Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 October 1945 — Page 10

ie Indianapolis Times AGE 10 Monday, Oct. 15, 1945 YW. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE = HENRY W. MANZ

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EMPLOYERS NEED HELP TOO 'T ABOR unrest will continue until employers become “willing to help their employees maintain a fair living standard,” President Green of the American Federation of abor tells a union convention in Columbus, O. i~+ + In our opinion, thére has never been a time when so ‘many employers were so willing and eager to help their “employees maintain high living standards, This is not bescause employers have become altruistic softies, It is ‘because they have learned a fact of economic life—that ‘high living standards are essential to good business. Employees are customers, Good customers if their iving standard is high. Poor customers if their living standard is low. ; Raising cash wages is part of the formula for raising living standards, but only part. The other, equally im- * portant, part is increasing the productivity of those who . get the cash wages. An attempt to create more buying | power by raising cash wages, without producing more goods and services to be bought, creates higher prices. If those ‘who get higher wages benefit by that process, they do so at the expense of other people whose living standards are lowered.

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» a » BU! if cash wages and productivity rise together—if unit costs of production are lowered and volume increased —everybody can benefit. For employers can sell a larger volume of goods and services, at lower unit margins, and still make fair profits, while wage earners and all other consumers can have higher living standards through lower prices for the things they buy. It is to the self-interest of employers to help employees maintain fair living standards by paying them the best possible wages and providing them with efficient tools that enable them to increase their productivity, But employers can't do it all. Employees must be willing to use the tools and earn the wages, in a spirit of genuine willingness to help employers. . This is a fact which Mr. Green and other labor leaders seem to us Yo ignore when they tell workers that the remedy for labor unrest is solely up to employers,

SUPPORT MacARTHUR i aL RESIDENT TRUMAN should make clear to foreign and American critics of our occupation policy in Japan’ that he is supporting Gen: MacArthur completely. From Tokyo’ reports it is evident that the morale of MacArthur's staff, and apparently of the supreme commander also, is suffering under the continuous sniping from home. Some of the general's friends are said to be advising him to resign. ‘Washington should not let that happen, Moscow, and Communists in this country, have been trying to get rid of MacArthur for a long time. The latest move in that Red campaign is the Molotov proposal to turn over the occupation to a four-power control board. That would dispose of MacArthur, and doubtless would allow Russia to dominate through the familiar tactics she has used in Berlin and elsewhere. The result would De disastrous. od Qur government has opposed this Molotov move, but in such a®*way as to leave Gen, MacArthur-and many Aniericans guessing. What is needed now is a vigorous statement condemning éfforts to destroy confidence in the American occupation, - and ‘praising the extraordinary achievements of the Supreme commander in enforcing the surrender terms with s0 much speed and so little friction, u H ” . » » F ever a man deserved complete support from his governmen and fellow-citizens, certainly the general has earned that by his brilliant war record: and his conduct of the occupation, But much more is involved than simple justice to him. re The thing he is thinking about——and that America must be concerned with-is the tremendous job of winning the peace in the Pacific as we have won the war, Unless

on TOWN— Early Realty

By Anton Scherrer

WHAT WITH the world series and all the other excitement of last week, I completely muffed celebrating the 124th anniversary of the day the first piece of real estate was bought in Indianapolis. By. this time a certain circle around here knows’ that Indiana started doing business in 1816 with Corydon as its capital. Less well known is the fact that five years later, the legislature met to ratify an act approving the selection of a more centrally located site for a brand-new capital to be known as “Indianapolis.” The same act called for the fulfillment of two more conditions—a commission to lay out the new town, and-an agent for the sale of lots. General John Carr was the first realtor. : The commission, having completed the survey and plat, advertised the first sale of lots for the second Monday in October, 1821, which, that year, happened to fall on Oct. 8 (the day I muffed last week). The sale took place at the tavern of Matthias Nowland, a cabin located in the vicinity of what ‘is now Washington and Missouri sts. By command of the State Agent (Gen. Carr), Mr. Nowland had built an addition to his tavern to take care of the land--office business.

