Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1946 — Page 16

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@ive Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

READ LUCAS ON ALASKA . LL00K at a globe map of the world. Draw the shortest possible line from Seattle to Tokyo and Shanghai. You will see that line passes through the Aleutian chain of islands. . Your globe probably will show the great circle route from San Francsico to those Far Eastern ports. It passes just a little south of the Aleutians. In event of war, if any enemy power should seize a base in the Aleutians, that would force our shipping to take a more southerly course, adding thousands of miles distance. "Examine your globe further. You will find that the shortest distance from any important point in Russia (the only power menacing world peace) to any important point in the United States lies across the polar regions. In this era of long-range airpower and rocket projectiles, the Arctic wastes from Alaska to Greenland have become America's first line of defense. Scripps-Howard newspapers have sent Reporter Jim G. Lucas to Alaska to look into and describe the state of our military preparedness in that vast and desolate but strategic territory. Mr. Lucas has visited all of the important army and navy establishments, talking with all the important army and navy commanders. A member of the fighting marines in the war just ended and an experienced combat correspondent, Mr. Lucas tells of the dangers and hardships that lie ahead should an attack come from across the top of the world. The first of Reporter Lucas’ enlightening dispatches

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SUCKERS, NEVERTHELESS ALL it a device, a slick trick, or a racket. It could be one or another. And it goes on all the time in the U.S. A. Somebody organizes a “movement.” Then he gets a lot of very prominent people to go on the committee. Then he gets stationery printed. Up and down the margins he publishes the names of the prominent people. Then he starts sending out letters, circularizing where he thinks he will bring the most pressure. Needless to say there is a fund | raising angle. The stationery conveys the implication that every prominent person listed is all out for the movement. Big shots seem literally to flock to this sucker game— | people who wouldn't even attend a Garsson wedding party,

go on another person’s note or buy a share in the Brooklyn | bridge or invest in a campus ticket or ask for a left-handed | monkey wrench in a hardware store, Like those in the depression days when the hotel busi- | ness wasn’t so good who would pay $10 a banquet seat to honor the life work of some Joe Doakes—the “tribute” hav- | ing been organized by the hotel itself —these blank check | signers for some cause or other appear to love it. They | grow at least one a minute.

slavia relief. |

sending out (for $2) a flood of pro-Tito leaflets including |

written by a regular contributor to the Communist organ, the “Daily Worker.” Listed on the letterhead, or as endorsers or as sending | greetings to the movement are none other than Sen. Robert F. Wagner, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Joseph C. | Grew, Viscount Halifax, Adm. Ernest J. King, Bishop

few. Of course all these were good-intentionally inspired by |

the relief aspect. But they turned out to be suckers nevertheless,

Moral: To assure yourself of being dry behind the ears, don't join committees,

DELEGATES to the annual convention of the American | Federation of Teachers, in St. Paul, have voted unani- | mously for a re-examination of the organization's 30-year-old “non-strike” policy, | The strike, their resolution asserts, would be a des-! perate weapon for teachers to adopt; but it may be the only means of arousing public interest to the extent of

needs and “rescuing American children from an intolerable situation.”

Here is a serious matter,

nearly enough interest in the educational system. Teachers’ | pay scales, considering their responsibilities and the im- | portance to the country’s future of the work they are ex- |

more devotion to duty exists among the members of any other large group of workers. Our guess is that the federation of teachers will not abandon the non-strike policy to which it has adhered since | it was organized. But the fact that it is even considering | such action is significant. The discussion that will result | from the St. Paul convention's vote should be enlightening to many citizens, whose interest in better schools and fairer | treatment for teachers ought to be as great as that of the | ‘teachers themselves.

AT US, FOR A CHANGE

¥ say, “and now a friendly word from ar.” Just for the sake of variety we could riendly. word. We'd even welcome a good from the dog food salesman.

suffering of humanity.

{ rush hours,

defending the action, it was revealed: Helencies in service indicate the . J : . , : . (unfitness of the com y to retai That the American committee for Yugoslav relief is! its franchise. pany Sal

William T. Manning, and William Green, just to mention a [to the people of Indianapolis, thus coming this fall?

| ficient | drivers; attempting to charge an in-|Times concerning welfare conditions| sabotage and destroy our whole

SHOULD TEACHERS STRIKE? |company to the public are worth; had been receiving aged assistance

assuming adequate public responsibility for educational | x In most states and cities, the public does not take |

pected to do, are generally too low. And we doubt whether | B¥

, sounding off for the “commercial” |

say, but | your right

Hoosier Forum

“I do not agree with a word that you

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

"Petition P. S. C. to Revoke

Streetcar Company Franchise" By Harold H. Fuhrman, 2958 Washington blvd.

