Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 February 1946 — Page 14

‘appointed Julius A. Krug secretary of the interior. That's not surprising. “Cap” Krug doesn't fit into any categories of the President's more celebrated recent ntments. He is not an old friend. He has no par- + influence with administration wheelhorses in conHe has earned no spurs as a loyal Democratic party vorker. And he lives east of the Mississippi, whereas Western senators demanded as usual that a man from their ." But Mr. Krug’s lack of qualifications on the grounds : of friendship, politics and geography, in our opinion, contribute to making him a very fortunate selection. It is to have as head of the interior department, custodian “our vast and valuable public domain, one who owes no cial allegiance to any man, party or sectional interest. More pertinent is the caliber of the man. Mr. Krug's ity is unquestioned. He is a man of energy, action d decision. He is a success in private life, and a top-notch government administrator, as he proved first with the Valley administration and later when he uniarled the fouled-up war production board in the latter months of the war. Even Harold Ickes, with his talent for fault-finding, pro will agree that Mr. Truman has done much to es faith in good government by his appointment of “Cap” Krug. OT A VETERANS MARKET THE PRESENT Indianapolis real estate market is defin- ® jtely not one in which the returning veteran seeking # home can compete. : I. This is one conclusion of The Times investigation of the housing situation, which revealed that the former G. IL. who tries to compete in the market on the basis of his $4000 credit with the veterans administration almost invarfiably loses out to the non-veteran with cash or perhaps better credit. At present prices, and regardless of theoretical “preferences” for ex-service men, it is. practically sible to _ find a house. The situation has become so bad that the

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home-seeking veteran no longer identifies himself as. having been away ‘in the service, because “some people who are in the business of selling homes these days tend to grow a little bored when they hear it's a veteran who is intergated in the property.”

‘Since the VA won't guarantee loans on inflated prop98 per cent of the applications for loans have been

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~ . The plan to provide loan provision of the G. I. bill of rights just isn't working. Too estate men advise against buying now. But one has to have a home. And in Indianapolis,

Ip the veteran find one. This situation has produced bitterness in the hearts

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summer or fall unless some action is taken soon.

“by the President on the chiefs of staff, or by congress.

against extension of the draft. But these are explanation

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enlisted men to take their wives abroad with them.

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lines on two continents,

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more because of Mr. Bonsib than of Mr. Millard. Nobody could ever ! : forget an anomaly like Mr. Bonsib. He was the only man of German origin in who proselytized the cause of prohibition (and practiced what he preaclied). r . As a matter of ‘fact, Mr. Millard didn't attract my attention until he left Indianapolis, which was some time in the Nineties when he went west to the Deadwood district of Dakota to learn the secrets of American mining methods. Apparently he picked up a lot, for shortly after that—in 1903, I should say—he went to the Orient at the behest of King Menelik., His contract called for two things—first, to discover, and then dig up the fabled wealth of Ophir, : o

Where's Family Heirloom? IF YOUR Sunday school lessons did you any goed, you'll remember Ophir as a region frequently mentioned in the Old Testament. Chances are, though, that you haven't the faintest recollection of what you learned in Sunday school. In that case, permit me to pad today's piece with the news that Ophir was the place from which Solomon's ships brought gold, precious stones, sandalwood and ivory to keep the King’s expensive household going. The Bible, I remember, was tantalizingly cagey about Ophir's exact location, except to say that

Hoosier Forum

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

"Ignoring Precinct Committeemen Is Causing a Democratic Decline”

By Precinct Committeeman for Twenty Years, Indianapolis According to “A Republican” in the Hoosier Forum last Saturday, the “Grand Old Party” is in a most alarming condition. The selfish precinct committeemen not only want to have a voice in selecting the candidates in the forthcoming primary, but are also narrow enough to recommend for jobs only those Republicans who have worked for them (the committeemen). Tush! Tush! Astounding? What will the “blue blooded generals” do? The nerve of some people. Of course there is a very simple solution to this not so difficult problem. “A Republican” merely has to file for precinct committeeman, work like hell, get elected, and then

