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Constitution geems likely

to become the major patriotic anniversary of the year.

It really began three years ago, as a local, event.

Indianapolis,

~ This year thousands of Hoosiers, in all parts of the state will observe the anniversary by recalling the prin-

_iples on which this nation was founded, and

on which it

fias stood for 158 years. And out of it has sprung a per-

manent, state-wide- organization, which will

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gear-round basis, to maintain the free enjoyment of the fights the Constitution guarantees and the full assumpjon of the responsibilities it places upon every citizen. It is a long way from the Philadelphia convention in “which the delegates of 12 little, semi-sovereign states

bound themselves together for peace after t

he loose al-

liance they had made for war proved inadequate, to the mighty world power that has ‘now grown out of that

gétion, But the principles there agreed upon have never | wavered, They are as sound, today, in 1945, as they were |

in 1787, : Upon them has been built the most stable fn the world. Within their framework has

government grown the

highest living standard human beings have ever known,

and the greatest freedom for men to live the unoppressed, and unafraid.

ir own lives

This week is a good time to read, again, the brief, clear passages that are our basic law, and that guarantee us the rights and the freedoms which we too often have

come to take for granted. And a good time

to stop and

think, for a moment, of what kind of a country this might be, and what kind of lives we might be living, if

we did not have them,

MacARTHUR CRACKS DOWN

: (GENERAL MacArthur gives a convincing answer to critics who fear that military occupation will turn out an appeasement of the Jap rulipg caste. He says bluntly the surrender terms are not soft and will not be applied in

kid-glove fashion. Anyone who knows the MacArthur

record and that

should include all Americans—never had any other idea. If he was tough enough to outfight and outguess the Japs before victory, the same stern qualities of the supreme

commander are not likely to be lacking now.

As he points out, the controlling factor in this early

period of occupation must be the landing

of as many

American troops and the disarming of as many Jap troops

as fast as possible. Until that job is done we cannot enforce our will effectively if any of the diehard militarists decide to challenge it. The job is still only half complete. Jap demobilization will not be a fact until mid-October.

The second priority factor is to keep enough Japanese

government functioning during the interim to

prevent epi-

demics and chaos. Here again it is a case of touch-and-go.

. = 0» “ MEANWHILE, during this period of

” semi-Ameri-

can control, certain Jap groups have taken advantage of

the situation. That was inevitable. .But the net cost has been rather less than could have been expected. And each

day, as the occupation forces grow larger and better organized, the supreme commander cracks down harder.

There have been three examples of this

in as many |

days. The Tokyo “government” -has been told to help round up and bring in the culprits on the allied list of war . criminals. Domei, the official Jap news and radio agency, which has been peddling poison against the occupation forces, has been shut down. And in Korea the Jap governor and police chief, who had been retained for civil

administration for a few days, have been repl American generals.

aced by two

These acts speak even louder than the supreme commander’s forthright words in favor of firm enforcement of

the surrender terms.

HOME BUILDING BARRIERS

VWHILE we think the government should free the home-

building industry from

wartime restrictions, that

certainly is not the only freedom this industry needs.

It desperately needs freedom from the

self-imposed

restraints which have made it laggard in improving its

methods, reducing its costs and extending its

markets.

“The largest single opportunity for the rapid post-war expansiori of private investment and employment lies in

the field of housing,” said President Truman sage to congress last week. Yet the industry upon which depends such for new homes and more jobs has heavily itself with unwise and uneconomic practices.

in his mes-

great hopes handicapped

OUR TOWN—

“Alaska

By Anton Scherrer

COMING on top of what you already know about the Gatling’ gun, it may not surprise you ‘to learn that the paradoxical dish known as “baked ice cream” (“Alaska” to you gourmets) was also invented in Indianapolis. ; The trick was turned by Joseph Parisette, a Frenchman, who had blue blood coursing through

was the last Duke of Lorraine. The other grandfather lost his head in the Reign of Terror. In 1831, when Joseph was 11 years old, the Parisette family—or what was left of it-sailed for America. They were headed for Buffalo, N. Y, but for some reason landed in Ft, Wayne, Ind. years later, in 1848, Joseph Parisette turned up in Indianapolis. By that time he was a full-fledged confectioner, having learned his trade in New Orleans and Cincinnati.

