Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 September 1945 — Page 12

; ote ge le 1i he Indianapoli PAGE 12 Wednesday, Sept. 5, 1945 ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE ~ HENRY W. MANZ “President Editor Business Manager (A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER) == Price In Marion County, b cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 30 cents a week. Mall rates tn Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, U. 8. possessions, Canada

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Give Light and the Peoples Will Ping Their Own Way

CITY OF GOOD NEIGHBORS EVERY once in a while some pessimist rises to remark sagely that the good old country virtue of being a good neighbor has vanished from urban life, that the spirit that "used to move everybody in a rural community to pitch in and help when someone suffered a misfortune doesn’t work in a 1945 model city. 4 But it does work. Ask Louis Leaver. Louis Leaver was hurt in an aceident on his job a couple of years ago, and he expects to spend the rest of his life in a wheel chair. Sure, there was some insurance, but it’s all gone now. And of course there had been the normal public aid and the help from organized charity, but at best these aren't. much of a substitute for a father who can earn an income and support his family. The little ventures that a man can try from a wheel chair hadn't panned out. Things didn't look so bright for the Leavers. Even so, he wasn't asking for anything but a job, when The Times called on him the other day. A job a man could do with his hands—if he hadn't any legs. The city didn’t wait to be asked. The response was immediate and generous. Food and supplies and money poured in over the week-end. Dozens of good neighbors who hadn't known the Leaver family existed interested themselves in the case and offered to help. = For all this Louis Leaver and Mrs. Leaver and the two little Leaver girls are very grateful. But today Mr. Leaver has something worth a lot more. He has a job. No charity about it, either. It is a job he can do, and earn his wages and maintain his self-respect. And that would ‘seem to pretty well solve his problem, All of this makes us very happy for the Leavers—but a great deal happier for our town. And more than a little proud of our good neighbors. A whole city full of good neighbors. ~ : :

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“ STALIN ON PACIFIC PEACE TALIN’S victory address is reassuring as to Soviet postwar policy, with one exception. The latter, from the Russian point of view, is more a matter of form than substance. We mean his premature annexation of southern ~ Sakhalin and the Kurile islands. Russia's allies have not questioned her claim to southern Sakhalin, which she lost in the czarist Russo-Jap war, or to the Kuriles, which shut off her sea of Okhotsk from the Pacific. It had been hoped, however, that Stalin would recognize the right of the allied nations at the peace table to determine this—particularly since the United States was chiefly responsible, at great cost, for the defeat of Japan. Unlike the Moscow government, Washington is not a great stickler for form. Therefore that aspect will not trouble Americans as much as it would have pained the Russians if the shoe had been on the other foot. . 8 =» u = =» BUT our government has been concerned, and properly so, by Stalin’s habit of ignoring the reality as well as the form of joint-allied action in peace settlements. Hence the recent protests of Secretary of State Byrnes, supported by . Foreign Minister Bevin, against the efforts of Soviet puppet ~ regimes in eastern Europe to ignore the joint rights of the ~~ United States and Britain with Russia—as admitted by Stalin in the Moscow, Yalta and Potsdam pledges. Neither the principle of allied unity nor of international authority can be maintained if a big power persistently acts on its own without consultation and agreement. That applies equally to Russia, Britain and the United States. Not one of them can afford to risk the danger of chaos and conflict which will result if those principles of post: war allied co-operation and international responsibility are undermined. Apart from Stalin's lapse in this regard, his victory message was marked by statesmanship. Its tone was that of a leader who wants peace more than anything, and who is confident that peace can be preserved. Coming on top of the excellent Russian-Chinese treaty, this is most welcome assurance from the strongest Asiatic power.

