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THE JEKYLL-HYDE JAPS

THE headlines on American occupation days in Japan state the paradox that faces us from here out. “Mac-

Arthur cheered by bowing, docile Japs”—but

prisoners describe hell-hole tortures.” Dr. Jekyll and Mr. |

Hyde!

Yesterday it was one, today it is the other, tomorrow which? The problem of the occupation is at best to allow the good one to develop, and at worst to make sure that . the other never gets another weapon. All of which is easier

said than done, But a good start has been made,

Jap militarism impotent permanently, and to

any peaceful democracy capable of home growth. Thus the terms were as harsh as conceivable to"destroy the Jap menace, but they were liberal in allowing the Japs eventu~ ally to pick any form of government (including an emperor)

which is peaceful and responsible. Our second step was as wise as the first.

no better than their enforcement; the test of any policy is in its application. Gen. MacArthur was given the thankless and hazardous job. In experience and ability he combines the diverse qualities required, a combination of the

hard-boiled and the kindly.

: on. . : SINCE HE went out to Tokyo and the Russo-Jap war as a young officer observer, he has known this strange people—in their heights of gentle refinement and their depths of barbarism. He has been their friend and their enemy. They have been the cause of his worst humiliation and of his supreme achievement. If any occidental has the wis-

dom to handle the two-in-one Jap, MacArthur

7 The spirit of the occupation, as set by President Truman and Gen. MacArthur, was summed up by the typical instructions of an American commander as his landing ‘ashore in a country never conquered before: “We must impose our will upon: the Japs without

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stampeding them. We don’t want to impede traffic or economy.

GOODBY; -LEND-LEASE : PRESIDENT TRUMAN thinks we might as and forgive most of lend-lease; And we might as well. We're not going to be repaid anyway. If any American _ has ever believed that the 40-odd billions worth of goods that have been lend-leased to our allies would ever be lease- | lended back to us, he is not one who has followed this editorial column, where the money has been kissed goodby . since the day the legislation was enacted. President Coolidge once said of World War I debts, “They hired the money didn't they?”

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make them return what they had hired. The best attitude we can take about lend-lease is that we hired our allies to help quicken victory, and that we got our money’s worth. Might as well be magnanimous about it; won't -do any good

to grouch..

But in writing lend-lease off the books, couldn't we pick up a few military bases in this hemisphere, which are eco- ~ nomic liabilities to our debtors but would be sets to us, and exact too some policies of post-war co-

operation—just as tokens of final settlement,

REMEMBERING PEARL HARBOR

UBLIC reaction to the Pearl Harbor reports apparently is the opposite of that intended. The story was not buried by news of the American military occupation .of .Japan. - Public interest is stronger than ever in what happened—and why—when the Jap sneak attack caught

our army and navy, surprised and helpless. Nor were thes} ted by congress, the press

the contradictions, and the disagreements in of official reports, have merely increased the

demand for courts-martial and an open congressional in-

vestigation,

That is Tiéalty. That is just. That is American. Those condemned" have =a right to trial, no matter how

guilty. Those smeared have a right to reply Those made the victims of others’ mistakes, their own, have a right to call witnesses.

JUST A LITTLE BIT ALERT

EAVING in and out of those Pearl Harbor reports is the term “alert.” References are made to the “number one alert,” the “number two alert,” the “number three alert.” And there is much about the adequacy of alertness. : Maybe the wholé answer to why Pearl Harbor happened might be simplified down fo this effort to grade

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One is either alert or he is not. Pearl Harbor,

Similar attempts to qualify the specific are

the sign which says “Positively. No Admittance,” on the letter which is marked “Strictly Confidential,” and in cases

of. being just a little bit pregnant.

Further difficulties: were created with the impulsive adoption of the term, unconditional surrender. :

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first to consult the dictionary.

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The Potsdam unconditional surrender terms, written by the United States, fixed a dual policy to deal with a dual problem—to render

We won't invade any homes. But you can bet there won't be any coddling or ‘Hi Joe’ attitude oo or part,” ed :

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Black Market Price List THE i department, quotes these prices in the Manila black market. .., Two pounds of runty tomatoes, $2; eggplant, 62 cents a pound; onions, $325 a pound; one A 30 to 40-cents; three-inch bananas, 5 do 7% cents each; pineapples, $1.50 to $2.50 each.

