Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 December 1945 — Page 12

‘Give Light end the People Will Ping Their Own Wey MERRY CHRISTMAS 3 THOUGH peace on earth may be new and precarious, and ® good will may be of doubtful measure, this should be a RE Merry Christmas for most of us. This is not the year to re- § joice with reservation, for there are too many who deserve to celebrate the day with whole-hearted joy. If there are any who have a happy holiday with accrued interest coming to them, it's the kids who have had to put up with a lot from a badly managed adult world these last few years. War-time Christmases have been particularly trying [for the older generation of small fry whose memories go . back beyond Pearl Harbor. They remember days when bib cycles, skates and electric trains, and sturdy metal trucks and fire engines, all of them new and shining, were to be found beieath the tree. They have been remarkably patient with ersatz substitutes and it’s time they had some-

thing better, even though Santa Claus hasn't been able to reconvert completely to peace-time production. =

. » . » . AR-TIME Christmases must have been incomplete and bewildering to thousands of the smaller ‘youngsters. They've needed a father around holiday time who was something more than a picture on the table, or a vaguely remembered person who was too far away and too busy fighting the war even to hook a ride with Santa and arrive on Christmas Eve. And needless to say it has been tough on their absent fathers, and on the mothers who tried to do double: parental duty with a half a heart. But the war-time Christmases are past. Many of those fathers already are home, and many more even now are on the last lap of the journey that will bring them back in time for the reunion that is the best and most treasured gift of all. * They will find no quarrel with the day's perfection, and the rest of us might take our cue from them. There is trouble and sorrow in the world, as always. But, concerned though we may be, our concern should not intrude upon this celebration crowned at last with victory and peace. - And so, a Merry Christmas to all.

CHRISTMAS CLOTHING

(ONCE again the people of Indianapolis have responded generously to The Times appeal on behalf of Indianapolis. children. As of last night more than $14,500 had poured in, and been used to clothe 944 needy children. Since Clothe-A-Child was begun, fifteen years ago, more than $150,000 has been contributed. These funds together with direct clothing donors have outfitted more than 20,000 children. Some of the children are grown, now, and earning their own way as useful citizens—and contributing, themselves, to the fund for clothing other children. ~~ ' Sometimes, when the city was booming and needs were | relatively small, donors have offered more than enough to clothe all the city’s children in need, and we have had to ask them to withhold their gifts for another year, or to give them to some other worthy cause. In other years there hasn’t been enough to clothe every child who applied—and we've just had to stretch it as far as we could to take care of those whose needs were greatest. oN Cw Cae ee Eb ALWAYS, the sole criterion has been need. We don’t bei lieve a child can be a “worthy” or an “unworthy” case. But we know a child can be cold. Always we have carefully guarded the identities of the children who were aided— never permitting a photograph to be published, or an identifying name or address to be printed, even though such publication might have stimulated more gifts. No gift could be great enough to compensate for exposing a child to possible . ridicule from his playmates, or for making him hang his head in shame for a condition that is no fault of his own. And, throughout the years, this has always been a com-

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The Times just “connects the wires” for it, provides the clearing ‘house, operates the machinery. The people of Indianapolis clothe the children. : This year, as every year since 1930, it's going to make a lot of folks who gave happier on Christmas to know that 944 needy little children, this day, have warm bodies because - THEY had warm hearts. 3

‘THE CARS OF YESTERYEAR

<i E had something to say the other day about ours not na being just a profit but a profit and loss system. ; As this relates to the present auto strikes it is interesting to observe in a book entitled, “Motor History of America,” published by Floyd Clymer, Los Angeles, a chapter called, * “The Cars of Yesteryear.” There are 46 pages, alphabetical ly arranged, of cars that were—and now mostly aren't. , Which emphasizes again that more businesses go broke than make good—that many are called but few are chosen; that sharing the wealth isn't just a matter of getting to ~ be a big labor leader and asking to see the books and then declaring yourself in on the successful survivors. : 4 Risk capital was what started the auto business; the radio, air-conditioning, and what have you. A lot of that capital went down the drain. : ord . And there was then no Walter Reuther around to talk i= about ability to pay or ask for a look at the books of such as these long-forgotten auto pioneers: i a Anderson, Ap-

Ace, Ajax, Alco, Alpena, Ambassador, person, Autocar. Just to mention the a's. ‘+ Or to proceed: the Buggycar, the Bush, the Chalmers, . the Chandler, the Cleveland, the Desberon, the Empire, the Flanders, the Flit, the Franklin, the Gasmobile, the Kissel Or all the rest of the illimitable garavan of cars that were and now aren't, : Out of that distillation of individual enterprise, invenort ture savings we now have what would be