TO BRITAIN? DON'T DO IT”

“| beyond reproach and he cant prove

he too can be selfish, narrow, etc. (Don’t tell me you are too busy, don't want to mix in dirty politics,

Mr. Ostrom’s, I happen to know that he is a mam, of independent means and does not depend on such things as payoffs for his living. Actually, he is doing the Repub-

down. And properly. But that doesn’t solve the homes for veterans through the

many selfish or unthinking owners of real estate seek to fatten their bankrolls off the veterans’ dilemma. Real

is no planned and co-ordinated working effort to

of ~many returning men and women who did their job JOE their country. Are their country and their city going jo. do anything: genuinely constructive to help them find

THE plan of Rep. Vinson to recruit a special volunteer * occupation army of 600,000 men to take over our miligary responsibilities in Germany and Austria, Japan and Korea, merits serious consideration by the administration and jcongress.” And fast consideration, too, because we are in danger of having few occupation troops by next

_.» Rarely has a major problem been handled more ineptly and evasively than this one. Our government has known for many months that an occupation army would be needed and that expiration of the draft on May 15 would cut off the supply. And yet nothing definite has been done either

"The reasons for delay are clear enough. The army and navy are split over unification of the services inder 3 a single department of defense, and the politicians have At their eyes on the November elections and popular reaction

. In-our judgment, the virtue of the Vinson plan is that ; i the war department and congress have to do so far—that it is impossible to get the desired volunteer army without special and very attractive induceents. Rep. Vinson proposes $94 a month minimum pay, annual furloughs in the United States, and permission for

{us country is still under a republican form of ‘government and the precinct committeeman is the only member of the party organization elected by the direct vote of the people. He represents the voters of his party in his preginct and is in fact their duly elected representative in all party matters. Furthermore, he can be defeated at the polls any time his constituents feel they need a change. Could anything be more fair? Why shouldn't the committeemen pick the candidates they want to support? Now, Mr. “A Republican,” due to the shortage of weeping towels, I can't sympathize too much with your sad plight. The “rigor mortis” slowly claiming ‘the so-called or-

lican party a favor by handling a job that calls for plenty of decisions and brains. If anyone but Henry Ostrom were in the position to grant as many favors as he is called upon to do, he could make a small fortune —but not Henry. ' - As far as his telling Mr. Williams that he stopped him from getting a license, if he did, he did the best thing for the public's benefit.

Editor's Note—The Times did not “attack” Mr. Ostrom. Neither did The Times cast reflections on Mr. Ostrom’s integrity. The Times printed only the news concerning the case. You are right—the job of county chairman is one which calls ganization of the Democratic party |for brains and the ability to make is a direct result of ignoring the|right decisions. committeemen and women in the 8 a= selection of candidates. “WHAT'S IN UNO SACK? rn Save my tears and flowers for| UNANSWERED QUESTION” is ins & ion i Marion) Sointy By Harrison White, Indianapolis e 8 In “My Day” recently, Eleanor

your name as a candidate for pre-| ° cinct committeeman in the primary, | Roosevelt said: “I hope very much ~~ |that, some time, our President will

Will I see it? I doubt it. Editor's Note: Few voters realize| ore ® Speech to us in the United States calling upon -us to under-

wi Smportutice Y he prosinst pom stand what responsibilities we assumed through participation in the keystone of both major party organ-| United Nations Organization.” izations, and only the most capable I awalt the time when our Presand public-spirited men and women| (10 ©1 SU IERUEE © (TEU e Un even , should be selected for such key|p,,covelt, one of the delegates to Te i oatal oper oa shh a al Te purl ny open up the sack an e e ‘HENRY OSTROM DOING i i as 10 hat they G.0.P, A FAVOR” By A Local Merchant, Indianapolis

“may understand” what is in it. It is dollars to doughnuts that Being a reader of your paper for|will not be done before the next 30 years, I was amazed to read the election nor the next one. I have attack that your paper ran against made considerable study of the new Henry Ostrom, the Marion county | world order from the time our late Republican chairman. The wording was such as to imply that Mr.

