Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1946 — Page 20

Give Light ana the People Will Find Ther

WDOWN FOR PEACE AMERICAN proposal for four-power enforcement treaties to speed peace settlements in Germany and Japan represents statesmanship of a high order. It means that the United States has stepped forward with the kind of world leadership commensurate with its vast strength and equal responsibility. If the other powers reject this | historic offer of American military commitment abroad for 25 years, they will miss their biggest security opportunity and reveal that they place selfish ambitions above world peace. Three major barriers are preventing the allies from winning the peace as they won the war. One is fear of revival of axis, and especially of German, power despite * the United Nations. The second is the professed fear abroad that the United States, as after world war I, again will walk out on its world’ responsibilities and leave others holding the bag. Third is the fear that other powers, particularly Russia, will use the present situation for aggressive imperialistic purposes. |

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. barriers. First, there can be no German or Italian military revival if the major allies continue in peacetime their antiaxis alliance. The United States now offers to enter such an alliance for 25 years, to double-rivet the general enforcement strength of the security council. Secondly, this automatically would wipe out fear of American withdrawal from world co-operation, and the excuses for many devious European policies said to be justified by that fear. Thirdly, this puts it up to the European powers—especially Russia

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will defend to the death’

Today, a year after German defeat, Germany itself - and all Europe and the Middle East are being divided into a Soviet sphere and a western sphere, with the Russian penetration extending farther and farther. The longer the _ postponement of peace, the deeper this division becomes, the worse the economic chaos grows, the graver the danger of violence and eventual war. Drafting of just peace treaties, and resumption of normal civil government and economic life, is desperately needed at the earliest possible moment. ‘The only legitimate excuse for delay has been the lack of adequate enforcement machinery to keep the axis demilitarized. The American proposal would provide that security machinery. Casati. 8 « = = ds NIFICANTLY, the proposal is American not only in “7 the official but also in the bi-partisan sense. Though drafted by President Truman and Secrétary of State ‘Byrnes, it was suggested nearly a year-and a half ago by the Republican spokesman, Senator Vandenberg, who is now backing it as a member of the American delegation at the Paris conference, : The proposal is not a cure-all. But it is a call for a showdown to stop the drift to world war III. If the allies are to divide into two hostile armed camps, that catastrophe will not be the fault of the United States.

MISSION TO MOSCOW

ARVELOUS is the fervor with which heads of the socalled American Communist party protest that their deposed leader, Earl Browder, is not going to Soviet Russia to bring back a new party line for them to follow, William Z. Foster and other members of the party's secretariat, in a public manifesto, denounce “reactionary speculation in the American press” as to the purpose of Browder's European trip. Such speculation, they say, is “designed to create confusion,” and to “try to brand the American Communist party as a foreign agent” rather than “a completely independent political party of the American * working class.” Well, we don't know why ex-Comrade Browder is on & mission to Moscow, if he is. to his “anti-Marxist, revisionist, Socialist-imperialist” sins | and beg absolution from Uncle Joe. Or maybe—this seems to us more likely—he hopes to persuade Mr, Stalin that the party could bore from within more successfully .in this country by returning to the Browder policy of pretending to co-operate with capitalism.

_ But we know one thing. We know that if Browder

reflect a type of thinking of which there is too much today. Now I'm not suggesting that he be penalized for his thoughts, but surely there must be a way to oroadén this viewpoint enough to look upon the less fortunate people In other lands with a less jaundiced eye.

didn't have enough to eat besides being ins you would get it if you had to steal it! I woul it was stolen in turn would become angry and do t isn't enough for all, it is reasonably | & certain that an epidemic of riots would lead to bloodshed. Mobs sel-| older men, including the older atdom win their objectives since a few torneys, would have had to go to as a risk? troops can disperse a large mob.

of us in that you probably have old clothes and shoes -that you! won't wear, but haven't given them to some needy person. you coat for coat, shoe for shoe, and | bread for bread to help anyone who be is in need of it—so you see I'm not and make money on them. just trying to argue.

