Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1946 — Page 12

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ND OTHERS H on this page, today, Thomas L. Stokes, one Yn ablest writers on politics, decries the that not all Democrats are “Liberals” and not as are “Liberals” either. As a result, he says, ent is breaking down, and coalitions of DemoRepublicans form in congress to defeat, or con- , to enact legislation along. what he considers nonlines. That's pretty much what Congressman Charles Laette is talking about, too, as he gives up sure re-election the lower house to risk a try at nomination to the senate. Talolaiis haliavas tha wataws in an alaction ghould be able . chooses, accurately, between 8 conservative party #nd a liberal party without the added confusion of having parties presenting candidates who run the whole gamut to reaction on both tickets. And Mr. Laf course, is interested i in leaving the conservatives Tt 0 the Democrats, or vice versa, and making the Republican party the true voice of liberalism in this country. ,

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5» « 8 Mr. Stokes and Mr. LaFollette, it seems to us, - would like to classify their politicians, along the tune"ful lines of Gilbert and Sullivan, so “that every hoy and every gal, that’s born into this world alive, is either a little Liberal or else a little Conservative.” It's an interesting theory, and for all we know a desirable objective, but in practice it isn’t that simple. The trouble is everybody has a different definition of “Liberal.” And there are as many degrees of conservatism as there are people. Take Mr. LaFollette himself, for instance. Republicans who oppose him say he is a radical—but to the Communist party he'd certainly appear as a black reactionary of the first water. Or Henry Wallace, considered by many as the very symbol of liberalism, yet who © espouses paternalistic ‘governmental controls -of individual "lives that could make us a nation of serfs. Nor do we recall ever having met anyone who did not consider himself an

enlightened liberal thinker, no matter what views he might hold.

. So it seems likely that Mr. LaFollette’s appeal to the voters of Indiana will have to be, finally, on specific issues “rather than on the general proposition of abstract liberal- ~ jsm which is no doubt what he plans it to be. And on such - issues he may very well provide Indiana Republicans with the most clear-cut chofce they have had in recent years within their own party.

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AUT as to Mr. Stokes’ complaint about the present composition of we are not so sure. Those members al got their Seats by direct elections, most of them Tather recently. The measures President Truman discussed on the" radio, and the measures to which Mr. Stokes refers, are mainly stalled in the lower house—which is the one more directly responsive to the public will, and subject to camplete change every two. years. The senate, which does 80 closely reflect shifting sentiment of the nation, | 8 generally approved them, or at least come nearer doing jo than the house. z= Could it be that the voters of the United States are the 8 who do not approve?

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ADBARE, BUT WILLING

k ESIDENT TRUMAN urges all Americans to give spare garments to the victory clothing collection, and so to te the hardships of war victims throughout the world. er Governor Schricker leads the Indianapolis drive. This, surely, is a worthy. cause. seni OD the same day, the government's civilian production istration asks men’s clothing stores throughout the country to reserve “for veterans only” most of their stocks of. suits, overcoats, shirts and underwear. This request, “also, is ‘made in a worthy cause. By every right, the

r Jetaruing veterans should have priorities on the present L uate supply of civilian apparel.

vio And so, with willing good cheer, we shall donate old glothing to be worn by war sufferers in other’ lands, and refrain from buying new clothing in deference to the needs of our own gallant fighting men. We shall hope for sucnN gessful efforts to overcome the difficulties, whatever they are, responsible for current shortages. Eo And meanwhile we shall suppress, sternly, that nagtendency to worry now and then about what we're going to wear for pants by the time that glad day dawns when with clear conscience we can venture out to buy ourself a new pair, and even perhaps another shirt.

LETS HOPE

088 A. COLLINS of Mississippi, who was for many 2 years a member of congress, announces that he intends to campaign this year for the U. S. senate seat now occupied “would be exaggeration to say “filted”—by Theodore Man) Bilbo. It may not be our province to give political advice to people of Mississippi. But perhaps we can properly our opinion that by sending Mr, Collins to the » they would do an honor to their state and a real ce to the entire country. In addition to being a man of ability and integrity; Collins is an outstanding authority on military legislaHis specialized knowledge would be extremely valu10 congress in the next few years. If he replaced Man,” millions of American citizens would have fo revise their present opinion that Mississippi jidmises Bilboism, bigotry and buffoonery.

