Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 November 1946 — Page 14

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UP TO GOVERNOR GATES

THE TIMES is unalterably opposed to proposed appointment of Judge Paul C. Wetter, Republican 13th ward chairman, to the local municipal court bench to succeed Judge John L. Niblack. Judge Niblack, who has kept the court strictly out of politics, moves to the bench in superior court, room 1, at the end of the year. We do not believe that anyone so closely allied with politics as is a ward chairman should be a member of the | judiciary. As we have pointed out repeatedly in our argu"ment for non-political selection of judges, a jurist should git in judgment, not in party councils. We do not believe that Mr. Wetter can divorce himself easily from his long 3 participation in politics. : ; If he is recommended by G. O. P. County Chairman Henry E. Ostrom and appointed by Governor Ralph - F. Gates, it will be purely on a political basis. It is time to get new faces in public office, to give opportunity to young men to take a place in public life pro- | vided they are qualified. The governor can name whomever he wishes, so long as he is a Republican. Those political leaders who decide on the appointment should canvass the list of capable attor- . _neys, many of them war veterans, who could maintain the "municipal court at the same high level that Judge Niblack operated. A judicial post is too high an honor to be lightly hand- |" ed over as a political plum.

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_curred to me that now, if ever, something nice about Isaac Hodgson. Like most of the early architects of Indianapolis Mr. Hodgson was an Irishman. The few who were deprived of that distinction came from elsewhere in the British Isles. In support of which I cite William . Tinsley, the architect of lovely Christ church on the Circle. He was born in Clonmel. To be . sure, Frances Costigan was born in Washington, D. C, but a look at his name betrays his antecedents. Mr, Costigan was the distinguished architect of the exquisite school for the blind, the building that was torn down to make room for the war memorial plaza., Joseph Curzon, who designed the Second Presbyterian church, was the exception to the rule. He arrived. in Indianapolis by way of Derbyshire, England.. Besides being born in Belfast (in 1826) Isaac Hodgson also received his elementary education in

| Ireland. The Royal Academy of England provided

him with his professional training. At the age of 16 he was apprenticed to an architect by the name of Charles Lenyard, where he remained three yedrs. Mr. Lenyard ended up as Sir Charles, which leaves one no alternative but to believe that he was a pretty good architect. Either that, or he had a big drag with Queen Victoria.

Stopped at Decatur IN 1848, at the age of 22, young Hodgson sailed for America, arriving in New York. His uncle was at the pier to meet him. Seems that his uncle was an old-timer in New York, having arrived in plenty of time to serve in the war of 1812. Nephew Hodgson stuck around the Big Burg for a while, after which he headed for the West, stopping long. enough at Decatur, Ind. to set up housekeeping.

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. A TRAINED CIVILIAN ARMY HE British Labor government, breaking with tradition in a land where tradition is revered, advocates a peacetime conscription program that would require all youths | between the ages of 18 and 23 to serve 18 months in the regular army and then five years in the reserves. This, drastic measure is advanced at a time when a critical manpower shortage in mining, farming and con- | struction already jeopardizes the British recovery and ex- | port programs. It shows how seriously Britains statesmen regard the present international situation, and it gives all Americans profound food for thought. : The United States will be just as likely a target as ' the British isles if another war of aggression is aimed at . destruction of democracy and freedom. Yet our war department, abandoning its demand for

paperman . plans because I've “heard that song before. Geass), ee etc., all one-night-stand stuff. Sure, it did a little good—it | got the apples for the folks to sell. 8 = We've been shell-shocked 80 10ng|«gwNERS SHOULD GUARD “hands off,” “great individualism” and sham chasing that we simply will not believe " Juve om experience, Viz: Je to pune, of money wonder if the dogs that that an individual will get and keep that strychnine way out on Eas

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By L. G. Merrell, Morristown Frankly, I can't go off half-cocked on any proposal for a year-long Christmas spirit. Basil Manly’ lot of onlookers, some moronic, some stupid, some genuinely sincere an irrevocably-honest. But in the main it will be like an unorganized an unauthorized fire fight—it will do some spewing and sputtering and raise |’. some steam. But the house will burn down all the same. As a newsand scribbler myself, I'm skeptical of national voluntary

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& one-year compulsory training program, has agreed to one

time training. The United States is maintaining a firm position . against further appeasement of the Soviet militarists be"cause the directors of our bi-partisan foreign policy recognize the danger of whetting the appetites of would-be ag- ~ gressors. But we are building on sand unless we are prepared to defend our position by an armed force sufficient to discourage attack.

