Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 June 1946 — Page 12

ianapolis Wednesday, June 12, 1946 "WALTER LECKRONE , HENRY W. MANZ A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER “ A es Ee all 214 W. Maryland ! Ste : Te of United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of Clrculations.

Price in Marion County, 5 cents a copy; dellv-

ered by carrier, 20 cents a week. 3 ‘Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states,

| U. 8 possessions, Canada and Mexico, 87 cents a month. " RI-5551,

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

GEROUS DOCTRINE : F anybody else had seriously proposed this state pass a L law forbidding Hoosiers to organize themselves for any purpose under the sun, or to join an organization of their own choice we'd expect to get an immediate, and heated, objection first of all from the state's C. L. O. unions. And in that objection we'd join them and support them. So we could hardly believe our ears, the other day, when we heard the C. I. O. unions of this state seriously proposing, and even urging, passage of such a law, and its inclusion as a plank in the Democratic party's state platform. ; True, the organization they proposed to prohibit is the ku klux klan.* Now we dislike the ku klux klan just as much as any C. I. 0. member does . . . maybe more . . . and we've never hesitated to say so. Their estimate of the innate viciousness of this outfit is entirely correct. But any law that would prohibit even the ku klux klan could be used just as legally to prohibit organization of the United Auto Workers, or any other C, 1.0. or A. F. of L. union. It appears to us, in fact, to be exactly the kind of a law the kluxers themselves would like to have on the statute books of Indiana when, as, and if they ever got their hands on any part of the state government. They could easily argue that it was “intolerance,” for instance if union members refused to let a non-union man work in the same factory with them. They could make quite a case out of economic prejudice, as well as racial or religious prejudice. It is simply dangerous business to try to shut off people who disagree with you . . . and doubly dangerous if you succeed in shutting them off . . . by law. Too often such a statute turns out to be a two-edged sword. So, with all sympathy for the feelings of our C. 1.0. friends toward the ku klux klan, which we share with them, we suggest that they reconsider. We can’t kill intolerance by being intolerant.

MIKHAILOVITCH “TRIAL”

THE trial of Gen. Mikhailovitch which opened in Belgrade Monday smells to heaven. In a very real sense it is not the Yugoslav patriot who is on trial, but the Communist dictatorship which charges him with German collaboration. All signs indicate the court proceedings are window-dressing for the prejudged verdict to condemn the defendants and to smear American and British officials and officers. If it is a trial without justice, then Dictator Tito and his Communist regime will stand condemned throughout the civilized world. : The indictment against Mikhailovitch is based chiefly on alleged confessions and captured documents. Obviously, “confessions” in any totalitarian state are suspect because of the intimidation and torture by which the terrorist police operate on their victims. The forging of documents is a commonplace. of lor : Moreover, the crime of collaboration with the enemy is only too easy to “prove” against guerrillas. The nature of guerrilla warfare involves some degree of ‘“accommodation” with the enemy, as the method by which the irregular bands survive and obtain materials to keep fighting. Also, because guerrillas are so poorly armed and lacking in transport, their fighting is sporadic and their. retreats many—all of which can be used to “prove” they helped the enemy. This was true of the Communist-contxqlled Partisans, apparently, even more than of Mikhailovitch’s Chetniks.

F «course the test is whether on the record of guerrillas actually injure the enemy. There is not the slightest doubt that Mikhailovitch’s forces repeatedly, though not

a PREP

ront on ii

vo GRANDE Ca

= ! ~ JE am TYE Td "I do not agree with a word that you

Hoosier Forum

say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

"People Should Not Be Misled By Claims of Purges, Unfairness"

By Member of Indiana General Assembly, Indianapolis

I should like an answer “Delegate to the State G. O. P. Convention” on his letter concerning State Superintendent Malan. The claims made for Mr. Malan by “Delegate” would be a joke were it not for the fact that the public probably doesn't know they are false. He claims that great advances were made “during Malan’s five years in office.” He could as well have said that they were made during the Roosevelt administration: either fact would mean as much as the other as far as influencing the progress that occurred. As a member of the Indiana general assembly, I know I would be joined by my colleagues in the statement that the gains made for education in the past six years have been the result of organized effort on the part of teachers, ParentTeacher association, League of Women Voters, A. A. U. W, and|old.

