Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 January 1946 — Page 20

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HART of Connecticut is not likely to with some of his colleagues on Capitol Hill former commander of the U. 8. Asiatic fleet an-

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years it has been true that men of too advanced y ve held seats in the United States senate. I shall 8 nn > X : oe ue of Ba will be 69 years old when he quits. By comparison with some who sit with him in the upper house, he is not old. But he has the temerity to call for the election of a “good younger man.” © The senator spent all of his mature years in the navy, where a man retires when he reaches 64. There is no such provision in the senate, where 88-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia still clings tenaciously to his seat, although he hasn't answered a roll call since 1942. What Tommy Hatt says undoubtedly will be regarded "as rank treason by older members of “the most exclusive club in the world.” We'd like to listen in on the cloakroom reaction as’ senators discuss “that young whippersnapper .. from Connecticut.”

“THIS TOO WILL PASS LEST we get unduly low in mind about our present troubles, let us refer to page 428 of the public papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt, covering the year 1988. Deflation was raging then. Want amidst plenty. Overproductidn, Underconsumption. Surplus. Kill the little ‘pigs. Prices too low, according to the President, who promised to get them up—“if we can’t do this one way we will do it another. Do it, we will.” Now it's the reverse. Prices too high and going higher. Scarcities. Underproduction. Steel, butter, meat, sugar on the way up. Chester Bowles losifig ground in his battle

a flip-flop in 12 years. ~~ But don’t conclude that today’s trend is permanent. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction; the only thing that's constant is change. Not all change | is progress, and we'll have other, different worries. - Worries we have with us always. i Ele The above lamentation was written on a gloomy day.

the sun shines more and “the day before spring” approaches, we'll all feel better and decide that life’s not such a bad proposition, after all,

- WHAT ABOUT L G. FARBEN? = United Press carries the following: 7 “Berlin—The I G. Farbenindustrie's stock rose from 187 to 14134 points on the Hamburg stock exchange at the very time American authorities in Berlin were announcing that the great chemical combine exists ‘in name only’,” : That sounds almost as though it was lifted from Alice in Wonderland. But at the same time it is a serious, not to say threatening, statement. : It seems to mean that whereas on paper American authorities in Berlin have “wiped out” the German chemical colossus, holders of Farben securities in Germany are convinced the action is just on paper; and that Farben's assets are alive enough and valuable enough to force a price rise on the Hamburg exchange in the British zone. It seems to mean that Germans who invested their money in Farben expect Farben to live and be an industrial power, : * But whatever the United Press account means in terms of the destruction—on paper or in actuality—it shouid prompt the senate’s Kilgore committee to get busy. . That committee has done a first rate job thus far in felling the story of why it is necessary to eliminate Ger_many's ability to make war in the future. , Farben was part of the German general staff. It provided money, munitions and spies as part of its worldwide “cartel operations, : Nothing must prevent the destruction of Farben as a means for rearming Germany. And if the stock speculators in Hamburg know more about Farben’s future than we do, the Kilgore committee should find out why.

MORE SNAFU THAN SINISTER—WE HOPE A MAN trained for war is trained to kill. A policeman is trained not to kill—not even to shoot except in great emergency. The two duties are poles apart, both psycho-

ter, The other, preservation of the peace.

. change-over by our civil authorities at home.

“Hope deferred maketh the heart sick.”

“They

if I were of the brass,

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he would not be a candidate for re-clec-|.

with the stubborn old law of supply and demand. Quite |.

~ logically and physically, The one means victory by slaugh-

That difference between what is needed in a fighting _ army and an army of occupation was reflected soon after V-E day by Gen. Eisenhower. He requested action for the

= Much—or we might say most—of the trouble over demobilization has stemmed from the lack of such action.

