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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Ov Way

THEY NEED DOLLARS; WE, MATERIALS

OUR friends, the British, need a few billion dollars credit, to buy food for their hungry stomachs, to start modernizing their obsolete industrial plants, to begin a revival of the world trade upon which the prosperity o their people depends. Our friends, the French, are in similar circumstances. Our friends, the Russians, want dollars, too. So do many

others. a The first major post-war foreign credit proposal— mittee. It's a loan at a low interest rate, to be amortized over a 50-year period, with escape clauses that make allowances for any years when ‘the British might not have a favorable balance of trade large enough to meet the dollar payment. . British and American negotiators spent months working up this deal. Apparently they never talked business except in terms of a dollar loan to be repaid in dollars. Yet, obviously, dollar repayments ‘can be only on a when-and-as-possible basis. We should have learned that from the defaults on foreign loans after world war I. Britain can get dollars only by selling goods for dollars. In the “end, we have to take goods in payment, if we are paid at all. "Why then wouldn't a buyer-seller deal be better than a lender-borrower arrangement? Why not set up the dollar credits which Britain needs, and agree to accept payment in raw materials of all kinds which we need now and will continue to need in the future? : o » EJ » » “ JUST because the negotiators failed to explore that alternative is no reason why congress shouldn't do it. We talk a lot about stockpiling. We swore we wouldn't get caught short again. ~ But stockpiling legislation lan-

variety of critical materials. available in large quantities in British possessions, colonies and dominions. True, they don’t belong to the British government. Neither do the American dollars belong to the American government. Britain can buy those materials with pounds sterling and balance off payment in manu-

Let's mention a few minerals, which we are short of and which we can afford to buy in almost unlimited quantity for stockpiling, for the next war, or better still to prevent a next war: Antimony, mercury, nickel and platinum in Canada. Asbestos in Canada and South Africa. Copper in Canada, Rhodesia and South Africa. Lead in Canada, Australia and Burma. Tin in Malaya and Nigeria. Bauxite in British Guiana and the Gold Coast. Chromite in India and South Africa. Corundum in South Africa. Manganese in India, South Africa and the Gold Coast. Mica in India. Tungsten in Burma, Malaya, Rhodesia and Australia. Vanadium in Rhodesia and South Africa. Zinc in Australia, Canada, Burma, Rhodesia. * We need large amounts of those minerals right now, and we can take delivery of still larger quantities over a period of years, We need other strategic materials besides minerals—such as rubber. And not only things in the strategic category—we need raw materials of -all kinds: A happy aspect of this alternative of buying instead of lending is that whatever deal we make with the British, we can also make with the French and Russians and Chinese and others—without discrimination. We hope congress will at least ‘consider it.

SLIGHTLY CONFUSED JUSTICE WEVE never quite understood the maneuvers the United States department of justice has tried in its mysterious efforts to get rid of ex-Sgt. Frederick Bauer, quickly and, if possible, quietly. : i Apparently the department of justice hasn't either. As witness a couple of letters, official, too, from the department. One to Sgt. Bauer himself, dated Dec. 18, says “it has been determined that you should be removed to the country of your nationality as soon as arrangements for your transportation can be made.” : The other, dated Feb. 18, was filed with Federal Judge Evan A. Evans as a part of the department's effort to persuade Judge Evans not to grant Mr. Bauer a trial. It says: “At no time was it ever the department's intention to endeavor to remove the plaintiff (Mr. Bauer) from the country prior.to a judicial determination of his citizenship | status.” We're a little sorry to see a high-class gentleman like District Attorney Howard Caughran compelled by his official position to be mixed up in this sorry business at all. But we're quite confident there won't be any of this sort of chicanery in any case he prosecutes, official position or not: official position. So the prospects are good, right now, for a fair and

since last August though charged with no crime. It is high time the whole smelly story came out—and let the chips fall where they may.

