Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 August 1945 — Page 14
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PEACE : PEACE came today to a world that for more than thirty
years has not known peace, This morning, for the first ‘time since that August morning in 1914 when Kaiser Wilhelm’s Uhlans rode out of Germany, there was no war being fought on this earth. Thirty-one years of wars. Some of them have seemed to be little wars—and far away. How bitterly we have learned that no-war can ever again be a little war—or a distant one. How dearly we have paid to know that Hoosier lads nfay die in battles that ‘began with a murder in ‘Sarajevo or a street brawl in Peiping, TL Today the guns are silent, and a weary and wounded world lifts its heart in the joy of victorious peace. To those who fought to save us this nation gives grateful. tribute. Our heroic dead are enshrined in the hearts and homes to which they will never return. They shall live on, in the memory of free men forever. We look to those who went away as youths, and who return as men, to build an even more glorious America inethe peace they have so fichly earned. :
UNFINISHED BUSINESS
ECOMMENDED reading in these days when there is so much tearing of hair in Washington on what to do about reconversion: “Report on war and post-war adjustment policies,” by Bernard M. Baruch and John M. Hancock, published Feb. 15, 1944, Messrs. Baruch and Hancock, functioning as advisers of the then War Mobilization Director James F, Byrnes, undertook to chart a course to carry through V-E day and on beyond V-J day. Nineteen months have elapsed since their report was submitted, and Messrs. Baruch and Hancock have disappeared from the Washington scene. Most of the problems they foresaw'have come upon us; most of the advice they gave on how to meet those problems has yet to be heeded. : * Among their recommendations carried out was one having to do with termination of war contracts. At that time months were required for the government to settle a canceled contract, and contractors with their capital tied up in unfinished products and unwanted inventories werehard put to meet payrolls and keep going. That was then considered the most troublesome problem of reconversion. But the uniform contract procedure which they recommended was worked so fairly and speedily that canceling of war | contracts is now one of the least of the worries of the government and of industries. H . = » » ” AMONG their recommendations not acted upon—though certainly there has been time enough in 19 months— was: “That a post-war tax law be drafted now, during the war, and put on the shelf to go into effect at the end of the war.” The administration has never proposed such a law, and the taxing committees of Congress aren't even ready ‘yet to start hearings. But what Messrs. Baruch and Hancock said then is still true: “Until it is definitely known that post-war taxes are to be reduced the launching of new enterprises and the expansion of existing ones will be deferred.” That's one reason why millions of displaced war workers won't immediately find peace-industry jobs. The country will go through a period of uncertainty and confusion, which could have been avoided.
Another recommendation not heeded was that disposal of surplus property be turned over to a single administrator, with instructions to “sell as much as he can as early as he can without unduly disrupting normal trade.” “For 19 months undisposed surpluses have accumulated, under the loose control of a three-man administrative board, which has lacked the know-how and the authority to get the job done.
OUR TOWN—
Pretty Lady
By Anton Scherrer
ON THIS, the last day of the circus, I want to touch upon a crisis in the life of Louise Mon“tage, an actress, and Frank M. Lacey, a photographer, which is now remembered as indisputably the greatest moment in the history of the American circus. Indeed, as one .of the great moments in the history of Indianapolis. . . The ‘event which gave the American circus a new and hitherto unsuspected direction occurred right here in the late summer of 1880. Legend has it that on that day Miss Montague had. just finished a matinee performance at the Grand Opera House. The name of her play has escaped me. While waiting for the Denison House elevator to take her to her room, Miss Montague spied the newsstand in. the lobby of the ho A suryey revealed a number of New York papers. She bought one and hurried to her room to learn the latest news of Broadway. There is reason to bglieve that Miss Montague was a bit homesick.
