Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1944 — Page 18

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. TOWARD BETTER HOUSING THIS city is becoming increasingly aware of its housing shortage. That fact is attested by two developments yesterday. The first: was the announcement ‘by Robert Collier, local NHA director, that some 450 new or converted home and apartment units will be completed by mid-December, ] a These new units, Mr. Collier believes, should stabilize the market here. That statement may sound a bit on the .- optimistic side, but we hope it will prove true. This, however, is at best a temporary stop-gap to meet the immediate emergency. Expanded housing facilities will still remain both a permanent need and a great post-war opportunity for Indianapolis. A long-time approach to a particularly acute problem is contained in the second development. At a luncheon of business and civic leaders given by Charles J. Lynn in the Columbia Club, a practical suggestion was advanced for improving the housing of Indianapolis Negroes. The project is patterned after the program sponsored by- the American Society of Friends service committee for a group of 50 jobless Pennsylvania miners.

FJ » » + » 2 8 UNDER THE PLAN described by Homer C. Morris of Philadelphia, secretary of the Friends social industry committee, these coal mining families were loaned $2000 apiece to buy materials for. homes which normally would ‘cost from $4500 to $6500. Through a carefully planned manhour system of labor exchange, the miners helped each other to build the dwellings and were allowed to repay the materials loan over a 20-year period at 2 per cent interest, with a payment of around $13 a month sufficient to retire the loan and keep up taxes and insurance. There are no unemployed coal miners in Indianapolis} as far as we know, but the system can be applied equally ~ well for Negroes in the low-income group, most of whom are forced to exist in deplorable housing conditions. © No group, either, is more anxious to improve its position. The plan would benefit both the individual families and Indianapolis as a whole. Home-owners are the most - stable element in the community and we agree with Floyd B. Ransom that “America has no greater asset than her hard-working, home-owning Negroes.” That statement suggests what Negroes can, and will, do if given a chance. Indianapolis, to become stable socially and economically, should do everything possible to encourage and enlarge this group.

= ” ” ” » 2 THE APPEALING THING about the Friends plan is that it is based on the sound principle of helping people to help themselves. Furthermore, it encourages the cooperative spirit which built America—the spirit of the neighborhood barn-raisings and the cabin-building bees of pioneer days. That is something worth recapturing, and it carries social implications that extend beyond material .achievements. Indianapolis owes to its good Negro citizens a chance to live decently and to know the satisfaction of having not only a home of their own, but also one that is the product of their hands and initiative.

AS MAINE WENT S a general rule Maine is no better a national political barometer than Texas. Going Republican is a Maine habit. But there does seem to be some significance attached to how strongly Maine goes Republican. Editorial Research Reports advises us that over the last 20 years whenever the Republican vote for congress in Maine ‘in- September exceeded 60 per cent it was always followed by a Republican presidential victory in November. And that when the Republican vote for congress in Maine fell below 60 per cent, the Democrats sent their man to the White House. Thus in 1920, 1924 and 1928, when Maine's Republican vote for congress was respectively 68, 61 and 70 per cent of the total, Republican Presidents were elected in November. , And in 1932,-1936 and 1940, when Maine’s Republican vote for congress was respectively 48, 81 and 59 per cent, Mr. Roosevelt carried the nation in November. By that yardstick, Tom Dewey's prospects are looking up. For returns from Tuesday's election in Maine show the Republicans winning in the First and Second congressional districts by 68 per cent, and in the Third district by 77 sper cent. Feverish activities of Sidney Hillman's C. I. O.-P. A

A. C. to the contrary notwithstanding.

NO FIELD FOR BOONDOGGLING ONGRESS, the White House, the war and navy departments, the public and the press appear to be overwhelmingly in favor ef universal military training after the war. But we are concerned about two phases of the matter, One is the danger that if congress does not act while we are still at war, if it waits until the coming of peace has anesthetized our worries about: the possibility of future conflicts, interest in universal training will ware.

