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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

POLITICAL POT BOILING WH an important municipal judgeship to be filled by Jan. 1 and with the political pot beginning to boil in the 1947 mayoralty race, many behind-the-scenes maneuvers are developing, reports The Times’ political reporter, Noble Reed. Judge John L. Niblack, who retires at the end of this year to become a judge of superior court succeeding Judson L. Stark, prosecutor-elect, has made an excellent record as judge of municipal court. His regime has been untainted by. politics. or In recommending a successor to Governor Ralph E. Gates, who makes the appointment, G. 0..P. County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom has a heavy responsibility to the community. No. hack politician-attorney should be named to this post. The new judge should have an irreproachable record, and be above playing politics, because in this court—it used to be known as police court— it is easy to play politics and get away with it. Preferably, he should be a young veteran. Veterans have not been elected to many offices this year, and certainly are entitled to representation on the judiciary which does not now contain any veteran of world war II ! Both parties should select their mayoralty candidates with care, realizing that at last the independent voters are aroused to the point of scratching their ballots for good men and against weak candidates. The independent voters hold the balance of power, and there will be no outside issue to confuse them when they select their mayor next year.

TIMES HAVE CHANGED PRESIDENT TRUMAN points out that he has been advocating an industrial armistice ever since VJ-day—a year and three months ago.

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Notable among his efforts to bring about peace on the production front was the labor-management conference | in November, 1945. Its failure was a disappointment to him | and to the country. Neither side, at that time, was willing to make such concessions as would have been necessary for a truce. But conditions have changed since then. Both sides have gone through a year of fighting. Both have had ample and painful opportunity to learn that industrial warfare in times like these means victory for no one. It means only throttled production, shortages, higher prices that destroy the value of increased wages, and restricted future markets. If continued, it will mean disaster. Each side, also, is now much more nearly on its own than it has been since world war II began. The government has abandoned its wage controls and almost all of its price controls. The hand of bureaucracy has been lifted from most negotiations between industry and labor. And the freedom gained by the negotiators carries with it a greater and clearer responsibility for the consequences of failure to settle issues without stoppages of work. Mr. Truman and all other Americans now have real reason to hope that labor and management can see the ~~ wisdom—indeed, the urgent necessity—of joining voluntarily in some such agreement as that proposed by Basil Manly to make 1947 a year of full employment and full production under an industrial armistice. :

LET'S WAIT AND SEE

SOVIET Foreign Minister Molotov has done it again. By inference, he has agreed to meet American demands for United Nations inspection rights as a prerequisite to disarmament. “The Soviet delegation has put forward a proposal for a general reduction of armaments,” he said; “It also is well known that, in the general assembly, the U. S. delegation has given its support to this proposal, and at the same time presented its own further considerations regarding this problem.

“The U. 8S. delegation has already met the proposal of the Soviet Union. I want to declare that, for its part, the Soviet delegation is also willing to meet the U. S. proposal. We can already recognize that the proposals of the Soviet and American delegations can be harmonized.” The American counter-proposal to which Mr. Molotov referred declared the United States was ready to engage in a general disarmament program provided all other nations would submit to inspection to assure that there were no evasions of the program. Presumably, Mr. Molotov is willing to agree to this. But if so, why has the Soviet Union opposed the Baruch plan for atomic energy control on exactly this point? ! Mr. Molotov ig a master at double talk, and Soviet diplomats believe in mixing ‘em up, talking conciliation one . day, tough the next, This may just have been the day for . soft soap. /® 8 8 .-8 a THE speech was made before the Foreign Press association, an ideal sounding board for propaganda, and not before the United Nations security council, where the real

Russians by what they do, not what they say.

In Paris, Mr. Molotov demanded a larger standing army for Bulgaria than even the puppet government at Sofia wanted—and a much larger force than the United States and Britain considered desirable. He also insisted i | that this former Hitler satellite be allowed torpedo boats . Will he reverse that position now? ) If Mr. Molotov means business, we can work with hi But it will be wéll to wait until he signs on the line h we take his olive branch too seriously, Meanwhile, it is disconcerting to. read. that the Relicans plan sharp cuts for the armed forces to carry taxes and a balanced budget.

