Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1945 — Page 10

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Give Light and: the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE FRENCH ELECTION THE results of the French election are about as confused as other things French these days. Doubtless that is inevitable when so many parties are involved and when their purposes are not clearly defined. Thus De Gaulle was a victor, but so were the Communists, De Gaulle won on the two referendum questions involving a constituent assembly for a fourth republic, and perpetuation ‘of the provisional government during the interim, The Communists lost on the latter issue but captured a plurality of assembly seats. - Since De Gaulle’s MRP party and the Socialists each got 135 seats and the Communists 146 in incomplete returns, and all three will pick up more from splinter groups, . apparently the result will be the usual unsteady coalition. Despite all the cross-currents, however, at least it is clear that the general trend in France as elsewhere in Europe is to the left. Not only were the rightist groups virtually wiped out as expected, but also the once powerful radical-Socialists—really a liberal cenfer party. The French people during the past year have been devoting much time to politics. Not a great deal of progress has been made in the restoration of their country. They face a terrible winter. Now that the election is over they may be able to leave the proposed political reforms to the constituent assembly, and get on with the delayed jobs of reconstruction. That work will not wait on much more political debate and rivalry—not if the people are to eat.

VENEZUELAN JUNTA

F the promises of revolutionists can be taken at face value, Venezuela is_all fixed for the future, The military junta, which has taken over the country after a week-end of violence, says its aim is democracy at home and the good

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neighbor policy in foreign affairs. But, unfortunately, these are the stock: phrases on which most Latin American and other dictators ride to power. In this case we shall have to wait and see. It is important that our state department act with other hemisphere governments in this matter, both in ascertaining the_facts and in maturing policy. This would be the proper course in any event. But it is all the more essential now for two reasons. One is the south American instability resulting from the new lease on life gained by the Argentine Fascist dictatorship. The other is the suspicion in powerful congressional circles that the state department is now inclined to wield a big stick in Latin America without using the consultative machinery on which the good neighbor policy is based. We doubt that those suspicions are well-founded. But they were potent enough to delay action by the senate foreign relations committee on the nomination of Assistant Secretary of State Braden, with bad results in Argentina and elsewhere. : Therefore," the state department should be careful in the case of Venezuela. It has everything to gain and

nothing to lose by using the consultative machinery to the full. 2 :

NO ADDITIONAL HOLIDAYS

SINCE World War II ended various new legal holidays have been proposed. In considering the proposals, Congress should not increase the present total number of national holidays. If events of the recent war are to be recognized, that should be done by shifting and ‘combining existing holidays instead of creating new ones. A holiday doesn’t have to be on an anniversary. For instance, Armistice Day and V-J Day might be celebrated together, on the anniversary of either event or on some other selected date. V-E Day and Memorial Day might be likewise combined. Many people don't realize that Memorial Day has never been a truly national holiday. It was established after the victory of the North over the South, and the South has either ignored it or—since World War I, in which the South shared the victory—observed it half-heartedly. In the North itself, Memorial Day each year becomes less a sacred observance and more an excuse for a day of whoopee. We might as well look at our holidays realistically. Whatever it does, Congress will be wise to avoid hurried decisions which, once made, would be difficult to change.

THE BRAINS MUST STAY

AN ENGLISHMAN says there's an even chance the world ; may be blown up by atomic energy in the next genera. il "tion. One group of American experts says there is no i! defense against the atomic bomb. All of which is dreadfully serious. Similarly serious, however, is the threatened inter4 ruption of atomic research in the United States. ThousYi p= of physicists indicate they will withdraw from the itudy of atomics if Federal legislation exposes them to . fines or jail sentences. Some proposed regulations would : do just that by imposing heavy penalties on scientists who + might make discoveries and announce them illegally. Conceivably, a researcher could come across a startling revelation in his laboratory and then not know where to report it, or to whom or how. If he reported wrong : —into the pen with him. No scientist is going to stick his chin out like that. He'll turn to a safer subject. Whatver else Congress does about atomic bomb con: trol, it must make our experts feel free to continue their study of atomic energy.

