Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 August 1945 — Page 12
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IN ERNIE’S MEMORY—NO X* 7D hope the promoters of the so-called Ernie Pyle | memorial park and cemetery near Dana will heed the | plea of Mrs. Pyle and abandon the project at once. Although we are willing to concede good intent, this | high-pressure enterprise is in incredibly poor taste. It not | only has offended the bereaved widow of the great war | correspondent, but also many of Ernie's thousands of personal friends and millions of admirers. Apparently there has been no one to hold a check-rein | on the garish imagination of the promoters, who have talked in terms of raising one or two or maybe 10 million, | dollars, for a park and cemetery. with lakes yd mausoleums, and an endowed academy of peace. All that, in the memory of gentle, earthy Ernie Pyle, | who never did a pretentious or showy thing in his life! Perhaps it is too much to expect that the promoters will act in response to Mrs. Pyle's restrained words of con-
demnation—but they should. =
n ” ” n » WHEN ERNIE was killed, The Indianapolis Times and | other Scripps-Howard newspapers received thousands of letters from readers who said they wanted to do something to honor Ernie's memory. We have refused to solicit contributions. Friends and neighbors suggested a small memorial library in Ernie's home town of Dana. It seemed a good idea, but unfortunately this is the project which the promoters have boomed into the lavish park-cemetery enterprise. Another memorial endeavor, sponsored by some of Ernie's college and newspaper friends, was to provide journalism scholarships at Indiana university, giving preference to war veterans who wanted to learn newspaper work. It was an idea in which Ernie himself had shown much interest before he died. This memorial effort, we are happy to report, is still being conducted successfully and in good taste.
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IN AND OUT HE ancients observed that the same man in government office and out of it is really two different men. Rarely has that been demonstrated so dramatically as in the opening debate of the new British house of commons. Opposition Leader Churchill attacked the Polish settle- > ment, and the spread of Russian sway over eastern Europe, with a brilliance unmatched since Prime Minister Churchill in the same house used to defend those disturbing developments. We welcome the much needed warning voiced by the present Churchill. But the Russian deals made by the earlier Churchill created a situation which will be hard to change at this late date, even by such an eloquent and slashing fighter as Winnie in any role. man has reported, the Potsdam conference could not do otherwise with the Polish frontier because of a Yalta
agreement. ” o u n ®
M?&- CHURCHILL is not the only one who changes with shifting official status. Opposition Leader Attlee only last month campaigned successfully on a Socialist platform for nationalization of basic industries, and sweeping social and economic changes amounting to a peaceful revolution. But Prime Minister Attlee in writing the king's speech v announcing the new government's policy watered it down from fire water to tea without lemon. The Bank of England is to be publicly owned, a nominal reform which apparently will make little practical difference and which is approved by many Tories. There is to be nationalization of the long-sick coal industry, which has been strictly regulated by the government for many years, another policy approved by many Tories. But nationalization of the railroad, iron and steel industries—a hot campaign issue—is not even mentioned in the Attlee cabinet’s program. And the promised nationalization of electric and gas utilities now is modified to mere “co-ordination.” Probably the most significant statement in this commons debate was that the government cannot work miracles of reform, that hard days are ahead for the British people. No, that was not the Churchill who ‘made famous the sweat-and-toil phrase repeating himself. The speaker was the now cautious Socialist, Prime Minister Attlee.
CHEER UP : HENEVER we need a shot of Pollyannaism we contemplate the dog. Take like today. We have a tankful of gas but the tires look as though they had double pneumonia. The ersatz pillows on the porch chairs worn to the sticky stage, so that it takes us 10 minutes to arise, "we trees are beginning to shed leaves into the house gutters, and we're frankly afraid to climb a ladder that hign. In less than a month we have to pay an income tax installment. And this gol-dang weather will get worse before it gets cooler. Then we interviewed a discharged K-9 veteran. He was credited with killing several Japs. We fearfully peeped into his back yard and there he was, playing with a toddler. He stopped licking the baby's face and came over to us. distinctly as could be, his eyes said to us: there's a war over? Cheer up.” We did.