; OULD be unwise to oversimplify the causes for discontent that has now flared into parades and petiand placards. But a Biblical proverb often tells a

Or to it in the language of a recently released - (the officers) have always been careless their promises, during the fighting war as well as . They are always holding out a bag of oats. My would be promise nothing Then, when the good news ‘come it will be really good, and not tarnished with

t system has been qualified by exceptions | | tis ty. In baseball parlance, rules have been en bases. There has been talk about ship to find that ships were loaded with somehave been parked abroad and at home and no explanation why. All those and

8 enter into the geometrically growing plied, say the men, who declare they're

fact, becoming more and more {t-men for war and they'll fight duty. is- something

Hoosier Forum

“I wholly disagree with what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it."

I ALWAYS START stewing when I think of the | number of mysteries around ere which, for some

NOR HAS anybody ever explained cident in the life of William T. Hussey,

you'll remember that Mr. Hussey was who marrfed Alfred Stead, son

on April 15, 1912.

Well, five months after the Titanic went down,

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—Is the United States going to renege on its promises of world co-opera-tion after this war as it did after world war I? Foreigners hope or fear it will, depending /on whether they are former enemies or allies. °' At Versailles, President Wilson pledged the United States to membership in the league of nations whose covenant made an act of war against one an act of war against all. Subsequently the senate and the

"Times Editorial Insulting To Americans In Uniform"

By T. 4th Gr. James J. Green, Camp Atterbury Your editorial, “We Wanna Go Home,” on Jan. 16 was-an insult to Americans in uniform, and particularly to those overseas. Apparently it would be all right with you if the men lisped like chil-’ dren “we wanna go home” but when they question whether we should

democratic regime in China—then you declare the American soldier incapable of such thought, the “Reds” are duping and using him, Your editorial furthermore ignores the fact (reported in your columns) that the G. Is have been protesting occupation of countries with which we were not at war, and have not questioned occupation of Germany and Japan. : : | ——— SE Further, since I take the trouble¥yept in Carribean area to help to read the “Daily Worker” and ynited Fruit Co. profits.” Communist literature to find out| pajly Worker, Jan. 8: “Has some-

"| what their program is, may I in-|sne decided to scrap the army point

form you that your editorial state-| system for political reasons? For ment that American Communists imperialistic expansion?” favor “withdrawing entirely from| paily Worker, Jan. 9: “The G. Ls Europe and Asia” is simply false.| know . . . that the United States They argue for full American par- jg playing a dirty game in the ticipation in accordance with the! (Philippine) islands.” Potsdam agreement. If you wish to ols gs 8 = wa refute me, kindly do so by direct| “FLYING NEWSPAPERS and full quotation. wttioriar wast PE MESSY STREETS” Of a piece with your was " the report in the same issue by m vi T. Whelden, 706 Union Title William H. Sewien tom Shangheh I read with interest your article With a little “selec y” and “an-| " gling,” in a too-familiar way, he Indianapolis Needs Spring ah made it appear that the protest of and agree with every word of fit, hundreds of China theater G. 1s however may I comment that in was “directed from behind the/my opinion your newspaper and scenes” by a few “Easterners” who, he oie local gailies sre ne yorst ewish ssian ofienders as a ce hat 4 o Ru Snging mess. Each day, a ol bun- " dles of papers are delive varar 5 she Suiplets pie Sy "a rious corners throughout the city Jewish-Russian-Communist hatched and the delivery boys tear off the “conspiracy.” Pardon me for ob- | wrappers and leave them there for serving that your Jan. 16 paper has| the wind to scatter over the ad-

i i ot as nodormer Berlin chancellory odor joining blocks. Dirt is n a it. : ry | ticeable as papers flying through

The American people, and cer- the streets and certainly mot as

tainly the American soldiers, have Messy looking. the Y and duty to a] It is my observation that an orderly home, even though soiled, has themselves with all foreign and domestic policy. Eternal vigilance will | more appeal than a clean ‘home in always be the price of their liberty. disorder. It is my thought, if we Your paper gwe. no help. but| Cn eek Sh 0 UL TU BRC disse Jan. 16.) r h pesionmed a isgetvite on Jan, {would improve 100 per cent. . , Editor's Note—The Daily Worker Now that wire is available, possibly (official organ of the Communist you could have containers made to party), Dec. 3, 1945: “Bring the place at these delivery corners. G. Is home. Keep the lines busy| Yours for a more attractive city. (to President Truman) with de-| ——— mands that they act now , . , and| Editor's Note: Thanks for a good bring American soldiers home, Call| 304 constructive Suggestion, rallies in your neighborhoods. Get! the housewives out. Call meetings O00 FICTURES OF at shop gates in your lunch hour— TRASH IN ALLEY talk it up.” By A Reader, Indianapolis Dally Worker, Dec. 10: “Bring the, If you want some good pictures G. Ls home. ‘Stop intervention in of trash, take some of the alley China.” | between Naomi st. and Beecher in Daily Worker, Jan. 2: “Soldiers the 1200 block.

