Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 August 1945 — Page 12

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THE VANDENBERG PLAN

ENATOR VANDENBERG'S suggestions to of State Byrnes, regarding legislation on powers of the U. S. delegate to the new world security league, are con structive. They should not be confused with efforts of a minority senate group to hamper effective: American cooperation with the league. . At the same time he counters

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the short-sighted maneuver of some of the international |

extremists to by-pass congress entirely in this matter. It is true that the U. S. constitution governs, and that | any law passed by congress could not basically change the limitations and separation of powers of our executive and | legislative branches in relation to the league. Our league delegate must be an agent of the Presi-

dent, who has full powers to conduct foreign relations and)

to use armed forces for international police purposes. But

nothing can take away from the senate the right to pass |

on treaties and of congress the right to declare war, Within that constitutional framework, however; special legislation is essential for clarity and efficiency. Senator Vandenberg has this need for clear definition in mind, as well as the implicit pledge of later separate legislation during the Charter debate, in proposing that— The statute should stipulate that the delegate, with ambassadorial status, be nominated annually by the president and confirmed by the senate. The delegate should act pursuant to presidential instructions, with the President making annual reports to congress regarding United States activities in the league. The President would be required to notify congress at any time he instructed the delegate to vote for sanctions, military or otherwise. . * »

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THE PRESIDENT could use any armed forces which were part of our regular ratified quota under the security council, “as a policing quota and not as a war quota.” But he would have to come to congress for authority to commit _ other armed forces.

“This will leave the President free to act, as must be the case if this (sanction) phase of the Charter is to be effective,” the senator says. “I believe there is ample constitutional authority and long precedent to justify the presidential initiative. At the same time it will keep congress currently advised regarding any movements which might | graduate into war (which is an exclusive congressional | prerogative) and free to assert its attitude if, as and when | it wishes.”

When the league military quota arrangements are made, he says the United States should assume exclusive | responsibility for any armed forces needed to keep peace | in the Western hemisphere. Assuming he means the United | States and other hemisphere nations associated together | under the regional security pact of Chapultepec, this is | important to traditional American policy. : Senator Vandenberg's proposals are in line with the | non-partisan efforts to create closer co-operation between the executive and congress, to which he personally contributed so much as a member of our San Francisco conference delegation and as a leader for senate ratification of the Charter. We think his plan will receive the friendliest consider- | ation from the President and Secretary Byrnes on their | return from Potsdam this week. FP

HITLER AND.THE ATOM BOMB

WHILE the democratic world shudders at the thought ,of what would have happened if Hitler had dev eloped | the atomic bomb, it appears he might have done so. For German and other refugees from Nazi terror were pioneers | in breaking down the atom.

Since the bomb is based on the work of many scientists | in many countries over ntany years, naturally the list of German physicists, chemists and mathematicians who contributed directly and indirectly would be a long one. Perhaps at the top should be the name of the great Einstein himgelf, the German Jew who is now an American because of Hitler. It was an Austrian Jewess, Dr. Lise Meitner, who opened the way for breaking down. the ‘uranium ‘atom. That was in the 1930s when Hitler was rising to power, She had to leave Germany in 1938 because of the -antiSemitic pogroms, Another German who worked with her was Dr. Robert Fritsch. He came to our atomic laboratory in Santa Fe, N. Mex.

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» " n n MEANWHILE these two had shared their rese arch with the great Danish atqm expert and Nobel prize winner, "Niels Bohr, When the “Nazis tried to catch Dr. 1943, via Sweden to England. He had gone on an atomic research | strike in 1940 as a protest against the Nazi invasion. The Italian, Enrico Fermi, was another refugee from | dictatorship who came to America «to contribute much to | the bomb research,

To complete the irony, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheirier, the University of California physicist who was in charge of | ‘the military project and to whom the war department gives | “credit, studied at a German university after graduating | from Harvard.

There is cosmic justice in the fact that barians, in their -ban on intellectual freed racial sadism, unwittingly cut off the Ger “which might have provided them with the bo civilization, :

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AFTERMATH

WE already are beginning to feel the effects of* post-war readjustment in Europe. For instance, the Poles have ed the former Jetman city of Stettin, and now American ; have to learn to Pronourite He city’ 8

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OUR TOWN—

By Anton Scherrer

THE moody reflections about to follow are the result of reading the Fashion Forecast in the August number of Vogue, an issue which devotes the better part of its contents (132 pages) to a discussion of “silhouette” as the thing that women must strive for in their dress. “It is. patriotic and law-abiding to dress as‘ narrowly as possible,” says Vogue. Which means (if you have the courage to continue reading) that a woman should have the ‘contour of a match.” Apparently aware that some of its readers (me, for one) can’t possibly remember’ what a match looks like, Vogue finally divulges the bitter truth with the unadorned statement that a silhouette calls for “a narrow sheath every line of which is under control.” Somehow, the word “sheath” rang a bell in this dense masculine head and recalled the Directoire gown which, strangely enough, was also called the “sheath gown”. It made its appearance in Indianapolis in 1908. The date is firmly fixed in my mind because

| his classic bane-head play at second “base in the heart-breaking New . York-Chicago World's Series. Much as I want to, I'l] never forget. it.

