Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1946 — Page 22

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mmm Give Light end the People WAL Find Thole Own Woy “A JUDGE ON. CHILD DELINQUENCY RLAME for the present high degree of juvenile delin- # quency is placed on “society” by Judge Mark W. ‘Rhoads, of juvenile~court, in an article in the current

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zine. : 3 “The increase in youth crime in these latter years leads us to the conclusion,” says the judge, “that the home and the parents, the church, the schools and all other child~ * training agencies are failing as compared to their record in former years.” : While his honor is putting the finger on agencies which are failing, he might well include his.own court here in Marion county. That court is well-known for the weakness of its probation system, its use of political employees instead of trained social workers, and the repeaters who pass through his court without corrective punishment. We believe Judge Rhoads’ literary effort is interesting, but not very significant in’ solving the problem of juvenile delinquency. His record speaks louder than does his piece in the state magazine: And neither establishes him as an = able judge of juvenile court. :

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doubts in favor of the Communists, everywhere in the world. UNRRA promptly suspended all but food shipments to China, when it was alleged there had been discrimination against Chinese Communists in allocations and delivery. But UNRRA has been deaf to persistent complaints ~ that its supplies have been diverted to support Yugoslav

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With Rental Becoming a Racket"

By Mrs. H. B, N. Talbot st., Indianapolis I'am just another veteran's wife who is thoroughly disgusted wit \ : all- of our government's promises of housing plans that have not been ing attention to articles written by

rioters in Trieste, where American troops are attempting | fulfilled.

to maintain order. or Director General F. H. La Guardia himself charged Russia with violating its UNRRA obligations in Austria, by peddling Austrian oil abroad for profit. But there have

been no suspensions of UNRRA deliveries to the Soviet zone | that was- here. -

of Austria, or two Soviet republics on UNRRA relief rolls.

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proceeds from the sale of its goods have been used to pay People have offered us rental of a

the expenses of government in Communist Yugoslavia, and in Communist-dominated Czechoslovakia. Crackdowns and suspensions seem to apply only where weak, non-Communist states like China and Greece are | concerned—the countries the Daily Worker denounces as “Fascist imperialists.” We put up most of the cash for UNRRA, but policy evidently is controlled by the Russians and other Slavs in the organization.

THE BRIDGEPORT BRASS PLANT EDERAL agencies have before them this week two bids for the purchase of the factory here which was built by the government and operated during the war by the Bridgeport Brass Co. One is the bid of the Bridgeport Brass Company itself, an 80-year-old manufacturing concern which produced enormous quantities of war materials in this plant, and which now proposes to continue in it, permanently, production of brass for peacetime uses, The other is the bid of an out-of-town group of obscure antecedents which heretofore has been engaged only in the scrap metal business, which never has done any manufacturing and which now offers ne program for permanent operation of this costly and well-equipped factory. : On the most superficial comparison of these two bidders there shouldn't be any hesitation about which of them should be sold this plant, regardless of the amount of money

house if we were foolish enough to buy their furniture ranging in price from $700 to $2500. Some racket, I would say. I fully realize there are many people in the same predicament, but whose fault is it? Perhaps in a very short while we will be sitting in the street. Could be! ® x = - “TELL CHILDREN DANGER OF PLAYING WITH MATCHES” By W. NH. Richards, 127 E. New York st. There have beén several accounts in the papers of late telling of -children being severely burned ‘as the result of playing with matches. These things would not happen if parents would teach the child when at the age of four how to light and use a match, instead of only telling them that they must not play with

My folks were kind enough to allow my young son and me to move pert,” Jim Lucas, regarding condin with them ‘when my. husband went into service in December, 1943. tions on Kamchatka. Whenumy husband returned from overseas last March, he was discharged and moved in with us. Last year at this time my father rented the house we are now as keeping a strong army and navy

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“BLAME PRESS IF WE'RE INVOLVED IN ANOTHER WAR” By Harold B. Smith, 3418 Northwestern ave. I read with a great deal of interest, and no little exasperation, your h | editorials on Alaskan defenses, call-

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I believe that al] possible defenses should be effected in Alaska, as well

4 8 5 for defense of the entire U. 8. A. “I8§ COUNTRY HEADING But I object to the constant war FOR IGNORANT COMMUNISM? |mongering attitude of newsmen who By Just a Oltisen, Indianapolis are. apparently doing all in their I read in The Times how Pvt. power to promote a third world war

