Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 August 1945 — Page 18
The Indianapolis Times - PAGE 18 Thursday, Aug. 2, 1945 i ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor : : Business Manager € (A SCRIPPS-BOWARD NEWSPAPER) Owned and published fo pee Price tn Marion Coundaily (except Sunday) by a a” | ty, 5 cents a copy; delivindianapolis Times Pub- 4 ered by carrier, 20 cents lishing Co. 214 W. Mary- a week. : Jang st. Posta} Zane 5. Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, U. S. possessions, Canada
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ROUGH ROAD AHEAD, MR. PRESIDENT HE Truman regime could wreck itself on the rocks of loose administration. La The last two men appointed to the cabinet, Secretary of State Byrnes and Secretary of the Treasury Vinson, have been severely criticized by Senator Mead’s war investigation committee for their failure as administrators when they were in turn heading up the Office of War Mobilization and Reconversion. These two men are extremely popular in Congress, where they served long and with distinction. They are skilled legislators and policy makers. But in the final analyiis, the record they make running the state and treasury jepartments will depend largely upon how they develop 18 administrators. Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach is another with leg- | slative and judicial experience. Whether he can admin‘ster the labor department any better than Madame Per:ing did has yet to be demonstrated. Our guess is he will. Secretary of Agriculture Anderson is another cabinet ~ecruit from the Congress. He has made a good start as ‘n administrator. Attorney General Tom C. Clark has yet to prove his teel. @ Among the other cabinet officers, Roosevelt holdovers, ‘re two whose prospective resignations are rumored daily —Secretary of the Interior Ickes and Secretary of War timson. It is reported Mr. Ickes may quit because he’s ot-sure of his standing at the White House, and that Mr. “timson wants“to retire because of his age. It happens .3at Mr. Jekes and Mr. Stinson are two excellent admintrators. If President Truman undertakes to replace 1em, he will be well advised to require of their successors sme qualifications other than being good party Democrats, ood fellows or old friends in Congress. One weakness of the Roosevelt administration was the alsy-walsy tone of the top-command. Only those who “benged” counted. Let's hope Mr. Truman doesn’t start ‘nother “club.”
'ONNALLY’S MISTAKE : TV HILE the ratified San Francisco Charter was still on its way to the White House, Chairman Connally of 1¢ Foreign Relations Committee started a dispute over 1e necessity of enabling legislation regarding the, Ameran delegate. Someone of more political wisdom in the Iministration should call off Senator Cannally, and Chairian Bloom of the House Foreign Affairs Committee who
REFLECTIONS— TE er Notes From Borneo By Frank Aston" :
Bills for tattooing can be paid on the instalment plan in some parts of Borneo, that. large island on which the allies are slowly overpowering the Japs. Most tribes go for tattooing in a big way. It is not uncommon for a person of distinction to “cover his ‘body with tattoo marks “outlining his social background. } One tribe starts tattooing girls at the age of four. The job generally takes about five years and is done a little at a time, "It hurts. The finishing touch is not put on a kneecap until the bill is paid. Kneecaps show ifn Borneo, A plain kneecap is the mark of a cheap skate. But the artists are nice about it. The subject need not pay at once; just stop by with little swords, pieces of brass, gongs and similar tokens of payment until the account is settled. Then the cap is fixed up. S ‘ Tribesmen consider it immodest for a female to be tattooed after becoming a mother. Motherhood occurs in the middle teens, for parents urge children to marry at the age of 14. Youngsters of that age are allowed to choose for themselves, It's customary to hire a go-between who visits both sets of parents and makes the nuptial arrangements. The boy is expected to make a présent to his future parents-in-law. The latter always accept, whether or not they fancy him as a son-in-law.
