Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 October 1946 — Page 14

Page PDF (8.39 MB)

Back to issue view

N *

ianapo

lis Times

Ind

PAGE 14 Monday, Oct. 14, 1946 Y W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE = HENRY W. MANZ : CE matter : Business Manager

A SCRIPPS -HOWARD NEWSPAPER

Owned and published dally (except Sunday) by Indianapelts Times Publishing Co., 214 W. Maryland _st. Postal Zone § Sy

‘Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of Circulations, Price in Marion County, 5 cents a copy; deliv‘ered by carrier, 20 cents a week i Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, U. S. possessions, Canada and Mexico, 87 cents a

month, RI1-5551 Give Light and the Peaple Will Find Their Own Way

“

EVENTFUL CHURCH WEEK

TW major observances in Indianapolis religious

circles

are occurring this week. One is termination: of a year of celebration of the 125th anniversary of Roberts Park Methodist church, founded in the year Indianapolis was “ldid off” as a town. - The venerated Bishop Francis J. McConnell, termed the g catest liberal of his church, one-time president of DePauw university and former head of the Federal Council of Ct.urches, returned here to speak at home-coming yesterday at the church which has become known as the cathedral chuich of Indiana Methodism. Worshipers were called by the tolling of the old town fire bell, placed in the church belfry in 1853. Growth of the church from a crude beginning in a log schoolhouse on the south side of Maryland st. near the alley between Meridian and Illinois sts. and the first Vlethodist services in a clearing near what now is Monument Circle, will be depicted in an historical pageant next Sunday at 7:80 p. m. under direction of Mrs. Gladys Banes McCoglin.

” ” - HE other event is the Mission for Youth program which will close, with a Butler field house mass meeting, Friday at 7:45 p. m. Sponsored by the United Christian Youth «Council of the Indianapolis Church Federation, the feature speaker at meetings during the week will be Dr. E. Stanley Jones, one of the foremost churchmen of the day. Di: Jones three times refused the honor of being a bishop in the Methodist church, in order that he might spread the gospel in far places. Dr. Jones, author of some of the most practical bonks and articles on Christianity, spoke twice yesterday at the - First Baptist church. . The Mission for Youth program will reach into county churches as well as those in the city. Dr. Merrill B. McFall, pastor of the First: Methodist church and the Wesley | . Foundation at Bloomington, also is ideally fitted for the role he fills. He was a-varsity football, baseball and tennis player at DePauw and his services at Bloomington are so popular that he holds three forenoon services each Sunday. Spiritual leadership is needed moye today than in perhaps any other period of our history, particularly among the younger gnen and women who will be th leaders of tomorrow. . Through such programs as Marion county is privileged to have this week, the church is making a great step forward in meeting the challenge.

THAT ARGENTINE BEEF ei So now the United States is trying to borrow 20,000,000 |

pounds of Argentine and Australian beef from the Brit-

And a lot of hungry but uninformed citizens are clamoring for importation of Argentine beef as a solution for the.meat famine. is true that Argentina produces some of the world’s finest steaks and roasts—but they aren't likely to come this way. : : In the first place, there's a law to keep them out. This law, in our opinion, is a phony. Ostensibly, its purpose is to protect us against foot-and-mouth disease. But Argen- - tina contends that her cattle-growing sections are free from | disease, and other countries that buy meat from her see no reason to fear it. We think this law's real purpose is to protect United States cattle-growers from competition. Anyway, because of this law against importation of Argentine meat, even the beef the army hopes to borrow from Britain can’t be brought into this country. It can be sent only to American troops abroad. , This law has compelled Argentina to seek other mar- | kets for her surplus beef—and just now she finds plenty of demand. Great Britain is taking 83 per cent of it. Argentina, long offended .by what she considers our unfair discrimination against her product, understandably is not | interested in helping to relieve our present shortage. | And even if we repealed our law; and begged Argen- | tina to let us buy some of her beef, there would be the" little matter of price. The Argentine meat producers aren't bound by our OPA. They sell in a free market, and we would have to meet their terms. Undoubtedly, they would ask a higher price than our government permits our own meat producers to charge legally, if they consented to sell to us at all. Much as we would like some Argentine beef right now, we believe the meat shortage will have to be attacked by | other methods. The first necessary step; we think, is to | take OPA price controls off meat produced in the United States.

