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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

GAS FOR TOMORROW—FOR SURE

DECISION of the management of Citizens Gas & Coke Utility to buy natural gas to supplement production of manufactured gas here in our opinion was a wise ‘decision. It does not involve scrapping any of the investment the utility already has in gas manufacturing equipment. It does offer a safeguard against a gas fuel shortage that might otherwise have confronted the city a few years hence. It will, in time, free the city from completely depending

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to make whatever use of coal is feasible and economical, Ni " The demand for gas for domestic and industrial fuel has already risen sharply here. It is likely fo increase still further with continuing growth of the city. The cost of coal has gone up steadily for several years—and-shows every sign of going up more. Every increase in coal prices has cut down the. difference in heating expense between coal and gas or oil for the ordinary home. Frequent strikes in the coal industry have contributed, also, to a feeling that a supply could not be relied upon at all times or under all | circumstances. Without any effort to push the sale of its [g product, the local utility has found so many customers | seeking it that it is temporarily unable to take on any more. It faced, therefore, .the alternative of vastly expanding its manufacturing facilities to meet this new

demand, or in obtaining fuel from Sgme other source. » ® » 4 » - »

HE decision doesn’t mean, either, that natural gas will start flowing through the kitchen range next week. The utility management is properly insistent upon reliable and certain delivery of lan yl at a reasonable price before it signs an order. Nothing would be ‘gained by tying the city’s consumers to a supply that might disappear

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on a cold day—the only supply that appears to be immedi- | By Margaret 0. Otto, Katherine M. Lull, Anna M. O'Connor, 529 Pros-| controls over vivisection would be ately available. : pect st. | detrimental to the spirit that made! Several ‘pipe-line projects currently being planned will | , OF bebaif of the youngsters of Indianapolis we wish to enlist the| America great.” . : ! laid of all who are interested in reducing, or completely abolishing, the If it is t s stated in the Ohi solve that problem once they are carried out. There is swimming pool fees for children. iis ug, 8 3 cago Herald American, under daye

good reason to believe that one or more of them will be| Even in this day of prosperity, many children and their parents | cannot afford to pay the 20 cent fee, car fare and perhaps a cool drink. | of July 4, 1946, that there 1s a 1

“OPPOSE VIVISECTION OF DUMB ANIMALS BILL”

terest, To my knowledge, no one has ever given a satisfactory explanation of why the people of Indianapolis cannot have the lower priced natural gas—unless, maybe, our city is in (the coke -business, with gas as a [side line. And if this is so} the | people have a right to know it, and | to know why. I shall be very much interested In any other information you may publish on this subject.

