Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 August 1950 — Page 22
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~ Adult Education”
ONE of the most stabilizing influences o of any community is the opportunity it provides for the betterment of the td :
An outstanding project in this respect is the expanded program of night classes for adults in the Indianapolis public schools, beginning next month. These courses will provide about anything anyone
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THERE will be highly diversified classes for on-the-b training in industrial work, drafting, retail store train-
ing, home planning,
how to handle human relations prob-
lems, practical nursing, and Aregsmaling in addition to the “regular academic courses, ; im These are offered without tuition fees as a public serv.
jee to citizens desiring to better themselves. In helping individuals this program will go a Tong way
toward raising the standards of the population not only for more efficiency in industrial progress but for improved
community Te.
oO’ Dwyer as an Envoy
RESIDENT TRUMAN'S nomination of New York's Democratic Mayor O'Dwyer as U. 8. Ambassador to Mexico
is a happy choice.
Though the politics of it may be involved — Mayor O'Dwyer led a pre-convention fight against President Truman in 1048—the appointment can hardly be challenged on the basis of the O'Dwyer record. His career has been studded with Alger-like successes
and triumphs,
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. By Peter Edson :
AFL-CIO ‘Peace’ Talks Delayed
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—-Wideiy heralded peace and unity talks between the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization: have hn into the usual delays. A
York at the age of 20, he went up the ladder rapidty=— grocery clerk, hod carrier, deck hand, bartender, policeman, detective, teacher, lawyer, jurist, district attorney, Army general and finally mayor of the nation's largest city —widely regarded as the hardest administrative job <n the United States except ‘the presidency.
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AS MAYOR, he fought Tammany Hall, gave the dity its first billion-dollar budget; promoted inter-racial understanding, courageously met the problems of many strikes, and helped bring the United Nations to his city. Our present relations with Mexico are excellent. As a
_..youth, Mayor-O'Dwyer- spent-iwo university. years.in. p. Spain...
and he speaks the language fluently, He has had numerous occasions to entertain and be entertained by high officials of the Mexican government and his relations with them are said to be extremely cordial. He would serve his country well as an ambassador, and the Senate should confirm the appointment.
New Hope for Mankind?
WHILE the world seems to crumble about us almost unhampered, it is encouraging that our colleges and universities still seek new and more workable approaches to international politics. In co-operation with the State Departme nt the problem is being worked out carefully -by men with practical
‘experience,
International politics, they say, is no longer a game
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that can be played merely from the pages of theorizing ) i inspired "
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TROUBLE is, most of these human beings “don’t s ‘seem
to understand each other.
Men with such failings find
tempers short and arguments. long and bitter. Columbia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Minnesota have
already set up programs to meet this néed for the study
nderstandt Others are to follow. —#reedoms pho i 5 gan i FEI APORMY SRE
go without sa
seems to lie an essential hope for ‘mankind.
Faith a Necessity THE Good Book tells us that man is not saved by bread
“alone,
“And. now at least one Toctor tells Te Fellow. “citizens
that physicians alone, are not enough either. Dr. Herbert Ratner, Commissioner of Health of Oak Park, large Chicago suburb, has written every pastor in his
jurisdiction, urging them to help prepare the people for whatever may come in the way of civilian medical defense. ¥ XT » » ~ o » ”
HE cites the efforts of various agencies in planning for
“However, as you know so well,” he writes, “man is more thun simply a body, and we cannot treat the trauma‘of insecurity, anxiety and dread with mere splints or pressure bandages. Therefore with all the vigor I can muster as a physician, I urge you to remember that you and your colleagues in the ministry are a prime defense in the face of any disaster which may strike us-in time of war. we “. « . Even medicine is rediscovering the basic fact that man is spirit as well as body, and that faith and love are scientific necessities for his well-being, not simply luxuries. . . . You are our coworkers not only against the atom bomb, but against the many strains to our health that may arise in a prolonged cold war.” . ” ~ » u * ~ DR. RATNER speaks good sense, medically and spiritually. There seems to be not much left-to tie to of permanence and hope in this crazy world now except the spiritual ‘and faith. And the good doctor undoubtedly has given many. a pastor a text for a sermon which should rock complacent ~ parishioners back on their heels. Indianapolis pastors, too, should close ranks and help carry the great burden which - may come to us all.
__the welfare. of-Oak Park-citizens on the. "bodily level...
Would it be by popular vote of all members of both organizations? Or would a little group of international presidents get together and choose one of their own number to be “it”? What would the new organization be called?