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occupy the Philippines and back up Chiang Kai-shek’s admittedly un-|

“DON'T HEED THE PRAYERS

after the war in and unbelievably ‘ huge debts accumulated? Most certainly!

tice, the nations of Europe sent

American people repudiated the pledge. This week, in London, Secretary of State Byrnes, our chief delegate to the UNO assembly, told a cheery ing audience that this time the United States would give its wholehearted co-operation to the new league of nations. Yet 24 hours later, in Washington, Gen. Eisenhower was compelled, by circumstances at home: and within our armed forces; to imply doubt that we would be able to make good on our promises. “The war department,” the general said grimly, “has no intention of abandoning the mission assigned

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because of the volume received, lettors should be limited to 250 words, Letters must be signed. Opinions sef forth here are those of the writers,

and publication in no way to it by the government, the congress and the people implies agreement with those of the United States.” But he had to qualify the assertion by adding, “so long as we have the troops

opirions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsibility for the return of manuscripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

to accomplish it.”

Three-Way Job Is Ahead

THE MISSION which “the government, the congress and the people of the United States” have pledged themselves to undertake is three-fold. First, it is to help—during what might be called the armistice period—clean up the mess left by the yar in Europe, Asia and the Pacific. Second, it is to occupy enemy areas for a generation or more, if necessary, and to garrison the homeland and its oupposts of defense on a permanent basis. Third, it js to provide our share of the military forces deemed necessary by the UNO to police the world and preserve the peace.

What transpired

1018? Were new

Immediately following the armis-

"Local Mysteries Long

_ actly 655 wives who don't know where their

Mr. Hussey happened to

Mrs, Edgerley,

Unsolved |

‘always went out of his way to avoid By dias ever cleared up

Mf. Riley died. The death the second floor with but a ShRosite hich looked out , he undertaker left hed be bak later. He re-

missing husbands. - They ‘aten’t in Nevada or Utah or Florida or any bther | Biding place. Nor are they cruising in the Caribbean. They're gone—that's

all there's to it. Indeed, if you want to brood on | here is the ghastly situation: Indianapolis has Jb are or who, for some reason, aren't telling, Jus

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms.

Hope or Fear U.S. Pledges Fail |

people prepared to see these objectives through to the bitter end? President Wilson's pledges were heartfelt and specific. But congress and the people turned him down. Will they do the same to Mr. Byrnes? To implement our post-war pledge, we shall need a large and permanent army, navy, air force and merchant marine—large, that is, compared with the past. Will we be able to get enough volunteers, anxious friends abroad are inquiring? Today both selective service and volunteer recruiting combined are not adequate for replacements.

Will Tools Be Provided? CONGRESS apparently lacks the courage to provide for universal peacetime service. But even if this were otherwise, it is asked, would the American peo-

“ple “allow™ “their sons to help police the world?

they “allow them to fight and die, if necessary, fo orce the UNO’s decisions in areas beyond the seas? . Or would there be a repetition of the present

hysteria to “bring the bays home”?