{ {

“PART OF THE WAY” HE wat department took a significant step this, week when it announced that the development of guided’ missiles—as far as the army is concerned—is the respon- * =. gibility of the army air forces.

(+ cerned” —is necessary. Because so far, the war and navy departments haven't been able to get together on a unified program. Hopefully, Secretary Patterson told Gen. Spaatz it was his job to use personnel “within and without the war department.” Taken literally, that could mean within the navy. But no one seriously helieves it will work that # . way. ! : Heretofore, an extremely limited group of scientists and technicians who know how to make guided missiles has had to develop and fill orders for five bureaus within the war and navy departments—army ordnance, army air forces, navy bureau of ships, navy bureau of ordnance, and navy bureau of aeronautics. Secretary Patterson's order designating the air forces as the army's agency cuts the list to four. As Assistant Secretary for Air Symington expressed it: ‘“This.decision goes part of the way in clearing up waste.” Here is one more reason why America should have a single department of national defense. Competing: in the evelopment of guided missiles and controlled weapons, ‘the army and navy deliberately and inexcusably have set

of brains,” spreading the nation’s sciensly thin. The scientists who make

'Free Enterorise M Economy Look Like One-Horse

| tou

That qualifying phrase—'‘as far as the army is con- |

ow have a right to expect co-ordina-

On What Meat Doth Our Caeser.

Feed?

LABRET

” |

xe.

Hoosier

By Richard A. Calkins, 1

akes Russian

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

Forum

they wouldn't play ball with him on/ such agreements. What was he going to do when | these other countries didn’t live] {up to the promises he had made) | for them blame the unsteady peace

{

Job"

135 Security Trust Bldg.

It is not hard to understand why European countries, presently clear on them?

of Russian dominance, are shying away from communism. The highly ta.is téd pudding is not such good eating in Russia. The facts provide with his personal wars against e community's | a fore-taste for Americans who countenance Communists and their churchill and DeGaulle and his fellow-travelers in this country.

The Soviet government recently

bread jumped from 39c to 128¢c a pound, white bread 10.6c to 30.3c, about securing peace. putter $0.8c to $2.27, sugar 18.9c to 60.6c, meat 53c to $1.29. To meet | these increases (U. S. trade union members, who permit Communists #1 jo slightly twisted to bring the their ranks, please note) all Russian workers earning less than $75 a redder out at one conclusion: that month, as most of them do, received

wage increases running as high as 12% per cent! Whit is left of free enterprise in this country still makes the Russian economy look like a one-horse contrivance, as it is. In spite of the

hurdles that the Communist ter-|

mites have piled in its path by fomenting sirikes, nurturing class hatred and burrowing into key government jobs, the American way

| provides the most for the lowliest

worker. Few Americans today are getting less than $75 manthly in a full-time job. None of them are

paying Russian prices for the ne-

cessities of life. It 1s just barely possible that by expelling Communists from both trade union leadership and government jobs, and by laughing them off of their soap boxes, the workers of this country could gain “the more abundant life” through in-

out of doing it.

“ELLIOTT ROOSEVELT MAKES

FATHER APPEAR AS A DEITY” By Irate Reader, City ., In Look magazine's condensation ot Elliott Roosevelt's “As He Saw It,” the author says, in effect, that this country has lost the peace his tather began. He points out that his father never trusted officials of the state department, flays the press for “irresponsibility”: and in general sets up Franklin D, Roosevelt as a god and everyone else as a bunch of stupid nincompoops.

But some of Elliott's disclosures

are absolutely startling.