Family Life Isn't Wild
Borneo parents are not mean to their children, as a rule. The kids seem to appreciate that, because frorh the age of 10 they go to work. A boy helps his dad around the place and a girl works with mama in the house. The house often is a long, narrow affair separated into family compartments. It has a porch along one side onto which each compartment opens, Since some of the interior tribes are profoundly lazy, child labor never becomes a social menace. Murut tribesmen are so lazy they don't work at all; they eat whatever they can find. Age is no drawback to any item on their menu. Muruts invariably appear content. The Dyaks, in the north, believe in spirits. To a Dyak, everything is haunted, especially trees. He is convinced that when a spirit leaves its natural abode, the abode becomes sick and will die unless the spirit returns. That goes for human beings, animals, vegetation. A Dyak keeps pretty busy offering gifts to spirits. He assumes a spirit gets peevish if it doesn’t receive frequent gifts. And a peevish spirit is likely to move out of whatever it lives in, including the Dyak himself. A Dyak figures that if he can catch some other fellow’s spirit, it will abide in him. This leads now and then-to the practice of bringing home human heads. The heads are cleaned, dyed and decorated with flowers. When feasts are held, choice foods are offered to the heads to persuade the acquired spirits to stick around. It is considered polite for a suitor to present a head to his girl’s parents. It also helps in politics, because a youth may not become a chief until he has brought in his share of heads to the village elders. The heads come from other tribes, not from the immediate neighbors.
Keeps Records on Own Skin Sometimes a ¢ribesman keeps track of his head collecting by recording each head with a tattoo mark on his body. Birth is occasion for special rejoicing among th® Dyaks. Soon as a baby is born, its proud papa waves a fowl over it, then takes the bird outdoors where he kills and cooks it. Anybody happening along is welcome to a piece. - The Dyaks do not hurry in naming their children. A child may be six or seven before getting a name. Until then, it is addressed by a pet name. When a Dyak woman puts on a girdle, she isnt fooling. It reaches from the arm pits to the hips. If she’s really a slick chic she adds a collar which does | to her neck what the girdle does to the rest of her.
POLICE = 0
C . bi i By Daniel M. Kidney ~ WASHINGTON, "Aug. 2—Since House Minority Leader Joseph W, Martin Jr. (R. Mass) proposed world-wide abolition of peacetime compulsory military service more than 1000 letters and telegrams have reached his office. . Only 22 opposed his plan.’ ws Incorporated in a house resolution, the proposal would have President Truman and the state department assume world leadership in bringing about abolition of compulsory service, Rep. Clifton A. Woodrum (D. Va), chairman of the House Postwar Military Policy Committee, termed the proposal a “wonderfully idealistic contemplation.” This committee has recommended postwar upiversal military training for the United States. ely . The army and navy recommended a year for all males some time between 18 and 28. Church, school, farmer and labor organizations have largely opposed such a plan,
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Democrats Back Proposal Gi ONE communication to Mr. Martin came from
his home state and was’ said to represent the sentiment of “1000 to 2000 Democrats.” They liked the Martin proposal and offered to work for its adoption. A Brooklyn Catholic paper approved. A New Hampshire Baptist minister wrote: “I believe it to be realistic, statesmanlike, Chris- - tian and forward looking.” 1 From the president of an Idaho farmers’ oil co-operative came the blessing of ‘its 8000 members. “We believe yours is the only constructive suggestion likely to promote peace among nations,” the president wrote, vs A Pittsburgh war mother, whose son was wounded on Okinawa, said: . \ “You are on the right track with your resolution urging a world-wide ban on this military training. It will be a live issue in the next campaign, when mothers and teachers will resent the army trying to take over the home and the school.” From Columbia, Mo. a war wife wrote: “This is the healthiest and sanest proposal that has been made™
War Training Bar fo Peace
ANOTHER wife wrote from St. Louis to say her husband has been fighting for 19 months in the South Pacific and she is caring for their 13-months-
“LETS NOT HAVE ANY MORE TALK AGAINST SOLDIERS” By Mrs. Joe Schwert, Indiafiapolis I would like to see our soldiers get a fair deal, Mrs. A. A, as I think every true’ American would. I have a personal and unprintable opinion of anyone who talks against our service men. !
