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The Battle for Indiana

, FIGHTS in the Republican and the Democratic county conventions here today have produced some strange overtones. ) Pach party is faced with a determined bid for control from elements that have shown a remarkable inclination to “co-operate” with each other across party lines. : If those groups should win control of their respective ~ state party organizations we might, naturally, expect more “harmony” and less “conflict” between Democrats and Re--publicans. Some party workers, in fact, shuddering at the reports of “deals” that were current this morning, insist if that happens you wouldn't be able to tell a Republican from a Democrat in Indiana.

. 8 =» ea 8 =» EARLIER THIS year Marion County Democrats tossed out of county control the backers of Indiana National Com-* ‘mitteeman Frank McHale—after they learned that he claimed to be general counsel and an intimate adviser for the state's two léading Republican newspapers—but. he is still Democratic National Committeeman for Indiana. Republicans today learned of a drive to elect the pub...lisher of those same two newspapers as Republican National Committeeman for Control of the Marion County organizations—Ilargest in the state—of each party is the biggest single step toward control of the state party machinery which chooses National committeemen. Essentially that is what the battle is about in the two county conventions today. »

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Charity=1952 Style

(CHARITY is looking a new set of faéts in the face. And they are upside down. » It isn’t stomach trouble bothering people any more. It's above the shoulders. That's the trouble zone. The shorthand of strain is scribbled in the faces march‘ing to dollar-poor charity services. Changeless faces, with crow'’s feet, tight lips. pall ms 3 : Community Chest agencies give little relief to the ‘stomach. But they patiently straighten out lives ditch-bent from slipping moral clutches, or weakly woven family life. Very little trouble these days comes from lack of food, or physical security. You can see the story in the simple figures of a single Chest agency. In the Family Service Agency, family problems arising from children have increased 28 per cent in seven years. . a 8 0 2 =» ’ MARRIAGE conflicts, from a pouting wife or a barfly ~~husband, to 8 fight over who gets moi clothes, account for "a 26 per cent increase in the same seven years. And the agency has it calls personality problems, people who can't get along either with the world around them, or themselves, which have increased 11.5 per cent. ._. LE That's over 50 per cent of the agency's business. The rest is brought in by illness, housing problems, mental illness, poor handling of income, ability to stick with a job and the adjustments’ cannot do. : Seasoned social workers point out that human circumstance has changed faster than the humans, hence the back-firings, frustrations, moral dislocations, in simpler words, the cracking of people under strain. The agencies themselves are not exempt. Their “living costs” have gone up much faster than their incomes. For instance, the cost of living has climbed 44 per cent in those last seven years, while agency income has increased only 15 per cent. . eo wu #4 s 8 @ IN THE FIRST four months of this year the Family Service Agency had 658 applications, a gain of 132 per cent since the war. ; "As for the full stomach, actual relief payments in the agency have declined $28,041. : There's the pattern. People aren't hungry, They just can't put their lives back together. And finding right answers for people who have slipped into the wrong groove is pressing Chest agencies to their last penny. . . Will they make the grade, and get all these people back on-their feet? : "They don't know. can do. They can try. And that's what they're doing.

- No Magic in ‘W’ "= THE LIFTING of Regulation W had the promise of pulling the cork on the prosperity champagne bottle and just letting it fizz. SEL + But in Indianapolis, so far, there has been little fizz. Some excitement, and tongue treatment, but no real race

* to buy. It long ago was apparent that people had made up their minds, warnings to the contrary, that the crisis was .. over, and that they were not looking World War III in the . face. 4 EN : i They had bought what they wanted. And they were no longer afraid they wouldn't be able to get what they

s thrifty Hoosiers, they began piling their money n ‘accounts. Even the sale of E bonds went up.

a “little higher on the list.” 4 prices high, and goods out hunting dollars,

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HENRY W. MANZ

Saturday, May 10, 1952

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HOOSIER FORUM— Think’

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

MR. EDITOR:

All this talk about corruption in government -gives us cause to stop and think.

What ia corruption? According to a standard dictionary it means, among other things, “perverted character, given to bribery, depraved.”