CONGRATULATIONS, HEN EGGS can become a habit. Proof: Meat is now. available, but housewives who learned to substitute eggs during wartime shortages continue to eat eggs anyhow. ~~ The trade reports egg demand is setting a seasonal record.

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Foraging Canines By Eldon Roark

MEMPHIS, Oct: 23.—You really can't blame Mrs. Albert H. Mallory Sr. for weeping joyfully over the safe return of her little cocker spaniel, Lone Eagle. Lone Eagle was gone several Ways. Then one morning there came a scratching at her door and there stood Lone Eagle. ; Where he had been and why are still unanswered. I wouldn't be surprised. if some hungry Memphian hadn't heard about the amazing thing Lone Eagle did two months ago and dognapped the littis cocker. Lone Eagle's plenty smart, He waits on Mrs. Mallory all the timé. He'll go get her a pack of cigarets, and then he'll run and get matches. He'll bring her slippers upon request, and hel! bring in the paper. But those little stunts are nothing compared to, Lone Eagle's best foraging. One day Lone Eagle came home from a sortie and scratched on the back door. When it was opened he walked in with a package in his mouth—a pound of bacon!

Bring Home Merchandise EFFORTS to learn where the bacon came from failed. Anyway it was well wrapped and clean, so Mrs. Mallory did the sensible thing. She ate it. It's astonishing, the things dogs sometimes bring home, It's easy to figure out where they get such things as old shoes, hats, gloves, bones, sacks. They might be found on rubbish piles. But where do they get valuable things? : Miss Molly Darnell's wire-haired terrier, Frisky, once returned from a secret mission with a package in his mouth, Investigation revealed a brand new pair of shoes! ; They were a child's shoes, and Miss Darnell chided Prisky, telling him the next time he brought home something it must fit. She didn't have the slightest idea where he got the shoes and never did find out although she made exhaustive inquiry. A few days later Prisky was missing again. He returned with something in his mouth, When he dropped it, Miss Darnell gasped. It was a $5 bill.

Turkey Forager

FRISKY gave her a proud look. “How about that? Did it Ait all right?” ’ And ‘1 recall writing a story about a little mutt that mystified his folks by walking in with a live baby chicken in his mouth. The dog evidently liked the to-do they made over him, so a few days later he went himself one better. He walked in with a live baby turkey! This was an even bigger mystery. Nobody in the neighborhood had any turkeys! Then there was Bill, the fox terrier at the home of Bolivar B. Bowen Jr. Bill came home one day several years ago with a live kitten in his mouth: The Bowens couldn't find out where Bill had stolen the kitten; so they kept it. And that made Bill happy. He watched over the kitten, and it meant A scrap if anybody even looked as if they might hurt it. The kitten grew to womanhood and had some

grandfather is of hisgfirst grandchild.”

WORLD AFFAIRS— :

British Patience By Carl D. Groat

LONDON, Oct. 23.—The English are notably patlent—and polite. They take their queques, for rations, busses, movies, in their stride. If now and then they'd get sore at their lot perhaps things would move faster, But so far as any= body can observe, they're content with the slower pace or else so war weary that they lack resentments. A strike demonstration tangled up West end traffic beautifully for most of one afternoon recently, but it was the quietest “demonstration” we've seen anywhere. Some 30,000 workers , marched out of Hyde Park four abreast; and all the afternoon traffic was snarled. But everybody was good-natured, Demonstrators’ placards called for three shillings (60 cents) per hour, for skilled men and 80 per cent as much for laborers. These men, for the most part, Just marched, sometimes exchanging a quip with a passer-by. : - We watched this unending line of marchers on Park lane. Folks in autos sat, stalled. Many walked home rather than walt for busses. A well-dressed woman alighted from a taxi, asked if they'd let her through. 8he smiled pleasantly, and she made the opposite curb safely, A delegation went to the health ministry to present their case, found they were at the wrong place, went back to Hyde Park to talk, and London finally got trafic moving after one of Its worst Jams in years,