You and your husband do not blame these shameless and indecent women that are robbing our soldiers! These women go out upon the downtown streets in their shorts, practically nude, on purpose, to attract the service men or any man as far as that's concerned. If our police force was as good as you say it is, these. women would not be allowed in taverns unescorted, and
Smart hats are made of rattan. The hairdress consists of a knot. { The men wear loin cloths. Men like bracelets, Both | sexes chew tobacco and betal nut. This makes their teeth black. i The “wild man” of Borneo is a myth, ‘He was
they certainly wouldn't be allowed upon the streets half naked. Yes indeed, a soldier is better than an ordinary citizen. These soldiers
Hoosier Forum
old baby which he has never seen. “You can't have peace by nations training their sons for war,” she concluded. ~~ “Big standing armies and compulsory military training means moral bankruptcy and defeatism,” ~+-declared a - writer. from Atlanta. Another letter from Buffalo said: . ! “If this war has not taught us anything, God help us: Keep up your noble fight. Millions are with you, although they do, not write.” “Glory hallelujah!” a Florida telegram read; “now
“1 wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”
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is By Mrs. A. A, Indian is these columns, religious con- yl
’ I wish to agree with Mr. George troversies excluded. Because |C. Smith of Indianapolis. Yes, just of the volume received, let-
who is this person that calls himi self The Watchman and what do| we are getting somewhere!” And another from Ft. ters should be limited to 250 | 0; mean by publishing such trash| worth, Tex : words, Letters must be [as he has been writing? Do you “Never voted Republican, but am grateful to hear signed. Opinions set forth |know you are about to lose a lot of | one national figure talking sense. Please push your hore sie those of the writers Times readers? * | anti-conscription fight and don't let anybody push - - AN py ! You said some time ago he was! you around.” and piblication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The
not on ‘your staff at The Times. : Times assumes no responsi-
Well, why don't you publish his] IN WASHING TON— bility for the return of manu-
name? Lately when I bring home| Coal Crisis scripts and cannot enter cor-
The Times and I see an article; respondence regarding them.) Mr. George C. Smith is right—| By Peter Edson
over it so as none of my family |
| should read it. |
signed The Watchman 1 take a thick black pencil and put a big X| : | this person must be an agent of the, WASHINGTON, Aug. 2.—The army. Those Nazis or a Jap—somehow the Hoo-| story goes that Secretary of Interior
soldiers in our U. 8.
| ‘boys whoever they are happen to sier Forum is protecting him. Why? | Harold Ickes and Undersecretary of | have fought, bled and died for thei, i; uniform fighting for the likes Publish his name. If he is an| war Robert Patterson and their
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LONDON, {Daily Teles { that former [| (Robert Ley lailied jailers i the quality « could dictat | blond. || Allied aut} . nothing dc | Ley must d | lof past sins ~The dispat . Mondorf le | called Ley | former gaul *Golddust | teow Nazi i nothing to « Ignc if Bigwigs st ing, Admir: ; Joachim vor f two. | The prisor f to stomach * balked wher “We don’t - hitz said. | biggest crim won't eat with him.” | | Correspone “ through the I parlier repo | were living | Ribbh | A tour of | Doenitz wes yetiow swes | Prince Phili | Inmates whe keeping unt | Social life | around Goe | Ing dominat the two. . Doenitz 1s Fhe had bee: many, he wc German cri |, Some of t [Ing English.
