Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 June 1950 — Page 34

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95 Yours of Education

BUTLER UNIVERSITY'S observance tomorrow of its

95th anniversary as an institution of higher learning ; illustrates the remarkable progress in education here during

‘the last century. ; ng was small, brick building at. e. bi 1855 with less than 200

: Student, faculty of nly seven men and an endowment

‘of less than $50,000. Today the university is enjoying international recognition with an enrollment of 4100 students, a faculty of 209 and endowments and assets of more than $11 million. The institution was started as the Northwestern Chyis-

— tian University and in 1875 it was moved to new and larger

rs in Irvington. Two years later it was renamed Butler University in honor of the late Ovid Butler. x » . J » » . FOR 40 years Butler thrived and expanded until it became too large for its Irvington campus and in 1928 it was moved to new buildings on its present site on Fairview Campus in W, 46th St. Next Monday Butler will graduate the largest class in

' history—657 . students—a record of outstanding achieve-

ment in higher learning. The observance, starting tomorrow and lasting four days will mark a milestone in Indianapolis’ contribution to the advance of education, civilization’s most effective _ Weapon for the protection of the rights of free men.

Better Than ‘Compulsion

(COMPULSORY arbitration of industrial disputes on the "nation’s railroads is proposed by Sen. Donnell (R. Mo.) and supported by testimony of Management spokesmen Aetors the Senate Labor Committee. Brotherhood. of Railway 20 other railway unions with some 800,000 ey voices determined opposition to the Donnell bill. ne : 86 long as the industry is privately operated, Mr. Har. ~ rison has told the committee, labor must have the “absolute “tight” to strike. | He contended that sompulsiry arbitration of wages and working conditions would lead inevitably to “arbitrary control of production, prices, markets and profits” and, for the Tallroads, to “nationalization or government control.” a ® 8 =» that compulsory arbitration would do that. But there also is intolerable public danger in exercise of an “absolute right” to strike against indus-

ies essential to national health and safety. Mr. Harrison

Good-faith seizure” by the government, he suggested, aoild settle disputes on the railroad without strikes. If

‘private ownership were deprived of all profit, union mem-

bers would work for the government, at government-fixed wages, during the period of seizure. Mr. Harrison's suggestion is open to the same objections he raises against the Donnell bill, and probably would “wigan even greater peril of nationalization or permanent ~ government control of the railroads. In practice, it would become one-sided compulsory arbitration, with the govern‘ments power exerted to enforce union demands on manageWhat's needed is neither the Donnell bill nor the Har-

vison plan, but a return to the sound principles of the 1926

Railway Labor Act. This law, still on the books, maintained almost unbroken peace on the railroads for many years, Under it, the government tries to help parties to a dispute reach agreement; then, if such efforts fail, suggests voluntary arbitration and, if that is rejected, provides a fact-finding board, named by the President of the United States, and authorized to recommend terms of Settlement, but with not power to compel their ‘acceptance. ® » 8 a §on THE Railway Labor Act depends upon the pressure of public opinion for its effectiveness. And that effectiveness " dwindled during the war, when unions found that they could get better terms than fact finding boards recommended by - threatening to strike and inducing President Roosevelt to intervene. Now it seems almost gone, and the Donnell bill is a-proposal to give the law compulsory force. That should not be necessary—and will not be necessary, if managements and unions alike can be wise enough to recognize the mutual advantages of a sincere joint “effort to make the Railway Labor Act work well again.

lowa Isn't Irked

SEN. HICKENLOOPER would win no popularity contest at any parlor gathering of intellectuals in Georgetown,

District of Columbia. In those circles he is regarded as

“too blunt and reckless in his charges against subversives in government. and against careless handling of defense secrets. Returns trom the Republican primary in Iowa show

“Seri; “Hickenlooper getting almost three times as many

votes as his two opponents combined. And some 92,000 more votes than all six of the senatorial candidates in he Democratic primary. "We were not around Iowa while the campaign was on, so we do not know why the people voted the way they did, And we draw no conclusions as to how they will vote in November. But it does seem safe to deduce that Mr. Hickenlooper’s mild “red-baiting” has caused no distress

