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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way
_ GOVERNMENT AS USUAL R EMEMBER all those extraordinary agencies and bureaus and “administrations” and “offices” we just had to have during the war—but of course wouldn't need for a minute after the fighting stopped ? The Byrd senate committee has some interesting facts svout them. So far, one year after the war's end, exactly one of them has been abolished—the office of censorship, which quit voluntarily and promptly. Some of the others have been transferred to other departments, some have been given new names, some have simply been absorbed, staff and all, into other units of government, But all—except the office of censorship— are still doing business, with about as many employees, under one title or anothef, without skipping a pay-day. A year ago, when the war ended, there were 3,649,769 men and women on the federal payrolls, not counting those in the army or navy. By January of this year the war and navy departments had laid off 745,718 industrial workers from war plants under their control, but still had 1,786,595 civilians and industrial workers doing something at that time.
” » 8 » » INCE V-J day 21 emergency war agencies had, indeed, dropped 97,203 employees from their rosters. But in the meantime, by the first of last April, other federal agencies had added 152,959 more employees, all taken on since the war ended, and many thousands of them, of course, the
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No Way to Hatch a Dove % OUR TOWN . ov By Anton Scherrer i Vy ” pi ’ p £ acu 8 \ v ; A | Be Bring Weather Man Down to Earth’
IF THE PROFESSIONAL weather observers would have us believe their reports, most of which are unbelievably fantastic, the first thing they will have to do is to get downto earth. 7 The ‘trouble with weather reports is that they.are written from delicate instruments * located in sky rooms (like as not air-conditioned), with the result that the men responsible for our temperature readings (and ncoming tides) haven't the least idea what the man in the street has to put up with. What the hell is the purpose of weather reports anyway? Is it to enlighten the birds in the air, or is it to set us earth-bound mortals straight? It's a fair question and one I am prepared to tackle today. The sooner metorologists lead less sheltered lives and make up their minds to watch the weather from the plane upon which suffering humanity moves, the quicker it will restore my faith in science, The way 1 feel right now, I'd bring all weather observers down to the level of the sidewalk. Whdt's more, I wouldn't even give them a room to work in, let alone an airconditioned one. I'd make them work outdoors, preferably oe their coats buttoned in hot weather and, certainly} without umbrellas when it rains. It's the only way to teach a weather observer what it means to be a human being.
Jumping Thermometers 1 SPEAK with some authority and not without some feeling. For the better part of 60 years, it's been my hard luck to have to put up with temperature readings written at no less than six different altitudes. Which is to say that they have ranged anywhere from 47 to 194 feet. And that is entirely too far above the sidewalk which (I repeat) is wheré I have to spend my waking hours. The official temperature readings in Indianapolis started with the founding of the weather bureau on Feb. 4, 1871, in a building on the site of where the Merchants bank people now do business. Sgt. C.F. R.
game people who were dropped off the emergency bureau
roster. : Nearly all of these bureaus are part of the executive
branch of the government, and most of them could be
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“I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death
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abolished by a simple order from the head of that branch, the President of the United States. The payroll last year for these executive department employees only, was $8,014,096,000, or about the average cost of the whole federal government during what we then considered the wildly extravagant years of the pre-war Roosevelt administration. 4 It is also equal to about four times the amount of the "© federal deficit anticipated for the coming year, which might . offer some alluring prospects to President Truman in his effort to get the budget balanced for the first time since 1929. : What do all these bureaus and all these workers do? Well, we don’t know exactly. But from what we've seen
that they are all working hard and diligently—at something that frequently had better be left undone.
- - » . » . WE were all properly amazed, the other week, to learn that afr‘emergency war time bureau set up to get out some spruce wood for making airplanes for the first world war, back in 1917, hadn't got out any spruce wood yet, but was still running in 1946, and in fact couldn’t see how it could possibly wind up its affairs by 1947. Wonder how many of these other agencies will be gone by 1987?
