Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1952 — Page 16

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Labor's Choices JLABOR'S League for Political Education, the political arm of the American Federation of Labor, has picked - its first targets for 1952. They are Sens. Byrd of Virginia, Brewster of Maine and Knowland of California. This is an opportune moment, therefore, to remind organized labor to gauge its political friends and its interests more carefully and more broadly than it has usually done in recent election years. Li .. Labor might consider, for example, whether a man who understands our crucial foreign affairs and votes wisely on them is nota better friend these days than one who simply rubber stamps every narrow piece of prolabor legislation. And labor might remember the lesson of Ohio in 1850, when it sought to defeat Sen. Taft as “labor’s chief enemy.” Some 35 per cent of labor's own following ‘spurned labor leaders’ advice and voted their convictions as whole citizens

status of the Taft-Hartley law. American workers are complete human beings, not just jobholders. And a yes-man is not necessarily your best friend. These are things for labor's political chieftains to ponder. !

Whose WSB? :

HE SENATE BANKING COMMITTEE'S proposal to strip the Wage Stabilization Board of its present broad jurisdiction in labor disputes and reconstitute it without either labor or industry representatives seems headed for heavy trouble,

: The existing board has balanced representation from the public, industry and labor. In the view of many in Congress, this has not produced recommendations in the general public interest. The voice given to the contending parties to labor disputes has, they feel, been too great.

The Senate committee's answer is to propose a board composed entirely of public members, on the theory that - thus the public outlook will dominate any recommendations made.

Naturally organized labor will combat this measure with all its energy. Conceivably, industry also might object.The complaint is simple: No representation means inadequate consideration for the contenders’ viewpoints,

” ” . » . » AN ALTERNATIVE IDEA that has gained support in Washington is to have a five-member board with three _ public representatives and one each from labor and industry. arrangement still would assure a majority of public members without denying some representation to the chief contestants in disputes. The 3-1-1 plan has within it the elements of compro- _ mise, since it falls between the somewhat extreme Senate version and the present balanced board. But the plan may have more than that to recommend it. It may be the most intelligent solution to the problem. * :

We must start with the evident necessity of making the public interest paramount hence it makes sense to weight the board predominantly in that direction. There seems to be less wisdom, however, in freezing out all representation for the contenders.

® » . » - . THE defenders of the all-public board would argue that such an agency of course would give full hearing to the views on all sides. Yet this is not the same as affording labor and industry formal assurance of that through estab“lished representation on the board.

As a practical matter, spokesmen for the two will need to be consulted closély and often. Neither side could thwart the will of the majority public members, so it is not easy to See why this representation should be denied. |

= Certainly labor would not be satisfied even with the 3-1-1 arrangement. But the aim is not to satisfy labor or industry but to create & board that will give reasonable representation to all parties, yet act in the public interest. ; ~The essénce of fair and sensible compromise exists in . the 3-1-1 proposal. It or another dedicated to the same Objectives would seem to be called for. ;

Law for New Citizens

n WHILE THE BILL generated a surprising amount of i bitterness when it was debated in the Senate, the proposed new immigration law shaping up in Congress seems * "to be a considerable step forward, in the opinion of immigration authorities.

laws up to date for the first time in more than 20 years.

passed both houses, is that it is too restrictive. But the nation’s experience calls for a restrictive law. Our troubles in recent years with subversives, criminals and alien-smuggling have been the result, to some extent, of + laxity and evasion in the administration of immigration ! _ regulations. “gin ; This country needs more immigrants, and the House : and Senate versions of the new bill—now being reconciled : by committees from the two houses—provide for preferences

ea ate zeus whieh are most desirable. Sciendoctors and workers rate high priorities. . The United Blain its present stage of development, n't need more Tot, Sor ths aie oF one ‘can use more good citigens, who can njake useful con-

