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o, Easter Sunrise Service * THE quiet of tomorrow morning, the Easter Sunrise Service will be held on the Circle for the 30th year, Since its founding in 1923 by Mrs. James M. Ogden, this carol service has become one of our city's most treas. ured traditions. For centuries man has turned to music to voice exultation and reverence . . . and possibly wrap himself in a quiet moment of sincere thought. There will be those present who have lost sons in Korea, offering their praise to God and the risen Lord as evidence of their faith , . . those with sons still fighting in Korea seeking to shore up their faith . . . those with sons home from battle humbly offering their thanks. Easter is a day of promise and hope, of life and love, all of which is best expressed in song . . . in the quiet of the early morning.

Silly Cycle THE Is WORKERS, like most everybody else, have been playing leap frog with the cost of living in their po drives for higher wages. This picture of now-you’re-ahead—now-you're-behind, shows up clearly in government statistics. Since the end of World War II, the steel workers have won four raises. They undoubtedly will have their fifth when the present controversy is settled. # But as far as buying things is concerned, they're not much better off than they were after they got their first wage hike in 1946. #Price increases have gone hand-in-hand with the wage increases. Both have worked their way through other industries into the whole national economy. The cost of living has gone up. The result has been a lot more dollars earned. But they are soft dollars, and it takes a lot more of them to buy food, clothing, new cars, ete.

REPORTS of “the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that in January, 19486, the average steel worker earned $1.16 an hour; In February he got his first big post-war wage increase, By April average earnings were $1.20 an hour. And that $1.29 bought just about what it would have hought in January. So the steel worker had made a nice gain. "It didn’t last long. Steel prices also went up. So did prices and wages in other industries. The inflation merry-go-round was spinning, By December, 1946, the steel worker was still a ' about $1.20 an hour. But his money. wasn’t worth as much, He had to spend his $1.20 to buy what he could have bought for $1.10 in January. So, in 1047, the second wage increase was negotiated. ® And the game of leap frog went on. The wage-earner gained temporarily. But He cost of ving soon leaped ahead nga,

PRETTY MUCH the same thing Kappened n1048. The steel worker got his most recent wage increase in December, 1950. That carried his average hourly earning to $1.88, where it is now. » And here's what he has to show for it: 8 With his $1.88, the steel worker now can buy almost exactly what he bought with the §1.20 an h hour he earned in April, 19486, Silly cycle, isn't it?

lke on His Way

ALL THE signs say there is more early public interest in the 1952 election than in previous years. Now here is Gen. Eisenhower ready to come home from Europe to add another powerful shot in the arm to -the general excitement.

1». That's all to the good—-the more excitement the more

voters, the more voters the less chance of candidates spawned by smoke-filled rooms, the greater chance of a -Rresident who actually is the popular choice. The General, shifting from the military to the political wars, has his work cut out for him in the short time hetween his June 1 return and the July 7 Republican Convention, His principal rival for the Republican nomination, Sen, Taft, has just piled up an impressive vote in Illinois, where he had almost as many votes as all other candidates in_both parties. ' While there are strong signs that Gen. Ike, in many areas at least, is a great popular favorite, Sen. Taft's audacions plugging has given him a head start on delegates —which is the pay-off.

It’s a real horse race—and likely to get tighter before it's decided.

re] The New ‘Peace’ Moves _INDIA'S ‘retiring ambassador to Moscow, after an interview with Stalin, seems to think there is a genuine hope for better relations with Russia if the Western powers will

. but seize on what he sees as'an opportunity for negotiation.

“There is no outstanding problem now dividing the world,” he says, “which could not be settled with discussion and negotiation.” Which, of course, is true only if the discussions and negotiations are carried on in good faith, and the subsequent agreements kept. The Russians, as Sir Sarvapalli must know, have a consistent record of deceit. And the Indian government, which Sir Sarvapalli now joins as vice president, has been amazingly naive in its attitude toward the Communist immorality. “It would be unwise,” the ambassador says, “to bang

"the door against every approach and give up the task as’

impossible.” No non-Communist nation has sesvmad such an atti

tude. Only the-Russians have been banging doors.

Their recent attempt at friendliness and charm may represent a new desire to be peaceful. But they cannot inspire much belief in their sincerity until they lift their heels off the millions of East Europeans and Asians they have subjugated. = Until then, the Western powers have no choice excopt

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PRISONER. ISSUE .

