Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 March 1950 — Page 10
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Cause for Thanks
the country can give ferv fervent thanks. Sse If the miners, or most of them, go back to work Mon-
«ing and economic damage. ! It will take time to get coal flowing in volume adequate -to relieve the desperate ngeds of many communities and in"dustries whose stocks are almost totally exhausted. It will take months for the United States to overcome ;the malign effects of this strike. ' And some of the losses may never be recouped. But the understanding on basic principles of a new
Lewis and a majority of the mine operators, does promise to remove the threat of national disaster. = ‘wr x» x uw» WITH THAT threat removed, there will be no need ifor Congress to rush through legislation giving President Truman the mine-seizure powers for which ‘he asked iyesterday. Those powers, used as Mr. Truman said he intended to use them, might have got coal for the country. But there was no assurance of that. And their use might have had Zunintended consequences unwelcome to the miners; the “mine owners andthe country. $ Certainly it will be well if Congress has no necessity “to -confer such powers hurriedly, without taking timé to study and debate their implications—time to be sure that. * it understands what it's’ doing. ;
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” » . . ” . » THE MAIN terms of agreement reported include: A : £0 cont addition to the miners’ present $14.05 daily wage; . $30 cents per ton of coal mined, instead of the present 20 Toents, for the union's pension and welfare ‘fund; omission from the new contract of the ‘“able-and-willing” clause “which enabled Mr. Lewis to order strikes and three-day. - weeks almost at will. i With that clause out, the ndisty and the public will : 4m0 longer be quite so much at one man’s dubious mercy. * “And, after all the work they've lost in the last year, the miners Xrpently need higher Mages, while ihe pension and. ; But the agreement doubtless means 3 Wigher Sricee § for coal, already fast losing its market to cheaper, more coni venient and more dependable fuels. .The thorough study sof ‘gick” coal industry's problems, fof Which Mr. Tru- » called yesterday, should be s “without delay, =
£ nefflected far too long, high daily wages will not enable the # miners to earn adequate yearly incomes, and the coal prob"lem will continue to plague the country.
:Our H-Bomb Jitters
” _ THERE have been such persistent, almost frenzied de- . ménds in this country of late for a prompt settlement of super-bomb issues with Moscow that people in other coun-
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AY -end-to-the-coal-strike now- seems assured. For that- =
day, that will not be soon enough to prevent further suffer- ;
‘contract,’ reported to have been reached between .Tohn L.
Fah zx Unless Those problems are solved, and they have been
es roman. ak was New FEPC Bill - EE Yon Bite in It
Measure Not Nearly as ‘Toothless as First Reported
WASHINGTON, “Mar. 4—Don’t rely on those
"recent stories saying that the WEPC bill the Ff
House passed recently is just as a “toothless” ‘conglomeration of words, and’ ‘therefore unim-
portant.
~.*. The fact is the bill could lead to an-enoFmous amount ‘of harassment and irritation for. em- : ployers. And if by some chance the bill became “ law, such a Fair Employment Practices Commis- ~ ; - sion as President Trumaf would appoint could 3 be depended upon to use every authority granted in the measure to ‘plague employers. That's why such men as Reps. Brooks Hays of Arkansas = and Mike Monroney voted against it. : the House turned Ays compromise, which contained no authority for.an FEPC to harass employers. From the standpoint of the Truman adminis-’ tration, which wanted ah FEPC bill.studded with - authority to force employers to hire people they © didn’t want, it might be that the measure the House passed is “toothless.” But, then; no one ever really expected the Truman bill to pass.
By Mepins of Conciliation
“ON {ts face, the bill the House passed ap: parently would try to end discrimination in employment by means of conciliation ‘and per-—
‘Before Taming the - bill, “down the
suasion.
But, the measure gives the FEPC which it authority to subpena employers, cross-examine them, and to start contempt pro“ceedings against ‘them if they don't answer.
creates
subpoenas,
Here’ ‘sa detailed explanation of the measure, It créptes a Fair Employment Practice Commission, to be composed of five persons, whose terms in the first Instance shall be staggered from one to five years. The President would designate the chairman, and could remove any member for “neglect of duty or malfeasance in office.” The members could not work at other Jobs, and would be paid $12,000 a year.
Duty-Bound-
THE commission would be duty-bound to bring about the removal of discrimination in regard to hire or tenure, terms or conditions of employment, or union membership, because of
race, creed or color:
ONE. By making. comprehensive studies of such discrimination in different metropolitan districts and ‘sections of the country and of the —eftect of such discrimination on and of the best
-methods of eliminating it.
