Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 March 1950 — Page 20

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No. Strike +; . No Coal TR HERE isn't any al mine strike. =

; The United Mine Workers, only union in 4 that fed, says : Riso, sats. Send

the facts, uphold the union conteifion, and in effect rule that there is no strike. The official finding is that several hundreds of thousands of coal miners have individually decided not to go to work. That is their right. to work against theirwill. . But from several sections of the country come reports of “armed pickets" roving the mine fields, forcing coal mines to close, wrecking machinery of mines that attempt to oper“ate, using, or threatening violence to keep miners away from work.

IF VIOLENCE must be used to Roop mines closed, it is evident that ‘some miners, at least, have not decided to refrain from work. It is clear that in many, if not all, mine fields there are coal miners who want to go to work. That is their right, too. It is just as valid a right as the right of the men who prefer not go to work. ; 1t should be protected with all the police, and if necessary all the military, power of this nation. : - There is not even any longer the doubtful excuse that protection would be interfering with a legitimate strike. The union and the courts agree that there i no strike.

IN INDIANAPOLIS, and’ throughout Indiana’ schools are closed, thousands of homes are cold, health and jobs are threatened, there is suffering, and there have even been deaths because the fuel supply of the nation. has been largely. shut off. Since there is no coal strike, why doesn’t the govern- - ‘ment of the state of Indiana offer protection for those miners. who want to go to work ? Lo Or the government of the United States?

Foundation of Our Strength MANY of our institutions in Indianapolis too often are — “taken for granted as a matter of course—services to be expected without regard, sometimes, to the sources of public-spirited generosity that make them possible. The latest of many of these community-building contributions is the $50,000 perpetual trust fund for the benefit of

No one can, or should, force them

estate of the late William G. Axt, an Indianapolis busi-

THE fund i be used to further medical research and the treatment of thousands of handicapped children in Indiana, a sontinuing heritage for the welfare of future

~ Without this and many other similar contributions, In: ~ dianapolis would not be nearly so far out in front as a com-. munity that has gained wide reputation for its progressive steps toward bettering the lives of its citizens. The institutions whose existente is made possible by generosity inspired through the desire to give a leg up to all humanity comprise the very foundation of our strength as a civilized community.

Grapes of Wrath IT MAY not give much economic comfort to salesman Jim" . Farley and the Coca-Cola Co., but we'ré downright proud that a humble American soft drink has the vintners of France yelling uncle. ; With a surge of patriotism we learn that the organized French wine industry, vociferously aided by the “Communists, has waged an all-out campaign clear up to the national assembly to get Cokes barred from that country. It appears that our own small vin_ 0 pyeconsocted ~-with a dollup of sweet syrup and a dash of fizz water—is ~~ making such inroads in the ancient land of the grape that the wine people’ are highly irate. French drinking habits, : they fear, wa be fepribly, terribly demoralived.

HAH! "Say we. Though French though we should bute wp see them i. from this — Ary, we've never particularly cared for the arrogantly su- = perior French. habit of snooting our ‘beverages, soft and, + hard, asso much dishwater. ; 2

: to make . ~ of heavy-tax-paying citizens assembled here to that,

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The couits of ‘the United Statest after due hearing. of

ippled children at Riley Hospital, established from. the the

__year at the time.

: Urge Bindger Be Limited fo 15 Per Cent of Nationaiincome

+ WASHINGTON, ‘Mar. 3-+Dear Boss—With. federal income tax payments due Mar. 15, right now seemed to be a propitious ‘time to drive

Sen

Lobking back on past performances they concluded

- stitutional amendment will suffice, . SE Whereupon : Committee to Limit Federal Taxing Powers has been launched here with some Hoosier help. = - . Sparkplug of the move is Ti of Everett Sanders and a perpetual director of the Indiana

Mr. Savage He was named temporary vice chairman. and Dr. Joseph W, Seay of nearby Falls Church, Va. ne temporary chairman. Mr. Whitlock is a native Hoosier and Indiana Law School graduate. His partner was one-time Congressman from Terre Haute and later sec-

retary to sident Coolidge. Mr, Whitlock admittedly would like to see some of the governmental thrift of the Coolidge era restored. he said. He and others of the group forming the new organization were guests of eight Congressmen at a House luncheon, which is the reverse of the process pursued by most lobby groups, They usuaily have the Congressmen as their guests,

— but maybe this is prima facie evidence of the

sort of thrift they want Uncle Bam to start. practicing.

