Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 March 1946 — Page 18

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VANDENBERG'S GREAT SPEECH v ENATOR VANDENBERG'S speech Wednesday was the ‘most important made on Capitol Hill since the war. That is remarkable because he is a member of the minority party speaking on foreign affairs. But the significance of his utterance was understood by the entire senate, and

| should be abroad. 3 The senator has the

authority not only of the chosen

ber of the United States delegations to the San Francisco Land London conferences of the United Nations. With that official experience he knows whereof he speaks, and as a member of the minority party he chooses to speak with more freedom than the secretary of state and the President, While praising the achievements of the United Nations ® to date, Senator Vanderiberg stated with clarity and courage the basic issue which will determine the fate of the | United Nations—and whether there is to be world peace. ] : Can there be mutual understanding between the “two great, | rival idealogies—democracy in the west and communism | in the east?” Or, more bluntly, between “the two greatest | spokesmen for these rival ideologies—Soviet Russia and the United States?” ; wa | © There you have it. The post-war world problems are political, social, economic and military; they are manifold, complicated and confused ; but they boil down to the conflict between democratic methods and aims on the one side and Communist methods and aims on the other side. The fact that Russia is pledged in the Atlantic and United Nations charters, and in many allied agreements, to accept democratic methods and aims in world settlements has not prevented her from seizing territories and imposing . her totalitarian will upon other peoples. a ~~ That is the road to war. Hh ; 2a x . « x a : VWHAT can we do about it? One small group in this 2 country says there is nothing we should do about it— | what Russia does is right. Another and much larger group says there is nothing we can do about it, unfortunately— ‘that Russia is forcing another world war, and we must prepare for it. Senator Vandenberg, after dealing with the ‘Russians, thinks there is a chance of getting along with them if we are as hard-boiled for. democracy as they are for communism. This is the way he puts it: “I assert my own belief that we can live together and reasonable harmony if the United States speaks as plainly on all occasions as Russia does; if the United States just as vigorously sustains its own purposes and its ideals upon all occasions as Russia does; if we abandon the miser“able fiction, often encouraged by our own fellow travelers, || that we somehow jeopardize the peace if our candor is as § firm as Russia's always is, and if we assume a moral leadership which we have too frequently allowed to lapse.” ~All signs indieate the vast majority of Americans agree “that the democracies’ appeasement of ‘Russia has failed, that a stronger Washington policy is essential, that without American moral leadership there will be no just or lasting

(§ © If President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes |} Deeded evidence that Republicans would unite with the | § administration on such an honest, intelligent and vigorous American leadership, Senator Vandenberg has given them ‘that assurance. Let them act!

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§ GOOD LUCK, TECH! § “J ECH high's Greenclads will fight for a place in the state 4 high school basketball semi-finals tomorrow when they meet Danville in the Anderson regional tournament, If | successful in the afternoon, the local team will play for-| he regional championship that night against the winner | 4 of the Anderson-Eden game. - As every Hoosier basketball fan knows, regional win- § hers play in a semi-final tournament from which -emerge the teams to play in the finals, % 5 We hope Tech's youngsters will be rooting for their § team in the finals in the Butler fieldhouse March 16, Wheth- | er the team gets that far or not, the winner of the local | sectional tournament has played the game in a hard-fight-ing sportsmanshike manner that has earned the respect of 8 Shponne and the win-or-lose-support- of - Indianapolis

