Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 September 1946 — Page 14

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GOOD LUCK, -COLONEL CoL EDWARD L. STROHBEHN, until recently ‘commanding officer at Ft. Benjamin Harrison, leaves that post tomorrow to report as senior national guard instructor | “at San Juan, Puerto Rito. During his tour of duty here, approximately a year, he has made many friends for the army and directed much of the improvement ‘at the fort in a period of transition from a wartime military establishment to a peace-time post. The latter included "making material for housing available to the city. Indicative ‘of his accomplishment is ‘the, rating of excellent on the annual check-up by the inspector general of the army. Col. Strohbehn, a graduate of West Point, wears four battle stars, the bronze star with cluster and the Croix de Guerre with palm. His successor is Brig. Gen. Clifford Bluemel, who was held prisoner by the Japanese from the fall of Bataan to the surrender. Gen. Bluemel already has shown a deep interest in Indianapolis affairs. : To Col. Strohbehn we say goodby and good luck. The | gervice has a saying that its members always will meet somewhere again. We hope to meet the colonel again, and trust he will have the success down there in the Caribbean that he has had in Hoosierland. ; . :

MR. HARRIMAN’S BIG JOB

WwW: AVERELL HARRIMAN, accepting his new appointment as secretary of commerce, pledged full support to the foreign policy of President Truman and Secretary of State Byrnes. ' That is important. Mr. Harriman has been our ambassador to London and Moscow. He headed our wartime lendlease mission to Russia. Few Americans have had so good an opportunity to gain inside understanding of the Soviet Union and its rulers. His opinion that Messrs. Truman and Byrnes are following “the road to peace” carries a lot of weight. . But we're glad to hear him say that, as a cabinet member, he will attend to his own department and keep hands off international affairs. Running the commerce department properly is a big job at any time. Right now it calls for every bit of energy the new secretary can give to it, for there is urgent need to restore business confidence in the department's aims and

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Is He Cooking His Own Goose? i MEBBE 'D BETTER ,...7 "TURN OFF THE HEAT«UNT IL AFTER

DEM, LEADERS DEMAND MEAT CONTROLS BE SUSPENDED SIXTY

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

- Hoosier Forum

"People as a Whole Want Price Control; Opponents Are Selfish"

By Homer A. Short, 1108 W. New York st. Judging by the news and editorials in the local papers lately, it would seem that the evilest thing we have to combat today is the OPA. If the OPA is really the big bad wolf of course we don't want it, but let's take an unbiased look at it. The old theory. that if a law is bad the best way to find out is to enforce it is as good as ever. After giving the whole thing a careful scrutiny one will find the entire thing steéped in politics and greed and that OPA never did have a chance. Nor the consumer either, for that matter. I am only a working man and I don’t know very much about economics, but|

‘| veterans found themselves unwel-

there are a few fundamentals that | showld be understood by everyone.

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activities, and even in its statistics. This doesn’t mean that the secretary of commerce ~ should condone or ignore the faults of the American busi- | ness- system. It means that he should be unmistakably | determined to help the system work well—to encourage better performance of its essential function and to avoid t giving aid and comfort to its enemies. “In playing our part in world reconstruction,” Mr. Harriman says correctly, “the development of a stable and expanding economy at home is of primary importance. That is the base for the lasting peace that all peoples crave.” If he proceeds along that line, Mr. Harriman can perform a notable service to this country and to the world without attempting to be a back-seat driver in the field of foreign policy.

| ANOTHER EVICTION NOTICE

The people as a whole do want price control. The only ones who

don't want price control are the ones who are after big profits for themselves and the public be damned. The lust of these people is so overwhelming that the whole thing must eventually boomerang. But let's go back to the first for a brief summary. In the first place, the Republican party wanted no part of price control for two reasons. One; to favor price control would surely offend their true and never failing sponsors, the N. A. M,, and also the powerful farm bloc in Washington. Two, it was a Democratic baby in the first place. If they could in some way kill it by blocking its effectiveness in every possible way it would appear to be a mess stirred up by the Democrats.

THE NEWS

By DANIEL M., KIDNEY

Most .candidates are busy now building fences to straddle. = ” ” Chairman Hannegan is bringing Democrats to the White House to teach them how to run. Before or after Nov. 5? : » » # President Truman told Democratic congressional candidates that we are in an emergency. If that was news to them they shouldn't be running. » » . Congressman Sparkman says that Wallace and Pepper are still Democrats, If so, we would hate to hear some noisy ones. » » = Headline: “Economy, Is Still About 60 Per Cent. Under U. S.

