Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1946 — Page 12

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‘MEAT AND POLITICS | 4 WE had sort of expected the Republicans to make a few : references to the meat shortage in the fall campaign, but we didn’t really expect the Democrats to leap right in and accept the responsibility for it. lh That's approximately what M. Clifford Townsend, as the head of the Democratic state ticket, did last week at French Lick, though. Inferentially indorsing the return of OPA, he insisted that the new price ceilings have nothing to do with the fact that you can’t buy a pound of hamburger or a pig tail at any price in all of Indianapolis, and went on to promise that there'll be plenty of meat on the store coun ters by the last of October. So there's one direct Indiana campaign issue, at least, with. the lines clearly drawn and the both sides voluntarily, in corners of théir own choosing. It goes a Jot farther, of course, than the question of no meat at 60 cents a pound or plenty of meat at 70 cents, which the events of the last three months have shown be- | yond any question or argument is the situation. The real issue, of which this is only the outer fringe, is whether we are going to continue to have a federal government that dictates to each individual how much money he shall earn, how much he shall pay for everything he buys, what he can make, what he can spend, what he can sell, and every other little detail of his daily life. This system got its greatest development under the guise of war necessity, but as a

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next six years, during which period the United States senate is going to have to decide whether awe go on into patérnal totalitarianism, or whether we restore to the ordinary average American the right to run his own private life, and to decide for himself, for instance, whether 40 cents is “too much to pay for a pound of round steak. We'd like to hear Mr. Townsend develop his views on this issue a little further—in fact a good deal further. And we'd also like to hear what Mr. Jenner has to say on the subject. : "© There is no issue more important in this campaign, ‘none that affects more vitally the voters of Indiana.

GAMBLING CHARGES DISMISSED S )MEHOW we had a hunch this was going to happen. Away last May, remember? the state police went out to the Chesterton Social club, at Clermont, and raided the joint, as the opening gun of a considerable state crackdown on gambling. They confiscated a lot of paraphernalia that to most people, including the state policemen and the newspapermen they had invited to attend the ceremonies, looked exactly like dice tables and roulette wheels and other odds and ends used in separating the suckers from their cash. : : Saturday we hear, quietly enough, that the charges against Big John Thornton and his associates have been dis- * missed, a court having held that the confiscation of the furniture wasn't legal. : It was no surprise, though. Our hunch began when we saw them carefully packing up this gambling outfit, meticu‘Jously not breaking or scratching any of it, under the direc-

the “raid,” after a fashion, was still going on. It was strengthened when a subsequent search the next day not only failed to show where the dice tables, roulette wheels etc., were stored, but even to produce any public official who knew what had become of the stuff. As most everybody in Danville knows, this Clermont joint had become so notorious that its presence was affecting the primary elections. So a raid was put on, with photographers and all the trimmings. This is what came of it. » You can call this law-enforcement if you wish. don't.

PHONY AND FUNNY

THE Russians’ reputation as master propagandists has been sent into a nose dive by the heavy-handed effort to paint long-suffering little Greece as a potential aggressor nation. The Soviets sent their most accomplished orator, Dmitri Z. Manulisky, to Lake Success to depict the Greek threat to communism before the United Nations security . council. But even that suave son of the Sorbonne “found it more to his taste to talk vaguely of “Munich shadows” and Dr. Goebbels than to put too much stress on the menace in the isles of which Byron sang. Some Americans saw reason, if not justice, in the ] desire of Russia to surround herself with a cordon of friendly satellites, for the Russian disposition to view with alarm is proverbial, and fear dominates all else in the land of the Soviets. But the ideological brain-truster who cooked up the idea that it was smart public relations to make a bogeyman out of Greece must have misread his notes and thought that Alexander of Macedonia was running for election this

~~ We choose sides in this, country on most issues, but we ~ are all outraged when a big bruiser kicks somebody’s friendly old grandpappy in the groin. ; But maybe it was just Greece's turn. Last time Russia | up a menace to the peace it was little Iran. week, who knows? Maybe Luxembourg,

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Streetcar Fares as Compromise”

By Charles T. Lee, 4531 N. Meridian st. Streetcar and bus riders will never get satisfactory service unless the Indianapolis Railways abandon charging for transfers. Charging pennies for them always slows the operators’ schedule and consequently the riders cost them time to reach their destination. The majority of citizens only ask for a fair price and proper service. We are not getting either. I am not an accountant, nor a politician. Just a plain citizen proud of our city. Now the public knows: that the streetcar company does not care a damn whether the city of Indianapolis is enterprising or not.

