"4 It 07 Foreign Pickets Invade City is significant, we believe, that in sulted in 'some delays, however, and the than 23 years on the bench of the company was anxious to restore the servcircuit court Judge O. D. Clawson ice to which its patrons are entitled and never asked to issuela restraining which they have come. to expect over in a labor dispute. His record period of many broken Thursday, however, when the It is some satisfaction to those who Bell Telephone Co.
requested the have pride in their own community that of an order against "hit and the strike and the delays and inconvenipickets from Indianapolis who were ences which were caused to the phone interfering with the company's efforts to service were not of local origin. In fact, The order was obeyed full service was restored within 8 short pickets who had been here for sev. time after the pickets were hours, during which they persuaded The employes probably were anxious intimidated operators not to report for return to duty 'and to serve the patrons left the city. They may or may even though the latter are not always be assigned to some other city for as gracious as they might be. We bestrike tactics.
lieve local, employes and local man-' There was no dispute between the em- agement, can solve most, it not all, of the Marion office of the Indi-' their problems without assistance of proBell Telephone Co. and the manage- fessional union; labor leaders from out. In fact, the local contract with side. We think this is true because most employes does not expire until June. employers are fair and because most emstrikers are affiliated with a local in ployes in this highly literate community Indianapolis whose members in Indiana are able to realize that jobs are secure only 125, five of whom came to only in a business or industry which is to serve as The com- successful.
It also is comforting to note moved promptly to end the intoler- that more and'more employes are beginsituation locally by applying for a ning to realize that higher wages are restraining order against' the pickets. followed, by higher, living costs so that circuit court order apparently their higher wages buy less and less. the way for speedy relief from When and if collective bargaining is repicketing tactics. The company might sumed on a local or a statewide level obtained relief under the Taft-Hart- rather than 8 national level perhaps law which was enacted to put an end there will be more restraint and a more illegal and unlawful strike tactics. In- constructive approach to the problems of employes who have no which affect' both business and its emand who are under contract to ployes.
lAt least, we know. that' here in certain duties appears to be a Marion mutual problems can be solved violation of the Taft-Hartley law. so that neither management nor its emfederal court order, might have re- ployes will be irreparably hurt. a Bill Of Rights Ignored One of the disquieting recent developments is a federal judge's decision relating to the seizure of the steel industry by the president of the United States under what he says he: "believes" are within his powers as president. He quotes no law and' no specific constitutional power.
The socalled. "inherent which the president claims he possesses he simply does not have. He can not possess them, because they are" diametrically opposed to. the Bill of which says that he may not seize private property without due process of law. says he can not seize private property without granting "just compensation." It says he can not search and seize property without a warrant.
None of these things the president even claims to have done, and yet he pretends to be invoking "inherent powers" to preserve the health and safety of his country. What item of health and safety can be as important as the preservation of the Bill of Rights? The painful history. that brought forth these stipulations as the first amendments to our Constitution gives a resounding answer and one which the people can not fail to recognize. These rights were won at the cost blood, tears, revolution and inquisition and freed this country and others which followed from the tyranny of brutal dictators who had withdrawn the rights of men or failed to recognize them. The people are too prone, since large corporations' affairs are in the balance, 'to allow such things as these to happen and thereby to permit the erosion of their own liberties.
For if such a thing can be done with pretended legality, there is no law in the land to prevent similar incursions against the lives and liberties of the people. In all the history of the monstrous Truman debacle, there is no act more deserving of quick repudiation than the seizure of these properties or any erties, I' large or 'small, without due ess of law or without fulfilling the cific requirements of the Bill of Otherwise the effect, will be to nullify to wear it away, to erode it and tually to inducel the people to forget Thus have other peoples and under the pretense of expediency and cause their personal interests have been at stake, allowed their liberties slip away from them, never to. be captured without bloodshed and The depth to which a president the United States can slip is thus isl shown in another respect well--by the fact that the figures quoted regarding steel company he knew of his own knowledge were correct and did not represent the earnings of the corporations This is a small thing beside the vast ciple involved, but it shows that there is no limit to the things the dent may do to wear away the rights the people, he can not be trusted to the truth, about a simple fact that common knowledge, documented in financial publication of the United There is a right and way which the present emergency can be solved. It is in the law of the land, the president has so repeatedly resented it he dare not now resort sorely as it is needed, merely by him but for the nation. the Taft-Hartley law, and even some loss of time might be occasioned the steel companies and their employes, this consideration is So minor compared to the implications of the dent's "inherent" rights dictum as negligible.