' Ankles—But No Hips

| I CAN'T hope to describe. the Directoire gown—

certainly not in Vogue's sophisticated lingo—but, as near’ as I can recall, it was a garment the fit of | which was so snug that it ‘necessitated slitting the | left side of the skirt to enable a woman to walk. The | slit extended about four inches above the top of a woman's high shoe and revealed .just about that | much of her stocking. It was! 1't worth the Sesigneris effort. THe historical implications of the Directoire’ gows | were something else, however. For one thing, it rang | the knell of the rustling petticoat which, up until | then, was the source of the musical .sound known as | “frou=frou.” For another thing, the Directoire gown | suppressed a woman's hips which came as something | of a shock at the time, for most of us men had just about made up our minds that amplitude of hips was | & desirable thing in women. The suppression of the frou-frou and of the hips { has been preserved for posterity in the shape of two revealing poems, Concerning the petticoat, the poet proclaimed: . “Katie Keith, she wears a sheath With very little underneath.” As for the hips, the poet lamented: “We don't wish to insinuate That théy were not real before: But where, oh; where, are the hips that we Don't notice any more?”

The Newest Style in Town

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“LOOK WHO'S TALKING ABOUT MOB VIOLENCE” By Carroll Collins, Indianapolis | Shade of Caesar's ghost, !

THE DIRECTOIRE gown turned up first in Indianapolis in the woman's suit department of the old | New York store then in charge of Edward Lambeth. Fully aware of the opportunity which is supposed to knock but once on a man's door, Mr. Lambeth ad=- | vertised the arrival of the Directoire gown in all the | newspapers. Then with the proverbial prescience of | department store executives, he set up a timetable ! to accommodate the anticipated crowds. If I remember correctly, the Directoire gown was on view in Mr. Lambeth's department from 9:30 until | 11 in the morning, after which it was brought down from upstairs and draped over a real-forssure beautiful woman. For the next 15 minutes, the dressed-up woman was put on display in the New York store's show window. The sideswalk crowd was so dense the first day. it | spilled over into Washington st.,, and for a while | it looked as if the show window might cave in. In- | deed, it almost precipitated a panic, for right in the midst of the excitement some hysterical man in the | | front row yelled: “It's all off,” and it moved the | | crowd to surge forward. It turned out, of course, to | | be just another exaggerated rumor. All the mag | | wanted to say was that.the.show was over,

There Ought to Be a Law" |

APTER THE show was over, an Irvington woman .! red with righteous indignation called at the police | station and complained about the goings-on at the | New York store. She said the exhibition had insulted | her sex .and, to give point to her indignation, she | volunteered to swear out a warrant against the | 1g the Directoire gown. 1 can't recall whether or not the indignant woman carried it that far, but it appears that she got the police interested all r t Anyway, the very next morning there was a lle sign in the New York store window .sayir that the Directoire wou ldp't appear anymore, ‘That, of course, up to Mr. Lambeth’s department. It's a | | matter of history that Mr. Lambeth had 3000 women | milling through his department when the store Opes ed the next morning, and probably as many men,

woman | drove

® Hidoed: there were so many curious men that | morning that Mr. Lambeth had to revise his time- | table with the result. that this time he limited the | men’ to dhe Your a day. For some reason, he picked ur of the morning. It worked all right for the “9 York store, but it spelled disaster for the | barber shops of Indianspous.

Men & Atom

By James Thrasher

THEY ARE saying now that the | power of the atomic bomb is so terrible that men will no longer | , dare to wage war. That would be comforting to believe. But they same thing about the bomber airyears ag20. They probably made tion. when gunpowder was first used

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remains that no weapon, however ter- | curbed war-making. And some of the best minds down through the centuries have devoted much of their talent and energy to creat- | ing more elaborate and efficient methods of bring- | quick and widespread death to their brothers,

human

Now the scientists of America, inp a fantastic race | have perfected |

scientists of their enemies, | the most Tai ifying agent of death the world has | ever Know In doing so they have probed another | secret or the universe. They have taken the motivating energy life upon this planet'and, without being able to explain it, have harnessed and used it.

