Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1946 — Page 10

UDES THAN PREDICTIONS insists that newspapers print a year-end tiie Was when the Preparing of such a enjoyable duty. however, the task has a peculins difficulty. attempting an appraisal of A, D. 1045 probably has t of his time, as we did, in trying to sidestep : ‘avoid the obvious. But it was no use, It was clear that everyone realized a Just 1 through one of the most eventfd] years st y could name the historic landmarks. a and, if not beaten to it, did say that “the n of 1946 finds the world standing on the threshold atomic age.” Bo it piney there was nothing new to say about 1945. t about the New Year, then? “We might have sought to the intrepid little band of journalists and deep thinkers annually go out on a limb with predictions of what the 12 months will bring. But we kept thinking how un-

RHAPS $ 7H N, it would be Safar to let the curbstone chroniclers of current history make their own guesses the future holds in store. Why not seek out that in the Street who is always being interviewed anyway, t him to work once more ? random sampling of opinion confirmed the suspicion the peace of 1045 had left the Man in the Street with a imistic hangover, We were assured that government is running biisiness, that big business is leading us | the road to another depression, that labor is driving us inflation and, unless quickly curbed, will take over and socialize (or communize) the country. ‘We were told that our government is too imperialistic, listically generous, too weak in foreign policy; too s to assume international responsibility. Most often, ware assured that nothing mattered much anyway, bewar was inevitable and the world wag foing to be apart by atomic bombs, oe NLY encouraging aspect of all: “this was that the

one- finds. President Truman and Secretary (whom we didn’t interview) seem a lot less dispiritthe Man in the Street. Maybe they're kidding themus, but at least they do seem a trifle cheerful. most of our fateful decisions will be made by Mr. Byrnes, Mr. Attlee and Mr. Bevin, Mr. Molotov, plus a handful of others anyway, ‘we talk about democracy, there may be some ned from their cheerfulness. There may even to be gained from the gloomy but reslitic in in the Street.

| any ME Seem gentlemen, in Hoth order out * chaos. We don't expect many miracles from you e can fight and win wars for you, but we're ex-

i more silent surprise than wild applause. All the intlemen, we know you have a hard job. Try, and l, to do it well We'll do all we can to help, and

us time to think it over ind most of us will think idly of lusty 1945. It produced two V-days. It assurance that millions of Witermed men would one piece. : rationing ended. There was talk that tires rah by 1947, Women who had gone kissless for ot big, wet smacks on the street Aug. 14 because it . Americans yearned for good used cars. Taxi “holding their rigs together with wire, resumed r t forgotten role as stock market oracles: Scientists turned from war thinking ‘and picked up ‘such peacetime wonders as suntan bathtub lamps. uts gave way to flowing thatches, Well-grooméd m wore patched drawers. - The treasury reported of every $1 invested in war bonds since May, 1941, ‘with original buyers. te agents ‘unblushingly confessed that prices gy were selling were up 30 to 100 per cent. 6 makers based talk of a boom on servicemen's | ll good. Hank Greenberg's homer won the e Detroit Tigers. College football attracted Byron Nelson's golf won him $66,528 in

8 fodder met his dad for the first time. will always be grateful for 1945.

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flon nursing program is realized. agency expects to have 5000 registered In fiscal 1947 it plans to add at least

ed nurse will receive a three-months atments, new drugs, 46 of these classes in the first quarter. of 1946.

Withers will be specially coached. in ~The 30 then will set up as many ers: within the veterans administration new knowledge and skills to other nurses. tatural reluctance to getting stuck

red stay banger th two years

- knooked off for New Year's.

one gets to the head of government, the less |

at least 800,000 beds. It is not “spot. So it is arranging a

‘| consider Iranian problems. But, he. added, | fortunately, we could not agree.”

by Robrt Cc. Ruork

n forty-five has and 1046 looks so a that most af Washington's seers have © taken.to their Palmists, globe-gazers, tea-leaf putterers have all They won't even attempt to tell you what's coming up. Things ate 50 unsettled that the crystal ball is ‘murky, the, palm glouded, and the tea leaves awry. Mr. Ivan Marsden, who “hag guided men. and women to success and happiness for 4 quarter of a century, and who tells you all your life has been and will be,” isn't feeling too good, and has folded away the futtire for a few days. He couldn't care

| less whether the Republicans will recapture the |

house, Mme. Fonda, to whom “the past and the future are as clear as the present, has had the flu. The future of the atomic bomb momentarily is obscured by a paper handkerchief. “I feel awful,” Mme. Fonda sald,

Mme. Fay Wallis is taking it easy over the holidays, too. Lots of her clients “have been down with the sniffles.