Now about this term “bribery” it has often been said that “every man has his price.” Most of us have accepted this saying as true But, with the personal reservation that, “my price Nou be so high that no one would ever offer "To continue with this thinking about cor jon let's consider a little every day matter: Suppose you had a good job. Your reputation to your employer was excellent, Your employer had an opening for a certain position. Among your personal friends was a man that you knew was capable of filling this position. You recommended this friend to your employer. He was accepted ahead of other applicants because of your recommendation. This friend liked his new position with the firm you worked for and, in appreciation of your assistance in securing the job, he invited you and the wife over for a big steak dinner. Would you accept his invitation? Of course you would. So would I. Ty This presumably makes us corrupt, at least the way the term has been interpreted in many news articles and congressional investigations. Ite is “corrupt” in the manner cited in the above fictional example, how can we, expect any: person whom we elect to a government office not to show signs of the same affliction?

Which brings me to quote a short rhyme, .

vaguely remembered from my school days: + “There's so much bad in the best of us,

J And so much good in the worst of us, 2

——= ‘That it" behboves all of us : To get along with the rest of us.”

> -~Clarence r. Goodyear, 2275 N. Edmundson Ave, City.

~ WORDS OF WISDOM

MANY are the words of wisdom . . . written on the sands of time . . . are the brilliant stories . . mapping out a course to follow . . .

showing us the righteous way . . . teaching’

us the wondrous lessons . . . that are used most every day . . . words that fall like rosy petals . . . covering the dullest heart . . . showering the world with knowledge . . . giving life itself a start . . . and as years go dashing past us . . . words keep falling all around . . . speaking truth and firm convictions . . . making life and love abound . . , but of all the words of wisdom . . . that this mortal man has heard . . . I agree most witlg my Father . . . God of man and God of bird.

«By Ben Buiroughs.

BIG IDEAS . . . By Clyde Farnsworth

«+ Everything in Syria But there's only one thing they Goes Colonel's Way

many « histories and books of rhyme

Harry's Tune MR. EDITOR: According to the newspapers it seems that Just before Harry had a recent press conference one of his keepers forgot to put the baton in his mouth and he sang them a new war solo called “Ultimatum,” However, about two hours later one of the keepers called the press again and said Harry had sung the right tune but the wrong words and it seems that he really liked Good Old Joe, after all, back in 1945. However, no Fair Dealer should become alarmed about either a lapse of memory or double talk since it has been happening quite frequently in Washington for the last 20 years. Actually, it is my own opinion that most the boys are pretty mild about Harry, but after all, there is only one Harry and it would be hard to find gomeone to fill his shoes and carry on war, confusion and corruption all at the same time. w=C. D. C., Terre Haute:

Prophetic Statement MR. EDITOR: . In the-—controversy between the "Presiden and former Secretary of State Byrnes, the President is quoted as saying at Potsdam in July, 1945: : “We were anxious for Russian entry into the Japanese War.” In April, 1045, a group in the Intelligence Division of the War Department reported as follows: / “The entry of Soviet Russia into the Asiatic war would be a political event of world-shaking importance, the ill effect of which would be felt “It may be expected that Soviet Russia will enter the Asiatic war, but at her own good time

and probably only when the hard fighting stage

‘is over. Strong enough to crush Japan by ourselves, the U. 8. should make no political or economic concessions to Soviet Russia to bring about or prevent an action she is fully determined to take anyway. “The ehtry of Soviet Russia into the Asiatic war would destroy America's position in Asia, quite as effectively, as our position is now destroyed east of the Elbe and beyond the Adriatic. “If Russia enters the Asiatic war China will certainly lose her independence to become the Poland of Asia, Korea, the Asiatic Romania, Manchukuo the Soviet Bulgaria.”

Russia waited until after we had dropped the atom bomb before entering the Asiatic war. If President Truman and his advisers had only been guided by these ideas and had not made 80. many concessions to Russia we would not be in the unfavorable position we are in téday. «Howard W. Toner.

SIDE GLANCES

“LONDON IN LINE . . . By Ludwell Denny =

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Will Yield on Prisoner Exchange

WASHINGTON, May 10—Despite the latest and apparently hopeless deadlock of the Korean truce talks, American officials still expect a settlement. : They are not thinking of making more concessions to the Reds. That is out. At least with both the United States and British governments now publicly joining in Gen. Ridgway's statement that his rejected offer is final, a further diplomatic retreat would be hard to justify to the Allied publics, * ' Officials believe the enemy will give on the prisoners-of-war issue. : “This strange optimism {is all the more remarkable because there is no disposition here to compromise on Germany in exchange for Red acceptance of Allied terms in Korea. There is reason to think that is the kind of deal Stalin has been seeking all along. But the U. 8. will not buy that one,

