Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 April 1946 — Page 18

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Give Light ang the People Will Find Their Own Way

PAS ~ HOWARD

WAKENING INTEREST IN POLITICS "A DDED opposition to the Bradford-Ostrom machine of the Republican party in Marion county was revealed with the article in yesterday's Times telling of organization of a Republican Citizens’ committee. .. The announced purpose of the committee—headed at jeast in name by persons who have not taken any dominant in factional politics—is to support candidates against whom “the door has been shut” by the regular machine. The committee will issue a slate of indorsed candidates for the May 7 primary in an effort to see that “free elections” are held instead ‘of a rubber-stamping of the BradfordOstrom selections. It would appear that Mayor Robert H. Tyndall's city hall organization, which defeated the Bradford-Ostrom machine in the last election, is a behind-the-scenes influence in the new committee. That indicates a more active part will be played by the city hall forces than had been expected to date, and also that this faction of the Repub-

licans has its eye on next year's mayoralty race. . »

» ” ~ » HATEVER the motive behind the committee, it can serve a useful purpose if it can help stir up interest at the polls on election day. If there is a light vote, the machine candidates will be nominated without question. And these candidates include several men who should be defeated. Only by creating interest in the various contasts will sufficient voters be brought to the polls to prevent nomination of those men. One of the most noticeable factors in this campaign has been the reliance which the Bradford-Ostrom machine is placing on public apathy and the consequent small vote, a vote of persons belonging to or indebted to the machine. It is significant that the machine-indorsed candidates are not making much of a campaign, but are depending on delivered votes: The appalling thing about the primary campdign is the scarcity of unbossed candidates, both Republican and Democratic. Now is the opportune time for candidates who can stand on their own merits to arouse public interest. If they can really get out the vote, then we may have at least a few nominees selected by the people instead of by the

slate-makers,

UN VERSUS SUPER-STATE TYPICAL attitudes toward the United Nations are re- © * flected in the current statements of three eminent spokesmen—former Supreme Court Justice Owen J. ‘Roberts, President Isaiah Bowman of Johns Hopkins university, and the Earl of Halifax. Justice Roberts represents what might be called the all-or-nothing school. He thinks the United Nations is weaker and worse than the old League of Nations, an instrument of the big powers. He does not believe it can provide security or preserve peace. He proposes, instead ‘of this alliance of sovereign states, a form of world government or super-state. ; Dr. Bowman might have been replying directly te Justice Roberts, although he was not doing so consciously. He said that the proposal for an immediate world government is “a dream that appeals fatally to those who seek the by-pass of simplicity.” He stressed the wide differences which unfortunately divide the nations. Logic and clearcut decisions which are called for in many fields, such as seience, are not always possible in the political realm, where ‘compromises based on human factors are often the price ‘of ‘progress, “he. added. :

Md " » » » » J ORD HALIFAX, in his final address as British ambassador to the United States, supported the United Nations as “in truth the last best hope of the world.” He warned, however: 4If the charter of world peace is to be worth more than the ink with which it was written, it must carry the indorsement of the purpose, friendship and understanding of the peoples who signed it. With that, all we hoped for iis possible; without it, nothing, It must take time for the new mould to set, but let our two nations, who already

understanding.”

sincerity, one side and Dr. Bowman and Lord Halifax on the other

The difference between Justice Roberts on the

and timing,

practical, We believe the United Nations with all its faults

chance to build effective international co-operation. Nevertheless, the test will

peoples’ vigilance and loyalty to the ideal security and peace will decide.

HEMLINE REVOLT KIRTS, say stylists, must be loner.

No) says the civilian prodye on administration. No! echoes father, peeping at his anaemic pocketbook

apprehension.

woman would want a new wardrobe.

“suits, And look at Pop. now—the pl y : place he sh S on the seat of his pants. e shines best i

| ‘going to lower their hemlines just to be stylish? + going to scrap their current becoming costumes bills for new one t of Paris, and let a

to us?

