Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1945 — Page 6

REFLECTIONS— POLITICAL SCENE— [Plain Fact [By Thomas L. Stokes WASHINGTON, May 19. — The

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~NEW YORK, May 19.—When Hermann (One Meat Ball) Goering surrendered, he was pained and shocked that Gen.*Eisenhower and his® full staff were not on hand to ‘greet him as an illdstrious warrior, - \ Col. Gen: Heinz ‘Guderian, the Nazis’ No. 1. tank experts, was astonished at the coldness of his American captors. ve :

(A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) pub ‘Price in Marion County, s cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 20 cents a week. Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, U. 8. possessions, Canada

gress, as It seems hard for the party : : leaders to grasp this simple fact. It appears difficult for them to understand when they come up short every four years—as they have since 1932 that the voters pay more attention to what the

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A TOUCH OF BUREAUCRACY : HE brief history of OWI's proposed news blackout of * Germany offers an excellent starting point for another éxploratior of the bureaucratic mind, in case anyone feels in the mood for such an expedition. ; The central figure in the story is OWI Director Elmer Davis. who apparently forgot to consult the right members of the military before giving out what he said was a “military order” banning circulation of all outside newspapers and periodicals in Germany, and turning the news dispensing job exclusively over to OWL ; Mr. Davis explained that Germany would get only such news as would best serve the allied governments and

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{| eccupying armies. And he added his own observation that

the Germans, if left free to read uncensored news from America “would get too much impression of divided policies,” and that after 12 years of naziism, they were “out of the habit of understanding what a free press means.” 2 s . . » ” PRESIDENT TRUMAN promptly lifted Mr. Davis’ ban. And in doing so he revealed that Gen. Eisenhower had r issued the order which Mr. Davis, attributed to the

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by saying that the OWI director had acted in good faith,

. but had conferred at too low a level. Mr. Davis, when he professed fear that the Germans

|» would get an impression of our divided policies, apparently

forgot that we have been letting German war prisoners in this country read any English language publication of gen_eral circulation. And he apparently forgot.that those prisoners would go home some day, and that if they ‘carried with them any impressions of divided policies, their account of it surely would be as damaging as anything straight from the printed page. : oo» s . . ¥ ” WHY ARE we suddenly so afraid of “divided policies,” anyway? ‘Wasn't it our proud boast to the world last fall that we could hold an election, with all the old name-calling and airing of bitter differences, and still preserve our pational unity? Why did Mr. Davis want to conceal from

the long-nazified Germans the facts of American life and |

a continuing example of the four freedoms in action? We're rather afraid that Mr. Davis, the Hoosier Rhodes

|. scholar and distinguished journalist, finally has come down with Potomac fever—but bad.

PAY-RAISE VOTES

EVERAL readers have asked us which congressmen from this state voted for the ill-timed and tricky scheme to give each house member a $2500-a-year pay boost dis- ~ guised as a tax-free expense allowance. The question would be hard to answer with complete fairness. That's because the house avoided a roll-call vote on the direct issue. The only roll-call vote taken was on _adog tion of a “rule” to bring the issue before the house. Any of the 229 congressmen who voted for the rule can gay—as some of them do—that he was voting only to let the proposed pay incredse be debated. But 124 congressmen voted against the rule. Of each of them it can be said, definitely, that he voted against the pay boost —that he tried to prevent it from being considered at this time. We think it fair to print the names of those from Indiana who were among the 124 and who, in our opinion, deserve to be applauded.

” 2 8 # n ” REPS. Louis Ludlow, George W. Gillie, Gerald W. Landis and Raymond S. Springer voted against the rule. Reps. Ray J. Madden and Earl Wilson were recorded as not voting. All other Indiana representatives voted for the rule,

' GAP IN HIGHER TRAINING

ITTLE is heard about “reconversion in ‘educational plants.”. But note: A survey through the University-of Cincinnati shows that not enough men are being trained as scientists by American colleges to maintain an adequate flow of pure and applied research. Between 1941 and 1944 the number of new doctorates fell from 59 to 45 in philosophy; 1045 to 633 in physical sciences; 102 to 35 in earth sciences; 868 to 514 in biological sciences; 909 to 563 in social sciences; 454 to 238 in the humanities. ”

Boy Doctorates in religion remained close to the normal

number because men students ih theological seminaries were not subject to military draft. And an increasing influx of women students into advanced educational study caused the number of doctorates in education to fall only from 344 to 288, : “Reconversion in education” may sound odd. But it's an idea, and a pressing one.