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they're always crowded. They mar be boarded only at the end of the line, A horse-drawn vehicle never costs less than 75 cents a mile A tricycle taxi, operated by foot power, costs about $1 a mile. Unless an American can obtain an army doctor he had better keep well, the department finds, Private physicians cannot get enough drugs or medicines; they may write prescriptions, but the patient can’t find any one to fill them. An office call costs $5, a house call $10. $75 to $150. Buch drugstores as there are get $1 for five razor

paste, of local manufacture, costs BU cetits for a tube about the size of your little finger, :

Clothing Is Expensive

A man’s white cotton shirt brings and then a pair of rayon stockings

WORLD AFFAIRS— Austria By William Philip Simms WASHINGTON, Sept. 1.—Austria today is probably the most tragic country in all Europe, ac-

cording to - observers recently returned from the scene. Her plight

Michael Hainisch, then president of the Austrian republic. Leading me over to a large wall-map of ~gentral Europe, he pointed at a tadpole-shaped area in the center, ” “That,” he sald, “that is Austria. But it is not a country. It is a fish out of water and a fish out of water cannot live.” What he meant was, the treaty of St. Germain had so trimmed down Austrian territory that she wag no longer an economic entity. There was only Vienna, one of the world’s largest capitals, surrounded by a hinterland no bigger than the state of-Keéntucky. Today Austria is still further subdivided. More than half is occupied by the Red army. The rest— split into three parts—is occupied by the Americans, British and French. More of less all have looted their zones pretty thoroughly and flooded thém with more or less worthless paper money.

U. S. Zone Like Others

THE AMERICAN ZONE, according to the report, seems to be faring like the others. The food situation is some better because the Americans are bringing in most of their own, while the others are living off the land. This latter is especially true of the Russian zone where actual hunger is described as Increasingly serious, Americans are said to make no difference between Austrians and Germans. If anything, the Austrians feel they are getting fhe worst of it. One Austrian resistance leader, for instance, complained that he had been ordered out of an American office by a German whom he recognized as a former local gestapo official. The German had become a sort of office alde-interpreter, ; All sorts of stories harmful to America are sald to be making the rounds. One of these is that Austrian public utilities are to be turned over permanently to American interests, The Tauernwerke, at Salzburg, according to the tale; is to be of in that fashion, It is the largest electric plant in Austria and Is capable of producing enough curren to supply the entire country.

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stated, is the presence of politically minded officers who lean strongly toward the left wing or out and out communism, This seems to be especially unwelcome because the American zone is overwhelmingly Catholic.

Would Recognize Communists?

IN BALZBURG, the American authorities are reported to have .suggested setting up a district government this fall without an election. The plan was to allot 11 seats to the Catholic Volkspartel in place of the 14 it won at the last elections; 11 to the Socialists who had had only seven, and eight to the Communists who had had none at all, Other parties would be barred.

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By O. D. C., Indianapolis According to news reports, at least one Japanese newspaper has stated that Japan was beaten long before Russia entered the war or the atomic bomb was used. However, our state department always denied any peace offers were ever made either by Germany or Japan. Since censorship has been lifted there are indications that Japan would have been willing to surrender several months ago on exactly the same terms she did receive. The Chinese army newspaper, San Tang Pao, asserted a few days ago that Japan

.'{ was ready to offer up her war lead-

ers as hara-kiri victims and retreat to her 1931 boundaries as conditions of peace last June, J - Another story has been given out by Walter Trohan, Washington correspondent for the Chicago Tribune, which claimed that Japan's first peace bid was sent td the White House seven months ago. Here is the story and I quote: “Two days before the late President Roosevelt left for the Yalta conference with Prime . Minister Churchill and Dictator Stalin, he recelved a Japanese - offer - identical with the terms subsequently concluded by his successor, President Truman. “The Jap offer, based on five separate overtures, was relayed to the White House by Gen, Mac~ Arthur in a 40-page communication. The American commander, who had Just returned triumphantly to Bataan, urged negotiations on the basis of the Jap overtures. “President Roosevelt dismissed the general's communication, which was studded with solemn references to the deity, after a easual reading with the remark, ‘MacArthur is our greatest general and our poorest politician.’ “The MacArthur report was not taken to Yalta. It was preserved in the files of the high command, however, and subsequently became the basis of the Truman-Attles-Pots-

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dam declaration calling for the render of Japan.” Assuming the above story is true it would seem to indicate the war could have been ended seven months sooner on the same terms that we eventually gave Japan. » » .