were ex-|

We need a company | adequate facilities to meet the breach of contract, we, the underneeds of the city’s people, Yet, despite the glaring in-| public service commission and all adequacy of the company’s services, other proper officials to take the | the company has had the audacity|legal steps necessary to secure the

lof asking for an increase in token| revocation of the company’s fran-|provided us with food and fuel in

fare: it has refused to accept tokens | chise, the condemnation of its phyas consideration for rides, thus) sical property (with fair compensa-

| breaching many contracts; it has tion to stockholders), the temporary | “VETERANS SHOULD ‘KEEP {even resorted to physical violence in maintenance of the traction and SHIRT ON’ AT THIS TIME”

resisting obliga- bus services of the company by the tions. | public service commission, the city The traction services constitute a 0f Indianapolis, the state, or the “natural monopoly,” and the com- Circuit court of Marion county un-|

its contractual

pany possessing this monopoly is til a new company, willing to meet | the veterans of world war II and protected in it by a special fran-| i» legal Shiigation, is ome a Is| their poison is taking effect. ia . is {chise, No other company can op- |" a position uy the physical ALL this is brought to mind by the most recent incident orite without such a franchise. Property necessary and effectively | having to do with the American committee for Yugo- |The company must render certain services to the public. if it i willing 30 tak o ; : : {meet this legal obligation consti-|!f 1t is,un e action on - At the time the Yugoslav dictator was telling how he |tutes grounds for revocation of the this petition, to tender it to the

personally saw our airplane shot down and was insolently |franchise. The aforementioned de-|80Vernmental official whom it con-

operate the same’ We further peFailure to tition the public service commission, |

siders most proper to receive it.” ® = “MENTAL CARE CLEANUP Many of us are angry at the com-' SHOULD GO ALL THE WAY”

one entitled “The Incredible Tito, the Man of the Hour,” (PA: Put few of Us do anything gp, mrs Luther Ewing, 2540 N. Buckeye

about the matter. Now is the time st. Kokome : for action. What I advocate is that| Have been much impressed about public-spirited citizens circulate and articles appearing in Times con-| then send to the public servicecerning clean-up of “house of, commission petitions bearing the horrors.” following: “Whereas the Indianap-| Since Governor Gates and Mr.

|olis Railways, hereinafter called the Blue are housecleaning, why not a | company, has manifested its inabil-|general cleaning, even though it| exercise the self-discipline reces-

surance policy to welfare investigators, she was cut off from receiving assistance check—forced back on to direct relief. This insurance policy is of no value till the old lady dies. I knew politics were corrupt but I During the war the inefficiency and inadequacy of the services of did not know that they had to colthe Indianapolis Railways, hereinafter called the company, cusable, Today they constitute an insult to the community. The com-|)jxe America for such things to pany has hired negligent and discourteous drivers and it has falled t0 happen. discharge many of them. During rush hours, busses, trolleys and trackless trolleys are jammed in such a fashion that one marvels at the long- | power to correct conditions like this Even throughout the day it is a rarity for a but somehow we who profess to be bus or trolley to have sufficient seats for the entire run. Nor can any His followers have been neglectful | legitimate excuse be given for the lack of facilities by saying that they o. our duty as His disciples. Ever | are unobtainable, when busses lie idle in the company’s yards during since the year 1038 when we ex- | perienced in Indiana American-born | which can and will secure and use sorting to violence. to effect such] citizens without a country it has

| lect coppers in such a way. {it is most ridiculous in a country

[signed, now, therefore, petition the help make conditions better for our

I think

You know Jesus gave the church

burdened me what I could do to

less fortunate citizens. It was mother's and my church home Union Street Friends church that

that hour of our distress. » ® #

By E. F. Maddox, Indianapolis The Communists and fellow trav-

elers are working hard to embitter

The veterans, of course, thought of the good old U. 8. A. as a land] flowing with milk and honey, easy money, good jobs, good homes and’

kindness, but the boys must re-| member that the war drained our!

{ nation of the milk and honey; that| |our money, | were poured out without stint to

materials and labor]

| provide the tools for them to win|

the war, and that we who stayed at home have been meeting the difficulties and vexations of short-| ages for the last several years. Yes, | we have had to exercise patience| and patriotism and so in this Hime of disillusionment, disappointment, and vexation the veterans should!

