Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 July 1946 — Page 12
[he Indianapolis Times "PAGE 12 Friday, July 19, 1946 er JALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ BOTW. BOWARD Nan ) Business Manager TA SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Owned and published dally (except Sunday) by {ndianapolis Times Publishing Co., 314 W. Maryland st. Postal Zone 9. Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and “Audit Bureau of
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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Woy
GAS FOR TOMORROW? THS week the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility announced it could take no more new customers for gas heating . . . there just wouldn't be enough gas to go around until some more equipment to make gas could be installed. That posed immediately the question: What about our gas supply next year ...or the year after... or the year after that? : ‘ Thig is one of the questions city council wants angwered in its proposal to “investigate” the Citizens Gas & Coke Utility. Investigate is an unfortunate word. There is no implication of anything shady or illegal or anything of thé sort behind the councilmanic query. No.one doubts the efficiency of the present management of the gas utility, or its integrity. What council, and behind council what the people of Indianapolis want to know is the policy of this utility, which is owned by the people ofthe city, and which .exists solely to furnish them good fuel at low cost. It is entirely proper that the city government should ask this question, and that they should have an answer satisfactory to the people themselves. : * All gas used here is manufactured from coal. To make gas-it is necessary to make coke also from this coal. This coke must be sold, otherwise the price of gas will be so high few could afford to use it at all. For the past few years the demand for coke has been abnormally great, so it has been easy to sell, even though our coke costs more than that of many other manufacturers of coke. But now we find that even in this period of relatively high industrial demand for coke, there still isn’t enough gas to supply all who want it. What, then, will happen if industry slows down, the demand for coke falls off, and Indianapolis coke cannot compete in the open market with lower priced coke from other producers? ” - F} So behind this persistent probing in council, lies still another fundamental question of policy: 4 Is this a company manufacturing gas, with coke as a sideline . . . or is it a company manufacturing coke, with gas as a sideline? : There is some ground for believing the latter. The management of the utility has made no arrangement for
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"Speed Doesn't Cause Accidents, Low Speed Limit Is Not Answer"
By Felix T. McWhirter, 6720 Caroline ave. The Indianapolis Times prints a letter in Tuesday night's Hoosier |
goes, First of all, speed does not cause accidents, it does make them|
more severe when they happen. Accidents are caused by stupidity, | We
the use of natural gas, either to replace or to supplement the manufactured gas supply if it should prove inadequate.
available, and that they can furnish it, practically on the city’s doorstep. At least it is available in natural gas producing fields, in quantities estimated as good for another 50 to 100 years. ; Use of natural gas, of course, would cut the production of coke to whatever extent it was used. So far as can be learned by the actual owners of this utility, its entire program for the future is tied to the production of coke. So, whether by accident or not, Indianapolis finds itself in the coke business, which obviously is no business for the city to be in, and which in turn ties consumers here to manufactured gas in whatever quantities coke sales may over the long haul make available to them . . . rather than to what they may want or need. Gas made here today is sold for almost the lowest manufactured gas prices in this country. It still costs about twicé as much as natural gas costs in other comparable cities on a heat unit basis, it is not as good a fuel for the domestic consumer. Since we-already have costly installations of equipment for the manufacture of gas and coke, it would seem like good business to continue to use them, but to supplement
panies which have natural gas for sale contend that it is |
carelessness, and incompetence. The suggestion that a blanket speed |
law be enacted reminds me of the person who put on rubber gloves
The reason given is that natural gas is not available. Com- [because his fountain pen leaked. Let's attack the causes of wrecks, not | our
| the symptoms, When going through the process of getting licensed, the slogan appears reminding you that driving is a privilege and not a right. Well, at the present time we are privileged to drive among the partially
blind, deaf, and infirmed. Occa- ‘i only the land il to con-|all they want to. y the - Slonglly we “ate [Yivileged ¥ lords and the white collar workers