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| ” | people of this country, yet some. of : : | American ‘and a respectable citizen aids were conferring on the apus would begrudge what little fun(©f You and putting food on the on
: 2 i | o they have and a few drinks. {table for you to eat. I feel also that The Times would not be afraid t0| parent shortage of coal to keep the United States A soldier that has come back from |if you had spent 13 months in a
publish his name. and Europe warm next winter. | To my way of thinking, Mr. Edi-| .“Do you want more coal?” asked Ickes. When the hell of war, badly wounded, German prison camp and if you, tor, he (The Watchman) is 00 gen-| the army nodded assent, Ickes said, “It's out there mayo ped 1 8 E00 oy th tru cumstances conJOU? sighs as ‘| cerning Sgt. Humphress' case you
tleman or he would not write suen| in the hills. Go dig it.” Dioad of Upping sah dri iy trash. And we are tired of it. If] After that crack Judge Patterson rose and walked nstead of tipping cab drivers, w. : . o would hesitate in using him for an don’t you save up that extra change ple. For every one soldier you
you cannot use all your space up! over to a wall map of the Pacific. d ha ded soldier. I just leave the rest blank. “Do you want to win the war in a hurry?” he an ve a woun soldier from|". ; { nly allowed so “Well, there it is out in the Pagific. Go ive as example, 10 or 12 civilians We know you are only asked: ell, Billings General hospital out to your Oe a he pa itm much space for your Forum. We win it” : house for Sunday dinner? f 1 What if a soldier does walk over| NO one approves of persons kill-
merely some American rigged up to look wild in circus acts. P. T. Barnum is credited with the invention. In Borneo they really do wear sarongs. Our men writing home about the optical effects say the sarong girls don’t look like Dorothy Lamour. :
WORLD AFFAIRS—
Pierre Laval
; supporting him, before they present Charter opponents nother issue. i Connally’s purpose is praiseworthy. He wants to rotect the Charter from crippling restrictions on the owers of the American delegate, which he fears opponents ill put in legislation defining the scope of that office. But is method is self-defeating.” By trying to prevent a ature debate and vote he creates fresh troubles, including aarges of nullifying the senate’s constitutional right.
right at the heart of the argu- | ment over next winter's coal shortage. August is
{like to read from good American; This story gets people. |
Nevertheless he is seeking State Department support or his contention that the President should create the ew office, and that congressional action is therefore unecessary.
“The point is that the delegate will be a diplomatic
y By Wm. Philip Simms
That apparently is what he had hoped to do. Had
“fficer appointed by the President, and will have to carry ut the orders .of the President,” Connally argues. “The | ‘resident is the one who will decide how this nation votes | 'n the security council.” | x = =» ‘ 8 8.» { E agree, in the main, with this interpretation gf the! executive powers. But we fail to seé why this should revent enabling legislation. The added fact that some senators challenge the President’s authority over the league lelegate makes it all the more necessary, in our judgment, ‘hat this issue be debated and settled openly.
Besides, hasn't Chairman- Connally forgotten: his bargain? Wasn't there a definite understanding before charter ratification to postpone debate on this matter until the separate legislation creating the delegate office was brought up? Senator Vandenberg, the Republican leader who served with Chairman Connally on the San Francisco delegation and in steering the Charter through the senate, has. a better memory. He says enabling legislation “not only is | necessary to qualify satisfactorily the delegate for the | office, but I also think it was promised to satisfy the | senate.” :
Much misunderstanding has developed over this new | office, ‘which should be cleared up permanently by such | legislation. Under the Charter, the United States as a, nation—not any delegate—is the league member. And | under the United States Constitution the President controls | the conduct of our foreign relations, with congress having the power to declare war. --Congress cannot change these constitutional powers. Therefore our league delegate will be the agent of the President, who can use our armed forces for police purposes but must wait on congress for a declaration of war and war appropriations. There is. no reason why this matter should bé inflated imo a great national dispute, if Chairmen Connally and - Bloom will avoid evasive maneuvers and consequent public suspicion, rei hp mi
THE MISSING DRUMSTICK ~~ A CHAIN of grocery stores has offered a $5000 prize to ~~ the poultryman who will develop a chicken with a ; and more white meat, th Ls i whatever hecame of the old-fashioned oof IL drumsti k i I
| notified to be on the lookout.
he been in a hurry to return to Paris, Le Bourget, one | of the best airports in Europe, would have been far | more convenient. But Laval has already been condemned io death in absentia by one French tribunal and the same court
thousand times ot a i | which is now trying Marshal Petain for high treason | housand times better to me than going for us while we are sitting {back here in comfort and so forth,|
has summoned him to appear before it or be condemned again in the same way. A second death sentence is regarded as certain,
democracies, tradition is strongly against handing over political refugees wanted by other countries. where the almost execution.
