Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 September 1946 — Page 8

14, 1946 LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ y Business Manager

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E20 Give Light and the People Will Fina Their Own Way CONSTITUTION WEEK, 1946 JJ OOSIERS have been called upon to rededicate them- | selves next week to the principles of the constitution, signed on Sept. 17, 1787, and to help “to bring about a world freedom as great as we have achieved under our great constitution.” ; : Governor Ralph Gates has proclaimed the period as Constitution week. Throughout the state, civic clubs and ‘patriotic organizations will observe the historic anniversary, "will rededicate themselves to the principles which made ' America a great nation. In this period of world history—as well as 159 years ago—the nation and the world stand in need of those precepts of the constitution: Forming a perfect union, establishing justice, insuring domestic tranquility, providing for common defense, promoting the general welfare, and securing the blessings of liberty. These are days when, more than ever hefore, the constitation should have deep meaning to every American and evet'y one who lives in America.

HENRY’S TWO WORLDS A NEW American foreign policy, particularly as it applies to Russia, was urged by Secretary of Commerce WalJace in a speech at Madison Square Garden. “The world: order is bankrupt,” as he put it, “and the

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United States, Russia and England are the receivers.” All that is needed to bring joy, comfort and security to the world, as we follow him, is for the Big Three, as receivers for the rest of humanity, to get together.and agree on a satisfactory disposition of the spoils; without regard

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HIGHLIGHTED BY AN ADDRESS Tuesday evening at English's theater by William J. Donovan, wartime head of OSS and world war I hero, Indiana will observe Constitution week beginning Sunday. The observance . . . pattern for similar programs elsewhere in the country , . , is sponsored by the Constitution Day committee for the state of Indiana, in conjunction with the National Foundation for Education in American Citizenship. The foundation has headquarters in Indianapolis, where it also maintains _ a “publishing organization for books and pamphlets encouraging Americanism and intelligent co-operation ¥ world affairs,

Donovan an Excellent Speaker

“WILD BILL" DONOVAN is an outstanding speaker as well as an unusually well-informed person.

JI had the pleasure of knowing him slightly when

in Washington with the Associated . . « he then was assistant to the U. 8, attorney general . ., and have heard him speak. He is former commanding officer of the old 69th regiment of the New York Nationai Guard . . . nicknamed the Fighting Irish , , . was wounded three times in the last war, awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor, DSC and other decorations. Before we entered this war, he made several trips overseas on special missions, later became head of the office of strategic services, His knowledge of world affairs is first-hand as well as rounded through operation of his super wartime military secret sexvice. Donovan's talk will emphasize the Constitution as a bulwark of our liberties. .. it will be an evening well spent to listen to him.

WORLD AFFAIRS . .". By Jo ‘What Is Russia

SOME TIME BACK we printed some pieces by Max Eastman about communism. Mr, Eastman is an expert on the subject. He j#s an old-fashioned radical, and he thought pretty well of communism until he found out where it was headed. Mr. Eastman's theme was the question, “What Is Russia Up To?” He. answered the question by liberal quotations from Stalin's own writings and speeches, The answer was that Russia is out to communize the world, with muscle. By devastating, destructive forte, like Hitler. ’

Red Tough Attitude Puzzling MR. EASTMAN’'S PIECES were trained on the long view, ‘and he dealt almost exclusively with the ide-

to say it." — Voltaire.

for the desires of the people concerned. . Said Mr. Wallace: “We should recognize that we have no more business in the political affairs of eastern Europe than Russia has in the political affairs of Latin America, western Europe and the United States. Her type of land reform, industrial expropriation, and suppression of basic liberties offend the great majority of the people of the United States. But whether we like it or not, the Russians will try to socialize their sphere of influence just as we try to democratize our “ gphere of influence.” ; ; Thus accepting the inevitability of two worlds, Mr. Wallace adopted a hopeful tone predicting “that “under friendly peaceful competition, the Russian world and the ‘American world will gradually become more alike.” For it -is his view-that the “Russians will be forced to grant more and more of the personal freedoms; and we shall become more and more absorbed with the problems of socialeconomic justice.”