ball, with painted lips, cheeks and fingernails, smoking a cigaret. I

stances were made in spite of Mr.| Malan. He openly opposed the state school tuition fund bill which has given Indiana one of the best|a systems in the country. He vigor-|desuetude. ously opposed the reorganization of the state board of educa.on in throw it all out, not keep just the 1945, which has set up the commis-! part suited to our individual minds. sion on teacher training and | Modern education should be relicensing and has brought about|placed with the old methods of the very results that s“Delegate”| teaching the young to think. When claims for Mr. Malan. As for his that is accomplished, smoking, contribution to the retirement fund|drinking, swearing. girls and women and teachers’ salaries, that, too, is|will not appear in public in their a joke. Mr, Malan had rival bills|earliest entrance here, but have a on these subjects which wera not | balanced mind and modesty which acceptable to educators and which|all men of worth admire and love, were kept from introduction only|if single, try to possess. Houses by an open revolt against him by labeled for dollars will disappear educators from all over Indiana. |and children will be born, wanted, As far as any “purging” is con-|and not diseased. cerned, Governor Gates and the] Republican party two years were beseeched by educators

pear young. Modern religion, modern educa-

Give us religious in|struction—the Bible is

continuously, did hurt the Germans and did contribute to ultimate allied victory. They did help save Russia by engaging and holding Nazi divisions in Yugoslavia which otherwise could have been sent to the eastern front. They did help American and British forces win the African campaign by cutting key German military transportation lines in Yugoslavia. In addition fo those generally known facts, there is the specific information of the British and American military missions who lived and worked with Mikhailovitch. There is also the testimony of more than 200 American army fliers who were rescued by Mikhailovitch forces. And all of these state from personal experience that the Chetniks did fight the Germans. :

Significantly, the Tito government has ignored state |Was White as an Indianapolis snow- sidered in advance?

department requests to permit these American fliers to testify in Mikhailovitch’s defense. \ The pay-off in this so-called trial is that the alleged evidence, which the, dictatorship is presenting against Mikhailovitch, purports to show that American and British ~ officers were part of the “plot” to have him fight the Communist Partisans instead of the Germans. This is in line with the familiar Moscow’ and Belgrade propaganda to smear the western allies.

All in all this is dirty business—not only dirty but

dangerous,

RUSSIA'S POLICY NO ENIGMA WE call your attention to the article today about Max

Eastman, the radical, who sought Utopia in Russia |

and ended up with complete disillusionment. Mr. Eastman warns that the Russian “experiment”

is no experiment, but a carefully-plotted scheme -of world He cited what he calls Stalin's |

conquest by violence. equivalent of Hitler's Mein Kampf as his proof.

y 4 follow this one.

PING THE TIPPING

who could command respect and beer. provide leadership. The governor and the state administration are not leading the fight against Mr Malan, but are simply heeding the overwhelming demands of school | people who want.leadership in that

® x =» 2 “SEND DRUNKARDS TO

HOSPITAL FOR CURE” By A. J. 8, Indianapolis,

| judged her to be atleast 65 years I wondered was she tryihg to other groups, and in many ir-|be modern or to make herself ap-

tion, and modern modesty, may last decade then become innocuous

true—or

Women that make a home and ago real valuable mothers are not found | to!in public with chemise-like dress, give them a state superintendent smoking cigarets and calling for

As for alcohol, we already know

“WE SHOULD GET BEHIND PRESIDENT RIGHT NOW"

