Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 June 1946 — Page 18

5 18 Friday, June 28, 1946 HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE © Editor

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a balanced budget—or better—in 194

retary of the treasury, is sound doctrine.

country from an inflationary boom-bust.

but can do little or nothing about its causes. cause is that the government keeps on priming

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er rate than it ever did during the big depression.

It will have to stop increasing the supply of credit; stop spending borrowed hillions; stop I banks with its securities; start living well within

too soon,

is discouragingly slow. The government's

are demobilized. Expenditures are far from bei

spending are pushing their schemes. The American people will continue willingly quate high tax rates if they are convinced that ernment actually means to cut out extravagance and practice real economy, not just talk about it.

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will match them.

RUSSIA WILL UNDERSTAND

men would learn to speak a language which th can comprehend. When congress voted money for UNRRA i

and radio would be permitted to report without on the use and distribution of UNRRA supplies a

republics, the Ukraine and White Russia.

££ steps which had been taken to comply with t ‘ gional requirement, the Soviets simply answer

Soviet Union.

as “completely satisfactory.” % i » ” » » »

Soviets aren’t paying the slightest attention ditions placed on distribution of UNRRA aid.

ject to censorship. it is because they know that attempting to d

existing policies would be a waste of time and e The UNRRA terms are reasonable and if

tributed by the United States. countries under Russian control, and a seventh,

partly under Russian control. We have a right to know how our money is |

countries that do.

MATSUOKA DOWNFALL OSUKE MATSUOKA is dead in Tokyo. He

League of Nations and later into the three pact that brought world war II.

Japanese war crime trials, vet he was nowhe top. In Japan, they used to say of foreigne

end was discredited even by the Japs. His downfall came over a series of twist

made a pilgrimage to Germany and Italy to r ties ‘and wish Japan's partners early victory, 1 with Hitler and Mussolini. But in those talks fo tell Matsuoka of his plans to attack Russia. On his way back from Europe, Matsuoka st Russia and signed a five-year neutrality pact

was left holding the hag. emperor in the predicament of trving to he both sides. He not only lost face hut lost his cabinet. He never regained either. of Matsuoka, it was said that he was such

if his story might not, after al, ht.

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is the responsibility of the government to reduce its expenditures in every possible way, to maintain adequate tax rates during this transition period and to achieve That, from John W. Snyder's speech on becoming secat If Secretary Snyder fights determinedly and successfully to have the government discharge the responsibility . he talked about, he will do more than the OPA to save this

The OPA struggles with the effects of price inflation And a chief

now become a gusher of purchasing power, at a much great-

The government will have to put its fiscal policies into better order if inflation is to be halted short'of disaster.

and cutting down the monumental national debt. The secretary of the treasury can exert a powerful influence for fiscal safety and sanity, and can’t begin Progress toward an honestly balanced federal budget

agencies are being built up almost as fast as war agencies

in every possible way, and countless advocates of more

«Secretary Snyder's word¢ are fine. We hope his deeds

NDERSTANDING between the United States and Russia would be advapced if our governmental spokes-

the reservation that representatives of the American press

Substantial UNRRA shipments go to two of the Soviet

When Russia was asked to inform our government of

same censorship rules would apply as apply elsewhere in the

The state department says it does not regard this reply

" is, in fact, completely unsatisfactory, for it means the

Union does not care to comply with them the supplies should | be cut off without further ceremony. The Soviets would | understand that kind of language. It's the kind they use. Most of the money for the support of UNRRA is conSix of the 10 major beneficiaries of the program represent Russian territory, or |ihem.

and if Russia does not recognize that right the distribution | of relief and rehabilitation funds should be restricted to |

Matsuoka was on the list of 28 defendants in the

stayed on too long that they had “missed too many boats.” Politically, Matsuoka missed the boat too often and in the |

in the international leap-frog politics early in world war 11, | Late in March, 1941, Matsuoka as Japan's foreign minister |

Two months later, Germany attacked Russia and Matsuoka | He had put Japan and his |

that ‘people to whom he confided were left wondering |

tL INECK CLEARED } concession to the railrogd-traveling | Ohio has made ‘arrangements | and Katy. Beginning July | alls from eastern seaboard without changing |!

the pump,

money and oading the its income

peacetime ng reduced to pay ade-

their govand waste

Hoosier Forum

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

e Russians t was with

censorship nd services,

he congres-

ed that the the other fellow?

to the con-

0 so under ffort. the Soviet

stop trying We have known many months,

"Conversation Gluttons Keep Others From Having Their Say"