Food Is Quite a Topic

BECAUSE beer, steak and port are scarce, Cam« bridge and Oxford won't have their famed boat race next year. Can't bulld sturdy crewmen on today's rations, they decided. Oarsmen need joints (roasts) hefty beer and a shot of port for training, Food is quite a topic here. Food tends to lack variety. The government still controls the bulk of it, but a certain amount of semi-luxury food is outside this control, and is absorbed chiefly by hotels, The hotels, by the way, may not serve more than three courses a medl so one get either hors d'oeuvres (mostly vegetable and fish) or soup, plus entree (with vegetables) and dessert. ‘ Beef is almost unknown. On a recent week-end some mutton lamb was on the market and guinea fowls could be had for $5 without ration stamps. A few oranges appeared. Coffee is “easier”-—but not better, Brussels sprouts are plentiful. There's still quite a bit of propaganda in favor of “taking in the belt,” Busses carry signs, “You'll be glad you saved.” Sir Charles Lidbury, president of the Institute of Bankers, told his colleagues: ‘ “Just as the impact of total war has touched all sections of the community, the work of rehabilitation

of the government or any one section.”

A-Bomb Commission Proposed THERE'S A proposal here for having a gofern-

atomic energy. Scientists are insisting that atomic power cannot be kept a military secret but must be

developed for peacetime purposes. Prof. Oliphant, who worked in America on the bomb, is quoted as

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POWER BY SLAUGHTER”

Bp D. W. R., Indianapolis. I have a few words I would like

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blame them for the revolution. The czar was a puppet for the czarina, who in turn was a puppet for Rasputin. He had brought rellef to the czarivitch, who was an invalid. For fear that he would discontinue to bring relief to the pitiful czarivitch the czarina did almost everything he said. The czar followed suit because of his love for his wife. When the revolution broke out the family was taken prisoner. Yourovsky, Ermakov and Vaganof informally, and without any kind of trial whatsoever, just or unjust, executed the royal family in the basement room of g homé where they were kept prisoner. This happened in Ekaterinburg. Thirty-five shots—eleven dead. But not right away—they were all bayoneted. Seventeen-year-old Anastasin was rolled over on her back. She let out a shriek—but it was silenced forever when the guard beat her to death with his rifle butt. Blood was everywhere. The clothes were burnt first, then the bodies soaked with sulphuric acid and gasoline. The ashes of which were hurled into the air by the three mad men, and a stiff breeze carried them over the countryside— it rained the next day. This. is how the Reds came into power—by slagpghter. ® = 0» “WAR OVER, LET'S GET FATHERS HOME” By Another Soldier's Wife, Indianapolis I've read with interest the letters

of all the wives of pre-Pearl Harbor

fathers, and I agree with them 100 per cent. Send our men home. I'm sure that most of us didn't mind working in war plants seven days a week, working at home and being both father and mother to our children when the war was on. We felt it our duty. The war is over now and we want our men home with us. Our children need their fathers. Most of you wives are like myself. I have a son 11 years old and have been married 12 years—long before Pearl Harbor, Let's all write our congressmen, Better still, if we could write one letter and have several signatures of other pre-Pearl Harbor wives sign it, I think it would be better. : Come on all you pré-Pear! Harbor wives, let's get our men home now, not six months or a year from now.

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“WHY CAN'T STATE DEPARTMENT BE CONSISTENT?”

