to leave their best weapon in mothballs while they were sent into battle like guinea pigs to find out what weapons were being used _ against them? Ca
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PEACE and ‘security will not be advanced by any one. nation outlawing any particular weapon, however terrible - it may be. Weapons are incidental to the real problem, which is war. Until war is outlawed as an instrument of public policy, the nations which want peace must be prepared to fight for.it. Nations which cannot protect them-
! DEFENSE ... By Jim G. Lucas
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Sees Comeback For Battleship
Adm. Blandy Says They'll Be Used for Guided Missiles
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 Adm. W. H. P. Blandy, the man who bossed the two Bikini A-bomb tests, thinks the battleship will stage a comeback. Even so, the admiral said, we should mothball the USS Missourt--the only battleship still afloat — to make room for
could justify spending $6.5 million a year on a training ship even If it was named for the President's home state. He also says we have too few carriers ‘and carriers are what we need. But séme day, says Adm Blandy, our battleships may save our necks. Here's why: ’ “We have a valuable investment in their strong hulls and powerful machinery. They : will be extremely valuable in the development of guided missile ships. You and I may see the day when battleships and carriers are merged as attack ships.” The admiral doesn’t look his 60 years. It was “hard to believe the Navy this week had shelved him for physical disability. He looks as strong as an ox. He was almost boyishly . excited about his new civilian Job.
Pilotless Planes
ADM. BLANDY thinks piloted planes may become obsolete. He is not convinced, however, that we will soon develop pilotiess missiles which can cross from continent to continent with accuracy. ¥ Thus, he thinks we must move launching: platforms closer to targets. He figures we may build them on the hulls of our obsolete battle-
Adm. Blandy
The USS Kentucky, 90 per cent compléted at the end of the war, may be the first. That depends, he says, on how soon we develop the right kind of missile. He says we have made good progress with the smaller ones, but are not
“satisfied with the bigger ones. " Big Investment
UNCLE SAM today has approximately $1.2 billion invested in battleships. That's 550,000 floating tdns. All but the Missouri are in mothballs. The Tennessee, California, Colorado, West Virginia and Maryland-—20,000 tons—were built in the 1920's for about $10 million each. The North Carolina, Washington, South Dakota, Indiana, Massachusetts, and Alabama 35,000 tons--were built in 1941-42 for $100 million each. The Iowa, New Jersey, Missouri and Wisconsin -- 45,000 tons — were built in 1943-44, Adm, Blandy concedes that the A- bomb-—and now the H-bomb-—-make going to sea “uncom-
fortable” in wartime. But he doubts that atomic weapons will be used Against fleets.
Even if they are, he says, warships will go to
sea no matter how many are sunk. They must,
‘he insists, to intercept enemy A-bombs.
We Have No Choice
THE test of a Navy is not its vulnerability— it’s expendable—but its ability to do its job. He scoffs at the idea of not making the H-bomb, We have no choice, he says. He sees it as “no positive deterrent to war,” but says it ‘certainly is something to make use:
“He believes a stalemate might result If both
sides bullt it. : The atom bomb, he recalled, gave him his
~ worst scare. At the second—underwater--Bikini
explosion, the scientists predicted everything but “"the heavy blanket of froth and foam which
. sovered all but five ships in the lagoon. It
reached a height of 2000 feet. The admiral knew
his ships © n't outrun it, so he ordered them to turn and Téce it, That way, he reasoned, some might escape.
As It turned out, the wave was mostly froth and subsided after traveling two miles. But for a few horrible minutes, he admitted, he feared that he had started something he couldn't stop.
WITH THE DAWN
“The roéy fingers of the coming dawn Entwine themselves within the velvet robes of night. Jeweled stars retreat and suddenly are gone
.As day-break softly spreads her golden light.
selves risk extinetion. ~ Ching ; The charter of the United Nations should be amended to make that organization an effective agency for maintenance of peace. Most of the member nations are committed to a peace policy, but that majority has been nullified - by Russia's misuse of the big power veto. Russia has used the same veto to prevent the organization from having an’ international police force.
iS THE UNITED NATIONS has done a good Job within .. “its limitations, and it should be entrusted with larger re-
+ majority or-a two-thirds vote. At present, the vote of any one of the five permanent members of the Security Council can defeat the will of all the other nations by a simple veto. sas a ~Hf we can make the-United Nations a real instrument - for peace, the instruments of war will not seem so important.
