Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1946 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

END OF SHRINER CASE £HARGES against Enoch T. Shriner of the rape of his M4 own step-daughter were dismissed, this week, as soon as they reached a court, for lack of any evidence of his va, ¥

» ple is quite plain that there never was any evidence. This charge was.made by the prosecuting attorney of this county at the request of certain county officials immediately after Mr. Shriner asked their impeachment because it was their duty to enforce the gambling laws and these laws were not being enforced. Trial of the case was stalled for months. Finally the prosecutor's staff had to walk into court and admit that they had nothing at all on which to base such an accusation against Mr. Shriner. That, naturally, must have been a little embarrassing to the prosecutor's staff, although that doesn’t matter much any more, since the voters, for this and many a similar action, swept the whole lot out of office at the last election. Probably it wasn’t very pleasant for Mr. Shriner, either, living all these months with a phoney indictment of this particular nasty nature hanging over his head. It seems, however, not to have embarrassed at all the men

“ pudiated affidavit to support it, and persuaded the prosecutor to file it. At least they are still holding their public offices, which are appointive, and not elective offices. Why?

WISE WORDS FROM C. IL O. RGUING that a consumer rebellion against high prices can crack inflation and protect labor's living standards, the C. I. 0. “Economic Outlook” adds: - “It is not so sure, however, that widespread wage increases can be won at this time. If won, they are likely to be promptly reflected in further price rises.” That, coming from the C. I. O., appeals to us as a notable and hopeful utterance. . 2 ~~ “Economic Outlook,” to be sure, does not admit that the widespread wage increases won by C. I. O. unions last winter, in many cases after long and costly strikes, were in any way responsible for the price rises that have followed. It blames the progress of inflation, not on higher industrial costs, but on “speculative operators,” to: whom it charges that congress and the OPA have surrendered. Present prices, it asserts, “are.in fact speculative values reared upon a flimsy structure of long chances taken by market operators, manufacturers, assorted gamblers.”

A . . » ». “..n ELL, speculation certainly plays its part in inflation, ? and wise consumer resistance—that is, refusal to pay high prices for things not urgently needed—is a legitimate weapon against it. We find it a little harder to follow the C. I. O. publication's contention that increased production is not “the sovereign cure for inflation.” At least, increased production seems to us an essential part of the battle. But we think it is absoluately true that widespread wage increases at this time would result in still higher ces, If what “Economic Outlook” says means that the C. I O. high command realizes this truth, it calls for cheers. ~ If it means that C. I. Q. leadership will use its influence to give the country a period of industrial peace, instead of another round in a disastrous race between wages and prices, it calls for a general celebration.

BOB LA FOLLETTE E wish we had a vote in the Wisconsin Republican primary next week. We'd like to cast a ballot for Senator Robert M. La Follette Jr. .

He is still called “Young Bob” to distinguish him from his great father. Yet he has served 21 years in the U. S. senate, and if re-elected will move up to fourth place on the Senate's seniority list. ; 3 We have not agreed with Bob La Follette on all issues, and we anticiapte thefe will be times in the future when we shall disagree. But we always know that when the senator from Wisconsin takes a stand it is based on his own honest judgment. His record has been in the finest tradition of American representative government. He has been a lawmaker of vision, courage and independence, never hesitating to take the unpopular side of a controversy when he thought he was right. A leader in battles for progressive causes, he has been constantly at odds with conservative senators, but he has kept their respect through the roughest of legislative struggles, for they have known that in Bob. there was no part of a demagog.

» » . . . » A PARTLY completed monument to his statesmanship is the La Follette-Monroney bill reorganizing congress, passed in the closing days of the session just ended. We say “partly completed,” for the reform is to be put into effect to finish the job. A ‘man of less parliamentary skill and stature could not have won that victory, for it meant persuading his colleagues to give up ancient and cherished privileges in nd Ho gain a more effective functioning of the legislative "The people of Wisconsin will do a great service to the by returning Bob La Follette to the senate.

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President Truman is strong enough to eliminate a congressman in Missouri, but there is yet no

Senator Byrd is still on top in Virginia. still riding high in West Virginia, re‘Kilgore, who likewise faces November, 8 have nominated a wet, Harry WoodKansas, but that probably represents -up exercise, in a state where the

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1s this the America we left when

these questions many times, “What can we do about it” is not are we going to do about it” is the Sure, some veterans found civilian life as easy as when they left and they have no reason to squawk their heads off. The majority of us are not having such an easy time of it: There are many of our fathers who| remember how they were treated at | the close of the last war.