Rep. Harvey _in v Group ONE of the t hosts was Rep. Ralph Harvey, Republican, New Castle. He is a member of the House Committee on Exelutive Expenditures. which . handles such miltibillion-

dollar bills as the Economy Recovery Admin-

istration, Urging the group to get the matter of ‘government spending into the minds of the home folk. so that they will take more interest in getting out and voting was his advice to them. He pointed out that only about half those eligible are voting, Taxes is a symptom of a serious disease that needs the attention of all

concerned, Mr. Harvey said.

As a member of the Indiana Btate Legislature, Mr. Harvev was on the State Budget Committee. He pointed out that state and local governments must hold down taxes aiso and

“Teited his experience with Hoosier city fathers

who wanted the state to raise the taxes and

. let them spend fit.

On the national level, Mr. Harvey said that —adoption— of the Brannan farm plan and “socialized medicine” would double the present féderal budget of $42.4 billion.

15 Per Cent of Income THE Constitutional Amendment Committee would limit federal expenditures to 15 per cent of the national income. If that were now in : effect the current. annual volume of federal

“taxation would be $29,700,000,000, they said. ©

The group adopted the following text for the proposed amendment: “The Congress of the United States shall not in any year levy -taxes in excess of 15 per cent of the average total annual income received by individuals in the United States during " four-year as determined bv pro-" cedures establishéd by Congress, nor authorize federal debt in excess of such average annual income, and shall take immediate steps to reduce present debt to the limitation herein established, such limitation on taxes and debf to be exceeded only in an.emergency involving the security of the nation and then only upon a two-thirds vote of both houses of Congress and for. one

Hard Course ‘Ahead

IT must be approved by two-thirds of both _the House and Senate and then ratified by three“fourths of the sta%es. They admit that it has a long hard course ahead. Judge Paul A. Lennington, Muncie, attended the initial meeting. and was made a temporary vice chairman for grass-roots work, Mrs, J. F. McCawley, Indianapolis, was present and named to the executive council of the committee. Other Hopsiers listed as among the citizens ‘who organized the National Committee to Limit. Federal Taxing Powers were Presidént Bruce C. ‘Bavage ‘of the Indianapolis Real Estate Board, Robert M, Reel, executive secretary of the . Indianapolis Real Estate Association; Dr, L. Sensenich, South Bend, and Charles W, Harbaugh, Anderson,

I KNEW HIM WHEN

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WASHINGTON,

million dozen eggs inthe shell. -Only-abeut—a-tenth—of them afe in the Atchison, Kags, which has re-

“And, to make it all thé more delight there, is the added

- “that nothing short of a con-

National -

‘Whitlock, 1aw partner

: electoral

would divide the electoral vote

“the two major Darties.

“SURPLUS FOOD . . . By Peter Edson

= Eog "Problem a

Mar. 3 The subject for today will be eggs, too many of; and how would you like them— frozen of dried” ~The government has ahout 73 million pounds of ina dozen states in the Midwest. That's the equvRlent ¢ of 219

famous cave near HIN

State Society of Washington. = °

ELECTORAL COLLEGE .

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Strange Political ga

WASHINGTON, Mar. 3--The Constitutional

system, southern electoral votes have a ‘far

amendment -to- reform the -nation's-antiquated -greater “weight proportionately “than northern =

system—has produced some of the strangest alliances in recent political history. The lion and the lamb lying down together

have nothing on the strange SoRipasions: who

are teamed up one side or the other of the issue. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, of Massachusetts is chief advocate of the amendment that

of each state In proportion to the number of votes cast for

el the present system all the electoral votes of a state go to the candidate who gets a majority of the popular vote even though that majority may be a mere dozen votes 8 out of Several mil-

Sen. Lodge

«Hon east: in es

ON the ‘surface, at least, this looks . like an ——equitable-and desirable reform. The sponsorship

of Sen. Lodge would weigh heavily in its favor,

since the Senator from Massachusetts has

proved his courage in standing up against timid and reactionary leaders in his party. When the amendment was before the Senate, 19 Republicans voted for the amendment,

