Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1945 — Page 10

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_PAGE. 10 Tuesday, Sept. 18, 1945

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SEE WHAT WE MEAN?

WE don’t-pretend to know all the facts that led to the demotion of William A. Haugh from gergeant to patrolman on the police force. Ex-Sergeant Haugh, accused of shaking down a tavern operator for petty graft denies the charge, and says he was “busted” because he arrested, in line of duty, a henchman of a party ward boss. The point is, we won't know, and the people of Indianapolis, won't know, and the rest of the men on the police force won't know, whether this man was justly punished for a real offense against police regulations or whether he was the victim of political chicanery. « There is no completely unbiased, non-partisan tribunal to sift the conflicting charges, openly and publicly, and settle the matter beyond any doubt. Party politicians have mixed into the affairs of the police department, sometimes. Is this one of the times? How many other men on the police force are going to belieye it is political interference, and step softly where politicians break laws as a consequence —even though“the charges against Mr. Haugh are completely true? Under police civil service there wouldn't be any question. A policeman would be safe from political retaliation, no matter who he had to arrest. And he would be sure of just punishment if he was caught shaking down taverns or anybody else, or being in any other way derelict in his duties. -* We believe that's the way the good competent honest members of the police force want it—and we're not much interested in the others. We know that’s the way the people of Indianapolis want it.

JOHN McCORMACK

(CHATEAU THIERY, the Argonne, the bitterness of 1918 —hearts were bereaved and they were turning toward a gentle Irishman who was singing. They felt he was singing for them , , . “1 hear you calling me , , , I stand; do you behold me, listening here?” John McCormack was singing, This Irishman, with hardly any musical education, was filling concert halls. This Irishman, who sang to his first audience when he was 9, was singing now to thousands. His first pay had been $125 a year in Ireland and now, in 1918, he was to receive $180,000 for his recordings alone. Those who were sorrowing wished to hear again and again , ., “and on your grave the mossy grass is green,” He was singing to them, John McCormack became an American citizen and a millionaire and he was heard in grand opera. Many acclaimed him as Rodolfo and Alfredo, The millions, however, wanted that.song , . . “Though years have stretched their weary length between.” In 1984 John McCormack sang for the last time in America and then went back to Ireland. Two months ago he was ill and he said; “I guess I overstretched my bellows holding those long ones.” Sunday night he died. ‘Those in need of solace had grown in number, Guadalcanal, Salerno, Tarawa, Normandy-—this was new bereave-

~ ment and again there was consolation in a simple song. By

the grave of wax discs, the song continues and many will find that its consolation is for them , , . “Hearing your voice through all the years between.”

NO SHORT OCCUPATION

T. GEN. EICHELBERGER says the occupation of Japan may end within a year, The general is in command of the Tokyo area, He is a good soldier. But he has neither training nor authority in determining allied political policy, which will fix the length of the occupation. Apparently Eichelberger does not know that the hope of Jap militarists is based on a short occupation. They expect us to dccept outward compliance with surrender terms as proof that Jap militarism is dead, They expect us within a year to grow tired of the thankless job of occupation and move out--leaving the centuries-old control and spirit of Japan unchanged. Of couse Eicheiberger would not wittingly play into the hands of the Jap propagandists, But he is very naive in saying: “If the Japs continue acting as they are now, within a year this thing should be washed up.” The reason there has been no major violence is because the emperor and his advisers, being defeated for the present at least, ordered the army and populace to refrain from violence, ~

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LL this proves is that Japan obeys the emperor. This was known all along, and explains the allied policy of dealing through the emperor. It does not prove the slightest change in the spirit or loyalty of the Jap people, much less in the ambitions of the Jap ruling caste. Certainly we can complete the physical demilitarization of Japan within a year, probably in less time. But that is the easiest part of the occupation job outlined in the Potsdam terms. The harder part is economic, political, and educational, How to keep an adequate peacetime industrial economy from becoming a war potential? How to break the politi cal strangle-hold of the old oligarchy, and provide the politital freedom and civil liberties we had pledged? How te get the Japanese people to be responsible citizens even when freedom is offered? Allied failure after world war I to end German militarism -by temporary disarmament shows that we cannot solve the harder Jap problem in one year of occupation.-