THAT WAS an unusual and heart-warming tribute paid ; on Saturday in New York to Norman Thomas, the veteran Socialist who is the only man ever to be: defeated six times’ for President of the United States. Thirteen hundred ' persons representing nearly every shade of political opinion attended a testimonial luncheon for the . 85-year-old “champion dissenter”. of American politics. Last election, Mr. Thomas received only 139,000 votes for President, less than one-third of 1 per cent of the total Yet it is difficult to think of any man in American public - Alife who is hed in L Wigher esteem by his Political opponents. » "THE reason Tor that, of course, is that people know Norman Thomas, though he is a leader well to the left of center, is first and last an American. They know that he is a man of great intellectual honesty; eminently civilized: - and thoroughly unselfish in his desires for something better * for his fellow citizens. Only the party-line Communists have found cause to hate Mr. Thomas.. Though a Socialist, he has always op"posed bringing-about social change through force. He has never loved another country more than America, and he would be the last to look abroad for guidance in his political activities. > We would, as James A. Farley said of Mr. Thomas at the luncheon, be better off with many more Americans like him.
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Birds arise to pour forth melody IH thé(F unchanged greeting to & War: world.
I keep a rendezvous with memory
And hold you once again, my dearest girl. =Dorothy Mae Parke, 15 N. Edgehill St.
PUBLIC POLICY . . . By Marquis Childs
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INGREDIENTS OF WAR .
. By Watson Davis
‘World Needs Mental Medicine’
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—Now that the H-
‘bomb has exploded the atomic “cold war” to a
can the word of a ruler, like Stalin, be trusted?
new crisis, how about calling in the psychologists and psychiatrists to help the peysicists, diplomats and military men? There is far more to the critical situation than hydrogen, deuterium, plutonium-—or aircraft carriers, world-girdling bombers, and guided missiles, Minds of men, feelings of masses of peoples, customs of the centuries, the lack of information or the misinformation behind and before the Iron Curtain--these are ingredients of the impending explosion in international relations that can now ~iigges city-destroying atomic energy. ' When we are sick it is but human not to want to see the doctor. The world is sick, with fear, anger, and desperation, but we flex our nuclear muscles to convince ourself that we are strong, unafraid, and can lick anyone who _ puts up his atomic fists. :
THE practitioners - who treat sick human. minds and ‘feelings are modest people, preoccupied with individual human troubles. Only occasionally are they bold endugh to prescribe
for the world, for they realize the magnitude
of the task and the lack of certainty of a cure for the disease of impending war.
No one in high place in our Fovernment is seeking their advice upon what may prove the crisis of civilization. Yet all of us have questions to ask the psychologists and the psychiatrists,. especially those who have dealt with lives influenced by the ideas and spirit of the Communist-dominated, dictator-ruled world.
Could a hundred H-bombs devastating Rus-
_ Prescribe for World SERRE
sia or the USA bring peace to the world? Would $50 billion (McMahon's proposal) buy immunity. .
to an atomic arms race? Is it hunger in the
stomach or the thirst for security that turns
peoples toward communism or toward reliance on a dictator? Do cancers of intolerance prejudice and money greed in our own country infect our ability to achieve world peace? How far
~ thé group around Stalin were wiped out,
would it change the cold war? Some of these questions (and everyone can add more) are spot transitory, while others are The diagnosis of the doctors on some of
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basic.