Beds Were Scarce

ACCORDING to an ancient chronicler, Oct. 8, 1821, was a “raw, cold day; a high wind prevailed, and a man in attendance came near being killed by a {falling limb.” Nonetheless, the town was crowded. The people were of two types, one of which represented those who had come to settle in the new place, The other type consisted of inveterate bargain hunters who always line up on such occa~ sions. Indeed, the crowd of buyers was so big that Tavernkeeper Nowland had to turn away people who begged to be put up for the night, and so did Maj. Thomas Carter who ran “The Rosebush” and John Hawkins who called his tavern “The Eagle.” Some of those turned down were accommodated in the 30 to 50 cabins which represented the number of families around here at the time. Because of the “raw, cold day” and the possibility of more men being killed by “falling limbs,” only ohe lot was sold the first day. It went to Jesse McKay for $152.75. It was the lot just back of Mr. Nowland's tavefn and had him sewed up so completely’ that there wasn't a chance of expanding his hotel after that. Next day the sun came out and, right away, it whipped up the bidding. Indeed, the day is now remembered" as one grand spending spree. The Merchants Bank corner at the Cross Roads of America was bid in for $310. Wasson's corner went for $301, and the corner where the Kahn people now do business brought $202, I don't know what the Ayres’ corner brought and neither does anybody élse, not even Ted Griffith. It's one of the few records that were lost, Except for that, I can tell you everything.

Washington Street Property

BETWEEN Meridian and Pennsylvania sts, the lots on Washington st. brought fairly good prices. Only one was sold for less than $200. The northwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania sts. (the site of the recently remodeled Hook's drug store) sold for $308. The Kresge corner across the street brought $360. That's because it's the shady side in summer. The lots between Pennsylvania and Delaware sts. went all right, too. The Odd Fellows’ corner brought $300; the Indians Trust triangle, $267. The northwest corner of Washington and” Delaware sts. (another Hook. drug store) was the sensation of the sale, It brought $560, the highest price offered for any single lot in Indianapolis. That was because it was opposite a square designated on the plat as a proposed site for a courthouse. For the same reason, all the Washington st. lots opposite the contemplated courthouse sold for more than $200 apiece. The Alabama st. corner in the next block brought $304, but beyond that to East st. (the end of Indianapolis at the time) the bidding was apathetic. Indeed, one lot in this zone went for $20. ‘Equally lukewarm was the bidding for lots in the “financial district.” For example, the Lemecke corner at Pennsylvania and Market sts. (another Hook drug store) went for $142; the American National Bank corner across the street, $163. As for the original site of the Indiana National bank, ft took all the persuasive powers of the auctioneer (Maj. Tom Carter, host of “The Rosebush”) to bring the bidding up to $182.

The Good Old Days :

THE SECOND highest price offered for a lot was $500 for the northwest corner of Washington st. and Senate ave. (another Hook drug store). That was because it was opposite the ground labeled “Statehouse Square” on the plat, That leaves me to appraise the real estate at the corner of Washington and Illinois sts. On Oct. 11, 1821 (the fourth day of the sale) the Claypool corner sold for $243.75; the Lincolh hotel corner for $186; the Roosevelt corner for $141; and the Occidental corner. for $325 (up until last week it also housed a Hook drug store), These real estate values remained more or less static for the next 10 years. At any rate, it is reasonably certain that they were used for assessment purposes as late as 1820. That's why’ the ploneers had reason to refer to their period as “the good old days.” I thought you ought to know,

the occupation is a success there will be another war. What it comes down to is that those who are trying to | undermine the supreme commander in his strict enforcement of the Potsdam terms are in fact sabotaging American control—the best guarantee of enforcement. For if MacArthur is made to fail, Russia will have a | much better chance to move into Tokyo, Russia fully understands this—America should. If President Truman wants to prevent that—as we are sure he does—he should make it plain to all concerned that there will be no change | Wn the occupation terms to which Russia and Britain agreed, and that there will be no change in Gen: MacArthur as allied . Supreme commander to which Russia and Britain agreed. Support MacArthur!