WASHINGTON, Apr. 12--The American Federation of Labor's free trade union com‘mittee has warned United Nations negotiators at Panmunjom against “fake compromise schemes affecting Chinese and North Korean prisoners of war.” “We have no right to bargain away the lives of human beings for a scrap of paper armistice,”

the AFL committee declared. “A billion Asians

are watching to see if the free world has the moral strength to resist tyrannical demands by totalitarian aggressors.” Copies of a declaration approved Mar. 26 hy the committee have been sent to all United Nations delegations and many members of Congress, v % 9»

- “THE committee feels impelled at this

critical ‘juncture in the Korean truce negotiations to speak out against the possibility of appeasement or fake compromise schemes affecting Chinese and North Korean prisoners

Or Does It?

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. By Jim G. Lucas ah phe” TRERS, 2 oni, - AFL Warns Peace Negotiators Against ‘Fake Compromise’

of war,” the declaration said. “We are particularly concerned at this time hecause Angin truce negotiators have gone into secret ' session, , ostensibly to effect . , , some settlement of this laaye. . x > *

“WE HAVE no objections to secret sessions as such. However, in this case, since we know how determined the Communists are to force the repatriation of prisoners, we of the American Federation of Labor are concerned lest some tricky formula be evolved which would betray the pledged word of the United Nations, given in the name of Gen. Matthew Ridgway, that enemy prisoners, upon voluntary surrender, would have the right to claim refuge from communism. : “We believe the same right to reject repatriation should be granted those enemy troops taken in battle who today are unwilling to return to totalitarian slavery, “The United Nations command now holds

By Talburt

HOOSIER FORUM—‘Thanks'’

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

MASA RARTRARRARNERNINS

MR. EDITOR:

I wish to express my very great appreciation for your recent editorial, “Better Housing— American Style.” The Indianapolis Times {s rendering a very great service in keeping the public informed on the subject of housing. This is just one of the reasons The Times is my favorite newspaper. The Indianapolis Real Estate Board is also supplying a wonderful service to the public in creating a corporation for the specific purpose of producing decent housing for the low income group, on a business basis. This is truly -the

. American way to meet the housing problem.

—Times Subscriber, City

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Holy Week Prayer—

O LORD, our Saviour, Thou didst die for our sins. Help us now to live for Thee, because we are Thine, and Thou art our life. Teach us how to forgive, and how to endure suffering as good soldiers, and grant us our share in Thy victory over sin and death. O Lamb of God, who takest away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us, and grant us Thy peace. Lord, we pray Thee, in Thy great mercy, remember wus when Thou comest into Thy Kingdom. Amen. By Dr. George Arthur Frantz, First Presbyterian Church,

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‘Another Hike' MR. EDITOR:

Looks like the Indianapolis Street Railways wants another fare hike . , . “only” 20 cents this time , . , 20 cents straight fare per passenger, How much for transfers, five cents? How much longer are these modern bandits going to keep on soaking the transit riding public? When is the PSC going to call a halt to these everincreasing fare rates? ov much longer are we going to have to read about the increasing labor costs, etc., ete, I see the street car company has checkers

" sut with their pads and pencils. Does that have

any connection with the fare increases? As long as the sucker public has to foot the bill, the Indianapolis Street Railways employees’ union will demand a raise and the Indianapolis Street Railways, Inc., will come through without a protest as usual,

~Fred Lee, 4050 Cornelius Ave.

‘Excellent Reviews’

MR. EDITOR: . We wish to thank The Indianapolis Times for the excellent and fair reviews of your music critic, Mr. Henry Butler, in the cause of good music. Mr, Butler, being a musician himself, and a good one, realizes the plight of the local musician and teacher and tries to do something about it from the point of view of the musical ideal. —Lee Blazer, 6389 Broadway.

CONGRESS .

WASHINGTON, Apr. 12--My lawgiving friends at the moment are sitting calmly on their piazzas peeling purple Easter eggs. Let us hope that this soothes their frazzled nerves,

I mean our Congressmen have legislated themselves a spring vacation with pay. They may not have deserved it, but there is no doubt they needed it. Some “of the boys were on the verge of blowing their gaskets. Fact is, I don't believe there was one single statesman on Capitol Hill, who wasn’t sore at somebody about something. Some of these gentlemen were sO angry at so many people at oné time they were having trouble keeping their hates catalogued. This can “cause ulcers. Take the Senate: There the Messrs. Joe MecCarthy (R. Wis.) and Bill Ben ton (D. Conn.) were involving

.. they could in their own private feud. Bill said Joe was a faker, Joe gdid Bill was so cheap he

. fea published in England, where ‘printers - work for peaputs. . Their respective pals rallied around, spouting gentlemanly inguits a at ial statesmen 3)»