Iready,

" Price in Marion County, 8 cents a copy; deliv- |"

have so nfuch in common, lead the way to this larger |abolished so business can make the

These three men are moved by a common idealism and

. {or that OPA must be abolished so is not one of purpose. Their disagreement is over method

This newspaper does not share Justice Roberts’ extreme pessimism regarding the United Nations, or his faith that a world state ih any form is now possible or |

is not only the world’s best hope but probably the only |

: be whether big power (domination and selfi~ rivalry are allowed to wreck the new league like the old—as Justice Roberts fears—or whether it can grow as a genuinely democratic body. The of collective

Paris so decrees. |

No! say we, sharing the CPA’s and father's justifiable

Long skirts would make short ones obsolete, Every

Long skirts would | increase demand for scarce cloth, raise prices and promote

_inflation. Long skirts would use materials needed for men’s |

~~~ We appeal to the ladies to be reasonable. Are they

Are they

. and run 87 Are they going to bow to the judg-

foreign capital do this h®rrible

“we fear, ‘we can hear the answep in serene

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Hoosier Forum

"| do not agree with a word that you

*your right to say it." — Voltaire.

will defend to the death

"Now Are 1500 Saloons Where There Used to Be Only Fifteen"

By M. E. JONES, 2878 LaSalle Mr. Interested Taxpayer: I have read your letter in regard to Pollard and other juvenile delinquents, Don’t blame the police; this man was arrested, but since these cases run into the millions in this country, there is no place for the courts to send the boy. This is how I feel: I have raised six boys and have kept them out of everything but the war. I give God the credit, Mr. Taxpayer. Your boy and girl, and my boys, have an awful mess to try to shun, for where there used to be 15 saloons, there are now 1500, and the mothers are either tending bar or drinking the slop. You cannot walk a block without passing some sort of hell-hole. Gambling is running rampant, |—poor and millionaires. Because radio programs are getting vulgar|this is what will happen until big and children are left to get their | business gets every penny the worktraining from amateur bandits|ing man and woman has saved and while the fathers and mothers take | cannot buy the bare necessities of in the hell-holes and picture shows life a% the unheard of high prices are the worst curse to this country. | {hat will prevail, until they are bled The churches have either closed or of every dollar, and then prices the preachers have to preach to! must come down for them to have near-empty benches. God has been a market. Let's not let them abolforgotten by this nation, and 100K |ish OPA. Never heard of a Sloan, what happened to Hitler who tried | Swift, Armour, Kingan, Wilson, to train a nation to forget God.| Morgan or any of those big business Politicians are also one of the!southern politicians going to the world's greatest curses. They are poor house yet, have you? But mayselling liquid damnation by the gal-| he you have a friend or relative lon, blasting and blighting the souls | who knows some little man or of men and women alike, and now! woman who has. Keep the OPA, for all the world to marvel at—| 8% '» they are fighting like dogs over the “TOO MUCH BIAS SHOWN profits gained by the ruination of IN COURT COMMITTEE” {human souls and bodies. I hate to By C. B., Indianapolis | think what jt will be like 50 years| I have studied -the juvenile court from now, at the rate we“are going. [for a period covering approximately Don’t blame the kids, mister, blame 10 years. I have also watched the the grown-up delinquents who call development of the non-partisan juthemselves father and mother to|venile court committee and have these untrained children who just cast it aside as useless because it take what is held up before them. has shown too much biased opinion iand lack of real understanding. [Never once in the last three years as far as I can find out has any of

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{ “KEEP OPA FOR BENEFIT

Judge Bradshaw and will not enter the Republican primary.” To me that makes the committee a part of the Democratic party and also indicates that they had full sway under Judge Bradshaw 1939 through 1942, Now with access to the WPA did they get rid of the fire trap that served as a detention home? They did not! They only talked. Did they fight for and obtain a new court room? They did not. Just what new and constructive thing did they do? As to this committee's present candidates, it has not shown convincingly why it feels these men are pre-eminently qualified to be juvenile court judge. Get the cards on the table face up. Let's have all sides. The issues in question are: Shall the juvenile court remain a court of rehabilitation and correction or shall we change the faws and make it a court of punishment? Shall the court remain a court of the people or shall it be a court of a committee not responsible to the people. » ” ” “THIS IS THE TIGHTEST TIME IN HOLD-THE-LINE FIGHT”

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- Jews Bri

ng IT'S OUR BUSINESS, because of our history of humanitarianism, to be concerned over the Palestine question and its many religious and political implications. j A Palestine is the land of Holy places, sacred alike

to Jew, Christian and Moslem, . . it has world interest from that aspect as well as from the proposal that it be made a genuine national home for Jewry.

J It is also important to Britain in safeguarding its