—five leaders from io group—was scheduled for Chicago early in’ August. it has been postponed, indefinitely. AFL's annual convention meets in Houston in mid-September. Everybody will be busy with electioneering in October.. The CIO copvention is scheduled for Chicago in mid-November. So don’t look for too much to happen on labor unity before then.
The committees of 10 is supposed to name a
periianent chairman and secretary. A twoman sub-committee CIO Vice President Allan 8. Haywood and AFL Brotherhood of Boilermakers President Charles J. McGowan--is sup-
posed to draw up an agenda for the peace-
makers. But so Tar there is nothing to report.
— This is the sixth effort to heal the big labor 1 jos ~apit-that began-when-the- AFL expetied-10in-
dustrial unions in 1936. Earlier peace move-
ments were proposed in 1937, 1939, 1941-43, 1947
and 1948. All failed, This latest harmony movement began last April when CIO President Philip Murray wrote the heads of AFL, Miners’, Machinists’ and Railway Brotherhoods’ organizations. He suggested creation of a joint labor committee for united political and legislative action.
Mountains of Problems
THIS met with a warm reception. Out of it grew the first AFL-CIO peace talks, aimed at setting up practical machinery to handle jurisdictional and raiding disputes and special movements for organic unity. But big mountains of problems still face the 10 peacémakers. Who will head the greater, new, two-ringed and one-platform combined circus under a single tent? Will William Green and Philip Murray have to resign for some compromise ringmaster on whom both organizations can agree? How would "this new head man be selected?
What Others s Say Hobie doen gE Crit try liibAE “At War ie EO Nein
that war I am on the side of or ihc and the United Nations.- —Henry A. Wallace, | former Vice President.
IF Congress can pass a law to prohibit the newspapers from carrying advertising of. any commodity, this power and. precedent could be used to restrict and stifle all of our traditional
WE would rather have a little ‘more wheat than may be needed than to be caught with any supply shortage at this time. —~Secretary of Agriculture Brannan.
- THERE is at least the strong possibility that we are approaching World War III. —Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson (D. Tex.).
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Effect on Politics _
“only be speculated on.
CAL Congress of American Labor? Or AFIO
—-American Federation of Industrial Organizations? Or something with a fresh slant picked out of a hat? 2 By far the knottiest problem that the merger negotiators face is the matter of jurisdictional disputes. They are bad enough between local unions within the two big organizations. though probably less troubiesom# now than in some years past. But when the AFL-CIO merger is up for consideration, the natural conflict between the former's craft union organization and the latter's industrial union organization must be resolved.
Up to now, AFL leaders have maintained the
only way there could be unity would be for the CIO horizontal unions to be shaorbed by ~the-old-Hne vertical units.
Advantages of Morier
IF THIS can be worked out some other way,
. the advantages of merger are real. One big
union movement would be stronger and be able to throw more weight around. AFL claims over six million members. ClO—following the expulsion of some of its left-wing internationals —may have something over four million. The total is two-thirds of the organized labor movement and something over a fifth of all United States industrial workers. One treasury would hold a bigger reserve on which to rely for major union battles. Organ: ized labor is now big business. A Treasury re port on tax-exempt organizations, based on 1946 income tax returns, shows total labor union receipts from- dues and fees at $477 million. Receipts from business enterprises run by unions yielded $17.5 million more. A merger would cut down overhead. Both organizations now maintain headquarters buildings in Washington. They have two sets of offices in most of the state capitals and major industrial cities. ‘Both organizations now maintain education-
WHAT A really united labor movement would do to American politics and to collective bargaining techniques are subjects that can A disunited labor movement has given employers a theoretical bargaining advantage, at least.
Labor Party. But it could emerge in due time, through adversity. Opposition to the Taft- Hartléy Act has probably done much to bring labor unity as far along as it has progressed this year. A bad licking for union-indorsed candidates in the 1950 and 1852 elections would make the labor unity move-
Tent even Stronger. ;
SOVIET METHODS . Romania Seen as Model of Red Absorption
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17—A clue to why satellite troops, like the North Koreans, may fight with fanatical zeal can be found in Romania, according to informed reports here. Kremlin satrapy in the Balkans has been so thoroughly communized that it could be made into a Soviet republic by a wag of - Stalin’ = head, these reports Indicate.
“In the process; the came a privileged class. It's now better paid, fed and clothed than anyone else with the possible exception of party functionaries.
