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Give Light ond the People Will Find Ther Own Way

FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL TODAY is the first day of the new school year for Indianapolis youngsters, Their teachers, many of them underpaid, face again the tremendous responsibility of educating their pupils to take their places. in a world that has ‘changed.radically since even the youngest instructor was graduated from ‘college. » It was Aristotle who likened the process of education to ‘sculptoring. He observed that every block of marbje contained a statue which would appear after the superfluous parts were chipped away. Each teacher has the professional obligation to aid in shaping the characters and minds of his pupils, among whom are our future leaders. We cannot wholly agree with the injunction of the president of the school board, who last week told new teachers that their primary responsibility was “to care for the children parents send to you every day.” Parents cannot shift the burden of character building and care to the schools. The two must work together, as they do in Parent-Teacher associations, to insure sound education in all phases of living, at home as well as in the schools. Virgil Stinebaugh, school superintendent, phrased the problem well when he said: “If our schools are to meet the challenge successfully, the community must provide for our schools better facilities, better equipment and a larger staff of better-trained personnel.”

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responsible jobs to be found. They should be properly paid, properly supported by the community.

GET IT OVER WITH

HE government's wage-stabilization policy, such as it is, evidently is going to have to be scuttled in order to end the big A. F. of L. maritime strike." ~ If that is inevitable, the sooner it's done the better. The two unions that called this strike have no quarrel with the ship-operating employers. Their grievance is against the government's wage stabilization board. This . board has refused to approve wage increases, agreed upon as a result of collective bargaining by the unions and the

L. Sailors’ Union of the Pacific, and $27.50 a month for |

Last June the board approved a smaller increase— $17.50 a month—won by C. I. O. maritime unions as the | result of a strike threat. A larger raise for the A. F. of L. | unions, the board has said, would be inflationary.

to demand and get as much, and, beyond that, it would | open the door for all unions to insist upon having whatever wage boosts they can persuade, bargain or threaten employers into agreeing to pay.

unions have what the employers are willing to pay, and, unless the strike is stopped very quickly, a complete tie-up of American shipping will cause disastrous losses.

tion is on its way out. We see not the slightest reason

can’t stabilize wages. But the situation won't be improved by delay.

“inflation is beyond its control, better get it over with now.

ONE RESULT OF APPEASEMENT REPARATIONS claims against Italy have reached such | a fantastic figure that-the whole business has become ridiculous. But no more ridiculous than the action of the Big Four in approving Russia's claim against Italy before more meritorious claims had been considered. Russia was invaded by the Germans, not by the ~ Italians. And Russia was fighting the Germans when American and British troops knocked Mussolini's Italy out of the war. - Yet the Big Four approved Russia's claim of million in war damages against the Italian people. Countries invaded by Italian troops—Greece,

$100

sian award as a pattern when" they came in‘ with total demands of nearly. $6 billion. Italian exports for this year will be worth approximately $220 million, representing only 25 per cent of the | business the country must do to get out of the red.

vation. The political implications in the situation become clear when it is considered that $2 billion in the reparations demafids represent the claims of Yugoslavia and Albania, two of the Soviet satellites. Any such awards would mo¥tgage Italian economy to Russian communism in perpetuity. Meanwhile, 47 million

Britain for sustenance.

forward, to build a grand, total of $30 billion.

anticipated for some years to come. the reparations demanded. ‘make the picture even more fantastic. ‘been reduced to an absurdity as it is.

in particular, have just claims against Italy : should be paid, when Italy\is able to pay.

e thrown in the waste basket.

. Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard News~ |

Our teachers have one of the most difficult and most |

slavia, Ethiopia and Albania—apparently accepted the Rus-!

Italy | will require an $880 million ¢redit next year to avert star-!

helpless people wotild be looking to the United States and

To counter the Communist claims, the United Kingdom and countries in that orbit have pushed their demands |

Now the claims exceed by 300 times the $100 million | award to Russia, and if all creditors share and share alike | no one nation stands to get much if anything out of the | deal. For no payments can be made until there is an excess of exports. over imports, and such an excess cannot be | - Italy’s national wealth | is estimated at only about $26 billion—$4 billion less than

The United States’ claims, if presented—which could $20 billion if based on-the Russian award yardstick— } But the issue Greece and J.

