Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 December 1946 — Page 16

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UDSON L. STARK, who leaves the bench in superior court, room 1, on Jan. 1 to become prosecuting attorney, has made good on the first“phase of his campaign plédges in selection of his deputies. Most of the major posts have been filled, with the exception of chief deputy and grand jury deputy, as is told in the news columns of today’s paper. The men selected by Judge Stark are of an average age under 30 years, a high percentage 6f them are veterans of world war II, and their personal and legal backgrounds are sound. Judge Stark has acted wisely in selecting this type of deputy. prosecutor. The community will benefit by the caliber of these new deputies. They seem to augur well for the principal plank in the Stark platform—taking politics out of law enforcement. We feel confident that Mr. Stark's selection of his chief deputy and grand jury deputy will be men of equally high standing. :

HEADED RIGHT AT LAST

PRESIDENT TRUMAN has put the veterans’ housing program on a more sensible basis. lis action clears the way, we think, for longer, faster steps toward solving an urgent and distressing problem. The well-intended program set up by Wilson Wyatt a

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[IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover Program for Building Peaceful Japan

VICTORY IN THE PACIFIC was a prelude to winning the peace in that part of the world by reorienting the minds of the Japanese people . . . the Japanese with a changed mental outlook will no longer represent a menace to the peace of the world. That is the challenge to democracy presented by Rear Adm. Ellis M. Zacharias in his hook “Secret Missions,” subject of my two preceding columns. It will be remembered that Zacharias was the father and the executor of the propaganda broadcasts which paved the way . . . psychologically . . . for the Japs to accept the fact of defeat. The success of the psychological warfare which he directed and his intimate knowledge of the Japanese people qualify this top naval intelligence officer as an authority, : :

Pattern of Recovery “THE STRONGEST present motivation of the Japanese for any action is their desire for recovery from defeat,” he writes. “They will do anything to make such a recovery. " “Contrary to their claims and propaganda, the primary cause of their defeat was their abandonment of their traditional ethical code of decency, justice, righteousness, and fair play, and their adoption of a course of aggression, terrorism, and brutality, as well as the might-over-right policy. The war they started by treachery and carried on in brutality was far from what they claimed—a holy war, It ended in defeat since the cause was unjust.” Japan's leading newspaper editors, publishers, professors and “thinkers” . . . as they call their philosophers . , . agree with that premise. That I learned from intimate conversations with them as I carried out Gen. MacArthur's assignment to destroy the Jap propaganda machine and create freedom of the written and spoken word. Adm. Zacharias sees ho lasting peace without their good-will and co-opera-tion . , . and that can be forthcoming if there is no change in MacArthur's occupation policy other than to implement it with a long-range program. * The ethical codes to which the Japs subscribe historically . . . unless misled by the vicious propaganda which the militarists used to shape their thinking and which under present conditions is impossible , , , arg not basically in conflict with our own.

year ago failed to achieve the results hoped for, chiefly because it rested on a number of fallacies. 1t invited and practically compelled homeseeking veterans to build houses at highly inflated costs™-unsatisfactory houses at that, in

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

many cases, since they had to be built of green lumber and substitute materials. As changed by Mr. Truman, the program fits in more nearly with the economic facts of life. It now permits non-veterans, instead of veterans only, to build houses for their own year round occupancy. Many non-veterans are better able than most veterans to assume the costs and risks of building under present conditions. And when a non-veteran moves into a new home he vacates an old one, relieving the housing shortage just as much as if a veteran had built and occupied a new home. Mr. Truman's program abolishes the $10,000 salesprice ceiling on new housing units, keeping only enough restrictions to prevent use of materials and labor on large “luxury” houses. Those who want and can afford to spend more than $10,000 for new homes are free to do so, within reasonable limits, and they also will make more room for veterans by vacating old homes. The flat $80-a-month ental ceiling on mew: housing units is relaxed to the extent that builders of houses and | apartments may rent their units at prices averaging not more than $80. As families that can afford to rent more expensive homes than those heretofore permitted begin | to get them, their moving will make lower-rent homes avail- | able to other families. ® = =» yw f MAIN emphasis in 1947, the President says, will be on | rental housing—and it's about time. of evidence that a majority of the veferans want to rent |

assistance to new rental projects is along the right line.

research in housing methods, to reduction of building costs, |

to increase the supply of building man-power. need, we believe, is to free home-building of restraints, whether imposed by industry or unions, that prevent the most efficient and economical use of available materials and labor, There is room for a great deal of progress. But we think Mr, Truman at last has got the housing program headed in the right direction.

