Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 April 1946 — Page 10

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LY. gift of God to man is of necessity an incomplete —on must be tended carefully and sincerely At this season each year, the Christian world celebrates the rising of Jesus Christ from the dead. In too many instances, the only time many folk see the inside of a place of worship is at this Easter celebration. In these troublous times, our first Easter since we: : gratefully received the gift of peace, it is up to us to tend that gift lest we lose it and once again are drawn into war. As our Saviour sat teaching the people and answering their questions, one of his audience asked: “Master, what shall I do, that I may live again in * happiness after I am dead?”

Jesus answered: “The first of all the commandments is, the Lord our God is one Lord; and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength. And the second is like unto it. ' Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.” And Christ said, too, to be compassionate to all men, “for all men are your neighbors and brothers.” If we apply these principles in our daily life, our world will be a better world for all who are in it. But we must sincerely apply them; sincerely tend the gift of peace that

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EASTER WAS PERHAPS the occasion for greatest soul-searching and contemplation for our overseas troops, far from their homes and the usual observance of this season. I saw it in North Ireland. There I first heard the stary of Patrick’s capture by a wild band of Irish barbarians who caught him on an English raid and who later were converted by him to Christianity, The next year, I saw it in Sicily. Many of us visited the simple Syracuse cathedral where Peter is said to have preached on his evangelical tour. And again in Manila last year, the Filipinos reverently and joyously. observed their first major religious festival, in bombtorn churches, since liberation from the Japanese.

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DEAR BOSS: WELL, the -locusts won! Remember last week when I reported to you about the work of the wellheeled” lobbyists? As yous know, they managed to almost completely scuttle OPA in the house. Only the senate can save it. : Qur Hoosier congressmen followed the nearly precise pattern of the past. That is the two Democrats, Reps. Ludlow and Madden, and the self-styled “radi-

has been granted and guard against its loss through tolerating world selfishness when we are in a posigion to stop it.

~ HAMSTRINGING OPA : THOSE house members who voted to keep the OPA alive

‘cannot maintain price ceilings, did the country a deplorably bad service. , We don't say that they all played slippery politics. Some of them believed sincerely—though, we think, mistakenly—that the amendments with which they loaded the price-control bill are desirable and practicable. But many of them were working both street; trying to make price controls ineffective and at the same time to avoid the wrath of that large majority of citizens which the public-opinion polls show in favor of effective controls,

» have more respect for the 42 congressmen who voted, finally, to kill the bill and the OPA. They, like 3 the others who fought vainly against the crippling amendments, had the courage of their convictions. . They didn’t try to kid their constituents, and a respectable argument can be made for their stand. For government price controls cannot prevent inflation. They cannot bring supply into balance with demand. At | best, they can only suppress the mor" painful symptoms |. until other efforts make supply adequaie and overcome the forces that cause inflation. But when the government keeps strengthening those forces—as it does by deficit spending, by borrowing from the banks and increasing the volume of money in circulation, by encouraging labor to push wage costs up—oprice controls may discourage the one thing that now can stop inflation, namely, vast production.

In many cases price controls, as administered, have done just that. Plenty of good citizens are honestly convinced that the war on inflation will be lost unless the OPA is abolished. They believe that, given a free, competi__tive market, production would boom mightily and a flood of goods soon would quench the inflationary fires. And they might be right—if everybody would be pa- , tient and wise during the first few months, if everybody would refrain from buying beyond actual needs, if everybody would earn all he gets in profits or wages and grab for no more than he earns, and if the government, promptly and firmly, would balance its budget.. But nothing in recent history indicates that expecting universal patience and wisdom among American producers, workers and consumers _ would be a safe gamble. | So, we believe, it is necessary to keep the OPA for another year, to correct as many as possible of its faults and Be’ unfairnesses, and to provide for a gradual, orderly removal of price controls. The house banking committee prepared a bill which seemed to us to serve these purposes reasonably. That is the bill now so amended by the house that I would cause a sudden, disorderly collapse of price conThe worst, most falsely plausible of the amendments,