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'_ #THE Army says it has developed an artifial man named * “Lumpy” for use in testing its sleeping bags. The man at next deg basing his pinion on his own war experi. : to cheat some ex-GI out

SAVING TAXPAYERS’ CASH . . . By E ‘Government Support D

ih prices of many farm commodities, such as grains and cotton, is saving millions of dollars

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for the government-—and taxpayers. It means & much smaller outiay for the price support program than had been expected. 1483 big teuson why the has revised ownward its estimate of the size of the 1950 A on. Thousands of farmers ‘have been repaying

* thelr government loans, with interest, to get the higher prices of the open market. Had prices

not gone up, the fa

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port prices.

Boybeans provide the outstanding example ‘

of what has happened. The government a few months back advanced nearly $25 million to

U.S. POLICY SHIFT? By L. Denny West Getmeny Seeking Arms

Adenaver Disguises Force as Police Unit

WASHINGTON, June 8—Eventusl rearming

of West Germany in some form is probable, despite Secretary of State Acheson's denial yesterday to the House Foreign Affairs Committee “that the U. 8. is considering such a step at this time, The Big Three conference two weeks ago

referred the question to the Allied high com-

missioners in Germany, Mr. Acheson and others who have opposed the plan are losing ground. Washington is divided on the issue. Influential military and

congressional groups here are seriously and favorably considering the step In he not toa.

distant future, Chairman Tom Connally (D. Tex.) of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Ben, Walter George of Georgia, ranking Democratic memsber of that: committee, and Sen. Styles Bridges

of New Hampshire, ranking Republican member

of the Armed Services Committee, are among those toying with the idea.

French Less Opposed

THY British government also is divided, with a majority of the military leaders and some of the cabinet in favor. The French gov-

~-ernment is less opposed than formerly. It would:

prefer inclusion of Germans in a West European

armed force under Allied command. That is a

possible compromise solution.

Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Ger-

many on the eve of the recent Allied London conference proposed to the Allied Big Three 8

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: "September the Allies permitted West Germany

to set up the Bonn government with the stipulation there would be no rearmament, and Chancellor Adenauer formally accepted that condition.

His alibi now is that he is not asking for

an army but merely an armed “national police force” for internal security. But there are already 123,000 German state police in the three " Allied zones—about one-third armed with rifles and another third with pistols.

Police Potential Army

OF COURSE an armed national police—unlike lightly armed police of the ssparats states _~is an army, or 4 potential one. : “Chancellor Adenauer uses two arguments. One is that an armed national police force is essential for internal security. The other is that West Germany must be able to balance and defend itself against the Soviet-led 50,000-armed

~ “police” of East Germany,

Both arguments are phony. The West Ger- . man state police are sufficient for internal security, and could be increased if necessary, As for the East German “police” force, it is a Red army with tanks. It could be met only by another army. The function of the Allied armies of occupation is to turn back any East German aggressor and, in event of war, to Bola ‘until

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Disguised Rearmament

CHANCELLOR ADENAUER'S pleas for disguised German rearmament appeal to some Allied groups, and particularly to many British and American military men. They fear France and her Allied neighbors on the continent could not stop an all-out Russian ground offensive even with American-British air and sea support. Opponents of the plan point out that the . gravest Allied danger is not Russian attack, which probably could be met, but joint Russian- | German aggression. Already Germany has enough bargaining power to play one side ' against the other; with an army and a Soviet alliance she could dictate, 4 -That'ils the fearful gamble of trusting any German army. History teaches it would “more

~ Hkely fight against us than for us.

‘TIS SAID

Maybe we need a Ben Franklin to win the peace. Can that be why the President is talent scouting the country? :

Credit where credit is due even i it belongs :

to a political opponent. Wouldn't you know a woman would grab that credit?

B. C.~Indianapolis, Indiana.

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U.S. ss Network Logks’

WASHINGTON, June 8—Great Britain plans to put as much radar in southern England as this country expects to have in all 48 states and Alaska. As a matter of fact, the Air Force says maximum protection of the New England-New York area against enemy planes would take all of the U. 8. radar machinery now being built. That isn’t planned.