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Hoosier Forum

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By Harry J. Gasper, 908 BE. 11th st.

spread of the past accomplishments

gooey mess hits the headlines.

to numerous men being laid off at the Shelby barn, These men sald they were being laid off for personal reasons and accused Billy the “Voice” or the “Fish” or the

“Bull's,” defense to say there was no money in the treasury to keep the men. Now, what is it, Mr. Tex? Manpower shortage or the money. Last week you say you couldn't hire men for 70c or 80c an hour. But a month later you lay them off because you aré out of dough. There was no manpower shortage to put up the Christmas tree forest around the Circle, with men stepping over one another to commw it on time just to satisfy someone’s personal desires and our mayor could sorta lean back in his easy chair at the Columbia club and tell the boys how he did it.

There was no manpower shortage out at Lake Sullivag with a crew frying to clean snow off the ice and using a large scraper to smooth the ice that crashed through and took hours of labor to get out, all ;of this while the general public slipped and slopped all over town, while garbage and ashes piled up to cause a health menace, Why couldn't all this help be put together that was used so foolish. ly, to help make our city a clean and decent place to live in? Or is that asking too much, Mr. Mayor? Let's get «the mayor and the city council to quit fighting one another. The safety board from fight-ing-the-police department and Billy the “Bull” from fighting anybody and use these efforts to fighting some of the filth from the city. Also the county commissioners from fighting the county council, the prosecutor from fighting the municipal courts, and the sheriff from fighting all the boys who helped put

ministration (sugar-coated, of tourse, by the press). give my views and numerous friends’ and neighbors’ views before the

"Let's Get Back to Good, Safe

Government for the People"

As another year begins I sorta look forward to a complete news

of this present city and county adSo I'll ‘try and

EE ye ceularly amusing: to us. are’ the abla given us in regard to the ash, garbage collections and the deplorable conditions of our streets. Our city fathers say it is the manpower shortage. Is it? If it is let's get these stories straight. About a month ago there appeared in your paper a piece in regard

him in office—and couldn't get any sugar from him without their ration books, In other words, let's get back to good, safe, competent gov: ernment for the people and not ne our city hall and cours house. fo flock of politicians fo fight t personal grudges: The only thing as we see it is that this present administration is not short on alibis. * x J r ” “WHAT IS THE CRISIS, I WONDER?” By James J. Cullings, Indianapolis I see in the Thursday's Times,

December 20, 1945, that we now have a crisis according to the Voice of the Crowd. What is the crisis I wonder? Is it the raving of a

militarist afraid to sign his own name. Surely your paper or editor needs no protection from me by the Voice in the Crowd. I told The Times what I had to say, signed my name and address and The Times had the right and privilege to publish or not. I just wonder if this Voice in the Crowd is the service sister -or sob sister, at least the party is very lacking in faith and courage. All of the militarists as I see them are moral cowards and the Voice in the Crowd 1s included, for if he were not afraid of something or ashamed of his name being associated to his writing he would want his name, man or woman, attached to it so his friends could have faith he really meant his writing. I-am proud of the name my father and mother gave me and any time I become so little, so ashamed, so afraid I cannot sign any and all papers with my name that I write, then I will quit writing. How about you, Voice in the Crowd, what are

you afraid of? The truth?

Side Glances— By Galbraith

‘got him through the exit.

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“THEY ALMOST HAD TO CARRY HIM FROM THE TABLE”

By Opl. Mack McGinnis, Camp Atterbury On Christmas . . . we ate well at

| ABerbucy . . . especially one sorporal. Women, not all of them, but many, are creatures of multiple faults, but there is one place where many, but not all of them, use good sense . , , and that's at the table. I refer in this instance to the dining room table upon which food is placed in great abundance in this holiday season. It's there that a woman using good sense, takes her five nibbles and calls it a meal But what does the man do? Well, he, too, takes five nibbles , . . and then gets down to the business on the plate. There follows 15 nibbles

more and then 50 more until he has his stomach jumping up and down as though it were on & pogo stick, screaming for help and a tankard of bicarb. Take a man I know. Today at Christmas dinner, the army brought in all the food it has been saving for the past six months and threw it all on the table. What a tasty collection! , Turkey, cranberry sauce, celery, peas, mince pie, cake, ice cream, nuts, oranges, tangerines and too many other palatable items for this brain to recall. Seventy-five enlisted men were heard to utter that they were going to re-enlist . . , (but they might have been fooling). When this fe spied all that good food, he nearly lost his pants jumping with joy and I never saw a plate filled higher with vitamins in my life after he had passed all the generous waiters on the messembly lne, Eat! When he nad taken his seat, he started to work and I never saw hands move faster in my life. That turkey couldn't have disappeared more rapidly if it had been cfught in quick sand. When he finished, they had to turn in his knife and fork for salvage. What a pork, that guy! Well, I thought he would overdo, and he did. They almost had to carry him away from the table and he was as white as a Rinso (free plug) washed sheet. One guy grabbed him around the potatoes and another fellow grabbed him by the mince ple and they guided him out the door of the mess hall. With two men using crow bars and six men giving him a boost from behind they finally