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be shot by a firing squad like a mad Soovet from the effects of world dog is shot. In the untrained, Poor-| * ggitorials in The Times, as well ly organized civilian army we have| as the mouthings of such writers as today it should be’ considered a Randolph Churchill, Jim Lucas, etc. crime to ask men to obey the orders | seem to point to the fact that they of some who give them. .. .. .. .|believe another war inevitable, even We have men giving orders who if only fér the U. S. (Uncle Sucker) in the peacetime army would not be [to fight said war to protect the Brita private first class. Because I was ish and their very numerous “lifein the peacetime army before our lines” throughout the world. I bewar with Germany, Italy, Japan and | lieve that the U. 8. is strong enough Russia, I have been called by the and old enough to stand upon‘its boys who stayed home in bed a re- own feet and disengage itself as the liefer who wanted a meal. I have tail to the British kite. spent 10 years in the army and had| Being a veteran of world war I, to leave it because of the untrained and having two sons in world war civilian reliefer officers we have in Jr, I am sure that I express the it, who won't take the ee of all who were directly. con-

for their own orders. nected with either or both wars in If this man is allowed to die it!saying that, if we are involved in will be one more episode which will| another war, we can most certainly disgrace our flag and country and|jay most of the blame at the feet make us the biggest laughing stock [of the press of this country and at in history, an army which shoots | te feet of the U. 8. department its men like dogs sometimes even .¢ ctate

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them. Such prohibition only makes on the word of a filthy foreigner. the act more attractive. What's become of this country? I well remember the first match {Are we" heeding the -Communist I ever lit. It was at about the urge? Are we going back to the} age of five. As it flared up I was|ways men had when they lived .in frightened and let it drop. Fortu-|tribes. Which is what communism nately it fell where there was noth- | is. - Being an aboriginal. Has this ing that would readily light so no|country died or is it dying? Can't harm was done. But I never for-| anyone in all this brilliant assemgot how I felt when I realized that |blege answer the simple questions I might shave burned the house|of life? Are we indeed to become down, and when my own son was|a mass too ignorant to think for about four, I put a lot of matches |ourselves? Who can think for

bid for it by either. The United States government could better afford to give-this plant free to a company which will keep it in operation than to sell it at any .price to a junk dealer for dismantling, although the Bridgeport Brass bid appears to be for approximately the same amount as the bid of the competing concern. In the hands of a capable manufacturer this plant will continue to provide well-paid employment for 1500 to 2000 Indianapolis workers. Under the Bridgeport proposal, the costly, highly specialized machinery useful only for war production, will be held intact, ready for instant reconversion in case of need, so the plant will remain as a permanent part of the national defense system, even after it is back into full peacetime production. 2 It becomes then, actually a question of whether to liquidate an asset, valuable to the nation in peacetime and vital in wartime, or to preserve it. There should be no doubt about that decision. We trust there will be non . The bid of Bridgeport Brass Company for this plant should be accepted. .

NO SHORTAGE IN: PROBLEMS SHORTAGES of one kind or another we have always had

and probably always will. Except for one thing. We never run out of problems. :

ft Today's emergencies loom large and memories are short. It's hard to keep in mind that it has only been 13

years since 1933, : gq ‘There were fio housifig shortages then, nor food shortages, nor auto shortages. From today’s point of view it bs might seem that there were no problems. And yet it was considered, in 1983, that the nation faced its worst crisis.

never stops on dead center, : Current prices are out of line with the pay-check. The ) prices will jolt into line but never, perhaps, to

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before him and with them taught themselves better than the people him to count. When he tired of | themselves? the lesson I then showed him how| Do we want a foreign ideology to light a match holding it so that !created here with its artificial oneft would not burn his fingers and man government, which isn't govlet him light several himself. Thus ernment byt gangsterism. vhis curiosity was gratified and he| I defy all the Communists in never felt that ha had to steak! America to say one intelligent word: out of sight to experimente. 4In their massed cells there is good, Parents can prevent all such fires they say. No mass ever spoke, & and their awful consequences by| mass never worked. Because you the simple method of Instructing | can’t make a mass out of men. Betheir children before the possibility cause. who would do it but men of such a tragedy. themselves?

Carnival —By Dick Turner

| wonder how even The Times could {print it. Why not do a little re-

The article written by Jim Lucas was so far from the actual facts concerning Kamchatka, etc, that I

portorial work and learn the facts of these matters before putting them in print? Lucas evidently wrote this article in some wellheated office far removed from the scenes he describes. Since ohe group of veterans with whom I am most familiar returned to U. 8. hands across the entire U. 8. 8. R, and thereby saw many things which were well outside any district any correspondent or statesman could reach, why not get some first-hand information as to conditions there before taking for granted these half-baked items published as truth?

