Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 June 1946 — Page 16

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A SCRIP S- HOWARD NEWSPAPER an excellent program for youthful G. I}'s whose high <n Repc

seling services who also aids in the state activity, and E. A. Rice, director of special youth services who has charge of summer schools. All work. closely with the ‘veterans administration, and with their staffs, provide counseling service for anyone seeking to complete this phase of his education, G. L's are not encouraged to take advantage of the loan privileges which are open to them, unless they are married and do not plan to go to college. If they do need money, however, for this purpose, the school city aids them obtain a state-financed loan until their federal payments begin to arrive. | Whole theory behind the plan is based on the premise that in the time out of school, many persons may have gotten experience which is the equivalent of a high school education. If a pupil attended any high school in Indiana . .. or in most other states, as well . . . he can receive a special diploma from that school on passing the tests. If he did not attend high school, he must establish residence here by attending high school one semester . . . and he can do that at night at Manual Training or Orispus Attucks high school. .

On-the-Job Training

VOCATIONAL TRAINING is provided in the summer schools, usually being planned so that an individual pupil may advance as rapidly as his ability permits. * A veteran must go to school for 144 hours along with related on-the-job training. Many apprentices now are enrolled in the classes of those whose actual training in industry and elsewhere is underwritten by the federal government. Since last fall, 2430 veterans have taken advantage of the counseling service, 1592 have enrolled in classes, 4656 compléted high school graduation requirements, and 281 received diplomas through the test route. It's a good deal for these men and women who educationally are still youngsters,

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Middle West Is G.O.P. Battleground

CHICAGO, June 27.—Harold Stassen has become the big issue in the Midwest in the Republican party, That is so because he is making the issue— whether the party is going to become a progressive, forward-looking party, both on domestic and international issues, or whether it is going to turn backward as after world war L

No Point in Offending Bosses HERE IN THE MIDWEST is where that decision largely may be made. This is the stronghold of the

' * ownled and published daily (except Sunday) by Li : oR WN SH schoo} education Waa interriipied by wit. Indianapolis Times Publishing Co., 214 W. Maryland ) BR ——— « : iia Tailored to meet the needs either of/the boy or girl Ee | st Postal zone s. : " y the program is in full summer swing at Arsenal | * Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard News- Techies) Ml high school and at Crispus Attucks high paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of es tions.

Small Percentage of Failures VETERANS “RETURNING” to high school usually prefer separate classes. rather than )being members of a regular high school class . , . their maturity and added experience makes them un the younger pupils, ; These pupils-just-out-of-unif their attempt to complete their vie they wouldn't be in glasses. Of those who try to obtain diplomas by test additional courses, only about 6 cent fall, Of course, it takes a lot of ambition td go back to high school . . . the percentage is thrown jout of perspective because only those with a genuine desire to improve themselves come into the school board offices at 150 North Megidian st. to take the 10-hour examination. The general educational develoment test ... covering matogmatics, knglish, history and science . . . has been approved by the state department of public instruction as a basis for granting high school diplomas. Endorsed by the American Council on Education, these diplomas are accepted by Butler, Indiana and many other universities which do not have certain required subjects for admission. Even in the latter instance, arrangements are made fairly frequently for particularly apt pupils to make up deficiencies. Those responsible for success of the Indianapolis program include, H. L. Harshman, assistant superintendent of schools and chairman of the Marion county sub-committee on G. L approval for on-the-job training; J. Fred Murphy, director of the coun-