THE WELDER'S COCOON N commendable enthusiasm to shift people quickly from ‘war jobs to peace jobs we frequently conjure some weird possibilities. One news item, for example, cheerfully states “that retail stores can employ thousands of ship builders. That suggests something we want to see. ~ We want to be-thiere when Wilbur the Welder takes over in drapes, fabrics, laces and silks. There will be Wilbur in black jacket and meticulously ironed pants. A bud in his buttonhole. His nails agleam. His sideburns will _be feathered and his neat, black heels will shine. Wilbur “will await with left hand against hip, deft knee nicely limber,
Atiendivg a fragile shopper, Ww ilbur will toss the folds’
pyer his v Wrists gud murmur: “Diy stuff is da Sand
Times
Price in Marion Coun-
20 cents, |
| than opportunities for accidents.
| the fact that most drivers are out of practice.
As President Tru- |
‘Open Road
By James Thrasher
The government's actions in. lifting gasoline rationing and the. 35mile automobile speed limit can be 4 likened appropriately to a bright cloud with an extremely dark lining —a lining which, in many cases, will “prove as black as the crepe of death. This statement is not made in criticism of the government's action. On the contrary, criticism and condemnation will be the proper public reaction to failure to ease wartime regimentations of all kinds at the earliest possible moment. But the tragic fact still remains that the return to abundance in gasoline and the lifting of speed restrictions are sure to mean a sharp increase in the number of deaths upon the highways. There is no sound reason why there should be an increase—just
{ as there is no good reason for most traffic accidents.
But they have occurred, and they will occur, and so far as we know, there's not much that can or will be done to prevent them,
The Cars Are Feeble
REASONS for the increased hazards of the pres ent are obvious. More cars will be driven more miles in several years, creating more Most, cars will be driven on tires that are well worn—and tire blowouts are one of the chief causes of traffic mishaps. Few cars are the best mechanical condition, ‘which adds materially to the probability of accidents in them.
at any time
in
| And a further and most important consideration is
Their opportunities to drive have been extremely limited during the past. two or three years. Prospects for the immediate future are all the
| | more tragic because so much of preventative, nature
could be done so easily—and yet will not be done.
| This, we suppose, arises from the natural feeling of | the individual that serious accidents are something { that happen to the other fellow,
never to himself
Death Is Preventable IF THIS natural feeling could be altered and the individual would awaken to the realization that he is the type of person who does have accidents, then traffic tragedies certainly would be fewer, And it for a few weeks, traffic enforcecounties and
might be helpful if, ment agencies of all kinds in states, municipalities would enforce traffic laws vigorously. Indeed, the prevention o ‘deaths on the highways is so simple that it seems incredible that most of them would be alowed to occur. Yet, unless human nature has changed, it inevitably will happen that
ege of buying more gasoline and driving at higher speeds,
-+ WORLD AFFAIRS—
Peace Test b 4 By Wm. Philip Simms
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The real test of whether the Big Five will be able to pull together—and by the same token whether or not the new world security organization | will work—is ‘now about to begin. Peace settlements must now be Europe and Asia. Unless these are reasonably satisfactory, Big Five unanimity within the security council will be lacking and, without unanimity, the new League of Nations will be as impotent as the old. That is why Secretary of State Byrnes’ warning to Bulgaria concerning the electi in that country next Sunday are more important the surface. democratic elections in Europe—including Hitler's in Bulgaria will hardly fall within that categ
Only One Ticket
THE “BULGARIAN
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liberated of states—and
ory.