Who Is ‘Handsomest Lady? MISS MONTAGUE'S eye popped, you bet, when she came across an ad paid for by Adam Forepaugh the general import of which was that Mr. Forepaugh was prepared to pay $10,000 in gold to learn the identity of the “Handsomest Lady in the Land.” Back in those days, Adam Forepaugh was a power to reckon with. For one thing, he was P. T, Barnum's most formidable competitor. Indeed, there were those who predicted that, given a little time, Mr. Forepaugh would excel Mr. Barnum. The prediction was based on certain signs evident at the time, the most important of which was that Mr. Forepaugh's imagination exceeded that of Mr. Barnum. Soon ds she read the ad, Miss Montague surveyed herself in the mirrof of her room. She looked pretty good, she thought—large liquid eyes, a symmetrical nose, tiny ears, a pair of tantalizing lips and & mop of chestnut brown hair done up in frizzles which started on the top of her head and fell gracefully in ripples to within a fraction of an. inch above her eyqQrows. As for her curves and contour, they were everything that mortal man could ask.
She Who Hesitates Doesn't Collect MISS MONTAGUE figured that she had nothing to lose and everything to gain with the result that, bright and early the next morning, she dressed in her best finery and walked down Pennsylvania st. She stopped when she reached the Vance Block (the present Indiana Trust building), where Frank M. Lacey, a photographer, had his studio in Room 71. Miss Montague could have had her pick of 23 Indianapolis photographers that morning, but for some reason (which we men would give our souls to learn) the actress picked just the right man for her purpose. At any rate, she couldn't have done better because right at that moment Mr. Lacey was experimenting with the instantaneous dry plate process, a new fangled invention which was supposed to catch the fleeting and fugitive quality of moving objects such as, for instance, the restless rippling waves of Miss Montague's gorgeous hair. : Well, Mr. Lacey took any mumber of photographs of Miss. Montague that day, and in due time the best ones were sent to Mr. Forepaugh. Except for a tiny news item that 2999 other women had availed themselves of Mr. Forepaugh's offer, nothing more Was heard that winter. Then one day in the spring of 1881, all the billboards in and around Indianapolis were decorated with posters announcing the arrival of Adam Forepaugh's circus.
Hoosier Pictures Win—Natcherly AN EXAMINATION of the posters revealed the fact that Mr. Forepaugh promised to exhibit not only an old-fashioned circus and a museum of freaks under the same tent, but also the “Gorgeous Glittering Spectacle of the Oriental Romance of Lalla Rookh” with the “Handsomest Lady in the Land” in the title role. When Mr. Lacey grasped the significance of the ad, he made it his business, you bet, to buy a ringside seat. ; Mr. Forepaugh's circus and freaks lived up to the promise of the posters and when it came time for the "Oriental Romance of Lalla Rookh” to appear, Mr, Lacey with his own eyes saw Louise Montague reclining in a sumptious howdah borne aioft on the back of Basil, the biggest elephant in Mr. Forepaugh’s herd. Right then and there, discerning critics realized that Mr. Forepaygh’s imagination had envisaged the American circus in terms of pageantry. And ever since that day the freaks have been relegated to a tent of their own labeled “Side Show.”
man WORLD AFFAIRS—
Jap Rulers
By Wm. Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Aug. ceptance of Japanese with the emperor still on the throne, even though under allied control, says Senator Green, means advantage at the risk of another war
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we gain a stight later on. Numerically a large section of Americans—though
There are many other things in the report, All-in-all
it is as good and compact a presentation of unheeded advice |
as we have seen in printed form. Its'theme: The way to reconvert is to reconvert,
WORTH IT
WO bombs ., , , two billion dollars. Before the smoke had cleared from the second atomic bombing, Japan | offered to surrender. No one can tell how many American fighting men will | come home safe and sound because of them. Certainly | thousands upon thousands will be able to take their place | in civilian life rather than rest under white crosses, Government figures place the cost of research and | development of the atomic bomb at two billion dollars. | Two were used. On that basis each cost one billion dollars . . , the most expensive weapon of war ever known | to man, If either saved the life of one American on the battle-
front . . . your husband, father, sweetheart worth it. ;
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WHAT'S THE SCORE?