But the | to the foolish gesture ofsRussian appeasement has |

; such a weird situation that the whole issue might |

say, but |

Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you

your right to say it."

OUR TOWN . How They Mixed”

WITH VALUES FLUCRUATING the way they are ‘today, Almost my only comfort is a little k entitled “Mixed Drinks: 4 Manual for Bar Clerks Up to Date.” It was written by Herbert W. Green of Indl-

Denison House bar (or “Casino” as the gay blades called it at the time). If you're old enough (seasoned enough, too) to remember what | the inside of. the: old Denison House looked like, you'll recall that the drinks served over its bar never varéed by as much as a nuance. Well, after all these years (52) hére finally is the right answer: Green's manual was the bartenders’ style book. With his very first sentences, Mr. Green brings back to a distraught world a forgotten sense of order and security. “I have been in this line of business many years,” he says, “an active and observant worker commencing my career with Messrs. Chapin and Gore. Amid the ebb and flow of life in the palace of conviviality, between drinks as it were, I have takén a great many notes mentally, - and I now commit them to paper to be launched out upon. the sea of literature, a craft bearing the secrets of the saloon as revealed in book form, comprising the art of tending bar, the mystery of mixing drinks, the etiquette of the saloon, thé conduct of bar clerks and proprietors, the ‘literature of beverages and many tabulated statements and scraps of information never before published, but very useful to the man behind the counter.”

Ever Drink a Lillian Russell?

MR. GREEN IS AS GOOD as his word and reveals the secret of no less than 169 mixed drinks called for by the habitues of the Denison House bar back in the days when it enjoyed a nation-wide reputation. According to Mr. Green, there is only one authentic way of compounding a General Harrison, to-wit: “Fill large lemonade glass full of fine ice, one large spoonful sugar, one egg, fill with cider. Shake thoroughly; strain in thin glass, nutmeg on top.” And to end all bickerings, here finally in Mr. Green's own-words is the honest-to-goodness recipe

IN WASHINGTON .

Mr.

will defend to the death

— Yoltaire. WAS GTON, Sept. 9.—Many of the recon-

| ticular attention to it before.

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| conservation department, I'd like to! |say I think they're doing a good job Obviously, it would invite the C. I. O. maritime unions that deserves support.

“GIVE AMATEUR SPORTS [MORE SPACE IN PAPER” r 1D. R,

But .the government, quite plainly, has no way of paper for 30 years, I have never stopping the present strike except by letting the A. F, of L. |had & complaint until now. Being

on my hands. of it in the city’s various parks.

So we think, President Truman had better admit | Hlicity to all sport associations, clubs, promptly, and as gracefully as he can, that wage stabiliza- |organizations, schools, ete. {sport department weekly runs col-

{umn after column on the Indianajpto believe that the government can stabilize prices if it ois amateur basebell association

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partment editors to treat all schools, [IUDs

{grounds would attract those who alemployers, of $82.50 a month for members of the A. F. of ready are interested in conservation and at the same time probably

| would stimulate a great deal of inmembers of the A. F. of L. Seamen's International union. [terest in conservation on the part

"Add $! to Fishing Permit to Help Build Conservation Display"

+ By Fisherman, N. Pennsylvania st. I read with great interest the article in Thursday night's Times about

the need for a new building which would be a permanent exhibit of the fine work of our state conservation department. | everyone who hunts, fishes, visits the state parks, or who farms, should once dead and now revived, to fine | industry fomented trouble “between civilians and | be interested in. As the article points out, the scouts would benefit by | ‘an ex-paratrooper ten dollars. The the building, too. |

This is a question

Here's my suggestion. Why doesn't the conservation department

make some sort of a poll to find out whether people would be willing to | whistling at a woman. | have a dollar added to their fee for hunting and fishing permits? I know |

would, and so would several other fellows I broached the idea to.

