Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1947 — Page 8

majority leader iri"the national house of Tepresentatives, one of the top key posts of the nation. "Rep. Halleck, whose home is in Rensselaer, is beginning. his 18th year in Washington as representative from the "second district. He scored a sensational victory over the McNutt Democratic machine to be elected the first time, and for a while was the lone Republican in the Indiana ‘delegation. The new majority Yonder, who was graduated from * Indiana university law school at the head of his class and who is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, is 46 years old. His capacity for hard work, combined with inherent intelligence and political asuteness, have won for him many honors, of which the latest is the highest. Charlie Halleck was among those considered for the nomination for junior United States senator in the last pre-convention discussion. But he is known to have felt that as majority leader he would have a greater opportunity to serve his country. - gibility of keeping his party in line with the wishes of the

He is deeply conscious of the respon- |

people, and his hard-headed direction should help accomplish that in the house. The Times has sent Staff Writer Victor Peterson, who also is an ace photographer, to Washington to cover thé opening days of the 80th congress. Mr. Peterson is reporting the doings of Rep. Halleck, Senators Capehart and _ Jenner, and others prominent in the activities of this important session. 3 8&8 =» EL. A PEACEFUL sort of revolution started in Washington yesterday as Republican senators and representatives took control of both houses of congress for the first time in 14 years. If ours were like the British system, the change would be more sweeping. Republicans would be taking over the executive branch as well. As it is, Democrat Harry S. ‘Truman will continue to be President for at least two more . years. Some people see this division of authority and _ responsibility as ominous—fear it will result in struggle or stalemate. ‘.. It eould so develop, but it needn't. A Republican congress and a Democratic President can work together, _ if both are sincerely determined to serve the country’s best interests. Their co-operation, though, will have to be a two-way affair, It’s congress’ duty to enact new laws or correct old ones, but that doesn’t mean it’s the President's duty to be a rubber stamp.

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JUDGING by Mr. Truman's recent actions, we think he interprets the November elections as the wisest Republicans do—that is as a mandate not for reaction but for conservatism in that word’s best sense. We believe the American people want their government to conserve what is good in this country, including many sound and necessary changes made under the New Deal, We believe they also want their government to correct certain trends that developed in the era of rapid reforms and of war—trends toward reckless extravagance with public funds, toward giving vast power to labor unions without requiring responsibility for its proper: use, toward increasing bureaucratic control of our citizens, toward stirring up class hostilities and setting groups against groups. We are impressed, too, by the thoughtful attitude of | many Republicans in the new congress.. Some of them, so | doubt, would like to go back to the “good old days” of Harding or McKinley, If their party undertakes to do that, its hopes of keeping congress and taking over the White House in 1949 can fade in a hurry. - But we hope that a big majority of the Republicans will realize that intelligent conservatism doesn’t mean retrogression or lack of progress. We hope this is the dawn of a period during which congress, the President and the people will go forward, sensibly and | carefully but surely, together.

' CANADA’S NEW YEAR GIFT

CANADA S 12 million residents have received a degerved and undoubtedly welcome New Year present from their parliament. Henceforth they will be known not as British

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5 8 «SKIP BUS SCHEDULE SHOULD BE REVIEWED” By Mrs. Al Hauser, 1530 N. King ave. Before the war, the ‘Speedway bus stopped regularly at the corner of King ave. (2600 west) and 16th st. During the war, ‘as a result of the “skip-stop” program, this corner was a “skip” corner. + It's still a “skip” corner! There are no sidewalks connecting this corner arid the two nearest corners at which the bus does con-

descend to stop, and it is necessary to tramp through one block of snow, slush; mud, or dust (depending on the season) in order to catch a bus, This is a condition which, I believe, could easily be remedied merely by reinstating this corner as a regular “stop” corner. Indianapolis Railways, Inc. officials, please

subjects, but as Canadian citizens. With this formal proclamation of citizenship, a considerable misunderstanding of their status should be removed. Actually, the Canadian citizenship act will ‘not ake. .any difference in the Canadians’ national existences They | naye not been “subject” to GreafgBritain, except in name, for many years. They pay no taxes to Britain, and the election of their parliament and the conduct of their foreign ' : and domestic affairs are completely independent. = Yet the idea has persisted that Canada was bound to the Empire | in some subservient role. And nowhere was-the idea more prevalent than among its neighbors to the south.