The car companies in Washington, cities know by experience that

charging for transfers handicaps service. The paramount trouble here is overloading cars and congestion in making change for tranfers. Give us. transfers free. I suggest that the public, city experts and P. 8. ©. consider this compromise schedule: Cash fare—10 cents; 4 tokens for 30c—T7%c each; 8 tokens for 55c—67:c each; 16 tokens for $1 —6%c each; transfers free to any connecting line and feeder, This schedule would reduce the cost of transportation for regular riders and school children by buying eight or 16 tokens in advance. It is quite a large item of value to the company when they are using the public's money. The patrons now buying tokens, or paper tickets, are loaning the company 66% per cent of their original purchase without interest.

tions of the proprietors of the joint themselves, right while “VETERANS ASK ONLY A

CHANCE, NOT SYMPATHY”

By R. G. Crosby, Indianapolis My shirt is on,"'Mr, Coyle, but for how long I don’t know. 'Maybe you could help me keep it on by answering a few questions, I'm single and going to school under the G. I. bill of rights, which pays very little, not enough to cover expenses. I've tried to get parttime employment but the answer is we need full-time employees only, and the jobs offered pay around 50 cents an hour and by the time noon meal and car fare comes out of that, youre only working to pass the time. But maybe you can find me a cheaper place to live, cheaper food, clothing, or a better opportunity for the future. And, Mr. Coyle, if the veterans don't say something, who. will? I'm sure we aren't asking too much for a chance. We only want these people who can say I'm an American to give us a chance, not sympathy.

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And, Mr: Coyle, this is still a free country. We fought for freedom, so if the American boys who fought to keep good Old Glory want foreigners for wives, that's their business, ’ Mr. Coyle, you stay friends and back Mr. Maddox on his “keep your shirt on” movement, but when you get down to my standard, and thousands more, you'll be shirtless,

- 4.8 a “PRIMARY SYSTEM WOULD STIMULATE VOTER INTEREST”

By W.S. W., Indianapolis Some people are wondering why not over 60 per cent of the voters don't cast their vote in general elections. It should be very easy to see why, they haven't got any one of their choice to vote for. As long as we have a convention system the voters will never turn out to vote. We need a primary system, which is more democratic. I wouldn't think we have any more of a democratic system of government in Indiana than they have in Mississippi. People have to vote for Bilbo or nobody. And in Indiana they vote for whoever the machine says vote for. I would like to have some comment on this subject by the Forum readers, so let's hear from you. ~ » » “DOUBT SPONSORS WOULD LIVE IN TACOMA VILLAGE”

By Mrs. K. Cardinal, 3136 N, Keystone ave. Mr. Mason, would you ask your wife to make you-a home in those packing crates you call houses -in “Tacoma Village”? If you would’ I'd be willing to bet she'd tell you something that would make your little pink ears curl. Also I'd be willing to bet that you wouldn't want one of those river shanties set up at your door as you are setting them at our doors.