. while we are still at war, is the simple safeguard against that almost inevitable softening of our present determination not to let the national defenses slide back to impotency2 The other thing that is ‘disturbing is the indication that the White House wants to combine post-war military training with something like the CCC, or the NYA—that it wants to teach not only the arts of war but also a little $forestry or bookkeeping or maybe flower-arranging. : War is an inereasingly complex science. A year is : little enough for teaching a young man the rudiments of ‘it. If the services are to share that yéar with pedagogues, cénservationists' and various kilds of improvers, the proposed year of military training will be in danger of being progressively distorted until it amounts to one-tenth soldiery nine-tenths boondoggle. Bags, Let's leave the ewrriculum to the services, without

Enactment of compulsgry-training legislation now, |

On the By Joe Will

look now, but it appears to be proper to wear ‘a cheerful smile these days. Nothing gaudy or ornate, mind you, though a faint

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‘Gen, Eisenhower has stated the ‘end of European operations is foreseeable, that they could be over before the snow.flies. Up to now the Washington Society for the Prevention of Hope has let \ the statement pass unedited, a significant departure from policy, and perhaps the most encouraging sign we've had. You may not have noticed it, but there has been a firm; frowning taboo on any civilian emotions which suggested the possibility the war might possibly be over, say, before the beginning of the fifth term.

'Wipe That Glow Off Your Face' -

wires describing the liberation of massive hunks of terrain and the capture of uncounted thousands of Hitler's stupor men, and you'd instinctively sing: “Oh, boy! This is swell news,” and maybe you'd reach for a Martini. ; But almost before you could conquer the first quick gulp, which for some baffling reason always tastes revolting, no matter how practiced the tonsils, there'd be a long, bony Washington finger making rhetorical pin wheels in front of your nose, and a moldy, sepulchral voice would be saying: ~ r “Put that down, you foul slacker. Wipe that glow off your face, The last shot hasn't been fired yet. It m / be’ centuries yet.” No kidding, that’s just about the way it’s been going after each victory—and we had some fat ones, yet at no time has it been considered patriotically correct to let off a few thin wisps of pent-up steam. The psychology back of this has, of course, been clear enough and the purpose not without solid merit. Any tendency to lessen home-front energy had to be discouraged, even if it meant keeping people away from

the race tracks and “Oklahoma!”

The Freudians Have a Theory

JUST THE SAME, it has been difficult.” The normal reaction to good news is to click the heels, sing out and see what the boys in. the back room will have. These old characters known as Freudians have a theory about suppressing natural desires, They say it leads to nervous disorders and queer behaviors, and sooner or later the victim develops a delusion he understands what Gertrude Stein is trying to say. We were beginning to develop into a strange breed until the Eisenhower statement was permitted to come to us without the usual funeral admonitions. A smile in public made us suspect, and anyone who permitted himself a forthright laugh was set down as a vile collaborationist. Men of habitual felicity began to go underground, and an understanding fellow in the east 50s opened a cheer-easy. It was like prohibition days, You gave the routine three knocks; asked for Henri, and if your credentials were in order you were allowed “to enter with your newspaper in hand. Then you took a table, read the inspiring communiques and beamed openly. This was a well-regulated place, and the proprietor reported none of the fugitives from gloom ever violated the house rule against excessive cheer and extravagant optimism, :

50 Million Frenchmen Can't Be Wrong

THE DEAD PAN and the Spartan manner were becoming grim symbols of national unity. The more miserable a fellow looked, the more he was esteemed a fierce patriot. Vinegar Ned Sparks, of the films, was looked upon as a model example of civilian conduct. The OWI had planned a treatise on his superb pessimism. But apparently ye are beginning to get back to a point where the ‘cheerful greeting is not immediately associated with treachery. We suspect the way the Parisians are conducting themselves may have something to do with this. They have demonstrated it is possible to embrace liberation and be happy about it and no# forget there is still a job to be done. Over here we: weren't supposed to be adult enough to have a sense of values, so it was deemed best we should not be exposed to normal emotions. Most of us were sensitive to the dangers of absen-

“teeism, but we couldn't help remembering there had

been just as many lost labor hours when we were getting belted around by Jerry as when we began to take charge of him. Anyway, go and get a small cheer for yourself, and make it on the light side. The last shot hasn't been fired yet, at that.