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GEN. EISENHOWER'S JOBS

HILE Gen. Eisenhower is under unjust attack for alleged softness ig dealing with the Germans, he is being: mentioned as U. 8. army chief of staff to succeed | Gen, Marshall and as the first secretary-general of the! United Nations organization. All of which must be rather | confusing to a great but plain soldier in the midst of a hard, uncompleted job as head of the American occupation in Germany. As between the brickbats and the flowers coming his | way these days, the latter may be more disconcerting. For the criticisms are too weak to dislodge him from the occupation command, while the unsought promotions to Washington or the UNO might destroy his good work in’ Germany by premature transfer from his post. We think Gen. Eisenhower is the logical man to succeed Gen. Marshall. And we appreciate fully the desire f others to use his ability in creating a unified allied team for.the UNO. But, whether he is to be promoted eventu- . ally to one of those jobs or neither, it would be very. risky to withdraw him from Germany during the critical winter p nonths at least. ; . & . Ha : Gh Gen, Eisenhower's prestige, courage and skill have kept

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WORLD AFFAIRS—

In London

LONDON, Oct. 15.~It is customary for correspond - ents abroad to write about prices. (Their home desks have been known to suspect the stories were produced chiefly for the auditor so he wouldn't be surprised about how big the expense accounts are. In the newspaper business, expense accounts are often deemed to be more than fiction anyhow.) This correspondent has discovered two items here already that he may noté without being suspect. Good Havana cigars, if you ean get them, cost $3 to $4 apiece. They're pre-war only, no Cuban imports are allowed. And champagne that used to be about $5 a copy, is now $15 to $20 per ditto. . Hyde Park still flourishes. Its stump speakers have free speech, and how! We strolled over the other Sunday to look and listen.

Preaches for Roast Beef

ONE CHAP, who seemed to be a sort of inde. pendent in politics, wanted a strong Britain “with roast beef again.” ' He didn't trust conservatives, lib. erals or ldbor, ’ “That's a good blue water talk,” he said, “and if you don’t like it, you can lump it." The other chap was rgligious, but both were funny . The second was delivering some sort of discourse

he announced that every. man, woman, child, cat and dog had a conscience. “D'ye want me to tell you about conscience,” he asked dramatically. § “Ob, naw,” one of the audience replied, “That's

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“NO ‘TOLERANCE FOR SLACKERS IN 4-F”

By Mrs. BR. RB. Ackerman, Morgantown Mothers, I wonder if we couldn't get farther by writing to the war department than by arguing with the selfish ones that want to make no sacrifices at all. No parting with the ones they want with them, no having children, no worry and anxiety, : 1 have already lost one precious son on Tarawa. Now another son is gone from home. Both were just out of high school. They enlisted. And I am proud of them for wanting to do their part, -I signed their papers with an aching heart. Especlally for this second son since the first son won't come back. My worry is that’ the boys in their teens should not be kept away from home too long—not more than a year. Look how the Colby boy became. My son had plans for more education but thought he had a job to help do first. If the boys are kept away too long some will lose all interest In Books. Also if a lot of the young men that have some small defects but are still able to dance, golf or indulge in any pleasure they care for would be sent to help with the clean-up job now since there is not so mueh danger, our teen-age kids could tome home where they should be. Also give the war weary men a chance to live again. Men between 21 and 30 years old are exactly the ones to go now. They have had their chance to have a family. Some have had a good time, bought fine clothing and furniture and some didn't even do that much. I say put them over there and bring back the men that have done their part and don't keep our teen-age boys too long. My boys are marines and there are more of my family in service. A nephew that was hurt bad enough he had to lay on pillows in March, isn't home yet. A daughter and other members are also in service, so I don't feel any tblerance for the kind of people we called slackers in world war IL » 5 rd “STOP RIDING 4-Fs, THEY TOOK BEATING" By A Private, Camp Atterbury ‘ Why can't 4-Fs go overseas now? Why should they go overseas now? They weren't good enough to get in the army when the war was ‘on. Most of them wanted to get in, too. All they got out of this war was a

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asked why you were not in the army, I know because 1 was a ¢-F till about six weeks ago. There are hundreds of thousands of servicetnen coming home with a lot» of fruit salad and glory. They all deserve it, we know that. The 4-F has nothing so why not stop riding them. They don't deserve it. ; 2 a. “COMMUNISTS TRYING TO GRAB EVERYTHING”

By $i Moere, Indianapolis §0 the Commies and their ignorant friends are about to push Truman over the precipice and take us all with him for the ride into oblivion by giving the bomb. to holy Joe, Seed corn Wallace seems to think (?) that Russia should be helped thusly in her grab for everything from political soup to economic nuts. + And the wonder minds of the Kremlin are now howling about MacArthur, as are a lot of pinks in this country. Of course the main trouble with MacArthur is that he is the boss of the Allies and is acting that way without playing politics with the political: religious and economic dictators that heaped to get into the Pacific area and pick the bones of all choice bits that remained after the shambles—such as air bases, ‘rubber and copper trade, protected areas for religious rackets and green political pastures. Thanks to men of brains, the U. 8. A. has the bomb and the Allied boss is not a dummy, so she is sitting on top of the world. But the thugs do not like it that way, for they make their money out of bloodshed and agitation and ignorance and will keep trying to knock down the foundation of civilization now that it is well started. If the people of this nation, at least, do not want another bath of blood for their children, it is up to them to see that the termite -xterminators do a good job.

