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

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Thanksgiving Thought USTOMARILY at this time of year we give thanks for a precious commodity which has ever been ours. It is liberty. : This, of course, is in the tradition of the first Thanksgiving Day in 1621 when Gov, Bradford's flock thanked God not so much for material abundance as for the refuge of liberty to which he had guided him. » But there is a little extra prayer we would do well to add to our hymns of Thanksgiving for our own freedom. That is the prayer that a time will come when our freedom vill be shared by all men everywhere. John Donne said it best so many years ago—that “no man is an iland, intire of himselfe; every man is peece of the continent, a part of the maine; if a clod bee washed away by the sea, Europe is the lesse, as well as if a promontorie were, as well as if a mannor of thy friend or of thine owne were: any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankinde; and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls: it tolls for thee.” What that means today ‘is that, though we are free, our freedom is still in danger; that while any men anywhere on.the earth are slaves, our own liberty is threatened. The bell that tolls over man as he cringes behind the Iron Curtain tolls also for us.

Muddle Over Atrocities GEN RIDGWAY is bringing no credit to himself or to his Tokyo headquarters by his ineptness in handling the report on Communist atrocities. The General has issued two statements in an attempt to “clarify” Col. James M. Hanley's estimate that the Reds have slaughtered 6270 U. S. prisoners of war taken in Korea. In both statements, Gen. Ridgway has sought to cast doubt on the Hanley report while at the same time conceding it may be true, In the first statement he regretted that Col. Hanley's findings had not been properly “co-ordinated,” that they came out at the wrong time. But, he said, “it may be well to note with deep reverence that in his inscrutable way God chose to bring home to our people and the conscience of the world the moral principles of the leaders of the forces against which we fight in Korea.” Nevertheless, said Gen. Ridgway, ‘the shocking impact of the brutality which has been revealed should have been no surprise to the American people.” Yet the enormity of the atrocities was obviously quite a surprise to the General himself.

= = IN RESPONSE to Pentagon demands that he take another try at it, the United Nations commander issued a second statement Tuesday. In this he acknowledged that ‘there is considerable evidence to justify a presumption of death by atrocity of a large number which may approximate 6000,” although he said the bodies of only 365 had been recovered. Thus the Hanley estimates are substantially confirmed. Yet they aren't confirmed. If they were approximately right in the first instance, what was the objection to making them public? Some of our Allies have complained to the State Department against releasing the figures at a critical moment in the armistice negotiations. And that may be the basis for the concerted effort of our top officials to disclaim responsibility for the Hanley estimates. But it's mostly American—and South Korean—Ilives involved, rather than the British, French and others who have token forces fighting in Korea. Maybe the American people shouldn't be surprised at Communist brutality, as. Gen. Ridgway observed. But they could get mighty wrathful over the way the news of Red atrocities against our soldiers is kicked around at the whim and counter-whim of the military and State Department.

Next Year's Election F PRESIDENT TRUMAN has his way, the 1952 presidential election will be fought out exclusively on foreign issues. That's the gist of the President's speech Tuesday night before the Women's Nationa! Democratic Club—a speech he went all the way from Key West to Washington to deliver, Mr. Truman said, in effect, if the Republicans want to make foreign policy the issue, the Democrats would welcome that. If anything élse is an issue, the President plainly implied, that would be a “dirty smear campaign.” Such things as mink coats, deep freezes, influence in the RFC, scandals in the Internal Revenue Bureau—these are the issues which, in the presidential pattern, come under the headings of ‘red herring,” “asinine” and “smear.” Wonder where he would put such things as the high cost of government and the high cost of living ? Mr. Truman said the Democrats will have to fight “slush funds” and “confidence men” and “sleight-of-hand artists.” But what he didn't say was that the Democrats also would have to live down these things. In his speech, he also talked about “special interests” those unidentified whipping boys he keeps beating over the head. But he expressly did not include in this category the friends of the friends of the Truman administration who have been getting special favors and privileges from the government, Mr. Truman may make his own issues in 1952. But,

as he says, “we will have the record.” And the public may take a look at it.

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NEW CONTROL Railroads

Can Avoid Accidents

By ROBERT CRATER WASHINGTON, Nov. 22 —Railroads know ‘how to prevent rear-end collisions,

such as the recent one in-

volving the City of San Francisco and its sister train, the City of Los Angeles, in Wyoming. The answer is autbmatic train control. The same system would have kept a New York-to-Miami streamliner from ramming a freight in Georgia a few days later, In both the Wyoming and Georgia cases, automatic control would have stopped the trains without the engineers lifting a finger. The catch is, railroads can't afford to install this system all at once. It must be done as they can pay for it. The next generation may ride in automatically controlled trains.