"Let America Be First on America's List to Give Help"

By Kenneth Kinder, Ex-Sailor, Bloomington

we went to war? Is this the Amer-

icawe want? Is this America for the Americans? 1, a veteran myself, am sure that all veterans have asked themselves

the question we should ask. “What question.

in America for the Americans and then some left over to go overseas. It is not correct to give first and then receive, for you may starve before you receive. Let America be the first on America’s list to give help to.

} Why should we let ourselves be| we veterans fought for it, so ask middlemen and other |taken, as were our fathers, after be-| ys how we feel about how things

ing forced into a war? We'll let the | should be run.

past stay dead. We should let the past teach us for the future,

We veterans should start an organization to help show them we

We, veterans of world war II, want our rights.

veterans of world war I, and all

citizens who love America and the «SCOOTER RIDER

American way of life should unite to build a better America. It shall take unity for us to be recognized. Shall we? Did all of us American boys go across just for a pleasure trip? Some of us had to stay—yes, they were given a small patch of ground to call their own, or were given a place at the bottom of an ocean to rest in peace—but what for? Did all of this happen for no reason at all, or was it done for a better America? I say for a better America, so let's build America. When there were buildings to be put up on an island or in Europe, it didn't take the government long to get the materials and supplies there. Now all I ask is, why can’t it -be done here in America? Are other countries to be first over the American boys? Sure, all of us veterans believe in humanity and well being for the unfortunate, that is the reason we are. asking for housing, jobs, food and a happy way of life in America first, then we shall help the poor unfortunate people of other countries, First let's help Amerjeans. When we have guests at our homes we don't put ourselves out in the garage to give them a place to ‘sleep. We give them the best we can do and they are satisfied. Sure we are willing to give all we can to Europe, but not to starve ourselves first, There is plenty here

ALSO TAXPAYER” By L. G., Indianapolis In answer to a letter written by a

spoke of me is riding a scooter up and down your street (I think it 1s a public street). The rest of your accusations are as false as they could be. I never threatened a 5-year-old child or anyone else as you claim, And 1 don’t live in Speedway City as you claim, but am a neighbor of yours and have been quite awhile and have lived in this vicinity for 16 years, I also am a taxpayer. 80 I can't understand, Mrs. G. H,, why you are trying to blacken my reputation.

» o “FOR EXAMPLE: SAFETY DIVISION” By A Careless Driver, Indianapolis The following example was set by Safety Division, Sheriff's car No. 83 Sunday p. m., Aug. 4: We were driving west on Nowland st.,, which is a stop street, and coming south on Dearborn st., was this Safety Division car. He crossed Nowland st. without stopping or sounding horn or siren. If we hadn't stopped suddenly, a nasty accident would have happened.

sound horn. Example: Safety Division.

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COPR, 1946 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REG. U, 8. PAT. OFF,

Mrs. G. H. in the Hoosier Forum | of July 29. The only true word you!

Always. remember this, you care-| cut, I say $1500 is too much for a less drivers: Always cross a stop|new car. I say $6 is too much for street without stopping. Never|g shirt.

“WE “WILL SHAKE OUR LONG-HAIRED HEADS” By J. A, Indianapolis After reading Jim Pappas’ itemized and comparative analysis to show that the present increase to $1 for a haircut is not too much, I have ohe thing to say. Mr. Pappas must be bald and doesn't give a hoot whether barber shops keep open or citizens begin carrying violin cases. I say one buck is too much to pay for a haircut. Mr. Pappas, takes the so-called Mr. Average Man and makes up a theoretical budget. Just as an example here is a choice bit: “Saturday night, which is payday, Mr. A. M. buys his wife a bouquet,

for, say, $1. yo dollars for flowers and $1 for a haircut.” Really, Mr. Pappas.

Mr. Pappas is figuring in twoweek periods. I would like to see the man in Indianapolis who takes home a bouquet every week costing a dollar, Mr. Average Man that {s—if his wife didn’t fall over dead from shock—would probably beat Mr. A. Ms head in—8$1 for flowers and butter costing very close to that! Just doesn't make sense, Then Mr, Pappas says Mr. A. M. buys a magazine per day, at 10 cents per. 1 might remind Mr. Pappas that Life is now 15 cents per copy. With Colliers and Saturday Evening Post coming out on Wednesday and Friday respectively —guess Mr, A. M. buys 10-cent comic bboks. No I don’t think us avearage guys buy so many magazines. If we want to be ridiculous about it let us say that Mr. A. M. buys a 10-cent bottle of corn medicine once a year. That is cheap care for a nasty corn that won't disappear, At that rate Mr. A. M. should be ahle to pay $2 for a haircut. “Viewed in this light, doesn’t it seem logical,” Mr, Pappas, that two bucks isn't a bad figure for a haircut? It isn’t a question of a $1 or $2. The whole question winds up to one thing. The American public is being sniped at from all sides. Wages are not going up accordingly for the white-collared worker— the civil employee, the school teacher and hundreds of others in the “look presentable class.” I say $1 is too much for a hair-