Indians Liked His Candy HE OPENED a candy shop on Washington st. (right across the alley from where the Washington hotel people now do business) and, in no time at all, he had the town beating a path to his door. Even the Indians were attracted by his show windows. What's more, they bought hi§ wares, but they always made Mr, Parisette taste his sweetmeats first. If he survived, they bought lavishly, In 1852, a fire put Mr, Parisette out of business. The Indians had nothing to do with it. Mr. Parisette lost no time in re-establishing himself. He bought 36 feet on Illinois st., just south of where the Murphy 5 & 10 cent people now do business. He paid $5000 for it. He could have had the southeast corner, of Pennsylvania and Market sts. (he present site of the American National Bank) for $600, but he turned it down because it was too far out of the business center, On Illinois st., Mr. Parisette got the notion of running a catering business in connection with his candy shop. Soon as he had the idea, Governor

inaugural reception. the trade of all the other governors down to and including Thomas A. Hendricks (1873-77). Some of the governors paid him as much as $20 for a cake. Of course, Mr. Parisette’s catering business wasn’t limited to .the governors. He ran off all the big banquets around here, and at one of them he sprung his invention of baked ice cream. Tradition has it that he saved his stunt for the brilliant dinner given in 1858 when the Hebrew congregation of Indianapolis invited Dr. Isaac W. Wise, the celebrated rabbi of Cincinnati, to dedicate their new synagog, the one in a hall on Washington st. apposite the Court House. It replaced the with which they started (1857) in a little room on the third floor of Blakes Commercial Row, the present site of Hotel Lincoln. On the day of the dedication, Mr. Parisette served something like 100 portions of baked ice cream, which Just about represented the number of adult Jews in Indianapolis at the time. Apparently, there were no second helpings.

Shop a Rendezvous

MR. PARISETTE was too smart to let his catering business get the upper hand. His candy shop grew by bounds until, finally, it became the rendezvous of Indianapolis society, especially on Sunday nights (after church hours) when the whole town turned out to gobble his goodies and unbaked ice creams molded in fancy shapes, another bright idea of his. Mr, Parisette always kept his shop closed during church hours. There is no record, however, that he ever went to church himself. He spent those hours under the trees of State House square feverishly working with paper and pencil, but what it was all about nobody knew. Years later, it turned out that while lying in the shade of the trees, Mr. Parisette had invented a dirigible airship. On paper, at any rate, It was a cigar-shaped affair with wings like those of a bird. To steer the thing, it had a rudder like the tail fin of a fish. Mr. Parisette was sure it would work and, judging by bis past performances, I'm inclined to believe that he was right. All of which leaves me no alternative but to believe that the: Jews of Indianapolis expressed their une qualified approval of Mr. Parisette’s baked ice cream. Otherwise, it wouldnt have given him the incentive to tackle an airship.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Out of Date

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—Great Britain's economie plight is more serious than appears on the surface. She has been hard hit by the war but it Is not entirely due to that. It 1s akin to what happened to the prosperous buggywhip factory after the advent of the automobile. World conditions which contributed to the buildIng and upkeep of the richest and greatest of all empires are gone forever. Britain used to be banker, broker, importer, exporter, manufacturer, underwriter, shipper, merchant, middleman and all-round caterer to everybody. Now most countries are not only rolling their own, but are competing with Britain, Forty or 50 years ago I knew a certain southern plantation. Cotton from its flelds was hauled to thwn and sold to buyers representing Liverpool. And Liver pool fixed the price, The grower had no say in the matter, This cotton, bought by British capital, was transported across the Atlantic in British bottoms built in British yards and manned by British sailors. In Manchester it was processed in British mills, then shipped back to the Unfted States in the sime manner to be sold, in effect, on the very plantation where Seiginsed, Every step of the way made money for r A

