Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 March 1946 — Page 10
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~ 'Price in Marion County, 5 cents a copy; deliv“ered by carrier, 20 cents a week. ; "Mall rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, ‘U. 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, 87 cents a ‘month. . _ RI-5851, —— Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy WE AGREE WITH PAC . . VFTEN as we have disagreed with the Political Action Committee of the C. I. O., we must endorse heartily. its drive to get out the vote in the primary election. While there was much else to commend in the PAC platform announced yesterday, ranging from civilian control of atomic energy to support of UNO and the national housing program, the one thing the folks of Marion county can do something about—and right now—is registering for the primary and going to the polls to cast their votes. ; If the voters surrender their voice im selecting candidates by staying away from the polls, they forfeit much of the right to complain about the caliber of the tickets selected for the fall general election. It frequently is to the interest of old-line organization politicians that a light vote is cast, because the party workers—on and off the public payroll—will be certain to vote. It is thus that a machine selects candidates, and the lighter the vote the better the chance of putting over its slate. So, this time in concert with PAC, we reiterate what we have said in the past. Be sure you're registered properly for the primary. Study the records of the candidates who seek public jobs—and then go to the polls and cast your vote.
REWARDS FOR BETTER CONGRESS
THE HOUSE of representatives has voted, 217 to 116, “* not to consider a bill which would have admitted members of congress to the federal retirement system, We believe a large majority of senators and represen- - tatives favors, as we do, the principle of that bill. The retirement system enables civil service employees to buy annuities payable when they grow old and leave their jobs. It would be good business and good government to let members of congress do the same. Why, then, did such a large house majority oppose taking up the bill Because: 1. Many members were afraid of it. This is an. election year. They remember the public outcry grainst ‘‘pensions for congress” a few years ago. : 2. Many other wanted to wait for a bill embodying the entire program of the LaFollette-Monroney committee to strengthen congress and bring its methods up to date, Admission of senators and representatives to the retirement system is one of many proposals in that program higher salaries is another. : ’ Both these reasons were sound. A lot of citizens would have been sore if congress had voted itself in on retirement benefits at this time, and that issue probably would have helped to defeat quite a few congressmen. But there will be no such reason to fear the issue if ~ it is made part of a comprehensive measure to enable congress to do a better job. Adoption of the whole LaFollette- - Monroney program would convince the public that members of a better congress deserve protection against want in old age and are worth better pay.
GETTING WEAK
(CHAIRMAN CONNALLY of the senate foreign relations committee is the last of the major United States delegates to the recent United Nations conference to report. His call for a franker and firmer policy toward Russia makes it almost unanimous. Senator Vandenberg, Mr. Dulles and Secretary of State Byrnes have said the 'same thing, not to mention many others. ; This attitude has met with enthusiastic response in congress, in the press, and from the public generally. In- - deed, the bankruptcy of the old policy of appeasing Russian violations of treaties and of the United Nations Charter is so obvious that it is not apt to be revived by the administration—at least not soon. , But we shouldn't kid ourselves that frank talk—how- | pver essential—will in itself solve the problem. It is true that the only kind of pelicy Russia understands is a firm policy. But it is not true that a firm policy consists of loud words. Bluster won't-impress Moscow. Unless the ~ Untied States is strong, Russia will not listen to us. As a matter of fact, we have invited a good deal of the defiance Russia is now showing the world by our own cultivation of physical weakness since V-J day. We have ‘demobilized more rapidly and more completely than any
that Russia and most other nations take it for granted that the Untied States, regardless of commitments, ‘will pull out of Germany and the Far East soon. They know that our occupation armies are so weak now that a-major test might be disastrous for us. fies ® = » y o uo u , , HEY also have heard of Gen. Eisenhower's recent report on disintegration of our armed forces in this country. ~ They look upon us as a weary and over-stuffed giant settling down for a siesta, deaf to warnings and blind to dangers. Maybe they are right.
