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8 RIGINALLY, they were called press agents. Then public relations experts. And finally, some were dignified— or dignified themselves—as public relations engineers. The dean was Ivy Lee. He went to work for John D. Rockefeller Sr. In a few short years, he transformed his
client from an over-rich and rapacious enemy old philanthropist.
Many outstanding public relationists have developed gince Ivy Lee first conceived the full possibilities of the profession. Men like Steve Hannagan and Tom Shipp and Harry Hunt and, in wartime, Alexander Surles, army, and
Leland Lovett, navy.
The big idea is to build up your client, get good will,
pour oil on troubled waters, assuage, soothe,
wounds, set the broken bones, mitigate, pacify, calm, allay, ‘and otherwise make the patient not only comfortable but
respectable.
What the Ivy Lee and the Steve Hannagans had to deal
with was puny as compared with the public
that now falls to the lot of Frederick Moore Vinson, sworn in yesterday on the south portico of the White House to be chief justice of the supreme court of these United States.
HS is essentially a public relations proble ever writes an opinion. It is to restore t
and the public respect for our highest tribunal; to repair
what the packing-plan concept nearly junked;
that near-reverence—which once existed but is now perniciously anaemic—for government by law, as symbolized by
the supreme court.
Qver the Cuyahoga county court house in Cleveland is
inscribed this: “Obedience to law is liberty.”
tice Vinson can get that truth accepted by the people of the United States, he will go down’ in our history as one
of the greatest.
Our supreme court since the promulgation of the
packing plan idea has trended rapidly toward
government by men—by individuals and personal ideologies and prejudices and predilections and animosities—not by law. The court has fallen to sad estate. Two of its members are now wrestling in the gutter. Others yearn to be “at” each other. Dignity and respect have gone with the wind that was generated by a man who was too much in a hurry,
and thought the court both a nuisance and an ' Enter Fred Vinson. A fine public servant. A fine gentleman.
few if any enemies. One who can turn the public relations
trick if anyone can. °° Qurs is supposed to be a government of
ordinate branches. It no longer is. It is definitely out of balance. To restore the supreme court to its proper place in that balance is Chief Justice Vinson’s immediate and
solemn task.
JOBS, C. E.
D. AND OPA
Goop news has been one of the scarce commodities late-
ly, but—
+ + The U. S. census bureau reports that 55,320,000 Amerjcans had jobs in May, an all-time record exceeding by 570,-
000 the July, 1943, wartime peak.
Director Goodwin of the U. S. employment service says that, despite strikes and other troubles, employment is growing steadily, veterans are being placed in jobs more
rapidly than they are being released from mil
and “the situation looks good from here on out.” And the federal reserve board finds many production
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love them all. obstacle.
A man with | them they don’t mean to be annoyi
equal and co- backbiting, drinking, gambling,
fault. As mean as some people are dogs, the dogs should tear them up. I have owned dogs and cats nearly: all my life and am well up in years and I have children, too, and none of them cause trouble if they are treated right and are taught right from wrong. . . Furthermore, as you people comitary service, [plain about dogs barking and cats yowling, as you call it, keeping you awake, what about those wild, impolite, ill-mannered children, some
rates now far above 1936-39 average production levels, |of them grown in size? They make
some of them well above 1941 levels. ” 2 " =
"THESE are cheering evidences of vitality in
more noise and keep people awake more than animals do. They yell, . |whistle, laugh, squeal, holler, kick the economic |tins along, throw things, curse, talk
system. They recall Mr. Baruch's “adventure-in-pros- |ornery, dirty, do any and every-
perity” predictions more than two years ago.
Committee for Economic Development— that
thing in God's world to be mean Also, the |,,4 make people dislike them. They fine business [think it is cute and smart, but it
organization set up early in the war—and its drive.to in- |isn't. They are smart alecs and
sure a long post-war period of high employment based on
high production and high consumption.
they run over yards, gardens, break windows, tree limbs, injure cars. They are sassy and impudent when
Paul G. Hoffman and other C. E. D. leaders insisted |people get after them and their
that a goal of at least 55,000,000 jobs within ‘victory was entirely feasible.