Times Have Changed MOREOVER, in the little town nearby, the stores | stocked British dress goods, cutlery, crockery, pocket knives, needles and thread and so on. We made lit. tle of these things. Today, on that same southern plantation, stands one of the most up-to-date cotton mills The little town, which now has a big knitting mill of its own,

As the Twentieth Century Fund pointed out in 1944 | mostly stocks goods “made inthe U. 8. A.” Six miles in a thoughtful report, a “restriction-of-output tradition”

has “kept house building a feeble enterprise

with a lim-

ited market.” The problems that confront all industries are, in the case of home building, “‘seriously dhgravated by

the lack of technical capacity and efficiency.” - n » - ® “THE PICTURE,” says this report, “is on

» e of the bar-

riers built up from every side—from our land system, from our methods of taxation, from builder organizations, la-

bor, real-estate operators, mortgage lenders, and even |

from government itself-—agamst the maturing of house building to the stature of an industry capable of produecing and distributing in sufficiently large quantities and at sufficiently low costs to meet the vast housing need the

country faces.”

The industry is right in seeking early release from

government's wartime restrictions,

© But how about its own faults? Its practices that keep

costs up and volume down? Its agreements

ness firms, and between business and labor, to throttle

among busi-

competition? Its union bans on more efficient methods and

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post-war job properly, the whole

hear

Unless the industry and its workers act to free themfrom such internal restraints, they will be unable

country will

| to the north is another hig textile mill and in the | towns six and 12 miles respectively to the south are | two more. Britain isn't butcher, baker and candle-stick-maker to everybody any more. Precisely the same transformation has taken place pretty much all over the world, vastly to Britain's dis advantage. Even her own dominions, including India, are competitors. : b Lord Keynes 1s now in this country to raise from three to six billion dallars to tide over Britain's postwar crisis. And most everyone in and out of congress

Interests of our own taxpayers, will permit. But neither three, nor six nor yet a dozen billions——either as a loan or as a “grant"—could restore Britain to her former position. y

Seek Practical Approach

BRITAIN, however, can still look forward brilliant future, but not as mistress of the

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possible for us to offer,

his veins. His grandfather, on the maternal side,

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Wright (1853-57) commissioned him to run off his| . He did it so well that he got |

Hoosier

WOULD HAVE GONE SKY-HIGH”

By G. 1. W., Kokomo “Not Because of the OPA but in Spite of It” is a laugh, C. D. C. of Indianapolis. Anyone reading your article, that has ever been hungry, would be foolish to let it go unanswered. Hunger is something one doesn't forget. Back in 1931 when the New Deal came into effect, I was exactly 11 years old and very, very hungry. I realize now that there were millions of people in the same boat. The half-pint, tin-horn politicians that you referred to gave us a chance to work for something to eat. Yes, I say work because work is what we did. My mother, being a widow with five growing children, couldn’t get a job. She had to stand back helpless and watch our faces grow gaunt from hunger. After the New Deal came into effect, one of my sisters and I became janitresses in the school which we attended to provide enough food for all the family. At least the food was earned honestly. I say more power to the “half-pint, tin-horn politicians” Without the OPA, prices would have gone sky high so that the average working man couldn't have provided food for his family. Of course, that doesn't mean anything to you, does it C. D, C.? Have you actually suffered from OPA? Having read your article it apears to me that you are a very selfish person that has never been without anything you wanted. Perhaps you would rather patronize the black market than the OPA. Just what is wrong with people having a full stomach, if they are willing to work? I say more power to the New Deal as long as all the people have the necessities of life, even if it takes all the letters in the alphabet, ; What does 200,000 business men going bankrupt mean to the general public? Nothing. You stated yourself “that if a man is not of running a business that he couldnt stay in business anyway. As long as they don't starve to death it doesn’t mean a thing. This is my point of view, C. D. C,, and I know there are plenty of others that feel the same, or the “tin-horn politicians” wouldn't have stayed in office this long. The majority of the people has taken orders from the OPA and not black markets; therefore, if it keeps this country from going into inflation or starvation, again I say “More

