Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 August 1951 — Page 22

~10 LEADERS at French Lick who threatened to take their 375,000 Hoosier members away from the Demo“eratic Party unless the party goes 200 per cent “fair deal” brought glib queries from Republicans as to just where they could take them. .It may be, though, that the CIO leaders have the an- _ gwer to that. ~The greatest labor statesman this country has produced waddutedly was the late Samuel Gompers. : r. Gompers never let the AFL, which in his day was the hi major labor organization, get tied up with either political party. As long as he lived, and for, quite a while afterward, union leaders picked the issues, and the candi“dates, they wanted to support, regardless of party lines. That way, Mr. Gompers felt, union strength at the polls could exert ‘strong influence over both parties, unions ~ themselves would never have to stand or fall with a political party which might come a cropper over its own actions in fields far removed from labor. Nor would unions ever find themselves, by straight party affiliation, stuck with all-out support of a President, for example, who in a moment of panic tried to'draft strikers into the Army to break a strike,

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n » » n » THE wisdom of his courage has become apparent in recent years. Unless unions could completely capture major parties, and make it wholly a Labor stand to gain more by making themselves a power.” In Indiana, at léast, they have made no noticeable progress toward “ capture” of either party. There are, it is true, “fair dealers” among Indiana Demccrats, but no one could say they are in control of the party machinery—they seldom get nominated for public office, and when they have been nominated they generally have not been elected. There are a few Republicans like that, too, though none that we recall in office just at present. And on strictly labor issues there is, right now, little to choose between the attitudes of Indiana Democrats and Indiana Repubiicans, both of whom would like to have union support without endangering the support of other elements of Hoosier vcters. So long. as ‘they lack the strength, as in Indiana they do, to Ri 0-8 pdlitical- En sufghlici own capable of

ATT som

Por Wifitting elections against all comers, the union

on increasingly

one of the Party, they “balance of

fortunes to one political party. x And as for Democratic Party acceptance of the other alternative 100 cent “fair deal’-—that comes unlikely. Too many intelligent Democrats know, and the of the last 15 years’ elections is plain, that in [Indiana that ‘is the road to political disaster.

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How High Does ‘Honor’ Go?

*ARLY thig month, the Army fired 90 cadets from West < Point because they had been caught cribbing, or helping

going per

record

others to crib, in examinations. Later Brig. Gen, David J. Crawford, commander of the important tank center in Detroit, was removed from his

' post and reprimanded on charges of accepting favors from contractors and using Army mater ials and equipment for his personal benefit. Now another Army officer, a colonel, of his command at a Toledo ordnance depot. Both the Detroit and Toledo cases were uncovered by ating committee. Gen, Crawford

a congressional investig

! went so far as say what he had done was rather common practice and his main sin was to get caught.

. u u u u u » : THE CADET so far as the Army invested in their training has been dissipated reneged on the honor system at the military academy.

S dismissed from West Point are finished, All the taxpayer money because they

is concerned.

But Gen. Crawford, who was aecused of failing “to meet the high standards required of an Army officer,” was ordered transferred to a new post in Germany. Only after

Sen. Harry F. Byrd (D, Va.) called for an explanation was the transfer held up. At West Point, strict respect for the honor system is

regarded as the heart of officer training. The penal®~for breaching if" is But when does the honor s\ # On graduation from West Point? On becoming a general? Just how much can an officer “crib”

with a transfer, instead of dismissal?

dismissal,

tem end, slough off ?

On becoming a colonel?

and still get off

Mave MacArthur There

& T IS hardly conceivable that the big, full-dress conference Y on a Japanese peace treaty should be held next month Douglas

in San Francisco without the presence of Gen. MacArthur. Yet, beyond vague speculation that he might be there and State Department pondering over “a suitable way” for his participation, there appears to have been no further move to invite him. 3 Why? Who else is better qualified for counsel and guidance on all phases of the momentous questions that loom at : ' , San Francisco? * Gen. MacArthur led the Allied forces in the against Japan from beginning to end. Then, as Supreme Allied Commander in Japan for five and a half years, he “led the conquered country back on the path of democracy, self-sufficiency and competency to take its place again in the community of free nations. In laying the framework for the treaty, John Foster Dulles frequently consulted MacArthur and has credited him with the most ul advice. But nothing would be more fitting than

strates mets * ‘may ‘well be ¢ harting a wiser course th none that ties their

has been relieved

war

ve the man who, accepted Japan's surrender on the ithe Missouri :