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process of setting up autonomous republics on its side of the border. people along the new boundary began to be cross with one another, Georgians had been grazing their flocks on hillsides in warm weather, in valleys when the snows came. Turks told them to graze on their own land. On top of this, there were arguments over irrigation which stemmed mostly from streams rising in Georgia's highlands and flowing to the plains and into the disputed territory. }

Little Surplus Food GEORGIA produces poor coal and excellent bricks. Many of its people are busy as beekeepers and make a relatively good thing of it. They're not so hot on

weather... They produce little surplus food and sometimes get hungry during the long winters. A number of German colonists got into Georgia some years ago and systematically turned out so much dairy produce that some was exported. Native nomads around them failed to grasp either the business principles or the sanitary habits of the colonists. The natives continued to get sick ffequently, as they had for generations. Georgia was a kingdom for 2000 years. It had been kicked around by Romans, Macedonians, Persians, Arabs, Mongols, Russians and Turks. A of its fiercest rulers were women. In the 15th century Alexander I amexed part of it to Russia. The remainder went to Russia in 1810. Georgia became part of the present Russian federation in 1921. The Georgian Bible dates the eighth century. Most of the peope can te the province's 11th century poem, “The man clothed in the panther’s skin.” But few can read it. Many Georgians are expert carpet weavers. Some bright Georgians have come to the United States and found good jobs in the rug and carpet departments of our bigger stores: A Georgian married Pola Negri and Barbara Hutton— one at a time, : Georgia's most famous man: Jose! Stalin.

il WORLD AFFAIRS—

Big 3 Gains By Carl D. Groat

MOSCOW, Dec. 25.—~The Molo-

the Secretary Byrnes at least will hold a general conference, Explanations of the conferees’ and plans for the future are anticipated.

French and Chinese Informed :

.. The conferees now are reported to have reached a stage in their deliberations in which they are . festing a friendly and understanding spirit. They appear to have overcome some hurdles which may have hampered their earlier intercourse.

as originally planned. . of information and even of war materials themselves were adhered to up to the war's end. Presumably the allies are under no current obligation to pass Seapons Jo gue suther, but 1t 1s hoped tive will be developed means of exchanging. scientific data which would redound to the world’s benefit. :

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“TRAINING WON'T TEACH BOYS ANYTHING GOOD” By Virginia Carmony, Greensburg As a subscriber of your paper for two years, just what do you do to get a piece printed in your Hoosier Forum? Maybe it is like Pvt. George Marks told senators. Ask for protection before he could tell them the truth. Maybe you are afraid to print the truth. My hat is off to this private who has the nerve to get up before senators and tell them that the “big brass hats” were holding up voluntary enlistments until compulsory military training was put over. This is the truth and I think when congressmen come up for votes they will find out we, the people, know more than they think we do. Such as Truman doubling their salary before compulsory military training bill came up. I think parents had better wake

does not teach the boy anything good. If he is good and religious he is taught to steal and drink and gamble, I have visited camps and I would hate to repeat the truth as I have already written my congress-

Having surrounded himself with fawning palace guards and backed by “the New Dealers who idolized him, he felt himself to a great world financial genius, a wizard in

The fleet had always been based on the Pacific coast. Adm. Rich. ardson who was commander-in-chief of the Pacific fleet was the most outstanding authority on naval warfare and Japanese strategy of all

take the fleet to Hawaii and refused to do it. He was ordered to do so again and refused. This time he was overruled by Mr. Roosevelt. :

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thousand of our youth died at Pearl Harbor that day and thousands of others died in the mon! to come because of the blunder. was the price we paid for a one man government, secret diplomacy naval inefficiency and political chicanery. ® = = “NEED BETTER FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENT” By A Reader, Indianapolis On 8. Illinois st. a man died in a fire of one of the hotels. Why? The firemen, because of smoke and heat, couldn't get to him, They had to hear his moans and cries for help die into silence. It wouldn't have happened if our

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Precious Heritage

* DESPITE this unanimous feeling, there was come plete confidence beforehand that Joyce would have a fair trial and, subsequently, that he would have been acquitted if the law had so required, however politically inconvenient that might have been, Kipling has a line somewhere about “Leave to live by no man’s leave, underneath the law.” This is perhaps the single most precious part of thé herite age 10 which Englishmen and Americans are jointly heir, Law and liberty must march hand in hand, faithfully ‘administered even when it" does not suit the whims of the public or the convenience of the

government. i ‘ This conception of individual liberty i5 widely menaced in the modern world, If it is to survive, this sanctity must constantly be The doctrineon which it rests must be taught in the schools, and

we hope to be free, to continue to ourselves.

POLITICS—

Good Will

By Thomas L. Stokes

among some :

The scoffers say: * “There is no peace men.” :

on earth, no good will among

in Palestine, other, places. True, it's geplorsts. “This upsurge of oldjoned im colonialism is a con

nations <will be simple of solution, work at it.

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