; lete in name as well as in fact. She still maintains close ties with Britain, however, as a member of the Briti commonwealth of nations, and her citizens will continue i the same benefits when traveling abroad as they did When they were officially “British subjects.” ‘With this act of parliamént, Canada joins two other members of the commonwealth, Eire and South Africa, ~ which already have their own citizenship laws. Australia is contemplating similar legislation. Thus, if India can er domestic differences, the world may shortly see ubstantial accomplishment of what Winston Churchill termed the liquidation of the British empire,

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ginning teacher. To date I have not looked upon affiliating with C. 1. O. or A. F. L. unions with much favor, but unless something is done immediately to give'the teacher a living wage, I am going all’ out for organization and affiliation with one of the unions. I:believe teachers should give this

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"I stand for high standards for. teacher training, teachers morally and physically fit, healthful conditions, modern equipment and salaries that will permit decent living for the teachers. I am strongly opposed to high salaries paid to coaches and school administration officials when teachers in the same system, who do the real job, are given scanty pay: ‘1 make this plea | to the teaching profession that we] get together and requect that our state legislature do something to raise the level the teacher s6 nobly deserves. I want to publicly commend the St. Paul teachers for the stand they took recently. I am teaching my 33d consecutive year and find it necessary to do outside work to meet financial needs to live on a level expected o teachers. What do you say, teachers? Shall we or shall we not get together? Or shall we go on taking just what little dole they hand out as a mere pittance of pay? Suggestions from

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“WHY IS FOOD DONATED IN U. S. SOLD ABROAD?"

By J. M. P, W. Ray st. Adele Pishbein in a recent letter

published in the Forum rebuked the American mother who bemoaned the fact that she had no sugar for Christmas cookies for the children.

I know of no country generous than States. We don’t lend money give it away; and when the government does the citizens reimburse the ent with taxes.

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at $1 per pound whieh it had been intended for the starving people? Why was food sold in Italy which had been donated by citizens of this great country for the starving children? How can we be called selfish when we contribute money, clothing and food to the children and displaced persons of Europe. And the lady might remember that our selfish

their sons ard husbands and many of them failed to return. The sugar situation smells to high heaven just as the meat problem did. If it is selfish to say that this should be looked into just as we solved the problem of the meat shortage, then I am indeed selfish. If it is selfish to say that the sugar would be more plentiful if taken off rationing as the meat became plentiful, then I am very selfish.

» ® » “DON'T BE TOO KIND TO OUR FORMER ENEMIES” By Mrs. 8. B.S, N. Bighiand ave. In answer to Mr. or Mrs. F. F. W. letter of Dec. 31st. I am. wondering if they have ever seen the white crosses “with our loved ones underneath. The ones our hospitals are trying to restore health to, eyes, legs, arms ‘gone. Have known cruelty, hunger and want. Who could forget they are our enemies? Those same people dealt this out and we are

forgotten so soon but mothers and loved ones have not forgotten. As you say, help them so they can have a chance to slaughter our boys again as they have twice. They haye sugar. Do we? There is quite a few things I believe I would study over before I would people should forget. enemies so much should go over there and live with them as our boys did and I expect they would sure be glad to get back in the good old U. 8. A. We can take care of our veterans the best we can, let them do the same. After all they did start this war. We can use all we have for our own boys and that wouldn't be enough. Forget, that is some Joke. I hope in this Néw Year God will bless and help every one of our veterans and may they prosper and have happiness throughout the year, something they have not known for a long time,

” » » “LET ASH MEN SCATTER DEBRIS ON THE STREET” By s Daily Reader, Indianapolis “ Place ash receptacles on sidewalks. Had a good laugh reading the article by the 16th st. Skidder. Namely, “How about cinders on the streets to stop accidents.” I think this is a good tip to the ash men who weekly collect ashes. They scatter as many ashes in the alley as they put on trucks, so I'd ask permission to set the ash receptacles on the sidewalk instead of in the alley, then we would be protected from skidding.

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THE STATE LEGISLATURE convenes »

And the Indiana State Bar association meets here

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: The governing body has taken no action as yet on * recommendations made four months ago by ita com-

mendations {or eglative en 0 improve ihe cal

the judges of the state. to be hoped that the association, as. the polic-

for the non-political selection of judges the fact that past efforts “have been completely

| blocked from time to time by the legislature.”