-The secret of maximum radar defense Hes

in bunching warning stations so that fields overlap. Radar fields are cone-shaped. On the ground, they are restricted to the width of the radar set. At the top, post-war radar covers

‘areas 150 to 200 miles across. Thus, when

stations are widely dispersed, there are triangular spaces between the field covered by any two stations.

Must Disperse Equipment

WE have no choice, the Air Forcé says, but

to disperse our radar. We have so great an area to cover—even when we eliminate those areas in which raids are unlikely—that we can not hope to provide maximum protection anywhere. - England, on the other hand, can concen-

. trate her radar. Air Force experts say that

England will have as much radar south of ‘And 1t will provide much better protection. - recently appropriated $50 million to start building a radar net. The Air Force

sald $85.5 million was needed. Congress prom-

ised the additional money. But the Air Force now says it needs $125 million. It says this

..is ‘due to higher construction costs, plus the 7 fact its first estimates were too low; the need

for better barracks to attract and hold men and a construction speed-up that involves overtime and makes it difficult to economize. =. Alaska radar has priority, The Air Force

Grand Canyon. Congress gave the President the power to. make over the Maritime Commission and reshape the Department of Commerce to consolidate authority over A Sgenciea

“move long urgently ch

HAVING Been ? ven this new authority, the President promptly used it to promote one commissioner who had come under congressional critfcism for mismanagement, iribility and Incompetence while at the same time ignoring the claims of another member of the Maritime Commission who has repeated-

Congress. The President g iinated 4 Male Gem. Philp 2. ~ Fleming, formerly chairman of the commission, to be undersecretary ' of commerce, Under reorgani25%i60 $hiA 66 ol: Mnportant authority over

- based radar.

is spending $32 million of its first $50 million there. In addition, it has spent $1 million on plans. That leaves $17 million for the continental U, 8.

ill defend to the death your igh ‘Not Good Investment’

Hoosier Forum

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By C.D. C.,, Terre Haute a Fer sayy 8 fony Bot svtond very patriotic, but war bonds are not a very, good investment, which a lot of us have thought for quite a long time. He places their value at 60 cents on the dollar, but fails to state there is a federal income tax due on most of them which

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~~ iakes Them Worth stil Toss.

However, the politicians who ‘were selling them a few years ago kept urging people to buy them so they could buy a home or a car and now they find whatever they wanted costs more than the bonds and accrued interest.

‘One ‘could hardly expect anything else, since -

the administration in power since 1932 has not been particularly noted for economic veracity. Harry Truman, who his- political education from Tom Pendergast has been doing a fairly good job of keeping prices inflated this election year. Whenever there is a lag in business he merely opens up the pop valve in the cold war and turns on enough heat to allow the public to think the cold war is about to become

a hot war. When the heat starts getting too in-’

tense he puts out some optimistic statements about peace until things begin to cool off again, Just how long the taxpayers will be able to have more billions spent for arming the whole world, no one knows. But reports drifting in from Europe indicate that, if we have a war with Russia, the folks over there are not only willing io 1 let us furnish the money, but do the fighting, also

‘Women Trouble on Trolleys’ By H. L. 8, City. Now that the hot weather is upon us, I see

no Tedson or not cutting Joos with another : : Va: gripe. “ itis sms fasion aed

When the \emperatire om oo the 80s it also rises inside the trolleys. You get on the car sweating and tired. You sit down in fhe same condition (if you're lucky) and you go forward a bit to open a window for just a morsel of fresh, clean, cool air. This window is directly between your seat and the seat in front. But can you open it? No! Because nine out of 10 times there will be a woman with her shopping bag in that seat. She has just gotten over a cold or is afraid of getting one, after her strenuous day of shopping. If that is not the case, she will not like the idea of the wind blow ing her hair out of place,

‘During the war years the plea was. for ye ——=-—pery 16 ride the trolleys during certain [hope

thus saving room at the rush hours for the people who ride them. To narrow this field down a bit, let's just say women. . I think the same plea should go out today. The women seem -to believe their 12-cent fare

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Thousands of radar sites have been picked .

and purchased. Some stations are being built.