_ A STRANGER AND AFRAID

ROM a letter from one who describes himself a8 iy stranger and afraid in a world I never made”: “Our knowledge grows so much faster than our wisdom! Our scientists are finding so many horrible ways to hell oy so few into flabpines Maybe it would be a good “or two until we ean | rumen they have already the problems they have left

HENRY W. MANZ |

REFLECTIONS—

I New Time ¢\ By Frank Aston

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. —, In § world war II .we called it war time, . We'll drop it Sept. 30. In world war I we called it daylight saving time. That era had a popu~ lar song about lollygagging by daylight saving time, Daylight saving was prometed to save goal. Advocates of war tinie shifted the emphasis to conserving electric power, Results: The fuel administrator estimated 1,250,000 ‘tons of coal saved in ¥he seven months of daylight saving in 1818, The war production board found that war time conserved five billion kilowatt hours of electric power in three years ended July 6. To this the farmer retorted: “Yeah, but it cost me plenty.” : The administration said the saving in power relatively was small. But it recalled the late President Roosevelt's words: “In these times of emergensy it is essential to ensure the conservation of electricity in all possible ways.” The farmer sald: “Maybe 80, but to me it was a pain in the barn.”

Argument Was Changed IN 1817 the time shift was urged not only to save | coal but also to allow city workers sunlight periodg for tilling war gardens, Health and recreation were mentioned, In 1941 the argument ran “conserve power’ and “get people home in time for air-rald blackouts.” Health and recreation were not stressed because the country already had been needled up on the benefits of sunshine. The farmer sald: cow before sun-up?”’ Time, the heavy thinkers remark, is nothing but a man-made convenience. Einstein declares it is relative. Poets can’t agree whether it flies, drags or steals. To a musician time means everything, to a loafer it’s nothing. To a workman it's wages. In a prison it's retribution. Elderly Midwesterners recall jumbles of time around the house. A village boy visiting grandma's farm might arise by suntime which was an hour faster than the village standard time. .If his dad was & railroader, dad used three times: One for the line east, another for the line west and a third for the village time. Many homes lacked clocks and people were content with “early” or “late.” Their stomachs announced dinnertime. A broom straw, not a dial, told when a cake was done. When a man needed a shave it was Saturday. But for all this tumult of time, the nation shook its head when daylight saving was suggested. It would be too confusing, many claimed.

Started by Germany in 1916

GERMANY adopted daylight saving in 19168. The National Daylight Saving association. was formed in New York, Jan, 30, 1017. The senate passed legisiation to put daylight saving into effect Jan. 1, 1918; but this died in the house. On March 19, 1918, congress decided standard time in the United States should be advanced one hour from the last Sunday in March until the last Sunday in October. This was it, Farmers argued: Cows and chickens don’t make with the milk and eggs an hour earlier. So a farmer has nothing for the milk and egg train arriving 60 minutes too soon, Dew doesn’t dry any earlier simply because a clock is moved up, so what's to do with that salvaged hour? Hired help loafs until dew dries, but quits on daylight saving. You go into town on farm time and find everything cockeyed—stores are closed and the feature picture is half over. All you can get is a soda. Farmers griped, but turned out record crops for victory. After Sept. 30, war time joins daylight save Ing in history, That is, unless local governments start it all over again, But don’t mention that to a farmer.

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Black Fan

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—S8Some 3,000,000 defeated Jap soldiers now scattered all over the Southwest Pacific and Far East, many of them permanently -- create a problem which, unless promptly solved, will again imperil the peace of Asia. These Japs are now surrendering—in Korea Manchuria, China proper, the Philippines, East Indies, Indo-China, Burma and elsewhere in that vast expanse. Enormous numbers of them will never return to Japan but will try to “disappear,” among the billion people of the Orient. From Batavia comes word that a terrorist band calling itself the Black Fan has been organized to fight the allied forces reoccupying Java. Similar activities are reported from other areas. The Black Dragon society has long been a secret spearhead of Japanese penetration in Asia and will likely continue so. Ex-soldiers will provide it with tens of thousands of ideal recruits. Bitter in defeat, fanatical in their loyalty to Nippon, they may be expected to sabotage the allied peace efforts wher. ever they can to the profit of Japan,