Side Glances— By Galbraith

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“POLICE FORCE IS DOING GOOD JOB” By Tim, Brightwoed I am writing this in: hopes that the “daughter of an ex-cop” “will read it. Before you go. popping: off any more abeut what th¥’ police force is doing, why don't you try reading parts of the papers other than the scandal sheet and the comics? I assure you it would enlighten your narrow viewpoint quite a good deal. But, in the event that your limited eyesight goes no further, perhaps a few faets will

Will you explain how a diminished force can contro] a crime wave being caused by a city full of hoodlums who are taking advantage of the fact that the armed services have made our force inadequate? I do not see how, even in your blundering way, one ean refuse te admit the good our police force’ has done and is deing. It's the cynical critics such as you who make it so difficult for an officer even to have the heart to do his work. Lady, if you worked in a small world where there was nothing for you but contempt, hatred, eriticism, wouldn't you, too, become a bit “hardboiled?” Come on, now admit it. As for the two ladies of whom you spoke, well, let's look at it this way. Have you ever been 80 une fortunate as to have seen a human crushed into the street by the ruthless wheels of traffic? \ “Daughter of an Ex-Cop,” put on your dad’s old shoes and try thinke ing as he did. Far better is it to try shaking sense into some people than it is to pick their crushed and broken bodies from the cpld street. Now, let's take those catty re« marks back, “daughter,” and re. move our hats to our police officers. » » » “WHOM TO BELIEVE IN POLICE DEPARTMENT?" By Mrs. Clifford Sanders, Akron, Ohio While visiting your city a few days ago, my car was wrecked by a hit-and-run driver, injuring three passengers, ‘ A special police officer .by the name of Coventry sald he would make a report and have it broad-

was ed by a Sgt. Wilson in the traffic department that they had no report of the accident, And while I was trying to get some in. formation, he hung up the receiver in my ear. So I took a cab went to the

the accident. However, better than two hours after the accident, they did get a report at police head. on a stolen car, which

wrecked mine. The owner report~d it stolen from in front of his house after midnight, but told my brother-

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By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—When President Pfuman stood up as best man at Bennett Clark's wedding to Actress Violet , Hemi, it wasn't just a gesture of friendship between ~ ° . er ‘two ex-sengfors from the same state. It also was the culmination of s friendship begun in the first

| world war when the two men served as officers in

the 35th Division of Missouri and Kansas National - Right after Mr. Truman became President, another of their ex-buddies came to Washington and cornered Clark at the Mayflower hotel. “Look!” he said. “I want you to see Harry Truman and tell him I want 8 co . I don't want one of these Pentagon commissions, and I. don’t want to'go to ‘the Pacific, either. But I.can do 'em a lot of good in Prance, and I want Truman to get me madg & brigadier ge » Clark was himself an gx-senator out of a job at that time, so this large order floored him. When he recovered, he came back with this: “Listen,” he said. “When this war staried Harry Truman: and I both held ; colonels. We both i out to see Gen. Marshall and told him we wanted to resign our seats in the senate and be called to active service. Marshall turned us both down. So how in the world do you. expect Harry Truman to you made a brigadier general when he couldn't even get himself made a colonel?”

Non-Destructive Doodling

DR. VANNEVAR BUSH, who is head of the office of scientific research and development and likes fo be thought of as an engineer, has invented a new game to help him while away dull care at or conferences where the speakers get boring. Most people in this predicament either go to sleep or pull out a pencil and draw crazy designs on the White linen tablecloths.- Bush's mind is too alert for the former and not destructive enough: for, the latter, So he takes a piece of paper, tears it up into 100 or more little half-inch squares; and spends the evening arranging them in engineering designs. All the while he hears every word and never misses a trick. - Ira Mosher, president of the National Assogiation of Manufacturers, is entitled to unemployment eoms= pensation under the Massachusetts state law, Some of his advisers have tried to get him to apply for it, with still photographers and the newsreels present, just to show up some of the weaknesses of existing jobless insurance laws, but the N. A. M. head says he isn’t interested in that kind of publicity. > Mosher had to give up his salary-paying business connections some months ago, to devote his full time to N. A. M. work.” The law says’ that anyone who can’t find similar work in the same locality and at approximately the same rate of pay is entitled to unemployment benefits. There was only one job of. the kind he had—head of an optical instrument company—in Southbridge, Mass., where he lives. And as the N. A. M. job carries no salary with it, Mosher would legally be entitled to relief.