WILLIAM H. COLEMAN

service as well as business success. le died in the hospital which bears his name, the William 1. Coleman hospital for women, His only immediate survivor is his widow, who also has been active in community affairs, For the past 60 years, they lived at 1006 N. Meridian st. The cold statement that Mr, Coleman's gifts to Indianapolis exceeded $1,000,000 gives an idea of the extent of his philanthropies. But in each such donation, there was a | «warm personal interest in the welfare of the community. Among recipients of his gifts are the Methodist hospital, dames Whitcomb Riley hospital for children, the Christamore Home, Florence Crittenden Home and other hospitals. Mr. Coleman was a “pillar of the community” in the _ truest sense. The place he held in the community's affections was a rare one, one which will not be easily filled.

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ESSENTIAL PREPAREDNESS

THE Communist Daily Worker is'greatly perturbed by the information that tele have been conyersations among the American, British and Canadian governments. looking toward standardization of their arni¢ and military equipment. Such standardization=—which nieans interchangeability is, however, highly desirable. Had it obtained at the beginning of the last two great wars, those conflicts might | have ended succesfully much sooner than they did. | The United States has been and is dedtined to remain the arsenal of democracy. Standardization will save time, pT totalitarianism again threatens on and Sim to pide for it is ow, not after

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"Many Want to Make Homes for Children; Rebuffed by Red Tape"

By Mr. and Mrs. W. H. S., N. Whitcomb st.

We too, wish to be counted among the many people that want sa very, very much to do their part in this great crusade of finding

{“REMOVING RENT CONTROL | BLOW AT LOW INCOME GROUP” By Marian Laxton, Carmel Had enough? Yes, we've had {enough of skyrocketing prices and lthe strikes which follow. Canada | has price control, food at reasonBut in

{able prices and few strikes.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17. — Republican: National Committee Chairman B. Carroll Reece's recent crack that Republican majorities in congress should now mean Republican majorities on all federal regulatory agencies is merely a natural political reaction against the way Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to control these agencies while the Democrats were in power,

Nominal or Regular Republicans? THE REPUBLICAN CHARGE is that F. D. R. tried to destroy the independence of these government commissions and boards in three ways. First, by requesting resignations from members of ‘he agencies whose policies he did not approve. Second, by appointing’ rubber-stamp supporters of his New Deal policies, some of the appoiniees

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson G.OP. Screens Roosevelt Appointees

homes for children. The need is so great, and yet this deplorable condition is allowed to exist, because of some outmoded standards set up in| ancient times, and because these people in the various organizations a5%/ aid to keep such conditions existing. What else would they do and] : : pe else they go to get the salaries they make if all of us that|Pe removed and wish to help, or be helped, were to have a child (just one) placed in| our ever loving arms. The red tape, etc, keeps ever so many busy an

said vote for us

{his country the wiley politicians sugar and .that price control should

and so the farmers and stock men q held their stock until they forced

being nominal but not regular Republicans, Third, by several attempts to reorganize the government, putting independent agencies in executive departments where they would be under control. For instance, the civil aeronautics board is now in the commerce department, the social security board in

and get meat and

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ever {adopt a child—withouty success. During the war, with a trained if we do not destroy our navy and nurse to guide us, we cared for some Buns after each war. 20 homeless children — here~again | lionaires might have to worry about we had hoped to receive aid’ through one of the various [set up to do such work—this, too, have to build new navies and guns without success. in recent weeks we There is plenty {have combed this town hoping that: ‘surely somewhere

well paid. Without the children their jobs would be finished. We who really want to help do not expect to be paid. to give for what we get, because we do not live in the stone ages—| and have hearts of stone. One of|—— e— the first requirements on, becoming | one of the staff of a welfare or- duced the army to little more than ganization is to steel your heart!the Marine band, which was kept against the world. We know—be-| to play the Star-Spangled Banner cause not only in recent weeks, but whenever the President addressed in yegrs past, we have ried through | the D. A. R. or told a bedtime story WR mon and agency to to the voters.

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the whole . [setup of so-called welfare workers homes, not to build them, and the promised government land their staff (meaning the ones ° jo charge) there would at least be : one human being, however, we met Other phases of the revanmiped pregram also seem not even one. At each place it was sound. Aid and encouragement are offered’ to technical [the same, with a smirk in their eye. . : ' two of those humiliating questions to mass-production and prefabrication of homes, to efforts | with definitely no -thought. behind

One great |. Still no success.