U. S., Britain Agree THE BELIEF that the Reds finally wiil accept the limited prisoner-exchange offer, which they have just turned down with such fireworks, is based on the following: For the first time the enemy has proof that the United States and Britain are in complete agreement on final terms. Hitherto he has hoped—not without reason--that in the showdown London would not stand firmly with Washington, The Churchill government has been under tremendous pressure from peace-at-any-price groups within its own Conservative Party, as well as from the Labor Party,

But this week in the House .of Com. mons, the Labor Party leader, former Prime Minister Clement Attlee, supported the policy announced by Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. The United Nations offer constitutes “the limits of possible concessions,” Mr. Eden sald. 80 the negotiating ace which the Reds thought they had in the hole-—~British appeasement—just isn't there now. This discovery, it (s supposed, will make the Reds reconsider the Allied offer. There are two other signs which the opti. mists read as promising. The Stalin propaganda in the world-wide May Day celebrations, and since, seems to be preparing the Red countries for a truce. The party line now is that communism has turned back the Allied aggressor and won a great victory in Korea. That is the opposite of a year ago, when they were boasting they were going to drive the Americans into the sea.

Eager to Talk IN THE PAST few days, Red negotiators have been anxious to continue the talks. And they want more secret sessions. This, according to the optimists, means they have not finished bidding. Fortunately, however, this never-give-up-hope attitude in Washington is not carried to the sxtreme of letting down the military rd. Gen. Mark Clark's forces are on alert tor any sudden enemy offensive—which probably would be the first notice that Washington Is guessing wrong.

WHAT IT'S ABOUT . . . By Peter Edson ‘Union Shop’ Is Important Issue In Settlement of Steel Dispute

WASHINGTON, May 10—While current developments in the steel wage case overshadow

the “union shop” issue, it is one of the more

important, though less emphasized, points of a ting ‘settlement of this major

labor dispute. Most of the headline attention has been centered on presidential seizure of the steel industry and wage rates. But recent growth of union shop contracting and pending union shop negotiations in rail, aircraft, automotive and other big labor disputes make this question worth close study and better understanding. The union shop is, of course, created by a labor union contract providing that every person hired by the employer must join the specified union and pay union dues. In a “closed shop” the employer can hire no one who is not already a member of the union. In an “open shop” both union and nonunion members may be hired but there is no bargaining by the union for all employees as a group. Modification of these various conditions of employment include “maintenance of membership” and “sole bargaining agent” contracts.

Bargain for All .

IN THE FORMER, present members of the union must keep their membership, but new employees are not forced to join the labor organization. In the latter, as the name implies, the union is recognized to bargain with man-

What Others Say—

PUBLIC education . . . in trying to be nonsectarian, quickly became non-Christian, and so in total impact often antireligious.—Dr. George Hedley, professor, Mills College, Cal. & de < $ » 3 WHAT has happened to our soldiers? Ha they forgotten how to gripe?—Gen. Matthew Ridgway, on hearing GIs in Korea had no complaints about Army food. . * @ o YOU get out and earn your money the hard way, the way I do.—Mrs. Anthony Krisuk, Portsmouth, N. H., telling off holdup man who tried to rob her store. WHEN I was young I resolved not to get married until I met the ideal woman. Some years later, I found her—but she was looking for the ideal man.—Michael Simon, French film star. * ©

IN THE final .analysis, he who pays the fiddler calls the tune. , . pened under Hitler to the German universities. + +. I hope this state of national emergency does not continue so long that our ‘halls of learning become indistinguishable from a corridor of the Pentagon building—~Lawrence A. Kimpton, chancellor of U. of Chicago, on federal subsidies to universities, colleges. ¢ o @ SOME personal or social deficit is being satisfied when one attends a concert. I do not advise protracted listening. . . . It's just like eating three steaks in a row.—Arthur Fultz, Boston music therapist. * * 9%

I HAVE learned that comedy based on reality gets’ the deepest, most satisfying laughter.— Jackie Gleason, TV comic,

By Galbraith 2. Firm.

. Remember what hap- .

agement on wages and working conditions for all employees, whether they belong to the union

or not. ) Ee i The closed shop, though Well established in

unions, was outlawed by the original Taft. Hartley law. This provision was amended last year, however, to approve union shop contracts without employee elections. Up to the time this amendment was passed, the National Labor Relations Board had been forced to conduct an election in which a majority of the employees had to approve a union shop contract before it could be put into effect. After 47,000 of these elections had been held, 45,000 of them approving the union shop, NLRB was relieved of this costly responsibility.