U. S. INTEGRITY AT STAKE FAILURE to conciliate China's warring Communist and Nationalist factions was admitted Saturday in a statement issued in Shanghai by Gen. George C. Marshall and U. S. Ambassador John Leighton Stuart. And two U. S. senators just returned from the Orient urge American withdrawal from China “because the situation has become hopeless.” However bad China's situation may be, American policy has helped to make it that way. The continuing chaos is due largely to encouragement we have given the Chinese Communists’ efforts to force their way into the natignal government, and to wartime concessions our government induced China to make to Russia as the result of a secret Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin deal at Yalta. Our state department’s refusal to give Chiang Kaishek psychological support such as Russia is giving the Chinese Reds further has embarrassed the Chinese government. : Much of the present trouble in China stems from Manchuria, and from things that happened there following the Russian invasion just before V-J day. The Russian army not only looted Manchuria of $2 billion worth of vital industrial equipment and products but also turned over captured Japanese arms and munitions to the Chinese Communists for use against the recognized Chinese government, ” = » » ” » USSIA was invited into Manchuria, not by Chiang, but by Roosevelt and Churchill, It also was agreed at Yalta—where China was not represented—that, as part payment to Russia for joining in the war on Japan, China would: : ONE: Recognize the independence of Outer Mongolia, which has become a Russian satellite and a base for Soviet propaganda and intrigue. TWO: Allow Russia half interest in the South Manchuria and Chinese Fastern railways. (Russia, earlier, had sold its interest in the Chinese eastern to Japan for $50 . million.) | THREE: Declare Daiffen a free port, under Russian supervision. : FOUR: Grant Russia the right to establish a base at Port Arthur, These concessions, transferring to Russia many of the sxtra-territorial rights formerly enjoyed by Japan, inevitably have encouraged the hope of Chinese Communists to make China as a whole a Russian sphere of influence. And our own ‘timorous and evasive atfitude has given great further momentum to that aspiration,
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"Politicians Flatter
Don't Appoint Them to Key Posts”
By Mrs. Wayne C. Kimmel, State
of University Women. 1 am interested and in sympathy with the recent article printed in
this column concerning the resolution stedt of Bloomington to the Indiana
Her proposal, indorsed by several women's organizations, such as the American Association of University Women, stated: “That the Indiana Municipal League indorse the policy of appointing women as well as
men to boards and commissions.”
The state organization of the American Association of University of federal bureaus in peace and war, we'll hazard a guess | women has tried for four years to have the “policy of women being
placed on appointive boards” in-| dorsed by the Indiana Municipal | league and state officials. This leg- | islation was “quietly shelved” by the legislative committee of the, Municipal league during the last
ernor Gates at that time promised representatives of our organization that he would appoint qualified women to state boards. The record shows that the Governor has kept
All women, I feel certain, agree that only qualified women be appointed to these boards, but how can a wonian “learn the ropes” of government outside of textbooks unless she has had some practical experience? Men have obtained this experience “regardless of merit” for a number of decades on municipal
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people voted them into power, and they proceeded as they always did to fulfill their promise to big business. Wall Street came to life in a big way. Wildcat investment companies began sending their salesmen out to skin the people. One could, if he had a few dollars he wanted to donate, buy stock in anything from a brick house to a fabulously rich gold mine, In the| meantime our secretary of the treasury, Anrdew Mellon, discovered that big business and their millions through their generosity had paid into the treasury too much money, so he was pretty busy issuing refund checks to the bays. | Which, of course, meant more liberal donations to the Republican campaign funds. During this time farmers were asking congress to do something to ; protect them against losing their as Russia's sphere of influence. farms by foreclosure, - which was 4 8 = running into the hundreds every If the fighting continues at the day. Labor was asking congress Paris peace conference they may|t, give them some protection be forced to adopt the Marquis of against a ruthless policy manageQueensberry rules. | ment. imposing on labor. But they ; 4 & & | were too busy serving the big inSometimes Secretary of State|terests to pay any attention to the Byrnes must feel like slipping the| peoples’ problems. Besides, to have Soviet foreign minister a “Molotov| a program for the people and to cocktail.” help them solve their domestic problems the Republicans will tell you is too socialistic. Yes, big
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introduced by Mrs, Mary P, HolmMunicipal League in Indianapolis.
VIEWS ON THE NEWS
By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Communists consider” the globe
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the Mead committee or FBI will be able to turn up a war profiteer
boards. In a recent survey conducted by
Our government persuaded China to enter into a formal with Russia ‘Which confirmed these concessions. So a silent party to that treaty, even though not one ‘China has observed it in every particular,
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the American Association of University Women in Indiana, in 900 appointive municipal positions only 18 were held by women. Women comprise one-half of the adult population, are taxpayers, mothers, and teachers of the future genera= tion, yet have been denied the right to participate on local governmental boards. Shall we permit this “policy of discrimination” to continue? y It has beeW evident to the “female electorate” for some time that politicians are only too glad to give compliments to the fair sex before election, but after elected the majority, as recently indicated, define women as “special class legislation.” This is to remind the women in Indiana that the next city elections will be held on November 4, 1947. Elections for the state legislature will be the 5th of Novem-
without an E-award. ” » » Some ex-servicemen have been writing buddies in Athens, Tenn. for detailed instructions on how a candidate can shoot his way into being sheriff. » » Defeat of Congressman Slaughter will mean President Truman will get more campaign invitations than he should accept.
