Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 December 1950 — Page 10

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WERE at it again. - We've got another traffic plan, handed to us by andther trafic expert. What will ‘happen to it? Will it end up gathering dust in a convenient political cubbyhole or will it be used? . ‘Newspaper files are full of accounts of plans, promises, drives, surveys and all the rest of the gimmicks used to cool-off an enraged public. In : Now, Henry K. Evans, U. S. Chamber of Commerce traffic expert, has placed his plan of traffic control in the hands of city officials, and it looks like a good one. : He offered the city a framework within which a good traffic control system can be formed. It’s up to the city now.

= . r < “ » . HIS basic approach to the problem is this: ONE: One way street planning to handle traffic volume and protect business districts. : TWO: Start a master traffic plan including full-time consultant for three to six months and appoint a mayor's committee. THREE: Strengthen traffic engineering division. FOUR: Encourage use of public transit. FIVE: Study elimination of left turns on 16th St. j SIX: Clear street intersections through parking restrictions. - : SEVEN: Crack down on peak hour parking violations. One of the most important parts in Mr, Evans’ plan is the need for a budget increase in the traffic engineering division. He proposes the present budget of $40,000 be increased to $200,000. : :

’ Cs 8 a 8 = INDIANAPOLIS traffic is once again demonstrating a strong killer instinct. It killed 56 people this year . . . last year it accounted for 40 deaths. It injured 3195 this year ...2573 last year. It chalked up a total of 8381 accidents this year . . . 7008 last year. ~~ An impressive record . . . one that every city official can be proud of . . . one that every city official can point to and say, “This happened because not enough dollars were spent in the right place.” Mayor Bayt has given us no cause to doubt the sincerity of his intentions regarding traffic control. His willingness to listen to advice of an expert, his willingness to

conduct surveys and appoint necessary boards indicates he

means business. > It is our sincere hope Mayor Bayt can avoid past patterns. It is his job to see that Indianapolis has a safe and sane traffic system. It is the job of every citizen to help him do it.

Who Hid the Salt?

HAT ever became of the old fashioned idea of sending street crews out to spread ashes, sand and salt on the streets in the early morning hours during a big snow? :

Most people like snow, they think it's wonderful \ , .

it's a refreshing change from the heat of summer . . . but most people also realize that snow packed on streets can become death traps... .. What happened to the system set up by the Street Department to _end these icy death traps? i

~ LJ » » o . MAYBE the Street Department did send men out to spread ashes, sand and-sait-on-the-streets;—but if it did someone in’ the department held back on the supply. “Even now, when the great snow has passed the way all great snows must pass, there is little evidence on the streets of a concentrated attempt to remedy a slippery gituation. - We hope things will change when we have the next great snow.

Mr. Disalle’s Job

LEDO'S Mayor Michael V. Disalle has accepted * appointment by President Truman as federal director of price administration. He takes a job which at least 30 other men are said to have refused. : ~His duty will be to impose government controls on prices, if and when the President decides to use -the authority Congress has voted. There are multiplying indications that Mr, Truman may make that decision .soon in an effort to stop the upward spiraling. of prices and wages. ORE ” » ” ss = - MR. DISALLE is a vigorous man, 42 years old, with an excellent record as councilman and mayor of a large city and, before that, as a member of the Ohio legislature. This newspaper hopes that he will be eminently successful in his new undertaking. ; But he can have no hope of ‘success unless action to by simultaneous and equally positive action to halt the rise of wages and other costs of production. :

Labor Learns a Lesson

apparent from the recent CIO convention in Chicago ~ that labor has shelved for at least the next two years

~ any hope of repealing the Taft-Hartley law.

. ~ The word now is that top labor men will work with

: Tongress to amend the act to get rid of features either

‘unworkable or touted by labor as hostile to its

a couple of years ago, but the leaders preferred to strike

under a perhaps markedly improved law.

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rn “all or nothing” attitude. This did nothing to win them public sympathy and cost -them two years of

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us. re : / Although the fair-minded British people do not blame the Labor Government for wrecking

‘the coal industry, they do blame nationalization

for failure to salvage the wreckage. They remember only too well the mess to which private and al incompetence had ‘brought their basic industry in “the good old days”—two dark decades when unemployment

“per cent. = " So even most Tories accepted socialization

of coal as the only way out.

Only Alternative - THERE were special reasons why non-So-clalists as well as Laborites believed that government ownership and management of coal was the dnly alternative left: Only the government could finance the-modernization of an industry so large and so government could stop the flight of labor from the mines and incréase productivity—by better wages and working conditions, by patriotic appeals, by labor's pride in working “the people's mines.” - But it has not worked out that way. - The Labor Government has spent money for mechanization. It has hiked wages and improved working conditions. It has appealed to the miners’ patriotism and to labor solidarity. It has begged and it has threatened. Coal short.

. age is the net result.