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| INTOLERABLE “STRIKES “THERE IS no right to strike against the public safety . by anybody, anywhere, at any time.”—Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts, breaking the 1919 Boston police strike, | “A strike of public employees manifests nothing less § than an intent on their part to obstruct the operations of : ent until their demands are satisfied. Such action, Joking toward the paralysis of government by those who } ve sworn to support it, is unthinkable and intolerable.” — President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1937. ; Se, « 5 » po statements are true and valuable guides in present times, fr > This week New York City faced threat of a major disaster. AC. I O. union, representing part of the workers on 16 city-owned transit system, proposed to paralyze public transportation by a strike. Mike Quill, pro-Communist sader of the union, asserted brazenly that the strike might “5000 lives.” Happily, this danger was averted. Mayor ye Stand pity against the union's demand for recogas. usive bargaining agent for all city transit demand impossible to grant under New York nd the strike was called off, Eh, i it gone on, publie opinion -unquegtionably

supported any measures necessary to break i ; be fou dto 3 ry reak it,

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Republican spokesman on foreign policy, but as a key mem- |

prevent such strikes. We are |

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Hoosier Forum

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

loan ($4000 to $5000).

I contracted to buy it?

that same place?

girl I am bringing here.

chance to live -decently. lieve~I have earned that."

pleasure. (?) of writing it.

turning servicemen.

wise to ‘buy at present pri¢es, Sympathy doesn’t

that is all we can offer.

88 # “WHERE ARE OUR HEARTS IN HANDLING HOUSING? By D. EK, Indianapolis

some size, but

value. ly returned from service.

Poor kids. Have we no hearts? average kids,

would be able to pay for

"My Bride Is Arriving Here Soon, But | Can't Find a Home for Her"

"By An Ex G. I. Who Is Really Pussied, Indianapolis I am writing to you people because I am in serious doubt of what else to do. I have a serious problem and I need advice badly. I am engaged to an English girl. or before the latter part of May. probably isn’t peculiar to veterans like myself, certainly hits us all. -I must have .a home ready and waiting for her ‘when she arrives. It is really unthinkable that she should cross the ocean to be with me and me without a home to offer her, I am fully employed, willing to pay rent, very willing to work for what | I receive; but, sir, how am I going to find a home? : hat Be must fake us JF yokels A loan perhaps? I haven't Seen | decent homes for sale that could come within my price range on a Must I buy and spend the largest part of my civilian life paying for a home I| would break them financially, but tickets may be bought which brings | knew wasn't what I wanted when| would break their hearts. ; Worse, | must I pay a terribly high price for|coct such things may mean well cities used in this “compare” eh

If it were possible to find a home ships. I could furnish it and by all “work is change to them. Gullible buildmake a clean, decent life for this ers don't care long as Uncle Sam | If there is a real need for a rate |

I do be- opinion to go along when down zens are for it. But why the subter- |

1 imagine that the only good I folly of it. } . will get out of this letter is ‘the| Isn't this a poor kindness? Isn't "TEARING DOWN HOUSES

Editor's Note: The plight you're in is one shared by hundreds of reIt is one to] 2 ; ‘| first money they ever had, will walk which The Times is endeavoring to, Sow < arouse the community toward po- blindly into this concoction, believ ordinated action. “It certainly is not

when you're in trouble like this, but

I am. a property owner, quite] not a butider, think I know property -and its/ less our hearts? I also have two sons recent= |, . oe ae J. anki “WHY SUBTERFUGE ABOUT » ome for eac ” of them, a home much better ruilt [OF STREETOAR RATES) and of far better material at much | BY Seymour -Pinkus, 5531 Winthrop ave. less cost than the $6500 and $7500 imitation homes as advertised and olis Street Railways said it was goillustrated in your paper recently, r What an awakening. My boys are making an average wage, but they -never in the world

priced homes, much less to know

Side Glances—By Galbraith.

the people money. Now it is trying to tell us that if it does not get increased rates—service will have to’ suffer. If the railways is saving us money with increased rates and consequently making less money, it should be more than eager to go back to the old rates which, atcording to its way of thinking, would bring in more revenue. Something’s rotten in Denmark! Then, too, what about these ads which compare our token rate to that of other cities? The powers

My fiancee will arrive here on My problem is one that, while it

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JOUR TOWN, .. tylgmShirer = 1 oF Big Mystéry in Lee Sings Basement |

LIVING ON’ THE South side, ns was my habit when I was a little boy, I always went by way of.the Circle to reach the corner of Illinois and Ohio sts., the site of ‘Mr, Pertuch's “turning school” (an Anglicized and utterly debased semasiological connotation for

dianapolis ¢alled a “turnverein’”). It was the longest .way to get there—the most, inconvenient, too —but it was the .only route to" “take if I wanted to see Lee Sing, °

ated a laundry in the ‘basement of the old Ross Block: The reason it was..possible to see Lee Foy Sing at work in the basement was because the. Ross Block had its first floor located considerably above the level of the street, a type of architecture of which we still have a number of examples—the

| Union Trust building, dor. one.