prepared to- supply Indianapolis needs by the time the | The common result is children will seek other unguarded places to swim pefore the U. S. congress approprishortage otherwise might have become acute here . , .|such as gravel pits, Eagle creek, Fall creek or White river. By so doing ately named “The Kilgore Bul” erhaps in a vear or two vears. | they take the chance of disease ‘or drowning, or being hauled down y ’ P ye y i : to the juvenile aid division for a much needed lecture on safety | having for its purpose the removal Meanwhile Indianapolis, with an alternate source of |” fa . lot all restraints over the practice |" These children are not ‘to blame. A at inals and | Boys will find an “ole swimmin'|you will be In a position to have| of en gumb Prins ang is in an excellent bargaining position. The utility is not | hole” somewhere, somehow, Vhptlier | good and true patriots at the helm | 281) a DOVR 25 its purpose fore 3 5 : or not they posses the city fee.lof government, instead of as now,| a . i ed to accept gas on any terms demanded, just because Why is it that the city fathers, | politicians who swill at the pork| the limiting of vivisection Torres it has to have gas right now. It is a position that makes |Mr. Paul Brown, Mr. Rathert, May- | barrel and whose collective thought 0 necessary eH menis an She it possible to obtain a favorable deal for the city’s con- |or Tynda'l aid « tew who are really jis self. prevention of whimgise' OF purely . tas in a position to do so do not see that | 8 8 =o sadistic infliction of torture upon sumers, both as to assured supplies under all conditions, Jour future citizens have a piace 0 “CAN FIND NO PLACE TO dumb animals—we need “The and as to price. And purchase at a favorable price could |swim free of charge any hour of the | art OME ym Lemke Bill"! : : to . : os CALL HOME FOR FAMILY The sanctioning of indiscriminate lead to eventual reduction in rates to consumers, with,Nof |day? Other large cities have done |, 0 3° togianapotis vivisection and torture is so adverse : : : |it, why not Indiarapciis? oa oa RY 156 : course, complete protection for the owners of the bonds | py" 20, Snes or the bene| 1 Dave been evicted, no house inland repugnant to the spirit that which represent the capital investment in the whole opera- {fit of a chosen few, but for the |this man's town. I have lived in made America great that it should tion here. good of many. Men like Lt. Golden | indianapolis since 1923, my husband | Se Do Diack pon the staute books ; : : . 0 v : of our fair land. Altogether it looks like a good program, and a fine bit | Be en i ee faved Pere Before raat devs a 2 2 ¢ s i 4 . P nan = | listed in world war I. I always had! of foresight on the part of the utility. There is every |ize and support the good that lies |g soft spot in my heart for Siw | “DECATUR TOWNSHIP NOT . 3 . . PY . . | ¥ | > T *1 reason to believe this plan will provide Indianapolis with |behind lower or no swiming fees |Now I have /- | UNANIMOUSLY AGAINST OPA” Pp p it 3 d [No ave no spot at all for any-| all the gas fuel that will be required by any predictable {oF a out churges shin thing. I had to store my furniture, | py Reid Thornberry, R. R. 3. Indianapolis : . pro 4 : yw e the voters of to- . it growth in population over the next 20 or 30 years morrow aud even i h ti id Tomy 1s Seafteral n) over Mu} dive Rand Neckell, wring under - $ : Ow aud even In Such Umes Of icity. I had a two-month-old |; cryction from the Decatur Town-| ee Had RicHrine to et Sings done, | granddaughter with me. My 13- hi B Bic ib. infers ‘bat. et’s never become so busy we can- year-old boy went to school here all SP Hepublican club, OPA—PRESERVATION FOR BUREAUCRATS [not take time out for the children hs Ji ’ } 7 of v -| . N his life. Now he has no home; he | the majority of voters of this town HE OPA bill wended its weary way back to the White [an love bie cannot soon betes restless for he is in a new tem-+ship oppose the passage of a new : . Cet ally swim. By helping them In|porary neighborhood and knows no. House looking like a fugitive from the black market. this way we can help to keep them nhoys, My older boy was Ssctbrged OPS DI ie national ‘public opin- | Paul Porter told President Truman: “Sign it. It's better |°ff re Sora is the Sum from the navy about a year ago jon polls (Gallup, Roper, etc.), re‘than ; ” mer months at least. wi €land is going to school at Purdue.'y i - 0 918 You Yeloed : parents, teachers, ministers or any- |He looked for work week-ends at Sl has 2B revising ne] » ' 0Q : ; ea] n yes erday a ernoon the President signed it. one in favor of reduced rates please home. Now he has no home to! cases) of people favored retention What's better about it? Practically all the previously | 5!