It is not suggested that we should maintain a professional army of 4,500,000 men, such as Russia has under arms today. But we must have an adequate reserve of trained civilians, available for service on short notice. Such a reserve will not be available without a sound program of universal training, and delaying the decision to provide that means asking for trouble,

DISASTROUS WARFARE

JNDUSTRIAL warfare’s ruinous effect on our domestic | economy is plain to see. Its threat to world recovery and

. America’s world influence may be less apparent to many of us. :

But Eugene Meyer, the distinguished American who heads the world bank, is in a position to know how grave that threat is. What he has just told the Academy of Politfcal Science in New York should command earnest attention. America's “disastrous industrial relations,” he said, are creating world starvation for the products of our mines and factories. Other countries are not getting the tools they need for reconstruction. Vast numbers of people are being condemned to serious deprivations.

: Mr. Meyer pointed out that world bank loans will be little real help to nations seeking to regain economic health if the money is spent merely to repair old machinery and restore antiquated production processes. Such nations must modernize their industrial techniques if they are to make their full contribution to the world’s wealth, raise their living standards and play their part in the interchange of products which is the firm basis for friendly relationships and world peace. He added

“I say emphatically that the crucial importance of continuous full production in America for our own welfare and for that of mankind the world over cannot be exaggerated.” Without attempting to allocate blame for the strikes that have choked production, Mr. Meyer urged the political #cientists seek a better way of settling labor disputes. We . second the motion. But the proposed search will take time, and the country, now facing immediate danger of a new i ‘wave of great strikes, needs immediate protection, i That could be provided by Basil Manly’s plan, advanced "In The Times several days ago, for an industrial armistice. * What Mr. Manly proposes is, simply, that industry and la4 bor agree voluntarily to make 1947 a year of full employi ment and full production, seftling their issues by negotiation and arbitration, neither side committing itself to permanent surrender. of any established right or permanent assumption of any new obligation,

CONFUSED ABOUT THAT WALLACE says that his pre-election swing

sed” and “are crying for leadership.”

don't do it! ridiculous: When the thing burns out in a few years we will have again a frantic hullabaloo from mayors and governors and scared well-heeled individuals wanting something done, and done quick, to relieve the suffering of those who lost their socks

country proved to him that “the people are |

for himself, Elven 4 free ana, Our|yyih st. were as fussy as the dog- | i i {industrial ex on and age uy Six ii 3 3 SOutsEOn Io opponents of peace monopoly has made the situation | dangerous to society as a whole. Today there is a lot of money scattered around to be gathefed UP! while the protester professes to have Everybody 15) he serious about that. What is really economically unsound in the picture is that a very few people have the monopolistic power to really gather it up and salt it down. An example is the General Motors price hike on automobiles, and other items, with other magnates following the Pat-|pu¢ seems unable to realize that an tary of state selected by congress. tern. The march is forming. Boys, It stews down to the

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Who's to blame? Surely not GenBeing hard-headed businessmen they had rather make a half million cars for $50 million profit than to make a million cars for the same profit. Can we blame them? That is what we have been taught from sucklings, ow. all the ballyhoo and whitewash notBut the failure make that other half million cars does something to the economy of a lot of people: The miner, the log cutter, the field hand who grows their food and Joe the barber who

With our larger and larger population, one of these days one of the “damned old parties” will have to

constructively or the broad basic

life will fall into the coarse hands greatness of the American way of

Side Glances—By Galbraith

tion to the rank and file. Few, if any, of the majority who voted for Roosevelt dreamed we would suffer the misfortune of Mr, Truman for a chief executive. Senator Fulbright, a brilliant and s “Industrial armistice” will attract ALB Bagh si Mr 4|retary of state and then resign. Two fable and respected papers, the Chis {cago Sun and the Atlanta Constituition, have backed up this ruggestion in front page editorials. We face a crisis that calls for leadership. The people have indicated they feel the Republican party can better handle the situation. © In simple justice, that party should be given a free hand for the next By H. Seaford, Woodruff Place two years. Then both parties can After all, isn’t it rather important | formulate clear cut policies for the lto put blame where it belongs? I'people to decide upon, in a demogulped all cratic way. Mr. Truman has proven ¢ | himself unfit and incapable of facing the crisis. He represents the discredited Missouri gang, some old time professional politicians, and chaos. He does not represent the American people, -the” Republican party, or even his own party, Must we go down the road to power of imagination she still [chaos because of selfish and biased seems to be one of that crowd of [politicians on both sides? He strange, queer, odd people who can- [should not for selfish reasons, stay not imagine that a dog or a dog-|in office and. further endanger the lover should be blamed for any- country's welfare and further emthing. Admittedly, she can “easily | barrass his o party. Let him do understand” what a pet means tothe decent thing and resign. after one who has become attached to it appointment of a Republican secre-

