Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 August 1946 — Page 14

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RI-8851. Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Wey HOLY ROLLERS ' «Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never

the twain shall meet, “Till earth and sky stand presently at God's great judgment seat.”— KIPLING said it in 1889. Begins to look as if he was right. The increasing tension between the mild-mannered and usually affable James F. Byrnes and the professional tough guy, V. M. Molotov, seems to be a tribute to Kipling's prophetic ability. es Suffering the world’s greatest inferiority complex, trying to cover up on what Russia hasn't got in the way of living standards, as compared with ours, kidding his own folks behind that iron curtain, Mr. Molotov at last has been prodded into printing in the Soviet press one speech Molotov’s performance. And that's something, unless Mr. Molotov welshes. The Russian reader, if Mr. Molotov goes through with his promise, will get a terrible shock. He will peruse for the first time some reading matter that wasn't edited by the Kremlin, We only wish that, included in the document, could be these quotes from a recent article in Life magazine by the brilliant Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., associate professor at Harvard and author of the 1945 Pulitzer prize-winner, “The Age of Jackson.” ; Regarding the Communists as a class he says: “To understand (them) you must think of them, not _in terms of a normal political party but in terms of the Jesuits, the Mormons or Jehovah's Witnesses.” Their proper place, the Schlesinger article concludes, is “beside the Buchmanites and the Holy Rollers.”

TAXIS FOR BUREAUCRATS

JUST before congress adjourned Senator Magnuson of Washington proposed a $6500 appropriation to buy an automobile and employ a chauffeur for the chief justice of the United States, Mr. Vinson. Just before that the senate had voted $18,000 to provide cars and drivers for its Democratic and Republican leaders, Senators Barkley of Kentucky and White of Maine. But Senator Bridges of Néw Hampshire objected to doing likewise for the chief justice, and Mr. Magnuson withdrew

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By B. E. F., N. Meridian st. First of all, I am an Indianapolis-born Hoosier and I'll never be ashamed of that. Business brought me back here a couple of years ago, having been all over the country since leaving here in 1918. I've been told many, many times that our fair city is a “country town.” Well, maybe so, however, I love it.

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comes the editorial in The Times Mr.|of Aug. 2: “Pink Note from Brazil,” saying that “Senor Prestes, we would say, has clarified the Communist attitude beyond any possi- , bility of misunderstanding.” Well, Mr. Editor, was there any

his’ proposal, though not until he and Mr. Bridges had engaged in brief but spirited debate. Mr. Magnuson contended that the dignity of Chief Justice Vinson’s position required him to ride in style and comfort to functions and ceremonies. He recalled with shame seeing a former chief justice arrive at a memorial service in “a broken-down taxicab.” And he pointed out that cabinet members, department heads and many other federal officials have government cars and drivers to take them to and from their offices as well as on official errands.

R. BRIDGES argued that the chief justice has no official duties requiring use of a government-supplied | car. He said that the $5000 raises recently given all federal judges brought Mr. Vinson's salary to $25,000 a year for life. He%pined that Mr. Vinson could afford to pay for his own transportation between home and the supreme court.

“Entirely too many people are riding around in govern-ment-owned autos at government expense,” Mr. Bridges observed. “But the way to remedy that situation is to take the cars away from the bureaucrats.”

___A drastic suggestion, that. It may seem revolutionary to those who might be reduced from the luxury of official limousines to “broken-down” taxicabs. Yet it strikes us as sound. Washington's taxis may be ancient. But most visitors to that great city are impressed by their numbers, their reasonable rates and, most of all, their drivers, who have an amazing store of opinions on matters foreign and

domestic, political, social and economic.

