Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 February 1946 — Page 10

ng from the status of a small rtant railroad station into that of ‘manufacturing center, It was an Indian-

full life, he died yesterday in the it N. Meridian and Fall CreeR blvd. one of Indiana’s best-known businessthropists, contributed much to the building} ted home town, his activities ranging from puband downtown building to generous support of ‘community ‘activities. Just before his death, he had turned over his principal business, the Marott shoe store, to his @ ces and to Butler university. Previously, he

old Hoosier Athletic club property to Purdue university, and had made many other contributions of An Indianapolis editor said of the days when Mr. Marott came: here that only two people in town drove horses, and those two were bankrupt. Starting in business in a period that was perhaps the worst the city has ever known, Mr. Marott's success developed almost along the lines of an Horatio Alger story. The poor boy worked ; aved his. money and exercised the qualities which

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George J. Marott is one of the last of those who built Indianapolis in that era, but literally up to the time of his ‘death at the age of 87, he still was building. Indianapolis is a better place for Mr. Marott’s having

lived here. THE PRICE “BULGE” SQ ETTLEMENT of the strike in Big Steel is the first fruit of the administration's wage-price policy announcement. * We hope that this will be followed soon by settlements the rest of the steel industry and in the automobile President Truman calls it just a “bulge” in the price ‘fine. He thinks there will be no “breakthrough” if every“body will co-operate and we can get production again. hat sould be—if the country does go back to work.

‘operation.of strikers with a wage increase, and then a long “While later buying the co-operation of the struck industry by permitting the higher prices which higher wages made dnescapable—that doesn’t resemble the tactics by which Gen. Patton contained and then rolled back the famous Belgian bulge. Maybe we need a Gen. Patton of the home front, : : ~~. The American people, whose costs and standard of living ave involved, wish the best of luck to Messrs. Truman, “Snyder, Bowles and Porter in their announced endeavor to hold the bulging line. But a slight reshuffling of top Washington personnel and a slight reshuffling of the obscure ‘Bureaucratic language in a new executive order are not _ Jenough to make sure he will get the production we must have to prevent further “breakthroughs.” As the President said, “production is our salvation,” and time is of the sssence in our effort to gain production.

sg 8 =» » . » WHEN the administration gave its blessing to higher ages in the automobile and steel industries it was inevithat higher prices would have to be granted. And it 4] as night follows day that other workers would demand and get similar wage increases, and that prices of i goods they make would be raised to compensate for inased costs. Therefore it was necessary that prices be a quickly to get production quickly. 4 . After this long delay, businessmen had hoped the new rice-wage formula would be clear-cut, so they could ready compute costs, prices and profits—and get on with prong and marketing goods. But there is nothing clear in 8 new formula. It seems almost purposefully obscure ‘confusing. Each wage increase and each price increase Il have to be audited and approved by government. And t takes time—time lost in getting production. ~ Mr. Bowles has said that price increases will be grant“sparingly.” If his attitude is one of grudging reluctice in facing the realities of arithmetic, the only line Mr. vies, will hold will be the headlines. He won't get proion that way, and production is the only thing that stay inflation. ' Anyway, we have the hopeful feeling that with Big going back to work the industrial skies may be clearing.

'PORTIONMENT D of Democratic State Chairman Fred F. Bays

ion on representation in the state legislature.

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legislature,

je. they would lose power by it. However

opportunity to remedy the situation

on the basis of expense. .

eye, They look clean,’ healthy and comparatively well-dressed. They

_ But the pattern that has been set, of buying the co- |

Yes, airing the Nazi doctrines of

a legislative reapportionment again focuses attenthe fact that Marion county is being deprived of

it, Bays drew attention to the fight for redistricting ois and commented that “reactionary elements josed the issue.” In Indiana, he asserted, publicans show no disposition to make any change ie the question at stake is majority representation in

agree with Mr, Bays that a redistricting would give : ble ‘representation, and that rural districts redistricting that would result from reappor-

oun since the state was redistricted and ve

counties, including Marion, are to be blamed enumeration of voters which the constisix years, It is up to the township enumeration of voters, and this has

and township offices controlling are themselves before the prin_and Democratic organiza-