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“HOPE TACOMA VILLAGE HOMES WILL BE ALL RIGHT” By ¥. Campbell, 2719 N, Illinois st. After reading so much against’ the Tacoma Village homes, I as a future owner of one of them would like to have the real low-down. If they are being built so badly, why can’t something be done to lower their cost or better still, why can't we ex-G. Is rent them until better housing is available? I am of the opinion also that they aren't much to look at, but my family and I are so desperately in need of a place to call home we are forced to buy one of them. I certainly hope something will be done to improve this situation. » » » “EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD APPRECIATE CONSTITUTION” By Henry W. Reger, 2008 N, Delaware st. Governor Gates has declared September 17 as “Constitution day, this date being the 159th anniversary of the “signing of the U. S. constitution. : Every American, regardless of his station in life should bow his knees in thanks for the U. 8. constitution, the most wonderful work ever stricken off by the hand of man and the noblest document ever created by human intelligence. It is ‘the oldest written constitution in existence and copied the world over. Although it 1s not a work of divine origin, it is a practical, workable document which assures freedom and justice to all men} who come under its rule. Our constitution places the most obscure citizen who lives under its protecting wing on equal footing with kings and queens. Every - American - citizen should bow his head in reverence Tuesday and should say “Thank God, I too, am an American.” » " » “LONG-TIME RENTER HAS MORAL RIGHT TO HOME” By Emily Barton, Oaklandon Fulton Lewis Jr, who seems to be a stooge for some of the real estate interests, harped on one story all week- about how some fellow who owned a house—owned it mind you—by putting up $200 on a contract and couldn't get immediate possession. I want to ask the public in general who has more moral right to a home—a tenant who has rented for years and probably paid in rent the value of the property, or one who has put up $200 or some such amount on contract to buy? Some selfish interests are trying to blame the OPA for the scarcity of meat when those who have been reading know the administration advised that less stock should be raised because of scarcity of grain which was being shipped to starving people, also other commodities among which were thousands of tons of lard. Remember? » . » “NEIGHBORS TO TACOMA VILLAGE SHOW SELFISHNESS” By Pearl Coffman, 709 Massachusetts ave. I read in your paper where the neighborhood in Tacoma Village are protesting against the prefabricatéd shacks, as they call them, being erected in the village for the G. 1s. I wonder if they had any boys in the war, or what kind of hearts they have. After all, these G. Is were | fighting over there that we might be safe over here with what‘ever kind of a home we might have, whether expensive or cheap. Any kind of home would be a palace to these boys compared to the way they lived when they were fighting. I wonder if these neighbors ever read the Bible? If they do, they must not consider where Jesus says love thy neighbor as thyself. If selfish-hearted people all over the world “would plant that commandmant in their hearts there would be no fear of an atomic bomb. Luck to you G. Is.

DAILY THOUGHT

BELIEVING THAT FOREIGN AFFAIRS hold the key to the country’s future, I have asked both candi-. dates for U, 8. senator in the November election to present their views on America’s foreign policy. Beliefs of William E. Jenner; the Republican nominee, are given in this column today. - 3 “The dominant note in the world a year ago was hope and confidence,” says Mr. Jenner, “Today, the tension of fear and frustration is mounting higher and higher and higher. The dreams and hopes of a war-ravished world have been blotted out by the stark reality of tie hour. > “What has happened in this first year of peace? What is the picture in Europe and Agia today?

U.S. Has Not Met Pledges

“WE SEE RUSSIA on the one hand attempting to spread the Communist philosophy of the allpowerful state throughout the world. We see Great Britain on the other, struggling to preserve .its empire at all costs and to maintain the balance of power on the continent and wherever British ‘interests’ are endangered. And in the middle we see the smaller nations—robbed of their sovereignty—deprived of their freedom—mere pawns in the sordid game of power politics. ; “What has been the role of America in all this? Have we pursued a firm, independent policy—a really American policy? Have we fulfilled our pledge to achieve justice for the weaker peoples of the world? “We have not. We have blown hot and cold— supporting British- imperialism one day and Russian Communism the next. The fruits of our meddling are everywhere. apparent—suspicion, confusion, oppression, = “We have played Britain's game in Germany, Italy and Greece. “We have played Joe Stalin's game by co-operating with—even financing—his efforts to absorb the independent nations of Europe, “We took part in a ‘settlement’ of the Polish problem in a deal which utterly violated our pledge to respect the right of small nations to choose their own form of government. “We extended ful] recognition to the Moscow-sup-ported Tito government in Yugoslavia although this government has violated every guarantee of personal freedom and the right of free elections.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—We are just about to enter another election campaign for congress. 1t is the first national election since the war. For that reason, if no other, it might be hoped it would

be on a higher plane than some in our past. But if that is to be so there will have to be a decided change from the preliminaries. They have been pretty discouraging, with twiddle and. twaddle and double talk and tags and labels tossed around by both sides.