the total vote being 64 to 27. Twenty-four Re-

publicans voted against it,

Minority Group Issue IN the Houses the sponsor of the amendment is Rep. Ed Gossett of Texas who has always taken a narrowly reactionary view, particularly on any issue involving race or color. 4 In urging all Southerners to crusade for the amendment, Rep. Gossett is quite frank in stating that the goal is to end “irresponsible control and domination by small organized minority: groups within the large pivotal states.” ~ * He names these groups as Negroes, “the radical wing of organized labor” and “with all due deference to our many fine Jewish citizens, they constitute a third group.” Sharply opposed to the amendment is Sen. Robert A. Taft of Ohio. He has sent a letter to each member of the House urging its defeat. Sen. Lodge has written to all House members. appealing for favorable action. Sen. Taft is convinced, as he said in hijs letter, that in a national election that was at all’

closed Republican would not have a chance

This is because of the one-party system that exists in the South where, because of that

inn _ SIDE. GLANCES

same stored

Tey ed = mye publicity But

Wherever they are. the government would, like to get-rid of

—the administrative decision To Ba “support the price of eggs at 90

per cent of parity.

2 curious jargon, are joining. in the w wine TOW ers" oy They profess to fear “Coca-Colique” in France. They de- - nounce the “Coca-colonization™ of the country, They pro-, claim that the French “moral landscape” (whatever that

them:

w » =” . TO this end the government recently -offered surplus dried and frozen eggs for -sale for export at 40 cents a pound,’ at some 75 storage

points, There

TW WW . WHAT the Secretary shooting for was to keep” the —farm price of eggs at around 47 cents a dozen. But since this resulted in the. production of too many eggs, on Jan. "1.

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electoral votes. Sen. Taft led the opposition in the Senate. Ranged alongside Seri. Taft in opposition is

who. is now national director of Americans for ‘Democratic Action. ADA is, of course, loathed

by conservative Republicans who appear to have -

started an organized campaign to. discredit it. Citing recent election results, Mr. LaFollette contends that on the basis of present voting - strength in the country, “12 or 13 Southern states would produce five to six times greater propaortionate margins of victory for the Democratic Party than all the rest of the states together.”

Power For South THIS, as the ADA director sees it, would

tend to give the power within the party fo the

Southern delegations. thereby {r gr in control.

Sen Lodge replies that the Lodge-Gossett

——amendment-wopuid spur the development of a

second and opposition party in the South. In the long pull this might be true and certainly the - only healthy political system is a twoparty system. } But, as Sen. Taft points out, it “would be a lengthy process if it occurred‘at all in view of

~~ the concentration of power that would accrue - to a Southern oligarchy. Ahd Sen. Taft is not thinking of _electiohs of 25 years from now, Understandably, he has his eve on 1952. A few more defeats for the Republicans and the party may pass out altogether. Among the 67 who voted for the amendment: in the Senate were most of those who consider themselves progressive and liberal, including Sen. Hubert Humphrey, national chairman of. "ADA, The chances seem to be slightly against its adoption in the House. \

~ Outmoded System lee

UNDOUBTEDLY something should be done

ort about the outmoded electoral college, but maybe

this particular remedy is not the right one. Sen. Homer Ferguson has an amendment which abolishes the electoral college, retains the present unit-rule system and, as an added safe guard, “provides for a combined House-Senate vote for President in.case no candidate gets a

* majority.

~. That may be a less risky means of wiping © out that quaint and rickety antique, the electoral college. -

Salih ith BUSINESS- DECLINE By Waldo L. Foil i

High Cost of Strike

“ PITTSBURGH. Mar,

normally rich depression

- -mant-for. replacing -the- theater, cena

on the

~—former-Rep:—Charles M: LaFoitette of Indiana

__But these cases are few.

PurseZstrings in every walk of lie hav “coal-dependent and coal- “producing centers - TRE and Ohio: ———

aside petition for the Circle Te fu Ie hasits own type of entertainment business and

armel oh There is room for

It was announced recently “that Raymond J, Feld’s Pricejess gift 14 the public lbyary inclided a complete filé of programs and English’s shows from the first one in the final one in 1948. This reinforces the sen

‘Red ‘Defense Misguided’ : By A. J. Schneider, 504 W. Dr, Woodruff Place

In the Forum recently, a misguided woman ticizes Councilman Porter , Who presided at the Council rent control hearing, for ejecting a Communist from that hearing. In the first place this woman disgraces Ber. sisters by signing herself as executive of an or n- whose purpose is to _ Communists, That background alone should cause her words to evaporate. Furthermore, Ben Cohen by the very act of ° joining the Communist Party stripped himself of every guarantee of our Constitution which his organization is dedicated to destroy.

