Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1950 — Page 12
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War Touches Indiana Homes
IF anyone has any doubts about how deeply the war in faroff Korea is reaching into Indiana homes, developments
in military effort here the last few weeks should dispel them.
The men who have teft their homes in-Indiana and those placed on the “active” list for a call to military duty between now and Nov. 1 total about 15,000. : The ‘congestion of industrial centers in Indiana has increased noticeably in the last few weeks as additional fac-
tory workers pour in to man the machines for ere) up
production Jo eet the needs of war.
» LE J . AT anaportation centers almost every day we see the best of our manpower boarding trains and busses for training and eventually for the battlefields. With these men go the prayers of us all. As they leave, all of us also should renew our vows. of good citizenship on the home front. Nothing that we can do to ease the burden of those who leave or to speed the end of this conflict should be left undone. Only by a great united effort of every American can this tragic war be hastened toward victory and a real and permanent peace. Let us act like responsible citizens and do our part.
You Could Lose Your Right to Vote
HE number of eligible voters in Marion County and in the other 91 counties of Indiana who register to cast ballots in the Nov. 7 election will tell an important story about the people's interest in their government at home and in Washington. Many thousands of Marion County residents will ‘have to get themselves registered before the first week in October to be qualified to vote in this election. ; If citizens here and elsewhere in Indiana respond no better than in previous years to the call for registration, no more than two-thirds of eligible voters will be able to cast ballots on Slection day.
. 8 nN OF dures, if you were registered and cast a ballot in one of the 1948 elections and have not moved out of your old precinct you need not register. But if you failed to vote in 1948 or have never registered from your present precinct you must get your name listed on the poll books. . Mass failure to vote would lead to dangerous trends in government. If our citizens do not exercise their right to vite, the rule of the majority could eventually become the rule of the few. 2 In fact, default on the part of free citizens to exercise their right at the ballot box could result in losing the right to vote through seizure of the government by political ele- . ments that do not represent the majority.
” SEVERAL organizations have started campaigns to “get out and vote.” Besides the two major political parties which always work hard to get all their voters registered the National Retail Dry Goods Association has set up na-tion-wide committees to stimulate interest in registering “and voting. Gther groups would do well to enlist their energies in this kind of campaign.
Economic Lunacy
F VERY once in a while, something occurs which makes - the unsoundness of the Government's price support program crystal clear. Such an event was the recent aNouncement: by the
U.-8 Department -of -Agriculture; that ultra-violet light will -
make hens lay more eggs. For many years, the Agriculture Department has added to the prosperity of farmers, and ‘consumers by finding ways to increase the output of various foods. This effort is continuing. And it should, because it is “ebasically sound. LL But while one branch of the Agriculture Department
is increasing production of foodstuffs, another branch is
buying food and storing ‘it, to create an artificial scarcity and keep prices high. So the consumers get no benefit
from’ the ificreased “production. re TEU the case of éggs, for example, the Govenitaent has” searly four Billion shell eggs in storage.
- - IT must be "granted the farm prebiem is a tough one. With modern methods, farmers can turn out more foods and fibers than the nation can buy. But the same problem has been faced by other industries. As output increased, they reduced prices, which increased consumption of their products. There are many persons in this country who would eat more if food prices were allowed to fall. There are hungry - people overseas who would eat the surpluses if they could afford to buy. We don't pretend to know the complete answer to the farm problem. But we do know that it is ecopomic lunacy for the Government to use consumers’ dollars to jack up ‘the prices that consumers must pay.
THE people “wouldn't stand for this it they had a voice in tne matter. And farmers wouldn't expect them to, if they were dealing directly with the customers. Reduce the thing to one farm supplying food to four tradesmen and their families. Suppose the farm began producing more than the four families could eat. : - Would the tradesmen buy the excess food and store it in caves, or paint it blue and bury it, so they wouldn't pay less and get more food to eat? The farmer would think they were crazy if they did. He would cut his prices so that he could sell al the food, or reduce his acreage. When the deal is on a nationwide scale, However the Sovernment takes from the consumer to give to the farmer.
- The Shake-Up eli - :
IP TRUMAN us shaken up the pirscniel of the Reconstruction Finance Corp. Hope that ‘means a.
