Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 September 1946 — Page 16
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Ana for an international “ever-normal granary,” to be managed by a world food board, is being discussed by the United Nations food and agriculture organization, meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. The proposed board would undertake to stabilize crop prices on a global scale, buying in times of plenty and selling in times of scarcity. Norris E. Dodd, undersecretary of the U. S. department of agriculture and head of the American delegation at Copenhagen, is reported as saying that the United States is “strongly in favor of the general objectives.” He has suggested, however, that a commission be named to work out such details as how the world food board would finance its buying and selling operations. Mr. Dodd's authority to put the United States on record for this plan's objectives is not quite clear to us. We can’t recall that congress has ever considered the proposal, and the American people certainly haven't been told much about it. So it would be a good idea to work out those details before going further. When they are worked out, we have, a hunch, it will be disclosed that other participating nations are eager to let American taxpayers enjoy the exclusive "honor of financing the world food board. And that will be the time to say whether the United “States is “strongly in favor.”
FRANCE WEAKENING HERSELF - -
THE French are indignant again. They feel the United States is letting them down by opposing separation of the Ruhr and the Rhineland from Germany, They see the Germans moving into the position of a favored power, actively courted by Moscow, Washington, and London, and protest that French security is being overlooked. If France has become a maiden scorned, it is her own fault. The French profess to be as apprehensive as Americans are of Russian domination of Germany, yet they permit their own country to de dominated by the Soviet Union's fifth column. France is not being courted herself because her provisional government has accepted the status of a potential satellite state by allowing itself to be guided by the Communist minority in the country. # The United States and Britain rescued France from the Nazis, but only the French themselves can restore their country to its historic position as a major European power. They haven't made much progress in that direction.
AMERICANS are paying a substantial part of Germany's food bill today. because of the refusal of France and Russia to co-ordinate their occupational policies in Germany with those of the United States and Britain, That may be of little concern to the French, but it is an important factor in American policy. To separate the Ruhr and the Rhineland from Germany would be like chopping off a man’s hands, then telling him to get a spade and go to work in the garden. Germany can become a threat to France ouly by French default, and the present threat to French sovereignty is not from that-direction, but from Moscow. The United States and Britain have been more than kind to France, in many substantial ways. But the France of Petain and Laval is a more recent memory than the __France of Lafayette, or the France of Foch and Clemenceau, | and the trend in the France of today is not reassuring to her traditional friends and allies, When they released her from one totalitarian yoke they did not expect her to bow supinely to the next yoke and set of chains that came along. French apprehensions concerning Germany are understandable, but the worst enemy of the French at the moment is their own instability, inconsistency and absence of unity. They cannot expect to have a voice in the affairs of Europe until they demonstrate the ability to govern themselves. i
ONE REASON
LET labor and management debate the blame. speak for themselves. In the first nine months after armistice day in 1918, the American automobile industry produced 1,073,210 passenger cars and came within 6 per cent of getting back to the monthly average output rate it had attained before world war L In the first nine. months after V-J day in 1945, this in- * dustry turned out only 581,691 passenger cars and fell 80 per cent short of its monthly average in pre-war 1941.
The facts
economy, than it was in 1918-+to take speedy advantage of | its almost unlimited opportunities.
. POLITICAL SCIENCE UTLER university has announced that Clement T. Malan,
to its faculty to teach political science.
ing been purged by the bossed Republican state convention
gourt judge.
i tro the yo c machine politics as it operates ‘in Indiana. : i olen science.
er point it ever had
led or captured. , for femenle—c for anyone.
We don’t know all about why the stock market is ih a | nosedive. But one of the reasons is certainly the inability | of this key industry-far more important in*the national |
state superintendent of public instruction, will be added ‘Mr, Malan retires from office the first 6f the year, hav- |
when he sought renomination. Victims along with him in the purge were Senator Raymond E. Willig and a supreme |
As a professor of political siete, perhaps Prof, Malan ung hopefuls at Butler into some of the
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gree with a word that you ul defend fo the oath — Yoltaire.