put down an aggressor, and took a licking, it would have to be reinforced. The alternative would mean end of the UNO plus world domination by the vice torious aggressor. Other nations They

call us the earth's strongest power, look to us to share responsibilities of peace in If we fail them-and many are cone that we are now showing signs of reneging— will emerge from the war with far less than had at the beginning. We will have only our s in men, money and world respect for our pains, If we abdicate, observed one bitterly disillusioned vet

vinced we we

Bangor, Me, and it §

‘lof your editorial, “Are you inter-

their representatives to Washington to secure new loans. France, Italy, Great Britain, Germany and the other nations of Europe pleaded poverty. One by one they made | their pilgrimages to the shrine of our treasury. Their prayers were offered up. Straightway our governmental purse strings were opened wide. Out went billions of dollars, paid in taxes by the American people. Did this money help to finance the most cruel and terrible war of all history? I am one who believes that congress should not let the prayers of these jingoistic diplomats of England, France and Germany soften their hearts. Some may say, “Oh; they have a right to pray.” To that I agree. Let them pray day and night until they are blAck in the face. And let them how! hallelujah till Capitol Hill shakes, but don't loan them any money! 2 ” ” “GOVERNOR MAY HAVE TO ‘ASSIST’ PROSECUTOR” By Victor Davis, Indianapolis I want to commend the writer

ested, Mr. Blue?” Every veader of your paper can and will be justly proud that you have had the courage to challenge this flagrant violation of civil liberties, Your writer has hoped “just on the offchance that Mr. Blue may have changed his mind. though we're not counting nn it.” Consistent with Mr. Blue's official conduct, we cannot even conceive of a hope that he may have changed his mind. There is an old expression about wise men changing their minds but fools never, It is, however, gratifying to know that our good governor Ralph Gates had the wisdom to send his state police head into Marion county to rectify a smelly situation. It may be that Governor Gates may have to direct his attorney general to “assist” the prosecutor's office in Marion county. » » ” “SKATERS DON'T PAY $1.50 FEE FOR SPORT” By James D. Roth, 3163 N. Capitol ave. Shades of the ice palace. 'Member that ice palace the park department didn’t build last winter?! Well, now I see they have cooled the ice off at Lake Sullivan for the skaters, and I'm fer 'em (I mean the skaters). But what do they do for a fisherman who pays $1.50 a year for license, while the skater pays nothing? (I'm still fer em). Well, a fisherthan gets stream pollution and “No Fishin’” signs at this same spot on White river. Statistics state that more people follow the fishing sport than any other sport. So “we” think that the privileges should be equalized a leetel more, so we could drop a hook in White river and snag onto an old bird cage or bed spring-—mebbe| Oh well, shucks!--mebbe Wwe would not git nothin’ nohow so all we lose is $1.50.

The question foreigners have been led to ask, and with” increasing anxiety, is: Are congress and the

WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.—There’s been a lot of speculative talk lately about two things that have to do with lakor. One is whether labor should form a party of its own in this country, or become the nucleus of a new third party. The other is speculation whether the upper hierarchy of labor—the fellows with the big titles who give out statements on behalf of millions of workers ~haven't gotten too far out of touch with the average worker, haven't made a profession of speaking authoritatively from a sort of vacuum. There's a journalistic habit around this town, where there are so many professional’ spokesmen for $0 many groups, to drop in on a big name labor leader, or call him on the telephone, and then print what he says as the view of all those he represents. Over this a headline writer, puts a line: “Labor feels such and so—" And Joe Brown, off somewhere in a factory, or a lot of Joe Browns, may not think that way at all And Mary Brown, who has to watch the budget and the kids, may disagree violently,

"Spokesmen" Often Wrong IT'S the same way with business or farm groups and others. It’s natural. This is such a big country we live in, with so many people in it, and so many different groups with different interests that we fall into the custom of putting people in compartments and labeling them. It does give a quick, convenient glance for the moment, but we ought to remember it has flaws. It's a truism to the point of an old saw, but the American people are a lot of individuals. Which brings us to the third party talk which is heard most often among the intelligentsia satellites who hover about the big names in labor. One can talk about it "for hours. But now comes along a poll, made for the publication “Factory” by Opinion Research Corp. of Princeton, It shows that only 10 pef cent of labor believes