“I RESENT CRITICI : A BERVICEMAN CANDIDATE” By Margaret C. Baker, 3%0 E Maple rd, |

and listening to a lot of speeches during this campaign, I don't like mud s and I resent criticism Maybe he wants to confess (of a ging and candidate for prosecutor, makes a statement that Alex Clark has had less than two years’ experience as a lawyer, that if Alex Clark had sfayed at home from the armed forces he would have six years of experience. | Judson Stark forgets if the young men, including young attorneys, had

Can't Just 'Let 'Em Starve’ if

Not Ready to Send Troops Back"

By John C. Struckmeyer Jr., 3024 N, Keystone ave. The comments about European starvation written by Roy Lesher

Let us suppose that the tables were turned, Roy Lesher! If you ufficiently clothed, I'm sure d. “The person from whom he same. Since there

t gone to the armed forces the

the service. We all were back here | in good old Indiana, safe and warm,

Multiply a mob in one village by

many thousand villages, and it takes| plenty to eat and making good on serious proportions. \ to be renewed outbreaks in many | fighting. Now that they are home parts of the world it would mean and want fo work and serve where more troops to maintain law and| they are best qualified, I don’t think order. If you had been in one of lit is good sportsmanship on anythe pestilence are as common as food | experience.” and plenty are here, I'm sure that you would not want to go back. And it isn't officially over yet. ‘| had a little over four years in the May 7. army (a good part of it was In| Europe, too) and I'm not eager for any more.

Were there! money, while the servicemen did our

places where famine and] one’s part to say “He hasn't enough isters, wives and remember the

he polls

| We war mothers, s. | sweethearts must 1 servicemen when we go to t

a8 nw 8 “PICKING UP WANDERING

DOGS IS A MEAN TRICK” By Mrs. Aubert Abney, 3625 N. Butler ave,

I have been very interested in the situation of the dogs being

Tll also bet you are like the rest

I'll match it is a very mean trick for men to

allowed to pick defenseless dogs

Last winter we lost a lovely 1ige black dog, which was only missing 10 minutes when we noticed her gone. We advertised and offered a reward but to no avail. Now our big watch dog is also missing, He belonged to our son in the service, He has written so many times asking about his dog and now he has been called home this week because his father is very ill in the hospital, but his dog will not be here to greet him. These dogs disappear without anyone ever seeing any trace of them. Our dog always had a collar and license tag on him. There are so many dogs in our neighborhood not really cared for but they are never bothered.

» SM OF apt, M1 I have been reading the papers

Judson Stark,

Judson Stark fails to tell

should sell that idea in Moscow the professedly American Communist party would promptly change its tune. It would abandon its present line as abruptly as it was adoptod, and with as little evidence of shame or of respect for the intelligence. of the American people. Changing the party line, after proclaiming that it would never, never change, is no trouble for Communists. They have done it so often that the next switch, which may. result from Browder's trip, is not needed to brand the Communist party in the United States as a fom i, eign agent and nothing else but,

HEY! COUNT US IN

ATOR BILBO of Mississippi, having started out to 7 Vi filibuster the British loan bill to death, changed his E ‘mind suddenly the other day and departed for two months ‘eamphigning for re-election. “J eould never feel satisfied to stay here,” he said, “when are four peckerwoods down in Mississippi who are take my job away from me.” But, before going, i Life magazine, which had called him “the in the senate,” and several other publications

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from the Cerigressional Record’s report, | on the Scripps-Howard newspapers, | this unfortunate omission, Let it

And more power to the pecker-

rement on the bigot

anybody's opinion of “The Man” | of them in the senate |

Carnival =By Dick Turner

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found starving in the truck. I think|

DEAL PROPERTY LOANS TO G. L's UNJUST” By David E. Kennedy, Brookside ave. Why all this sham with our boys? Need the administration play with | promises they are not fulfilling? To- | day a real estate man told me that 13 out of 14 boys" were being denied property loans. That isn't justice. Too, I don't see any boys entering | business, It just isn’t done. Mr. | Shylock sees to that. -I do under- | stand a, former farm boy can get | a loan. That serves two purposes. | It does fulfill a promise, and it gets | the boy back to the farm. Too, it brings the percentage up, so the city G, I. can be turned down, Just what is a city G. I. worth Can't we place some | value on his valor, or, if you must, | some reward for all the chances he took? You who read the papers but do no business with the G. IL know nothing of the red tape, the {delay and finally the® refusal and | the accompanying heartbreaks. In 1942 I bought a double involving $1850, Since then I have {received $300 yearly rent. Not bad, {but I did have taxes and some upkeep. One month ago I decided to ;sell but only to a G.I, I being a | daddy of two recently returned boys. I advertised this property for '$1950, as owner. Had six calls, all G.1.'s. Took option from a G.I. living with {a ‘brother, second door from my property. A good Christian family. [We waited near 30 days. He was refused, said property needed repairs, papering only neglected. On a basis of today this property {is "worth $2250 and I can get it with |8, per cent on balance, after nice payment down, and it looks like I'm going to have. to 8ell it to one more fortunate than this G.I, one who saw no battlefield, and only recently returned to work after a seven-week lockout,