(URS might be a better, not to mention a more economical government if all its cabinet members, department heads and other officials rode daily behind Washington taxi drivers, listening attentively to the discourses of these authorities. At least, we can guarantee that they would hear much concerning what's wrong with the country and what ought to be done about it that.they’ll never hear from a government chauffeur in a government car,

G. L HOUSING

RENZIED efforts to providé housing for veterans raise a question which may get angry attention eventually. : g Is the veteran being helped or is he merely being | clipped with, of course, the best of government intentions? The veteran has a little cash and some special credits which are supposed to help even things up for his sacrifices. The net effect of current housing ballyhoo is to high pressure him into spending his cash and pledging his credit for housing which is uniformly high-priced and too frequently low in quality. ’ Many veterans thus favored by a grateful government . soon may discover that they have bound themselves, for the greater part of their active lives, to pay for a house which is inadequate to the needs of a growing family, expensive 10 keep in repair, awkwardly located for their Jobs and can be sold for half, maybe less, of the purchase

"The veteran needs, in times like these parti «A i particularly, to nt rather than buy, Not the inexperienced veteran but

perienc ad real estate operator and builder should take erm risks in housing investment. nt restrictions have discouraged investment : ‘another well-intended program, G. I. housr trol threaten to cure one evil by substitute.

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possibility of any intelligent, realistic and informed American citizen | misunderstanding the Communist attitude for, lo, these many years? parking in the business district be-| certainly not unless that citizen had tween the hours of 8:30 and 5:30)... 4uped into some very decidedly

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“$4.50 MINIMUM NEEDED BY MILK PRODUCERS” By C. M. Bettema Jr, Chairman, Producers Committee, og ort; Terpstra, Acton; Elsworth Wilson,

Augusta; E. C. Fults, New Augusta; K. McCormack, Indianapolis

How are recent retail increases in the price of milk being distributed in the Indianapolis market? All producers naturally are interested in this matter. As a committee organized to obtain a more equitable price for whole milk in the Indianapolis area, we submit herewith our analysis of the situation. The following is a statement which the committee has released to the public. *“Saddled with a retail milk increase of ree cents per quart in the past two months, largely on {the showing farmers have not been making enough to stay in business, the general public should be inter-

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p. m. Insist on our city having a Foch ¢ parking structure built to accom- wisitul a : modate 7000 to 10,000 cars, charging! The Communist plan has always {a fee of 25 cents for the first five{been and remains—io take the {hours, 35 cents for the period of Whole world by force, violence, war, | five to 10 hours and 50 eents for the famine, deceit, hypocracy and by 10 to 24-hour period. jany means, fair or foul, by fire, These open concrete structures Sword, starvation, assassination, are nothing new. Many cities have Perjury and by inhuman brutality them and they are soon paid for py and any weak-kneed wishful thinkthese fees. I saw the last one of ef Who stl clings to any shred of these in Pittsburgh, a small one, hope for friendship and honest coright downtown. operation from the Communists, There are some of us that may be| With the United States, is a simsatisfied with Indianapolis just as Pleton, a dupe and no match for it is, but we won't always be here his wily Communist enemies! Let's try our best to take some of| What the people of the world the country out of the town and need is the plain facts! The “Pink place it up where it should be, up Note From Brazl” was suppleand coming, with cities at least its| mented by a Red note from Mexico, size. {by Stuart Morrison, on the same Indianapolis should be known as editorial page, and from sketchy a city. Tt isn't generally through- information doled out to us poor out the states. I still love it here, |misinformed Amercains for the last : s = = few years, there seems to be a “WHO IS SELLING strong Red influence in all South U. 8. DOWN RIVER?” America, North America and Cuba. $e : Canada even had a Communist in By E. FF. Maddox, Indianapolis

: its government and what a fine lesSince communism is the number son the Canadians learned. . We one menace to world peace, since

Americans should profit by such excommunism is sabotaging, prevents

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amples. But do we? ing, and deliberately delaying peace

and recovery in Europe and Asia, and since communism is being extended to this western hemisphere in open, flagrant and hostile defiance of the Monroe Doctrine, which was promulgated and intended to prevent foreign nations from “extending their system to any portion of this hemisphere, as dangerous to our peace and safety’—now

No! Right here in these United States the Communists are favored as writers, radio speakers and political debaters, and genuine Americans who see and “warn our, people of the Communist menace, like Upton Close, Westbrook Pegler, Martin Dies and others, are maligned, smeared and sneered at by all the Reds and their dupes. Who is selling the U. 8. down the bloody river of communism?