Up to Lawyers IF-THE ATTORNEYS of the state sincerely fight for remedial legislation, there should be no real’ dif: culty in obtaining it. Here's what ther commities sad Ist September:

stantly alert to protect the reputation of the courts.

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The chief economist of the National Association of Manufacturers has now crashed through with his answer on how families earning $45.83 a week or less can get by without a wage increase in today’s ere of fancy prices. The answer is “Let ‘em eat beans"—in the exact Volts Gf RAibh West Rabey 5 Mazmntown, W. Va, and New York.

Reply to C.I.O. Economics -

THIS SOLUTION may make just about as much economic sense as the recent Nathan report for the C. 1. O., which flatly declared that industry can pay 25 per cent higher wages without raising prices. What Robey is trying to say is that the only way out of the current pinch is to make the workers’ worth more by lowering prices. He believes lower prices can be had with increased posuction consumer resistance to high prices. If prices meat are too high, the family can “eat beans,” , and the decreased demand will lower uttered his great economic principle witnesses—reporters—just after he and polished off a light lunch consisting of grape-fruit, double. lamb chop : garnie, grilled sausage and string beans (not the Robey had reference to), topped off by Jacques and demi-tasse with cigars or

how a family earning less than by when his own figures: labor statistics showed the an average city family of to-

There was an obvious margin here of $1.60 a week with which the average family could buy mink Saals

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Robey that for every worker earring $60 a week there had to be one earning $30 a week, to mak

EARLY IN THE 1840's Indiana shifted gears. The shift was from ox teams to railroads. It was a cautious shift, characteristically Hoosier. For at the moment the ox team was standard equipment on Indiana farms, and railroads were but little more than a wheeze and a hope. Yet basically in this new era hope was the dynamic touch. All over the state in the early 1840's hope was high, alert, and of the let's-do-it-now brand. Hitherto, Indiana folks had never known anything like it. It put the whole state on its toes.

Recovery From Panic

THIS HOPEFUL FLAIR in Indiana stemmed from 8 new era in America—of territorial expansion; of state and national politics; of the social amenities of living for the poor, the ignorant and the nether ones of every type and kind; and of a basically good education for all of these. One basic thing at the bottom of all this was Indiana’s recovery from the panic of 1837. The halting drag of this financial and economic disaster was passing, as the nation took its stance on new and solid ground. - Indiana rolled along with the national trend and pace. The stimulus of the canal days still lingered on in the new era. They had brought new blood into the state; brought new towns along their routes; and they were still teasing a new type of ‘settlers into Indiana. A whiff of statistics tells this story -tersely. In 1830, 342,028 people lived in the state. In 1840, the population of the state was 685,863. It had: doubled in these 10 years, and ‘by 1850 the state had nearly 1,000,000 people—$18,416 to be exact. , You get the fuller import of that if you vision polis, for example, with nearly three-fourths million population in 1850713944, still to be exact instead of the 362,972 it had in 1940.

WORLD AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—The Bolivian elections : Sunday will be watched by the Nate department with

interest. : If in some Latin-American states—like Argentina— the trend is toward the right, in perhaps most others the tendency seems to be in the opposite direction and Bolivia is no exception.

July Revolt Created Vacancy

THERE ARE TWO prefidential candidates. Dr. -Enrique Hertzog carries the banner for the more conservative elements, while Luis Fernando Gauchalla, for seven years Bolivian minister to Washington, is the candidate of the Popular Front—a coalition of all the leftists. Odds are in his favor, Bolivia is governed now by a council which came into power after the revolt of last July—which left the bullet-riddled body of Col. Villarroel, president since the 1943 coup, hanging from a lamppost, ° © Bolivians claim the July revolt was one of the few truly spontaneous explosions in Latin-American history. They say there isn’t the slightest doubt that

‘| Villarroel had the backing of Fascists in Argentina as .

well as the German-trained officers’ “lodge” within the country, His terroristic methods, use of ‘machine - guns and high-handed behavior so infuriated the people that only a spark was needed. That spark was provided when Villarroel timed

nied by a general strike; followed and in three days it was over. A wlio Sag Suttated Ron & Dow dantis)