TWO. By formulating, in Sooparstion with _other “interested public and private agencies” comprehensive plans for the elimination of such discrimination as rapidly as possible. - THREE. By publishing reports and “other Information” relating to such discrimination and to ways and means for eliminating 1. ; . FOUR. by conferring, co-operating with and furnishing technical assistance to employers,
labor unions —
agencies In formulating and executing policies and programs for the elimination of such dis-
crimination,
Probe Complaints
plaints _tharging any such discrimination and - “other Cases where It Delleves
By such discrimination is practiced.
SIX. By making specific and detailed reeommendations to interested parties in any such case as to ways and means for eliminating any.
such discrimination,
The bill says that after the tiling of any written complaint, the chairman of the commission shall desi te one of the C
to
‘Refrig:
sociation.
BUSINESS BURDENS . Critics Blast u. S. Tax System
‘WASHINGTON, Mar. 4—For a month now, ~—the House Ways and Means Committee has Been. listening to spokesmen from. all branches -- ~ of American industry criticize our tax system — with statements like these:
erators are taxed; but deep freezes are: not. After-shave creams and lotions are taxed, but shaving creams are not—Arde Bulova of the Bulova Watch Co. House trailers are taxed seven per cent. No other housing unit is so taxed—Earl E. Raymond of the Trailer Coach Manufacturers As-
people have cashed their war cause the 20 per cent tax on safety deposit boxes : offsets in large part the interest earned by the
bonds—George F. Parton of the New York State Safe Deposit Association. ; When we have a church picnic and cut the FIVE. By recélving and Investigating com- — CPATS¢ for a merry-go-round ride from the
_ Sustoimary 10 cents to five cents, we still have to-collect-20- percent tax-on- the standard printed
charge of 10 cents. This two-cent tax on an
Parks.
actual five-cent charge becomes a 40 per cent tax on the poor kid—Harry J. Batt, president of the National Association of. Amusement
- Admission Taxes oo , THE government has spent more than $400 million since 1948 supporting potato prices. We're
to make prompt investigation, ‘and that if he.- Asking for cancellation of admission taxes finds there is “probable cause”
complaints are justified, “hé shall immed: lately - endeavor to eliminate the unlawful employment practice complained of by conference, conetiia-
tion, and persuasion.”
| WANT TO BE MISSED,
It matters not who by;
Whether they live next door The paper boy or the garbage man The old the young, rich or poor Tissed:
~F-want-tobe
“tries may have thei impression. the United Statesis ina A state of panic. Much of the fuss is being made by Senators who are running for re-election, to whom headlines are headlines, “whatéver they may do to public-morale at-home or-abroad. Unfortunately, many people both here and abroad may not understand the occasion for this spontaneous outburst of “#scare-'em-to-death” oratory. / “Wa allowing in the hazards of atomic warfare’ is not contributing to our national security nor to the solution of the problems of the “atomic age,” former Chairman Lilienthal of the Atomic Baergy: Commissjon pointe out. <
“THE ic i the Kremlin will ant be rai by horror pictures of atomic desolation. They rose to their. present positions by butchering. the opposition, and their p « rule rests upon fear.
But, Mr, Lilienthal warns, this rash of sensationalism
It matters not if we have met Or what their race or creed;
Just so they don't ‘forget
I helped them when in need; I just want to be missed.
If I spoke a kindly word ~
To anyone lonely and sad!
If any time I cheered the sick Then I'll be more than glad To know by them, I'm missed.
Frances Richmond, Columbus,
-to believe the
amounting to only $1 million a year for all symphony orchestras—Floyd G. Blair of the New York Philharmonic. The committee will have more than a truck-
load of statements in evidence when it starts writing the new tax bill next week in closed
meetings.
“We'll need all the wisdom of Solomon and
—then some," said one committee member: The automobile industry said it couldn't un-
derstand why 80 much attention was being given to reduction of excise taxes on luxuries when no cut was recommended for it—an industry which
employs one out of every seven working persons.
(The administration didn't recommend any
change in the seven per cent excise tax on autos
and five per cent tax on auto parts.)
The bowling industry said that bowling was the “poor man’s” game and many people couldn't ~~bowl as much as ‘they want to becaiise tHe
. operators had to make their charges cover the annual $20 tax on each alley.