100,000 Contracts

THERE ARE today some 100,000 union labor contracts. They cover between 15 and 16 million union members, or about one-fourth of the total labor force. Last year the Department of Labor made a survey on 2651 of these contracts. This was only 2% per cent of all the contracts, but it included nearly all the big organized plants and it covered more than five million wBrkers, or nearly a third of all union members. The same survey showed 61 per cent of all contracts had union shop, 13 per cent had maintenance of membership and 268 per cent had * sole bargaining agent provisions. By numbers of employees, the survey showed the 58 per cent covered by union shop, 18 per cent by maintenance of membership and 26 per cent by sole bargaining agent contracts. The union shop idea is therefore seen to be nothing new or radical. Such major companies as Chrysler, Ford, General Motors, Crucible Steel, Kaiser, New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Firestone, Goodrich and Goodyear have union shop contracts. All coal mining companies covered by United Mine Workers’ contracts have union shop conditions,

Pro-Con Arguments

GROWTH of the union shop contract can be traced and in part attributed to the Taft-Hart-ley closed shop ban. The arguments for and against the union shop are basically the same i the arguments for and against the closed op. Organized labor leaders.and union members —itke the -union shop ‘because it eliminates the “free riders”—the nonunion members who reap all the benefits of increased wages and pension plans without having to bear any of the burdens of union dues or picket line duty. Furthermore, union leaders argue that a union shop contract promotes union security and employee security, thereby removing a major ground for labor disputes and so promoting stable labor relations and industrial peace.

The Other Side

IN OPPOSITION to the union shop idea, the main argument is that it violates individual liberties and freedom of choice. To require anyone to join any organization—a union, a politi cal party or a church—as a condition to getting and holding a job is said & be contrary to the Constitutional Bill of Rights. Compulsory union membership is also said to promote union monopolies, bad leadership in unions ard the right of the labor bosses to force discharge of any employee who does not pay i dues. ack of all this is the fear of - ployers that the union shop is a “soot-in-the.

door” approach to union usurpal . tions of management. Bon of ts tyme

BARIUM’S BACK . . . By James Daniel

Named in RFC Probe Seeks Loan

DAMASCUS, Syria, May 10 «Lt. Col. Adib Shishikly,

-S8yria’s strong man, was being haifed today as’ the “new Sa-

-ladin of Islam.” He's thus likened to one of Islam's greatest heroes, Saladin—or Salah Al-Din—rose to power in the 12th Century. He united Syria with Egypt and then turned on the Chris. tian Crusaders. He freed Jeru- ‘ salem, fought Richard the Lionhearted to a standstill and - advantageously partitioned Palestine. After five months in power and some 200 day-to-day decrees, Col. Shishikly admittedly has a way to to Sunt that he ta beping to give lou ; little Syria some big ideas about neighboring Israel. Ve. THE DAMASCUS newspahave Severishiy cited what ound an “" threat” in dn eo

Shishikly, “the present hero leader, has taken over come mand. The Arabs, with Syria in the lead, will settle this account . . . history always repeats itself..." ‘

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WASHINGTON, May 10—A company that played a part in the Senate Fulbright Committee’s Investigation of influence at the old Reconstruction Finance Corp. is. back, asking for.a government loan

“of almost $56 million.

The company is Central Iron & BSteel of Harrisburg, Pa. It's owned by the Barium Steel Corp. of New York. Barium's board chairman and ‘manager is Joseph A. Sisto. Mr. Sisto in the past decade has uired control of about 18 steel processing or fabri. cating companies, Among his financial associ ates was Abner Zwillman, bet-

failed to answer a committee subpena. ; ‘” - . BACK IN 1049, Barium asked the RFC for $4.6 mil

lion to go to Central Iro * Steel. i ons

The examining and reviewing agencies at RFC turned

: the application down,

But one , an RFC director, William Willett, called in RFC Examiner Hubert

that the application wasn't getting proper consideration.) Mr. Steele came back with a glowing report. The RFC oe board approved the Soon after, Mr. Steele resigned his $10,300-a-year government job and became a $15,000 consultant for a firm specializing in working on RFC

‘ applications.

THE SALARY was being id by Joseph Rosenbaum, um’s representative in tax and RFC matters. For a time, former Co Joseph

ngressman Casey of Massachusetts—who had a brother-in-law in Mr. Rosenbaum’s law firm and a side deal whereby he got a 20 “cent cut of Mr, Rosenum’s RFC practice-—also the salary. .

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