> The Indianapolis Times.
EQUALITY . .. By Fred W. Perkins T-H Supporters Win a Point
Union Ordered to Pay Damages to Worker
WASHINGTON, Sept. 5-—Supporters of the Taft-Hartley law, still under attack from union
“leaders; claim a8 & main objective the protection
of individual workers from discrimination by labor organizations as well as by employers. This principle is carried through in recommendations made to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) by Trial Examiner Wallace Royster in a Pittsburgh case involving the Teamsters union and a soft-drink distributing company. The trial examiner found that the .union, by insisting on an illegal closed-shop contract, kept Gordon J. Ellwood from getting a permanent job as a driver-salesman with the Squirt Distributing Co.,” even though the employer liked his record In temporary work and wanted to hire him.
Worker -Denied Membership
THE examiner found also that Mr. Ellwood . was denied membership -by the union, and that the union insisted the permanent job could be filled only by a man already on its rolls. The Taft-Hartley law forbids the closed shop, but permits the union shop. Under the union shop a non-member may be hired but must join the union within a specified period. Examiner Royster made an unprecedented recommendation—that the employer and the union be required to make up Mr. Ellwood's back pay for the shorter of two periods when he was forced out of employment, but that the union be required to make up all of it for a longer period. } . Union ‘Active Force’ ‘ THE examiner noted that in similar cases the NLRB’'s policy has been to require the employer alone to make restitution, or to share it between the employer and the union. But in this ¢ he reported: “The tinion was the active, motivating force which made it a practical impossibility for Ellwood to continue as a permanent employee. . . " (A strike by the union) presented to the employer the unhappy choice of violating the act by discharging Ellwood or suffering a protracted and expensive shutdown of its business. “That the employer succumbed only to strong economic pressure does not excuse the violation. But here the employer was actually helpless to resist the demands of the union. He who forces the commission of an unfair labor practice is in a different situation from the reluctant, protesting and coerced tool through which the violation is accomplished.”
Fate of Decision Uncertain THE union is Local 249 of the International Teamsters Organization,’ which traditionally 4 operated on the closed-shop basis prior to TaftHartley enactment. It was uncertain at NLRB offices here whether Examiner Royster's recommendations will be approved by the board—particularly in the dssessment of a heavier penalty on the union than on the employer.
LOVE'S WORTH
Hitch your wagon to a star And ride high though you fall, "Tis better far to love and lose Than not to love at all.
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Like a golden moonbeam A warm love seems to be, A strand of precious jewels Upon a silken sea.
A kiss within the shadows Might cost a king his throne, But would a crown bring joy If love were never known? ~—Opal McGuire, 814 Broadway.
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
New York—A famous New York woman's hat designer has chosen the theme of the drama for his fall collection.
Milady’'s lovely new fall hats Should be right on the beam Unless they really drive us bats, With drama as the theme, On with the show, let drama rage, But on their heads it be In other years they've set the stage For outright SO ay!
TIS SAID
The personality factor in elections must be weighed, in. And as long as the politicians must ™ guess at the trend of elections then the vote Is still Tree, + «B.C; Indianapolis
SUCCESS? . . . By Peter Edson
‘Voice’ Defended WASHINGTON, Sept, 5- -Things are in such a fix. now that the State Department could use a public’ relations program to
tell how ‘good: its foreign broadcast information
Somewhat put’ out by a recent rash of critical comment, Assistant Secretary of State Edward W. ‘Barrett, in charge of public affairs, has struck back at concerted attempts to belittle the ‘Voice of America and its af- -
MUDDLED DIPLOMACY .
. By Parker La Moore
U.S. Switches on Formosa’s Title
THE DEBATE on Formosa-touched off by the attempted suppression of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's message to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention has focused attention upon a problem even more complex than that of Korea. Both situations are by-products of muddled diplomacy and of the cold war which began as the shooting war came to an end in 1945. When Korea and Formosa were. liberated by the defeat of Japan, the future status of both areas had been outlined hy the Cairo agreement of 1943. Korea was to be given its independence, and Formosa was to be restored to China, which had ceded it to Japan in 1895. Had Formosa instead been placed under a United Nations ‘trusteeship with a view to its eventual independence no serious complications might have arisen. No joint American-Russian occupation was involved, as was the case in Korea. China, as events have proved, would not have been strong .y ehough’ to have asserted sound claims to the
»fsland.