President took the oath the last time to support the Constitution of Ostrom was only seeking a payoff for granting the license to the

the United States, then said, “It Castle Barn club.

is not perfect,” then in the next Being a very personal friend of

breath said, “You are now citizens of the world.”

s| Side Glances—By Galbraith

ki Since long-range extension of the law is not probable, : and since youthful draftees do not make good occupation _froops anyway, better inducements to volunteers should not ‘delayed. :

ig Gen. Ed Gregory, War Assets Corp., chairman, ought : to be allowed to get his feet on the ground before he is ed to the kind of panning he has received recently

Gregory's record is that of an able administrator. ‘maste; general in world war II, he maintained

accorded Gen. Gregory's vice chairman, E. Edgerton, by the house executive

called to testify about priority claimants.

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“WHY ARGUE ABOUT LOAN

By Mrs, Arline Mitchell, 2130 Clay st. What is all this to-do about a loan to England? There should be no controversy whatever on the subject. We just should not make the loan. “Charity begins at home.” It's about time we start practicing it. G. I. Joe who left home and family and risked his life overseas to profect our country and England and her rich holdings should come first. Does he? No! If his credit isn’t

beyond a shadow of a doubt that he is .a good risk (which is mighty hard to do), he doesn’t get a loan. But what about Britain? We know her credit isn't any good. She didn't even pay her debt for the last war. If G. I. Joe had faith enough in America to fight for it, why don’t we verify that faith instead of slapping him in the face? What if the government does lose money to G. I. Joe? Far better to lose it at home than in England. The English people look on us as a bunch of suckers, and that’s just what we are. England takes care | of her own, let's take care of our | own. / Let England sell us Canada and the little islands they own around our Florida coast if she needs money 50 bad. Why just donate her money? She's land rich and cash poor. Let her forfeit some of her land. She'll be better off and so will we. G. I. Joe has to prove he’s worthy and I think he’s proved it. Now let England show us her heart is in the right place. I have a G. I. husband with seven battle stars. He thinks he’s proved himself, but doesn’t think England has. Others like him feet the same way. Let's don’t leave our G. I.’s holding ‘the bag.

Editor's Note: Making the loan to Britain is a part of our world eommunity responsibility. We don’t feel the question of G. I. Joe's being taken. care of is involved. England's credit is believed by the government to be 0. K. And as a matter of history, she did make payments on her loan of world war I until President Hoover's declaration of a debt moratorium. ” ” » . “NOW I ENOW WHY I DO NOT LIKE COLUMNISTS” By D, J. Moran, Hammond For a long time I wondered why I have had a prejudice against those writers called columnists. I. recently read Brinton’s book, “The United States and Britain.” Brinton is professor of history, Harvard university, I quote the book (near the bottom of page 231): , “The best specific is for ordinary sober ;citizens to recognize Anglophobia for what the psychiatric origins of the term imply—a diseased state of mind. Any form of xenophobia—obsessive hatred of foreigners—is a disease, all the more dangerous because it is at least as contagious as typhoid. Some day we may treat xenophobia as we treat typhoid carriers—instead of rewarding them * with handsome salaries as columnists.” I will explain this a little. Anglophobia is hatred of the Angles, the English. The suffix “phobia” means madness, insanity. It is used as a psychiatric term. Psychiatry is the study of the diseased mind-—a study of insanity. Xenophobia is a general term meaning hate of other people—our well-known term for it among the flliterates is “furriner.’ According to the statement in the book, many “columnists,” paid handsome salaries, are carriers of th? mental disease xenophobia and (like typhoid cayriers) ought to be isolated and kept apart instead of being paid large salaries for spreading their type of insanity.