The stone cold faces

{the President's hand, ¢ Killed Tock robin? I note some legislators favor removal of rent control. If this is {done it will be a direct blow at those renters in the low income bracket and there are more people living {on low incomes than there are those drawing high wages or salaries, If this is done when there is such a scarcity of houses it will cause much {suffering, worry and anxiety, especially where people aré evicted from their homes because they can not pay the advanced prices in rent. And rent will advance plenty if control is removed, make no mistake about that, -It happened before, remember? [ think, the majority of renters would be willing for property owners to have ‘a 15 per cent raise to meet their increased costs, but control should be kept until there are more houses available. If control

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paying for rent and food, like the “eqmmon peepul” do if we ‘did not

| every few years, But all this sancti- { moniaus gab about disarmament is just a lot of hot air, for Molotov told the ruling assembly of Russia that, as part of their latest fivevear plan, they were to build up and arm their armies with the very latest, methods of slaughter, and would develop the atomic weapons to the limit. He did not mention cook stoves. The Russians got $11 billions of our money. in lend lege and have spent at least $2! -billions on factories to make war machinery. Factories and workers have been

future-it—witl-precipitate misery on a helpless people. zn n ” “FUTURE CITIZENS WANT NO WORLD WAR THREE" By Pat Callahan, 2029 N. Adams I want to know something. IT am 1

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the federal security administration. All these stratagems met with considerable resistance. Most celebrated case involved the late William E. Humphrey. He had been appointed federal trade commissioner by President Coolidge in 1925. In 1933, Roosevelt requested his resignation, “because I feel that the aims of the administration can be carried out most effectively by personnel of my selection.” { Humphrey at first declined to resign, but he was | finally forced out of office. Shortly afterward he died. His family then sued the government for his unpaid | salary, and got it. The supreme court, in a unani-

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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow i

Canal Brought

{ THE WABASH AND ERIE canal was part of the greatest all-water inland travel route in the

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| world. You would expect a thing like that would | challenge the leaders of civilization, and this route did.

3 | It slathered through North America from the | mouth of the St. Lawrence river in Canada, south- | west to the Gulf of Mexico at the mouth of the Mississippi river. It was 2844 miles long. Except for | the Maumee-Wabash portage at modern Ft. Wayne, {and the Welland canal above Niagara Falls at Buffalo, it would float a canoe for the entire 2844 miles just as nature left it,

ra bE . i 1 = We say we are not the “little moved into Siberian ural districts {people,” you and I Mr. and Mrs. where they will never be inspected

John Q. Public. We can make it & phy Senator Hogwash or Gen. What- my own world.

thought I was doing pretty well in| Farmers Welcomed Transport

I thought I could] JUST WHO WAS the first white man to view

better place for our children if we tapottom or anvone else, They understand human nature pretty|-this route as far west as the Maumee-Wabash are really ‘interested. have enslaved thousands of' their well for my age. Now I wonder.| portage, the world will probably never know. Oh yes, our home has been ap- own people as well as Germans and This is what IT want to know: When discovery and exploration finally disclosed proved——we have not been rejected pthers to work in these factories:| All Americans would like to have | the route over its full length to the mouth of the | —-but there are just not any chil-|they cannot strike, they will die world peace. They want to put | Mississippi river, it was at once recognized by fardren that would fit into our nice there. So if the rest of the world | , suburban home, can believe men who enslave and €ign countries "- nn | butcher their own citizens, there are Americans are “DISARMAMENT TALK 18 la lot of fools. Victor A. Kravchenko Americans. Did

JUST SO MUCH HOT AIR" was a former Russian official; if he

trike help all of us

capitalism over with the other for-| seeing men as probably the greatest all-water inland

How can hurting the recent No.

they? trade route in the world. As such it still stands fellow | unchallenged. coal | From this background, it is easy to understand People, | how the struggling farmers of northern Indiana

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‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms | UN Acts for Freedom of Information ®

[running this world, think of every- |

{man who has nerve enough to stand

|behind this program and help him { After all it Is to our | henefit if there is a reduction in the One man, single handedly

fearfully and wonderfully made: "

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Let, 3 | Thrqugh every land, by every

