Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 June 1946 — Page 8

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

. OPA VETO ; PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S veto of the OPA extender-bill today was unexpected. The compromise bill extending the life of OPA came out of conference better than the bills passed originally by the senate or house. It wasn't a perfect price-control measure, but it was better than no control at all ‘after midnight tomorrow. And that will happen unless, in the hours remaining before that deadline some patch-work legislation is rushed through despite the threat of congressional leaders that there would be “nothifg” for the President to sign if he “Vetoed the bill as he did today. Or unless the bill is passed

over his veto. : . 8 » ” » » ] he HE veto was a victory for Economic Stabilizer Chester

"A. Bowles, who resigned last night in protest against the measure. It merely legalized inflation, Mr. Bowles asserted in urging veto. Prices would have continued to rise even if congress had written exaetly the kind of law Chester Bowles wanted. The upward pressure of wage costs and the government's inflation-feeding fiscal policies have made that inevitable. The OPA could not have exerted power enough to hold price ceilings firm without choking production or driving more and more goods into the black market. Influential business organizations did fight to have price controls abolished or relaxed, calling that essential to stimulate production, restore supply-demand balance, and make competition a price-restraining force. Fairly or unfairly, business and industry will be blamed if production still lags, if shortages persist, and especially if prices now start a runaway, either under substitute legislation or no legislation at all.

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"Democratic Special Convention Should Pass on Truman Right Now"

The much-discussed failure of Indiana Democrats to praise Presi-

“MANY PEOPLE LACKING RESPECT FOR THE FLAG” By a Disgusted Vet, Indianapolis Last Saturday I had the privilege of carrying the colors in lead of the

ndianapolis V. F. W. parade at Muncie for the

otherwise betray their own best interests.

dent Truman in their state platform moves me to a suggestion. The idea is based on my complete agreement with those Democrats who

There are many signs that limits to what the traffic will bear are being appréached. Wise reluctance high prices for non-essential things could turn into a dangerous buyers’ strike. The producers and distributors of this country can be as badly hurt by inflation as any group, and they have as much to gain by defeating it. Most of them, we believe, recognize that truth, They should act on it, and use their influence to convert those who do not recognize it. Desire for profits is normal and right. It is the incen- | tive to enterprise, the creator of production and jobs, and ~ there can be no justifiable criticism of those who seek rea_gonable profits. But any manufacturer or merchant who gees the present situation as an opportunity or excuse for _ profiteering is an enemy of the free-enterprise system. There never was a time when voluntary restraint in pricing was more necessary, or more certain to pay big long-run dividends.

THE ANSWER TO EXTORTION NOTES TWICE in recent months Indianapolis families have been harassed by demands for large sums of money . . . demands backed by threats of violence or death. * Both times they've had the right answer. Both times they have gone directly, and immediately to the authorities, with the whole story and with full-co-operation. And, as a result, both the would-be extortionists today are behind bars where they belong. It is an eerie sensation to get a letter like that, or a phone call out of the night, especially when the threats are aimed at small children. Who knows what twisted brain is behind them? "Who knows what danger lies hidden outside the door . . . on the way to school? Who can tell ‘whether they come from a desperate and vicious criminal +» or only from a half-wit, who may be just as dangerous? It takes a great deal of courage to defy a threat. That's it every extortionist counts on. Fear. Their plans er succeed when the man they have tagged for a victim pes directly to the legal authorities, enlists their aid and jets their protection. If more people understood that there “would be less black-mail. ~~ The example of the two courageous fathers who were threatened here should go a long way toward stiffening the backbones of others, who may get such threats in future. And the example of the two moronic characters who tried to extort money by terror should help very greatly in discouraging,any others who may have dallied with similar schemes. In our opinion those two Indianapolis families have performed a service to society far greater than the mere entrapment of a pair of amateur criminals.

MAKE YOUR MOUTH WATER?

OWN in Argentina, the dispatches tell us, you can buy an excellent small steak in a restaurant for 20 cents, or a large, thick, juicy sirloin for 60 cents. Buenos Aires butcher shops display an abundance of

strings of tasty sausages. The butcher's price runs from

a day so nobody will have to eat bread more than a few hours old.