» Lee Sing had his ironing board set up in the show window, I remember, and I still recall how he used to fill his mouth with water and eject it in a thin, vapor-like stream to, dampen the shirts preparatory to ironing them. He plied his trade right out in the open with a kind of professional pride that was unlike anything around here unless, perchance, it was the kind of self-esteem the restaurants displayed when, some years later, they put their. flap-jack tossers in the show window.

Big Downtown Raid!

YOUNG AS I WAS at the time, it always struck me that Lee Sing was a prize example of a man wrapped up in his work. That's why it surprised me when, one day on my way to turning school, I saw the Black Maria standing in front of Lee 8ing's establishment. 'And, right before my eyes, I saw'a squad of policemen hustle three Chinese and a white man into the wagon, and start off for jail. Lee Sing was one of them. : Fortunately, one of the policemen was left behind

-} to guard the laundry in Lee Sings absence. I can't

account for what happened next. It may have been because only one policeman was left behind; and, then again, it may have been because the lonely policeman didn't have time to get things organized.

}- Anyway, he lost control of the situation, with the

result that a mob of curious-minded people followed him inside the building. : I was swept in with the mob and that's why 1

NEW YORK, March 1.—When your returning hero gets back, honey, run your fingers through his wavy hair and then give a slight tug at the scalp. If his hairline slides back a few inches, remember that he did it for love, Alfred Barris, the celebrated confector of toupees, stage transformations and other gay deceivers, says that he is getting an enormous play from soldiers, who won't go home until Mr. Barris has built them a new pompadour. - “They come mostly from the Pacific,” says Mr. Barris, a slim Englishman with a yellow mustache and a phony cowlick (his own creation) which practically defies detection. “I guess a lot of men lost their hair’ through fever, and are ashamed to face the women with a slick head.

| been outside-the city. In Milwaukee, | sooner or later that these properties quoted as having a token rate of! | would not last the life of their con- eight and gne-third cents, one can! | tracts. Taxes, up-keep, assess- buy a pass for a dollar and ride all| ments, what not? This all not only week. In Birmingham, books of {fares down around six cents. What | Shame, oh shame. Men who con- is the real fare situation in other |

(but they know nothing of hard- | Very conveniently it just everlooks | Sixty-five hundred to 87500, passes, free transfers, ticket books, | ete. |

{pays the bill, or does he? Go to raise why doesn’t the Indianapolis |

Gentlemen, I aswell as you detest any dozen men in our city who |Railways officials just come out and | any man who, because of his past know their property. accomplishments, believes the. world | honest opinion. They will say what | figures? If it takes more money to | owes him a living. All I ask is that I say and emphasize it. Loan 'as-igive us a fine transportation sys- | the world give me the right and sociations i

Ask their |say so and give us real facts and!

are forced by public tem then the majority of our citi- | deep in their hearts they know the fuge

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it ‘time we intercede in the interest tof these poor kids? These boys in {their eagerness to have a home, {with a few hundred in their pockets,

FOR POSTOFFICE SITE”