ADOPTION OF THE CITY BUDGET last night, which will call for the highest municipal tax rate in the history of Indianapolis, focuses attention on the general subject of taxes ,.. an expense that continues to mount without genuine public opposition. Most folks don’t show much interest in the procedures that precede fixing of tax rates . , . they merely complain about high taxes and forget the - subject until time for their next payment. The field of federal taxation, particularly, is neglected. It doesn't seem to be realized that funds taken for expenses of the national government deplete the amount of money that can be spent by local government. Relatively few letters are written to congressmen or senators firmly demanding that federal expenses be cut . .. or that something be done about the fact we now have more “old line” federal payrollers than we had before V-J day a year ago.

Omaha Offers Action

IN OMAHA the general subject of taxation has been brought close to the average man by the Association of Omaha Taxpayers, which takes the position that informed people demand more business-like government. “It's when they are uninformed and unorganized— and consequently uninterested—that public officials eat up their substance,” says the leader in that movement. Generally speaking, ‘Indianapolis citizens are neither informed nor well-organized, and therefore they accomplish little in making their wishes for economy in government known to their officials. If individuals. who complain about taxes would take time to state their opinions to their township trustee, county councilmen, city councilmen, state legislators

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover Public Takes Little Action on Taxes

and members of congress , ,.. either through an organization of large membership or as they could find time to write letters . . . a real step toward economy would be made. - x As it is now, few people attend any of the hearings on budgets or tax rates except the representatives of special organizations such as the Indiana Taxpayers association and the Indianapolis Chamber of Come merce. While efforts of these two principal groups benefit the smaller taxpayers, they still can't speak with the authority of large numbérs of voters. A partial remedy to this deficiency is the organization of property owners which is being formed in

Indiana under the name of the National Home and *

Property Owners foundation. Units will be estab ‘lished in each congressional district , , , and the spokesmen will speak in terms of numbers of votes, That is the language the politician understands,

Place to Begin DEMAND FOR A PAY-AS-YOU-GO plan for local units of government , , . made through existing clubs and organizations , . . would be a start in direction. i i It takes time to go to hearings or to look u public official who will listen to your story . P Sou if enough people demand economy, eventually they may get it. In Indiana the law provides for taxpayer participation in public hearings on budgets . , , but few take advantage of it. And it also provides that no budget or rate may be finally adopted until the inzpuyers have had an opportunity to be heard ut few taxpayers offer personal and formal ob tion to high levies. Section Indianapolis has many clubs and other organi ganizations. They could perform real service if each ap pointed a committee to attend hearings on local levies and urge pay-as-you-go government,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Veterans Favor Tough Foreign Policy

NEW YORK, Aug. 27.—Easily perceptible today, among men who recently quit work for their benign uncle, and who were just beginning to settle themselves quietly as civilians, is an acute sense of unrest and impermanence. It's as if what they have today is too good to last. This is an unhappy thing to see in men so freshly finished with war; yet it is there, and it is the precise unease we felt in the days just prior to and following Pearl Harbor.

Wat's End Brought Uncertainty 1 WAS OVERSEAS when the end of war came. It was a little shocking, then, to talk with men whose only career had been war—to see the uncertainty they felt at the prospect of suddenly being shorn of a perverse sort of security, a security which came from being fed, housed and guided by a boss whose employ they couldn't quit. . But it was impossible, then, to giiéss that a year later these men would joke grimly of sending their uniforms back to the cleaners, in preparation for a recall to arms. It's been a pretty lousy year for the discharged soldier. He has found many of the petty tribulations of civilian readjustment irksome and difficult. Many a man, fed up with housing troubles, overcrowding everywhere, shortages and frustrations, has been content to collect his unemployment insurance and spend his afternoons brooding over his coffee. Others, chained to new families and new responsibilities, occasionally have thought nostalgically of their sometime glamorous career as a military man. But the disappointment of a strange and hostile civil life was not enough to create the current restive stirring among our vets, and among their contemporaries. It took the recent skirmish with Russia's hired hand, Tito, to point up the feeling of what's-the-use; to breed the morbidly jocular references to an early return to war.

Talk today, in homes and offices and parallels the talk that went on in Ang ars, easy most healthy young guys reckoned it only as a negligible amount of time before they were called up. Parlor conversation today is about appeasement and incidents. “This is Munich, all over again, only worse” has been sandwiched into all sorts of cocktail chit chat. There is a calm but desperate assumption of an early war with Russia. We are not, today, the same romantically disillusioned young people who lived in the wake of that mild skirmish, world war I. Our guys today are practical in their disillusion ment, and pretty cold. Their attitude says that the fumbling efforts of alleged statesmen to build a semblance of order in the world is all words and noise, and in the end it will be momentarily settled again by gunfire, Our people are still tough with the hardness of recent war. The nice old ladies would bust a placket if they could hear the frequency with which our clean young men suggest that the judicious planting of an A-bomb now, on a few strategic sites, might buy us all a lot of extra peaceful years.