tact an intoxicant too. At other = civilian offices, both of which times, the hardier and more zest-|,re few in numbers, are left holding ful members of humanity may be the bag. In my own case, which observed to careen along in a rela-|is like many others, my Bihand tively unhaltable vehicle on. four aod re A rings of thinly clad air. Doeén’t the of sacrifices of comforts and pleasstate license that car every year? |ures and worked far beyond my A limit of 50 m.p.h. merely to!strength to save enough to make a ape the over-populated east coast small down payment on a small would still entitle one to exceed his modern double in a good location, mental limit while traveling along | hoping that in our old age we could a one-lane, tree-lined gravel road at, have a bit of income from the rent. midnight. But on the other hand, Neither of us is able to work. he would feel classed with the | My husband lost his job five years snails and tortoises when out On 8.00 because of deafness and cat-grass-separated, four-lane highway |... ic on both eyes; I am a semiin broad daylight. I would rather invalid because of cerebral malaria not think that the auto engineers and resulting extreme anemia. Docin Detroit ale in EHO when they tor's care and medicine which build a high gear in cars because, after all, we could attain 50 m.p.h. in second gear easily." As we enter the atomic age, let's have “safety fast” as well as “safety
taxes are increasing each year, any repair work, plumbing, carpenter. work, painting, paperhanging, cloth-
this inadequate supply of low-quality fuel gas with natural gas, so that consumers could have both better quality fuel | and enough of it to meet their needs and at a lower cost. | True, this would curtail the coke business. So far as the | people of Indianapolis are concerned we don't believe that | matters. Certainly the city is under no obligation to supply | industry with coke, here or. elsewhere. »
IN creating this publicly owned utility every possible safeguard was thrown around it to prevent political interference with its operation. That was entirely proper, and it has kept the utility wholly free of the spoils system or the inefficiency of operation that might otherwise have hampered it. But those safeguards were not intended to take it out of the reach of the people who own it, to | place its policies and its records and its basic service to the people of the community entirely out of reach of those people. The state legislature created this utility and presumably could change it or abolish it or authorize its sale. Unless the utility convinces the people themselves that it is adequately serving their best interests, sooner or later that will happen to it. We doubt if it will convince them
by keeping its plans-and its policies and even its ordinary business records a secret.
A CASE OF ONE WORLD
URKEY has two major political parties, the Republican poonies party, in power the whole 20 years since the new Turkey was born, and the Democrats, representing the ; political outs, ’ A national election is to be held Sunday. The Republican People’s party hopes to ride to another victory on the “don’t-change-horses” theory, pointing to its ReBnS of spusing Te country from its long complacency. 4he Democrats allege the party in power has become negligent and corrupt, » What's that? Ne, no, no, we were talking about
We do not have a national election next Sunday.
LA ICAL JUSTICE TED at Seattle by a federal jury of charges of g against the United States, Lt. Nicolai Redin, sian naval officer, thanked the jurymen “for the /e received in this country.” . hour Lt. Redin was leaving the n. Drgia Mikhailovitch was being
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ing ‘and food all cost at least three times as much as before the war, vet the rent of our small double is frozen at prewar price by the sen{ators through their unconstitutional
. .. {OPA bill favoring control only on “LANDLORDS AND WHITE lies. AC 5 vetit L Baye been
COLLAR WORKERS FORGOT” | compelled to sell the small double By Mrs. J. O. B, N. Oakland {at a sacrifice and the government So the senators have fixed them- | will take some of that in taxes to selves up o. k.; all the ‘politicians help pay their salaries. in government offices are in fine| yes this is a free and grand and position to get the majority vote| glorious country with a government in the coming election. There are in power which favors every class millions of labor union members|of people who can return the most and their leaders with grants of votes. As for the landlords who higher and higher wages, painters,| can provide only a few votes in paper hangers, plumbers, plasterers,| comparison, they are treated like carpenters and roofers. Clothing| criminals. “Let ‘em starve,” say
first” by means of a strict code of requirements to be followed when issuing licenses to both vehicles
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| manufacturers, food producers and |the senators and congressmen. “We
materials of all kinds can charge don't need their votes.”
