Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 June 1946 — Page 8

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high commissioner to the Philippines, the former Indiana governor made many friends in the commonwealth before the war. And with his return since the islands were liberated from the Japanese, he has formed close contacts with President Manuel Rbxas and other key figures in Filipino life which will be of inestimable value to his country and to theirs. : Ambassador McNutt was personally popular with Filipinos of many walks of life. His graciousness and wurbanity, together with his impressive appearance, ‘made an excellent impression wherever he went in the islands. © These first years of the infant republic will find it struggling to get back on its feet under great handicaps of destruction resulting from the loyal support the Filipinos gave to the American cause. It is ill-prepared to launch an independent government. Many of its leaders had hoped to postpone independence, but none came forward to say so. The United States has indicated it would continue its economic assistance and friendly support to Filipino aspira- | tions. And President Roxas has shown strong pro-Ameri- | canism. Paul V. McNutt is an ideal mar to represent our country to the Filipinos and their country and its needs to | the United States. 2) Indiana adds its congratulations and good wishes to the new ambassador, who used-to be its chief executive.

RUSSIA ASKS TOO MUCH is vital to the future of civilization that there should be international agreement for control of atomic energy. But control must be control, without reservations or exceptions—starting with the sources of raw materials and going through all the processes of manufacture, which is the proposal of American Delegate Baruch. / So long as any nation can conceal its activities fro the rest of the world there will be no guarantee against misuse of atomic energy or of any other weapon of destruction. > We would not think of enacting a liquor-control law under which the big saloon keepers would have the right to’ bar police from their premises. Russia is asking much more than that. » Under her counter-proposal to the United Nations * atomic energy committee, Russia would have us destroy the atomic bombs we have, promise not to make any more, but tell her how to make them. On top of that, she is telling us not to ask her any embarrassing questions about what she does with the secret.

» THAT is like putting your head on a block, handing a sharp sword to a dangerous man, and then going to sleep. For Russia has been acting and talking dangerously ever since VE-day. If the United Nations is to control atomic energy, that control must be absolute, foolproof and crookproof. There must be no favorites, exceptions, reservations, vetoes, back doors, iron curtains, or under-the-counter business. The law, when written, should apply to everybody. : Until there is that kind of agreement, the secrets and the know-how, which we have, should be kept where they are safe—in our hands and in no others, En ~ The door is wide open to a meeting of hearts and minds on this erucial issue. It should be kept open. But let’s keep our powder dry. Nothing should be given away until a real agreement is reached. Nor should the urgency of the problem blind us to the ugly fact that an agreement with a hole in it could be fatal to mankind.

HIGH SCHOOL FOR VETERANS - y JLLUSTRATING the early age at which war interrupted the schooling of so many youngsters is the fact that more than 1000 veterans were enrolled in the city’s high “schools this year. Many of these are attending the special summer school for veterans which is being conducted at * Arsenal Technical high school. ! % During the school year just closed, some 3000 veterans were served through the testing, counselling and training | ¢ program of the Indianapolis public schools, The school city | | has worked out an excellent plan whereby the ex-G. I. may : obtain a diploma or a high school equivalency certificate. «Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendent of schools, says that two years before VJ-day, plans were begun to anticipate

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month rent and don't believe that is too much—I seem to recall reading just before I was married in 1936 that 25 per cent of a person's in could be spent on housing, and with my coal bill and utility bills I'm

Our grocery bill for myself, wife and three children runs about $15

a week, and my lunches are about $2. Carfare is 75 cents a week, plus 50 cents each time we go to the movies. You can see that those expenditures leave about $10 a week for clothing, medical care, insurance and

the other costs of living. 2 I'm going crazy trying to keep out of debt, and I've just about come to the conclusion I can’t do it. Prices are increasing so fast on food, regardless of OPA or any other control, that I'll soon be without the slender margin that enabled us to save $2 a week. My wife is economical, and we definitely do not have any luxuries. During the war, we were fairly well off with my allotment from the army and with price control and rationing. I believe there are a great many people like myself who don’t want to go into debt, whose savings are going down the drain, and who are caught in the middle in this situation that to me at least is a crisis, » . » “CATS KILL BIRDS AND SING ON BACK FENCE”