Everyone agrees that manpower is the key. Last year there was a net loss of 17,400 miners, So far this year there has been'a further net loss of 22.400, leaving a force of only 686,000. Those 22,400 missing miners could have produced six million tons, Higher wages—the best in any industry— and favorable working conditions have not stopped this waste of manpower. : Recruiting of younger workers has been pushed for several years. It has reduced somewhat the extreme old age of the working force, but has not been large enough to balance the quitters. 3 . Another possibility is the use of foreign miners, to which the union objects. Polish miners were helpful here during the war, Now the gov-

ernment is considering bringing in several thou- ;

sand Italians, despite objections.

NO REACTION... By Earl Richert Are Hoarders Burned Out?

WASHINGTON, Dec. 2—The “new war” in Korea has brought no rush of panic buying by

“the consuming public, such as happened after

the initial outbreak last June. Some businessmen think it is still too soon to say definitely that it won’t happen. But most don’t expect another hoarding splurge. : “1 think that people who stocked up on sugar, coffee and canned goods last summer found out that there is plenty of food,” said a ‘spokesman for a large grocery chain. “And I don't expect these hoarders to show up again. People are sort of burned out on war crisis anyway.” John C. Hazen, Washington representative of the National Retail Dry Goods Association, sald stores in his organization were reporting only normal buying.

No Panic Buying “BUSINESS is good and well above last year,” he said. “But people are buying the kind of goods they give for Christmas, not the type of stuff you hoard such as sheets and pillow cases. “I think that since consumers have been

through one big war scare they're not likely °

to react soon again.” : : Rowland Jones Jr. president of the American Retail Federation, said he had talked to about 25 retailers throughout the country in the past two days and that none had reported any panic buying. “A lot of people last summer used up their surplus cash and bought heavily on time payments,” he said. “I think this situation is really holding the lid on now and probably is serving as more of a curb than Regulation W, except on automobiles.” The situation on automobiles apparently is the same as on dry goods and groceries. Automobile dealers say that the “new war” has not caused any rush to their showrooms.

Wait and See “PEOPLE are staying away in droves,” said the sales manager for one of the largest agen-

cies in the East. “I think things will be better after our new models come out. But we'll have

"to wait and see.”

The head of another large agency, where 1951 models are now available, said he had had no increase in-customers since Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced the “new war.” Used car dealers, who particularly have been complaining about the government's tight credit regulations, also generally report no pickup in business. “We won't have any pickup either until-the government permits a longer time for people td pay,” said one. to

On tires, one of the items most fancied by

the public in last summer's buying rush, there also has been no noticeable increase in sales, according to a spokesman for the Rubber Manufacturers Association. - ag

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Is Truman A-Bomb Statement Part of U. S. War of Nerves?

WABHINGTON, Dec. 2—Atomic bombing of Korea could cause vast men and property but whether it would stop the war is problematical. There is a feeling here that President Truman’s announcement that use of this weapon

sidered, may be more a part of the American offensive in the war of nerves than the prelude to actual employment of the bomb,

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one but President can make that decision, While the whole world awaits some definite word, 2 there is much ' ; :

speci] a tion Mr. Truman ere..Aabou i i « + « the big question

ONE: Are there targets in North Korea or. across the Manchurian border worthy of the

“A-bomb? .

TWO: If the time comes when we must employ it against Russia, do we have an adequate supply?

From Hiroshima forward, the atomic bomb

was considered a strategic weapon. That J one to knock out an enemy's industry or o ie erate some great concentration of ‘men or war facilities and machines. Men familiar with atomic and military matters say they never have heard the bomb proposed as an antipersonnel weapon,

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shipped by air from San Francisco. Bix carloads were sent by ship during October, And from mid-October to Nov. 17, when antibiotics were put on the Commerce Department's restricted list, about 540,000 vials, equivalent to 650 billion units, were shipped by air, The drugs were sent to Hong Kong, where, by the admission of a representative of "a Hong Kong import firm, large quantities found their way into Communist China. Exports of the drugs were entirely legal, however, until the Nov. 16 ban by the Office o International Trade In

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destruction of - Hiroshima and Nagasa

The two Japanese cities picked as targets— ki — were selected because of their high military strategic value. In Hiroshima the toll was: 70,000 killed and - missing and 70,000 injured; and in Nagasaki: 36,000 killed or missing and 40,000 injured. There was also great property damage. 80 the question arises as to whether any such targets exist in North Korea. There are cities there, but apparently none as important militarily as the two Japanese cities. The hydroelectric dams on the Yalu River are worthy targets, but a military expert pointed out they could be destroyed as well with conventional TNT bombs. This would appear to leave possible concentrations of Chinese Communist soldiers as the only other target. And some say the chances are that the -Red Chinese -are eo

well dispersed that use of the bomb probably

Between June 18 and Aug. 24, 17 tons of the drugs were

would not be justified.

How Many Bombs?