8. The realistic Russians know, rs do not, that our firm forfront unless we have the

"Don't Permit Stream Pollution,

Killing Tons of Fish by Poison"

By C. E. P., Indianapolis

As a protector of wild life and fish in the state of Indiana, I can only say that the conservation department has failed miserably. In all | due respects to the department I will say the forests of this state are wel taken care of to the best of my knowledge. But there has been no discrepancies brought to the attention of the general public in regard to our animal life. The criminal and unsportsmanlike elimination of our fish life in streams and rivers of our state is beyond my comprehen|sion. To permit the death of tons of fish such as is happening in the locality of Willams dam in Lawrence county is pure negligence or utter disregard of the law. Every fisherman knows what would happen if a game warden pedestrian and vehicle driver and found him with an extra fish above |exposing all the peoples of Indianthe legal limit or a fish that was apolis to state-wide reprobation for slightly undersize. He would be its manifest “of talk there is plenfined and given a lecture on the ty, of action little.”

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preservation of our fish (as he should be). And yet, canning companies are permitted to pollute our streams and commit irreparable damage. The law is very conspicuous by its absence in the case of certain people. If you are going to have a law on fish why not have one for all people #nd not let a favored few ignore what every true fisherman holds in high esteem.

a 80 “OUR TRAFFIC PROBLEM IS FROZEN IN STATUS QUO”

By John Alvah Dilworth, 816'% Broadway Through observation and from reading the newspapers I have arrived at the conclusion that Indianapolis' government is -vacillating without any past and apparently little future plan or policy of relieving' ever increasing traffic congestion In the downtown area because pedestrians and vehicle drivers are holding on to a behest or canon in which they have little or no interest, It might be asked: Has the city administration been dragging a red herring across the traffic situation scene as a blind to hide the extravagance and the inefficiency of its administration? There should be a general awakening of the peoples of Indianapolis to give thought to the city's future. In my opinion, the city's present administration's tactics are gaining for our efficient police department, distrust and hostility bbth of the

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In my mind, our traffic problem [has been frozen in a status quo. {The nucleus of the present admin|istration’s traffic policy lies in for{mer administrations organized by {politicians without the know how and from which this administration has the inability to free itself, Incapacity. As we read-in the newspapers, veterans' housing, along with other problems, have been mishandled so badly that no one can measure the bloodshed from traffic and the misery from the housing shortage which will overtake the enormous masses of the humble, helpless thousands of Indianapolis in the coming winter months or under what new mandate will lie their destiny and future.

¥ ou & “LOW TAXES WILL BRING NEW BUSINESSES HERE”

“KINDNESS, PAT ON BACK HELPS PAPER CARRIER” By Mrs. Grace Wagner, Indianapolis In The Times of Oct. 27 was a very grand letter by Mrs. L. Wicker stating to have the carriers’ money ready. Now the so-called Ex-Newsboy of Nov. 5 made my blood boil for two days. I have a boy of 12 years who has carried The Times for four years, and also

two years while we were in California. Also I have a girl 8 years old who has carried the paper all summer. B8he used to help her brother, therefore the manager had an idea she'd like her own route. | Which she does. Paper carriers, as everything else, have been shorthanded so I let her carry. I don't let my children out after dark, and I feel strongly on the idea that people could have their money ready because I'd hate to think my children delivered to you and had to run their legs off to collect. : Why blame a paper for what's wrong in the world, they just print facts. I'll tell you what's wrong. Look in a mirror, see? My children and millions more are not out for “hand-outs.” If they were they'd not carry papers (heavy at that) in all kind of weather, to people such as you. Children make mistakes, so do adults. No one is perfect. But kindness and love, “a smile and a pat on the back to kids, and they'll go through fire for a person. If people could only have paper money ready on Friday, the kids could collect it and you'd not be

By A Small Business Man, Indianapolis After-seeing-the-Industrial—BEx-hibit in the Union Station, I am| {wondering who will “father” the | most important step in bringing! new enterprises to Indianapolis. Al low tax rate will do it. How to get a lower tax rate in my opinion is to draft a businessman for mayor.

would reduce our tax rate: 25 to 40 per cent while increasing efficiency. How long would any firm represented in the Union Station display remain in business with the kind of management the largest corporation in Indiana, the city of Indianapolis, gets?