” - - » ” » T° build his case for Russiah aggression in Poland dnd the Baltic states, and Soviet threats against Greece and Turkey, Mr. Wallace seems to assume that we are imposing our political views on the countries of Latin America and western Europe. To this he couples the notion that we are seeking to establish a vast American “sphere of influence” somewhere. Mr. Wallace apparently does not see the vital distinction between the American position, as asserted by Secre“tary Byrnes, that all peoples should have the right to choose the form of government under which they will live, and the Russian program, which he condones, of police states imposed upon nations without their consent by the force or presence of Soviet arms. ’ One program is based on the philosophy of the Atlantic Charter and the four freedoms, the other upon the “might-is-right” doctrines of Hitler, Mussolini and Stalin. We merely ask for free elections. Russia is selling her ideas at the point of the bayonet, and by the familiar Communist method of liquidating the opposition. The Russian appeasement desired by Mr. Wallace conceivably would result in the two worlds he suggests—a case of dividing the world into two spheres and leave us fight it out. But that's no road to lasting peace. Nor are we as confident as Mr. Wallace that Russia will grant “more and more of the personal freedoms” at any time soon. And if, when he talks about the United States and “social-economic justice,” he means that we will make Russia happy one of these days by embracing totalitarianism, there will be plenty of dissents from that view.

SAUCE FOR THE GANDER ; R years Pan American Airways was the only airline flying the American flag overseas. It did not compete for domestic traffic, but operated from terminals at port cities. : Came the war, and a number of airlines which theretofore had operated only within the confines of the United States were given government contracts to extend their service to foreign parts. Having learned how to span oceans, they decided they wanted to continue global ftying. They argued that plenty of good stiff American competition was just what was needed to improve overseas air service— that the competition of foreign lines alone was not enough to'keep Pan American on its toes. On that argument, 10 -major domestic lines have been granted overseas routes, many of them choice routes which Pan American wanted but couldn't get. Comes now Pan American, saying to the civil aermiautics board that if more competition is good for foreign air service it is also good for domestic air busipess. Pan i American applies for permits to connect by non-stop flights the 13 American cities it is now authorized to serve on 1 overseas routes, It promises, with new and faster Clipper ships, to fly from New York to San Francisco in five and “one-h; hours, compared to present schedules of 12 and

purs-and 50 minutes. competition in dead earnest—and

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"Mikhailovich Genuine Patriot And Guerrilla, Not Marshal Tito"

‘By_K. Rene Buser, Crawfordsville ‘ The recent controversy bringing about the most serious strain of world conditions since end of the war has given me incentive to write

this bit.

Tito, the Moscow-backed thug, has played his hand in a most dan-

gerous game of atrocities against only slightly beginning to realize.

Approximately twenty months ago, due to wounds received in action,

1 was reclassified and assigned to

The camp Was a were Yugoslav followers of King Peter and Dradja Mikhailovich. They had no clothes, ho money, no homes. They had lost all they had everpwned, Once we had 700 in one group. Many of the nicest and finest people I have ever known, I met here and associated with. 1 worked 8 months among them and after that was transferréd to a camp farther north near Ancona. Here they had barracks for the families without small children and only three houses for the ones with children, but stood many uncomfortable experiences bravely. I was stationed here seven months. I worked with these displaced persons fifteen months. They had nothing. They were poorly fed, compared to American soldiers. They had lost all they owned. They had no future. They chose not to go back to despotic Tito. No nation has openly voiced to receive them as immigrants. They were destitute. They were entrusted with blankets, mattresses, or straw ticks, mess equipment, and other articles. In many months we lost nothing. Honesty was in the heart of many of these people even at the price of being’ without tobacco money. The Communists were dead was said to be a Fascist collaborator

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However, Tito was not even in Yugoslavia during the fall of that country to the Germans and Mithe mountains. It has been pointed out that at the time of the fall of YuHitler and Stalin had signed a pact of alliance. The Communists of Yugoslavia, of whom Tito is leader now, refused to resist the Germans, sabotaged the Yugoslav royal army from the rear, and gave the Germans valuable information as to positions of ‘Yugoslav forces. This was done in co-opera-Anton Pavelich, Croate Fascist leader. Not

our ‘nation which many people .are

the Allied Commission in Italy on

until the invasion of Russia did Communist partisan “fighters begin action against the Germans. Guerrilla warfare is a very unor‘ganized type of resistance. Mihailovich welcomed all who would fight at his side. Many groups reported fighting with him were completely cut off from his headquarters and unknown to him. In our camp we had many Chetniks from different sections of Yugoslavia, Dalmatians, Serbs, - Montenegrans, Bosnjans, Hercegovines. Several times we had groups of so-called Chetniks arrive at our camp. Asked as to what group they belonged they replied “Chetniks.” Who was your leader? Dradja Mahailovich, was the answef, Yet these men were found to belong to the notorious Fascist collaborator group known as the Ljotich division. These men called themselves Chetniks. They fought actively at the side of the Germans in maintaining order in occupied Serbia. ” " #” “PARENTS SHOULD GIVE CHILDREN BETTER CARE”