BIGGER AND BETTER

IY March 300 Superfortresses devastated some 15 square miles in the heart of Tokyo. That was the biggest fleet of

Buperforts ever to. participate in a mission, and the biggest

raid to date on Japan. tod May 10 an armada of 400 Superforts blasted targets on hu, largest Jap island and site of Tokyo, Yokohama, agoya and most of the biggest Nipponese cities, On May and 17, more than 500 B-29's dropped on Nagoya more ! y for every one of that city’s million-and-

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that “a free press and a free flow of information and ideas |"

{ told me, “but I knew, too, he could fight.”

“War is like a football game,” he said. “And when it is over we should be good fellows and shake hands.” Max Schmeling, the ex-heavyweight champion,

newspaper Stays and Stripes. There Were at least two things he didn’t-like about America. One was the sports writers. They were never fair to him. The other was the people, the “soft living Yankees.” These comments run so much to a pattern they might have been uttered by the same person. -They prob ably add up to a good close-up of the strange German philosophy, too, In Goering you find the familiar

the contempt for the nonple they are, if indeed they

off savagery; in Schmelin German. Very strange are really people,

‘Didn't Have a Nerve in His System’ TLL LEAVE Goering and Guderian for the heavy thinkers over in the brains department, and take Schmeling for myself. I always did like to team him because I never had much respect for him as a fellow, though I found it easy enough to accept him as a fighter. He was a good fighter, and one of the things that made him a good fighter was that he didn't have a nerve in his system. This may be peculiarly German, too. It could help to explain those concentration camp horrors. The night Schmeling knocked out Joe Louis (their first fight) Tom O'Rourke, an old prize ring character, and a camp hanger-on, dropped dead in the German's dressing room. This was but a minute or so before Schmeling was due to leave for the ring. He stepped over-the old man’s body and said to his handlers, “Come, i is time we go.” . :

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to fight his greatest fight that night, and, in the end,

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no deliberate attempt to split them out. After all, who cares what this bum thinks of us?

'Sentimental and Gullible Crew’ ONE POINT might be gained, though, there is always the danger he may be remembered as one of the “good Germans.” Especially by the sports mob, a very sentimental and gullible crew. . Indeed, it may have been of them Schmeling was talking when he mentioned “soft living Yankees.” Except-he probably called them soft-headed. ; ; Schmeling always indicated hé wasn’t a meniber of the Nazis, but what difference did it make whether he was or not? That's what they are all saying today. The fact is Schmeling ran with the beribboned gangsters and one of his closest pals was Rudolph Hess, the muscular crackpot, and there are pictures in every newspaper morgue in the country showing Schmeling and his wife belting over urns of tea with Shickelgruber, himself, and ifsyou ever saw a picture of a happy, beaming, mutually admiring group, this is it. £ One of the first things Schmeling did when he. arrived here the first time was to abandon” his native manager, one Arthur Bulow, a fellow who had brought him up from nowhere, and in bleaker hours had fed and clothed him. “I knew he was no good,” Bulow

'This Made the German a Smart Gee' NOBODY AROUND HERE was too critical of Schmeling for running out on his original manager, because that type of treachery and faithlessness is characteristic of the fight racket and, if anything, this made the German a smart gee, as the saying goes, and undoubtedly won him a great number of

has been heard from. He is quoted in the U. 8, army |

The presence of death may have a hardening |:

American people and the sports writers—and this is |

arrogance, in Guderian the animal spirit that laughs |.

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“WHY NOT MAKE A NEW WORLD?” By S. F.' Martin, 2819 Gale st.

framed and signed by war lords is not worth the paper itis written on or the ink used to-write it. Not one of these war lords can be trusted; the. first time one of them sees a chance to grab his neighbor's territory or steal their commerce. by, |sea, or set himself up as a great war lord or dictator over the world, he will not hesitate a minute to..violate any pledge he signs. Old Kaiser Bill sized it up about right when the first world war broke out. He had a binding treaty of peace with Belgium, pledged never to invade Belgian territory, but when he saw it was necessary to overrun Belgium to win the war,

peace was just a scrap of paper. Now, then, there is only one way in this world that wars can be exterminated and a permanent peace established that will last forever. That way is for the ones that have

admirers along Broadway.

