Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 March 1950 — Page 10
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Monday, Mar. 6, 1950
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Madden on the Labor Laws
JEOR a new low in demagogic doubletalk we refer you to .
the blast issued Saturday from Rep. Madden, of Gary, about the coal strike settlement. : “The coal strike, according to Mr. Madden, was caused by the Taft-Hartley law. "He doesn’t say what caused the coal strike the year before that law was passed, or the year before that, or all the others that came along so frequently under the discredited old law he'd like to put back in the books. The Taft-Hartley law, according to Mr. Madden, “failed 100 per cent” in the coal strike. He doesn't say why it wasn't tried for eight long months and he conveniently forgets that the Taft-Hartley law, alone, forced Mr. Lewis to drop -the illegal demands he was making on the industry and begin to ‘megotiate a bona-fide contract after eight months of stalling, and refusal to hegotiate.
‘THE Taft-Hartley law has caused labor disputes, according to Mr. Madden, who says that yuring the last 18 months there have been more serious strikes . . . than any year in our history. % : Almost exactly the opposite is true. Strikes have reached the lowest point in many years since that law was enacted. “We-certainly have no objection to Mr Madden Woldiingany opinion he wishes about this or any other law. e do feel a member of Congress has an obligation to tell the truth about matters of plain recorded fact.
Cold War ‘Crises’ Tr State Department's warning that “unforeseen developments” in the cold war may disrupt plans to hold foreign aid spending down to $4.5 billion in the new fiscal year suggests that another “crisis” may be in the offing.Meanwhile, it is learned that the White House has before it plans to setup a Cabinet- level committee on foreis™ economic policy. “The latter idea is late, “but not too late, ‘By all means let's have some planning and co-ordinating before we increase spending.
“WHEN the British loan was proposed in 1945, Bernard M. Baruch urged an inventory of our resources and adoption of an over-all program so that we might deal intelligently with the various demands which would be made upon us. His advice was not followed. “eWedenlt hurriedly With thé Gréek-Turkish situation, . then rushed into the Marshall Plan, and have continued to rush more or less blindly into similar international matters, “tryjng to meet crises instead of Neeking solutions,” as Mr. Baruch has since remarked. The administration should have a functioning committee dn over-all foreign policy, both military and economic, - befoge the smart lads in the State Department bankrupt the Fressuvy with: bills for headache tablets,
» 4 MOST oF the so-called crises now on th the international
horigon have been there all along while Secretary Acheson has gvaited for “the dust to settle.” But he is being prodded into action by the French, who _anéeat the point of losing Indo-China, and possibly by Britonce about Hong Kong. {&An independent look should be taken at both these situsfions, to determine whether any legitimate American interest is- involved, before we buy our way into a war we do not want. ;
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say nothing of Formosa, which should be of much more coficern to the United States. Our ‘resources are not unlimited. to ut the pattern to fit the cloth.
City’ s Building Boom ; = PROSPECTS of “solving the biggest part of Indianapolis’ ‘housing shortage are brighter today than’ any time in the 4ast decade. Last year construction of 5065 dwelling. units NE ) valued at $57 million was an all-time record, far ahead of any previous year's building in the history of the city. Housing construction here last month was the biggest woof -any-Febraary-in-history; $305,000 more than building. operations during both January and February bE last year.
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“DEAR BOSS... By Don Kidney
Lincoln ‘Quotes’ Termed Phony
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Pp. - «Speech of Emancipator wk “WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 — Sen. William E. Jenner was one of the Republican Lincoln Day Speakers who had incorporated into his released ‘text what the Democrats soon spotted and
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termed “phony uotes.”
They were the ones attributed to Abrabam Lincoln and “Widely circulated by the committee for constitutional government, the organization supported by Publisher Frank Gannett. ..Time and. Life magazines had falsehood, but there are those who think that they represgnt sound sense even if Lincoln didn’ t say it.
The Disputed Quotes
HERE are the quotes: “You cannot bring about prosperity. by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn, You cannot build character and courage by taking away man’s initiative’ and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”
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Before Sen. Jenner delivered his speech. his -
secretary, Horace Coats, learned that the guotes were questionable and had them killed by calling newspapermen who had advance copies.