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy

TIME FOR SELF-RESTRAINT HE compromise bill to extend thie OPA’s life for a year 4 was a better measure than either the house or senate passed originally. +. It won't be a perfect price-control law if President Truman signs it, as senate Democratic leader Barkley advises, rather than risk having no price-control law at all after next Sunday. That is, it won't satisfy those who demand rigid government restraint of prices. But rigid restraint of prices has been made impossible by unwise administration policies, including encouragement to a sharp and sudden rise of wages. And, we believe, Chester Bowles and others promote a dangerous delusion when they tell the people that their escape from inflationary calamity depends on how much power the OPA gets from congress. No amount of OPA power can insure the volume of production which is the only real protection against the kind of inflation now menacing this country. But arbitrary, blundering use of OPA power can impede production, and in countless cases has. We disagree with those who want price controls scrapped immediately. Essential during the war, such controls will be necessary in lessening degree until the country is farther along the road to normal balance between supply and demand. However, as Mr, Truman and Mr. Bowles often have said, industry, business and agriculture as well as labor should be allowed and helped to return to a free-market basis as quickly as safety will permit.

, ¥ » ” » . » IF the OPA had shown more desire to speed that return— and less of the inevitable bureaucratic tendency to perpetuate itself—we believe congress would have extended most of its powers along with its lease on life. If that master propagandist, ‘Mr. Bowles, had been as zealous in helping congress as he was in accusing it of evil motives, the country probably could have had a much better pricecontrol law. Ane >

SEATTLE, J of evidence aro convict the han Redin, clad | ce, went on trial obtained and tri destroyer-tender Assistant U. § Allan Pomeroy ness would be I trial run engine a8 an aocomplic early in 1945 + Seattle. Mr, P nedy continually ments to the Fe gation since Watch Attorney Pom been watcl attache to the ommission in 18, 1044, until he [Portland, Ore., vhen he was | Biberia-bound R Mr. Pomeroy s of 19 witnesses, gents who am: Just before c ght defense a Griffin of Seatt] would show ther din to conspi the Yellowsto He said that Dnited States Russia similar c me armament Mr. Griffin sai prove that Red ed “such magazines and s vas sent by the He said Redin | adar school at He said the ¢ at Kennedy w: nd that relati ere quarrelsom “Kennedy ofte e for our for

Republican senatorial nomination against the veteran isolationist, Senator Shipstead. Defeat in his own state would count him out for the 1948 nomination He would go the way of Wendell Willkie, who chose] to make the issue in the 1944 Wisconsin primary and lost, and thereupon withdrew as a candidate. If he wins, he will have a toe hold for what looks now like an uphill fight, in view of other circum stances. Among these are that the old-line G. O. P. largely is in control of state organizations in this area, and Mr. Stassen must have strong Midwest back ing in the convention, since this is his home ground. Recently some of his advisers have been counseling moderation and less interference in other states and in the preserves of established party leaders. The realize his fight is concentrated about winning rank and-file support, but they say there’s no sense in offending the politicians. That proved to be a big horn of Mr. Willkie’s dilemma.

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

Hoosier Forum

"White Collar Worker Can Help Self: Build a Low-Cost Home"

By Mrs. L. BR. R.,, West Newton. The letter from the white-collar worker who “is going crazy trying

“CAPEHART 18 USING EXPERIENCE IN HEARING” By N. 8. P., Indianapolis Senator Homer E. Capehart, who

has such close contact with the national corn situation, is certainly

ty. Here it is dominant both in federal and local offices, except for a few Democratic foxholes in the larger cities. Consequently, the Midwest is the dominant influence in the party in congress, as in the party organization. It outweighs the eastern and far western wings of the parties which are inclined to a more moderate and liberal viewpoint, both

The law it is likely to get does not necessarily mean runaway prices. It does mean that the OPA will have considerably less discretion to refuse or delay relief sought by producers and to impose its own notions as to what are proper profits. But we believe most industrialists, businessmen and farmers are just as eager as the wage-earners and

to live and keep out of debt,” reminds me of the story: “You know, they say more people die of worry than of work. ... Of course! There

making his experience known at

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are more people who worry than people who work.”

about it.

consumers to avoid uncontrolled inflation. And the weakening of OPA protection should mean a strengthening of efforts by the American people to protect themselves. The need is for much more self-restraint than most of us have been showing. Business, industry and agriculture can restrain the temptation to grab for more than fair prices and reasonable profits. Labor can restrain the temptation to strike and stop production, Consumers can restrain the impulse to pay almost any price for almost anything. Purchasing power can be saved profitably in war bonds instead of wasted in a scramble for scarce goods. And, if the government will only restrain its spending, {ts deficit-financing, bank-borrowing, monetary and credit policies which pump up inflationary pressures, the power retained by OPA can be enough.

