Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 November 1945 — Page 20

‘Coconuts’. By Jim G. Lucas * WASHINGTON, Nov. 15, — This

is the story of the admirals coco-| £ “nuts or how to get-off a south sea]

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a (except oe CIEE | tw. 6 cents a copy: deliv- sland. - ao . . Times Pube ered by carrier, 30 cents of lishing Co., 314 W. Mary- & Week, qusstion of : and ot Postal Zone 8 - Mall rates in Indians, st Munich. F alember of U $5 year; all other states, 7 : ye and military Scripps-Howard Serve and Mexico, 87 cents a ! rd ar 4 : dk % 3 HE : A . Munich, in 1938, - / get Alliance, NEA Sony ‘month. i : aR i 1 " foe, and Audit Buresu eT ! 12) 2 : : straight ' question: “What WE NEED RAW MATERIALS ; Sem, bE, A a 2 akia and five remained to guard our hb Ra : Ts 4-7 : 5 Breuchitsch subsequently con-

e THOSE who have been brought up in the belief that the how 4 1, S. is the country that has everything, find it hard |. ¢2’ which the- SntIAlngG sms Shols " to answer the question of how other nations are going to | as a token of their \ neal "pay for billions of dollars’ worth of American goods. : some ; > But the revelations that we no longer have everything, | Coconuts Solved the Problem \ as in the articles Ned Brooks is writing for this paper, will THE ; provide part of the reply. "If we have good sense, we can arrange to take payments The cloned, "for a substantial chunk of our loans in the form of minerals fret with, was and other raw materials of which our domestic supplies a * have been seriously depleted in recent years. nk 08 Jost ob PA hs NE Sve a ; It may be a little hard to find a bright lining in the | too. We could see that our stock had gone up with ominous approach of depletion of eur resources of such | the colonel. metals as lead and zinc. But one is there. Many European found 8 3 lieutenant, oh, Snare xe "countries desperately need machinery, fabricated building | We told this young lieutenant that we hiad important "materials and other goods we can supply. Russia, Britain britient Ya thi Suny, and what we were carrying * _ and other countries want to borrow dollars to pay for such those 1s 8 well} fact, of St Teton: © goods, and now we are in & position to accept imports in | junior grade, sre very jumpy where admirals are con-

Public Must Be Kept Informed

IT 18 very much to be hoped that the U. 8. -{ department will publish a full account of these inter- ” rogations as soon as possible. It is understandable fi that soldiers and should have been mis- £

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up : . have beaten the German army, We should also have Wg. tel os . Ss cerned, and it sosn became apparent that we were 1 = larger quantities than ever before. ‘We can do so by taking going to get to the admiral if nothing else was ac- | nad the advantage o some » wall stquippe) < Giech raw materials. complished that day. - Right off, this lieutenant de- certainty, the strong at ty > VOR Nith <4 apiet a «nn as s&s S54 dj Dus Wen BOL 24k SAdugh. ana We G06 one have marched as well. The war would have been over

made many more knots per hour, In no time were

= MUCH of the money need not be lent on long term if

| we on our way. . 1 exports of mining machinery from this country will | First, we had to stop at the lieutenant's ship, while German Army More Than Doubled ; he ran up the ladder and held s hurried confer-

~ enable the borrowers to start deliveries within the next ce with_his commanding officer. The commander |' te

z i two or three years. ; ‘ 3} quite agitated, and must have told the lieuSoviet Russia probably is the country whose resources | tenant he was seven kinds of a fool for wasting so

~ and great need for outside assistance come nearest to much time, ~ matching. The Russians might begin by shipping timber, | Lost No Time From There On