Asians generally would have approved of a policy of letting the six million Formosans settle their own future, under the friendly, guidance of the Western Powers.
Chiang in Full Possession
HOWEVER, Nationalist China was allowed to occupy the island at the end of the war, in keeping with the pledge made to Chiang Kaishek at Cairo. Last year Formosa became the refugee -capital of Nationalist "China, and the sanctuary for a million Nationalist refugees, including an army of 500,000 men. « Most of the discussion of Formosa has ignored this important factor: That Chiang is in possession there, backed by a sizable army. Until President Truman’s statement on June 27, China’s title-to. Formosa had not been questioned by our government. Its future status had been treated as a matter which must be settled begyveen the Nationalists and the Communists.
However, when the President ordered the
Seventh Fleet to neutralize the island, he said -
its future would be determined either by the
SIDE GLANCES
service is.
at the end of the Korean War,
eventual peace settlement with Japan, or by the United Nations. More recently, the President has said that the fleet would be relieved of this responsibility Withdrawal of the fleet would leave the island wide open to the Communist attack which was delayed by the American intervention... The issue then might be resolved by force of arms before an amicable settlement could be reached.
MacArthur's Views Are Out SINCE the end of the Korean War is not in sight, the President's announcement concerning the fleet may not be the last word on the subject. It did -highlight the confusion which surrounds the Formosan situation. It also indicated that the President has not accepted Gen. MacArthur's view that it is vital
to Amerigan security -that Formosa remain in
friendly hands. Mr. Truman's Annoucement that the Navy
_ Will withdraw from Formosan waters when the
Korean jssue is settled is interpreted as a bid for Red China's neutrality in the Korean War. This is in line with British policy to avoid Peking's involvement in the war at all costs. The British want to save Hong Kong, if they can. They also believe the major defense effort against communism should be centered in Western Europe. Whether Chiang could maintain his position on Formosa, if left to his own resources, is an open question. He has the manpower capable of giving a good account of itself, provided it
‘is ‘armed and otherwise supplied, and provided
the Chinese Reds are not given Russian air and
' sea support. *
‘Could Be at End of Road
CHIANG does not have the ammunition’ and other military resources to resist a sustained attack. The decision to withdraw the American fleet would indicate that he will not get such supplies from the United States. So he may be at the end of his road. If the Chinese Reds intervene in the Korean War despite our olive branch, Chiang might get a new lease on life, for the whole picture would
be changed, with the Korean War, becoming the
big war we have been so concerned about.
_signing “Taxpayer”
0 say, but | will defend to the death your ri fo say i"
‘Wars and Economic Problems’ By C. D. C., Terre Haute I would like to add something to the excellent article in.the Forum written by a person “who states under three Democrat Presidents we have had three wars, I would like to state that unless the Democrats change’ “their concept of government we will = have more wars. ' The reason is, of course, that their philosophy of government brings economic disaster in times of peace. I recall quite well of living . in a small industrial town of 25,000 people when Woodrow Wilson was President shortly before World War 1. I happened to be fortunate enough to have a job, although every factory in town was closed down at the time except one which happened to have a contract. Each night 150 or 200 men slept on the cement floor of the jail and next morning were given a couple of rolls and a cup of coffee by
‘a charitable organization, then marched to the
city limits by the police and sent on their way. Each morning as I went to work there was a line of women and children two to three blocks long who were waiting to get bread and milk being given to them by the city and various charitable. organizations. Woodrow Wilson solved our economic problems by taking us into a war to end all wars and make the world safe for democracy. Franklin D. Roosevelt, of course, took over in a time of economic’ disaster. By going deeper in debt he did relieve a lot of distress. However, he never was able to make his New Deal philosophy of government work as a peace time economy. Under the Truman administration we have been living under a war-time economy which as “Taxpayer” says, blows either “hot or cold” depending on whether we need inflation or deflation. The whole set-up is little different from the Nazi philosophy of Adolph Hitler and if by chance a President should be elected who was as cruel and inhuman as Hitler, we would have the same thing.