ce. the ‘demobilized army, navy and air force, Until . 0, it is absurd fo think we can help preserve a United Nations peace or maintain our own security. a eg are not making matters any” better » tiere are some of the measures languishing in congress: : Unification of the armed forces, universal militany training. Sufficient pay and other incentives to attract . yolunteers for occupation troops and the regular army navy. Meanwhile, the draft law expires in about twe
bad off ‘as a militar er IK Y power now, Yaneh worse fix next summer and next year quick remedial action, What is the President. ef going to do about it? What is congress
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other major power. We have cut down our army so fast |
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: Neither the administration nor congress is taking this | danger: seriously—and the inter-service feuds of the gen- |
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"I'm Going Stark, Raving Mad Over Those Eternal Demands for Nylons"
By A Store Clerk, Greenwood Any nylons today? Do you expect” any this week? What time do they get in? I am always too late. How can I know when you put them out? Only charge customers get nylons in the big stores. It isn’t fair to just put them oyt. You should have them sign their names, If you sign your. name at John Jones’ store-you won't get any for six weeks. I know a woman that has eight pairs. If I just had one pair 1 wouldn't bother you any more. I am just desperate for hosiery. What days do you get them in? What brand do you have? Oh, I wouldn't have those old seamless rayons. I know you saved my neighbor a pair
“WHY SUBSIDIES? DONT
We have been reading a
dies for quite a while.
and help get the government to a pay as you go basis? subsidies at all?
ernment out of business, and
but now you say you haven't any. My mother went to Florida and -
I had to give her the pair you Vi Iews on
sold me and now I haven't a thing. We ought to quit wearing hose for Th e News By DANIEL M. KIDNEY
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30 days and then you'd be glad to put them out. Well, keep your hose | 1 know you have some under the | counter. I go to the hospital every | WE HOPE that World Fund day and I need a pair. I am get-| and Bank meeting in Savannah ting married Sunday. You want! doesn't mean going South with me to have a pair of hose, don't] Uncle Sam's dough. : you? : 4 = This is: the eighth place I have | [been today. Housewives don't need| fer Winston Churchill in West- ! hose like we working girls. How can | we working girls get hose, when you |
always put them out in the morn- 2 # = { ing or afternoon? I couldn't wear Maybe we are making those Athe pair I got. I had to give them to bombs out of butter. { {my sister. I wouldn't trade in your Rx» | place again if I had a million dol-| flars. I know I never bought hose | {in your store but I buy other] things. I am making a phone call and the | local operator butts in, “Any ny-| !lons today?” “I thought that you | were going to tell us when you got | some in.”
Nearest thing to world war I peace so far is Herbert Hoover feeding a starving Europe. 2 » = Despite the tall talking amohg | the Big Three nations, none wants | to reconvert to war, | = = n
mcome
: f | The phone rings at night; thel a eo . tax refund can i { doorbell rings before breakfast. And| make March 15 seem like Christ- | | mas.
{they say a small town is such a| { nice quiet place.
what we can afford to pay.
BUY WHAT WE DON'T NEED” By Mrs. A. H. Horton, 612 Gerrard dr.
great
deal about various kinds of subsiNow war is over, why do we not let things come to their proper level
the
down Why
We pay in taxes, why not pay the full price for the article to begin with, get the gov-
com=-
petition will soon restore prices to
None
of us are going hungry or naked vet, and we could follow Benjamin Franklin's motto for a while with | great profit to ourselves and our
| community,
also helping to re-
| lease needed foodstuffs and cloth-
{ing for use where it is really | ed.
it out.”
need-
“Make it do, use it up, wear
Our pioneers were hard working, | thrifty people. We will never have A { to sacrifice as they did. But we can Some of his critics would pre- | pe comfortable with less and not
buy what we do not need, especially
minster Abbey rather than at | foodstuffs. We can use up those { Westminster college. | puddings and canned goods on our
pantry shelves; and plan to put in a garden where possible. We have
; one-fourth acre for the plowing and | { planting if someone is interested.
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“WE TEEN-AGERS NEED A {COMMUNITY CENTER BADLY”
By J.-M., Indianapolis
Why can't we, who live on the
West side, have a teen-age canteen?
Personally, I think it would be just | the thing to get some of these
young teen-agers off the streets, I
am a girl of 17 and
need a canteen,
speaking {on behalf of myself, I think we someplace to go
| I am going stark raving mad it is common knowledge that in #nd have fun but yet stay out of
| Please won't the powers that be in proportion to her resources; British | (¥ouble. It seems as though every |
| Washington send some nylons to|industry and economy contributed Side of town but the West has a Main st. so we can again have a much more than we did toward | center or canteen. We haven't any-
semblance of sanity. 8% 8 | “NOT EVEN AMERICA CAN | BE SELF-SUFFICIENT NOW”
| By A Veteran, Indianapolis
twinning the war.