E ; , , 103. ‘Fifty-six were used for the assault on Peland, . manganese and petroleum. ALL WE KNOW is that the lieutenant came down . “l wholly disagree with what while 32, instead of guard wesh 3 Some of our borrowers, Britain among them, would OF he Ship 3ua No made very Roe time to the Hoosier Forum you say, but will defend to the leaving 18 in hoy a a Ir Sn Ger- . have to acquire the dollar exchange by triangular trade. The hii Neutenant ie Deg Friuigs: TON whens death your right to say it.” many. Te lunwatle had oifo 1 made a similar ex- . South Africa is well off in minerals, If we bought larger | he had deposited us on deck, aiid there was consider- |*SQUNDS LIKE YOU WOULD (Times readers are invited |“YOU HAVE NEVER WORKED ey Selo. Fhe : ae 4 Yemaieg “wally: br =e : 4 wt | | hen we told the offi- * : £ » - » "quantities of these commodities there, the south Africans | ble excitement aboard w! deck LIKE TO BE A BIG SHOT" express their views in |FOR A LIVING, HAVE YOU?” | had caused a serious deterioration in morale.

A : : cer we had coconuts for the admiral. The deck ] * could use the dollars to buy more British goods. The highly | omcer cafied for a saitor and said we should be taken |B Mes. M. D, Inglanspolis these columns, religious con- oy x iekicond Sebdie Indianapolis : Mion Wa war sume, SBuland, shits *. Munich

. complex British problem certainly is not to be settled by | to the bridge. ; Well, well, Watchman. You think +| areated by the HA a of min but the hel Pretty quickly we ‘were presenting the coconuts, ictions are coming true volume received, lef |I wonder if he isn't some million ain =I runing tie Ith ~ shipments of minerals, but they would help. be limited fo 250 |aire’s son who is trying to protect| Mobile supply EX swap of Taw haterials for mechanical goods would of the admiral's aid, who eh? I do wish the Hoosier Forum id be infied ta 250 . So be trying to protect git with some 60-or 70-completely i : AWap near meeting the inte : would cut you and all the rest otters at RSIS OY oiied for a liv. | mounting nothing bigger than a 50-caliber rs Lak come ng the rest and principal of \ ate his coconuts, we [such would-be trouble-makers Opinions set forth ing, have you? If you have, how| Sul We could put five divisions in the field, com- | "the loans we have been and will be asked to make—$20 , I have lived in these United those of the writers, |= 0 "0 Tike it to come } go| Pared with four at the time of Munich. Meanwhile, billion or so—but they would provide a good beginning. 8 years and never do I vember) ud. publication in No WeY sore place and get a job and then he Zumtians had made their desl With Ribbentrop, ' ] : : - : I aikers ed like ob with those have them tell you, sure, Ill pay were Tay itu, ra Ho Soda Yor : Ee aR a P 3 y The Times. The |you 30 cents an hour. visions which Were 300i to oF the Clerman pangtr dis | JUST PLAIN SILLY ~~. aT views and ‘sem to think others [Se SNARE | Buns ke You 00 Sk | ROS TE Maw nN he balmiest proposals we've’ seen 12 : there ne coconuts and deliver [should like them. Sounds like:you|* ot man. » mate. You had better smart-| No one who has studied the facts and figures 3 OFE df He 8 Rro we've’ seen lately is that would like to be & big shot, and cannot enter cor- [en Up or get off Wall Street. | doubt that, apart altogether from its moral implica ? from the house un-American activities com- \ sie =» regarding them.) | S08 tions, Munich was the greatest military blunder ever mittee. It would impose controls over the outgivings of | “GESTAPO NOT UNIONS made by any French and British government,

Adio entators. To Ernie om ; be tainted somewhat be BUT MEN WITH WEALTH"

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is attributed a reason, if It could be so « : T ad Ed By D. Wesker, Indianapolis. public a “chance to protect themselves against. wild, irre- hough 1 aint or wonderful land, this AmEr-|.pyscharyed. Butler, Indie oes . sponsible news analysis.” = = son 1 did hear the very lovely % ours, and 1 love It very much. qriicle under heading “Union is Just . In a country where freedom of expression is No. 1 of ing of Marian Anderson over the Tknow it coukl be, + | Teteasted press 4 its constitutional guarantees, this would be ludicrous if adic. nq 31 listened 1 shovght be a land that offers) the Wresed Drmanty Seoaias ot . the very nerve of it were not sinister. = 5 ; at one time and another denied the Opportunities for all, osure. mete, Salat... ox: : Whether by letter, pamphlet, soap-box, radio, or what- use of Constitution Hall in religion, age or physical “gestapo” - in America ever method, freedom of expression means just that. ; pd Di artiats -y a nok tue.” But Tt can I gr ihe