WE PRODUCE ON HOPE OF PROFIT

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$3,750,000,000 for Britain—is now before a senate com- |’

impartial trial for this man who has been held a prisoner

we don’t get more production in this country, plenty quick, OPA and price control will go down

~The future of OPA and of the fight against inflation is likely to turn on the regulations which should be issued soon by Stabilization Director Bowles and Price Adminis-

producers can obtain prompt and fair decisions on the | prices to be charged to compensate for the higher wage : costs, we may Bo production rolling. But if it is to be Some more of the same old numbo-jumbo, red tape and | delay p reaching price decisions, then we don't get

< principle ates is simple. Its driving force is the for profit.” Our producers havg been known and produce at a loss. But they never in advance they will lose. They sell for offers a

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of the state of Indiana, reads: “SECTION 11.

practical to the right hand curb or edge of the roadway; (b) Approach for a left turn shall be made in the portion of the right half of the roadway nearest the center line thereof and after entering the in-

tersection, the left turn’ shall be made so as to leave the intersection 1 to the right of the center line of the roadway being entered; (c) Approach for a left turn from two-way street into a one-way street shall be made in. that portion of the right half of the roadway nearest the center line thereof and by passing to the right of such center line where it enters the intersection. A left turn from a one-way into a two-way street shall be made by passing to the right of the center line of the street being entered upon leaving the intersection; (d) The State Highway commission and local authorities in their respective jurisdictions may cause markers, buttons or signs to be placed within or adjacent to intersections and thereby require and direct that a different course from that specified in this section be traveled by vehicles turning at an intersection and when markers, buttons, or signs are so placed, no driver of a vehicle shall turn a vehicle at an intersection other than as directed and required by such markers, buttons, or signs.” It will be noted that sub-section (b) concerns a left turn for the {usual intersection in which two {straight two-way streets cross at right angles to each other. At such an intersection, one car traveling west and making a left turn to the south would not cross the path of another car traveling east and turning north because each car will pass to the left of the center of the intersection, but will leave the intersection to the right of ‘the center line of the street being entered. One very important element of safety in making left turns, or right turns, is the pedestrian who may be crossing the street in the same

"Here's Story on City Traffic Rules; Times' Note Wasn't Clear"

By Frank Y. Hardy, City Traffic Engineer I wish to comment on the question of the traffic law relative to manguishes in congress, and we're dangerously short of a wide [ner of making left turns as published in the Forum. I have discussed Many of those materials are | this matter with Audry E. Jacobs, inspector of traffic of the Indianapolis police department, and we have agreed that there is a possibility of the reply in the “Editor's Note” being misleading or misunderstood, ‘The applicable law given in Section 71 of Chapter 48, Acts of 1939,

Turning at Intersections. The driver of a vehicle

ag . intending to turn at an intersection shall do as follows: (a) Both the factured goods she sells to her dominions and colonies. epproach fof & right turn, snd # ight tum shall be made #5 close 55

or opposite direction as that from which the turn is made. For example, at an intersection with automatic traffic signals, the pedestrian should walk east or west with green signal as the motorist going west. If the motorist completes a left or right turn, he will cross the walk being used by pedestrians during the same period of the green light.

Editor's Note: Thanks, Mr. Hardy for your explanation of the city traffic rules. Despite the faet it exceeds the 250-word®' limit on Forum letters, we are printing it because of its general interest. Since it answers other letters on the same subject, the latter will not appear in the Forum. To Lawrence B. Rial, Mr. L. C. B, “A Poor Milk Man” and others, our apologies for not covering the ground completely in our footnote.

“WHY DO ARTISTS NEED SUCH A CUTE COTTAGE?” By M. Brown, Indianapolis Would Mr. Randolph Coates, members of the Indiana Artists club, Mr, Robert Wirsching and Mr. Milton Matter like to tell the homehungry veteran where they plan to get the building material for the cute little cottage pictured recently in The Times? Why, in this time of housing and building material shortages can’t Mr. Steele's house be used for the visiting artists? Or why can’t the artists get along the way they have in past years? I think the stock of pictures we have on hand now would surely tide us over until the veterans are taken care of. After all, if G. I. Joe hadn't spent those long months in a fox hole in Europe or a steamy. jungle in the Pacific there probably wouldn't be any trees to paint. Bombs have a nasty way of changing trees, land-

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$6500 BEING ASKED FOR HOUSE THAT COST $2800 By a Veteran's Wife, Indianapolis It’s an outrage the way property owners of this city go on about rent control. The house I live in was bought by a real estate firm for $2800 seven years ago. They have had the house up for sale every since they bought it and now are asking $6500 for it. Their total repair bill and upkeep for this property has been $95. This was for putting one coat of paint on the outside to make it sell better. I hope The Times continues to print the names of property owners who are vacating their properties. The highest rental property in our neighborhood rents for $25 a month. These homes are all at least 50 years old. . Ed " » “WHY NOT HAVE VOTERS PICK COUNTY CHAIRMAN?”