Worrying Affects Squirrels

SECRETARY WALLACE'S private bone:pointer could not be reached, and Evil-Eye Finkle, a man who recently threatened to sue the atomic bomb for infringement of patent, is taking it. easy in Miami, But most of the mystics say nope they just don't know how 1048 is coming out. ! It has been. a hard year in Washington. The | squirrels who play in the parks near government buildings have been turning white lately, The policeman on the beat near the commerce department says they are three shades lighter in color, and blames this on their forced association with so many great thinkers during the last four years. “I have also noticed that they have béen burying nuts twice -as furiously as they did last winter,” this policeman says. “They say that's a sign of hard times. Brother, the way they been planting nuts ely, I would say that our next depression will be a pip.”

trating minds for the last few days, we come up with the following predictions: There will be a better brand of baseball Played in the United States next summer. Cigarets, already a3 dry as a temperance tectiire, will be getting dryer as more thousands of cartons are hauled out of the warehouses inte which they vanished during the “inexplicable” shortage, More spotted skunks will be trapped in Florida than in Kansas,

WASHINGTON, J 1.--Nine- | ey

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Shrimp Scandal Forecast

BY MID-SUMMER, every man, woman and dog in the army, navy and coast guard, mot to mention | the marines, will have a Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, and secretary's citation. The navy shortly will unmuzzle its personnel and allow them to criticize the army's merger plan ones | more, There will be a scandal in shrimp. ‘About 985 per | cent of processed shrimp has been subject to black |

market manipulation, and more than 13 million |, mavhe worse than I thought, I

pounds are being held off the market—holders hop- | ing that OPA will lift the price ceiling. , Nobody will love Senator Bilbo any better in 1946

than in 1945.

The Russians, having successfully acquired Jimmy ‘Byrnes’ shirt, will be back for his pants, socks and teeth. More husbands will beat more wives. Said husbands having been encouraged in the use of the knout by Washington psychiatrists and courts which held that wife-beating isn't s0 much a eriminal offense as a psybhiatric aberration. This view is opposed strongly in Mdryland, where wife-beaters are psychiatrically treated by a stout sheriff wielding a cat ¢ nine tails.

WORLD AFFAIRS

1946 Peace? By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan, l5Nine-teen-forty-six almost certainly will be one of the most decisive years in history. It will either start mankind along the road to lasting peace, via the UNO and world co-operation, or set the stage for his suicide. This year saw the end of the greatest conflict of all time, but it brought neither general peace nor international understanding. On the contiary, if anything, the principal victors drifted further apart, Today, there is really little genuine understanding between Russid, on the one hand, and Brilain and the United States on the other, the Moscow conference notwithstariding. In the view of many anxious United Nations observers here, Becretary of States: Byrnes’ radio report to the nation Sunday night served to highlight, rather than dispel, this painful impression. He recalled, for example, how the London conference went on the rocks last September because Russia demanded one thing and the others something else. And yet, after he had explained how agreement was reached this time in Moscow, it was more than ever clear that Russia, at long last, had got almost exactly what had first been given to her at Potsdam but.denied her, later on, at London.

Peace Treaties

AT POTSDAM it was clearly set forth that the Big ~Three would draw up the peace treaties with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Pinland “with a | view to their §ubmission to the United Nations.” France, it was agreed, could sit in on Italy, >, with regard to ‘the others, only those states which were signatory to the terms of surrender would have a voice. And that, Moscow, is what is to happen now,

attend. - And they can make suggestions.

make the final decisions and each will have a veto. representative government in the Balkans. Instead of

Last February, at Yalta, the same Big Three set forth in considerable detail, their plans not merely for more representative government in the Balkans but for all “liberated Europe"-including “the former satellite states.” ‘There were to be “free and unfettered elections.” ‘The various regimes were to be “broadly representative.” And so on.