We. The Werien

By Ruth Millett

A FEW MONTHS ago a man and his wife opened up a. new little neighborhood grocery in our town—and I don't believe they know there is a war on. Why, when you ask for something they don't have they don’t say triumphantly, “we haven't ‘had any of that in months” No. Believe it or not they say, “I'm sorry, but we haven't been “able to get any of that. We keep trying, though.” And they actually sound as though they ARE sorry to have to disappoint a customer. And they don't hide their bananas behind the counter for pet customers. They put them out in the open and sell any customer all he wants until they are gone, Lots of people who don't ordinarily trade with them walk into their store looking for a scarce commodity—but they don't get insulted. They get the article if it is in the store, and if it isn't they are turned down courteously.

Never Forget to Say, ‘Thank You' THEY NEVER forget to say “Thank you” when they take your money. And when the store is crowded they move quickly so that no one has to wait any longer thah is necessary, They don't carry on personal conversations with customers while other customers are standing waiting to be served. The only help they are able to get is a boy who works after schocl hours and on holidays—but their store. is always‘ shiningly clean. ® - They seem like intelligent people so I can't understand why they don't know there's a war on. But they must not because they never remind a customer that there is. It's surprising what good service you get when the people who serve you don’t know about the war,

Why, youre actually treated like a customer—instead of like a nuisance.

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So They Say—

OUR INSISTENCE on victory reflects our profound, unwillingness to entrust our future to the enemy or to place any faith in his capacity to effect a tolerable settlement, This same insistence, however, imposts on us the obligation to prova- that we can effect a settlement conducive. to the future

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IT IS MY view that the most important provision - which can be made by the congress and the American people for the future defense of the nation is a system of universal

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touch of color may be permissible.

A DISPATCH would come crackling over the |.

“I never had to throw a cheer-drunk out,” he said. |¢

well-being -0of mankind.—Dr. Everett Case, president

military training —Secretary of J

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The Hoosier Forum

I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire.

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“ABSOLUTE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SECURITY” By Walter 8. Clugston, Cambridge City.

When God made the oyster, he guaranteed him absolute economic and social security. He built the oyster ‘a house, a shell, to protect him from other animals and other oysters. opens up his shell and the food rushes in. ; :

what did He do? He said, “The blue sky is the limit. Get out and build your house.” And the eagle goes out and builds his house in the highest mountain crag, where danger and disaster threaten him every day. For food, he flies through a thousand miles of rain every day, snow and wind and mountain. The eagle is the Republican party emblem, and Roosevelt and his New Deal followers certainly want to be oysters by their actions.

“WHERE HAS IT GONE TO?” By J. M. W., Indianapolis, “We cannot have political freedom unless we preserve economic freedom.” The reporter who began the article with .the above quotation from Senator O'Mahoney at the Indiana State Bar association on Sept. 2 must have been of the opinion that the’ above utterance was the highlight of the Senator's speech. To whom was the Senator referring when he used the word, “We?” I am loath to believe he was referring to the citizens of the United States. It may be that the quotation was torn away from the context, leaving it to stick out like a sore thumb. Probably the meaning was, “The people of the United States cannot have political freedom unless the people of the United States preserve economic freedom.” Economic power is derivative, not primary. Within a state economic power depends on law. In international affairs it is only in minor issues that economic power depends on law. When large issues are involved, economic power depends on war or on the threat to make war . It is scarcely conceivable that at a time when the armies of the United Nations were making such military progress (as they were when the Senator made the above remarks) that anyone could con-

When hungry, the oyster,

But when God made the eagle, |

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ceive of our economic power being in danger. In its ultimate analysis, economic power consists in who owns the land. Of course, it is quite probable that Senator O'Mahoney did not mean the people of the United States when he used the word, “We.” Probably he meant some people of the United States, because it is reported that he said, “The disappearance of local economic independence is destroying the foundations of democracy much more than the machinations of agitators and poHticians.” a Of course, in reading the above quotation, one must forget that the senator is a politician. It would never do, it would not be accepted as cricket, that the senator would do anything to destroy democracy.

