Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 November 1946 — Page 16

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S Armistice day declaration was 4 a calm appraisal of the current political situation and a statesmanlike plea for co-operation and reciprocity between the executive and legislative branches of the government. First response from victorious Republican leaders was in like spirit. That is well. For this nation, after all the turmoil of war, strikes and other forms of fighting, yearns for an era % Various domestic issues demand attention, and these inevitably will provoke partisan divisions, as they did in the campaign and in the last congress. Ours is not a oneparty government, and issues must be clarified and harmonized by debate and examination. But the demand of the times is for constructive action. An exhibition of partisanship for partisan advantage will not be good politics on the part of either congress or the White House. In foreign affairs, as Mr. Truman has said, a wellcharted course has been laid out through a policy developed and executed on a bipartisan basis. As it applies to the European situation, we believe that policy has the overwhelming support of the American people and the respect of most other nations. Any sharp deviation from it could weaken our international prestige and do injury to world peace and security. J But beyond Europe lies the Orient, where a clarification of the American position too long has been delayed. We have pursued a vacillating, uncertain course in China, and there has been occasional evidence that certain elements in the state department are not in sympathy with Gen. MacArthur's firm policy in Japan. An examination of these situations is in order, with the yiew to squaring our policy there with our policy in Europe. Some partisan prodding here would be. helpful and con- * structive.

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FOR A BETTER CONGRESS PERHAPS the most important single achievement of the last session of congress was the passage of the La Follette-Monroney act. Part of that act makes a good start toward bringing

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By Donald R. Richberg, Washington, D. C. - 1 was much interested in Basil Manly’s article proposing a voluntary industrial armistice for the year 1947. . Although I have advocated, and am still advocating, the passage of labor legislation as soon as possible in order to provide a practical and prompt program for the peaceful settlement of labor disputes, the suggestion of a temporary. cessation of hostilities between labor organizations and employers may stimulate some constructive thinking among persons on both sides now preparing for further destructive warfare. If Mr. John L. Lewis could be induced once more “furiously to think” and halt his impending campaign against prosperity, a great good would be accomplished.

the machinery of congress up to date, reducing the unwieldy number of committees and enabling the national legislature to do a better job. The other part provides salary increases and a contributory system of retirement benefits for senators and representatives. After the act was passed, some members made the unwise suggestion that the coming session should scrap the first part-——the part that would improve congress—and keep only the salary boosts and “pensions.” That would be a disastrous mistake, Fortunately, it is a mistake that now seems unlikely to be made. The Scripps-Howard newspapers, since the election, have polled a large number of members who will sit in the congress that begins in January. We find a big majority—about six to one in the house, ‘about three to two in the senate—say they intend to vote to put.the full provisions of the La Follete-Monroney act into effect. It will be a good idea to keep an eye on some of them, to make sure they don’t change their minds. But among those who have gone on record for the entire act are such Republican leaders as Senators Taft of Ohio and White of Maine, and Representative Halleck of Indiana. They believe their party should stand for the reforms as well as the benefits—and they are right.. For a breach of fdith on this important measure would be a ter‘ribly bad start for the new Republican congress and an equally bad mistake for Democrats who hope to avoid further losses at the next election.

The issue, essentially, is .not partisan.

TAIL WAGS THE DOG

‘THE Communists, though polling less than one-third of the popular vote in the French election, won a plurality of 650,000 over four other major parties and several minor political groups. They now, hold an eight-seat edge over their nearest rivals in the new national assembly, and are established as numerically the strongest single party in the government-to-be.

I must frankly say I have seen no evidences of any disposition onjpublic hostility and that further the part of conspicuous labor lead-|campaigns against the American ers to abandon collective coercion people and their government may and re-engage in collettive bargain- bring crushing defeats to the labor ing, except an evident intention on|warmakers. the part of most of them to avoid 2. 2 # stirring up further public hostility “Ngpw DEAL LAWS SHOULD pefore the congressional election. BE TOSSED OUT WINDOW” Now that the election is over, it is possible that the returns may By Wright Cash, 326 N. Sheffield demonstrate to some of the out-| AS the laboring men and women standing labor bullies that the Of the good old U. S. A. are tired American people have taken about/0f what they call the New Deal,