FINISH THIS TASK 3 THE war isn't over for all of us, and this fact should not be forgotten in the rush to drop wartime controls and responsibilities.” Hundreds of thousands of servicemen won't be home for a year or more. Their wives, who must work to support themselves and a child or two, need public child care centers as much today as they did a few months ago. They will need them for a long time to come. And for some young mothers, the war will never end. Their men will névér come home. The business of supporting children will go on indefinitely. Congress, returning to Washington, ought to take these facts into consideration and extend the Lanham act, with its federal help to child care centers, for a time. The burden is one that states and cities can and should take n_ themselves, but until they have a little time to do so wives and widows of servicemen should not be lef suddenly without the help the centers give. dm v Six months’ extension of the Lanham act will giv ~ states time to call legislatures where this is necessary, and + revise budgets. The states are asking to take back em- ‘ ployment services which were federalized during the war, i say they want to operate independent unemployment benefit systems. To this child care centers can be well added. Meanwhile, we learned during the war that healthy children are the\ation's most valuable asset. It\is too soon

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OUR. TOWN— 2 City’s Flag By Anton Scherrer

Indianapolis has a scandal on its hands. I didn’t care to mention : it while the war was on for fear that we might crack if we had something more to worry about. Now I'm scared that we shall crack for want of something to replace the worries that “victory has removed; which is to say that nobody to my knowledge, has given any thoughts to the reconversion of our worries, a defect I purpose to

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remedy today. Let's start with the official flag of dianapolis and the scandalous fact that it never was displayed in any of the parades, celebrations and ceremonies held around here in the course of the last few weeks. . Chances are that you don't even know that we, thé citizens of Indianapolis, have a flag of our own to bleed and die under, should the occasion arise, | Well, here are the facts, so help me God: ~~

Two Staffs . . . One Flag

ONE DAY, back in 1911, Lew Shank got to stewing about the two flag staffs with which the architects had decorated the city hall, a comparatively new building atthe time. To save his life, he couldn't figure out why more than one flag stall was necessary when all of a sudden, he was seized with an inspiration that if the United States could have a flag of its own, so, by gosh, could the city of Indianapolis. Lew didn’t tell a soul about his idea (except, of course, his wife, Sarah “who helped him run the town) and that’s why everybody was so surprised when he came out in the papers with a communique that he had appointed a flag commission to “diagnose the case.” Everybody got the drift of Lew’s therapeutical joke when it turned ‘out that every memiber of the commission was a physician. Yor example, there was Dr. William H. Johnson, who was a member of the city council; Dr. Henry Jameson, president of the park board; and Dr. Charles 8. Woods, secretary of the board of health, The doctors spent several months “diagnosing the case” and finally reported that an Indianapolis physician, of all people, had submitted the best design for the official flag of Indianapolis. It proved to be Dr. Johnson, a member

‘of the commission,

Prescription for a Banner

DR. JOHNSON’S design was steeped in symbolism. Indeed, it was not unlike the designs the doctor leaves with his patient hoping to heaven that somebody will interpret the signs and symbols correctly. . For example, in the upper lefthand corner of the flag was a big five-pointed star. Dr. Johnson said it represented the city’s executive department. It was plain as daylight after it was explained, Beneath the big star in a southeasterly direction was a half. moon made of nine little stars—the members of the eity council, catch 'on? And over on the right side was the city seal representing the legal department. Under the seal was a garland of laurel leaves to make sure that the lawyers were getting everything that was coming to them. 3 The stars, seal and garland were done in gold. The field of the flag was blue, just the kind of atmosphere you'd expect the doctors to pick if they had their way.

. + « But Where Is It Now? DELIGHTED with the doctors’ prescription, and like a frog in praise of spring, Mayor Shank officially accepted -the flag of Indianapolis on June 7, 191L Indeed, he issued a proclamation in the course of which he fixed the following Fourth of July as the day for the official dedication and initial flying of the flag. Strangely enough, however, nobody—not even Mayor Shank—attended the scheduled ceremony. His absence and, indeed, that of everybody else, is accounted for by the historical fact that William H. Taft blew into town that day. He brought the President's flag with him to fly with Old Glory. And ever since that day, nobody around here has seen the flag of Indianapolis—let alone display it. God only knows where it is. I repeat it's a scandal.