By Elme Padgett Jr., Indianapolis I, too, agree with-“a friend of a dog.” I, too, cannot see why dogs should be penned up in yards and kept. on leashes all the time. True, some dogs run loose but they are not dangerous unless molested, and then I doubt if they would bother you, And another thing, if license prices went up to $35 for males and $60 for females, almost every child in Indianapolis would lose a good companion, friend and bodyguard as well, If people would train their dogs, I don't believe a single dog would be in the street. And what about having cats licensed? Cats are just as dangerous as dogs. They kill birds and “sing” all night on your back fence. And

“DISCRIMINATION ENDED DESIRE TO STAY IN ARMY” By » Thoroughly Disgusted Veteran, City I read in your paper that the army colonel and his wife, a WAC

captain, who stole the famous Hesse crown jewels, were to be quartered in a Frankfort hotel. No doubt they will be given room service and have access to the cocktail lounge as well. There are many enlisted G. 1's in Europe who are awaiting trial for some minor offense, but you can be certain they are not awaiting trial in a hotel room. Being an exG. I, I have seen many cases where the enlisted men are put in a stockade, with a bread and water diet, for being a few days AWOL, or less. But officers, who commit a much greater offense, are given hotel accommodations. I can truthfully say that I would have been glad to stay in the service had “it not been for the discrimination between the officers and enlisted men. I was in the navy and, from what I hear, it was much worse in the navy than in the army. I heard many men say they would stay in the service if it were not for such. discrimination. Congress could forget about drafting men into the service if enlisted men were put on the equal of their officers. In times like these it is hard for a man to decide whether he wants to stay in civilian life and live in a city like this or go back into the service and sit behind the officers and their lady friends at the movies.

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SHOULD BE ON PAGE ONE” By Fred Rippel, 3179 Graceland ave.

killed cats that have got in my| The article published in your chickens. People who have cats newspaper headed “Belgians Didn't don't take care of them as well as Raise Wages; They Cut Prices” was the people who own dogs. Let's get | misplaced, I think, when it was put together and cut down on the cats, on the inside of the paper. Articles

~ the need of those youths who were inducted before com- | ~_pleting high school. Many of these boys require specialized ‘Vocational education to prepare them for peace-time | pursuits. k One of the best investments a veteran can make, par- : ticularly if he is jobless and living at home, is to complete }is high school education if it was interrupted by the war. | - Tredits are granted for basic military training, health and “elective social studies. This advances him a bit nearer to Te high school diploma that will mean so much to him in ‘his future life, “4 Another avenue to a diploma is the general educational | elopment test, given to youths who show competence . the equivalent to that of a high school graduate. These ‘diplomas are recognized in obtaining admission to college.

RACTICAL THINGS FIRST AAYOR TYNDALL wisely cautioned the city-county auditorium authority to take it easy in approaching problem of a projected city civic auditorium. B the mayor says, the city is “having a devil of a time budget this year.” Also, he pointed out, large ex8 would be required to purchase ground and conto us that purchase of ground for an audiell be deferred until the city is in a less financially. Certainly it*would not be of further impairing the city’s financial

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“OPA FEAR PROPAGANDA CREATES WAVE OF BUYING"

By » Disgusied Merchant, Andersen For the past many weeks the

housewives have been bombarded with vicious propaganda both over the air and through the press with wild stories of inflation. These stories have passed beyond the funny stage and now having éritical reaction all over the country. The result of this OPA fear propaganda has been to create a wave of fran-

tic buying. In many places food stocks and many kinds of other merchandise have been . purchased and hoarded away in such quantities that much of it will be spoiled and thrown away before it can be used. Just what the score is on this government set-up no one seems to know, that is no one except this Chester Bowles. Any] merchant will tell’ you that the| thousands of rulings and regulations, and amendments issued by the tons, has created a state of confusign in the operation of a business that surpasses anything that has ever happened to this country. Here 4s a side of the | problem that I do not believe the average housewife has stopped to consider. A very exhaustive study of the OPA has been made by various groups of men schooled: in the American manner of conducting business and they have labeled this law not only stupid but impractical. The rudiments of business is competition, and it will always be 50. The merchant knows the reason you trade at this store is because of low prices and quality merchandise. To keep hammering for lower prices than his competitor is the uppermost thought in his mind at all times, for these things determine the amount of business he will do. The man you deal with, whether he is the head of a large industry or the owner of a small corner store, also knows that you are being kidded into believing the hold-the-line prices prevail. If you pay 10 cents for an item over the counter and the balance of 90 cents Is collected in the form of taxes, then you are paying a dollar for an item which is. only worth about 60 cents, for the other 40 cents goes to pay OPA and its one hundred | thousand employees, along with six billion dollars in subsidies. You're paying taxes on a lot of things you do not get, n » » “LEGALIZE GAMBLING, END THIS HYPOCRISY”

