Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1946 — Page 10

RY DAVIS es : IN the death of Henry T. Davis, for whom funeral services * were held today, Indianapolis lost one of its aggressive punger businessmen and one who has contributed greatly _ ‘to the commercial life of the community. .. Mr. Davis had won the Junior Chamber of Commerce * gold key award for outstanding civic achievement, as chain nan of the governor's advisory committee for the Indiana department of commerce and public relations. As manager "of the Indianapolis convention bureau and former president of the International Association of Convention Bureaus, he did much to spread throughout the world the advantages of Indianapolis as a convention city. In that activity alone, he brought thousands of visitors and millions of dollars to the community. At one time, his bureau handled 64 national conventions here at one tinge. : But it is not only as one who brought visitors ahd commercial expenditures to Indianapolis that Mr, Davis was known, He worked tirelessly for the community's welfare regardless of his health, and participated in many activities which-long will bear the mark of his leadership _ and long-range view of the city’s future problems. ~~ Mr. Davis exemplified well the typical younger builder

approached the best years of his life. :

. MAKING PROGRESS THE Vermont university chapter of Alpha Xi Delta | sorority invited a young Negro woman student to be- | come a member, National officers of the sorority ordered | the invitation withdrawn and have disciplined the chapter. 4 In some quarters there are attempts to give this incident a sinister significance which, we think, it hardly ~ merits. The Communist Daily Worker, for example, calls it “a lesson in prejudice” and an illustration of “the organized pressure of a poisoned Jim Crow society that forces | men and women into the quite unnatural relationship of racial antagonism.” rn | Wise Negroes will not be greatly distressed because a member of their race has been denied admission to a - purely social organization of white college girls, which is what Alpha Xi Delta is. The equality they want is not that Mind. They want, and should have, assurance that racial prejudice shall not deny fair opportunity for and recognition of Negro achievements of mind and character, | talent and skill, = : I .. 8 8 ERTAINLY there is room for vastly more progress in that respect. But we would point out that Phi Beta | Kappa, oldest of all American college fraternities, and most distinguished because admission to it depends on scholarship, ‘has long honored itself by welcoming Negroes to membership. And news items in the same papers that tell of the Vermont .university incident -also reveal these | happier events: : Dr. Alain Leroy Locke, Negro professor of philosophy at Howard university in Washington, has just been unani . mously elected president of the American Association for . Adult Education, the first member of his race thus to be | honored. Dr. Ira de A. Réid, head of the sociology depart- - ment at’ Atladta university, has just been appointed the | first visiting professor of Negro culture and education at | New York university's school of education. Mrs. Thomasina . W. Johnson, formerly of Boston, has just been named chief | of the minority groups section, U. S. employment service, her $7715 salary making her the highest-paid Negro wothan | in the federal government. The senate has before it President Truman's nomination of another distinguished Negro, . Judge William H. Hastie, as governor of the Virgin islands. Tan » . ¥ » » . . A ND. the Daughters of the American Revolution have just invited the Tuskegee Institute choir to use their | Constitutional hall in Washington, free of charge, for a ‘June concert, which may—and we hope does—presage reversal of the D. A. R. policy that heretofore has closed the | great auditorium to most Negro artists.

"CREDITS FOR POLAND QUr government has a hard decision to make on whether ” to grant Poland a loan. * - The desired credits have been opposed by some on the ground that Poland, as a. Soviet satellite, has failed to fulfill the Yalta and Potsdam agreements for free elections | and press. Others thought she deserved more time to carry out the pledges and that credits would encourage her

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Hoosier Forum

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

on all Americans for letting this go on, I don't suppose all G. Is serving terms should be freed at once because some are in for more serious offenses, but there are far too many 18-year-old kids who went A. W. O. L. who are now serving three-to-five-year terms and (in some cases longer) in brigs and prisons, herded around at the point of a gun lke animals and being treated like convicts. I believe there should be punishment for violators in \ of war, But the war is over A but not for these forgotten kids. They're not only punishing these boys—the boys’ families Gre also taking a beating. » » » “FAVOR MORE EQUITABLE COUNTY REPRESENTATION” By Raymond F. Murray, 718 Fletcher Sav. ings & Trust bldg. In direct response to your editorial of Friday under the caption “Legislative Candidates” in which you ask every candidate to declare himself as to whether, if elected, he will favor a reapportionment to assure fair representation for Marion county in the state legislature, my answer is that if I am nominated and elected I shall not