F. D. R., Elliott says, bargained heads of a number of! | countries, promising them this and

with the

Seems to me he was too busy

efforts to take from England her! raised prices en rationed food. Black colonial empire to do very much

Elliott's, writings strike me as be- |

all the unrest in the world today began after Franklin Roosevelt died. i # As for irresponsibility of report-

VIEWS ON

the American press in general, I! . think Elliott Roosevelt. in particu-

lar should be extrémely careful

By Daniel M. Kidney 2 areful when he speaks of irresponsibility, The Democrats picked up one. jest the word fly back and hit him President Truman announced: he in the face. : will fly home and vote. ” 2 ” That Washington, D. C.. bakers’ strike didn’t spoil any steak sandwiches.

» n ” “HERE'S A POEM THAT OTHERS MAY ALSO LIKE” By Arthur G. Hight, 1946 Ruckle st. I am a railrogd crossing watch- ! man at 16th st, Monon & Nickel The beef industry advisory com- Plate railroads. In looking over mittee voted 11 to one for removal | my recent railway employee's jourof OPA meat price ceilings. The nal, I find these verses by Jack dissenter must have been a packer Childs as reprinted in United Busi-| who is enjoying his vacation. ness Service Bulletin, and believe | Fess many would like to read it, and hope sincerely you can find a place | in the daily Times for it. It is| shortage. .ntitled “Our Way of Life,”

o =" =

FBI is reported to he “quietly investigating” the meat

| creased production—and get a kick Only a G-man could be quiet expresses this in a few verses bet-

ter than whole pages of prose can : do. : Remember the striking sailors ¥ We coné to a junction of crossa night like this—with the sugar rdads.

| about it.

= » ”

bowl empty. The lights may be green or be Tred, "8 2 Shall we turn to the right, of the Now that the five -cent-a -ton leftward :

course straight’

collection on coal has reached Or keep on our $6,000,000, maybe John L Lewis ahead? wili write a book called “Mine Welfare Pund.” To the left is the way of the TT yr Russians,

that, but basing all his promises on Are they burdened with surplus, or

what some other country (in most kale? cases, England) would do. Are they able to solve their own In turn these countries apparent- problems? ly would do something for us. On whom do they call when they What background for peace is it| fail? :

"that is based on what another coun- | try will do, especially when that To the right fis the w other country has not been con- Britains, sulted? Who have chosen a socialist bed: Perhaps the reason he wouldn't The picture they paint may be trust his state department is that rosy, ———— | BUS. WhOID dG they eome | bread?

ay of the

to for

The woes of the world are ap-

| Side Glances— By Galbraith

| |

"My folks are taking care of the kids and thie wife's Working—it certainly is nice to be put through college by Uncle Sam!”

parent, As men live from breadcrust to crumb, | And now that they're hard pressed | for credit, Whom is it they borrow it from?

Of enterprise, thought, and belief. As a nation, we've always been helpful When others meet hardship or grief. ;

Our System means highest ‘of standards, With plenty for all and some more, So, let's shoot ahead on the highway

That Fun along Happiness Shore.

| There may be some kinks unkinking, There may be some angles to fix, But, if we are right and we know it, | Let's stick to a system that clicks.

need

| For if we veer off on a tangent | That proves to be stupid and dumb,

us, Just

1 |

from?

DAILY THOUGHT I know alsg, my God. that Thou triest the heart, and hast pleasure in uprightness.—I Chronicles 29:17. o ” 5

here belgw.—Spurgeon.

Tichborne remains as yet unanswered, and there

- 1854.

jng—of which the’ author accuses.