the
vassal
_countries
Patriotic Front” has put out a single list. 47 Zveno or military league candidates, and 33 social Democrats. All are left wingers, the Bulgarians apparently will have the choice between them or nobody. Russia has been in complete control of the country and its government since it quit the war. The United States has now informed Sofia that it does not regard the present regime as being open to all democratic elements,” and warned that unless this is remedied, Washington will neither recognize the government nor sign a peace treaty with it. Similar situations exist in Yugoslavia, Poland and elsewhere in Europe. At Yalta a: nd again at Potsdam, Russia, Britain and the United States pledged themselves to encourage democratic self-rule, Specifically, the Big Three would assist “the peoples liberated from the dominati f Nazi Germany and ‘the peoples of former axis satellite states of Europe to solve, by democratic means, their press- | ing political and economic proble:
Russian Policy Questioned
NEVERTHELESS, in spite of the
but
ybserves the London Economist,
“in spite of Yalta, Polish agreement, in spite of Potsdam, hdppy about Russia's relations with | The a constructive peace
threatened in
it is not easy to feel. entirely allies. pe !
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ts western
prospect of seems to
by the zone of preponderant
creation eastern Europe
simply of a Russian control from which all-outsiders—even mere observers, rigorously excluded, , . .” While in western Europe “the attitude of the local Communist parties has been frankly to oppése any policy that did not bear the Russian rubber stamp.” Secretary Byrnes now seems to be taking a firm stand to preserve as much as he can of our demo- | cratic war aims,
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89 to Admittedly that about represented the sweeping desire-of America to go the limit to preserve world peace. t is also admitted, however, that the real test is yet to come. That will be when it comes time to send American boys abroad to enforce the peace. America's peace aims were pretty fairly reflected in the Atiantie-Charter, the Hull-Eden-Molotov declaration of Moscow, at Cairo, Mexico City, Yalta, San Francisco and Potsdam. It is widely predicted on Capitol Hill that if events in Europe and Asia now
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go too wide of the mark, the Umited States will use its veto in the security council and that it will not be alone.
So They Say :
The defeat of our Nazi enemies and the end of the Japanese térror in the East leave us the greatest heritage of want and suffering mankind ever has known.—Frank 8, Hogan, district attorfley, New York county, N. Y.
It is wise and far-sighted to lend our capital to expand our commerce, It is foolish and shortsighted to let our credit be used by others to restrict “our freedom to trade.—~Knoxville, Tenn. NewsSentingl. + °
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Indo-China, which was oppréssed by the Japanese enemy, will return to the French Union the more cherished - because of Having suffered, the freer because of having merited freedom.—Gen, Charles de Gaulle.
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The great task pf conserving and replenishing the forests of the world and reclaiming deserts and waste ‘places by tree planting needs the concerted action of
every SUEY, Caple Richard: Baker, founder of of the Trees,
“l wh 70U Sa death
Hoosier Forum
many persons will pay with their lives for the privil-
: | negotiated—in |
than appears on | Both Yalta.and Potsdam called for truly |
those |
There are 96 Communists, 95 Agrarians, |
The senate ratified the San Frantisfo Charter by |
“WONDER WHY PEOPLE THINK ONLY OF SELVES”
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By A Lover of a Square Deal, “Nineveh, that great city wherein | . | than six scor
Indianapolis |
tare more e thousand | persons that cann@jediscern between | right hand | words. Jonah 4:11.
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their and their left hand.” J trians lanes at t
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from way er over right he downtown there must be considerably ithan that number { Indianapolis, I wonder why so many people| think only of themselves and never give a thought to the rights of lothers. A few days ago, desiring to {use a four party line, I took off the receiver to see if the line was in {use. I heard a rasping female voice {say, “There is somebody listening in. I hope they get an earfull.” I | said, “My dear madam you are wrong. This is my line as well as yours and I lifted the receiver to find out if the line was in use behave no interest conversation. You quick to_misjudge. a reasonable time I shall try They were “still next twenty vhich I tried f not get in 1 belie in liberty to hog ire much liberty self is infringement on the liberty of others. As Tom Paine said, “One! man's liberty should end where anther man's begins.”