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oS Sgeqondence ‘committee ‘on judicial selection d tenure e prese oarididates ale subjected to “a con= siderable measure of obligation: to political parties and leaders in the party primary and state conventions. Successful candidates must stand or lt wise thetr party, of their personal g ons, e evil, I recommended that - Nido other than municipal judges and justices of the peace be elected at general elections by separate lever is pulled. Separate and indiyidual balloting for judges was suggested, ja order to enable the voters who are in in the offices to candidats not on the basis of party labels alone gn upon their reputations, character and fithess. The procedure is only a start in the right direction, since ‘it does not modify in any way the present

procedure for selection of judicial nominees by pare ties in primaries and conventions. ;

Want to Be a Judge?

ANOTHER 'AMENDMENT the committee recoms mended would establish minimum: qualifications io fications are not established for most of the judiciary,

It is suggested that judicial candidates except city

Judges and justices of the peace be required to have

50 per cent in salaries and a pension plan.

IN WASHINGTON . . , By Peter Edson N.A.M. Answers ‘Let "Em Eat Beans’

$45 average and it was these under-$45-a-week people who Pulte Sus Keul probilen What unia'be dode to keep them from going into the red? There were two ways, Mr. would be to give woul

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housewife.” What they favored was not paying one cent more than was necessary for anything. Cone sumer resistance could reduce prices and that was the way to get them down.

There. The secret was out. This amazingly simple sqlution to all the country’s economic woes was developed as a sideline. Real purpose of the two-hour press luncheon for which N. A. M. picked up the check was to blast 38-year-old Robert Roy Nathan's

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postwar profits. Nathan and the C. L O. had presented their economic report at a fancy luncheon 1 days before. This was N . A M's way ( back, at a fancier one,

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow

State Shift to High Gear in 1840's

No wonder the people of lhdiana were bulging with hope and confidence, as they shifted gears in the early 1840's, The urge of greater things to come was in the air. The public land of the state also became a key to the quickening pace of Hoosier life as the 1840's came, Up to 1835, the land offices at Vincennes, Jeflersonville, Brookville and Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and Terre Haute, Ft. Wayne, and La Porte had sold over 9% million acres of land to the incoming settlers of the state out of the 21% million acres of public land in Indiana. . As the economic side of the state thus edged into an era of quickened tempo, so did the intellectual and the spiritual. As better homes, improved roads, greater transportation facilities edged increasingly into the Indiana picture, there came the greater interest In education and reiigion, and the better care of the poor and the unfortunate ones. The impact of all this came with a thud against the ignorance and indifference that had come almost inevitably with the stark struggle of the pioneers to survive. Yet Indiana began to respond as the quickening hope and the quickening tempo of the 1840's came. Two men will illustrate this.

al bank through the 1857 panic without suspending specie payments. In the nation, the Chemical of New York was the only large bank to do this.

James F. D. Lanier loaned Governor Morton $400,000, and-advanced him $640,000 at two almost. hopeless critical spots in the Civil war, ‘and bee came a national figure in finance, Indiana’s quickening . pace following the early 1840's for 25 years is the key that best unlocks the - entire life of the state.

By William Philip Simms = : Bolivians Elect President Tomorrow

stepped forward to take the surrender, he was shot down from the palace, But hardly had he fallen than the mob stormed the byjiding and killed everyone in it. “Villarroel is dead!” cried voices from the palace. “Show us his body!” thundered the mob. The body of the president was held up to a window. “Bring it down where we can see if it's Villarroel!” they yelled again. It was brought down and hung from & lamppost. Only toward the end did the politicians appear on the scene. In fact, most of them were in exile. Party-

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to head the governing council until a constitutional regime could be elected. Despite pressure, he has steadfastly refused to be a candidate himself, The elections tomorrow are to be run entirely by civillaps. Voting will be by. secret ballot.

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BOLIVIA SEEMS about to follow in Chile's foot

steps with a left-wing government, e has two or three Communists in her cabinet. There is no Communist party, as such, in: Bolivia but the party of the revolutionary left, — perhaps the ‘largest single party in the country—is Mogcow-minded. And it is supporting the Guachalla candidacy. Guachalla has spent the last two years in exile in Chile. But he is- well known in the United States

where he has many friends. This fact should help the

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