He Finds No Delay
As this is written there is something of a mystery about some of the details. If he was counting on the American authorities to coddle him while the allies unwound several miles of red tape, Laval was terribly mistaken. Hardly had his Nazi-piloted plane come to a stop at Linz, Austria, than he was taken into custody by the Americans there and starfed en his return to France. There is some reason to believe that Spain may have been in on the play, as well as the United States and France. Laval was ordered to leave Spain by the same plane in which he had entered the country threé months ago, and the allies had doubtless been Doubtless, also, the allies had been notified in time for them to make their plans. Certainly no time was lost putting them into operation.
person wanted faced
But Laval is no Kossuth who. fled from Hungary and for years lived securely in England, the United |
States and" elsewhere abroad. He is no ordinary politico in any language. A Frenchman born and bred, he openly sided with the German invader. As early as 1940, he placed himself on record saying that “the higher interests in the nation” required a Nazi victory. He raced against America’s entry into the war, warning her to stay out because, he said, Hitler's victory was inevitable. i
He Worked for the Nazis In 1942, Laval conscripted French - worllers and peasants to send them off to the Reich as slave-labor. Before that he had even agreed to the abominable Nazi proposal to exchange one sick French prisoner of war in Germany for three healthy Frenchmen to work in German fields and fagtories. : - It was Laval who went so far as to recruit an outfit called the Legion of the Tricolor to fight on the side of the Nazis against the allies of his own country. The legion was a fizzle, not of Laval, but because he could not find enough bad nchren to make it a go. ’ X
turried himself over to the Americans Tuesday afternoon, in Austria. Or was turned over to them. There have been reports that Laval wanted to be
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tried—if at all~by the United Nations, But there
WASHINGTON, Aug. 2—Former Premier Pierre Laval, French quisling and chief of the Vichy collaborators, was not allowed to hide for long behind the American flag |
and speak to you while you are eating in a restaurant? You should feel that you aré being honored instead |of thinking that he is insulting you.
{war. He almost gave his life two
ing each other, but because the ac-
We have a good president. We! a terrible season to have to worry about February's
My husband is a veteran of this|
argument.
cident happened, and because the boy is in uniform, is that a reason to use him for an example per‘taining to something that has noth-| ing whatsoever to do with your|
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democracies have been particularly reluctant in cases |
certain CRITICIZE MEN IN UNIFORM” | By Mrs. E. P., Indianapolis
{ Our Cab Drivers a Square Deal.”
This is the man who, uninvited and unwanted, |
years ago in the southwest Pacific for just such so-called Americans as
Perhaps in your opinion soldiers! oF . {are trying to run the city—it's al- § you. and your husband, Mrs. A. A. | right for them to win the war, isn't|
don't need the preachings of a halfwit. So.I also demand to know who | this Watchman is, man or woman, Let them put their name in print. | |No one but a low-down coward] {would send such articles in to the]
So let's hear from everyone that
and it certainly made my blood boil |; No, it's people like you, lady, | Teads The Times and see how many
any Red Cab driver.
{when I read your letter in the Fo-|i1at are trying to run the city, Protests against such a person. you. rum last night. My G. 1. Joe is al ag much as the armed services are! Will get.
I like the truth. So far this socalled Watchman had never told
Let's not have any more of this | 2 hvone should gpe ashamed to say | he truth, I don’t care if you pub-
“SHOULD BE ASHAMED TO
{in your accusations against the and freedom in life.