: TRAIN MORE BUILDERS SHORTAGE of materials is not the only obstacle to success = for the national effort to build for veterans and other Americans. ; If materials were plentiful, if price difficulties were all solved, there would be a great shortage of skilled workers in the building trades in most parts of the country, Apprentice training slowed down during the depresgion, when building activity ebbed, and virtually stopped

There is in thd vicinity of Indianapolis a young man who found himself in much the situation of White Collar Worker, About six years ago I doubt if he had ever seen As much as $356 a week; he had two small children; and fe was getting nowhere fast. So he did something | economy of the government famine relief program, and people from Indiana certainly know what corn means to them and to the nation.

Outside of Indianapolis, 30 minutes from the heart of the city by car, and 40 by bus, he found a little shack of a house on an acre or

two of ground. He paid something

hearings. In recent days the committee has been concerned chiefly with the impact on our domestic

Three of the nine wet corn proc-

Here, then, is the real battleground. If the attitude of the party as a whole is moved forward, the change must come in its center of power and influence in the Middle West. The 39-year-old ex-governor of Minnesota and ex-navy captain has quite a job cut out for himself— and he knows it. His enemies in the party are alert to his challenge. The choosing up of sides is obvious here now, Stassen and anti-Stassen. Already he is feeling the back lash of powerful forces aligned

like 11 hundred dollars for it, and

kitchen would make a sunny, happy,

it had little to recommend it to the | living and workroom for the whole ordinary eye, except’ that the site | family and 1] guarantee that there was a pretty one. will be no worries over juvenile deIn six years he has added an elec- | inquency. Papa and mama will tric pump, dug a cellar, put in a/be too busy to worry and the first furnace, replaced the old and|thing you know papa may be such broken window sash and windows, | 8 good man on his job that he will put on a new roof and siding, be worth more money! plowed up the front to make a All the New Deal hocus pocus notbeautiful lawn and the back to | withstanding, it is still true that make s profitable garden, Right “The Lord helps those who help at this moment he could sell his themselves.” place for six or seven times what he paid for it. 1f you were to drop in his house at meal time, you would find his

n . ” “INDEPENDENT VOTERS MIGHT GO DEMOCRATIC” By Independent Voter, City - Well, the Democrats have held

essors are located in the state of | goainst him. Indiana, and Senator Capehart’s|. stand has had large influence in keeping these processors operating. At Saturday's hearing the senator from Indiana frankly stated that we should first see that our own people are permitted to work without intermiption, and take care of feeding foreign countries only if we had sufficient grain over and above our own needs. No doubt other senators feel the same way, but are not making their opinions forcibly known to interested government agencies who are responnible for administering the several

dential nomination.

Nebraska primary.

He is the target, and an open one, because he Is campaigning openly for the 1948 Republican presiHis fortunes are in the balance now because he lost the first skirmish when he gambled unsuccessfully by taking sides in the recent

His big test comes in the July 8 primary in Minnesota where he is backing Governor Ed Thye for the

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robeit C. Ruark ‘Easy on Us Colonists, Lady Astor

NEW YORK, June 27.—Lady Nancy Astor's report

family eating new potatoes, fresh young spinach, delicate green peas, fresh strawberries or raspberries or fresh green apple pie, with gobs of rich cream, or golden corn stacked high on the platter, and crisp fried chicken, depending on the date of your call. These people now have as pretty 8 home as anyone could wish for. They have also added two children to their family, making four at present, which they feel they never could have afforded if they had stayed in the city. And to add to our success story, our young man, |

their state convention. It seems like they look for lean pickings next fall. I liked the way they ran their convention better than the way the Republicans did, although if they had been in power maybe it- would have been the same old story. 1 was especially impressed by Judge Cox's statement that there seemed to be among some Democrats a sort of complex of defeatism that has reached a mild form of hysteria, he says. Why don’t Democrats get in there and fight. There are a great many

programs. » . ”

