Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1946 — Page 14

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THAT RHOADS RECOUNT WELL, Judge Mark W, Rhoads, defeated candidate for re-election as judge of juvenile court, has had his

recount. “ Net result: Judge-elect Joseph O. Hoffmann increased his lead. Official totals to be compiled today will show just how much that increase was. But there was another important result. Judge Hoffmann takes office in five days and he hasn't been able to hire a single person because of the uncertainty created by Judge Rhoads’ request for the recount. Naturally, men and women couldn't notify their present employers they were going to quit and take jobs with the new judge if there were any doubt whatsoever about the existence of those jobs. So, Judge Hoffmann starts out under a handicap through Judge Rhoads’ action, an action frowned upon by the leaders of his own party. He did not gain in stature by the recount which handicapped his successful opponent.

MILITARY GOVERNMENT

SOME misleading impressions may have been created during the controversy concerning the projected investigation in Germany by the old Truman-Kilgore committee. - Secretary Byrnes opposed the investigation because, based upon the Meader report, it would have invaded the foreign relations field, and in all probability would have embarrassed him in his current international negotiations. The Republican senators who wanted the investigation have made it appear there is something rotten about the operations of American military government which the Democrats seek to conceal. That position does not seem to be well taken. No one conversant with the situations in Germany and Austria will contend that the American performance in those countries has been perfect. In many respects, particularly in Germany, the record has been bad. But that can’t be blamed on the Democrats. Military government has been and is an unwanted baby. The army is willing to do the police job, but does not feel equipped to conduct an operation in government. But the state department has balked at taking over the governmental phase, contending that it sets policy but is not an operating dep ent. Government of conquered territory is strange business

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"Seems Awful Hard to Understand Just What the Supreme Court Means”

By Richard Poore, East Ananias, Ind. 1 see by the papers where a great many unions are starting lawsuits against some employers for pay they claim they earned back in 1038 or so, between the time they got to the job and the timeythey started to work, and this gives me an idea. Along in the spring of '37, 1 think it was, or maybe it was 38, I was took bad in my back and I had to hire Tim Hannegad to spade my garden. I asks Tim how much he wanted, and Tim thinks a spell and then he says it's worth four dollars a day, and an eight-hour day, too. 80 that seems fair enough to me, and I says all right, and next morning Tim shows up and goes to spading. It did seem to me like the job went pretty slow, but I had to go over to Uniontown to the chiropractor every afternoon, and when I got home why it would be dark and Tim would be gone home for the day. - Anyways he finishes the garden, after eight days of spading and

near as much as that heifer was worth. This is a very good idea, and ong

to us and we do not have any agency organized to do the job. The army has suffered from inadequate personnel. The state department doesn’t have the personnel for even its present obligations. = » ® . . . THOSE who have been living with the headaches of military occupation see the need for reforms, and particularly for a factual study of problems which might result in adequate legislative treatment. The operation is costly, and thankless and it has been sonfused by ill-considered, conflicting directives which have hampered constructive effort, even within the means available. But the problem is one to be settled here at home, not abroad.

CASE OF HURRY, AND WAIT

T'S the use of establishing international airports, setting up fast airline schedules, opening the doors to new fields of foreign trade, inviting our Latin-American neighbors to visit us, and then tangling the whole thing in a discouraging mess of red tape? Just back from a 20,000-mile air swing through the other Americas, Braniff Airway’'s energetic young W. R. Beattie, director of his firm's Latin-American division, damns excessive paper work as one of the greatest obstacles to trade expansion. The average person trying to get some business going in the Latin-American countries, or even to travel there for trade exploration purposes, has to hack his.way through a jungle of bureaucratic gobbledegook. Qne Braniff pilot, flying a recent trip to Buenos Aires, was ‘required to sign 800 documents, Beattie says. ; . The Latin-American who has his eye on trade prospects in the United States faces as bad a situation. As Mr. Beattie put it, “We are the real stinkers of the whole bunch.” One of the forms our government requires Latins to sign if they want to visit this country contains these two questions: “Have you ever plotted against the life of the

President of the United States? Do you intend engaging

in any activity endangering the life of the President of the United States?” Silly, isn’t it? And worse than silly.

If we are to enjoy the advantages of the air age we'll ‘ have to brush away the senseless red tape that encumbers

travel today. ’

RED LINE FOR 47

IN their platform for 1947, American Communists oppose universal military training, demand that our defense ap- | propriations be brought down to prewar levels, want the Anglo-American joint chiefs of staff abolished, and urge

defeat of the proposed inter-American defense act. In other words, anything to weaken the United States

. while the Soviet Union becomes stronger, That is what the Kremlin wants, so that is what the fifth column here de-

ky ~The Communist party also wants withdrawal of Ameri

to needy ) st of the Soviet satellites.