“ By Chatterbox, Indianapolis Most decent, conscientious folk considér themselves normally unsélfish, but I can tell you that in one common, every day manner most of them are so greedy that they could well hang ineir heads in ghame, I refer to conversation gluttons, Recently, interesting topics of conversation have come up for discussion in various groups. Being a thinking person who reads the newspapers, I have my opinions. And I enjoy expressing them, Do 1 have the opportuity? No! Of course, if I'm willing to plow right through somebody else's palaver and have my say whether or no, I could thrust in a few words, If I'm willing to let talk be a matter of give and take, why can’t of living expenses. All these things

Women are the worst offenders. | pemocratic It doesn't occur to them that they mustn't grab off the last crumb of a word any more than the last crust of bread. They don't realize that to) 2 85 a do all the talking is greedy, selfish and to be avoided with as much OPERA IN THEIR COMMUNITY” gall to stand up and mouth his dedetermination as any other objec-| gy operas Enthusiast, City tionable tendency. They should turn | over a new leaf and listen! Only a few American newspapermen are permitted to 2 visit Russia, and every line written in that country is subIf no reporters have endeavored to

check up on UNRRA activities in the two Soviet republics

“INCREASE IN SPENDING WRONG AT THIS TIME” By F. Layton, 1837 Warman ave, In your editiotr of June 25, Tyndall stated, in regards ‘47 budget, “we need better We need to keep the city We have come to the point where we must stop kidding ourselves.” May 1 say, Mr. Mayor, you may kid yourself all you wish, but please | to kid the

Mayor

Sewers clean

taxpayers

these facts for We have been waiting for you to do something about Are you just waking

up?

Austria, is {We also know that we must pay

is 100 per cent,

eing spent,

the increase in your salary, which but * you elaborate on this point in your state- | ment. We also know that the park |yulue of such a community project | 5¢* }o.ithe fireworks display pedepartment needs $1,072,000 to build | ore swimming pools so the city

didn't

to the! { spiritual

and “nuts to you” talk from dis-|

“I'M DIZZY OVER SWING OF POLITICAL PENDULUM” By a Kentuckian Hoosier Democrats now find themselves in a position identical to that of the Republicans in Mississippl. They've got about as much chance as a corn borer in a cotton fleld. By this, I don’t mean to compare Indiana with Mississippi, but both states are now rutted in the one-party groove. All previous | hoopla about beer, politics, etc, among Republicans will evaporate and even those “purged” by the palace guard in the statehouse will swamp the polls with G. O. P. votes. It's doubtful whether even a major Republican scandal would avert a G. O. P, victory. . We also know that‘the| Incidentally, the Democrats theinconvention received [Selves aren't quite qualified to dilarger headlines from newspapers vorce liquor from politics, what with that heretofore have leaned toward Pleas Greenlee, McNutt's beer boss, the Republican party. in the driver's seat. And another ' thing, how can Senator Claude Pepper of Florida muster enough

taxpayers are carrying their greatest burden in history in the form

we know,

“NORTH SIDE FOLK WANT

votion to “liberal” principles when If South Siders don't want the he, himself, won on an anti-Negro, opera amphitheater, bring it up racial segregation plank in Florida? north . .. we want it. In Indiana, at least, the penduI wonder if the people who don't{lum has swung from left to right. want it ever stopped to think of the {Sooner or later, it'll swing to the good it would do . . . how many left again, then to the right, then | children it might keep out of mis- left, ad infinitum. I'm slightly dizzy, | chief each night; how great al #8. 4 uplift it would give th: “WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER people who enjoy the performances TRAFFIC JAM ON FOURTH” there, { By I also wonder if the people Who| ygaying nothing else to do these reject the idea ever heard an opera! days, I spend my time looking | or a symphony, linto my crystal ball. Day after day I don’t doubt for a minute that |; see the same thing. What do I this statement will bring ridicule | ¢o09 1 see people—people in autone thag | 200k jammed bumper to bump

interested parties ; : : |er, getting no place in another of only Kiew ihe Woldertul focling One! Gur well-known. traffic jams. I see can get irom the peaceiul move-|g..worke over all this. What is it?