Who started this thing anyway? And don't say the Democrats, Mr. Pappas, because I know & few Republicans in town who are helping Old Man Inflation as much as they can, When we lose our shirts, as we did in 1929, then we will shake our long-haired heads and say, “We

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~ ~ “TRY TO FIND THE STOP SIGN” By Motorist, Indianapolis See If you can “find” the stop sign on 46th and Indianola ave. If you are traveling southbound. Look behind the bushes if you don't find it readily. Also stop signs on Holt rd. and Morris, etc. Are the cops asleep on their beat?

DAILY THOUGHT

He is the tower of salvation for His king; and sheweth mercy to His anointed, unto David, and to his seed forevermore~II Samuel 22:51,

Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude \ the prayer; Preventing angels met it half the

way, And sent us back to’ praise, who

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it wasn'gs until this jporning—so help me-that I caught up «with the "accounts of Gertrude Stein's death, 1 As usual,” the obituaries: were ap ; examples

for » the item trude's having entertained “countless painters” during her’ lifetime. This is slipshod reporting. Either that or it's a deliberate attempt to suppress the news that Clifton Wheeler of Indianapolis was one of the painters entertained by Gertrude, In either case, the time has come to lift the cloak of anonymity. Clifton Wheeler, the dean of Indiana artists, called on Gertrude twice—once jn Florence in 1807, and once in Paris in 1910. Gertrude was 33 years old at the time of the first visit, a most dangerous age in women. As for: Mr, Wheeler, he had just attained the romantic age when it becomes necessary to use a razor regularly. .Besides, it was springtime in Florence.

Dramatic Rythm of a Dog Lapping

"IN FLORENCE Mr. Wheeler observed that Gertrude wore a gorgeously colored kimono, long hair and sandals.” Sure, bare feet. Mr. Wheeler doesn't recall what Gertrude wore in Paris. The lapse of memory may be attributed to the fact that, by this time, he was more interested in loftier things than girls. Dogs, for instance. Anyway, by this time he was three years older, Mr. Wheeler remembers, however, that Gertrude was somewhat heavier when he saw her in Paris and that, this time, she had her hair bobbed. By this time, too, she had a dog. Mr. Wheeler doesn’t remember any dog in Florence. In Paris it was a poodle. (I pick my propouns cautiously, even if Gertrude didn’t.) Mr: Wheeler insists on dragging the Parisian poodle into the story because, to hear him tell it, it was by way of her dog that Gertrude achieved her literary style. The dramatic rhythm of the dog's lapping up water, Gertrude told Mr. Wheeler, tipped her off and gave her the idea of repeating ad infinitum the sound of the same word.

NEW YORK, Aug. 9.—Ever since the cosmetics industry attempted to boost its war-swollen sales by a campaign to make men use perfume, I have cocked a suspicious eye at the whole field of hopped-up water and perfumed goo. Now, it appears, the time has come to strike. If a grown man wants to smell like a piece of Russian leather, a peat bog in the rain, or a forest of fir trees, it’s his own business. But when some of the beauty preparation people launch a drive to addict little boys to bubble-baths and scented pomade, somebody ought to file a squawk before their lotion-happy mammas swing. into line. One Mme. Pessl, “a famous herbologist and cosmetologist from Vienna” has just jumped up with a line of unguents which will “give the girl and boy from two to 10 their very own cosmetics and toiletries.” Each line, it says, is the product of careful study of the physiology and psychology of the age group. for which it is intended. “It is cannily designed to make the early acquisition of good grooming habits a real delight to every youngster’—and, I assume, to stimulate sales in a business which has dropped since partial relief from wartime shortages has handed the susceptible female other notions about spending dough.