—sponsibilities-by permitting it to make vital decisions by a
Truman’s Dilemma
- WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—One effect of the hydrogen bomb
dent and the country. The map inthe: “White House is more -isolated:
-is pparent already, It has widened the gap between the Presi- . fF
TRE SYIRPIODT “of this Teolation is apparent Th Mr Truman's relations with the press and in particular over the issue of the
~Normemn ‘Thomas; Eminent ; Citizen a
. how the President,
H-bomb. On- each side of the divide suspicion and even hostility are growing. - This is, moreover, a symptom of an attitude common in a consid-
“erable section of the Truman =
‘administration. - ® ” . : BECAUSE it can have such
‘dérious cohisequietices at “this”
precarious moment in the world crisis; it seems to me important to try to understand
feels about these matters, Here is an authoritative view of the President and the. press as seen from the White House.
Over a period ¥f months, and especially since ‘the campaign in the fall of 1948, the President . has: come to feel about the press more or less as did Franklin Roosevelt in the latter phase of the New Deal, ; » . . { THERE was the constant
goad of reckless and irre-
sponsible elements in press and radio. A determination that at. times became something like an obsession was directed at preventing “leaks.”
Questions were put at White
- House press conferences that
were felt to be deliberately in-
himself, -
sulting and beneath the dig-.
nity not of the individual but of the office. This was a marked change from the first months of the Truman administration when the President
appeared to the. press as ‘a
friendly, simple man struggling to adjust to -tasks of frightening scope. = Against- this background arose the issue of the hydrogen bomb. The fact is, of
“course, that the President had
authorized the -Atomic Energy Commission to proceed with
ufacture of
; planning and Sxperiimentation 5 the H R= 5 sta = - ce
‘discussion’ was
WHATEVER else Sen. Edwin Johnson achieved in his radio interview on Nov. 1, 1949, he did - alert the press to the . J .. development of a new “superbomb.” Three years before, John J. ‘McCloy, former assistant Secretary of War and now high commissioner for American occupation forces in Germany, had sald more "about the development and the potentialities of the bomb than Sen. Johnson. But the disclosure by Sen. Johnson, a member of the Senate-House Committee on Atomic Energy, set off the Hbomb discussion. It soon took on both sensational and controversial overtones. The President and his immediate advisers were resentful and fearful. i They were convinced the endangering America's security. The feeling was strong that development of a new weapon still in the experimental stage was not a subject for public debate. The debate would alert the Soviet Union to our intentions and spur them on to achieve the H-bomb. win a 8 > : IN THE State Department among some policy makers the belief was growing that a cold war could not be waged in an atmosphere of constant speculation, rumor and controversy, The 1} man in the White House resented what seemed to him @&n unwarranted intrusion on the .dan- : gerous ground of national se- But at the same time I think curity. And this, in turn, re- it is important to try to unflected the unhappy deteriora= derstand the President's dilemtion in relations between press . ma, caught as he is in this and government. In order t6 terrible moment at the very
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Super-gecrecy does not prevent leakage of vital information. -
from the public the kind of - non - secret knowledge that ._.Swould - contribute to ‘understanding and confidencé. To gain public confidence some-
thing m haps it is something like a council tional life.
1t will not end that debate. NE A ¢ TR wi 2
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“I know we can't afford it, but | couldn't wear an old dress to the Wilson's party, dear—all those fourflushers will have new ones}
What it chiefly does is. keep
more is essential. Per-
of! leaders of our na-
end the public debate, the focus and center of E Mthonis ent” issuéd . his “terse and responsibility. < must not be
- international caldron.
the symptoms may be indefinite, but they may have mental, social or political medicine to suggest that may not be available to Congressmen, generals and admirals, or Cabinet members.
‘Human Nature ah WHILE the war was still on, before the first
atomic bomb was exploded, 2000 psychologists,
«agreeing 99.4 per cent, told us about human nature and peace. In the present crisis some basic principles then presented are pertinent: - War can be avoided. War is not bern in men, it is built into men. In planning for permanent peace, the coming generation should be the primary focus of attention. : Racial, national, and group hatreds can, to a considerable degree, be controlled. Condescension toward “inferior” groups destroys our chance for: lasting peace. The root-desired of the common people of all lands are the safest guide to framing a peace.
ever wider units of collective Security,
‘Breed New Wars’
“NEGLECT of basic principles. may breed new wars,” said the psychologists in 1945, “no
—matter- how well-intentioned pur political lead-
ers may be.” A lot of atoms have been split in the ‘past five. years. There are new ingredients in the If such experts take a mw look at the situation, something may come 0! Above all, it must be a careful, unemotional look with the attitude of the research worker and the clinician. Protagonists and minds-
made-up will not be effective in any such con- °
suitation upon the mentally disturbed world. And the Sonsultation “may not come too late.