that their good na- the Republican senate and house 2 the pee and are St to| Should do away with all New Deal

strike back with wrathful vigor. Jaws. ind away wil ow baziking If these labor leaders have sense <h oe Be e bash ers enough to read correctly the hand- 3 Sho 1 Be Toke wo 3 sep writing on the election wall; they labor laws that the New should welcome any proposal for an Deal bad ye or armistice and sh OPPORUIILY 10 boss a la to cut the weg join with Yepresentaiives ot Jen put the laborers in line ro soup. gy Oe aE Give the farmers a chance to get legislation not unduly restrictive of 30 2 35% Sor wheat ns 15 go the power of labor unions to ad- 1or thelr Tous i fw a vance the interests of their mem- a — Noa nd. ri bers by lawful means. = =. = o|Taft as President in '48. For the There can be no question {only law the Republicans ever the readiness of a large percentage | passed for labor that T can Sind was of employers to co-operate in such) "yoo act. I would like for a program. They would welcome a someone to write and tell me any breathing spell and an opportunity other law they ever passed for lato produce goods and services for a bor, 1 will watch The Times for ani time, free from labor warfare, even BIER or if they had little hope of reaching ' agreement with the labor unions on a permanent peace program, Thus, the reactions of labor leaders to Mr, Manly's suggestions will determine their practical value. If labor leaders who have violently done has been to elect, elect, elect opposed every suggestion that they|and elect, and spend and spend and should be required by law to defer spend. Only once have they made striking until peaceful negotiations a pretext of saving anything, and had been given a fair trial would that was saving daylight. now follow a suggestion that they| This election has proven that voluntarily agree to defer strikes for |“you can fool some of the people a definite period, we would have all of the time, and all of the people clear evidence that they have ac- some of the time, but you can’t fool | tually become aware of a rising all of the people all of the time.” |

8s» “ELECTION PROVES OLD LINCOLN ADAGE RIGHT”

By Mrs. Willard G. Gray, 302 N. State st. All that the New Dealers have

i This outcome is certain to have a profound effect upon ‘French foreign policy, whether the new government is p! ¢ formed by the Communists or by an opposition coalition. . France has been plagued by a multiplicity of political % parties since the days of the second empire, a fact which “plays into the hands of a well-disciplined minority, such a8 the French Communist party. Thanks to the two-party system in the United States, political'tails find it much more difficult to wag the dog in this country. The Communist | party, under its own colors, seldom polls a very impressive | vote in an American election, and its boring-from-within | «tactics through the C. I. 0.-P. A. C. got a convincing set- | back last week. | However, the Communists have been more successful in the American labor movement. In many C. I. O. unions, | they exercise an influence out of all proportion to their numerical strength, having captured leadership in such bodies much as they have worked their way -into such a strong strategic position in France. , By similar tactics, Communist control has been estab. lished in many liberal and progressive organizations, where it operates to influence public policy, particularly when Russian 18 are concerned, has not happened here, we have-to contend with: a problem ina less open and more insidious ‘form.

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“AVOID POISONING BY KEEPING DOGS HOME” By Mrs. M. L. K., Shelbyville I have read a letter from an Indianapolis citizen regarding dog poisonings. I do not condone a poisoner of animals (we have lost several). However, neither can I condone a dog owner who has nothing but disregard for other people's property. No doubt some of these poisoners feel as if that is their only defense, albeit an inhumane one and they are deliberately driven to do something that they know is cruel. Right now I am constantly harassed by having two large boxers “turned into my lot every morning so they can take care of nature's call. The owner has been told to let his dogs pollute his own yard. They are his property—not mine—Ilet him clean up after them. However, it is I who do it, as well as clean up my upset garbage can, fill holes, mourn broken flowers, ete. This is running the joke too far, but if T were mean enough to poison these animals, I would be classified as being too mean to live. I recommend that to avoid dog poisonings, let's have dogs kept at home and taken care of absolutely by their owners.