The nation will not go to in a week or two of a steel shut-down, but it is bound to go to pot if the sions of the Bill of Rights which president is violating are nullified. Guest Editorial But the People Will Not Forget With every move he makes, 11 Mr. Truman has made it clear he is willing to let bygones be bygones in the matter of corruption in government. He will gladly forgive, if the people will forget. As the fanfare over the appointment of Judge McGranery as attorney general subsides, a second look at the appointee offers no ground for assumption that anything like a cleanup is going to happen or that a cleanup is intended.
Judge Tom Murphy came to that conclusion; Newbold Morris had to learn it' the hard way." McGranery, however, would seem on his record to be one who would know the score. He belongs to The Boys. In Philadelphia he moved up through the precinct ranks to Congress, where he was a New Deal wheelhorse. All that need be said of his status in the Fair Deal picture is that Tom Clark, 2 when attorney general, tapped him for the post of assistant in charge of patronage. Something will be made of the circ*mstances that McGranery was party to the so-called Amerasia whitewash, in which persons who stole secret It more Grant was order was Indiana issuance run" provide and eral or duty, not similar ployes ana ment.
the The total Marion pany able The opened the have ley to timidation grievance perform 2 clear A 'I' all IF A Slight Difference In Spelling AFTER THE "BIG DEBATE" ON HOW MANY AIR GROUPS- EVERYBODY IS AGREED, WE'VE GOTTA SUPREMACY HAVE ORDER IN THE AIR BILLIONS OF DOLLARS PLANES -BUT SO FAR, WHAT HAVE WE GOTTEN FOR OUR BILLIONS? PLAN PLANS PLANS, PLANS PLANS PLANS PLANS PLANS (PLANS PLANS MeN ought Syndicate, Inc. REG- MANNING Poisonous Cynicism Pervades Political it, By MERRYLE S. RUKEYSER even- INS Correspondent it. A poisonous discussion cynicism prevades. political of federal tax nations, inequities.
be- The tendency appeared as early not as five years ago when Secretary to of the -Treasury Snyder re- efforts by the 80th (Republican) chaos. Congress to 'recodify the tax laws along more scientific lines. While of conceding inequities, Snyder indishown, cated that the time was not yet. AS opportune for such action. Subse the occasion became much he less propitious, what with the Korearnings ean war and rearmament expenses mounting.
not It seems to me specious to create. net the and impression economic that justice, fairness soundness in taxainvolved. tion are luxuries which can be enprin- joyed That only is a in fair seductive weather. yardstick while which tends to perpetuate error, presi- fallacy At present, and this inequity. tendency to of expediency a above justice and put tell soundness turns largely around the excess profits tax.
is of Few objective fiscal, students atevery tax tempt to defend the excess profit States. principle as a meritorious tax. It is obviously anti-social in that by it weakens the profit motive for re- curtailing business expenses. It tends to make executives soft tobut ward the cost sheet. It interferes misrep-, to with economic progress in tending subsidize unnecessary expendihave tures, while weakening the gains not to be achieved through economies.
Thus it runs counter to the basic It is American management philosophy though of less. giving the customer more for by In discussions of this tax, i' the proponents rest their case, when they are candid, on wholly cynical when considerations, presi- time First, to they discuss argue the that this is no merits of speci- to be: fic taxes because the government her pot requires Secondly, the some money. point out that the present combination of the 52 provi- an per cent excess corporate profits tax income tax plus the to running up 30 per cent (with an overall celling of 70 per cent) is more favorable to the big and 'well es tablished corporations, with many stockholders, than if the same amount of revenue were raised by 8 straight corporate income tax with a rate higher than 52 per cent. The Implication of this argument is that the burden is borne more largely by newer growth companwithout a base. of big initial capital investment or of high earnings during the test period.
Such an approach is thoroughly unsound. It is sheer expediency for a company to take comfort from the for-. tuitous circ*mstance that an unjust tax may happen to hit it less harshly than some others. For any thoughtful business executive should know that business in interdependent, and that the hard hit companies may be 'his own customers or suppliers. The objective should be a healthy national economy in which goods and services circulate freely from makers to users.