-Argentinians aren't exactly happy about ®verything

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Argentinians found not to ‘their taste.

influenced the “playing down” of the President, that he is becoming

beef, pork, lamb, veal, rabbit, chicken, duck and long

17 to 28 cents a pound for the best beef, 12 to 17 cents for lamb chops. And in B. A. the breadman comes four times

however, for the prices of food have increased from 80 to 100 per cent since the Peron crowd came into power. With those high prices—high to them—a poor Argentinian pbably doesn’t eat any better than a bank president in country, Another thing bothering them is that during the British sold them too much Scotch whisky, There

chance that any of that surplus J y to the butcher shops in this S. senators, who stand ever or for cattle on the hoof

to pay [increasingly unpopular with the rank and file, at least in Indiana. Instead of sweating this attitude toward nation policies out for

another two years, might it not be

If his own party ratifies his leadership, he may then tell the Amerfcan people he will accept their expression in the congressional election as their attitude toward his leadership. If they elect a hostile congress, he could interpret the election as a repudiation of his policies, set up facilities for a special presidential election and resign. I realize this sounds revolutionary. I have no bone to pick with our form of government in general, but we should realize the world moves too swiftly today to enable us to wait two long years if we wish to change horses. The next two years are the most important ones in history in many ways. The American people should decide now, not later, whom they want to lead them. EJ » » “JUVENILE COURT NEEDS THOROUGH HOUSE CLEANING” By One-Time Social Worker, City More people should read the edi-

torial on Judge Rhoads which appeared in Wednesday's Times, Let's hope that such editorials will play a part in defeating him in the coming elections. If they aren't enough, perhaps these facts will help: In the last five years, juvenile delinquency in Marion county has increased 250 per cent, Some people

all the more reason we should have an interested and qualified juvenile court judge. These figures, incidentally, came direct from the juvenile court office . . . Judge Rhoads decided he had better start “covering up.” Another important post in the juvenile problem is the court “intake office.” This office

them into the “proper” courts.

the last 2300 cases handled, only 15

to test his popularity now? First, he should call an emergency national Democratic convention to decide whether or not, if this were a presidential year, he would be the party's nominee.

will say this is due to the war , ..

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handles juvenile delinquencies, channeling

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a good idea for President Truman

did not go to juvenile court . » . time for a change there, too. Heaven alone knows, thanks to Judge Rhoads, how many of these cases were “repeats,” how many will develop into the same dangerous criminals you talked about in your editorial.

Ernie Pyle post, and in so doing could not help but notice several things that make a veteran see red. Less than a year ago our boys were dying on.the shores of distant lands and yet today mapy thousands are slowly dying in many hospitals from coast to coast from wounds received in action in the same places, Many of us gave of our blood and bodies and other of our buddies gave their last full measure ‘of devotion for the flag we love. While many thousands of 4-F and draft-dodgers stayed at home and Slept in comfortable beds, surrounded by loved ones, and drew

Indianapolis voters should consider these things. When election time comes, let's “clean house all over.” » » » “TROLLEY SMOKERS ARE SELFISH, OVERBEARING” By Clara Cheadle, 620 Division st. People who smoke on trolleys are selfish. They grab a seat and relax. No thought of weary people crowded in the aisles. Only crit~ icism for those who must care for children in such a jam. Not even an offer to hold somebody’s clumsy packages. They lean back at leisure and smoke. They are near the windows so the air isn't stifling— for them. They grumble about the transit rates. Self-centered and overbearing; defiant of a law that makes for safety and economy in our public conveyances. I wish the law was enforced on all crowded cars. We need ‘more officers as alert as Sgt. Dunwoody. o ® = | “KIDS ACT LIKE ADULTS [LINED UP FOR GRABBING” By Paul H. Wolf, Morristown, Ind.

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local confectionary here Wednesday

man from his weekly buying trip in Indianapolis. Upon his arrival, he sadly shook his head and announced, “no bubble gum.” Whereupon epithets, such as lar, thief, bum, etc., were hurled by the kids, whose behavior pattern was not unlike those of their parents in the meat and nylon lines,