¥e us their support on this mat-|come to. My other boy is now in of price controls, Mr. Beckett and pulled teeth were still out and a few more were lost in the | ane ailciy — ernie, A oy supe: with the the township Republican club must is : Feear AN CARTE . aby girl has no place to go. except feel very special and h { second visit to the dentist WOMEN CAN SWEEP OUT i Y Poca a pas 2 ! . | - aN 3 3 the home I had been providing: She | little eonspicuous. When the President vetoed the first bill he thought {POLITICIANS BY VOTES” is not able to work for herself and of wn it should be noted | congress might pass something stronger. Since then the | pe 40 motion omer? baby, and 1 cannot pay board 107 that Mr. Beckett and the Repub. . : Aad " : | The 40 million women of voting{my family at several different jjcan club speak only for themPresident and Mr. Porter have seen many anxious days {age can make a wonderful change |vlaces. The baby's father is a dis=|sejves on Fo is vital is-| when it seemed doubtful that congress could get together in the future welfare of their fam- charged navy veteran. sue. I am.a resident voter of Deon any OPA bill at all. [lies by overthrowing the giant oc-| We can't buy a house because the catur and I (nor anyone to whom . wo |tupus whose tentacles cover every figures to buy are entirely out of |1 have spoken on the subject) have From asking for more, the thinning ranks of the con- | nook and cranny of our country. |our power. We've raised four chil- | never > approached i the imtrolled economy addicts have been frightened into taking Known as politicians, they are as/dren here. They went to school plied canvass of voter opinion in anything they can get. [Sates a Sage Rs leeches, lice Rod hele hid all graduated from Man- | this township. * | i i sich ror : , | insects. ey have perpetuated ua igh except the 15-year-old.| Mr. Beckett suggests that a let- ; This compromise does not restore price control but it |themselves on their various com-|Now just what. are we to do. We| ter has been sent to Senators Cape- | oes restore the OPA and, from the bureaucratic point of |munities and it is now the logical | cannot go. on and on living here hart and Willis and Representa- | view, that's what's better about it. | tame to put them in oblivion. and there. No home-—just here and | tives Wilson, Halleck and Harness | .-s » You can do this Nov. 5, 1946, by there. All we ask and want is a apprising them of the canvass “as HIS bill “ . 2 #2 = | voting for persons who have never house to live in. My husband has | to the general opinion of the votHh 1 Sou inues in power, and on the payroll for at {held SD Sievitse ey All pis job and has Worgad for the same ers in the township with reference east another year, a wartime agency which has al BR ATE Sete, oy, JUIY {S|SOmPanY SNE Worle war I DEE owe Tegidation On OPA.” ¢ \ S$ about |; ¢ y i the same remaining usefulness that eur thmi i : to go through the list of candidates! people can come here from all over| I suggest that Senator Capehart had for civil a S¢ al eurythmic dancing |from congress down the line to the| Europe and they get homes. Why? !and his congressional colleagues | y ns " ’ + ’ ’ x | r civilian efense. OWRD. " Don : wait too long but {Aren't we good Americans? What need mo prompting or encourageIt permits a small army of government men to continue 8 30 your Sate : : is he definition of a good Amer- ment in the matter of hamstringtheir nosing into business operations: Reports, hearings ves ea) LS iow, Th Tr a agape, oe ; : Ss. Ss, ¢ Ss, They a tt ; investigations, appeals, etc., all adding to production costs Side Glan B G Ib : bh [in oe feprrtrmie ny which must come out of the hide of the consumer in form ces—Dby Galoraif x x & of higher prices and higher taxes. “NO EXPLANATION WHY In supporting this bill, the OPA-ers obey an immutable CAY'T HAVE NATURAL oag” rule applying to all departments of governm T By Bubert 0c Cod, 3551 College ave ) 8 of government. They may , i Se be down but they're never out if they can help it Thev 3 ead Jour Sion, on io linger on ad infinitum after feet have w t { las IY TW nea } av orn ou 1e last desk and statements for the press the last mimeograph Rent control—and we fieed that because vou can't build a house in a day—is the only. effective part of the legislation. We could get that at a cost to the taxpayers much lower than OPA's $75 million administrative budget.