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"Outward Appearances Deceive New German Occupation Force

By Rabbi Maurice Goldblatt, Indianapolis. Praternization in Germany is a ticklish business. The truth is that American G. L's find the Germans more congenial than any other Europeans they have encountered. The German girls are appealing to the

welcome the friendship of our soldiers. It is hard for the American serviceman to remember that the German people get their superior health from food they looted while the conquered nations starved, or that the Germans get their well-groomed look from the clothes torn off the backs -of their. victims; or that German friendliness is a come-on for ~the' poison of Hitler ideas. - While boys will be boys, it is un- serving as ambassadors for the fortunately also true that Nazis will American way of life, our boys are

likely to serve as victims of the be Nazis whether they are defeated. ~ naganda poison—unless

or not. It is painfully clear from {yey are forearmed with effective reports confirmed by army and cl-|orientation. vilian observers that the Germans! 1; would be too bad—to put it are taking advantage of our troops|muqly jf world peace and Amer—weeping on their shoulders, con-|\j.o; gecurity were jeopardized by cocting vicious tales about our al-iyne fact that German girls scrub their faces with soap. It's high time to do something about it.

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HARMFUL TO CHILDREN” By Miss A: J. Starks, Indianapolis

Congratulations to The Times for publishing and Mrs. Walter Ferguson for writing her wonderful article last week on, among other things, the contribution of this flood of nauseating, degrading, absolutely obscene so-called “mystery” programs to the steadily increasing moral decay of our growing children and adolescents.

Any person who spends an evening listening to the radio, very often, knows that there isn't a night in the week that hasn't two or three of this type programs. They can’t be called entertaining by any stretch of the imagination, as anyone who is sincere in trying to lead a good life and be a good parent will instantly agree. So as Mrs. Ferguson reminds us, our only chance against the big powers is for the fathers to take action. Write to the broadcasting companies individually and get together in your clubs where, coming from the body as a whole, the voice of reprimand will be stronger! You won the greatest economic war in history by nothing else but complete co-operation at every point, so I ask you again, please, everyone, make yourselves heard before some tragedy befalls one or even more in your family, that you may be able to trace back as the cational program to equip them cause many, many programs that with an understanding of what|came from that wonderful instru~ they are up against. Instead of ment, the radio.

race hatred and religious bigotry to confuse our boys and soften them up while the “poor, misunderstood Germans” plot another comeback right under the noses of our innocents abroad. But what did we expect? Our boys come from a land fortunate enough to have escaped the ravages of war and the barbarism of a Nazi conqueror. In Bill Mauldin’s “Up Front” he says of Himself: “I didn’t really believe atrocity stories until I had been in France awhile. . . . You can't be expected to believe such stuff until you have seen it. Once you've seen it you will understand why the krauts preferred to surrender to Americans, whose women were safe at home.”

The soldiers who took part in the bitter advance across Europe saw with their own eyes what they were {fighting against. But now we are sending as occupation troops young boys of 18 and 19, shipped fresh from the States into the waiting arms of the German people. These youngsters, many of them away from home for the first time, have not learned from savage experience what the German mentality is like. They don’t know and no one has particularly. bothered to tell them. The administration of the American occupation zone has never developed any clear-cut policy toward the German people which would guide the G, L's. Nor has the army conducted a thorough-going, hard-hitting edu-

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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“LET THIS CARTOON SAY MY PIECE ON MEMORIAL” By William Stineburg, 3048 Central ave. Having read the complaints against the building of a world war II monument, and being of the same opinion as many other veterans. I would like to add my two cents worth. Here it is:

Editor's Note: Mr. Stineburg’s “letter” summarizes the opinion of many veterans who've written to the Forum. Not one letter has been received favoring monuments as memorials.