If you have any personal dislikes against the armed forces, if I were you, I'd keep them to myself because there are thousands of us an. n jHat have fathers, brothers, hus- | To Mrs. A. A. writer of “Give|bands and so forth in the army that are dying every day so people I feel that you are totally unfair |like you can have a right to comfort
{talk against our service men. They | anything against any man in uni- lish my idea of this Watchman but
In the United States, England and other western jJeserve far more than they will ever| gon
I would like Mr. George C. Smith to know he is not alone in his judgment. I am for Mr. Smith 100 percent—likewise, all others.
“OUR FUTURE AMERICA IS OUR PRESENT CHILDREN” By Mr. and Mrs. Crandygll, 606 Ingomar ave. After reading r article on Ray Lees and his outstanding ork ‘at the park, these thoughts came to
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Side Glances=By Galbraith
our minds, and unless we express them to someone there no one will know. First, it seems thht your organi zation is looking for things that are beautiful and helpful as well as the cold facts on the other side. Secondly, you are not afraid to publish them, which is a blessing to America and a democratic government, Third, Mr. Victor Peterson .must’ have somewhere within himself a talent for seeing real beauty. Not the beauty of face or body, but the beauty that made Ernie Pyle and Abraham Lincoln. Thte thing that makes us want to do for others more than for ourselves. Fourth, we are glad to know that in this world among ‘so many murderers, thieves, grafters, liars and cheaters, etc., that there is one man who (regardless of the size of his job) is. really happy to give his mind, body and soul for the sake of little children. 7 We realize surely that our future America is now our present chil'|dren, And whether America still
1 | remains America depends solely, not
| lon the physical or mental make-up lot our future men and women as | |adults, but on our little men and | [women and their present training
DAILY THOUGHT
That is half the by June = The
frostbites, and Washington officials aren't supposed to have feuds. But somebody in charge around here had better start worrying about this, hard and fast, or there will be a lot of freezing and a lot of agonizing six months hence. : The dispute over how to get more coal out of the
! ground narrows down to nothing more than a ques-
tion of shaping a manpower policy for the period of reconversion and demobilization.
What seems to. be needed is some kind of or-
ganized reverse .selective service. That is; a way to draft mén out of the armed services and out of cut-
back war industries, placing these men where they are most needed and where they will find jobs wait~ +
ing. Today Ickes says 30,000 more miners are needed if the mines are to get enough coal out of the ground. Last April Ickes wanted only 5000 more. The army turned him down then and turns him down now.
Shortage of Miners Acute
ON APRIL 1, beginning of the 1945 coal-year, there were 453,000 people working in hard and soft coal mines combined. On April 1, 1941, there were 545,000. The drop is 92,000 miners. Of the prewar mine labor force, an estimated 90,000 enlisted and 40,000 were drafted. An additional 75,000 to 100,000 prewar miners left the mines to work in other war industries where the jobs were pleasanter and the pay higher. Army spokesmen say why not hire those people to go back to the mines or why not hire people from the 200,000 soldiers already released from the army or the 4000 now being discharged daily?
Well, the mine operators and the U. 8. employment
service have put on numerous drives and they have succeeded in recruiting over 100,000 less efficient new workers and older retired miners; But most of the people who left the coal country don't want to go back and the veterans don’t want to go into the mines either, and there is no way to make them. Tckes therefore proposes that the army release 30,000 of the ex-miners now in service, Army refuses.
Army Opposes Special Discharges
IN THE COURSE of the war the army has granted temporary furloughs to skilled tire makers, foundrymen, copper miners and munitions, textile, aircraft and railroad workers. That is the precedent Icke: builds his case on. But today the war department says it would be a mistake to release men from the
army just because they have a special skill and a job
is waiting for them. Reason given is that the army has committed itself to a policy of discharging men on the point sysactive service and
army were polled on this way they wanted it.
release ne 1, 1048,