‘Recognize’ Some Regimes BUT AT Moscow there was only a faint echo of all this. Instead, we promised to “recognize” some of these, totalitarian régimes In the Balkans once certain figures are admitted to cabinets from parties -not now represented. Yet experience has shown that, once thix is done, the governments in question will re-

munist dictators as they are today. ito unified democracies; Japan is to be brought under the control ‘of a Big Four with China sitting ih with the Big Three. But the test is yet to come -and what happened when the subject of Iran arose at Moscow is not promising,

Big Three might agree on a tripartite commission to

~The "coming year will go far toward . deciding

| JOBS AND HOMES HERE? 1 nin Rateliffe, 2101 Bonievard pl; aphs 1

| think that is very large, so I am

.| question is too large for my small | brain to understand, but I am ap-|

-jcame world war II and while -we

I am a constant reader of your column, I think that it .is great. (It. .gives we nuts a chance to let [others see how really dumb that e are. 1 am pretty dumb and it wed to {make me feel very bad, but aftér i reading this column for years, I | feel better, for I am not as bad off

am now attempting something I

trying through column to find some of the answers, I know that this

pealing to some of the brain busters for some relief. . 1 think that I have heard or read] somewhere that our government has loaned the government of ‘Eng- |. land some $4,500,000,000. England is using some of that amount to help the Dutch keep the Ine donesians in a kind of slavery, It is just another case of Italy and conquest. in Affica and out of it

say we won the war, was the cost worth it when we count the cost? “With a hungry, cold, ragged, unsettled world, do you think ‘that the U. 8. should loan a government that boasts of the largest empire in the world and yet is constantly getting in trouble U. 8. paying the expense? You, me and all the taxpayers pay the cost. Did not that fine mother country of England des fraud her other war debt? Thai every taxpayer in our government had to lose and pay for, I ask you if it seems real or logical to loan England. $4,500,000,000 for 50 years with no interest for 10 years when according to our own housing director at Washington, one million

‘need $4,500,000,000 worse

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death

to them. Then if you don't trust

them, build them some more homes. You know that there is no liability in that, for you have tried and it pays well.- Poor people would give nything for a chance .to bring their children th a clean surrounding, like housing projects sponsored by the government. Just a word to labor, the brains of our world say that the airplane has made this world a small place for war. Well, it is just as close for

strike breakers and easier, and I

am told that no chain is stronger than the weakest link. Well, all “he underpaid people in the world are a part of your chain. We have heen told that about 60 families owned the wealth of Germany, less than tenth of Japan and about 260 in America and great many less in’ England. I do not think that the common people of the world are trying to overthrow this government, but that circumstances forced upon them are making them a vietim of no other circumstance. In other words, does England ree million Americans need homes a jobs?

homes are needed here at. home in the good old U. 8. A. and will need! one million more in 1946-'47 house Americans who fought, ‘bled; worked hour after hour overtime to have a right to live and make her country. live? Don't lend these peaple $4,500,

defrauded this government out of,

a lability, Ask .any finance com-|

according to the Big Three at | | There will be a “peace conference” next spring. Nations that actively participated in the war will | But the | Big Three (plus France, in the case of Italy) will! It is claimed that the Big Three blazed the trail for |

trail-blazing, they actually seem to have lost ground. |

main as completely in the Hands of the present coms

Similarly, China and Korea are to be transformed

Ab one time, sald Mr, ‘Byrnes, it looked as If the: “un~ | ‘whether world peace organisation will work, . ‘Much, | oe

| If not everything, depends on the Big Three and to] ok ie She IPR Sos So revenue ;

pany. It belongs to ‘them anyway, | but they will pay you if you loan it

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fhe remarks which I overheard during the last intermission quite funny although I think I succeeded in hiding my mirth. The first. chuckle -followed this: “They are moving the ‘pieyaner’ (so help me that was the way the matron speaking pronounced it) off the stage so we can see Fabien waving his coat tails.” A secend matron after s few other remarks

ber . under: discussion, “Porgy and “Becky and Porky.” Her gentleman companion immediately tried to place “Becky Sharp,” his lady friend quickly answered that she was a character in one of

Charles Dickens’ novels. I thought I heard a long sorrowful sigh such as Mr. Thackeray or some of Becky's friends in Vanity Fair might be entitled to emit under the eircumstances, . I'm writing this hoping someone else may get a smile out of it. Naturally I know our orchestra is the best and coming from the “hub of the universe” may tend to make me critical but every eity has its growing pains and supporting an orchestra will do much in aequiring a well rounded culture. Of course I know it is impolite to eavesdrop but one can't hold his hands over | his ears in $4.20 seats; that would | look silly, what do you think? (Editor's Note: We smile with our guest from Boston, where they also have a fine symphony orchestra, a proud cultural tradition, and an

Ll By Thomas L. Stokes

“| 100k ‘where We aré now, compared !

