Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1950 — Page 14
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What Cost? .
Coal—At
"E don’t know how the national coal crisis will be sur-
’ mounted. But it must, and will, be surmounted somehow. The
Mr. Minton
: Brings Dissent
Frankfurter Opposes Hoosier Jurist's Opinion WASHINGTON, Feb, 22 Associate Justice of the United States Supreme
~ court in the case of the U.
DEAR BOSS cae By Dan Kidney
"Hoosier Forum
Dear Boss «As an
Sherman (8hav) Minton never will hecome one of Associate Justice Felix Frankfurter's “hot-dog” boys, . The intellectually arrogant one-time Harvard law professor, who helped FDR pack Washington with his former students, ““dpelled that out clearly in a dissenting opinion which he read from the bench, Justice Minton had written the majority opinion of the
vs, Albert J. Rabinowitz and the result was a five-to-three
BA.
We Are Making Progress 2
strike can’t go on indefinitely. It can't go on much longer without causing national disaster. The country must have coal—soon. So this strike will end. That is, for at least a while, the miners will go back to work. Possibly, now that their union has been cited for contempt of court, they will stop Hefying the Taft- Hartley Act injunction. Or possibly John L. Lewis, rather than see the -union punished by heavy fines because the miners continue mass defiance of the injunction, will modify his demands ang pome-to-terms-with-the mine owners. - - Or maybe the desperate need for econ) will impel the mine owners to meet Mr. Lewis’ terms. Or perhaps President Truman will ask Congress for power to seize the mines and the government will then negotiate an agreement with their owners. om mp 3 . ” BY whatewgr way, this strike will end. We hope-——with little visible reason for hoping—that the terms on which it ends will make it possible for the
the public to seek a sound and lasting solution for a problem that gravely concerns them all. The. problem, simply stated, is that coal—though still essential to national life—is the product of a fast declining industry. There is no ‘market for as much coal as the miners can dig if they all work full time. Demand for coal is shrinking chiefly because other fuels and sources of power have become cheaper or more dependable or both. - In 1939 coal supplied almost four-fifths of the home * fuel market; in 1949, hardly two-thirds. In 1947 this country's industries used over 442 million tons of coal; two years later, in 1949, less than 355 million tons.
as dictator over the coal industry. - ———————— His “solutions” —strikes, three-day weeks, higher-and - higher Hourly wages, bigger and bigger pension and welfare levies for the miners—only push up the price of coal, make its supply less dependable and cut the miners’ weekly and yearly earnings. i It can't be solved by the miners, the mine owners and the public working at cross purposes, often in a state almost like warfare. We believe it can be solved if they all work together. But it won't be solved by a temporary halt of the present + ‘strike on any terms which further destroy the market for coal and pave the way for future strikes. -
We Don’t Use Our Power ;
HE United States has broken diplomatic relations with Red Bulgaria, whose government charged that American Minister Donald R. Heath had hidden a spy in the U. S. legation. It took us a long time to make up our minds. A month ago Bulgaria made similar charges against Mr. Heath and other American officials, and the State Department demanded that the charges be withdrawn. But our indignant note was ignored. Finally, the Bulgarian Reds forced the department to act. As’ one observer put it, “We have closed our window in Bulgaria after the Bulgarians already had slammed the curtain on us.” : y 8 0» yx | MEANWHILE, Robert A. Vogeler,-an American businessman, has been sentenced to 15 vears.in prison in Hungary on trumped up charges of espionage. Probably in retaliation we will also belatedly sever diplomatic relations with Red Hungary, which we should have done months ago. But that won't get Mr. Vogeler out of jail. Presumably..toe, we. will.continue to. do. business with... the rest of the Soviet satellite states until each in turn has treated our officials and citizens so outrageously. that we will have to break relations with them, too. But by that time a lot of Americans may be rotting in jail. ___The United States is feeding a good part of the world. “We are in a position to prescribe some rules of international -eonduct and to obtain the adherence to it to give it compalling force.” Why don't we take the initiative, instead of forever. sitting back until we get socked on the chin?
