Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 February 1946 — Page 16

a ar ms not just that aio the returning soldier or sailor ver, it is the plight of the veteran that

made for his return, Richard Lewis, who investigated the housing shortage, came to the conclusion that the veteran could not find a house unless he owned one before the war and didn’t sell jt, is financially able to sacrifice thousands of dollars by buying a home at inflationary prices, or unless he moves 2 in with his or his wife's family. Rental is almost out of the question, The community is making a belated start toward establishing a one-stop agency for serving veterans. How about ‘a real attempt to whip this housing problem? We don’t feel that has been done yet, and the lack of results shows it.

HOW ABOUT IT, MR. EWING?

; X lawyer, to produce proof of his statement that the Ku Klux Kian was back on the job, “and viciously,” i Indiana and would be a factor in congressional elections.

, Ewing that we would “publish his “facts”

the facts, Mr. Ewing?” 0 produce the evidence to support such a large result only in the suspicion that it was [sion : . consumption and to inject dormant rend racial prejudices into state politics once more. Ewing has been away from here ‘too long to

when elections were decided on such artificial issues. If Mr. Ewing has passed on to the Indiana state Democratic committee the “facts” he discovered on his visit to Indiana, and we are certain he wouldn't hold out on those with whom he is working politically, we ask the committee the same 1 “Where are facts to support the charge?”

~ RED CROSS DESERVES AID T= kick-off meeting for the 1946 Red Cross campaign was held Monday, heralding a solicitation campaign ‘which should be particularly successful with the large number of returning veterans who have seen the pod! work of the Red Cross abroad. = Red Cross girls were on the beach at Anzio serving doughnuts. They went wherever they could be of use in Er “hospitals or in bringing a little touch of home to the fight 3 Service clubs for enlisted men (and no officers allowed) were operated in the overseas theaters. There many a homesick G. I. found someone to listen to his troubles, to gre him the thrill of talking once more to an American General solicitations will begin next Friday. We hope the workers meet the same spirit that prompted so many . soldiers in Algiers, at the time of the 1948 solicitation in . the states, to inquire why they, too, were not being asked for funds. They wanted to contribute, and when they were | told servicemen would not be asked to do so, there was many a 200-franc note ($4) slipped into an envelope and left anonymously at the first-floor desk. If a G. I. could do that out of the small pay he received, surely we at home can be generous in our support as well.

STALIN'S TOO-BIG BITE STALIN is biting off more than he can chew. He is getting too clever. Stalin is shrewd. His success in getting what he wanted from Churchill and Roosevelt at Yalta and other conferences was the slickest diplomacy in modern history. - He knew how to play his cards, when to bluff and when to wait and when to take over. bE te By outsmarting Churchill and Rovsevelt Stalin got © eastern Europe. He took: Churchill first, with a bargain that looked good to the British tories. If Britain would recognize Russia's sphere in eastern Europe, Russia would recognize Britain's in Italy, Greece and the Near East. Roosevelt did not like that; he was against such ime . perialist spheres. But what could he do—there was a war on, and it was two against one. Moreover, this was sugar‘coated for him by another Stalin bargain. Stalin promised the three powers together would protect democratic elections and rights in the eastern European countries, and Russia Would cease blocking a post-war United Nations

So ‘Stalin got his troops all over eastern Europe and p his puppet governments. Then he broke his bargains. talin's bluff won't work in the Mediterranean or Far ; — British Empire canfot survive without its in-Near East lifeline, and Britain ‘means to - The United States’ security in the Pacific requires 2 on, and the United States will not compromise

there is any doubt in Stalin’s mind about this, let : Some very recent history. When England he , of defeat, with so few armed forces could not withstand a Hitler invasion d, she grimly sent her main force to 8 lifeline. And when Japan offered ! ry conceivable compromise if only we China, the United States refused— al La, when it did,

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“I do not agree with a word that you * say, but | will defend to the death - your right to say it." — Voltaire.