: more opposition to Pres

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WAEHINGTON, ‘Jan, 1—New accepted time of stoeks taking as. well as. good resolu “In taking stock, it-.is fair

with where we thought: 4 year ago we thought we’ might be now.

tions were that fighting still would be going. on in the Pacific this New Year's day. In the field of foreign affairs, so far as our own attitude is concerned, the year's developments are most encouraging. The picture is not so good in the field of domestic affairs, though trouble Wes expected about whete it hak happened. A year ago there was the prospect of considerably lent Roosevelt's plans. for international co-operation than actually materialized, The record there has been a happy surprise. Under our leadership, the United Nations Organis’ zation was created at San Francisco, The senate ratified it by-an overwhelming vote, Just before the

tion, among other ways, by clothing the” ‘President with necessary authority to use our military forces

1in the international police orginization in event of

aggression,

Broader Economic Co-operation DURING the year, too, we further authorized our complete co-operation on the economic side in twe ways: 3 By extending and Wroadening our reciprocal tariff program, an orlgindl American institution, to en~ courage further tariff reduction among nations se that internatiorial trade may be carried on more easily. By ratifying the Bretton Woods agreements for an international bank and international monetary “fund to help rehabilitate war-ravaged countries. we led the way there. Now those financial agencies can begome a reality. A sufficient number of nations now have ratified and the agreements have been formally “signed in ceremonies here. Considering what happened after the last war, all this is most hopeful. We are on our way in inter . national co-dperation, But, far as we have come, something happened during the year which makes it essential that we go. as far or further in the coming year to a readjustment of our whole attitude toward the world apd our responsibility in it. That was; of course, the atomic borgh, That made the thought of another war unbearable to the human mind. It seems necessary that we move rapidly from the UNO concept of a loose federation of nations toward an organization far more closely knit, something approaching world government.

u. S. Fitted to Lead

WE DID it once in the early days of our own his nations of the world face today. Our loose and un=

articles of confederation proved so weak that we dise carded them and formed the United States of Amerie ca under our constitution. By reason of that experi. ence, we are peculiarly fitted to lead in the next step, which is the creation of a United States of the world, - That is a prospect for the New Year that is finding increasing support in this country. It is likewise

where is has leadership from the top. Here at home, in our own backyard, we have work to do, too. : The year ught the loss 6f a dynamic leader in domestic, as well as world affairs. The death ‘of President Roosevelt reacted naturally te give new strength to those forces, particularly in congress, which still did not like the program of domestic reform that he had achieved. They are determined to stopgany further progress along those lines. His Successor esponsed that program for his own, but ‘has been constantly checked in congress. The

constitutional responsibility of the President to the people.” But in the New Year it will take a rallying

of the people to his side, against aongTIR, to make this leadership effective.

IN WASHINGTON—

Hot Issues By Robert Taylor

WASHINGTON, Jan. 1—If you like’ your congressman, be sure to extend to him your best wishes for

hccent that ‘sounds very funny 16 | one-hundred million or so Amgti-| cans who do not live in New ng- | land)

NL » “IS WATCHMAN RIGHT OR WRONG?

the New Year. He'H need them: When congress dropped - every thing to go home for the Holidays, it left han an explosive collection of issues—including the con of atomic energy. These issues will have to be dealt with, one way or another, somefime in 1946. And 1048 is the year

By The Guardsman, Fadianapohs Gen. MacArthur credited Russia with saving civilization. “Gen. Eisen- | hower has stated that it is his con-

when all representatives, barring those who want $e quit, and many senators come before the voters for re-election. The issues are such that they are bound to affect every family. On many of them there isn't any

18 IMPOLITE TO EAVESDROP” |viction that Russia wants ‘world clear-cut division of opinion in congress. Many con~

By T 4th gr. Atterbury

Saturday evening I had | pleasure of enjoying the concert of|

John W. Heanue, Camp |

USO lounge.

plus the per cent that you charge | Being a Bostonian ind knowing | H the soldier and I bej it will not be of Mr. Sevitzky's associations there Russia's insistence upon regaining| and organized labor doesn't want it.

lin the past made it so much more {pleasant and being a Bostonian and |

taking as much in as possible made

Carnival — By Dick Turner

—

being discharged from the

. "Ldon't think your mother should : sae this. item about Dr, Brown

8 army-—her liver trouble

: Fight = come back?"