n = ” “TO0 MUCH OF WHAT WE READ 1S DOUBLE-TALK” By Herman Spight, 3042 N. Martindale The alert citizen, who listens to radio commentators and reads the daily press, is constantly warned of the imminent threat of communism to our democratic concept of life. Yet, he never hears nor reads of what constitutes the cause of the danger or the real cure in the same analysis, even though these should always be made a part of the same. Where there is a threat of communism there is a flagrant injustice on the part of capitalism. If justice actually prevailed in this “land of the free” no man would have rights and privileges not shared by all alike. There is such a wide disparity between the way we define Christianity, democracy and Americanism and the way they ate actually practiced in this country, that many who would otherwise be loyal, fearless, happy citizens are made gullible for every “ism” which promises recognition of their dignity and worth as individuals, which promises to protect their rights as human beings whether their color happens to be red, white or black: Too much of what we-hear and réad, which we are expected to subscribe to, turns out to be just so much claptrap and double-talk, Too many people in high places of government are shadow-boxing and evasive. Seemingly, they are afrald to state the whole truth or to face issues squarely. This kind of conduct gives comfort and succor to those who threaten us. I am not a Communist, This is not meant as a plug for communism, but a common sense deduction of the reason that the mass of the Dewpi— 1nd themselves in a dilemma today.

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FAIR WITH CANDIDATES” By Barney E. Antrobus, Crawfordsville You surely have played fair with the candidates in the recent election, and your observations on national and international matters seem balanced. Keep up the line. And the problems of the rich — well, yes, let someone else shed tears for them. I, too, have to wash the dishes—and like it. I'll leave Mrs. Roosevelt to console both the servants and the employers with any kind semantics they may decide upon,

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~~ ANOTHER QUAINT notion of amateur historians is the unwarranted assumption that stylish photography had its origin in Hollywood. ; Nonsense. . Stylish photography came to Indianapolis in the early Nineties by way of Marceau & Powers who had their “studio” in the old Windsor building. It was where the Wm, H, Block people now do business. At that time Hollywood wasn’t even on the map. : For some reason which I yet have to fathom; most of the fash- ! fonable establishments of Indianapolis in the Nineties had their seat in Illinois st., in the block between Washington and Market sts. Even more mysterious was the fact that, because of some obscure association of ideas, the block was called the “levee.”

Remember Rink's 'Cloak House'?

BILLY TRON, for instance, picked the east side of the levee to promote the fanciest saloon Indianapolis ever had. Albert Kuhn ran the fanciest grocery. It was on the same side of the street on the corner of Market. As a matter of fact, Mr. Kuhn advertised that he sold “fancy groceries.” Across the street was Joe Rink’s fashionable “cloak house,” and farther down the block in the stylish Bates House was George Knox's sumptious barber shop which there was nothing more lavish this side of the one in the Palmer House in Chicago. All these establishments were going full blast when Marceau & Powers barged into town. Marceau & Powers had the natives blinking their eyes right from the start. For two reasons: First of all, because of the name they gave their establishment. They called it a “studio.” Up to that time “gallery” was the accepted name of such institutions. But even more startling was. the fact that they pitched their tent on the street level, This was not merely an innovation—it was revolutionary, for up until the time they came, photographers roosted in the upper stories of buildings to take advantage of skylights. Marceau & Powers resorted to tricky theatrical lighting of their own making, thus projecting a mechanical process up into the realm of art. Marceau & Powers’ ground floor permitted them to have a street show window. It was worth any-

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.—Election of a Republican congress officially’ opened the battle for the party's 1948 presidential nomination. 3 It has brought an interesting suggestion for reform in picking delegates from the South to the next national convention. This suggestion comes from the South, and is aimed at stopping the notorious trafficking in delegates in some southern states, which is an open scandal. There is a lively over-the-counter trade in delegates among bosses who deal in hand-picked delegations known, colloquially, as “kept delegations.”

Privately Discussed by G. O.P. NOW COMES Wilson Williams, Republican national committeeman from Georgia, to suggest that this sort of traffic be stopped by holding preferential ‘presidential primaries in the South, At that time candidates for the nomination could enter themselves for a popular test by ballot in southern states. This has been discussed privately in Republican circles. Mr. Williams announced Georgia would hold a preferential primary in 1948. The target of this campaign is Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, who has had control of a number of southern state delegations through local bosses heginning with the 1940 convention when he was nosed out by Wendell L. Willkie. It is known that the Harold Stassen people are interested in breaking the Taft influence with the southern delegations, as undoubtedly are other candidates. These delegates were a nucleus in the Taft bid for the nominatipn in 1940, and in that of John W. Bricker, fellow Ohiocan, for whom Senator Taft