“WHY ARE COUNTY COURTS PREJUDICED?” By Jack Linsley, Acton I wish to ask through your column just why Marion county court judges are prejudiced and biased toward men ih divorce courts by not granting equal rights and uniorm methods In divorce support, time, and custody. of children. My question is.»is it constitutional to rule differently on each such case? May some one of the honest Judges or attorneys please expiain by editorial? Would your column ask them to reply in detail? _

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» » » “MUST NOT RELAX EFFORTS IN SLUM RANCE” By John Alvah Dilworth, 81614 Broadway In behalf of post-war employment plans, I wish fo stress as one important factor in post-war Indianapolis plans for the clearing of slums, either with or without the request of handouts from the federal government. With eyes on the future, we must not relax our efforts in slum clearance, With authority expected to proceed with construction of 200 homes in Indianapolis before the end of 1945, it will only put a dent in the city housing shortage. Normally the housing situstion in Indianapolis calls for 1500 to 1800 new residences annually, The housing condition is a clue to what may be expected throughout the nation in the post-war era in alleviating unemployment. The demand, properly handled, may be expected to cushion the transfer

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your right to say it.” from war production to a staple

While the below-named commis signers’ still is to be mapped, it was the intention of the citizens’ post-war planning come mittee, of which George A. Kuhn is chairman, and its subcommittee on housing, headed by Paul L.’ McCord, to devote first attention to an area bounded by N. West st., W. 10th st. and W. 16th st, and Fall Creek. This area will be part of a longrange plan worked out in conjunc tion with the city ‘park department. Appointed Thursday, April 26, 1945, members of the five-man

redevelopment commission which, under the law, requires them to meet within 30 days after appointment to appoint a five-member board of commissioners to administer the slum clearance program, authorized by an act of the 1945 legislature, met on Friday, April 27, 1945. Both board and trus-

|tee members serve without: pay.

Earl H. Schmidt, 3120 N. Meridian st, secretary-treasurer.of Hamil-ton-Harris Co. and president of the Y. M. C. A. and who also has been active in U. 8. O. work, was nominated for two years as the first trustee on the board by Judge Lioyd D. Claycombe, circuit court, and approved by Mayor Robert H. Tyndall Mayor Tyndall nominated Arthur R. Baxter, retired president of the Keyless Lock Co., for five years and®saac B. Woodard, president of the Acme-Evans Co. for three years. i John H. Schumacher, president of the city council, named H. H. Woodsmall, president of the Woodsmall Agency, Inc., four years and Fred W. Jungclaus, president of the William P. Jungclaus Co., one year. The foregoing five commissioners have authority to declare an area blighted, clear these areas of exist« ing improvements, replan it, rezone it and resell parts of it to other municipal departments for use as boulevards, flood control projects and use as parks, and the remainder to private persons or companies for use in rebuilding low cost residential areas subject to protecting restrictions. This is encouraging. I look to this measure with considerable hqpe. It offers the opportu~ nity to rebuild whole blighted areas In the typical American way—the way of self-help. It does not contemplate subsidy housing in the sense that the citizens of Indianapolis have come to regard subsidy housing, ; It is to be noted that the five commissioners named above reflect notable civic service for many years a8 well as a careful study of the citizens’ post-war : mittee. It is also one of the appo Tyndall and one named by John A. Schumacher are affiliated with firms who have had

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Wallace Busy By Charles T. Lucey =

