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cE 10 Monday, July 30, 1945

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NOW ITS THEIR MOVE JF the U. S. senate deserved all the blame heaped upon it for running out on the League of Nations two and half decades ago—and we think it did—then by the same token it has earned high praise by the speed and decision with

-Qur. senate-is a couple of long leaps ahead of the world’s other major ratifying bodies—in approving first | the Bretton Woods agreement, then the United Nations’ Charter—both by overwhelming votes and without dotting I's or crossing T's. It is now up to the corresponding parliaments and

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OUR TOWN— | Pogue History

By Anton Scherrer

. THE OTHER day I had lunch (fish) with Ivan Pogue, the great - great - great - grandson of George Pogue. The question as to whether Gorse Pogue (a blacksmith) or John McCormick (an innkeeper) was the first white ‘man to settle in what subsequently became known as Indianapolis has plagued historians for the past 100 years. The last time the controversy came: to the boiling point was in 1021, the year we celebrated the centennial anniversary of the foundation of Indianapolis. - Ivan Pogue was 13 years old at the time of the centennial and distinctly remembers that his -family refused to participate because the McCormicks were “We were that mad,” he said as he stabbed a stubborn fish bone on his blue plate. Whether Ivan Pogue's illustrious ‘ancester was the first man to live here or not, -he was certainly the first citizen of Indianapolis to die. : Indian Sought Night's Lodging ONE EVENING in the spring of 1821 (so runs the legend), a disreputable-looking Indian by the name of “Wyandotte John” came to George Pogue's cabin, the location of which was in the neighborhood of | what is now Michigan st. and Highlahd ave. The | Indian asked to stay all night.. Pogue.didn't relish the idea, but.thought it best not to refuse as the Indian was known to be a bad and desperate character who had left his own tribe in Ohjo for some offense. Since‘ then he had been wandering among the various Indian tribes, a fact that had been transmitted to Pogue. After Wyandotte John had been fed to his fill,

- councils of the other major allies to demonstrate that they

are willing to go as far as our senate has gone to promote |

international co-operation. Let us hope they show as | much good faith in us by promptly putting their cards | ~ face up on the table. The endeavor of the Truman administration,hich the senate has followed faithfully, has been to convince our allies that the United States is going the whole way. Doubtless the President and the senate could have won several concessions, to improve from our viewpoint both agreements, had they played harder to get and waited for the others to sign up first. “But all such advantages have _ been sacrificed to establish the United States’ eagerness "to co-operate before the court of world opinion. To win the war, America has given freely of her ‘blood and treasure. To win the peace, America has been quicker than any of the others in pledging more of her resources and in voluntarily restricting future freedom of action. We trust the 2 good example will not go unnoted.

THE EMPIRE STATE TRAGEDY

E PAY so often with human lives before we take precautions. We failed to insist on airbrakes for railroad trains until wrecks had taken an all-too-convincing toll. We didn’t move toward a “safe and sane” Fourth of July until mangled bodies became disastrously numerous with each successive summer.

After the Iroquois theater burned in Chicago we demanded improved fire protection in public buildings. . The | roof of the Knickerbocker theater in Washington collapsed |

{ failed to return, thus upsetting an historic. pattern,

George Pogue casually inquired if he had seen any | white man's. horses at any of the camps. The In- | dian said he had left a camp- of Delawares that morning and that he had seen horses there with “iron hoofs.” He described them so minutely that | it led Mr. Pogue to believe that they were his norses

*| shoa with shoes which he himself had forged. How- | ever, | and sinker.

Mr. Pogue didn't swallow the story hook, line He had a fear that, maybe, it was a trick to lure him into the woods. Indeed, he confided his suspicion to Cassie Ann, his wife, before they went to bed that night. When the Indian left the next morning, he took a direction towards the river, the most populated part of the settlement at that time. Pogue followed him for some distance to see whether or not he would turn his course toward the Indian camps. He didn’t. Whereupon Pogue returned to his cabin with the news that he was going to the Indian camp to get nis horses. He took his gun and with his dog set out on foot to the Delaware camp which the Indian had described as a place about 12 miles east on Buck creek. :

Horse Without ‘Iron Hoofs' FROM THAT day to this, George Pogue was never seen or heard from again. Eyen his dog

With such a tragic start, you'd suppose that the Pogues would have had enough of pioneering. Well,

believe it or not, the urge to start something new |°

has again asserted itself in the person of Ivan Pogue. Hes the Indianapolis man who turns out ‘‘murror murals,” which is to say that he chisels glass as a sculptor would stone. Mr. Pogue's biggest job thus ‘far happens to be | the largest glass mural in the United States. It’s in a Shreveport (La.) restaurant and people have come all the way from England to see it. It measures 118 inches by 68 inches and depicts Apollo in the act of | hitching one of his horses to the sun chariot to begin his daily ride across the heavens. subject, which, by the way, portrays a horse without “iron hoofs,”

The mythological | word to an umpire.