“HERE ARE FACTS ABOUT G. O. P. FREE ENTERPRISE” By Oscar Houston, Ellettsville Don't you remember the slogan in 1920 after the first world war, “Back to normalcy, free enterprise and production.” Big business sald take all restrictions off enterprise and we will show you how to make prosperity. All the Republican
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business and free enterprise were performing high, wide and handsome with the country by the ears and a down-hill pull, but what happened to these courageous free enterprises when the clouds of adversity began to lower in 1929. Everyone became frightened at their —own shadow and promptly shut up shop and fled to their cellars to wait with helpless fear. When the storm had subsided enough for them to emerge from their holes they meekly presented themselves” to President Roosevelt and asked him to use the money and power of government to clean up the mess. The. Republican party reminds me of the young man who bitterly resented any advice from his father) concerning his conduct, but when he got in bad and was thrown into jail he very reluctantly sent for his dad to bail him out. “ow. “CONSIDER RIGHTS OF LESS FORTUNATE” By Joseph G. Hayes, 420 N. Capitol ave, In a recent issue of The Times, Mr, W. L. Mason suggests that the area back of the court house be used for parking automobiles, When Carl Shank was county commissioner 25 years ago he advanced the idea, and had plans made for parking automobiles in the area behind the court house. He abandoned the idea when he | was informed that the block where | the court house stands was set aside by the state of Indiana in the original plans to the the site of the court house and jail, and for no other purpose, When John McGregor was county
on the area north of the court house and planted trees so the land lcould be used for a park for the béneflt of the people who live over | stores, in rcoming houses and hotels in the area near the court house. Citizens who do not live in the congested: part of the city and have sun-lighted homes with trees, flow= ers and lawns should be more benevolent and consider the rights and privileges of the less fortunate.
DAILY THOUGHTThough thou shouldst bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.--Prov=-erbs 27:22, ;
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 12.—Coming back to this city to find congress gone, as I did from my southern tour, is like coming back home to find the family away, and the house empty and still, which also was the case. , 1t is downright lonesome. This city, with congress gone, is like a summer bachelor, though there is plenty of government still left here, a President in the White House, and building after building full of the rest of it.
No More Long Vacations BUT CONGRESS IS the spice of life. We cuss it when it's here, but only a few days after it's gone we begin to miss it, and wish it were back. Undoubtedly the President—any President—is glad to see it go for awhile. He and it did not get along so well. Congress, we suddenly discovered again, despite all our complaints, is one of those American institutions that is a handy and convenient escape valve for all our grievances. We can take it out on congress and we feel better afterward. Before it left, congress finally admitted by its own act®that it had come of age, or had caught up with this age. When it voted to reorganize itself so that it could perform more efficiently the load of work and responsibility that it faces these days, it thereby confessed that things have changed. They really
NEW YORK, Aug. 12—The fascination of snake for bird draws me irresistibly to press agents—with me on the bird end. I can sit and watch them for hours, while they edge closer and closer—and then, boom! They've got me, It is rumored that press agents are people like you and me—that they holler when they are hurt, laugh when they are tickled, and are plagued by the common cold. But I have never been able to rid myself of the suspicion that they are superhuman, There are about 8,000,000 people in New York, and surely at least half of them are in the press agent dodge, intent on building character for their clients by wedging the customer's name or enterprise into the prints. Of that number, at least half contrive to call me every day.
Plug, Plug, Plug THE PRESS AGENT is a migratory bird, unable to exist happily outside New York, Washington, and Hollywood. In all three cities, he takes on the protective coloring of the local flora, which is to say he blends so perfectly with the woodwork of the more popular ginmills that the casual observer cannot tell him from a regular customer. A telephone, which has grown to his ear. is his only distinguishing feature. He eats nothing but steak and drinks nothing cheaper than pinch-bottle scotch, for he operates alWays on expense account. Typical of the breed, in an exalted sense, are Herb Landon and Hal Davis of Kenyon & Eckhardt. I find myself hypnotized by the pair, although their enterprises may be the ultimate in corn and establish an all-time high in tortuous efforts to snare space. Their latest chef d’oeuvre involves the transportation of a bull calf and two heifers, by airplane, to Greece, and they've got everybody in the act but Molotov, They offer the perfect example of how far the profession will go, and to how much trouble. for a stick of type.