. » s “CANTERBURY DEAN SHOULD DENY COMMUNIST CHARGES” By E. F. Maddox, 959 W, 28th I realize the Forum is closed to subjects relating to religious controversy, but I am hoping that you will be able to publish information pertient to the use of a religious post as a cloak for Communistic activity. I refer ta a recent account in The Times regarding the Vary Rev. Hewlit Johnson, British dean of Canterbury, denying critisism of religious progress here in America, I have a pamphlet which shows a picture of the Rev. Johnson on the cover of a book he wrote entitled “The Soviet Power, the Socialist Sixth of the World.” The pamphlet, not the book, asserts that the Rev. Johnson “has contributed more for the advancement of atheistic Communism in the last decade than any other person.” As long as such “evidence” is permitted to circulate and go unrefuted, the influence of the dean is likely to be below par.

Editor's Note: We've read the book by the Dean of Canterbury, to which you refer, and couldn't get alarmed about it. The statement that America was 100 years behind in everything but religion and 150 years behind in that was made jokingly by the Very Rev. Mr. Johnson's predecessor. The dean certainly is entitled to express his opinions, even if they are unpopular.

» » » “OLDER DRIVERS SHOULD PASS A PHYSICAL TEST” By John Fex, Broad Ripple High School When a young man applies for a driver's license, he goes through a moderately strict physical examina-

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Contrast of September I WAS in Paris in September of 1944 a few days after its liberation . . . the feeling then was one of

appreciation and sincere friendship. Children stopped Americans on the street to’ kiss their hands. One

treated Paris as their play city, and at the same time sang the siren song of appeasement and tried to woo the fickle lady of public opinion. To illustrate the general attitude in the earlier days of “liberation,” I should like to relate how I happened to enjoy my one home meal there. ‘Three of us were sipping wine at a sidewalk cafe and try~ ing our best to look like nonchallant boulevardiers, even though this was our first experience of the kind. I noticed three alertly interested young girls at a

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NEW YORK; Heb: ~This should have happened. in Hollywood, which makes a technicolor. production out of going to the drugstore, but it fits New York almost as well. Call it the case of the fumbling financier. | 78 There’s a fabulous young man here named Bill Rhode, who probably knows morg about food than anybody since Escoffier. Lately an associate editor of Gourmet magazine (he quit Wednesday to devote his full time to food consulting) Mr. Rhode for some time has been an oracle on chow to much of uppercrust New York. Not so long ago he got a phone call. “This is Mr. Clarence Dillon's secretary,” a voice said. (Mr. Dillon is a financier, of the firm of" Dillon Read). Mr. Dillon is giving an intimate party soon, and he wishes to carve the fowl himself, but is a little rusty. Would you care to come over and help him brush up, and what is your fee?” Bill thought one of his friends was pulling his leg, but he named a fancy fee and agreed to turn up at 7:30. Always a man to go along with a gag, he arrived—after first getting into Vincent Astor’s modest hutch by mistake—at Mr. Dillon's mansion in the eightiés. Lesson. in Anatomy “HI, ‘BILL said the butler, who had once been helped to a job by Rhode. “Come in the house.”

Rhode was shown to the kitchen, where he was greeted with something less than enthusiasm by the

' Irish cook, and then was taken to the dining room,

where Mr. and Mrs. Dillon and two guests were waiting for the trial run. There on the table was a turkey, two ducks and a roast of beef. Mr. Dillon evidently didn’t want to miss any of the angles. Gravely, Rhode got out his tools and sliced up the meat, pausing to answer an occasional query from Mr. Dillon as to why you did it

thisaway instead of thataway. In 10 minutes, Mr.