: ® ‘Hoosier “LET'S HAVE ‘BE KIND TO UMPIRES “WEEK”

1°'By Mick MeGintils, Camp Atterbury

Take me out to the ball game + . Buy me some peanuts and crackerjack and then keep your eyes on those umpires. Because they're mean, plenty mean this season or so it seems. But they seem that way every season. Two articles in the “favorite section” caught my eyes today. One briefed me on the story of how Leo Durocher, “The Lip” from Flatbush, had spoken another $5Q Sometimes it would “seem that had Durocher’s

was designed by Elmer Tuflinger, who | parents been thinking about the

to drive home the necessity, for closer building inspection. | also happens to be an Indianapolis product, as if men in blue garb when “The Lip”

The overloaded lake steamer, the Eastland, turned turtle | and dramatized .the peril of unregiilated water transporta- | tion. we learned to supervise more carefully the proper place-

ment of cargo.

Now a B-25 smashes into the upper floors of New | York's Empire State building to underline in horror the | need of a new safeguard. We must impose more and severe | safety restrictions on aviation. We must move at once | against those relatively few pilots who fly too low and too | “close. Who has not heard the terrifying noise? New York paid dearly to teach a vital lesson. Civilian victims were working 1000 feet above the earth in the tallest building of our largest city. Busy at routine office tasks, they had every reason to feel safe. Under the tragedy of their violent death lies a more fundamental tragedy. And this is that the accident should | have happened at all. We must be busy at once, here in our community and | everywhere in the nation; to make certain that Luch a disaster does not, strike again.

POST-WAR TAXES EDERAL taxes should be reduced by one-half, and fed3 eral spending by three-fourths, within a year after | VJ. day, says Chairman George of the senate finance com-

_ mittee.

That's an objective to strive for. And Senator George is on firm ground in urging that the government's post-war budget be based -on our ability to pay rather than on our ‘desire to spend. . But what the government will be called upon to spend | will depend largely upon how well private enterprise provides post-war jobs and opportunities. In turn, the speed

___ with which industry switches to peacetime produetion will |

“depend largely upon what policies the goveinment estab- lm

lishes, including tax policies. The senator's purpose in making the statement doubtless was to reassure private enterprise as to the govern- | ~ment’s-course.-to have great influerice in that field. But if the war should |

end suddenly, there will ‘be a long period of uncertainty |

while congress wrestles with post-war tax legislation. Which is a reminder that some 18 months ago, the

Baruch-Hancock report on reconversion recommended that | ? At the height of her pawer she

. congress pass a post-war tax bill and put it on the shelf— and be ready to pull it off the shelf and put it into effect on V-J day. That has not been done. And the house of representatives, where tax measures originate, is in recessw In time of war, congress has not.prepared for peace.

PRONUNCIATION

WE have just read a book on pronunciation. It informs | us that “Nazi” is pronounced “Nah-tse’” not “Naz-ze.”

-The book is right, of course. But.we recall that Winston ‘Churchill always pronounced the word “Naz-ze.” The fact that he pronounced it wrong did not prevent “him from pronouncing the doom of the group. 4 - : H 2. man whose pronunciation was superior mispro. ced. one of the words he used oftenest, how can any u hope to have perfect pronunciation? We can’t. It is evitable that we imagine pronunciations which prove not ones preferred, Often the pronunciations we heap T or if you preter; favidupityos

And -it will help, forthe senator is known |

anybody had to be told.

| was born, they never would have

Ivan, the glass scuiptor, started out as a book- | taught him to talk.

keeper for the old Marietta glass works, the one that

applied for the job in 1927, somebody in command | out there suggested that he might be a bétter bookkeeper if he knew something about the different de- | partments of the glass business. That's how he ran |

across Rudolph Sedlak, a Bavarian, who had, learned

a glass decorative process as then practiced in Germany. The more Ivan watched the Bavarian the | less he wanted to be a bookkeeper.