PARIS, Aug. 12.—Purposes of the two major forces at work in the Paris conference were clarified in this last week of bickering and recrimination. THe United States has demonstrated that it wants a peace that will be just and merciful to the defeated populations of the five enemy states, Communist Russia has made clear its purpose to punish these populations and place all, including Italy, in a state of economic servitude for at least five years.
Try to Bolster Internal Economy THE UNITED STATES, through Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, is attempting to make this confer= ence a sounding board by means of which the world will know and understand the true situation in Europe, and the reality of the conflict between western ideals and those of Russia. In this latter purpose, the conference is succeeding. Russia at every step is trying to hold a decisive grip on the conference's action. If Russia is able to prevent any great change in treaties, as drawn by the four major powers, it can be assured of a steady flow of material wealth from beyond its borders for the duration of its present five-year plan. It will mean that more than 100,000,000 defeated people in five small nations will produce’ and deliver $1,000,000,000 worth of goods to one of the victorious nations—Russia. # Opposed to this program of punishment and ex-
United States. They are joined in an effort to expose completely every detail of each treaty to public inspection. They want these treaties mogified so that each small nation will be given credit for vast sums already paid to Russia—-vast quantities of materials already delivered, and the great sacrifices each
age in trying to draw them up | again. ~Sydney Smith.
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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark \ . What a Life a Press Agent Leads!
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Wappenhans, a retired sailor, was put in charge and when he had everything fixed up to suit him, the official thermometer of Indianapolis hung at exactly 47 feet above the sidewalk level. Ten years jJater, in 1881, the thermometer started going up, That's when Mr. Wappenhans moved to the building at the corner of Washington and Pennsylvania sts. (where the Kresge store now is), In its new location the thermometer hung at 52 feet. Four years later Mr, Wappenhans moved again and, strangely enough, without calling a transfer wagon, Apparently he moved nearer the roof for, in the moving, the thermometer went up 23 feet. The thermometer hung in this sitio until 1806 when the bureau Form the Tew Pennsylvania and Maryland sts. (then the Majestic
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building, now the Farm Bureau Co-op.). With this Say High move, the thermometer jumped to 154 feet. When : the bureau moved again in 1915, this time to the Bring B Consolidated building on N. Pennsylvania st, John i H. Armington was in charge. Mr. Armington went Milk | Mr. Wappenhans 40 feet better. w ASHING ' Jo It's Hotter on the Ground ~Representati: THE THERMOMETER HUNG at 104 feet for 23 the grain inc years when, all of a sudden in 1938, it took a tumble Succession, un
of something like 100 feet. That's when the bureau moved to its present location in the completed Federal building. It was the first time in the history of Indianapolis that our temperature readers made a move in the right direction. At that, it's still 90 feet too high to suit me. My one comfort is a suspicion that, maybe, our first weather observer (Mr. Wappenhans) shared my
government le grains and oth +A long list c before the dec first of four da on whether trols on gral dairy products,
opinion. Which is to say that he also questioned the beshs; The bo infallibility of sky-written reports. At any rate, there cision next we js a tradition that, once every day during his regime, Today's hear
Mr. Wappenhans came off his high perch and mingled with the sweaty crowds in the street. The result was that he issued two dally reports—one for public consumption which was published in the newspapers and one for private consumption which he carried in his pocket. Sure, the pocket report was the one that revealed the bitter truth.