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bullet of a treacherous Jap. Yes, citizens of Indianapolis, let t drink a toast to Victory, but instead of whiskey, wine and gin, let's go to the slaughter houses that were these bloody fields, and let wit can war and ica and its people a perpetual monument to the young men and women who “died so that life, librty and the pursuit of happiness not perish from earth, | Son
dead. Let us drink deep,
ln your should not be so
iter e talkine for talking 10r may g the ur ti pl ur ti 1e of our people celebrated by their God, giving thanks
peace that can once again
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to for all, but for one's ing to the Lord God for those who an never again enjoy the peace at nd freedom for which they fought Oe nad died. We owe it to our war Ae t na le "yy 10% § “WHAT A WAY TO HONOR ene Sn urSelves 3 nano of OUR YOUTH WHO DIED” , By an Indianapolis Veteran ards, harlots and vice. | VICTORY. A great word, al Wake up citizens of America and master susanton. a i Ce os was great in fact that the majority of cleanse and rebuild and make our the people of nation a nation above all nations, failed to understand so that our ng. Other the Amen; not have celebrated in the manner they did. Drunken men and women, parads ng up.and down the streets, yelling, shouting—a bottle of booze in one hand, and Old Glory in the {other. God, what a way to remember or honor our: young men who died ove: there.- What an insult to our vouth vho gave their lives to protect our flag and our nation, who died .s0 some of the streets cleaned in the that Victory could be possible. 'To,city of Indianapolis. North Addison me, Victory means New Guinea, st Corregidor, Bataan, Salerno, the { Philippines, the Solomons, Iwo {Jima, Okinawa and countless other bloody fields of battle where our {boys have died so that we, who! stoppeds up. were safe at home, could celebrate time to have something done to the | VICTORY, free from the knife or streets in the city,
with let
meaning sc
Indianapolis have its real] mean-
wise people would
o ” “NOW MAYBE WE CAN GET STREETS CLEANED” #By H. A. Van Willis, 366 N, Addison st. Now that the war is over and gas rationing is over, the city omIndianapolis does not have to worry abofit
getting
n
gas to run its truckse<and
street Maybe we can get
sweepers.
three years; with dirt
the gutters are filled and trash,
curb to curb; the sewer drains are
‘Carnival —By Dick Turner
"You may say the war war very real 1a we-un ¢ down hya—hompin® Ls : ‘on fin cans and weht :
overseas battle- | us fill our glasses! h the life's blood of our Ameri-,
then remember to make Amer- |
the face of
come to our great land, and pray-|
boys could be| proud and not a nation of drunk-!
youth died not in vain.!
has not been cleaned for around:
and when it| rains the street stands level from
Don't you think it is|
| sense,
olly disagree with what y, but will defend to the your right tos say it.”
“BOYS NEED HELP FROM EAST SIDE MOTHERS” By One Den Mother, To Eastside parents_of boys 9 to |
Indianapolis
12 years old: Parents, here 1e facts! Mothers are needed on the Eastside. loo is a grand program that | gts ‘es boys 9 to 12 vears old some[thing constructive to do and helps | bui ild character. They must have {Den Mothers. Den Mothers are mothers who are willing to hold weekly meetings for the boys in their homes and present the cubbing program to them There are mothers, who, because of working out, illness or small babies; {find it impossible to serve. There] are other mothers who could be but just don't want to be bothered! There are still others who would! be if they only knew how they are needed. That
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Mother S, have to will hay tivisies. can be wavs dursg | Many of call during the war, se capacities. Well, cause, right on your own doorstep! If "you are the good parents I | think you are, y« about it, now! by calling or call Boy Scout information—LI. 7391. Parents, there are the facts! {boys need you. Wh are ing to do about it?