By Carroll Collins, Indianapolis. Tell me one thing. Why should

the maid be punished for kidnaping little Toby when her own father gave the child to a strange woman's

care? He knew nothing of this woman who begged a ride, still he. .|gave his most precious possession into her keeping. What did he know of her health or character? I, for one, feel sorry for Toby. Too many parents don't care who takes care of their children so they don't have the trouble. Many working mothers could do without a few nylons or the new fur coat and train their own children. Homes that board children have been proven unsatisfactory, It is such a short time until they are all gone, married with families of their own. It seems like yesterday they were ‘all babies and now they have babtes of fheir own. Juvenile court sees many a sweet-

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faced young child and knows theg need better parents. They hear Heabjbronking stories, yes, stories that would sbften a stone, but not the parents. Believe me we need a law to make people who bring children into the world take good care of them. I don't mean to make

home. with cooked meals and clean clothes, a sweet smelling bed and understanding. Sorry, maybe I'm not thinking right, but I still insist Mr. and Mrs.

” - ” “POLITICS HERE DOWN BELOW SEWER LEVEL”

By K. W. S., Indianapolis. Here's an answer to Precinct

Committeeman. 1 am not a writer, but a reader.

IT want to say that I don't know of any politician who has a reason to write a letter to any good ecitizen whether public or private, and you are a -cheap politician, the same as the rest of your clique whether you are Democrat or Republican. Everyone knows that precinct committeeman pays nothing so certainly the people have lost interest. Do you know why? Well, I'll tell you why. Because the people are fed up on public parasites such as you. Politics has come down to the grade below the sewer level. The police department and fire department are infested with politics. You would not be a precinct committeeman unless you were looking for something easy. The time is about here for the people of this city to open their eyes to the fact that it is people like you who helped make these conditions. What we need now are men to hold office above the level of your kind and neither party has them to offer at this time. n » » “SOMEBODY IS NUTS ON THIS STREECAR DEAL"

By F. Striebeck, 420 N, Dearborn st. In answer to Mrs. G. R., Indianapolis, Well, she certainly hasn't ridden cars very much, Then she compares the butter situation with the lawyer who in my mind has the guts to defend the public. More | power to him, Democrat or Repub|lican. I ride the cars for 10 months in the year on the worst line in the city, the E. Michigan. Why? Because they say the Tech kids ruin everything. Now I work at Tech and naturally I'd defend the kids, but the other day Tech hadn't started and I waited 45 minutes for a car. When I got on [ said, “did you have a fire or something?” He said, no, the usual holdup. I thought about that and as the car went along there were five, and I mean five, cars coming west as we were going east. So I asked why all the delay and he laughed and said ‘somebody is nuts. Idle equipment? So that is what we must pay for. Somebody is nuts, paying for new cars, new busses, poorer service. More power to Dawson. And so for higher taxes somebody has to pay the new improvements, and I'm a Democrat, so what? » » » “WALK AND, SAVE ON STREETCAR FARES”

By E. F. Blessing, Linden Hotel,

tance of their destination should walk, ideal weather permitting, ‘it's guod exercise. It of course eliminates any token rate, and also solves the waiting, and having to stand up when one does come along. I have

four to six blocks. Like a driver using. his car for the corner store, two blocks away. So walk when you can.

“DAILY THOUGHT

But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at

stand before the judgment seat of _Christ,.~Romans 14:10.

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ological or political aims of the Soviet Union. There's a short-view question abut Russia, and that is, “What Is Russia Up to Right Now?” What's the meaning of its tough-talking diplomacy, of its rudeness, of its misrepresentations and distortions of the aims and intents of its late ally and present benefactor, the United States? Even those Americans who are under no delusions as to the long-haul aims of Russia to communize the world are somewh~t puzzled as to the purposes of the current Russian zi.titude. Why would Russia risk an incident between the United States and Tito? Why would she venturg to crowd us, step on our toes, deliberately hazard 3 ill will of a nation whose military might she knows she could not, at this time, successfully challenge? The only answer to that which seems to make any sense is that Russian policy, at the moment, is dictated by immediate and pressing short-range domestic considerations which must be resolved as a preliminary to the long-range program. Before the road to world dominance can be built, the Russians have to haul a lot of rocks. Before Russia, can achieve world domination, by military force, Russia must be prepared for a long and bitter war. This means that Russia not only must rebuild her devastated heavy industry, but she must build beyond that. This means that the Russian people, weary from years of war and hunger, must be lashed to additional sacrifices, and further toil. It means that the Russian people must be made to live hard-serabble for another five or ten years, and like it; that