Editor's Note: Jim Lucas is a combat veteran of world war II, is a trained observer, and wrote his articles from on-the-ground observations and talks with highranking army and navy authorities on Alaskan defense, » - ” “HAD TROUBLE RIDING ON CAR FROM THE FAIR” By Samuel D. Shields, 1900 Montealm, I boarded a car at the fair grounds platform and because I had no transfer, paper tokens and money were refused. The driver would not start the car with me on it. A nice policeman got on at the inspector's asking but did nothing. The in-

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| » ” " | “REPUBLICANS ASK FOR BREAK ON POLICE FORCE? By Republiean Voters, Indianapolis We would like to know if the mayor of our no-mean city is really | going to let the Republican police |in at last. More glory to him if | he does see that the Democrats are [put out in the sticks as the Re- | publicans are now, | Go to it, mayor, give us a break after 3% years. ———————————————— i DAILY THOUGHT Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel.—Genesis 49:4. | ~ ~ » . O HEAVEN! were man But ‘constant, he were . perfect. ‘‘That- one error Fills him with faults; makes

~ British Blund ACTION ‘OF THE. BRITISH government in Palestine in placing some 250,000 Jews in Tel-Aviv and the surrounding area under house arrest . . . which meant they couldn't leave their homes . . . was one of ‘the most hlundering methods that could be adopted in handling the problem there, In two visits to Tel-Aviv, I had ample oppor-: tunity to meet the leaders’ of the Jewish community there . . . just as I met the British in the heart of their intelligence net in the King David hotel in Jerusalem, now wrecked by bombs planted by persons opposing their present policy. I am thoroughly convinced that these leaders of Tel-Aviv . , . whose hearts and minds are dedicated to building a Jewish national homeland where” their persecuted. brethren could find haven , . . will not be intimidated by this indignity. Nor would they encourage the terrorism whose perpetrators the British now seek.

Rule or Ruin Policy ‘ IT WOULD APPEAR from this distance that the British have decided to try to break the spirit of the Jews .... something even Hitler could not do, despite his methods of murder and degradation. Right now, in London, the British and the Arabs are holding a conference vitally affecting the future of Palestine, without Jewish representation. They are playing the Arabs against the Jews, and vice versa . . . despite their promise to support steps to make Palestine a national homeland. They balance Palestine and the Jewish question on the scales of their Middle East policy, and apparently would rather have the support of the Arab nations than live up to their pledges and do justice to the Jewish people. As the Archbishop of Canterbury said regretfully this week in his first address in the United States, brotherhood is a quality not natural to man. He pointed out that the first brdthers of recorded history were Cain and Abel . .. and that the one slew the other. Certainly there is no Bfotherhood or kind-

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12—“Big Three unity” was established at Tehran at the first meeting of Marshal Stalin with President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill. At that meeting, Russia gained approval of claims to the Baltic states (Latvia, Esthonia and Lithuania), Bessarabia and part ‘of Finland, and recognition that

the Balkan states, with the exception of, Greece, should constitute a Soviet sphere of influence.

Secret Deals Hurt Smaller Powers UNITY AGAIN PREVAILED at Yalta, Feb. 4, 1945, when Stalin obtained important territorial-and commercial concessions in the Far East which rivaled his European “conquests by coricession.” At both meetings, the members of the Big Three solemnly pledged their continuing adherence to the principles of -the Atlantic Charter,. which Had been divested of any real meaning by deals made at these meetings. . i . On the constructive side, Yalta saw initial plans laid for the United Nations, to which Stalin agreed after getting three votes for Russia in the general assembly plus establishment of the big power veto right. : It also was decided to divide Germany into occupational zones with policy to be co-ordinated by an allied control commission.

were nullified subsequently by ;his breaking or ignoring agreements which did not fit in with Russia's developing post-war program. . He conceded that the government Russia had set up in Poland should be broadened and made democrati®yand that free and unfettered elections should be held for establishment of a representative government. This agreement has been broken, and Poland today is under dictatorial government as a Russian satellite. : It also was understood that Tito's provisional government in Yugoslavia should be broadened by

A SILVER DOLLAR held directly in front of your eve blots out a 10-story building nearby. This measures the limited perspective that Indiana's Indians had of war as they matched their wits with the white man in Indiana to wrest control of the soil of the state from him by war. These Indians were neither battle-trained nor warwise, as battles and wars in the white man’s “world go. They knew nothing of mass fighting in the great struggles of mankind.down the 6000 years of recorded history. They knew only Indian warfare in North America, !