They say that he'll recover and I certainly hope he does. I doubted it a little earlier this afternoon, but frankly, I'm glad to write that I am feeling a little better now. Anyway, ‘the ‘cranberry sauce seems to have stopped shaking hands with the celery and the turkey seems to have given up the fight at last. But never again, Joe, NEVER AGAIN

DAILY THOUGHT

For thy violence against thy . brother Jacob shame shall cover thee, and thou shalt be ouf off

“Mrs. ts Smith id ifs now about post-war problems— is nd promises not to mention any of 2 Wl things going oni

forever.—Obadiah 1:10. Hal brother er should not war ‘brother.

And worry and devour each other

OUR TOWN

. ALMOBYT' THE culy Subject 3 Wilh tay. Siterest never flags for so much as an instant is a woman's wardrobe. Imagine, then, how downcast I am since I learned of the plight Clare Boothe Luce finds her-

relegat- | ed to the bottom of the recently released (19456) poll conducted by the New York Dress Institute, a self-perpetuating group ‘of busybodies who deem it their privilege and prerogative to pick the world’s ten best-dressed women every

The downfall of Mrs. Luce amounts to a catastrophe when one recalls ‘that she reached fifth place in the 1044 poll which, when you give it a second thought, was quite an achievement for a Republican in a Democratic year, to say nothing of a war-torn world.

The Duchess Aroused

the Duchess of ‘Windsor, if you please, if you can remember that far back, was

and nobody can make me believe that such things Just happen. Indeed, I had a hunch that something lke this was in the cards when I saw a group picture of the 1044 prize winners, Located at the bottom of the pile as she was that year, the Duchess had a look of deflance and determination that didn’t suit me at all. Even a bat as blind as myself could see that she was about to bite her fingernails. ; As for Mrs. Luce (back in 1944),.she wore &-smug sweet smile as if she didn't have anything more to

POLITICS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—President Truman's implied public confession of the rift in his own party served to bring to light too, by the reaction to it, a similar split within the Republican party. Mr. Truman in his recent address to the people

called up enough examples to disclose what is already well known here. This is that his program is being blocked by southern Democrats in key committee and other posts in congress. Consequently, he has lost control of his party in congress. Republicans took the occasion to reveal the division in their ranks. Senator Taft, old guard leader, spoke for that wing of the party, now dominant in congress and the national committee. His “radio

resented and assailed by another Republican, Senator Morse (Ore.), who travels with the progressive wing of the party. Senator Morse said that his Ohio colleague showed why the plain people of the country “cannot look to the reactionary Republicans, who are seeking to control the Republican party, to protect and improve their standard of living. Taft demonstrated that his political and economic philosophy: is the same as that of the reactionary Democrats now in control of the Democratic party.”

Coalitions Bring Checkmates SENATOR MORSE and a minority of Republicans in both senate and house are for a number of the Truman measures which Senator Taft condemned. Their chief complaint is that congressional leaders of Mr. Truman's own party bottle these up and keep them from a vote, aided always of course by Republicans. , For Senator Morse and his progressive-minded colleagues know that the southern leaders of Mr. Truman’s party would not be able to checkmate the President's program by and of themselves. They know that what is responsible is the coalition of southerners and what might be called “Taft Republicans.” It has worked out time and time again, and with no concealment. What the country has now, and what it had in the last few years of the Roosevelt regime, is a congress that is controlled by conservatives, despite the successive New Deal victories of the late President. That is a plain and unmistakable fact.

WORLD AFFAIRS .

TOKYO, Jan. 9.—There are some gentlemen here in the real estate business whose job I don’t want. They -wear uniforms—they're officers—but their real business is in what our brokers at home call home “rentals.” Ordinarily this would be a real estate man’s paradise. A flourishing market, a shortage of houses, and 8 huge demand. But here, rentals are fixed and the only commissions are those that entitle them to wear bars, oak leaves and eagles. The harassed real estate men are gathered together, somewhat loosely, in what is called the “Allocation Board.” The board has some vague association with the American military government, although it operates with some autonomy.