" = = IN 1949, there were only .08 fatalities for every 100 million passenger miles. (A passenger mile is one mile of travel for one passenger). Last year, fatalities rose to 58 per 100 million passenger miles.

= » = EVERY year railroads have adopted better safety measures. Principal ones are: ONE—Block signal systems. The road is divided into block units of varying distances. Signals operating either manually or automatically protect the movement of trains. TWO-—Train control. Brakes get automatically when a train passes a danger signal without slowing down. THREE -— Centralized control. A tower operator follows the course pf all trains within a sector by watching an electric board. He can control electrically the train's movements, FOUR-—Automatic cab nal, A signal flashes in the engine cab, telling the engineer passing a wayside signal what the signal says. The automatic cab signal system would have warned the engineer of the City of San Francisco that he was on the same stretch of track with the City of Los Angeles. Investigators indicate the Wyoming accident was caused when the San Francisco's engineer and fireman failed to see the wavside signal because of blinding AIDOW, es... cat hd Unfortunately, the Wyoming crash took place 100 miles before the train would have entered a long stretch of track equipped with automatic cab signals,

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There's a quietness in our house . , . something we've harped at the kids about for years. How many times we told that boy to come in the door quietly and not shout the house down like a voung tornado every time he came home. How many times we told him to walk upstairs; not race; to lay his books on the front table, not slam ‘em down; to turn the radio down when he had it so loud you couldn't even hear yourself think. It’s quiet around here... but if that front door would suddenly slam and rattle the windows we'd all feel a lot better. We'd all know he was home. He's in Korea, along with a lot of other kids his age. It's not hard to figure out what he's doing now. He's not eating turkey. He's not sitting at a table with a snowy-white cloth on it, silverware, glasses and a ton of food. He's out there some place in the hills and fields with the wind whipping around

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MR. EDITOR: Thanksgiving. All the family will be there. And we'll eat, and eat, until we can hold no more, and then, later in the day, we'll all go to the big game, That's the traditional celebration of the day ... turkey and football. But does that completely fulfill the traditional celebration? To put it another way, does it fulfill the word, Thanksgiving, or the giving of thanks. Certainly it is better to share with loved ones the celebration of éur good fortune, rather

then celebrate alone; but does that fulfill Thanksgiving? . What a day in which to remind ourselves

that our Makers made our good fortune possible . . . and our skills, and our harvests. In thinking of the day from this angle, we can give thanks, by sharing our blessings, and by resolving to live better lives, because One loves us enough to make all these things possible. —Paul C. Boulton, 527 Bell St.

‘Who Wants Peace?’ MR. EDITOR:

Can anyone in America say fhat we really want peace?” Does the politician, the defense worker or big business want peace? I hardly believe so for strange as it may seem we live in an era of history where we must have wars or depressions, We have engulfed ourselves in the belief that money is God and that money will accomplish anything. While our boys die in Korea, Mr. Big Business in America goes on at the

expense of the taxpayer making billions out of

war. goods, hi neva Lames Now, anyone with common sense ‘knows that the war in Korea could be brought to a conclusion in two weeks with the use of atom bombs. But what would happen? The whole economic system of this country would be upset and in six months we would be in the mid-

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him. War is a cold thing and a man would give his right arm sometimes to have a fire, just a little one... big enough to warm the tips of his fingers. Bitter? Sure we're bitter. Our boy was ready to go to college. He wanted to be a doctor. He wanted to help people live, not kill ’em, but that's all by the boards. That's water over the dam. We're bitter, but we're thankful. We can give thanks that we have kids like ours over there to do the job. He may not be .the best soldier in the world. But there's one thing you can be sure of ... he'll do the best job he can... the very pest. It’s quiet around here now. There's an empty chair at our table. But somehow it doesn't really hit you till a day like Thanksgiving. Today we're thankful have. And more than all, we're thankful for the hope of a better day to come. —E. W.

for what we

die of a depression that would make the crash

of 1929 look like good times. Right now in America, warehouses are bulging with refrigerators, radios, ‘television sets, etc. [for which

there is no market, This explains that even with our -boondoggling of billions of dollars worth of domestic goods and war goods into foreign countries we would have’ a depression if it wasn't for the Korean War. So let's hold onto our hats (that's about all we will have left) as we travel down that road to total war, for Mr. Big Business in America will in the future count latest victim. After that, only God knows what will happen next. T hope it's for the betterment

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of humanity and that some futur all peopies of the earth can dwell tog in peace It can be done if we work as hare r.peace as

we do for making war

—Clifford Gibson, 3048 N. Drexel

Views on News

By DAN KIDNEY

PRESIDENT TRUMAN told the Democratic women that “a mistake in a presidential election can cause the country untold harm.” Particularly if it is repeated. :

ANTHONY EDEN has proposed that United Nations thaw out the cold war an icicle at a time. Vishinsky will probable refer to this as the DRIP program. 0 A

DICTATOR PERON predicts the new La

Prensa. will. be. pure, great. and. virtuous Row.