[to do so. Washington has acted wisely, in our judgment, in extending a $50 million credit for purchase of our surplus | pplies abroad and. $40 million for locomotives and tos) rs here. . To get these credits, she reaffirms her promise to hold | anfettered general elections this year, to allow allied press | espondents to cover Poland freely, to refrain from | mmercial, discrimination against us, to support reduction | trade barriers, and to pay Americans for seized and | ized properties. : CE . = = T is true that Poland for the time being is under Moscow's thumb. It is true that the Communists, though a jority party, dominate the Warsaw government, and that ley are trying to perpetuate their rule by hook’ or crook. it is also true that the people want to be Poles and t Russian puppets, that the Communists and the Red ‘are increasingly unpopular. ‘To condemn the Polish ty for the faults of the minority, or for the folly their giant neighbor, is unjust and uriwise. The merit of these American credits is that they n¢ to help herself and speed European reconcountries are dependent on cannot be moved for lack of locomotives these credits ate aimed directly at one | i$ economic bottlenecks in Europe. much of Europe will be a perpetual relief nal constructive measures can be strengthen 8pot. Chaos and resperation credits for rehabilitation

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"Cases of G. l.'s Held in Prison Should Be Reviewed, Many Released"

VIEWS ON THE NEWS

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Easiest way to save bread is to be out of butter. . . ” » Some nations seem to mistake aggression for progression. - » LJ A corpse should provide ideal leadership for “Democratic Fascists.” - o » w z Vice Adm. Denfield says enlisted sailors will get as good liquor as officers all over the world. Sissies!

only favor such proceedings, but I shall be .active as a member of the Indiana senate to accomplish this objective, Marion county is being taxed without. adequate representation aiid I can see of no justified reason why any candidate for either ‘the senate or the house from this county should not be willing to make a stiff fight to secure the full representation to which our community is entitled. If new legislation is found necessary to get this issue before the Indiana state senate, in the event of my election I shall be happy to present same to the end that a redistricting may be brought about so as to give more equitable representation to the larger Indiana communities, including Marion county. I congratulate you on your stand in this matter, consideration of which has been long and inexcusably delayed.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“In the coming primary, Indiana's

whether they show a determination to work for full citizenship status of minorities. Political parties and candidates who seek the votes of Negroes must be concerned with full postwar employment for all of Indiana's citizens, support of an effective federal fair employment practices committee and state fair employment practices - committee, progressive planning for adequate, democratic housing for all of our citizens regardless of race, color, or creed, representation on the school board, representation on policy-making committees of both major parties, more elective and appointive (remunerative, as well as honorary) worthwhile offices for Negroes after the election, and definite plang for an effective Indiana civil rights law. “In evaluating - the merits of parties and candidates, we must include all issues, those touching the lives of Negroes and other minorities specifically, as well ‘as those affecting the city, county and the state generally. The party or candidate who refuses to help control prices, or falls to support the extension. of social security, or refuses to support a progressive public program of full post-war employment, or opposes an enlarged and unsegregated program of government financed housing, or ‘seeks to destroy organized labor, or fails to promote a more democratic educational system (state, as well as city schools) is as much the enemy of minorities as of other citizens of the state. “The undersigned are officers of church, fraternal, labor, civic and educational organizations with a total membership of more than 25,000 voters and citizens. We recommend to the membership of our respective organizations and all other voters that they measure all appeals for their support made by political parties and by all individual candidates according to the above yardstick and according to voting records in the legislature of Indiana and the United States congress (which we shall study with care). “This statement is designed both to make clear the Negro's present attitude of resentment against the shortcomings of both major political parties and to serve as-a guide in measuring the future intentions of parties and candidates.”

DAILY THOUGHT

If ye then be not able to do - that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?— Luke 12:26, »

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THE WORST THING the kids of Indianapolis ever had to put. up with was the passage of a" Surfew

| ordinance in the late Nineties. ys?

