Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1945 — Page 12

The Indianapolis Times PAGE 12 Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1945 ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President Editor

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EISENHOWER, PATTON AND NAZIS

EN. PATTON is unwittingly responsible for a much needed reform of American occupation practices in Germany. Last Saturday he ridiculed criticism of keeping Nazis in office, compared the Nazi party with Republicans and Democrats, and otherwise displayed an astounding lack of understanding of what the war was about and the purpose of allied occupation. Yesterday Gen. Eisenhower ordered him to call a formal press conference and clarify his position.

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OUR TOWN—

‘Joyful Ol

By Anton Scherser

THE FIRST to perceive that the

America was a pitch-peddler known as the “Joyful

intersection of Washington and Meridian sts. is the Cross Roads of

small and select group of testy individuals who wrote indignant letters to thelr favorite newspapers, nobody |

Oil Man.” nobody ever called him that,

of 30 years. At any rate, there are plenty of people {ving in Indianapolis today who remember him as far back as 1870. He was still going good in the Nineties when 1 had to leave town for awhile. None of your business why. Doc's stand was a box-like affair about 30 inches wide, 20 inches deep and four feet high which put him in a position of looking down on the crowd: he was addressing. It straddled the gutter ,s0 that it obstructed. the street quite as much as it did the sidewalk. In rainy and hot weather, Doc's stand sprawled even more, for on those days he put up an umbrella, It was the same kind of umbrella ‘the draydrivers used to have on their wagons than which there was nothing bigger.

Rights Seldom Questioned EXCEPT for the Big Four railroad people and a

ever questioned Doc's right to that corner, You may remember that back in the Nineties, the

His real name was Doc Quaintance, but’

Doc picked the southeast corner to conduct his business and I guess he occupied it for the better part

Whereupon he came clean, apologized for comparing “go vile a thing as Naziism with our political parties,” and promised to enforce the Eisenhower directives.

BUT Eisenhower did not stop after he had kicked Patton The supreme commander went on to order all military governments in the American zone to remove all Nazis from civic offices and Key industrial posts imOn top of that the allied control council issued

into line.

mediately,

Big Four ticket office occupied the room of the building at the southeast corner of Washington and Meridfan sts. You may even recall that the Meridian st. entrance to the ticket office was opposite the Joytul Oil Man's stand The geographical relation of the two outfits made it most difficult for those transacting business inside the ticket office, especially in the summer time; It was nothing out of the ordinary, for instance, for a customer to enter the railroad office, ask for a ticket to New York, and be booked for Atlanta, Ga. —all because Doc happened to be telling a story about his participation in Sherman's march to the sea, most

. cult administrative problems.

a 4000-word code, rigorously applying the June 5 proclamation of complete allied control over Germany. The Patton incident is something more than another case of that daring but unstable officer putting his foot in his mouth again—and with equal skill pulling it out again, It is a rather flagrant example of a trend toward using former Nazis as key men jn civil government and industrial affairs, Gen. Eisenhower has cracked down none too soon, In fairness to the supreme American commander it must be said that he never has contributed to this trend, that his policy always has been vigorously anti-Nazi. But his orders have not always been carried out precisely or intelligently. ¥ y » ” ” ” HAT does not mean, of course, that his main occupation commanders have deliberately flouted his orders and allied policy. : It is, rather, that some of these great combat generals are not able civil governors and that all of them face diffi-

Since virtually all prominent Germans not in concen-

hard for American governors to find untainted Germans with adequate experience or skill to help administer cities and manage large businesses. : Therefore the Eisenhower purge of Nazis from local offices will not solve the basic problem—there simply are

to long nazification. But the new Eisenhower order will stop American authorities from taking the tempting though deceptive short-cut, which would revive the power of the same old gang in Germany, Anyone who thinks that danger is imaginary should |e remember what happened after World War 1.

LET'S TRADE

HE British Empire is rich in material resources. We need many of its materials. We are rich in dollars. The British need many of our dollars. Let's trade. * Yes—let's trade in a wider sense, too. The greatest business asset of England and the empire is the fact that their peoples constitute the greatest market in the world, next to the United States. Trade is the key to prosperity for all the peoples of the British Empire and the United States. For all the peoples of the world, for that matter—but most of the rest

of the world market requires developing or rebuilding. Uy are becoming appajing.