By Alma Bender, Zionsville Your editorial and Forum letters

on the subject of precinct committeemen remind me of a political

reform which Frederic H. Guild advocated when he was in Indiana. Dr. Guild was the political scientist who has since made such a brilliant success of the Kansas legislative council. Dr. Guild felt that the precinet committeeman really had two jobs —electing the county chairman and doing the polling, etc. of the precinet. Ability for both jobs, in his opinion, didn't always exist in one man. People who picked a committeeman who would vote for the county chairman they wanted, didn’t always get a committeeman who would poll the voters, get them registered, clear the registration lists of false registgations, arrange meetings, introdu candidates around the precinct, find election workers and members of the election boards, and do all the routine party work of getting the voters informed and interested, which we usually include in the term “getting out the vote.” What Dr. Guild suggested was that the members of the party vote directly for the county chairman instead of the precinct committee man. Precinet committeemen would be selected by the county chairman with a single job of getting out the vote. Usually there isn’t more than one willing one to the precinct. Usually the county chairman who is in office has to dig them up. Letting a county chairman appoint them probably wouldn't be much of a change. WR » » “LET'S HAVE OPA ACTION IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION” By PF. 1, Indianapolis The OPA says the paper hangers are practically all violating the law ‘by overcharge. He refers to prices back in 1941. I don't hang paper but I do occasionally have some hung. If it was worth $1 to clean a room four years ago, then it is worth $4 to clean that same room now. We certainly have that much inflation now, in everything. If the OPA would like to really do something that would help, why doesn't it dig into the long-whisk-ered brotherhood that bought up all the old rags in the country for $250 a ton, and then resell them for $00 a ton to paper manufacturers? ‘The roofing trade doesn't have . enough roofing supplies on hand to do patch work, let alone to keep the business going. Roofing felt has practically disappeared from the market because this outfit has been permitted to raise the price of rags beyond the reach-of the roofing manufacturer. I suppose these are being sent across the water, too, to their ancestors. Let us have some OPA action in the right direction for a change.

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Laying the Ghost in Haunted House

JNDIANAPOLIS was no more than 15 years old when the first. ghost appeared. ( “Kinderhook,” a colloquial connotation for the neighborhood which now comprises the block bounded by Maryland, Alabama and Georgia Sts. and Virginia ave. : Le The haunted house was on the east side of the avenue, about one-third of the way south of Maryland st. It was the swayback remnant of Henderson's tavern, ‘a house orginally on Washington st., which Isaac Kinder had bought. Mr. Kinder alJayed the curiosity of the natives by moving the old hotel to its new location; after which he fixed it up to serve as a tenement house. For years the tenement house was known as “Noah’s Ark,” a name thought up by the natives who had watched Mr. Kinder's daring enterprise with considerabe interest and, indeed, not without some alarm. The natives’ sense of humor, in case you never gave the subject any thought, was com=pounded of Yankee and Southern elements.

Ghost Stays With Building! INCLUDED IN the list of those living in Noah's Ark was a Mr. Meldrum who made ends meet by grinding bark for the tannery run by Yandes & Wilkes at the time. Documentary evidence points to him as the one responsible for the rumor that the ghost belonged to a man who had been mur~

dered in Henderson's tavern when it was still on Apparently the ghost had -moved-

Washington st. with the old building to its new location. The, ghost went around in the shape of a lighted candle carried by invisible hands; and it turned up only in the witching hours of the night when all good people were supposed to be asleep, said Mr. Meldrum. The pioneer kids of Indianapolis swallowed Mr. Meldrum's story hook, line and sinker. Indeed, they were so sold on it that they went half a mile out of their way to aVoid passing Noah's Ark. Even grown-ups, when abreast of the ramshackle old house, hurried to get past it. Those going south ran as fast as their feet would carry them to get on the other side of Pogue’s Run. Back in those

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apolis that ghosts. -couldn’t cross the water—a belief, by. the way, which leads some modern people (Wm. G. Sullivan, for one), to suspect that Bobby Burns’

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

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poem “Tam O’' Shanter” Indianapolis. 80 much for Messrs. Sullivan and Burns. Now for Elijah Fletcher, a pioneer kid of Indianapolis: One velvety” summer night - (circa: 1836) Lie

was not unknown in early

Fletchér persuaded his brothers (Calvin Miles and

Stoughton) to walk past Noah's Ark, No ghost could scare him, he declared. And for good measure, he added that if they went half a mile out of thelr way, like as. not they’d be too late for the debating society that night. ‘When the four Fletcher boys got abreast of the ° house, they saw through the windows not merely one ghost, but a dozen or more. Seized with térror, the kids hurried to the Seminary in University Park to tell-the debating society about it.- In the telling, Lige sald he had thrown a brick bat against one of the windows. To his amazement, it had rebounded

like a rubber ball. Brother Cal confirmed the state-

ment, : ’ The debating society, instead of,proceeding with the business scheduled for the night, resolved to move as a mass to lay the ghosts. Lige suggested that Jim Sweetser should advance and throw a brick against a window. If it rebounded, it would be a sure sign of ghosts and all further action would depend on that. By that time most of the boys had weakened and only Jim Sweetser, Johny Quarles and the four Fletcher boys remained.