“HOME FOLKS SURE TOOK

By Ex-Staff Sergeant, Anderson

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CARE OF VETERAN INTEREST”

The papers have been full of the news articles about that automobile black market in Detroit. It apparently was a successful evasion of OPA regulations, such as we see or hear about almost every There is another situation, I can’t exactly call it a racket, that is causing bad feelings among vetThat is to say, as regards

on the state of our nation—to wit, that our youth had the cocktail habit; our advertising writers were sex-crazy, and our radio programs were making us a country of hypochondriacs—fetches up the fact that it is time once more for our quarterly survey of this great broad land. Our Virginia-born expatriate, comfortably filled now with steak and doubtless treading on nylon, has buzzed off without making a full sociological study, an oversight we propose to rectify. If you please, m’lady, here is what happened since love of native heath and/or a growling tummy scourged you to our shores.

Phenomenon in Indiana NOT ONLY OUR JUVENILES are cocktil crazy.

Veterans Could Provide Key ON THE POLITICAL LEVEL, the Stassen cam paign is directed at winning over organization lead ers below top G. O. P. levels. Generally his appeal too, is to the younger element in the party, as wi Mr. Willkie's, and this now means, by and large, the veterans. Thus far, in the Midwest, the veterans have noi made their influence felt much politically. This explained by the fact that most of them have got toc many immediate problems, such as finding jobs and homes. It will take a little time for them to ’ settled and to get actively into politics. That was true after the last war. But Mr. Stassen has two years to go before the Republican convention. That is, if he wins his ow state, and much can happen in two years. veteran influence is likely to become important in the party. It is one of his chief hopes.

of 19. that is. Your deserted homeland, Old Thing, is a study i futility. Other day a jet plane traveled from Wil mington, Del, to Philadelphia, Pa., in three minutes 10 seconds. America has gone back so far that we sneer af progress. A gent named Hans Laube, inventor o smellevision, has given up and departed for Switzer land. Herr Laube invented a gadget which would. in vest televised subjects with the correct smell. The Louis-Conn fight, say, would come out Liederkran a meeting of the United Nations would be redolent of borscht. Animals, Old Crumpet, keep walking in and ouf of the act. In Texas there is talk about six-foof jackrabbits, and in Hollywood, my friend Jim Mora

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because of the feeling of security| voters like myself who might sup-|pyying automobiles of any kind. his mode of life has given him, felt | port them if they can show me Why | we don’t have any car to trade in, free to give up his job in the cit | RY, iy and few of us have anything like and start a little business right in|, on ‘ the cash purchase price for a new his own home. To all appearances | “BON1 S MIGHT PROV IDE ™ one. So we're out in the cold behe is doing well and getting well bé- FOR HOUSE WE CAN'T BUY cause the dealers want new cars yond the $36-a-week mark. By V. F. W. Member, Indianapolis to re-sell, or else they want all

during the war. The average age of building tradesmen is high. In recent years, in some branches of the industry, the number of apprentices qualifying in skills has been less than the number of older workers retiring from their accupations,

is brooding a clutch of ostrich eggs. It appears thaf James will be the first male human to hatch a ostrich, and I can see the matronly glow in his eyes when the initial ostrich-ling looks up trustfully and murmurs: “Mummy.”