Tan Selective Service Law states that, under wormal | conditions, a veteran is entitled to his old job or one of like seniority status and pay. That, says Selective Service, guarantees him a job. That, says the Department of Labor guarantees him seniority. os . Meanwhile, as Col. James S. Ervin, president of the Tri-State Industrial Association, has briefly put it, “the returned veteran, the war worker and the employer all have their rights. Nobody now knows what they are.” But at least the employer knows that, whichever inter. * pretation of the law he chooses, he may be taken before, the War Labor Board for violating either the Selective about time the disputing agencies found an umpire 1 point, accepted his deci hs
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still a minority, according to a nation-wide poll—
Like the senator, many Americans are unable to any difference between keeping Hirohito subject ping Adolf Hitler or Benito Mussolini.
Should We Kill. Them All? IT 1S significant, that date not a single responsible allied efficial has placed himself on record as favoring putting the 11-year-old Crown Prince Akihito to death. Or the heir presumptive, Prince. Chichibu, the emperor's eldest brother. Or the second and third brothers, Nobuhito and Takahito,
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“WHY DO POLICE PICK ON POOR WORKING MAN?"
By a Poor Working Ex-Serviceman, dianapolis
I came back from the U. S. army a while back and this city is as changed as the day is long—because when I joined the service five years ago this was a swell place to live, but now since an ex-serviceman got into politics this city has been going to the dogs ever since, and the people who are pinched for speeding or other things don't mind paying fines if they are sure they did such an offense, But when they are made out to be liars, that is too much to take. Just because a man's
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“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the
speedometer is broken ‘the police take advantage of the people and give out stickers as free as a breeze. Then there is another thing. I know that better than one-third of the cab drivers are ex-service-men, and yet the police pick on|provided the workers that his inthem when they should be doing!dustry might thrive. Those very something else to get rid of this same grandmothers and fathers crime. | that we so ruthlessly deprive of a And this is one thing I can't un- | decent livelihood today. Whose derstand—why do the police pick grandsons and daughters saved the on the poor working man and give homes and property of the big taxhim tickets and let bne of these payer? Not his own or the profes“rich bugs” commit a crime of any sional calls it will have to be adkind and he will get by with it? It| mitted, because their efficiency on isn't right. I say to get rid of somé| the offspring cause wouldn't make of the politicians and put someone!for an immense army. in there who can take care of this| The great line and cry is they town and clean it up. How many expect something for nothing. Of of you are for seeing that done? course a lifetime of service, priva. WE. tions, dissolusionments and rearing “WHAT SHALL WE DO families to carry on the nation's FOR OUR AGED?” upbuilding was nothing. Of cou By A. A, E., Noblesville our congressmen on different oc-
humbly grateful for their exceeding | generosity. Of course it never oc- | curred to them that the noble tax-! paid one cent of taxes which he didn't first extract from the pay envelope of the workers. And who
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Now that the war might end any casions have tried to vote themday, let's notice some of our home Selves a pension, but my look how problems. Pirst and foremost, hard they work to get themselves a what is fo become of our aged | vacation. They need sympathy as population? Are we going to con-| Well as a pension. And the supreme tinue to ignore their unfortunate justices, how badly they must condition as we are doing now and need that full pay retirement have done in the past? : | pension. And the presidents’ widows, Today the welfare list is at an no doubt most of them would soon all-time low, so says statistics. be on the pauper list if the dear old Why? Because grandma and|government didn't’give them grandpa and great- grandmother | year for their remaining lifetime. are taking care of diapered genera-|But a mother who has given sons tions at a time in life when they|and grandsons for the country’s have earned a leisure hour. Some-| Wealth and wel' being, she should time ago they were the welfare's|be grateful for a punny existence agency, problem child, also an asset [and this is American justice and as a job retainer. gratitude to her masses of senior The most unholy alliance our citizens. To - he insulted and master minds ever conceived WAS the contract with the welfare investigator.. Any man or woman| with a grain of Christian spirit! would never accept such work with all its inhuman implications, The attitude is since you are a pauper and the noble taxpayer is willing that you may exist, you should be
fiumiliated--by-..qn- 4nvestigating system conjured up by a group of politicians paid exclusively indirectly by these same people whom they hold in such utter disregard. Some day the economics will catch up with the politicians and they will have to develop another shoulder on which to carry water.