Battle With Supernatural

THE SIX BOYS approached the building in battle formation. Jim hurled the brick. To his surprise, the pane broke into a hundred pieces. Jim's courage proved contagious and five minutes later there wasn't a perfect pane left in the building. The interior was then carried by storm. All of a sudden, on the second floor, the boys stumbled into a whole troop of ghosts. A terrific battle took place. The ghosts were Soft and squashy and wouldn't stay put. When the moon came out, the boys discovered that they weren't fighting ghosts at all, but a flock of sheep. To this day nobody knows why the sheep were spending the night in Noah's Ark. Next morning, bright and early, Isaac Kinder looked up the kids’ fathers and presented them with a terrific bill of damages. He didn't have to do much running around. All he had to do was to look up the law firm of Quarles, Sweetser & Fletcher, the members of which happened to be the proud fathers of the six brave boys. ‘It was genermily believed at Meldrum squealed on the kids.

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Oh, for the Carefree Life of a Midget

NEW YORK, March 11.—Trouble with people is that they are just too big. This profound observation has developed since I spent an evening up to my knees in midgets. The midgets are George, Richard and Olive Brasno, who have been in show business for years, and are currently working in a revival of vaudeville called “Are You With It” which keeps on running despite the large qualities of dispraise it has received. Midgets, apart from occasional hazards of large dogs and bathroom accidents, are the best-adjusted people to the current confusion that I have met to date. One steak will feed six midgets. George, who is in his middle 30's, says one glass of beer ds a mild debauch for him. Olive is the only pretty woman I ever saw who wasn't nuts about nylons. “My god, I hate 'em,” she says. “They wrinkle and bag at the knee. I like silk myself, and I had plenty during the war. A manufacturer sends me a special small size.”

No Clothes Problem for Them

MIDGETS DIDN'T FRET about clothes shortages and shoé coupons and such, because their stuff has been tailor-made all their lives, anyhow. The ‘only real clothing hardship they've experienced is in white shirts for every day wear. Their dress shirts are tailored, but George and Richard used to drop into the children’s department for their shirts, and there aren't any white ones in smal] sizes anymore. “That,” said Olive, who is 44 inches high and about the same size as a milk bottle, “and my mink coat. I wanted to have it repaired, but they wanted $1000 to

fix it up, so I wear it as is.” Olive’s mink coat would be baggy on a mink. : During travel ‘restrictions and Pullman shortages, the three little ones usually chivvied their partner and factotum, Buster Shaver, a full-sized man, into cadging compartments, but in moments of stress they could make a comfortable berth out of a daycoach seat. Who besides midgets and children can be anything but miserable in day-coach ‘seats? Olive bought two girdles in London before the war, and they lasted her all through the scarcity.

Midgets Are Just Ordinary Folk THERE ARE mild frustrations, of course, to being about as big as a 3-year-old. Olive says she reads only paper-Hhcked detective stories because she has trouble with the six-inch-thick historical novels that are flooding the market. She got her hand caught in “Forever Amber” and sprained her wrist! People, too, are inclined to be patronizing and talk baby talk to Richard, who looks about 5 and who shocks nice old ladies by sticking a cigaret rakishly in his face. “But,” says Olive, “intelligent people treat. us ‘like the adults we are.” Midgets don't like little houses and little furniture or anything else which would encourage the kingsized to patronize them as babies, They are not dwarfs, but ordinary people, seen through the wrong .. end of a telescope. ’ “We have no kick whatsoever,” remarked George, Pulling manfully at his beer. “Except every now and then some bartender gives you an argument when you crave a slug of Scotch.” : Have you met anybody else, lately, who liked the status quo?