| This shoud be the of any immigration law. But it is a purpose which will not be served by coni in wholesale numbers additional immigrants on a . America can still be a haven for aliens capable of befirst citizens, but it no longer can afford to hound of Shots Whowe main gualificetions esire to escape ‘where they are. There

who were worried about many more problems than just the

TREATIES . . By R. H. Shackford

Potsdam Pact Faces Burial

PARIS, May 26--When the western powers sign treaties with West Germany this week, the Potsdam agreement to keep Germany weak, decentralized and demilitarized will be buried formally beyond recovery. : But burying the past will be easy, comnared with trying to foresee what the future now holds for Germany. The Potsdam agreement, signed with Russia at the end of the war, has been buried in fact for a long time-—ever since the Russians refused to treat. all of Germany as a single economic “unit and the West proceeded in 1949 to create the republic of West Germany, ; Even Russia has stopped mentioning Potsdam, The Russians now are offering—on terms not yet clarified—to let a re-unified, neutral Germany have its own national army and own war industries. To be sure, the treaties which Dean Acheson, Anthony Eden and Robert Schuman are signing with West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer —one giving West Germany near-sovereigny and another creating a European army with German participation—must be ratified by their nations’

legislatures before being effective. And ‘he outlook for ratification is far from certain.

Different Future

HOWEVER, whatever happens in the parliaments, the clock cannot be turned back. The future will be different: Whether it will be along the lines planned by the West or on lines less

desirable—with Germany leaning toward the Soviet—remains to be seen. The situation is not dissimilar to 1919, when Woodrow Wilson signed the Versailles Treaty, the League of Nations Covenant and a military guarantee with Britain for France, The U, 8. Senate repudiated President Wilson and refused to ratify. Now the shoe is on the other foot. The policies behind both present treaties include much that America wants Europe to de. It has taken a lot of American pressure to get even this far. The proposal to dream Germany is entirely an American military idea, based on the Pentagon thesis that Europe is indefensible without the help of German soldiers,

Bitter Pill

THAT'S the weakest point in all the West is trying to do. It is still a bitter pill for Europeans to swallow, Secretary of State Acheson is scheduled to see just how anti-American many Europeans have become during his stays at Bonn and Paris. : The West German and French governments are taking extraordinary security precautions,

with special riot squads prepared to combat

demonstrations, riots and even assassination attempts, so strong is the feeling about the steps to be taken.

Naturally, the Communists are spearheading demonstration plans. But they will be joined by others who share the same distaste, for different reasons, for tha treaties.

German Pressure

ONCE THE treaties are signed, the Germans are fully expected to press the Allies in behalf of their greatest aim-—reunification of all Germany and recovery of their eastern territories’ . lost to Poland and Russia.

! Russia can always offer the Germans those territories as bait to abandon the.-~western alliance, The Russians also can offer the Germans reunification on terms called “neutrality.”

There are many Germans, always disdainful .of the Russians, who'd be willing to take their chances with Russia. Thus the steps to be taken this week may signal a new period of greater tension in Europe.

ALWAYS PRAY

NOTHING can cheer a heart that's weary + + +» more than a little prayer to God . , . nothing can give more inspiration . . . to all the wayward souls who plod . . . for God above will always answer . , . all those who pray on bended knees . . . and He will give them consolation . . , heartaches and pain our God will ease , , . prayer is a sign of trust and friendship , . + bringing us close to God above . , . and who is there that can deny it . . . prayer is akin to truest love . .. pray ‘when alone and life is empty . . « and I am sure that God will hear , . , He will instill new faith within you + « + giving you courage and good cheer.

--By Ben Burroughs.

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NOBODY CARES MUCH . . . By Frederick C. Othman U. S. Potato Growers Worried:

Housewives Find Substitutes

WASHINGTON, May 26-— The gentlemen farmers who produce that priceless jewel of the vegetable world, the potato, are worried. There’s nothing habit-forming about it. Good, nourishing food it may be, but without gravy, how does it taste? Like nothing much in

. particular.