Hitler even then was kicking the Jews around, and it was singular that Schmeling turned his affairs over to Joe Jacobs, who certainly wasn’t born in Dublin. Admittedly this made Schmeling look a whole lot better than Hitler, but the German knew

his main interest was in getting these things done, and for big money. The association always seemed indecent to me, and as it grew older Schmeling began to’ show his contempt for Jacobs, and cut his percentage, and was getting ready to throw him over and manage. himself. In tieing up with Jacobs earlier, he was following a familiar Nazi practice: ‘using an influential Jew for immediate purposes,

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Veto Power By Hal O'Flaherty

SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., May 19,

nations to veto the use of force whenever the question arises in the security council of the United Nations probably will become a part of any world charter accepted here. The small nations do not like #t. The British dominions and the Dutch are against it because they

which means that, whether or not they would have voted [+ * wa 4

directly to increase their own pay, they passed up an opportunity to kill the scheme.

are middle sized powers. Even some of the American delegates find the use of the veto repugnant. At Yalta, President Roosevelt, agreed with Stalin and Churchill to this veto power to be effective only on the final vote in the last act of the council leading to a declaration of war or, politely, the use of force.

Five Major Powers Are Adamant EVERY EVIDENCE indicates that the five major powers are adamant on this Yalta agreement. They are standing firm because they are convinced that if force had to be invoked, one or all of them would

have to provide the armament, the men and other resources,

five nations, the United States, Britain, Russia, China or: France is in a position, where it exercises the veto, war would be inevitable anyway and the nation voting “no” would become the known aggressor in the eyes of the world. i F Some softening of the veto power has been se« cured by the cogent arguments of the British commonwealths. They and other. delegations have agreed that any Big Five nation, when a party to a dispute, should abstain from voting on measures for peaceful settlement. Any contemplated action by the security council, up to the actual use of force, urider this new interpretation could .be decided by a vote of seven of the 11 members,

Work in Committees, Moving Slowly : S8OME SUCH alteration of the voting formula short of the final vote on war is considered probable here, but the Big Five stand firm on the exercise of

nations, even the middle group including Holland, admit that the Big Five's vgto right will be written into the new: charter. ? Work in the committees has been moving forward so slowly that the steering committee may be called into session to discard’ many of the impending de

Jacobs could do things for him others couldn’t, and

{to do the fighting themselves to [take the jurisdiction in hand and | {form a world union of all men and women who work with their hands lor heart in every civilized nation lon earth. Have them hold up their {hands and take .a solemn oath be< fore God and man that never again (will they take up arms again to shoot down their fellowmen and women. Make it a death penalty for any member of this union to violate his oath by’ selling out to| war lords. Then remove the cause that prompts these fools to try to set themselves up as a false god

Hoosier Forum

A treaty of peace shaped and |

{in humanity restored.

he walked over it left much bitterness and discontent roughshod and said a treaty of within my system. I believe it could

“lI wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to -say it.”

(Times readers are invited =| “CONTRARY TO OUR = ° to express their views in | FORM OF GOVERNMENT.” these columns, religious con- |g troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and: publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The ‘Times. The Times--assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondehce regarding them.)

. Greenlee, Association, Inc. You are to be complimented on the editorial appearing in The Times, May 15, under the title, “Beer and Politics.” However, I want to call to your attention you overlooked the faet that the “beer business” was not in politics when the 1945 legislature met, The legislature of 1939, with a coalition of Democrats and Republicans, passed a law which made it possible for. ANYONE, who was of good moral character, and with certain financial qualifications, in addition to trucks and equipment, to be issued a beer wholesalers permit. It fyrther set out that the Alcoholic Beverage Commission could not arbitrarily or for capricious reasons deny a permit to a citizen who met

with my self-confidence and faith

I have four years service jn the army, two and one-half of which were spent in the Pacific. And, frankly, the strain of those years

be classified as a natural reaction the toils of war, When I arrived at Camp Atterbury I was in need of just what Indianapolis stands for—hospitality in the truly American style, and I will always be grateful in knowing I was one

Mind you, Republicans as well as Democrats, joined together in passing the act of 1939, which was liberalized in 1941, by Republicans and Democrats alike.

y Pleas E Executive Secretary Indiana Licensed Beer Wholesalers’

the qualifications as set out above.

of those privileged to take advan-|j cons had command of both the

tage of it.