INDIA

Soft Touch— Foster's Follies

MIAMI, Fla. Police are seeking a mattress company employee accused’ of stuffing tags instead of bills into pay

envelopes and walking off with the cash. Soft curfew tolled the knell

of parting day, But many people found no sweet repose, were of their

Their dreams

te ast—departing-PaXe. ph sy HEH Ait

shfers clothes Yet they might better spring to his defense. It's most unfair to brand a thief as such,

When mattress workers greatest recompense I.ies in the promise of a quick soft tough ” = ”.

AND WHO could blame the

guw for ok de for a little fi nancial cushion? There ought to he some money fn. mattrésse Espe“¢ially these davs wken mf folks’ principal interest lies in

having: enough cash handy to buy an occasional short steak. On short Mattress advant

notice workers age

boss

over most o us The could hardly squawk at a little feathey bedding now and then, (thly thing that bothers us is what a master mattress me chanic might do on vacation. Simplest thing, when you get right down to it, would be to g0 to one of the springs. Matter of fact, we've just re turned from v selves. Three or four weeks back at the job, though, and we'll be well rested again We've discovered one thing

one

acation our-

They're not blue-painting those excess potatoes any more, Just using ‘em as mattress filler,

But Old Swampview is offer

ing plenty this vear. Despite generally higher prices, they're till serving the same food as in 1930. kKXcept for the ice cream, Which they found they

couldn't keep over the winter.

5 a n AN AWFUL lot (Or vice-versa! seem to heen reading up nn how good conversationalists, Or conversationalists, anyway, If silence is most va Rone off during the

of people have

to be

still golden must have standard

cationists the gold winter, (jags ares shine. But to the right gent who so'wester

freer they're people.

than sunnot applied Take the offered to lend his -Juring a north easter, And had to add that the recipient of his, largesse could wear it backwards, “Experts” any subject are a dime They ¢an set

on a dozen

tle anvthing. Until the time comes to settle their bill. Even then, there's just no way of

checking those birds Like the United Nations de mand for a défensible line they're without parallel,

8 .8 » AUNTY COMMY SAYS: “No wonder Major General Hodes put his arm around the chief North Korean delegate as the two posed for pictures at Kae-

song. Probably afraid of what might happen if he let him loose.” >

~ ” ” HEH - HEH - HEADLINES: “Jane Russell Asserts Brains Scare Men Off.” Maybe 80. certain othar attributes give 'em courage, “British Producing Jet They Call Best."~Let's say it's the best jet,

often

“Soviet Opera Compéser i Pledges To Sing In Tune” If

he doesn’t hell be facing the ‘music. :

“American Actressbs “Cover

Up Their Emotions.” And ttle élse.

But’

/ &

MR. E Not But, not toughe For

crooners find a better way to take trouble

forgett

time telling George

Frere te great

Tight

since fir

Hoosier Forum — ‘Let "Em Fight’

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

DITOR: that we would see @nvbody go to war. it's obvious. somebody has to, why st round up the boys who make life r at home? instance, the who bedevil

broken hearted radio the dial could scarcely their minds off cardiac s than by lying in a flooded foxhole. Not ing the emcees who shoot the sponsor's it's sure swell to see him which George replies it's sure too, Bob tnis inciting

here

might, to be

y-mirth-and-factbher ad libbing until the CORI ats in 10.10 IY EXE ER Mn nN .