80 now in most cities there are no potatoes and nobody especially seems to care. An extra slice of bread fills the void, or a dab of boiled rice. This is what pains the potato men. Maybe, if the famine lasts long enough, Americans will forget about potatoes. I mean I've been talking to Whitney Tharin, who is Mr, Potato in person. He represents here the growers of spuds and he hasn't eaten a potato, himself, in days. He blames the OPS price ceilings, which he says are so low the farmers lose money on every single potato.

‘May Be Too Late

THIS eventually will work itself out, but by then it may be too late. When potatoes do return to the market, the housewives may continue to get their starches somewhere else. Such things, as Tharin & Co. well know, have happened before. Well do I remember a while back wandering around in London and winding up footsore and hungry in a shabby neighborhood called Soho. There I spied a sign on a Chinese restaurant; a small card, old and faded, in the window: “Genuine American chop suey.” I ordered some and it wasn’t bad, either, though the rice upon which I ladled the goo seemed to be a little odd; slightly tougher than usual. The waitress, who was British, explained. She said the sign originally went up to attract the patronage of American soldiers during the war, It hardly had been installed, before the managemept could find no more rice. The wily Orientals in the kitchen merely substituted boiled barley and business went on as usual. ' Over the years the Londoners developed a

taste for chop suey, too. And a happy day it.

was for the boss when he again got a sack of rice. He boiled if up to serve chop suey in the geunine American way, as advertised all along, and immediately ran into complaints from the customers. What did he mean substituting this pasty stuff for that good, boiled barley?

Stick to Substitutes

HE WAS no dope. He went back to barley and to this day no rice is served in his restaurant.

SIDE GLANCES

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That's the sort of thing which gives Tharin and his potato growers nightmares. I know some ladies who also are none too happy about the potato shortage; their complaint largely is literary. They're the serious-minded home economists at the Agriculture Department who found themselves only a couple of years ago faced with the biggest glut of potatoes in American history. We were burying potatoes in pits, then, dyeing them

them free to Europe. : ; So the government ladies got up a really fine book: 101 Ways to Prepare Potatoes, They had potato soups, breads, and also cakes. They told how to make potato candy, salad, pie and no telling what all else. Writing that book was hard work, but the ladies didn't mind because they felt it met a public need.

Surplus to Famine

THEY HAD a sufficient stock of books printed and hardly were they ready for business before the potato surplus turned into & famine. Now we've got a surplus of potato cook books and the way the potato men talk it'll be many a day before another woman will seek a recipe for the use of her black market potatoes in pies.

Barbs—

WE DON'T know yet what will be the rage in fall clothes lunless it's the people who have to pay the bills. > Sd &

MOVIES are shown on a number of trains— hut we still think it would be ‘a good idea to keep the windows washed. o> & CANDY and flowers make some wives happy—others just suspicious. ap : A BARBER advertises, “The haircut that doesn’t look lke a haircut.” Sounds like a lot of trouble to go to for a shaggy neck. eb b

SOME DAY the phone companies are going to get smart and limit the calls of teen-agers to five hours, * + A DOCTOR says a man could live on vegetables alone for 100 years, And we'll bet it would seem like a thousand.

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‘Use Taft-Hartley Law’