‘By A Veteran, Indianapolis

I am surprised that the state department would. dare criticize MacArthur, who has been so successful in war and now in peace. Why can’t they be consistent? ‘When he (MacArthur) needed troops and supplies the past three years, what did they do? They sent him just as little as possible, and the rest went {op Europe. Now that he has been so successful in occupying Japan and has everything under control they want to load him up with our school boys, most. of them having a maximum of 17 weeks’ training, to police these Japs, who according to the brass are so treacherous that they have to be policed for the next 25 years. I was in the occupation army the last world war.and I know how the men feel about loafing over there when they are not needed. MacArthur says he will need only 200,000 men, that is what he wants and should have, with two or three atomic bombs at his disposal he can keep peace. # I hope congress settles this once and for all, there is too much loose talk going out of Washington and we need some more changes in the war, navy and state departments, » » » ‘EARLIER CRIME WAVE REDUCED TO A DRIP’ By R. P., Indianapolis If I remember, some few years back we had a crime wave similar to the one we have at present. Seems folks reduced it to a drip. At that time a lot of the home folks banded together, oiled up their shotguns and proceeded to blast the pants off these sneak thieves and sluggers. Let’s get “buck shot” minded here in Indianapolis and show these yellow-bellied foot pads and attackers we mean business.

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your right to say it.”

“COMMUNISTS MOVE IN UNISON AT ORDERS FROM MOSCOW”

By The Watchman, Indianapolis The Watchman'’s predictions con-

cerning what could be expected of the Russian Communists has been largely verified. Those wishful thinkers who pound out their

venomous poison at The Watchman for telling the truth now owe The Watchman a public apology. Come on Mr, Wise, two Mr. Smiths, Alma Bender, Helen Long, Earl Hoskins and the rest of you mistaken critics. Were you wrong, or were you wrong? Yes, you were 100 per cent wrong. Communism is on a rampage for world control. The old Communist plan to “turn the imperialist war® into civil wars is the spark which |Is generating this world-wide wave {of clashes, civil war and strikes. |Remember the Communists move in unison, at orders from Moscow. These outbreaks in foreign Ilgnds and this wave of strikes here in the U. 8. A. may well be Stalin's method of retaliation for American and British refusal to bow to his decrees and attempted dictation of the peace terms. All Communists jump when Stalin cracks the whip. Stalin and | Molotov have been dictating so long {that it has got to be a pernicious habit. There certainly is a motive and a method to this wave of unrest and confusion and Old Doc Watchman thinks he detects the views of Communism as the root of the present epidemic. I was right before when I warned that the Communists were on the warpath of aggression, lust for world control and that they would! annex all ‘of the territory they oc- | cupied. The U. 8. and Britain made an awful diplomatic blunder and a fearful mistake when they recognized the Communist imposed governments in Yugoslavia and Poland! That mistake should be rectified at once! We must not crucify Poland, Yugoslavia nor any nation to appease the Communists. You cannot do business with aggressors!

. nu “MEN NOT 4-F BECAUSE THEY WANT TO BE”

By A 4-F's Mother, Indianapolis I noticed an article in our Times of Sept. 26 by a sailor's wife, stating we ought to get the pre-Pearl Harbor fathers home, Why just the fathers? Why not all the boys

—gingle, married and fathers? There are gome boys needed at

mothers being stricken with paralysis and need their help at home, and their sons have been in the Pacific as long as this lady's husband. So why be partial to fathers? HEL And I do not like the remark she made about the 4-Fs—“And the 4-Fs, what's the matter, With their helping out now that they are sure of not getting hurt?”. I think that remark is just a smart crack

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Frustration By Thomas L. Stokes

i , Oct. 23. — This country is in the midst of a minor

struggle of hundreds of thousands p of war workers to readjust them- es selves to. the lower paid and less exciting tasks of

five or six syllable words such as psychological or sociological, or even pathological—for it gets down to

what is the No. 1 problem of today.. It is not apparent on the surface. You do not detect it as you walk down the crowded business streets of the nation's big cities, Nor is. it: seen in the stores, in the hotels and places of entertainment and amusement, all lively with people. * Everything seems about as it was. : It's not observed because it's a personal and individual problem, the sort that men and women talk about in the privacy of their homes, or take to their rooms at night. It involves personal pride in many cases, personal ambition usually, in the: ways that these traits exhibit themselves in the civilization we have developed.