party does day by day in-congress than to the solemn

declarations in party meetings and party platforms. There. is a fine example of this right now in’ congress. ‘With the world literally shattered by war, the Republican party in congress has chosen to fight the bill which would extend the reciprocal tariff program and allow further reductions. This’ could become one of the chief instruments by which trade between nations can be restored so that they can survive,

Step Back Toward lsolationism IT OFFERS one way out:of the dilemma. Yet the Republicans choose this as an issue in times such as these. ah Thereby they cancel out: much of the progress they have been making in the last two or three years toward a more progressive stand on international

'| co-operation. Their position on reciprocal tariff re J duction is a step away from international co-opera-

tion back toward isolationism. i _ The Republican party in the last few years advanced gradually through pronouncements by its national committee, largely at the prodding of the late Wendell L. Willkie; through the Mackinac declaration; through support of the Fulbright reso-. lution in ‘the house and the Connally resolution in the senate; through its last party platform; through the position taken by its last presidential candidate, Governor. Dewey of New York. - . But in actual performance, it balks.

Senate Leaders Gave Support PARTY LEADERS in the senate gave support to the project of a world security organization, the

‘| outgrowth of ‘all of the steps previously mentioned.

Two outstanding national party leaders are members of the American delegation at the United Na-

Js a leading contender for the 1948 presidential nomoi So ian iA ow a 3 Yet ‘what these men do there will mean: little or nothing without the reciprocal tariff reduction pro- | gram, or a companion’ bill for an international bank and monetary fund to help the nations of the world finance themselves. mentite Developments within the house banking committee, Which is considering the latter bill, indicate that . Republicans also plan to make a party issue on that measure with amendments so basic that it would require another international conference if they were adopted. That would mean delay and perhaps eventual killing of that project: :

Trying to Reverse the Trend THE TRUMAN administration, following the course adopted by the Roosevelt administration, is trying to reverse the trend which followed the last war when we boosted our tariffs that helped bring on depression and war, : The current bill, which the house will take up next Tuesday, does more than extend the reciprocal tariff program for three more years. It opens the way for further reductions. Under the present reciprocal tariff law, rates may be cut by mutual bargaining with other nations 50 per cent below rates in the 1930 Hawley-Smoot act. The current measure, by permitting a 50 per cent cut on rates as of Jan. 1, this year, would allow another 50 per cent reduction in many rates that already have been reduced to the limit previously, or 75 per cent belo the Smoot-Hawley level, . « Some Republicans in the ways and means committee were willing to compromise on a simple extension ‘of the law for a year, but were adamant against the additional reduction proposal. They lost in the ways and means committee. ' They will try again on the floor of the house.

Now in 1945, when the Repub-

'house and senate, as well as the

In these months I've learned taieyecutive, they passed an alcoholic |

IN WASHINGTON—

have the highest respect and ad- peverage act, which was just the

miration for the men and women : i | . posite -of which they had joined who are responsible for the func- TUT Democrats in 1939 ul 1941,

Trade Case

tioning of the very fine Service ;;, making the beer business bi-

Men's Centers and USOs.

| partisan. The 1945 act- went so far

I shall always remember the very to. deny an applicant for a beer

warm welcome and. smiles of the) , ; : | wholesalers’ permit recourse to the women at’ the Illinois street SMC; |courts, giving the alcoholic bev-

the congenial hostesses at the. Wa- | i i : erage commission absolute discreh st. USO, and for their very tion in issuing, suspending or repersonal interest in seeing to OUr | yoring a permit. The act further

recreational activities; the men at!

or dictator over the world. Why not.make this a new world | instead of plodding along in thej same old rut we have been for| thousands of years—we've never got | any place yet. s » o

—The right of any of the Big Five |

Furthermore, {f the time comes when one of these |

the veto right at the end of the road. Many small |

bates and narrow down the fleld of argument to eds | | sentials, guy fh IA hope exists that all of the debates can be con.