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it can dominate the world.

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Aroops from China and the Philippines, a di i in y plomatic brea ‘with Spain, 21 withholding aid of any kind to the Chinese government, But it favors foreign loans at low | interest rates and a generous extension of UNRRA relief | nations, regardless of their attitude toward the | 8. This, of course, means Russia, Yugoslavia,

es would have us disarm, break all our potential allies, and build

spoken, Now let's hear from

1 would say is full of possibilities,

P. 8. It is not such a good idea after all. After writing you the above I hunted up Tim Hannegan and ask for my $16 back and Tim says what's the matter, you or something? And Lafe Stimmelbrenner takes the same view about that heifer. Seems like its awful hard, some way, for some of these people to understand what the su-

garden lot, so he only works four hours every day instead of the eight Prefs wut says. Or do you reckon

I am paying him for. . rin

Well sir, I didn't like that a littie| SHIP SOME OF THOSE bit, but it never occurs to me I TROUBLE-MAKERS ABROAD” could do anything about it till just|BY G- I. Beb. City, | the other day I read about this Durned if it don’t look like the supreme court decision and how all old place is going to the dogs . . . these unions are suing for back lf the dogs will take it. wages. And it appears as if a deal] A Year ago a bunch of us were is not a deal at all, since that ge-|Still across the pond. We didn't

cision, and I am entitled to get back | have much, just about what we my $16 off of Tim. | needed to get along, plus one or two |

| luxuries (a bottle or two of spirits This is an idea that can go a and a card from home, maybe). long ways, and I remember a horse; But this year we got plenty. La-| |T bought from Mose Brizzard the bor troubles, crooked senators and horse trader, along in 1929, that|slightly bent congressmen, poliwasn't near as much horse az Mose | ticians who're ready to go the lim | sold me, after I got him home, and | —for themselves, etc. there's that second hand automobile] Lots of the boys Would rather be I bought from Ed Umplemyer back| back where they were, I've got a in 1931 that wasn't anywheres near better idea. Let's bale up a bunch that matter the suit of clothes 1|them over to the Chinese war . . . got over at the Bon Ton Toggery| Or maybe give them to the Russians. only a year ago last spring that|, 2 vind shrunk like everything he frst time TALBURT CARTOON 18 NOT WELL-INFORMED”

it rained. {By HM. B. Ricketis, , It certainly is a fine and forward, The atone a " the | looking step for our supreme court only paper that I have ever taken. to decide that if a man doesn’t like | However, with the publication of the bargain he made, why he cad |cne more anti-labor cartoon oy Talcome in a few years later and col-|burt, such as that on wages and lect some more, and 1 remember, prices, I will be a very good reader too, that the heifer I sold to Lafe of another newspaper. Talburt is Stimmelbrenner just before the war not well informed or he would know turned out lots better than I figured |fuat prices are now on the top floor. she would, and Lafe didn't pay me Tech! Tch! Tech! :

I pay him $32, which is only around twice what I could of bought all my garden truck for, at 50 cents an hour. So it is three or four weeks afterward before I find out that Tim took so long spading that garden because every afternoon, soon as 1 started for Uniontown Tim started for the creek, and spends the afternoon fishing, even using my worms he dug up out of my

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Carnival —By Dick Turner

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CITY SHOULD SPRINKLE CINDERS ON ICY STREETS” By A. R. Jonmes, Indianapolis

streets have been dangerously slippery at the Christmas season.

automobiles slid into curbs, crashed into other cars, knocked down street light standards, and did other damage. drivers, in desperation, left the icy streets and drove on sidewalks and across lawns, causing further damage to property and danger to life and limb.

rioon, and the streets were dangerous by nightfall. The whele situation could have been cured by a few shovelsfull of ashes scattered on the icy pavement. Were any

scattered? : Not until the following morning, and then only at, street irftersec-

tions. They were very helpful there. But why wait until the worst of an emergency is past before taking any steps to relieve it?

just one of the several light standcertainly will be more than the cost

of sprinkling a few cinders.

cost to motorists whose cars were

For three years Indianapolis

Last Friday night hundreds of

In some sections of the city

This particular storm started by

The cost to the city of replacing ards knocked down during the night

So there is no economy in neglecting the streets, even for the city. The

damaged, and to property owners whose lawns were destroyed by motorists driving across them must run into many thousands of dollars. Other cities act promptly in such matters. Even state highway departments, in many states, are out with cinders on state highways, at every hill and every dangerous curve, almost before the snow has stopped falling. Why not Indianapolis? ” . » “NORTH SIDE HAS ITS STREET REPAIR WOES” By R. F. C., Indianapolis To FP. W. V.,, who kicks about all repairs being done on the North side. He ought to get around town and see just how lousy the North side streets are. Now I don’t wish to pick a fight with this gentleman, but I'd be glad to join him in an effort to get the street commissioner fix up his streets—provided he returns the favor, Here's a good route for Mr. V. to

bad streets up Nofth.