Evident in Employment Offices YOU CAN learn plenty about it in the employment offices. There it comes out in the simple problem, multiplied many times, of the person accustomed to a wellpaid job that had the glamour of patriotic service about: it. Now he has lost his job and finds in many cases all that is available is by comparison humdrum, rou« tine, and does not pay enough to furnish the things he enjoyed in the exhilarating days of war. Where a family is involved, especially a large family, the pay in many cases is not enough to provide the necessities of living, v Since humans are the factor, with all their emotions, it's not something that can be settled mechanically. It cannot be brushed aside airily, as some try to dismiss it, by asking why people don't just take available jobs and go back to work, here is an added complication, too, in that there are not nearly enough jobs available in many places. It’s not that easy by any means, as you discover when you dig into it. It's not that easy. For one thing, because in this country we've built up the dignity and pride and aspirations of the individual for something always a little better, We have given him a hint of such lux as there is in the contrivances of our machine iety. So many people never before have had such a taste of prosperity, such a giddy feeling of lots of money loose in the pockets. 2

Waking Up Is a Shock WAKING up suddenly carries a shock. It would be fine if it were as simplé as the major back from the wars who walked into the United States employment service office at Boston recently and sald he wanted a job as a truck driver. That's all he asked for. ‘ a For everyone of those simple cases, there are many like that of the former doughnut salesman at Columbus, O. During the war he got a job in. an ‘airplane plant there. He liked the work. : He studied at night and applied himself. Eventually he was head of a crew of 300 workers. When the war ended, he was out of a job. He walked into the employment office to explain his problem. He had acquired a new status during the war. Must he go back to selling doughnuts? If he does, or if he gets something comparable, undoubtedly he will be a frustrated man. That's the kind of problem that is duplicated over and over nowadays, to make-for a frustration complex that is widespread.

IN WASHINGTON—

Battle of Pentagon

By Douglas Larsen

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23.—Although the war has been over for two months, mop-up operations are just beginning in the Battle of the Pentagon, with nobody quite sure who won that one. Weary girls, obviously victims of typewriter fatigue, stare vacantly at empty file cabinet foxholes. Bémbedout desks, vacuated by hastily retreating officers and office girls, stand littered with papers, mute evidence to the fury of the fray. Litter bearers trudge slowly through the ruins, pushing wounded typewriters and adding machines to storage hospitals. . A few shock troops—military personne] with low point scores and civil service personne] with high reduction-in-force scores—are being moved into advance sectors, where some fighting still continues. Everywhere are gathered groups+of Pentagon prisoners who have surrendered but haven't been moved out of the battle zone yet. They drink an endless number of cokes and gallons of coffee. They joke among themselves, scoff at the few who have assignments to’ carry out, and mostly discuss the fate of their former comrades who are gone and now referred to as“ missing in action.”

Many Restrictions Off : MILITARY restrictions in the Pentagon have been relaxed considerably since fighting has been confined to a few scattered fronts. It is no longer necessary for a visitor to be accompanied by an armed guard. Battle scavengers and ordinary sightseers still aren't permitted inside, but wives and children of many of the veterans of the campaign are getting unofficial tours of inspection. Yeh Proud vets of the strife can be seen showing their wives the ground where they killed a whole regiment of reports; single handedly fought off the advances of a company of stenographers for four days; wiped out an enemy stronghold of red tape or blasted a path through heavily defended lines in the cafeteria to snatch a trapped filet of sole. Visitors are being cautioned to carry at least a two-day ration supply lest they lose their way in the no-man's land, now that they're allowed to wander unescorted. Military personnel no longer are to show fdentification before they are admitted into If they aren't on official business they enter at their own risk ih

Latest big wig to be assigned to the P. T. 0, is Maj. Gen. Jacob L. Devers,

Humor Displayed on Walls PROVING that the U, 8. doughboy didn't lose his sense of humor even during this battle, are several on the walls. One says: - v “Why be difficult when it's only a little more

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