“HOSPITALITY IN ITS TRUEST FORM”

By Cpl. Gordon Weinstein, Wakeman Convalescent Hospital, Camp Atterbury

; | I have been stationed at Camp | Atterbury for the past five months, and have spent much of that time

lin Indianapolis. I expect to bel | discharged from the army within a | few days, and am going back home {—and thanks to Indianapolis and |all- it -has to offer to: the service | man, I'm going back to civilian life

|cancelled all beer wholesalers’ per-

the Catholic USO, who stay up all | its ag of May 1, 1945, despite the |

night waiting for the G. 18 10 80 fact that the wholesaler had been to bed; the cadettes, who certainly | compelled to secure a lease for the

are the nicest girls I know, and | last but not least, the deliicous| home cooked meals at Roberts Park, Kirschbaum Center and the Masonic Home. Yes, thanks to the fine citizens of Indianapolis, I'm going home in a pleasant frame of mind, and I'm taking with me a mental blueprint of a community that we can all be proud of. I will always consider Indianapolis as a convincing example of the advantages of a strong and united community. It certainly is an inducement in the promotion of better citizenship. To - me, Indianapolis is synonomous with “hospitality in its truest form.” : : :

Side Glances=By Galbraith

term of his permit, or own the building in which he did business, without reimbursing him for the unexpired term of his lease, In other words, the state made it mandatory that you have a lease for the term of your permit, or own your warehouse, and then without any cause, they cancelled the wholesaler’s permit and made no provision fer reimbursing the wholesaler for the unexpired time of his lease. : In setting up the beer wholesalers, naturally more Democrats were given permits than. Republicans. Why not? Did not the Democrats create this business,

.|which the Republicans refused to

recognize for 12 years? The Democrats took nothing away from the Republicans, but did give Indiana and the nation legal beer, wine and whiskey, with a liberal revenue from excise taxes. A No one will deny that politic does not enter into the- selection of wholesalers. But show me any organization that politics does not enter into. It is in your churches, your lodges, or anything else that has to do with organization. Mr. Editor, let me impress upon you that the Democrats who are in the wholesale business are not complaining as to whether they lose their business or not, but are against the ‘method in which it is trying to be done by the Republicans—that / is, in denying the wholesalers their day in court. This is certainly contrary to our form of ‘government, and, we believe, will not prevail, If a legislature can go so far as to confiscate the beer business, ‘then what is to prevent the legislatures from. confiscating other businesses, which come under the licensing power of the state? Or what is to prevent a

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By Charles T. Lucey

WASHINGTON, May 19.—Administration testimony in weeks of exhaustive hearings provide a line on the case to be made in the house next week for extending and increasing authority to make reeiprocal trade agreements. Government officials hope for a doubling of U. 8. post-war exports as part of the full production program that is supposed to provide jobs for all wha want them. Yet that awesome mouthful, “reciprocal trade agreements” is one of the reasons for lack of interest in the mechanics of how the administration believes this foreign trade must be created. The argument is pegged largely on the proposition that if we wish to sell abroad we must buy abroad—

produces surpluses, Here is the way Clayton puts it: “We produce many things more efficiently than foreign countries, which we can sell fo their consumers if ‘they will permit us to do so by relaxing their governmental restrictions against imports from us.

Agreements With 28 Countries “THEY, IN TURN; produce many things more cheaply than we-—raw materials, finished foodstuffs and highly specialized manufactures—which they can sell to our consumers if we will permit them to do so by relaxing’ governmental restrictions we maintain against our imports from them. “The trade agreements program is simply a means by which we and foreign countries. agree to the reciprocal relaxation of governmental restrictions on both sides, to promote trade in both directions to the benefit ‘of producers and consumers in both countries.” The U. 8. has negotiated trade agreements with 28 countries, and more than 65 per cent of. our normal foreign trade is carried on with them. Both sides have made concessions. Between 1934 and 1039 our exports to non-trade agreement countries rose by only 32 per cent, while exports to trade agreement countries advanced by 63 per cent. Imports from non-agreement countries rose by 13 per cent; from trade agreement countries by 22 per cent Proponents cite the figures to show the trade agreements program works. ; The original trade agreements act provided imports ,could be cut 50 per cent. That authority has been fully used on 42 per cent of our total dutiable imports; in many other cases almost fully exhausted.

Greater Authority Is Needed NOW, SAY government officials, greater authority to cut is needed to provide power to get’ a reduction and removal of foreign barriers against " U, 8. commerce. “We need to start talking, with eards in hands, now,” is the ‘way Charles P. Taft of the state department puts it. Via Both Mr. Clayton and Mr. Taft argued before the house ways and means committee that “no essential industrial or agricultural interests has been seriously damaged by the trade agreements.” Administration officials say the world will look to the U. 8sfor capital goods to repair the. tation of war. They point out that our capacity example, 15

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