not to mention the swarm of uncles and cousins of the line
This is important if we, in .America, are to under-
stand the problem which lies ahead in Japan.. Gen. |
MacArthur. or some other American is going to | govern that strange and fanatical land for years to come. Thousands of American boys will Be required to police it—a ticklish job at best. And the measure of their success will not be the number of riots they put down but the Yiumber they prevent. And that will depend largely on whether or not they understand what makes Hirohito tick. Hirohito, himself, is hot important to the 75,000,000 people of Japan. What is important is the individual —Whoever he might be—who stands ‘first in line of descent from Jimmu Tennq, grandson of the sun baddess, Fountan —head of all things Japanese,
The Dynasty Lives On IF HIROHITO were deposed or beheaded, therefore, the little crown prince would automatically take his place. And everything would proceed in so far as the, imperial dynasty was concerned, quite as if nothimg had happened. Hirohito is no master mind, as Hitler and Mussolini were to their followers. The boy, Akihito, could carry on every whit as well as he. Were the Japanese crown prince executed also— and the killing of children for political purposes is not in the American tradition—the throne. presumably would pass to Chichibu, And after him would. come the second and third brothers, and so on. The task ahead of the allies, therefore, is not to hang the emperor by, his toes, for that would do
to power, Xf the Tanakas, the Togos and the Tojos
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“ATOM BOMB PUTS WAR MAKERS OUT OF BUSINESS” By E. B Egan, 701 Markwood ave. The fact that the evolution and completion of the atomic bomb was the product of the most powerful and cosmopolitan society on the face of the earth, composed as it is of every rice this side of the side of the head hunters, and, irony of ironies, completed by a representative ofthe Jewish race, actually automatically puts the war makers out of business and consequently reorganizes and stabilizes both the political and industrial ideologies of the human race. This does not necessarily means
mean that the human race has at long last evolved a cure for war that even the most naive population of the most archaic political perception can understand -— complete destruction or co-operation with the political ideologies which have through the development of society produced a predominant culture of tolerance and well being —as witness the two greatest democracies ‘both as to power and area, the British Commonwealth of nations and the Pan-Asnerican as‘sociation with this nation together
devoted to the accomplishments of % free and peaceful society unencumbered by the burden of war, not to mention its interruptions of producing even the life-giving food and creature comforts. all destroyed in
re | the dim-witted militaristic ideologic |
or organized society. The proof of which we have before us. The business of our statecraft today is to make this apparent to conquered peoples and also that this applies to every political faith extant for the first time possible in the long travail of the civilized world. - Japanese leaders should be made to know that Hirohito, the product of a system so lost in antiquity as to be an anachronism in a modern world, well trained and highly educated as may be, will have to go with the military cadre which would perpetuate the system which cannot by its very nature co-operate with a modern society as such. After this has been accomplished and preceding this the Japanese people must be made to know they are not expected to do the impossible, including reparations. They must gid themselves of the antiquated lumbering ark of state that led them to this holocaust, and with help, they can speedily rehabilitate themselves in federation, co-opera-tion.
" ” ” “SEWAGE SYSTEM NEEDED MORE THAN NEW PARKS” By Allen Owens, Indianspolis: A week has elapsed since any local group of watriots has announced yet another site for a proposed public park. Years have passed since Mr. Kuhn's able survey and his expose ot the frightful condition of the city’s drainage sys~ tem and nothing has yet been done to build new or improve the ancient and decayed skeletons now’ termed a sewer system. This costly contemplated project is far more important than that of acquiring new parks. The* stench from the sewers that empty un-
along its boulevard. “The once beautiful lagoons ‘in Garfield park stink to high heaven irom the sanitary sewage that flows into them from the creek that meanders through the park. I have seen ‘children wading in that stream while filth floats amongst them. How long do you suppose, sir, would be the tenure of a health
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Conscience By Thomas L. Stokes
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.~The American people have been carrying
out of the final catalysm of war, This self-examination is significant and is a credit to the nation and to its best traditions of humanitariane ism and freedom. One was the atomic bomb and the other the issue as to what should be done about the Japanese emperor, ; The atomic bomb came as a terrific shock which left people literally dased. They were stunned and perplexed, In the first place, the scientific principle involved was beyond the understanding of most of us and so, in the second place, were its potentialities for the future, Then, as the stories came back about.the actuality of its awful destruction in human lives and property, people began to ask themselves and their neighbors questions, quietly, seeking reassurance. This started a debate about ethics. It was a probing of the cone science and a searching of the soul. It probably went on within many people who never admitted it or confessed to it.