Appeal to Asiatics RYOHEI UCHIDA, a Black Dragon leader, has Just been arrested by Gen, MacArthur's police. I met this man in China in 1821. He had just started a new periodical called the Asian Review. Its motto as "Asia for the Asiatics.” Its purpose was to keep the Far Eastern pot boiling. It was intensely antiAmerican, anti-British and anti-foreign generally, No holds were barred, The Black Dragon gang pretended to be the true friends of the Asiatics. Uchida boasted that the society had been “first to extend aid to the Korean people in their struggle to throw off the Chinese shackles.” He talked eloquently of helping north and south China to reconcile their differences. At the same time Japan was selling arms to both sides and egging them on to fight each other. course, was to soften things up for Japan.

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going on, government spokesmen laughed. They sald the whole thing was ridiculous." Uchida, his journal apd the Black Dragon outfit amounted to nothing at all. Uchida was “Just a harmless fanatic” without influence, However, the Asian Review carried warm endorsements from the Japanese premier and minis ters of war, navy and foreign affairs, and signed articles by Marquis Okuma, Baron Shibushawa and other top-drawer leaders. Even before the war the Japanese were seeking all avallable outlets for their overcrowded islands. Japan proper covers only 150,000 square miles—some 10,000 less than California, It has 75,000,000 popula= tion, or more than 10 times Californias and is rapidly increasing. Only about one-sixth of Japan is arable. For the most part it is mountainous and voleanie,

Hard to Dissolve JAPAN'S ex-servicemen now happen to be spread

which are, out of bounds to them. She resorted to all kinds of subterfuges to gain admission for sons, Now that they are there, they will If they can. At least most of them It would serve Japan's interests 3 Asla forever in turmoil. That's the way she foothold in the first place. ) ly, her ex-gervs icemen, working underground, may be expected to fan the flames of revolt and civil war whenever they can. ‘Disgruntled minorities, those seeking independence, any cause, good or bad, for the :

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Hoos “THEY THINK WAR'S OVER BUT IT ISN'T” By James J. Cullings, Indianapolis There are many people like the Service Sister who want their husbands, sons, brothers and sweethearts home from war. However, hot-headed females raving will not do the trick. I feel sorry for the Bervice Sister, or “sob sister,” as I would rather refer to her, whose brother and his little children are in such mental misery. Continuance of selective service act or any compulsory peacetime draft law will not bring her brother or my son home one hour quicker. I have used my head to think with as the ‘sob sister” says and I have written and typed dozens of letters to congress, both senators and representatives, to newspapers the country over and the President's office, but I have never cried out to anyone to help my son. I have never referred to him, only to explain the trimming he is getting, like thousands of other boys in military service. I would rather they kept him in service another year than to think the power-crazed militarists drafted an 18 or 19 years old boy to let my son out. There is close to 11,000,000 men in military service and seven million could he discharged at once leaving enough men in service to police the whole world without another drafted man. Now, “sob sister,” I will show you how my son and several thousand or perhaps more than a million boys under the same circumstances can be trimmed and trimmed good. My son is now 25 years of age and single. He volunteered for the duration and six months. But under {the point system of the navy, probs ably thought up by some shell. shocked admiral, he could be held twenty more months, causing him a military service of five vears and four months. Remember, “sob sister,” my son to the present time has served three years and eight months and these power-crazed militarists under their point system can hold him twenty m months. These boys think the war is over and so do you, “sob sister,” but it is not. These boys consider the war ended Aug. 14 whén Japan agreed to quit shooting and the {duration for them is over and they |are now in the six months plus and lexpect to be home, free of service, | within six months, Then Mr, Tro. man tells Qongrem the war must

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not he ended at once, that he must have control of the country and these men until sometime in the future. It is not the lack of men for military service that keeps your darling brother and my son in service, It is the power craze of our leaders who are as New Deal as Truman's predecessor and as power crazy and dictator-minded. If you remember when these men and boys were taken in service they were told their jobs would be here when they got back. But the big boys left it to General Hershey to tell the boys of their trimming. Now, who is going to tell them about the trimming they are getting from the point systems and the revived New Deal? When are you, “sob sister,” going to write your Congressman and Senators and sign your name and address? ® = = “NEVER HAS CRIME BEEN 80 RAMPANT”