Still, he puts the politician on the |.

same level as the agitator. It seems that local economic independence has disappeared, if the Senator is to be believed. If it has disappeared, where has it gone to? What has taken its place? At least, it must be admitted that we have more economic activity now than we have had for quite a time. What, then,” does the senator want or mean by his words? If speech is a means to convey to others what we believe or desire, it can also be a means to cloak our thoughts and desires. i I wonder if Senator O’'Mahoney’s speech could be classified in the same category as Senator Connally classified the Atlantic Charter. “Atlantic Charter?” he snorted. “That's a bunch of hooey—just words.”

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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olitical Scene By Thomas L. Stokes . VALENTINE, Neb. Sept. 14~ , ‘Every presidential candidate must - ‘nave his day or two in a Wild West atmosphere, . As Tt He must mingle with Indians adi adorned in head-dress and painted : SU faces, with cowboys in gay silk ; . shirts, with ranchers stiff and un- (Continu comfortable in store clothes which , last from yesr to year with only _ Wooded hil occasional year, for they do not black in tl deign . fo replenish them, even a Behind 1 Theo though in this neighborhood they 4 ® trees and } now casually flash great rolls of folding ey. e hard roa ‘The Indians were on hand to welcome Governor * 4 Dave sucoe Dewey when his train rolled into this little town in barriers of Nebrasky’s sand hills, a solemn rank of Sioux on . J ° of us the horseback, looking ghastly and fierce from the colors toward the spidshed across their weazened faces, for most of them treeless mer were old. The cowboys were there, too, to escort the __- ‘of all hell | Republican candidate and his wife in a parade ,f§°' From Wi through the center of town. When his car and those a series of of his party were turned across the rolling plains to six tanks ¢ the ranch of former Governor Sam McKelvie, 20 miles with black away, where the governor and Mrs. Dewey were guests > a few yar ovsraigh, eo No Pretensions of Dude Rancher . god breeze | GOVERNOR DEWEY took it all straight, like a * Its New Yorker and a gentleman, with none of the pre- like a stri: tensions of the dude rancher. - now and And he took it all smiling, amiable and properly . ¢ tion lets go inquisitive, without getting himself dusty or rumpled. from the He did not don Indian headdress, as another New streaks i Yorker, Al Smith, once did, in mingling with the umns Blackfeet in Montana. He did not put on a cowboy 2 ge Pil hat or get into chaps and spurs as Cal Coolidge did This tan some years ago in South Dakota, making a sight in. it is the I the moving pictures, mincing anxiously down the died in the steps, that was better for laughs than anything JN“ We came Charlie Chaplin ever did. : of deepest Governor Dewey, of course, being a palitician, many-—witt could not avoid a chat with an Indian chieftain. . the division | Spotted Crow was supplied for this purpose by local a sudden b Republicans. He pledged his support to the Re- had set publican candidate, as some chief always does for one J ablaze, candidate or the other every four years. Spotted » The who | Crow: expressed. the opinion that Republicans would ; upon it wh treat the Indians better than the Democrats, for all ~ J of cover o that Secretary Ickes and. Indian Commissioner John compassed Collier have been able to do, N the limits The Republican candidate also looked at the fine 4 * We knew cattle which Mr, McKelvie has on his ranch, includ- going to b ing a prize bull, Royal Carlos, which stood uncon--. +’ ‘¢onclusion cerned, chained to a fence, never once gazing upward mile wide at the somebody had scrawled above his head: mile and a “I always vote Republican.” The com: a bull cost Mr. McKelvie $8750, so the handout unit, inste : tached five . * them in fn “TAKING AND NOT Gave Careful Attention to Politics : proceeded | GIVING IN RETURN" THE GOVERNOR took part in the ceremony of l ghvem By Pauline Milken, 3804 Central ave. | digging up the barbecued beef, which had been cook- ® shepherdin, The following quotation is from| ing for hours underground, but he refused to pose into positic a letter written by Field Musician | for photographers in this role. He stood in line after- “Got* First Class Edwin Milhon, 4th Ma-| ward with Mrs. Dewey, in a big tent to have his plate rine division, to his parents, Mr.