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all costs of its production and distribution plus a “reasonable profit” for its producers, processors, wholesalers and retailers. What's wrong with that? r » » . » » » I' would give the OPA an impossibly huge and difficult + "Job of cost accounting, It ignores the fact that never in & history has every commodity returned a profit at every i step of production and distribution. And it would put the ~ Rovernment into the business of determining what “reasonable profits” are—a step which, once taken, might not be and which we think the manufacturers, farmers merchants of this country soon would regret bitterly. © Some of the other amendments are almost as bad. We ‘ean only hope that the senate will be wiser than the house, M that the house will see its error and accept a much jeer bill than it has passed.

HAMEFUL RECORD IT night's Times carried a review of the criminal recrd of Howard Pollard, compiled hy its veteran police ‘Heze Clark. FRY tual criminal was arrested 18 times, and the

ih intent to rape to robbery.

cal” Republican, Rep. La Follette, voted with the ad-

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

ministration to save price control. Seven of the eight other Republicans voted for all the crippling amendments. - There was one exception. Rep. Johnson voted against the amendment taking

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meat prices out from OPA control completely. Rep. Wilson was absent, having gone back to In-

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"Ernie Pyle and Clapper

through next March, but to hamstring it so that it [Died When Most Needed" By “Bull-Mooser,” Crawfordsville

After four long years, most of i

back in the Hoosier Forum again. The Times looks different—or is it

me that's different?

stuff, I missed seeing Ernie Pyle by one day and then a few days later he was dead. Somenow I conjured up the idea that the Good Lord took Pyle and Clapper for a purpose. There were many great-guy Joes that the war took, but only a few people felt the terrible sorrow of the passing on of each individual Joe. There was very little cumulative effect of the enormous loss of lives, I even saw & gambling game being run on a casualty list. The casualty reports were almost as abstract to the public as were the reports on dollars being spent, and even more abstract than would have been a report of large property damage from a tornado. We were geared to expect large loss of life and we became too abstractly cold. Many people knew Pyle and Clapper and loved them like a son, or a father, or a teacher, or just a good upright God fearing and God loving American like they aspired to be. Maybe the Good Lord took Clapper and Pyle to give their loving public a cumulative jolt of the terrible sorrow, the bitter disillusionment and the sordid extravagance of the loss of life in war. We still hear people sorrowing over the loss of Pyle and ClapTr. Clapper and Pyle died when they were needed most in the future. That's the way most of the G. I. Joes died in this war and that’s the way most the G. I. Joes will die in the next war. There's something symbolic about it. Maybe Clapper and Pyle were taken to help us realize, and really feel, the utter, nonsensical futility of war; the extravagant sordidness, horror and tragedy of war; and to inspire us to do something NOW to end wars and the rumor of wars. I welcome the addition to The Times of Col. Hoover's articles. Col.

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There's a great void when I come to the space that was Raymond Clapper’s. I saw Clapper out in the Pacific a few days before his sides of the death, He looked and acted just like he wrote—the same simple, unpretending, friendly and considerate but not compromising sort of

t far from Indiana, Bull Mooser is

Hoover was in'the Pacific (besides other places) and was in intelligence, He can speak from firsthand knowledge. The American public should be led to know that we cannot do the job we have undertaken in winning this war without a large intelligence corps. ” "= = “WE BOBBYSOXERS DON'T MIND BEING CALLED THAT”

By Northside Teen-Ager Since your paper seems fo be a {popular place for us bobbysoxers to express ourselves, I'd like to add my two cents worth to the recent letters to the Forum. The Times carried an article Thursday about the boys in a Los Angeles high school objecting to describing girl students there as bobbysoxers. Well, a bunch of us here at our school were talking about that, and we agreed this was a silly objection. We certainly don’t mind it here, and I doubt if the boys do either. It's just like the term flapper. My mother says that’s what they called young girls in the olden days when she was in high school. Sure we're bobbysoxers, and don’t mind being called bobbysoxers, ® * n 8 “WE CHOOSE OUR LEADERS SO MUST TAKE RESULTS”

By R. B, Indianapolis Yes, I too wonder how many such cases as Howard Pollard could be found in our police and court records. Not only arrested 18 times but convicted a number of times— car taking, grand larceny, rape. But still no time served and not a cent spent for fines, There must have been a reason, And I suppose it was just because he was such a good boy. Does that make sense? Well, if people will read a paper that dares to tell the truth, regardless of who it hurts, they will learn lots of facts about this city that just don't make sense. Buf, after all, we choose our leaders.