Detectives ‘Go to Work' THERE ARE many steps in the procurement of a billet for an officer. First the officer makes application for a house. The allocation board tells him there are no houses available. Then the officer insists and it becomes apparent that heads will fall unless the applicant gets one, So the board's detectives get busy. They comb the city, watd by ward, and finally discover a Japanese home where perhaps only two people are living in one of its rooms. The board files a docu-~ ment with the Japanese government's liaison office demanding possession of the house.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . .By

ltaly Ch

LONDON, Jan. 9.—One of the most serisible declsions reached by De Gasperi’s new Italian government is to call a halt on endless heresy hunting against . former members of the Fascist party, They have now set a date, March 31, as the deadline for all decisions. concerning the future state employment of those who served Italy, under the Fascist regime. For thé last 18 months, hundreds of thousands of small employees in government departments, post offices and banks have been living in daily expectation of being liquidated as ex-Fascists. This naturally has resulted in a considerable slowing down of all administration and business. People don’t work well when they think they may be about to be dismissed. The Italian Fascist party was organized on entirely different lines from the National Socialist jetty in Germany and the Communist party in Russia. In 1040, the Russian Communist party was only a little more than 3,000,000 strong. It represented about 5 per cent of the Russian population. The National Socialist party in Germany had about 4,000,000 members before the war, It represented some 6 per cent of the population. In both these totalitarian countries, the party was an effective instrument of the government.

Membership Obligatory IN ITALY, on the other hand, membership in the Fascist party was nearly 6,000,000 or about 15 per cent of the total population. Nearly one-third of all the adult males were party members. -Membership was obligatory for all officials and, in effect, obligatory for anyone who aspired to run even the smallest busi-

‘ness enterprise,

By Anton Scherrer

"When Mrs. Luce Forgot Detanss

By Thomas L. Stokes

Division Revealed in Both Parties

tirade” -againsi-the Truman talk was. just as bitterly

. By Sidney B. Whipple

Renting Houses Tough Job in Tokyo

smiling, passive resistance. It is not “liaison” at all,

"In Tay the only adult male Halians who dd nok ment

J— - F: i Te worly About Which, when you 3 fo think abo t housing is a lamentable Shen You stop to Shel: shot : on the che up in a democracy. Right then and here 1 Koew that PRESENT Mrs. Luce was heading for a fall i For the life of me, I can't understand how a k Rent ti Er a tite Wied Toru So such a Mrs, Luce , her : os as TO BX Tad Mes. Liste. 260% har res FUTURE was making the most of every minute last year; which w+ LDoy B Io ay tha: every new gown she wore in 1945 res Zn Ye 4 4 DeOSTEssively” improved sihouette (shape, tq How much And nd what did Mrs. Luce do? T ask you. She stood $3000 1 pat, the corollary of which is that she enteréd the How much 1045 fight with a 1044 model silhouette, ~~ } Below Local Project Stopped id How. much WHATEVER you do, don't construe this to 8.1] that the Duchess, even now, has a better §hapé than How man) that of Mrs. Luce. Not at all. If the truth were told How many the Duchess has a. long way to go in that respect. 2. Do However, the 1945 poll does" disclose that the Duchess : has a royalists ambition to improve her boundaries; fu rs. Luce apparently still bebp, hic Mea, Leo spyatentiy sill bel HY enough al very thing democracies have been , How mucl criticized for. en : - $31 to It was on this basis that I went to work to coms many HO. 1 un a Gi Hoot a po pns ma: You'd be surprised to learn what I got. The ten Indi : anapolis women who did the most to improve their ,& Wh shapes in 1045 were two stenographers, one milliner, Otty schoolteacher, one librarian, two shop girls, two tresses and an embalmer’s wife, It was part of my original plan to reveal the iden< This » tity of the ten best dressed women in Indianapolis, your local However, the family that watches over my welfare committee, persuaded me not to do so. For two reasons:. (1) Be help by 0 cause of a suspicion that I’ wasn't qualified to ap- completed praise feminine pulchritude; and (2) because, even Commerce if -I-were, nobody would believe the exoept; maybe," ~§ necessary the one woman picked for Brat place,