SECOND ATOM TEST | HE second atom bomb within a month has be ws at our fleet and we still don’t know what gives, For instance, the navy was interested in concrete barges, recalling that concrete construction stood up best at Hiroshima. But an oil barge of that type was one of the first three ships sunk. So we can scratch concrete ‘Then there were confident predictions that the underwater bomb would destroy more ships than the aerial test | of July 1. It didp’t, so far. There were forecasts of giant waves ‘that might. spread all over the Pacific.” The one | that Bikini was only seven feet high. There | were warnings the island itself might be engulfed. It rode high and dry. CH But regardless of the score in ships sunk and damaged, | the ter blast afforded a far more spectacular show

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| Editor's Note: Announcement was | made yesterday by the Citizens Gas | & Coke Utility that it would buy | natural gas for Indianapolis when 1a supply is assured. An editorial | discussion of the question appears lon this page under the caption | “Gas for Tomorrow—For Sure.”

DAILY THOUGHT

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OUR TOWN . By Anton Scherrer :

Anybody Remember ‘The Ishmaslite’?

I'M OLD ENOUGH, too, to remember The

Philistine, “a periodical of protest” written and published by Elbert Hubbard. Gosh, what haven't 1 been through! : 1 bring up the subject at this time because of a prevailing notion today that The Philistine was the first of the “pocket” magazines "Taint so. To be sure, Mr. Hubbard has a lot to answer for, but to cnarge him with vhinking up the miniature magazine 1s carrying punishment beyond the bounds of mercy. The fact of the matter is that America had a number of miniature magazines before Mr. Hubbard ever was heard of; so many, indeed, that they were cata.oged as a type. They were known as “Brownie” magazines. The deluge of Brownie magazines back in the

‘Nineties began, I remember, with The Chat Book.

Then came The Lark and with it, in the very first number, “The Purple Cow,” a soul-stirring and spontaneous quatrian dreamed up by Gelett Burgess, a Boston Tech boy who, if I remember correctly, started out studying architeture. Anyway, his jingle went like this: : “I’ never saw a Purple Cow; I never hope to see one, But I ean tell you anyhow; I'd rather see than be one.”

The poem, the first by Mr. Burgess to appear in print, hit the bull's eye and was copied by newspapers as far away as Edinburgh, Scotland.

We Had One, Too

THE NUMBER OF PARODIES it inspired was tip in the million. Indeed, legend has it that it included one by the author himself:

“Ah, yes! I wrote ‘The Purple Cow'— I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!” How Elbert Hubbard ever had the nerve to start The Philistine after Mr. Burgess had the field fenced off is another of those things I've never been able to understand. But the fact remains that he did. What's more, he made a go of it and because he did is probably. the reason why everybody thought it his privilege to interpret the Zeitgeist and send a personal message by way of a minature magazine, Indianapolis was no exception,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Thomas ~ Spirit of Klan

ATLANTA, July 26.—Ours is said to be the land of the free and the home of the brave. And yet—there is something down: here called the ku klux klan. It is rearing its head again. The victory of Gene Talmadge in Georgia feeds the klan spirit. It must be checked. What grown-up men, supposedly civilized, can do under the impulse of this evil spirit, is shown no better than .by quoting from the suit filed by the state of Georgia to revoke the klan's charter,

The Wrecking Crew READ THE INDICTMENT, the childish titles, and see where it all leads: “That tle government of the knights of the ku klux klan is vested in the imperial wizard, called the emperor . . . assisted by 15 genii who are the imperial officers. The invisible empire . . . is subdivided into realms. The government of the realms is vested in a grand dragon who is assisted by nine hydras who are the grand officers of the realm. ,.. “That the various posts . . . appoint by and through the exalted cycliéps . 7 .-special committees, which are provided for in writing in any of the written by-laws. Such members as are appointed to said committee . . . are kept secret from the general membership. The members of said adjunct . . . are sworn to secrecy and are instructed to never identify themselves with said order, if any one of them or all of them are apprehended while in the commission of an unlawful act. “That this committee was known and is known as the ‘secret committee’ by the members of the various posts. That this committee is self-styled by some of its members ‘the wrecking crew.’ “That one W. W. Scarborough was exalted cyclops

.three years old.

