Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1950 — Page 12
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Mayor Al Feeney . L- FEENEY was a4 man Vio ative followed, without compromise or deviation, the course he believed was right. In private business and in public s service, between which his life was almost equally divided, he never was known to sacrifice a principle for a gain. Whatever this may have cost him in political preferment, it had earned him . .. in a measure few men ever achieve . . . the respect and the affection of the people © of his own home town. Although his religious convictions were ‘deep they never were ostentatious. Although his own code ‘of morals was rigid he was invariably tolerant of ‘the shortcomings of others. Throughout adult life he worked tirelessly in behalf of the boys and girls of this city . .". and accomplished much . . . although perhaps nothing more important than the bright example his personal life set for them. With his untimely passing Indianapolis has lost a vivid and colorful Hoosier personality’ citizen.
Lesson From Ohio— AST WEEK'S politically significant development was the resurgence of independence among the masses of organized labor. American workers decided to vote according to their own convictions and ignore the demands of the labor hierarchy. That decision may have marked the end of a ~ political epoch. The result was not a victory for partisan politics. It was a defeat for labor politicians. It was a devastating defeat for creeping socialism. The men and women respon- ~ sible were union labor’s rank and file. : From now on, even politicians can see what this newspaper and other real friends of labor have long recognized, namely; that the objectives of union leaders are not necessarily those of the people they profess to lead. Too often the main objective of union leadership is power and all the personal advantages stemming from it. "The main interests of union members are better wages,
security. Last week's election demonstrated that union mémbers
‘are no longer willing to have union leaders dictate their political opinions. We commend the result to those spineless politicians who for a decade and a half have kowtowed to _ arrogant union leaders as others before them salaamed to the power-inflated bullies of the anti-saloon league. Time marches on, pt human nature changes tle,
: WHILE. THE labor voters’ revolt against dictatorship ‘was nationwide, the tide's complete turn was most obvious in Ohio. The national labor movement's top brass attempted to make Sen. Taft a propaganda-built anti-labor symbol, brand- _ ing him as the author of a sve labor law.” The national administration, pressure “tifffonism’s top leaders; — whooped it up for an anti-Taft landslide. Union politicalaction organizations conducted a costly, violent smear campaign. Sen. Taft must be destroyed. And what happened? The labor union people of Ohio did as they pleased instead of as they were told. They knew that in more than. three years the Taft-Hartley Law had destroyed no worker's freedom, stopped no union’s - growth, curtailed no legitimate right to strike. They knew it had not prevented wage increases or improvement of conditions. More than that, despite the befuddling ballyhoo and the created confusion, they realized that the law protected _ them from predatory labor leaders as well as from predatory employers, and forced them to recognize a public * responsibility in which union members, as citizens, have
a vital stake.
_ Scripps-Howard' newspapers whole- heartedly supported the
- Wagner Act: ~~ Soon it became obvious that the Wagner Act, “being
"a man-made law, was not flawless. As interpreted, it was obviously unilateral. ?