By Fair Play, Indianapolis I have written to the Forum before about legalized gambling, which is something I believe in as removing hypocricy and getting more revenue for running our gov ernment, The big boys can gamble all right, as I've pointed out. But let the little fellow shoot craps or bet at a bookie’s or play the slot machines and what happens? I'll tell you what. He's thrown into the jug. That Times “expose” of slot machiifes makes me laugh. You say the state law prohibits their possession O.K. what is going to happen to the Indianapolis Country club, Highland Golf club, Hillcrest and the rest of those places where the rich people enjoy themselves, Ake to play the slot machines. \How about putting some in Washington park, which {8 near my home, if they're permitted at the swanky country clubs? Why not legalize gambling and cut out all this hypoeriey? The poor man likes to gamble; too.

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS to look behind the picture of payment of $32 million plus to Hoosiers who have been unemployed in the past 18 months. Of that amount, $17 million was paid to veterans who were looking for jobs .'. . as contemplated by the G. I. bill of «ights ‘Which provide! f¥-adjustment allowances for service men returning to civilian life.’ The rest went to many thousands of “workers,” many of whom never will be regularly employed again in all probability.

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THIS LARGE SUM, most -of which went into regular channels of trade, is one reason the retail trade and business in ‘general has held up, despite . strikes and other economic dislocations. An “educated guess” of the number of veterans who hdvé returned to civilian life in Indiana is 290,000. Of that number, 45,000 now are drawing readjustment allowances, or unemployment compensa= tion. Others are in school under the G. I. bill, but by far the largest numbcr are back in their old jobs or settled In new ones. Not so the workers who were on civilian payrolls in purely war industries. Indiana is reported to have ranked as the seventh most productive state in war materiel. Its factories devoted purely to manufacture of such items as powder and munition have closed down, and a large number of those workers is on the loose. Women drawn into industry during the war accounted for more than two out of three claimants for compensation at the peak last July. One out of three claimants now is a woman, but the big reason for the dwindling percentage is that many have

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exhausted their benefits . . most of these wartime employees probably will not return to any" job. Second largest group of claimants is composed of men over §0. ? \ . a Another considerable segment of the unemployed “belongs” to some employer who may be reconverting or -have laid off employees for other reasons. These workers still retain their séniority and other rights, and distort statistics on unemployment. They are not seriously seeking new jobs. During. the first half of last year, about 4000 claims were handled weekly by ‘the employment security division of the state goverriment. By VE-day, this figure had increased to 11,000; by VJ-day to 60;000, and in December it reached 90,000 claims a week with vetérans for the first ‘time constituting the majority of the claimants. ry In January and February of this year, claims soared to a 130,000 average which since has dwindled to the present 90,000 a week. &

Benefits Half-Way Substitute Only

FOR BOTH EX-G. L's AND CIVILIANS, unemployment insurance is a right earned by service in the armed forces or by working in covered employment, the term used to denote those occupations for which such protection is provided. The individual applying for compensation must be out of work through no fault of his own, have established a rate of pay on a Job, be available and able to Wonk and willing to do so. ; . Jobless benefits are. a poor substitute for wages, it is pointed out. Only a job can take a person up the ‘ladder of experience, seniority, job insurance promotions and old age insurance rights, :

REFLECTIONS « « « By Robert C. Ruark Sham. Surrounds Betting on Horses

NEW YORK, June 22.—The American attitude toward horse racing has been, with the possible exception of our experiment with prohibition, one of the greatest single instances of national hypoerisy in the 20th century. : According to the law, horse racing is a gayhearted, breed-improving sport, when stimulated by a little financial hypodermic at the scene of the race, but a low, criminal undertaking when the commercial interest is resettled from the horse park.