VETERANS—

Wheel Chair Trip

By Andy Anderson

HOUSTON, Tex, Sept. 5—~The more GI's I meet up with and get to know, the prouder I am that I've got a kid who 1s a GI and that IT was-in world war I.

Just back from Indianapolis and trying to sneak in enough time for a Nshing trip, the phone rings and a volcg says, “Andy, this is Georgle Foster,” Georgie is from Orville, O. Then he goes on: “Me and Sgt. Everett Knight are down for a week-end visit.” That shouldn't be so startling, unless you know the kids. You see, George doesn't have any legs, and Everett has a leg off at the knee and his other leg is broken and in a cast. Both are wheel chair patients. Not crutches, mind you—but wheel chairs—those new-fangled folding things that are such a convenience to the kids. I asked George, “What the heck are you two kids doing so far away from the hospital, and who is with you to take care of you?" And he said, very serenely, “Oh, no one is with us. We just came down to visit some folks and will go back Monday.” They came from McCloskey hospital.” That's 160 miles from Houston. They had to come by train and

get their wheel chairs aboard. They had to get off the train, get a cab and get to a hotel.

Wanted to Learn More

B80 I WENT down" to the hotel to huy them a lunch,” I wanted to [earn more about: this trip and what was behind it. They made it look so simple. “Folks at the hospital took us to the train. The railroad men are swell and they saw that we got good seats and our chairs were stowed. And the red caps at the station here were just as swell They un~loaded us and saw that we got to the cab stand, and we thought the cabbies were going to start a riot in an effort to get us to ride with them, Finally the cabble who did haul us just wouldn't take any fare.” -Just that simple, Once at the hotel, they mounted their chairs and, of course, could get to their rooms by elevator, 2 : I still was not satisfied. “Tell me ‘something, you mugs; just why did you make this trip alone. Certainly you kids get plenty of trips. Give—what's the real reason?” oy And their answer just floored me. Foster is of old pioneer Ohio stock. Everett Knight is of an old Jackson, Miss. family. This trip to Houston wag just. the old ploneer spirit or urge asserting itself. “Well,” was the answer, “some day we have to get out and shift for ourselves, We're not always going to have nurses and orderlies and swell kind people fetch. ing and carrying for us and taking us where we want to go. Bo. we decided to see for ourselves if we could really ‘cut it’ We found out that we could and we feel a lot better about it.” Foster has a number of citations ‘and decorations Knight has the DSC. You'd expect that sort of pioneering courage from kids like that now wouldn't you? : x \ %

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. gi gt 5 re . — “VOTERS PASS THE BUCK— JOB IS NEVER DONE” By Carroll Colling, Indianapolis To Mr. 1. Public:

You really gave them both barrels and all of it the truth, The taxi drivers are no worse than the average man, I know one and he is a gentleman, his wife is a lady. The voters do cut their own throats. Do they take time to read the bills our state passes? No. Do they follow what happens in Washington? No. Do they ever take time to protest against an injustice? No. But they do pass the buck, let George do it, therefore it is never done. Our present political setup is so rotten it stinks to high heaven. The governor made an appointment for the Girls’ school, but did he stop to think that same woman resigned less a year ago. Why? Our mayor has stopped all gambling. Now don't laugh but it still goes merrily on its way and the government never gets a cent. Why not give the suckers an even break for their money at least? For i they gamble and lose, but the gov~ ernment gets their chips, then they still win. The present way both the sucker and the government lose. So legalize gambling and let Uncle Sam take a nice hig slice. You can’t stop evil by laws but by legalizing all forms of gambling. This recalls a little. poem by Don Marquis: “The things I can’t have I want And what I have seems second rate; : The things I want to do I can’t And what I have to do I hate.” That sums.up human nature and next election I'll be in there fighting for men who have minds of their own and can’t be bought, bribed or threatened by either of the three organizations that want to run the country, P. 8. 1 speak of the W. C, T. U,, the Church Federation and the Better Business Bureau. I might add the Chamber of Commerce, £00. » » “WHAT DID BULGARIA DO

TO SAVE DEMOCRACY?”