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: ers, considering the ws bias a political » asset, eat dawn attempts to correct.its inequities. st
“THE PENDULUM SWung. Tn 1947 “the Wagner Act “was supplanted ‘by the Taft-Hartley Law. Again perfee-— tion was lacking. But what a difference between, the attitude of the sponsors of the two laws. Sen. Taft has made persistent efforts to correct ormodify Taft-Hartley provisions inthe light of trial-and-“error éxperience. Last year, he proposed” to put through ‘the Senate more than a score of Slenges designed to meet specific criticisms by labor. All these changes were blocked in the House Labor Committee because President Truman and hi§ union labor leader allies, disregarding the interests of the workers, wanted to keep the Taft-Hartley Law unaltered to be made a political issue in 1950. And what an issue it turned out to be. Again it was demonstrated that arrogant, dictatorial union bosses cannot fool all of the people all of the time . or even for a very long time. - Sen. Taft’s 430,000 plurality in Ohio would have been _ mathematically impossible without the votes of a huge
‘ he could not possibly have carried all but a half-dozen of the state's 88 counties. : It will be a very blind political leader who is unable to read the writing on Ohio’s political wall. It will be a : stupid Republican leader who believes that the Taft , victory was a result of organization or partisanship. The regular GOP party line vote in Ohio would not. have been sufficient to re-elect Sen. Taft. Credit for his victory and the vindication of the Taft-Hartley
y legislation should be drawn for the benefit of ple, rather than for their “over-vocal leaders. labor was s given "gill and its people g sure found
in two ways:
and a truly great
_ petter working conditions and maximum practical job
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From its introduction until-its enactment in 1935, the
DELAY... By Clyde Fameworth His 5 pirit— Our Her
~ Reds Pay Off . U.S. Pussyfooting
Russia, Communist China Use
Time-Killing Tactics in UN . LAKE SUCCESS, Nov. 13—The pussyfo6t U. 8. appréach to the growing Russian and Chinese challenge in Korea is being paid off
ONE: With time - killing Russia. TWO: A dragging of Chinese Communist feet on an ' invitation to appear before the United Nations Security Council. Although a
munist - delegation was invited weeks ago to appear after Nov. 15 to speak its plece on “American aggression” in Formosa—and presumably the same outfit could anMr. Austin swer on Korea “as truth needed —it was reported that the original invitees had not yet left Peking. American visas await them at Prague. The second United Nations invitation, with the U. 8. participating, was voted three days ago. : ‘The Russian role in Korea has not even been mentioned. But Friday, in pressing a restrained draft resolution about Chinese Red intervention, Warren R. Austin, the U. S. representative, characterized the Soviet Union as Peking's “self-appointed attorney in this council.” He identified fighters just reported to have shot up two United Nations’ B-29s over Korea ‘ag “Russian-type planes.” The draft resolution, sponsored by the U. 8., Britain, France, Norway, Ecuador and Cuba, noted as its strongest charge the Noy. 5 report of Gen. Douglas MacArthur that “Chinese Communist military units are deployed for action against the forces of the United Nations in Korea.” The resolution, which faces certain Russian veto after hours more of discussion, probably this week, recited old assurances on United
. Nations aims in Korea, promised protection of
legitimate Chinese interests in the ‘frontier zone and renewed the old call against assistance to
the North Koreans, this time asking: “In particularly those responsible for the
action noted above (deployment of Chinese Communist troops), to refrain from assisting or encouraging the North Korean authorities. to prevent their Nationals or individuals or units of their Armed Forces from giving assist-
ance . . . and to cause the immediate withdrawal of any . + . which may presently be in Korea.” -
+ Ambassador Austin undertook what may be the last U. 8. soli¢itation of Titoism among the Peking Reds. He pointed out that Chinese interests were not served by intervention in Korea and that a nation seeking United Nations membership “must be assumed to have some knowledge of the principles of peace upon which it is founded. “Perhaps,” he said, “the Chinese Communists believe that their self-appointed attorney in this council, the Soviet government, is saying . . . fantastic versions of the intent of the United Nations in Korea.
Russia Veto Expected
“IF SO, they should be told the truth. .Upon. their arrival here — if they ever come — the agents. of this regime may be able to indicate to
“us _ whether or not their conduct is based on ¥ misrepresentations es
“The resolution makes it clear that the United Nations seeks peace, seeks the peaceful settlement of outstanding questions but that it is determined to prevent any assault on inter national. peace and security.” Actually the most the U. S. delegation could hope for through the draft résolution was that its moderate terms reach Peking's ears. The expected Russian veto, of course, would allow the Chinese Communist invasion of Korea to be taken up by the United Nations General
Assembly under new rules covering the inability —
of the Security Council to act en such. a threat to- peace. : : When it comes to that stage the delaying. process will have to Start all over again, but there can be no Russian veto of final Assembly recommendations.
NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By ~ Edson
DraftChanges Needed For3 Millicn-Man Goal
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—Cold figures give the tip on what - the President and Congress will have to do about changing the draft to get the armed services up to 3 million men and Keeping
obstruction by
Chinese Com=
- Perle Mesta; I am in‘ love with her.
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MY DEAR MADAM .