OUR TOWN. . . By Anton Sche

* . i ’ ‘ « ¥ Did Lost Tichborne Heir L THE question sb to what happenad to Sir Roger the impostor didn't Know a word of French, let alone = speak the language. Nor did he show any siggs of being a devout Catholic.

edge of the classics, the cross-examination disclosed the painful fact that he went through life believing

seems no present likelihood of the world ever knowing what became of him~—upless perchance, you share my guilibility and believe that, maybe, Sir Roger ended his days in the poorhouse of Indianapolis. Roger Tichborne, a young Fovehy Epglishman and heir to a title a great fortune (one million pounds sterling), left his country some time around The ship he was supposed to be on sank at sea. Except for his mother, a determined little lady of French birth, everybody believed that the boy went down with the ship. . ‘ Twelve years later when her husband died, Rogeris. mother advertised all over the world for “the lost heir of Tichborne.” The ad produced one Arthur Orton, an enormously fat butcher who came all the way from Australia to claim not only the title, but also the 50,000 pounds income per year that went” with it. \ '

Family Becomes Divided THE AD also brought about a division in the famJly. One side lined up behind the mother who really believed that her long-lost son had returned. The other faction was led by the parents of Roger's little nephew who, in the absence of Roger, was the heirapparent in this case The family rumpus led to a great trial, one of the most celebrated England ‘ever had; with the’result that Butcher Orton got 14 years in prison for his pains. Before the trial was over, however, certain things came to ight. It turned out, for instance, that the real Roger spoke French like a native; that he was a devout Catholic, and that he had studied the slassics to some advantage. Compared with which,

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes California Going Steadily Forward®

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 14.—The Oakies and the Arkies came streaming across California borders in the late 30's, seeking a refuge in her valleys, and thereBy created the problem described by John Steinbeck in his “Grapes of Wrath." It wasn't a pretty picture. They were fleeing from a sequel to “Gone With the Wind,’ not yet written in its sweeping. dramatic entirety, a hook ot what has happened in the South since reconstruction days. It would tell the whys and wherefores of its broken-down agricultural economy, struggling along usually under either Bourbon or demagogic leadership. The eflect was a futile grubbing in the thin soil, and going into debt.

Keeps War Prosperity SO LOTS OF THEM finally packed their tew belongings and- their undernourished children nwo jajopies and headed west to the promised land. It turned wut to be not‘so promising then because California had -its own troubles with the depression that had hung on for so long. War came. The great war industries not only lapped up these folks into assembly lines that built ships and airplanes and other things, but more ana more other folks. Another migration began From the South and also the Middle West other people came into work at war production. When ‘war ended, prophets of gloom toresaw war plants shut down, hordes unemployed—some put. the estimate as high as a million. Politicians were disturbed, because this, in the end, always becomes their problem. Gov. Earl Warren, himself, was pessimistic not so hany months ago. Nothing of the sort occurred. California is absorbing the surplus. A new migration has set in sii.ce the war; 26,000 a month which, with —an—excess ot 7000 births a month over deaths makes a total monthly addition to the population ot 27,000. When I visited Gov. Warren at Sacramento I found a cheerful man Jubilantly he clicked off surprising statistics. California's population is bigger than ever

—9,200,000, which is 300,000 more now than on V-J

‘REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark “Army Has Peculiar Idea of Justice

NEW YORK. Oct. 14. —The inequities of military law. despite the high promises of justice for all made by the lip-service “caste” investigators, continue to progress in a manner to suggest that the enlisted man still has small status in a trial before his peers. I have here an official document, dated 10 Septem-

and | ber. 1946, which illustrates rather vividly that enlisted

men are still being given the book for small sins, while gentlemen like the famous Col. Kilian of the | Lichfield trials go airily free.

' Case of Cpl. Hite -

lk AT ORDNANCE department headquarters, Aberdeen proving ground, Maryland, enlisted men are boil#g over a recent court-martial of Cpl. Harold R. Hite Jr. Cpl. Hite's sentence has been approved and announced executed by Capt. Raymond L. Birkholz, un- | der the direction of Brig. Gen. A. B. Quinton. Cpl. Hite was given three months at hard labor, | busted to private, and fined $35 a month for three months. His sin, according to court-martial specifications, was to “feloniously embezzle by fraudulently converting to his own use leather material, to the value of about $4.08, the property of the United Stdtes, entrusted to him by the said proving ground. |* Pour bucks worth ot air force leather sends a 22- | year-old kid to three months hard labor, costs him | $105 in fines. costs him a decrease in salary from | corporal’'s wages fo private’s pay, blots his service | record and hinders future promotion. Down at Aberdeen, Capt. Birkholz is unable to tell me, what the leather goods were, or any details of the case. The judge advocate at the post likewise is un- | able to Pecall details, but merely mentions that the moral ~ turpitude involved called for that much | sentence. The record says ‘no previous convictions considered,” which means that Cpl. Hite had never been in difficulty before on his current enlistment. Since Ris { age is only 22, it is likely that his yecord is clean | from scratch. He did not steal, or sell, army equipment worth