MR. EDITOR: “As to the steel dispute, I believe that the President should invoke the Taft-Hartley Act, Short-time controls over management and labor, if provided for by law, may be necessary sometimes in the interest of the general wels fare, And here is an instance in which the general welfare would be acutely affected if 650,000 steelworkers go out on a strike of long duration. It .is true, as the President has indicated, that the Wage Stabilization Board has already investigated the facts about the steel controversy and has made recommendations. It is true, also, that the steelworkers’.union post. poned a strike that might have occurred Jan. 1 (their contract having expired Dec. 31) and that they waited 99 days and until the WSB made its recommendations and until the steel industry refused to accept the WSB recommendatiths on a package basis. BUT IF THE CIO Steelworkers Union is getting tired of fruitless talks, investigations and recommendations, I wonder if our boys in Korea aren't getting tired too, of the fruitless talks, investigations and recommendations where they are, They have continued working now more than 99 days on very meager wages and under most miserable working conditions, Each. soldier there would probably gladly exe change his place for the average $1.88 an hour job of the steelworker. But don’t get me wrong. I worked for a short time in a Cleveland steel mill. Much of the work is hot and strenuous. And with such high prices and high taxes and no steel wage increases since December, 1950, the steelworkers do need more take home pay, as a lot of others of us do, too. > BS : INVOKING the Taft-Hartley Act would not be an action against labor or against industry, it would be merely a delaying action which would permit seeking a court injunction to declare a strike illegal for 80 days-after another investigation and report. Of course it would only be temporary help, and it would not be, in any sense, a solution to labor-management controversies, nor a guarantee against a strike later that might have a ruinous effect on our ‘soldiers in Korea. A proper appreciation by both sides of each others needs and rights is prerequisite to any such solution and any such guarantee. i On the part of the steelworkers, there should be a willingness to go down from the 1814 cents an hour increase desired, even helow the WSB’'s 121; cents now (and 215 cents increase later). And there should be a willingness to give up the demand for a union shop, which would be an instrument to deprive basic rights, wo ON THE PART of the steel industry, there should be a willingness to go higher than 9 cents to a point of compromise on wages. There should, also, be a departure from the position than a $12 a ton price increase in steel is necessary to effect wage increases. Such an increase would skyrocket government and private consumers’ expenses. And all labor unions and all industries will accomplish more benefit for themselves in the long run by urging congressional measures for conservation and peace so that reduced taxes can bring to employees bigger pay checks, and to the owners of industries a fairer net profit, and to both groups, more freedom, security and happiness. —Elbert D. Jones, 2327 College Ave.

Problem of POW Aid MR. EDITOR: It seems to me that the papers are very much in favor of sacrificing our boys, if necessary, to protect the Red POWs. You rant about it being inhuman“to. force them to go back against their will and, of course, none of us wants to. But consider the side of our own boys in the Red POW camps. Shouldn't they come first? After all, they didn't choose to go to Korea; haven't been allowed to win in Korea: haven't even been permitted to call this mess a war, I believe we who have sons and relatives over there should get together and demand something be done for the home team. My son has been a POW in North Korea for over a year, and unless we start protecting our own in preference to the Reds, he never will get home, I wish others would express their views.

~ =Mrs. N. M,, City. On Mental Health

MR. EDITOR: Several weeks ago you printed a letter of mine severely criticising an editorial of yours in which the subject of mental health was, in my opinion, ill-treated. : Today I see a fine editorial on the same subject in The Times pointing out the serious need for a revitalized mental health program in the state of Indiana. I don’t imagine my barb had much to de with today’s article, but I do want to compli. ment Jou fos taking an intelligent and forwardooking stand on an issue t NE 00 often neglected I hope we shall hear more in the future. Roderick Robertson, City.

RED POWER? . . . By Jim G. Lucas

Air Force Disagrees

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WASHINGTON, May 26—

“ri just go home sand

Robert H. Smith got out of ~ hang my uniform back up in

the Army Friday and was back at his old civilian job today. He said his 21-month mili. tary career was pretty uneventful, : No basic training. No tough sergeants. No USO shows. No promotions, In fact, he never left home. : Mr. Smith, 64, is president and director of -the Norfolk & Western Railway. To prevent a strike, the government seized 199 rail. roads and turned them ovér to the Army to operate a month after the Korean war began, But the Army didn't have railroad executives on hand to run the lines. So the man with the beard pointed at seven rail company presidents and said: “The Army needs you.”