Mens of Beetinven's Paton) BY | It must be the Butler bowl on the {Ej ORY 1x y OES ® AMPA {night of the Fourth of July, with

They thousands of motorists unable to

“Crystal Gazer,” Indianapolis

don't realize the cultural]

cause of our usual inept way of

. what do they want? King corn handling traffic. 1 see our law en

and just plain corn? . |

can increase the prices that tax-| probably no more beautiful sights | Joreement officials paying no atpayers’ chilren must pay in order were ever staged than the grand | tention bo a situation that has beto use them. | “Fest March” from Tannhauser | “*¢ a disgrace 1) the laxpayers, I Oh, yes! Money must be ralsed or the “Drinking Scene” from La saw the same sort of situation In| 18 the Jap- to construct outdoor auditoriums Traviata.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

anese “statesman” who took his country out of the | a fime when material is at a|don't want them, let us have them . premium for construction of G. I.!

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time when

race Memorial day. | erystal ball gazing accurate?/I hope | somebody makes me out a phony by the Fourth of July but T haven't |

0. K,, if the South Siders | ™Y crystal ball belore Whe of my Wasn my

|...and I'll wager each performance will play to- capacity audiences,

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” “COMBINE CITY-COUNTY GOVERNMENTS AND SAVE” By City Taxpayer The Times had a piece in it Wednesday night entitled ‘“‘Suburban Residents Have No Voice in Running Indianapolis.” I think the writer of that letter has a lot of crust, Why on earth should they? 1 think these people who live outside Indianapolis get d great deal of advantage from the city in many ways, They are on the fringe away | from the smoke and noise, but re[ceive the benefit of many city serv|ices. Talk about contributing to {the Community Fund and Red | Cross. Well, why shouldn't they? | They pay taxes on a lower rate than {we do in town, and usually are a | lot more Somfortable, Your newspaper had an editorial lin it the other night suggesting | combining some of the functions of |city and county government. I'm | strong for that, Then the subur- | panites could get more for their money and we city folks would get better and more economical government too, .

DAILY THOUGHT For His merciful kindness is great toward us, and the truth of ” the Lord endureth forever. Praise

epathastier yet the" Lord. —Psalms 117:2. . @s28| | Truth 1s tough. It will not break idinmsimed | |{k& A bubble at a touch; nay, you may kick If, about all day, like a | toot-bRll, and it will be round and

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SAGA OF INDIANA . .

A MAN'S AGE "doggedly follows him at every crisis in his life. ‘ .

to know how old he fs. When he appears at the marriage bureau for a license to wed, his age is a certain, and sometimes a burning, question. When he applies for a job, is elected to office, becomes minister of a church, his age is always an important, often a deciding, factor. When he dies, everybody wants to know, and a wise newspaper always tells, how long he lived, If he ever is admitted to “Who's Who in America,” the date of his birth follows first after his name,

Can't Establish Age ALL THESE THINGS are not by chance. They do not just happen, Few things can tell so briefly, so well, and so much about a man as the bare statement of how old he is. . 80 likewise everbody who ever thinks much about the first Hoosiers wants to know how old they are. Scientists, historians, common men of many kinds, have tried to find out when they came to Indiana soll. tell us much about them. Once this.important thing could with certainty be kown, many other things would almost inevitably follow. Geologists, historians, archaeologists, could then bring a mass of evidence to bear on what manner of men these first Hoosiers were,

intelligence. They could know more of their culture, something more of their manner of life, their advance in civilization. No wonder the time the first Hoosier came to fhe state interests so many people deeply. No wonder interested modern Hoosiers ponder the question so

STARKVILLE, Miss,” June 28—The Man Bilbo was worn and haggard. After two and a half hours of harangue, he was begging. His voice, gravelly hoarse when he began, had ground down to a guttural and his words almost stumbled out. Sweat beaded his red forehead as he raised his hands before him in unashamed pleading. “If you never voted for me before,” he begged, “vote for me now. Let me go back to Washington. I'll represent you in the senate so that you'll be proud and never regret it. I'll fight and fight and fight and I'll kill and kill and kill.”

Boastful Ranting

THAT WAS THE END. The shirt-sleeved crowd clomped out of the Oktibbeha county courthouse and Theodore G. Bilbo slipped into a beaten old raincoat, buttoned it clear to the neck, and left the building. Bilbo is getting old and doesn't put on the show he once did, they say here. But all night he had poured out invective, The Man Bilbo told of all he had done qr hoped to do for cotton. He courted the old people with talk of pensions and G. L's with a bonus plan. Plenty of pap, there. He said the Tennessee-Tombighee waterway he had aided would bring $100 million and 5000 jobs to Mississippi. He took modest credit for establishing U. S. agricultural laboratories. The senator made fun of Clare Booth Luce and Eleanor Roosevelt for their friendship for the Negro. He played on his humble beginning “down in the piney woods.” He wrapped himself in the flag— “48 stars on a field of blue.” He raised a spectre of racial intermarriage in crude, brutal language. Bilbo posed as a martyr, persecuted because he

NEW YORK, June 28.—Jimmy Doolittle’s board, fo investigate G, I. gripes and recommend cure-alls, has had its cut at the problem. Secretary Patterson has listened and has announced war department adoptions and rejections of the beef board's panacea. What comes out is the same old army. Unless I've lost my ability to read, my first appraisal of the gripe board stands up. A few months back, I called it a waste of time and taxpayers’ money. I called it both childish in approach and cynical in its effort to butter up the, ex-G. I. who is a big boy now and an important voter.