Here, in the English-speaking world’s market and its | » fringes, we have ready made the greatest consumer demand, the greatest developed supply of raw materials, the greatest production machinery and the best distribution | g facilities. ¥ " » » » ” RITAIN. needs dollars to get her industry and business back into peacetime gear. Dollars for trade—and we need the trade just as the British do. Let us make the dollars Britain needs available to her —and let Britain in return open the empire market to us. ~ We have built and used bases on British territory in both the Atlantic and the Pacific. We need to keep some

of these bases. In using them for our defense, we will be | of affairs.’ Says the influential Economist:

defending our British Empire allies, too. We are nearer to these bases than Britain: hence can operate them more effectively for the common defense than Britain can. Let

of which filtered right through the open door.

be unbearable, one of the attorneys belonging to the Big Four’s big battery of lawyers would bring charges against Doc-for obstructing a public. highway, = Invariably, the jury would acquit him. champions of personal rights who pestered the news papers with their indignant letters, they might have spared themselves the trouble. All of which had the «OTHER COUNTRIES HAD effect, of course, of lifting Doc into the category of sacred landmarks.

I first made the acquaintance of the Joyful Oil Man. A 8 By that time he was already an accepted landmark, |criticlsm af my article, “Not BeAt any rate, he was beginning to show his age. How- [cause of OPA, But in Spite of It, ever, he carried himself surprisingly well.. He was [Which G. I. W. of Kokomo says is taller than he looked and loosely put together, I re- |8 laugh. My judgment, of course, member, too, that he had the halting and hesitating [is not infallible but having spent manner of a blind man. It was a trade trick.

Good for 'Man or Beast'

popping logs.

mains virtually at a standstill,

London Expresses Alarm

of the allies’ policy towards Germany. becoming apparent, lon people into a territory roughly the size of Britain

Every once in a while when the confusion got to

As for the

I guess it was some time in the late Eighties that

HIS PRODUCT was, of course, a concoction called

Sometimes, to save his voice, he would

Doc's best stories were those about Gen. Custer.

On this trip, Custer and his bride spent a night

in a little cabin high up in the Cumberland moun- |Ontario, than Detroit, Mich, tains, After their supper of corn pone and pot rationing of any kind in Mexico and liquor, Mrs. Custer and her husband were sitting in an abundance of cheap food, gasofront of a roaring fire chatting with the widow-owner |line, American-made tires and new of the cabin and her grown-up daughter, The daugh- | American-made ter, a tall.lank barefooted woman, got up from her | American-made cigarets.

hair and walked over and stood in front of the

After a while, her mdther removed the corn coh

WORLD AFFAIRS—

Reich Needs

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. — Although the deadlocked council of foreign ministers in London failed to get around to the problem of Germany, conditions in that coun-

Reports reaching Washington that mass expulfons of Germans from the east are proceeding despite

etting out of control of the military authorities. The economic life of Germany, it is stated, reYet until it is reived—in accordance with “some allied plan—the

ALARM IS expressed in London over this state

“It 1s not difficult to demonstrate the utter lunacy It must be That to compress 50 to 60 mil

IRS WEES

Britain turn over these key bases to us in the deal for the

dollars she needs.

American and Britain have plenty to trade with. Both | can get what they need in a deal which can bring both

greater prosperity and greater security,

OFFICIAL DEFINITION

YLON, say the du Pont people who make it, is “a

_ generic term for any long-chain synthetic polymeric amide which has recurring amide grou

part of the main palymer chain, being formed into a filament in

half an hour,

axis in the form of parachutes and such.

CONTROL THE CONTROLLERS

ANY new political parties have sprung up in Korea, an aftermath of that country’s liberation from the

Japs. One of these new of Law and Order. Tt more we think this country could

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ps as an integral and which is capable of which the structural elements are oriented in the direction of the axis.” We pass this information along to those ladies of our acquaintance who persist in thé imprecise and stubborn insistence that nylon is a rare and precious material which won't run, snag or sag, which can be washed and which, for a weary long time—though very successfully—has been oriented in the direction of the

groups is the Party for the Control The more we see of our bureaucracy

use a party such as | 2a &

and then totally de-industrialize It, can lead only to the collapse and the disaster we are already witnessing . . . The example of Ruhr coal, without which European industry is all but paralyzed, is only a first example. The truth is that the prosperity of weslem Europe has depended to a great extent on the existence of a great wealth-producing industrial concentration in the Ruhr. That wealth-producing machinery. is now almost completely idle and all Germany's western neighbors are bearing the consequences.”

loans, American policy, they observe, favors a drastic solution because it would get thelr soldiers back home quickest. The Russians are for it because a pastoral Germany not only means a permanently weak Germany but, after the British and Americans evace

uate the country, a nation of peasants will be easier to control.

