Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 September 1946 — Page 16
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HE United States, represented by the Truman admin-
istration, wins an uncontested title as prize sucker of “the world for permitting high priority steel rails, earmarked to UNRRA for China, to be diverted by Marshal _ Tito’s henchmen and shipped to Yugoslavia. Gen. Marshall, the President's special envoy to China, requested the shipment. ‘The requisition was given top | priority by the war assets administration on the understanding the rails would go “to China and nowhere else.” Diversion of the rails—8251 tons valued at $337,348— ‘was engineered, it is understood, by a Russian and a Yugo: * slav, holding official positions in UNRRA, that weird organization headed by F. H. La Guardia. : The rails were rerouted on Aug. 7, and on Aug. 9—the Tito’s gunmen shot down the first of the two unarmed merican transport planes. Nothing will be gained by making another complaint Mr. La Guardia, who so readily passes the buck for all takes .of heart and head, blaming the international ond of his organizatoin. £ One man can stop this idiocy, and be held responsible for his refusal, if he does not do so. That man is President
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THERE'S STILL TIME
ny HE cost of living is now almost as high as it was in
June, 1920, at the peak of the steep rise during and after
~ world war I. So say the economists, and statistically it's true. But
: fines are seldom as good or bad as statistics can make “them seem. In this case, they're not as bad.
The government's yardstick for measuring changes is
workers’ living costs in the “consumers’ price index for
goderate income families in large cities.” Issued monthly
the labor department, it's a composite of the prices of
clothing, rent, fuel and electricity, house furnishings other necessities. For the purposes of this index the of such prices from 1935 through 1939 is considered be a base line, a standard of comparison. In July, 1946, the index had risen 41 points above the base line. In June, 1920, the index climbed, to a little more han 48 points above the same line—still using the 1935-39 period as the base for comparison. The difference is un-
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didn't start from the base line. It started in 1914 from 27
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pints below that line, and soared finally to more than 48 _ points above it—a total jump of about 76 points, or nearly
‘as many as the rise during and since theirecent war
"In other words, the cost of living in 1914, when world I began, was very much lower’ than it ever has been : And in 1920 | it went higher than it has gone now. Which doesn't mean, course, that it isn’t higher now than we like to see it. - But it does mean that. this time we haven't yet had ing like the 1914-1920 degree of price inflation. Furthermore, present wage rates are much higher than those af 1920, and most of us who were trying to live on wages years ago know, if we stop to think, that we're better
since, even in the worst depression years.
"off than we were then. » hot z greatest danger.
we can’t afford to depend too much on government controls doing that job for us,
If we're going to slow down the rise of prices, bring #t to a halt, and start a safe adjustment downward, that
job will take work and wisdom. That will require a great and “uninterrupted flow of production, together with a rapid gain in productive efficiency. There is no other way to bring supply into balance with demand, except the disastrous way | of letting skyrocket prices destroy the purchasing power that makes demand effective.
~ FALL POLITICS ~ MARE went as usual to the Republicans, and now the ; fall campaign in other states moves into full swing. © From here on to the first Tuesday in November, we will hear much about “trends” —both sides going in for the customary claiming. : But there is one trend we can count on—that is the trend toward irresponsible talk. It must be something in | the autumn air of the even-numbered years:that causes politicians to put their consciences out of gear and their tongues into free-wheeling. Well out ahead of that trend last week was Rep. Adolph Sabath (D. Ill.) when he charged that Republican financiers “had arranged the stock market decline “to make some money for thé party” and to affect the November balloting.
He called upon the securities and exchange commission |
to investigate short selling “raids” on the market and inquire into political motives. The SEC chairman was quick to reply that SEC was of course watching stock transactions closely, as it its duty. But he doubted that short selling could have been an appreciable factor in the decline, since
an SEC rule forbids short selling of a stock except at a price
“higher than the last sale price. Which, of course, makes short selling extremely difficult in a sagging market. For ‘8 short-seller has to find a buyer, and who's going to buy at a price higher than he can pay on an open market? ~~ Maybe Congressman Sabath didn't know about that rule. Maybe he didn’t know that, under another SEC rule,
requiring 100 per cent margin, people who buy .and sell
ks have to use their own mqney. Having been a conar for so many years and accustomed to using other
8 money, maybe he didn’t know that people using
wn money don’t usually look around for extraneous ‘motives to buy and sell. The hope of profit and are in themselves sufficient motives, . if he did know, he probably didn't care. Mr. Sabath rather than ecoiiomics, When he
t, he wasn't nearly as conmarket as over the pros- | . moe: tic seats in congress. or
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. But the climb of prices during and after world war I
Don’t forget, however, that the 1920 price peak was reached until nearly two years after world war I ended. If history repeats, the next year may be our period of We still have time and opportunity to prevent another price boom-bust, like the one in 1920. But
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“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." = Voltaire.