"entered that meeting that he was not concerned

whether his words had any constructive affect members of the council, He merely ‘wanted to make that hearing a sounding-board

for his h

~ And that is “the full implication” of Councilman Seidensticker’s action, The Bill of Rights ‘was born in the that all who merit the benefits and blessings of our Constitution,. shall also subscribe wholeheartedly to the body of the Constitution. The Communist Party betrays that document in many particulars. Has the Civil Rights Congress used any of

its power and influence to defend any patriotie pa wAMRGIGARS tio -unconstitusional- Jegistation?

WA Doing Good Job’

By Earl Watkins, 1609 Wade St. I feel this may help some people understand

the. veterans-training -program-more-throughty :

and stop some of the remarks about many . veterans taking the training only to have a

_monthly check as ihcome and do not use the

trade. or training given them. a

allowances paid us while in training and it means the difference of a decent job and decent wage for we who are handicapped with a serviceconnected disability. Without the subsistence allowance we could not retrain or rehabilitate ourselves to jobs that will help us serve our families and eommunities as any citizén should want to do. People are very quick to complain about the Veterans Administration spending “Too .Much.”

Yet, when we vets were in active service we were

tops and nothing was too good for us. But when we areout of the services we are expected to just resume the life of “John Doe Citizen.” It seem der that many of Us ¢ “not resume our former occupation due to disabilities and if we are to again citizens we must retrain ourselves, If the training program should be stopped how many citizens would stop and think how much it had

the ¥ do not

helped already and how many more it could help,

Sure there are cases when the veterans abuse their privilege to the training program.

of at

Moreover, Cohen was fully aware before he

ck —

I sincerely appreciate the. program and believe the Veterans Administra on is to be com-

mended on the job it is doing and helping we “vets do.

I sincerely believe that if all the departments,

agencies and offices of our government were

~operated as efficiently as the VA our national

debt would be much. smaller than it now is.

I am finished with my training program and - am very grateful for it. It-put me in a position

where I can hold a job and not have to accept any soft job that comes my way, Without the training I would not be able to serve my family and community, -

‘Wha Happened to Promises?’ By Frances M. Volk, 585 E. Merrill St.

Are the people satisfied? While people are suffering because of lack of coal, Mr. Truman remains snug and warm’ in the White House. It Truman was half the man FDR was maybe our people would be well satisfied. What happened to the great promises: Tru-

Hartley Bill? No more

man _ made; especially pertatuing to the Taft.

"“3—The coal strike has turned the

and Busy. tristate area into valleys of industrial

€ been tightened in the of Pennsylvania, West |

may be) “is at stake.” - ; = Good! In fact, vivat! In a world of cold war, this pause that refreshes is more than welcome. -And if this be «+ Yankee imperialism, parbleu, let France make the most of it. 7

Peace for Palestine

r= proposed five-year nonaggression pact " hotween Israel and the Kingdom of Jordan, now awaiting ratification by the governments of. the two countries, is the. most hopeful development in Palestine since the shooting war ended. se Theme nex: ust have peace if hoth are to survive. And a settlement of differénces between Israel and Jordan is the first essential step toward peace between Israel and the yest: of the Arab states.

KING "ABDULLAH has shown more étatesmanship than some of his Arab allies by meeting the Israelis half ‘way on issues which must be decided before: either country can lead a normal life. ; “These involve such practical measures as opening vital i ~. roads to common traffic, supply of electricity by a power plant in Israeli hands to the Arab-held old city of Jerusalem, - and general access to the oly places in the two areas of the city.

~ If Israel and. Jona can get together -on these quesisd Nations should remove another block to by adopting a workable plan for Eontrol of es I ths auciont Shey and fis ebvisom. i

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are few takers, The dried eggs cost the government from $1.00 to $120. a pound. "But since -one pound of dried eggs is the equal of three dozen shell eggs, there's a lot of food value for the money. - For school lunch programs, ‘Bureau of Indian affairs and federal, ‘state and local public welfare agencies, the govern“ment is offering the-dried eggs for free, if they'll pay the

* transportation costs,

Some of these dried eggs are now nearly two vears old, but

“they're said to be keeping very _

well, ‘thank You.

i THE government got into this egg business during the war, of course. It was through the mept to the 1942 farm bill, It specified that, to encourage the production of much - needed foods, their prices should be supported by government pur. — chase at 90 per cent of parity.

two years. The Hope-Aiken bill contin-

ued this support through 1949. The Gore-Anderson farm bill

-of 1949 put eggs on & permis.

sive list, ‘could be

meant they ported at any level

from. Kefa. to 30 per gant of

famous Steagall amend- _

1950, the . Secretary supports to shoot at a farm

price level of 37 cents a dozen,

This cut of more than 20 per cent in support prices brought +a loud squawk from the egg trade, but so far it. hasn't cut

down egg production much.