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Maple (38th st.). Had enough? » » ”

“MIRACLE CITY DOESN'T

By MH. F. B, Indianapolis

most interesting. I think Mr

lot of violence.

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streets and alleys, Those alleys, ful

close at midnight,

police force, for example). A lo of smug taxpayers will get a jolt.

DAILY THOUGHT

For though thou wash thee with nitre, and take thee much soap, yet thine iniquity is marked be-

Jeremiah 2:22,

good!

more territory in North dian stock on the continent.

travel if he wants to see some (Travel at your own risk and wear a kidney Up Meridian, for instance, to Kessler, then either way, bumpety, bumpety, bump. If you haven't had enough by then, trot across 46th st. then cut down just any old street to

HAVE MORE JUVENILE CRIME”

Joseph A. Slechta's letter in The Times last Saturday about the juvenile “delinquency problem was

Slechta is right in blaming frustration of youthful ambition for a

Other bad influences are slum conditions, overcrowding, ete, which certainly abound here in Indian-

It's A miracle we don't have a great deal more crime, with such inadequate patroling of downtown

of broken whisky bottles and nameless filth, are nightly headquarters for shady characters after the bars

Some day this city will ‘wake up to the urgent need for improved municipal services (a much larger

fore Me, saith the Lord Cod.—

THERE shall never be one lost What was, shall live as be fore; the evil is null, is nought, is

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SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By iam A. Marlow

‘Hoosier’ Indian

. LITTLE TURTLE, by the white man's standard,

was the greatest Indian in North America. This is the story: - ins :

He was a Miami Indian of Algonquin liguistic stock. In historic range, this stock was spread over America than any other In. It extended from Labrador to the Rocky Mountains; from Churchill river on Hudson Bay to Pimlico Sound in North Carolina.

Defeated White Detachments THE uoI8 OF NEW YORK were an Indian oasis in this uin territory, and a ‘fighting band that barred no hold in any kind of a fight.’ When on a rampage out west in Algonquin territory, it was Little Turtle's Miami's who licked them and sent them back home, as no other Indians had been: able to do.

This was a basic event with far- consequence in Indian affairs in North America. ‘Of such a on Little Turtle born 20 miles northwest of Wayne, Ind, and t miles out of Churubusco on & tributary of Eel rived in 1752. He was buried on the west bank of the 8 Joseph river

in Pt. Wayne, where he dled of the gou on July 14,

1812. He was 60 years old. Not only did Little Turtle come from a great nation, he was a great warrior and a masterful leader of that nation, He came to the front in Indian affairs after the Treaty of Paris that ended the Revolutionary War in 1783. In that period, egged on by the English who sat tight along the Canadian border in spite of the treaty, the Indians went on an unparalleled rampage of terror and murder in the territory northwest of the Ohio river. As an Indian, this was Little He emerged as a great Indian leader,

Turtle’s great chance. On Oct. 19,

WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. ~Unless agreement is reached in last-minute negotiations between top-level army snd navy people on a plan for a unified national defense department, the bitterest battle. yet on the merger issue is forecast for the next session of congress. Only recently, according to those familiar with talks in progress between the military branches, it had seemed briefly that a plan of agreement had been found and that it could be presented to President Truman, long an advocate of unification.

Army-Navy Conflict THE SPECTACLE OF the generals and admirals going to capitol hill to club one another in acrimonious public debate—the generals for unification and the admirals opposed—is one that some higher-up government officials have hoped to avoid. But then a break came, and now the conferees are back at it again, attempting in the few days before congress convenes to find a megting place on points in dispute. In the past, the chief army-navy differences have concerned the fundamental question of whether there should be a national defense department unifying all the military arms under a single executive with power to supervise and control; whether there should be an independent air force co-equal with land and sea forces; the extent to which present-day land-based naval aviation should be controlled by such an air force, and whether the strength and scope of the marine corps should be more limited. President Truman, hoping to resolve differences, has agreed with the army that there should be a single department in which the air force would stand equally with the army and navy. He has ruled the navy’s way for a “strong” marine force. But expansion of air force activities to certain fields heretofore largely ‘naval is understood to be a chief sticking

point.