DEAR BOSS:

MONDAY WAS ONE OF the hottest days for that date in the history of Washington. But by Thursday it had cooled off. And a good thing too. For when the White House announced that President Truman would see the press and radio people at 4 p. m. his office was packed to the guards. There were more trained seals there than ever flapped arourd the old vaudeville circuits. The capital's big names (and big pay) in both ink and air had turned out en masse. They were poised and ready to pounce. But that conference began with a complete anticlimax. Do you know what President Truman told us first off?

0.K.'s Wallace Talk on Russia

THAT HE HAD APPOINTED Fanny Perkins to be a member of the civil service commission. Then he followed through with another breath-taker. He had ordered West Executive ave, which runs between the White House and state department ‘building, opened for the first time since the war. : A third thriller which he had prepared for this historic occasion was a complaint that one of the local papers had said he was using a lot of materials for a White House workshop, when really he had-ean-celled these plans so the veterans could build houses with them, And that was all- he had prepared. = He asked for questions, They sure came. The allgone feeling of so many that they were wasting time was buoyed up somewhat by his sayihg that his labor adviser, John Steelman, would have a statement an hour later on the wage stabilization board’s ruling on the seamsen’s strike. He sdid that it would not conflict with the administration’s fundamental “hold-the-line” policy. As you know, it was a complete over-ruling of the stabllization board and the grant-

enough for me.” This is the deft touch of James Whitcomb Riley, assuming Tailholt, Ind. modern Reedville, population 89 in 1940, to be his home town. In homely fashion, Riley thus reveals a man's tender spot for the town where he was born. .No normal man—and that. means everybody—can ever forget his home town. For him it stands apart from every other town in the warld.

Holds Up Consolidations IN AMERICA AT LEAST, next to a man's home town, the most important town to him is the govern~ ment town of his baifiwick. That means the capital of his state; the county seat of his county; and, in Indiana, the .spot where his township keeps his records. . oi In all this lies the stubborn rélictance of Indiana, as an example, to turn two financially poor townships into “one. ‘Even economy and efficiency, both dear to the Indiana taxpayer, fade-out in the face of his love for home-made government, even if it's home in his township trustee's hip pocket. “One reason why allthis is s0 in America is .because it is a deep inherited bent from England, like the touch that comes to a boy from some stalking ancestor. * Some of that has seeped through to America, and to Indiana. So when it came time to select a capital for the state, as ‘a territory or ds a state in the U. 8 A, it did seem, even to pioneer folks, just . They made it a ceremony

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General chairman of the state committee is Samuel R. Harrell, Indianapolis, who also is head of the foundation and an active student of inter-

“national affairs. Others wha have served as chairman

are Dr. Frank H. Sparks, president of Wabash college; Harvey B. Haytsock, past president of the Indianapolis Bar association, and C. D. Alexander, former head of the. local Chamber of Commerce.

Entire aim of the committee . . . in Te 3 4

ing 159 years of constitutional government . . . strictly rededication to basic American loeals . . . keeping before the public the inherent value of our form of government, ° > “The fundamental principles embodied in the Constitution are basically those which differentiate this

/country from all others,” Mr. Harrell points out, “It

is these principles: which our armed forces so success= fully fought to maintain in world war IL.”

Education in Americanism THE COMMITTEE HEADS KNOW that there are insidious attacks on and often open scorn of fundae ‘mental American principles by powerful groups, governments and political dreamers . . , and these it seeks to offset by education, : The program reaches into the schools, where with indorsement of the state superintendent of public instruction an essay contest is being promoted. Local committees will remain active through the year, carrying on an educational program and distributing pamphlets of a noppartisan nature on the bases of American liberty . .. that it may be intelligently guarded,

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Up to Right Now?

still longer a life of short rations and deferred please ures of the flesh. A lucid picture of conditions inside Russia, which gives a clue to the current attitude of the Russians, contained in an article in the September issue Harper's magazine, writter by John Fischer under title, “No Rest for the Weary Russians.” Mr. Fischer is a member of the staff of Harper's, and as a represen tative of UNRRA in the Ukraine, had an unusual opportunity - to observe conditions, We recommend a reading of Mr, Fischer's article, The implications of the situation in Russia are