15 million people by the spring of 1946 an immediate measures to counteract a great d
. The C. E. D.s great usefulness, we think, is due to its freedom ffom selfish motives. ' It wants prosperity for business and industry, certainly. But that, it understands
clearly, is not possible unless workers and prosper. ness must earn liberty by being vigorously and competitive. The policies it advocates wishful thinking. They are backed by carefu
There are business organizations that want OPA killed
or made impotent right now. The C. E. D.
them. It says, rightly, that “price control has no perma-
nent place in the American peacetime econom
would be “a threat to all our freedoms.” But it recognizes
that immediate abandonment of price control us unprotected against a dangerous rise in inequities, to encourage production.
TWO-WAY OUTLOOK the next war, according to the Institute
ed it out so that a small bunch of us co he shell depot and launch thousands of al
water drops with a hose.
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It defends free enterprise, but asserts that busi-
80. it advocates a program designed not to cripple but to ~ simplify, to speed up administration, to correct major
gineers, victory could be easy. Some bright lads have
¢ bombs into the air, much Jike father shoot-
group would navigate the missiles by precisely on strategic targets. Mean-
obliterated. ‘No dough-footing, no
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parents don’t care what they do,
a year-after so long as they are not in their
They still insisted that last |way.. fall when labor leaders and government officials were talking dolefully about “inevitable” unemployment for eight, 10 or
In regards to the burial of animals. I would consider it an honor to be buried in a pet cemetery, rather than be buried with some people, and anyome the shoe fits can wear it. I say God bless and protect the animals.
d demanding epression.
smoking, visiting lowbrow places, running around with other men’s wives or other ‘women’s husbands, and they do not steal, if their own- all the beefing that is going on| Yas elected to congress from this ers feed them as they should. You o hout it. The $100-a-seat suckers | district where he has served con-| cant blame anything tor stealing | there either to be seen py | tinuously—making a brilliant recsomething to eat, if it is DUNBIY.| po. Loonie or to see a slaughter. Td: @ man who never questions And 99 times out of 100 when A They didn't get the murder and|rCe creed or color: a man who acperson is. dog-bit, it is the Persons | gore they'd like to see, so now they | knowledges all letters immediately,
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By M. H. Mohree, Indianapolis Have been reading so many letters regarding pets recently, I want| country lad, desirious of becoming | to say what I think of them. I love everything in that line, small animals and big ones. Of course, you can’t pet the big animals so much but I
Animals aren't mean, especially small ones, and the little things the other dailies, and in due course they do that annoy some of those precious people that are writing about
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The people that make such a holler about them have more and ington, D. C. A reading of his worse faults than the afimals have. I have never heard of any animal| humorous book “From Cornfield to being nosey about his neighbor's business, or telling: lies, gossiping, Press Gallery” reveals many Inte
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| “MATCH BETWEEN BOXER | AND FIGHTER NOT GOOD” By Fight Fan, Indianapelis
| belly-ache about it. | It happens every time you put a | fighter in the ring against a boxer.
teresting. Lewis is a fighter and Conn is a boxer, Two fighters or two boxers, either one, will make a good show, Dempsey and Tunney
* | were fighters, and they really mixed
it up. So were most of the oldtime contenders for the crowns. Conn did some good boxing and his footwork was excellent, but it simply was a case of two contestants who were not in the same class. The promoter is to blame for that. = n n “CIVILIANS GET CARS, WHY CAN'T VETERANS?” By Regular Forum Reader, Indianapolis The new cars are going to the | poor civilians who had such a tough time, staying at home and drawing big wages, while the soldiers were lying in foxhiles half full of water. They already have cars but they are the ones that get the new ones. The poor suckers who went across, and my husband was one of them, are home now, walking, and can't {buy a new car until all the civilians jare supplied, | All they get a chance to buy are junky used cars which are higher than the new ones, Why can't something be done? Is there anything fair in this world?