LONDON, Jan. 18.—During the last few weeks, the Yugoslav government has started and intensifled a new campaign against the Roman Catholic church in Croatia and still more in Slovenid, .. The campaign has taken two main forms-~persistent press attacks on the Catholic hierarchy and local demonstrations against parish priests and nuns, Main object for the press attacks has been Archbishop Stepinac of Zagreb. Last May, he was arrested by partisans and spent 17 days in prison Since then he has been closely watched by the Yugoslav secret police, OZNA, and now he seldom leaves his palace in Zagreb. Recently he “was attacked in a small village outside Zagreb by uni‘formed partisans who threw heavy stones through the window of his car, Secret police following him made no attempt to defend him. : Apart from being spled on by OZNA, the archbishop's, principal affliction is that he is almost eptirely cut off from the Vatican and has no means. of sending letters there or receiving any. All his internal correspondence is heavily censored.

eran in a letter to the writer, it will be said that:

that labor should form a new party, 33/per cent favor= ing working with the present parties, 47 per cent for staying out of politics, and 10 per cent with no opin. fon. A similar poll among foremen and clerical employees shows only 6 per cent for a new party; 46 for .working with the present parties; 55 per cent for staying out of politics, and 5 per cent for no opinion, This should make the third party planners stop

and think,

This does not mean at all that labor can’t be 3

“Never have so many fought so hard for so little”

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes | Labor Ranks Coo to New Party |

influential politically. In fact it has a nice balance

of power that it can use most effectively as it demonstrated in the way C. I. Os Political Action Come mittee rounded up votes for Mr. Roosevelt in 1944, It ought to use this power for its interests, just as other groups do. It has much at stake.

Leaders Out of Touch? THE poll would tend to show that there is a basis conservatism among labor about political departures for labor. It should serve, too, to calm some people who lately have got habitually frantic about “labor's Labor can probably use its power just as wisely as any other group, and can be depended upon to do some clear, straight thinking of its own. This brings up the second subject of talk about whether the professional labor leaders at the top may have gotten out of touch with worker opinion. Well, there is one interesting illustration. Philip Murray, C. I. O. president, took to the radio one night and denounced President Truman's proposal for fact-finding boards in strangely intemperate lan | guage for the mild-mannered fellow he usually is, | Yet a poll of the workers showed that 70 per cent

power.”

were for Mr. Truman,

ror bands during the war and committed war crimes, Secondly, they allege that the Catholic hierarchy, particularly the Archbishop of Zagreb, still is giving support and sanctuary to Ustashi leaders. : Even if there is anything in the first accusation, most of those priests who may have committed such crimes, together with many who had clean records, have long since perished. The Vatican claims that 250 priests have been killed by. partisans, apart from an almost equally “large number murdered by

Remember how John L. Lewis walked out on Mr, Roosevelt and his miners stood by the late Presie dent? They loved John and are for him, but they wouldn't follow him politically. It still looks as if we Americans don't regiment easily. Quiet flows the Patomac, with no signs

gore.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . « By Randolph Churchill Yugoslav Press Attacks: Archbishop

Chetniks,

As to the second charge, that the Catholic church is aiding the Ustashis, there certainly is little direct evidence, In any case, it is untrue, as the Yugoslav government claims, that the present campaign is directed mainly against the hierarchy. There are 100 Catholic priests in prison in Yugoslavia, most of them arrested in the last few weeks. When I quoted this figure to Marshal Tito he appeared astonished; he thought the number was five or six,

‘Arrests of Priests Local = IT WOULD seem that this new persecution is large

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than a band of instruments—Barry “| Cornwall, .

Motives Behind Campaign I INQUIRED from several leading Communist members of the government why this campaign is being directed against the Catholic church. While denying it is widespread or systematic, as my researches lead me to believe, they gave“two reasons. First, they claim: that many. priests, especially the ‘hierarchy, were actively involved with Ustashi ter-

DAILY THOUGHT

TO HIM that is afflicted pity should be shewed from his friend. Job 6:14. en

Pity speaks to grief more sweetly

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ly fomented by local extremists in Croatia and 8los venia, rather than by the central government. There seems ne doubt that, even on lowest political grounds, partisans would be making a mistake by launching this campaign of persecution. * : +... There already are indications that this persecus . tion is unpopular “with a large majority of the

peasants. Certainly the churches have never been so ,

full as they were over ‘Christmas and the New Year,

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