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top wages for loafing around eight hours in a defense plant, many of us were working and fighting 18 hours a day for $50 a month. We are not complaining about what we did, for there was a job to be done and thank God we had the guts to do it. But what makes us see red is to carry our flag for which we gave our all, down the street, as we did last week, and pass these same deferred gentlemen and they don’t even have the decency to remove their hats. And if anyone mentions this fact they say “What is the flag—only a rag.” Maybe that is all it means to those moneymad gentry, but to us it represents the thing for which we offered our lives. We believe it is high time for an educational program to be launched to educate these fellows to have a little respect for our national colors, for which so many of our buddies died, and by this I don’t mean the small fry, for our little fellows who have had a father, brother, sister, or friend in the armed service gre he or she is just about the ndest person living, and we would not have them think otherwise, for when a man cannot command the respect of the children there is not much hope left for him. If some of the people who stand on the sidelines could take time off to visit one of our hospitals and see some of the boys who are in beds of pain from taking the place of many of the stay-at-homes, I imagine the next time the colors passed they would at least remove their hats without being told. # ” #® “I'M GETTING TIRED OF THIS ATOM BOMB TALK” By Nervous Nellie, City Can you do anything to hurry up those atom people? I know I am supposed to be profoundly interested in what happens when the bomb is dropped on that Pacific island, but I swear I never have grown so tired of any subject as I | have of this one. Maybe I'm just getting jittery “waiting for the other shoe to drop.”

day ought to “they finally dropped the bomb.”

have simply been trying to achieve

think they have succeeded. I hope the bomb isn't a dud. " ” » “CATS OR DOGS! WHAT DOESN'T MAN KILL?” By R. M. R.,, North Alabama st.

not kill?

DAILY THOUGHT

L | I thank Thee and praise Thee, O, thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of Thee: Jor Thou now hast made known ue us the king's matter.—Daniel

Let never day nor night + unhallow'd pass, ; But still remember what the Lord hath done.

I think the headline on the big If the army and navy

the biggest buildup in history, I

Cats or dogs? Both. True, cats kill birds sometimes, but what does man kill—or, rather, what does man

. SYSTEMATIC SAVING through purchase of treasury bonds is continuing in Indiana despite the increased cost of living. j Sale of “E” bonds to individuals is well past the $50 million mark for the first half of the year . , . and the redemption curve is declining. Folks turned in their bonds for a variety of reasons « + +» Strikes exhausted family backlogs, bonds bought for a specific purpose have been in many instances used for that purpose, veterans have cashed their bonds to help them get re-established, and bonds bought under emotional or other war-time pressure have been converted into cash,

Bonds Now Bought Coolly

THOSE WHO REGARD this as an idea] saving device or who are waiting a chance to build a home, buy an automobile, pr acquire other now-scarce merchandise account for the 71 per cent of savings bonds which have been fetalned by the purchasers. There is little question that war-time purchased bonds lightened the relief burden . . , in many cases they were the lifesaver to low-income holders who through increasing prices, sickness or other emergencles needed more money than was provided by their income. The strikes kept down purchases through payroll savings plans, in addition to tapping the war bond reserve of many, - The 80.000 Hoosier volunteérs who sold '$3085 - million of bonds up to the end of last year will be interested to know that their efforts are still returning dollars to the government .. thus reducing inflationary federal borrowing from banks, Most of the payroll savings plans still are in effect . . . workers have found this to be a systematic automatic plan and continue to use it. * 2 Bonds now are bought coolly, in line with the purchaser’'s present income, While savings have been

| War Bonds Give an Ace in the Hoy

DEAR BOSS: . HAVING ATTENDED the two “machine-made” political conventions in Indiana, I returned here to find that while Senator Willis was decapitated there are a lot of other sore-heads on the Republican side. The Washington boys didn’t relish the idea of being included out of both the pre-convention and convention programs. They think that Governor Gates hogged the limelight and are quietly discussing ways and means to trip him if he starts running for anything again.

Home State Opposition WHETHER OR NOT the Hoosier governor would like to grab off the rumble seat on the G. O. P. ticket in 1948 has never been officially confirmed. But if Ralph Gates is a vice presidential candidate he will probably face two others from the old home state. They are Rep. Charles A. Halleck, most widely known nationally of all the Hoosiers, and Senator Homer E. Capehart. The latter isn't up for renomination until 1950, but he isn’t unconscious of the fact that if “Bill” Jenner is in the senate then, he (Capehart) will face a fight. For Republicans are not going to be long content with having both senators from southern Indiana. . If the state organization is against him when the proper time comes, Senator Capehart will start building his own machine. A far younger man than Senator Willis, the junior senator is likely to put up quite a scrap. He has a long career of getting places where he wants to be and probably will be just as adept at staying places where he likes to be. And nobody in the U. S. senate likes to be there any better than H. E. C. Denied renomination at 72, after serving a fairly successful first term, Senator Willis can console himself with the fact that no senator from Indiana ever was nominated or elected after 70. There have been