By Vivien Wooten Pierson, Greenfield. The Times is a favorite at our house! I never miss the Hoosier Forum and the excellent editorials. The one on June 1 about reducing the size of bread loaves without reducing the price had a real ring of what is getting wrong with the U. 8S. A, did I say getting! I believe “hypocrisy” 4s becoming the rule of the day, I'm wondering if that isn’t our national vice at the present; we seem to be “passing the buck” pretty rottenly these days, and most of us ordinary people have forgotten that a democracy means each and every individual must take an intelligent and active part in the government. If we want certain things done we've got to elect mien who realize that to hold public office in a democracy is to “serve the people” and it's our fault when we fail to voice our desires to our senafors and representatives. If enough of us get busy at this they will soon take notice, if we live too narrowly and too selfishly as individuals then we will soon reflect a narrow and selfish government! Let's all wake up while we are yet free enough to act. . And President Truman has the most thankless job in the world today, We need to get behind him. There is strength in unity, waren’t we taught that? And let's stop making a goat of the man who is trying hard for all of us. The tune of the day seems pesssimistic, with éveryone fretting too ! much about me, my and mine. We need some shots of cheer; after all things can work out if we work together, This is a grand country and we can keep it grand with just a little’ more thinking and acting in the daily lives of the average you and I.

| Worth your reading, considering that the source is | : one who hoped and went and saw, and came to his present cor usion, Three articles entitled “Why Call It a Mys-

t for the fellow who tips to park his hat, to is grip, to park a meal in his stomach, to park ‘on the barbershop floor, to park himself in virtually everybody except his dog fefch- | paper. In this bereft gent’s behalf, thanks | ‘railway for banning gining room it up to the waiters. Let's have

office of a definite character. The people of Indiana should not be misled by claims of purges or unfairness by those who are trying {to save Mr, Malan. { » ” on | “WOMEN SHOULDN'T PUFF |CIGARETS AND DRINK BEER”

that those addicted to imbibing too much, or mixing alcohol with gasoline, are actually mentally sick. Is it not in order, therefore, when such cases come into our courts, to fine them and send them to a hospital for a cure? I realize that this would bring a loud cry about loss of job, the problems of an innocent

= = ” “LITTLE TO SHOW FOR POLITICAL PROMISES” By Thomas Fisher, 1447 English ave, Without beating around the bush and driving home a point of true interest to all the people of our fair city of Indianapolis in regard to our current administration. What

I! By G. P. Aldrich, Indianapolis

| I saw an old woman, her hair

have they done to ) further the interests of the people and what have they done to improve government,

family, ete. But are these not factors which should have been con-

1 | |

| r

. furniture and clothes—bu

Side Glances—By Galbraith

COPR. 1946 BY NEA SERVICE, INC, T. M. REG. U 8. PAT. OFF,

"So far he's cost us plenty in hospital and doctor bills and nursery

to the OPA about that!"

local’ and otherwise, such as action promised by the mayor in improving the city’s historical buildings, |state buildings and other institu- | tions. Nothing, only perhaps a few trees that have been transplanted | around the state house during the |last few years. This is beyond a { doubt little to show for all the | promises if we get in office which | every party seems to have when {they offer their platform around | election time, Incidentally, was it [not all over the front pages of our city papers a Tew weeks back. What | happened to all this ready money

v hs

{were to be made? | Another of the important ques{tions up for discussion at all polit- | {cal meetings is the one about the elevations for the different sections of town, namely, the ones on the

lon the South side have been given [the side track. No administration

show. ! DAILY THOUGHT

In your patience possess ye your souls.—Luke 21:19. ” o ”

| i

t I'm not going to complain

|with which all the improvements

South side and West side. They have | started work on the most important [one on the West side. Yet the ones

[to date have been begun to keep any of their promises and perhaps we now need a change of party as the current administration haven't proven their worth, having ‘been in long enough to at least give us indications of what they plan to do. What we need at the present time are men who don't make so many speeches, promises and make

It 1s hard! But what cannot be removed becomes lighter through

"i ‘

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thoms L. Stokes

& v

maries thus far offer some interesting symptoms about the state of the nation and the electorate. They may be catalogued as follows: Though congress is torn by a number of major issues, some still unsettled, anxiety of the administration over the swing in congress toward “normalcy” seems neither to have affected nor excited the public. This inference is drawn from the fact that only four

+ incumbents have been defeated in congressional pri-

maries in 13 states, which do not include yesterday's contests. Any considerable excitement in the electorate usually reflects itself in primary turnovers.