Mrs. Leigh Colvin, president of the W. C. T. U., says that our grandmothers are spiking their tea with vodka, a deplorable habit which was doubtless ingpired by the presence of visiting firemen from Pinsk. 1 am told that on the west coast, beldames who ought to be drowsing over a sarsaparilla are helling around"

the strip, charged to the eyes with a mixture of vodka Problems for Britons, Too

Douglas Whitlock, president of the Producers’ Council, a national organization of building-materials manufacturers, calls attention to these facts. The council has disagreed with Housing Exediter Wyatt on some phases of the veterans’ emergency housing program. But it agrees with him,

If I were “White Collar Worker” I'd scout around and find a good site on a bus line, and I'd build me a cement block house, 20x25, waterproofed on the outside and painted on the inside. I'd divide jt into one big kitchen-living room, 10x26, and two 10x10 rooms, with the addition-

Speak up; veterans. The Democrats have come out for a bonus. Bo I'm going to vote Democratic next fall. Their platform favored payment by the state for our time in uniform. We're not getting any other breaks. We might as well

cash in the remote event they can| and ginger beer.

deliver a oar.

right, got took.

The veteran again is left out in the cold, just like he is on housing. Yeah, you folks at home sure took care of us all Or maybe I should say we

Nancy, old girl, did you hear about what happened to the hen in Schererville, Ind.? Three months ago it was laying eggs and clucking cosily. Just the other day, it wearled of housewifeliness. It grew a comb, tail feathers, and began to crow. If this isn’t a sign that we are girding for war you can burn my copy of

BUT AS A VALIANT CITIZEN, I wouldn't have you think, Old Girl, that everything was peaches and clotted cream while you were slumming over here. In‘ London, Willlam Farmer, a hot-blooded yeoman, was granted a divorce on grounds of cruelt because his wife made him sleep under dampened blankets.

get the several hundred dollars in- yn» al 5x10 left for future bath and | volved for a down payment on the «oars ARE NOT WORTH

storage space, with a WPA one-|car or the house we can't buy.|pyg MEAT THEY EAT” juleps, honey-chile, wild animals had reclaimed our

The apprentice training service in Washington cred- seater just outside the door. Such| Maybe it would at least take care By P. 8. Indiana : cities. A lad me of Mrs, J. D. Haggerty thought i : Lyk zoe . 8, polis . y 8. ady name Wy 1, ggerty Bg y a building can still be built for un-; of the increased cost of groceries I Iave cat and & d th. but| she saw two bears under her ¢h in Chicago, and

ited by Mr. Whitlock with doing “outstanding work,” esti- |der a thousand dollars The big| for a few months. | what do you think? That's just what the coppers mates that the housing program will need more than 600,- 4 | T am fonder of ny dog in every Way.| gieeovered—two bears. 000 skilled wor 4 y ~ : . Do you ever hear of a cat chasing] We are really getting decadent, baby, In Huntttack hers: and Joremen by next October. The Carnival — By Dick Turner a prowler away, or barking to let| ington, W. Va, Mrs, Mattie Sprouse, a bobby-soxer a on the problems of material shortages and skilled- people know the house is on fire, or| Of 79, recently took a husband, Delbert, who is all worker shortages should go forward simultaneously, and jumping in watgt to help pull some-

vigorously, Buildi " h ” i t? NG, and babl poral. Suing een’ sewch the hoped-for levels wiki ane aitr” No, ana you rowdy TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

Kraft-Ebing.

Mr. Whitlock says, on the urgent necessity for training SUBIR. ‘wore. nibtiing at alt oremepres

1,500,000 more building trades workers rapidly.

And your adopted government considers that St Louis, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Fla, and Savannah Ga, are more or less plague spots—“unhealthy fo the purpose of leaves of absence,” which means that British officials stationed in those alleged pestholes are allowed an extra month's leave annually. It's things like that, Your Ladyship, which led the unpleasantnesses in 1776 and 1812. Please, on you next shopping trip, try to treat us colonists a touch more charitably.