VIEWS ON THE NEWS

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

those who hadn't paid any per:

As one who likes to fish in the, yp0q in Russia. The presidium kes and streams stocked by the) p be retained. The latter must be Joe's bad news department.

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for the U, 8. 8. R, was Stalin’s V-J day report that the Russians licked the Japs,

» o ” Now it seems that the war could

Indianapolis. Having been a reader of your

iby civilians. Only trouble is that {they might not have won it. s ” » Labor day passed peacefully in {the U, 8S. A. with only a few moré , | killed in automobile accidents than got killed in a Bombay riot, » n veterans

retired worker I have much time| I spend a great deal

My complaint is equal free pub-

Your

Organizing is taking

tup. Why not drop this profes-

Big Business.

If the | {sional outfit from papers. There is| . ' not an amateur team in town. Start | government must make the distasteful decision that wage 'a campaign and investigation of

® 8 Elliott Roosevelt's new book should {be subtitled “How I shot my way into a generalship with a candid! camera.’ .

mplete setup. Tell your sports de- |

and associations equally in’

writeups |

What is the reason

Indianapolis amateur baseball as-|quency of the children.

sociation in fairness.-to all clubs and the public

after column on the

as gi

and help stop child delinquency. |

We expect true, human and heart-to-heart reWhy doesn't. your sports depart-| port. Get the boys to” work on a ent wake up and write eolumn| worthwhile sport program on equal | junior baseball | basis or drop the free publicity to | sociation and the American Le-| | the Indianapolis amateur baseball oni baseball setup for the ‘youth, | association from the sports pages. Be more than fair, help fight

Get your sports department on the child delinquency with print and

| fleld daily in the parks. good for all the small children. stories.

Do real words of real human interest and Get the public behind the

Write big articles of the setup of children’s programs and the junior

| each, their play-off for champions, Yugo- | going on now.

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papers,

Side Glances— By Galbraith

baseball, | grams. the local on all you never mentioned,

American Legion proI await some real articles subjects, associations, etc., Sharing at once.

But by reports from

sports repotis

! » SOPRA. 1548 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. TY. M. REG. 1. 8. FAT. OFF

"Please call my wife and get a ful il report 2 on +h at half i. 80s program of family trouble that | worried about all during my vacation!"

| ramifications this case.

| whistles. Stalin announced rationing would | yniform

announced later that rationing will | Robinest, the noted bird lover, will agree with ‘me that some whistles

A new high in delayed news, even |

| whistle's duration. I just tried it by have been run more businesslike my shock-proof Bulova and . find

the place -of organizing labor as]

version troubles the country is experiencing today are a direct result of the army's stubborn refusal to permit any planning for this change-over period, Donald Nelson claims in his new book, “Arsenal of

“WHISTLING FINES GOOD SOURCE OF CITY INCOME” By Judson F. Haggerty, R. R. 6, Box 454.

And’ now the immortal Judge| Democracy.” Nelson was a director of the war Niblack, invulnerable = magistrate, | production board during the war and is now a film |guardian of the peoples’ rights, | executive in Hollywood.

He further claims that some of the “double-talk” the army put out during the war in an effort to discredit the WPB and grab control of American

potent fist 8f the long arm of the law, digs up a weary ordinance, |

soldiers.

No 'Production Crisis’

THE BOOK 1S BOUND to set off a lot of fireworks in official circles. It's one of the rirst now-it-can-be-told stories to come out on some of the shenanigans that went on in Washington during the war in putting American industry on a war production basis. Nelson writes: “The long and bitter controversy with the military (against WPB) over control of America’s civilian economy came to its climax in the summer of 1944, with the fight over our reconversion program. To a large extent this battle was lost (by WPB). To a large extent, the military took control over the economy, and many of the reconversion difficulties which arose later, after Germany and Japan had finally been knocked out, can be traced directly to that fact.” Nelson says he was envoutaginig some cutbacks in

REFLECTIONS

| offense, if it. can be called that, was

I am interested in -the legal

and possibilities of Perhaps the lady pos-

sesses the common human characteristic of conceit—how can she be sure the romantic villians whistle was meant for her. Secondly, I would like a definition of Surely there can't be a levy on all types of

whistles. I think Sandpiper Mc-

are entirely chaste. To be sure, the perpetrator of the suggestive, long, low whistle must be punished by law. But why not have method with our legal madness?