Editor's Note: ‘Harsh words, Mr. Moran, harsh words! Have you found any xenophobia carriers among Times columnists?

DAILY THOUGHT

_ The sorrows of death compassed me, and the floods of ungodly men made me afraid. —Psalms

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THE fear of death is worse than||allitnce with Stalin and invad

the voyage to get there (or back) necessitated the

better part of three years, a cryptic way of putting

it which always struck me as a literary trick to

, CHUNGKING, Feb. 27.—On Tuesday, I pointed out how Asia's hope of democracy was dying out because the United States, although it won the shooting war, is losing the political war. In Japan alone is the U. 8. holding on to its gains. Having involved the United States at Yalta in resurrected Czarist imperialism, the Soviet Union is moving firmly toward new demands and seems likely to get them. According to department of commerce figures, the U. 8. disbursed about $1,150,000,000 in aiding China and has collected zero. ; Russia, according" to a Chinese official high in the ministry of economics, now is asking payment for a $37,000,000-loan for anti-Japanese arms sold to China before Pearl Harbor. Prospects are good that the U. S. will lend China more money enabling. the Chinese to meet Soviet demands. At the same time, the U. 8. is capping lend-lease and U. N. R. R. A. aid with more loans to Russia. Whatever such policies may mean in Washington, they resemble aimless Santa Clausism to observers in Asia.

Will U.S. Draw the Line?

SOVIET OCCUPATION of Manchuria beyond the

Soviet experiment in finding how much the Chinese will take and where the Americans will draw the line, if anywhere. It is not interpreted as meaning the Russian troops will stay indefinitely, but rather as an application of the same high pressure methods whereby Russia in the Middle East made parallel demands for the Dardanelles, for rights to Dodecanese bases, for a trusteeship in Tripoli.

Too Many Are

WASHINGTON, Feb. 27.—Experience in the six months since VJ-day proves that too many wartime controls have been removed too fast, says Chester

Bowles in making the opening arguments for renewal of stabilization and price controls for & year beyond June 30. Too rapid removal of controls, says Bowles,

playing it safe. “Too many people are betting on inflation,” he says. “There's too much loose talk to the effect that inflation is inevitable or that it is already here. “Actually,” he says, “it is only in the uncontrolled areas such as the stock market or real estate where there is any runaway inflation.” On the other hand, National Association of Manufacturers and the other business groups leading the fight to kill off OPA maintain that price controls hamper production and therefore encourage inflation through continuing scarcity of much-needed goods.

Congress Must Decide Issue THESE TWO exactly opposite points of view state the issue which congress now has to decide, so a little background information may be in order. In the six months since VJ-day, price controls have been removed from nearly 1000 items and price increases have been authorized on 9000 more. In the building industry, which has been putting up one of the hardest fights to have all price ceilings removed, increases have been granted on 36 major items. Other increases are coming, for the sole purpose of encouraging production. Any industry can get price increases authorized

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

LONDON, Feb, 27—0f all the grievances against Britain which Russia sought to exploit as a part of her diplomatic offensive at the first session of UNO, none was so ridiculous as the presentation of the Yugoslav complaint about the activities of the Polish 2d corps in Italy. Apart from anything else, it made the Yugoslav government look absurd, If they had a complaint to make, why could they not make it themselves? Tito, after all, is a grown man and had the advantages of being educated for five years in Moscow. Considering the help he received from the British government during the war, it is rather contemptible that he should wish to make trouble for those who befriended him. But it is even more nauseating that he apparently did not have the courage to make the complaint himself and preferred, instead, to run off and whine to Father Stalin in the Kremlin.

