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STREETCAR COMPANY MISTAKE

HE experts in public relations define their job in part as interpretation of a client's policies to the public in such a manner that these policies will invite public support. The manner in which the streetcar company 18 handling the redemption of unused tokens which were in the pockets of its patrons when the fare increases went into effect yesterday is a “horrible example” of poor corporate practice and public relations. It certainly doesn’t arouse any sympathy for the company, which may well be entitled to some increase. ; On the contrary, it arouses irritation and antagonism. And, too, it puts an unfair burden on the drivers who must carry out their orders to accept none of the old tokens. It is of such seemingly minor conditions that resentment against a company is built. A utility regulated by public agencies can ill-afford such hostility. ; Perhaps it is too late to remedy the harm done. But it would be simple for the Indianapolis Railways to deviate from its procedures and authorize its drivers to redeem | unused: tokens in small amounts. Certainly it would be confusing—but. it would save patrons an unnecessary trip to a redemption point, a trip folks holding one or two or | three tokens won't bother to make. But they will remember for a long time that they lost money, anyway, because of the hurdles placed in their way by ‘the company.

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CALL THE POLICE

JNPIANAPOLIS has a- full-fledged mystery on its hands

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in the unsolved murder last Saturday night of Louis C. Borgmann, industrious farmer and father of five children. Mr. Borgmann's body was found in his automobile near | Julian and Sheridan aves., shot by a 25-caliber automatic | pistol believed to have been of foreign make. | Police have been unable to locate the weapon, or anyone | who heard the shot or had other information about the whereabouts of Mr. Borgmann from 9:30 to 10:45. p. m. last | Saturday. ) If anyone has any information which would be of assistance in solving this murder, he should communicate | with Chief of Police Jesse McMurtry or Chief of Detectives | Howard Sanders. These officials have indicated they would | ‘treat such information as confidential, and that no publicity would be given to the source. : | It is an obligation of citizenship to report information | which might have a bearing on this case. Is there someone | who heard that shot Saturday night, or who knows any- |

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THE GOVERNMENT STOPS “SEIZING” PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S wise decision against government seizure of the J. I. Case farm implement factory

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to the conduct of the war. justification for the government's taking over the coal

age. But that experience has not been a happy one since

So long as labor unions could win their disputes by

wages and working conditions the unions demanded there was no incentive for the unions to try to reach an agreement with management. Under this new Truman-policy

interest is imperiled, there should be a better chance that strikes will be settled on a middle ground of give-and-take.

H. G. WELLS

. G. WELLS died Tuesday in London-at the age of 79. A prolific writer of unquenchable imagination, his batting average in the realm of prophecy was just so-so. He predicted the atomic bomb as far back as in 1914; but in the same crystal ball he saw a roseate “one world” which we have yet to achieve. He prophesied such a “war in the air” as we were having not so long ago, but his fancied invasion from Mars did not quite come off, even with the help of that other Welles, Orson, in 1988. He impishly forecast his own death, a forgotten man at the age of 97 in Paddington poorhouse in London, Actually, he died a wealthy man and will not soon be forgotten, Despite his good-humored temporal thunderings, Wells

the fate of mankind whose history he once inscribed. In one of his latest published works, he contended that man * no longer was morally fit to cope with his own developments and soon would be replaced by another form of life. ‘At the moment, however, it appears we are holding our own. Always a bull-headed controversialist and applecart

obituary that Wells’ father once kept a small China shop.

NOBODY SHOOTS SANTA CLAUS

Soviet Union will support any motion for the continuance of UNRRA in Europe beyond Dec. 31, 1946, I ; to N. L. Feenov, chief Russian delegate at Geneva. t th den willingness of the Soviet Union to cote with the rest of the world need occasion no surprise.

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. thing else of possible value to. the police about the Borg-

raises the hope that we may be moving back toward real | .

collective bargaining. By this precedent, the government "STARK MISLED ABOUT

would also refuse to take over the strikebound Allis-Chal- ; . 0 | By Ina R. Stebbing, Indianapolis During the war, on the grounds of national safety, it | gepubiican nomination for trustee ‘was sometimes necessary for the government to take pos- |of washington township and as a session and responsibility for operating plants essential | still loyal supporter of the RepubAfter the war, there was some |lican party and its lawfully consti-

| mittee I ask that this letter be pub-

mines to end the industrial paralysis caused by fuel short-1 neq in order to straighten out the | { record.