‘tsue for public. welfare;

Me service.

| peace and understanding with the

{with all’ right. wrote: *

Corliss Lamont, . the Russia of the

000,000 at 2 per cent for 50. years the Indianapolis orchestra through | |Boviets is a thousand times closer, with no interest for 10 years. Just the kindness of a citizen who left | [to the fundamental aspirations of

loan them the amount that England some tickets at the Wabash st.| {the American people than the Rus- | sia of the Tears.” :

Liberal writers point out that

small borders,

territories adjacent to her which. were taken away |

| from her at the end of world war I,| phe

does not constitute her an imperiaiist power. But The Watchman re-| petitiously warns us of Stalin “ stepping right into Hitler's seven. | league boots of aggression.” Enough

| said.

: FE a “WHY PAY POLITICIANS TO STUDY BUS FARES? By C. P. O, Indianapolis : Concerning streetcar fares, why must we pay politicians outstanding sums for investigating the temporary structure? The only people who pay a 10-cent fare now are casual riders. They should pay more, They hinder streetcar service with their big ears and haphazard driving 50 weeks out of the year. Then when we have stormy weather they crowd

il [the poor people out of the street-

car, They are not forcing this isthey are making money for themselves, Why not get a poll of regular patrons and stop dishing out tax mon#y to the gripes? We buy tokens, we ride either bus or streetcar and our patronage is heavy enough that the company can make a fair profit at the present fare. Let's devote our time and money

: of Investigators to finding » way to

get the cars through the streets at busy hours, That would help pub~

DAILY THOUGHT And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call -his name ; Jesus; for he shall save his people from their sins.—~Matthew 1:21,

| gressmen haven't made up their minds. The reason for this stand-offishness isn't hard to

the | | United States and can be got along’ find. In the galaxy of issues up for a vote it's going

to be hard for any member to take a position without offending somebody. ;

Labor ‘Problems Numerous THE LABOR issues alone are enough tq put most | congressmen on the spot. President Truman wants a law authorizing fact-finding in- labor disputes,

The Smith-Connally law faces repeal and the chances are that some other labor legislation will proposed to replace it. The full employment bill, strongly supported by the C.1.-O.. is still to be handled. The final outcome | is certain to be a toned-down version. The fair employment practices bill will cause some bitterness in congress. Président Truman's recom mendation for higher unemployment compensation benefits remains piggholed in the house ways and means committee, Bills to increase the minimum wage are still to be acted on. ? Congress will decide whether to return the ems ployment. service to the states or keep it in the fed. eral government for two more years, as the Presis dent insists. Even the oontroversial - labor issues are minor, compared with some other matters eongress will have to wrestle with. The present draft law expires May 15 and ‘congress will have to decide what to do about it--as well as the President's propos for universal military training.

Merger Question Pending THERE ARE other military items, such as the army-navy merger proposal, peacetime budgeting for the armed services and control of atomic energy. The probabilities are that, as-more and more vets erans return to civilian life, there will be more and - more veterans’ legislation proposed. As n matter of fact the war isn't over for congress. The war powers act, which involves the government's right to control prices, ration commodities, assign priorities and direct transportation, expires June 30, There'll be a small war over whether to. continue - it or not. Taxes will come up for action MgAin. The tax. reduction bill congress rushed through after the fighting stopped was only a stop-gap. Soon after they come back here Jan, 14, congress will start working ° on new tax bills. Budget revision, transferring the nation’s finailces ing ‘some determinations on what kind of peacetime government congress wants to. authorize and how

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much of the military establishment will be retained: ° The congressmen also will have to decide the

ticklish question of raising their own salaries and als

lowing themselves pensions, Al nal eo oy prope oan sto you,

The war is’over. A year ago the best prognosticas

year ended congress provided for our full co-opera= :

tory, under a crisis less serious than that which the

wieldy government of the Revolution under the .

gaining favor among the people. of Great Britain

year's end found President Truman accepting “thy

back to a peace-time basis, will be a long job, involve .

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