I have been making a check in
somebody they don’t like is elected. right to holler, I say. If a citizen can't take time to step into the courthouse and find out whether he’s registered O. K., then let him keep his mouth shut about
the outcome of the election. » » ”
“COUNTRY NEEDS REAL AMERICANS IN THIS HOUR” By G. B. Coyle, Indianapolis. Being a veteran of world war , I wish to say a few words in behalf of Mr. Maddox. I have read his column from start to finish in The Times of Tuesday, Aug. 27. I cannot find anywhere, or place, where he is wrong. Those so-called Communists that are. trying to overthrow this government should be sentencéd to hard labor. They are nothing but agitators in the worst form. That's just the matter with this country today. Why this government let Nazlism, Russianism and all other “isms” go on in this country is beyond me. Those “oh believe in that kind of dirty stuff should get out of this country. And stay out. We have no need for that kind of noxious insects. I'm sure we real-good-to-honest Americans won't miss them. Anyone who preaches such has no respect for good Old Glory. If it hadn't been for good old U. 8. A. where would Russia be today? Under Hitler's thumb, Alle? all the material, money, food, we sent Russia what do we eo a return, Trouble. If all the 130 million people in the U. 8. A. were like Mr Maddox, this country of ours would be a ‘much better place to live. To you, Mr. Maddox—lets have more of this. If every veteran would “keep his shirt on” as Mr. Maddox puts-it, I'm sure there wouldn't Té any of this digitalis going on in this country, I sure wouldn't trade good old U. 8. A. for any other
come back) have a heart to destroy their hearts for America. This country of ours has no use for a
"If Citizen Won't Register and Vote, Let Him Shut Up on Results"
By Precinct Committeeman, Indianapolis my precinct and find a great many, people who are eligible to register are not doing so because they say it's too much trouble. There doesn’t seem to be much interest in the elec- In the first place the project,is tion, which is less than two months off. Yet these same people who are too damned lazy to register or who apolis. It is a group of old prestay away from the polls are the very ones who will beef loudest about | fabricated houses brought over those candidates who win in the fall. They make me sick. They are just|from Kingsford. Apart from exdodging their plain civic duty, and then probably will gripe because If they don't register and vote, no |
can. But remember, if this country would stop letting so many of these foreigners, war brides, come into this country, maybe it wouldn't be s0 hard on us veterans to find a place to live. I "bet any American boy that was a P. W. of 6 Germany or Japan wouldn't want to go back after being back home with his loved ones. So many will never come back. Why do so many ignorant Americans want to preach that stuff. I don't get it. I'm sure I wouldn't prefer being a P. W. So why don’t you foreign-ism people wake up and be : good-to-honest Americans? For the sake of good Old Glory. ” “UNFAIR T0 LANDLORDS TO HOLD RENTS DOWN” By “An Ogre,” Indianapolis I read the article. in Saturday's Times, Aug. 31, about Dave Burton and his survey during which he found 20. vacant houses for -sale with immediate possession. Just why are these homes for sale? What is the underlying cause? It all rests with the unfairness of the OPA in holding ‘rigidly to rents while permitting everything relse-to- skyrocket: The-owners of these homes which are for sale, have been unable to keep them in good condition for over five years, having done little or no repairing or painting due to the unbalance between income and | cost of maintenance. They find that | the one escape from this‘tlass legis-
“TACOMA VILLAGE NOT ASSET TO COMMUNITY”
By A Veteran, N. Keystone ave. I would like to reply to Mr. Rob-
ert Mason's letter concerning Tacoma Village, project of the city for the veterans émergency housing.
|a disgrace to the city of Indian-
tending the slum districts, this undertaking will depreciate the property value of all other properties in the surrounding districts. None of us, the property owners hereabouts, were notified before the variance was granted. This, too, is irregular. The whole affair is of no benefit to any war veteran or any other citizen of Indianapolis. I truly believe that. veterans need homes. We all know this. But no condition was ever made better by creating a worse one. This district bought by the non-profit corporation is a _tract of thirty-five acres of wooded land which adjoins Washington Park. If the corporation had built good, attractive homes on this tract of land it would have benefited city and war veteran alike. As it is, PF thank God for the carpenter's union or any other organization that will step in and stop such a move as this. If anyone doubts the veracity of these statements, they are welcome to inspect these houses themselves. Ld ”
n “WOMEN SHOULD COME HOME BEFORE EVENING RUSH HOUR” By B. K., 2432 Central ave. In the past I have always praised Indianapolis Railways operators and
{supervisors and now I am going to {suggest they install some kind. of {strap or handle on the trolleys be{cause in the rush hours when the [cars are packed and sometimes the operators stop quitkly, there is nothing to editch hold of to keep from falling all ‘over the people | standing beside you. Please, Mr. Reid, we would ap-
country. How can any of you who| price Administrator - Porter in| hours. That way these men and has had a boy, husband or sweet-|your paper of Aug. 31 says, “No women who have done a day's work heart over there who will neveM Rent Hike, OPA Promise.” { could get a seat. And you should come back (and those who did