“ . e | the government cannot now let go of the mines, some of 1 which are operating at a loss to the taxpayers. . Linisled’ with regard to the central

: h : : | candidates. forcing the governemnt to seize properties and grant the dally press

of government non-intervention except where broad public | and the central committee endorsed |

in his later years had become concerned and oppressed over |

upsetter, it occasions no surprise to read in a prepared |

“Russia's contribution to UNRRA last year was approxi-

0 of the Soviet Republics were among the receiving : Byolorussia@ collecting $4,687,000; Ukrainia, transaction which nets a profit of more than $13,A $2,000,000 investment is good business in

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Hoosier Forum

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will defend to the death to say it." — Voltaire.

"On-the-Job Training Program for G. I's Damaged by Congress Action”

By Interested Employer, City I see that Congressman Rankin's committee jammed through a bill during the last hours of the congressional session which nearly tears the entrails out of the on-the-job provisions of the G. IL bill of rights. True, there may have been instances of both employer and veteran chiseling. But among us employers, and veterans I know, who have been using the program, it has worked fine, of help to both parties. Rankin’s act may have sounded good to some folks, but what it] actually does is force down the wage rates for ex-G. 1's who are willing] to remain in an employer's program, even provided we employers are interested enough to retain him and it. In these high pay days, that new bill limits ‘a fellow’s pay on-the-— Tr job to $175 if single, $200 if married. | legislature and this writer for| And that sum includes both VA Washington township trustee. Mrs.| subsistence and the employer's; Agnes M. Todd, supported by groups share of the payroll. Anything in both camps, was defeated for| over that is out. And besides, the|legislative nomination. Mrs. Della | program is now limited to two|M. Hoss, an anti-candidate, was de- | years, instead of four, according to feated for the legislature. | Judge Stark's charge, which I If what the papers ‘say is true, hope was made through misunderit's going to be tough on -the vets, istanding; is éompletely .misleading. and painful for us. We get our The meeting he addressed was orprogram all set—an honest, legiti- | ganized on a strictly sorehead basis mate program—and somebody in!with help from the wives of such j Washington kicks it out the ambitious politicians as Louis window, Markun, the wholesale liquor Ah, confusion, Who was the lob- dealer... It was announced at a byist who did that? luncheon to console Mrs. Norris, a" = unsuccessful candidate for the congressional nomination. When the true nature of the meeting was discovered a number of Republican women walked out. Mrs. Norris is an amiable, chirping little canary whose birdseed has been supplied for five years through ‘Republican patronage. She still has two years to serve as reporter of the Indiana supreme court at $5000 a year. She was certainly

G. 0. P. STAND ON WOMEN"

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“TRAFFIC DRIVES MAKE HEADLINE; NO IMPROVEMENT” By Curious, Indianapolis I am quite certain that you won't print this, even though your paper makes much of its influence in correcting wrongs of various kinds. But there has always been a serious violation of justice by the intimidation of citizens and taxpayers by the traffic courts, who seem to ac-

cept the officer's word in every case against the motorist, no matter how respected he may be, or how much evidence he may have, This matter came up when I received a ticket for an offense I did not commit. I discussed the matter with several businessmen, who each had tales of similar experiences, some of whom had mistakenly assumed that to go to court would permit him to get a hearing on his side of the case.and perhaps some | Justice in the matter. .. The sum and substince of their advice was that I should pay the ticket because “a cop’s word is twice as good as yours.” Accordingly I paid it, but I can’t help wondering why these men, who are well respected and whose word is accepted in business dealings, should have to feel that their statements would be of no consequence in a casual but highly prejudiced traffic court, often manned by a pro tem judge afraid ta make a decision. This condition certainly leaves a great deal of authority in the hands of the officer, who can not only make mistakes, but may at times have very good reasons for trying to improve his record, and may

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Judge Judson L. Stark, the party's

nominee for prosecutar, has been : : candidacy.