Tapping the Bookie Till

IF YOU TELL THE BOSS a flat lie, such as having to go to Canarsie to bury a cousin; if you spend money on a train or taxi to travel to some reclaimed swamp where horses run; if you pay a whacking admission to get inside the track and then blow the baby’s bootee money in the mutuels—if you do all these things you are a noble citizen, a sport, and a contributor to the taxes of your state, county ‘and city. But take a fast five minutes off from the daily sweat to phone a two-buck bet to a bookie, and you are a criminal, really, because you compound the" felony of illegal bet-taking, even though you are fascinated by the same horse. This can be stretched to such lengths that the Johus will haul you in, as happened here recently, for reading a racing form on a street corner. However, New York, which has recently tasted the delights of dipping into the race course till for a city cut of the handle, may pioneer in admitting the falseness of the American concept of the sport of kingsized chumps. A freshly whelped committee is agitating to tap the untaxed millions which are bet outside the parks by legalizing the bookie, and as far as I can see, improvement of the breed and the salvation of the citizens don’t enter into the picture. Coarse money, not bloodlines, is the important thing. This is baffling to a guy who has been nurtured on the idea that it is permissible to shoot the wad into

a machine, but a sinful, criminal act to lose the rent money to a little man with a big cigar, The new indulgent view toward horse betting and the ultimate sanctification of the bookmaker doesn’t come from any sharp revision of morality. As far as T can make out, Assemblyman Patrick O'Sullivan, the papa of the project, is benevolently interested in a lot of vagrant dollars which could be diverted into the municipal cashbox. They say there is some poiitical vehemence in it, too, such as a festering enmity toward the O'Dwyer

‘regime. There might be some social uplift, because

the talk is common that our cops are up to their elbows in graft from the illegal bookies. Here is an opportunity to kiss the little man, fatten the treasury, and clean up the police force, all at the same time, It is a noble project, and I am sorry that nobody brought up the subject of ethics. The least we should get is an explanation of why something that has al-

ways been bad is suddenly good because of political

and financial expediency. You note that the speakers for the Thoroughbred Racing association and Mr. William Woodward, of the Jockey club, are against legalization of bookmakers. Mr. Woodward's fear is that it will lead to betting excesses, an excess being anything that a race track doesn’t get 4 per cent of.

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THIS IS A PERPETUATION of the general hypocrisy, which has always-pointedly ignored the fact that horse-racing is a gambling game for 99 per cent of the people who play with it, and the sporting ingredient involved wouldn't make a louse blink if it were all in his eye. : Mainly I favor the legitimatizing of the books because it will legally indorse what we've always known —namely, that a bookmaker never has to look for a customer, and death or amputation of credit are the only things that will cure a chronic horse player.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By John A. Thale |

U.S. Getting Out

BELEM, June 22.—The United States’ multimil-lion-dollar wartime project for gouging vital raw rubber out of the unwilling Amazon jungles is singing its swan song in Brazi] this month. By the end of™une the Rubber Development Corp. offices in Rio de Janeiro and the upper Amazon city of Manaos will be closed. The main office, in Belem, probably will remain in a caretaker status until about Sept. 1, when the final details can be wound up.

Ber See Little Lasting Value

R. D. C. OFFICIALS and private rubber experts doubt that the millions of U. 8. dollars poured into the rubber industry here during the past four years will have any permanent effect. Production, which rose during the war as a result of this dollar transfusion, will slump back quickly to and below former levels, they believe. R. D. C. figures show that the corporation managed to up the value of Amazon rubber exported during the war quite considerably. R. D. C. officials cite the 1941 total value of Amazon valley rubber exports at about 8,750,000 U. 8. dollars while in 1944 it was $23,878,000. “It costs 35 cents a pound to produce rubber here, but for 20 cents Malayan rubber be laid on the docks in New York,” one R. D. C. official explained. The departure of the American rubber explorers means that Brazil benefits. R, D. C. crews brought down thousands of items of machinery and equipment, “There were tractors, “diesel engines, trucks, tools and similar items. In leaving, R. D. C. worked out a deal whereby the whole works, excluding commissary supplies, half-a-

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Army Forced

ROME, June 22.—The date July 10, 1643, was the day of the allied invasion of Sicily. It was also the day that marked the definite decision by the Italian army and monarchy to oust Musselini and replace him with a government headed by Marshal Pietro Badoglio which could break the axis pact. On July 16, Mussolini summoned various Fascist chiefs, explained the gravity of the military situation, and called on them to visit provincial centers and make,speeches rallying the Italian people to de fense of their country against an allied invasion. Some of these Fascist leaders told him that all the decisions in the war, both military and political, had been his and his alone, and-declined all responsibility for the situation in which he had placed Italy.