"Leave the Plaza Churches Alone And Tear Down Memorial Instead"

By James J, Cullings, Indianapolis | I am a few days late in referring to The Times editorial favoring removal of the churches in so-called World War Memorial. You, Mr. Editor, surely have gone over and looked at the crumbling, cracking plece of political miscarriage. Do you think that if 40 or more cracks appear in this huge pile of artistic rock in a scant 20 years it is to tear down two beautiful well-built churches that are far more beautiful than that junk? In another 20 years, how many more cracks will be in it? How much more mortar will have fallen out of the assembly? How long will they let the water system lay in the ground unused? When will the state or war Memorial Jommission furnish money to pay for water to display in the fountain? May I| been most co-operative, only asking ask what is your idea for wanting|a fair price for their religious those churches torn down in favor| homes. As our editorial stated, we of such a rotten, broken-up junk|agree that the basic problems of pile. It would not be because those| veterans welfare should be solved are Protestant churches would it?| before any action is taken to comIf anything is to be torn down I plete the plaza. It will not be helpsay tear down that ugly looking pile ful to America’s development, incracked rock and leave the! cidentally, if any veterans seek to churches alone, or build two more| divide its citizens along the lines churches on the other two cofners| of who wore & uniform and who of the square. 338 pot memorial 4 hot . “= 2 1%0 soldier, di or alive, it 1 eliticai phum with a otten| “CORRECT ADDRESSES AID core. MAILMEN IN. DELIVERIES" posed to another ny By Rosa Neiner Badgley, Indiangpolis Thi, on that junk pile penny I live on Route 7 and out our way the one the politicians are trying|we have a young fellow who seems to promote. I say give that money very refined and courteous. He to the boys and girls Who fought seems to be trying his best to please the war and won it and Jerhaps|the folks who are on his route as a kept some of these fine politicians mail carrier. But he. tells me folks favoring this junk pile from being|put streets and numbers on their rendered into a nice sweet-smelling | mail which makes it difficult to desoap as the Germans were accused liver their mail. If they would put of. Of course, the war or rather|route and box numbers, which are the fighting is over now. There is|the most important things, it would no dapger of the Germans or the| be easier to serve them as he has Japs coming to the United States.[to send the mail back to be taken None of the politicians and grafters|out again when not properly ador even editors need be afraid now. dressed for rural delivery. Hence a Soldiers are not needed. They are| longer delay to get their mail and a dime a dozen All we need is to| more work for postal employees. No build more to that junk pile and doubt same conditions exist on everyone will be happy. I say these| other routes. So let's try to notify men and women won the war, they our friends and have mail reach us should have a big bonus and the more promptly. What do you say? public should nominate world war|No doubt their attention has not II veterans to all public offices and| been drawn to this condition before clean out all these old rheumatic| as all would want to help a young fossil-minded people who promote man help serve us. such things as this memorial junk. 2 = = Anyway, if the young men fight the| “G. L's WITH OVERSEAS wars, they should also rule the BRIDES PROUD OF THEM” country. I think that will hold you, By An Ex-G. IL, Indianapolis Mr Editor, and perhaps a lot of I wish to make a reply to the lady others, if it should see print. from Mooresville, who said that we a : fellows who married overseas should Editor's Note: The religion of the|be sent to our wives. I ask her, churches on the war memorial] what is her family tree made .of? plaza site has nothing to do with| Could it be German. Or perhaps our opinion that they should be|she claims to be American Indian. removed and the plaza completed| Well, I reply to her by saying—I as planned. The churches now block | married an English girl and I feel a view of what could be an Im-| very, very proud of her, and our posing memorial, and their removal| son. Also I feel sure that ever so has been contemplated since origi-| many G. 1.’s feel the same as I do. nal plans were drawn. The con-|So in closing, madam, I salute you gregations of the churches have| for being a 100% American.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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“DON'T WANT BACEWOODS HOMES IN INDIANAPOLIS” By M. 8., Indianapolis * Being as I haven't a tree growing in my yard nor a Brooklyn accent, I can hardly expect to be accepted as an authority on how to build a house. , . Silly? Of course. But no more ridiculous than the opening sentence of Bert Wilhelm’s letter. The letter is supposed to be a revelation of “facts” regarding the housing shortage, but starts out by taking a crack at our deceased President. I'll agree with Wilhelm on just one thing—that no one could ever mistake him for a real estate expert. ° To solve the housing shortage he favors the building of semi-modern Lwouses costing $2200 rather than “$10,000 modern mansions,” as he puts it. He'd have you think a bathtub, or a bathroom or a furnace boost the cost of a house by $7800! Such nonsense. As a furthe argument ‘in favor of ; homes, he states that edn be modernized “when end get