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| “LUDLOW HARDEST WORKER, BELOVED IN THE CAPITAL” By M. L. S., Indianapolis This is a tribute to Louis Ludlow. Born in Fayette co., Ind. in a log cabin, the tall unsophisticated |
a newspaper reporter, came to; the | capital city and after varied experiences began working for the Indi|anapolis Sun. Later he worked for
| attained his ambition—member of | | the Associated Press. He served on |
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[many of the major papers in Wash- |
dents of his boyhood days, together with the family struggles, as well as| his own, and especially his lack of | funds. . | A man who eighteen years ago
Ja if humanly possible, complies { with any request therein made: a {man who has the courage of his | convictions; a man whose honor jand integrity have never been an |issue; a man whose reputation is: | “The hardest working and most beloved man in Washington”; a man whose Republican friends are legion, {of which fact he is very proud: a |man who rarely ever takes a vaca(tion; a man who was appointed to (80 on a commission to Norway a few years ago, and when asked why he declined, replied: “When I go on a trip of that kind I will not go at my government's expense.” How unusual. A man who is a real friend | to all of our soldier boys and who endeavored to have those who had been overseas eighteen months furloughed home for a short period: a man who is not only interested in his district but his state and the nation at large; a man who is not identified with any factions or sections; a man who has been highly complimented on his efficient service in the committee on appropriations; a man who has been called “the ideal representative in .congress”; a man who speaks no ill of anyone; a man whose ability, sin- | cerity, human understanding and {long years in our nation’s capital pre-eminently fit him for United States senator; a man so unquestionably qualified could doubtless lead us to victory in the Hoosier state this fall. Why not compliment this fine, efficient man with the nomination | for United States senator on June | 259 . y ” » “RAISING DOG TAX ‘WOULD BE A BLOW TO CHILDREN” Mrs. N. C., Indianapolis I might as well get my two cents worth in on this cat and dog argument. I own two dogs and while I would not mistreat a cat, I have never had any desire to own one. They do not appeal to me as being as faithful as a dog, There might be exceptions, but generally speaking, I believe a cat is of. a more treacherous nature, And before we raise the tax on dogs, how about levying a tax on cats? Why should cats be tax-free? Some of these people who like cats so well and don't like dogs, surely don't like children very well either, Think how few children] could enjoy the companionship of a dog if taxes were raised to any amount like the ridiculous suggestion made by a recent writer.
DAILY THOUGHT
And whosoever shall not receive you, nor hear you, when ye depart thence, shake off the dust under your feet for a testimony against them. Verily I say unto you, Tt shall be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that ¢ity.— Mark 6:11. :
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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . by Donald. over ~~ Judiciary and Primary Are Vital Issues
THE DEMOCRATIC STATE CONVENTION is to adopt a platform today scheduled to include declarations insfavor of non-political selection of judges and return to direct primary nomination of candidates for U. 8. senator and state offices now named by convention, - Need for both planks was forcefully demonstrated earlier this month at the bossed Republican state convention, where a supreme court judge was purged because he rendered an opinion not to the liking of the statehouse ruling crowd . . . and where Sehator Raymond E. Willis likewise was purged to make way for a candidate who fitted in better with the longrange plans of the statehouse machine.
G. O. P. Divided on Questions
BOTH CONVENTIONS WERE BOSSED, but the reason for that today is that the Democratic state
"| committee had to beat the bushes to get candidates to
complete their state ticket. Probability of a Republican, victory next fall made it difficult for the Democrats to get good men to run. The probable senatorial nominee, former Governor M. Clifford Townsend, is far from the strangest man the party could provide: The senate race, then, offers little choice to the independent voter. The flagrant manner in which the supreme court judge was purged has stimulated demands in both parties for non-partisan selection of judges’ At the
same time, it gave proponents of return of the direct’
primary .instead of convention nomination a strong argument. Many Republican editors of the state
supported Willis, and are expected to lead the fight in their communities for abandoning convention selection.
The Republicans who were affected when the
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statehouse steam-roller crushed all opposition and dic-
tated its choices will, of course, have some representation in the legislature next year. Declaration today of party principles including those affecting judgeships and return of the primary would line up most Democratic members of the house and senate. So, the two reform measures might have some chance this time. The last legislature ignored the recommendation of the Indiana Bar association for non-partisan selection of judges. However, with the recent example before them and renewed recommendation of the state bar's leaders, there should ‘be more chance of reform at the next session. It is recalled that when the qllestion of ‘an independent judiciary actually came to a vote before the house judiciary committee a number of years ago, 12 out of 13 members of the committee frankly admitted they wanted judgeships in politics. An aroused public opinion might change the picture next year the word “might” is used advisedly.
