Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 April 1946 — Page 20

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LEGISLATIVE CANDIDATES ATARION county voters will select nominees for the state 777 legislature in the May 7 primaries, and we'll wager few voters know much about the records of those who geek these law-making jobs. : There are two Republican and two Democratic candidates for the nomination for the one senatorship that is to be filled, and two Republican and three Democratic candidates for the joint Marion-Johnson county senatorship. ‘For the 11 seats in the house, there are 45 Republican aspirants and 83 Democratic. All of the legislative seats for Marion county, and the joint posts, now are held by Republicans. Ln Powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved to the states, and the legislature thus obviously is all-powerful in running the state government. However, the voters rarely take time to investigate the qualifications of candidates for these jobs, their interest centering in the more spectacular races, = There is one question important to Marion county on which every candidate for legislature should declare himself. That is reapportionment to assure a fair representation for Marion county in the state law-making body. The next legislature, which will meet in January, should take steps to assure a redistricting to give more equitable representation to the larger communities. Rural counties can be expected to oppose redistricting because it would curb their present power. : , However, it has been 25 years since the state was redistricted. Every person nominated next month should be pledged to work for carrying out the enumeration of voters required by the constitution but not done for various reasons. As matters now stand, Marion county really _ has only a part of the vote to which it is entitled, com- * pared with the smaller districts.

UNFINISHED BUSINESS : (CONGRESS is tired of national and world problems. Who isn't? We can understand the growing urge in congress for an early vacation, now that Washington is warming up for a long summer and the primary season is on in many states and districts, : And it is highly desirable for members of congress to get home for a while and to acquire firsthand knowledge of how home folks are thinking, as soon as they safely can. But it isn't safe yet for congress to start succumbing to adjournment fever. There's too.much unfinished business in Washington. Important business. Business that can't be left undone, or scamped, without dangerous conseguences. :

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than the senate. The senate is now debating the British loan, upon which the house must act next. After that, _ the senate will still have a heap of work ahead, and the hofise will be needed on the job until that work is done. For example— : Draft extension. Congress, it seems, just will not consider universal military training before the November elections. Therefore, we think, national security and our military obligations abroad require extension of selective service for a year, and without the house amendment stopping all inductions until October, Price control. The house-passed bill goes too far, toward hamstringing OPA. The senate should undo that damage, ‘at the same time setting OPA right on unwise and arbitrary policies which discourage production. " . Labor legislation, "The house-passed Case bill is much too drastic, the senate labor committee's substitute too feeble. The senate should pass a measure that would give the country some protection against such catastrophes as the Lewis coal strike will become if it continues much -longer. It also should pass the Hobbs anti-racketeering bill, aimed at one of the most outrageous abuses of laborunion power, which was approved by the house last December; . Housing. Prompt senate action is essential on the bill, | passed by the house with certain amendmentgto which the | administration objects, if the Wyatt program for building | 2,700,000 homes for veterans in the next. two years is to have any chance for success. Budget balancing. Regular appropriation bills for all government departments must be passed before the fiscal years ends, June 80. Many of them propose increased spending. They should be searchingly examined and vigorously pruned,

are other vitally important subjects-—army-navy uhification, control of atomic energy, stockpiling of strategic materials, the La Follette-Monroney proposals to make congress itself more efficient, the minimum-wage bill, * We don’t expect congress to solve all problems in the next few months, or the next few years. But we predict that if the members of congress adjourn and go home before doing their best to deal with most of the problems here mentioned, they will soon wish they hadn't, e—————————

EXPERT

. C. ADAMS is editor of the Mine Workers’ Journal and public-relations expert for John L. Lewis. We wonder what kind of public-relations job Mr. | Adams thought he was doing when he turned down | 'UNRRA Director La Gugrdia’s appeal for relie calling it “junk” and “publicity stuff.” CH Mr. Adams, it seems, didn’t like the way former Mayor jardia handled New York City’s transit problems. has to do with war-wrecked Europe's desperate coal, which. this country can’t send because of the @, is not clear, on second ‘thought, K. C. Adams may be just the xpert John L. Lewis requires, For Mr, Lewis’ ¢ relations apparently is to go right up NA Again we emphasize that the law's

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"If We Had Only One Ballot at Primary, No Fall El