» » » “CATTLE GET SMOOTHER RIDE THAN BUS PATRONS” By T. McGuire, 1

1126 Eugene st.

It is gratifying to see The Times on the side of the long-suffering public in the Indianapolis Railways |rate case, Mr. Lewis is deserving {of praise by all of us for an able summing up of the public service commission hearing of a very long drawn-out hearing. As. a trolley and bus rider of several years, it seems to me that our city franchised transportation systems claims to do and be many things for us patrons that the facts do not verify, For instance they claim by name to be railways,” The former rail- | borne carg“were a far better form of transport than the jerking, banging, swerving buses that most of us workers ride today. Also it is very likely true that the depreciation and maintenance expense of track is far less since the bumpy old buses are Wearing more and deeper holes in the streets built and maintained mostly by the general taxpayer, As for the much abused word service, the cattle and hogs from the stockyards get a far smoother ride with less jerks and jabs on the Indianapolis Union Railway than a perspiring, suffocated, weary passenger on a trackless trolley or bus. At least three more crosstown

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.|and until this service is rendered, |sgven cents should be the cash fare rate. Perhaps the citizens of this no mean city could inject a little free enterprise into the rate situation by issuing a franchise to a competitor corporation who could serve the neglected parts of our city.

DAILY THOUGHT

shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.—Matthew 16:28. . ~ :

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . , &

the theory that law arises from the instinct of self‘preservation, to examine the antiquated judicial system of Japan . . was pation to obtain trial of war criminals.

man and Frenoh procedures, will be changed in the new constitution. Its history since-the first code was formed in 620 A:D. has been to serve the emperor, the court lords and the samural warriors instead df to protect the people.

preme court, abolition of-torturé and holding persons

up & bill of rights. ‘MacArthur Already Has Acted

‘| mercial and criminal ‘codes in effect when we landed have been rendered inoperative by Gen, MacArthur, but it remains for the Diet, known jokingly in Tokyo as the gikai, or “talk club,” to draft new laws.

presented by ministers of the cabinet, but has had no sovereign power , but could not determine them.

marked in the civil code by the emphasis placed on the family . . tion of the interests of the emperor. were adopted after pressure from western powers um= willing to have their nationals tried under the old" tribal concept that a foreigner has no rights against a member of the tribe. This pressure resulted in extraterritorial courts after Commodore Perry ended the exclusion ‘policy, >

Japan , . . 0 out even though it may be necessary to adopt a male

New York a very few months, I have learned to talk so sharp that the average eavesdropper would figure me immediately for a producer, a gossip-columnist, a radio star or a high-paid press agent.

this thing is?) I never give with ‘the corn 1 was { brought up on. Not me, elbow-rubber with the famous, a diner-out in places where you can get all the butter you want, and eggs are $5 apiece.

Ki have bought a fresh bow tie from a pushcart man, and pinned a Charvet label on it, I say “Clock the Kid. Sharp, huh?} - |

Coudn't Be Less Moved

places which have ropes to keep out millionaires with round haircuts, and observe somebody showing off, or talking loud, or dressed outlandishly, I nudge my companion and say “get him.” That does not mean to go after him, or retrieve him. It means look at him, and appreciate him, and laugh at him, Sometimes I say “Get the

stinging retorts. I say: “Get lost, Jack.” Or “Go take a drop-dead pill.” That crushes ‘em flat, .

beat-up character (bad), couldn't care less.” 1 also say “I couldn't be more bored” or “I couldn't be happier” or “I couldn't be

less moved.” If this makes me sound like a sissy I couldn't care less,

lines are needed in Indianapolis, |’

For whosoever will save his life |

~ | AEN v ; aig

By Donald D. Vio nT Se Jap Justice Served Emperor First

‘IT'S OUR BUSINESS, because it typifies so well adult to carry on as head of a house. While false wit« ness is a crime, it is,not prohibited on behalf of a lineal ascendent or descendent! : Another point of contrast is- that a jury seldom has been used-in civil casés since adoption of the 12man. jury system in 1028. In all cases, the judge has - power to ‘set aside¢a verdict and order another trial: - Both prosecution and defendant may appeal a sentence, . Japs historically believe in heavy punishment to deter crime , . , although before the war (and except in case involving the war effort) they followed a theory of reform and correction, “The parole system has been in effect since 1870, and the number of law. - violations Is low , , , the 31 murderers hanged in 1937 compared with 263 arrests for homicide in New York city. And more persons were convicted of intoxication in that state than .were convicted of all Seimes in Japan that year, when 38,644 were found guilty.