By Jolin Pratias, speretary, James Whitcomb Riley chapter, ofder of A. H, E PF. A. Indianapolis

Again in your paper of August 28 appeared Mr. Dimitrofl in defense of his cause, now appealing in behalf of the Slavs of Macedonia, He, indirectly, admitting that he is a Slav, What a hypocrisy. Had Mr. Dimitroff had enough courage he would have come out and told us the truth. But he lacks courage or his purpose is not served if he tells the truth; that he is a Bulgarian

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“I wholly disagrees with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.”

“WE HAVE EARNED RIGHT TO A DISCHARGE”

By C, E. B, Fi. Harrison All the present agitation for the {immediate cessation of the operation of the draft act is disturbing and unfair to those of us who have served the country during the war. We have fought and bled to protect our country. Now we want a chance to leave the army and again take up the dutizy and privileges of ci-~ vilian life. But men are still needed tor occupation duty, services of supply and other p Someone has to perform that duty. If the draft is discontinued, veterans of two, three and four years’ service will have to be retained. President Truman has asked that

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thing as Macedonian people with any particularly nationality or linguistic character. Therefore they are either Greeks, Bulgarians, Serbs, etc. and Mr, Dimitroff had better study a little more history to find that out, if he does not already know. But personally, I think Mr. Dimitroff knows more than he says, yet he prefers not to say. : Well, Dimitroff, the American people are entitled to know the truth, that a few Bulgarian or Americans of B origin are again desperately trying to influence the American public opinion in behalf of an old Bulgarian scheme to rob Greece of her northeastern district, but the disguise of the Macedonian American People League or the M. P. O, who are advocating the création of a free Macedonian nation. They are the so-called Slavs of Macedonia intriguers, helped by the Communists of America, who have now chosen to present themselves as the victims of the wicked Greeks and Serbians, It is their aim under this disguise to’ help the new clumsy Bulgarian intriguers espoused by the new government of Belgrade openly and by another very powerful government, indirectly to establish a false Macedonian nation that never existed. . But™let me remind Mr. Dimitroff that the official position of one

it is fair to draft new now relieve us, and to perform peacetime duties. ; Complete dissolution of the army at this time is unthinkable, We must retain the upper hand over Japan and Germany so that we won't have to fight to regain it. We must either keep the men we have on duty or find new ones. Judging from past history, a campaign for volunteers would fall far short of the enough men to relieve the veterans. Please, thinking on this subject, plus a will-

want to be drafted, but neither did we. Peacetime service will be a vdcation compared to what we faced. We have earned the right to a dis-

right. Keep the draft law in effect.

” » » “DON'T YOU THINK MARRIED MEN SHOULD BE OVERSEAS?” By Mrs. L. LZ, Spokane, Wash.

that of the British government. It was clearly stated by the state department, a week or so ago, that the United States would neither recognize the government of Premier Georgieff, nor conclude a peace treaty with it unless considerable changes are made. . « » What did Bulgaria do to save the nations from Hitler and Mussolini? She robbed, burned and destroyed Greece and Serbia, as she

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Free Ride By Robert Taylor

WASHINGTON, Sept. 5.—The from

In the reichchancellory, riding yacht and making a “brief inspection” Carlo, : . 3 The tour was proposed by Rep. Victor Wickerham (D. Okla) to give members a view of problems Tourists