I want to afirm my continued loyalty to the Republican party and a3 seeusing County | 8 regularly and lawfully elected Chairman Henry Ostrom of ignoring | \¢adership and to urge other women women ‘cindidates in the primary. | VhO believe in the party’s prin- | This is the score, according to ciples to join me in resisting perthe record: The county chairman Sistent sniping within the party's ranks now .that the primary contests are past. The enemy's position is on the other side of noman’s land in New Deal territory. | Those slated by the central com- .q xp DAILY WEATHER

{ | mittee included Mrs. Margaret Wy- v | "IMA A ) » att, Mrs. Nellie B. Downey, Mrs, P FEATURE IN TIMPS ’ By Mrs. William Hyde Pearl, 614 E. 46th st,

committee's attitude toward women | He was quoted in the|

| the candidacies of five women for | nomination; the Republican citizens' committee slated none,

Katherine W. Atkins, Mrs. Julia Ray lles and this writer, Mrs. Ina’ I read with great interest your Stebbing. Of these two, Mrs. Dow- weather map each evening and apney and Mrs. Wyatt were nomin- preciate the feature. As weather ated for the state legislature. Mrs. has been a hobby with me, the map | Atkins, Mrs. Iles and this writer printed adds a lot to extra reading were defeated—the first two for the of your good paper.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

GOPR. 194 BY MEA SERVICE. CT. M. WEG. U. & FAT. OFF, |

"| ‘understand this is a grudge fight—they both claim it's their ial ne * turn to win!" ~

{women were not for her and she |noted that in each case of these embarrassed those who had aided border-line arrests, there were no| her in the past by announcing her Passengers except the driver, which | {may have been intentional.

stretch a point to this end. I have

These cases seem to be more frequent during traffic “drives” such as the one now being conducted, which is obviously being conducted either as a means of making a pre-election impression, or for pre-election jobs, when the policemen are under pressure to make all the arrests they can, I don't believe any of my friends or I would object to a ticket received during those occasional lapses when we find ourselves to be speeding, qr -when we have inadvertently run a light or poorly placed sign, but to be fined when we were consciously trying to obey the law is a little too much for an American. Can anything be done about this, or must we accept this as a fact of our political set-up, because traffic drives never seem to improve conditions or safety, but often make headlines for politicians. n »

[IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover "End Occupation” Talk Is Dangerous

HERE IT IS a few days less than a year after

the first American troops landed in Japan, and we find talk in high places of an early end to the occupation of the Nipponese homeland.

Sen. Allen J. Ellender (D. La.) makes the state-

ment that the occupation force may be cut to a handful ‘in six months . , . where he gets that information would be hard to say . . . and the Jap press says “ This is some of the best news we've heard in recent months.” a

I know the editor of Asahi, the paper in which

that statement appeared and probable author of that sentiment. When I talked to him in November, he hoped for a long occupation . .. so that real leaders of democracy could develop.

Fear of Reprisals Still Exists AND THAT JAP EDITOR said a short occupation

would be the worse handicap Japan could have, béw cause it would mean many potential leaders would not come out into the open for fear of retaliation

after our troops left, Most Japanese liberals to whom I talked . ., and that included the top people in the press, radio and motion picture industry and many professors . . . hoped for an occupation long enough to elminate the militarists and the financier-industrialist clique which backed them in the war of conquest. They felt reassured by official predictions that allied troops would be there from 10 to 25 years. Only argument advanced against.such a long occupation, by both Jap and American, was that perhaps too much reliance would be placed on the Americans, that too little initiative would be developed by the men who would have to finish the job for which the Americans had created the machinery. That was the job of building a Japan along demo-

Indian Treachery

IN THE SUMMER of 1769, the great Pontiac of America was murdered. On Aug. 15 of that summer the great Napoleon of France was born, The two touch hands through the uniform. of a French officer presented to Pontiac by the Marquis de Montcalm who surrendered Quebec to the English. Pontiac rose to the top in America when he started one of the bloody Indian wars of the continent, He wassan Ottawa, of the French regime in Canada. His tribal home was between Georgian Bay and Lake Simcoe in Canada.

Siege of Detroit

HIS WAR WITH THE ENGLISH was the aftérmath of the fall of French rule in North America. With clear vision, he saw that with the French defeated and the Indians pliantly yielding, the English would be the masters of them both. United, he became convinced; the French and the Indians could drive the hated English into the Atlantic ocean. With the skill of a master, and the foresight of a great leader, he persuaded the Indians that his plan would work. They included the entire Algonquin stock, its Indiana tribes especiaily included, and among the most powerful Indians in North America; the Wyandots; the Senecas, of the powerful Iriquois of New York; and other neighboring tribes. On May 1, 1763, the first attack in the long siege of Detroit began. Pontiac's Indian army crossed boldly from the Canadian shore to Detroit. After sparring with Indian guile and intrigue, the attack moved into a long siege. . : After about five months of the siege, on Oct. 12, 1763, all the attacking tribes, except only the Ottawas directly under Pontiac, sued for peace. On the last day of October, Pontiac received a letter from M. Nyon, commandant of Ft. Chartres in the Illinois country, saying.that the French and the English were

rT WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Sometimes we seem to forget who fought this last war and whose sons may have to fight another unless something is done now, in these critical and discouraging days, to prevent it. The old men are writing the peace again, just as they did after the other war. The jabbering comes back across the ocean, like the mocking sound of nightbirds. There is one difference. The noisy conversation is out in the open this time, as Woodrow Wilson promised in vain that it would be last time, with his talk of “open covenants openly arrived at.”