A Traitor to Little Boys' Guild LITTLE BOYS, from time uncounted, have smelled of dead toad-frogs, ingrained earth and billy goats. It has worked out fine so far. Little boys’ hair has been filled with twigs, tar and rocks, but it never scared them off the bear's grease when suddenly confronted by girls. As for bathing, any male child worthy of the designation who could be subjected to washing water without first being forcibly subdued is a traitor to the little-boys’ guild. This is why I am so burned up at Mme. Pessl She advocates a “young lad” bubblebath, at a buck a throw. “Which will entice him into the tub with that outdoorsy pine seent, and fun-to-play-with bubbles produced by his very own bath oil.”

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Colleges and schools by the hundreds are boarding the surplus-property gravy train. Millions of dollars worth of land, buildings and equipment already have been turned aver to educational institutions—many of them without cost. As a result, thousands of education-hungry veterans, who had not expected to be admitted to colleges this fall because of lack of facilities, will find institutional doors suddenly thrown open to them. In nearly every instance where property has been turned over to schools, veterans have beefi promised enrollment preferences. More than 50 cases of transfer of property to educational institutions have been completed. Discounts on these total $10,760,000, while emergency permits to use surplus facilities temporarily at nominal cost have been granted on installations valued at $43,216,000,

400 Cases Under Negotiation “THIS PROGRAM is only getting started,” said Robert Whittet, director of the disposal agency's institutional division. “More than 400 additional cases are in process of negotiatiof.” Under terms of the surplus property act the disposal agency goes through the motions of charging schools for the property they acquire. But by means of a complicated formula the administration may

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By

stands for are the chief issues in Wisconsin's primary election next Tuesday—a French Hugegnot name that came to America before the Revolution and to Wisconsin’s log-cabin wilderness a century ago. It is the name of La Follette. It is the name of an old political warrior first elected t6° public office as Dane county prosecuting attortidy miore than 50 years ago—the first Senator Robert Marion, La Follette who sought the presidency

as a Progressive.

Philip’ La Follette. ‘ It is the name of young Bob La Follette, senator since he succeeded his father 21 years ago and now seeking a fourth-term nomination as a Republican after disintegration of the Progressive party. Most of the usual issues are being discussed in the campaign but when Wisco: votes it will be chiefly to cast a ballot for or again Senator La Follette.

In Center of 'Pincer’ Movement

BOB LA FOLLETTE'S adversaries, the conservative or “regular” Republicans on the one hand and the Democrats on the other, are seeking to trap him in a kind of political pincer movement. The state G. O. P. organization headed by the able Tom Coléman, Madison manufacturer who is damned for bossism by his opponents, wants no part of Mr. La Follette’s attempt to ride the G. O. P.

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called on Gertrude with nothing more than a vague kind of hope that maybe she would introduce him to Henri Matisse, an up-and-coming painter who was steering French art into new. channels at the time. Huh! The fact that Matisse had .a house right around the corner from Gertrude’s in Florence lends credence to Mr. Wheeler's story. My discovery, however, that Matisse spent the whole year of 1907 on the Riviera leaves a lot for Mr. Wheeler to explain.

-A Bell Rang, It Rang, It Rang

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Roger W. Stuart Schools Whistle for the Gravy Train

A Name Is the Issue in Wisconsin}

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 9~A name and what fit

It is the name of a three-time Wisconsin governor, .

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The dean of Indiana artists also insists that he

HOWEVER, Mr. Wheeler did get to meet Mr. Matisse in Paris. And, sure enough, . by way of Gertrude. (Seems that Matisse moved with Gertrude.) Mr. Wheeler reports that he spent the greater part

of an entire day exchanging trade secrets with Mr. Matisse. There is no record, however, that Mr.

Whosler made any use of Mr, Matisse’s secrets. Nor ere reason to believe that Matisse adopted of Mr. Wheeler's. 4 ny The reason Matisse keeps bobbing up in today's piece is because Gertrude discovered him before anybody else did or, maybe, wanted to. She told Mr. Wheeler that when this happened a bell within her rang, Mr. Wheeler remembers Gertrude as a charming hostess. Indeed, he pronounced her perfect. On both occasions, almost immediately after his arrival, she produced a tray of tea things and a plate heaped Wie Hetle cakes. Which, when you come to think of it, is coming to the point mi 1 Gertrude. : BY WR in Gertrude had baked the cakes hefself, sh admitted, and they were extraordinarily ond Sony ports Mr. Wheeler. As a matter of fact they ‘were Shaly Se Wo ones produced in Allegheny, Pa. tow y case you've forgotten, | Gertrude was born. i : Wise And right there, said Mr, Wheeler, is the paradox In Sertpdes makeup. She didn’t change the tra0 en recipes by as much . tion mark, ™ 2 pacha. Indeed, there's a rumor going the rounds today | that Mr, Wheeler was so moved by the passing ” his two-time benefactress that he revealed himself" as her champion. At any rate, I'm told that he was heard to say: “In the kitchen Gertrude Stein was as sound as a nut, a nut, a nut.”