“On Dec. 1, 1896, Indianapolis submitted The Ishe

maelite, a monthly published: by the Mount Nebo

Press. In appearance it was not unlike The Philis« une. ‘And, like its progenitor, it too was a periodi= cal of protest. With this difference, however: The Philistine never muffed an opportunity to point out

.the moral, whereas The Ishmaelite never stooped

80 low, From the beginning it stood pat without benefit of explanatory remarks. In the very first number, for instance, The Ish= maelite came right out and declared that: “We are against the whole decadent business in ‘literature, religion, art or politics. In our opinion Shakespeare is ‘a greater poet than Ella Wheeler Wilcox and a greater dramatist than Jerome K. Jerome or Clyd Fitch.” . And in the first number, too, it cracked down on the way weddings were run off in Indianapolis: “We shall do. what we can to suppress those hold-ups known as linen showers and kitchen showers.” That was telling ‘em, and to cap the climax it said: “We do not especially care for the new woman.” Coming as it did just at the beginning of the Battle of the Sexes, it left’ everybody gasping for breath, After that, of course, nobody gave The Ishmaelite more than two months to live. Well, believe it or not, The Ishmaelite lived to be In the course of its activity, it cire culated some of the best nifties ever: thought up in Indianapolis. In the May number of 1897, for exe ample, a local newspaper critic whose opinions were listened to with bated breath had quite a piece about music in the course of which she ventured the belief that “the Wagner-eraze has run its course.”

Nothing Left to Kick About AND IN THE VERY LAST number an anonymous contributor set the world on fire with “One touch of Ibsen makes the whole ‘stage sin.” Elbert Hubbard would have given his right arm to think Up somes thing half as good.

The anonymous contributor maw have been Booth Tarkington, : Meredith Nicholson, John E. Cleland, Hilton Brown, Hector Fuller, May Shipp, Emma Carleton, George Calvért or.one of the Howland brothers for it was they who constituted the incene diary group that made The Ishmaelite the breathe taking thing it was. : The Ishmaelite folded up finally with the May, 1899, number; for the reason that there's wasn's anything left to kick about.

L. Stokes

Thrives in Georgia

of the East Point post of the knights of the ku klux klan during 1937, 1938, 1939 and 1940, and, as such he appointed a secret committee. One Floyd I. Lee was appointed chairman of the secret committee. “That the duties of this committee were to ‘flog’ persons who in the opinion of the klan members needed correcting. . “That the actions of the ‘secret committee’ “in flogging persons grew out of reports which were write ten to the ku klux klan, box 55; East Point, Ga., or grew out of reports made verbally to the exalted cyclops or the secretary by members. “That as a consequence of the acts of the secret committee of both the East Point and the Oakland City post, 23 identified persons were severely beaten and flogged. “That on March 7, 1940, Ike Gaston's dead body

+ was found brutally beaten in a stubble field off Red

wine road, two miles from the meeting place of the East "Point post of the knights of the ku klux klan, “It is alleged upon information and belief that the fatal flogging-of said Ike Gaston resulted from the joint operations of the ‘secret committee’ of the East Point and Oakland City posts of the knights of the ku klux klan.” .

Georgia's Debt to Nation IKE GASTON'S DEAD BODY in a stubble field, That's where it all ended. Young men from East Point and Oakland City, suburbs of Atlanta, went all the way across the seas to fight Hitler, sons perhaps of men guilty of the same sort of crimes Hitler perpetrafed, here in the land of the free and ‘the home of the brave. Georgia owes it to the nation to stamp out this evil thing.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Leigh White Soviet Union Has 20 Million Slaves

AS A COMBINED RESULT of Nazification plus Sovetiznio® human life is cheaper today in the Russian-donfinated countries of Europe than it has

| been at any time since.the Turkish invasiohs of the

16th century. . The Nazis in Germany like the Fascists in Italy, Spain and other axis sateilites began the work of destroying the dignity of European man. The Com-

Editor's Note: Mr. White, roving correspondent for the Chicago Daily News foreign service, was with the Rassian armies on the Baltic and Warsaw fronts. His principal assignments have been in Russia, Balkans and Near Fast.

munists in the- Soviet Union and its satellites are doing their utmost to bring this frightful process to completion. .