Worked Out New Art Form IVAN POGUE was just about to chuck bookkeeping when the depression set in and put a crimp | in the glass business. During this pericd, Ivan became a night watchman, a job that gave him plenty of time to try an experiment which had been lurking | in the back of his head. He figured that if he could

| sandblast glass he would be on the way to creating

a brand-new art form. The idea embraced the theory that each grain of sand driven against the |

glass under high pressure would break away a tiny |

| particle of glass just as a miniature chisel would. When controlled, the Process would be not unlike that of sculpture. Today Ivan Pogue has his process under such control that he isn't afraid to tackle any size of | glass called for. Right now he's working on a glass | memorial (designed by Elmer Taflinger) which eventually will cover the entire wall of the foyer of |

The other article informed .me

When the Vestris and its passengers died at sea, | used to be on 16th st. and Sherman drive. When he | about the altercation between vef-

eran Umpire George Magerkurth | {and a spectator named Thomas [ J. Longo. The name of the fan| |seems to be appropriate since! omy, undoubtedly muttered a ‘long-0” or three when Georgie | poked him in the right eye down lin Cincinnati the other day lor, at least, so goes Tommy's story. | All of this moves me ‘toward a

{point that I would like to make if!

{you'll be kind enough to -allow me to do so. We Americans are a kind, gendr-| lous and appreciative people and it| has frequently perturbed me when {I consider’ that “we” have set aside| certain days or weeks to place stress on various benevolent acts and have {never once thought of doing. amny-| thing for the umpires. | We are kind to dumb animals for | a week and remember our mothers {and fathers on “their days” and dig {deep for certain charities and other | |reepiaations occasionally. And that | is good. As it should be. But why

| the Insurance Center Building (Pennsylvania ‘and jean we go one step more?

Court sts.). The glass measures 27 feet by 12 feet | | and will incorporate a gigantic eagle in the body of | which will be the glass sculptured portrait of Lt.

| Welles McGurk, a navy dive bomber who went down

off Saipan. % It's the first ‘time an historic portrait of heroic |

size has been chiseled in glass, and aobody realizes |cans all know our baseball players,

the responsibility more than Mr, Pogue does. A | mistake amounting to no more than a millionth of an inch may spell che difference between what a painter calls a “portrait” a likeness.”

and his horse looked like, Ivan Pogue appeared in today's column by courtesy |

of , the Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. As for’ Elmer Taflinger, he appeared by courtesy of Mr. Pogue.

ZF ™ WORLD AFFAIRS—

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ko if Will have 146690 square miles of

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controlled 4,679,664 square miles.

Truman, Mr. Churchill and Generalissimo Chiang Kai-8hek would strip Japan of such islands as the Kuriles and Bonins, territory which has always been cohsidéred part of “Japan proper” in tabulations of the expanding empire. It would take from her Karafuté, the southern half ‘of Sakhalin island, which Russia ceded by.the Port Arthur treaty. She would lose Korea, and also | Formosa and the Pescadores ceded by China in 1895

| Territories Offer Problem

SHE WOULD lose Manchuria—which she renamed Manchdkuo—Kwantung, Inner’ Mongolia, and all the territory she conquered in China. - And of course she would lose all her conquests, of 1941 and 1942 in the . .Southwest Pacific, from -Burma to the" Philippines. a Washington is speculating as to how this terriy | tory will be distributed among the great “powers. The United States fought, hard for the Ryukyus

sumably. the territories conquered by the Japanese in the South Pacific will return to thelr gin sovereignty.

WASHINGTON, July 30--Japan |

Apparently the ultimatum served by President |

which lie between the Philippines and Japan. Pre- |

“If Japan is forced to withdraw. into 146,000 square ;

(and their game. [thentic sources known for their {veracity that in. Brooklyn when a

Compared ‘with which the Shreveport | umpire on the street a block away,|a per capita proportionment. mural was a cinch for nobody knows what Apollo |run up to him and call him by his|to be hoped that

first" name and add a few other names besides. || Yes...an ump takes 1 from all

I've heard au- |

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| ides. from young and old. Any more, when the Hatfields {and McCoys get mad, do they feud? {No, they just go out to the. ball park and call the umpire names. A man becomes angry with his visliting ‘mother-in-law, She came to ‘stay a week . . . but she's stayed {a month , . but "does he say mean {things to- her? Tell her to get out and never come back Well, in winter, maybe. But in the summer {time, no, he doesn’t. She's probjably bigger than he is; but anyway, he goes to the ball game and lets

{his wrath fall on the innocent um- |

pire. The poor, poor umps.’ So if I may suggest—why don't | we have a “Be Kind to Umpires ! | Week?” Don’t you think the “crooked so-and-sos” deserve it?