» » » MOREOVER, it is from topside down a young, Commu-
“advisers.” Senior officers mental - picture of western ways were systematically purged. Hence, these reports suggest,
by motives other than one of having a gun in its back. They add that Romania is a model of complete Soviet absorption—and worthy of the non-Communist world's sober attention. "© 8» tat THE Russians captured Romania, not by accident but by a cold study of key power “positions. Just as coldly they
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nist-hipped outfit flanked on all sides by squads of Russian
who may have had even a
filled those jobs with: their peo-
te prospect for a i trong Amhetican TEHOF PRY, “Hike ‘Britain's
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the Romanian army as a vest-." ed interest would be propelled
“PEACE PROPOSAL ir Trickery Seon | in India’s Move
WASHINGTON, Aug. 17 — India’s proposal
split the 53 members of the United Nations who
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al departments, litical action ¥ blica- : rr it reported to President Truman, “beRS RAT TPE EP HE AR RHE SEEE: ORRI IO 8 -SADYIR0Nd ADS:
for settling the Kotean conflict gets trickier and trickier. Its probable result would be to’
condemnation of
Communist aggression and defense of the Ko-
At first there was" sugat-coating on the Indian suggestion that the six small-nation members of the council break the United Na-tions-Russian deadlock by acting as a drafting committee on United Nations “war aims” and on the kind of post-war government a united Korea must have. was sweetened with assurance that the Propossd cominittee’s work would be based on Council's resolutions condemning
br Red invader and ordering him to cease
fire and retire,
Appeasement Move
THAT assurance was worth very little. It would accept the indictment which Russia challenges as illegal, and therefore is no basis for breaking the deadlock. Russia could and would veto formation of any committee with such instructions, unless there was .a tacit agreement that the committee would disregard them in practice.
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which the Council refuses to do.
"Nehru then ignored the Security Cais
Sitimatum to the Reds 10 edie ary and nin’ Saw, abd suggested instead that admission of Red China to Security Council miquibesship be
~~ the basis of Korean peace negotiations.
Russian Blackmail
Stalin had been boycotting the United Nations ly, and one of the main. reasons for his satellite aggression in Korea—as blackmail to obtain a Red China seat on the Council with veto powér. Of course Stalin promptly accepted the Nehru proposal, but: the other
powers refused.
If the Security Council is foolish enough to accept the latest Indian proposal, the way will be open. to sabotage of the Council's antiaggression resolutions and sanctions, : The committee can receive and hear the Red Korean outlaw on the same basis as the Korean victim — which Russia demands and
The committee can receive and hear ‘the Red China satellite which boasts of its support to Red Korea, and which publicly proclaims it will attack Formosa in defiance of the U. 8. Seventh Fleet.
New Government
“THAT was precisely the issue on a
—— As soon as the Soviet deélegate frowned on this sugar-coating, the Indian spokesman obligingly conformed. At least the Indian told the press that he expects to introduce his proposal without any reference to the Security Council's Korean resolutions or anything else which. might offend Stalin. This is not the first move by India to
‘appease Moscow. Pandit Nehru's initial pro-
posal could not have heen more acceptable toMoscow if Stalin himself had made it.
VICTORY ( GUARANTEE .
WASHINGTON, “Aug. gea Ui shouldn’t be too surprised that their fighting men are outnumbered in Korea and reinforcements are slow in get: there. Three years ago, a nine-member presidential commission warned that without universal military training, “there is no other way of guaranteeing that the Armed Forces will be able to count on a sufficiently speedy flow of trained men to win a war.” For six months, the President's Advisory Commission on Universal Military Training— headed by Dr. Karl T. Compton, later to become chairman of the Research and Development Board — had studied the problem. Included among its members were a former ambassador, two university presidents, a minister, a priest, an industrialist, a former presidential assistant, a Negro attorney and a woman.
UMT Only Answer
IT BEGAN “with considerable disparity of viewpoint.” It°came up with a “clear, unanimous and strong conviction” 7 msjiary training was the only answer. + recommend the adoption of universal
~for our. safety and for the success. of the United Nations.” . Among their specific findings UMT would: ONE: Bhorten the time in which our effective fighting forces could be mobilized. TWO: Give our young men the essentials of military training that ld prepare them
tional Guard and Reserve, capable of rapid absorption into the professional military estab- - lishment in an emergency. ‘FOUR: Provide a large group of trained men in every community to deal with problems of civilian defense Tevulng | from severe bombing attacks. 5
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that universal
. to failure. A strong and resolute America is
—— must invest in police TER SE WaT svdestrudtion requires us
‘THREE: Make possible an effective Na- .