Definitions of Liberty : IN HIS weekly broadcast, however, Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis Democrat; referred to those “phoney” quotes and then recited something which Lincoln did say. His quotations were taken from Nicolay and Hay's complete works of Lincoln and are from a speech which the Great Emancipator delivered at the Sanitary Fair in Baltimore, Md., Apr. 18, 1844. They are:
Rep.
A reply to Pete of Brazil: 1 wonder if you were ever a coal miner and
Taman
“The world has never had a good definition
of the word liberty; and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. :
“With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases, with himself, and the product of his labor, while with others the same word may mean for some -men to do as they please with other men, and the. product . of other men's labor, ; : ~— “Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name, liberty. And it follows that each of the things is. by the respective parties, called by two different and ‘incompatible names liberty and tyranny. :
Not Agreed on Liberty
“THE shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep’s throat, for whieh the sheep thanks the. " shepherd: as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act, as the destroyer of liberty, especially as the sheep was a black one. : “Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon’ a definition of the word liberty, and precisely the same difference Prevalls to-
«JAY, AMONg us human creatures. .e g "North, and all professing to love a Republicans, of course, read into their
quotes a forthright castigation of governmental trends under President Truman's Fair Deal program. And the Democ rats see in the quotes recited by Mr. Jacobs a challenge to the GOP from that - party’s founder, ‘particularly on their 1950 slogan of, “socialism vs. liberty.” On the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, you can step right’ up to the polls and take your choice.
QUEST
A friend wag all I wanted, One whom I. might trust. Day and night I hunted For find a friend I must.
1 grew so tired and weary 1 could not find my way. Other homes were bright and cheery; “Mine was dull and gray:
My soul was sad and lonely, * ‘My body tired and worn: My heart was dead within me , , I longed for a new morn.
And then when skies were grayest The sun came Shining through. My life is now the gayest For I spend my life with vou.
—Dorothy Mae Parke.
"PRICE SUPPORTS . . . . By Oland Russell
Bad Farming Feared
BESIDES the heavy financial burden imposed
ican taxpayer, another objection to government crop Subsidies
and high price supports is given by a Texas farmer.
Direct or Indirect payments in.the. form..of “He WHE encourage
questing that his name be ‘withheld,
——the-end-of-the-war.-
of..price. Supports, ap ‘wasteful and inefficient agriculture.” Re- .
he sets forth his ideas as
you like to work under these conditions? These -are-only a few things the miners contended with, Why is there never a word spoken about the operators? Théy are only stubborn and want to keep all the money and expect the ‘very essential coal digger to take what they . (the operators) hand them. : That day is past and now men that keep everything /rolling are at last getting rewards they so richly deserve. You say the miners are foreign, also their leaders. Again I say you
know nothing of the miners. They are good, wholesome American citizens and mining is little - lad their trade. Doesn't éveryone have a right to _ceries, choose the trade he likes best? What would we Here's do if all the miners turned to another trade, won't cl¢ There would be no coal mined. eleep for You say the depression was not the fault of tration b Hoover, Well, why did conditions immediately money-ba become better when FDR took office? Because ° ceived fo he was a man who had compassion for the. the Whit working men and was tired of seeihg them be- The ba ing pushed around by their employers. We have “ticians wi had better conditions since the Democrats have party lin "been in office and will continue that way as we leads, the long as they remain in office. stay put ; adding n
‘We Need City Manager’
NA TIONAL DEFENSE .
“By Roger Stuart
Russia’s Arms 3to 1 Over U.S.
WASHINGTON, Mar, 6 Russia today outnumbers the United States by more than three to one in the strength of its armed forces. It has more than 5 million men under arms,
The Soviet’s army alone haf157 divisions. -
We have 10.