By Curtis A. Ransdell, Indianapolis I'm a discharged veteran since January and served overseas. I was in three years. I have a wife’ and child. My daughter was born; soon after I went in service. My wife moved in with her parents. I fought like other boys so our families could be safe from all the things we saw happen overseas. Now that I'm back, I find I can't find a house to live in, Yet, two blocks from my wife's parents, they are tearing down two .doubles to put up a new postoffice. Now isn't that just dandy. West Indianapolis has plenty of vacant lots, yet they have te tear

ling Uncle Sam wouldn’t hurt them. God forbid. Can't you see these [Ets first. class soldiers, averagling $35 to $45 weekly, when not [striking, with a child or two, maybe five or six children, with doctor | bills, "dentist bills;, school ‘books, lunch money, - boulevard assess- | {ments, much as a mile away. I [could think of nothing more terrible to wish- on my kid, did I hate I.him.- Where are our minds, much

help

{up a postoffice. Sometimes it makes a fellow wonder what we really fought and others died for. We had homes before we went in. Oh yés, they're going to put up Quonset huts for -ex-servicemen, I guess it's the best that -can be done. 9 _1.think other G. Is feel as I do, that we lived in themy enough in service. Now we would like a real house.

-A few months ago the Indianap-

{ing to try a new schedule of rates because this would mean substantial savings to the riding publie. At the end of the trial period, fit fought and is =*! fighting to-main=] tain this rate schedule, the same one, mind you, it said would save

such

” » ~ |™ A MEMBER OF PLAZA | CHURCH, AGAINST MOVING”

| By Roy Curis, Indianapolis I refer to an article in The Times headed “Leave the Plaza Churches Alone and Tear Down Memorial Instead.” It' might not be the wisest thing to do but nevertheless an idea I have been wondering about myself in this atomic age when! Satan is trying hard to abolish all forms of religion. In your editorial note you say the congregations have been most cooperative, only asking a fair price, ete. That sounds like a broad ‘| statement which sults Satan - just fine. (I don't mean to be personal). I am a member of one of the churches, not at all in favor ‘of seeing them rempved and don’t re- | call talking with anyone with a | different view. Personally, I think Indianapolis and our state are fortunate in having, a War Memorial flanked by a church. on eithér side. Like our other friend, I hardly look for this letter. to be printed for the old reprobate (Satan) would try hard to keep i out. :

Bl | Lm

“DAILY THOUGHT

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage. be. not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: For the Lord thy God |-is with thee whithersoever thou * | goest.—~Joshua 1:9, = + © Cm —

down homes that are needed to put|.

| the

“Anyhow, they slide in, looking ‘a little sheepish, and ask what I can do. It takes.about three days to make them some new hair, and they go away happy. It's just for the benefit of the women,” says he, rather vehemently, pulling out some orders.

Personal and Professional Service FOR 30 YEARS Mr. Barris has made wigs for most of the famous folk on Broadway and in Hollywood. The walls of his salon are covered ‘with gratefullyinscribed photos of the acting great.

| Hayes through eight wigs for “Victoria Regina,” and

recently shoved Louis Calhern along the decades for his portrayal of the late Justice Holmes in. “The Magnificent Yankee.” Mr. Barris, a perfectionist, is a little piqued with Calhern, whose white wig slipped

rather badly on opening night.

. Fear Another

WASHINGTON, March 1. —There is growing reason to fear that Spain may be in for another blood bath despite anything that the more democratic elements both inside and outside that country can @o.. Reports from London are that Cardinal Spellman, en route from Rome to the United States, is carrying a papal message to Generalissimo Franco in Madrid, perhaps expressing hope that Spain might be spared another civil war. According to the same circles, how ever, the generalissimo seemed inclined to play out his role of strong man to the bitter; if not bloady, end, Broadly there have been three schools of opinion regarding Franco. Some have favored his staying on. Others have wanted. him to elimipafe himself in favor of a more popular regime. The third group, spear headed by the Communists, have advocated ousting him by violence, if necessary.

Few Franco Friends in World TODAY THOSE in the first category have all but disappeared. Franco is about as friendless in Wash» ington and London as he is in Paris and Moscow. But there is still considerable cleavage between the mod-= erates, who want to get rid of Franco without blood shed, and the leftists who seem prepared to plunge Spain back into civil war to accomplish. their ends. This writer has encountered few Spaniards who share the leftist view. The vast majority look back with horror on what happened to their country bee tween 1036- and 1039. Much as they abhor Franco, sincere Republicans have hesitated—and still hesitate —to take action the logical result of which would be a yepetition of those terrible excesses.