A Very Unnatural Pictyre THE NEW, life-size oil painting of former Secre=, tary of Labor Frances Perkins hung in the Labor building ‘third floor elevator lobby along with portraits of other gone and forgotten secretaries, shows Madam Perkins with hat off. ; This, in spite of the fact that she never took her hat off in all the 12 years she was in office and her tricorn got to be more of a trademark than George Washington's. Only major change which Secretary of Labor Lewis B. Schwellenbach made in the secretary's office was to order in a big brass spittoon. Now that there are more labor leaders coming into the department to do business, all the soft, fawn-colored carpets are taking a lot more punishment from ashes and burnt match than they used to.

IN -WASHINGTON— Capitol Idea By Roger W. Stuart

WASHINGTON, Oct. 15—~Reports that San Fran. cisco has the inside track as United Nations capital may have brought chagrin to some other aspirants, But a South Dakota group—the publicity-minded Black Hills world capital committee, headed by Governor M. Q. Sharpe—did not take the news lying down. It's still in there swinging. : Nor is the committee's argument any longer cone fined merely to an international level—it's inters planetary now. ony For weeks this committee has bombarded Wash ington with booklets, high-pressure letters, colored brochures and maps, all extolling the glories of the Black Hills region. The. claim was made that this area is the very center of the world—the one logical place to locate the capital. >r4

Send Out Maps WHILE ALL this was going on, South Dakota's Rep. Mundt was touring Europe as the committee's foreign missionary. It was his job to convert Euro. pean leaders to the belief that the need is for “a new site for a new idea in a new’ world.” Today the committee unloosed still another salve. Letters from the office of the governor, contained maps two feet square, Showing the towering Black Hills in the backe ground, they were labeled “proposed headquarters for the United Nations of the world.” The capitol building would have office space of 1,000,000 feet, an auditorium to seat 20,000. ‘There would be individual buildings for each nation,

and recreation facilities would abound. .

Road Through World THE COMMITTEE'S enthusiastic artist had even named some of the streets—Avenue One, Avenue Two, etc. Boulevards, buildings and flagpoles” also were shown. And on the reverse side of the big map, the artist had sketched the earth with the nations joined by a world highway. The highway, 170 1 wide, according to the executive secre A, Starring of the come mittee, would “pass through the Black Hills country and through all countries of the world, with the exception of Australia.” It would require, he added, “only about 40 miles of ferrying.” The capital city plan, the letter said, was “spiral and cyclopic.” With such a layout—and in such a location as the Black Hills—there would be room for “unlimited expansion for many generations to come.” Then came

that tantalizing reference to things interplanetary: ‘ :

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Numerous villages would be located in “hundreds of par alleys.” There would’ be parking aréas to. acco te 10,000 cars. Hotels

“The Black Hflls sites combined make 8d colossal

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Twenty-eight arre Three teen-age rested after a re dice game at 157 Porter, 39, of 965 ‘arrested for kee house and two rested for visiting when police raid address Sunday. Charles Moore, st., also was chai a gambling house eight other pers ‘were charged wit bling house and § Police arrested of 1206 E. 15th keeping a gamblin tion of the 19 Three other men have taken par poker game the with visiting a ge

gaming. Robert Clark, York st., was ch tion of the 1935 a policeman won on a. pinball ms 25th st. Liquor raids ine Indiana ave. wil dolph of 715% N. other persons we: lation of the 1 Walter Radcliffe, ave, was arrest charge, and four charged with vio r at 409 Agnes st.

CHINESE II HALT SIAN

CHUNGKING, A spokesman for residents of Si Generalissimo Cl take “drastic ac growing anti-C in the neighborir (Press reports said Chinese g have arrived at f from Laos, in In The spokesma said Chinese in under “Fascist ge tion” for years. Chinese were ki in an outbreak a 22, he added.

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