| filled with the succulent meat, potato salad, cole slaw . “An antiand Mrs. J. W. Milhon, Plainfield. and potato You It was utility beef, no ration points }: this” he a Times carrier for| —it was e got it. C -— ED has now served in| Even miles away from the big world outside, the pointed acn the Marine Corps for almost two| Sovernor gave careful attention to politics, conferring left. years. He participated in the Mar-| by the hour with delegations from Nebraska, South “Over the shall Islands campaign and was Dakota and Wyoming, listening to complaints against . _ which, as wounded on Saipan July 13. At the New Deal on behalf of the cattlemen who, from disabled if the time this letter was written, he | evidence of those there, are doing nicely and achiev- also picked was convalescing in a navy hospital | Ing rotund figures, > You in the Hawaiian islands. I feel| There, too, he received word of the Republican that orchar : .| trtumph in Maine from National Chairman Brownell | Lt. Paul sure this marine’s feelings regard and Cpl. V ing buying bonds are typical of all in New York over long distance telephone, and he was is . Louis, cam ! € fighting overseas. He writes: news to an outdoor press conference with the predio- through th “You ask if I approve of buying tion that it forecast a Republican congress and a con- were unio bonds. I most certainly do. I'm| tinued trend throughout the nation toward the party. ; lifted hims sure that if everybody felt the way ' . . was taking a very “select” few individuals do, ‘a i in some oth we would not be fighting, but work- ! took a crit ing for Tojo or Hitler today. I no- World A ffairs : ation. tice in the paper that over six : : ; He said: million families have never bought Ee * . reading fo bonds or stamps, and Im sure that| By William Philip Simms this war is some of those six million could have | There we bought at least a few stamps. : quiet as tl “A democracy is like anything QUEBEC, Sept. 14S he ab- filter thro strong. It has parasites who go sence of the Soviet Union from the } bushes. along for the ride; giving nothing Roosevelt-Churchill conference ¥ Over on but expecting all the favors and here complicates the job tremend- a white far privileges as those who give their ously. It is like planning the in- before it all. Those people would have to be vusion of Prance without knowing ; Slongside, | greedy and selfish, and greedy and whether or not we could use Bur selfish people can’t be happy, so Britain as a base of operations. Over to in the long run Shey are Jost spit- Of course this is not Russia's tanks 75's emselves. e can't be happy ult. On contrary it would forever taking and not giving some- Juuit been for ary to attack * Buke-s n Sune in return. We'll buy bonds, Japan while fighting for her life . SE . and I know we are right, y 5000 miles away against Germany. , “While this is on my mind, I'd And to have permitted us to use her Siberian bases ey tke Jor Jun ake he Money out would have been tantamount to a declaration of war SER about a ©o bond. It will keep until I get] 288inst Nippon, : Irawk that had & home” : But the war in Europe is now drawing od close, shedow, 3 ’ o> Rion 1 Arte. befurs the Pactle ang Par Baste y ee, 00 MUCH MIXING plans now being made here can be put into practice. ' ring that ny » horizon, By Forum Fan, Indianapolis. ' How Can We Get at Japan? For perh President Roosevelt has wisely IN ANY PLAN of campaign aghinst Japan the burned bee said that politics makes strange bed-| g.