Potatoes in the ‘Planned State’
created, the federal planners have come up with a ‘“‘solution.” The solution? More controls. : Sen. Scott Lueas, majority Senate leader, introduced the bill for them. It proposes that only farmers who will accept "government dictation of how many potatoes to produce can have government cash handouts for potatoes. In brief, this means that farmers and the men get together to create an artificial shortage of potatoes so the price of potatoes will be high, with the government financing the deal out of tax money. °
® = = x = = IF THE producers of steel, or shoes or lip-stick or most anything else got togéther on a deal like this the same government would: prosecute them vigorously for violation of
duce less coal so the price would go up they would almost certainly be hauled into court as a monopoly, although when John L. Lewis does the same thing through a monopoly of "the means of production, nothing much seems to happen to him. . -
payer. But it does point up very clearly the futility of “controls” and “planning” under. the semi-socialist state. They -just don’t work. And when they fail, as they always have, the only remedy the planners ever seem to offer is more of
miners, the mine owners and the government representing -
THAT problem can't be solved by Mr. Lewis functioning
EMBARRASSED (as who wouldn't be?) by the fantastic ~ mess their own attempt to tontrol potato prices hase
. know.”
+ the anti-trust laws. If the producers of coal agreed to pro--
It is all very confusing to an ordinary Jaw- abiding tax- :
. the controls and more of the planning that caused the = 3) troubl er Ck Py Eh
» decision. Approving the Minton decision were Vinson dnd Associate Justices Reed, Burton and Clark. Senate _friend, but ‘wrote a short opinion of Jackson joined in Justice William O. Douglas wag absent and. took no part in the v
Chief Justice Fred M
“Shay’s” old Black dissented, his own. Justice Robert H. the Frankfurter dissent,
case,
The Minton opinion held that federal officers 573 crooked stamps from Rabinowitz’ shop when they went there to _arrest him for selling four of the phonies to .
had the .right to scoop up a postal employee. The. District Court rant,
U, 8. Court of Appeals. Attorneys” for the
Took Dim View
THAT also.was the stand furter took when he wrote the opinion taking a dim view of the Minton findings. “The old saw that hard casés make had law Justice Frankfurter
“But petty cases-are even™ ‘TRAGIC
has its basis in experience,” wrote in his dissent.
more calculated to make bad law,
“The impact of a sordid little case is apt to obscure the implications of the generalization to which the case gives rise, Only thus can I account for a disregard of the history embedded in the fourth amendment and the great place which belongs to that amendment in the body of our liberties as recognized and applied by unanimous decisions over a long stretch of the
Court's history.
“It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty havé most frequently been forged in controversies involving not very nice people. And so, while we are concerned here with a squalid little defrauder, we must deal with his case in the context.of what are really the great themes expressed by the fourth disregard of materials unterlving the amendment does not
amendment: A _answer them.”
Lecture in "History
JUSTICE FRANKFURTER then proceeded to give a lecture in history and law, his dissent covering 18 pages, ‘although the Minton opinion was only 10 and the Justice Black dissent two, the Yale law prof, has termed opinions of . Justice “legal needlework.” In this case he gave the needle to the two
Fred Rodell, the oftentimes brilliant Frankfurter
but thé government was reversed by the
defendant the fact that there had been plenty of time for a search warrant to have been obtained and therefore the fourth amendment to the Constitution had been violated, as well as previous rul.ings of the Supreme Court,
Justice
Jhstice Hugo
upheld the Rea704. and o> - —meizure, atthoughr twas made without —
C WAar-
had
stressed
Frank-
institutions?
ASHINGTON, os ago that rash of articles and books about the shocking condition of the nation's mental
TOAL STRIKE SETTLEMENT |!
PLAGUE .
Feb. 22-— Remember not so
That-flurry of interest undoubtedly produced
comfort. y
the historic
good. Some of the more filthy medieval asylums were cleaned up. The poor, tortured inmates were given at least a chance for decency and
But most of those same people who briefly engaged the attention of the outside world are stil TocKed up. care might be released and become self-support-ing members of society. the money for research, might be cured. A group-of doctors and public-spirited citi~
Some of them with adequate
Qthers, if science had
zens went to Congress the other day to tell this
story.
freshmen on the Court-—-Justices Minton and
Tom Clark—and compared these President Truman appointees with their predecessors, the late Justices Frank Murphy and Wiley Rutledge, in
such paragraphs as these:
“Respect for continuity in law, where reasons for “change are wanting, alone requires herence to Truplano and the other decisions. Especially ought the court not to re-enforce the instabilities of our day by giving fair ground the expression of for instance, of unexpected changes in the Court's composition and the contingencies
for the belief that change:
law is
in the choice of successors.”
“He didn’t need to name names. Tn the Minton the Truman court overthrew the old -rulings made by Roosevelt justices,
FATE'S FANCY
An eerie shadow falls across my heart As ghostly fingers pluck the strings of
decision,
Memory; 1 see you . . .