WASHINGTON, Sept.- 1~Maybe you've been wondéring what happened to Henry Wallace since the big row over his being ap- ~ pointed secretary of ‘commerce last

winter, : : 5 yon Well, he has been busy trying to make the come

In what probably has been his most $ilent six months in his last 12 years in Washington, he has been burrowing in to learn what the department is all about. ' : i ‘Mr, Wallace thinks he has about found out and probably will be” out soon with a plan of reorganiza= tion in which he is expected to propose naming three

boss foreign commerce ‘ matters, another domestis commerce, a third would supervise all little business Nothwithstanding past labels pinned on Mr. Wale lace, his associates say he has started out to make the department an agency to serve and encourage -Ur 8, business, They..assert it's his theory that prosperity and jobs come out of private business, that the country doesn't want “planned economy,” and that business should be subjected to as little government control as possible. .

| Seeks Revived Influence

THERE'S a realization around his department that Mr, Wallace has been held suspect by business, His associates concede one of the basic things he

must do is to get its confidence. Business, in some of its top publications, has begun to say some fairly nice things about him. Not since Mr, Hoover, it is agreed generally, has the commerce department amounted to much. It never figured prominently in the news under Dan Roper. Harry Hopkins had some ideas for breathing life into it, but he was in ill health and didn't stay in the job long. - Jesse Jones’ top interest was his big reconstruction finance corporation, and there was a war -on_ that directed interest away from the dee partment. President Roosevelt often by-passed if. 80, say Secretary Wallace's associates, it's his aim to bring alive the big mausoleum on 14th street, He began by asking each of the bureaus within the department a question that went about like this; an to proe mote a high level of: prosperity’ and full business

are being financed under lend lens Pigrans spans sored by the foreign economic tre and the office of defense transportation, Renegotiations will be required to keep the- latest arrivals here long enough to complete their training periods. Approximately 240 Chinese trainees—the last of a group of 1310 brought here for training on railroads, highways and in industrial plants—are due to arrive in Washington next week. All had left China before the end of the war and lend-lease. : Six hundred already have completed their courses, FEA revealed, and returned home. They were given short technical eourses to enable them to aid in the intensification of the Chinese war effort.

Plan New Arrangement i ALTHOUGH spokesmen for both FEA and the international training administration said that cane

ments to finance the programs of those Chinese still here, it was indicated that few, if any, will have to return home before completing their training periods,

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He's heir to a activity, what can your bureau do to bring it about? *- his wife says. He got his answers from the foreign and domestic “His taste bureaus, the census bureau, patent office, bureau of E * her husband standards and so. on. The study has shown a lot of dently his nes things commerce department units have been doing going-over by which are useful to business, but they've never been Mr. Bloch's promoted. Business and economic studies, marked often make h analyses and the like. or ; Namara, a fel Will 'Sell"” These Services . J. Mr. MeNan GENERALLY, the nation’s business community : hs doesn’t know much about these things. The idea : now is: to go out and let it be known this help is " ’ a available, and to “sell” is aggressively, > Nobody ever has thought of the department as a = THE FOR place where future business trends could be spotted.’ Nazis on a cl People ‘have run to economists in a half-dozen other war provides government bureaus for this kind of guidance. What's "which may | the matter with the commerce department doing it? minions in J: Mr. Wallace's people ask.. \ hung Americ: There's an idea that the bureau of standards can - thumbs orbe made a more active aid to business by providing ' helpless fliers facilities for research. But it's recognized that i The storie must not tread on the sensibilities of private research. back today To do all this calls for some reorganization, and camp and oO plans for it may be sprung within the next few weeks, ; where Amer President Truman is said to be all for it. In ite and wounde present outlines it would need congressional approval, and starving, There's another important angle, tbo. Mr. Wale Geneva conve lace has plans for making thé national business ade # liberate polic visory council a thing of substance and not mere prisoners, wl window dressing. It's made up of businessmen, and able under tk be idea is to call on them for real help in formulate which is to | programs. . s to thousands That, his associates vow, is what Mr, Wallace has or killed civi been up to. camps. a “ In Reality : 1 e case IN WASHINGTON— , to wage agg : Ey FEA Trainees + of ton ang 4 tained in th By Roger W. Stuart for every bot WASHINGTON, Sept. 1—For- | a eign technical trainees hy the thou : Soya of He sands will continue to come to the : United States for = on-the-job wh Siig training despite the end of lend- eR ‘ ‘leace, which up to now has paid the way of many ; V r of them, it has been learned. PL Of the more than 1000 now int this country, moss: J

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