“OUTGROWN SEWER {SYSTEM IS TO BLAME” | By John Alvaly Dilworth, 8164 Broadway Five hundred. thousand dollars of state funds is available for post-war {surveys on a loan basis, to be re- | paid within five years, to counties, cities, towns, townships, school cities, school towns and school townships in preparation of plans, speci- | ications and surveys for post-war public works. | The amount available has been allotted to the 92 counties of Indi-

and what the public cails | boy is two years old he can spot an ana, for the use of the agencies, on

It is arion county has applied at the office of the Indiana | economic council in the Board of | ¥rade building, Indianapolis, as the

Side Cares. —By Galbraith

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{that, after preliminary study, -the|

.| from our courts after their fighting?

~tour-judges? - -

- |used always. . »

| Boyd and Ernie are taken when so

your right to say it.”

application must be received on or before Wednesday, Aug. 15, 1945, so

proper legal steps can be made to get the funds from the state board - of finance. The time has come when it is real

make the most of her future. No. 2 on the city’s post-war program is, in my estimation, modernization of the city’s sewer system or industrial growth will be handicapped. Air conditioning water has overtaxed storm sewers. Industries are unable to build extensions or new plants because the sewer system will not handle their water runoff. Permits have been refused. several companies, which had expansion programs, to connect with existing storm sewers because they are already overloaded. The antiquated and outgrown sewer system is to blame for flood conditions. Wet basements and streets will be in order until the sewer system is improved. Basements and streets are flooded after every rain. ~ .

» “WHAT THE USE Tu CAN?” By A War Mother, Indianapolis The OPA issued me 50 pounds of

canning sugar; last year I got 100 | pounds. . Out in my back yard T have at | least four bushels of grapes if not | more. Down: in southern Indiana we have a little old farm that has

pect we could pick 35 or 40 gallous of them. But we haven't either sugar or gas to get them. There is an abundant crop of peaches. Some say can without sugar. How are we going to sweeten them when we eat them? I wonder if anyone knows how to make jellies and jam without sugar. I canned nine quarts of beet pickles. I used three and onehalf pounds of sugar for them. Points are up on some canned foods, and if we can’t can they will gu higher. And what is the use to gan if you can’t ean it the right Way so it wi be saten?

“GET UNIFORM “METHOD FOR ALL MEN”

By J. C. Chandler, Brideport The article about a poor maimed

| soldier having to go to court to fight for his right to visit and see his daughter—is that the kind of treat{ment these boys are going to get

Is there no such a thing as equal justice or uniform Method used by

Can't our judges come out in the open on equal justice or uniform methods in such cases where there is a divorce and children involved, on an equal congtitutional basis? ... P.S.: Suggest equal rights and uniform methods pe used in divorces in custody, time, support, and that all cases be reopened at once and new modification orders granted if asked for, and uniform methods

"a. ” “HE WAS OUR FRIEND” , By Carroll Collins, Indianapolis’ Boyd Gurley was the ynderdog's friend and. one of the finest’ newspapermen the world has ever known. One thing sure—we need many more like him — en who t nothing but the tru Print fit shocked to see his death notice and wonder why men like

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DAILY THOUGHT

Jesus answered, if I honor my- | my honor is nothing; it 1s

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1928-1945

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 30~The unusual spectacle of a senator outlining all the objections to one of his own pet projects is presented in the two days of open hearings on Montana Senator James E. Murray's highly controversial full employment bill. Murray is leaving to others the job of te what. a great thing his national ‘job budget is. He himself is going to review every criticism that hasbeen raised against the idea of trying to maintain-a balanced national economy which will provide ever-normal employment. Cdnservative businessmen are still pretty well une convinced on the practicality of what they consider Murray's radical ideas. They look on booms and dee pressions as natural “business cycles which nobody can do anything about. They don’t think it possible to shape all related government policies on taxation, public works, wages, working conditions, foreign trade, agriculture, industry, development of national re= sources and the control of investments, competition, monopolies and trade practices so that they will all make a contribution to maintaining prosperity. The other side of the argument in these preliminary hearings is being given by Murray's three coe sponsors in the senate and by leaders from among the more than 100 co-sponsors in the house. * Sénator Joseph C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming pre sents the reed for such legislation. O'Mahoney was chairman of the pre-war temporary national eco= nomic committee and his presentation is & summary ‘of the economic facts of American life as determined by TNEC. ;