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By Alma Bender, Zionsville

I understand I should have rushed to my own defense when someone wrote that “fools’ names and fools’ faces are often seen” — inferring that anyone who signed what he wrote was a fool. (The guy that said it didn’t sign his name. But does he think that made me think he wasn't a fool?) The argument that some famous books have been written anonymously doesn’t impress me. Pen names were an old Victorian custom. We don’t do that in this modern day. The only bogks I remember without authors were the disreputable “President's Daughter,” and a very good "inside Germany” story which the Saturday Evening Post serialized, and explained publishing it without the author's name, not by saying it showed he wasn’t a fool, but by telling of relatives and colleagues whose safety would be endangered if the author were known. I can see why some things should be written anonymously. The president of ‘an organization—Chamber of Commerce, League of Women Voters, for instance—might not wish to sign purely personal opinions for fear someone take them for the opinions of the organization. But I do think that if the paper protects

too much to ask that the contributor keep his remarks in better taste than either The Watchman or The Voice in the Crowd has done. Someone else, I believe, criticized me because I don't take up as much space as The Watchman—(I ought

By Oscar Leap, Indianapolis

that never to my recollection, and my memory is very good, has our police department been in such a demoralized condition. Never has crime been so rampant and in| general the situation is disgraceful. I have made some inquiries as to the causes and the general concession of opinion is that the present police personnel is more interested in collection from pool room operators, taverns, etc., than they are to make the streets safe for our citizens. And after the war crime wave is no excuse as this condition does not exist in other cities, I sincerely hope your paper will do everything possible to remedy this shameful situation,

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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[poLITICS— [Research | By Peter Edson

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WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.-Like an unexpected after-effect of the atomic ‘bomb explosion, “Science” has become a hot political issue, There are five bills pending in con~ gress to foster scientific research. Joint hearings on

{ three of them will get under way Oct. 1, The Byrd {and May bills, dealing with army and bavy research, {are being considered separately.

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"Bub the inside story of maneuverings leading up | to joint hearings on the bills introduced by Senators |

Kilgore, Magnuson and Fulbright makes a fascinating

latory of trying to mix “pure” geience a “pure”

politics.

Way back in 1042, Senator Harley M. Kilgore of

search. . Organizing a sub-committee on military affairs,” he prepared a “science mobilization” bill. It

1 West Virginia began to get excited about selentific re~ |

proposed making grants of federal money t6 aid ap= |

proved research projects. The bill was notable in

| that nobody patd it any attefition,

In January, 1943, Kilgore revised his bill, putting in a new section on patent centrol. Briefly, he pro-

posed that any patents coming out of governments !

- That got him some attention, A , Broup repre.

| senting manufacturers, patent lawyers and private

research organizations met in New York and organized a protest,

Now a 'Foundation’ IN AUGUST, 1944, Kilgore prepared a third drafs

{ financed resear¢h should not become private property | ] but should be freely accessible to anyone wanting to | see them,

of his bill. Changing the name of his proposed ore |

ganization to ‘National Research Foundation” make it more attractive te scientific schools. Then President Roosevelt took an interest, having some advanced ideas of his own on this subject. In November the President wrote Vannevar Bush, di

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and Development, asking him for recommendations on continuing OSRD’s work in peacetime. Mr. Bush

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also was asked to get together with Senator Kilgore, |

Mr. Bush and Senator Kilgore could agree on most objeetives, but they differed on three points: The makeup of the board to run the foundation, the way the 150 or 200 million-dollar grants were to be dished out, and who was to own and control the patents, They agreed to leave research by private industry out of the pieture. Senator J. William Pulbright of Arkansas promptly picked up that ball and ran, On July 9 he introduced a bill to encourage industrial research through the department of commerce, Kilgore went to work on a fourth draft of his bill and Mr. Bush wenf to work on his report. The Bush reply to the President's letter turned out to be a book of 180 pages. It came out July 19, On the very same day—surprise, surprise—Senator Warren Magnuson of Washington infroduced a bill to create a national research foundation on the exaet formula of the Bush repert, It was quite & eoincidence,