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JUDGE SAUL S. STREIT sentenced the basketball fixers and convicted the colleges.

HOUSE. REPUBLICAN Leader Martin landed at Pijsan to reinforce his preconceptions,

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demanding a “substantial wage increase” from 1, 8. Steel Corp. for the CIO United Steelworkers follows a policy growing in favor among big union leaders. Experts in collective bargaining pointed out that this policy was developed five or six years ago by John L. Lewis, United Mine Workers president. Mr. Murray formerly was chief aid to Mr. Lewis in that union's wage dealings. It takes a negotiator with the talents of a good poker player to use this strategy successfully—refusing to lay his cards on the table until management shows. its hand. . » ” " THESE tactics have been adopted by other big CIO unions, notably the Electrical Workers headed by James B. Carey. This strategy is to force management into making the management won't, then the union, following Mr. Lewis" example, announces that the employers are “adamant, say no and no and no.” The “substantial raige” polfcy is used particularly when industry-wide wage patterns ,are to be set, The Carey union

first proposition, If

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has used it to come to terms with Westinghouse and General Electric. Then the terms were placed for acceptance before smaller concerns, That is expected to be the procedure when Mr. Murray and his colleagues finally reach an agreement with “big steel.” If one of the large or emall “independents” bucks on

the big steel settlement, it

RED AGGRESSION .. . By Ludwell Devi Italian and Slav Unity Needed for Defense

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—The latest propaganda exchange between Moscow and Washington on the Trieste deadlock obscures the real problem, That is to speed Italian-Yugoslav negotiations for a settlement.

American military aid now is going to Marshal Tito as well as to Italy. But it cannot defense barrier aggression in that vulnerable area until the two neighbors get together. This situation is sq serious Washington may ‘be forced to slow down aid to Italy and Yugoslavia as a reminder that first things come first. Both nations are too weak to stand alone, They are very much limited in what they can do for themselves in time to count. A peaceful compromise of their old Trieste quarrel is one of the few things they

can do. ou

»n ” AS LONG ago as last September, the United States had good reason to believe such a settlement was near, It is no closer now than then, In ordinary circumstances, a few months one way. or another would not matter. But in the ‘present crisis, even a few weeks could make all the dif ference. Stalin is rapidly reinforcing his satellite armies along the invasion route to Yugoslavia.

Border incidents are increasing. Satellite troops are so trigger-happy that Tuesday

they fired on an unarmed Amerfcan military transport plane,

lost: en route from Germany to Yugoslavia, Tito shouts long and loud

about the Stalin military preparations against him. He needs to concentrate his defense in the east to meet that threat. .Yet some of his small military strength is wasted in the west, watching disputed Trieste and guarding his Italian frontier, Italy's chances in a sudden

Soviet offensive would depend almost entirely on how long Tito could. hold out, Stalin's invasion route through Western Austria is barred at least in part by Allied occupation forces there and by Italy's Alpine bastion. But if Tito forces were defeated quickly, orwere driven from the plains

and into the mountains for guerrilla warfare, the buffer. between Italy ahd the Red

armies would be ‘gone. = n n THAT Yugoslav buffer is all the more essential to Italy because she barely has begun to rearm, and because of the large and" strategically placed Stalin fifth column ready to betray the country. So the selfish interest of the Rome government in getting a Trieste settlement and conséquently establishing defense co-operation with Yugoslavia, is as large as Tito's.These mutual interests are powerful enough to .overcome all technical obstacles. Compromise plans have been studied by both governments, These plans would give Italy the predominantly Italian city of Trieste now occupied by Anglo - American forces, and give to Tito the predominantly Slay zone now occupied by him. The plans differ only in minor territorial adjustments, Only domestic politics blocks

a quick settlement. That cannot come until the Belgrade and Rome governments have

the courage to ignore extreme both countries. The issue’is whéthér face-sav-ing is more important than survival if Stalin attacks,

nationalists in

A FEW NOTES . . . By Frederick C. Othman Thanksgiving’s Bird Ready for the Feast

McLEAN, Va., Nov. 22—There's no turkey around

my house today.