Redskins Driven Away AS THEY STARTED to clear the white man out of their slice of the world, four major conflicts, it developed, were in the offing: Pontiac's war, Little Turtle's great fight, Tecumseh's supreme effort, and Black Hawk's war. Pontiac led off in 1763 in a bitter struggle. But it was only a side-swiping gesture in Indiana. Yet it tied in with his effort to drive the white man out of North America. Little Turtle, however, the great chief of Indiana's Miami Indians, was all set for a major effort to drive the white man from Indiana soil. His long planning and many preparations came to a head on the morning of Aug. 20, 1794, on the Maumee river near Detroit at the Fallen Timbers battleground. A Here the Americans under Gen. Anthony Wayne, and the Indians under Little Turtle fought it out tomahawk against bayonet in a bitter, bloody fight. The Indians lost the fight. The Treaty of Greenville that followed on Aug. 7,

NEW YORK, Sept. 12.—The Territory of Hawaii, abetted by Cap Krug of the interior department, is busily plumping for inclusion into the United States as a legitimate member of the family, rather than remain in its current wood's-colt status. Many an ex-serviceman will remember Hawaii, and especially the island of Oahu, as the frustration center of the world, peopled exclusively by citizens who loudly resented the G. I. presence while simultanecusly waxing rich off G. I. dough.

Melting Pot of Pacific

HEMMED IN BY the curfew, cursed as intruders by the kamasinas, or old-timers, and surrounded by strange, foreign faces and a babel of foreign tongues, the rockbound G. I. generally wound up despising Hawaii and its people. * But nobody can deny that Hawaii is one of the more successful examples of working democracy, and has, from a standpoint of racial .tolerance and -cooperation, more of a right to statehood than, some of our southern states. _If the North American continent is the melting pot of’ Europe, Oahu is doubly the melting pot of the East, with all the European breeds thrown in. But out of a babel of barbaric tongues and a welter of colors and creeds, additionally complicated by crossbreeding, they build a pretty workable plece of lving and mutual respect. ; 7 Oahu, the island of which holds the city of Honolulu, is peopled by Americans and English, Chinese and Japs, Polynesians from Hawaii and Samoa, Melanesians from the black islands of the Southwest Pacific, Portuguese and Germans, Filipinos and-Chamqor-ros—the dangdest racial goulash you ever saw. Te . A typical Hawaiian girl ‘might he quarter Pdrtu-

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . : By Donald D. Hoover ~~

Again in Palestine

ness in the way in which the problem of displaced »-’

Jewish personnel is being handled. Ho : The war is won , .. even if the peace is not +. . for all the allies except the Jews. Certainly they contributed greatly .. . and that without considering their sacrifices under the -axis extermination policy: + « » to winning the war, In addition to the many

‘Jews in the various -armies;, thee was the gallant

Palestinian brigade which fought in Italy with Monts gomery’s 8th army . . , and the many others of thej race who were engaged in scientifiz research. :

Months &go, an Anglo-American commission went.

into the Palestine problem in great detail, recommended that 100,000 Jews be admitted .from Europe immediately. President Truman urged the same action, Prime Minister Attlee says his government isn't bound by the report. To date nothing has been done about it, Refugee ships dump their cargoes at the island_of Cyprus, about 200 miles away from the “promised land” in make-shift attempt to alleviate the agitation. :

Question Is a World Problem

THE “JEWISH QUESTION" is one which concerns the world. While nations grab for the spoils of war, the worst-affected group of people is ignored. And while statesmen mouth idealistic speeches, these people continued to be homeless and unchampioned. If President Truman would take the leadership which is to be expected from a President of the United States, perhaps the British would not be so blatant in evading an honest attempt at solution. When T think of the gentle hospitality I received in those Tel-Aviv homes, of the integrity and honorable aspirations of the men and women I met there, 1 am shocked to know that they could not even leave their homes while the British order was in effect. Terrorism on the part of a small minority should be suppressed with firmness . . . but this business of “house arrest” smacked too much of Hitlerism,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Parker La Moore cs Big Three Scuttle Atlantic Charte