C.1.O. Label Not Helpful

JHE OC. I. O'S POLITICAL ACTION Committee thus far has made little dent despite a widelyadvertised campaign. Veterans apparently have failed to arouse the public interest as candidates that some old-timers had feared and some political prognosticators had expected. : ~ The ‘13 primaries analyzed were in Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, Ohio, Oregon Pennsylvania and South Dakota. In the 173 districts in these 13 states 159 incumbents were renominated. A dozen other incumbents withdrew, and newcomers were nominated. Two contests in North Carolina are still to be decided. Of the four incumbents defeated, three were Democrats in southern states, Reps. Patrick (Ala.); Cannon (Fla.), and Weaver (N. C.). The other incumbent defeated was a Republican, Rep. Rogers (Pa.). Reps. Patrick and Cannon were eliminated by world war II veterans. . No incymbent senator involved in primaries up to yesterday’s has been defeated. Five were renominated. One withdrew, Senator Andrews (D. Fla.) and exGov. Spessard Holland was nominated for his place. The Indiana Republican senatorial candidate is to be selected at a convention tomorrow. Senator Willis

NEW YORK, June 12.—I sent a perfectly normal, well-adjusted woman down to Washington, D. C. last Tuesday, to see about moving a few sticks of furniture, and this same lady is back to town today. . Her health, she says, is wrecked. Her nerves are shot. She has lost faith in humankind. She is on poor terms with her family. She has spent a great deal of money. She talks of abandoning domesticity for life-long meditation in a cave, and if this comes to pass, I am going to sue an interstate hapling and trucking concern for alienation of affection, with punitive damages for wrecking a home.

Woe of Moving IT APPEARS THAT there is one virtue in the housing shortage; most people don’t have to move now, for the obvious reason that there are few places to move. Evidently, the process of transporting a few cracked plates and a couple of busted-down chairs from here to yon is a more difficult, frustrating, expensive operation than the logistical staging of the Pacific war. Mostly, this lady just snarls and mutters when I press her for details of the journey, but I have been able to plece together a few of the facts. I will try to present them chronologically. Every morning for three days she ran a dead heat with the birds and went to the Washington apartment, ‘expecting the movers to show up. During the day there would be bulletins from New York, Philadelphia and New Brunswick, N. J, saying that the truck had cast a shoe, the driver was taken drunk, or that nobody, anywhere, knew the exact whereabouts of the vagrant van. These days of waiting were spent in trying to locate a divan, desk, and chair that were lent to a former sports| editor in 1941; a library secreted in her mother's ‘attic; a dining room table that had become lost in ‘storage; some drapes that were mislaid by the cleaners; —iwo leaves of a dining room

BUDAPEST, June 10 (Delayed).—When Premier Ferenc Nagy and three other high Hungarian officials left for Washington Friday, the American dollar was worth 500 billion pengos. Next morning its

value had gone up to 800 billion. Sunday was a day of quiet, but no one would predict what would come on Monday or the next day. “Thank God, there is no paper shortage,” mumbled an aged newspaper hawker as she fumbled with fistfuls of billion-pengo notes.

Practical Examples IN THE MIDST OF HUNGARY'S inflationary whirligig, a new one-billlon pengo banknote, successor to the 100-million-pengo bill introduced April 29, came into being May 14. It was then worth 40 cents, or 2% ‘billion to the U. 8. dollar. Nobody seems to know who sets prices as the daily meteoric rise of inflationary values staggers the imagination. Saturday noon a kilogram (22 lbs) of cherries cost the equivalent of 25 American cents. At 8 p. m. they cost around 60 cents. Saturday I saved pengoes for a taxi to the railway station and train fare to Vienna, but today my taxidriver demanded the entire bundle. Saturday a man walked down the street with a four-bushel, knotted sack full of pengbes. No one paid any attention. : This crazy' situation, perhaps unparalleled in monetary history, is taking place in the gayest city of wartorn Europe. Though Hungarians haven't enough to eat, and it's impossible to earn (or carry, if they did earn) enough pengoes to buy the-countless