“RED MENACE a “gp Marquis Childs
Finland Fights Back
WASHINGTON, Mar. 4- gr may be something about liv. * Ing’ under danger which produces a steadiness of nerve, The example of Finland comes immediately to mind. A’ month ago rumors began to circulate widely both in Moscow and in Helsingfors that the Soviets would denounce the
PEALE treaty
“Russian-Finnhish
The cabaret industry said there was no question but that the government would double Its revenue from cabarets by cutting taxes from 20 to five. hotels open closed dining rooms,
more people would
SIDE GLANCES
. By Earl Richert
“Whisky and tobacco would be consumed with. .-only:a.-five per-cent-eabaret-tax.- argued 8S. P. Haines of the Cabaret Tax Committee, The music industry said that music was all- ~ Important to our national life and that it was ridiculous to have a 10 per cent’excise tax on the millions of musical instruments that were purchased for children to play at home. Schootlpurchased instruments are exempt.
U.S. Losing Revenue THE liquor industry said | [Uncle Sam was
~—people are drinking less. A cut in liquor taxes, It was said, would bring morg consumption and also leave more money in the pockets of conthings. must pay taxes on the following:.Admissions, ‘alcoholic beverages, billiards and bowling, cabaret, communications, = busiress mechs: electric & 2 electric light bulbs, electric signs, 8Y, gasoline, lubricating oils, matches, refrigeration and air conditioning units, sterling flat-
sumers to be spent for other/ The hotel industry said if
80; theré would be more empiSyment and more
le Talbot Hoosier Forum
1 do not agres:with & word hat 3 TJS defend top Seah you ight
‘by Ray E.
been 1”
“prompts another * brief” in the “HOOSIER FORUM,” "defense of C Factors. % Mr. ri che that, “legal standards” have been in effect in Indiana ‘Since 1927, which , he stated “apply to all forms of healing.” Such “legal standards” have been set up for medical =. healers, not for “chiropractors,”
, say, but | ng SO
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7 Jrecical Mane ANE "+. The “briet,” published in The Times, written I “Medical Association, der the ca d te un pe
secretary of the In. ‘me to present
who, use no the ~
“packed” with medical men,
“Medical Registration Board, has maintained a “medical monopoly” to " or even provide, Ca mis Sal p Po for chiropractic.
L.persons this state for. 50 years. Thousands of persons _dally visit chiropractors’ offices in this state As “healers” these men and women are classed as ' “diugless healers.” Many efforts have been made and injunctions have been obtained to keep chiropractors from “practicing illegally.” It has
in Indiana for years reexamina-
of “persecution” rather than
program “prosecution” In this state. In seeking legislation in 1949, the Indiana © chiropractors sought to obtain a Board of Examiners qualified to set up “standards” for their profession and a procedure whereby qualified men and women could obtain licenses as “chiropractors.” This certainly would be a reasonable plan. Certainly the citizens of Indiana have a right to “the doctor of their choice.’ There are those who seek “spiritual healing,” right granted by the state, too. Mr. Smith has sought to “make a case” for the medical men, but he has only proved cone clusively that the state is in the grip of a medical monopoly, dominated by a Medical Board .that makes its own rules, not rules laid down by legislative enactment.
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‘DPs Pose Problem’ By H. P. S., Indianapolis C. M. Goethe asked in .the Forum recently why the U. 8. was admitting DP’s to this coun. try. It would be interesting to all citizens to read an article in a Washington, D. C., paper about so called DP’s or rather MP's as this. article calls them, meaning misplaced persons
rather than displaced persons. The article stated that so many of these
people enter this country posing as farmers and those sponsoring them go to great trouble and expense to set them up a home. After a short stay on the farms they leave without notice for parts unknown and the farmers hold the bag: In.“ - Matyana so many have walked out on their hosts. that-now.no.one.is. willing to.take.a.chance... EE wt on any more DP’s. Also, they have posed as farmers to get here, : “when a great number were never engaged in . farming before. They have turned out to be artists, tailors, florists and saleimen, and so have won the name of misplaced rather than displaced persons.