Torture Used fo Obtain Confessions

THE NIPS GIVE little weight to circumstantial evidence . . . hence torture to get admissions ot crime, Up to adoption of the present codes in 1874 and 1875, prisons were merely places of detention until trial. Heads of convicted’ persons were displayed publicly, and burning at the stake and crucifixion wers ordinary punishments, For. a time, a secret code for judges only prevailed , , , during the Tokugawa shogunate when .it was deemed. advisable to ‘leave the people ignorant of the niceties of the law.” Japanese love to compromise, and one of their popular and effective institutions is the “arbitral tribunal” in which mueh civil litigation is settled. There, as elsewhere, there are still no fixed rules of evidence. The emperor-appointed life-time judges are all’ powerful . . . lawyers usually merely have the function of pleading for clemency. Incidentally, for eigners are barred from practicing law,

. a system under which an effort ymade by the Japanese in the early days of occu--:

The system, which has its origing in Chinese, Ger-

The new constitution provides for a genuine su-

n bondage, freedom "of thought and speech and sets

MANY PROVISIONS of the antiquated civil, com-

C2 The Diet has taken little real part in legislation,

. it could deliberate on laws

Difference between Jap laws and ours is most

. and in the criminal code by protec Even these codes

Everything regarding the family is important in a family name is not pekmitted to die

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

Country Boy Learning New Yorkese

NEW YORK, May 2—Although I have been in Every woman I know calls me “darling.” I call every woman I know “sweetie” or “darling.” This is a source of soreness with my wife, who couldn't be less sympathetic. My ordinary conversation is thickly strewn with phrases like “You're so right, dear”; “Are you kiddin’?, which I use to express fervent agreement, wry amazment, . overstated indorsement, apd mild disbelief; “leave us face it,” and “believe me” When I seé an unattractive girl I say “Get the kid. Strictly the smorgasbord department.” And if she 1s particularly ugly, “how horrible can you get it?” is the rhetorical question, That's a goody, that “how,” routine, When the story is gamey “how disgusting can you get? is the only answer. How stupid, noisy, -silly, crude, rich, sleepy . . . anything fits the “how” gag. When I wish to go away and nibble at the fatal apple carmine of the lips of my beloved, I say, tenderly: “Leave us get lost.” This is not to be ‘confused with the terse phrase of dismissal, which is always delivered in the imperative.

The Kid's Sharp Today! WHEN A PARTICULARLY LUSCIOUS lass crosses my bow, I leer suggestively at my friends and say “Get her to handle your case.” I have progressed so far from the seared country boy department that I have quit saying “it says here,” to express skepticism, and have abandoned “natch” to the hatcheck girls and night club picture-snappers. “Def,” meaning definitély, also is passe in my book. Oh I'm sharp all right. The rope's up on thosé beat-up characters who still speak English, As far as I'm concerned, they can all take a drop-dead pill, and I couldn't be more vehement, Believe me, :

“sweetie,” or

When I make with the mouth (you see how easy

I am a sophisticate, an

I never speak-of me as “me.” I call myself “The d.” I call everybody else “The Kid,” too. When I

WHEN I AM BITTING AROUND in one of the,

Kid." That is sarchsm at its subtest. When I am annoyed, I have a quiver stuffed with

body I know is either an operator (good) or a

No longer do I say 1 ain't interested. I say “I

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes : : ; . ’ House Spikes Overseas ‘Information

costs for equipment and facilities are such a large part that the cutwill seriously handicap programming, described by Assistant Secretary William Benton as “the heart of the operation.” The reduction, which applies all along the line, probably will force elimination of information service and libraries in many of the 45 countries where they are now maintained, with a concentration in perhaps 15 nr 20 centers. ; The committee also recommended discontinuance of the magazine “America” published in Russia, now the chief source of information about the United States in that country. Though Russia hitherto had limited publication to 20,000 copies, many more read it. Since the house committee urged its discontinuance, the Russian government has authorized 50,000 copies. Importance of the information and cultural program was stressed by Secretary of State Byrnes when he appearéd béfore the committee to urge the full appropriation recommended by the budget bureau.

Byrnes Says Explanation Necessary : “FOR BETTER OR WORSE we are involved in all the major international problems of the earth— through our participation in the United Nations and other international organizations, and through our bilateral and multilateral commitments,” said Mr. Byrnes. Y “There was a time when we could afford—or thought we could 'afford—to be unconcerned about what other people: thought of us. That time is past. We shall be making decisions, within the United Nations and independently, that will have repercussions affecting the lives ‘of ordinary people all over the globe. Our attitudes. and our actions—and rumors thereof —will be matters of concern everywhere. As never before we shall bave to explain ourselves—and explain ourselves thoroughly and promptly.”