I stare . . .
grave?!
psy
NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Peter Edson :
and I wonder with a start Why do you smile and beckon unto me?
my being horror-filled. - There is no power by which I can be saved. I writhe in terror, for the Fate's have willed My rendezvous with you .
—Dorothy Mae Parke.
It is really a pretty appalling story. Half the hospital beds in the colintry are occupied by mental patients. sons is suffering from one form or another of mental illness. 350,000 more beds for enially ill patients who cannot now be hospitalized.
Sex Crimes, Alcoholism
IF YOU want to paint in ever darker colors, you can add the figures on sex crimes,‘alcoholism; divorce; all symptoms of nervous and
One in every 18 per-
There is an immediate need for
emotional disorder and all sharply on the in-
crease. Yet,
ad-
tion.
even though mental illness costs up to half the country’s total bill for sickness, only two per cent of the money spent on research goes for this phase of study and explora-
The doctors and the public-spirited citizens comprising the National Committee for Mental Hygiene were asking Congress for help. Three years ago there was created in the United States Public Health Service the National Institute of “Mental Health. The institute received a small appropriation for the current year and $9,944,000 is included in the budget for 1950-51.
The committee is asking Congress to in-
crease this to $26 million. research projects in connection. with hospitals, asylums. and universities. ects were long sinte approved, but they have been put on the shelf for lack of money.
That is especially frustrating and tragic to
That would go for
Many of these proj-
the doctors because they are beginning to think
. beyond the
-Behind-the- Scenes
WASHINGTON, Feb, 22—-You never can tell how American political events are going to be interpreted abroad. For instance, take Secretary of State Dean Acheson's now-famous statement that, whatever the outcome of the Alger Hiss case, “I do not in-
—tend-to-turn-my-back-en-him:" ~The statement -was-roundly criti--cized by many Congressmen and others.
paper correspondent in Washington cabled his Paris; paper that France could consider herself . lucky in having. Dean Acheson for a friend. He would never turn his back on France, nor let her down. ” ” n LAST Dec. 15, Joseph E. Moody, president of the Southern Coal Operators, sent a let-
ter to President Truman. Mr. Moody wrote that there was a coal crisis, and asked the Presi-
dent to invoke the Taft-Hartley
law. There was no answer to the letter, and the Whit» House let it be known that it frowned on Mr. Moody's making the letter public before it had been received. p —Newsmen- told Mr. Moody, exe you ever get an answer to that letter, be sure to let us When, seven weeks later, the President finally invoked the Taft-Hartley law, Mr. Moody called up reporters and said gleefully, got my Answer ”
THIS anol oy is typical .
of the way “potato politics” is played in Washington: Toward-
the end of the war, Sen. Owen'=
Brewster of Maine went to see the then-secretary of agriculture, Clinton B. Anderson. Sen.’
Brewster made a plea for con: tinued price supports for the
potato growers’ of his state The Senator, of course, had -
“perfect right, if not a.duty, to
do this for his constituents. But the story goes that Secretary Agasraoy told the e Sena. \
“I finally’
"ton" Whatever; if any, new policies" o
But one French news-
tor that, if the government had to continue buying surplus potatoes; they would ‘have to be dumped and destroved. The Senator recoiled in horror at the mere théught of any such wasting of orecious food. - - ” u ” A LITTLE later on the potato growers came up with the {dea ‘that, {if these potatoes were stacked in the field and allowed to freeze, then covered with straw, they would keep all
winter. If some of the spuds on the outside rotted and spoiled, they might “be de-
stroyed. But the theory .was that the potatoes which kept would be given away in the spring. —- So it was done that way. The
only difficulty was that nearly
all the potatoes spoiled and had to be dumped. Whereupon the potato- state Senator made a speech denouncing. the Department of buying potatoes and then allowing them to rot in the fields. . » 2 - U.S. Ambassador - at - Large Philip C. Jessup won't return directly. to America from the Bangkok, Siam, conference of American diplomats ‘n Southeast Asia. scheduled to return_by way of
_ ‘Europe. thus completing his in-
spection trip around the world. _ Reports from -the ‘Bangkok conference will be brought back to Washington by Assist“ant Secretary of State W. WalButterworth. “He'll fly.
for Southeast Asia are formu-
Agriculture for
Instead, he is now -
they may be on the trail of a treatment for a stubborn and hitherto sanity known as schizophrenia. ‘Tt accounts for nearly 50 per cent of all patients who have been Hromentat-hospitatsfor-10-years-or-more: “That word schizophrenia should be familiar
’ ‘SIDE GLANCES
incurable form of in-
“omy.