Can Men Be Trusted?

THE EXPLOSION of the first atomic no more shattering than the announcement of existence, one "of the great | promises incalculable changes in history and human life. © Yet is man ready to be trusted with the fruit of his own scientific wisdom? It may be right, by the rules of war, for us to | visit this cataclysmic death upon a cruel and guilty enemy less war and has refused to take it.

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But what is to with this new weapon in the future?

Should It Be Kept Secret?

AT PRESENT the weapon is a secret known only to a few persons in this country and. Britain. It is .8 product of two nations which genuinely love andwant peace—a fact for which the world may well thank God. It mighit be well if they kept that secret

of the world has shown itself fit to share it. It 1s more important that the United Nations organization prevent future war than that we run our ships and airplanes by atomic energy instead of steam and gasoline. It is more important that

| street parades. | Negroes, Jews and Catholics.

{| “WE HAVE THE BEST POLICE

either.

The employment of atomic energy, surely | scientific -achiévements of all time, |

who has been offered a way out of a hope- |

and guarded it with desperate vigilance until the rest | |

listen | to who's talking about violence!

In tonight's Times Stephenson says| he was afraid of mob violence.

{Isn't he the man who gave the Hoosier state a very black eye with | his K.K.K. The man who bragged | he ruled the state with fear. The |rabble-raiser who dealt in violence, | | heartache and heartbreak. The, man who wore the yellow shirt | and the eleven-dollar sheet” in| The man who hated | The | man who dragged a woman across | {the state and allowed her to die lof disgrace and humiliation. The great dragon of the once powerful! Klan empire who feared neither God nor man. The man who made hlood money by teachigg hatred The ‘man who "broke governors, mayors and even police chiefs. The

‘man Who burned fiery crosses.

Do you honestly believe he is {the-man to be afraid of his own | baby mob violence? Where is he getting the money to fight so imany legal battles? Lawyers don’t work for thanks. Is there any {connection between him and the! new Nationalist party? Mob violence, that is' a hearty laugh coming from the man who knew nothing else. Pardon me, but that did make me hot under the collar, ”

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FORCE IN THE COUNTRY” By Mrs. A. A, I would like to correct Mrs. Joe Schwert in her answer to my article of our cab drivers. I did not say I disliked our soldiers. I simply said they were well protected by our police force. As far as indecent women are concerned, I do not uphold them, Buf Mrs. Schwert even goes so far as to say that our girls and {young men go on the downtown

Indianapolis

| streets in. shorts and almost nude.

Well, T have the first time to ever see that, and I am in town very often on business, Our police would !s Inot, I am sure, stand for that. I! { think all our Indianapolis girls [Vo very nice, » Taverns are public places and you

| oan conduct yourself as a lady any-

where—so can a. soldier. He can

| be a gentleman at any stage of the

game, form. : Yes, I did resent this soldier's coming over to my table where 1 was eating. -I am not in the habit of speaking to strange men, soldier or od soldier. So 1 did not con-

in uniform or out of uni-

Hoosier Forum

“l wh you sa death

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, letters 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 correspondence regarding them.)

sider it an honor but an insuit. And I have the first time to have a cab driver force his attentions on me. That is why 1 spoke highly of them. As for tipping them, that is okay, too. People that are polite to you deserve a tip, We buy war bonds. I have been to the blood bank and just a few

days ago ‘received a lovely letter)

from a soldier at Billings hospital

|who wrote me my type of blood I felt honored at

saved his life. that letter as he wrote from a sick bed and was a gentleman. So I will just say again we have the best police force in the -country, a swell police chief and a | grand mayor and excellent sheriff. So just what more do our soldiers expect. I believe.in the truth, so what I said about our cab drivers” was the

struth. And I am fér anyone that

is fair and square and truthful. I'm sorry if it disturbed you so much. n ” ~ “GIVE WORKING PEOPLE PRIORITY OVER SHOPPERS” By E. A. L., Indianapolis

I—was 15 minutes late getting

back from my lunch hour today. Why? Because some woman with two little boys in front of me| couldn't make up her mind what she wanted to eat. What hap-| pened to that idea of giving working people a priority over shoppers? If they have to save their ration stamps, then why can’t they eat] before 11:30 a. m. or after 1:30?! Give the workifg people a break.!

| We have only an hour—some only | Sometime I'd like some |

45 minutes. time to do some shopping instead of waiting gny whole hour to be waited | on. I'm not the only one that feels this way. Give us a break and eat at home—or when the, working people are back at work. Also go home before 5 o'clock. We | know you're tired from shopping | and want a seat. ' Well, we're tired {from working all day!