NEW YORK, June 29.—Bidding a tender adieu to his wife, a couple of kids, 300 monkeys and 50 chimpanzees, Armand Denis is off on a king-sized vacation, or you might even call it work. Mr. Denis, one of the better-known explorers and movie makers, has finally unshackled himself from wartime travel restrictions, and is pointed back to Africa to shoot a picture. This is a sort of necessary annoyance, like commuting daily to Brooklyn, but Mr. Denis’ 300 monkeys and 50 chimps, now eating their heads off in Florida, need fodder and, I almost said, shoes. The pictufe will provide the eatin’ money.

Off to Hunt More Animals ARMAND AND HIS WIFE, Leila Roosevelt Denis, were contemporary with Mr. and Mrs. Martin Johnson, and since the death of Johnson, are probably the foremost globetrotters in the business. But they are bitten by cause, which is the vastly expensive project of raising chimps and monkeys for medical research, and I gather that fetching up a baby chimpanzee costs more than rearing a young Vanderbilt. On nd’s schedule is Leopoldville, thence overland to Ruanda, where a race of giants named Watusi hang ‘out, and by Aug. 1 at least part of his nit is supposed to be in Stanleyville. Everybody

whistle off to Tanganyika and some other places I can’t spell to play photographic tag with lions and rhinos. About Oct. 15, they'll start back across the Belgian Congo, Prench Equatorial Africa to French West Africa, Nigeria, the Cameroons, for three or four months work and then out via Dakar in March of next year. It sounds, from Armand, simpler than going down to the corner for a Coke, Leila Denis, who has spent the past 20 years following her old man around the boondocks, isn't going this time. Leila is going to South America to visit

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

PARIS, June 29.—The speed with which France's new premier-president, Georges Bidault, formed his government has already raised his political prestige, To have negotiated an agreement with both the Socialist and Communist parties while playing an active role in the foreign ministers’ conference was no small achievement. On a Sunday, profiting by the fact that the foreign ministers were taking a day off, he managed in 24 hours to produce a complete government, with an allocation of posts acceptable to all three major parties,

Co-ordinated Resistance Groups THERE'S NO DOUBT that Bidault'possesses qualities of suppleness and compromise which make him particularly well qualified to lead France's political life in these dificult days. And there's no doubt that he is beginning to acquire respect and support far beyond the ranks of his own party, the Popular Republicans. Before the war, Bidault was virtually unknown in French political life. But he had already given proof of his three greatest qualities—patience, prescience and courage. As editor of the newspaper L'Aube, he never ceased to insist upon the growing menace of Germany and to denounce politicians who favored policies of defeatism and appeasement. In those days, L'Aube was the unimportant organ of an unimportant party, the Christian Democrats. Today it is one of the most influential papers in Paris. And the Christian Democrats have blossomed into the Popular Republicans, most powerful of France's political parties, Bidault, who before’ the war used to supplement meager newspaper earnings by lecturing on French history at fashionable finishing schools for young ladies, has risen to first position in French politics.

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I eliminated for many: low-income families . . . any means war bonds have been cashed , . . the reg! employed workers of Indiana continue to save an educational program is being conducted in schools to foster the thrift habit, In the first five months of this year, $78,364,025 in sales of all savings bonds was reported for the state and $3470 million for the nation. This included the “E” bonds sold to individuals, and the “F” and “G” bonds bought by individuals, organizations and corporations . . . and it is the equivalent of 79 per cent of sales during the same period last year, when we were still at war with both Germany and Japan. Of all types of bonds issued, 77 per cent are still held. Nationally, redemptions of bonds exceeded sales by $500 million in the first five months of the year. Major factor, as pointed out, was the fact the strikes suspended payroll purchases and drained many reserves of their rainy day dollars.