As to the first argument, namely that it's no time to look critically at the tax structure because the government needs they money, this is indeed an untenable position. If applied to private life, it would ha Discussion Of Federal Tax Inequities be a defense of theft and grand larceny. But, apart from ethics, in a purely economic sense, the approach is fallacious. Experience in the last 19 years has indicated that when big spenders are in charge of the executive department of the federal government, will expend all the funds they can get their hands on, Thus, the proposed amendment to put a ceiling of 25 per cent on the personal income tax is a step toward making economy mandatory. In the family budget, the limiting factor on spending is the breadwinner's income.
The selfdisciplined housewife does not make a list of every conceivable item, including luxuries, which would gratify her desires; she relates her outgo to family income. That same spirit is needed in the federal government. Bills are. pending to give the congress better machinery for dealing critically with overinflated Executive budgets. A European Countries Resent Restrictions On Aid Program By JOHN H.
MARTIN '(INS Foreign Director) European allies will resent the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee's recommendation that the United States withhold aid to Western Europe! until greater unity is achieved. But they will do this mostly in their private, immense officially, dependence because of American' financial and military. at moment when President Truman's foreign aid program her hangs in the balance. A good idea of the British attitude is available, however, in a Labor party phamphlet, "Problems of Foreign issued by coincidence on the same day that the House subcommittee's report was released. The pamphlet was issued for discussion by party members who aim to reframe policy in expectation of climbing back into power.
The Labor party may disagree with Prime Minister Churchill's Conservatives on some aspects of foreign policy, but the two groups agree on many things which the House subcommittee opposes. For instance, the American subcommittee dismisses as having "littie merit" the British objection to joining the projected European fedcration on the grounds that it might affect her relationship with the Commonwealth. The Labor party says on this policy toward Western Europe was firmly fixed by the Labor government and there no sign that the Conservatives intend to change it. It consists encouraging all forms of cooperation among the THE MARION CHRONICLE Published Evenings Except Saturday and Sunday Chronicle-Tribune Sunday Weekly Established 1865 Daily Established 4887 CHRONICLE PUBLISHING CO. INC.
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Marion, Indiana, Chronicle April 11, :1952 Assignment 'America TI Reformers Still Are Going "We got rid of an incompetent sheriff, although It was tough fight," be sald, "and I think we can get a competent, honest man in office this year. There has been no open gambling in the area this season and every seat was so hot no bookie dared sit down in any. one place for more than 10 seconds at a Decent citizens have not grown. bored with reform or, become indifferent to it, Katzentine More than 400 civic organizations-. of one kind or another are now supporting the crime commission where only organizations were on the rosters lie months ago.
Neither has the tourist economy of Miami Beach collapsed with the suppression of open gambling, as was widely predicted by mob interests. During the season now ending, screams of apguish were heard only from big, glossy night clubs that find the going difficult without roulette, wheels and dice in the back It develops that a vast majority of greater Miami's tourists come for the sun, the sea and the sand and not for chemin de fer or chuck-a-luck. J. One end product of the Miami municipal decision: to reform and go straight may be brand new man in the White House, says. Katzentine.
It was facts about mobsters and rackets control of this region, dug up by the local crime commission, that induced Sen. Estes Kefauver to demand senatorial investigation of crime and hoodlums on a national scale. The local commission in its early days, hearing that the Tennessee senator was interested in infiltration into politics and business, took its facts and figures to him in Washington. They were 50 appalling that Sen. Kefauver asked for the country-wide investigations that made him a national figure.
"Even with the Democrat party organization against said Katzentine, "I think 'Keef can win the Florida primary, and it he can do that, It won't be easy to discount him In the rest of the country or in Chicago." Strong In Miami Beach Drive 7- By INEZ ROBB MIAMI BEACH, (INS)-One of the current theatrical hits in New York' is musical called "Guys and Dolls." It recounts the distressing difficulties of finding locale safe from police interference in which to continue "the oldest, established, permanent floating crap game in New York." However, the difficulties of keeping that Yankee game going are nothing, but nothing, compared with the Herculean task of operatIng the oldest, established, permanent floating crape game in Miami Beach or Miami proper. The game and the gamblers have been on the lam all season, There has been no rest for the ambitious bookie, either, so harassed from pillar to post time that he has had to take honest employment on the side in order to eat. In short, reform and reformers are still in the ascendency in this region. In vacation land where the cynics said it wouldn't work, reform is still going strong, and the hoods and the racketeers who once ran this region never had it so The heat has been on all season. There has been no open gambling on this Gold Coast which was once wide open.