WASHINGTON, March 1.—Interpretations and regulations governing the administration of order 9697 will be coming out any day. now, still take two or three months of actual experience to tell what the new wage-price policy means and how it's going to work, ‘That's always the way it is with these economic controls, - The top guys issue a broad directive in sweeping generalities. Then the ‘men who have to carry it out worry for a week or 80, rewriting the order in moi@ specific language which the leaders of labor and management can understand. Then the yrescription gets, tried’ on the dog—meaning the, public—to see whether it kills him, cures him, “or leaves him no better off than he was before. E. O. 9607 looks innocent enough on paper. The order says it is intended to “promote the continued stabilization of the economy.” But the order also makes’ it a lot easier for labor to get wage increases and for business to get price Increases. And how stabilization can be continued while prices are permitted to rise on the one hand and wages on the other, is something that will require some awfully fancy. language to interpret. . . |

Endangers Price-Contro| Structure : THE BRAKE which the government is now author. ized to apply in achieving stabilization is the limitation of profits to the 1936-39 levels, That might well prove to be a completely worthless brake. Suppose &

suppose it sold for two dollars. Suppose now, through granting of wage increases, it costs a ah e this same gadget. Wit

~. “The rest of the evidence had heen

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark ~ Takes Three Days to Get a Toupee

He took Helen, |

‘suggested we try on a wavy transformation belong-

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Wiliam Philip Simms 2 v4

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson ~ Road to Labor

executive" but it will .

gadget cost one dollar to- produce in 1936-39, and:

am in the énviable position ioday to tell .you what’ : the inside of Lee Sing’s laundry looked like, = a :/, The laundry had three compartments besides the show window. One appeared to be an office (or, maybe, a reception room) and immediately back of it were two rooms rudely furnished, so far as Occle dental standards were concerned.. These rooms were : abot 10 feet square. In the corner of each was a bunk made of smooth unpainted boards. The bunk was about six feet square and plenty big enough to accommodate two.. Upon each was spread a cheap quilted comfort, and against the wall (about four inches above the level of the bed) was a bench-like arrangement which looked to be a book shelf or,

. at any rate, a shelf upon which some kind of Ori«

ental bric-a-brac could be placed. ! Joi 5: hauled off in the Black Maria. According to.the policeman who,

_by thf%ime had loosened up considerably, the loot

comprised three pipes, three little glass-covered lamps, three trays and several small bowls filled with sponges, of all things. . - ;

Cigars Don't Cost That Much : IT TURNED OUT, of course, that the ironing ws bosrd in the show window was just a blind. Indeed, i I had the policeman’s word for it that Lee Sing had been caught red-handed running an opium joint, possibly the first of its kind to be uncovered in Ine dianapolis. ‘The cop said the Chinaman got a dollar a smoke. Well, IT was so full of my discovery of a real-fore sure opium joint in Indianapolis that I gave a detailed account of it at the supper table that night. Father, I remember, remained silent until I reached the part about Lee ‘Sing's charge for a smoke. At that point he stopped eating and snapped: “That will be enough.” It was his way of expressing utter disgust not only ‘with a story, but with the storyteller as well. Experience had taught me to stop talking right then and there, and nothing ‘more was said about the Chinaman’'s nefarious business that night. Next morning at breakfast father turned to me and said: “Did I understand you to say last night that the Chinaman charged a dollar?” ‘I nodded, grateful that father had still ‘remembered one of the details of my vivid account. = “Well,” said father, “how can you expect me to believe such a story when itis. possible to buy a genuine ‘Henry Clay’ cigar for a quarter?”