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“PEOPLE HAVE LOST CONFIDENCE IN POLICE”

By & Reader, Indianapolis Could it not be possible that the reason for so much crime in Indianapolis is because the people have lost all confidence in our police department from the mayor down? Anyone who visits taverns in the forenoon knows that there dre men calling on the taverns selling baseball pool numbers every forenoon just the same as any other salesman and don’t pay attention who is in the tavern, as much as to say “What the h—— do I care who is in here? I am protected.” And policemen standing up at the bar (not sitting down) drinking free drinks, Why don't the mayor and the chief of police enforce the laws that they know are violated every day? ”- ee

“FORTUNATE TO HAVE RUSSIA AS FRIEND”

By R B., Indianapelis The Watchman, along with others, keeps harping about the lend~lease matetials which were sent to Soviet Russia by this country. And there is no doubt but what they are right. A tremendous amount of lend-lease materials was sent to the Soviet Union. But for what reason I wonder. Did American industrialists actually intend for Russia to become the victor that she finally turned out to be? It may be so, but personally I have my doubts. Most people should recall the years previous to the war without too much difficulty. You remember everybody and his next-door neighbor was saying that he thought that it would be awfully nice if Germany and Russia would get info a war

Power to the QPA."

and thereby tear one another apart.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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

Well, maybe I'm wrong, and I will humbly apologize if I am, but I am inclined to believe that American industrialists hoped that this would become an accomplished fact by their supplying lend-lease materials to Russia. And the fact that it turned out differently, I'm inclined to believe, was a great shock to a lot of people. And while I'm on the subject I might say that the publishers of The Indianapolis Times were probably among those who were most surprised by the final outcome. Because I very distinctly recall a cartoon in your paper a number of years ago which showed Stalin trembling pitifully as he sat in the Kremlin considering the possibilities of Hitler invading Russia. Just what did you think of Russia's chances? Not so good, eh? Or no good at all? There is probably the right answer, When Germany invaded Russia there was one man, and one man only, that I now recall who said that Hitler had made his gravest mistake which would lead to his eventual] downfall. The statement was made before lend-lease was even considered, and the man responsible for making the statement was George Bernard Shaw. No one else that I know of would have given a cent for Russia's chances. That country was the same as beaten, and no matter how much I told my friends about what Mr. Shaw had said, they weren’t-going to believe him. And that was that. All the while there were men in this country and England who well knew just how strong Germany was. These moneyed men had deliberately helped to build Germany up militarily. And the reason they did so was that they wanted to see Russia defeated. But of course they didn't want Germany to win either. So it’s my opinion that in order to fulfill a plan of years standing, the moneyed men were willing to aid Russia so that she and Germany could whale the daylights out of one another. At the same time they had hoped that the American and English armies could bide their time until the opportunity arrived for them to knock hell out of both of them. But it just didn't work out that way, Because Russia who everyone, except Shaw, thought was a weak sister, just wasn't at all In view of all this I am rather inclined to believe that we are fortunate to have Russia as a friend. And everything possible should be done to preserve that friendship. I do not mean to say that we should knuckle down to that country in anyway. And it might even be all right for us to criticize their bhandling of elections in bordering countries. We might even insist that they give those countries an opportunity to choose the type of governments they want without any interference whatsoever from them. But when we do this it's only fair that we should assure the Soviet people that we also do not wish for

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governments that the Hearst, Mes Cormack and Scripps- Howard

By Thomas L. Stokes

Big Business |

message to congress, will’ develop against a backs ground of pressure groups never before so well organized or so active. op They are securely entrenched in permanent head

their outlets and offices all ovei the country, The pressure groups—or lobbies as they ordinarily are called—range from a man with a cubbyhole, a type-

across Lafayette park from the white House where the U. 8. Chamber of Commerce has its national headquarters. And there is, only a few blocks away, the big building that once housed the University club where the United Mine Workers is quartered and John L. Lewis sits in lonely majesty behind a big desk at the end of a huge room. J Since the war many established pressure groups have enlarged their staffs, and many new ones have been organized and opened offices here. Some of the latter supposedly were temporary. But they will probably find some reason to stay, just as do dee feated congressmen who hover about the city afters