inclusion of representatives of the exiled Subasic gove ernment. This became a dead letter, too. Russia's one substantial concession was Stalin's promise to enter the war against Japan after defeat of Germany. But the boss of the Kremlin exacted a high price for that. Russian “rights” in Manchuria, lost to Japan in 1904, were restored; the Soviets were given a half interest in operation of the old Chinese Eastern and the South Manchuria railroads; Port Arthur was to become a Russian naval base; the commercial Port of Dairen was to be internationalized, and Russia's “pre-eminent “interests” there given recognition. The independence of Outer Mongolia was established. Messrs. Roosevelt and Churchill undertook to obtain Chiang Kai-shek's concurrence to these concessions. The Soviet Union also was given the Kurile islands, the southern part .of Sakhalin, and the islands adjacent to it. All of this was for six days’ participation in the war, as it turned out. Terms of this secret agreement were not made public until a year after it had been effected.

Wheeler Was Right PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT in his report te congress on the Yalta meeting said: “It spells the end ofsthe system of unilateral action and. exclusive alliances and spheres of influence and balances of tried Tor centuries and have failed.” Senator Claude Pepper (D. Fla), hailed the agreements “the greatest step toward lasting peace that ever has been taken.” Senator Burton K. Wheeler (D. Mont.), termed the understandings “a. great victory for Stalin and for Russian imperialism.” In any event, Big Three unity created at Tehra continued. The next meeting of the heads of state was held at Potsdam, after collapse of Hitlerism.

(Tomorrow—Confusion at Potsdam.)

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow ah State Alarmed by Indian War Scare

1795, was a landmark in the overall picture of Indian affairs in Indiana, and in the major Indian plan to drive the white man out of North America. But in the 10-year lull that followed, Tecumseh, the great Shawnee, was gathering strength to lick the white man in another Indian try. At Vincennes, he stormed at William Henry Harrison, governor of Indiana Territory, over land cessions in Indiana, and the ruthless advance of the white man in all the territory. = ; . In handling Tecumseh, Harrison was suave, courte ous, but firm. He didn’t budge an inch about the land cessions. — The two men parted amicably, as gentlemen are won't to do, one vowing and the other expeoting that war would come. The next year it did. Near the Tippecanoe river above Lafayette, 700 Indians under the Prophet, Tecumseh's brother, and 900 men under Harrison fought it out in a hot dawn to sunrise fight on Nov. 7, 1811. The Indiafis got the licking which they had at the last momeht feared, and which, in the long view of things, they probably needed.

Lincoln and Taylor Among Troops BLACK HAWK'S WAR in 1832 was the last great Indian try to set the white man back on his heels in North America, It.failed. But it did give Ma}. Zachary Taylor, and Capt. Abraham Lincoln, both future presidents of the United States, their try in a war that alarmed Indiana from top to toe. Thus the Indians’ great plan to push the white man around and out of North America became just a puff of smoke in a world of dreams.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Hawaii Offers Lesson in Democracy

Jap. and eighth Chinese. She may marry a pure Polynesian, a pure Chinese, Jap, Portuguese, American, Englishman, German or Swede, or she may marry a combination of those races. But no especial point will be made of her child’s antecedents, He can run for and be elected to the legislature and nobody heaves a smear at him because he isn't all white or all brown or all yellow. It is true that the big racial groups—Chinese, Japs, pure whites and Polynesians—live largely to themselves, from preference. But they meet on fairly

pleasant political and business footing, and they | marry outside their race as often as not. The cross- | pred Hawaiian gets along with everybody, because he * is apt to have a relative in each of five or six races. § " The minority group in Hawail is made up of.the § pure white, and he lacks the facilities of Jim Crow © himself. If he has been pleased to thicken his blood- § line with an infusion of brown it doesn’t brand him. ¥ what Bilbo might be pleased to call a mongrel, in the

islands, brags that his blood includes a dash of native

Polynesian, much as many Americans proudly cite !

their strain of Indian,

. Mississippi, Take Note ; HAWAIT'S HEAVY JAPANESE population res frained, with-very small exception, from allegiance tg Japan during the war. And no prouder battle reco was compiled by anybody than by the Nisei battalio who fought in Europe. Any Jap-American soldier who

_came home with less than three clusters on his Purple

Heart was regarded at home as a sissy, and the death lists were thick, daily, with. names like Tanaka, Usuka, Takahara. - TY: : voit en : As a democracy, the islands of Hawaii can give all

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