Representation Urged BUT IT BESPEAKS, or every side, the same old national jealousies and selfishness and ambitions which is all the old men seem to understand. It was all they understood in their secret councils at Versailles a quarter of a century ago. The young men who came back this time returned with a determination that this was going to be different. So many are still imbued with this spirit of high quest. They are trying to do something in their own communities. Some have gone into politics. Some few have won nominations to congress, Many more have won a toehold lower down on the political ladder. They want to do something about a better America, But a better America can only come with a better world. And only the old men are having anything to do with world affairs. ; This is pointed up in a communication from Beverly Hills chapter of the American Veterans Committee in Los Angeles inclosing a resolution which asks that President Truman henceforth appoint world war II veterans among delegates charged with making the peace, and calls upon veterans of all other United Nations to ask the same of their governments. “This chapter of the A.V.C.” the resolution says, “calls upon the President to rectify as quickly as

" “SHERIFF CARS SHOULD SET DRIVING EXAMPLE”..

By Mrs, G. P., Indianapolis Why doesn’t the sheriff practice what he preaches? Just sit on my porch and watch the sheriff (Mr. Magenheimer), his deputies or what have they and son drive when they come to a stop street. Mr. Magenheimer driving the new red car—different ones driving the new white one (the two cars that are paid for by us taxpayers, no doubt), the third car a light color which his son drives mostly, Coming south to 10th, which is a stop street, not one of them stops unless there is a big line of cars. All they do is just hesitate and my how they go around the corner. Don't begin to shift gears. : We have several little children around this corner that do not fully understand about getting out in the street. If they would be hit by one of these careless men the police would say it was the parents’ fault. Which sure is not the case. So 1 think they had better clean their own door step before picking on the little fellow, °

DAILY THOUGHT _ Lord, they have killed all your prophets, and digged down thine altars; and I am left alone, and

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' What millions have died — that Caesar might be great.—Campbell.

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NEW DELHI, Aug. 15.—Barring serious disturbances, India will have a popularly-supported, inde-pendence-bound interim government functioning within two to four weeks. At least this is the general | opinion here today, following announcement of Lord Wavell's invitation to Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, president of the All-India National Congress party to propose a cabinet. a For the first time, the British government is willing to give a single party the résponsibility for forming a cabinet.

Moslem Question Still Unsettled . CONGRESS PARTY CIRCLES state, however, that Pandit Nehru made a strong effort to win the support of the president of the Moslem league, M. A. Jinnah, for a coalition cabinet, Though prepared to go ahead alone if necessary, the Congress party recognizes the difficulties that the league could create by garrying out its threats to resist the new government with unrestricted direct action. League reactions were not immediately available. Jinnah spurned the olive branch that . the Congress working committee extended on Saturday when it | attempted to calm his fears that the Congress ma- | jority in the. constituent assembly would override safeguards intended to protect the Moslems. To consider acceptance of Nehru's plan, Moslem leaguers say that Jinnah would have to reconvene the league council, the All-India body which met in Delhi

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cratic lines as’ a nation fit to take her place among peace-loving nations, A United Press dispatch from Tokyo says there are increasing indications that the bulk of the allied troops will be withdrawn by 1949. In my opinion that is much too soon. In support of the short occupation theory, the UP dispatch remarks that the Japs have demonstrated good discipline, that they have been friendly and helpful. “That is one of the very reasons the occupation should not be cut short prematurely. The Japs are entirely too well-disciplined for us to be certain of their intentions as yet. When we first went into Tokyo, as a case in point, they turned their backs to us because they had been told to do so . . . the emperor had ordered non-fraternization, .. Within a few days they were cheering Americans when they appeared, the‘children holding up their fingers in the “V-for-victory” sign and the girls learning English and western-style: dancing , , because they had been ordered to do so. They are perfectly capable of restraining thas Kamaikaze vengance that was shown so frequently in the war . . . under a bowing, smiling and courteously hissing exterior . . . until we get out of the way. Then they could well go back to their old ways of living . . . even though we had drawn their fangs and crippled their war-making ability,

Have Japs Really Changed? WE FIGHT LIKE HELL in war , , , and with victory again become the big-hearted Americans whe say all too frequently that “The Japs (or the Gere mans) aren't so bad once you get to know them.” The men who were their prisoners would make a different comment , . , they “got to know them,” too, It is dangerous to talk this soon of ending occupae tion.