channels being limited in number,

For mechanical reasons radio is regulated, wave-length Because of that “government” gets into the play. ‘And

br bi a case of the same in government there are always those who are eager to be hous, . = oy : his { : keepers of the opinions of others. : il | i . al. «= 0» : here for some purpose . our i - IF the proposition were to “protect” the public from edi- ‘ fact that he eviden dads, of cts a hs and. the | torial writers, columnists, platform orators, and all those Power on ear : and the Jost what Re was doing b it does here. \ who otherwise deal with the printed or spoken word, there Empire do not fear America, why | ooo uo." 0 iovements of Mr. Attlee gave a symbol of this, though not cons | ~ would be none so bold is 0 pve nah wine Mr, | hould you? Al know that she will never use her yp ‘ww, nngion George Washington sclously, when he told of attending Armistice day E yo 50 1 ve : to IY. | power for selfish aims or territorial aggrapdizement. | © SEIT oy ceremonies with President Truman and recalled that . | Cig iion Tor 1adio Sommentator; © |Mor, for that matter will we." - s[omeere. Auiersvn ay Je were both fighters in the first world war.” = In ail the grist of opinion, written and spoken; there | Fears Groundless® 8 tt seems to ha” not think, he sald, “that eitlier bf us then t is’ : ! ¥ tan vas : in rol si ¢ ia that we, out n | is much that is too radical, too reactjonary, too noncom-| THIS monkir-briags the 30th anniversary of the |tme for all who proven By Rnb Frid he pen 1 mittal or too screwball to suit the tastes of many citizens. | Red revolution A special drive is under way in this |\Carg SC St sponsibilities of high office.” 3 \ EF But since our constitution went into effect, the American | | nt TOT aT A ics yous type _souts- that oy Toman cue: bak ion the wr, Solluted 1k : people have done a remarkable job of bearing up and sifting Russians—samething that has never been attempted. not by the color went into local politics. Clement Attlee, a young ia ~ out and arriving at their own conclusions without the help {On the contrary, Russians have been drilled in the ot i anyone has lawyer with an Oxford background, visited Lime. || = of the many Adamsons who have always been on the scene. | Seti TPE Oe A trusted, So Whines Nan 5 3 yling mors house in London's east gaa and seeing “the tacts of || So let’s not at this late date support anyone who comes | No one seems to have pointed out to the Russians |9f Marian Anderson and Doroth Vince “that we. must build Tl re | forward with a concept of what $pinion is best for us. Shad, next oof § to the United States Shere | Suiad Mayne 2hould ‘so far toward foundation.” : a 3 _ As to what is wild and irresponsible, the public Will | Nir or I rid hor with ants 15000 008 rs. Their Rise the Essence of Deimocs WH take care of that. i habitants Jf we Sere. teperiaiisie, Gangs woud markably well in tl oir Riss the Essence of Democracy iv | We can always turn the dial or stop our. subscriptions. have eta doled long ago. , Shajes WheD one Sonmatse the tre- Jeary per _cent| that these two men could rise to their present high PLENTY TO DO . 8 fanes of Panam Canal; Britain, Prance and the a a ae 3 Plo ny a alae part of the’ sory of the. hich = PLEN DO, KID ether ve island bases. Off our Atlantic sea- | Me © Tate ie Fg army hospital till my strength gave| both represent so well that each was caught up, when 5 AE board are still more bases. But they re perfectly (pride to the fact that our skin in ihe world... out. Iam still pitching. ‘he came to high office, in a gres! ob 5 ke safe and their Unde: - |white. But what of the this what our boys died for and oe ; a grest world movement § SOME solemn journalists, aged About 12, asked Mrs. | Ss 008 Brett GRE Eo Cr bases as | Judgment when. we. are no longer of thousands crippled for life? 1 am, "J Privilege fo believe in| which has as ita object the better accommodation of i to doubt—but first, | the to 4 Roosevelt what they could do for their country. Being | ital to their own national defense. But mot the |the flesh? Are our souls going to. our country being sad- : average Person to the machine civilization that - | more than 12, we want to help answer. United States. FT be equally as white? Or are they|died with military training. Yate gol =. Say. rp tg A a ipoey tion: : Boys: Harden your muscles and exercise your brain. | Ryssian Policy Different 2 : i Tt STA |“RUSSIANS DID GREAT ily. They are only instruments. Bhoh Be rooound . + Use them to the limit. Don’t fear a fight. The blows you | RUSSIA has just recently or otherwise brought Carnival —By Dick Turner diy: ? - |30B IN EUROPE WAR" hat. i . take never hyri as badly as they might. Don’t be afraid | under her banner most of the neighboring areas from —_— Se——— E] (07 James B. Rites, Indiandpttle a Te Tt as. Muir) MD he of anything. / : . Finland and Poland in the Vest to Port Arthur and , i oer i 3 . A As an honorably discharged gol- | *Pe% TU BFOFCN BU FEEREE D Fioosswes who also ems : Korea in the East. She would tolerate, she said, only ; +] | dier, please give me a few lines in| Ineffective Mr. : Girls: Be a lady. Stay healthy, dainty, fragrant; “friendly neighbors” But the United States enjoys 2. A» cs ot BE | [your valuable paper to ‘say that | TTUmAR has been in carrying it forward. It is mot Tut never imagine that good looks can substitute for sin. | “friendly neighbors" all the way from Alasks fo Cape | - Bel] te ) am amazed that you sive so much] 2 Ir LE ee Both ay cerity. Cultivate a sense of humor, but don't giggle. Don’t | Hor ¥ithout the use of force. While as Jor being | |, | space to some fellow who calle) srr o's, Cou! ou Gemocratic procedures to the new | | fear age. Don't be afraid of anything, including dentists, | Phippines, mt set both freer Hy dE [me The Watchman. © ond ope oy wan common sense, soap, ideas, exercise, work, wrinkles, dic PE nteraational relations. the: United States car] . Korea when the Russians liberated ThA? Distn Common) Sends. aa ol {ionaries, solitude, new reci atomic bombing, alarm | Point to the act of Chapultepec as a model of what it | PR ’ us, and all of us were treated with Y minister did & good: job. He pes, ng, believes world collaboration should be. <Russia de- every consideration by our did not appear at all ominous or: threatening or a + clocks, Beethoven, mops, eye glasses, grammar, fresh air, | manded, and was given, three votes in the U, N, O. : Free sinister figure. He looked like the amiable, pleasant = tilence, and the kind of boy we suggested in the second | charter. The other members have only one. Under & : i ¢ In so many of our small | aragraph, : : the Charter of Chapultepec, all members have the ol efi Blo Bu 3 ’ Prime Minister Attlee was speaking the American ¢ before him in the house ~ 'XPLANATION? ey | nung Win he asid the fOudslions of pisos slug - - k L ("YNE of the biggest puzzles of the skies is the appearance Wheh ho deciated Wink te Dechie uf the hid nus Paver a. Orem 2 O every two or three years of a nova—an intensely bright I eTiote ol uh her hel re Yo ut 1a of the . — ‘ Ns ne : hi ,| Britain needs help. B00 thin di for a loan. - cxploding ‘star. These pop ‘out where only faint stars, or | The corollary of all this is what many informed | NS A a ] § in| He Sbased himself 50 far as to hail the . vone, were visible. Our new atomic achievement suggests | Xaicsmen Were uiready saying--namely that the real | |. WA 2 Wh ||world war ITL Allied jp] SHlSh 28 (he Iighisst Dower on. enh” which is "this explanation: E ; EE problem is not the atomic bomb so much as suspicion : J) = ah - hr rede A SOF AB -Snghshman, i L this e n: Every two or three years, somew.iere in | born of ignorance. ' If there is war, the bomb will N WE ; h ad wie o, ip house, & few : 2 . the universe, some race, human or inhuman, discovers how | probably be used. So, there must be no war. : y about lending money to split the atom. Then, a short time later: Blooey! An- ; ee — and up

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