Barbs - : THE Swiss have an airport at an elevation of 5643 feet. be quite a comedown. a A LECTURER says women are just as important as men in today's struggle. If it weren't for women, there might not even be a struggle.
- By Galbraith POST OFFICE COSTS... . By Earl Richert
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re be crams ie vend Hof pret}. wil defn to hy death you ight te say it
By Julian Bambarger, Indianapolis.
urging members of his association to ban"
~ Miss Bergman has done. .. aa
apolis certainly could well use a large civie
_ The trend of human relationships is toward
“ifs own circumstances. — Mich
Any flight from that field must °
WASHINGTON, Feb. 7—President Truman ay: “have to decide soon whether t6 veto a veterans” benefit bill: would plunge-the Post Office Department . many
The bill also would eat up a large part of any ee Rost
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¥ =38 ‘Audiences Should Retire Ingrid |
Trueman T. Rembusch, Presidedt of the Associated Theater Owners of Indiana, the congratulations and support of the. for the commendable stand he has
a ®s
showing of Ingrid Bergina, n's plctufe” SHthom~ £ er boli” because of Miss rgman’s m publi- | cized affair, Purticulatly with Teshect 10 “her : Wisner Lect _ willing abandonment of her . gE Mr. Rembusch apparently is the sort of | g { AUDIPHONE we a person whose willingness and ability to distin- ' 1116. FLETCHER TRY guish between right and Wi g Ls. not, lessened | by the jingle of money in the On the other hand,.a prominent Indianapolis For the Mor * theater operator has been quoted as sa i that he will reserve his decision of the proposed | EAT LAROSA ban “until he sees the ‘picture. ” IN CAF It is obvious that this gentleman has utterly failed to comprehend the issues involved. : At Your Fay There are millions of children in this country ;
who are familiar with the facts. and significance” of Miss Bergman's conduct, children age of 12 up. To condone such conduct subsequent acclamation of Miss Bergman as'an actress, would be placing, in the minds of those children, our stamp of approval on e
If we are going to be content to assume what Mr. Rembusch rightfully condemns as a “dps nothing” attitude, then let's quit ht 5 8 time and energy in trying to combat Fin. creasing juvenile delinquency. A short time ago, Miss Bergman announced her “retirement” from the screen. I suggest) that the American theater audiences, er the }
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help of the exhibitors, see to it that this be- | by EXI comes an accomplished fact-—-as of now. i At Miller's Mq WHAT DO WE NEED IN 1950? | Siler] ; Smoke Control’ || || "IE
By Miss Joyce Mitzner, Howe High School Pupll, ; '2 Doors From Po
How nice it would be to look toward the busi+*® ness section of Indianapolis every morning and . not -see the familiar old smog. An effective proy gram of smoke control is just: one of the things needed Hy fuly
etme ens
WHEN | WorkT
you embarrasses tent elimination night? This symptom Irpitations, Backache,
make our city more health convenient, and beautiful. Bet-& ter cross-town public transp tation would be a great ‘ti saver for many people and gq . large new hospital certainly.