I suggest the offender be fined a dollar for each second of the

that I can produce a whistling sound for 15 seconds. Think of,it! Five extra dollars to bolster the city’s depleted treasury. And I, a law-fearjng man, am not even in practice—consider some of the more leather-lunged specimens and their contributions. This is painless extraction at its best. Though not an economist by profession, I think I've solved our fair city’s budget problem, Lét's import| a whole covey of comely quail from| Hollywood, establish two or three!

NEW YORK, Sept. 9.—No accurate history of these peculiar times can be written without a “full chapter on baby-sitting, a social phenomenon which has had more impact on the American family than anything since selective service. Indeed, it has been suggested that Miss Baby-Sitter, 1946, be elected by popular pbll, and firmly planted in a time capsule— as deeply as possible. Worming its way from a frail beginning, whereby one bribed the neighbor's brat to stay home with your treasure, baby-sitting has progressed to a major industry, needing only the official recognition of John Lewis or Jimmy Petrillo to sanctify it as a legitimate

the park know what great work is being done |

a g y , by - certain groups to curb delin-| o board ‘can't take over the work of |b) groups | shirts on," but we sometimes wonder

a full and complete, | Which side won the war,

labor force.

Key to-an-Evening-Out THERE WAS A TIME when the home revolved around father's ability to earn, but so deeply has baby tending bitten its initials into the psychology ofthe family that now the home revolves around the baby-sitter. It may once have been possible for parents to park their sunbeam with grandparents while they attended the church social, but who can saddle a child onto grandpa now, when grandpa is cavorting in the ginmills, or is having baby-sitter trouble of his own? Apparently, there are depths of frustration in the employment of “child watchers which far surpass the ordinary difficulties of hiring domestic help, staffing a factory, or finding a secretary who can read and write. Babysitters form a unique guild. - They are no ordinary peons, but professional persons with an ingrained sense of snobbishness, a great sensitivity, a conqueror complex and a seemingly insatiable

whistle detector sets on each nlock,| Inab-the-culprits inor shortly after [the criminal act, and well all be| |rich and righteous,

We veterans are still “keeping our

“COMMUNIST HAS RIGHT. . TO VOTE IN ELECTIONS” By Michael P. McDermott, Indianapolis. Mr. A. J. Schneider who writes frequent letters to the Forum, said| in. your paper Saturday, Aug. 31: “The C. I. O,, through its high leaders, openly and publicly announced its allegiance to communism -by urging the Communist party on the November ballot.”

| appetite. Surely Mr. Schneider knows that| ars Martha Erwin, a steady customer, writes a it is un-American to deprive any|

| nice, if slightly hysterical, letter affording the perfect citizen the right to. vote «for. his| yndex to the complexity of procuring a safe herdsprinciples, Regardless of what Mr.| man for mama's darling. Mrs. Erwin says she reSchneider may think of communism | cently went to a party, and naturally obtdined a tem-

and Communists, they have as| r outs. | much right to vote their sentiments| porary guardian for hier shee sprout