Russia has at deast 14,000 first-line planes. We have less than 2000. But we have 8000 other
planes, some of which were put in mothballs at Some-of-these undoubtedly —
could be made ready to fight quickly. Defense Secretary Louis Johnson has declared that the U. 8. will be ready to counterattack one hour after any assault. Other mili-
tary leaders, including Air Secretary W. Stuart
Symington, are not so confident. As of now, military strength of the United States stacks up like this: : 3d Army—Ten divisions (630,000). Five of fhem scattered in various parts of the world from Japan to Germany.
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"7271 Combat Vessels
NAVY 400,000 officers and" men; operating forces consisting of 271 major combatant vessels
(including three large carriers, three Essex-class
and four small carriers, four. escort carriers, one battleship—the Missouri-—13 cruisers, 140 destroyers and 70 submarines), groups, 25 patrol bomber squadrons, 16 Marine fighter plane squadrons. Air Force—415,000 officers and men; equivalent of 66 air groups. In Japan we have four infantry divisions and seven antiaircraft battalions;. in the Ryukyus, one infantry regiment and two antiaircraft battalions; in Austria ,an infantry regimental combat team and one reconnaissance battalion; in Germany, one infantry division, the Constabulary consisting of three armored cavalry regiments plus minor units, and one antiaircraft battalion. In’ the entire European Command, the U. 8. now has only 85,500 meg. U. 8S. Forces, Austria --a separate command-—has 10,000. ~~ We-also have nearly 1 milifori men in training in the Army and Air National Guard, and in. the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps Reserves. : Meanwhile, Russia's Sifengih is said to be increading. A joint report by the Senate For-
the
eign Relations. and Armed Services Committees -
pointed out that the Soviet military budget for 1949 was 19 per cent over that of 1948. The Soviet force in Germany, according to the report, was increased last year from 70,000 to 100,000 men.
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American naval authorities, moreover, are convinced Russia is building up its navy. At present; the United States surpasses anything the Soviet has in the way of a fleet, except But reports ~have country that the Russians are building three 35,000-ton battleships and are adding to their armada of 300 submarines.
Big Aircraft Program THE United States defense bude for the’ year starting July-1 calls for purchase‘of 2173 aircraft, of which 1383 will be for the Air Force, 760 for the Navy and 21 for'the Army. No request has been made for new navy vessels. - However, approximately $300 million of work will continue next year on- ship work previously authorized.
But war, if it does come, will require much more than trained troops.
“submarines.
seeks fo achieve as quickly as possible the maximum use of manpower, as well as industrial and material resources, to wage war. “Stockpiling is one of the most vital needs,” Estimates are that we need approximately $2.2 billion worth of critical materials in 70 aos _ gories. Only 27 of these are produced domestically, less than a tliird of them to any considerable extent. So far, we've stockpiled about
“$1 billion worth. After this year, we'll still have
to acquire more than $1 billion worth of critical items. One of the most essential items in war production is machine tools. II a million tools -were made. More than $11 billion was spent on new plants: and another "$4 billion to expand existing plants,
Good. Equipment THE Munitions Board says that, «omes, a good share of this production equipment could be called. back into use. The Defense Department is holding in standby 206 of the 1595 plants built during the ‘war, and another 254 are in Private hands with the understanding that they could be converted into war production in four months. There also is a reserve of machine tools, We -are by no means as ready for war as Secretary Johnson's remark about counterat-
tacking in one hour would seem to indicate.
But progress is being made. Most military experts say merely that, as matters stand, we can spring into action—total action—in much short-
er time than we did in World War IL.
“IF THE construction pace of the first "two_months of 1950™is continued through to 1951, last year's record will be outdistanced. -And most of the present construction is eargaarked as rental units for middle-income groups. - =&his' means that within a year the worst of the housing _shdl¥age, the city’s gravest problem five years ago, will have been solved. The. construction industry is proving it can be done,
Tae Much for the Voter 2 Ley must be something to the saying that all Greeks **are politicians and that most of them aspire to political leadership, At the pational elec tion today there were 17 tickets on the ballot, representing 11 major political parties and six coalitions of smaller parties. fhe tickets are identified by such’names as Political Independent Group, National Regeneration Front, Democratic Front, National Political Union and National Party. "How can the average Greek citizen cast an intelligent vote in such a confused situation? The suswer seems to t he can't.