lifeline to the Far East. Right now, an Anglo-American commission is studying the subject. A 19-nation conference is scheduled for London this month. UNRRA is coping with the displaced personnel problem. Russia seeks to extend her influence in the Middle East. The commission has recommended that 100,000 European Jews be admitted to Palestine immediately in a report to be made public soon. ]

Land of Mutual Hatreds

WHEN I VISITED the Holy Land, I was particularly impressed with the evolution of parts of barren and neglected Palestine into blessoming agricultural land under Jewish communal farming . . . citrus groves dotted the country where there had been only pock-marked soil before. ae I was told at Tel Aviv, modern city of Jewry— with its chamber of commerce and display of Palestin~ ian agricultural and industrial products—that a family of that race required only one-third the acreage needed by an Arab family, because of superior industry and modern farming methods, : Talking to Jew, Arab and Briton, I found none who would say a good word for the other. The near= est approach to a common attitude was dislike of the’ British. The British operate Palestine under a League of Nations mandate but actually regard it more as a colonial spoils of world war I. The Palestine situation became a “question” after the Balfour declaration of 1917 and the mandate, under which this former segment of the Ottoman empire . , , never under strictly Arab rule ... was to provide a national home for the Jews, without preju-

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert Lavish Political

NEW YORK, April 25.—President Truman tells us to take it easy on the vittles. We eat too much anyhow, and it isn't going to hurt us to go to bed peckish a couple of times a week. All over the world people are starving, and where they aren't’ starving they are on such thin rations that nobody ever gets a chance to pat his belly and rear back, replete. Our flour ration has just been cut 25 per cent. To help prevent starvation, our government says, we must curtail our gluttony, stop wasting food, and curb our appetites with simpler selections of grub. Fine.

Democrats Stuff Selves Stupidly

EXCEPT I DON'T SEE how the American people, who can read, will want any part of this program. 1 can't see how they will take any government command seriously when they get a quick look at the menu which is to be served tonight, at $100 a plate, to members of the Bronx county Democratic committee at their annual fund-raising dinner. While Washington tells us to slightly starve ourselves to help the starving, Senator James Mead, County Chairman Ed Flynn, National Chairman Bob Hannegan, Senator Robert Wagner, Mayor William O'Dwyer, and a flock of other political high shots will gormandize on the following fare: Hors d'ouevres, oysters, whole pineapples filled with fruit and cordials, bowls of relish, nuts, and petite marmite. There will be lobster thermidor, orange sherbet, and fillet mignon with Bearnese sauce. There will be stuffed tomatoes, green peas, potatoes lorette, and green spring salad. For dessert the gentlemen will pick daintily at ice cream molded with fresh strawberries, glazed petit fours and coffee. “ Bread and butter aren't mentioned, but chances are the diners will not be forced to smear

Justice Stone

By P. H. H., Indianapolis This is the time to expend every | bit .of energy we have to avoid the| “poom and bust” cycle which! wrought such havoc in the depres-| sion of the Twenties. Not because we like regulation,! but because we are still in the throes of the emergency created by the war, “everyday citizens” are called upon by Mr. Bowles to come to the rescue of the price control act which is to come before the senate this week, staggering under crippling amendments. The cumulative shortages of the

| OF THE ORDINARY FOLKS” | By A Little Business Man, Anderson Who's trying to kid us now? Are | the meat packers, corporations and | some southern Democrats trying to | tell us that busines can not surI'vive on the profits they are mak- | ling now, and that OPA must be

{this committee visited the juvenile {court. Frankly I cannot believe they know what they are talking about, Now let us look at the record. In 1938 they brought about the nomination of William Remy, Republican, and Bradshaw, Democrat. {During the campaign of the 1938 general electiort I did not find any of that committee talking for Remy, but a number did talk for Bradshaw and contribdted to his cam-

| grade to produce new cars, electric { appliances, meat and clothing so that we may be able to buy the | things we've waited so long to get,

paign. In 1042 the committee's spokessatisfled with

{they can produce more and more

|of everything. Yes, more and more man said, “We are

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war and the cumulative demands of | {rapidly increasing numbers of fam- | {ily units, make this the tightest and | most dangerous period of the whole | price control “hold-the-line” battle. | The illusion now hovers over us| ominously. World food problems, | | political stability, and the price| | control legislation are inter-related. If the “average citizen” who so overwhelmingly supported the measures which were originally designed to keep inflation in check may make himself heard at this time he will come to the rescue of such controls as will protect him and his family from economic depression which will be more bitter than any this country has ever known. Last fall the ceiling price was removed from citrus fruit which was in abundant production. Prices jumped overnight. Céilings had to be clamped back on again. This was only a tiny example of what removal of controls generally will do to the individual budget and more broadly to the economic stability of the country. I repeat, not because we like regulation, but because this is still an emergency of war, support of the extension of the price control act must be urged upon congress. .