{as Democrats and Republicans,! | Socialists and Prohibitionists, have | [to vote their sentiments,

| My son fought alongside Com- | munist veterans in the recent war and he found them to be courageous and patriotic. One of his Com- STUTTGART, Sept. 9.—Secretary Byrnes’ Stutt(munist buddies gave his life at| gart declaration is interpreted here in Germany as Anzio. If this Communist veterangan end of American appeasement of Russian totali{had lived to come home, would Mr.| tarianism and militarism. | Schneider deny him the right to] As such, it is welcomed by American military. gov'vote for the party of his choice? ernment officers, ‘by German officials in the United Why is Mr, Schneider so alarmed | States zone and by representatives of the western about communism? If you want to powers. keep our country from accepting | It has lifted their sagging morale. But if would be communism, all you have to do is| an exaggeration to say it has restored their hope that to provide jobs for the working man| a just and secure peace is in sight. They are far too so that he can support his family. Maybe Mr. Schneider is afraid that if communism came to the U. 8S. A. he would have to go to work.

sian obstruction to have any illusions about the trying times ahead. ? But the firmer American policy laid down by the secretary of state has provided leadership which was

DAILY THOUGHT sorely missed before. on this it can rally the hesitant democratic forces

And though I have the gift of | 'o Europe, and may save this surly, confused, defeated prophecy, and understand

mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so. that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. ~I~ Corinthians 13:2. s o

lanism. Mr. Byrnes’ words have had an electric effect precisely because they answered clearly and courageously questions all Germany and all Europe have been asking. And he answered them in the way democratic people hoped he would.

| ! yo i . | In faith and hope the world will Pledged U. S. Will Stay disagree, THOUGH HE DID not name Russia, everything he sald was understood in terms of the deadlock between | But ll .mankinds concern is the Boviets and thelwestern powers, which has in- _ Chanty. creased German chaos, divided Europe into two armed N. ‘—Pope. |camps and stimulated fear of another war,

By Anton Scherrer dig .

anapolis way back in 1894 when he operated the

- duction programs at home were behind schedule.

By Robert C. Ruark

deep in the struggle against German chaos and Rus--

If Washington follows through

all | Germany from turning toa new form of totalitar- .

‘Em at’ ‘Old Denison.

for the celebrated Denison Casino Sour: “Fill mixing glass two-thirds full of fine ice, one large spoonful Wu, juice of one-half lemon, two. dashes Jamaica

rum, one jigger ‘whisky. Shake well; strain in stare

champagne glass, add fruits of season.” ! To compose a Molly Sholly: “Put two or three lumps of ice in thin'lemonade glass, one ‘wine. glass claret, fill with ordinary soda water.” A genuine Lillian Russell which probably promoted more stylish courtships in the Ninetiés than any other one thing went like this: “Fill a lemonade glass two= thirds full of fine ice, one bar-spoonfiil curacao, o bar-spoonful marasching, fill with Cook's Imperial One pint ‘of champagne will make two servings, says

‘Mr, Green. Old-timers remember that it had to be

repeated to get results, A Stone Fence was a plain whisky with cider on the side instead of the usual water. A White Plush started with the same base, but ended with milk as the chaser, And listen: “To make a Highball,” says Mr. Gréen, “put in thin ale glass two or three.lumps of ice, fill with syphon seltzer to within an inch of the top, then float one-half jigger of whisky.” Shows what a topsy-turvy world we're living in today. Let a mode ern bartender have his way and, sure as shootin’, he'll put’ in the whisky first and dump the water on top of it.

Moderp Genius: at the Bar

MR. GREEN'S PRESCRIPTION for a Moriing Bracer was free of empiricism, too. It consisted of a teaspoonful of Bromo-Seltzer, one jigger of Holland or Old Tom gin and enough syphon water to fll] a tall glass, Unless it was an aggravated hargover, one dose usually did the trick. As for the modern martini (nd two” of which taste the same today), it turns out to be a corrupt and streamlined version of what Mr. Green called a Martinez: “Fill mixing glass two-thirds full of fine ice, one small teaspoonfull sirup, two dashes Caroni or Angostura bitters, one-half jigger Old Tom gin, one-half jigger vermouth. Stir well; strain in cooled cocktail glass and squeeze oil from small piece lemon peel on top.” Shows how we have deteriorated—unless, of course, the dropping of an olive into a cocktail can be cone sidered a stroke of genius.