British Equipped Poles ALL THE little Communist stooges in Fleet street and the house of commons made haste to obey the master's voice from Moscow and to join in the denigration of the Polish army. A fellow traveller of the Kremlin's called Syers wrote a long dispatch for the London News-Chronicle imputing the most sinister activities to the Polish corps in Italy without in any way alluding to the fact that these Poles fought gallantly as our allies. Orypto-Communists sniped at Foreign Secretary Bevin in the house of commons. Bevin, who is a man of honor and posessses the instincts of a gentleman, turned on his adversaries and said, “I've always got to bear in mind that this great army helped to carry us through to victory.” . In 1939, when Stalin, who then was an ally of Hitler's, invaded Poland, he deported some 2,000,000 Poles to Russia and put them to work as so much slave labor. Two years later, after Hitler had broken his Russia, Stalin signed

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THOSE OF YOU who have strung along With me throw you off the track. Be thai may: thus far, know withaut my telling you that anything Bible made it mL _Ne. 1s Jay, the can start around here—ang. usually does. Even s0,, As for King Menelik’s passionate, desire to find it may surprise you to learn that, once upon & time. the place, that's explained by the fact that every King Menelik of Abyssinia commissioned Kenyon ruler of Abyssinia accounts for his birth by way of V. Millard of Indianapolis to find ue King Solomon and Queen Magda of Sheba—to be King Solomon's mines for him. exact, to the Queen of Sheba's son, Menelik (if I - for the fact that he may be allowed to have a volce in the matter). All boarded with the Henry 8. Bon- * of which, of course, is the same as saying that sib family for a while, I know Mr. Millard's Oriental patron had every reason to pathetionlly little of the years Mr. believe that the property of Ophir was in the naMillard spent in Indianapolis. And ture of a family heirloom. . : even that sticks in my memory Well. two or three years later when Mr. Millard

returned to Indianapolis, he brought back news that American m methods had enabled him to une cover “the golden wedge of. Ophir.” He wouldn't

~reveal the exact location of the mines for which some

people criticized him severely. I didn't, though. .

‘Had I been in Mr. Millard’s place, I'd kept my mouth

shut, too.

Where Noah Built Ark BESIDES DISCOVERING King Solomon's mines, Mr. Millard said he also found the place where Noah had built his ark. Indeed, that was the surprising

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By George Weller i Aimless Santa Claus Policy in Asia

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part of his story—he was more enthusiastic about Police Offic Noah than he was about Solomon. Noah, he said son, 23, of was also responsible for the pyramid at Gizeh, the bruised his « Sphinx and the great temple of Karnak, to say noth- cycle collided ing of No-Ammon, the greatest town ever coriceived Roosevelt, ave by man or imagined by a Chamber of Commerce. On E All of’ which went far to explain “why Noah was A | 500 years old before he got around to begetting . Gr Felrolc Shem, Ham and Japhet. a : Sie Son ming as they did, right on top of the damag a wrought by Robert G. Ingersoll, Mr. Millard’s dis. grin = coveries proved to be a power for good around here. ave Both At any rate, everything he brought to light was in calls LD on confirmation of the Bible. Indeed, I remember his A \rackl exact words when he renewed his acquaintanceship at Noe oo with the Bonsib family, “I have had the privilege,” injured 15-ye he said, “of making discoveries which will set the ison, TM I» Bible straight before the world and cause the higher i a car driv is to seek their wolfish dens and hide themselves 20 $ a n shame. was charged and failure license. Thres Three you up when an Kenneth Smi wa ’ By negotiations, the Soviets have already learned oi ayo that the U. 8. is ready, despite more than three years Welling, 186, of fighting around the Kuriles, to surrender the Virginia Dev: islands without protest to Russia. The Soviets have throp ave., a also found that American reaction to being shut out of 909 Main from Manchuria is feeble. Mrs. Fgank The Soviets further observe that because of their ville, Ind., rec “mutinies,” homesick American troops are as little in a two-car clear about the objectives of their foreign policy as blvd. and Bir the government or the people behind them. How Many Wars Must We Win? SMALL MEANWHILE, other Americans who have watched MINER the Pacific’ pageant unroll from its shameful begin- SPRINGFI nings at Shanghai and Manila to the tawdry de- P).—A prol nouement at Yalta.and in today’s Sino-Soviet eco- John L, le nomic dickering at Changchun, are asking themselves Mine Worke: how many wars against Japan the U. 8. must win militant Pro before the nation keeps one as a political victory. union was re The Americans have won two wars for Russia P. M. W's simultaneously: The recent Pacific war and alfo the - American Fe Russo-Japanese war of 1904, whose spoils have been Delegates | taken back at Yalta from Japan by the U. S. and SURVaHtion ¥ presented to the Soviet Union. Sesided to But the U. S. government in Asia, by withdrawing A P.olL h its ‘forces and failing to establish standing bases in W. to reafll Asia, has left emptyhanded not only America, but will not Dect Asia’s rising new colonial - parties, progressive but Pa L ax