THE committee can consider a new government, including the Red aggressors, for a poste war United Korea. Yet the present legal Korean government was established by a free unsupervised election, and is now being defended on Security Council orders by American and Uniteq Nations forces. The net effect of such phony “peace” maneuvers would be fo confuse the issue and divide
-the United Nations alliance against Red aggres-
sion. That is Stalin's aim.
. By Jim G. Lucas
Urged UMT 3 Years. Ago
Help channel -Ago Young men
FIVE: Into scientific and vocational training in flelds important to the national defense. . SIX: Give greater military Strengths 2 a less cost than any other program.
Advance Adjustment THE commission found that UMT would give young men, in advance, “that substantial psychological adjustment required by Army and Navy life.” It would “teach them to think like soldiers and develop habit responses to situations that
will save lives in the event of war.” It would °
“impart to each man the great psychological understanding that he has, and is performing, a.duty to his country-—a duty that is not hired,
- but is part of his obligation as a citizen.”
The commission made short shrift of some “almost stereotyped” objections.
Charge: UMT is conscription, un-American and un-democratic. Answer: Those same three epithets were
hurled at compulsory education when it was first proposed. Now we take pride in a system which we speak of as distinctly American, - Charge: If we adopt UMT, other nations
service, too. We now stand practically alone _in having no such training. .
Security Investment CHARGE: What this country Bests. for
security is better business, full employment and*"
lower taxes. Answer: Excellent. We agree. But we still ice and fire dep:
carry our war risk insurance. We ¢an carry it and also have empléyment and prosperity if we - make up our minds to it.
- Charge: Military taining will make our peo~
ple military-minded. Answer: There iz no evidence that returned
veterans have come to want war or to be eager for military life. On_the- contrary: me -
tense they were Honest "For
manians. “For only one of half-a-dozen
key Commies is an ethnic Ro‘manian. The others include Bessarabians, Hungarians, Ru-
thenians and Russians—Krem- -
lin-trained all. The most powerful, of course, is Mme. Ana Pauker, the dynamic foreign minister -who is said to have the private
ear of Stalin and who could
deliver Romania over “to the
U. 8. 8. R. as an integral part
of the state, if it served Russia’s purpose. » = » » - > THESE leaders are responsive, not to Romanian public
opinion but to the Soviet polit-:
buro alone.
Prospects of deviation in Romania, the reports hold, are
- slim indeed. For the Roman-
ians appear submissive if not willing captives of their Soviet
masters. Only a massive dis-
location from the outside could
- shake up any resistance, it is tho
te ——
Such purges as take place are not the result of suspected heresies in the
cate centers of Western think-
=ing-from all levels-of Roman ‘fan society.
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EVEN the hereafier Is a
Communist domain, for the Romania Church has fallen into line. Of the 16 million Romanians, 13 million are of
the Orthodox Church and
three million are Catholic, half in the Greek ‘wing and half in the Roman.
virtually absorbed by fiat into the Orthodox Church. The Roman Catholic group has been. deprived, by forced retirement or arrest, of its bishops and has, in fact, no legal
status as a religious group under Romanian laws,
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THE Soviet hold on Ro-
mania’s economy is equally absolute. Under the guise of mixed companies -— half-Rus-sian, half-Romanian--the Russians control the substantial petroleum - resources, Amber,
: shipping, chemicals. ; They have been exploiting ” the Joh oil fields with fume.
Communist Party ranks, but are part of a " deliberate campaign to eradi-
thing akin to abandon, and since few Romanians have cars ' or other oil-using vee hicles, the reports safely as-
sume this petroleum is going
THE guess is that the Romanian army far exceeds the . + limits set in the peace treaty
following World War II. Those limits were 120,000 ground troops, 5000 anti-aircraft, 5000 naval personnel, 8000 in the air force. The airplane limit
was 150. The Greek wing has been
The Russians are believed to maintain about two occupying divisions, although the exact
figures are unknown. ” » vy
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SYSTEMATICALLY, withe
out cease, the Romanians are .
incited against Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, the United
_ States and the Vatican—which - has been the standard pattern
in all cominform countries. One of the zealously guarded areas in .the country, these sources report, is that in which
the cominform people work, .
the staff of the Communist . “This
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