Many Would Re-enlist IT I8 EMINENTLY TRUE TODAY that hundreds of thousands of recently discharged men would calmly re-enlist to fight a new war. Swift execution of Tito is one of the milder suggestions concerning retribution for the Yugoslav incident, a thing they believe is the first mild explosion in a chain reaction -of other incidents to come, Some would like to A-bomb Belgrade, others think a few B-20s would be an apt answer to the problems of the day. More swiftly than ever before in the history of major wars, the Yanks are back with the slogan: “This is where we came in.” In passing, I could say that my sailor suit still fits,

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam J. Marlow Territorial Hoosiers Were Hardened

“I HAVE FLOGGED THEM till I am tired,” said John PF. Hamtramck in a letter on Dec. 5, 1795, from Ft. Wayne, Ind, to Gen. Anthony Wayne, in command of the United States army in the Northwest Territory. Hamtramck's statement of the flogging is blunt and revealing. He was a German, born in Quebec in 1756. He was a perukier, reputedly good as a wigmaker, but a bit ‘shy on army training. His soldiers at Pt. Wayne had been stealing. So he decided to whip them, regardless of the 100 lashes allowed him under army rules. This meant until his whipping arm and his wind gave out.

Had to Battle Indians THIS INCIDENT 18 TYPICAL of the entire setup in the Northwest Territory as the 18th century winked out, It was the first Territory, and the most important one ever organized by congress. Yet few spots in the entire United States have ever been as raw and as rough as it was when Hamtramck flogged his soldiers at Pt. Wayne 'til his wind gave out, As to Tundamentals: the modern Indiana section

ity to give adequate transit service might be a hot one with election|sary to meet the present difficul-| of the Northwest Territory was a wilderness of timber, | ties. It will take several years to rivers, lakes, prairies, and swamps. The 5640 white

failing in its legal public utility ob-| However, if this clean-up is not/get back on an even keel, so we i i x} : » ople in it in 1800 were but a gesture compared with ligations, by divers acts, towit, fail-|for political notoriety, and if it is| might just as well face the situa- Da 790 who were in the bit in a years

and bus transportation facilities; |fellowman, they will go all the way keeping such facilities inoperative for humanity. when needed; failing to secure suf-| Last winter I was much con-| additional and courteous cerned in articles appearing in The|

creased fare which is absurdly more | —how than the services rendered by the treated.

aged people were being | I have a neighbor who |

by breaching contracts in refusing from the state and because she|

to give rides for tokens; and in re- | would not surrender her life in-

Carnival —By Dick Turner |

| 9 1946 BY NEA BERVICE, INC. T. WM. REG. 1. 8. PAY. OFF.

| patriotism. How? Well the Reds | are sowing the

| fidence in the hearts and minds of

| sia and now we get in return cal-

| | the world. Now, don't fall victim | to the -poison propaganda of an-

i| of every 100 you are likely to find

Veterans, keep your shirts on. agitator, who would like to use you veterans in his evil schemes to American system and set up by| force, violence and terror the brutal Soviet system of totalitarfanism, the twin of Hitler's horror which you were called on to save | the world from. Well, communism is | the Siamese twin of Nazi-ism and the U. 8. is full of the left-wingers pulling for Russia and working to undermine and destroy American

seeds of resentment, bitterness and lack of con-

the American people. We sacrificed and poured out billions in wealth and material to save Rus-

umny, ingratitude and hostility. Veterans! You fellows sacrificed and fought magnificently to stop one foreign dictator from- taking

other equally brutal totalitarian menace to our peace and security. No! Examine every movement which is fomenting hatred, resentment and strife! In 99 cases out

a cunning Communist sowing his Red revolutionary poison hatred for the U, 8. and all we stand for, So, again, I remind you—keep your shirts on.

DAILY THOUGHT

Woe is me, my mother, that thou has borne me a man of contention to the whole earth! I have ‘neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me on usury; yet every one of them doth curse me. Jeremiah 15:10. we. But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast... j

| ure to provide sufficient traction to help better conditions for their tion as part of the war, which it is. | jater.