All the Old Bromides

DEMOCRATS ARE RUNNING under the mantle of President Roosevelt, beneath which, if you peer closely enough; you can see the figure of Harry S. Truman burdened with a weighty document entitled “The Truman Program,” but “which exists mostly only on that paper, and not on the statute books. It's a fine program—if only his southern Democrats did not conspiré with Republicans to block it. Among Republicans it is whispered that some people would like to present a program to the voters, but apparently the leaders think they can'win on the Truman default without risking the chance of saying what they might do. At least nobody with that startling idea has got to Mr. B. Carroll Reece, chairman of .the Republican national committee and recognized agent of what is called “the old guard.” Mr. Reece's chief campaign issue, which he is shouting up and down the land wherever “he can get an audience, is something known as “Communism in the Democratic party and Washington.”

THEY EASED UP one, two, afid three or so at a time- to the entrance of the Indianapolis Motor

Speedway grounds for an early entrance and a choice

spot; after an all-night vigil, to see the race next day. Backing up about 150 years, essentially the same

crowd, 150 years younger, was lining up, on or across the Ohio river for an early entrance and a choice bit of Indiana land, not to watch but to own.

Homes in the Wilderness

THE EARLY ONES of these came at the sundown of the 18th century. They found about 1000 white folks in the 36,291 square miles of modern Indiana. That is to say, this early Indiana had about one inhabitant to every 23,000 acres in the state. These 1000 early ones were mainly in four little scattered groups—at Vincennes; on Clark’s grant around Jeffersonville; near Vevay in Switzerland county, and at Aurora in Dearborn county. As the 19th century opened, all the land in Indiana was owned by the Indians except six relatively small parcels—at Ft. Wayne, the Ft. Wayne portage, Ouitanon on the Wabash near Lafayette, the Vincennes area. Clark's grant near Jeffersonville, and the narrow strip at the southeastern tip of the state known as the “gore.” Wrapped up in this land situation as the 19th century opened in Indiana was a condition as crucial and difficult as any that has ever confronted the state. Consider it: Here were 36,291 square miles about as good as you could find in one chunk anywhere in the world. By the proclamation of King George of England in 1763, and by the confirming policy of the Continental Congress and its succeeding United States government, this land was essentially all owned by the Indians. Around the edges of this tract, especially to the south, and a little later to the east, were thousands

SOERABAJA, Sept. 17—Nobody ever thought the marines could fight anything but all-out war. But, Holland's American-trained marines are learning how to strike the Indonesian rebels here in Java just hard ‘enough to check them, but mildly enough to keep politicAl negotiations open.

Have Few Casualties THEY WOULD LIKE to take a full swing at the T. R. I. Republican army (Indonesian regulars), holding the barricades outside Soerabajs, but the AngloDutch “allied” command “in Batavia keeps them strictly under wraps. Even with the marines holding their punches,

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover ihe 4 a v." ? 2s si . . . Jenner's Views on Foreign Policies

IN WASHINGTON . . « By Thomas L. Stokes Politicians Are Ignoring Living Issues

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Beyond the 65-mile perimeter encircling Soerabaja,

“We recognized Mr. Stalin's puppets in Bulgaria and Rumania. . ] “Only recently have we.swerved—somewhat haltingly—from our policy of appeasing Russia, largely at the instigation of Senator Vandenberg and in response to public indignation over .the Yugoslavian: incident. 3 “The weakness; the ineptness, the failure of-our

foreign policy is glaringly evident to the most casual’ :

observer. The confusion created by President Truman's left-handed endorsement of Henry Wallace's presenting his be-kind-to-Russia plea—to the chagrin of the secretary of state—is but the most recent instance of our muddled diplomacy. “What ig the answer? What policy should America pursue in this hour of decision? “I believe that we should not align ourselves with Russia, or England, or any other power—but should pursue - firm, independent policy based on American self-interest. 2 “I believe that we should stop playing Santa Claus to the world. “I believe that we should hold the atomic bomb until there is real co-operation for a lasting peace, agreeing, of course, that it shall never be used except in defense of free men. “I believe that we should oppose both imperialism and appeasement. : . “I believe that we should support the efforts of the United Nations and look to it as the medium through which the ‘conscience of mankind can find expression in behalf of peace with justice.’ “I believe that a weak America, an America: plagued by dissension at home, cannot hope to remain a genuine force for peace in the world. “I believe that, while we should not evade our international responsibilities, neither should we forget that our first obligation is to our own people.