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ested in the distribution of this { increase,” the statement said. | “During the period from May 16 {to 31, when the retail price of milk {was l4c a quart and immediately prior to the increases milk producers were paid $351 per hundredweight in the Indianapolis market. At that time the government was paying a subsidy of 45c, which raised the overall price to the producer to $3.96 per hundredweight. “For the period from July 1 to 15 milk producers in the Indianapolis area were paid at the rate of $402 per hundredweight. I°% must be remembered, however, that payment of the 45c subsidy was dis continued on July 1. Therefore. it is’ readily apparent that producers who sell milk on the Indianapolis market today are receiving only 6c per hundredweight more than they did in May. tr “Retall price increases in June and July amounted to $144 per hundredweight on whole milk, Of this amount the producers now are getting 51c, while the distributors are realizing 93c. Such an arrangement is far from equitable and does very little to alleviate the plight of the producer, Several weeks ago this committee said a price of $4.50 per hundredweight is necessary for producers to remain in business because of increases in feed and other costs. From that position we do not recede, “We feel, however, that the problem in the Indianapolis market is largely a local marketing problem. Certainly producers are entitled to a larger percentage of the 3c increase paid by the public, Furthermore, producers in this area are entitled to a return that will keep them from going bankrupt. Low prices to producers already have ac~ counted for a thinning out of dairy herds, which in turn means a further milk shortage and consequent- | ly higher prices to the public.’ | “In an effort to improve marketing conditions for producers, this committee instituted legal action for |appointment of a receiver for the Indianapolis Dairymen’s Co-opera~ tive, which markets the bulk of the milk produced in the Indianapolis area. “This suit was filled because we {felt that the marketing problem in | the Indianapolis area could be ad- | justed in no other way. The suit is |now pending in circuit court and a decision will be made after attorneys complete the filing of briefs. In the meantime this committee will continue its effort to raise the price of whole milk to $4.50 per hundredweight which we regard as the minimum for producers to stay in business.” j !

DAILY THOUGHT

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A REVIEW OF the horse and buggy days can't possibly be complete without some mention of Harry Leiter, a hack driver who was never known to laugh all the time he was in Indianapolis. ‘ Harry, who had his stand on the Levee the Nineties, was a Southerner, porn in Jackson, Miss. His father had a partner by the name of Tetherington, whose son, Ralph, was born the same day as Harry. The two kids grew up like a pair of twins. The Civil war cleaned out the ! partnership which, up to that time, had done a right nice business dealing in cotton, molasses and slaves, The “Tetheringtons moved to Chicago, entered the real estate business and, to all appearances, made good. The Leiters went to Wichita, where Harry borrowed enough money to buy a horse and carriage and set himself up as a hack driver, A Iness had sprung up between the two families. it began, 1 guess, with the dissolution of the partnership and continued, perhaps, because of the comparative financial rating of the two families. Anyway, 15 years went ‘by without any letters passing between them when, one day, Harry spied Ralph getting off 4 train at Wichita.

Death in Wichita HARRY TOOK RALPH homeqwith him. That same -night Ralph revealed that his father had died leaving the family destitute. Shortly thereafter his mother had died, too. All of which accounted for Ralph's trying his luck at Wichita, an up-and-coming town at the time. When it came Harry's turn to talk, he also told everything, including the hitherto unpublished news that he was going to marry Mary Hayden. Next day he introduced Ralph to Mary. Ralph decided to stayin Wichita. He bought a horse and carriage and also set himself up as a hack driver. And to complicate matters still more, he started calling on Mary. Not long after this, Harry was arrested and charged with the murdér of Henry Thoms, a wealthy Wichita merchant. It appeared that on the previous night®Mr, Thoms had asked a hack driver to haul him to the railroad station, The next morning some workmen found Mr, Thoms’ mutilated body lying on the river bank,

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NEW YORK, Aug. 7—The airline people, in their mad rush to displace the horse as a medium of travel, have been so busy clipping minutes off flight time that they seem to have ignored or forgotten their

ground department. And, since they are always pressing the customer

'C | to sound off with complaints, on the basis of 10,000

recent air miles I intend to take them up on the offer. I never did know what makes them stay up, but as long as the wings are glued on tight and the hostesses are pretty I am an airplane boy. In the air, that is, But if they don’t take some of the slack out of their ground arrangements I am going to revert to the pogo stick. I have spent so much time in airports that I am about to sprout a windsock from the back of my neck. This time has been passed, largely, in cursing the Wright brothers.