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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Forum asking for comments on the problem of automobile speed. Here
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“SICKNESS DIDN'T KEEP LANDLORD FROM EVICTING”
By Mrs. Marjoria Monroe, 1443 Gimber st. and Mrs, bert Johnson, 2617 McClure st
I think it's an awful shame for these landlords to sell the houses right from under their renters, knowing there is no place to go. had to move last week so our landlord could sell the house. Now {our family is here and there, also belongings, and it's really] | nerve-racking. 1 have a two-| | months-old baby who is very much | {under doctor's care and my mother |
is very sick, but that didn't seem |
to bother our landlord. No one] matters but himself. He wanted to| sell the house so he could have] some more money. He has plenty now but isn't satisfied. One of the other houses he has is a four-room house with one dirty old man in it, but they couldn't sell that one. It had to be ours, with six people in our family. Just what kind of people are they? What do they expect from hard-working men? That's one question I'd like for someone to answer. We fixed their house up on our own because they refused to do that first thing and we wanted a decent place to live in. The: thanks we got was | being put out within a few weeks {time after finishing. I also would like to know what enjoyment these | property-owners get from this sort
{of thing? Will someone tell me? {My father is a veteran of the last war (I) and my brother is one of {world war II. Is this the thanks they get for risking their lives so people could live free from fear. It looks it. Please do not withhold my name. ” ” ” {“CITY SHOULD BUILD FOR | VETERANS, NOT OPERA FANS”
By Helen ®1. Eck, 1985 W. 30th ot. I agree with Betty Sexson that | Garfield park should remain free for everyone to enjoy. The openalr theater is ond of the few beauty spots this No Mean City maintains for its people. Why make it exclusive by charging admission for operas which only a limited number of people like or pretend to like? If the city fathers are really opera-conscious (which I think not)
they would insist on no admission. Then, persons coming to the local sanctuary for quiet communion with their fellows might develop under these favorable surroundings a liking for even opera. Who knows? : Miss Sexson is also right about the dubjous benefits of charity, namely: Reserving a few seats for underprivileged children. This is the unkindest cut of all. Why charge a price when it makes a single child beholden to charity? We seem to forget that charity would not be neéded if people were assured a decent way-of life. Failing that, charity should be modest, practiced in secret and without a mental picture of “we girls” in the society column. Our system should be explored so as to abandon this inequity, not to further it. If the city wants to build, why do they continue to ignore one of
erans’ housing? Also, anyone can see the business-as-usual attitude of people hogging all the lumber in houses much too large at this critical period; even churches are not able to wait until veterans are provided for. If anyone can explain this satisfactorily to me, I shall welcome it. -
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SAGA OF INDIANA ‘ioe By William A Marlow
Tecumseh's Fight for Indian Rights
ONE DAY IN 1768, three boys were born on Mad river, in what is now Clark county, Ohio. The mother -of these boys was a Creek squaw, the wife of a chief of the Shawnee Indians, One of the boys~“died without record or tradition. One .of them became the Prophet, famed in Shawnee Indian lore. Tecumseh, the great one of the triplets, became one of the great Indian leaders of North America, with Indiana the base of his ambitious activities.
Treaty of Ft. Wayne
THE SHAWNEES of these little Indian boys were one of the distinctive Indian tribes of the western hemisphere... They made a great trek over North America that is the saga of a continent. It began as they eased into the lower peninsula of modern Michigan from lands to the north of the Great Lakes, about the time Jamestown was settled in 1607. It lengthened into more than 5000 miles and nearly two and a quarter centuries,..as probably the greatest bunion derby of all time. Its far points touched California, Texas, Alabama and Maryland. In this jaunt they were in four major wars: In Georgia: in Tennessee; in the French and Indian war, and in the War of 1812. They were licked in each war. Undaunted and unafraid, they moved on where destiny led. Men who can do that must have something in them, and these Shawnees did. They were a colorful fighting band. Of good stature, they were active and sensible: courageous and high-spirited; and reportedly “the most deceitful in human shape.” They fought a good fight. They were real Indians. About the middle of their 5000-mile trek, they shifted from Ohio to Indiana early in the 19th century. They stopped first at Anderson—town on White river.” Later, a band of them gathered on the north
bank of the Wabash river ,near the mouth of the Tippecanoe. At this point, Tecumseh emerges as the great one of the tribe. Out of the background of his people's long trek, with perhaps the tutoring suggestion of his chieftan father, came the Shawnee's crafty plan to dull the advance of the white man in North America. The basic concept of the plan, full ‘of guile and tinged with justice and reason, was this: All the land of North America, by right of long occupation, belonged to the Indians. Skirting the past to his day, he shrewdly proposed that from then on no land belonging to the Indians should be ceded to the white man, save by the consent of all the Indian tribes. This parallels the early proviso of the United Nations after World War II, that the organization could take no final action on any major matter without sanction by all the “Big Five” powers. Thus Jecumseh beat’ the gun on this organization as to sanctions by more than 125 years — not bad for an Indian, Thus Tecumseh sought to block all American and Indian land deals. He protested to William Henry Harrison the treaty of Ft. Wayne of 1809, ceding three million acres of land for $10,000, one-third of a cent per acre, to the whites. He pleaded for Justice to the Indian. The Indians grew restless. Harrison stood pat. Tecumseh headed south to form a great Indian confederation against the white man.