AMERICA—known for its freedoms TODAY IN EUROPE . : ..By Randolph Churchill Speculation Rife on Atom Control

NEW YORK, Oct. 14. —According to present plans, Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin will represent Britain | at the forthcoming meetimgs of the United Nations general assembly, which convenes at Lake Success, N. Y., on Oct. 23. His principal assistant will be Hector McNeil, newly promoted from undersecretary | at the foreign office to the more respodsible post of | minister of state. ; It is intended that, concurrently with the meetings here will be another conference of | the foreign ministers of Britain, France, Russid and | the United States; though whether Foreign Ministes | v. M. Molotov himself will be present, or whether Vice Foreign Minister Andrei Vishinsky will be sent | to represent him, is not yet known outside the | Kremlin. The foreign ministers will begin the work

| of the assembly, t

| And the need of a loan overtakes! of digesting the not easily digestible recommendations

| of the Paric peace conference. Thus, during late

whom would WE borrow it| October and all through November, New York will

be the diplomatic center of the world.

| Atom Sessions to Continue | IN ADDITION to the meetings of -the general mbly, the security eouncil and the four foreign the sessions of the atomic energy com-

2 phe asse l ministers, | mission at Lake Success will continue.

the assembly ands is not p ‘to do

os -

- . ” - GL

Although the There are no crown-wearers- in| commission has been meeting since June 14, it is not heaven who were not cross-bearers| vet in a position to present any definite results to

“

“a

ive Here?

ror - : MOND,

As for the butcher's knowl-

that Julius Caesar was a Greek. Nor did Mr. Orton meet the physical requirements, For example, the testimony revealed that the real Roger had an’ anchor, heart and cross tattooed on his breast when he left England. The best the. Aus tralian butcher . could produce in this line was a monogram embracing the initials A. O, which, for some reason, he had tried to erase. ’ Well, that brings us to George Wilton, a citizen of Indianapolis in the Eighties. Mr. Wilson, it appears; left England in 1854 because of the behavior of his mother. She was a very determined little lady of French extraction who had insisted on his marrying a girl he didn't love. After a harrowing shipwreck, Mr. Wilson arrived in Canada where he worked in a bank as a cashier. Eventually, he came to the United States and served on the side of the North all during the Civil war Alter the war he came to Indianapolis ana supported himself in various ways until an obstinate disease of the eyes, contracted during the war, forced him to find asylum in our poor-farm. This information was picked up piecemeal by Father Bessonies, the French priest who, at that time, had charge of St. John’s church.

Mr. Wilson Spoke French : THAT -wasn't all, though. In the course of his ° errands of mercy, the good priest also learned that Mr. Wilson could speak French like a native, "that he was a devout Catholic; that he was heir “to a million-pound fortune, likewise a baron's title, and that he knew better than to call Julius Caesar a Greek. Apparently, the only thing Father Bessonies didn't discover (or didn't disclose) was the tattooed anchor, heart and cross which, I am sure, Mr. Wilson carried around with him all the time he was in Indianapolis

Ya A : PERN ~~ op NY

ada

day, and over two million more than in 1940. Modre people are at work in California than ever. Unemployment is down to 260,000, a drop of 215,000 from last March. Jobs have been provided in recomverted war industries, in many new small industries that have sprung up—new factories with a total investment of over $400 million Have been announced—and in expanded import business to the Orient and the Philippines by established outfits and new ones. Branch plants are being opened ‘by eastern and other outside corporations. “I would rather see 100 cities of 100,000 population than to see a few hig cities just get bigger,” said Gov. Warren. That is an ideal. Contributing to it are the power, irrigation and flood control projects of California's valleys being developed by the federal government, including the great Central Valley project, bigger than TVA {(o provide farms and homes for new settlers.