Temporary Stations Used

MEANWHILE, temporary radar stations

ones are built. Roughly, today’s radar screens four areas—the North Atlantic states from Maine to southern Virginia, extending as far west as Ohio, Indiana and Michigan and across the Great Lakes; the area around New Mexico, western Texas and Arizona; around San Fran-

are being used... They will. operate until new.

‘Washington and Oregon. When completed, the net will provide some

. protection for all vital areas. It will require

10,000 Air Force men and 300 civilians. Plans call for mobilizing 12,000 National Guardsmen in an emergency—if we have time and sufficient

warning.

Location of warning and intercept stations is secret. However, the Air Force says control centers will be located at Rosslyn, L. I, N. Y.; Anchorage, Alaska; Billings, Mont.; Schenectady, Detroit, Seattle, Detroit, St. Paul, San

Francisco, Los Angeles, Alugueryus and At-.

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Navy Picket Ships

THERE also will-be a number -of Navy . picket ships—converted destroyer escorts. Some already are in servide. They le close enough offshore that their fields overlap those of landAll radar is under Air Force control. :

The Air Force says it needs $125 million to |

_ house the radar equipment it already has

bought, That cost $30 million. Each set is the .

best post-war development.

WORDS AND DEEDS . .< »eBY Marquis Childs ~~ Presidential Action and Promises

WASHINGTON, June 8-President Truman has spoken a

THE FORMER Maritime

~double seat. They de not care if anyone stands,

Just so long as they and their shopping bags

- occupy a complete double seat.

This is not a complaint about our city’s streetcar or bus service, but rather of the generally dead-tired working people. v Let's get some fair-play on the trolleys and usses.

‘Return Good Jor Evil’ ~~

By H. E. Martz, City

It is a common contention that Christian practice would be ineffective in dealing with the Russians because Christianity is “not Stalin's ‘way.” However, Christian scripture does not tell us to conduct ourselves as Christians only if the other person does, but to “turn the other cheek,” to “return good for evil,” that “a soft answer turneth away wrath,” to “look for the beam in

- our own eye, not the mote in our brother's eye,”

to “love our enemies,” etc. The time is almost past when we must decide whether we are to take our Christian profession at face value or whether we are going to continue to let lip service suffice while we suffer the fate of our disregard so clearly outlined for us in the le. ;

‘Memo to Congress: Twelve thousand persons are paid _by the government to administer the affairs of 393,000. Indians—one federal employee to every 32 Indians. * oo : Consolidation of government functions . would reduce the number of employees.

The Hoover Report contains suggestions on this subject.

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great many earnest words about government reorganization and government efficiency in pushing for the Hoover Commission's plan to reshape the federal colossus. Butias so often, the gulf . between words and deeds is an abyss that compares with the

withstanding, has hardly dem-

onstrated his ability to take over this new and responsible assignment.

IN FACT, a House subcom__mittee has twice been sharply critical of the way in which.

the now abolished Maritime Commission lavishly dispensed

° government funds in subsidies

to American shipbuilders.

for defense purposes, the committee nevertheless found that the law had been stretched repeatedly so that the shipping lines were risking comparatively little of their capi-

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Commissioner ignored by the President is Raymond 8. MecKeough, for five years a commission member. A political appointee, Mr. McKeough mas tered the intricacies of maritime authority and regulation and in repeated dissents pro-

practices resembling which led 15 years ago to a Senate investigation that brought out appalling misues of the taxpayers’ money. With the commission abolished under the reorganization act, there is created in the De-

Illinois, was hot on the list. 8 8

SHIPPING interests are pressing hard

new assistant under

cratic National Committee, Mr, -

Killion was put in as head of the American President Lines

in which the government ex~'

ercises a controlling interest growing out of loans advanced to the lines.

tioned policy may be, it can be nullified by appointing men out of sympathy with that policy

~—or incapable of administering = it. President Truman vetoed

the Kerr Natural Gas Bill with a strong message of rejection and then a few weeks later reappointed Nelson Lee Smith to be a member of the Federal Power Commission although it was Mr. Smith who recoms mended to Corigress that inde pendent natural gas producers

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