Passing of a Leader
ON NOVEMBER 11, 1811, Harri Indians in the battle of Tipps sn Jokes Soe 1812, Tecumseh was killed in Canada at the battle of the Thames on Oct. 3, 1813. a: Thus Tecumseh, emerging from the fated clash ver the i over the eonirel of Indiana soil, was immortalized on Tecumseh was a great Indian.
POLITICAL REPORT . .. By Charles. Lucey Wheeler, Shipstead Fade from Senate
WASHINGTON, July 19.—Twenty-three years ago last March 4 two young men, flaming liberals from a northwest stirring in revolt against Republican conservatism. walked down the center aisle of the U. 8. senate chamber to take the oath that began their long careers as senators. Last week the Minnesota primary washed out Henrik Shipstead. Once they had cheered him as a farmer-labor liberal, but now they scorned him as a conservative Republican and isolationist. The fire and the fight were gone and a younger man, Ed Thye, was taking over.
Leave Congress Together.
.,SO TOO DID THE MONTANA returns spell out the end of the tempestuous career of $4-year-old Burton K. Wheeler on Wednesday. : 3 The two who came together will leave together. For six years, Burt Wheeler had taken a political rawhiding for his isolationism. That was a factor in his defeat in the Democratic primary by Leif Erickson, state supreme court justice. But there were other factors. Much of the liberal vote which had been his before—when the Anaconda Copper Co. and the power company opposed him year after year—slipped away to his opponent. Labor split up all over the lot; once it had been all for him. President Truman said some kind words for him, but that didn't save him James Roosevelt came out for Justice Erickson and this probably gave some fire to the liberals opposing him Mr. Wheeler himself said he probably lost supporters because he did not “go along blindly” with the Democratic administration in the last. few years, but that he could not “sacrifice principles for party expediency.”
Stalin Fears His
WASHINGTON, July 19.—Yesterday’s report from Moscow that Marshal Zhukov has been given the relatively unimportant command of the Odessa military district adds to the mystery which for several months has surrounded Russia’s-No. 1 soldier. In the early days of the Soviet union, Lenin adopted a hard-boiled policy to prevent emergence of any ‘Napoleons from the military establishment.
Down River to Odessa
WHENEVER A RED GENERAL began to attract attention by his victories in the field, the old master promptly cut him back to size by a transfer to other duties. Stalin took over the policy when the reins of government passed to him from Lenin. It will be recalled that Marshal Timoshenko electrified the western world by his successful opera-
| tions against the Germans in the Ukraine in the | early phases of the recent war.
Suddenly, he was assigned to staff duty, and faded into anonymity. Marshal Zhukov had won recognition as the Eisenhower of Russia at the end. of the war with Germany. As ‘the top Russian commander, he took over the command jin. Germany, with membership on the allied control commission: in Berlin. When rumors became current that a military bloc was forming in Russia which threatened to put a ticket in the fleld against the Communists, Marshal Zhukov disappeared from Berlin one day, without explanation. The marshal was known as a Stalin man, however, so there was little disposition to associate him with the anti-Communist bloc in Moscow. But sub-
PARIS, July 19.—There's no doubt that the man who has emerged from the recent wrangle of the foreign ministers with the greatest addition to his prestige is United States Secretary of State James F. Byrnes. He was the dominant personality throughout the conference.. By his patience, determination and forthright common sense, he repeatedly rescued the parley from what might have been blind alleys of stultification. ; The real test of public figures is whether they can grow into their jobs. “With the possible exception of the late Lord Curzon, no man has ever been born into the world endowed automatically with the qualities which make a great foreign minister. Mr. Byrnes is no exception to this rule. pointed to the state department, even his best friends could not pretend that he had any special qualifications for the job except his unsurpassed knowledge of American politics and his sharp legal brain. These qualities, however, have stood him in good stead.