suffer greatly, ’ | We need not yet become frantic | about the possibility of a . third | It is amazing-how quickly people [world war. But we cannot ‘afford | {change. During the war iselation-|t0 Weaken and expose ourselves by |
ism was a dead issue, yet today C-UDE our closest European ally
: : {succumb to he IW ic some of us have apparently already | 4ilomma ey own onomik | forgot h e > “hot 3 i : gotten that not even America | By belping Great Britain to her can be self-sufficient. ifeet now we are taking a big step
I am
a not-advocating the loan to toward insuring world peace and ritain ! ty
out of gratitude, although security
Carnival —By Dick Turner
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in this community can enjoy
But we all knew thing! Why? Aren't we teen-agers that without an economically sound | Just--&s good as the others? Isn't Great Britain our own economy will | [here some way every boy and girl
him-
self without worrying his parents? The only place. we have to go to is
to, a neighborhood: theater.
It is
hardly large enough, I read where
!B. E.,, of Indianapolis, also on the
West side, talked of the teen-agers being run out of restaurants and not being able to play the juke
boxes,
If we had a canteen that
wouldn't happen. As it is, we have no place to go but to the nearest
drug store or restaurant and
hang
around. That's where the trouble
begins.
So again, I say that we
need a canteen on the West. side. I think that we deserve one just as
much as the others, " n 5
“GERMANS IN GOOD SHAPE
WITH LOOT FROM EUROPE!”
By R. Smith, Indianapolis
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One of the reasons Germany was able to recover from world war I and rearm for world war II was that our United States senate was
filled with senators who
sympa-
thized with the Germans and permitted them to set up their cartels in .this country. Through the cartels they got funds to help buy items which they did not have in
their own country.
This article is to call attention to our own Senator Capehart's action in patting himself on the back for foreing our government to take
fquick action in Sending our
food-
stuff to the poor starving Germans
when all of the reports coming out
of Germany by unbiased investi-
from the rest of Europe.
DAILY THOUGHT
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work:
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| gators. prove that the German peo[ple are in the best possible shape with their stolen clothes and food
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For we are strangers before Thee, and sojourners, as were all
the
‘earth are a shadow, and “there is none abiding. = I Chronicles
MEN are immortal till their = done. — David Living-
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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover
"What MacArthur Can Tell Hoosiers
IT'S OUR BUSINESS, in view of The Times invitation to General of the Army Douglas MacArthur to visit Indianapolis when he returns to the states, to consider what this soldier-statesman- could tell us, at the time he receives the acclaim of Hoosierdom. Gen, MacArthur has demonstrated that be has
| military genius which will probably rank him in
history as America’s number .one soldier, along with Gen. Robert E. Lee. But he also has shown a firmness and fairness in dealing With other powers that is vital in this period of our history . .\, and he could tell us much that would lead to sounder approach to world problems. Newspaper: correspondents who have been with
| him many months, and generals who have been his
key staff officers throughout the war confess their inability to define the MacArthur character to their own satisfaction. Therefore I jnvité certain contradiction when, on the basis of my few personal contacts with him in the early days of surrender and occupation of Japan, I attempt to make even a superficial sketch of my impression of him.
Has Deep and Abiding Faith
THE COMMUNIQUES with their Biblical analogies which you read from his GHQ were in his words, more often than not, and they reflected the sincere faith in a supreme being that is one of the facets of his colorful character. In those early days, he had more faith than he did men and equipment . . . and it was a faith unshaken by set-backs. This sincerity is home-spun and profound, despite the theatrics with which it frequently is surrounded . and the latter is due to a sense of the dramatic that is a source of criticism from many around him, and from others who have watched him from a
‘distance.
Gen. MacArthur represents a combination .of religious belief, mental vigor and agility, and mastery of military strategy. It is a tribute to his leadership that he kept the same top staff throughout the war, and that his subordinates were loyal to him, even though some of them were not personally fond of him. As Mayor Robert H. Tyndall said in his cable to Gen. MacArthur yesterday seconding The Times invitation: “I trust that your return will be at an early date, because it is my deep conviction that you can render a further public service in these crucial times by inspiring greater faith in the genuine Americanism which you represent in the eyes of Indiana and of the nation.”