“By Frederick C. Othman
Roses Are Rod. Violets Blue And Perle Mesta, | Love You
WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—I am pleased to report that I am not curious about Madam If we hadn’t been separated by so many plates bearing the skeletons of fried sea trout I would have bowed like a Luxembourgian and kissed her hand. : I'll regard her as a playgirl no longer; she is a diplomat with a diamonadrimmed “D.” What happened was that our Madam Minister to IL. u x embourg was invited to make a speech in the ® sanctum of the Na-
Club, where the dainty feet of females seldom have trod’ before. She plowed
a.
into the fish, the boiled “potatoes, the beans and °
apple pie with the cheese. smoothed down her black dress with the big tan bow across the chest and said she was reluctant to accept the invitation because she knew she'd be speaking before 400 of the most
_ brilliant men in America. Boy.
You should have seen America's most brilliant ment sit up straight, smile benignly and fix their neckties. The madam had ‘em where she wanted 'em. She went on to say, reading hesitantly from a manuscript issued some time before by the U; 8. State Department, that when a man asks a Woman to speak freely, he's either curious. or in love with her. Madam, I aSsure you it was love. ol : = She flubbed her lines. badly for couple of minutes. Then she exclaimed sorry, I've got to put on my glasses. my best not to do it, too.”
the next “I'm
So "she. shoved an oversized pair of horn.
rims over the ears: with the pearls in the lobes
SIDE. GLANGES
force. sill
* direction.
Then she stood up,
1 tried
.up’ to God alone. .
and from' then on she read confidently in a pleasant and well-modulated voice. The brilliant men leaned forward to catch every word. She said Luxembourg was a beautiful country. She said the natives were wonderful people, who love their Grand Duchess. She said some
. authors had called this quaint nation the land
The these
of haunted castles. This is a canard. Madam 1ooked through a number of castles and found no ghosts It is a surprising thing, she continued, to find a new model ice box in a kitchen 400 years old. That is not all, There- are things we can learn from" the graceful Luxembourgians.
If It Hadn't Been for. . .
WHEN A gentleman there meets a lady, she explained, he bows and kisses her hand. Well, sir, if it hadn't been for all-those long tables bearing the remains of the fish, it would have been my. pleasure to- kiss the Madam's wellmanicured pinkies, -Maybe- later, I trust. So came the question period. : Did the Madam find her sex a handicap in her present position? “Not at all,” she replied. 1 thought she would go on, but she didn’t. What was her reaction to the election results? “It is a free country,” she replied, “and everybody can vote just as they. please.” : . One. of the most brilliant men asked her at
> this juncture whether she thought Luxembourg
could: jump in on our side in case of war with Russia. This made some. of her State Department associates at the head table a little jumpy, but it worried the Madam not at-alh “I can assure you that Luxembourg will do what is right,” she said. I kiss your hand, Madam. It's love, for sure.
"WEATHER MAN
Much that we do depends upon . ment of a man . . . who tells us if the sun wil! shine .. enough to get a tan . . one who warns us when . . . the skies are overcast . . . and tells us jf the rain or snow will step or really last . . but sometimes he may go astray ... in calling what's to come, . so that the people everywhere . , . believe he's really dumb . . . but what they fail to realize . . . when rain clouds get together -. .
. the judg-
to. regulate the weather. By Ben Burroughs.
By Galbraith
strike:
she said, looking in my general -
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Let's Deo It Now By F, P. C, City I'VE BEEN in the Marion County Courthouse many times, ‘but I'm still shocked each
.-and every time I enter it.
Why can’t we get a new courthouse? It's a pity indeed that a native of Indianapolis must point to a filthy mass of stone and say “that architectural monstrosity is our courthouse.” » But it's still worse to take a visitor through the decaying hallways and let him see the most run down building in the United States. ¢ HTB INDIANAPOLIS is more and more acting like the poor relation of a once financially strong family. It has the pomp and pride of early In-
- dianapolis, but wears the same old clothing.
Since the Republicans swept Marion County in the recent elections, I would like to hear someone in the party, in a responsible office present a valid reason why we should not construct a new courthouse now, : ; . code dd : Ny - PREVIOUSLY we have heard the excises about war, taxes. materials shortage, this and that. But it will never come true unless it's started . . . and started now. As long as the present building stands, it will stand as a memorial to the shame of elected officials and almost 500,000 people in Indianapolis. = PE .