So far as anybody could see there was no demand for it, and no agitation in its favor, until a crusader by the name of Col. Hoagland in- . : : vaded Indianapolis and upset the ptatus quo. By way of public addresses and surreptitious spade-

already, I've thrown many bouquets. in the colonel’s direction. ; As near as J recall, the big idea back of the cur-

| Curb on Playtime

UP UNTIL THE TIME Col town with his nefarious scheme, the boys of Indianapolis had enjoyed playing on the until o'clock and sometimes later if the

in a boy's life, but when you translate it into mathematical terms and multiply it by the number of days in a year, you begin to realize what Col. Hoagland was up to. Not to mince words, he found it in his heart to deprive the kids of Indianapolis of 15 days of liberty every year—and even more in leap years. The plan was so preposterous, so at variance with

WASHINGTON, April 29.—Orlando, Fla, has adopted a Greek city and wil] feed it, as the outcome. of a happy inspiration by its Junior Chamber of Commerce and arrangements with UNRRA

This is another example of the general spirit of our people and thejr ingenuity. Food is basic. The people of Volos—that's the Greek city—will have a warm feeling toward Orlando and to Americans gen-' erally. Good will is a helpful thing in the state of the world today.

British Loan Is¢cReal Test

ECONOMIC HELP IS another form, The current outstanding issue in economic and financial assistance is the British loan proposal before the senate. It is threatened, though it is not likely that the people if they®could really understand it, would wash out“on this obligation. As important as this loan is to Britain, our war ally, to help her get on her feet, it is just as important to us for another reason. It is an integral part of our pledge’ of continued international co-operation. International co-operation is not just an announcement one fine day. It is successive steps, day by day, month by month, to fulfill it. It is a continuing obligation. In the British loan we literally face the test whether we are going ahead or whether we are going to turn back, as we did after world war I. It is exactly that. If we fail in this, the whole structure of international co-operation to which our people have subscribed may begin to crumble. No one needs to be told how tragic that would be. _ A political demagoguery to get votes is not likely to be mistaken for statesmanship. Senate debate has. brought out the direct benefits

NEW YORK, April 29.—This is quiet desperation, or gentle hysteria week. Life is closing in, Comes from living in New York.

Can't sleep, even with the aid of a recorded hypnotism spiel. A bulletin from the national noise abatement council says it’s civilian shell shock, induced by incessant city noises, like flapping manhole covers. Might be right. Man keeps blowing his horn, night after night, for five minutes under the window, and always at the same time—11:30 p. m. That's just 20 minutes before the nightly fire in our neighborhood,

The Gals Are Getting Fatter

BEEN WORRYING ABOUT the helicopter, too. It's in production now, for civilian use. Wonderful thing, the helicopter.. Looks like a big dragonfly. You can land it with no hands, hamma, and it takes off practically straight up. It will hover nearly motionless in the air, at any altitude. I keep brooding about the lack of privacy in apartment houses when every Peeping Tom has his own helicopter. Shocking prospect. I am fretting, along with the girdle industry, about ladies’ hips. They're getting wider. Lady. named Helen Erdheim, who works for a girdle company, is FWworrying herself into an early grave, because she has discovered that teen-aged girls have added an average of two inches to the rear in the last five years, with no sign of letting up in this particular brand of inflation. As balefully as any Cassandra, Miss Erdheim strikes a warning note. “Reverbrations will be felt in other industries,” she says. “Furniture people Will

WASHINGTON, April 29.—The workability of the United Nations is still in doubt. Its success de pends upon collaboration of the Big Three and thus far they have clashed almost at every turn. Two celebrated causes have come before the security council: Iran and Spain. Indonesia and Greece do not count. They were dragged in purely as a Soviet screen to cover up the Iranian affair, Throughout, the points of view of Russia on the one hand, and of the Anglo-Americans on the other, have been irreconcilable. So much so that things cannot go on like that without wrecking the United Nations as a world security organization,

{ran Issue Still Boycotted

IN THE CASE OF IRAN, Russia walked out rather than permit the charter to function. She still is boycotting the council insofar as Iran is concerned. In the case of Spain, her stand is equally at yariance with the charter's principles of democracy, jus« tice and logic. Spain, she charges, is a menace to international peace and security. Spain, therefore, should be made the object of United Nations sance tions. But when the council says yes, that may be so, and suggests an investigation, she puts thumbs down on the nation. : 1t is quite clear, Russia replies sharply, that Spain is guilty, hence no investigation is necessary. 'Thus, while the council went ahead anyhow and appointed a subcommittee of five to “examine” the Spanish situation, Russia may yet seek to block this line of procedure as she did in Iran. ; In each case, Russia has followed rules of her own, not those of the charter. That Spain, of and by herself, ‘really constitutes a. menace to international security is patently an absurdity. She could not: last

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark : Things to Worry About These Days

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. we had been brought up on, that everybody thought 1% w council

a joke when the passed the ordinance. - T¢ stopped “being funny, though, when we. picked up a paper day and learned that Chief of Police Quig-

J one ley was going to enforce the newly-enacted law. Not right away, of course, but in a week or so to give the

children (and. their parents, he added) a chance to

get acquainted with the revised rule. In the meantime, the police were merely to ques

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whistle blew. Col. Hoagland’s scheme to announce the hour of curfew by way of ear-splitting

whistles all over town. A good reporter would have started off with that fact. ?