«Fr Mayor Tyndall, a former major general and a
friehd of Gen. MacArthur, put his finger on one of the principal things the hero of Bataan can tell ug
- Hoosiers when he spoke of the inspiration to genuine
Americanism his presence here would be. It should be borne in mind that any message Gen. MacArthur might bring to Indiana would be based upon observations and experiences over all the world, He was the country’s most distinguished soldier even before the war, having served as chief of staff of the army and as superintendent of the military academy at West Point. He has witnessed and played a part in the development of much of our foreign policy in the Far East. Among the younger officers on his staff in the Philippines before the war was the present chief of staff of the army, Gen, Eisenhower, =
Our Responsibility for Peace
IF HE COMES to Indiana, it is to be hoped thas he will deliver an address which will bring tg those who hear and read it a greater realization of the responsibility to maintain peace that goes with our potential to produce for war or peace, It is hoped, too, that he will discuss our relations with Russia , . . from the known angle of his opinion that relations with that-one-time ally are a two-way street. In his. contacts with the Russians, he has been firm , , . and there have been no kick-backs of consequence. 1 It is hoped, too, that he will express foreibly the opinions he has favoring unification of the army, navy and sir corps . . . and arouse public pressure on congress to bring out of the pigeon-holes a hill that would make unification effective, Above all, it is to be hoped that he can impard some of his own faith to his Indiana audiences and the others which he of course will address when he comes to the United States... for faith is what we need these days as well as atomic energy and good-will, Indiana has welcomed its own Lt. Gen. Mark Clark
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and Lt. Gen. Walter Bedell Smith, as well as other
leaders who brought our forces to victory. It would be fitting for Gen. MacArthur to visit hére, and tg make one of the addresses he perforce will deliver . , , addresses which should do much to stimulate oup national consciousness, Ours is a really representative middlewestern city, Any pronouncement Gen. MacArthur chose to make here would be heard and read with close attention by other midwest communities. And Indianapolis could extend to the general, for the rest of this section of the country, its appreciation for his leadership im the nation’s most trying hours.
REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark
Nobody Gets Nothin’ From Nobody
NEW YORK, March 16.—It is comforting to know, on these fine spring days, that the life insurance companies of America are steadfastly ignoring the atom, and are going ahead as if Nagasaki had been destroyed by an earthquake—as if there were no tough talk with Russia and the upcoming explosions at Bikini atoll were merely a capricious prank by those funsters, army and navy. Since a British life insurance company recently wrote into its contracts that, from here in, it didn't count if you got knocked off by an atomic explosion, we have been inspecting our small policies with a worried eye. The British firm was very pessimistic. It announced that if you were already insured, your heirs got paid if you collided with an amok atom, but for future customers there would be a little clause saying “no payoff,” if the deceased got that way from an A-bomb- explosion.
Maybe There Won't Be Any Heirs
THIS VIEW WAS predicated on the naive assumption that if somebody started chucking those things around, there would still be heirs remaining to put in a holler for the cindered citizen's estate. This is regarded as slightly childish by our ‘insurance people, who (1) hope that peace will work and nobody will get gay with bombs and (2) figure.that if the worst comes to the worst, nobody will have to worry, because nobody will be around to collect nothing from nobody. * This thought, phrased rather more graciously, was
advanced by vice presidents of several large firms, who asked, with the usual timidity of the executive, that their names not be used. : “At the moment,” said a spokesman for Metroe politan, “there are only three conditions. under which life insurance compamies may not pay off—suicide, and death by war or, air accident, when the policies contain such prohibitive clauses. To add any other clauses, you have to go to the law. Sit Tight, It May Go "Way! “WE DID NOT invoke the war clause until war was certain, and as soon as it was over, we lifted the restriction. I imagine we wouldn't take legal steps to put in an additional clause until we had concrete evidence that death by the atom bomb was apt to be likely and wholesale.” : “You mean if Milwaukee is suddenly blown off the map, that would set a precedent and you would work from there?” ‘ “Something like that,” said our vice president, with what we thought was an uneasy giggle. “Something like that.” The life of an insurance claim adjustor being by no means a bed of gilt coupons, it would probably turn into a brief hell if some truculent nation dee cided to try a bomb, for size, on just one city. Our insurance directors shudder at the thought, and take a slightly macabre conifort, equivalent to the condemned man’s relief at not having to worry about taxes anymore, in the possibility that one atom bomb will lead to another, and in a short time both ine surors and insured will be mingled in the lava.