Full Employment and World Peace

SENATOR ELBERT D. THOMAS of Utah, chairs man of the senate committee on military affairs, pree

maintaining world peace. Senator Robert F.. Wagner, the fourth co-sponsor and chairman of the senate committee on banking

,| and currency, in whose hands the full employment

bill will be studied, has still another approach to this question. It is a report on the employment stabilization act of 1931, It tells how this act failed to do what it was supposed to do because of defects which are supposedly corrected in Senator Murray's draft of the full employment act of 1945, now before congress. There is a common belief that this full employ« ment bill presents a new idea in government. Ace cording to Senator Wagner, it is not new. In his report to his committee, Wagner states that Senator George Wharton Pepper of Pennsylvania in 1927 proe posed a study of stabilizing employment. A year later Senator Wesley L. Jories of Washington sponsored a bill to create a prosperity reserve and Senator Wagner himself first introduced a bill for employment stabilization. But 1928 was an eléction year and nobody wanted to. touch such a politically: dangerous idea. then. - By 1931, however, the unemployed were in everye

The result was passage of the employment stabiliza= tion act of 1931, based on Wagner's original idea.

FDR Abolished Stabilization Act SHORTLY AFTER President Roosevelt took office in 1933, he practically abolished the Wagner employe ment stabilization act by executive order. Mr, Roosevelt then did not believe the act broad enough to deal with the crisis in which the éountry found itself. ~The 1931 act tried to stabilize employment only through federal spending on public works. Thers was no co-ordination with state and local govern ments on their public works programs. There was no concerted effort to boost employment in private industry and agriculture. The act came too late—after the depression had set in—not before, when a little advance planning might have relieved the crash of the 1930s. Senator Wagner today believes that 1928 is comparable to 1945.

Tealize the danger of future unemployment and would like to see something done about it. A slight increase in unemployment by next fall, when the senate banking and currency committee comes back to begin real scrimmage and skull practice on Murray’s full employment football, will heighten the interest aroused by the kickoff at. this week's two-day tryout.

IN WASHINGTON—

OWI Snub By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, July 30.—Secretary of Agriculture Anderson has dropped the services of the office of war information in his department. He is going back .to the department’s information service to get his announce= ments to the press. Mr. Anderson did so because the office of war ine formation took too much time in handling his publicity, it was reported. Under an order of OWI Director Elmer Davis, all agriculture department information for the public was sent through the office of war information for “coe ofdination and processing.” That meant it was ree written before reaching the press. Mr. Anderson indicated that some of the rewriting

than were the original writers in his department.

Report Delayed 24 Hours

WHEN MR. ANDERSON cut ration points on butter from 24 to 18 points a pound, he wanted the act reported, promptly to the public. When the information failed to appear in newspapers the tollowing day, Mr. Anderson investigated. He is said to have learned that the report was delayed 24 hours in passing through the office of war information, This reporter learned about the OWI procedure while trying to obtain a report on a war production board meeting on DDT, the new insecticide. The session was scheduled for 4 p. m. An. information girl sald OWI would release the information the of 23 hours. The reporter finally obtaihed the news through Maxey N. Morrison, WPB information serve ice director.

‘Not Suppressing News' MR. DAVIS said. he was “not suppressing news" while “co-ordinating.” He said co-ordination genere ally means smoothing out conflicts among departe ments. Disputes are settled before official state ments are issued. Mr. Anderson's system was put into effect today,

“co-ordinate” agriculture department releases which

directly concern other departments or agencies, Nathan Koenig, assistant to Mr. Anderson said.

So They Say

IT TOOK onig 12 weeks to make me a combat soldier. Why make it a yéar (of training) if you can

To. The Point —

God.~John 8:54.

sents the need for full employment as a factor in -

body's hair, and ¢ congress was ready to do something.

The .great difference is that today most people >

was done by persons less familiar with the material

‘next day at 3 p. m. That would have meant a delay

The office of war information will continue tor

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