By Liston C. Nine, 1905 Arrow ave. A reader of The Times and the Hoosier Forum for over 20 years, a property owner, I have always taken

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community and of the taxpayers of Marion county. Reading in the Hoosier Forum, “We choore our leaders so we must take results” by R. B. I fully agree with all he says except that we choose our leaders. Our leaders are hand-picked by our city, county and state machine, placed on an especially prepared slate, handed down to the precinct committeeman, then on to their workers to be passed out to us to vote for at the polls on primary day’ by them on a promise of hard-to-keep-

the bulletin board. Several trips dally to view the board in the course of the week reveals nothing available. It is known that in former days real estate agéncies very often were glad to accommodate a client and incidentally receive their commission for renting apartments. So off they go to an agency. A polite inquiry at their office secures only the rude answer that there is nothing available. Questioning if they could be put on their list for any future vacancy, elicited this retort: “we

Job, and four or five dollars a day on election day. Leaving off all independent candidates at the tax-

payers expense. Take the slate or leave it, whichever we choose.

If we choose the right leaders, then we should have only one ballot at primary with all of both party candidates on it. All Republican candidates and the office

straight Republican ticket, we could check straight down the column our choice of the man for that office. Democrats could do likewise, Or if we know that. a better qualified candidate on the opposite party other than our one, we could check in that party column, All candidates would be before the people on one sheet for both parties. Phat would correspond with the voting machines in the general election and would give the voter a chance to vote as a free American and by his own heart's dictation. Coming out of the poll feeling that they had at least a chance to vote their own feeling. It would save a lot of ballot counting and many a taxpayer's dollar, Instead of paying so much attention to the little petty gambling for which each party says the lid is on, when we know the lid is not on, only for a few. Don't try to keep gambling hid away in some shady spot, for we are only encouraging and keeping a place for crime. Legalize all gambling: run it as a| business, wide open, clean, and con- | trol it and collect the tax to fight! the real crime. =u » LJ “CAMPAIGN DONORS SEEM TO OUTWEIGH PUBLIC NEED” By John Gyorgy, 1937 Park ave. We are being urged to swamp the senate with letters and telegrams regarding the OPA legislation. Three-fourths of the American people wish to have OPA retained—and are up in arms against the crippled

so-called “extension” of OPA passed iby the house last week. Those representatives who participated in this farce are thinking of the fat campaign contributions given them by business and manufacturing pressure groups. They seem to forget the contributions made by us, the voters; it is we who put them into office. Let us show

for which them that we can also put them

our congressmen, and then forget. This time it must not slip our minds. We will pay the rest of our lives if we don’t take 10. minutes of our time’to let congress know that they had better begin legislating in the interests of the consumer—or get out in November, ~ » ® “ANOTHER TALE OF HOME HUNTING, AND OF FAILURE” By Frank B. Bebastian, Indianapolis Here's another returned service man who is in complete agreement with T. L. 8. whose letter appeared in the Forum, except that he is not yet convinced that it is all in the mind. After four years in the army, three and a half spent overseas, he returng to the U. 8, receives his discharge and secures a job. This particular job requires that he and hi¥ wife live in Indianapolis. Just as T. L. 8, had done, he registers at one of the hotels——one of Indianapolis’ finest (priced accordingly). Comes the third day and he moves to another hotel. Here he is told he may retain his room for four whole days. Isn't he lucky?

During this time the daily pave-ment-pounding continues in search of an apartment or even a room where they might take up residence and live without exceeding their total income, Homes Registry is a fine institution—if it worked. They are informed here that if there is any-

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have 1000 on our list and we are not taking any more names. Do you expect us to build apartments out of thin air.” So lightheartedly they skip off to another agency, to be told that in order to even get our name on their list we must make written application. However, many of the names on their present list have been there for over a year already. Being strangers in this fair city,

apartment buildings and not having sufficient wartime earned capital to purchase and furnish a new home, we go blightly on, undaunted but just slightly discouraged and disallusioned. With the present outlook well go on living in a 10 by 12 room, finding our three meals a day in restaurants, and attempting to balance the budget with no success, As hope springs eternal in the human breast we go on hoping that some day soon—very soon—we can estahlish a real home in the good old American fashion. Pioneers — phooey! They had a life of luxury compared to ‘ours. ~ » ” “TWO CENTS FOR TRANSFER... I HAD TO WALK” By Mrs. EB. LY, Indianapolis I want to take this opportunity to tell what I think about our railWay service. This morning I took & crosstown bus to 30th and Illinois streets. I have been riding the same bus for over two years. I paid 2 cents for a transfer and when I boarded the Illinois streetcar the streetcar conductor told me he couldn't accept it—he gave me no reason, only that it wasn't good on the streetcar. I told him I had Just paid 2 cents for it and had Just got off the bus ‘across the