“ By. Marquis Childs * Research on Mental Ills god
just now even to casual newspaper readers. It means, in simplest terms, a split personality, and it was part of the confession of Klaus Fuchs .. who admitted to years of treason while deceiying his friends in his adopted country, Britain, and his co-workers in atomi¢ energy.
Diseased Mind
THE psychiatrists’ are skeptical of Fuchs’ “‘controlied schizophrenia.” there is-no such thing. But to-the ordinary person it will "seem that deception and treason-on such a scale must have originated in a diseased,
claim to
if incredibly brilliant, mind.
—_The.case of Fuchs seems in a monstrous-and-— bigger- -than-life - fashion tQ illustrate the sickness of a divided world; the sickness of Europe from the contamination of which we are not
«entirely free,
We had better start trying to learn some- = thing more ahout the. diseases that cause such suffering and anguish. At times the sickness of “the mind seems to. threaten the very existence
of “normal” humanity.
In the wartime drive for atomic fission a search was carried on, the like of which had
never been seen before.
Hope Died Out
WHEN the war first ended, we heard talk such - a concentration. could be brought to bear on cancer, tuberculosis, heart disease, the plagues that paralyze and kill. That
about how
and do.
toward it.
‘National
‘Work for Common Good’
By Anna J. Lazarus, President, Thessopuien Society in Indianapolis.
Each year, for several years, in this month of February, it-has been the custom te celebrate - Brotherhood Week. Concerned with the understanding that, while forms are many, the life is one, certain men of vision plan during which time Americans would strive to work together for the common good, and with mutual respect, ‘Catholic were to form a nucleus of brotherly conduct, with feeling, thought and action combined to foster understanding “and good will.
If we are to have a United Nations, living Z — Imthe “harmony of & united world, we must prepare in just such ways as this to make the 2 ideal a living verity, in all we think and say The United Nations must’ represent united races, united creeds, united sciences. independent segments must yield to a vision of a great and perfect whole; a whole to which " epeh part contributes wisely, not losing identity but relating to a concept larger than that of the private home, the community, the state, or even the nation. Each who celebrates whatever the time or season, adds so much to the fulfillment of an eternal and worthy dream, the dream of peace. One. spirit animates -all religions, though the truth is expressed jn many ways, the: truth =men; too, tho are united in the human race. . They are interrelated by the creed of love, and by the doctrine of unfolding wisdom. The world is a family. And each who lives can draw from the richness of the whole, once he has learned to votribite
The Jew, the Protestant and
united "arts and The vision of separate and
Brotherhood Week,
Humanity is one.
‘Do We Want DP's?’ By C. M. Goethe.
The wild burros, one is told at Grand Canyon Park, became too prolific. desert conditions, food always is scarce, As the
Under.
burros . (which are native to Africa)- multiplied, it was found that both the bighorn and the -
Great
‘antelope were starving. It has always been. an. Arizona joke that burros can thrive on a diet of tin cans and barbed wire. persisted on monopolizing the only food that antelope and bighorn eat. One is told, there. fore, that it was necessary to slaughter about “500 burros to save the remnants.of native stock. Both of these were almost extinct, only the National Park remnants remaining. oY Here is displacement: among the lower ani-
However, they
d a. week’
“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."
mals that parallels our own American citizens.
They say
A U. 8S. census expert proved, years ago that each child of an immigrant displaced one of the existing Americans. ge Bills now in Congress would adinit more displaced persons. will plead fo join them. Do we want this in view
Once here, wives and children
’ of mounting unemployment?
‘We Need a Theater"
“By Edgar W. Chamberlin,
Indianapolis needs a centrally located thea-
ter.” Since the closing of the English Theater on the Circle, this city has had to do without an important asset. Although I have been a resident of -Indianapolis- for only one year, 1 have come to _the realization that there is a need for another legitimate playhouse due to the poor accessibility of the Murat Theater.
Mrs. Hibben, who is a civic-minded person,
~has- advocated that the proposed ~ Equitable building on ‘the ‘Circle include a theater. A of clubs, groups have voiced their desire for it, but why. ‘has. not the “man on the street” given the pro-. posal more encouragement?
number
burst of idealistic hope seems’ to. have died out”
quite awhile ago.
But surely there should be a little more money to attack this worst ofall plagues; this living death that condemns so many fellow huAnd if practical men insist on statistics, it might even be an investment that would eventually save a part of the. billion. dollars which is thé’ estimated "cost of
man beings to darkness,
this plague in America today.