Just four years ago this spring, the fact they could either surhonest citizens, of this district faced render completely to mob and rackets control or stand and fight to regain' control of their economic and political destiny. In despair and disgust, recent citizens formed the Crime Commission of Greater Miami and, in hope and fear, set out to recapture the community from the hoods who had made this Gold Coast into a personal, feudal fief ever since the days of prohibition. Not everyone is on the side of the angels, but Frank Katzentine, Miami lawyer and ex man who: helped form the crime commission and who is one of its directors, believes the 'reform movement has worked miracles and is here to stay. ju Serious, Physical Plastics Used To Camoflouge By DR. HERMAN N.
BUNDESEN The nose on your neighbor's face could be plastic, and you might never know it. Lifelike plastic noses, ears, fingers, hands and other parts of the body have become real aids to the physical and mental health. Rightly or wrongly, we judge people largely by their looks. Our friendliness, speech: and actions toward others are also influenced to a great extent by this one fact. It has been shown that a son's looks can also affect his personality.
This was brought out in a recent study of disfigured prisoners. Those I who had their defects corrected by surgery were able to take a constructive place in society 'more readily than those who retained disfigurements. Missing parts of the body, whether due to accidents of birth 'or crippling disease, can present an especially serious For example, 'cancer of the nose is fairly common. and sometimes makes it necessary to remove the whole nose. Children's noses have also been bitten off by animals.
In many cases like these, it is impossible; for' a plastic surgeon to. correct, 'the deformity or 're- place the missing part. He may have to postpone surgery until the child's bones have stopped growing. Plastic noses and other parts are now being made to help these people. The results are so lifelike: that they are difficult to: distinguish from real skin.
These parts are made of acrylic. plastic, which has a texture and resistance similar to normal flesh: A mold of the feature to be rei placed is first made from clay or wax. Then raw plastic, is molded to the form. Expert colaring blends the tones with the Individual's skin. Plastic limbs are also being made to camouflage deformities, A patient can 'use these parts while awaiting plastic surgery at some later date.
The new, plastics thus offer real boon for people with serious. deformities. L. Is amebic dysentery curable. Answer: Most cases off amebic dysentery, if diagnosed and treats ed intensively, can be cured.
How ever, it may take several months or years to effect a permanent cure. Down Through The Years From The Chronicle Files TWENTY -FIVE YEARS AGO Prof. A. Jones, dean of education at Marion College, has received notification of his temporary apPresident As president, suspended pointment as to succeed by the board of regents as a result of factional disagreement caused by the suspension of students. The newly named official is now in full control and has all the necessary authority to take official action in all matters pertaining to the operation of the school Plans Seibold, were new president announced of by the Charts ion Junior, Association of Commerce to sponsor clean-up, paintup week here from May 1 to 7 House- to- house canvassing by school enumerators will get underway was.
announced by M. D. Foland, in charge of city school enumeration Arrangements were complete for the annual conference of school supervisors. E. E.
Day, superintendent of city schools, said the purpose was to bring the public in closer contact with school officials and the work which is being done in the schools. 1 i TEN YEARS AGO Saturday, no FIVE YEARS AGO The tornado-lashed I panhandle. area of Texas and Oklahoma counted its known dead at 132 and estimated the. injured 1,305 as rescue crews still searched for additional casualties in the ruins of. the hardest hit towns.
The property loss, inflicted on the rich cattle and wheat area by the violent winds of Wednesday and early? Thursday, ran into the millions of dollars Damage to wareshed and contents of the Midwest! Food Packers, was estimated at $55,000 following a freak: storm that hit Fowlerton with great! tore off Thursday, roof and colviolence night, The wind: lapsed the east wall of the structure. In addition to plant damage, the company lost a large amount from water damage. This Included 2,600 100-pound bags off sugar and a large quantity of spic-1 es. John Banks, company official, said the spices which were in the warchouse were purchased for the entire season's food pack Miss Jacie Hiatt will be crowned queen of the Easter parade tonight before approximately 300 students' who will participate in the parade, coronation program and dance at the Coliseum, I' 1 Current Quotations The President rather reminds me a man who makes a big show of running the vacuum cleaner over the rug without the cleaner ry Cabot Lodge The extent of the horsemeat ring Is fantastic. Why, two men alone deposited $250,000 in four months.John Kerwin, OPS' agent, Peoria, Ill.