REFLECTIONS « + « By Robert C. Ruark Boys’ Bubble Baths? Stop It, Madame

The day. any young male relative of mine coos happily over a bunch of bubbles, when he could be setting fire to his sister's pigtails—that is the day I will get out the strap, : In a fit of depression over the porcupine hair of the unlicked cub, Mme. Pessl has concocted “his very own hair lotion,” spiked with lemon verbena. “The gentlemanly fragrance is very faint,” says madame, “so that no young schoolmate can tease your dapper

‘young lad for wearing sissy scent.”

I can imagine what would have happened if, 20odd years ago, I had crawled out of my bubbly pinescented tub, slicked my hair with lemon verbena, and otherwise smelled up from my special chewinggum flavored toothpaste, then had skipped happily | off to play with the other little thugs in my block. The mangled animal that dragged its bruised bones homeward would have been a barely-living testimony to the evils meddlesome adults can work off on the young'uns.

Angling From Cradle to Tomb THE COSMETIC industry never had it so fine as | during the war, when our ladies were confronted by a shortage of practically everything, including men, | and sé had time to sit home and smear themselves with grease jobs which they fancied would lift chins J and shear pounds from the heft, as well as steep | them in a harem reek calculated to bow! over the § butcher. Evidently the pluggers who grind lush prose out of pale green typewriters are not content with sending the ladies to bed each night with a face full of } supercharged lard, and with spraying them full of © smells supposed to arouse the beast in the plumber. | They are angling now for customers from cradle | to tomb. j I will be very pleased, if the big girls get a kick out of these substitutes for soap and sleep, to lay off | the subject, but only if the beauty peddlers will keep their claws off the little boys. The cosmetics: field is broad enough as it stands, and little boys have ° trouble enough already.

grant discounts which in many instances amount to 3 100 per cent. » 9 Such, for example; is the case of a new school which occupies the site of the former thunderbird | auxiliary fleld No. 1, at Glendale, Ariz. Approxi- | mately 250 students, most of them veterans, will attend the American Institute for Foreign Trade _ there this fall. > 9 The school acquired the property, which cost J Uncle Sam $724,085, for nothing. In theory the school § had to pay $407,000, which was the appraised value § of the 180 acres and 25 one-story buildings involved, § but war assets, on recommendation of the U. 8. office i of education, granted a discount of 100 per cent “be- i cause of the benefits which have accrued or may ac- § crue to the United States.” i!

Courses Offered in Trade Studies I THIS SCHOOL, the first of its kind, will offer 4 intensive nine-months courses in foreign area studies, J business administration and international regulations. They are designed to prepare students to rep~ | reéent Ameri business and federal agencies in foreign countries, particularly Latin America. ] In many cases—such as that of the Sampson naval | training station in up-state New York and Farragut naval training station in Idaho—the government will retain title to the property while it is used at nominal | rental, by several colleges.

Charles T. Lucey A

ex-marine captain, a forceful, personable and indus- § trious candidate. g A The Democratic organization has its own sena- = torial ‘candidate, ex-Rep. Howard J. McMurray of = Milwaukee, who is without opposition. This lack of

opposition means lack of interest, and so Democrats | may wander into the Republican primary to vote || for or against Messrs, La Follette and and McCarthy. |

Democrats recognize this and National Committee- = man ‘Robert E. Tehan, running the Democratic cam- | paign, is trying to tell party members to vote in their own party. “But,” he is saying in effect, “if you absoluately | won't stay in the Democratic primary, then knock i hell out of La .Follettes’ i

Main Fight Is for . O. P. Control | MR. TEHAN'S figuring is that his man McMurray |

would have a better chance in the fall against Judge | | McOarthy than against Senator La Follette—though

it must be reported that most observers give the Democrats little chance no matter how the wind blows. : 4 The Republican “regulars” are saying Senator La | Follette is a “New Dealer and does not deserve Republican support. The La Follette Progressive party, which a decade ago had the governorship, a senator ‘ship, good representation in the U. 8. house and in | the state legislature, is° #Thus the fight in the | main is for Republican 1, With the usual eir- @ cumstange of local Democratic leaders mixing in the | G. O. P. AS EE

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