' : &iua . CA . By Si Moore, 2858 N. Illinois does not trust his former bosses, Americans, are money-mad. Does | weicomed the coming of the Wabash and Erie canal. . NE of the state's most distinguished philanthropists, Anyone who can sit still long why should gullible officials who John L. Lewis have a consclence? | Its meaning as a part of the great inland water William HM. Coleman, was laid to rest yesterday in though to read the article about have never been in Russia?. Some The next time Mr. Lewis or RRY | route of North America, had seeped through to them. Mois ; : : : Stalin's hidden cities, as published of them are even trying to ape Sta. union wants to start a strike think! Bysiness and professional men along the route were Grown Hill cemetery. In two years, he would have been 100 |i, g current weekly, will see that old lin and Molotov by yelling for en- about the small children. Are you| equally enthusiastic over it. Its coming was the years old. Jag Melgiay is 1s ye to bluff slavement sy Urijversal military wiking Sus world good” for them | great event of northern Indiana, and a thing ! 1. ey a ’ Sika we world when he calls for univer- | training 'e need brains as well at/all times’ welcomed all over the state. Mr. Coleman lived a rich life, and one of community | gi disarmament. We sank: our as guns. These - strikes. bickerings. scan- So when the Wabash and Erie canal was completed

(dals, or whatever you want to call| to Evansville in 1853, Indiana was justifiably jubilant. . 3 As a 455-mile link in the great inland water route going to help put| of the continent,

it stirred the pride of every | Hoosier. All over .Indiana, its coming was a great

I want world peace. When I am | gecasion. {a citizen of the future U, 8. A and |

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 17.—Late Saturday night, in

So Mr. James Dawson is being! such a rush that today probably not one person in a {compared with Hitler and John L.| thousand is aware of it, the United Nations assembly | This can be taken two ways. The | jammed through one of the most important resolucomparison at least aads importance tions it has yet seen fit to pass. Important, that Is,

James Dawson 8 jr jt intends to press it. I admire a|

| Vital to Security { IT CALLED UNANIMOUSLY for a world conL| ference on freedom of information to be held in 1947 —probably in New York. Time and place are to be determined by the economic and social council meeting in New York in February.

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“. Importance of the conference lies in the fact

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is concealed behind an iron curtain, any plan for disarmament and international inspection can be only a dangerous sham. International inspection can be so circumscribed as to be utterly meaningless. U.S. reparations Commissioner Edwin W. Pauley, for example, recently made a six-day “inspection tour” of the Soviet zone of Korea. With him were 19 other Americans, They were accompanied by a contingent of huge Russian soldiers armed with American tommy guns and every effort was made to prevent Mr. Pauley from talking with Koreans—even to “shouting down” his interpreters, Once a Russian general told Mr. Pauley that if the Americans did not stop taking pictures some “might not even have the opportunity of being sorry.”

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TUESDAY

British F Shakeup

Adm. Zacharias outlines a program for rebuilding a peaceful Japan, pointing out that Gen. MacArthur is following some points of this program. Freedom of access to information at the source is one of these

basic factors, and one which is being provided. How- ~n ever, he wisely points out that what the occupational Conserval authorities are doing now is to attempt to enforce a Will Be

semblance of institutions outlined in a policy drafted in haste two.weeks after the surrender. That is a valid criticism . . . I know because I helped draft those parts relating to freedom of speech . . . we gave

LONDON, Dec “purge” of the for

the Japs so many directives they couldn't find trans- British diplomat lators to handle them. Labor party polic And so far as I know, there still is much of that today.

too-quickly drawn policy in effect. Zacharias points out that its success is assured not by inherent practicability but by the occupying forces and the ime potence of the defeated enemy. He also emphasizes that the present submissive néss and compliance fail to indicate definite success of our occupational policy. A really co~aperatiys Japan can be fostered only by recognition sedi pru-

The exvernal af the Labor party a secret meeting

motion of those aspects of Japanese character and The report w traditional institutions sustained by this character eight months of which are conducive to co-operation and democraey, committee. It

There is no doubt in my mind that many actions to day are dictated by a desire to please the conquerer, rather than real understanding of what democracy

recommending a cific reforms. Tk at rejuvenating

means, : and relieving it Use Zacharias' Talents i Lg . WHAT IS NEEDED even at this stage of occupa~ | ments. tion and rehabilitation, Zacharias concludes, is a | Recommend specific long-range program, accomplishment of which The old-school is not dependent on an army of occupation. If no ts g Oa ao program is provided, thgn we will “have to prolong rings “anti

the occupation of Japan indefinitely; if only to enforce our policy by armed supervision.” Since psychology plays such an important role jm these problems, Adm, Zacharias’ final sentence is “It is because of these circumstances that I do not regard my mission as terminated.” ” If our government really wants to use the tools ag Me Sisposal it will seek the services of this distin guished retired officer . . . disregarding the unpopular= ; ity which trails him because he insists on Ll his ¥ ip central ang job done right. Men of his caliber are too few to | he commitien

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business, the unions and oth civil service if no could be found ir

and propaganda. were said to have {reactionary and sentatives of th the European cor also said to have sympathetic cont leaders who eme!