“We dug the Panama We did this, see! Roll up your sleeves,

{lover who so bemoans the incident? Yes, this “incident” could be “more than accidental”—it could be blamable—against the dog owners. But

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athema to a neighbor. oy As the acme of this catastrophe | MUST BEAR BURDENS By W. H. Edwards, Gosport

she declares, “we cannot discover : R where our pets have contacted this! Ine Public has now had time to poison.” Welly if the owners of evaluate the full effects of decontrol these pets are positive that they | of prices so ardently sought by The did not contact this polson at home | rymeq and other publications. . Now doesn’t this prove the pets were z : trespassing? And “after witnessing let's compare the cumulative results a harmless animal going through a with those following world war IL few convulsions” shouldn't this | After the first world war greed teach the owners of these animals | of business became a disease in our to guard their pets more conscien- [national life and prices became protiously and make sure that they do hibtive for about one-third of the not trespass against the neighbors people of the lowest income group. and imperil their lives? The final result of that national disease was that markets became | blocked with unsold goods, workers {became unemployed and business stagnated. Food, once too high, became too cheap for the good of The people have spoken in un- agriculture, yet the poor and the mistakable terms. . Those that voted | millions of unemployed had no in the recent elections, and those money to buy the too-cheap food. that stayed home in disgust, have | Bushone Flagation Seoul ia oon repudiated Mr. Truman's leadership. Fig Ripa Dy

They never, for that matter, voted | : ‘ ' eign competition, a rivalry resulting for him in the first place. Back in in world war II

1944 an unholy alliance of reactionary southern Democrats and cor- le rd Ioating on ae rupt big city politicians strong- | iceace known as greed—greed of armed him on the party in opposi- |p, ciness for all the traffic will bear greed of public officials for higher .|salaries and greed of rental owners for higher rents—with the inevit-

“G. 0. P. SHOULD BE GIVEN FREE HAND NEXT 2 YEARS” By Warren A. Benedict Jr., 2919 Madison ave.

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able result of organized labor strikes crippling the productive life of the nation. Again about one-third of our

in the markets by lack of sufficient |B de to pay inflated prices. With employment at the highest peak in history we see 40 per cent less goods reaching retail¥markets. Our newspapers say that business can't bear any of the present high taxation necessitated by reason of the war. That means as usual that we of the Jowest income group must bear the burdens, for we are the forgptten ones in the race for higher profits and higher wages. We are caught in the squeeze. | Some of our political bigwigs are saying that another depression will not come. We hope it won't. But with us traveling the same. dangerous path we trod after the first world ‘war, with all the factors present now that were present then, will we avold another disastrous crash lor will we end in a smash even j exenter than the previous one?

| DAILY THOUGHT

For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again: but the wicked shall fall into mischief.—Proverbs 24:16.

THE, wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts.— Thackeray. . .

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The woman in the case was Ann Edwards, a native of Scotland. From Decatur, Mr, Hodgson (and wife) went to

| Louisville, where he superintended the erection of a

U. 8. government building. That done, he came straight to Indianapolis. Here he found plenty to do in the way of designing residences and business buildings. Indeed, .his practice extended beyond Indianapolis business buildings. Rose Polytechnic institute and the Rose Orphan asylum, both in Terre Haute, are examples of his work during this period. When the civil war broke out, Mr. Hodgson was

THE OTHER NIGHT I sat in the seventh row at the National theater and took a swell trip back home in Indiana. For Walter ‘Huston is here in

Kenyon Nicholson's play, “Apple of His Eye.” The action of the play takes place several years ago at Sam Stover’s Maple Lawn farm, Highland township, Montgomery county, Indiana. There is just one set for all scenes. Anyone who has been in the typical farm home would recognize the place. For there is the wall comb and brush holder, walnut bookcase, corner whatnot, roll-top desk above which hangs the ribbons won at the county and state fairs, "Claude Wickard, who is a master Hoosier farmer himself, went back to Actor Huston's dressing room and had a chat with him regarding the Sam Stover role. The former secretary of agriculture, brought back ‘the report that Huston knows a great deal about farming and might well have won those ribbons for achievement on a real Indiana farm. He Knows His America - » ALTHOUGH Canadian born, Walter Huston knows America well for he has taken Broadway shows out on the road while alternating withh making pictures in Hollywood. He was born on a farm and operates his own good-size ranch in California. For the benefit of Martha "Ellyn, who came from Indiana, where her ancestors settled way back In Indian days, Huston and Wickard discussed Hoosier food. For Martha Ellyn has a food column on The Washington Post called “Platter Chatter.”