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IN JOBS OF AUTHORITY” By A Reader, Indianapolis We now have another advisory institution, the juvenile court committee, from where they came and

who created them and what their qualifications are, to enable them to sit in judgment upon candidates for the juvenile court, are some of the things I would like to know. Its president, Mrs. Taggart, says that the “purpose of the committee” is to persuade qualified candidates from both major political parties to run for the office of Judge of the Juvenile Court of Marion county. As far as I can see this juvenile court committee when once it selects “qualified” candidates settles down at its regular routine of bridge and gossip. The juvenile court is all they know about, nothing else matters. ’ This committee has endorsed Harold N. Fields (Rep.) and Joseph O. Hoffmann (Dem, as the men most likely to succeed in their opinion. I would Tike to know, weré they selected after they announced their candidacy or were they “persuaded to run as qualified persons” in accordance with their avowed purpose, If these men “were persuaded before hand, then the committee has not been honest with the public. We would like to know regardless of how the preceding question is answered, by what rule or measure does this committee undertake to gauge the qualifications possessed by ope who is seeking the office of juvenile court judge? Who are the skilled and qualified personnel this committee wants to staff the court with? We now have qualified and skilled personnel and irrespective of their ability, you can not put many women in jobs with authority, They soon degenerate into “catty sisters.” Our present mayor will tell you that he had his hands full when the police force was loaded up with women as a war measure. The juvenile court committee has assumed the responsibility to act and speak for us, and now we ask of them, will they please tell us? » ” " “WOMEN SHOULD SET HIGH PRECEPTS FOR CHILDREN” By Mrs. Frank C. Spangler, 1055 W. 33d, Indianapolis At a recent meeting of the Women’s Society of Christian Service of St. Paul Methodist church, a letter, written by Mrs. Charless Krause, was sent to Mrs. Harry Truman commending her, our First Lady, on the stand she and her daughter took by refusing an alcoholic drink at a social function. The letter went on to say “We hope the day will come when-it-will-be considered

If more women would have the courage of their convictions to abstain from alcohol, tobacco and profanity and set a better example before the young people, so much so-called delinquency might not occur. Children learn by precept and too often follow the wrong one. The W, 8. 0. A. of Austin, Texas, has addressed producers of the cinema concerning drinking scenes in the home as portrayed on the screen, They think these . scenes would be more typical of the average American home if the drinking were omitted. If thousands of church societies and women’s clubs, regardless of race or creed, would unite their efforts against these pictures, also the gangster pictures that children seem to enjoy, and some of the gangster radio programs to which they listen, much might be done to eliminate the waywardness of boys and girls.

DAILY THOUGHT

And Moses said unto him, Enviest thou for my sake? would God

that all the Lord's le were prophets, and that the Lord would put his spirit upon them! ~Numbers 11:29,

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diana. He returned next day and was the only Hoosier to vote against the bill on final passage. One explanation of what happened was that they moved everything out of OPA but the Qureau. Maybe they left that so they can continue to complain about bureaucracy. .

Motto Is 'Keep Your Seat’ THIS OPA dental work was done in more brave fashion than the equally abortive draft measure. They had roll calls so that each congressman can be held accountable. The draft dodge was worked in com-mittee-of-the-whole where no roll-calls can be had. Summing up the Capitol hill situation, it might well be said that this election year of 1946 has established an apex in congressional cowardice. Most of the congressmen apparently have decided neither to repeal or enforce any jrksome measures—at least not until they hear the home folks say: “Keep your seat!” Our senior senator, Raymond E. Willis, has a new solution for Uncle- Sam in his role of world savior.