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

WASHINGTON, March 11.—As an antidote to too much pessimism-it is a good idea every now and then to take a look at the other side of the picture. President Truman turned the picture over in the industrial dispute situation which has. lots of people discouraged. He pointed to settlements of the rubber and telephones disputes by collective bargaining, without strikes and without interference by the government. 7 He went on to say that hundreds of sith settlements are being made this way all the time. It’s too bad, in his opinion, that employers and employees who work out settlements by collective bargaining don’t get credit instead of those, as he put it, who go running to the newspapers.

Strikes Make - Headlines NEWSPAPERS NECESSARILY stress the big strikes because of their dramatic interest to such a large part of the public, aside from those directly involved. Mr. Truman expressed an outside and layman's viewpoint of newspaper treatment of strike news, but it is healthy for somebody to call attention to it. It is a fact, certainly, that soldiers overseas in the war got an exaggerated impression of strikes here at homie in ‘those days, which were held down to a minimum, as a matter of fact, and. at any one time involved only small percentage of workers. Any strike in war time naturally is news. The record of production was proof of how well the workers kept on the job. They worked long hours, many xegularly seven days a week. The rash of industrial disputes after the war was expected because of reduction of hours and pay, with

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

The Brighter Side Of Strikes Picture

the cost of living high and moving up. We have had some big ones and some tough ones. But, as the President pointed out, there also have been many disputes settled without strikes, without publicity, and without any credit to the parties involved for getting together themselves around a stable. A contribution was the help of the United States conciliation service of the labor department here.

Many Disputes Settled THE RECORD for January is interesting. There were 1192 labor-management cases brought to the attention officially of the conciliation service. Of these, 553 were settled before a strike wote- was taken and 358 were settled in the time between a strike vote and the date set for the strike. A total of 174 were settled after a striké had occurred. In 50 cases, the disputes went to arbitrators for settlement. In the other cases, the conciliation service was called in to help in other matters, as advisers on workloads, etc. In the past week there have been 62 new strikes . involving 27,000 workers, and during the week 41 disputes involving 15,000 workers have been settled, the conciliation service report shows. : In his annual message to congress President Truman cited the record up to that time since V-J day. “The United States conciliation service since V-J day has settled over 3000 disputes affecéing over 1,300,000 workers without a strike threat and has assisted in settling about 1300 disputes where strikes were threatened which involved about 500,000 workers,” the President reported. This sort of thing goes on quietly, day by day. It {s worth noting. The good sense of the American people still exhibits itself. : »

Atlantic Commonwealth Of Nations

WASHINGTON, March 11.—Count Richard Cou-denhove-Kalergl, president of the Pan-European union and visiting professor of history at New York university, takes a gloomy view of the United Nations. He says its charter does not fit present world conditions.

No one can doubt, he said to this writer, that’ the,

best method of assuring peace would be a world federation with a federal police force. equally evident that no such federation has much chance as long as humanity 1s split by rival ideologies. At San Francisco, Count Coudenhove-Kalergi witnessed the drafting of the charter. He recognized it as a gallant effort to bridge the gap between western civilization and bolshevism. But, he. observed, the United Nations cannot serve as a peace organization as long as it permits the aggressor to veto all action

against acts of aggression. Nor, he adds, can the gap

be bridged by appeasement. Munich was proof of that,

Not Contrary to UNO. SOME OTHER MEANS must be found if peace _are to endure, the count believes.

Hand—civilization80 he advocated what he calls “an Atlantic com-

monwealth of nations,” the sole object of which “should be to assure peace by obligatory arbitration without veto powers and by a strong defensive alliance” within the framework of the United Nations. Such regional arrangements, he points out, are provided for in the charter. =

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Industrially and militarily its potential would be superior to any other power or group of powers. A strong, united and peaceful Atlantic commonwealth not only would maintain peace but win friendship and co-operation of the rest of the world—including

, the Soviet Union. On the other hand, a weak and

disunited west invites aggression.

Russia Is Opposed THE PRESENT SITUATION, however, hardly seems favorable to the plan. Soviet Russia is opposed to it—unless it could be brought about under her control. - 8he is also openly hostile to anything smacking of unity among the nations of western Europe. She dislikes the idea even of an entente between France and Great Britain, or between them and the low countries” : ; And it would probably prove fatal to Finland were that little republic to turn her eyes westward toward Scandinavia. Poland, Czechoslovakia and the Balkans certainly would not dare espouse the cause of a United States of Europe at this time, . Apparently, “therefore, European and world peace will have to be sought in some other direction. The ‘United Nations seems the best hope of the moment but admittedly it is virtually helpless, as it stands, | to’ prevent aggression by the really great powers. Unless the big powers can muster brains enough to work out 8 peace formula for themselves, and live

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