King Made Final Decision

FARINACCI ALSO CRITICIZED Mussolini for not being audacious enough in conduct of the war. He suggested calling a session of the Fascist grand council, which had not met since Italy entered the war . . . Mussolini accepted this suggestion. ie Three days later, Mussolini left for northern Italy, where he had the last of his meetings with Hitler prior to his downfall. He begged for German ald to resist invasion of Sicily and the obviously imminent invasion of the Italian peninsula. Hitler refused help and bitterly criticized Italy's ineffectual role. Decision _to arrest ‘Mussolini had already been taken, but now there was a new complication. Mem-~ bers of the Fascist council were about to meet. Some of them, notably Count Dino Grandi, had learned that his arrest was imminent. While King Victor Emmanuel and the Dake of Acquarone, head of the royal household, were playing a truly Machiavellian game with Grandi and other

leading Fascist, Gen. Vittorio. Ambrosig; chief of the general staff, and other army 1 were alarmed at the possible political oulcome of ‘the meeting of

of Rubber Business

dozen river boats and radio equipment, was sald to the Brazilian Banco de Credito de Borracha, or the Rubber Credit bank. Rubber development officials are frankly happy that such a lock, stock and barrel deal was worked out. Selling the piles of equipment lot by lot at auction, or by other means, would have been a monumental task for them. “For instance,” explained one R. D. CQ. official, dragging a bulky, mimeographed pamphlet from his desk, “late last year we managed to get 21 jeeps, There were $21,000 worth of spare parts that went with them. It has taken me 47 typewritten pages just to itemize the list of spare parts.” American officials, without quoting figures, say that they feel that they got “a fair return” on their investment in the sale of equipment to the Brazilian bank. Wartime developments also may put an end to the big rubber companies’ hunts in Guatemala, Panama, the Florida Everglades and other spots for a western hemisphere source of raw rubber,

Ford Experiment Flivvered

EXPERTS HERE BELIEVE that synthetie rubber processes will serve the U. 8. in the future. Synthetic stockpiles can be built up to prevent any recurrence of the situation during this war, when the Japs took over Far Eastern rubber plantations. Henry Ford, who spent years and some $11,000,000 trying to set up an efficient rubber plantation at Fordlandia, on the Amazon, sold the property to the Brazilian government for a reported mere $250,000.

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Arrest of Mussolini

the council. Probably they did not rightly appraise the extent to which Mussolini was isolated, nor how anxious many Fascist leaders were to redeem their pasts, even at the eleventh hour. So little did Ambrosio think of the utility of any gesture by the council that, when he heard they were to meet, he proposed to arrest not only Mussolini but the entire council as soon as they met. However, the king and Acquarone were anxious to have more than one string to their bow. So they allayed Ambrosio’s fears and persuaded him to wait until after the meeting of the council. To appraise correctly the measure of responsibility of the different parties to the final decisions is a difficult matter. It was King Victor Emmanuel who took the final and definite deCision that Mussolini was to be dismissed. He knew Ambrosio intended to arrest Mussolini as soon as he had been dismissed, but it appears that the king did not wish to be involved in this, although he was privy to it. He explained that he did not wish the arrest made in his official house, the Palazzo Quirinale, He therefore insisted that Mussolini should come to his private residence, Villa Savoia, to receive his dismissal,

Arrest of Il Duce

AMBROSIO, ASKED ACQUARONE whaf was to be done if Mussolini refused to accept dismissal. Recelving an equivocal answer, he instructed his assistant Gen. Giuseppe Castellano, to arrange to arrest Mussolini as he was leaving. Oastellano gave orders to Gen. Cerica, Rome commander of the carabinieri, to have 56 of his men concealed at Villa Savoia, to arrest Mussolini after he had seen the king, and to remove him in an ambulance.

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afternoon of July 25, he was arrested as planned and ordered by Ambrosia and Castellano. Thus it

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