- clear: The only way a tired people can be driven to

another supreme effort like the one they have been through the past number of years is through fear— fear of foreign aggression. And since it is clear to the Russians that the only nation which could match the Russians militarily is the United States, it is in all logic that the Russian distatorship should cast us in the role of villain. As Mr. Fischer jpoints out, it is necessary that the Russian rulers do at least three things.. One is to make the Russian people believe that we are intent on aggression; that as a prelude to that, we are engaged in a diplomatic intimidation of Russia; that we are determined to thwart the “peaceful” and legitimate aims of the Russian state. The second necessity is to persuade the Russian people that their standard of living is constantly im=~ proving—that Russia in fact is a worker's paradise compared to the United States. * The third necessity is to hide from the rest of the common s of -the world the material as well as the spiritual impoverishment of Russia. ’.

Talk~ for Home Consumption THAT ACCOUNTS for the so-called “iron curtain” of censorship about what goes on inside Russia, and the distortion for domestic consumption in Russia, of what goes on in the rest of the world. It aecounts for the tough talk, the sullen pushing around, the truculence, the rudeness, : The Russian people must be convinced Russia is i peril of war with the United States. It must be ma to appear that Russia is talking tough only becau. Russia is being pushed around. All that is for home consumption, so that the weary Russian can be driven

they must endure to further mighty efforts.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Daniel M. Kidney Truman's Press Announcements Flat

ing of the $27.50 raise for A. P. of L. seamen to be extended to the C. I. O. and others who had made agreements at $10 a month less. “Fight hell! We will continue to surrender!” was suggested by one correspondent after the Steelman announcement came forth. There were other things at the press conference which drew fire. He tried at first not to comment on Commerce Secretary Wallace's New York P. A. C.

speech on the grounds that it had not yet been de-;»

livered. But then he added that he actually had approved all of it. - More questioning and he claimed that the Wallace stand for letting Russia have her way in eastern Europe was not a reversing of the policy of Secretary of State Byrnes. Byrnes, you know, thinks that justice and the four. freedoms for which the war was fought should be the basis of peace everywhere and not just feeding the great big bear,

Shape of Room Significant ALMOST AT THAT VERY MOMENT, the bodies of the five American fliers shot down by Tito’s Rus-sian-trained and U. S.-armed troopers had arrived at the airport here and were being escorted with fu military honors to nearby Arlington national ceme

tery. One was a Hoosier, Capt. Harold PF. Schreiber

of New Albany. It's too bad Wallace wasn’t at the funeral. High ranking army officers and state department officials were. But the President's comment on the Wallace speech seemed hard to fit in with Byrnes’ braver stand, The room in which these conferences are held is circular. Maybe that accounts for present policies, Perhaps those materials should be given back by the veterans and a White House office that is square

be built, i DAN KIDNEY.

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow Hoosiers Cherish Governmental Home

same spirit as that of the ceremony of perambulation in an old English parish. Indiana had four of these capitals. Two of them, Marietta, now in Ohio, and Vincennes, still in Ine diana, were an inheritance of the state's territorial days—Marietta of the Northwest Territory, and Vincérines from Indiana Territory. They were like the food a mother feeds her little one before it.can be chooséy on its own account. But when the decision on a capital for the new

state of Indiana became the top matter, it was at |

.once a hot question. The change, in anticipation, was made by the Indiana Territorial legislature in an act of March 11, 1813; effective May 1, 1813. Seven towns—Lawrenceburg, Vevay, Madison, Charlestown, Jeffersonville, Clarksville and ©Gorydon fought a bitter battle over the matter in the legislature, with a conference committee of the two branches agreeing on Corydon. : On Jan. 19, 1825, Indianapolis became the capital of Indiana. It took 160 miles in the mud, two weeks, four four-horse wagons, two saddle horses, and $118.07 to move the capital from Corydon to Indianapolis. Ceremony of Moving Capital 3 AS THE CARAVAN APPROACHED a settlement, the teamsters put bells on their horses in honor of the occasion. Their spirit matched the “ceremony of perambulation” afound the boundary of an Enge lish parish, Out of all this comes this basic thought: A Hoos ler's government home, be it of his state, his county, or his patish-modeled township, grips him as few things in tia world ever do. - 4

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