132,000 prisoners, some of them civilians, some ha been impressed into military service, and genuine Communists. A large num-

ber, perhaps a majority, of these prisoner¥ have

indicated that they fear repatriation, The United Nations command is aware that many of these prisoners came over to our side because of United Nations military pledges that if they surrendered they would be honorably treated and protected againat: reprisal. * “THE WAY in Ne this repatriation issue i= resolved will have far-reaching effect throughout the word. If we surrender to the Communist demand for forced repatriation, as once the free world did in the case of refugee ‘Russians in Germany, we will be doing irreparable injury to the fight for freedom, not only in Asia but in Europe as well. We do not have the right to bargain away the lives of human beings for a scrap of paper armistice. A billion Adlans are watching . . , “We urge the United Nations negotiators

PROPAGANDA

to stand fast on the repatriation ‘demands of the Communists and to remember that the price of surrender paid at Panmunjom is the weak. ening of resistance forces in Prague, Budapest, Warsaw and all the cities and countries now enslaved by communism, The Communists know this and that is why they are ready to do anything to win their demand for forced repatriation. : * 9 . “WE URGE that the country which has lost sa much of its civilian and military population—the Republic of Korea—be accorded the right to sit down ‘at the armistice table and urge its case. The Republic of Korea has suffered almost 3 million casualties in battle

and behind the lines. Certainly the Korean .

people have earned the right to be heard on this issue of repatriation as well as upon all other issues.”

By Ludwell Denny

Red Note Aimed at Germany

WASHINGTON, Apr. 12—The new Soviet note is good propaganda. addressed to the Big Three Allies, it is aimed at the German public. It appears to offer the Germans unity, freedom and peace. There are many Germans foolish enough to buy that appealing wrapper without looking inside the package—or noting the bloody hand that offers such a bargain, Actually this latest Kremlin note does little more than repeat the one of Mar, 10. Presumably he has more to offer—some Western diplomats expected this note to contain concessions. But as long as things are going his way, there is no incentive for him to tip his hand. His objective is clear enough. What nobody knows is how far he will go to get it, This note casts no new light on that.

He Wants Germany

HIS objective is to get Germany, Therefore he must prevent the imminent membership of West Germany in the Allied economic and defense system. West Germany includes the Ruhr, the biggest industrial producer in the world outside the U. 8. West Germany covers two-thirds of Germany's territory and threefourths of the population. As long as Germany remains divided, Stalin gets only the little end. So his latest note, like the earlier one, proposes unification of the country under an all-German government. He cannot hope to control such a united Germany at once—his part efforts to get a Communist or fellow-traveler all-German regime have failed. But at least his proposed unification would keep the main part of the country out of a Western Alliance, and “neutralize” the whole so he would have a good chance of getting it in the end. Even an honest all-German election, under United Nations supervision, would probably re-

4% place the present pro-Allied Bonn government

By Fred W. Perkins

Steel Row Is Still White Hot

LABOR

WASHINGTON, Apr. 12—S8ix men, whose names would mean little to much of the publie,

oare key figures in the big steel wage dispute.

Paradoxically, these men represent the

_ public.

' lations.

. eral,

as many of their brethren as .

They are members of President Truman's

Wage Stabilization Board. On Mar, 20, the Wage Board announced its recommendations for settlement of the steel situation. Steel industry leaders protested that the recommendations were loaded in favor of the union. The row becamie white-hot and remains

80 today, with the mills under government sei~ zure and the dispute still far from settled. Further negotiations are now on in Washington. It's possible that eventually the Wage Board's recommendations will be imposed on the industry while it is under government. control. What will be done as to steel prices is uncertain. The Wage Board has 18 members—six representing the publie, six for labor and six for management.

Their Decision

BUT ‘THE findings In the steel case were in effect made by the public members. As is usual on all big issues, the labor and management members stood up for their particular interests. The public members tipped the balance, thus, the board's decision actually was their decision. These are the six public members: Nathan P. Feinsinger, board chairman, is 50 and a law professor at the University of Wisconsin, He served on the War Labor Board of World War II and on several wartime factfinding boards for Labor Secretary Maurice J. Tobin. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan and has been at Wisconsin since 1929; has been “impartial arbitrator”. or umpire in labor disputes at General Motors, Allis-Chal-mers, Consolidated Vultee and others. Vice Chairman. Frederick H. Bullen is on leave as secretary of the New York State Mediation Board. He was chairman of the Cleveland Regional War Labor Board, and in 1950 was arbitrator between the Ford Motor Cn. and the CIO United Auto Workers; is a graduate oft Cornell University. Benjamin Aaron is a University of California lecturer and researcher in industrial reHe served the War Labor: Board in

. By Frederick C. Othman * Vacation Time—Too Many Blown Gaskets

with a semineutralist Socialist regime or a 8o-cialist-Nationalist coalition, That would be a great gain for Stalin.