18 100 are time. vou have answ ving 1 many tere is a good
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” n 2 WHY NOT CONTINUE TO SAVE FOOD?” By L. B. R.,, Indianapolis Since most people, if themselves, will admit the wartime {rationing and saving was good dis-| {cipline and unfolded new ideas and! | thoughts, Why not continue to ave:
honest with
Tin—critical material after the jwar, too, because it is getting more scarce and the mines are not producing yet in the East has been.
not as great as it
{ @ Paper—Forests are not what thes
used to be, huge quantities of wood | {were used In the war, much unrecoverable, and the paper shortage is likely to exist for some time yet. Why go back to old wasteful prewar days? Surely we have learned! our lesson. It's true that there are some families to whom the war rationing and restrictions were not| {new. They had been doing that very thing for many years, just natural habits. Food—why waste food? {it 1s criminal to .waste it, not | wartime, Too many people in the | world haven't enough any time, for
i a to waste it.
Any time |
Gas time? Surely wartime or peacetime, n u o | “CHILDREN PLAYING IN | STREETS ARE IN DANGER” By
any that's common
Ludlow St. Resident After having read of the children injured by autos in Aug. 7 issue of your paper, I feel it my duty to try] to save a life in the 1900 block on} Ludlow ave. Some 10 or 12 teen agers from 2
[ years ,to_14 play ball in the street] Autos have
| most every afternoon. to stop and blow horns to avoid hitting them... Two little children, a brother and his sister, boy 4 and sister 2 years, are continually in the street most any time of the day, Is there not something you can do to help save some of these
I believe if our police would go to their parents and warn them it might do good. The children are not to blame as‘'they are not advised to remain off the street.
———————————— DAILY THOUGHT \ It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Proverbs 31:19.
WOMAN, T fell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, reqU' res as great talents as to govern
state ~S8amuel Foote
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To The Point—
RECONVERSION—
Falling Stars
By Charles T. Lucey
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21—Stars probably will fall in hundreds as generals who led victorious U. 8. armies revert to their lower permanent rank with the shrinking of the armed forces in peacetime. So will the eagles, gold and silver leaves and the bars that shone from shoulders of fast-rising young officers during the years when the nation was calling up history's greatest military force. General officers, a rarity in peacetime, were all over the lot in war, There were four generals of the army—Marshall, Eisenhower, MacArthur and Arnold—wearing their five stars apiece. Twelve soldiers wore the four stars of a full general and 49 wore the three stars of the lieutenant-general. There were 399 major generals and 10973 brigadier generals. Some of them will retire before long, but even with retirements, it is unlikely that any military “table of organization” could possibly find room for all this brass and gold braid. The war department general staff, it is anticipated, will decide what grades officers will return to after congress has called the turn on how large the new peacetime army will be,
Gold Braid Was Temporary
THE VAST majority of wartime promotions have been in the temporary category. A first lieutenant suddenly found himself a lieutenant-colonel—an advancement that took half a lifetime in peacetime. A captain's two bars became a major general's two stars, a‘ brigadier who had proudly sported one star found himself carrying the four stars of a full general, The new army won't shrink back to the puny 180,000-man force of before the. war, and so soma officers may not have to go clear back to what has been their permanent rank. But there'll still be a lot of tumbling from one grade to another. Most of the top commanders who have worn four and five stars have the permanent rank of major general or brigadier general. Gen. H. H. Arnold, Gen, Joseph W. Stilwell, Gen. Eisenhower and Gen, George F. Patton Jr., have been given two permanent stars by congress. But many 6f the top commanders have but one star on a permanent basis—Lt. Gen. Mark Clark, Gen, Courtney H. Hodges, who commanded the 1st army; Gen. Jacob L. Devers, now commanding general of army ground forces; Gen. George C. Kenny, coms= manding general of the Far East air force; Gén. Carl A. Spaatz, boss of the strategic air force in the Pacific, and Lt. Gen. Ira Eaker, deputy chief of staff of the army air force.