Creed for a Candidate “AND FINALLY, I believe that our foreign policy should be governed by what is best for America—by

a primary interest in the freedom and well-being of the American people, and peace throughout the world to insure that freedom.”

M. Clifford Townsend, the Democratic nominee, i

likewise has been asked for an outline of his position, which will appear Thursday.

This sounds pretty horrendous until you take a look at the easy and amiable gentlemen around Harry Truman, mostly from the South and Middle West. , You've seen their pictures in the papers. Do ‘they frighten you? Smile if you call them Communists. = ¥=

But Mr. Reece figures it out for you. What would happen if you elect a Republican

congress?

According to Mr. Reece, you will get the following: Re-establishment of orderly, honest and capable government; an early -end to unjustifiable controls; drastic reduction in “sprawling bureaucracies”; a substantial cut in taxes; sound currency; revitalization of the American production machine; a square deal for labor; extermination of “the Alien-minded vermin who are undermining the government; encouragemeént of the free enterprise system; truth about the government; a real investigation of the billions of public money “squandered during the war.”

People Not Interested

ULYSSES 8S. GRANT could have run on that platform after the Civil war. Not a word in there about the big problems that almost engulf us today. Mr. Reese emphasizes as he winds up that our government is “a representative republic,” and it is the Republican party’s business to maintain it. Some of us like to think we are in the way of becoming a democracy. Political speakers are having poor crowds this year. i

SAGA OF INDIANA .. By William A. Marlow Early Settlers Stream Into Indiana

of white men poised mentally and physically, ready and bent on possessing this land for themselves. What to do? What happened? The white ones took the bit in their teeth, and dribbled in. When they were once in, they squatted in the spot dictated by fancy or necessity. Good water, their kind of woods, soil, or people, a few former neighbors or friends were all or by turn contributing or determining factors. © These people straggled in across the Ohio river by ferries at such spots as Evansville, Mauckport, and Madison. Some of them came down from the upper reaches of the Ohio river, stemming back to Pennsylvania, Virginia and New Jersey. Some of these became or were distinguished men in Indiana. John James Dufour of Switzerland county; Ratliff Boone, who gave his name to Booneville; Squire Boone, brother of Daniel Boone, and Dennis Pennington, who built Indiana's first court house at Corydon are examples. Even some already prominent folks drifted into this early Indiana: .John James Audubon, famed ornithologist, frequently crossed over from his Henderson, Ky., retreat to look this dribbling southern Indiana over. Came also to linger or stay, some of New Harmony’s great—Robert Owen, its founder; William Maclure, a great scientist; Joseph Neef, a, soldier in Napoleon's Italian campaign and famous Pestalozzian teacher,

Growth of a Country

BY 1816, the advance guard of this straggling crowd of early Indiana had pushed its outposts north to the central part of the state. In the long view, all this was but the routine stuff of early pioneer Indiana. In reality, as the sequence proved, it was but a measured, halting, destined step of the white race stretch of North America.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By George Weller Dutch Marines Control Java Conflict

British Indians—are eager to strike through the rebel headquarters at Moedjakarta, «45 miles southeast, or ‘their main staging zone at the old American fortress of Betse Malang. : “We could take all eastern Java in one week,” the Dutch tell the British, but Batavia“ headquarters still says “No, no.” The embattled perimeter is actually a concentric three-quarters circle of Indonesian and Dutch roadblocks, with about a half-mile-wide stretch of no

man's land between. Barbed wire barricades lie across:

the roads and heavy sandbags block intersections.

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villages clustered in banana trees and the long open vistas across the rice fields broken by property. lines of tall green bamboo. :

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DUTCHMEN 1 saw them sharing food with ragged, naked children carrying tin ‘cans. My jeep was repeatedly hailed with the friendly “thumbs up” signal,

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