Thus tar the immigrants have concentrated largely (6 in the big cities, this and Los Angeles, Objective of the state's reconstruction and re-employment commis- . Ms sion is for a de-centralized economy to get factories 30-| into the small towns - Only in two cases did the expected shutdown and (F quick drop in employment occur--shipbuilding and aircraft. Most other irdustries are holding their Hol wartime gains under reconversion and some are doing frar even better i poc To Stand on Own Feet 124i IN ALL OF THIS California sees her opportunity bot to ‘establish an industrial empire of her own, to de- . clare—her—independenca-from the East. ! ® (KF The state has considerable capital resources of her own, which are being utilized as shown by the in- 54.) creased registration of tinancirig here, which means 35 that the businesses are locally owned. mat

It all looks fine here. California can't quite believe

it. But she is happy to be on her way.

four bucks. He merely converted it to his own use. I know of practically no officers, during my threeyear hitch, who didn't convert to their own use government property considerably in excess of $4.08. The jeeps that were wrecked by tipsy drivers, pleasure bent. reach astronomical figures. If there is a surviving aviator who did not “liberate” a complete flying kit, I never met him. There may be ex-naval officers without service 45's and 38's, expensive foul weather gear, chronometers, high-pow-ered spyglasses, sextants—all government material, all stolen, if you want to be nasty, and all winked at. , But I don't know any. . One highly placed naval officer is alleged to have flown his Australian sweetie back to Pear] in a government owned plane. An army officer I know command&ered two C-4T's to fly from Capri to East Africa and back, with a load_of Scotch I have sat fascinated for hours, listening to supply officers laughingly retail accounts of thievery in government property— thievery which was either condoned or ignored. An army officer I know was confined to quarters for a whole week for trying to steal a pistol by switching serial numbers from an old to a new gun. Pistols are not expendable. Everybody thought this officer had been harshly treated, even though a certain amount of “moral turpitude” was indicated.

‘Scrounging' an Art DURING THE war “scrounging” and “liberating” were highly developed arts, and anything that was smaller than a tank was scroungable, They stole eve ing from torpedo alcohol to aircraft, and if they were officers, they largely got away with it. If only to protect the trade school boys from lousing up army's new and obviously false concern for its noncommissioned hired help, somebody ought to put a bug in the ear of that buck general at Aber~deen. With a civilian board snooping around to investigate army justice, sending that kid up for four bucks worth of leather isn't buying many votes in army's self-inaugurated popularity contest.

| | Soft,

Bg ——

boar:

But it may be that the assembly will nevertheless - call for some’'report. In that case, Secretary General Trygve Lie will probably produce an interim statement himself. Any such statement would, however, be a vague and inconclusive document at best, and would be, practically speaking, no more than a gesture. Meanwhile, speculation is rife as to what will happen if it ultimately proves impossible to come to any agreement on the question of controlling atomic energy. The Russian and American proposals remain apparently irreconcilable, and the question of what will happen if negotiations break down is one of first-class importance.

Limited Agreement Better Than None THE MOST PRACTICAL solution. would be for the western nations to go ahead and implement the Raruch plan, disregarding Russia. For though it would be a pity not to achieve universal international § ~ agreement in a matter of such vital importance, a limited agreeméiit would be better than none at all No one wishes to exclude Russia from any international agreement, but she is apparently determinea to exclude herself by her obstinate and monotonous “use of the veto. It is quite certain that the civilized world would advance far more speedily to a reasonable. settlement if it made up its mind: to go ahead regardless of the Ee: tactics of the U. 8. 8. R. Suh

Sims - rE