MARSHAL TITO’S Yugoslav government has told the United States information service to close up its shop in Belgrade and get out of thé country, charging it had become a “center of anti-regime propaganda, inciting the Yugoslavs to open treason.” This office, functioning under the state department, has published a news bulletin and maintained a reading room in the Yugoslav capital, as a part of William Benton's plan to sell the American way of life to those parts of the world where there is buyer resistance.

* Not so long ago the radio station operated by the same agency in Algiers, directed toward the Russian target, was ordered out by the French government, presumably under pressure from the Soviet Union. So the plan to capture [the totalitaFians by broadcasts and bulletins doesn’t seem | to be working. i Where this give-away news service is welcomed, it it isn’t needed anyway, because there is free access to information. “And it was taking a lot for granted to assume that an exception would be made in our case in those spheres ; of influence where all news is subjected to ideological tests ] . before being approved for public consumption. : The blueprints on this project overlooked the paint g that you can’t sell your goods if you can’t hold your foot in * the door,

JONES BUDGET AND UNCLE | January she Jones family was a bit blue. In making ifs budget it predicted 'that the revenue for

‘the year would be $31.50 a week but expenses would be $35.10, making a deficit of $3.60 a week.

| a deficit—a deficit of $1.40 a week.

have the financial picture of your government.

3 81.5—deficit, $3.6 billion. } new estimates are expenditures, $41.0 ‘billion 9.6 billion—deficit, $1.4 billion. have done the same. . : live within his income in the futur

. Later on the Joneses were overjoyed to learn that the would be $39.60—$4.50 more than expenses estiate in January, But the increased cost of living changed th picture. They now estimate that their expenditures will . amount to $41 a week, which means that there will still be

. Multiply these figures by a billion. Change the name of family to Uncle Sam—and put the income and | bu on a yearly basis instead of a weekly—and

Last January, the estimate was: Expenditures, 35.1

spendin : ding a little less, hiring less and buying less | family could have balanced its budget and been | ncial basis.

» They were pretty solidly behind this and they gathered about them ia few sore headed dumb Democrats and wrangled and wrangled and dropped OPA for awhile. Just long enough for the meat proucers to get fantastic prices for meat and dairy products and they got rid of everything that was able to walk. This was a dual purpose plan and an extremely“vicious one. Planned and executed against the health and welfare of a nation. It was decided that the secretary of agriculture should have power over OPA. The scheme was to create a meat famine and when the people bécame hungry they would start clamoring for something to be done, and then they would even allow the price ceilings to be lifted and then the profiteers could dump all the meat which they have been guarding so zealously at fancy profits, and all shout in unison, “See

Control.” That's what the law says, that is. . . . » ~ Taking steaks off the market is one way to keep us from buying things we can’t afford.

there, you have plenty of meat. It was all OPA’s fault.” The whole thing is a rotten mess that should not be forgotten when the people cast their ballots. We need people in Washington who are interested in the ones who elected them and no cigar smoking potbellied lobbyists who have money to throw around. - n » “POSTAL CLERKS DINNER SHOWED DISCRIMINATION” By James W. Smith, 706 Blake st. Saturday night, Sept. 21, a “Jim Crow” Victory "banquet was held at the Murat Temple by the National Federation of Postoffice

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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| member, and a postoffice clerk, I

|are also veterans and postal clerks.

Clerks gnd the national president, Leo PF. George, was the principal speaker, Negro “Feds” who were

come although they had honorably served in the army and navy which had won this victory. The union maintained that the Murat refused to allow a mixed affair but an official ‘of the Murat, when. questioned by a Negro veteran, denied this categorically. A telegram was sent to the national president Sept. 19, protesting this, but no reply has been received. As an overseas veteran, a Fed bitterly resent this slur cast upon me and members of my race who