WASHINGTON, May, 2.—Isolationism has many faces. *\ > There are so many ways in which complete inters national co-operation by the United States can be blocked unless there is constant watchfulness. A new test comes frequently and often is not clearly apparent to the public. One of the most important is now before the senate in the proposed British loan, as Has been pointed out here previously.

State Department Wants Activity THERE 18 ANOTHER before congress of a slightly different sort. This has to do with our effort to reach out to other people, to explain ourselves and our objectives, to the end .of promoting understanding which is the basis of peace, ; One of the chief means to achieve this worthwhile purpose is the information and cultural program cponsored by the state department. It gets out the story of our country in many ways—through information’ by short-wave radio, which incidentally can reach people, particularly in southeastern Europe ~nd in Russia, who can be reached in no other way; through moving pictures; through books and magazines in libraries maintained by our embassies and legations. The house appropriations committee has struck a body blow at this valuable adjunct to our foreign policy by reducing the $19 million appropriation recommended by the budget bureau for this service to $10 million. The appropriafion bill affecting the state department and three others comes before the house soon. This cut will seriously cripple the short-wave radio service if it does not cause its abandonment, as som state department officials fear. Broadcasting accounts for over a third of the budget, around $7,500,000. Fixed

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms ~ Palestine Report Is Not a Solution

WASHINGTON, May 2—Already it 1s clearly in- single trustee which Zionists take to mean a continudicated that the Anglo-American ‘committee's Pales- - ation of British rule, tine report to the British and American governments An authorized Jewish spokesman in Washington will prove. unsatisfactory both to world Jewry and to commended the proposal to make education compul« the Arabs. sory and raise the Arab standard of education up to Jews of course approve of the recommendation to that of the Jews. But, he added, the Jews should not admit, as soon as possible, 100,000 displaced persons be called on to pay the major shafe of the expenses, of their race into Palestine. But an Arab spokesman At the same time, he characterized the committee's in Jerusalem is quoted as saying that his people would “attack” upon what-it called an “aggressive Hebrew fight the newcomers “like the British prepared to bat- nationalism” in the Jewish schools, as “both unwar-

tle a German invasion.” ranted and insulting.”

. . “The report,” he said, “offers little promise and Arabs Will Oppose Immigration concludes, characteristically enough, with a generous

THE REPORT'S- REPUDIATION of the British display of threats.” He contended that while the white paper's ban on immigration save by Arab con- recommendations might well lead to “illegal activi-. sent, and on land purchases throughout most of ties and revolt” in Palestine, the committee looks to Palestine, likewise has widespread Jewish approval. the Jewish agericy to ‘maintain order. Yet “nowhere But the Arabs are almost certain to oppose these does the committee provide the agency. with the changes with equal fervor. Thus the problem of power, responsibility or the means.” ‘ Palestine would seem to be little nearer solution than before—unless the United Nations takes over ne mmittee recommends, and backs rp Pen so it would probably find with the report, But it will do him little good poit anything but easy \ litically. The committee was appointed last year-as There are about a million Jews in Europe, Jewish a result of his contention, contrary to the British critics point out, for whom further existence in that - thesis, that more Jews—perhaps 100,000—cnuld be adarea has become intolerable, Yet only a tenth ‘of that mitted immediately to Palestine. British and Amernumber would be allowed to go to Palestine. What, icans were equally represented on the committee. they ask, is to become of the other nine-tenths? _ Unfortunately ‘Palestine is another one of those stine shall be neither problems impossible of solution in a way to please

The recommendation that Pales Jewish rior an Arab state is bound to strike fire from anybody What 18 pie to one side is polson to hie other. Unquestionably a majority of Jews would

both sides. Zionists more and more have nurtured" the hope that a full-fledged Jewish nation would be Bet 1 established ‘there,” once it held a Jewfsh majority. Holy Land. The Arabs are just as overwhelmingly

Under the committee's plan there could be no such against it, often violently. Blood has been gpilléd

Blood-Letting Won't Be Ended PRESIDENT TRUMAN HAS ¢xpressed satisfaction

“on » Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star~DBen Jobnson.

majority, hence no independent. state. Instead, even and there is ligle reason to expect that the commite ° the report recommends & -tee's report will put an end to 46 *

like to see 'a sovereign Jewish state set up in’ that .