NEW YORK, Nov. 18—Up until the other day I was an avid reader of the lovelorn columns. I used to tingle happily at the advice so freely dispensed to puzzled wives and ardor-addled youths.

This was because the anguish writers were so clear of complication, so authoritatively sure in their diagnosis, “Uncertain wife” would write: “Lately John has taken to staying away from home six months at a time, and yesterday I caught him giggling with the downstairs maid in the broom closet. Today he tells me he has been secretly married to a chorus girl for five years, and that they have three lovely children. Can it be that he is beginning to take me for granted?” : And the answer would be: “Dear Uncertain: Yes, I am afraid your John is going through that stage when men become careless about the little attentions which endeared him to you as a sweetheart. Have you tried appearing at breakfast without your curlers and face cream? You must fight fire with fire, Uncertain, to win back your man.—Blossom Blix.”

Bring in Witch Doctors THIS DIRECT answer to a simple question is no longer in vogue, I fear, since the lovelorn experts discovered psychology and psychiatry. They read Zilboorg, Freud and Jung into the simplest dilemma, until I no longer dare peruse their works, for fear of uncovering the hidden beasts which apparently lurk in the sunniest male, I owe this disenchantment to a recent piece by a lady who signs herself M. H.,

LONDON, Nov. 18.-—The leftist labor revolt in parliament against Foreign Secretary Bevin coincides

with the French Communist plan to control the foreign ministry of that country. The two moves multiply the threat to the democratic front of the western powers. Though Secretary Bevin cannot be unseated now, rebels here are counting on his resignation for {ill health within a few months and are hoping then to force a change bf policy under a more sympathetic successor,

Favor Leftist Bloc

THE NON-COMMUNIST majority-of rebels does “not expect tq seat an. avowed pro-Soviet, antiAmerican successor. But one who would try to balance between Moscow and Washington would serve their purpose of breaking the present Anglo-American unity which they consider harmful to Britain and the world. Apart from a small Communist. and .fellowtraveler fringe wanting Britain merely to stooge for the Kremlin, these labor rebels favor a leftist bloc of western European nations under British leadership. They think such a bloc could co-operate with Sovietcontrolled eastern Europe on fairly even terms and without dependence on “capitalist America.” Thus the position of France is all important to this movement, If France continues to co-operate with the Bevin-Byrnes policy, the British policy urged by the labor leftists would be impossible on its face. But the French_ election in which the Communists emerged as the strongest party may

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Ludwell Denny | British Leftists Endanger Accord

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one of the busiest architects in Indianapolis. For one thing, he superintended the erection of

.all the buildings on the Arsenal grounds and, for

all I know, he may have designed them, Anyway, there were eight of them, counting the powder magazine. The main building is Still standing. It's the one the Tech people now use for an administration building. In 1869, Isaac Hodgson tackled his magnum opus— the courthouse for Marion county. Seven years later; it was finished. It took three more years than he had estimated. He underestimated the cost, too. Instead of $500,000, the original estimate, it ran a million dollars more, In all other respects, however, it turned out just the way he said it would. The tower was exactly 200 feet high as called for by the plans, and the 40 or more polished red granite columns came all the way from Peterhead, Scotland, as specified. A rumor at the time had it that Mrs. Hodgson talked her husband into specifying the red ‘columns to remind her of her native home. As for some of the other grandiose effects registered in the courthouse, they may be traced to the fact that Isaac Hodgson visited the Paris International exposition in 1867.

Originally Had a Bell

ORIGINALLY, the tower had a bell—one of the best around here. On a still night it could be heard all over town. The only other sound to compare with it was the Arsenal cannon. 3 morning at 6 o'clock and again at sunset. It, too, could be heard for miles around. Funny that the two sounds most pleasantly associated with my boyhood should be connected with Mr. Hodgson. Back in the good old days, the courthouse tower also had a mast from which flags were flung to apprise us. of good or bad news, as the case might be. " The good news came in the shape of a special pennant, the significance of which was that the Indianapolis baseball team had returned from a trip. It fluttered all the time the team played “at home.” The bad news was the “cold-wave flag” which predicted (and surprisingly well) any sudden drop in temperature. The moment it went up all the chimneys in Indianapolis started belching smoke. . Most memorable event, however, occurred Aug. 16, 1887. On that day Charlie Cramer, a 17-year-old South side kid, climbed the outside of the courthouse tower and perched himself in front of the east face of the clock. It threw the town into hysterics. Charlie came by his talents honestly enough. His father was a sailor.