During the war I received letter after letter from the liaison committee relating the wonderful time we would all have at the victory banquet! Being naive, I failed to read between the lines and was unprepared for-this shocking sacrifice on the altar of prejudice. In company with other members I protested strenuously at union meetings preceding this affair but to no avail. At the present time in the postoffice white veterans are being given temporary window jobs and preferred assignments but Negro veterans are not considered. Supervisory positions are filled by passing over all competent, senior, Negro employees and the Negro veteran knows that this will happen to him in the years to come. Is this democracy ? ” ® » “SMALLER TOWNS WOULD LIKE SPORTS RESULTS” By Gleason Bingham, Franklin. We read The Indianapolis Times every day and I think it is the best of the Indianapolis papers. I depend on The Times for the latest sports. The Times has readers in Franklin, Shelbyville, Connersville, Mar« tinsville, Greensburg, Seymour, Greencastle, Columbus and Rushville. They are members of the South Central Conference. The Times should run a column on the sports page about the high schools in the South Central and their sports activities, such as. football, basketball, ete. Bob Stranahan used to run a column with a list of games and the reader was supposed to pick the winners of each game and send them in. The perfect pickers had their names in the paper from week to week. I think this could build up The Times circulation in these cities more than anything else. » » » |“JAMES M. DAWSON DID NOT SPEAK ON RADIO”

BY Janes M. Dawson, 11 N. Pennsylvania st.

Last Monday night over radio station WISH, and during the program “Town Hall Meeting,” a regular feature each Monday night on this -station, one J. Allen Dawson was acting as moderator. The program and the introduction were so arranged, either as a coincidence or by design, that it gave the impression that I was the J. Allen Dawson, acting as moderator, who in the course of his remarks favored an increase in the streetcar fares. It was very apparent from the numerous telephone calls and letters I recéived that the listening public was misled. I want the public to know that I had nothing to do with the program, and I am not In any way connected with J. Allen Dawson, and I am still of the opinion that the Indianapolis Railways is not entitled to an increase in fare,

DAILY THOUGHT By much slothfulness the build-

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|OUR TOWN . . . By Aen Schr dail Branch Libraries Began 50 Years Ago.

ON THIS, THE LAST DAY of September, 1946, 1 call on all good citizens to celebrate Eliza G. Brown-' ing’s beans, ; : Miss Browning was our city librarian frorh 1892 to.

| 1017, a period of 25 years in the course of which our

library went from short pants into long ones. The growth was measured by what ‘Miss Browning called her “circulation bean box.” For every book taken out of the - library back in those days, a bean was dfopped into a box. Any ihcrease in the number of beans indicated progress—see? In the beginning of her admin. - istration, Miss Browning confined herself to white beans. A year or so later, however, she supplied her staff with black beans, too. I remember that a black bean was dropped into the box every time I took a book out of the library. At the time, I regarded it as nothing more than a woman's whimsical way of keeping tab on my reading habits. I had reason to believe that my literary taste was lamentably low for, on more occasions than I care to remember, the library attendant handed me a slow-paced novel by Sir Walter Scott ‘when the numbers on my slip distinctly called for a book by George A. Henty. 3

First at Meridian and Morris . TODAY I KNOW BETTER. My black beans had nothing to do with my deplorable reading habits. It was merely Miss Browning's way of allocating me geographically, which 1s to say that my black beans registered me ‘as a South Side customer. The kids living on the other side of the tracks got their books by way of white beans, of course. Whether Miss Browring’s choice of colors disclosed her opinion of the two kind of boys is something for future historians to figure out. * In 1896, four years after she took over the job of running the cify library, Miss Browning's bean count was so impressive that it inspired her. to tell the school board that Indianapolis was big enough (in area, at any rate) to have a system of branch libraries. The school board, as amiable a group of gentlemen as we have today, fell for her idea and settled for four such institutions to Qje located in the outermost cultural corners of Indianapolis. : Well, that was 50 years ago this month. Next week (Oct. 6-13), City Librarian Marian McFadden and her

Going West to

CHICAGO, Sept. 30.—Why is it that when you wait here, poised for a trip westward, there is always the adventurous thrill of getting ready to enter a new and different land? : The telephone rang in the morning. calling from Washington. “I got your letter. ‘I knew you were hopping off

My wife

tonight. So I called.” “Hopping off!” That tells it. We easterners!

And yet it's more than that.

Pure Adventure

YOU JUST GET on a train and go westward, over the same sort of country for awhile, rolling into the same sort of towns, seeing the same sort of people. And, if you are one of those hurry-up fellows and take a plane, why it's all done in a few hours. But there's more than that, at least for a fellow who's a railroader at heart. This is the gateway to a new and bright land somehow—and I won't let it be any different ever. Perhaps it's something that runs deep in the blood of an easterner—meaning by that one who was born and nutured east of our great river. That includes my own South. It's something that goes back to pioneering and pioneer days, covered wagons, Indians and cowboys. For it is pure adventure to me, and I confess it proudly. On this trip I had planned to follow my nose.