” ” ” “DOWNTOWN STREETS MUCH CLEANER THAN HOME AREA” By A Visitor, Dillsbore

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I lived for the past 28 years until the past year. Arriving there on the bus, I could not help but notice how clean the downtown streets look, particularly around the terminal station and Monument circle,

some of the residential districts.

dirt and look as though they had not been cleaned for months.

beautiful and clean city, it might pay to look into this.

DAILY THOUGHT And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. —I Corinthians 2:3.

reason —Bailey.

inevitably

I recently visited your city where

and how dirty the streets look in

The sides of the streets are full of

In order to keep Indianapolis a

Faith is a higher’ faculty than

WASHINGTON, April 25.—The judicial career of Chiet Justice Harlan Fiske Stone, because it is so much the brighter side of our times, has its pointed moral for today as it had its influence on what happened in the troubled day before yesterday. It would, indeed, be a fitting memorial for this truly great liberal spirit if our people, coming ‘with taut nerves out of the ordeal of war, could .exhibit the tolerance that he revealed in his decisions for the viewpoint, feelings and rights of minorities, and his unflagging support for protection of civil liberties.

Militant ‘Minority Shaped Thinking

IT WOULD BE a fitting memorial, too, if congress could show, in its composite character, something of his wisdom, his courage, his boldness to accept, as he put it, “reasonable adjustments of law to changing economic and social needs.” His death comes at a time when congress is balking at further adjustments which seem necessary 10

| strengthen our democracy at home and to uphold

its hands abroad to the end that we may be better able to bear our newly accepted responsibilities in the world at large. In the turbulent period of the early Roosevelt administration, Justice Stone was influential in getting the supreme court to accommodate itself to changing economic and social needs, at first as one of the now famous dissenting minority of three with the late Justices Brandeis and Holmes. They” were over-rid-den by a majority which stood firm against reform, both by the states and by the federal government. Justice Stone was a sort of conscience of the court, nation. . In this role he performed a notable public service. It was too much for him; for example, when a

WASHINGTON, April 25.—The lasting success of Gen. George Marshall's mission to China is a mat~ter of grave doubt, according to information trickling out pf strategic corners of the Far East. Yet on the outcome—no less than on what happens in Europe--— largely depends the shape of the post-war world. In fact, Europe and Asia are regarded as parts of a single problem. That Gen. Marshall will achieve a temporary victory in China is believed likely. Neither side of the Chinese quarrel can afford to appear as saboteurs. But the stakes are se colossal, and their aims are so fundamentally different, that civil war seems almost inevitable regardless of any agreement at this time.

Communists Seek Soviet Republic

THE AIM OF Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his Kuomintang is to refashion the country more or less along the lines of the United States, as a freeenterprise democracy. The Chinese Communists are seeking to make it over into another Soviet republic. China, therefore, is like a long and richly laden freight train with a powerful locomotive attached to each énd, one headed east and the other west. On VJ-day, the Communists held forth in only the three northwestern provinces of Shensi, Kansu and Ningsia, adjoining Russia’s outer Mongolia. Chufig=king controlled everything .else not occupied by the Japs. Today the Communists dominate approximately half of China. Despite her newly-signed pledges to aid the Chungking regime, Russia-systematically has blocked the advance of the nationalists while making things easy for the Chinese Reds. - ’ nas

+ By Donald D. Hoover

Vitality to Pales

showing itself to itself and at the same time to the’

tine dice to civil, religious or economic rights. A British white paper of 1939 complicated matters by making

the Jews a perpetual minority with limited property- -

owning rights. Today there are only about 1,500,000 Jaws left

in Burope . .. and in many cases they are faced with .

extermination as inevitable as Hitler's mass murders. Even now, a ship-load is tied up at an Italian port, awaiting permission to land somewhere, and unable to go to Palestine because of administrative restrictions. Our congress has taken the position Jews should be permitted to make Palestine their nationai home; with President Truman suggesting 100,000 be admitted annually. The Zionists favor renewal of this home, first created by tribes of Israel over 3400 years ago. It 1s the only area of traditional background open to them. To avoid religious conflict, such places as are consecrated to Christian, Jew and Moslem can be set apart from the new national home and given extra-territorial status under the United Nations Organization,

Arab Population Fears Domination

THE PALESTINIAN ARABS fear harmful domination if ‘quotas and other administrative barriers are

lifted, even though the Jews who have come to Pales- .