Well, the result was that I had to walk to my destination about four blocks away,

I also want to say a’few words

most dilapidated, dirty, crowded busses that it has been my good fortune to see. To say the least of the courtesy of the conductors , . , :

I think the public as & whole has been very patient during the war years, being crowded on cars and packed like sardines in a can, Now Wwe are told that the company lost money during the years of the war and they have to raise the rates before they can buy new busses . . . I wholeheartedly believe in pensions for employees, but if the public is helping them to purchase these pensions, it seems to me that the least the conductors could do would be to treat the public with Just a little politeness and consid. eration.

It seems, too, that they are going to extremes with the raise in rates—the 8 for 55 cents wasn't so bad, but now they want to make

country, 3 for 25 cents. I, for one, hope the public. won't hold stil for it.

DAILY THOUGHT.

It is also written in your law, that the testimony of two men is true.—John 8:17, :

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Washington st. a few doors east of Charlie Mayer's little toy store

to come to'Indianapolis. The only artists to beat him were R. Terrell (1828), and M. G. Rogers (1831). - Jacob Cox came in, 1832, but it wasn't until eight years later that he began painting portraits for a live ing. Up until then Mr. Cox was a tinsmith. Until 1909 little was known about Mr. Whittredge's stay in Indianapolis. That year William Henry Fox, then director of the John Herron Art institute, got wind of a rumor that Mr. Whittredge was still alive. Mr, Fox had a hunch that it might just be possible that Mr, Whittredge remembered something about his art experiences in Indlanapolif, Forthwith, Mr. Fox dictated a letter, Right away he got an answer.

A Churchman's Kindness “I DID LIVE in Indianapolis one year,” said Mr, ‘Whittredge, “but it was before 1858 when, as you say, was formed an art association in the town. I do not remember the art association and think it must have come after I left Indianapolis. Still as IT am now a very old man (in my 88th year) I may not be correct as regards dates. I cannot recall that I ever sold any pictures to an art association in Indianapolis or sent any pictures there for exhibition or sale.” Mr, Whittredge continues: “I went to Indianapolis in the first days of the Daguerrotype with a camera and pliites to take Daguerrotypes. I had been a portrait painter. I took sick in Indianapolis and this, together with the shinplaster state of our currency, soon brought me and my business to grief. “I had known old Dr, Lyman Beecher of Cincin-

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WASHINGTON, April 26—A strangely elastic constitution will be submitted to the French people a week from Sunday. If ratified—and the chances are that it will be—the already precarious political balance in France may be in for further upsets. The draft barely scraped through the constituent assembly which framed it. In a total of 558, a switch of only 31 votes would have defeated it. It took a sort of, popular front of Communists and Socialists to push it through. But even so, only thé Communists were—really for it, Other leftists agreed it was far from what they wanted, and these are now urging ratification on the grounds that the “reactionaries” and the “Fascists” are against it. This seems a decidedly quixotic reason considering that they, themselves, are highly critical of it.

Concentrates Power in Assembly THE NEW CONSTITUTION would place the power in the hands of a single hational assembly as the voice of “the people.” The president—who could stay in office 14 years, or two seven-year terms—would be a mere figurehead. The sssembly would elect president, premier and eabinet who would be directly responsible to it. It would be quite possible, therefore, as in Russia, for a small group of politicos to rule as a dictatorship. * On the surface, the document contains much that is familiar to Americans. Its “rights of man” section is very like our bill of rights. But whereas ours specifically sets forth that “congress shall make no jaw” abridging freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, petition, and so on, the French counterpart appears to contain loopholes. “Freedom,” says Article ITI, “is the faculty of doing

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WASHINGTON, April 26.—Ex-Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia of New York has been unusually silent—for him—since he took over his new job as head of United Nations relief and rehabilitation administration. Maybe there's a reason. The world food crisis isn’t anything that can -be gagged up or read into the funny papers. It is dead serious and bordering on stark tragedy. Yet if the new director of UNRRA doesn’t blow his top in good old “Butch” style pretty soon, he should, because the present situation is not only inexcusable, but intolerabls, .