They Sell . . . and Accept Money IT IS conceded that the airlines have reconversion problems, such as untrained personnel, too many customers and an obsolete traffic system. They still, however, sell a commodity for which they accept money, and with it should go a certain obligation to the customer, instead of a breezy disregard for his earthbound welfare, Recently United Airlines ran a half-page advertisement apologizing for incompetence and asking forgiveness, ’ Northwest, which semes freer from frustration than some, is efficiency-experting busily to remove snags. Largely, though, a public apology and a promise of improvement isn't good enough for customers like me—not after 13 unnecessary hours at a crummy air-

WASHINGTON, Aug. 7—The C. I. O. is making itself felt in the South. This does not mean that its organizing drive which began a few weeks ago has yet achieved any outstanding success. In®the political fleld its Political Action Committee has won some elections victories and has been routed in other contests. But the C. I. O. has impresed itself upon the southern scene. This is evident in the stir it has created, in the issue it has become in elections— perhaps most dramatically thus far in Tennessee— and in the resistance tactics which the bigger organized industries have adopted. This ferment was noted by the writer on a threeweeks’ tour of the South. The reaction of the South, by and large, is described by one C. I. O. official as: “Well, here it is at last—let'’s make the best of it.”

Missionary Work Under Way SUCCESSES so far have been in smaller plants, for which a number of contracts have been signed. No inroads have been made upon the bigger textile combinations such as Cannon in North Carolina, Bibb in Georgia, and .Comer in Alabama. An enlightened paternalism has been a protective influence in some bigger industries, But the slow missionary work has started. When the organizing drive was being planned there was a dispute within the C. I. O. as to strategy. One view was that the campaign should copcentrate first on the smaller plants as the easier job in which organizers, some of them new at the work, could gain experience. The other view—that both big and little plants should be tackled at the same time-—prevailed. The South is a fertile field for labor organization because of the low wage economy.

WASHINGTON, Aug. T~No reply has yet been made to a letter from 38 well-known Americans challenging a state department announcement which promised military training and supplies to the Chinese Communist armies in advance of thelr incorporation in the National agmy. The letter expressed fear that the American policy of pressure for a coalition government, if successful, might make China a satellite of Russia, It contained a well-documented answer to the familiar contention that the Chinese Reds are not true Communists.

Was Tse-tung's Book Quoted THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS were a section of the Comunist International from 1921 until its ostensible dissolution in 1943, it was pointed out. Mao Tse-tung, head of the Chinese party, for many years was a member of the executive committee of the Com- ‘| munist International, : Mao fs quoted from: his book, “China's New Demoeracy,” 1044 edition, as having said: (1) “The world now depends on communism as its star of sadvation and so does China”; (2) “The contest between Socialist Soviet Union and imperialist England and

does not stand on one side, she will have to stand on the other.” ne ; 1048, Communist headquarters

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A Horse and Buggy Murder Mystery

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark 2a .. Alas for Days of the Pony Express:

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had an alibi. He said he had been busy most of that night haulding a pair. of moonstruck? lovers around the periphery of Wichita, At the pre=* that Harry's hack (No. 12) was the one used by Mr. Thoms, The only defense Harry had consisted of som character witnesses and, of course, the lovesick boy and girl who happened to be his customers that night, The jury was in no mood to be trifled with. It handed Harry the limit in the shape of the death penalty and, in due time, the date was set for the hanging. Because of a technicality, however, a new trial was" ordered. The second jury wouldn't be fooled, either, and returned the same verdict. ! Then, for some reason, the case was carried to the supreme court. It wouldn't budge an inch. The"

doomed hack driver had a trying day of it for, right #

after the supreme court announced its d prison guard told Harry that Ralph gion, 4 married Mary Hayden that morning, came the day set for Harry's e o He was all dressed for the event when ava ote messenger arrived with the news that the show was * off. Ralph Tetherington had confessed. He said that * to win Mary he had to think up a delicate way of Bguigsiing Marsy Sane » = a certain night, he made up of the first into his hack, PHI Rial Spied a Sure, it was in Ralph's and not in Harry’ that Mr. Thoms was murdered. Ralph explaisted To ' too. He sald that when he went into business as g Wichita hack driver, he invested in some extra nume bers, one of which was a dead ringer for the nume ® bers on Harry's lamps. The night of the murdes there were two No. 12 hacks in Wichita—see?