Railroads, Airlin

NEW YORK, Sept. 30.—Just as in an argument between ladies, which begins with cutting asides and winds up in a clawing fracas on the floor, the airlines and the railroads are working themselves into a fine pet. It's at the cat stage right now. The railroads are saying: “Love your hat, darling, it's so right for your type.” And the airlines answer: “What a beautiful dress, dear—your mother’s?” Unless somebody pulls the critters apart, they are a cinch to start scratching and kicking shins.

Claims and Counter-Claims THE RAILROADS SEEM TO FEEL that they are an-about-to-be-discarded wife, making place for a blond young hussy in the affections of the public. They are taking it hard, and are retaliating, through their institutional advertising. Any day now I expect to see a full-page proclamation which says, after the juvenile fashion: “My mommy is prettier than your mommy.” When the auto-traveler was a menace to the railways, the RR people started this business of needling the opposition. They stuck feminine little billboards all over the country, close to highways. “Next time,” they said, “take the train.” War took care of the auto tourist, but it also bred a new competition, the air-wise and air-confident traveler. And the airlines people and the airplane makers used the same technique. Why waste your life in travel time? - they asked. Why get cinders in your eye? Plane travel is no more expensive than firstclass rail fare plus Pullman—and what's more, mister, you can make it on the same shave. Growing a touch nasty, the plane people stuck in a powerful aside. “Actually,” they said in a loud whisper, “it’s cheaper. No tips. Pree meals alolt. No shooting your wad on clubcar booze. Don't be a sucker. Fly, and get where you're going before you're too old to enjoy it.” ' Then recently comes Pan-American, foreseeing a five-hour journey from anywhere to anywhere, and

ESSEN, Sept. 30.—If Germany is to escape hunger riots and chaos this winter, and if there is to be recovery in the rest of Europe, Ruhr coal production

must rise rapidly. This is one of the few axioms on which contro-versy-ridden Europe agrees. For fuel is obviously the lifeblood of the continent and without Ruhr coal the steel. industry, power plants, transportation lines and factories cannot operate.

Allies' Self-Defeating Policy | BUT IN THIS EMERGENCY the Ruhr coal output is less than half of normal—180,000 tons daily now, as compared with a normal 400,000 tons. This is all the more serious because it is the best the British military government has been able to accomplish after almost a year and a half of effort. ‘Basically the problem arises from wartime destruction which affects not only llations and transportation ‘but also the living conditions of the labor force. Instead of a normal labor supply of 300,000 there are now only 200,000 remaining. Productivity of the present inadequate force is reduced by malnutrition, bad housing, and .low morale. Absenteeism from the mines ¥ now 22 per cent. An estimated half of this is due to illness. Next to the diminished labor supply and poor morale, the most serious. barsier to incréased coal production is worn

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

brood of 21 branch- libraries plan to celebrate the event and, if my information is correct, it promises to be a party replete with all the trimmings short of fireworks. . Strangely enough, the branch library designated as No. 4 in 1896, was the first-to”do business. I ought to"know because it was the one in the bailiwick of my boyhood. Indeed, I like to think that my black beans had something to do with its location. More -specifically, the first branch library was y housed in’ a storeroom of the old Lyra Hall on Meri- i" | dian ‘st. in the vicinity of Morris, just about opposite the present Oriental theater. It opened on Dee. 17, 1896, with a stock of something like 1000 volumes, an abnormal proportion of which was printed.in Gothic type to serve as bait for the Germans down there. A Mr. Jose (the only Indianapolis Jose who hasn't received his share of publicity) was the librarian in charge. Mr, Jose's library has a most melancholy history. Soon as it got started, the plaster began falling off the ceiling. Upon investigation, it was discovered that two professional prize fighters (possibly Tom Alexander and Bert Hale) had their studio on the second floor. They were persuaded to leave, but it didn't stop the plaster from falling; for the reason that a ballet dancer succeeded the pugilists. She was ousted and, this, time, the second floor was rented to an Irishwoman, It looked like a safe bet but, believe it or not, she turned out to be a professional laundress; with the result that the ceiling leaked like everything.