"On-the-Job Training Program Works Hardship on the Veteran"
By R. L. Trittipe, Indianapolis It's a fine thing when the veteran on- the on-the-job training program is the only ong in the country with a ceiling on his wages and the | men who say he can get along on $200 per month are making $25,000 early. y hey tell us not to get discouraged because it isn’t the money that|® counts but the training we're getting. That may be alright but every paper you pick up tells of some more things that have ralsed in price. With rent and food and the other things so high, how far does $200 go. I realize that the reason for the| a 8 = change was some men were com- | “CONDEMN SELFISH AIMS mercializing on it and making good | OF BOTH MAJOR PARTIES” ! money besides taking the gOVErn-|By Theo. B. Marshall, 1114 Tecumseh st. [them the goat.
By M. C. B,, Indianapolis.
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those men there are many others|every other man. Governments or who were trying to do right and | blocks of governments quarrel over, these are the ones who suffer for the kind of government small pow-| the wrongs of a few. |ers will institute, disregarding the It was a good thing at first but| wishes of a majority of the people now a man taking a three-year of the country in violation of one course is confronted with this sit-|of the principles for which we were uation, At the start when he knows said to be fighting the war just nothing about the trade he gets ended. | a living wage of $200. Two years| The big powers contend over and eleven months later when he places of strategic importance, each has nearly completed his training | trying to strengthen its own miliand surely knows a lot more about |ary position and of course weaken it, he's still getting $200 per month. the position of other powers while What encouragement is there for | they almost daily assemble around
gets a raise, sure, but then it’s | predominated by a spirit of selfish taken away from him. and national aims, 8 5 = Russia, because .of her govern“GROANS AND MOANS ON ment which is opposed to capital-:
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By R. B. Kirkwood, Indianapolis | : posed by the other great powers by To the gripers of Indianapolis, the |. 0. means at their disposal,
retired farmers’ city, as it is known. | I do not uphold Russian comYour groans and moans about our munism, neither do I condemn it. fare increase has come to the dis- | For I do not pretend to know gusting point. You compare other | SP0UER ‘cities’ equipment to what you have | gongs pehind this smoke screen and in this city. driving have been around a little,
or . too, and have seen Probably more |. time the best wovernment’ on country than the majority of you |earth, nor scrap the constitution | 3°18 going to hell.
{gripers. We have yet to find a city | which was written by truly patriotic | |in the U. 8. A. or elsewhere that | and unselfish men, as have many o
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equipment on hand and ordered as cause of all this ado is not a fear|™
fighting in every corner of the satellite government officials of the earth, : (common man. Pull in your ears, gripers, and| Fellow veterans of world war 1 look around. You don't need more | and II, let's use our heads and clear Dawsons. Instead you need an in-|up this political mess not as Repubtelligent farseeing publie view to!licans and Democrats but as good look into a bigger and better city | patriotie citizens of these United of Indianapolis with a ‘top-notch States. With all my power, I conequipped transportation company to |demn the selfish aims and evils of help make it so. [ both parties.