What Others Say
THE only way you can have really major cuts is to wreck the cold-war efforts. That is just what Russia wants, and that’s not econ-. Sen. Joseph C. O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.).
the destinies of the
THOSE who guide theater,
C rosby.
SANE, CNB RR WS RN Eh A BO A
COPA. 1960 BY NEA SERVICE. WNC. T. M, REG. 8. PAT. QF, ani
"George says pretty soon we'll be able to afford a television set
and we won't have to be visiting you folks. 50 o often!
lated wil be made and announced in Washington after Butterworth's return.
- a &. fd ECONOMIC CO-OPERA-TION ADMINISTRATION is trying to develop an incentive plan for Europe. The idea is to indice Marshall Plan countries to co-operate further in liberaljzing their trade restrictions. The fiew plan hasn't been apes
gress, but it is ‘intended
: 5 by i something®itke ¢ this: :
Naik :
intra-European .
by the Budget Bureau -
Out of its total appropria tions, ECA will set aside a certain reserve. At the end of each quarter, it will review Marshall Plan operations in
. each country.
Those ~ countries - that are found to -shave made progress in liberalizing customs. breaking down import quotas, ending dual pricing and freeing the exchange of foreign currencies will get a bonus, It will be in the form of an extra allocation of ea funds om the reserve. say
radio and motion picture realize that they must this year do battle with
ural
- western
. reasonably be
most
x. voters 8 wil not have /
irreligious.
societies and educational
‘Menace to Christianity’ By Ruby Karnes, 1632 E. 10th St.
A clergyman recently shouted to the audlence that war is inevitable and that we might as well get into it now.
Any
clergyman who might be directly or indirectly " connected with an organization which is feed-
industries
meee fp happy-iittie-neweomer, television Bing. It AS. nat..often.. that smaller. shops get &
ing ‘and prolonging war is utterly menacing to the Christian religion, :
“Thanks for Interest’ By Mrs. Mary Frazier, Arlington Fabri¢ Shop.
We wish to thank The Times for the interest --ghown in ‘Arlington and 10th St. business development, especially for our shop.
“front page’ set-up of this kind.
By Galbraith DIFFERENT VIEWPOINT . . . By Bruce Biosatt
British-Vote- impact
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22—We- could easily iss the meaning of the coming British election if we try too hard to see it from
the average British voter's viewpoint.
Like his cousin in this. country, he’s a pretty practical fel
-low. His food -and shelter; his-pocketbook; his- general welfare,
these are uppermost in his mind when ‘he casts his ballot. ” <
» o ‘By contrast things like freedom, private enterprise, socialismy . nationalization strike
him as more or, less remote abstractions.
They won't become rea] is-
sues to him unless they somehow get tangled up with his more immediate wants. Nothing new or surprising in all this. It's perfectly natthat the ordinary Britisher today is worrying about
getting a better house, more
gasoline, more food at lower prices, and what not. 2 » - BY the same token, it was to be expected .that the Midfarmer ' voting for President here two years ago was thinking abouf grain and
“hog prices—not the possible
“encroachment of big government.” . Yet we can't assume therefore that an election either in America or Britain has no significance- beyond these bread and butter issues. An election has to be viewed not simply as a measure of what voters want, but in terms of what the winning party has
promised to 8 and can expected to do.
" - s. : IN Britain, for instance, the incumbent Labor Party is pledged to extend -socialism
further, the Conservatives ‘to
reverse that trend. It's likely there'll be action on these
promises, whichever party wins. -It .won't matter that the 80-
clalism and private enterprise much in mind when they voted.
What counts is the effect of
their votes. By giving power to one or
the other party, they will ac-,
tually promote one political philosophy over another, whether of not that be their Intent. = 5 = FOR us in America the prime interest in the impend-
Ing election is still how that question is to be answered.
We already know that the -
British voter will act accord-
ing to his individual interests
as he sees them. What is important to watch is the impact of his action on
general political trends in Brit- . J in America and .in. the
ain, world.
Barbs
2933 N. Meridian.
To utter such talk is. To preach on the chaos of war and to: say nothing: will’ save us but" full support to the cause of war is downright profanity.
A WESTERN surgeon re-
moved part of a wrist watch
strap from a man’s stomach.-
It sounds as if an inveterate
nail-biter went a little bit too.
far.
WE'LL admit that nature has the best air-cooling system of them all—but who wants to freeze to death these. days? *
IT'S bad enough to be the
black sheep in the family without being made the goat for everything. 7
" ON some western radio pro- -
grams cowboys do more crooning than shooting. It’s just another way, of’ borg people,
. Lat Rites 1
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Earl E.
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Frank B.
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