Russia Not Participating

TO TRY TO UNDERSTAND what’s behind it, first divide the world up into countries that have more than enough food for their own needs and countriés that haven't. Leave Russia out, because ndébody knows what she has or what she's doing with it. The other “have” nations are the United States, Canada, Australia, and the Argentine. The “have-not” nations divide .into four subgroups: The countries Japan and Germany invaded, which get UNRRA supplies; the allied nations which don't get UNRRA aid but which are not self-sustain-ing and are, therefore, entitled to allocations from world surpluses; the neutrals which have always imported foodstuffs and, therefore, rate allocations today; the defeated nations of Japan and Germany. In control of all allocations is the combined food board, sitting in Washington. It is made up of representatives of the U, 8, Canada, and Great Britain, By and large, the way OFB allocations work out is that Australia’s surplus goes to the Far East, the Canadian surplus goes to the British and to western Europe, and nearly everybody else has to be supplied out of U, 8. surpluses. That's why so much of the

LONDON, April 26.—Recently both Italian,and French Communists have indulged in deviations from the Kremlin's “party line.” This seems to have perplexed some observers. I have even seen it suggested in somé quarters that these deviations indicate that Moscow's control of foreign Communist parties is neither as rigid nor effective as people SUPSONSLY These deviations are not really as mysterious” as they seem. Within the broad long-range strategy laid down by Moscow, there is plenty of room for local short-range opportunist tactics, Moscow's over-all strategic concept is very simple, Its long-range aim is a Communist world guided and dominated by Moscow. At the moment, the general instruction to Communist parties all over the world is to give 100 per cent support, through thick and thin, to the policies of Moscow, But exceptions to this general rule are allowed in the cases of Communist parties which have a genuine chance of obtaining control of their countries.

Hope for French, Italian Gain FOR INSTANCE, the Communist party in Italy, though unlikely to win an' outright majority at next elections, is likely to be one of the or three parties in the state, And if things go badly enough for Italy, they might reasonably be expected to gain power sometime in the next four or five years. | «When Marshal Tito and his Yugoslav Communists

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‘had no money and wanted to offer some reward for Henry's kindness, I painted his portrait as well as the portraits of the whole Beecher family except

Edward, who was away off in Chillicothe, Whatever .

became of these portraits I don’t know, , , . “I left the country a few. years afterwards and went to Europe where I remained 10 years and then camé¢ home and established myself in New York where I have lived ever since.” :

National Academy President ALL OF WHICH leaves one guessing what happened after that, a deféct I am prepared to remedy today, When Mr. Whittredge left Indianapolis, he went to Cincinnati and worked there as ga portrait painter. In 1849 he went abroad. In Europe he studied in Germany, Paris, Belgium, Holland and Rome, returning to the United States in 1859. Established in New York, he went to the top of the ladder as a painter of American scenery. Ine deed, the National academy thought enough of him to elect him president (1875-76). The New York Public library owns his “House on the Hudson River,” painted in 18683. Four of his pice tures (including two of his famous Rocky Mountain . series) hang .in the Metropolitan museum. And two years ago, thank goodness, his “Shawanunk River” came to Indianapolis to make its permanent home ix the John Herron Art museum. The way things worked out, Mr. Fox sent his letter just in the nick of time. A year later, in 1910, Thomas Worthington Whittredge died.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Wiliarh Philip Simms

Constitution Is Rigid

as expressed “through the elected representatives of the people.” In a system made up of checks and balances, such as ours, all this would doubtless work out. But the French draft provides for no such safeguards. The Single legislative body would be all-powerful, There would be no senate, or upper house; no independently functioning executive and judicial depdrtments. Di rectly or indirectly, the national assembly would be the sole judge of its actions, controlling both the executive and the judicial aspects of government. Ap. parently at will it could create or change the conditions of exercising the freedoms specified, But, however surprising France's new organic law may be in these respects, it is even more so—all things considered—in its labor provisions. A French man, it says, has the right to work, but he also hag the duty to work. He can join a union, but he does

not have to. He can stay out and still retain hig

rights to. a job. H can bargain collectively and he can strike “within the scope” of regulatory laws,