‘War Criticism Absurd’ By John’ C. Hazlitt, 21st St. This continual bellowing in the Hoosier Forum about President Truman and the administration cooking up this Korean War for political reasons is absurd. I can’t see eye to eye with the administration on many issues; but these disgruntled people better soon realize that the enemy is in- Moscow rather than in Washington. : Maybe a change of horse in the stream might be good, whether in the middle or near either side, but before that is possible somebody will have to conduct an intelligent political campaign; one so cleverly run that an ominous-looking mustache would be recognized as a vote loser. The issue isn’t to use free speech to attack the President in everything he does at a time of national crisis. Certainly, our American heritage permits us to criticize; but intelligently. Now is not the time for partisan politics as usual. The enemy is not in Washington—he is in Moscow, and it isn’t possible to vote him out of office.
‘Demand More UN Aid’ By a Times Reader . When letters from boys on Korea are asking, “Why doesn’t the United Nations gets busy and send help to Korea,” don’t you think we here at home should do something about it? I say, let us send letters to our Congressmen telling them to demand aid from the United Nations at once. Also clamp down on all Commies in the United States. Why should the sidime boys fight day and night in Korea? When we entered into this the United Nations agreed to stand together. My letter is on its way to Washington.
What Others Say—
THERE is more racial segregation in this country at 11 o'clock on Sunday morning than at any other time of the week.—Rev. Dr. Gardner Taylor, Negro pastor of the Concord d Baptist Chureh of Brooklyn. ode + YOU'RE safer kicking up to 125 miles an hour on a race track than dodging the average driver on the highway at 35.—Johnny Parsons, winner of Memorial Day 500-Mile race. * * < WRESTLING, as seen on television, teaches children to take unfair advantage of their opponents and ignore the rule book.—~Clyde V. Hissong, Ohio state education director. > @ WE are in agreement that the people of Korea must give the American aggressors the
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lesson they Aeserve.~~Palmire.. Togliatti, Italy's
Communist boss.
By Galbraith BEHIND. ..By Max B. Cook
‘Wants New Jetliners
IN THE opinion of the men who fly the airliners, the United States is lagging far behind in its prop-jet airliner program. . “Certain of our airline presidents have the audacity ta statefor pilot consumption that their airlines do not intend.to equip with jets for at least 10 .years,” says the official organ of the Air Line Pilots Association. “Plainly speaking, this type
"time the Voice of America was
fillated" “hoving picture ands "i sians really started to.turn on ~ “educational programs. They're t “not as bad;
‘he-maintains; as some _ people would have you believe.
> 8 ” ~ THE easy thing to do, of course, is to say and believe that the Russians are -out--smarting us all over the world. It is a common assumption that Communist propaganda is always better and more effective than the counter- -propaganda of the demoeracies. While it is never wise to underestimate the power of an enemy, overdoing this develops a defeatist attitude. One of the commonest criticisms is that the Russians are now. jamming the Voice of A¥nerica programs so completely that nothing gets through the Iron Curtain. Statements by Russian refugees who have escaped to the American zone give this the lie. Intelligence reports on the examination of these converts to anti-commiinism indicate that the Voice programs are getting through and that they are listened to.
> s 8 = ONE of the prime examples
. offered in proof of this is the
case of Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, who jumped from a window to escape the Soviet consulate in New York. For days
- after this event, the Moscow
radio and the Russian press ignored the incident. All this
pumping it into Russia for all it was worth. The Volice's story was “bee lieved. It. finally forced the
Russians to issue a spurious °’ account of what had happened: . - This was obviously so phony
that it was not believed. even in Moscow. And it was shortly ‘alter event a ‘the Rus«
he power to Jam out the oo
8s -
AMERICAN technical gen-
fus has been at work to overcome this jamming, and with considerable success. One practice is.to mass transmitters. British, French and other European stations now beam
~-news.-programs--into—-Commu- + nist countries at the sage time .
on different frequencies.” The Russians can’t jam them all. So some programs are bound to get thréugh. - Another practice is to dle” the Soviet stations.