NEW YORK, April 20.—As the. uncrowned parcheesi champion of East 44th st., I wish to file a formal complaint today against Mayor O'Dwyer’s antigambling campaign, which has reached proportions wheFe it is no longer safe to match a companion for a coke, Mr. O’'Dwyer’s Honest Johns are picking up citizens for reading scratch sheets in groups of two or more, which seems to be an invasion of the rights of the public. Any day, now, you can expect your grayhaired grandma to call you from the station house, pleading for bail, for having been pinched for the sin of reading a form sheet on the upper deck of a Fifth ave. bus.

Don't Even Think About It NO ARRESTS involving backgammon players have as yet been announced, but it is no longer safe to indulge in a spot of bingo. This week's crackdown on the bingo debauchees listed 16 culprits, caught with their grains of corn down. In my neighborhood, there is a floating hopscotch

‘game now, which moves from block to block as the

scouts report the imminenee of a copper. Urchins approach you with propositions to steer you to a hot game of jackrocks, and leer wickedly over their allday suckers as they regale each other with stories of last night's orgy in the tic-tac-toe belt. 9 The more serious students of the rights of man are wondering, now, whether the police can grab you for the sin of thinking about horses. It seems logical, for if the mayor's boys can knock off 24 guys for reading ‘a racing form, on the grounds of disorderly conduct, then it appears that the law would be upheld for pinching three men in a bar who were merely thinking about placing a bet on a h--se.

WASHINGTON, -April- 20.~Through - their -policyof drift, the allies are sowing seeds of a new war in Europe. At the same time, despite his unparalleled magnaminity, Uncle Sam is fast becoming the goat for everything that happens in every quarter of the globe. : So says a distinguished former army officer with wide experience during and since the war both in the European and Far Eastern theaters. . “I don't see how Europe is ever going to get back on its feet,” he said in a report to his Washington headquarters, “without co-ordinated planning by the Big Four. There must be a pooling of resources as well as needs. Until that is done, the United States will go on pouring its money inth a bottomless hole. We can avert actual starvation, if not malnutrition, by the.present policy. But we will be bailing out a leaking boat, working against a leak that it bigger than our dipper.

Russia Againls Stumbling-Block _ “IT IS HIGH TIME that somebody did some straight talking to the Russians regarding the situation in central Europe. We are supplying the Austrians with food, for example, while the Red army is living off the land. They are skimming the cream off the milk and our taxpayers are making up the deficiency. ; “We are doing a good stopgap job In Germany but it is without purpose, direction or time-table. We've got a guy in jail, feeding him thin soup, but don't know what to do with him. No peace settlement is in sight for Italy and other little countries of ‘Europe, let alone Germany. That nothing is ever going to-make any sense in Germany as long as it is divided. into four political, social and economic parts | as now. As long as that state of affairs is allowed to 1 continue, we will have to keep on laying our dough on the line, buying dead horses.

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Many of our men participated in services in lands over the world . , . and thought of their loved ones and home and of the mission for which they were fighting. It is a mission that could well be forfeited unless we fight for it in peace as we did in war. - Easter in Palestine is celebrated, figuratively, ih the shadow of the giant oil tanks at Haifa. At Haifa

petroleum from Iraq's Mosul oil field is -processed, 1

presenting a strange contrast in modernity tothe traces still there of the civilizations of Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Turkey, Rome and Europe. Still, one feels the antiquity of this land where Christ lived . . . and

where Moses and Joshua led their tribes between the .. 1

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dom of Palestine,” this region never was under the flag of a Christian nation until Allenby marched in in 1917. For the 400 years immediately before that time, it had been ruled by the Turks. Old Jerusalem is the most hallowed spot in Christendom. The Moslem rulers preserved through the centuries the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Mount of Olives and the Garden of Gethsemane, with its aged and gnarled olive trees, the cell where Christ was kept, and the Stations of the Cross, where He halted on His way to Golgotha. Fifteen minutes ride from Jerusalem is Bethlehem, with its fourth century basilica of Constantine built over the spot where Christ was born, In a dank basement, one sees a replica of the manger and othes relics of His days. Custody of the holy places of Palestine will be a knotty question for decision when the British mandate is ended. Next week, I shall discuss this problem, and that of current conflicts in the Holy Land.