Only Revolt Could Change Rule

PRIVATE OWNERSHIP of property is recognized as a constitutional privilege, but any property or business which “has acquired characteristics of a national public service, must” (not “may”) become “the property of the community asa whole.” France's new constitution, if ratified eight days hence, will set the stage for almost any kind of political eoup which a single, powerful party might wish to spring. Once in power, admittedly it would be difficult, if not impossible, to dislodge it short of an armed revolt. Significantly enough, however, even this contingency is not overlooked. For says the docu-

the government violates their prescribed freedoms,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson

Politics With Food

world supplies. UNRRA claims—and its figures seem to support the claim—that CFB has not allocated as much as UNRRA required. Without going into a lot of statistics, it's enough to say that in the first three months of 1946, UNRRA asked for a million tons a month, was allocated 700,000 tons a month, and was shipped 570,000 tons monthly. This month of April, only 300,000 tons will be shipped. If that figure isn’t doubled, it means starvation, period, for millions by mid-May. . This is the situation’ LaGuardia is up against. He has moved. on three fronts. First, he got some grain loose from the Argentine,” Second, he saw the “wheat certificate” system installed. What this does is permit the farmers and holders of grain in storage to dispose of their supplies now, with the assurance that if there is a price rise later on, they will be paid the amount of the increase. Third, LaGuardia has moved in on the combined food board, trying to get greater allocations, /

Must Proceed Tactfully

HE HAS HAD TO PROCEED with caution and without the customary bluster and fanfare of pube licity, LaGuardia isn't. a U. 8. public official now, free to blast at othér government agencies. He's head of an international organization, and he has to move with all the tact and chicanery of a diplomat. It may be something new in LaGuardia’s life, and it will be worth watching to see if it works. ¢ His hardest job will be to combat any tendency te play power politics with food allocations, either in the "United Btates or internationally. : The combined food board has a greater responsibility than UNRRA, perhaps, in seeing that everybody in the world gets a share of the food he needs, regard= less of past or present political alliances. The fight for food is the number one human struggle, every=

y stribution of ling on this country. where. Getting some order into the dis hh i DE mi Be i EE TR Or ae is ie an To San A STILL awaiting action by one or both branches of congress downtown and have ridden the|the combined food board as just another claimant for scramble that would skyrocket prices.

TODAY IN EUROPE . :. By Randolph Churahil Kremlin Eye Is on Long-Range Goal

Another outstanding example of conflicting Com« munist claims has arisen over the future of the Ruhr and the Rhineland, German Communists loudly assert that the Ruhr and ‘the Rhineland- must remain part of the German Reich, French Communists clamor equally loudly that these two great industrial areas must be torn away from Germany and placed ynder some form of international control, The Communists are today the largest party In France and it seems quite likely that they will ine crease their strength in the election next month. Fqually in Germany, the Russians place great hopes on the Communist organization which they are financing and nurturing there, The German Communists’ one hope of success is to persuade the German people that they would get a better deal from the Russians than from the British, French r Americans,

U. S. Party Propaganda Vehicle THE PATTERN of Communist power becomes even more apparent when we consider the behavior of Communist parties in countries like Britain and the

United States, where they are very small organisms

and have no immediate prospects of gaining power, Moscow has much oynical-contempt for her foreign Communists and such certainty of their loyalty thas the Kremlin, from time to time, indulges in tergiver-

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Whittredge arrived.) . ; | paper Alliance, NEA Service, Audit’ Bureau of —at the corner of the alley, to “I lay sick at Parker's hotel (the present Strauss i Circulations, : be exact. : Ka corner) for some time when Henry Ward (Beecher) « [Price in Marion County, 8 cents a copy; deliv- Besides being our first photog | came for me in a carriage and took me home with ered by carrier, 20 cents a week. , | rapher, Mr, Whittredge was also him, and I lived in his family just one year, and as I Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states,

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