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes
G.O.P. Leaders Sleep at the Switch
WASHINGTON, March 16.—Rather convincing
evidence is accumulating that the Republican lead ership in congress may be off in its confident calculations of a fairly easy victory in the coming con-
gressional elections. It is- doubtful this leadership 1s awake to what is going on, particularly among veterans. So many of these men have come back with ideas of a different state of things in this country, and with a determination to do something about it. It is doubtful, too, that the party is thoroughly awake to other things, for example, the popularity of price control among women, now a substantial and aroused voting element, or to the movement from rural communities and small .towns to the cities during the war which probably has its political effect.
Indiana Veterans Are Example.
THERE HAS come to hand a weekly newspaper “The Veteran's Voice,” published by the Indiana chapter of the newly formed American veterans committee, which fixes blame on the Republicans and, southern Democrats for defeating two provisions of the ‘administration housing bill in the house—the subsidy and price control on old houses. The newspaper carries a statement from Martin Larner, state chairman, under the heading “Republicans held to account by AVC on housing action.” It advises AVC members to write to their Republican congressmen who voted against these provisions
that it was “a vote against the veteran, and one they shall be held to account for.” Much of the publication is. devoted to veterans’ housing, and it is rough reading. This sort of activity, which is going on elsewhere, is merely cited to show. that there is something stirring among the veterans. They are not going to be content with the old way of doing things, or with a return to the status quo or, as it is somee times called, “normalcy.” That seems to be the objective of the G. O. P. old guard leadership. : As for *the women’s part, this has become an increasingly important factor. Chester Bowles has become a sort of knight errant among women for his fight to hold down prices. Women's organizations are pretty solidly behind Chester.
Rural Voters Move to Cities
LABOR ORGANIZATIONS have done an amazing amount of educational work in this direction which cannot be discounted. Walter Reuther's insistence on tying up wages and prices and profits served to dramatize the issue of consumer interest in what is going on far more than might be imagined, even though he got practically nowhere with it in his negotiations with General Motors. A factor in 1946 politics which perhaps has nok
. been much considered is the movement to the cities
from the usually predominant Republican rural come munities and small towns. In the big..metropolitan areas, still Democratic, the newcomer is subjected to two important influences—either an efficient big city Democratic machine or labor unions, er both.
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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms
Russia ltself Has
WASHINGTON, March 16—Incredible as it may seem, less than nine months from the day that 50 members affixed their signatures to the charter at San Francisco, the future of the United Nations is hanging in the balance. A week from Monday, the security council is scheduled to meet in New York. Like it of not, it will have to deal with a carefully planned and executed aggression by one of the Big Five against
,a small and helpless neighbor—helpless, that is, unless
the United Nations goes to the rescue. If Russia is cited for aggression against Iran, and the charge is honestly pressed, she may walk out. If the council runs away from its duty, or if it shadow boxes, it will doom the United Nations as nothing but a pretty facade behind which the great powers ¢an get away with premeditated murder.
Showdown Will Give UNO Standing
SPOKESMEN FOR many of the smaller members are saying that if the Soviet Union . quits because the United Nations is determined to live up to its obligations, it would be a severe blow. But it would
be better to have it that way than to pussyfoot
and go on pretending that the peace organization means something. A showdown now would at least let the world know where it stands. The other members could tell Russia: . ; . . “We. are sorry to see you go. Jt will be a great 11 remain open and we hope you Will come back. But we cannot allow the withdrawal yo ¥ 2 ar i wel
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Defined Aggression
of any one member, however great, to wreck this lasé best hope for world peace.” °
Russia's refusal to withdraw her troops from Iran, -
her reinforcement of those troops and her suppor$ of armed forces operating against Iran's established government, constitute aggression, even according to her own definition. For years, the old League of Nations wrestled with the problem of defining the term, but Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov came nearest to an acceptable solution.
No Excuse for Aggression!
IN ADDITION to the customary acts ef war, Litvinoff declared the following constitute aggressions Invasion by armed forces, even without declarae tion of war, of the territory of another state. Aid to armed bands formed on the territory of a state and invading another state; or refusal, despite demands on the part of the state subjected to attack, to take all possible measures on its own territory te deprive said bands of any aid and protection. “No consideration of a political, military, economie
or any other nature,” said this Russian thesis, “can
serve as an excuse or justification of aggression. as above specified.” - nied The 21 American republics, numerically ‘nearly half the membership of the United Nations, are especially bitter against unprovoked attack, “War of aggression,” they declared at Havana, “constitutes
an international erime against the human’ species.”
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