“Any o' yodse want anyting from de bank?"

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bothered again. You see, those paper kids have to pay their paper bill on Saturday.

ww» “WE URGE REAPPOINTMENT OF OTTO RAY BY SHERIFF”

By Mrs. Lawrence Newburn, 414 W, 434d st. As a member of the board of

directors of the Indiana Society for

Any of these men conducting the the Prevention of Cruelty to Anicity business as they have their own mais 1 am writing to lay before

the people a matter that needs the attention of every civic-minded member of the community. .Perhaps few have realized that the work of Mr. Otto Ray, in his capacity of special investigator for cruelty cases, in the sheriff's office, is really the only work of that sort being done in the county. And the need is terrific. Hundreds of calls’have come to him—abandoned dogs, injured animals, lost pets, as well as cases involving deliberate cruelty —in fact, his desk has been a clearing house for all that sort of work, a work which has grown by leaps and bounds, Certainly this is a time to go forward, not backward, and hundreds in the 8. P. C. A, as well as many, many others who are interested in the development of humane work and understanding in our city and county, request that our “new” sheriff, Mr. Magenheimer, reappoint Mr, Ray as special investigator for the county. No one understands the need better than Mr. Ray. No one could serve in that capacity more sincerely and capably than he. We urge his reappointment, and thus the continued opportunity to do something about a matter than greatly needs our support.

DAILY THOUGHT

¥ Then the spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the captains, and he said, Thine are we David, and on thy side; thou’ son of Jesse: peace be unto thee, * and peace be to thine helpers; for thy God helpeth thee.—I Chronicles 12:18. ” 3. as lulls to sleep, But sword on high and brow with

THE MANNER in which traffic is handled in Indianapolis is dern near more inefficient than if any other Hoosier county seat town . .. is a constant source of harassment to motorists and pedestrians and a justified point of criticism by out-of-town visitors. The city board of safety is working ona master plah to alleviate the problem, but is hampered by many factors . . . ranging from the routing of streetcars and trolley busses to control by the state highway commission of those city streets which are parts of

state highways. These include such main arteries of traffic as Washington st., Meridian st., and Capitol ave.

Downtown Bottleneck :

SAND DOESN'T GO FAST through an hourglass . «+ and we have an hourglass bottleneck in downtown Indianapolis. A possible solution would be to reduce the number of streetcars and busses on the downtown streets . « with only Washington cars on Washington st., Illinois cars on Illinois st. and Pennsylvania cars on Pennsylvania st. Widening the downtown loop by lessening such traffic obviously would improve our present county-seat methods. So also would enforcement of parking rules . . . lack of such enforcement now slows traffic particularly in the evening, with widespread double-parking and violation of hours of parking regulations. The police have a tough job to do at these rush periods . , . and they don't seem to get much co-operation from selfish citizens. : After all, the city’s streets should be used for moving vehicles, not for parking space.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—In President Truman's offer of co-operation with Republicans in congress there stood out like a beacon his insistence upon “a progressive concept of government.” It is well to repeat what he said on this point: “As President of the United States I am guided by a simple formula: To do in all cases, from day to day, without regard to narrow political considerations, what seems to me to be best for the welfare of all our people. Our search for that welfare must always be based upon a progressive concept of government.” J

Issues Will Arise

ELSEWHERE IN HIS STATEMENT the President recognized frankly that inevitably there will arise issues between the White House and congress. Though he did not say so, it Will be on the meaning of “a progressive concept of government” on which some of these issues will be drawn. They will relate to how much the federal government should do, and how much the states and local governments, in the matter of social welfare problems. Extreme viewpoints will be advanced again, as before. On one hand, and much in the minority now because of the election, are those for increased centralization of government. On the other are those, now much more powerful in congress, who would make “state rights” supreme, to use the broad, vague phrase. 3 ’ Attempts to adopt either of these extreme viewpoints will contribute only to a stalemate that some fear out of the present divided responsibility. - There is a middle course which is the way of true progressivism It was the formula used by the New Deal in some of its major reforms now so generally accepted, among them the social security program in which federal and state governments share.