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“MOTHERS DON'T WANT GREAT SCREEN LOVERS”
Monday evening Mr. Paul Henreid of Hollywood was quoted by {a writer whose name was conspicuously absent, begging his female {public not to blame him for not {being the “great screen lover—with
Well, I'm begging you, Mr. Henreid, please don't blame the “frustrated old women” nor the “stuffy wives of wealthy bankers and exwho control the money
Don't make
Blame me, ment money. But for everyone of| Today man is at the throat of [entela; ane Se Ee ee about what little innocent eyes look upon. The children whose mothers are fighting to keep them from growing up to be like the “younger gals around the country” whom you are “betting on to agree” with you. | I'm a part of your female public, Mr, Henreid, and I'm begging you, not “because I'm frustrated, but for| the sake of my children, to keep. your pictures clean. Besides, I think the ones who are clamoring for torrid. immoral pictures are the socalled frustrated ones,
these men during that time to help |the peace table, not in a spirit of wouldn't have to depend upon such
him believe he's getting ahead? He | co-operation and give-and-take but | cheap, unsatisfactory entertainment as the pictures you and Mr. Howard
(“Outlaw”) Hughes like to make. I wouldn't argue with anyone about the sort of pictures being made, if every neighborhood could boast of one decent kid-loving theater owner who would refuse to show anything but good clean pictures, so we mothers could feel sure that! our children wouldn't see things! that would warp their little minds, about 3#t to take eit and eventually, and most important, {stand. T do, however, know wy en [LHelr 3oHis, Rids Ike to go lo the show, they wonder why, when told ! { {they can’t go. “Other kids go,” they Most of us fellows they should be visible to any think- |say; but I'can’t tell them that, unI would not. sacrifice what was at like some kids’ mothers,’ have a very strong objection to my kids’
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Mothers everywhere will keep on fighting, and with God on their side {has as complete a line of modern | our government officials. The real| Somehow, I have an idea theyll
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Trouble with people like you is, you're continually griping (did you learn that in the army?) about ‘the bad things but never notice the nice things around you. Get around and see your own city. If you still don't like it, go back to one of the places you came from. rl fr Se
<DAILY THOUGHT
. d For we must needs die, and are i Ta 4 as water spilt on the ground, 1 5 , ih, A which cannot be gathered up : again.—II Samuel 14:14.
“Think not’ disdainfully of death, but look on. it with favour; even death is ane of the things that wills. —Marcus Aurelius
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AN ARTISTIC PHENOMENON that might rethe advertising people took it over.
priated that ailing department of belles-lettres, which ‘may surprise those of you who , have been led to believe that radio is responsible for the pinky complexion of poetry today. Nothing could be further from the truth. Poetry perked up as long ago as 1890—at any rate, around here-— when the Chinkalyptus Pill people talked the Indianapolis streetcar company into letting them display their metrical posters on the inside of the muledrawn vehicles. So far as I am concerned, that was the beginning of the renaissance, hr #our lines of that poem still stick in my memory:
Pain and grief no more afflict us, Troubles waver, disappear, Up the flag of Chinkalyptus! Sold by druggists far and near.
Three years later—in the period of the Chicago World's Fair when most of the miracles of the Nineties took place—the streetcars around here revealed the fact that the chewing gum people also had poets on their staffs, :
Poetry on Pants THOSE IN THE EMPLOY of Colgan’s Taffy Tolu and White's: Yucatan appeared to be quite talented, but maybe too inhibited; with the result that one day they were surpassed by the poet connected with Faultless Chips, a chicle confection designed in the shape of discs about the size of a half a dollar. This genius actually’ managed to portray the entire contemporary scene in four lines including the plug, to wit: v
“Annie Rooney” and “Daisy Bell” were “Comrades” tried and true; ; In fact they were almost as friendly Little Girls in Blue.” Until one day “After the Ball” into a passion Daisy flew, : Because Annie had some Faultless Chips and would give her none to chew.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.—The first meeting of the Big Three at Tehran convened in san atmosphere of Russian appeasement, and Capt. Harry Butcher recorded in his. diary that Elliot Roosevelt reported to Gen, Eisenhower after the meeting that Russia had moved into the driver's seat. Whether that squares with Elliot's memory now, or, not, the record of the secret conference, as it has become known, supports that conclusion.
Spheres of Influence Outlined
+ MARSHAL STALIN was placated at the outset by a promise that the western allies would cross the channel into France “not later than May.” (The Tehran conference adjourned Dec. 1, 1943). . It was at Tehran, too, that Russian and British spheres of influence were established. It was understood the Soviet Union was to have a dominant role in Finland, Poland, Romania, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, with a primary but not an exelusive role in Yugoslavia. Russia made that role an exclusive one later by selling the United States and Britain on Marshal Tito, a Moscow-trained puppet. Greece was to be a British sphere of influence, and Italy, with some participation by the Unitéd States, was to come under the British influence.