NEW YORK, Nov. 13.—Ordinarily I splinter no lances against the perfumery people, such jousting being regarded as too one-sided for sportsmanship, and in the same class with kicking children. In this new-found benevolence, I practiced tolerance with Tabu, the “forbidden” perfume, which is “so intimate there might be those who would say you should wear it only when entirely alone.” If a girl wants to spend the rest of her life locked in her boudoir because she smells so high she isn’t safe on the sidewalks—well, it's a free country. Anyhow, I doubt the ability of this foo-foo unguent to completely arouse the beast, because I notice that the prop musician who is grabbing the Tabu-ed lady is still clinging to his fiddle. If Tabu had all of the persuasive powers claimed for it, old longhair would have heaved the Stradivarius out of the window and kicked over the piano. But now the day of appeasement is done. I have just declared a state of total war against the folks who brew these love-potions. The cause is a recent advertisement extolling the virtues of a high octane toilet water called “Secret de Suzanne.”

What's Suzie's Secret? THERE ARE no other words In the ad. All you see is a hatrack, from which hang a naval officer's cap, an army officer's cap, two toppers, a derby, a pith helmet, a French officer's cap, a homburg, a

! panama, and one of those light gray jobs affected | by visiting cowmen. Only that, and “Secret de | Suzanne” scrawled across the page. | I don’t need any words to tell me that Suzie's | having a small at-home. Somewhere, between ‘the Battery and Leon & Eddie's, she has picked up a French officer, a British delegate to United Nations

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13—It would be easy to misconstrue the French elections to mean that France had moved still further to the left and that the Communists, now the largest single party, henceworth will run’ the country. But an analysis of the Sunday vote indicates only a small deviation from the last two elections. If anything, France would seem to have swung slightly toward -the right. For while the Communists appear to have picked up some 20 seats in the new assembly, thé Socialists are reported to have dropped 27 seats . making a net loss of seven seats for the two major leftist parties. :

72%, Were Against Communism IT 18 TRUE that President Bidault's moderate Republicans (M. R. P.) appear to have gained nothing and lost nothing in Sunday's contest. But Former Premier Herriot's old group and other moderates emerged somewhat stronger than they were iii the old chamber, Apparently what happened Sunday was that France voted Communist or anti-Communist. And though the Communists gained slightly in the popular vote, their potential allies, the Socialists, lost more than the Communists gained. The Communist party has announced that it will demand the premiership for its leader, Maurice Thores. As premier, M. Thorez doubtless would name Reds as foreign minister, minister of the interfor and to other key jobs. Once in control of the government, its f mn - policies, domestic - police and local political the

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body's time to stop and examine what fit contained, especially in the way of feminine puléhritude. A girl's picture in Marceau & Powers’ show window was a pretty good sign that she was ready. for the marriage market. Indeed, it was as good as having her name registered in the Almanach de Gotha, and a lot more to the purpose. : - On the inside, the studio was steeped in atmose phere. The floor was carpeted, I remember, and tapestries depicting the love affairs of shepherds and lovely ladies decorated the walls. Instead of doors, the openings were hung with heavy draperies, every fold of which appeared to have been carved by & sculptor. . There was a hush and silence about the place not unlike the inside of a church, And what made it appear even more ecclesiastical was the fact that, instead of gaslight, Marceau & Powers used candlesticks like those in a cathedral. The furniture, too, was good enough for a bishop, Especially one chair, It got to be historic because in its day it became an integral part of Marceau & Powers’ extraordinary portraits of William Jennings Bryan, Theodore Roosevelt, Tom Marshall, Julia Marlowe, Della Fox and Albert Beveridge (the elder, of course). To say nothing of the thousands of Ine dianapolis debutantes who sat in that chair. I guess the girls must be close to 70 years now. Sixty-five, anyway. .