France and ltaly

MILAN, June 12.—The electoral history of Alcide de Gasperi’s Christian Democrats in Italy is even more striking than that of Georges Bidault's Popular Republicans in France. And whereas in France the

Communists have only. been checked in their advance, in Italy they have been roundly defeated. Taking these two election results together, it is plain that “rot has been stopped.” Western Europe is going to have a chance, after all, to re-establish a decent and orderly system of life and government.

Economic Assistance Timely NOW THAT MODERATE governments guided by liberal and democrati¢ principles are assured in the two most important countries of western Europe, Britain and the United States will do well to redouble their efforts to aid their economic recovery. Much turns upon the harvests in France and Italy, The heavy May rains, if followed now by sunny weather, should assure both countries of bumper crops. That will do more than anything else to aid their stability and put the economic life of the ¥rench and Italian peoples on a more secure foundation. But food is not enough. Inflationary tendencies can only be arrested by a high level of production, And this is impossible without coal. Italy is even shorter of this vital raw material than France. Hundreds of thousands of Italians, particularly in the industrial north, are already out of work. Only coal from Britain and the United States can give them employment. : Both France and Italy have shown decisively that they wish to throw in their lot with the free western world rather than with the slave states of eastern Europe. But if the democratic governments elected

‘by the French and Italian peoples are unable to . 3 . .

LU eo ba

TODAY IN EUROPE ... . By Randolph Churchill

Xe f

Primary Elections Favor Incumbents

(R.), the incumbent, is a candidate for renomination. Generally a conservative trend in the .country might be deduced from the small percentage of turn overs thus far, and from the significant failure of the C. I. O.-P. A. C. to produce according to its. expecta= tions. In Alabama, the C. I. O. supported Big Jim Folsom, who won in a run-off, but he made nothing of this support in his campaign. His victory came from the rural sections—where undoubtedly his hill biiy band had its attractions—rather than from urban areas where OC. I. O.-P. A. C. ; - NIRAT areas % A. C. strength. is con The C. I. O. failed to make any showing in Cali fornia. It supported the Democratic candidate for governor, Attorney General Bob Kenny, who lose out in his own Democratic primary to Governor Warren, By capturing both primaries and thus assuring elec~ tion in November, Governor Warren put himself among eligibles for the 1948 Republican Presidential nomination. In other California contests the C. I. O fared badly. ; ee While no hard-and-fast conclusions ean without investigation locally, it would Lm the branding of candidates as blue-ribbon C. I. O. is not too helpful. Where this is done too zealously and with the C. 1. O. too predominant in campaign management, it apparently carries the implication of a labor party, and this country is not ready for that yet. Americans, too, never have reacted well to too high-pressure politics from whatever direction. It may be, too, that the post-war wave of strikes has reacted against the C. I. O. in politics,

Perhaps Lines Not Drawn

THE PRIMARY RESULTS thus far, wit bents faring so handsomely, may indicate To public is ready to go along with congress toward “normalcy.” Or it may mean that the publie still is war-weary and apathetic, and does not want te bother much about what is going on here, or eannos grasp its significance because of technicalities of legislation. Perhaps the issues have not really crystallised yeh,

REFLECTIONS . . By Robert C. Ruark Moving Is No Trouble at All Now

table that were in an attic in a rented house in Silver Springs, Md., and the correlation of the bull of our lares and penates in the apartment. After wasting half a week, our agent got annoyed and bought herself a new moving company, whose representatives showed up at 4 p. m. of a ‘Saturday afternoon, undecided as to whether they would move the lady or not. Bribes sufficiently large to buy a banana republie politician, changed hands, and the furniture was packed. All, that is, except several kegs of dishes. To get those packages delivered costs another fortune, when and if our movers get around to coke lecting them. Furniture smashers, our lady says, hate their job, and will not do it unless fed sandwiches, hot coffee, liquor and a steady flow of kindly conversation. In return, over the sound of breaking china and splinter ing chair legs, they regale you with their matrimonial problems, amatory prowess, and their dislike for work, The moving people showed up here yesterday, and everything was fine after a wad of cash large enough to strangle a hippo was handed to the driver, who is responsible for the job and will not tear the back off a single bookcase until he feels hard money. Except the divan won't go up the stairs and they can’t hoist it up to the window with ropes. because’ there is an ordinance against it.