back to normal and materiais and labor are available.” This is no good, either. shows

that the un-rhodern homes gererally stay that way, even during the times of peace and plenty. Anyone with this city’s (and the

ex-serviceman’s) best interests ati

heart should never urge that more semi-modern or unmodern houses be erected. The present overabundance of such houses within the city’s limits is a big black eye to its claims to being modern and progressive. If inexpensive housing is needed, cut the price by eliminating porches, shingle-type roofing or garages—anything but bathtubs and other necessities of modern civilization. Other cities can house their \ess. prosperous and their middle classes in modern dwellings. Let's have no more talk about a new crop of unequipped backwoods homes in Indianapolis, please.

Editor's Note: You've hit the nail on the head when you say it's not desirable to encourage wholesale construction of semi-modern homes. The current series of articles in The Times on the local housing situation is presenting a thorough picture of the problem.

” = » “SCHOOLS SEGREGATION SHOULD BE ABANDONED” By Mrs. Ralph Smith, Indianapolis Accrding to a story in The Times, pupils of school 63 will “continue to be transported across town to attend classes.”

An opportunity ' to Break ground for democracy has been turned down. The transportation cost of $7000 and the reported health hasards connected with the transportation, the request that the younger pupils of the first four grades be allowed to attend schools nearest their homes and the .willingness of three of these schools to absorb them were not considered as important as was the “hope to keep the children together.” Or so it seems. “Solving” the problem created by the burning of school 63 in this way makes one thing clear. The policy of forced segregation in the local public schools ought to be

abandoned. The promise that the|-

situation will “receive careful study from the (school) board” and the concern evidenced by the number of organizations and persons protesting give one reason to believe that the policy will be changed.

DAILY THOUGHT

For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, be is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass: For he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was, ~James 1:23 24.

LORD God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forgét—Ilest we forgeti— Kipling.

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‘fear but fear itself.”

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IT's OUR BUSINESS, us cites of & county In which free access to information is fundamental to our free press, to be concerned over the extremes to which censorship has been and is being carried by the

war department, Yesterday a mimeographed sheet came across my desk, sent by a G. 13 the 4th giaeral hospital, APO

Rien T Wis hers oof Sd I EAA, oR, Shak others nad of the enlisted men had been cramped not many months ago. , This statement made by 33 members of that G. I.

on freedom of expression imposed longer enable us to bring full news and truth to our readers . . . our hands are tle . We have been denied the right even to print Associated Press and

United Press dispatches if they reflect any criticism

or dissatisfaction whatever with the official policies of the war department and our theater commanders.”

High Commands Are Sensitive

ADD TO THIS the report from Honolulu’ that the Stars and Stripes was being muzzled, the report from Tokyo that the Stars and Stripes there had been converted into a “house organ for the war department” and personal knowledge of limitations placed on the Stars and Stripes in Paris and of a similar attempt in Italy and you have the basis for a serious . an allegation which. if true, means G. I.’s of get news of what is going on at home in the

/ field that concerns them most.

~My observations of military press censorship in the major theaters and of the sensitiveness of high commands to criticism impels me to belief in the assertions. There was no censorship whatsoever of

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Press Censorship Was Stupid WARTIME censorship abroad, of press and radio dispatches, was a pretty stupid thing’ in many ine stances. Too frequently it was based on reasons not remotely related to military security, sole justification for its existence. | There were too many cases in which the public was give only the rosy side of the war. As one able reporter (in both military and civil life) said of the policy in the theater during his Stars and Stripes news- days there, it was one of “tell no lies’ bu ‘write only favorable facts.” “Policy” reasons were invoked as the excuse for killing .information ‘ ‘had no connection with security, and inadequately censors frequently handled copy of veteran carrespondents, Naturally there were attempts by newsmen to slip news through the censors when they felt it did not involve safety of our troops or future operations . . .

mail EE a hale this was conducted on a security some interpretations were rather fare fetched. rth et xs Uffecting the news we read at home, requires radical

By Marjorie Van De Water '

An Anfidote to World Fear Is Trust

WASHINGTON, Feb. 26.—“We have nothing to That statement is as true today of ithe disturbed international scene as it was when Franklin D. Roosevelt voiced it during the dark days of America’s great depression. It applies just as well to a world racing toward atomic warfare as it does to a nation tasting the depths of economic despair. Fear is the basis for many social ills. Fear causes runs on banks and panicky hoarding of secret weapons. Fear of loss of jobs causes discrimination