1. Some will' say that where there is 50 much: smoke. there is some fire. There is, however, no excuse for mistaking for smoke.Gen. Conrad Snow, chairman, State Department loyalty board.
It's just like Japan, except there aren't as many American soldiers Jean Harumi Farley, recently arrived Japanese war bride to of 1 I I F. Vi; propproc- speRights. ment documents were freed. This, though, is irrelevant to the present consideration, which is simply that the new cleanup man belongs to the club which would come under his investigative eye. As such, would he turn in Tom Clark, for example, if some" trail of investigation led straight to his old boss' door? The fantastic Caudle was one of Clark's creatures; McGranery for a year was a co-worker in the same office.
Does a McGranery, reared in the school of city machine politics, forget his loyalty to the brother who finds himself in trouble over. a few low standards or some more or less natural Mr. Truman didn't, when Boss Pendergast was. felon! -i "In this country there are lawyers by the dozen who are. experienced in' the of suspected crime and are perfectly competent to bring criminals to justice, and to whom attaches none.
of the obvious disabilities which stand out in McGranery's case. The president's appointee took over with a plea to the Diety for aid. It is safe to say that little assistance will be forthcoming from Mr. Truman, if, by. the remotest chance, Judge McGranery means business.
-Detroit News. F- 2. ALIeN: MA r. 1. FT Daily Quiz en of -Are there more men or wom-For voting age in this country there the first time in history, are more potential women.
voters than men in the United States. Q-Is there' considerable waste in wood manufacturing Industries? A -The waste of raw materials In 1s wond probably manufacturing greater Industries than in any other industry. 1 1 Q-What two clues do the Gospels reveal as to the date of the Nativity? A--One is that Christ was born during the reign of King Herod, the other is the decree sent out by Caesar Augustus that all should be taxed, each to the city where 'he was rgistered, a fact which caused Mary and Joseph to be in Bethlehem instead of their home town of Nazareth. prepare state Q-Which to was the first southern secede from the -South Carolina was the first Union southern on state to secede from the Dec. 20, 1860.
-Are snap beans now gathered mechanically? A--Mechanical pickers are now in popular use. tial -Who was the last presidencandidate nominated by the Whig Party A -Gen. Winfield Scott was DODOtated by, the Whigs in 1852. countries of Western Europe and in joining such co-operation so long as. it is based on freely negotiated agreement between governments.
"Britain is not, however, prepared to enter a European federation nor to accept forms of co-operation with Europe which would serlously limit her freedom of action in the Commonwealth or the Atlantic community, or which would prevent the maintenance of full employment and the welfare state." At another point the Labor party pamphlet says: "It was a cardinal principle of British policy as laid by the Labor government that" Britain should so far as possible avoid permanent commitments in Europe unless America was also prepar-; ed, to accept present them. many Americans regard their commitment in Europe through NATO as purely temporary. Gen. Eisenhower himself has said American divisions would be withdrawn after a few years if all well." Britain frankly is afraid that it she joined a European army Americans might withdraw at some future time and then Britain would "be left alone to face the double dangers of Soviet expansion and German domination The American House subcommittee says it "does not suggest that the United States should interfere with the Internal affairs of other But then comes what Western Europe leaders regard as the "black-jack treatment," the threat to withhold further aid unless those countries give "greater evidence of self-help, definite agreements, and mutual cooperations in order to realize the objectives of the free world." The British steadily have pleaded for American understanding on these points: That agreement not to ship strategic materials to Russia or Eastern European lands further weakens their economy; that Brit- ish troops are even stronger 1p Europe than American, that British troops are spread throughout danger spots in Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The French also ask recognition of the heavy drain on their manpower and treasury in holding the Communist dam in IndoChina.
The Labor party pamphlet on quite much' frank in putting the spotlight American thinking says: "'There is no doubt that American support for European union springs partly from the belief that United Europe. would form cordon sanitaire or' Maginot line against Soviet expansion, behind which America could sink back in comfort." The persistence of a general con'dition which. may explode at any moment cannot i leave good men motionless where they are, listless spectators of an onrushing future. Soft words or appeals to a isupposed sense of justice will not persuade these international bandits (Czechoslovakian Reds) to desist in their calculated affronts to our nation. -Sen.
Herbert O'Conor We must vindicate the principles of Jacksonian Democracy. remain a government devoted to the people. Sen. Estes Kefauver By experience he (SeA. Richard Russell) is' superbly 'equipped to President.
Sen. Milton Young (R-N. 1 .1.