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EMMA As far as congress goes, the party system just does my Times not work. There's no Sush-Ying a8 responsible party Ww. FP, OC government, - serve as the This is revealed graphically when you sit in the. galleries and watch the voting on a major issue. Dem- H. B. Hollow ocrats, so-called, occupy one side of the center aisle, the first secre

Republicans the other. But each divides within itself tional Laym on major issues. Christian chu Southern Democrats and Eastern and Midwestérn They were Republicans erally are ‘on one side of the issue, meeting in th Western Repiiblicans and Western and Eastern Demi- Ragsdale of ( ocrats on the other. TRErS ste, of Cours; SOMA eX ed the office ceptions. National Lay If you could pick up a bloc of senators from each mission, inclu side and move them to the other side, then’ you ious walks of would have something more closely approaching ‘a the nation, n real party alignment, and something approaching re- y in the L sponsible party government. They offici What Relief Has the Voter? : tia) Lay THIS, OF COURSE, is impossible for a number tion of its e: of reasons, including the clinging-vine attitude of the Central C South to the Democratic party because of issues Whig Hines. oil exe grew out of the Civil war. ve'the addr Wot elief has the sefuddied voter in this situse" tion? Meer: Organization of a new party which would merge The comm progressive elements in each party might correct it. 8 year

But that seems a long way off. Realignment of parties would do it. But that seems just as remote. There are two practical measures at hand, how-_ ever. One is to continue pressure for abolition of the. seniority rule which, when Democrats are in power, gives control to southern Democrats, and when Re: publicans are in power, gives undue influence in con. gress to the Middle West. : This is because it's easier for Democratic and Republican members these respective sections to remain in office and move. up fo the top places. The other is to forget party lines in the coming congressional elections and vote for the man whos seems best fitted for requirements of government and society in these times. If party government is not going to mean anys thing in congress, and we are to have coalition government instead, then you might as well get a coals tion that's progressive and works for the interests of all the people, not just the few. a

Then the Jap liaison office pretends to get busy. If the house to be taken over is owned by a Japanese, a long period of stalling ensues. Sometimes they lose the documents. Sometimes they can’t even find the house because “the Amer leans gave us. the wrong Jumber.” It takes weeks to settle the matter.

Action Quigk Against Foreigners ; IF THE house belongs to a foreigner, however, particularly a German, the liaison office works quickly. it descends upon the house, brusquely serves notice on the inhabitants to find other quarters “in 24 hours” and reports immediately to the allocation board that possession of the property is assured. The Jap liaison office, altogether, 18 a place of

but a system of pretended co-operation that ends— until our authorities become tired of it and makes stern faces—in the blankest of walls. There is nothing more impassive than an official Japanese face when the Japanese to whom it belongs decides not to understand what we want. So the allocation board, caught between the fiery demands of an insistent colonel and the cold unwillingness of the Japanese office to be of any assistance whatsoever, 18 unhappy most of the time. What will be done when all of America’s travelin salesmen reach these shores, I-do not know. 1

Randolph Churchill

ecks Fascist Hunting

join the party were: Priests, who were specially .exempted under the terms of Mussolini's Vatican concordat; very rich menswho could afford to disregard Mussolini's wishes; a few high-minded idealists with strong political convictions for which ‘they were prepared to suffer; and a much larger number of poor, - pathetic citizens who were ambitionless and did not aspire to better their lot in this world. The large, unwieldy, amorplious party, which Mussolini recruited, could not compare in efficiency with the tightly organized, highly disciplined party of zealots with which Hitler once ruled Germany and with which Stalin stil] rules Russia,

Never Responsible Organization . THE ITALIAN Fascist party was never a very responsible organization. Many Italians, particularly women, joined for. frivolous or inconsequential reasons. One woman I know became a party member in order to open a dress shop. Another volunteered to serve as a nurse when Italy entered the war but was told she could not work in a military hospital unless she became a Fascist: so she joined the party. It can be seen from the foregoing that to try and exclude from all governmental posts all Italians who ever. were members of the Fascist party would be to destroy the wholé systém of Italian administration. Recently, Prince Doria Pamphili, Socialist mayor of Rome, dismissed a municipal dustinan on the grounds he had been a Fascist. Someone asked Doria how long the dustmaii had been a Fascist, Doria said, “Twenty years.” His friend replied, “Well, he doesn’t ‘seem to have Sot mich-out of it he's sil 8 du