By Douglas Larsen

Nelson-Army Feud Is Still Echoing

military production even before the invasion of Normandy. This infuriated the top men of the army's services, Nelson says. They charged that a “production crisis” existed. " Nelson continues: “The plain truth was that there was no such thing as a ‘production. crisis’ The ballyhoo campaign put on by the miiltary people did nething to solve the problem, but it did divert attention from the army's own miscalculations—and this may have been one reason why the campaign was conducted with such vigor, “The army’s technique was to go into great detail about shortages at the front—which; of course, were most distressing to rad about— then, in the same breath, to draw attention to the fact that war proBut the record shows that not in a single instance—after the critical early period of 1942—did an American fighting man at the front have to go without muni=tions because of any failure in production. Front line shortages in the summer of 1944 were a question of logistics, and were not due to production shortages.”

F.D.R. Was Concerned

THE PRESIDENT, Nelson reveals, was always worried about the mino# arguments that took place within the board and between it and the army. He told him several times to. try to do what he could to keep peace. The accounts of his trouble with the army are not all the book sets out to tell. It is an important part of American history, recounting the great deed of American industry and labor during the war.

Baby-Sitters Become an Institution

The sitter, in turn, was forced to get a sitter for her two chicks. And Mrs. Erwin’s sitter's sitter had to-be relieved early so she could rush home and relieve the sitter who was sitting with Mrs. Erwin’s, sitter’s sitter’s baby. Procurement of part-time brat wranglers who are not apt to set the houses afire or stash Buster in the icebox has becomé sp much an.industry that bureaus have formed all over the country.

In Washington, veterans returned to college simul= taneously do their homework and pick up a fast buck to augment their government subsidy by seeing that the bureaucrats’ images don’t choke themselves on the rattle. In Canada, new agencies have sprung which provide sitters who can display papers to prove they are neither arsonists,thieves, nor ax murderers. In New York, three special services are turning away the customers. The baby-sitter today provides a source of ‘more indignant female convérsation than ever was reaped from papa’s preoccupation with poker br the horses. Housewives say that baby-sitters eat their food and drink their liquor and condu¢t flaming romances in the parlor. They accuse them of being shameless gossips with a habit of retailing family frailties to the next employer,

Refrigerator Privileges, Too = THEY HOLLER ABOUT the high cost of bab; sitting and they are in deathly fear of returning from the movies to find junior floating face down in the tub, But like it or not, the part-time ‘watchdog of the young has edged into our lives, like the atom bomb, Truth of the matter is, baby-sitters are so necessary and so hard to get that mama would -be tempted to leave her } el in the custody ‘of Herman Goering if it meant é difference between staying home all the time and an occasional fling at the fleshbots. Anything short of an ogre with firebug tendencies is acceptable, and icebox privilege goes with it.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS « « + By Ludwell Denny Russ Appeasement Believed Ended

The kicker in Mr. Byrnes’ speech was his pledge that ¢he United States is not pulling out ot European affairs, but is remaining to help build the kind ot just and secure peace for which the democracies fought the war. Only Germans, whose greatest fear has been that American troops would withdraw and the Red army would take over the rest of the country, can get the full effect of that promise. But it is also impressive to our western European allies.” They have been haunted by memories of the aftermath of world war I, when the United States left them alone to guard the peace—with disastrous consequences to them and to ourselves. Today, they say frankly they are too weak to bring order out of European chiios,.and to withstand Russia's aggressive expansion across the continent, without help ffom the United States.

Chaos Is Prolonged

IT 1S A MISTAKE, however, to assume that mili« tary power is the only factor in the present stage. The Russians know that economic and ideological factors are fixing the fate of Eurape. Hunger and despair will not lead Germany to peace or democracy. That is why Russia's refusal to treat Germany as an economic unit, as provided by thé Potsdam agrey /

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man political development. And that is why Secree tary Byrnes made such an issue of economic unity. ‘Gerniany must “be allowed to recover as a peaceful

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