President Okayed Junket

IT WAS announced that President Truman agreed to the trip. That made it government busie ness and enabled the army to transport the cone

| gressmen at public expense. The itinerary called for

visits to more than 20 countries in 45 days. . The touring congressmen proposed to study ‘legis~ lative and administrative affairs of the countries visited, U. 8. military hospitals and camps, operations of the UNRRA, labor conditions, food, housing and reconstruction problems. | The tourists heard a sour note in Paris, however, The French press implied that they hadn't been in places where they could find out how the French people were living. ' The English-language Paris “Post” printed a de-

-| scription of the group's activities, which, the paper

said, included “dinners with American generals, time out for personal shopping, a reception by the U. S,

the 'Folies Bergere.” :

French ‘Newspapers Critical

THE SAME paper printed a picture of the group under the caption ‘now they know how ‘the French live." Another newspaper offered to pilot the law= makers around France “to help them realize the actual conditions of life among the masses of the French people.” Some of the tour members sent letters home to constituents to keep them advised of their progress

with Gen. Eisenhower at Frankfort—and had their pictures taken again with the general. Then they went to Wiesbaden for a ride on Hitler's yacht, They : talked with generals and G. 1.’s, inspected bomb dame ee in - Berlin, inspected Berchtesgaden and Mars es. / The congressmen didn’t miss the French Riviera ~NOowW a rest zone for U. 8. troops. The delegation stayed at the Hotel du Cap, at Antibes, had dinner with Bob Hope and Billy Conn, who were on an enter= tainment tour. They also went for a boat ride on the Mediterranean with Hope, Conn and others, winding up at Monte Carlo for a what one “a brief inspection.” The tour was to end in time to get the congress men back for the reconvening of Congress today, Members said when they left that they plan to make a report to the nation on results of their tour. . Members of the group include Rep. Wickersham, Reps. Dondero (R. Mich), Weiss (D. Pa.), Freighan (D. 0), Huber (D. 0), Carnaham (D. Mo.), Chelf (D, Ky.), Horan (R. Wash), Merrow (R. N. H), Ramey (R. 0.) and Fulton (R. Pa.)

WORLD AFFAIRS—

By Edward A. Evans

LONDON, Sept. 5. —Peace after six years of war finds the British people bone tired—buf refusing to be tired out. : They won a long, grim struggle to survive. Now they face what seems to American eyes almost as grim a struggle to live while they ree build their country and its battered economy. For them there is no prospect of early escape from

at the worst. From drastic rationing of almost everything they eat and wear, or from rigid wartime controls. Their. new labor government has promised them planned security from unemployment and poverty, But, even before lend-lease was ended, it had to start. its career by telling them bluntly—not to expect anything like abundance of food, clothing, housing or fuel for many months and, in some cases, for years,

They Don't Complain

IF THIS BLEAK outlook dismays the British people, their faces don't show it and their talk doesn’t reveal it. They look to the future with every evidence of willingness to go on sacrificing in sweat and to! now that the time of blood and tears has passed. “Of course,” they say, “we aren't as fortunate as you But we are better off than any other country in the old world. Indeed, we shall have to spare food and coal to people on the European’ continent this winter if we hope to avoid tragic chaos “We realize, too, that if Britain is to live and pros-

materials, and pay for them by selling our manufac tured products abroad. Until we get our peacetime

,| industries going top speed again we must do without

many things we want and need in order to support our export trade.” |’ There is urgent, immediate need for a million new

what English families want—can be built in 1946, Hardly any improvement in the meat supply is expected before the end of next year, and ample fresh meat may be a matter of four or five years, More fish, however, is promised soon.

Everything Is Scarce SUGAR WILL be scarce for at least two years. Confectioners, bakers, brewers, and makers of preserves and ice cream are getting even less sugar than hy 44 bed before V-J Jar. so that the domestic ale a pound a week person-—can tinue without cut. ~~ per ie + Rice and edible fats and oils also will be short, The basic milk ration—2% pints a week per person may be increased slightly this fall. But there is no

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