Belongs to Pre-Atom Age

THIS REASONING, warns the “be longs to he § Preatoniic ase. In a few years’ time, no , A ¢ professors, burrow ing underground in central Thuringia, will find the way to touch off the oxygen atom.” "ih With this, many United Nations observers are In agreement, Even leftwingers are now saying that unless the peasants and of Japan get a higher standard encounter trouble? | nih The same principle, it is argued, also applies to the Germans. Whether or not hate the Germans t is American

and dried in

The British seem to blame the Russians and Amer- |.

workers living, the allies will eventually ||

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Hoosier

FOOD-—-NO RATIONING”

By C. D. C, Indianapolis This letter is an answer to the

tribution and retailing of food it might possibly be worth as much as her opinion that food prices would have been sky high except

“Joyful Oil” The label on the bottle said it was [for OPA.

“good for man or beast.” I wouldn't know, I patron ized Doc not because of his medicine, but because of |that takes me out of the U. S. quite the stories he told. It was his way of attracting an frequently so here are some comaudience, | . ! play & tune on the fiddle. His stories were better tration camps or graves are tied up with the Nazis, it is | than his music.

My business at present is one

parisons. Anchorage, Alaska, 2000 miles from the U. S. mainland, food prices about 30 per cent higher than Indianapolis. No rationing and

He handled them with such intimacy that he had wages at least 60 per cent higher. us kids believing that he knew the old Indian fighter. |Only a minimum amount of rations One day, indeed, he had us believing that he knew [ing of any kind in Canada and Mrs, Custer, too. Anyway, the story he told that day [plenty of ecigarets, soap powder, was about Custer's honeymoon on which occasion he |meats, etc. Wages higher and food took his bride overland to a station on the Pacific |cheaper at Vancouver, B. CO, than not enough clean and capable Germans to go ‘round, thanks | coast. ;

Seattle, Wash. Food prices about 20 per cent cheaper in Windsor, No

automobiles and

No rationing in Argentina and a dinner of turkey, ham or choice steaks for about 15 cents in Ameri-

pipe from her mouth and sald: “Suze, there do be & [can money at the best hotels. Plenty live coal under your fut" And Suze, never moving, |of clothing, cigarets, gasoline, autodrawled back: “Which fut, Maw?”

mobiles, shoes, both English and Argentine-made and they have a slogan down there, “England delivers the goods even in wartimes.” We are the greatest food producing as well as industrial nafion on earth, so how do you like the comparison, G. I. W.? No one willing to work should be hungry, of course, However, it is one thing to be charitable and another thing for a corrupt political machine to control people’s votes by the food that goes in their stomachs. If you don't believe it is done, go to your county auditor's office and see if the poor people didn’t

the Potsdam appeal to halt them temporarily to pre- |8et plenty of relief just before any vent inhumane overcrowding in what is left of the |New .Deal election. Reich. Mistery, disease and starvation are said to be [didn’t the OPA practically take

Furthermore,

everything from the ration list beforé the last? Didn't the New Deal newspapers impress us how Joe Stalin said we were the only coun

fry in the world that could have masses will never be able to look after their own needs. In the area occupled by the Russians prac- |Pullets and food at the same time? tically every piece of movable equipment has been carried away. What is happening to the machinery, |20d then say 200,000 businessmen plants and livestock in the British and American [S08 bankrupt means nothing to areas is not clear,

You say I am a selfish person

the general public. Who paid the taxes to give you a job when you were hungry, G. I. W.? Was it the politicians or the businessmen? No, rationing hasn't bothered me at

a lifetime in the production, dis-|

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all, G. I. W, Neither did I fall for the political chestnut about everyone, rich or poor, sharing alike as people like you did. I had money, fortunately, and ate mostly at hotels and probably had plenty of black market meat. And probably you did, too, as your own Chester Bowles said himself that 22 per cent of ail food was being sold above ceiling prices and no grocer, big or little, eould have stayed in business if he had sold everything at ceiling prices, although some things could have been sold for much less. However, you didn’t know it so were quite innocent even if you were paying black market prices. Yes, I knew what it was to be hungry, G. I. W., when Grover Cleveland was President. And thank God, he was a Democrat that didn't have the political NYA to wet nurse me and so I had to learn to stand on my own feet as every American should. ” » » 3 “LET'S GET THEM HOME— AND RIGHT AWAY”