In the long view back, the dominant refrain of

{Don’t fall victim to the wily red| the first territorial days of Indiana was its Indians,

the core of life in the Territory through all these years. They had been beaten with the French in 1763. They had been bossed by the English for 20 years, until 1783, and had been pushed around by the Americans for 10 or 12 years. At the tail-end of the Northwest Territory days, in the modern Indiana section of it especially, they were like angry bees just robbed of their hive and honey. They were killing white settlers coming down

the Ohio river to Ohio and Indiana. They were attacking settlers in southern Indikina, the Pigeon Roost massacre of Sept. 3, 1812, being a tradition in the state. 4 Brushing aside the details of these days, this lingers as the key to the entire picture of life in the Northwest Territory, as it centered about the Indians: Frenchmen in America coddled the Indian. His priests prayed for him and worked with untiring zeal to make him a better Indian. Frenchmen married Indian squaws. They bought the hides and furs of the Indian that he might have the trinkets and whisky which every Indian so prized and so drunkenly swigged, The Englishman ostensibly coddled the Indian, but only to wheedle him into scalping the American, In this he was calculating, cold-blooded and haughty. While in all this the Indian eyed the Englishman with misgiving, at his urging he scalped the American without mercy. The American licked the Indian, if he could, when he was a bad Indian. When he was a good Indian, he treated him as one man should treat another. As the Indian proved unequal to white civilization, the American took care of him.

Women Showed Rare Bravery INDIANA'S NORTHWEST TERRITORIAL days were thus in turn a bloody and rosily hopeful shift, The Americans who ruled it were tough fighting, square-shooting men. Their women braved hardship and drudgery, even the Indian death thrust, as only real women can do. Prom out of this welter of things that were raw, and men that were rough, the Indian, it proved, stayed licked, and the English, smarting from the war of 1812, stayed put. Indiana shifted into the better and faster tempo of Indiana Territory and moved on to better things.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By David M. Nichol Younger Men Direct Red Diplomacy

LONDON, Aug. 27.—~Maxim M. Litvinov, who perhaps worked as long and hard as any other man for the concept of “indivisible peace,” now has been removed as the Soviet Unjon's deputy foreign minister, It would probably be Incorrect to expect any immediate startling shift in Russian policy. asa result. Litvinov, in his Tlst year, has lived a crowded and vigorous existence. Already, he has survived a series of Moscow crises which long ago would have cost a lesser man his job if not more.

Molotov Knew Western World HIS DISCHARGE, coupled with two other recent dismissals in the Soviet foreign office, would seem to indicate defeat, however, of the group which was prepared to trust Rus€la’s future mostly to international co-operation. Ivan M. Maisky, former ambassador to London, and A. 8. Lozovsky, both deputy ministers for foreign affairs, preceded. Litvinov into “retirement.” All spoke the languages of the western world, knew its peoples intimately, were members of the group of international refugees from Czarist Russia before the revolution. Each had moré in common with the individual brilliance of men like Litvinov’'s predecessor, Georgi Chicherin, under whom they developed, than with the machinelike regularity of Litvinov's successor, Viacheslav M. Molotov. ' This is Litvinov's second eclipse. He never really recovered from the first in 1939. From the beginning of the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union through 1044, he seemed to regain some of his influence. In the most hopeful months of allied co-operation, about the time of the Tehran conference, he played a con-

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always hag given high marks for achievement, almoss none for effort. It was this which first cost Litvinov his job in 1939, Behind him were 10 years of unremitting effort to organize collective security for the world against three nations—Germany, Italy and Japan—which he labeled repeatedly and bluntly as “aggressors.” The world refused to take this oute spoken, brilliant and frequently disturbing man see riously. Litvinov startled the Geneva disarmament cone ference with a plan to abandon all weapons. He annoyed economics statesmen at London with a cute ting analysis of the western world’s mounting troue bles during the depression. In the League of Nations at Geneva after 1034, he began a running fight against Anglo-French appeasement in the Ethiopian and Spanish wars. we : He coined the phrase, “peace is indivisible.” He tried to organize the Big Four into a membership, the same as it is now, before Munich set the pattern for Hitler's attacks, :

Make Co-operation Harder ! A YEAR LATER, with war flames already licking around Europe, he proposed a last effort, by a six power conference including Britain, France, Poland, Romania, Turkey and the Soviet Union, to localize the threatening Balkan incidents. The British found the proposal “premature,” according to a communique, The 10-year fight was ended. Six weeks later Litvinov was out to make room for Molotov, who tried his own brand of appeasement, It produced the Ribbentrop pact, instead of collective security, The younger men who are taking over in place of Litvinov and Maisky represent the same tactics and

philosophy as their current boss. This will not make

co-operation with the Soviet Union any easier,

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