INDIANA HAS a flair for greatness. Through this uncanny knack she has picked out and picked up a good many great ones in her time. Whether this comes from her drawing power, her deftly sure technique, or an inspirationsdRalgls strong and wise, nobody knows. But of all this you can safely say that when Indiana takes her pick, her choice may come out of obscurity, from the heights, or as just a hope. The last of these got the nod when she tapped Thomas Say, a 38-year-old Philadelphian who had nearly starved to death after he failed while trying to run a drug store in Philadelphia. Even though his father, Benjamin Say, was one of the richest men in Ben Franklin's town. And believe it or not, Thomas Say became a great conchologist, “the father ‘of descriptive entomology in America.”

Turned to Research SAY WAS BORN in Philadelphia June 27, 1787, the year that Indiana was putin the-shell- by the Ordinance of 1787. After he failed in the drug store, he became one of the original members of the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences, which in turn became one of the greatest scientific societies in America. . Once a member of the academy, Say turned to scientific study and research. But he had practically no money. He lived in one of the rooms of the academy; slept on the floor; spent 75 cents a day for food, and cooked it himself. Weakened by malaria contracted on a ‘trip to Mexico, he died in his home at New Harmony, Ind. Oct. 10, 1834. He was 47 years old. But in the intervening years, Say had made a great record in science. In 1816, he planned and began the first volume of his American Entomology; visited

' LONDON, Nov. 14.—Under hostile pressure by the Jews, Arabs and the Soviet government, Britain will try to speed settlement of the Palestine issue before it explodes. Foreign Secretary Bevin in New York is seeking Secretary Byrnes’ agreement on an AngloAmerican solution. i . A partition plan, under British control but with a gesture of United Nations responsibility, is considered the most likely outcome. But meanwhile the London government, with an eye to Arab objections and imperial defense, still is hoping for a less drastic solution.

Up to Byrnes and Bevin ATTITUDE OF THE U. 8. government largely will determine how far Britain is willing to go. Complaint here has been that Washington is long on giving advice—in a most embarrassing public manner and at most inopportune tim t is short on accepting responsibility. This is applied especially to President Truman's frequent reiterations that 100,000 Jews should be allowed immediately into Palestine. Only bright spot in an otherwise darkening Palestine picture, in the British government's view, is that Mr. Truman now has turned over the whole matter to Secretary Byrnes. The temptation ‘to wishful thinking is so great that London probably exaggerates the significance of this. At least no firm basis As yet apparent for the belief that the United States intends to share responsibility for a Palestine settle-

ment and enforcement of same to the extent desired by London, . ; Nevertheless,

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover ~~. - Our ‘Hick Town’

Handling of Traffic

Indianapolis has stalled along long enough . . . it’ time to dct now, not to discuss. The SE is came even more acute when gas rationing was removed. As new cars come into the market, it will get Worse: Now is the time for a merciless surgical operation on our traffic system , ., . t . ernize it, oe So uy From the standpoint of efficiency, downtown traffic doesn't seem to be handled any better than it was in the old tower-and-bell days. | Rentember when the policeman in the tower on a main corner sounded the bell and you da: Across the street? a Lights should be ‘automatically regulated; geared to the flow of traffic as it varies during the Fh) Our system could be classified as homemade-actually, It has been about 20 years since it was installed, perhaps more, and plece-meal additions have not prove to the point of being able to ha: modern traffic flows, 8 dle It hardly is a sign of modernity, for instanc y e, to have a policeman sitting on a stool in a major traffic intersection controlling the lights in accordance with his conception of how many cars should be moved in one of several directions + « « Yet that has been the method of control in at least one case.