ABOARD MOUNT OLYMPUS, Dec. 26.—The ice covered plateaus of Antarctica may become the most coveted spot in the world with the United States alone staying out of the rush of homesteaders. Leaders of the navy’s Antarctic expedition repeatedly emphasize that this is only what it is billed to be—a scientific undertaking to chart the Antarctic’s unexplored wastes and inventory its mineral assets.

Convoy Approaches Ice Pack ANYTHING THAT MIGHT GIVE the appearance of imperialism among the penguins and seals is avoided. So cautious have navy officers become that they frowned on plans of Lt. Cmdr. William Menster of Dubuque, Iowa, Catholic chaplain aboard the Mount Olympus, to consecrate the ice of the expedition's base. Rear Adm. Richard H. Cruzen, tactical commeander, fears any sort of ceremony might bg interpreted by other nations 4s an annexation ruse. The 13-ship convoy steaming toward Little America is approaching the ice pack. Why anyone covets Antarctica is, at first glance, a puzzle. The south polar continent lies almost wholly within the Antarctic circle, with an average summer temperature of 10 pelow zero and a winter maximum of 95 below. It has an area of about six million square miles, equal to the combined territory of the United States and Europe. Virtually the entire coastline of 14,000 miles has been mapped. The unknown and least accessible sections are the southwest limits of Weddell sea and portions of the coast of Franklin D. Roosevelt sea. Antarctica is the world's highest contineft with an average elevation of 600 feet. The polar plateau is about 10,000 feet high.

Persistent rumors that Antarctica holds uranium,

Belgians Quarrel

a happy holiday. season, so they try to av

the one issue that divid question. But It is can forget, because 1 overshadows their prosperity an sonal relatioriships. Most Belgians agree to hold together the two tute their unjon—the Dutch are in a slight majority, Walloons. But they disagre Leopold III should be allowed

in Switzerland, where from the Germans by the American army.

Catholics Want Leopold SEVERAL FACTORS MAKE this dispute even more explosive th royalty, as in Greece, for instance. One is religion, the most powerful king's

overwhelmingly Catholic, 43 per cent, |

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that a monarchy

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t| party polls only The Socialist party, The Catholic party is denied a the coalition government pold’s return. Wartime passions also are surrendered his army to the ment, which went into exile in Britain, the argumen has continued over his role. His advocates maintain he had to remain with them and heroically did so, covered the British

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . + By Ludwell Denny

BRUSSELS, Dec. 26.—The Belgians have planned : old talk of es the nation—the king

there underneath and nobody

d poisons their per-

is necessary distinct peoples who consti« -speaking Flemish, who and the French-speaking e violently on whether to return from exile he went when he Was liberated

long-drawn-out an other quarrels over

Catholic Cardinal van Roey is advocate. The colintry is put politically the Catholic argest in the country. second largest, has 32 per cent. “rightful place” in pecause it insists on Leo~

involved. Since Leopold Germans early In the ‘war and refused to fiee the country with his govern:

his troops that he retreat to Dunkirk, and that -he

never asked or received’ German favors while in return to Belgium

Was Great Leader megs men SeeSan

Eel river about 15 miles northwest of. Ft. Wayne.

On Nov, 4, 1791, near Ft. Recovery on the Wabash river, he defeated the army of Gen. Arthur St. Clair. Over 700 of Bt. Clair's army were killed, seven pieces of cannon, 200 oxen, many horses, and a few prisoners were ori) ihe wounded left on the battlefield were tomahaw and scalped. The Indian Tr oO wer army of Little On the considered judgment of historic research, this battle was the greatest defeat in American history, bar one, ever suffered by the white man in a battle with the Indians. The exception was ‘hie defeat of Lieut, Col. Custer on the little Big Horn river in Montana, June 25, 1876. On Aug. 20, 1794, at Fallen Timbers on the lower Maumee river in northern Ohio, Gen. Anthony Wayne, with an American army of 3000 men, attacked Little Turtle and 3000 Indians. After the first deadly grapple, the Indians scattered in defeat and fled in terror.