¢; nroplem is how to get at her. We have to de- the air Was fellows. Axis sympathizers have| ,i4e whether to attack her from aircraft carriers or of columns claimed that the President and his| from jand bases. If land bases, the question is, what MER. © VV TOS cabinet caused the attack on Pearl| poco» Outside Siberia, Japan holds all the nearby # Join battle Bae 15 order to bring America| pages and before we can use them we must capture The work * them. Now I wonder if those who boast Thus the planning of our invasion of Europe was jo be Sled a Ihe present Prosperous eohdinicn comparatively simple. Britain was at hand as an « armor. a €Ve-! ideal base. ment realize that making these| yy wo could use the maritime provinces of Siberia Lami claims places them in the same| gmjja)y in our war against the other end of the , from the boat with the radical isolationist| yi, the calculations here at Quebec would be im- »§ER at the left. group; mensely simplified. Vladivostok is only 600 miles from 1y a shell ri The present prosperity the coun-| mopy, giberia envelops Manuchuria, which is vital | from the di try is enjoying was born in Berlin| y, yo japanese war. efforts, on three sides. With | . Doughboy and Tokyo and is costing the world| p cia nif only because we could use Siberian all but one widespread death and suffering as| ,.0c (he war in the Pacific would be shortened by | left nearest et Kn: 1 we Vil but be BONE) nine ab east, and nnumerne ves saved. (Back to % El ~ . | wood. Mit Bis owns Sone the seVice, Se. Russia Cannot Be Left Out of Picture J Over the ‘| prosperity. ANOTHER. TRONY of the situation here is that DE In event the Roosevelt adminis-| today at Dumbarton Oaks, in Washington, Russia, ea's drive i tration remains in office another| Britain and America are putting the finishing touches < ‘Where we four years and the war ends as ex-| on a tentative plan for world security against post- shells com pected, we shall see what happens.| war aggression. The Big Four, including China, have 4 weren't th Any administration that in the post-| agreed to the use of force, if necessary, to check out- about it? war Suite san reduce the nations] law states. For Russia to refuse to help stop the about it. debt and, ugh co-operation wi Japanese aggression now, once Germany is knocked industry and labor, Srenie a sound gen just about rob the Dumbarton Oaks for- Ab: and lasting prosperity will, deserve mula of its validity. Long sinc the praise and gratitude of us all. Thus while Marshal Stalin is absent from the * our jeep a There is too much mixing of war| Roosevelt-Churchill meeting here, Russia cannot be ' Soot and and politics. A citizen may vote jeft out of the picture. She will remain the big ques- io’ and at and argue for either side, but<let ud tion mark hovering over the conference, , In probably remember that our armed forces are| 1 js hardi#too much to say that were Germany . Jl» ~ ous spot ev not all of one political mind and| ty surrender Soon, and allow Russia to change her to look at that the American flag 1s not the| policy in Asia, most of the military planning here It occurr Sxetusive property of any political] would at once become, te. That is, unless two given to fe ye oy 7 sets of drawn u tacle st Perhaps I am too Stimistic, but Sliernnte plans P a few I think this country will survive as tage will free enterprise—no matter who . . HE tell about | |wing in November. i To The Point— In a ma ve - : = . : : the tank ¢ DAILY THOUGHTS YES, WE'LL have an employment problem after Tussberine He that overcometh, © same | the war—the women who have discovered tn ; shall be Slotsis in While Faimen t; | get men's-wages without marryirsg. Srey wa : Sher Sore and I will not blot out his name | - 7 ow yo : : | ®ut of the book of life, but I will |. : wzh progressed | Sree "he | MOTEAD eb rene my J r, and, | 2 18 to our back from the laundry. ; Ing t Revlon 39. © C0 | CTR 665 ON Al Desk fem fe lave.