*| against foreigners, Jews, Negroes, non-veterans, wom-

en, the old, the young, and anyone other than ourselves. Fear of loss of power causes dictators to kill without mercy, Fear causes suspicion, suspicion causes hatred. Hatred, fear and suspicion lead to war. And war— if it is to be atomic warfare—can mean only mutual | defeat, death and utter destruction. It has been suggested that the $2,000,000,000 spent to develop the atomic bomb be matched with another $2,000,000,000 devoted to study of man’s aggression and how to prevent it. It wouldn't be a bad idea.

Nation's Secrets Breed Mistrust BUT MEANTIME, psychologists already know ‘much that could be immediately applied to brake our rush down the road to self-destruction. Here are some of the facts well-known in the psychology laboratory: 1. The most dangerous man in the world is the man driven to desperation by paranoid fears. In every shadow he sees a threat; in every rustle he hears hostile voices; constantly he is ready for instant, nervous revenge which he sincerely believes to be self-defense. 2. The time to allay fears is before they develop Into a rigid system of paranoid ideas.

WORLD AFFAIRS .

3. The only antidote for fear is a feeling of pere fect trust and confidence based on unwavering hone esty, frankness and consistency of dealing. Man has a natural fear of the unknown. Secrets are worse than openly expressed hosfility for breeding fear and suspicion. If a man tells us frankly that he dis agrees with us or that he resent it, but we nevertheless have respect. If he pretends to be our friend, but behind our backs buys a shotgun to attack us, we are not only angry but afraid of him, 4. Fears cannot be removed by reassuring speeches while the danger persists, Men are influenced by facts, not by preaching.

Avoid Apparently Hostile Plans IF THE UNITED STATES persists in manufac

turing atomic bombs that are jealously kept secre

from enemy, friend and ally alike, we can be sure that other nations will fear us ana. be hosuls toward us.

If the United States permits other nations to be lieve that we are engaged in making agreements with some at the expense of others or that we plan independent action unknown in advance to other friendly nations, we cam be sure that distrust of us will grow in othér nations. Pear is one parent of. “os deprivation is the other. Throughout the whole e world today; men have suffered deprivation as- they have never suffered before. The world 4s hungry—for food and for all those good things that nourish soul as well as*body,

Men and women have lost homes, jobs, loved ones, the

chance to have children, personal liberty, ability to think as they wish and express themselves freely, They have lost old customs that made life seem secure,

. By George Weller

Asia's Hope of Democracy Is Dying

CHUNGKING, Feb. 26.—A political war has succeeded the shooting war in east Asia. The United States won the shooting war without Russian help. But, the U. 8, is losing the political war and most of the American losses are going to Moreover, everything the Soviet Union wins is being gathered in by American consent sealed in writing or in silence. Pushing forth thrusts of expansion toward the edges of the great heartland of Eurasia, the Soviet Union is trying the limits of its new-found strength. Having fought only in Europe, the Soviets want to test their Pacific powers without delay. From central Europe through Turkey and Iran to Manchuria, Russia is taking over control of key strategic zones once considered essential to American wartime plans. Both the Soviets’ advance and the U. 8. retreat are national policy. Nowhere is any decisive American resistance noticeable.

Ground Held by MacArthur

MOST MARKED PHENOMENON is American unwillingness to regard the Russian advances as affecting American interests. The world wars demonstrated strategy is discarded and isolationism returns, the retreat beginning with the Anglo-Russian partition of the Balkans at Teheran, continuing through Yalta and Azérbaijan and now finishing with the coastal circumference of Asia in Manchuria. Staggered concurrence of these retreats, combined with official secrecy about the agreements, has concealed from the The the increasing extent of American surrenders of influence. In some zones, the American defeat is subsidized with unreclaimed Amet'~

ican lend-lease weapons or United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration loans that are 72 per cent American. Where the United States has marked tinve, held political ground and refused to hustle forces home-ward-—notably in Japan and China—the situation is more hopeful. Japan is moving toward at least showe case democracy under Gen. Douglas MacArthur. In Japan, the United States has not yet sacrificed, as elsewhere the opportunity to build permanent dee fensive bases and to protect war-won frontiers.