While it is habit of the average citizens to sit by and let the representative in Washington
_make a great d
ne electric ener-
ware and on coin-operated devices. Roller skating rink operators said the 20 per
cent admission tax was a burden to the millions
make the decisions on such matters, the com-
-thing -to-do-would be admit these — DP’s or MP's only when there is absolutely no unemployment in this country and all poverty and slum conditions have been taken care of. A letter to your representative asking him to stop following the leader and raise his voice for what the people back home want might
of children who used the rinks-—most of whom ' that Winston Churchill will not have to make
come from low-income families. Marjorié¢ Gateson of the Actors Equity Association said one actor In four did not work at all last year. She blamed most of this on the 20 per cent tax on theater admissions.
tail.
The jewelry, fur and handbag-luggage busi-
nesses contended their industries were slowly going to the wall because of the 20 per cent excise tax on their products. Jewelry spokesmen made a point of the fact that a man's tie clasp Is taxed 20 per. cent while there is no tax on a
“tie.
Cheating Himself
SPOKESMEN for the business machine ined dustry sdid
excise taxes.
The movies said millions of movie-goers were staggering under the 20 per cent admission tax. Nearly" all argued that elimination of excise taxes actually would result in increased rev.
-enties—to—thewould oy so much.
By Gal braith
that. Uncle. Sam-was-cheating hime -ley-Republicans;*-self by /keeping the 10 per cent excise tax on their equipment. They said the government used 16 per cent of their output and thus pays 16 per cent of all excise taxes paid on the machines. The ‘photographic equipment and light bulb industries contend that their businesses: were essential and therefore should not be subject to
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Jean, 2, 2 - & months, al : an oil heal Views on the News | doin By DAN KIDNEY might, 7 _ THAT British election was close enough so Stamey, 9 ly and su painting Ohrsunay ears a a time job. df reset : J aid she YOU don’t have to be a great scientist to oT t understand that the world has a bomb by the back by fl * oo A DENVER GOP committeewoman gave the Poker Democrats $2000. Probably been watching how In Fatal such ‘investments yay off. & Eric Jor FORMER ATAET President James F. __Terrace, Byrnes wants Uncle Sam to collect his own murder ch “take-home” pay. . fatally s > oS . during a | PRESIDENT TRUMAN called them “McKine _ Detectlv but-GOP Chairman Guy Gabe Marvin-H rielson had his picture taken in an Indian wood Ave headdress and that shows he has at least caught developed up with Coolidge. about 4 a. > 6 & was a sm SPRING is near and President Truman is said. slowly sliding -down - the -Gallup poll. Just ‘like Mr. Ha 1948 when he proved to be a Fall guy. home afte > & & LL collapsed HEADLINE: “Iran Will Broaden Education the-house. System.” Probably going go ¥ build a school. . .. * o Official IT seems FBI ah is solely for the UNITED 8) “purpose of preventing our becoming a Police Sunrise ‘Total . precipi
FEDERAL SERVICE . ee By Broce Biossat
U. S. Payroll Growth
WASHINGTON, Mar. 4 The idea is common that the ‘great growth of the federal government is strictly a Washington affair. But the truth is it goes right to the country’s roots in town and
county.
Yat LET
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can create a sense of hopelessness. and helplessness among “our own’ people which will play right into the hands of “de= structive Communist forces.” : . What we need, hé says, ‘is not to be varwheled by “these dangers but to understand them, and then with ’ courage, resolution and patience, “face op to them and | see i a "oe CRE #5» Sr . . = = IF WE should rush to Moscow and drop vn our knees before Stalin with appeals for mercy, other free nations would fall in line behind us and. all resistance to Russian barbarism would collapse. Communism would be supreme, without a struggle. The- H- bomb could hardly do anything worse to us.
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ing that sort of choice. : If we keep our heads, ways will be found to settle this issue without sacrificing our security or our honor. Every new weapon of destruction has been a threat to mankind until a counter-weapon has been developed.
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~~ RUSSIA would have beens a threat to our security, even if the secrets of atomic energy had not been discovered. £ Their discovery has not altered our relative positions in the © world, nor the fact that the United States is the only real ~ Gobstacle to Russia’s designs for world conquest. But we “had the atom secrets first, and in all prolatility have more “ serviceable
p # & we »
bombs now. issue confronting the world is not atomié energy, the dignity of man, and his right to live in a free r problem is to seeure that kind of a world, not one weapon or another to murder other men, ay le Sy 2
But our situation is not so perilous as to call for mak-.
They would take. this step
Jat prior to the election by
president.’ “certainly be the venerable Juho. Paasikivi. Always withfn the correct framework of ‘the treaty, Paasikivi has taken a firm line toward the Soviet Union.