. LJ . MR. SMITH became Col. Smith of the transportation corps quicker than you can say Army general classification test. wo Until last Friday, when the government seizure ended, he was the officer, Pocohontas region. His troops included three regular

officers and the whole Norfolk

& Western railway, : From his command post at Roanoke, Va.~~which happened to be the same office he always occupied as N&W president— he said he was naturally happy

10 be getting out of the Army,

the closet.

“How does my family feel? Oh, I couldn't say they're especially excited. “Of course, this is the second time I've been in the Army, you know, “Government seized us once before. I don't remember the

exact date offhand. Had to buy

a uniform that time. But it fit 8 20s when I was called back Col. Smith said he got along

all right with saluting and

~ things like that,

» ~ » “WE HAVE a normal number of soldiers around Roan. oke,” he added. “When they saluted me, I saluted them. “No, T don't expect to have to go to a separation center, I'll just get back in civilian clothes and that’s that.” As regional commander, Col. Smith's duties were similar to those he performed before, except that he had to send a lot of daily reports to the Pentagon. Also, the seven regional commanders had certain paper functions involving all railroads in their regions. “ ® >

WHILE in uniform, Col

_ Smith at least got a raise from

the Army if not a promotion. He'll be in on that pay boost

- which President Truman ap-

“We haven't planned any .

celebration, though,” said Col.

proved this week for all servicemen, and which is retroac-

tive back to May 1. The Colonel

has been getting $8784 a year

from the Army,

"I've never had any lessons or instructions and that's why | like other game my wife tells me how to play!"

And, although he hasn't done much thinking about it, he's due for leave (two and a half days for each month in the Arm¥). Further, if: Congress passes the new Korean war GI bill of

tering-out pay ($200 in his case), a GI home loan and a E

cé to go back to college.

It's doubtful that hell take advantage of the latter, Graduated from Princeton in 1911, he's had a steady job with the railroad ever since, beginning as an axeman and chainman.

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WASHINGTON, May 26— The Army and Air Force are upset about some of Gén. Matthew B. Ridgway’s statements here last week. They're just as glad he’s leaving town. On several occasions, Gen. Ridgway reported a “significant” Communist buildup. He said they have a greater offensive potential than before,

- » ~ THAT contradicts the Air Force. Gen. Nathan Twining, acting air chief, assures his

' colleagues on the joint chiefs

of staff they have nothing to fret about. He says the Reds are bluffing—that all they have is a “hollow shell.” Gen. TwinIng insists the Air Force has prevented a significant buildup. The Air Force always has resented Army talk of a Red buildup in Korea. Airmen feel it reflects on them, and say that the Army never qualifies its statements by citing what the fliers have done. The air leaders suspect the Army is inclined to sneer at their claims. They contend the Army has systematically underestimated their ~ contributions and ovefestimated enemy potential.

. » » ~ ON TWO other occasions ldgway offended his own people—the Army-—by denying there is an .ammunition shortage in Korea. Such

reports, hy said, are based on

“erroneous information.” He told one congressional commit- $ : 2.

Ridgway

tee that troops in Korea are

“as well supplied as any in the world.”

That wasn't calculated to

- please his old boss, Gen. J,

Lawton Collins. The Army chief of staff a few weeks ago reported a serious ammunition shortage in Korea. » . » GEN. COLLINS seems to be trapped. He wants to make as strong a case as possible

. against a proposed defense

limitation House,

He could help that cause

along by citing ammunition shortages. Now it would be

imposed by the

‘difficult to contradict Gen,

hag ay—~who-—presumably an shou n a better to know the facts, Position Gen. Ridgway apparently foresaw something like this, He wanted to ‘hold down his Public appearances. He was reluctant to appear before Congress. He told in detail how they happened. But he had less luck explaining why, Asked why conditions were al« loweg to deteriorate until the revolts were possible, h he didn’t Know. wad He said he had no advance warning; that he hadn't ever been told Compound 76 was a trouble spot. He said he had trusted Gen. James Van Fleet, the 8th Army commander, to handle the matter, He Said he assumed Gen. Van Fleet had

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