For that I am thankful.

Hilda instead is baking one of her own fat chickens, which she raised with such care under infra-red lights

and fed food impregnated with vitamins, ‘Way back last summer this bird was dressed, wrapped tenderly in plastics and frozen hard in our freeza box. I know he'll be tender because I've already consumed some of his brothers, We had figured on pumpkin pie for this ‘happy day, but somehow our pumpkins did us irt. When they were about to rich and golden, the

blight hit ’em and col-

they lapsed in the field into a sodden mush. Mrs. O. was ready

with a substitute! Fresn strawberry shortcake. The strawberry plants we put in two years ag This spring we picked the berrie mostly whoppers, stirred 'em in sugar and froze them, too.

= u 5 WE'LL have potatoes from our own garden and a small dollop of cider (our trees didn't produce too well this year) from our own apples. This gives us a pleasant, pioneering feel on Thanksgiving Day, like a couple of Pilgrims who have chased away the Indians (in our case skunks) and wrested a living from the -soil. I'm really and sincerely grateful to you, who are reading ‘this.rural essay. The fact

-.1hat you have been looking. at. Jthese pieces of mine now for a

good many years makes it possible for ime to support what we laughingly call our farm The letters you've written me I've appreciated, even though sometimes I never got

could be closed down by strike action,

” " 5 IN THE steel case, Mr. Murray's union will be setting a pattern not only for that industry ‘but also for many others. If the settlement goes far beyond present policies of the Wage Stabilization Board, a complete revamping of the wage-control scheme may be necessary, Walter Reuther, head of the CIO United Automobile Workers, is an exception to the nonspecific policy. He usually tells management publicly what he wants and then compromises. AFL unions usually gun for specific wage raises, and, in most cases, compromise. They deal mostly with concerns smaller than the mass-produc-tion Industries on which the CIO specializes, although the building trades sometimes make regional or area contracts, » ” » ADVANTAGES of the “hidden demand” strategy are that

it puts neither the union hor ‘-

the employer on the spot for imemdiate criticism from unfon members or stockholders, Each side later can claim vice tory or reasonable settlement. It does not stir up strike fever unless negotiations become

around to answering them. This is because sometimes my the sack and I still haven't learned how to do business with the aid of a secretary. These efficient ladies scare me and I don’t have one, - - = I'M ALSO. thankful to those of you who, on your visits to Washington, have taken time out to call on the Othmans in Virginia to see for yourselves the marvelous kitchen where the automatic disposeroo in the

mail arrives by

sink sprayed the plates in the’

electric dishwasher with chopped-up egg shells and carrot tops. Gratitude I likewise must express for the wonderful parade of characters continually doing amazing things in Washington and providing an everbountiful grist for my typewriter. Fellows like Sen. Kenneth McKellar (D. Tenn.) who thinks a local brewery adverits -beer better than the U. 8. Treasury does its savings bonds,

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I'm pleased that a black market operator in nickel who threatened to shoot me, didn't The mink coat bovs provided me with many a subject and I don't mind_saving I'm happy that John Maragon" mv neigh-

bor down the road be out of jail. him,

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» ” » TO PRESIDENT TRUMAN I'm grateful for all the stories he has provided and I'm only sorry 1 wasn't in Key West personally to see what enlor were the herring that chased him from the ocean. To Congressmen, especially, do I of fer my thanks for deeds that made copy for the paper. Some of them

: still are on the -job, especially Ren. Cecil, King (D. Cal) and Co. mak

ingeeertain tax coos 6rE sweat

in public, and to them I how You'll have -to excuse me now. . Hilda's electric stove is

buzzing and flashing red lights Means our Thank Living bird ls ready. T only hope yours is as satisfactory

‘No Specific Demand’ Policy

hopelessly deadlocked. In. the

present emergency situation. It does not call for an advance commitment from the Wage

Stabilization Board. Mr. Murray's is asking for 19 other contract Improvements, some involving money. These may be adjusted and compromised against the wage demand-—whatever it turns out to -be,

THANKSGIVING

I THANK my God each day I live . .. and not Just merely one... for giving me the privilege to , , , behold each brillant sun , .. I thank him for the blessings that , . , he has bestowed on me . . . for giving me the will and stréngth , . . to face what comes to be , . . I'm grateful for the love I have , , . a girl honest and true . , . who never shirks when trouble comes , . . but helps me see it through ,-. . for giving me the brain to work . ., the heart and faith to pray . . , I owe a debt of gratitude . . , to my God every day ... and so this day that's set aside... I'll add to all the rest . . . in thanking God for what He's done . . , to help me stand life's test, :

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