WORLD AFFAIRS . « « By William Philip Simms

Pan-American

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—Outcome of the quarrel between the United States and Argentina will decide issues of supreme importance not only to the two nations directly involved but to the entire hemisphere, At stake is whether we are to have unity within the Western hemisphere or a balance of power made up of hostile blocs, European style, with all that such balances inevitably mean. At stake is the whole one-for-all, all-for-one Pan-America system so patiently built up at Havana, Montevideo, Panama, Lima, Rio, Mexico City and elsewhere in years of painstaking effort. This writer has attended most of these interAmerican conferences. Almost always Argentina was the principal hold-out, Though her population has always been credited with being overwhelmingly democratic, her political leaders have looked to Europe for inspiration. Her “ruling classes” have held in scorn the ways of the new world.

Argentina Played Ball With Nazis ESPECIALLY, it seems, these leaders have resented “yanqui” influence among the American republics. They have felt that Argentina, rather than the United States, should be the rallying-point of inter-Ameri~» can activities. Alone of the 21 new world republics, we are predominantly Anglo-Saxon. At nearly every Pan-American gathering Argentina opposed almost everything the United States proposed. Some Argentinos aimed at creation of a South American bloc, under: their leadership, in opposition to a North American bloc, If was only natural after

WASHINGTON, Feb, 16—The cat-and-dog fight in the Democratic party which was shoved from behind the back fence into the open by angry Harold Ickes is being watched with no little pleasure by Republicans. It looks to them like some more fodder for congressional campaigns this fall. The average practical politician accepts a windfall such as the Ickes-Pauley episode without concern ing himself too much about its real meaning and how his party should meet it for the best interests of the country, as well as the party. He is happy enough with evidence that the opposition may’ be losing its grip. But wise Republicans look upon - these developments with a sense of responsibility.

Ickes Symbol of Party Split ICKES ONE-MAN REVOLUTION, reflecting the feelings of many more than himself, only accentuates further the split in the Democratic party obvious for some time. But there is also divided counsel within the Republican party. : The Republican party is faced with two choices of a course in taking advantage of what appears to be a decided break. It could sit back and count upon everything coming its way now, no matter what its