Russia Moves in as We Withdraw IN ALL CHINA, the U. 8. has fewer troops than Russia has in Dairen alone. But with these forces insuring Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek against any violent breach of international peace, Gen. George C. Marshall, special U. 8. envoy, is striving to merge the Nationalist and. Communist armies by the cone sent of both. Wherever around Asia’s great ple crust American troops or navy units have been withdrawn, there is revolution, dictatorship of the right or left, capitalist imperialism of the past, or socialist imperialism of the present. By pulling out, first militarily, then politically, the United States not ‘only is letting go peace with liberty, but is surrendering most of Asia to revolutionary disorder and repression. The Soviet Union is winning the Pacific war withe out ever having fought in it because Russian policy is acquisitive, aggressive, purposeful and imaginative, At all doubtful points, Russia is on hand with dee mands three deep for every issue. The United States asks nothing, so it gets nothing.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson Honey and Turpentine in Interior Job

WASHINGTON, Feb, 26.—Most: amazing follow-up" to the resignation of Harold Ickes has been the rise of Congressman Frank W. Boykin -of Alabama as & congressionally backed candidate for the job of secretary of interior. When Boykin's name was first mentioned, the.:

tendency was to laugh it off. Yet 11 senators and 168 "Boy

southern congressmen petitioned the President to.

name the fabulous Boykin to his cabinet. Feb, 21 was Exp.

Boykin's 61st birthday and on that day all his pockets and the tops of two desks in his trophyfilled office were littered with telegrams indorsing him for the job, They came from 20 states. How did he get that way? Boykin is Mr. Five-Foot-Five, His signature is five inches high. He has five children. He sleeps only five hours a night. ' He gets up at 5 a. m—“to start the sawmill and go turkey shoo He measures 50 inches around the chest and you can use your imagination about his waistline. He weighs around 300, and it's all honey. Imprinted in

letters of gold on the inside of his hatband is the:

inscription, “Everything Is Made for Love” Every woman is “honey” or “sugar” or “darlin’'” to him. When he was a young man just getting his start in the railroad crosstie, lumber and turpentine business, he got on a train one day and spied a belle whose looks he liked. Though she was surrounded by three other swains, Boykin walked right up to her, introduced himself and told her he was going to marry her. Two years later he did. =

Rags-to-Riches Story

HE HAS come up the hard way.-- He was ‘worn poor, fourth of 10 children. He boasts that he had less than a year’s formal schooling, but he studied at night. At 8 he got his first job as a waterboy with # railroad gang at 35 cents a day. He went on from there to become a storekeeper, lumberman and the biggest turpentine tycoon in the South. In world war I he built ships. He cashed in dn the Florida

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Needless to say, he’s a millionaire and then some, He owns 136,000 acres of Alabama timber and farm

- Boykin has been in congress 10 years, but not for the" salary there's in it. He says his personal telee phone bill is bigger than his $10,000-a-year pay, kin insists this boom for the Ickes job is a come plete surprise to him, but a look ‘at his record will explain where a lot of this support comes from, and other things. At Chicago, in 1944, when Byrnes was counted out 2s a Vice presidential candidates, Boykin claims he rallied support behind Senator John Bankhead and got him 90 votes. Then at the crucial moment, Boy« Kin ¢laims He led the switch to Truman. That would make Truman his political debtor. Boykin is chaire man of the house committee on patents. He says Henry Wallace.and some of the other liberals around here ‘want to: do away with the U. 8. patent system. Boykin is against patent law reform. Patent lawyers all over the ‘country are strong for Boykin.

Oil and Lumbermen Back Boykin WHEN THE tidelands oil case came up, Boykin lined up with the state attorneys general who are fighfing federal acquisition of oil and mineral rights

below navigable streams and on the continental shelf. Ickes has opposed the house-passed bill giving these rights to the states, believing title should first be determined by federal courts. Boykin's leadership in the movement against Ickes makes Boykin the whites haired boy with states'-righters and private oil ine terests wanting’ to exploit these under-water areas. Boykin takes credit for getting OPA to increase ceiling prices on lumber. That won him support from southern lumbermen. Boykin claims that his voting record is strictly conservative. He was for Bretton Woods as “good business” but he is against UNRRA, FEPC, full employment, repeal of the poll tax. With this record behind him, it is obvious that Boykin in the department of interior would swing the Ickes

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