. * . S a dreary prospect for a brave, hard-working people who, meed enlightened leadership and a ‘workable system overnment.
The British discourage splinter parties by requiring.
_ Produce all the cotton we need
fotows“Cotton subsidies, to use an : example, - cause - millions = of 'Pdor South’
-acres to be planted that are - ° unsuited to that crop. The result is greater soil erosion, low production per acre and per: man-hour, high produetion costs and meager profits. ~
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of -the nation. s
“SUBSIDIES
unsupported world price of 15 to 20 cents a pound; such marginal land would be put to more efficient use. Good farmers in the South, on fertile soil, could
the individual.
for domestic use and for export on half our present acreage. “On such land the producton per acre would be high, the unit: production costs low and the profits fair and satisfactory. Poor or moderately produce tive -land taken out of cotton could be used for crops that do not require so rich a soil, such
achieve it.
sible and uses
ported price of
— camMidates to pos a’sum of money which is forfeited unless, =. they poll a fixed percentage of the vote. Most American’ i states require nominating petitions, signed by a substantial . number of electors, to restriet the hallot to truly Feppespntative Broups. Unless the Greeks adopt sone. such nieasyre fof prov
_ our country. to be known as the
“Together “with poor soil it has been responsible for backwardness in education and low family income and has made this section the problem child
. are not conducive to efficient farming by Selling cotton in a free world market forces “the. good farmer to keep his costs to the minimum, He strives for the highest possible production per acre and builds up the fertility of his land to
“He keeps his labor other expenses as low as pos-
sound practices in the field and in farm management, “On the other hand, farmer who is to receive a sup-
pound is under no such compulsion to engage in wise plan-
and
progressive,
the 30 cents a
— By H.W. Dasecke, Beech Grove, Ind.
ing Uncle The needs of Indianapolis are of so many an even varieties and of such magnitude, that enumera< plan, witk tion of same would clog this column so that more job: other contributors would be barred. My suggestion for 1950 would be the organi ars zation of citizens of all types, from workers to prin ie business executives to lobby for an en: ; it will see act that would make it possible for the City of ~~ will ‘win. Indianapolis to adopt the council manager plan, ence says reached this used so successfully in progressive cities in But we’ many parts of the U. 8. It would e the thing. The -obsolete system of professional politicians, it through composed of splinter groups, fighting each other ment chec = for the spoils of such a System; blocking any It’s ano possibility of progress. ary OMY ee Then, instead of two “major political groups, pected to opposed to each other, you would have one blow-up « majority of citizens, co-operating with each and wait. .. other for the benefit of the city. Watch This should be followed by civil service for THE Ch all city employees, from street cleaners to the crossed t highest executives. It would make it possible tax lunche for able and farsighted citizens to “enter the cause of service of the city out of civic pride. Johnson, We need municipal ownership of ail utilities, ATS Dresh An industrial mo- that would provide the funds to maintain the 8B hd 3 “Suéh ‘a program . finances of the City and ease the enormous tax Fe? a is 1 burden of its taxpayers. and wipe | s minds, all Opposes ‘Glorified Crime’ 2 Sr By Mrs. Joseph N. Huser, 1214 N. Wallace St. No one h leading th There recently has appeared in the news wolves are columns, several criticisms aimed at those of nothing m us-who-have opposed the glorification of crime —tyeg and scandal, which leads me to believe that our There's 1 intentions have been sadly misconstrued by the next many. shoving it One writer, referring to Ingrid Bergwag, said into the pc During World war that she possessed a beautiful love, and that the Nose C child. would not have been illegitimate had the IN LES! courts granted her a divorce. Yes, a legitimate 510 census love-is-of Divine origin, and is therefore very" out on Ma beautiful. But when man degrades himself to The 1950 free love we are thereby placing human nature Apr. 1 an if war. ,n the level of mere animal nature. And are we —about a n not supposed to. be a cultured race? tions will No, I for one (and I am certain that all of - more than ‘my co-thinkers)- am not condemning any indi- ~ name?” vidual for his sins, for who are we to judge They wil and condemn others? things, suc I most humbly admit to the whole world how many that I am a very sad example of human frailty, ily, how n but 1 eertainly am. uot proud of this fact, or and if you 80 smug that like little Jack Horner I can say, you would “My, what a good girl am I!” ~ Peron os Therefore, it is not the individual we are amounts tc condemning, but we do most emphatically con- Just now _ demn the glorification of crime and scandal the local ce because A i a Others. Ho Aree love. - ff —" enumerator = ’ } " service test By Galbraith GRAND § STRATEGY . .. By Jim G. cos I ye enumerator : : i bs : But if yo U. S. Goals Vague a enumerator WASHINGTON, Mar. 6 —— The United gu ‘has not yet-- job paying decided what it's fighting for in the cold war--or what its questionnai Objectives would be in an actual war. Lo for, asking semen SHTRE WES AE TH the HOUSE ned Services Come “house, how mittee’s report on unification and strategy. National objectives heat, how —————elearly—defined—and— re “extremely _ the bath a fundamental to. national de- y . fense planning; they have a We will work for an effective AND AN profound influence on the na- - World organization, based on on his fee
GEN.