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® in its top. 8 I wonder how many such spontaneous invita« tions are being received today? 1 Get Troops Out of France THE SOONER our forces are moved out of France, 1 and all other countries of Europe except Germany || and Austria, the sooner America will recover from the {| hostility that we have created by our wealth, our ¢ assured power and our. very presence. We should guard our supplies, of course, but we should no longer dislocate domestic economy, transportation and methods of living. Pes ‘ Liberation has brought great hardships to much of Europe . . . and the part we have: played in bringing freedom will react against us if we really do play the part of the man who came to dinner and never left. In all these countries, they want our dollars, but not our presence . . ..they resent our success, even - | though’ it benefits them, J i Aaa, CF / " 1 . ealthy - ‘a Dillon hed vecaptured his skill with the knife Rhode G d stuck his fee in his pocket, and went whistling away. SE Rhode has mixed food with a fantastic career. ——_—— He has been involved with the theater all over the world, from Paris to Moscow to Hollywood“to New York: In between engagements, he took jobs in kitchens from Casablanca to Kiev, and has acquired, C over 20 years, a staggering fund of lore. He taught Ivan Kreuger, the late unlamented match king, some of his pet recipes. He worked as bank clerk, played the market, had a fling at interior § decoration and at a large business in tailor-made hors H d’ ouevers, which petered out after Pearl Harbor. . i But He Doesn't Do the Dishes 3 MISS CURRENTLY he is writing an encyclopédia of William N ‘food, which is to run 500,000 words—a chore tat his Mr. and been attempted only twice before, once in France and . bri orice in England in the last century. 0 ] ridegroor America is about the last stronghold of good eating, || Jordan of he says, not only because of the great supplies of food, & Miss but because the best in foreign cookery has been &d- {i Hall sch justed to the American scene. As typical, he cites = all schoc the blend of Spanish and Russian cooking in’ San ¥ cliffe college Francisco, French Creole dishes in New Orleans, and | is a Beta 1 the American adaptations of Swedish fare to be found = from the ar in Minnesota. ; R 1 “Americans are probably the best vegetable ¢ooks tie Europes in the world,” Rhode says, “and the French are prob- i : ably the lousiest. They make everything come out a the same, in a kind of watery mass. Ameriéd is ur who has joi doubtedly the hope of the world insofar ds eating’s Capt. Rober Satis jeg Xap Ralph Kem) rding eating as a rite, he bosses the kitchen at his house. “03 , August C. } “I am working on a sort of production line idea ht there,” he says. “I've got a cook now who brings the the Chin food along to & certain point, and then I step in and Whpte: he v tie on the frills.” ! - bride-to-be He doesn’t do the dishes. Jey. Mase, Irvington . . 3 MISS J § Stokes Klip System Is at Stake [WM @=5.x the #aughte Pearl: Harbor, when Germany and Japan looked like i: PRICIS Ae winners, that those in the saddle at Buenos Aires [i 3 believed their opportunity at last-had arrived. .. a "The way they played ball with Nasi Germany, con- Tr spiring to cut ground from under the United States, is will be worn abundantly set forth in the blue book ‘just issued by Dressed the state department. They planned to miske Argen- bridesmaids tina the Germany of the Western hemisphere. jerkin tops, March Conference Must Decide ] They ww THE BLUE BOOK charges against Argentina's E present government bring the whole business” to a a SUSAN showdown. So far as the U. 8, is concerntd it has 1 quisette fro burned its bridges behind it. An inter-American | carry & bas conference is to be held at Rio de Janeiro between § . a hel March 15 and April 15. If the present Argentine gov- The dress | ernment is seated at that conference, the United © will be hel¢ States will be on a spot. Repeatedly it has stated i Her bouque! it can neither negotiate nor sign a treaty of military Used on he assistance with suck & regime. As this is the sole Harty ) reason for holding the conference, the United States fi James Tagg —if it is to be consistent—must stay away. .. diately for Secretary of State Byrnes says he is now consult will wear & ing the rest of the Americas regarding Argentina. This straw hat a means the American republics must choose sides. If The br some side with the United States and some with Af- Mr. Klippel gentina, the unity of the Americas will be disrupted. Butler . unly If, in addition, Col. Peron, the present regime's can- fraternity, didate, is elected to the presidency a week from to- Walton-F morrow, he will have the beginnings of the South American bloc which he and. others like him have A DOU dreamed of for so long. t Meridian H Hamilton a | Sidney Blai ) couple are Paul OC. Ws white flowe ~~ Given 1 a white ss thus become again a dynamic force such as Theodore quisette. yol Roosevelt made it when he was in the White House. trimmed in Pifth cousin Franklin D. did’ the same thing Her two-tle the Democratic party. a i G. O.P. Must Attract Liberals Miss M IT 18 TIME of decision for the Republican party. | po. ith. It would be tragic if it came into power along of St. Louis the easy, old guard route, with leaders and polities Ralph's go to match. It might win that way, but again it might yoke, three not. + It may take a good deal more than just ‘drifting | wel seme in,” capitalizing upon reaction from war, from such matching incidents as the Pauley affair, and the industrial _ tufts of ma troubles of the Truman administration. It is plain that old guard leadership which domi- A LIGH nated the recent Republican national hat has be meeting in Chicago offers nothing: to independents, of Better 1 progressives and labor. Yet the party must win votes print dress from those groups to win the next national election, Ro! if not to win the November congressional elections. Walton. bre Men of the Ickes stripe would never go for: hat. - a Mr. Ickes has spilled many an odious adjective at house at | that sort of political leadership. So have other inde- Mesdames . pendent progressives and labor leaders attracted to Mary McC the’ Roosevelt program and leadership. ~~ ~~» Steinberger This is not to suggest that Mr. Ickes, himself, A trip,

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