By A Sailor's Wife, Indianapolis I certainly agree with the sailor's wife who thinks that we need our pre-Pearl Harbor fathers much more than the army and pavy. I also have two children, one of whom is 3, the other 6, and the youngest doesn’t even remember his father, These fathers didn’t do everything to keep out, and why are men 25 to 30 years old too old to go over there? And also the 4-Ps, what's the matter with them helping out now that they are sure of not getting hurt? It sure isn’t fair for some fellows to fight while others run the streets and have all the good jobs. Congress could at least get them home from overseas and I mean the Pacific, too, Maybe we could get something done if all the wives of pre-Pear] Harbor fathers would drop our congressmen & note telling them how we feel about it. How about

it? Let's get them home and right away—not six months from now.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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

“LET'S ADOPT PRESENT TIME AS STANDARD” By Progressivy, Kokomo Congress in Washington has just announced the cancellation of “war” time, effective September 30. I believe a great majority of the people of Indiana would prefer to remain on our so-called “fast” time, adopting it as standard time for the state. Why? Because they like it better. Michigan, a great neighbor, for years has used Eastern Standard Time—Why? Because they like it better. They enjoy the identical “sun” time that we do. is a very progressive state, industrially, educationally and in many other ways. Let us not say Indiana is not as progressive as our neighbor who is grantedly progressive. The only thing that is confusing is when clocks are constantly changed back and forth, summer and winter, from one time to another, with some communities using “daylight savings,” while others do not. Indiana is so situated in the time zone that even on “fast time” we are but about thirty minutes ahead of “sun time.” In such a situation it would be. advantageous to adopt our .own present time as a year ‘round standard time. There would be no confusion at all if we would merely remain on our present time without further changes. It is the changing back and forth that is confusing. What To Do: Wire or write to Governor Gates and your state senator and congressman. Urge Gavernor Gates to proclaim no change until the state congress meets again and has aa opportunity to discuss the matter. Tell them you like “fast time” better, Let us not backslide into “slow time.” Wire the governor.

. 5 » “CLOSE ALL TAVERNS FOR 30 DAYS” By Mrs. A. A, Indianapelis I would like to express my opinion of our police force in regards to this crime wave. © It seems most of the complaints come from the ones that visit taverns (all right). Then close all taverns for 50 days and let's see how it works, Next, let's get rid of politics in our police department from the mayor on down. Let's have a civil service for our police regardless of politics, The men stay'in because they are not afraid of losing their jobs? Other cities have it, why not Indianapolis? For instance, Mayor promoted Clifford Beeker as chief of police. Things went along nicely until some fault-finding higher-ups caused Mr. Beeker plenty of head-

police job- to something else. Again too much politics. Now comes all these sluggings and murders. No clew. The public should demand a shakeup in the police department, find out why they are unable to get results... I agree with Oscar Leap of Indianapolis. There is something wrong with the police department, So let's get down to business, run down these so-called th and

POLITICS — Platforms By Peter Edson’

WASHINGTON, Sept. 26. — If 4

G. O. P, Chairman Herbert Brown-

ell and the young Republican mem-°

bers of the house of representatives don’t watch out, they may amount to something yet. ; fi Ever since congress came back to town, the Ree publicans have been kicking around the idea that they should have a constructive program of their ‘own. Then, in a signed editorial in the first issue of the new tabloid, Republican News, Brownell declared

that in every state he had visited during the sume<

mer, this was considered the Number One problem for the Grand Old Party. “There is general agreement,” “that the convention method of thought only once every four years is inadequate,” Between political conventions, the majority party has the man in the White House to sound off its changing policies as new issues arise. The minority party has no such voice of leadership. Its defeated presidential candidate is practically no vole at all, The only expression of minority opinion comes from the elected congressmen who ‘do the voting, These votes in congress, however, are cast only after a lot of discussion, and they merely register the views of the individual congressmen.

No Light to Lead 'Em

THE opinion of the Republican party never comes out between presidential elections. This leaves the party workers in the precincts without any guiding light or principles other than the general idea that anything put forward by a Democrat is no good. Une like the girl in “Oklahoma!” ‘who couldn't say “Nol”, for years no Republican has been expected to say anything except “No!” rte Switching the metaphor, it should be evident to any political clerk that, if the Republican National coms mittee is expected to sell Republican medicine, it has to know what's inside the bottle. That's where the Republican congressmen come in. In a series of caucus and steering committee meetIngs presided over by Minority Leader Joe Martin, the Republican congressmen decided that mere opposition fo the Truman program was not enough. What they needed was a post-war program of their own. Follow ing the traditional procedure on such matters, Martin named a committee to do something about it. Charles A. Halleck of Indiana was named chairman, Working with him will be Richard B. Wigglesworth, Massachu~ setts; Whip Arends, Illinois; W. Sterling Cole, New York; CUff Hope, Kansas; Hal Holmes, Washington, and Charles J. Brown, Ohio.