Bidault Offered Compromise
FIRST QUALIFICATION FOR a successful foreign minister is that he should understand the true
to his own countrymen what commitments and responsibilities it is wise for them to assume. Byrnes’ legal and political training in the United States have combined to enable him to discharge this role. But a foreign minister must be more than this. He must also. be able to understand in a sympathetic spirit .the interests and even prejudices of foreign countries. This, Byrnes has learned to do. -In addition, He:is conscious, as few other Americans are, of the ih mense stréngth of the United States in the modern world And realizes the obligation of bold leadership which this places upon him,
HE who did well in war just earns| All foreign observers who camé in contact with |the right to begin doing well in| Byrnes during the recent Paris talks have been convi sin ! Alpini wok SA Aha Tac. hal he Nl... stature |
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interests of his own country and be able to explain " ‘make any effective stand against international Com-
The senator's break with the New Deal wing of the Democratic party began with his bitter and skillful opposition to Pranklin Roosevelt's plan to pack the supreme court. Earlier during the New Deal, he put over the public utility holding company act and other financial market reforms, and he ran penetrating Investigations of the railroad and communieations industries. But he could not swallow the court plan and was suspicious of the personal accumulation of power by the President. His past "liberal record gave a special validity {fo his ‘opposition now to the New Dealers. As one of the capitol’'s most dextrous legislators and a man who had fought many a good fight, he worked behind thé scenes and on the senate floor to defeat jhe plan, His record was the chronicle of countless chal-, lenges met with an oppesition that could be hard or subtle as the situation demanded.
Wheeler Supported United Nations
AS WAR CAME ON, Senator Wheeler fought Roosevelt foreign policies tooth and nail. He stumped the country to rouse people against them. When lend-lease was proposed he warned that the nation was on the brink of war and cried out against British propaganda and international bankers. All through the war he was derided as an isolationist. Yet, he voted for U. 8. participation in the United Nations. Senator Wheeler always had been rated labor's friend. In this election nearly all the railway brotherhoods were with him and he was endorsed by President Green of the A. F. of L. But the C. I. O. Political Action Committee supported Mr. Erickson, and so did A. F. Whitney, head of the enginemen and trainmen, one of the two unions involved in the recent rail strike,
‘REFLECTIONS . .. By Parker La Moore
Successful Generals
sequent evidence suggests Stalin’ may not have shared the opinion of Zhukov held by many Americans. When, some time after he left Berlin, the marshal was announced as commander in chief of the Soviet ground forces, it seemed that the Kremlin might have had sound military reasons for the shift. But the latest assignment which sends the marshal down the river to Odessa cannot be construed as anything but a stunning demotion. His wings have been clipped, and even if he escapes a purge he would seem to have lost his opportunity for a career in politics, if he entertained such ambitions. But if Marshal Zhukov has fallen from grace his demotion sheds no light on the internal situation in Russia, of which the outside world knows so little,
Stood Well With Colleagues
AMERICAN GENERALS who did daily busine:s with Zhukov found him the most enlightened and reasonable of any of the Russian commanders. The best relations always existed between Zhukov and the other allied commanders. "When attempts were made to explain Russias bellicose attitude by suggestions that Stalin was being prodded into imperialistic enterprises by his ambitious generals, Zhukov was never associated wita such speculation. He was rated a moderate in all things. Can it be he was too moderate to please th» ruling minds at the Kremlin? Possibly he was regarded as the potential leader of a counter-revolu-tion from the right,
TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchil ‘Byrnes Gained in Stature at Paris
last few weeks. That is a good thing for the United States, and it is also a good thing for the world. There is a vast reservoir of international good will in the United States. The trouble is that it is not always effectively tapped. It looks as if Mr. Byrnes can translate the latent American good will and idealism into an effective policy which the whole world can welcome and-indorse. v : France's new Premier-President Georges Bidault also added to his reputation during the Paris talks. It was often his good fortune to bring forward compromise proposals which the other foreign ministers were able to accept. Bidault's contribution has been extremely serviceable to the cause of world peace and has enhanced the reputation and authority of France. What of British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin?
Bevin Backs Byrnes
IN THE SAME WAY that Britain earned her credentials: when she stood alone during the Battle of Britain, Bevin won his spurs at earlier confeseaces, when it was his duty to stand un to t4e menacing. encroachments of Russia at a time when the United States had not yet apprehended the scope of the dangers ahead and when France was still too frightened of the Communist danger in her midst to
munist imperialism. But at the recent conference, Bevin was very happy to “play second fiddle” to Byrnes. He has no false pride,-and when he finds an American like Byrnes championing - the cause of European civilization, he is quite content to take a back seat. es a rina “ As for Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov, he confirmed his repftation of being a faithful servant of the Kremlin's Politburo, - Everyone realizes that he is not a free agent and had to,consult his masters in
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