No Real Changes

AMONG THE OTHER EXPLETIVES was the charge that army was soliciting public forgiveness for past sins and building character for its battle: for power with navy in the merger deal, without sincerely attempting to bridge the chasm between the haves and the have-nots. I don't think I'm going to have to dine extensively on my own rhetoric, More pay for the soldier is coming up. Accumulated leave pay for all is in. That is fine, but it isn't the gripe board’s baby. It was in the works long before the board members—the lecturing ex-sergeants and publications colonels beat their brains together, The boys achieved the abolition of the hand salute away from military posts, except in occupied countries. You might term this less than a shattering triumph, since the off-post salute was virtually abandoned during the last couple of years, anyhow. The one workable weapon against mishandling of the enlisted man was rejected, to the surprise of nobody. This was the move to allow transmission of reports on irregularities to go straight to the war depariient from the inspectors-general, rather than proceeding sluggishly through channels. Since Mr. Patterson says that there has always been equality in-justice for commissioned and enlisted

WASHINGTON, June 28--Your Uncle 8am Is prospering as a distiller but is going in the red as a

sugar operator. ’ . He is about to retire as a pants manufacturer but he i8 doing a thriving business in fish. He took a $24 million flier in Turkish sunflower seeds and is now looking for a buyer,

All Stem From Military Necessity

THESE ARE AMONG the random bits of trade intelligence gleaned from congress’ first peek into the affairs of government-operated corporations. Activities of the 101 corporate agencies range from the $34 billlon Joan business of the giant Reconstruction Finance Corp. to the hiring out of 40 milk cows by the Virgin Island Co. Congress late in 1045 voted itself more conlrols over the public-owneéd corporations, decreeing that many must begin thelr liquidation in 1048 unless they can justify their continued existence. It is now try- | ing to find out which should be abolished. One of the discoveries was that the Virgin Island Co. made $113,000 last year in the manufacturer of rum despite curtailed operations resulting from a controversy over use of the Government House brand name and a change in distributors. The rum business is now getting back to the normal level of 100,00 cases a year, which is exclusive of the rum consumed by the island natives, While the rum business flourished, the company lost $53,000 last year in its sugar operations. : Its cow-renting business was harder, to audit, since no money was involved. The company farmed out its 40 cows to natives, who fed them and got the.milk.

substitute for an outright relief program. If operations are discontinued, President Gilbert Pace testified, the isiands' agriculture “will go back to Duh

. By William A. Marlow " . Can't Fix Age of State's ‘First Settlers’

When he gets into trouble, the policeman wants -

If we could but Know this one fact, it would

They could better fix their place among the , | races of mankind, They could better measure their

The Virgin Island Co, was created in 1934 as a

often and with such eager desire to know how old the first Hoosiers really are. oie But unfortunately there is no way yet known to tell definitely how old they are. We can, however, know something of the time when they came. This cart be done through the records of the race of which they were a part, world which Columbus discovered for Europeans, are direct, positive evidences of this race. For the men of the American race, in the western hemisphere, like every other race on every continent of the world, left traces of themselves and their handiwork in the rocks and soils of the lands where they lived. These records can be read with great certainty in many cases, and with ‘some degree of accuracy in most cases, by the scientific observers and research men of modern times. Such records of the American race have been read by such men. Their findings are helpful and deeply interesting to every citizen of Indiana. For from these findings He may know all that he can know of the first Hoosiers through these records of the original American race, of which they were a part.

Relics of Other Eras

AMONG THE OLDEST reliable records of the American race in the western hemisphere are the relics ‘of them found in the eastern coast region of North America. : These relics are roughly shaped: stone weapbns, like: the first-known weapons that primitive man fashioned on every continent of the world. Their significance lies in the fact that they tell of the presence of men of the American race in the western world ages ago. This does hot mean a few hundreds or a few thousands of years ago. It means ages ago as geologists reckon time.