Get a Plan That Will Work

THIS QUESTION OF TRAFFIC must have a solution. Certainly, the answer is not inaction. Why don’t representatives of the board of safety, state highway commission, merchants, streetcar company and others concerned. get together and get In-

dianapolis out of its hick town class handling traffic? : thou: on

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes There's Danger in ‘Big Government’

There is a deceptiveness in the cry for “state rights” and “a return of power to local government.” Some who raise it, for example, are most willing to use the tariff and tax-making power of the federal government to favor special interests. These powers frequently have been so used. There is danger in “big government.” This is recognized in a penetrating analysis by David Lilienthal, a progressive thinker, former TVA head who recently was named chairman of the atomic energy commission. In a speech in Philadelphia he concluded that “big government” is not inevitable and offered a formula to avoid it and still serve the people. Explaining that there are many problems which are national, ‘he sald these require a national policy, but administration can be regional and lgcal. “The distinction between a centralized or national policy and the decentralized or loca? administration of that national policy, is a distinction of fundamental importance.”

Problem Will Be Foremost

THAT DISTINCTION is recognized so successfully in TVA which is administered locally, and not out of Washington, and also uses state law and local govern. ment agencies in numerous ways in a co-operative endeavor. This decentralized type of administration proved by TVA may, he said, become “one of the most important, if not indeed the most important product of that experiment in Tennessee valley.” Because of the nature of the election, this problem will be foremost in the coming congress. The public might as well know in advance that “state rights” can be used as a cover to restrict and curtail worthwhile and valuable services to the people. President Truman is aware of it. David Lilienthal shows there is a middle way in which the benefits may be saved for the people without going into “big government.”

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow Indiana’s ‘Boatload of Knowledge’

Georgia and Florida in scientific research; joined the expedition of Maj. Stephen H. Long, sent out by order of John C. Calhoun, secretary of war under

President James Monroe, to explore the Rocky Moun-

tain region. Four years later, in 1823, he was with Long's second expedition to explore the sources -of the Minnesota river at the continental divide just beyond the western border of the Northwest Territory, which, in Indiana, was to be Say’s permanent home. ; In 1821, he became the curator of the American Philosophical Society, and Ii 1822 was named professor of natural history at the University of Pennsyl« vania. He held these positions for several years. But aside from his scientific activities, the great venture of Say’s life was his coming to New Harmony, as a member of Robert Owen's colony there. He came early in 1825 with the rightly named and famous “Boatload of Knowledge,” sponsored by Robert Owen, and led by William Maclure.

Wife Illustrated His Works

HERE WAS -SAY'S headquarters for scientific regearch and work till he died. Here on Jan. 4, 1827, he married Lucy May Sistaire, who had come to New Harmony two years before as a pupil of Madame D. Fretageot, the second Pestalozzian trained teacher in America. It was a happy marriage. Mrs. Say was especially helpful in drawing the figures of shells illustrating her husband's works.

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don, and his work in ‘science was recognized in both Europe and America as notable and of high order. His published works are standard in the world. Thomas Say added a touch of reknown to Indiana. The one home of his owri was on her soll, where the great work of his life came to a head, and where he lies in death. He honors Indiana as Indiana warmly cherishes and honors him,

WORLD AFFAIRS.. . . By Ludwell Denny Britain Must Act ‘on Palestine Soon

shift 1s a change of method rather than basic policy, that is a promising advance, Personal negotiations always are safer than long-distance freewheeling. Messrs. Bevin and Byrnes could confer so easily and fruitfully that this method should produce a broader understanding and agreement on the delicate issue. Moreover; only by this method can Palestine be considered in relation to the Mideast, Europe and the United Nations situation, of which it is an integral part. » Among the many developments which spur the British cabinet the following two cannot be ignored: Threats of Jewish extremists to extend their terrorist campaign to London and against the British everywhere. This is taken so seriously here that security precautions by Scotland Yard and the government are the most extensive since the end of the war. Soviet charges before the trusteeship committee of the United Nations assembly that Britain is violating the charter. Russia can make a case—at least in theory and perhaps with practical support of many small nations—that Britain's failure to report to the United Nations on the mandate is contrary to the spirit of the charter.

Report to United Nations RUSSIA ALSO CAN CHARGE that efforts to set-

tle the issue by direct negotiations with Jews and

Arabs, with or without American consultation, do not relieve Britain of her trusteeship and other responsibilities to the United Nations, . , Britaii would rather report to the United Nations

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