not Commumist, who hoped for a democratic peace and a helping hand from the U. S. The United States is moving out. Russia is moving in. Asia's hope of a western democracy is dying as America deliberately turns its prestige low.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

Betting on Inflation

for its products at any time the industry can prove that to deny an increase would, cause it a hardship or cause it to make less money than it did in the 1936-39 base period. In the case of the steel industry, which has just been granted a price increase to cover wage increases, it will be possible for the industry to appeal to OPA for further price increases whenever the present prices do not seem to assure it of prewar profits.

Quicker Relief in Sight UNDER the old stabilization policy, an industry had to wait six months after a wage increase had been authorized before asking for increased prices. The idea was that this “cooling-off period” would enable the industry to try to absorb the wage increases without decreasing its profits.” Under the new wageprice ‘policy which Mr. Bowles had just been called upon to administer, this six-month waiting period is done away with. Quitker relief is in sight. If an individual firm seeking price increases has a business turnover of less than $200,000 a year, it merely has to notify OPA that it is increasing its prices, If OPA takes no action within 20 days the price rise goes into effect automatically. Facts such as these are accidentally or on purpose overlooked by the trade association lobbyists. in their campaign to kill off price control. With all these loopholes and authorizations for granting price increases, NAM’s argument that price controls are delaying production simply does not stand up. The argument that production of much-needed goods will be further delayed if price controls are continued another year, likewise does not stand up.

Randolph Churchill

Polish Heroes of Cassino Attacked

freedom was to be restored to all Poles in Russia and a new Polish army df 100,000 men was to be raised, trained and equipped on Russian soil The Russians later reduced this figure to 44,000. But as the Russians never provided any equipment and did not seem ready to allow these Poles to fight at their side, permission was sought and eventually obtained for some 75,000 Poles to be transferred to the Middle East, where they were trained and equipped by the British. When they first reached the Middle East, they were so weak from undernourishment that they had to be “fattened up” for three months before. any serious military training could be undertaken,

Corps Has Brilliant. Record THESE POLES were joined by others who had escaped via France to England and already had taken part in the fierce fighting in North Africa around Tobruk, Ghazals and Bardia. And so the Polish 2d corps, under the command of Gen, Anders, was created. i This corps fought'all through the Italian campaign and incurred casualties of 3000 killed and 7000 wounded. British and American’ troops who fought

at their side will not soon forget that it was the Poles |

who ultimately stormed and captured Monte Cassino after some of the bloodiest fighting of the whole war. Fleld Marshal Alexander, 8 man not given to

overstatement, said when conferring the Order of the | Bath on Gen. Anders, “Soldier of the Polish 2d corps, | should I be given a choice between any of the soldiers |

whom I wish to command, I would choose the Poles. 1 salute you.”

These men were deported from their native land and made to work in Russian slave camps for two

years. They subsequently fought heroically dn the side of the United Nations. But now, because a ma=

jority of them do not wish to return to Poland now

that it has become a puppet state of the Russia they know so well, they are vilified by all parlor pinks as a herd of “fascist beasts.” =

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