His prescription appears in “The Republican,” a

monthly magazine which is for the Republican party. Stating the humanitarian principle that he favors = feeding the starving all we can afford, Senator Willis

then writes on the next step: “I suggest that we make available to

Federalist, which, in spite of the passage of 16 decades, still remains America’s most important contribution to the literature of political science. “If they choose to act upga the wisdom contained

in this volume, to heed its warnings against pitfalls | in government, and to go forward as free men, they

will not have to ask us for material help. “They will prosper as our nation has prospered.” |

Which makes one wonder how much time all the « prosperous people in America have spent reading The = Federalist. library.

Better get a volume for The Times |

President Sure Is Modest

THE TRUMAN STORY of the week concerns two Here

aboard. She swears that the following conversation ° between the other two girls actually occurred. ; “You know,” one of them said, “you can say this for President Truman, he certainly is modest.” 4 “Yea, modest,” yawned the other girl. “And you can also say that he certainly has a great deal to be

“modest about.”

Maybe she was thinking what congress was doing to him while he was tethering that airborne bull calf Alabam on the White House south lawn. They were passing that perforated OPA bill with its rubber price ceilings. - 2 If finally made law, it will put Paul Porter in ¢ charge of inflation. 4 DAN KIDNEY.

The possibilities of this thing are limitless. A man? in blue approaches, as you are stumbling along, worry} ing about taxes and the atom, and says “Come quietly, y’ creep, or I'll bend this stick over your head.” You ° say “Why, officer?” And when you regain consciousness, you find that you've been booked on the charges of thinking about going to a poker game next Tuesday. 1 am gleeful, however, that no arrests have yet been made on Broadway for the crime of playing automobile poker. ? ; Would it be out of line to suggest that all license plates on cars be hidden under the machine so thats nobody could possibly see them, thus eliminating . another criminal hazard from this pure hamlet? :

Still Have Quiz Programs i 1 HATE TO TELL the coppers their business, buf if they will drop into a well-known bar under a well-f known newspaper, they can haul in a score of chara ters who are playing the match game, and making #

nice thing out of it, too. Any time they care to raicg the Stork they can probably cram the wagon with gir} rummy players, and I know one restaurant in the wesis 50's where the right guy can play dice at the bar foi fdrinks. ;

: ’ Still crowding Mr. O'Dwyer’s elbow, I can tell hin it that he better investigate Westchester county, where 3 all the rich millionaires hang out. When you want tol

place a big bet in New York, the bookie nearly alway:# ¥

rings a Westchester number. Yes sirree, we're a wicked town. Any minute now I intend to rush off and listen to one of these radic quiz programs that pay off in cash, before the lav comes busting in the door with fire axes and Writ of non compos mentis.

basket of Germany. Unless and until it. becomes tha again, people will either go on starving, or good ol Uncle Sugar will keep digging down deep in hi jeans. - The Russians and the French have strippes their zones. In theirs, the British have done thi ‘best they could. But they haven't much to con: tribute. It is up to us. “Unless some food imports are forthcoming fro the U. S., and soon, everything here (in Germany will go to hell in a basket. The economic situatio is impossible. ‘The Germans must not be allowe to start up their heavy industry. But reparatio must be settled, a sane level of economy must, be r established and a free exchange of goods and servic must be restored through centralized economic co trols and the breaking down of barriers between t four different zones. “As things are now, the system Mimply Jenn work. Germany's resources must be pooled. should insist on that. We are regarded as G Santa Claus and protector everywhere in Europe ju: now. But if things flop—as they inevitably will

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