“Calhern doesn't care,” says Mr. Barris. “He spent the last few minutes before opening night, not worrying shout his lines, but advising me on the evils of marriage. A man with three divorces should tell me: ‘Barris, when a woman starts fiddling around your apartment and saying it needs a woman's touch, throw her the hel] out.” ee A love-smitten statesman from Washington, says Mr. Barris, has just-bought a new crop of ersatz curls - for his. shinning skull, and is worried about whether : it will slip off in the heat of his ardor,

Market for Spare Hair

" IT TAKES about three days to make a toupee, much longer for theatrical] wigs, and the prices start at $75 and climb as high as $400. Most wig-wearers (non-actors) buy'two, so that the spare is available when they send their hair ‘back to Mr. Barris for a dry-cleaning, a reset of the curls and a re-block of the scalp. Wig-making has changed very little.in a couple of hundred years, except that the war has shortened the. supply of raw material. which came mainly from France. Belgium, Germany and Czechoslovakia. Mr. Barris now pays $15 to $18 an ounce, instead of the pre-war $35 a pound. 4 Mr. Barris noted our vast expanse of forehead and ing to a Mr. Smith. (More Smiths and Joneses pass through his establishment than through cheap hotels.) “Look,” he said, admiringly.. “Takes off ten years. You'll be in to see me one of these days, professionally.” : y

Spanish Civil War

Nevertheless things appedr to be coming to 8 head. France, now- largely dominated by Commu--nists, is urging action.” Her leftists are demanding an outright .break with Spain but Foreign Minister Bidault, more Moderate, has suggested that France, Britain and the United States act jointly.

Several Contenders for Power

~~ACROSS THE BORDER, in Portugal, is the Spau-

ish pretender, Don Juan, waiting to return to Madrid. He has refused, however, to enter into any deal with the generalissimo designed to ease him to the throne and is said to feel that to be tarred by any such stick might prove a fatal handicap, In which he is no doubt correct. iis . In France, there is a Republican government in 3 exile. Its President is Diego Martines Barrio. Jose : Giral is premier and Fernando de Los Rios—{ormer : | ambassador to Washington—is foreign minister, The Giral government is the true successor of the Repub~ lican regime which overthrew King Alfonso in 1031."

It was supplanted by the Communist-led Popular

Front in 1936 whose abuses of power brought return of Franco and three years of. civil war. It has the

support of dalecio Prieto’s right-wing Socialists, > some of the trade unions, and a section of the anarchists, ‘

But there is also a strong leftist organization in France headed hy fofmer Premier Juan Negrin. Included are the Communists and others who are violently opposed to compromise or delay. With power

' ful outside aid, they may precipitate matters—depend=

ing a good deal on the attitude of France. Her eco= nomic boycott of Spain may be the green light.

d Price Increases Nevertheless, Stabilization Administrator Ches« ter Bowles seems satisfied that the new “order will accomplish the desired objective. Bowles apparently =z thinks the “bulge” will be only in manufactured . goods, which-witl affect a mere 10 per cent of the cost of living. It is his opinion that the controls will stay . on food, rent and clothing, the three principal items - in the index of prices. But the pressures to hreak these controls are now greater than ever before. A new minimum wage law would increase the costs of both foods and textiles. Furthermore, incentive increases are being granted

-gextle and clothing manufacturers to secure more

production of the items still in short supply. Even with the price control and stabilization acts | renewed until June 30, 1947—in spite of all the pressures against them—executive order 0607 has made much easier to get both wage and price increases and thére are’ many people who do not share the Bowles confidence that. everything is going to be dandy,

A. F. of L. Brands Policy Retreat THE SUSPICION grows ‘that. the new wagesprice policy will merely legalize creeping inflation.. If that ‘suspicion is ‘corréct, the soundest unofficial interpre- . tation yet made is that of the American Federation ‘of Labor, which thinks the new policy is a ‘retreat from stabilization and a horrible mistake, The A. F. | of L. argument is simply that granting price increases - to pay for wage increases merely raises the wageearners’ ‘cost of living and leaves them ro better off