‘Protect the Nation’ By A Patriot, City I CAN'T see how honest American people can go out on strike in a field as vital as communications when we still have boys fighting overseas. This telephone strike is unpatriotic. What if the equipment starts to break down and there's no one to repair it? Military orders, industrial orders, and emergency orders of all type, all vital to the boys overseas, will have to wait because some guy wants to fight about a few cents an hour. I don’t know too much about labor negotia« tions, but I do know this. It's either the re sponsibility of labor, management or government to protect this nation’s communications system during a time of war. dr CB THE telephone workers don't have to worry about life. and death if the phone works or not, but I'll bet some of them have sons fighting now who do. It could be just a matter of hours before this nation is. caught in another world war. I wonder if these people have thought about that, If the strike goes on for a long .time and a lot of _equipment goes bad, it can’t be put back into operation at a moment's notice. Too many people forget too often that they have as much
responsibility in this country’s welfare as the
other guy.
What Are We Waiting For? By RB: F. B.; City. WHAT ARE we waiting for? . The Soviet Union is doing everything in its power to wreck the United Nations: The Chi-
. nese Communists, invited to the United Nations
have elected to take their sweet time in arriving. Every day it becomes increasingly obvious that Russia is the real aggressor in Asia. Yet we sit back and say we have no moral right to take direct action against Russia.’ “4S THE NEED of the hour is direct attack against the known aggressor. We lack no proof that the Soviet Union intends to take over the world. We lack no proof that aggression is a
_ crime. We lack no proof that the United States
is on the Reds’ death list. Then, what are we waiting for? We've ‘got the people, we've got the industry, and we've got the cash. If we wait too long, fighting wars here and there with Russia calling the plays, we won't have the people, or the industry, munism is tougher.
‘A Great Mistake’ By W. H. Richards, 1237 Central Aye,
THE STREET TRANSIT CO. is making a great mistake in ‘asking for an increase of fares, for it will bring them less income than they are now getting. They would take in more by reducing the fare to 10 cents, There are many who would pay 10 cents to ride a mile, but if the fare is raised above 12 cents will walk two miles, rather than pay that much. Theig income would be greater at 10 cents than itis now at 12. The auto has gotten, the people out of the habit of ‘walking, but even so, the—average housewife walks 10 to 15 miles a day without knowing it. Walking is healthful exercise and we would all be the better for a five mile walk daily on the streets.
PARADOX . . . By Fred W. Perkins Will the Government Move in Bell Strike?
WASHINGTON, Nov, 13-—Here's a paradox in the te phone
or the cash. War is tough, but com-
number of Ohio's union members. Without such-labor votes
stion by oes to the union-labor vote. fact Reson For for politicians of both parties.
that figure.
—gupply 1.5 milion.
The. trouble is; ‘only 75,000
men-who-are physically Tit for,
service reach the age of 19 each year, Under the present law, they are called for..only 21 months’ service. Only possible ways to make up the deficiency are to keep men longer, lower the standards, take married men, or dip into: the 18-year class.
La . RID DOWDING, in the Ca- -
nadian Avro (jet aircraft company) News, gives this easy lesson of “Tints and Hips on How to Jeta 4 Make Engine." : “Lots of thinkle. peep.” he writes, “that all you do is bress a prutton and al
thuther from the futh. Blues of set prints : are the parting stoint, and a well-shopped - out machine lay ‘is a aluable vasset. “Tool us the gives, and we will jinish the fob,” as the going says. “The buingine elders in. the shotting fip then bet gusy. Hawking every watch like moves, they bit the fearings. “instear the galls, nut up all ‘the brews and scolts, make sure the blousands of thades meek
prug and this, cheasure that, when “sud.
of; an allen, there ends a
_-stangine, all testy for reading.
“So there it is, airing in 2: oo doing run grounding.
EERE
Past experience has been that half of this Be Tegulars and.volunteers.- That means the draft will have to
TENOURH.
- will
complete deliveries.