DEAR BOSS . .. By Daniel M. Kidney Huston a Plausible Hoosier Farmer

“Have you ever eaten our dried sweet corn?” Mr. Wickard inquired. “I sure have,” said Actor Huston alias Farmer Stover. “You mean cutting the sweet corn from the cob at its prime, drying thoroughly in the sun, then tying it in a cheesecloth bag and hanging it from the rafter in the cellar?” Mr. Wickard agreed that was right. There was more talk about food and farming and both men seemed to enjoy it. In the play Sam Stover is a widowed, well-to-do farmer, on the shady side of 50, who falls in love with the young neighbor girl, who came to keep house for him while the elderly hired-man’s wife was away in the hospital,

Flees to Halleck's Home Town IN-LAWS who want the Stover land and the giddy gossip of the neighborhood all set out to discourage this May and December romancing. They succeed to the point where the girl is ordered off the farm. She decides to run away to the city, and guess which one—Rensselaer. > That is Rep. Charles A. Halleck's home town, and he is mighty proud of it. But even Mr. Halleck would scarcely call the place a metropolis. Nevertheless, Lily Tobin, played by a Washington, D. C., actress named Mary James, decides that’s the place for her. She has her dad drive her over in the old Ford. En route she stops for a final farewell with Sam Stover, learns that he loves her a much as she loves him and so becomes the second Mrs. Stover, - mistress of Maple Lawn farm,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Rusrk i$ Life Grows Grim for the Lovelorn

tioned reflex in one hand and a Viennese witch doctor in the other. . A broad-handed yeoman named C. F. obviously 8 4-H member and a great help to his mother around the house, writes that he is 22, engaged to a lovely girl of 19. > “I think I am an average boy,” he scrawls, plaintively, “subject to pretty much the same hopes and desires as most boys my age. Our trouble is this: It so happens I am very much inclined to outdoor life and greatly enjoy hunting and fishing. And she just can’t understand my love of hunting. Must I give up this pleasure entirely in order to make her happy?” M. H. answers: Si “I can sympathize with your girl friend’s emotional allergy to vour love of hunting. From childhood on I have wondered how so-called civilized folk could find pleasure in preying upon and destroying other forms of life in the name of outoor sport. “After you have tricked the ducks to death, what have you accomplished, really? . . . In essence, I suppose, the enthusiasm . , . is a psychological safety valve for draining off, in ‘respectable’ form, a secret spring of predatory, destructive, sadist impulse.

Ducks Are Dangerous IT IS NOT for me to tell M. H. that a duck is really a vicious, predatory fowl, apt to fly into the blind and beat you to death with its wings. Since I am a duckhunter, it stands to reason that I am also an atavistic animal, with saber teeth, and I can hardly. wait to go home and set fire to the cook.

French Communists probably cannot obtain the premiership in the next Paris cabinet, but ir any coalition they will try to obtain two other key cabinet posts—interior, which controls the police, and foreign affairs. g If a:Communist becomes French foreign minister, the leftist labor move here will be greatly strengthened. Even the large parliamentary majority which now supports the Bevin-Byrnes policy emphasizes the necessity of closest association between Britain and France. Mr. Bevin himself, in that event, would have to trim his sails somewhat to such a new French wind, Nevertheless, as long as Mr. Bevin is foreign minister he will try to maintain the basic AngloAmerican unity. In so doing he will have the vigorous support of his major cabinet colleagues, Messrs. Attlee, Morrison, Alexander and Cripps.

Hard to Replace BUT THE DIFFICULTY is that if Mr. Bevin is forced to resign by ill health, which is not unlikely, there is nobody of his courage, skill and prestige to take his place. Herbert Morrison, lord président of the council, and the other strong man of the cabinet, is party boss and trouble-shooter on domestic issues, of which there are plenty. Aside from his lack of- diplomatic experience, he cannot well be spared from his present’ posts. If anyone other than Mr, minister today, this rebel labor move against the Anglo-American policy would be much, more serious— and it's plenty insidious as it in : ¢ ’ % ¥

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