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow

Marked Early Strife

Without French help he knew his cake was dough. But ‘possum and Indian like, he played dead and watched for another chance to lick the English. Bug at the end of September two years later, aj Detroit, George Croghan and Pontiac tentatively agreed on a treaty of peace. The treaty was negotiated and signed at Oswega, New York, by Sir William Johnson, superintendent of Indian affairs at Ft, Pitt, Pa. and Pontiac in March, 1766. The siege of Detroit by Pontiac is a fair sample of Indian fighting in North America. The method, boiled down, was a mixture of dash, deceit, treachery, and fiendish cruelty. The great Pontiac at Detroit followed the pattern of his race. The opening of the siege will illustrate this. Instead of attacking the white man’s way, they asked in friendly fashion for a council on important matters. They came with weapcns concealed under their blankets. At Pontiac's signal, they were to murder the officers of the fort, as the Indians outside rushed in to slay the garrison,

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THUS WAS THE PATTERN—dash, deceit, treachery, and cruelty, It was repeated with variations thousands of times all over North America. Pigeon Roost in southern Indiana was a home-made sample that Hoosiers will never forget. In Pontiac's war in Indiana the same pattern was

followed. Ensign James was murdered at Pt. Miami.

Lt. Jenkins at Ouitandbn barely escaped, but the poss was destroyed in June, 1763. It was never rebuilt. The tie-up of the Indians of North America and the French of an-intriguing Europe was a thing holy through its priests and vile through its fur traders. Sq the French and Indians, as dominant forces, faded out in North America, taking with them their

now at peace. This news hit Pontiac where it hurt. “great Pontiac. :

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes ‘No Veteran Voice in Writing Peace

conference—to help shape the peace for which all of us fought and for which so many of our comrades died. “We urge further that in any future negotiations relating to permanent peace—whether at peace con= ferences or within the United Nations framework—e the President and secretary of staté recognize the principle that the young men who fought this war are entitled to a direct voice in the shaping of the peace—and henceforth always include young veterans of world war II among the peace representatives. “We make this recommendation, bearing in mind that recent events have forcefully recalled to all of us the words of the late T. E. Lawrence after world war I that: “ ‘When we had achieved, and the new world dawned, thé old men came out again and took from us the victory and remade it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep, and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth and they thanked us kindly, and made their peace.’ . “Through this action, we ask the aid of the Presi dent and the secretary of state that we may “earn to keep.”

President Roosevelt's Pledge IN SENDING ALONG the resolution, Art Arthur recalled a short-wave broadcast by President Roose= velt in 1942: “This time the achievement of our fighting foroes will not be thrown away by political cynicism and timidity and incompetence. . . . Before world war I, very few people. in any country believed that youth had the right to speak for itself as a group or to participate in councils of state. We have learned much since then. We know that wisdom does not come necessarily with the years; that old men may be foolish and young men may be wise.” Have we learned?

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Phillips Talbot ’

ndependence Open

in June to accept the British cabinet mission's proe posals and in Bombay, in July, to reject snem. Pandit Nehru, who is at present in Wardha guide ing the Congress party's working committee, is exe pected to reach here and to see the viceroy before the end 5f the week. He will probably begin negotia« tions with Jinnah as quickly as possible. If Jinnah rejects the Congress offer, an interim government without league members may be set up almost immediately. If, however, Jinnah decides to refer Nehru's bid to the league council meeting, & further delay of upwards of three weeks is likely to ensue It is anticipated that Nehru will offer the league at least as large a share in the interim government as it would have obtained under the British mission's June 16 plan, which it once accepted.

British Retain Veto THE VICEROY'S CALL to the Congress arose out of the provision in the British plan that the interim government would be formed by those elements which ‘had accepted the long-range constituent assembly scheme. Since the league's vehement rejection in Bombay and the Sikh community's earlier decision to stay out, the Congress is the only party remaining. The cabinet will not be a free Indian government, as it is still subject to the viceroy's veto under the

constitutional act of 1019. But it will have ample

powers to give the constituent assembly full opportunity to plan India's future constitution. :

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