Ten Per Cent Under Detention ANYONE IN THE SOVIET-DOMINATED countries may now be arrested, beaten, imprisoned and shot at the whim of Stalin's secret police. Habeas corpus, trial by jury, and all‘ other legal safeguards on the security of the individual have been systematically obliterated. Human lives are being blotted out by thousands for the crime of resisting the claims of the Communists’ “monolithic” state. Little by little the right to strike, own private property, join a political party of one's preference, seek new employment, appeal to government for redress of grievances, even to move from one place of residence to another—all these time-honored rights of man are gradually being expunged from the realm of human possibility. At least 10 per cent of the inhabitants of the So-

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Germany Key to

PARIS, July 26-—The Potsdam agreement provided, amongst other things, that Germany should be administered from Berlin as an economic entity. France has always feared the idea of a reunited Germany and has done her best in Berlin, by her power of veto on the allied control commission, to sabotage this project. Russia, from entirely different motives, has pursued a similar policy. Whereas France has been #nimated by. a desire for security, Russia has been inspired -solely by love of loot. The net result has been extremely disagreesable for both Britajn and the United States. To maintain minimum standards of rations in the British and American zones, the Anglo-Saxon powers have been compelled to pay “reparations in reverse.”

Russia Absorbed Eastern Part

NOTHING CAN BE DONE to prevent Russian absorption of eastern Germany. “That is a “fait

accompli.”. The sooner the western powers accept this

fact and make their plans accordingly, the better for Europe, 2 The fundamental fear of France is that there will be a united reich which will be a deadly. menace to the liberties of Europe. From this fear, springs French desire to annex the Sadr, occupy the Rhineland and

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viet Union today are inmates either of prisons, cone centration camps or penal colonies of one. sort of another. ° There is no way of knowing exact figures, a lv guarded secret. But most serious students of Sivet affairs agree with the estimate that not less than 12,000,000 inhabitants of the Soviet Union were political prisoners at the beginning of the war. Since Nazi-Soviet partition of Poland In 1939, an estimated 2,000,000 ' Poles—including 350,000 Jews— have been involuntarily settled in labor colonies in central Asia. Add to this an estimated 4,000,000 Ukrainians, Crimean Tartars, Volga Germans and other “disloyal” elements who have been deported, 300,000 Romanians,

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500,000 ‘Hungarians, 200,000 Estonians, Latvians and’

Lithuanians, 150,000 Italians, to say nothing of 5,000,« 000 Germans, and an overall figure of 20,000,000 Soviet slaves of all categories scems conservative indeefl. And it should be remembered that this estimate includes none of the hundreds of thousands of Red army men who, once having seen Europe, are being refused the right to return to their homec.

Red Concept of Democracy FEW AMERICANS REALIZE IT, but it is nevertheless a fact, that most of the “triumphs” of Soviet industrialization in the Urals were accomplished largely through use of slave labor. 3 More engineers are employed by the N. 'K. V. D. in utilizing the manpower reserves of prisoners than Ly any other single organization in the Soviet Union. his is what Soviet “democracy” entails, and this is the concept of “democracy” which the Soviet Union, through the comintern, is imposing on the peoples of central and eastern Europe.

Randolph Churchill

Europe's Prosperity

internationalize the Ruhr. But the truncation of Germany has already been achieved by virtual Russian annexation of the eastern zone. Germany, have ing been stripped of Silesia and East Prussia by the Russians, is already immensely * reduced in war= making capacity, Need for stripping the reich of the industrial areas in the west is correspondingly reduced. Secretary of State James F. Byrnes offéred com=plete co-operation between the American zone and that of any other occubying power which desired it. It seems almost certain that Britain will take advantage of this offer. It may be that Communist pressure will be too strong to permit the French gove ernment to take a step which would certainly be denounced by Moscow as a move in the direction of forming a “western bloc.”

Merging Zones Aids Peace 1F THE THREE WESTERN ZONES could be federated, the German problem would assume different and more manageable proportions. Shorn permanently of eastern provinces and no longer centered on Berlin, western Germany could be organized on a basis which would assure a decent life to its inhabitants and, at the same time, it no_ danger to its neighbors. 4

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