“cudThe
idea is to use frequencies so close to Moscow and other _
Communist transmitters that the Russians can’t jam these programs without, at the same time, jamming their own stations. U. 8. Bureau of" Standards has worked out a system of critical frequencies for U, S. and Allied transmitters, so that the Russian interference isn’t effective unless the jam-
mining station is right on the
beam it wishes to blanket. - » Ld UNDER the new: appropriation bill just passed by Congress, the Voice of America has been given funds for a new chain of high-powered transmitters around the 'perimeter of the Soviet sphere of
influence. When thesg new sta-. "tions are in operation, Russian jamming ‘will be all the more _ difficult.
‘Another appropriation approved by Congress is for the purchase of some 200,000 radio receivers. A new set has“ been designed by U. 8. radio manufacturers. It will be built
to receive both short wave and standare;; ‘band ‘transmissions.
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COPR. 1950 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U. 8. PAT, OFF. _ "I just wish the old boy had more competitive spirit!”
at extreme range. The set will sell for about ‘$15. The idea is to sell these sets in farm and industrial communities of countries in which it is particularly desirable to get the American story across. » = a AS for eyidence of the suec-
* cess of the American campaign
of truth against Russian prop-
aganda, Assistant Secretary . Barrett points to these developments:
Fifty-three nations are sup-
Only nine are supporting the Russians. The Russian propagand&- line that the United
Sudtes started the war in Ko-
u. 8. program.
rea has not been put across. China has been lost, but Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey, France and Italy have been won away
Societ’s greatly heralded peace petition has been repudiated by many of its signers. There are informed reports that over 60 per cent of the people in the
. from Russian dominatiori. The
satellite countries are hostile
to Communist domination. The Marshall Plan has been put over. The Communists have no hold on Japan. And,
-far from being smart, the Rus-
undered terribly in judging U. S. and United Na-
tions reaction to the. ager.
2108. in Korea.’
“of propaganda is an insult to 3 “present-day “evel sof “tntellis-
-more-than- sufficient for-a non-—
gence.’ States). Capt. Found described “absoTHE Association based its lutely smooth flight” and “abil-
ity to carry on conversation with ‘the pilot in only slightly more than normal tone.” « This, he added, was despite the fact that there was no
remarks upon the recent order of 28 new Vickers Viscount prop-jet airliners by British European Airways. Regular delivery of the four-engined ‘40:-passenger planes is sched- - sound-proofing nor, upholstery uled for 1952. on the aircraft. European Airways is pres- a am ently operating experimental THE Comet climbed at 1000 flights between London and feet per minute, Captain Found Paris, using -the' Vickers Jet- _ said, and descended at 3000 liner. feet per minute. At 23,000 feet —in level flight—it flashéd past a U. 8S: B-29 Superfort “so fast that it looked as if the bomber were built to fly the. other way. »
‘Barbs
MOST young people love driving in moonlight, accord-
= n ” THE new contract is for $14 million and the air-conditioned, pressurized turbo-propeller airliners, it is said. will be used first on routes to Rome, Athens and the Scandinavian countries, Mention - also is made of Canada’s Avro jetliner "now getting into production as the first North American jet-pro-pelled airliner. It recently flew ing to a school teacher. Perfrom Montreal to New York in haps the others are too bash-~ 59 minwes. : ful.
THE Pilots Assoectation publication quotes from a report of 8. R. Found, a Trans-Can-
” ANOTHER adn for slow eating is that what you can afford to chew these days
ada Air Lines captain, who certainly is worth chewing rode in the DeHavilland Comet well. jetliner and recorded his im- ss 85 =» pressions. WHEN you're out picking “Let's not kid ourselves or blackberries, the one that
be naive—the day of the pure jet and the turbo-prop powered airplane is here,” said . Captain Found. “To those who doubt this, I would suggest pecially fond of can't be kept that they watch the change in. : —for very long. 1 equipment of two of the-major . hd ng : British airlines in the near fu- Don’t let the eeds Kees
ture, beginning next year. head! lettuce - trom. getting 2 e ;
THE: Comet will cruise at = = 500 miles per hour at. 35.000. to 40.000 feet, saying 40 pasengers. ‘3450 miles. - A This. is
“stings you Fo 3 bumblebee! i
A REFRIGERATOR is a place where things kids are es-
- bring: the end of a lot of blood . relations—mosquitoes.
5t0p.. fight. across. the. United.
THE end of the summer will Sn
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