» = » THE Finnish Communist Party is believed to have been given secret as&urances from Moscow that at. the proper moment - the Kremlin would issue a blast. This would be co-ordinated with threatening moves within the country, such ~48 a Communist march on Helsingfors, the capital.
‘Who would almost
~~ since In preceding weeks the
propaganda barrage against |
Finland had been stepped up. growing more menacing and hostile. They were directed at the leaders who were holding the line of political independence. 5 This was in accord with the pattern of conquest directed against Czechoslovakia in February of 1948. From both within and without every element of attack would be directed toward breaking down the resistance of groups loyal to the concept of an . 18Q8pendent’ democracy,
+ AS the day of She election approached, tensions In Finland mounted. The threatened march seemed about to materialize. Finally, an explosion
“The Finns have shown that
have demonstrated that they
. do not crack under strain. In my opinion this is one reason Moscow . refrained from de- -- livering the ultimate blow from no-
the oustide. Here was
pushover to be huffed and puffed into- terrified submission, .
- ¥ . » THE Finns had prepared themselves insofar as possible by cleaning Communists out of government positions where they could do damage. They had weighed the risks against the danger. It was not’easy, the Communists . had polled approximately 20 per: cent of the total vote. It is just possible that the United States, a country of 150,000,000- people, can- learn from the example of Finland,
ZA country of 4,000,000.
¥ ® L SOME stern measures’ have been necessary in Finland.
But the freedoms of a demo-
cratic state abrogated. - The United States—the territory of Alaska is an exception—is several thousand miles
: from the borders of Soviet
Russia. Oceans separate the
~ two powers. The Communist
ocenrred. In the parliament
building itself.
But cco. at the oy 3
* Party in this country is hardly
‘more. than a fraction of 1 per cent of the total voting population. Yet too often the ‘reaction in
this country. seems to be one oF ;
Jittery panic. The face that we
"have not been
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you must take every possible step to meet the danger. But when this has been done; you
‘must b¥ prepared to live with
reasonable calm with the risks that are for many peoples like the hazards of the weather, of intense cold and blizzard.
In a.recent article, George F. Kennan, counselor of the
State Department, writes of the intense interest of the rest
Kennan adds, “Is whether we are capable of coping with the sociological and ‘spiritual strains placed upon us by all this abundance. It is eager to know-whether we are going to be able to retain, in 8 mechanized epvironment, the indi-
Gentleman, has just “done so.
for one U. 8. county in one eld, "
—agriculture. " = os . HE- E DeKalb County in northern Illinois as his test.
‘tube area. To start off he asked —-25 top
farmers how many federal hired hands they thought were in their midst. Their average guess. was 56. Mr. Strohm'’s investigation showed ‘there were- actually 178 parttime or full-time federal em-
ployees who either lived in De- -
Kalb or visited it regularly. In 1949 these 178 were paid from $8 a day to $5350 a year to tell the county’s 2500 farm-
+ ers what they ought to do and
what they could or could not do. Government services performed in DeKalb cost the. U. 8. $86,065, not including the federal part of the salaries of 55 workers who live outside the county.
net
IT TOOK 65 people some 590 :
man-days to sign up DeKalb's
. farmers in the Agriculture Deconservation pro-
partment’s gram, check their performance, tabulate results and pay out $35.01 to each participant. But 96 per cent of the farmers surveyed said they would haye followed the prescribed practices even without the program and payments.
For offering technical advice
dom does anybody bother to substantiate the: good. figures. John Strohm, writing in the current issue of Country or
MR. STROHM: found ample signs’ of the’ overlapping often pointed -to in. federal operations. There are two youth groups, whose members fre. quenitly belong to both organizations. - Yet two-thirds farm boys and girls reached by neither, Three, and in some cases five government agencies give farmers free guidance on crop rotation. Yet 100 DeKalb farm- . ers have put up $40 each to
are
- «hire their own farm manage=
ment consultant.
There was evidence, too, that the government isn’t always in touch with local needs and conditions. Several farmers re- / ported that alfalfa was the best soil crop - that could be used in DeKalb, but said no conservation. money would be' paid for using it. The . Agriculture t insists they rotate wih Sluves instead. THE STATISTIOS would be . even more striking elsewhere. DeKalb isn’t a typical county. It has fewer federal workers than most counties of similar size. Those it has do a better-than-average job. For example, one agency spent only 9 per cent of its funds for trative purposes last year. The avérage in Illinois was 14 per cent and in some places 20
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