Old Chair Preserved

I BRING UP the subject of Marceau & Powers’ old chair because it's still in existence. Edward R. Sitzman, .the artist, owns it. I even know how he acquired it. Seems tifat Joe Rink bought the old studio in 1895. He continued to run it (by way of George Pfau, his father-in-law) until the Windsor building was bought by the Block people. The studio was then moved across the street. Later when Mr. Rink got ready to erect his own building (now occupied by Murphy's 5 & 10), the studio was disposed of. ; It was just about this time that Mr. Sitzman hape pened to visit Mr. Rink and found most of Marceau

& Powers’ old furniture in a kindling heap ready to

be lit, He got permission to pick out what he wanted and that's how he rescued the historic chair. The reason Mr. Rink was so nice that day was because he was a first cousin of Mr. Sitzman’s wife.

POLITICAL REPORT .. . By Thomas L. Stokes Candidate Picking Reform Planned

stepped aside in 1944. Senator Taft is relying on the southern delegations again for 1948

Mr, Williams suggested his plan in a public state= | ment on the Republican victory in which he empha- |

sized the party must not dissipate its energies in “battles for control of the 1948 national convention by factions and ambitious individuals.” “These battles for control,” he said, “can be prevented if the leaders of the Republican party will adopt the simple measure of denying seats in the next national convention to delegates from the South,

territories, insular possessions, and the District of | Columbia unless these delegates are selected as the @

result of presidential preference primaries,

A Reform Long Overdue :

“REFERENCE to the history of the wars which have been waged over these delegates is unnecessary, The remedy is simple, effective, fair, and equitable, °

If the majority of the Republicans and those who

wish to become affiliated with the Republican party |

in these political subdivisions believe a candidate will

make a better President than other candidates, they |

can simply vote for him in a primary.

“As a result, no cliques or factions will control, J no smoke-filled rooms will be possible, the candidate 3

receiving the nomination will be the choice of the Republicans from the states which must furnish the electoral votes to elect him and not the choice of a group comprised of a Ttombination of non-electoral vote subdivisions plus the delegates from a sufficient number of electoral votes states to constitute a majority of the convention delegates.” ; Sounds reasonable. It's a reform long overdue,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Love Potions and Soulless Vampires

(derby), two young bounders’ out on the tiles (top=pers), a stodgy financier (homburg) a rich Cuban sugar planter (panama), a wild-animal trainer (pith helmet), a big Texas steer-and-ofl tycoon (semisombrero), and two young punks in the army and navy. From the battered condition of the army cap, the boy plainly belongs to the air forces.

Suzanne goes out to squirt another gill of allure

behind her ears. They are all wondering what Suzie’s secret is, and how they are going to shake the other nine guys. The Cuban leers wickedly as he intimates he knows darn well what Suzanne's secret is, and it ain't steak in the icebox. The airforce type walks around murmuring “hubba, hubba,” from force of habit, while the navy guy searches for the scotch, The Britisher is loudly saying that he only came up for a cup of tea, while ‘the Texan talks about Taixus. My bet is the cops will be along about midnight.

No Legitimate Excuse WHEN THE application of a few drops of Suzanne's secret can deplete the boulevards of New York City; when innocent breadwinners, hustling home with what's left of the bacon after taxes, are no longer secure in the streets, then the time has come to sound the tocsin. 3 I don’t know about your bride, but when I wire mine six weeks later that I am beach combing in Tahiti with a broad whose overpowering aura of “Unbridled Lust” snared me onto a tramp schooner, she is not going to accept it as a legitimate excuse, Gentlemen, we are at the mercy of these soulless vampires, We must do something while we still have strength enough to fight, :

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Wiliam Philip Simms French Voted for Moderate Regime

Precisely because of this, however, the chances are that M. Thorez will’ not succeed in becoming the fourth republic's first premier. Even with the Soeialists he could not command more than approximately 47 per cent of the new chamber and he is far from certain of the Socialists. On the other hand, the moderates could not long maintain themselves in power without at least some help from the Socialists. ‘With every non-Communist and non-Socialist vote in the chamber, they would still have only 53 per cent, or thereabouts, and with such a slim margin of safety they would hardly sur« vive a week. ’ Some kind of coalition perhaps not unlike the If the Communists refuse to work with the M. R. P.—as they have threatened the - collaboration of the Socialists will become im« perative. Even so, with the Communists returning to their old, familiar tactics of sniping from the sidelines—only more bitterly now than ever before-—the constitutional regime of France's fourth republis would start under a grave handicap.

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