Fight for Office Space

THE LOBBYISTS vie for space in downtown build« ings with government agencies which, during the war and even before, began to overflow the regular gove ernment buildings and spill all over town. Government is big business. ' That's what all this means. But so are the pressure groups getting to be big business. They all have a right to be here. They have their purposes in our sort of democracy. But sometimes you wonder where the ordinary citizen, who belongs to no particular economic group, comes in—or out,

however you choose to look at it. Maybe there are not so many of him any more. .

way at once, wondering which of his tormentors can grab the biggest block of voters away from him. His is not a happy lot.

lobbyist and the congressman at the same time. It behooves the voter, in scanning the play of politics from now on, to cast a glance frequently at the

others. For it's a habit of the agents of these groups to strain themselves, to overstress and overstate their cases, to make a showing to justify their keep here, Often they misrepresent or betray the real interests of those they are supposed to represent, as anyone knows who has watched what goes on here any length of time. . That was true during the war.

Peace Brings More Activity THE COMING of peace, the return to more normal times, is bringing increased activity from these groups, Each is trying to get something more for itself, or their spokesmen are, now that the war is over and there is a relaxation of restraints, That happened after the last war. As a matter of fact the pressure groups began to become big businbss after the last war, Attention was centered here during the war. People got the Washington habit. After the war the pressure groups began to move in, some for good reason, some to create “needs.” Many were here already. But the number ine creased. It was then that the farm organizations began to open up shop here. The creation of a farm lobby was such a novelty then that the head of one group, Charles 8. Barrett, representing the then National Farmers union, wrofe a book to explain and defend it—“Uncle Reuben Comes to Washington.” Everybody else was setting up here. Why not the | farmers? This he asked with some logic.

we go ahead.

IN WASHINGTON—

Oppose FEPC By Daniel M. Kidney |

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17. — Ninety per cent of the Republican congressmen are opposed to 8 permanent fair employment prac- § act, it was estimated today.

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Minn.) after a caucus of Republican meme the house yesterday.

his colleagues for permanent FEPC support,

on their hands as he concluded his speech. At that point, Rep. John Taber (R. N. Y.) ran down the aisle to the speaker's microphone. There was loud applause. But Mr. Taber ignored the Lae

appropriations. He is ranking Republican member of the house appropriations committee. ”

Points fo Platform Pledge

in New York under Governor Dewey, the G. O. P, presidential nominee. After Mr. Taber talked, the LaFollette stand was

Struck out against it with gestures. He called it

brought both ‘favorable questions and applause. Later Representative Mott of Oregon condemned a

labeled it “communistic.” The anti-FEPC stand seemed to have large mae Jority support among the Republicans. Judged by the applause, the Knutson 90 per cent estimate would seem zbout right, Mr. LaFollette had just come from attending a two-day meeting staged here under auspices of the national

quarters here—business, industry, labior, farmers, vet- *’ erans, to mention only a few. The bigger ones have |

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They are all here now, and their conflicting claims | create a problem that will become more complex as |

estimate was made by Representative Knute |

Mr. Knutson is chaire | his party’s steering committee in the house, Charles M. LaFollette of Indiana had pleads |

His supporters were few. Most of the members sat

Pollette plea. Instead he talked about cutbacks in |

MR. LAFOLLETTE pointd out that the pers | manent FEPC was part of the party platform in the { last presidential campaign. It was enacted into law |

challenged. Representative Rizley of Oklahoma |

“unconstitutional” and other things. His speech

permanent FEPC in even more emphatic terms. He |

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The average citizen, as a voter, is somewhat in I the same category, except that he’s got to watch the |

pressure groups, his own if he has one, as well as |

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