Penalty of Losing AFTER THE BATTLE, Gen. Wayne devastated their country in a broad 50-mile swath up the Maumee river. He burned their villages; destroyed their provisions—utterly; sent their squaws and children in terror into the forests to suffer and die. On Dec. 23, 1795, the United States senate ratified the treaty which Gen, Wayne had made with these Indians at Greenville, O., Aug. 7, 1795. It was an honorable treaty, faithfully kept by both white men and Indians. Little Turtle was a prospective Hoosier by birth, and a good Hoosier, measured as a man. He became an honored Hoosier as he died and was buried on Indiana soil. All in all, he was a great Indian,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Charles T. Lucey Strategic Plans Await Unification

Always in the background of the controversy has been a question whether the civilian to head the new national defense department would be an official with real authority. An important part of this question § is whether the navy would go to congress to present its own budget, or would be defense budget be handled Hi from the topside of the new department. - Skirmishing of recent days on capitol hill indi cates the intense feeling which still surrounds this f whole subject. A few members of the house military and naval affairs committees are spearheading an attack aimed at blocking merger of these committees under the new congressional reorganization. Unification is feared by these members to be ammunition for proponents of unification of the three military services into a single national defense department, Navy's interest in this battle was indicated by the fact that the statement issued by Rep, Cole (R.N.Y) attacking the committee merger was processed by the navy. . An expert study made for Scripps-Howard news papers showed Mr. Cole's statement to have come “trom the same electric typewriter that produces navy department press releases. Mr. Cole would be in line for chairmanship of the naval affairs committee if the move to split the unified committee succeeded.

Oppose Scuttling Streamlining REPUBLICAN SENATE AND house leaders are prepared to oppose all moves to restrict the congressional reorganization, with its merger of legislative committees, at this time. Proponents of unifiying the army, navy and air forces say the recent agreement of unifying field commands was a step in the right direction, but that it can have no real importance until there is agreement on what the mission of the armed forces is, and as to the manner in which this decision is to be implemented.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Jim G. Lucas Homesteaders May Head for Antarctic

ingredient of atom bomb, may be the key to the race the world is now witnessing. Navy denies it is on the track of uranium but quite naturally will be interested in any found. But navy denials are not too effective on the curiosity of other nations, as the recent statement of Sir Douglas Mawson, famed Australian explorer, demonstrates. He has reason to believe uranium exists in the southern wastes. Sir Douglas, who headed expeditions in 1911 and 1929, said the topography of Antarctica is similar to that of northwest Canada where uranium has’ been found,

an expedition, as have Russia, Chile, Argentina and Great Britain The Australians possibly are bent on establishing legal jurisdiction before the hunt of others begins. The United States party is not setting up postoffices or peace courts. In fact, to emphasize good neighborliness and allay fears of Chile and Argentina, Adm. Cruzen announced his weather men were furnishing daily weather reports to Chilean and Argentine weather services. These two nations have been considerably disturbed by the Byrd expedition.

Latin America Eyes Area ADM. BYRDS OBSERVATION in Washington that the United States asserts and recognizes no: sovereignty in Antarctica brought sputtered protests from the OHilean foreign ministry. The Chilean navy will send on Feb. 1 a frigate recently bought from ada. wie. already has staked out claims in Antarctica.

e says she owns 1,250,000 square miles of ice and > Y nd within the next 50 years

snow. If uranium is fou on her preserve, Chile will be elevated several

notches on the family-of -nations totem pole. Argentina maintains bases on the South Orkney islands and sends scientists there annually.

Over King's Return

after liberation was because the Socialists in government forbade him. Present opposition to his return is not limited Socialists and Communists, Many non-Socialists ar members of the resistance movement against him. A considerable group of Catholies—~including some lead« ers of the Catholic party, though not of the clergy are seeking a compromise which would elimina 1d. Le compromise is based on the estimate that a popular referendum would give Leopold a majority but less than two-thirds—enough for president, but too little for a king whose function is to unite the ation. » h Few doubt the Socialists would carry out the threat of a “general strike” if Leopoud came back, and tha serious consequences and violence would result. Nature of the compromise possibility is obvious, "Leopold could abdicate in favor of 18-year-old Crown Prince Baudoin, his son, with the present regent, Prince Charles, carrying on for two years until Baudoin is eligible to rule. According to the present government and its supporters, this plan is a natural, because it would reunite the nation and strengthen

the monarchy without upset.

Look to Foreign Minister

BUT. LEOPOLD REFUSES, and the Catholic éardinal backs him. Leopoldists argue that abdication would undermine rather than strengthen the monarchy, that the regent is weak and that young Baudoin could not cope with enemies of the monarchy t and the church. They add thdt the present disbar« ment of Leopold is unconstittulonal and therefore any compromise eliminating him is illegal Some think the shrewd foreign minister, Paul Henri Bpaak, fresh from United Nations SUCCesses AS a compromiser, may find the coalition combination to " break the political deadlock over the king question.

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