division of Eur between Russia and Britain, an inspired story at the time explained that “American interest of a limited nature was taken for granted in the countries in western Europe, particularly those bordering on the Atlantic ocean.” Presumably, this reference was to France and Portugal, for Spain was in the allied doghouse. The Big Three signed an agreement, styled the Iran declaration, which guaranteed the postwar in-
NEW YORK, Sept. 11.—You got bugs, I got bugs, all God's chillun got bugs. This is the chant of the exterminators, and it is based on the fact that a cockroach doesn’t know a Vanderbilt from a Smith. Exterminators are a rafish lot, who get a lot of .quiet satisfaction, like a doctor who has diagnosed a peculiarly plebian disease in a wealthy patient, knowing that the best people are vulnerable to a common scourge. So sensitive is the average housewife about insectivora in the lodge that most folks who scream for an exterminator want him to arrive in a plain wrapper; or else, carrying a black bag marked “tree surgeon” as camouflage,
It's a Delicate Business
THE MEN WHO LIVE OFF other people's fleas, and whose motto is: “Business is best when it's lousy,” never meet anybody who isn't ashamed of the silver fish in the closet or the beetles in the broadloom. The average woman would rather talk about the bats in grandma's belfry than admit to a cockroach in the kitchen, : . When a gal calls up the exterminator she doesn’t say: “Come on around and annihilate these roaches before they eat the cat.” She hems and haws and stutters and finally says: “I can't possibly imagine how the dreadful things got here, but I saw a horrid little bug in the pantry today and you'd better come over and have a look.” The average woman would confess to leprosy as an alfernative to an open admission of bedbugs. The
British Labor
LONDON, Sept. 11.—A’ little over thirteen months ago, the British electorate put a Labor government in power. Fully conscious of the immense difficulties that lay ahead, they deliberately” “put Winston Churchill out to grass” and chose Clement Attlee to bear the responsibility of leading the country to recovery. J ! Before election, the Labor party published a pamphlet bearing the challenging title, “Let Us Face the Future.” Every one realized it would be no easy future to face, and nearly every one has taken the view that the Labor goyernment should: be given a fair chance. Despite itg failure to achieve the Labor leaders’ high-sounding predictions of future prosperity, the public has been very patient. But now, public dissatisfaction is beginning to be more vocal.
Conditions Draw Criticism THE AUTHORITIES ARE LOUD in their exhortations that hard work and enterprise are essential to the countrys recovery. But‘enterprise is stifled by official formgrand regulations, and hard work is discouraged by meager rewards. However full of ideas and energy a man may be, he finds it almost impossible t¢ put his ideas into practice. * During the war, the people responded magnificently to the appeal for national saving.” This arose largely from the fact that there was practically nothing .op ‘Which to spend money, With advent of peace, people are now looking for relief from drabness and austerity. They would feel justified in drawing on their savings to improve their standard of living. Any visitor to London today is struck by the: fact that in few respects is the life of the people, rich. or Poor, any better than during the war. In many rea oh a » LB 5 hs
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With such a target to shoot at, anything could happen. ‘And it did. The most reckless performer of the fin de siecle period was the poet of the Plymouth Rock Pants’ Co, who revived the impact and power of alliteration; to such a degree, Indeed, that it made old Teutonic poetry look sick. One example will suffice: ! : ¥ ~ 2S e A pant-hunter pantless goes panting for pants, 4 | And pants for the best pants that the pant market & grants, ' y He panteth unpanted until he implants
‘Himself in a pair of our PLYMOUTH ROCK PANTS.
By this time it was 1900, and high time too. The new century contributed a new style in the shape of a serial form of rhymed ads. These stories arranged seriatim appeared at intervals of a month or so not only in streetcars, but this time also on big billboards. The first of these, if I remember correctly, was the illustrated and metrical story of Spotless Town, a mythical place thought up by the poet of the Sapolio people.
Indianapolis entered the Minnesinger contest hy way of the Van Camp people at just about the time the Sapolia series was going strong, a coincidence which may account for the fact that Van Camp's poet adopted the cast and setting of the old Mother Goose jingles starting off with: '
There was a man in our town Who was so wondrous wise. He bought a can of Pork and Beans His wife he would surprise. And when she saw it was Van Camp's She sang in joyful strain, “I'll serve you.such a dainty dish You'll bring it oft again.”