THERE are other considerations being discussed here: The prospect that large areas might be con“taminated so as to endanger our own soldiers; and the possibility that a bomb might fizzle, or do less damage than has been imagined, which would strip it of an immense amount of its psychological importance. : The question of the inadequacy of our atomic bomb stockpile is beginning to worry some persons here. : But no one of the handful of men who know how many atomic weapons we have has ever given any indication of the number, There has been but one public discussion by anyone who had any knowledge about atomic bomb production, That was in 1945 by Dr, J.

Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the first

bombs. He said we might build a thousand in two years, but this would take a lot of work and the whole country would feel it. Then he said under less frantic operations, we might build 50 in nine months.

. By Galbraith BUNDLES FOR REDS . . . By Richard MacFarland i U. S. Puts Teeth in Restricted Trade Lists

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 2—Large quantities of penicillin, streptomycin and other antibiotic drugs were shipped ‘San Francisco to China by major drug firms between the outbreak of the Korean War and the government's belated ban -on their

not be used in Hong Kong alone.

exporters to slash all A representative of the Hong break the beads, Sm and Sesiarations, : the tires to the rims, Thi Comoing: closely with the cedure made the obi lit Department, the at S-extept for scrap. A Com- Food Ane a ; ' : partment. ord : : Energy isbued last week requiring ex. COMMIsion, Customs efficisis porters to break beads and ai on & Sharp sc of Tota ne 8 i le shipme, . 3 list” of suspect

NeitheF can be obtained without :- ‘more leadership than the Labor Government is now

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Taku Bar (Tientsin) for several months. Though the tires ostensibly are used by the Chinese for shoe soles, Customs inspectors reported to Mr. Leake that many could still be used on vehicles,

Mr. Leake requested scrap

perficial nor temporary, Temporary expedienté can gloss ft over, but only basic solutions can prevent more and worse crises In the future, Rea ant, which Bas sot 35! oo. hy ou rther inc 3 and and offer still titer ‘competition with the mines for-

By more mines? No chance. The National Coal Board found only 22 new pits worth opening. More than one-third of the present 550 mines are uneconomic and should be closed, But they are kept running because of the short. age and because the union objects to closing, The National Coal Board promises Britain can get along with the old thines under its 15. year plan of reorganization and further mech. small cost of $1,778,000,000, it pledges an 18 per cent increase tput with 80,000 fewer miners. That

« -'would require a rise in-productivity per. man

for 1951. And the present three-quarters mech. anization of the mines has not paid off. This year total production will not exceed 205 million tons--about the same as produced in 1941 with fewer men and less mechanization, Though the 1950 total will be slightly above 1049, it is now falling and will be at least 40 million tons under 1938. :

“I do not agree with « word that ou sey, but | will defend to the death your right to sey it."

‘For Louis Ludlow’ By Hiram Lackey > IN HONOR of the passing of Louis Ludlow,

" we do.well to reverence: our Master, Whose

principles brother Ludlow held aloft. Suppose we begin by practicing the "“up-side-down strike” the Italians have invented. Lets everybodyg-all—do it; The Italian peasants and factory workers who have long sought and failed to gain raises in pay have decided to experiment with that “Christianity which has never failed, but found difficult and seldom tried.” These farm and factory workers try with all their might to see how much they can do for their employers—to prove worthy of raises in pay. They work many extra hours overtime, holidays, concentrate on their work, take extra good care of property entrusted to them, ete, The principle they are applying was expressed by Jesus when He said: “If any man compel you to walk with him one mile, you walk with him two.” Christ told them to walk one mile for Rome and one mile for Him, > 4 %

WHAT would happen is every individual in labor and management would apply this Christ principle? Suppose with actual unselfishness we applied it to the Russian and Chinese peoples— giving them much needed help in abundance— winning them away from their masters, or bet. ter still inspiring their masters to change? How could their masters dare refuse to co-operate? Would not this be better than to watch our wealth and civilization go up in mushrooms of smoke and destruction? 5 Our pressing need is to comprehend with brother Ludlow that Christianity is practical and that superficial acceptance of Christianity is not Christianity, We need the Christianity hat is pus eyeation-not learning something never knew ore, but beha behaved before. ¥Ing 22 we pevey We can look and listen at Malik and ses that we can’t overcome evil with evil. Force is not the answer to force. Sacrifice—the Cross, if you please, is the answer fo force. The sacrifice that the heathen Saul of Tarsus saw in Stephen and the love of Jesus who died for Saul while he was yet a sinner—is the answer to violence. ;

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

WASHINGTON-—The Voice of America reports that most Spanish Communists recently ordered exiled from France said they preferred to go to the North African desert, rather than to an Iron Curtain country, These sad. Spanish Commies were exiled from France : And they want no fold of the curtain. Tate why on the desert they're taking a ce.

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They want to be sure they don’t rue it.

They say they will tre u ody 4 k to the hot burning

Which is a smart trek—if they do it]

Through the Customs Serve ice, charged with enforcement of export restrictions, is under manned, Mr. Leake is sure that few, if any, of the banned commodities have been smuggled through this port under false

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