Story to Be Continued AFTER THAT, largely because of the burdensome overhead, the library decided to move into a storeroom across the street. In 1906, the so-called “Big Fire” which had its origin a block away in Mussman’s lum= ber yard destroyed this building. For some reason, however, the stock of books was saved which immediately reduced the Big Fire to that of a mediocre affair so far as South Side boys were concerned. ; The “Big Fire” or “mediocre affair” (depending on whether yolraccept the opinion of adults or juveniles) helped to pave'\the way for the most amazing period of Miss Browning's administration—amazing, not only because it revealed, the extraordinary imagination of an Indianapolis woman, but also because if uncovered the “tainted money” -of a retired Pittsburgh. ironmonger. God permitting, the story of Eliza G. Browning and Andrew Carnegie will reach you Wednesday. : ;

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

the Promised Land

But I lost my nerve when I thought about railroad reservations. At least that was the excuse. But it was probably that other thing, down in my bones,

-that led me into the consolidated ticket office here,

the desire to look over train schedules and imagine my way. westward. T hesitated a bit. Railroad people are so busy these days, and anyhow I'm a timid person about bothering busy people. So I went a little shyly up to the Milwaukee road's counter. I found a man not busy at the moment, and sort of blundered into what I wanted. But Elmer Moll was a railroader, like myself, and. #- a most kind and considerate man. So together for quite a while we had our fun and our release into adventure. Poring over the schedules we worked out an itinerary, and he arranged for my sleeping accommodations. It's so refreshing these days to find a courteous, considerate and patient person. In so many places we seem to have lost those traits during the war. Everybody tired and snapping, at nerves’ end. I hope we get them back.

A Promised Land

BUT MR. MOLL never lost them,and—I predict he never will, I think he enjoyed it as much as I did. And he’s efficient—say, that man can take a railroad folder, to what he wants at once! Let there always be a West, a promised land.

Si es Scrap: for Riders

cheaper, tao, by next June. This just murdered the railroads, which have been fuming-in the powderroom all along. Now, armed with a hatpin, they stride forth to battle. While the airlines are showing you full color photos, such as Boeing's recent ad entitled “Country Club Comfort,” which leads you to believe that air“planes are as big as Grand Central and lusher than the sultan’s palace, the railroads are kicking back in kind. Pullman shows you a picture of a happy house-~ wife, picking the roses or bathing the dishes and chatting happily with a chum. “I never worry when John is traveling by Pullman,” she says, approximate= ly. “It’s so safe—and fast, too.” Then there is a picture of old John, snoring his silly head off, while a porter beams in the background. “Safety!” reads a recent crack at the airlines. “No worry about weather, roads or mountains in an alle steel Pullman car. You GET there—on the DEPENDABLE schedules. . . .” =e The Association of American Railroads has just sponsored a big ad in which a pretty teacher advocates an additional “R”: to make current “readin’, 'ritin’, 'rithmetic and railroads,” in the childish babble at the little red schoolhouse. If they aren't careful, the airlines will come back with “ABC,” and that “A’ doesn’t stand for apples, kiddies. :

Please, Ladies LATEST STROKE IN the squabble comes now, when the “friendly” Southern Pacific takes full pages in national magazines to smack down the airlines with a strong editorial called “A short course in railroading for airline executives.” Breathing brimstone, the S. P. says railroaders are sick and tired of being pushed around, and that the airliners have been misrepresenting tHemselves something fierce. Ladylike, neither airline nor railroad mentions their own shortcomings; but read heavy on the virtues. The real brawl is about to boil, with the air full of screams, mussed-hair, and curved fingers. Ladies, ladies, please. .

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Ludwell Denny i ~ Ruhr Coal Output Key to Stability

the Ruhr as part of a four power commission are severely critical of British management and its results. Pressure by France and the other allies for Ruhr coal has resulted in lopsided exports, which in tum have prevented the Ruhr from operating even with minimum efficiency. This is the crux of the ma~ chinery issue. Not enough coal has been retained in the British zone to make steel, to make mining mae chinery, or to maintain the present Jow level of production—much less to make loonmotives and coal cars to transport any increased prodfiction. This shortsighted policy of destroying industry which they want to exploit for their own purposes is. one of the most absurd of many allied decisions at high levels. France is the chief culprit. Paris explains that domestic political pressure for getting the limit out of Germany forces a self-defeating economic

policy.

Collapse’ at Source Possible 5 THE SITUATION IS NOW so serious that even France has agreed to temporary reduction “of coal exports from 900,000 to 750,000 tons, allowing 150,000 3 tons more to the Ruhr steel industry. Actually however the over-all decrease in production’ means that 150,000 tons will not be available for any purpose. Unless the allies, and especially France, agree soon to a six-month large-scale reduction of coal exports ao permit enough ‘Ruhr steel production for mining . machinery and transport needs, Europe's chief source of industrial power probably will collapse. . - : . - \ * A ve € 2 «' . K . ;

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