From Stars to Silver Leaves OTHER TOP ones would skid back even further if peacetime gave them no more than their present permanent rank. Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch of the 7th army would be a colonel, Lt. Gen. Albert C, Wedemeyer, commanding general of the China theater, would be a lieutenant-colonel, and so would Lt. Gen. Lucius Clay, deputy U. S. military governor in Germany. Air force Lt. Gens. Barney Giles and Nathan Twining will be lieutenant-colonels Lt. Gen. James H. Doolittle was Major Jimmy when war began, and this wasn't permanent rank because he had been in the specialist reserve since retiring from the regular army in 1930. Maj. Gen, Curtis Lemay, chief of staff of the Far Pacific air force, has a captain's two bars on a permanent basis, It's not just honor and rank involved here—but money, too. An $8000 annual base pay is given alike | to a five-star general of the army, a full four-star gen- | eral, a three-star lieutenant general and a two-star | major general, Dut there's an additional “money allowance” of $5000 a year to a general of the army, 2200 to a full general, $500 to a lieutenant general, | But a straight major general gets no money allows | ance. Neither does a brigadier general, whose base | pay is $6000. | Senator Thomas (D. Utah) plans introduction of a bill which would let Generals of the Army Marshall, } | MacArthur, Eisenhower and Arnold and Fleet. Ad~ | mirals Leahy, King and Nimitz keep their rank on a } permanent basis. i Gen. Marshall and Gen. Arnold, according to re- | ports, may retire before long. {
IN WASHINGTON—
Crime Wave? By Earl Richert
WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—If we have a post-war crime wave it will spring from youngsters who were on the loose while their older brothers were in service, according to J. | Edgar Hoover, federal bureau of investigation director, | Mr. Hoover says a crime wave is probable. He | emphasizes, however, that it will not stem from war | veterans. He believes these men were trained to kill in war but they are not bringing back instincts of criminals. The returning soldiers, he thinks, will be glad tog settle down to the routine of peacetime living, par-{ ticularly if there are jobs to be had. i “If they can get work and settle down,” he said, is most unlikely that they will turn to crime, If there is widespread unemployment, a totally differ« ent problem will be presented. “On the whole, T am sure that the country will ha benefitted when the men of the armed forces return”
Soldiers Are Not Criminals A CERTAIN FEW among the soldiers would have been criminals anyway, he thinks, and these will be | more difficult to cope with hecause of their military training. But this group is small, he says, and military discipline has even turned some of them into law-abiding | citizens. Ag for the effect of being trained to kill, Mr Hoover points out that there are thousands of mer in federal, state and municipal police work who als | are trained to kill. But this hasn't inclined them t | become criminals. | The average American boy, he says, hates killing And the more killing he has witnessed, the more h values an orderly society, he said. Mr. Hoover cites statistics to back up his belie | that the post-war crime wave, if it develops, wi | come from the younger brothers and sisters of soldier | —young folks who have become criminals here a home.
Crime Among Children “MORE BOYS, age 17, and girls, age 18, wer arrested last year than in any age group,” he saiq “The constant increase in the number of girls bd coming involved is alarming. “Arrests of girls last year ingreased 130 per cer over 1041, the last peace-time year, while arrests d boys under 17 increased 30 per cent. “Each year since the outbreak of war. there h: beet a constant increase in the arrests of persor under 21. . , , Persons in this age group last yes accounted for 13 per cent of all murderers arreste 39 per cent of all robbers, 55 per cent of all burglar 37 per cent of all thieves, 32 per cent of all rapist 30 per cent of all arsonists and 65 per cent of a car ‘thieves.” | And this year, crime throughout the nation iff creased 84 per cent between January and June. before demobilization got started to any extent, But. there is no need to be pessimistic about ti post-war crime outlook, according to Mr. Hoove The FBI and other law enforcement agencies a much better prepared to meet another era df pos Pe crime than was the case after world war I, } said.
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NOW THAT the war is over we are safe In trusth the Japs—about a far as. ve oan see the en.
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