Included - by Truman KILGORE'S revised hill was not wads till July 23. Bush and Magnuson had scooped him by four days. Bush's report hit the front pages and won wide acclaim. Magnuson went to the White House to get Truman's supper for his bill. The support was not forthcoming, Magnuson. was told to get toe gether with Kilgore. The congress recessed. When congress reconvened President Truman's 21-point message had as its point 13 the recommendations for. creation of a single federal research agency, with free access to patents, as proposed by Kilgore, So in brotherly love, Senators Kilgore, Magnuson and Fulbright will sit side by side when hearings are opened on their science mobilization bills next month,

And out of their labors must come a law that will | let the wolves and sheep, and the goats of industry, i science and government pasture together to make |

U. 8. research supreme in the beautiful era of peace that stretches ahead. ,

IN WASHINGTON—

’ Interest By Charles T, Lucey

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18.—In- * fluential senators who will have a lot to say about U, 8. financial aid to foreign ‘nations insist that the United States get something in return for any billions this country deals out, Negotiations for financial help for Great Britain are in progress here now, and other nations are lining up for assistance. But congress will haye the final say on how far aid is to go. There is some agreement that &id must be given,

folks, that. Frankly, I am nat interested | in arguments. The thing that would please me would be to fix things so the Bender grandchild, if you please, | will not have to fight a war, Ar-|

|guing that America is better than,

everybody, capitalism is better than anything, Christianity is the best | religion, democraty the only political system—where does that get you, when England thinks her country is greater than ours, Russia thinks her economic system is better than ours, considerably; more than half of the world thinks that Its religion is better than ours, and I doubt not mest countries. down deep in their hearts like a oneparty system .hetter than democracy. What we need is understanding and appreciation each country of the other. The Watchman doesn’t help that. Will his uninformed

ravings start another war? I don't know. Sometimes a small spark starts a very big fire. I prefer facts to arguments. The charts on Russian progress between the wars amazes me. I don’t wonder they think Communism goes ahead faster than capitalism. It has lately—it has to, to catch up. But does it scare ‘you to admit that has dong well? It needn't. This country will change from capitalism when, and only when, a large enough group of people are not getting as good a living under it as they see other people

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but comments of senators—including men who have stoutly supported administration foreign policy—indis. cates there is no mood to write blank cheeks. “The caution sign will be up when it comes to extending proposed big credits,” a top-ranking Democratic senator said.

“We must recognize that the general world eco-

nomic situation may be affected .if aid is not given in some cases, But appeals must be most carefully

screened. We should not grant big amounts to run |

over a period of years. Borrowing nations must come in at reasonable intervals so that we can pass on how. these deals are working out and what vonsidengiiany we are to get out of them,”

Say They Den't Want a Lean THE BRITISH have made it fairly plain that they do not want a loan. An appeal for a straight grant, or gift, of $3 billion to $6 billion is widely accepted as being the basis of their approach. But this’ proposal is sure to run into trouble om Capitol Hill, Another senator who frequently has been an ade ministration spokesman on foreign policy had this to say: “How far can we go with the tremendous national debt we have today? We've been dishing out billions abroad for a long time. Of course, we want Great Britain to wipe out the trade discriminations against us abroad, but I'm going to teil them (the administra« tion) that I'm not in favor of paying billions to get it done.” Still another senator insisted that the administrae tion should not come up to congress piecemeal seeke ing authorization for foreign loans~—that it should learn the needs of all the nations and then present an overall program which can be weighed against U. 8. obligations at home and the burden that must be assumed by the taxpayers.

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THOMAS IL charged merch termaster, has studies at Bi school. Son of Mrs. ( Atlantic, Med iterranean an South Pacifi service aboar the U. 8S. 8. Hil ary A. Herber from Jan. 194 to May 6, 194! “It’s good t be back | school” sa) Thomas. “I ir tend to be really good stu dent now.” He will haw in the combix of Constitutior in the high Friday. Three facult - mdnd Hall a who served in die B. Lee, d army, and an chant-marine Corya, will als program.

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