we pave the frenetic

ADDED to such, blades who spend their time Kicking,”batting, or pitching balls, coasting baseward ¢n their stomachs, or laying a few broken ribs on the Olympic altar. All of which vields a 12-hour broadcas® on every station, when you'd walk a mile -to know what gives in Korea 2a Other cand raona baddies if be found aim ahah) ER hve reuit, wi wis Thewhiskered he dx Weber and Fields, And," to old not least, how t mars o \ el-bottoms \ hington ( t Florsheil n't grown ( Seems it's hig me fo » play boy to get and pitch. . —Fleanore Flaig, 17 N. Irvington Ave, ‘ . ' Big Shakedown MR. EDITOR A few months ago we were told if we would low parkir meters to be placed. .in our streets there Ww uld be. more parking space, However, it has proven that all the ‘parking meter ordinance is and was a shakedown of the people's pennies. There is no benefit in these meters ex cept tne dollars coliecte giment the people further as will be done i pedestrian shake down law, Why have not officials in other cities, where they have these shakedown pedestrian laws, allowed the people to fight them in court? imply because regulating the pedestrians—is illegal under our Constitution I have every reason to believe if T were to fight this ordinance to shake me and other citizens down for our dollars, the administration would postpone, transfer and change of venue 1 until I was forced to quit All these al ve ordinances of this accidental Imin ation of Mavor Bavt's ean the mentatior yf the people by order and mob e W h could not be upheld by higher courts, I Ay | } used more danger and damage to the city in his few months of rule than any

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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25— at This week the Senate unani- : mously passed a resolution condemning Czechoslovakia for the imprisonment of

= commercial -relatiohs until ¥ Oatis is freed. House had preS viously passed identical resolution, Meanwhile, new Czech ambassador called at State Department and was ‘told by Secretary Dean Acheson they would do some plain speaking about the Oatis case as soon . a8 Ambassador presents his credentials to President Tru- , man,

Mutual Defense

SENATE refused to go along with House on proposal for a new agency to administer the foreign aid program; instead, recommended that the Pentagon, State Department and Economic: Co-Operation Administration share respon-

gibility. Subsidies SENATE~- voted for longrange shipping bill, under

which Federal government, as in World War II, will pick up part of the tab for building new vessels. Senate also voted 72 to 4 to extend the sugar act of 1948 (which wouldn't have expired until 195 2) whereby government taxes sugar processors to pay subsidies to growers.

Korean Relief

SENATE passed and cleared for White House signing a resolution allowing the President to proclaim a special period

Solita

other mayor. Look at the danger to pedestrian and motorist on these one-way race tracks where the motorist speeds from one stop sign to another. : James J. Culling,

107 S. Capital Ave.

‘ . . ’ A Fine Article MR. ‘EDITOR: 1 appreciate the Right From Wrong?” which. appeared in the Aug. 168 issue of The Times. It is a very interesting article and one that I am glad to file away future

article, “Can't We Tell

for

EE TEA “One of the chope u SNe se

‘rary world is, the fact that men and women in the so-called sécular field are b@ginning to raise questions, write articles and publish books in the moral and spiritual field,. believing that it is in this area that our needs are greatest and our hopes are founded. Church leaders are encouraged over this trend.’ I appreciate the contribution Mrs. Milner is making in’ The Times in encouraging this trend, in trying to build a strong .moral foundation through your paper. I appreciate all the fine co-

operation she is giving the religious leaders. Many thanks. for her co-operation. > —A. €. Brooks, Third’ Christian Church,

1654 Broadway

‘End Price Controls’

*MR. EDITOR: At the risk of being ambushed some dark night. . I. give my vote to ending price controls. I think Congress is moving in the right directiorf. In the first place, poor laws are worse than no laws at all. But most important in preventing excessive prices is putting the controls in the right place—in the hands that plunk the cash on the counter, Mr. and Mrs, (also Miss) Consumer are the ones, the only ones, responsible for the exorbitant prices on steaks, lipsticks, houses and all the other items, and they are the only ones who

can control the prices on Steak is a dollar a plunks down a think what steak if every buying days. That's anything Pricés go up, don't buy This thing of legislating a futile thing Demands for. it stem either | of what method price rom a desire to shirk responsibility Make the old car another vear. Be a vegetarian for a couple of months. Instead of going to go for a walk. Very your he the health of the country will both be much . improved : — Earl Boggs, 5234 W. Naomi St,

said items. pounds only because dollar for a peund would happen toc the person in the United steak of any- variety the to control the

somebody of it. Just price of States stopped for 60

price of

way

utterly from

prices is gnorance last a- movie

and very

soon

1th

J. HUGH O'DONNELL IS ON VACATION

MAR ION COUNTY} SCHOOL SYSTEM

CONGRESS ROUNDUP Senate Asks Crach Trade Acheson May Drop Powder Puff

during which American Relief for Korea, Inc., will intensify a campaign for public donations of clothes and such for Korean