Absurd Argument

THE Allies have to appear as good, or better, friends of German unification than Stalin. In their reply to his Mar. 10 proposal they challenged him to advance unification, as they have done in West Germany, by letting the special United Nations commission investigafe whether conditions in East Germany permit free all German elections, Thursday's note rejects this, repeating the absurd argument that it would violate Article 107 of the United Nations Charter against ine terference in Germany. The note then hints that a four-power commission could make that investigation—without making such a definite proposal. Obviously a four-power report of that kind would produce the familiar 3-to-1 split, with the Allies finding free elections ime possible in the Soviet zone.

Immediate Purpose

THAT, however, would serve Stalin's purpose of helping to delay West German membership in the Western Alliance. For since his note of a month ago, proposing a Big Four peace conference, more and more Germans are ine sisting that the Bonn government withhold commitments to the Allies until such a meeting is heid. If enough Germans agcept his hint for a four-power election commission, and the Allies are thereby forced into it, Stalin can achieve his immediate purpose without even agreeing to United Nations investigation and supervision of free elections, But if the Germans smarten up and the Allies toughen up, rejecting the fourpower plan, Stalin still with profit can accept the Allied United Nations proposal. That would put the Allies and the Bonn government in a hole,

various posts; was arbitrator between the CIO rubber workers and the B. F. Goodrich Co. He

_ 1s a University of Michigan graduate and alse

attended Harvard and the University of Chicago.

Labor Analyst :

THOMAS F. COMAN was a labor analyst and technical reporter for the Bureau of National Affairs (a private concern) from 1941 to his appointment last year. He formerly was with the Associated Press in Detroit and Wash« ington; is a graduate of Notre Dame. Arthur Ross, associate professor of industrial relations at the University of California, was chairman of the San Francisco Regional Wage Board; has done arbitration in the air-

~ frame, auto, airlines and other industries, and

was assistant umpire under the General Motors contract with the UAW-CIO. John Dunlop, economics professor at Harvard, was with the War Labor Board in several capacities, including publie membership. He is “impartial chairman” of the national joint board (union-management) for settlement of Jurisdictional disputes in the building and construction industry. A graduate of the University

of California, he studied also at Stanford and Cambridge.

Views on ‘Yhe News

By DAN KIDNEY

. GEN. FISENHOWER'S resignation from NATO is causing as much furor as if it were unexpected.

KANSAS had its first earthquake, but the state unie versity seismograph didn’t record it because it was out of paper. Probably tearing it up for Ike's ticker-tape homecoming.

AN EFFECTIVE tele phone strike would prove that the days of our forefathers

were not as delightful as the DAR thinks.

Gov. Stevenson « +» delegates GOV. STEVENSON of Tl linois may well be the “little man’s” presidential candidate. So far he has one and a half delegates to the Democratic Convention.

ready sore at somebody else, The gentlemen were battling

about the rightness of putting postmasters under Civil Serv-

ice, as proposed by President -

Truman. They were snarling at Mr. T.'s new Attorney Genwriting reports on the exact shade of pink some of

them thought Owen Lattimore had painted himself, and de-

manding to know more about the federals who accepted gratuities from grain-elevator men. In passing 1 must report

‘that I received a letter from world’s leading .

one of the publishers of Bibles, wondering yas it true that government officials had taken copies of the Good Book as bribes? If so, said he, it was the first

time in written history that ‘such a thing had happened. I had to assure him the evidence indicated that two federal grain men in Texas in-

cluded Bibles among their loot.

The Senate Agriculture Committee was worried about the

Bible business and what hap- .

pened to all the taxpayers’ corn in assortment of empty elevators. Some members wanted to press this inquiry hard; some didn’t, The Banking Committee was split about whether to let thé Office of Price Stabilization die in a couple more months, All hands were incensed, one way or the other, about Mr: Truman's seizure of the steel plants,

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There were other sputterings about alleged crooks on the local police force, the situation within the office of the alien property custodian. Some of the gents were sore at England and some at Spain. Economy In government had them, every one, in a genuine tizzy, They wers finding peculiar evidence of extravagance in places as far flung as Greene land and North Africa. In the House, where hates were a little more diluted by

* the mere number of members,

the arguments about the same subjects .were almost as hot. The gentlemen here in addition had the Department of Justice under investigation; they con-

. tinued to turn up fast workers

in silk shirta at the Bureau of, Internal Revenue. 80, as I say, Easter atrived in the nick. The.gentlemen got out of their arena in a hurry, I'll miss them for the next

couple of weeks, but I trust they'll be returning with their

whiskers combed. They've got a lot of laws to pass and not much time to do it in; that is, if they’ intend to join at Chicago less than

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