lation is to unload at very high preciate your immediate attention. prices and let someone else have the|I know the rest of the people would ief. appreciate it very much. And also Just what happened to the 15 per|in the rush hours there could be a cent increase the newspapers head-| way to remedy th#t by asking these lined that owners af réntal property | ladies who are shopping downtown would be allowed? {to come home before the rush
It certainly is a strange state of|see the older men I know who have affairs. It will be interesting to been working hard in some factory watch the Indianapolis Railways | They have to stand up because rete case. Maybe Judge Hanna can | some are so polite as to give these
foreign dictator, It's quite true that! help the landlord, “the world's shoppers their seats. So come on, veterans are living anywhere they biggest ogre.” | nice ladies, go home early if pos- = us | sible. Carnival —By Dick ~Turner “BUS SIGNS CONFUSING
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TO EAST SIDE RIDERS” | By Times Reader for Many Years. |» 1 am confused about the E. New | York’ busses. One is marked 8S. Em-
erson, the other University. The {way I upderstand it, 8S. Emerson goes south on Emerson, the Uni- | versity crosses E. Washington, goes {| down Spencer ave. and Julian ave. | =—but no, you can wait on Julian fave. for 15 or 20 minutes or longer, | then the bus .will be marked 8. | Emerson. Or you can walk two or | three blocks to E. Washington and Emerson, wait 20 minutes and that bus will be marked University. One evening after waiting some | time at the Circle for the BE. New | York University, the front sign of {the bus was marked 8. Emerson, | the side’ of the bus was marked | University. When I asked the operator which it was, and there were {two signs on the bus, he said, “We | don't believe in signs. ” Perhaps | another raise in fare Would straight- { en this out.
DAILY THOUGHT
Woe unto you, when all men ! shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.—Luke 6:26,
» No adulation; virtue;
the lowest
Hn i "tis the death of
Who flatters, . i¥ "of all mankind ty
irs OUR BUSINESS . . By Donald D. Hoover’ 1 Lawyers Again Urge: Judicial Reform
WING TOWARD PRESENTATION in ‘the next ER BE Tt» tt in-_ dependence from politics, members of the mdiana” State Bar association have agréed in principle on severs]l phases of a program to attract high caliber witorneys to the bench. At its 50th annual meeting last Saturday at South Bend, the association received the. report of its committee ‘on judicial selection and temure. Highligh’ of the report was recommendation of use of a sepy arate ballot for judges . . . but still retaining the'party identification “which ‘many find. strengthens the the with politics. . Improvement Sought for Years - FOR SEVERAL DECADES, the bar associatioh has fought unsuccessfully to remove the Judiciaty from politics . , , but its report which will form the basis for action at the 1947 general assembly, if approved by the board of managers, represents compromise. Still, it is a continuation of the professional effort to improve our courts, * Right now, anyone whd is a reSident and is over 21 years of age oan be elected judge . . . he doesn't even have to be a lawyer! To remedy this ridiculous situation, the bar association committee recommended nies bill providing that all judicial candidates except those for justices of the peace shall have the minimum qualifications ‘of admission to practice law in Indiana. The -bill would also stipulate that such candidates, except for city judges and justices of the peace, shall be required to have been a member of the bar for more than 10 years. The problem as analyzed at the South Bend sessions resolved itself into two phases , , , to “give
WORLD AFFAIRS
WASHINGTON, Sept. 10.—8enator Claude Pepper (D. Fla.) and other Russian apologists insist that if “Big Three unity” can be restared, the key to world peace will have been found. So it seems in order to examine the history of this relationship, in an attempt to determine what made it tick, and how it happened to fall apart.
Russia Always Aloof IN JANUARY, 1943, when President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill were planning their historic meeting at Casablanca, Marshal Stalin was invited to meet with the heads of the other allied states. We had been sending lend-lease supplies to Russia,
Editor's Note: News stories and editorials on the seething developments in foreign affairs refer off-handedly to the agreements of Tehran, Yalta, Potsdam. Realizing that many readers have forgotten what happened at those historic “Big Three” meetings, Scripps-Howard newspapers asked Parker La Moore, Washington writer on foreign affairs, to spell out again just what happened at Tehran and Yalta and Potsdam. This is the first of Mr. La Moore's articles.
but no satisfactory contact existed between western and allied commanders and the Red army, nor had either Mr. Roosevelt or Mr. Churchill ever met the head of the Russian government. Uncle Joe's reply to the invitation was curt. He said he saw no reason for a meeting, that all the allies had to do was to make up their minds to cross the channel, “as you promised.” His fifth columnist in the United States had implemented his desire for a channel crossing by mass meetings urging a “second front.” We had established a second front in North Africa at that time, were planning a. third front in Italy, as all the world surmised, and were. setting up a farflung front of our own in the pacity, but these activities were brushed aside. )
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SAGA OF INDIANA .