‘utive department fo cut off ‘all

eference, ,Among my important. .,

Reem

controls

HOUSE UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES COMMITTEE and McCarran subcommittee of Senate continued to dig into evidences of subversive activity. House group quizzed Oliver Edmund Clubb, suspended head of “China desk” at State Department, on his 1932 visit tooffice of Gen. Willoughby In Inu nist +++ SPY FiNg New Masses. Clubb had denied ever meeting Whittaker Chambers; told committee his memory was refreshed by getting hold of his diaries of that period. Chambers was then a Communist editor, Meanwhile, McCarran group

heard Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby, former intelligence chief for Gen. MacAr-

thur, tell more about the Japan and China spy ring operated by Richard Sorge, who pgsed as a Nazi and. won confidence of high Japanese officials while all the time a Russian agent who was busy diverting Japan to attack U. 8. and Britain instead .of Russian Siberia. Willoughby said most of the old U. S. Commie ‘“wheelhorses” were in on the plot. McCarran also heard Louis Budenz, former Daily Worker editor, now a Fordham professor, detail personnel of Institute of Pacific Relations whom he knew as Communists.

House

HOUSE whacked the civil defense supplemental appropriation, giving President Truman .only* 13 per’ cent of the $535 million he had asked for civil defense preparations rest of year. House members de-

. By James Daniel -

Cut—

tended cut by saying that confidence of American people in a civil defense program cans

Mr. Truman . . . the ax fell.

not be won merely by making larger appropriations.

Vacation HOUSE voted itself a recess from Aug. 23 to Sept. 12.

White House

PRESIDENT TRUMAN parely let the House members start nome before sending Congress a message that he wants quick action to tighten the anti-inflation powers in the Defense Production Act. President wants: ONE: Repeal of Capehart amendment which guarantees manufacturers all their costs since Korea; TWO: Repeal of the Herlong amendment which guarantees wholesalers and retailers: their pre-Korea markups and thus a profit on the manufacturers’ cost increases; THREE: Re-enactment of authority to impose quotas on livestock slaughtering. Meanwhile, Truman's stabi=lizers tentatively agreed: ONE: To let beef prices go up another cent or two a pound, to compensate packers for less profit from tallow and hides; TWO: To let wages rise 12 per cent over the pre-Korea base period. instead of 10 as previously considered the ceil= ing. -

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

Freshmen Lawmakers Look at the Record

WASHINGTON, hus unt Hj Sept 0 Zr the

senends aw

Indiana. will Be abr tt

‘here during the first meeting of the 82d a

That session has lasted nearlv eight months with no respite. And each of the new members have hung up a good work record by fairly faithful attendance at both the assemnly in the House and at their committee meetings. Their roll call votes will show that they ¥ve been more archRepublican than the five Hoofreshmen replaced were Democratic! “should the latter he taken mean the Truman Fair Deal .or the old New Deal... For only one of

sier , they

those defeated Democrats from:

the R1st Congress had a perfect pro-administration voting record. He was Rep. Thurman C. Crook, South Bend. ” n " MR. CROOK was easily replaced by Republican freshman Rep. Shepard J. Crumpacker, who also comes from South Bend. Where Mr. Crook seemed {o take the stand that the administration c¢ould do no wrong, his successor has reversed the field, his utterances indicate that he seems to think that the administration can’t do anything right. That includes the Defense Department which he has vigorously asfailed, indicating #e +hinks our military leaders quite incompetent to handle and plan for modern war, He joined however, in $57.5 the Housea the largest in the Services

all the others supporting the pillior bill which passed 348 t0 2. This is peacetime budget history of the Armed

By Gene Reingold

SUMES FROWN Ne BRB/ACE AND \ SEWAGE,

Mr. Crumpacker and a fellow fresnman, Rep. Charles B. Brownson, Indianapolis, did join with the dean of the delegation, Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer Republican, and. vote for $7,498 economic and mit aid.