would be an asset to the cys, __ pressure over thesBlad sick. . 5 Ser irvisation. and . A great deal of traffic eon eu Kidney” and gestion could be avoided by thas _ = sueh cases the
usually goes to worl these three ways: 1. certain
completion of the building of |
Miss Mitzner circum-urban highways. Nearly
Sg lg all of the through traffic would’. cs Le Ry be routed around, instead of through, the city. Tria and calming i:
Toduce frequent or s
night Give it a fair trial money back guarante
WHEN SLE COME A FEEL (
It would be a boon to the local motorist to ba’ able to drive over the city streets without en--countering the numerous chuckholes. odin Being the convention city that it is, Iodianw-
torium. Of course this would be used for ma other gatherings such as political edn and musical programs. Nearly everyone believes that Indianapolis is a wonderful city in which to live, but-it could be improved greatly with the above suggested improvements. a What are your ideas on ways to ‘ prestirtrn Indianapells § in 19507 Send your suggestions - . © When you roll
“1950 Editor,” The Times, 214 W. Maryland st. EC eek, Special medicine “'o
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I HAVEN'T lost faith in the people—and I And scientists s never had time enough to hate anybody. —Hounay FEEN-A-MINT'S n Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas. Sive— “readies” it 80 > be iy the system. Get FeeNdrug counter—25¢, 5( THE decision by a government on Whether FEEN-A to withhold or grant recognition to 4 new gove FAMOUS CHEWIN
ernment is an exercise of a basic sovereign right, - Each government must make its own decision in the light of the situation as it sees it and of
ael Mc State Department, on British velit China. * % *
THE opportunities of the” American way of life are past only for those who cannot recognize them.—-Gov. Thomas J. ! sme
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THE next 10 years will be one of the retest, and most prosperous decades in the history of the nation. ~—Gov. Frank J. Lausche, Ohie. X=
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Roy!
Veterans’ Pay?
yo wilh eh
rates. Now pending before the House, the bill would give veterans who entered the postal
war credit toward their auto‘matic promotions for time spent In the miary servige,
~gervice since the -end ‘of -the-
office revenues which Congress might produce by raising postal
Congress last year. But Presis dent Truman signed the bill.
feel like a
praise V-T ip suffere “THERE is too Ha, fistics help sutfere "to the bill to lead to a veto said Mr. Hallbeck. “I am posis FRIEN
tive he won't veto it becaus ..he is a veteran himself
; and ung... oy :
WHILE. .
EVERY year or "shiltary. derstands the problems of vets "THE GREA service would mean $100 a year Tan = extra In salary for. the 120000 Supporters of he measure, It you hod affected veterans. The Senate aay t Justi - you would has passed a bill with this fea- ne to veterans who entered ) ture the postal service since the wa WERE A PX . ; because they are Several hun 8 LIVE AND , the H bil ton, Ae ose oii dred dollars a year in salary has ordaine veterans pay increases of $400. behing postal workers of the “He couset! a year at the time they receive ag not go 4 ice of man. Sel NEU Appointments 0 As precedent for giving reid «for medicin The bill is expect ed to pass for time spent in military serv : x the House. © ice, they point to a similar rE DO You The House Post Office Com- ry wr Congress a fred GESTION A mittee estimates the cost of its ol at ut there is n ‘LACK OF bill at $53,900,000 for the first C.°AT Precedent for the. p ; year, and a total of $454,175. Fosed $400 pay increase at th CONDIT! 000 for the eight years the bill of Jeesiving iL. Tadutat 2 : would affect post office ex- Do men r=i3 hene —_ "Are you er -penditures. Supporters of the - given regard owned. ror “i‘measure say these estimates how long the veterans were i : : are far 100 high. the service, ; \ If the medi : .... help you, | : Le wie MEMBERS of the congre 2 for you lik THE Post Office Department sional “economy bloc” fear tha: Scientific. F currently is operating at an rit of these benefits t = ; annual deficit of $550 million. el e veterans in the 5 : Right Food il And pending bills to raise service would open the door o ie ¢ - Pos rates would increase similar requests in behalf o = se NEw as OIA OE revenues by only an estimated. veterans working in other de§ "dnd when longer if they ate the right $115 million. partments. . =. tem a wet combinations of food. Show Officials of postal employees’ = Miller et. bi favo sold on a this to the little wosian, men! tions benef becausa .. receive bl . -- - . : ‘money wil IT PAYS to be good at some- fe to thing but nobody ever got rich 25; ~ “being a Svod loser. ; pin . ’ counting Office. ; : “You ow BRAIN storms always make Roy Hallbeck, legislative Trini = ‘your troubles look a great deal representative of the National : darker than ey really are. Federation of Post Office 24s - " ay 7 * recalls : SA A aL Bak SEs Sen pr ¥