Pork Deserves More Lines : THE EXAMPLE OF the. Van Camps moved the Heinz people to look for a poet, too. It was inevitable if for no other reason than the fact that, once upon a time, we had competition; With such happy results, indeed, that it kept the capitalistic system going. Strangely enough, however, the Heins poems were never more than four lines long: It always struck
me as not enough to do poetic justice to pork and
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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Parker La Moore Reds Gather Dividends Since Tehran
dependence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of Iran, long a scene of Russian-British rivalry, and then occupied by Russia, British and American troops. Evacuation of these troops at the end of the war had been agreed on at Moscow in October by Secretary Hull, Anthony Eden and Molotov, but Stalin himself signed the Iran declaration, which Russia subsequently ignored, resulting in an appeal to the United Nations. It was in return for Stalin's signature, it is understood, that the United States and Britain agreed to support Russia's claims to the Baltic states, Bessarabia and part of Finland. *_ These concessions were in direct conflict with that section of the Atlantic charter which, speaking for the United States and Britain, declared: “They desire to see no territorial changes that do not accord with the freely expressed wishes of the people concerned. . « « They respect the right of all peoples to choose the’ form of government under which they will live.” As an ironic touch, the same document signed by the Big Three and a representative of Iran, contained an approving reference to the Atlantie charter, “to which all four governments have eontinued to subscribe.”
More Appeasement
~ BIG THREE UNITY had its inception at Tehran. And it was there that the Soviet Union first began ° to collect. dividends from the western policy of Russian appeasement—at the expense of the Baltic and Balkan states and Finland. The next “Munich” was to be held at Yalta, in February, 1945, when the war in Europe was practically in the bag. o
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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Some Nuances of Bug Extermination
professional pest killers say that a hausfrau with a small army of everything from lice to locusts assumes an air of indignant surprise when they start carting the pests out by the shovelful. At some time or another, the exterminators say, everybody is afflicted with winged or crawling varmints, which is why the classified directory is crowded with bug assassins. Over long experience, they have adopted the psychiatrist's trick of soothing the patient—client, that is—with suave blandishment. The delivery boy, nasty little beast, brought the bugs. They came with the laundry or smuggled themselves in with the cleaning. Some housewives, tottering on the edge of hysteria, have been known to accuse their best friends of ‘peopling the castle with insects during a long week-end. Generally, though, the grocer unfairly takes the rap. : As a whole, exterminators are a little surly when DDT is mentioned. When pressed they guardedly admit that*there-may be something to it, bt i% prob- | ably won't last. 5
Roaches Meet in '47 LIKE UNDERTAKERS who regale each other with ghoulish stories of the ticklish time they had with the smashup victim, exterminators love to tell about society leaders who have lice. : Pests séem to run in cycles. While the beetles chew circular holes in the rugs, your neighbor is having the same trouble. One year, everybody has rats. Next year, everybody gets roaches, and the termites oonvene in '48.
TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchill
Party Is Under Fire
spects, it's worse. London is as dirty and unpainted as ever. Queues are as long as ever. Shops are as Some restrictions are justified. Skilled labor shouldn't be employed on unnecessary decoration when there are houses to be built, Food should be rationed while there is not enough for every one to have all he can afford. Manufacturers must be prepared to send the bulk of production abroad until depleted foreign credits are partly replenished. But result of all this, is disappointing to the general public. Thousands of young men and women were married during the war. The burning desire of such couples is to set up homes of their own. Apart from difficulties of finding an apartment or & house, there is the depressing prospect of finding anything to put in it. Utility furniture is unattractive and cheaply made. The invariable answer that the retaller gives: to the exasperated buyer is: “All the good stuff goes for export.” .
Party Seeks to Keep Controls ! NOT ALL BLAME for shortages and restrictions can be laid at the door of government, Many shortages are inevitable, many controls necessary. But unrelieved austerity, or “mass austeria’ depresses and discourages the people to such an extent that it might’ d well have serious effects on their natural energy and enterprise. : ‘Sir. Stafford Cripps, president of the board of trade, is increasingly under fire. There's & feeling Sir Stafford may favor austerity for austerity’s. sake, that he and his colleagues are loath to abandon restrictions for fear of losing some of their wartime acquired control over the life and liberty of the ‘ - i x =
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