The Sober One RALPH DIED A FEW DAYS later, a victim of : consumption. Except for his death-bed confession, *

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the distinction of the all-time perfect crime. The people of Wichita couldn't do enough for Harry Leiter after that. They recommended him fog * a Job in the county clerk's office, but he didn't like © the confinement, He left town, wandered from place’ to place, and finally turned up in Indiaapolis, a hack ©" driver on the Levee. He was always pointed out as the sober one. People who didn't know any bette said he lacked a sense of humor,

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port in Texas, unslept, underfed, unwashed and mad’ clean through. The chaos in the average city terminal; the hour« long waits to pick up tickets for which you have al« * ready contracted if you have been lucky enough to beat the busy signal; the hopeless lack of liaisonbetween ‘changing shifts of ground personnel; the seemingly unbridgeable gap between airport peoplé and city offices—there may be reasons for them all, but don’t try to tell them to a whiskery guy who has. been sitting around in the same suit for 24 hours be«? cause somebody dropped the ball on a reservation, -

How About Some Spare Planes? NOR DOES this particular tired business man revel » in a five-hour wait while mechanics tinker with lande - ing gear, and three other flights take off. My idea would be to break out a spare plane which is laid by for emergencies. Weather delays are inevitable busoperational troubles are not the customers’ problem, The airline doesn’t fret about where your ticket: money comes from. I was pulled off one flight not long ago, by the deliberate lie that there was an important message : for me at the office in order to make room for a. woman with more drag than is normal. And this was after the door had closed and the propellers wes turning. Gentlemen, it is wonderful to fiy like a bizd Are. sickness is a minor hazard, and it is mighty nice Ww» wake up in Oregon and bed down in New York. But the frustrating lost motion in the preliminaries to this cloud-kicking is about to drive me back eo the horse. Even the pony express had replacements - standing by in case of sudden foundering. : :

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes C..O. Makes Impression in South:

The C. I. O. has been smart in providing the friendly approach by using native southern organizers, which is also the best approach to southern’industry. Most of the 260 organizers now busy in 12 southern - states are natives. * When southern people live side by side with these 0. I. O. organizers, and find them their own kind, members of their churches, with their children going to the same schools, the alien atmosphere that labor's enemies try to create dissipates quickly.

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sentment W&s encountered among southern C. I. O, officials toward interference by northern officials, This was expressed most often in statements out of New York about elections. The southern leaders prefer to keep their came paigns, both political and organizing, strictly southe ern, with announcements to come from the various southern areas affected.

Charge Agents Working for Industry COUNTER tactics of various kinds are being eme ployed by southern industry. In Georgia, for example, C. I. O. officials claimed there is evidence that the bigger unorganized textile manufacturers have formed a common front, In Alabama techniques that have developed, ac cording to C. I. O. officials, are to fire three or four employees as soon as an organizing campaign begins in order to frighten other workers, Another method widely used is to try to stir up racial feeling. Also there are agents at work here and there on behalf of the industrialists, which will be discussed tomorrow,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Parker La Moore American Policy in China Criticized

American and Japanese imperialism is that American imperialism is stronger and its aggressive methods appear civilized and legal on the surface.” Extracts from a confidential booklet, “Present Strategy and Tacties of the Chinese Communist pare ty,” were submitted to show that the party sought a coalition government only to further the plan for a proletarian dictatorship, The letter was signed by Alexander Baird, Maj. Gen. David P. Barrows, Rear Adm. I. C. Johnson, the Rev. William C. Kernan, Norman Thomas, William Green, Oswald Garrison Villard, Alfred Kohlberg, Karl Brandt, Gardner Cowles Jr, Felix Morley and others, :

No Further Aid to Communists Urged IT HELD that “the United States is bound beth by its pledges to China and its own Interests to help China to unify its territories under the National government, and to.restore to the Chinese republic full sovereignty in Manchuria as pledged by Russia, England and ourselves.” ; . It urged that we give no turther aid or support 1@ the Chinese Communists and held it improper to “exert American pressure ort the government of China” to make terms with the Reds. Otherwise, it warned, we will have exchanged the open door for an iron curtain, and face across an . " Paoific “a military empire of 950

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