of Stafftold-
as an official
gress should be
ture of the grand strategy of the United States, ” it ‘said.
OMAR : BRADLEY, chairman of the Joint’ Chiefs
that the joint chiefs had been forced to assume certain goals in the absence of any guides from their civ To the committee, those assumptions appear to be sound. Nevertheless, it said, military men should not be forced to take so serious a matter for ‘granted. The committee said Defense Secretary Louis John--son “shquid initiate a study in" the National Security Council to provide a firm statement of principles upon. - which ‘the Joint Chiefs of
their civilian leaders.” Ld » ” MOREOVER, it said, Con-
of the decision reached in
the United Nations. We hope ultimately for the elimination of warfare as a means for the resolution of in. ~~ § - ternational disputes. » » a “THE Committee is in agree- ‘ ment with these objectives,” the report said. “It notes, however, with some concern, Gen. Bradley's assertion that the Joint Chiefs-of Statr have had to ‘assume’ them.” The Committee pointed out that the Navy high command. believes’ our stragety is “ere roneously based on the premises that should war begin, (we) would immediately resort to Stone Vastare, ay we will employ s! warfare against large urban centers.” The . Navy contends, the Committee said, that “the nation may thwart its objectives, + although winning a war waged:
“fully informed ““to achieve those: objectives,”
the - committee
ilian superiors.
Staff may rely expression of
if it adopts : Ee a Jum posture S06 2:4 sdicient plodustion, or 3 0.0 0m Je. onder to place the legislative strategy. the Navy cor: PARTLY | toe Y trees, pon : “and appropriations problems “violates fundamentall Lou i ig, ag nant And inflated Price jor Bia pros “1 wish George wouldn't try fo be so cute at these parfies— of national defense in their - objectives for which the Unitog others that would be helpful "ter for our dwindling sofl re- it would serve him right if he dropped that nice proper ey told the Hg would wage a war; that to the southern economy. ~ jources and for our national sve of yours! : Services ee he “as- ier a ho Bgl Sites 80m: I. economy? ois : LE : : sumes’: . ciety. = = “IT is simple : . 8 8 - AREAL arbs 7 “ The national desire is for ~~ =~ = » » » F
have approximately six: times .
ceived and is now reociving. from ‘the machinery manufac- < turer, the feed and fertilizer industry and unscrupulous brok-
. the production costs per pound dorie as much damage to the er and banker, he can take as the one Producing two dand in some parts of the rich care of himself in a world of . - bales on one acre. - Midwest as cotton has in the free prices. “Cotton - price ‘supports ° en- * South. Yet the ot =O ‘permanent farm and
. 1000 patents. Who wants to - bet that -none of his faucets
We're all looking foiward to a nice, warm spring—and it'll probably urn out. 10 be a frost.
A NEW “York” man holds
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righ or national sovereignty, but not peace at any price. We want the mainténance . -of our pélitical way of life and our form of government; we _do not require other nations to “self