Randolph Churchill

tion in many ways. Cats are just to

Now is a good time for every community to look into this matter of training more men for the building trades, and to make certain that everything possible is being done to speed it up.

sleep and play and look pretty cute, I say if licenses on dogs should be increased, cats also should be made to have a license, and then I would get rid of my cat. Dogs are worth

Bevin Palestine Statement Clums

PARIS, June 27.—The furore created in some sec tions of the American press by British Foreign Secre-

opposed to a further growth of the Jewish popula tion. No one with the smallest knowledge of Ni

the price of license, but cats are} tary Ernest Bevin's recent statement on Palestine has not worth the meat they eat. begun to die down. It may perhaps be useful to ex-

T ; a Q iy a nw ine this unpleasant episode in an entirely calm MOSCOW TOUGH TALK 3 1H ee rine rosin Bonn. | tas RS. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT suggests it would con- AN EXCELLENT JOB” So long as the controversy was raging, it seemed tribute to better understanding if the Russians would

By Bud Kaesel, 2082 Central ave, more discreet for an Englishman to say nothing that i i : ‘ . This is the time I mint to take| might still further exacerbate opinion. American find it possible to say a few pleasant things once in a while. Agreed.

York can deny that there is a large measure of trut. in Bevin's assertion, I have urged several times in the last few mon that the moral authority of Britain and the United States, in persuading the Arabs’ of Palestine to ac cept an increased Jewish immigration, would be greatly strengthened if our two countries. would sad an example by affording refuge to some of these un happy people. I have suggested that Britain take

public opinion, though inclined sometimes to slightly i i ol a hysterical outbursts, is essentially fair-minded and, ” . ’ 3 But we do not anticipate any pleasant “good mornings” from the Kremlin very soon, :

now that the storm has subsided, it should be posIt seems to be axiomatic that the heads of totalitarian states must be constantly at issue. with other nations. By being consistently hard to live with, Stalin is borrowing from the same book used hy Hitler and Mussolini. ~~ Adolf "and Benito finally quit talking tough and resorted to bullets and got their ears knocked off. Uncle Joe, will profit by their experience and play it safe. It pretty well demonstrated that war doesn't get thing but grief, a successful dictator it seems that one must | doesn’t get tough. so many essential and worthg we have to put up

work in the last six months in solving murders and crimes of the postwar era. Most of all, I want to commend a young trooper for his fine work and also Capt. Rob-

way.

sible to discuss the whole affair in a dispassionate

Initiative Up to U.S. and Britain

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its state police force,

DAILY THOUGHT

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ert O'Neal for his outstanding job as captain of the detectives. My hat is off to the entire force and Col, Austin for their fine work. The state of Indiana can be proud of

are round about Jerusalem, so the Lord is round about His people from

© You may trust Him in the dark.

FIRST OF ALL, what exactly did Bevin say? In the course of a quite lengthy passage which dealt with the problem of Palestine and Jewish refugees in a very sympathetic spirit, he sald: “There has been the agitation in the United States, and particiilarly in New York, for 100,000 Jews to be put into Palestine. I hope I will not be misunderstood in America if I say that thisewas proposed with the purest of motives. They did not want too many Jews in New York." Every one will agree Bevin was unwise and clumsy, in discussing this thorny topic, to couch his remarks in 8 ‘vein of sarcasm. What brought a storm of abuse the sentence, “They did not want too many Jews in New York” + : It's not clear whether Beyin was suggesting that it was New York Jews or New York Gentiles who were

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20,000 and the United States 40,000. The balance of 112,000 Jews who constitute the immediate problen might then, with justice, be provided with entr permits to Palestine, I have not detected any support in America from Jew or Gentile for this modest pro posal. Instead, we are met with an insistent clamo that all of them must go to Palestine, despite the fact that many of them would prefer to ‘settle In the United States,

U.S. Should Share Responsibility

THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT has made it plai that, in the present state of the world, it is not pre pared to take sole responsibility for forcing im mediately upon a hostile Arab population anothe 100,000 Jews, But it has also made it plain that, if the United States will share the responsibility, it prepared to go ahead. . We are in the presence of a great human traged ‘which cannot be solved or even lessened by mud. slinging and name-calling, Together, Britain and the United States could solve this problem,

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