AS THE 19TH CENTURY DAWNED on the soil that is now modern Infliana, its Hoosiers, kindly speaking, were a mongrel lot, but with plenty of good blood promise. Look them over: The Unifed States census of 1800 showed 6550 of them in nine ‘little groups in Indiana's Northwest Territory—at Clark's grant on the Ohio river; Vincennes, Kaskaskia, Cahokia, Michileinimacinac, Prairie du Chien, Green Bay, Peoria, and the scattered groups of coureurs de bois, the rough cowboys of their day. Of these 3426, half of them were in what is flow modern Indiana.
Busy Industrial Activity INTO THE INDIANA SECTION of the Northwest Territory, three little streams of settlers first came trickling in; down the Ohio river, up the Wabash and into the Whitewater Valley. By 1810, the official census counted 24,520 of them, When the state was admitted into the union in 1816, the official count was 63,897. At every stage of a nation’s civilization, developing or declining, there is a dominant tone like a refrain in music. Among the Hoosiers of ~the early 1800's, this refrain was the angry wail over horse stealing, hog raids, and cattle thefts, Nor was this any idle whim or passing thing. Theft of a horse could mean no-crop for that season for the horse's owner, equivalent to closing & modern store for a year. Hogs ran at large. They were mast fed. and wide open marks for the hog thief. Cattle fended largely for themselves, and were easy prey for thieves. In a dither constantly -over these losses, farmers demanded drastic punishments, and clamored for protection from officials. So on first offense, a horse thief was given 200 lashes and imprisoned till the horse was paid for, With the second offense, he was hung.
REFLECTIONS .
NEW YORK, Sept. 10.—The neighborhood show house has been catching some pretty good ones lately, and I have been sitting on the edge of the seat, watching the bloodletting and admiring the finesse with which the actors kick each other in the bell Yuiogs may be tough all pver, but they-are tougher in the picture palaces.
Worse Than Burlesque
RAYMOND CHANDLER, a man of muscular prose, has set the new mode in motion pictures, much as Mr. Hemingway and the other hard boys built a new lit'ry style after world war I. The movies can't be quite so blunt as to oll the spade an unprintable, comma, unmentionable shovel, but they are doing a pretty good job today of showing that strong meat, Getting away with it, too, in face of a growing queasiness in the Johnston office, which inherited enough of ‘Will- Hays’ delicacy to come down with the tizzies when confronted by 4 good loud damn. Nevertheless, for my dollar x have recently seen nymphomania casually portrayed and traffic in pornographic books used as a minor dangle to an involved movie plot. This comes just after Jane Russell’s censor trouble because of an overstressed chest measurement, and at the same time pinch-faced fathers of Boston are having the hard horrors over “Life With Father,” in which Pa says “Oh, God."
average working ‘stifl’s blood, but a movie called “Gilda” slipped in some business that would have pinkened. the: cheeks of the Freres Minsky. Even the villain can’t cuss in the pictures today,
{but “they make up for it in general brutality. The
~ Bave he who courts the flattery. { «Hannah Mors,
tlean right-handed punch as a stock ! cedure is dead and buried. ‘The 122-pound hero today 4 . :
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. By William A. Marlow Trek of Our Pioneer Hoosier Settlers
Burlesque in New York may be too rich for the:
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Jud more independence from political parties and. eaders” and to “induce ablér men to seek judicial offices.” The . réport pointed out that past efforts ‘in this direction “have been completely blocked from time to time by the legislature.” It was recognized that candidates were subjected to 'political. obligations, and that uncertainty of tenure made good lawyers reluctant to seek judicial office, / Change in method of selection as proposed would not affect nominations in the primary elections tngonventions . . . which means that the reform d not po as far as it should. The compromise before the bar association board of managers still leaves
the initial political obligation which goes with nomi- |
nation. Indorsement of the plan theréfore can have only the weight of approval of a step toward com- . pletely nonpolitical selection of judges.