Loin

~ =n ” Ed

THE, other GOP Reps. "E. ‘Ross: Adair, Ft. Wayne; John .V., Beamer, Wabash, and William G. Bray, Martinsville, voted against any foreign aid, and’ so did three veteran Republicans from the state, Reps. Earl Wilson, Bedford; Cecil Harden, Covington, and Ralph Harvey, New Castie. This was the first such vote Mr, Harvey cast in his three terms here. He had been the only Hoosier Republican to vote for the new tax bill when it passed the House. Four of the five freshnien are World War II veterans and Mr. Beamer a veteran of World War I. But they all voted against the draft and universal military training, thereby following the leadership of Mr. Wilson, who votes

freshmen,

against aimost evervthing. Nevertheless, the one - time Hoosier schoolmaster from Bedford is now, serving hia sixth term trom the Ninth Dis trict which long was considered “normally Democratic.”

Mr. Adair is the quiet type of legislator, who has won high praise from colleagues on the Veterans Affairs Committee, Mr. Beamer has been in the forefront of the congressional effort to get U. 8S. Correspondent William N. Datis freed from imprisonment imposed by the Red Czechs. The former head of the Associated Press in Prague is a native of Mare fon, Ind, which is in Mr, Beamer's Fifth District, on nn o MR. BRAY, whose House speeches sometimes sound isolationist, although he says he Is not, is on the public parks committee and working vale fantly to get that $300,000 for the Vincennes flood wall. The Missouri floods and Sen. Hom-

er E. Capehart (R. Ind.) may have helped. Most ubiquitous of the freshmen is Mr. Brownson. If

anything is going on he is cer= tain to get in on it. A meme ber of the House committee on expenditures in executive departments, he ig serving on ne less than four sub-committees, All are concerned with fairly

vital matters. . / o » ” HE BEAT Sen. William FE. . Jenner (R. Ind.) by several

months in the matter of the so-called “Jehner amendnyent.”

For Mr. Brownson was the first to introduce a House bill to repeal the secrecy

clauses of. the Social Security law. ? Being .a freshman, it is quite likely that if such a bill is ever passed it will not have his fame on it. That is reserved for the old-timers under the ae a system, which

iit roi Seer holdbacks

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when he died las

LJ War Treaty’ SIMILARLY, vou can look for flare up, some venture,e next mc Not because it and manpower w put because of J: treaty signing. 1 a free, sovereig: whole new face situation. Chinese Reds treaty signin declaration of w: hy Japan. They’ {his as springboa counting on Rus San Francisco m time for buildup. NOTE: Russia Tokyo has shipp documents to 8 for use of 33-ma gation. Shipment before Russia an attend conferenc

Goodby “Tol

GEN. RIDGW

Nations comma pected: to mov quarters from

Japanese pact is Reason: He dc Korean War thinks it'll be capital of a coun at neace. He coul SCAP-—Supren Allied Powers —-a ing down sho .civilians on pay! pared with hig Sev ER Arp LL TR

he arfreds- of lus!

run

a u 1’ >.b ~gi. That | THERE'S LY 17. 8. governme pile cotton to bol 15. congressiona wants. Agriculture Di cials say all tha to do to stre prices would be other bale und loan, thus taking If “parity” cotton go down has placed bale support rate of pound, governm when it sells. If government tur to grower, Growers have £67 million in « 1948 cotton whi over to governn pleasant experi their minds the to use loan Ss again, as Agric figure it—hence stockpiling. = o PRICE BOSS i= ribbing ‘¢ plenty these da)

and blustering posed price ceil cents per pou

Cotton bloc cr ceiling would de to produce. So them that it's destroyed incen there'd been si produced price around 15 cents

Don't Sniff NEW, intri tional hazard r garment make tional industr hoard: Company sta perfumed bras week, men WwW complaining p smelling up the demanded: (1) to cover expel their clothes d deodorized four and (2) individ company to m plaining where from.

~ Disunited | IT LOOKS lil gathering for when United ‘committee holc to be its last i AFL member cial notice to partnership fo poses has ende« United comm great guns la spring when labor represent mobilization ag “Breakup no technically or AFL wants ‘‘c which means CIO on AFL