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Charles T. Lucey Bilbo Again Is Arousing Race Hate

had the courage to stand for what the south believed in. He boasted he had given “social equality” theories more hell than all other senators combined. He sought to wipe out any notions that other senators

«disliked him.

The sweaty little man saved the flower of his ranting for the race question. He talked of the Negroes for an hour. Bilbo said he was a friend of the Negro. He said he was a Christian, He said he had not been one to start the race question. Negroes, he warned, must not vote in Tuesday's “white primary” in Mississippi. : '“Pive thousand Negroes are voting in Georgia this year,” he cried. “Georgia has gone to hell. Mississippi is on the way unless you do something about it. “What are you going to do about it?” The man said he had heard of a move to register Negroes in large numbers Tuesday—Negro G. L's and those over 60, who are exempt from the poll-tax, Ha said he had been told they would swamp the regis= tration offices, where traditionally Negroes have been unable to qualify to vote.

Fomenting Trouble

“LET A HANDFUL VOTE this year and two hande fuls will vote next year.. And soon they'll control” he warned. “I believe white people will be justified in going to any extreme to keep the Negro from voting. The best time to see the Negro about not voting,” he croaked, “is the night before.” Tuesday's primary, he warned, would be the most important Mississippi election in 70 years. He told

what an able fellow a senator should be. It's serious

business, electing a U. 8. senator, he said. Yes, a serious business,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark \,~ ’ : . 1+ Gripe Board’ Results Are Ridiculous

personnel, I assume the gripe board can boast no vies tory in the army's decision to see that all hands get a fair shake. I am about to bust a gusset laughing at the department’s other novel ideas to make the enlisted man as happy as ‘a labor leader, such as the removal of regulations forbidding after-hour fraternization be= tween doughfoot and braid. Taboos on off-hour socializing have been winked at always, and violated at will. , Mark you, the legalization of social intercourse— outside, of course, the officers clubs, which will not, immediately, be thrown open to other ranks—this sanction is made “with reservations.” The reservations are because “abolition of all off-duty restraing might lead to abuses.” Similarly, the war department has promised to provide regulations to assure that “the officers won't abuse their privileges.” I thought the board was going to eliminate officer privileges altogether, didn't you? Where there are specidl dispensations thers are bound to be abuses, and to get rid of one you must knock off the other.

Lip Service Only MR. PATTERSON REFUSED to accept a recom mendation to outlaw the terms “officer” and ‘enlisted man.” Since rank exists you have to describe it some how, and this suggestion was as silly as calling everye body in the army “general” or “private.” The ecelebrity-packed, starry-eyed board pushed through a few girlish,» meaningless planks, like en= couraging the relationships between the army and the civilians, and improving the leadership quotient of second ° lieutenants. I forget how they stood on

‘motherhood and crime.

But, Buster, the army hasnt changed intrinsically, despite the clamor of this highpowered group of social workers. It was lip service from the start.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Ned Brooks U.S. Is in Many Types of Business

acquired through operations of the U., 8. Commercial Co., wartime’subsidiary of RFC. The seeds were part of purchases totaling $33 million in Turkey, where the government was engaged in “preclusive” buying to keep certain supplies away from the Germans. In some cases the company had to buy items of little value in order to deal for those of more urgent need to the enemy. Spain and Portugal were other coun tries where preclusive buying was extensive, Later in the war the company extended its opera« tions to the Pacific. One of its more prosperous ven tures is a fish business in Guam, The federal public housing authority told congress it plans to dispose of 18 subsistence homestead proj« ects established in the early New Deal days. Ads Juncts of these developments include a pants factory at Norvelt, Pa, and a vacuum cleaner assembly plant and an inn at Arthurdale, W, Va. The government also is in the hotel business in Panama, Through the Panama Railroad Co., now nearly a century old, .it operates the Hotel Tivoli at the Pacific end of the canal and the Washington as the Atlantic end. For 10 years before the war both hotels operated at a loss. War hoomed business. The railroad company also is in the milk business. It8 price: 20 cents a quart.

Holdover of Last War

SALE OF THE LAST logging railroad owned by the U. 8. Spruce Production Corp. will enable that firm to retire from business by Jan. 1. Oreated to supply wood for world war I airplanes, it got itself 80" deeply entrenched in the lumber business in threa months that it has taken more than 27 years to liquidate.

Prencinradlo, Inc, which has heen buying movie. and radio equipment for Mexican firms, is starting on a three-year liquidatidn. It was established to combat Spanish-speaking flim¢ and broadcasts introduced by the boa :

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