Now No Place to Park SO WE WILL HAVE no place to sit for weeks, she says, because I haven't rounded up the desk and other divan yet and they won't fit either and it's no use hiring a derrick until we get them up here and can put everything in at one time so I have put the divan in storage again and we will have to pay store age charges on it. ’ I'm worried about that girl. She looks fairly normal, except now and then her lips are flecked with foam.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Jack Bell Hungarian Inflation Startling Example

beautiful articles displayed in hundreds of shops, their women are neat and clean. And everybody agrees that “when we get the Russians out we'll build Budapest as it was, Europe's most beautiful city.” Terrific plunge of the pengo value is due to the usual results of long occupation by fighting armies, plus absence of rationing—except for bread. Wartime Hungary's great food stocks, locomotives and aluminum went to Germany; and its machinery was taken to Austria, where factories were nearer Nazi war needs. For five terrible months, Russian and Naz armies fired at each other from hilltops and on the streets within the city. Budapest didn't crumble, as did German cities, because there was artillery instead of air bombs. Since the peace Russia has been taking what little Germany left Hungary. There is no transportation, nor ine dustry nor livestock—nothing to back up the pengo. So the pengo has become as valuable as the falling autumn leaves.

Seek Washington Support NAGY, A REAL HUNGARIAN peasant and highly respected, is accompanied on his trip to Washington by his chief deputy and fellow Communist, Matyas Rakozi, considered a brilliant man of government; by Social Democratic Istvan Riesz, minister of justice, and by Foreign Minister Janos Gyongyossy, of the small landholders’ party. They seek.support for their claim to return of Hungarian railway equipment taken to Germany; raw materials and coal, and obviously, aid in stabili« zation ‘of Hungary's new currency which goes inte effect in August.

Need Western Aid

produce food and work, they might easily be dise credited and replaced by totalitarian regimes. Small exertions and sacrifices by Britain and the United States now may save us untold ruin and slaughter later on. There's no doubt that the monarchy would have had a better chance if the referendum had not been held simultaneously with the election of the Con. stituent assembly. Large numbers of Christian Democrats and Socialists would have preferred the mon. archy to a republic, but their leaders declared against monarchy because they feared they would lose votes unless they did. Despite this decision, it's clear that an enormous number of Socialists must have voted for the mon archy. Even here in Milan, where the Socialists had a large lead over the other parties, the monarchy polled 1,100,000 votes against 1,900,000 for the republic,

Hopeful Humbert CONSIDERING THE natural tendency of the Italians to make a scapegoat out of the House of Savoy for all their troubles and considering the bitter campaign which has been waged against it, the mone archists have reason to be satisfied by the vote they mobilized. y It's probably for the best that the referendum went as it did. If the monarchy had won by a narrow margin, Humbert would have been in an impossible position. Kings cannot function on. the basis of 45 per cent of their people being in favor of a republic, On the other hand, the solid vote obtained for the monarchy raises the possibility that, in five or 10 years, Humbert might be recalled. He's a young man, and it's certain that he has not abandoned the hope of returning one day from the exile into which

he 1s scheduled #0 go as soon as he gives up his throne,

Land

a |

By H United Pre SAN FRA! newlywedded day how the; moon ‘aboar: hazardous to the Gold The sun-t Hepp, 31, a 25, sailed th Gate” 40 ds from Honol Their only gea was abo them to Ho: Mr. Hepp, J., attorne) sergeant, an er WAVE a Spokane, Wi of open oce: rigged craft, Their lon ment was 8