Challenge to Attorneys
GOVERNOR McNUTT PUT THROUGH some reforms for the improvement of the legal profession and practice of law . . . apparently his own background as dean of the Indiana university law school made him more conscious of protecting the sancity of our courts. These included tightening up on admission to the bar . .. it was so easy to become a lawyer in Indiana that it was a national laughing stock . . . judicial council, and rule-making powers of the supreme court. There always are "plenty of lawyers in the state legislature. Perhaps regardless of party they will have the courage to push the recommendations of their professional society and enact legislation putting justice above politics.
REFLECTIONS .. ‘ By Robert C. Ruark
An Innovation
NEW YORK, June 25.—We have invested qffice furniture with sex appeal and clothing with character. But I never thought to see the day when a bank would bend over backward to acquire a personality. I have just seen a new bank which can best be described as cute, That's the word—cute. The new Rockefeller Center branch of the Bankers Trust Co. is as cute as a cocktail lounge, and as fluffy as a kitten. It looks less like a bank than a church resembles a cafeteria. The executives will probably even smile when they say “no.”
Blond Furniture and Gals
ALL THE BANKERS TRUST NEEDS is a line of half-naked dolls, kickirfg their heels and singing: “Keep your money happy in our sunny surroundings.” And a hatcheck girl with bright blond hair Or, in the cirgular snakepit for the tellers, a ring of barkeeps could easily convince you that you'd stumbled into a new, deluxe ginmill. There aren't any iron cages or bronze grills in this technicolored new Bankers Trust. No marble. That would defeat the purpose. This bank, children, employs architecture as a” public relations device; which is to say, the building is supposed to stroke the harried customer into a feeling of ease and good-fellowship. - It sure is pretty. The walls are pastel green, and there are nice deep green carpets on the deck for all the vice presidents to walk on. The furniture is blond quartered oak, and the lighting is so soft you feel romantic when the guy behind the counter informs you that your last four checks bounced. There is a lounge for the tired depositor, with deep chairs and ashtrays, where he may contemplate his overdrafts in luxury. There is a powder room for the lady customers. There is a lunchroom and cof-fee-lounge for the employees.
in Bank Furnishings
On the wall is a huge mural of the United States, with figures representing each state. A huge atom bomb bursts ‘over New Mexico. A pneumatic babe in a bathing suit cuddles herself on the tip of Florida. A stack of tires represents Akron. I didn see the designatior for Washington, but a confused senator is undoubtedly the trade mark. I assume that the males will wear slacksuits with California collars, and all the ladies will show up each morning in halters and shorts. The female employees have been chosen with an eye to matching decor. The girls I saw could slip over to the music hall and do a turn with the Rockettes. It is part of this public-relations conscious crib to seat all the executives out in the open. Where the humblest two-buck depositor—can keep an eye on the brains which handle his dough. Nicest, homiest touch is the open counter, over which the cashier puts or takes your dough. He has a fast, automatically locked rolltop desk behind the counter, to discourage heisters, but a transaction divested of bars and grills makes for sd" much more confidence between employees and customer.
Relaxation in Financial Circles MOST OF THE OFFICERS had gone when I arrived, and I was informed that they had taken the press in tow and everybody was over at Toots Shor'’s, making merry with the sports mob. Banking seems to have progressed a far piece from the days of the dyspeptic teller with the black alpaca sleeves. As soon as I can scare up a couple of bucks, I plan to start an account with the Banker Trust, and intend to spend the summer taking it easy in one of those chairs, while the air-conditioning soughs softly among the pretty file clerks. If somebody thinks to install mint juleps, it'll be more fun than a trip to the mountains.
‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Lee Hills
Germany Is Step-Off Point for Jews
FRANKFURT, June 25.—The remnants of the Jewish race in Europe are flooding into the American zone of Germany as the first step in an attempted flight to Palestine, or to the United States, Already 75,000 are’ here. They are streaming in at the rate of 10,000 a month and 50,000 more are expected before the end of the summer,
Most of Immigrants Are Jewish
RUSSIA IS ACTIVELY AIDING the great migration, even to helping many of its own Jewish Russian nationals into the American zone. Of the 1000 German immigrants going into the United States each month, almost all are from the American zone and 75 per cent of them are Jews. Gen. Joseph T. McNarney, commander-in-chief of the U.S. occupation forces, is responsible for these statements. He called it an organized Zionist movement led by Dr. Zalman Grinberg, a Lithuanian Jew, who was in a Nazi concentration camp. Now, nearly 14 months after VE-day, McNarney said, the increasing displaced persons problem is the biggest headache of the American occupation. He said it will be intensified in the months to come by the huge influx of German minorities, Sudetens and Swabians from Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Ironically, the persecuted Jewish people are coming into the one country where they do not want to live, Germany, in hope of escape. “They look upon it simply as the first step to
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Palestine,” said McNarney. “The infiltration is becoming larger and larger. Most of them are coming from Poland. We care for them at slightly above the subsistence level and better than they were accustomed , to in Poland. This is not acceptable to American Jewish observers here, who continually criticize us for not doing better. But it is satisfactory to the refugees.” McNarney insisted that the Americans are treating the Jews better than any other class of displaced persons. He said that they technically are being “smuggled in” with American consent since they are the only group not required to have quadripartite occupation zone passes. McNarney, recently criticized for conditions in Jewish displaced persons camps, admitted that he is discouraging infiltration, but said that he is handling all who come. . He said that the Americans, at the request of the Jews, segregate them racially, unlike the British, French and Russians, who group them by nationality.
Repatriating Polish Criminals
THE GENERAL ALSO DISCLOSED that Americans are now forcibly repatriating to Poland all Poles in their zone convicted as common criminals for offenses including c#rrying concealed weapons,
About 300 are now subject to such repatriation.
He explained that this is not done if the convicted Pole can show that repatriation would result in more severe punishment in Poland than it would here,
Randolph Churchill
‘War With Russians Is Not Probable’
LONDON, June 25.—I have recently been in both Italy ‘and Switzerland. In each of these countries I found that the main topic of conversation was the Russian menace to Western Europe. Nearly everyone I met talked of war as being almost certain in the next two or three years, These alarmist views have been fanned in the last few days by stories of Russian troop movements in Austria and of troop movements by Marshal Tito’s Communists toward the frontiers of Venezia Giulia. Some correspondents who should have known better have even gone so far as to imply that a joint Rus-sian-Jugoslav attack on Trieste is imminent.
No Ground for Concern
PEOPLE WHO THINK AND WRITE in this way lack a true political and strategical understanding of what is going on in the world and how the balance of power is operating. They keep mistaking what happens on the surface for the underlying reality. They.tend to become alarmist and even panic-stricken when a few rough ,words are exchanged between the leaders of important countries. Now what is the single most important fact in world politics today? It is that Russia does not want war. On the contrary, she wants at least 25 years of peace. It may be that she hopes eventually, by a mixture of propaganda, fifth column communism and war, ta conquer the world. Any one can form his own view on Russia's long-term policy. But ho intelligent human being who knows anything about politics can belleve that she wants war tomorrow. There is a very simple reason for this fact — and fact it is. Russia would certainly lose the war, Any politician or publicist who proceeds on any other assumption is needlessly alarming millions of .peace-loving people. At the same time, he is playing the Russian game, which is to. produce a general state of alarm best suited to Russia's war of nerves 5 P)
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Russia has no fleet to speak of, a small force of long-range bombers, and no atom bomb. No one but a lunatic—and the thirteen members of the Politburo in the Kremlin are eminently sane—would dream of making war in such unfavorable conditions. No country has ever, in the history of the world, waged an aggressive war unless it thought it had at least a fifty-fifty chance of winning. Why should Russia, already exhausted by her prodigious efforts in the last war, be preparing to embark on another one which would be far more costly and which she would be bound to lose? That is why the Western powers, though they are distressed at Russia's refusal to co-operate with them, are not afraid. They said: “No!” when confronted with unreasonable Russian demands. But the armchair strategists who seeks to guid public opinion are less robust, Suppose Tito were to try to overrun. Trieste. Suppose the few British and American troops were all to be killed or captured. Does any one supopse that would be the end of the matter? Of course not. It would only be the beginning. It would mean war, and wars are not decided by their initial episodes but by the fighting strength and fighting power of the contestants,
Russians Know Their Strength
NO ONE KNOWS THIS BETTER than Tito. Whatever his faults, his careful training in Moscow has given him a true and instinctive. knowledge of power politics, ,
As long as Britain and the United States pursue
a common policy of defending peace and as long as they remain, as they are now, twenty times stronger than the Soviet Union and its satellites, there can he no war. The Russians understand this. The sooner it is understood by the rest of the world, the sooner we can get on with the job of re-bullding a shattered ‘world. « La : ’
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