Salary Boost Recommended A 50 PER CENT INCREASE in salaries of judges probably will be urged by the bar assoclation at the next legislabure, Present salaries are Inadequate, the lawyers asserted, adding that “the correction of this evil will encourage better lawyer® to seek judicial posts, as many of our able lawyers ¢annot afford to give up their law practice for the present salaries of our judicial offices.” A pension plan for judges also was suggested. The lawyers of the state have a greater responsibility toward cleaning up this situation than merely passing resolutions. If "they get behind judicial reform and really work for it, they can get it. And thus they will be living up to the high responsibility of their profession,
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By Parker, La Moore
Background of Big Three Agreements
That the United States was not yet prepared to invade France, and the British unable to do so, and the possibility that a premature landing might be repelled -at a heavy cost in ‘American lives seem to have meant nothing to the American Sommunistss to their master in the Kremlin. X However, Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill not only ignored Stalin's Casablanca snub, but turned the other cheek. In the communique issued after the meeting is was stated that “Premier Stalin was cordially invited to meet the President and prime minister; in which case the meeting would have been held much farther to the east. He was unable to leave Russia at this time on account of the great offensive which he himself as commander-in-chief is directing.” Other statements were issued praising the accom= plishments of the Red armies, But with Stalin still playing hard-to- oly Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill met again in August, 1943, this time at Quebec, to be greeted the morning of their initial session by a demand in the Red Star, official Russian army newspaper, that the “second front” be established with further delay. Never during this period was there any hint from Russia that the Reds would help us in our war against Japan,
Tehran Conference Set DIPLOMATIC APPROACHES having failed, Mr, Churchill resorted to a most unusual expedient to bring the Big Thrée into direct contact. In a broad cast from Quebec, he publicly invited Marshal Stalin to join him and the President for a personal conference. This was followed up by visits ‘to Moscow by personal representatives of the two heads of state, urge
ing such a meeting. Finally, Stalin agreed to a meete
ing, a few miles from the Russian border. This set the stage for a meeting ta. which can be traced many of the headaches plaguing the world today.
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There was Something dour and tragic in all this, as it put ‘its indelible imprint on the early 1800's in Indiana. Yet these same Hoosiers were ‘busy folks, too. The United States census of 1810 tells the story. Their industrial plant was as follows: One cotton mill, 1380 spinning wheels, 1256 looms, one nail machine, tanneries, 28 distilleries, three powder mills, one wheat mill, 32 grist mills, three horse mills, 14 saw mills, maple trees. In home industries, they made: 54977 yards of cotton cloth, 92,740 yards of flaxen goods, 61,503 yards of mixed goods, §nd 19,378 yards of woolen goods. The total value of these home industries was $159,032, and the value of the industrial output was $124,080; the total of the two fields being $283,112.
Thus these Hoosiers of 1800 did right well by them-
selves in their busy industrial activities. But the society of these Hoosiers of 1800.was roist= ering and rough. It divided into two sets: The church and the tavern. The border preacher and the border tough had many a bitter clash. Sometimes the tough was induced to pray, and sometimes the preacher was forced to fight.
Development of Sturdy Class
FORTUNATELY FOR the mine run of Hoosiers of
these early Indiana days, the law was on the side of decency and good order. So the crook, the tough, and the gambler were given the short shrift tha kept them within decent bounds, as the long vif discloses. Yet-it was still a jostling, hectic stret i for early Indiana. Out of the Hoosiers of 1800 came a good slice of America’s great middle class.: A Frenchman once described the middle class of England by saying: “English people are like a glass of their own beer— froth at the top, dregs at the bottom, a strong middle class in between.” 80 Indiana may well honor these Hoosiers of 1800.
. By Robert C. Ruark
Hollywoid Overlooking ooh Stuff
gets kicked in the groin, stomped in the fare, sapped with blackjacks, beaten with guns, injected with dope, shot ina manner to wound without killing, and set afire by his playmates. In return, the hero is allowed to croak his villains by beating them to death with his fists, strangling them, causing othef people do: shoot them in the belly because it hurts worse that way, or having them nibbled to death by. goldfish. They just opened something called “The Killers” here, and I am told that sléek black cars drive in from Brooklyn and New Jersey, pull up to the curb, and sinister boys in wide hats get out to see the movie. That's right—some of the local hoods catching a matinee in order to brush up on. the latest Hollywood devices for rubbing out a business rival. It is not enough, now for an actor to be hands some. His proficiency with a ‘gat "and his ability to absorb sadistic beating, makes him click with the cuties. Mr. Bogart, the hard and casual killer, was given the old voom-voom eye by no less than 4nine.
dolls in his latest flicker, running through a wolvers
inish gantlet of book clerks and lady cab drivers, heiresses and hatcheck girls.
Lust and Violence Seem O.K.
A MIDDLE-FORTY GUY with a balding dome sand an occupational hangover, Mr. Bogart is th greatest lover of the screen. It is probably beca
he packs. a permanent threat to crack their necs.>!
unless they swoon in his arms.
If IT seem hoist on a petard of puzziemeny, excuse
me. But I just wonder what Hollywood is shooting |
at in its avowed effort to simonize the American |
movie-mind, while daily trafficking in lust, violence, | and brutality. A quiet, unofficial comment would be that they are swatting at gnats while the niles, | unscathed, fly by.
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