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CLEVELAND, Brig. Gen. Walla sonal physician man, has cautior - cessive use of vi advice of a docto “could even lead He told the a -gress of the A surgeons yesterd: “the worst of th over. The publi think more intel supplements.”

mous decision, ruled that, “Such a body (as PTC) | cannot be- characterized as an arm or an eye of the | executive.” : ! a That case sets the pattern for present Republican + | efforts to get control of these agencies. It determines i that federal regulatory agencies are agencies of con- * | gress, semi-legislative in character. But it also de- + cides that no commissioner can be forced from his office before the end of his term, except for cause, The Republicans will therefore have to wait till vacancies occur before getting control.

Candidates for Investigation NEVERTHELESS, every so-called Republican whom Roosevelt or Truman did succeed in appointing to a federal agency is now being screened for a record of party regularity. Included among those so listed are these: Oswald Ryan of Indiana, vice chairman of the civil aeronautics board. . <Arthur S. Flemming of New York, on the civil

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Nelson Lee Smith of Maryland and Claude L. : Draper of Wyoming, on the federal power commission, Robert E. Healey of Vermont, on the securities and =

exchange commission. : 3 i" George A. Cook of Illinois, on the national media- = i tion board. 3 i Edgar B. Brossard of Utah and E. Dana Durand | $ of Minnesota, on the tariff commission. ‘

Vice Adm, William Ward Smith, chairman, and Richard Parkhurst, on the maritime commission. Not the least of President Harry Truman's problems with the new congress will be the making of any appointments subject to the approval of a senate in which the Republicans have a majority,

Population Increase

Along the canal route in northern Indiana, within 20 years from the canal's opening, population ins creased from 12,000 to 150,000. Flour mills, paper mills, grain elevators, foundries, and woollen milis sprang up along the route. Many new towns were | built. Some of them winked out, but towns liked Logansport, Delphi, Covington and Attica continued? to grow and prosper. : 3 Yet these were but the outward and visible resuits} of the canal's coming to Indiana. Its real significance lies in the impression it made on the population of the state. Te With the number of people in Indiana more: | evenly balanced, and | southern sections, the character of the population’ & changed from predominantly southern to more équally = northern anid southern. Trade also shifted, much of it, from Cincinnati Pittsburgh, and Baltimore to; Toledo, Buffalo, and New York. ‘This gave an entirely = new outlook to Indiana. ¥ Yet going even deeper .than- all this was the: canal’s influence on foreign immigration. It brought’ Ek immigrants both from the northern states and trom @ Europe. This gave to Indiana's population the sectional touch of the North, but alse the flavor of th foreign from Europe, The Wabash and Erie canal winked out Dec. 1 1874. It cost Indiana, net cash, $2,872,015.62. “Thi was the excess of expenditures over receipts, officially! tabulatéd, for its 43 years.

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Symbol of Hope = BUT TO PUT a cash value on this canal woul be like putting a price on a rainbow, the fragranc of a flower, or the birth of a bdby that grew int one of the world’s great ones. In Indiana, the Wabash and Erie canal was priceless touch of inspiration, hopt, and achievemen

Today Russia and her satellites occupy one-fifth ofl the earth's land surface. All of it lies behind the fron curtain, Russid herself is approximately threq = times the size of the United States. Only through the most complete freedom of action could the rest of the world be even fairly certain of what was going on id that yastness. A Korean type of “inspection” simply won't do. ! If world peace based on arms limitation and inspection is to succeed, it must be accompanied b) complete freedom of information in every sense of the word, Correspondents and others must be free t¢ enter and leave every country just as they are fred to come and go in the United States. Within thd rules of decent reporting, they must be free to write o broadcast what they see and hear.

Still Nebulous THE UNITED NATIONS, until now, has beey strangely reluctant to tackle the subject of freedom of information. On ‘Friday, the American Societ| of Newspaper Editors complained of this “apparen| indifference.” Thirty-six hours later the assembl} acted. . A conference on freedom of information, how ever, is still a far ery from getting it. Nevertheless it will be of supreme importance. Nations refusin: to “open up” will demonstrate conclusively that the have somethihg to hide, and in any arms inspectios plan to which they might agree their good faith wi’ be suspect. < 7 . >