Side Glances=By Galbraith

the world keep the peace through sincere desire and friendly i than through fear ‘of another war's

"——

- | This session of congress was prob-

| erats have about ruined the coun-

-| just stands by and applauds—"Jolly

.| the way I feel about our Republi-

olly disagree with what y, but will defend to the | your right to say it.”

“SPREAD OUR DOCTRINE | AMONG ALL NATIONS” | By The Watchman, tndianapolis | Since Gen. Montgomery and other | | British officials have admitted pub- | llicly that the United States saved Britain from the Nazis, and since’ |The Watchman asserts that the | | United States also saved Russia and | {all of the rest of Europe and Asia | trom Nazi slavery, it is only right,! | proper, pertinent and vitally neces-| | sary to the welfare of our own peo[ple and the rest of the world that | Uncle Sam should begin to exercise ‘his well-earned right and duty to | spread the good old American doctrine of treedom and liberty among all those nations who by virtue of our saving them from Nazi totali-! tarianism should see to it that’ our wards—the nations rescued from Nazi slavery by our mighty war machine—shall” have a chance to set up republican forms of govern-| ment like our own American sys-| tem, which was strong enough to strike down the Nazi menace. The form and philosophy of European and Asiatic governments,

7 will determine whether or not our!

great sacrifice to save Europe and Asia from ruthless aggression ang brutality. has been in vain. It is not wise, it is not right, it is not honorable to fight two terrible wars to liberate these nations of Eurove, and Asia from despotisnY and op-| oression and then idly twiddle our! thumbs while ruthlessness, oppression and brutal aggression, in other forms, step in and take over as new | masters and overlords and oppressors of suffering humanity. mn The people of the United States have got something good to offer! | Europe and Asia—a republican form | of government, freedom; liberty un- | der law, economic and political | | freedom. Why not offer to help these bewildered and perplexed {nations start new governments pat- | terned - after “their mighty chami pion, the United States of America | | Yes, why not have a United States! of Europe in which all of these dis- | | tressed people can lay aside hate. rivalry and political chdos and become united in a real commonwealth of peaceful nations? | We have the right ard duty to] help bring political order to Europe | | and Asia. We had better not evade it.

congress has recessed until October.

any’ one of the worst sessions ever | dished out to the American people

| The American people, in my opin | lon; were never sold out so short as {in this past session.’ With all the silly, annoying and needless problems being aggravated | by, bureaycratic bungling and the | people being driven nuts by slow | degree, we find congress did nothing toward even trying to remedy the situation. And it is all the more worse because the Republicans did nothing; no, they didn’t even try to help and protect their constituents. Our Indiana Republican sen-

well have stayed home. Our Republican leadership has learned to be a rubber stamp and has the “me-too-itis.” The New Dealers and the Demo-

try and our Republican leadership

well done, old boy.” From my personal observation the only two men in congress who seem to be putting up a courageous and intelligent fight for the American people are Senator Taft of Ohio a Senator Wherry of Nebraska. . I am a Republican and this 1s

can ) leagership,

DAILY THOUGHT Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son: but he that is a.companjon of riotous men" shameth his father Proverbs n 1

( looked ‘around for support.

railroads and in coal mines.

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POLITICS —

Wire ling

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Aug. 10.—~How things. get done in Washington and “how “the. wires get pulled are always revealing. | Take this proposal to establish a Missouri Valley Authority which has stirred up the folks of that area into two opposing camps. While the people who don’t want an MVA say that the idea is being forced on them by a bunch of carpetbaggers; conception of the plan really traces back to James G. Patton of the National Farmers Union of Denver, Colo. : The Farmers Union is made up largely of small farmers and tenant farmers, as opposed to the bigger land owners and operators, It has closg connections with C. 1. O. and PAC. Early ii the war. Patton cast around for some project to improve the lot of his members in the big Middle West. He sent identical letters to three government agencies-——department of agriculture, department of interior and Tennessee Valley Authority. He invited or suggested that each of these agencies send teams of experts into the area to appraise its resources and develop a post- war program for better use of thé land. Advantages of such a program to an organization like Patton's are fairly obvious. Most of the good land has-been settled and taken up. The chances for a little man starting out in the world as the pioneers and the homesteaders did aren't too numerous. Nevertheless, there is room here for growth. The Missouri valley represents one-sixth of the U. S. land mass. Yet it has only one-30th of the U. S. population. More population, more members for Farmers Union.