Short and to the” Point

wrote Brownell, resolving party

HALLECK'S idea is that the program should be

short and that it should not be just an answer ta the President’s 21-point message. Halleck now leans to the idea of making it a general statement of party objectives, though not so general that it will be a more indorsement of the Constitution, the flag, moth« er-love, and kindness to dumb animals, If it's going to be any good, it will have to say something—if it doesn't say anything, they might as well go play poker. There is no idea that whatever Republican plat form is now produced will be binding. on every congressman for every issue covered. If an individual congressman has made commitments at home in ope position to any part of the program, or if he has sincere disbeliefs in any part of the creed, he will have freedom of choice and not be expected to vote with the gang. : Whatever the congressmen are able to agree on will be submitted to the Republican senators. The idea may strike a snag here, for senators of any party cherish their individuality like prima donnas, and are prone to think they make up their minds only through exercise of their towering intellects, and not through party discipline. However the job is done, Brownell and the Re=publican congressmen in the house have now started something which, if they are not permitted to carry it out, may well mean crossing. off any hopes for reviving the Republican elephant in 1948.

IN WASHINGTON—

Gadget

By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, Sept. 25.—Husbands, note: Don’t let those bullish reports about speedy production of home appliances make you rashly optimistic. Don’t promise the little woman you'll buy her a brand new refrigerator, sewing machine, vacuum tleaner or other such article for Christmas. Reports are encouraging, it's true. In some recon= verted industries they reflect a much greater produotion than had been expected. But there's a stumbling block. “Pipelines” from manufacturers to salesrooms must be filled first. Display models—thousands upon thousands of thems ~must find their way into stores before you get yours. You can place your orders, but don't expect delivery right away, ~ Moreover, despite heavy production, demand for certain articles already is far greater than the supe ply for months to come, according to the war proe duction board.

Backlog Demand

TAKE refrigerators. Manufacture of some 135,000 to 150,000 units had been forecast by Oct, 1, Actual production hasn't quite reached that total, WPB said today, . Even if 700,000 units (present estimate) are manu factured in the last three months of this year, you'll still be a long way from getting yours, iinléss you're one of the lucky few. Backlog demand for refrigerators, according to WPB, is nearly 6,000,000 units. At the prewar rate of production (1,000,000 refrigerators a quarter), it will be more than a year before the demand is satisfied. In the field of electric washing machines, much the same situation exists. Although approximately 50,000 are due by Oct. 1 ahd another half million in the last three months of 1945, the “pipeline” is filling slowly. ; Dealers probably will be supplied with display models by the end of October. Buyers will begin to get theirs in November. But the pent-up demand is for 5,000,000. More months of waiting for many

Alarm Clocks Selling AS FOR electric ranges, WPB says the earlier

WEDNESDA

REDS" JA PLANS §

Molotov Wan! Allied Ci

By NAT A. B Times Foreign C “LONDON, Sept. memorandum proj power allied control Japan has been re) eign ministers’ cou at least—because tl Is not yet prepared Secretary of 8 Byrnes—replying missar Viacheslav ] expected proposal implied, however, | Stafes possibly wo go into it at the meeting, slated fo November. Thus, in its elc gouncil has put as major problem. The Molotov proj Soviet viewpoint ti toward Japan mu especially by the U Russia. He excluded Fra to have Japan un economical, politic control of the Unit Britain and Chins point that France tially concerned w The Soviet men proposed that th should hold the | manship of the co =which effectively Americans overall This was taken Russians apprecial MacArthur's posi todprevent undern Lack of

The Russians that the present for Japan lacks ti political unity. Joint Russian-Am of Korea as an ¢ military commar without suitable ment, In dodging imr of this Russian 1 council has avoid to be a violent 1 Australidns. The French, China interests, @ have violent reac exclusion of Fran commission.

TEACHERS SPEECH

Jean Joseph \ eral of France, the Indiana chay can Association French . Oct. 25, Christian church His topic will ~ Four Years of tion.” Carol Lawlor, Queen,” will sin French, “Villanel de Cadiz” Jane student at the Paris, will play

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