Should We Use the Atom Bomb? SHOULD WE have turned this terror loose upon the world? The fact that our nation had donee it was the disturbing thought. ‘ The, answers have come back, to wit, that the Japs attacked us without warning at Pearl Harbor; thas the use of this bomb would shorten the war and save lives, that our enemies were working on this bomb, and would have used it on us if they had got the answer first; that if we hadn't used it, someone else would in the future; that we can be trus as its guardians, and that it should shock the world into peace hereafter. All good and sound reasons. But yet there is the still small voice of conscience. This is a tribute to the American people and seems to hold assurance thas the bomb, at least for the time being, is in hands that will control it as an instrument of war and develop its principles as an instrument of peace. It must be remembered that the same questions have been raised in England, :
What to Do With Hirohito? DEBATE OVER what should be done with the Japanese emperor also tells something about our people to -their credit. 2 This was a complicated issue. It seems appsiens that there is a considerably body of public opinion that favored deposing the emperor, getting rid of him, seizing this opportunity to remove a sacrosanct sors of ruler from the backs of other people. A considerable body of opinion seemed to favor trying him as a war criminal. He was put in the same class with Hitler and Mussolini. - > Some have insisted that this attitude was due to ignorance of the place of the emperor, that he 1s, after all, a symbol embedded in Janpanese religion and, as such, has been used as a stooge by the war lords who are the real criminals. As such a syme bolic influence, they argue, he could be useful to our purposes in Japan. But it is doubtful that the anti-emperor attitude can be so simply laid to either ignorance or vengeance, though there may be some of each. After all, there has been a great deal in the newspapers and magazines for a long time about the emperor's role in Japan. Perhaps involved, and to & considerable extent, is an instinctive understanding among the American people, rather than ignorance. Our people just don't like rulers sitting above, in a cloud. They have always sympathisegl—and gone further many. times—with people who were trying to cast out men who thought they were gods. Here is another chance to help a people throw off a yoke and start, themselves, to bee come a frée people such as we. :
IN WASHINGTON—
Jobs for Veterans By Douglas Smith :
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.~Veterans are returnin to civilian life by the thousands each week. But their job rights are largely a mystery, The selective service act says that a veteran wha returns to his former employer, within 90 days afte his discharge from service, must be given his old job “or a position of equal seniority, status and pay.’ Selective” service headquarters says that m that no seniority system, union contract or anything else, shall prevent a veteran from getting his job It advised a Cincinnati company recently tha even though the company has a closed-shop contrac with a union, it cannot discharge three veterans w have returned to their former jobs at the plant ang who refuse to join the union. (The three vete were members of an A’ F. of L. union at the plan when they entered service; now the C. I. O. has closed-shop contract. The C. I. O. union threaten to strike if the three men are nét required to observ the terms of contract.) Selective service has no power to enforce its views It could turn a case over to the department o justice, but meanwhile the war labor board and th national labor relations board have jurisdiction. The: rulings leave many questions unanswered. It is the view of selective service that when veteran is hired on a new job he obtains the s: seniority standing he would have if he: had working at the job all the time he was in uniform ity is used as a basis for dismissals, veterans whi may have been working only a few weeks woul keep their jobs while non-veterans who may ha been on the job for years would be fired. Those who oppose super-seniority also argue ths giving a man two years seniority as a mechan does not give him two years experience.
So They Say—
AN EDITOR or writer-or speaker who is consclo of his lofty vocation and its responsibilities ‘alwa is alive to the obligation. he has to thousands ¢ millions of people who may be strongly affécted his words to give them the truth and nothing but truth. —Pope Plus X
SPANISH exiles want to have Franco removed a. a free general election held, but they do not w bloodshed or a second civil war.—~Martha Gellhe author,
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