TVA Leaps at Chance

THE SECRETARIES of interior and agriculture, on receipt of the Patton letter, came to the same conclusion, unbeknownst to each other, They declined with regrets. TVA, however, leaped at the chance with all the fervor of its cult. It loaned a staff of experts. They went over the Missouri valley. Then they prepared the draft of a bill to create an MVA in the image of TVA. The opportunity to sponsor MVA was given to Senator James E. Murray of Montana, a Missouri valley state. Murray is the great spokesman of the little man. He has a further natural eoficern in the loss in population which some of the Missouri valley states have suffered’ during the war because they had few industries which could be converted to war production and too few big communities with a labor force already assembled and housed. Assuming sponsorship of the MVA bill, Murray Among other places, he went to department of interior. Bureau heads there looked over Murray’s bill and weren't too pleased. . The public power sections looked okay. But the experts from TVA, coming from an area of surplus rainfall where water had to be drained off, apparently did not reckon with conditions that had to be mes in the semi-arid Missouri valley.

Interior Department Drafts a Bill

INTERIOR thereupon proceeded to draft a bill of | its own. This was a more general “authority” bill, intended to make it ppssible to create not just a Missouri Valley Authority but others as well—Co~ lumbia, or Central Valley of California—as the need for them arose. And naturally the Interior boys, already having the grazing service bureau of reclama-’ tion, fish and wildlife, national parks and a host of ¢ other miscellaneous businesses under their wings, wrote their proposals to keep the department of interior in charge. This was too much for Senator Murray and too much for the Farmers Union and the other iocal backers of the MVA idea alone. Secretary Ickes and his aides have talked about their bill and shown it around in public. But it hasn't been introduced in congress and probably won't be till the time gets riper. P The whole subject, theréfore, remains something for public discussion.

IN WASHINGTON—

Big Armies

' By Daniel M. Kidney

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Whether atomic bombing will atomize armies and make universal military training obsolete will be matters for much congressional debate. It appears unlikely that introduction of thé new weapon has changed the minds of vacationing, senators and representatives on the subjects. Those favoring post-war universal training apparenitly will press their ecase.* And those who have iirged a speedier army discharge system will continue to advocate it. President Truman may be confronted quickly with the latter problem, due to manpower shortages on Senator Taft (R. 0.), who disagrees with War Secretary Stimson’s stand for retention of 7,000,000 men under arms, believes that the atomic bomb will not alter army plans, *

Sees Less Need for Big Aarmy “WITHOUT such a bomb, there was and is no need for an army that size to fight Japan,” Senator Taft asserted: “We cannot possibly transport more than 3,000,000 soldiers to fight Japan in the next two | years. Allow another 3,000,000 for duty elsewhere and certainly that should be sufficient. - With more than 8,000,000 now, the army could discharge 2,000,000 and win the Japanese war just as well.” Senator Gurney (R. 8. D.), a ieading advocate of ' compulsory training, suggested a wait-and-see attitude toward revisions of military policy resulting from use of the new weapon, <= “We “have had some intimation for a long time that science was developing for us some devastating instrument that would be terrible in its effect on the enemy,” he said. “Before changing necessary plans to keep our country strong, such as universal training, let us await definite reports of the effectiveness of the bomb and the complete recommendations of our war and navy

departments as to what is necessary for complete

national protection in the post-war period.”

American Legion Stands Pat AMERICAN LEGION headquarters here remained unmoved by the atomic bomb, so far as its stand for universal military training is concerned, The legion fs backing the army-navy bill for a full year of training of youths between 18 and 24. “The legion believes a universal military training law is doubly necessary now,” a headquarters spokesman said. “We always have relied on what other countries couldn't do. This atomic bomb should reverse that policy. Given another 90 days, Germany might have been using its own atomic bomb. “Military organization is essential no matter what weapons are perfected, It requires men for such an organization and universal training will prepare them for it. The legion will stand by its demand.” ; The war department declined comment, One spokesman pointed out that it would be difficult to predict long-range effects on policy at this time. § Officials sald the plan to retain 7,000,000 men remains §i unchanged for the present. Rep. Ludlow of Indianapolis, author of the war referendum plan and backer of the proposal of Minority Leader Martin (R, Mass), to outlaw universal training throughout the world, thinks that the bomb has: accomplished Rep. Martin's goal. He still wants his war referendum passed, however. “It seems obvious that bombs which ean kill millions in such vast areas nullify the need for mass troops or universal training in tactical warfare,” Rep.

| Ludlow said.

“What must be continued and extendéd Bis ssieovine research. J nil that wheat Sutines a made will be used jn the arts of peace