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It was enough to thumb’ their nose a Col. Hoagland's curfew law. ’

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

~~ World Co-Operation Is Steady Job

to us and our economy in the opening of trade oppor tunities—this partly through England’s agreement te eliminate trade and exchange restrictions, to abandon

In this way, the loan and the accompanying trade agreements are part of the whole program of inter

and stabilization fund, by extending our reciprocal trade program for mutual lowering of trade barriers with other nations, by setting up social and economies organizations in the United Nations.

ments of living in our modern society.

Lack of Co-Ordination Causes War

, AS’ A MATTER OF FACT, it is these phases of international living together, that in the end will become the bulwark of effective political organization, For political organization is dependent upon them. It is the lack of them that causes wars. The reason for international political organization is to stop wars, . The British loan is a part of the whole fabric. The United Nations can become a debating society schol in a big Ball hollowly without. hese :other gs. We are making a beginning on these other things

in the economic and social field. In another month,

the economic and social council will meet in New York to start its work. Secretary Byrnes has taken to the Paris conference a plan to bring together in a common economic system over all Europe such necessities as food, power, transportation and coal. This is the necessary basis of political unity and concord. %

* have to make broader seats to their chairs. People sitting on subways benches will take up more space, increasing the number of standees.” Three times a day, and sometimes four, when the weather's nice, twins are born in New York. The financial desperation of a father in modest circumstances, when suddenly confronted by a dividend, has been ‘a source of deep concern to orfe department store here. This store has manfully shouldered the responsi bility, and has come out with a plan called twinsurance. All the expectant mamma has to do is buy one layette at this store, and she gets a coupon. If she hits the jackpot, so to speak, she sends the old man back to the store with the coupon, and he comes away with a second layette free, In a fit of generosity, this store also extends the offer to triplets (one in 10,000 births) and to quadruplets (one in a million). Nobody mentioned the sub ject, but if quintuplets or six of a kind showed up, they'd probably duplicate the layette in platina mink.

A Year's Rest Will Cure It

SINCE NEW YORK CITY went into the booke maker business by putting a 5 per cent bite on racing (while the cops get rid of competition by wholesale raids on individual bookies) I *have heen harassed by my conscience. Am I being a slacker by not rush ing out to Jamaica and losing the rent money? In the mail today were three pieces of sheet music, one called “Josephine, Please No Lean on the Bell,” a lock of blond hair and my incame tax obliga~ tions for four years. . There is absolutely nothing wrong with me that a year in a quiet sanitarium won't cure.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . .. By William Philip Simms : Spain Could Become UN Time-Bom

be by the United Nations. Admittedly, Spain is what is tritely called a bone of contention, but when d fight over a bone, one can hardly blame the e. Spaniards will settle with the unpopular Franco themselves if the rest of the world will handsoff and let them alone. %\ Nor is Russia merely interested in the overthrow df Franco. She would not lift a finger to oust him if it meant that a nal monarchy, like Britain's, or a system of free terprise, like the American, would follow. When the RusSian. envoy intimated to the security council that a new eivil war

.might not be a bad thing for Spain, he was speaking

by the book. He knows that somewhere or other a Spanish Tito is waiting to take over when the time comes: Spain would become a new Soviet satellite, like Poland, Romania, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia,

Domestic Intervention Wrong

WHAT THE COUNCIL does now to Spain will create a far-reaching precedent. The chief purpose of the United Nations is to maintain international peace and security. To do that, members are pledged to forego the use of force or threats against the ter=ritory or pelical independence of “any state.” Above. all, “nothing in the charter shall authorize the United Nations te.intervene in matters which are essential ly within the domestic -jurdisdiction of any state.” This principle, of course, does not preclude action if there is an actual threat to the peace. But chapter VII puts it square ly up to the security council to establish the existence of such a threat. If Spain constitutes such a threat, the council’s duty is plain. But to intervene in her domestic affairs because we don't like the government would set ticking a timebomb which would eventually destroy the’ United Nations. 4 dd

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