; “Noth- L
ing but “the good 8
s = R." TREASURY Secretary John Snyder has a new name for . the ‘excess profits tax.” He calls ‘it “defense profits tax.” Business. apparently doesn't like the sound of the excess profits taX, doesn’t think an acceptable law can be written. By renaming it and making it appear that the extra levies all go for national. defense, some of the curse will be removed it is hoped.’
uo THOUGH been appropriated for MAP (the military - assistance program for foreign countries), actual expenditures to Nov. 1 have been only slightly above $1000 million for this fiscal year. This is nermal lag in filling orders. First expenditures, in March, were only $1 mil-
million, the month after that $14 million. It. jumped to $24 million ‘in June but was back to the $14-$15 million level in August, September. and October. :
In general, money isn’t spent until goods are delivered. Total outlay of cash for the year ending next June 30 may not be over $445 million, or about seven per cent of the whole program. Heavy spend‘ng will come affer that, on orders now being placed. It will) take “an estimated two years “to
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DETAILS of program to en-
courage reinvestment of ma-
tured U. 8. savings bond funds will soon be announced by the
best”
s = $6.5 billion have .
lion, Next month it was $5
I
Treasury. . lion dollars worth of “E"” bonds
now is;
COPR. 1950 BY NEA SERVICE. WC. T. M. REG. U. TN
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ii nationwide -and as effective
The mechanism for gov ernment action is in the Taft- ra
Act. It spells out a method for the President eral Court injunctions tional emergencies -
in nacaused by
‘strikes.
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DISOBEDIENCE to the court
orders can bring punishment for | contempt. Such strikes, meanwhile, are suspended for 80 days while official efforts to settle them are made in the customary peaceful manner. Government officials say this action is unlikely at present. because there is not a nation-wide telephone breakdown or a national emergency, But they will: keep in close touch with efforts to settle the
displite between the CIO Com-
munications Workers of America and scattered units of. the Belyl system.
to obtain Fed-
The union yesterday adopted “push-button picket ing,” apparently . on instruc. tions from strike headquarters
“in New York.
Under this method pickets, being insufficient in ‘numbers to cover all company buildings, are shifted quickly between locations. The purpose is to catch the company in_ faulty
[
mobilization of its non-union
supervisory forces, who have been called on to do the work of actual strikers and. of other union members who refuse to cross picket lines.
Barbs—
‘INTERIOR decorators say the old-fashioned “cozy corner” is staging a comeback. Any-
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gn 1 have Taken Professor he starts me to thinking so much it takes me all
“Throck BY | § Course— day
t0.gét back to normal!’
One and a half bil-
come due in 1951, three billion in 1952,
Big argument will come, in.
trying to convince the bond holder that the $25 principal and interest he gets from purchase of a bond for $18.75 ten years ago is worth more than, say, 60 per cent of §15 purchasing power it répresents, in terms Of. 1941 dollar] value. That's what inftation has done. Best answer that’ can be
| invested it in stocks, eor-
piv
What would : money be ‘worth if you . I of its 100, employees. =
poration bonds, life insurance, real estate or any other kind of property? And where could vou have bought greater security for repayment in full?” Savings bond sales officials are encouraged by recent pickups in payroll deduction plats, "in spite of heavy cashing in’ of
bonds. National Tube Co. of :
PRiDuEh now nas U. cord with over 80 per gent of - {ts 25,000 employeés participat-
ing. Carnegie-Illinois Steel in
past month has jumped in participation 18.000 to 72,000
S. re-
pti : REPORTS here show that in New Jersey, where picketing has been most active, 87 per cent of the normal number of
telephone employees showed up.
yesterday for work. The number of “long lines” operatives at work throughout the. country was reported at 70 per cent. Negotiating sessions in New York made cléar that the out-
“standing issue {§ ‘whether the
unicH Ww wi
ry the rem rg for
a year as the union wants. Joseph A. Beirne, union president, said a longer pact would
. ‘be unfair to his’ members beey to’
cause living costs santinge » go up,
LH Here's a ish. for. long happi-
line,
REAL lovers of the red, white and blue have sense enough to-keep away from the black market. / ig” AN economist says the possession of even a second-hand car ‘is an advantage. Yeah--the advantage we frequently have to push home.
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