One principal reason is that in this year's open winter, the her's have been. laying more than usual. But’ thé hope is that ultimately the lowered

support price will reduce production closer to demand.

levels, — - 8 ” . OF course the government doesn't buy the eggs themselves. It buys only dried eggs, paying the egg dryers a price that will enable them to buy eREy from the farmers at the desired levels. . All the dried eggs that the ~ government has bought have

. come from the Midwest area _ Tunning from Minnesota south

“This was for the durdtion plus

‘ through Missouri and Oklahoma. The eggs are ungraded,

source of cash for the farm- ~ wife's pin money-—=her sugar and coffees nd for store purchases, :

“THE fact: 1. not “generally oon, but the govern-

Sai 34a Dough Wo age from

<A,

lowered -

eethacte™

- COMM. 1980 BY MEA SERVIOL NE. T. 8 BON. 8 &. S47. OF "My Wife transplanted some shrubbery yesterday and 2 walked

“into a house three doors down the street!”

the populous East, or on the West Coast. It has not been necessary. There is an egg shortage in these ‘areas. not a

surplus, and it is this shortage -

which is blamed for high egg prices in city markets.

One question frequently

- asked ‘is why the surplus eggs

from the Midwest coulan’t be be shipped east to relieve the shortage and break the high _ Prices?

too small for city market geceptance. two eggs out of a dozen would

"be accepted by .the egg trade.

And the cost of sorting, grading and transporting to city’

markets is too. high to yield

any profit. = = LB ; EGG men say it may take a. generation to get farmers’

wives into the habit of sorting

>and gr their eggs so that |

ading“The principal reason given they'll compete with the prod-

“is thatthe Midwest farm or et of the egg - Best SSgn. Ate. ungraded 4nd cater in Gly marks,

“fact totieg”

Only about one or _

-And-the creeping paratysisof— Priest, which spread steadily

"during continued weeks of idle-

- ness in the mines, now is reach--ing into almost every factory, store and home. - y 2 ‘x 8% i © COMPLAINTS of miners families for groceries;

that. in Pennsylvania exceeded

-: $1 million to coal miners in the . *-

last four months. A .A B50 per cent cut in eles tricity for 397,000 household, commercial and industrial users ih. and near Pittsburgh was the Tagest blow. Streetcar service was. Feduced accordingly. J This brought the shadow of John L. Lewis into every home .and business here, ” 5 -

PITTSBURGH Consoltds

“~and the backbone of thé indus-

try's fight against the miners’.

union, backed its battle with

= eash on the line,

It cut dividends to stockhold-

- efs more than $500,000 for this

quarter alone and r educed white-collar workers’ “salaries 5 to 20 per cent. . Manufacturers: and whole2 salers pulled their salesmen off the road. = r =» = 1 THEATER attendance is down as mich as 40 per cent. In West Virginia soup

kitchiena and bread lines ap.

clothin “And rent money are met with an. outpouring of state relief funds

; the word's largest

~ stockpités that only a

lowed bythe choking off af

steel. mill operations. . Mainly

through the dimout— in power, §

the choking effects are Feach-

. ing all business.

: “Unemployment in stesl mills has reached 75,000, and rail-

road men idled now number: val-— leys. The power brownout will

furlough thousands more. 2 8 = SOME schools have closed, and office workers are shiverAng in 60-degree temperature as coal for bollers is lacking or

“of too poor quality to keep

steam pressures up.

>In a. plane I cruised for an hour over the coal and industrial areas. I got a good view of the strike- -imposed stagnation.

— SAW _mine tipples standing thing to

sentinels with nothin ‘watch, steel mills: with only wisps of smoke coming from their stacks, ' thousands of

‘empty coal cars on railroad . .» sidings, hundreds of bare-hulled’

coal barges tied up at river banks, and only a few trains pounding the rails. hr. Li GONE were the coal

- weeks ago had stood as safe-

FruraS ov Son} Silla 41d poy.

er plants. Instead here and

chopped loose, : a ice of the

few