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Washington Empty Without Congress
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never dreamed of came tumbling down upon it with tiie “Beacon the nation’s severest depression. 3.2, Diesen " nufac r
When it abolishes lots of its committees, however, and consolidates others, we will miss such appendages as the committee on the disposition of useless executive papers, which once was good for a laugh. Congress used to have long vacations regularly. It would leave here in March every other year and be gone until December and in alternate years it usually wound up its business in June before the-hot weather set in. Those were the simple and easy days, and not too long ago at that. Then the big problems were the tariff and prohibition. Congress was a carefree sort of debating society for the most part. It was fun to watch, such as when members who voted dry were caught drinking wet, thereby providing juicy copy for the front page. It was like covering police court again, ;
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They said i that the high ings were susj “a great bene: of meat, milk , They admil without contro likely stay at between now the new crop.’ After that, supplies will | flationary pric They said th again be fac prices on corn
Toast to Congress Liquid THOSE WERE THE DAYS, the days when con- Mr. Berger gressmen could be human beings. Now they are borne controls on c best things t
down with problems, men with weary shoulders and sagging mouths, and that hunted, harassed look. And some of them already have been defeated and others will be. Theirs is not the merriest of lives. Just every now and then, like now for example, it’s probably proper to be sentimental. Here's to congress, damn my eye.
Davis and Landon have worked for four months on this thing, as a method of publicizing Borden's milk (plug) which sponsors a radio show called “County Fair” (plug) which is handled by Kenyon & Eckhardt (plug). They are the boys who had a young yokel lifting a calf every day for the greater glory of Borden's (plug) and they went on tour with a king-sized paper bag for six months, betting that the citizens couldi’t punch their way out of it. They also had a hen which laid eggs by the clock, while millions listened. In a deal with Greek relief, they will fly Elmer It, the bull, and Elsalita and Elsadora, the juniorgrade cows, to Athens, leaving Aug. 17.
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because it slo tic liquidation’ gan in March Spokesmen and traders and prospecti unnecessary | ings on grains They were | witnesses sch four days of board, which up as the na authority. The board's determine wh controls on g other dairy and soybeans. Price ceilin making up t foods—will be Aug. 21 unles they should « control. Board Chai son, a New O an opening board was a clouded” pric
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Hal O'Flaherty Russia Seeks to Milk Beaten Powers
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immortalized by radfv. Spyro Skouras, the movie tycoon who heads Greek relief, will be on hand. So will the Greek minister of information. Archbishop Athenagoras, 1 believe, is to bless the ship. The pilot of the aircraft is an ex-ATC man, who has banded with other war fliers to form Veterans airlines —(plug).— In Greece, - there - willbe another radio show for County Fair, (plug) with Mr. Landon, who will go along as chambermaid to the animals, hoping to inveigle the Greek prime minister and our own ambassador into a radio appearance to accept the beasts. A second-generation Greek, young Gus Kaloss, is along to present the progeny of Elsie and Elmer (plug) to the Greek ministry of agriculture.
All for Publicity “IT HAS EVERYTHING,” says Mr, Landon, “in. - cluding me. 7 gotta go along to run it. I get airsick, and flying a herd of livestock over the Atlantic, even though it makes history. is not my idea of fun.” But Mr. Landon is a stout fellow, and he will not let down his guild. No sacrifice is too great to make for one’s art, especially when one's art is coveting all white paper that is speckled with print.
phases of the war settlements ended quickly, not dragged on over a long period of years. For real understanding of what happens here in Paris, the eyes and minds of the western democratic peoples must be fastened on Russia's internal situation. Its standard of living is at the very center of the whole world problem. This standard of lhving is lower today than it was before the war, In spite of profiises of Russia's revolutionary leaders chat communism and the Soviet form of government would solve all economic problems, they have failed to do so. Unless Russia’s leaders, Premier Stalin and For elgn Minister Molotov, are able to show the masses of their people material and personal benefits within a reasonably short time, there will be plain evidence
that communism and Sovietism have not been suc- It's the & cessful. youngste The Soviet leaders could see long before the war ended that the western world, represented by the taken in United States, would recover and go on to even fuss! You higher standards of living. Even through the veil : : win, Priz of censorship thrown around Russia, its people would h learn the truth and hold it against their leaders. and.char Therefore, the Russian leaders set themselves to exploit the peace. By seizing eastern Germany and FIRST P great sections of China and Manchuria, by penetrate ing to the Gulf of Persia, the Baltic, the Adriatic SECOND and the Mediterranean, they hoped to exploit both 20 THI people and natural resources to enrich Russia and give its people those things they had so long promised. U. S. Advocates Just Peace Spo
TODAY IN PARIS, Molotov and his Russian delegation are fighting to drive through to signature the five treaties. which represent as merciless and unreasonable an exploitation of beaten peoples as the world has ever seen, ° ®. Secretary Byrnes, as leader of the democracies,
must find some fieans of altering them so that they or will fit the dictates of human conscience,