five have injected new vitality into a languishing and. ! After the last war the leader of the Arab delegation to the Paris peace conference, Emir Feisal, agreed to stimulating large-scale immigration into Palestine.’ He sald the Zionist claims were modest and proper. However, his agreement was believed to have been contingent on British and French approval of Arab independence, which has not heen granted. Unless Britain is unequivocably honest in handling this question, and has the moral and political support of the U. 8, in obtaining international decision to open Palestine without restrictions . . . at the same time giving the Arabs a square deal . . . the wandering Jewish people of the world will continue victims of power politics.

C. Ruark

Banquet Bad Taste

margerine or cottage cheese on their rolls. This austerity menu will be accompanied by music, and a thirsty politician probably will be able to get a drink around the joint if he knows the right people. It's estimated that $85,000 will be grossed by the dine ner, which will only cost about $15,000. Possibly Mr. Truman has not been apprised of the menu, but since several of the guests are party leaders, they will undoubtedly report to the President that the Bronx is squarely behind his urgent plea to conserve food. It is to be hoped that the other Democratic clubs around the nation, when they throw a shindig to fatten the treasury, will cleve as rigidly to the Bronx Democrats’ selfless regulation of their diet. It’s probably a narrow-minded view to take, but I feel no inclination to dine off a can of soup and a grated carrot while Mr.. Hannegan stuffs himself on lobster and steak to raise funds to combat the Republicans. Nor do I see how our chief executive can say to his people: “Try starving a little bit, folks” and then allow his top employees, with unbelievable stupidity, to stuff themselves publicly, while. the taxpayers figuratively press their noses against the window.

Best Wishes for Stomach Ache

IT ALSO SEEMS to me that widespread publicity of this menu is not going to endear Mr. Hannegan and his party to the taxpayers, but possibly the rules by which other men live do not fit politicians. Personally, I hope Mr. Hannegan and Senators, Mead and Wagner and Mayor O'Dwyer get the belly ache tonight, and dream all night long about little kids with dark smudged eyes and knobby knees and little bellies distended by malnutrition, An I wish to hear no more talk about self-limi-

tation“of diet until the directive goes down from the

boss to his hired hands.

IN WASHINGTON . .. By Thomas L. Stokes

Aided Civil Liberty

majority of the court held a New York state minimum wage law for women unconstitutional. He spoke out bluntly, saying he could imagine no other) reason for the majority's opinion than “personal economic predilections.” This forthright characterization had much to do with events that followed, arousing the public, as it did, with a telling phrase. Alf M. Landon, before he was nominated as Republican presidential candidate in 1936 insisted in a telegram to the convention upon his own personal amendment to the party's platform to foster a constitutional amendment authorizing states to enact minimum wage laws for women. The platform makers had refused to include it, Thereafter, too, followed President Roosevelt's own campaign to reform the supreme court after his 1936 election. Also, as concrete evidence, the court re= versed itself a“year after the New York case decision and upheld a minimum wage law of the state of Washington, thus adjusting itself to the view of the former minority for which Justice Stone spoke.

Congress Has Raised Barrier

CHIEF JUSTICE STONE delivered the majority of the court a tart lecture when it outlawed the agricultural adjustment act. He reminded them that “while unconstitutional exercise of power is subject to judicial restraint, the only check upon our owh exercise of power is our own self-restraint.” He spoke also of tortured meaning. It was deflating, to say the least. The public awoke, and the court withdrew itself thereafter as a blockade againsé the President and ‘congress. Today, in that constant shift of checks and balances under our system, it is congress which has raised a blockade.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms China Civil War Seems Inevitable

From their stronghold in the northwest, the Reds have raced eastward into Suiyuan, Shansi, Hopeh, Shantling, Chahar, Jehol and Manchuria, picking up enormous quantities of Japanese war material as they advanced. They are probably stronger today than ever. The generalissimo has been trying to “unify” China’ for years. He long ago promised a multiparty system which would take in thé Communists, to write a new constitution and holt democratic elections. But first, he insisted, the Communists would have to disband their large army or, at least, merge it with the national forces. There was no room in a democracy, he said, for political armies, or for provinces held by force against the rest of the nation. It was to help settle this dangerous quarrel that Gen. Marshal was hurried to China last December, Almost immediatley he won a certain success,

U.S. Doesn't Have Forces

TWO MAJOR-FACTORS darken China's future, One is Russian expansion. The other is American isolation. There is every reason to believe that Russia’s long-term program calls for a large measure of control of China. And, official disclaimers to the contrary notwithstanding, the leaders of the Chinese Reds—will shape their’ zigzags accordingly, present and future. . A Meanwhile, congress which, with almost no’ dissenting voices, voted us into the United Nations, now refuses to provide the necessary armed forces. Soon we may have to withdraw from Furope and Asia, ‘other. and more willing hands the, task g the post-war world.

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