Lesson in Thrift THE MOUNTING COST of living is putting the squeeze on many families, and any radical further increase undoubtedly will result in cashing more bonds. Washington economists estimate that 60 per cent of the liquid savings of the country are in the hands of 10 per cent of the families, This group won't be hit by the mounting costs. It will be the low-income families and .the fixed-income workers who will have to cash their bonds to keep their chins above water, Defense bonds, war bonds, savings bonds . .. whatever their designation, they now are provifig to be a salvation to many families who still are determined to hold on to them until acute necessity requires the money they represent. " Shoueh them, America has learned a lesson in

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Daniel M. Kidney Gates’ Political Hopes Face Fight

38 senators since statehood and all have been under the 70-year mark when sent here to serve. Destroying the idea that the Republicans are using the state committee as a formula for providing high placed candidates, reports are current here that Ben Watt, shifted from adjutant general to state superintendent of public instruction by the recent convention, is really the man to be tagged for the governorship two years hence. Under the old formula, Gates was made governor and Jenner got the senatorial nomination. In each case the state chairmanship was used as a springboard. Should that be followed the governorship nomination would go to Clark Springer. Some Republicans are claiming that the Pirst district may be won and Rep. Ray Madden, Gary Democrat, defeated. Mr. Madden's reply is this: : “They will be lucky if they beat former Governor Cliff Townsend with Jenner, let alone unseat me, When old Cliff gets out there in the country hogcalling there may be a lot of unsuspected farmer votes rolled up on the Democratic side. This, combined with the industrial vote in the cities, makes it look better for the Demeoerats than all the gloomy predictions about certain defeat in November.

Don't "Draft" Winners

“WHY, MY OPPONENT couldn't be re-elected for a second term as prosecutor in Lake county So Governor Gates created a juvenile court to give him a judgeship at an additional $30,000 expense to the taxpayers.” . Madden's opponent is Judge Charles Gannon, Gary. As of now, my guess is that the Republicans win hands down. There will have to be a tne shift in the political winds to change this by November, in my opinion. You don’t draft tickets that are slated to win. DAN KIDNEY.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Globe-Trotting Hunter Is Off Again

her father, chiefly because South America is the only place Leila“has never been. She was along with her pappy and her husband in Bali in the early 30's when they did a picture called “Goona-Goona,” which is still playing the class X movie palaces. She was on hand for the filming of “Dark Rapture,” a phonily titled movie which was one of the finest African documentaries ever photographed. . Leila Denis has trapped orang-utans in Borneo, been lost in the Australian desert, served as a decoy for lions in Africa, and generally moved about more than the average hausfrau. She managed this while rearing a family, inciuding twin boys. She raised them better, however, than a pet chimpanzee who performed the amazing feat of producing twins awhile back. Chimps, according to the Denises, are an unhappy combination of animal and human in that they are too smart to operate purely on animal reflexes and a little too dumb $o reason like humans. The twin-bearing chimp bounced her extra baby on his little pointed head. There was no prece= dent for double offspring in that particular anthropoid family and the mama was a bit confused.

Material for Research “HUMANS ARE NOTHING BUT chimpanzees complicated by psychology,” Armand says. On that basis, the De s are vehemently hopeful about the place of the impanzee in medical research, espe« cially in the field of cancer, leprosy and infantile paralysis, Their monkey farm in Florida is based on that premise—and it could be sound, since the double-domed boys from Yale have maintained a chimp farm at Orange Park, Fla., for years. The chief difficulty about raising baby chimps is that the animals go psychotic in captivity and the average male chimp has a vitamin deficiency, or something. :

Randolph Churchill

French President Proved Leadership

on the courage and organizing ability he showed dur~ ing the German occupation, The four long years of Nazi ‘occupation saw the rise of a great variety of resistance movements. It was plain that unless these could be brought together there would be grave danger of a civil war such as that which raged in Yugoslavia between Chetniks and Partisans. To achieve this essential co-ordina-tion, a committee known as the National Council of Resistance was formed at the suggestion of Gen. De Gaulle. This council contained representatives of all the anti-German parties, from Communists to Royalists, Its first president was a prefect called Moulin, After he had been betrayed and died as a result of German tortures, Bidault was elected to succeed him. A notable fact was that he was acceptable to the Communists, Immediately after liberation, De Gaulle chose Bidault to be foreign minister in the provisional gov ernment. De Gaulle had very definite ideas on the conduct of foreign affairs. Since De Gaulle’s resignation, Bidault has been master in his own housé and has shown himself a competent foreign minister,

Is a Typical Frenchman

THE PROBLEMS which now face him will test

his character and abilities. Both at home and abroad, he must grapple with problems as difficult and troublesome as any French premier has ever had to cope with. . One of Bidault's charms is that he is a very typical Frenchman—brave but impulsive, relkious but self-indulgent, intelligent but easily flattered. Many good judges of French character and French

politics think that, none the less, Georges Bidault may prove to be the best possible selection In the

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