Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1947 — Page 18

_. g& his bill would require, and that so far hot a single mass |

. The sessions of congress, these past few years, have io od Mant contin In case Mr. Springer, attending them, has been so long away that he has fallen completely out of touch with things back home, it might be appropriate to remind him that there “is audible no érying demand in Indiana for a federal ges- ! tapo, or for a new bureau of 30,000 or 40,000 government " employes to record dossiers on American citizens such

meeting has been called, nor even one street demonstration reported, to demand that Americans be classified, and ticketed, and herded about like the hdman cattle of the

European dictator states.

“FOR COMMUNISTS ONLY”

Soviet

tions of that policy.

a8 those used by Mr. John Carter Vincent, head of state's

state department’s “touching delicacy” toward the Union in connection with the Dairen incident

logically might be interpreted that the department thought a is Frank C. Hanighen, writing in “Human Events.” He adds: “Our diplomacy in the Far East for 40 years has been ‘based on the open door policy, and it was in its defense that Mr. Hull and his assistants fired many a tart diplomatic broadside against Japan because of that country’s infrac-

“If the open door was unsound, the department should - put an end to it frankly, with full confession of error. If not, Russia should be called to account for the slamming of {most other types of accident causathe open door at Dairen, and in terms at least as reproving

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say, but | will defand to the death your "right he say it." — Voltaire.

of accidents and is to be found in

tion. Attitude results from a man’s scale of values, his definition own and other people's

Far Eastern department, when he takes slaps at the Chinese definition

Nationalist government.”

This point is well taken.

MERICA’S policy has been almost reversed since Mr.

of state for China.” Our attitude toward the Nationalist government is sharply critical and reproving, notwith- |centage of accidents.” standing Chiang Kai-shek’s obvious desire for cordial relations. Yet our position toward the Chinese Communists and Russian occupation forces in Manchuria has been one of consistént appeasement, in the face of a mounting and vicious anti-American propaganda from both of those | camps.

President Truman's recent statement on China. care-

fully avoided any answer to the $64 question: Why are we attempting to high-pressure Chiang Kai-shek into a coalition with the Chinese Communists? Our handling of the Dairen incident is likely to encourage further Russian aggression in Manchuria. Under this double-barreled appeasement program, Mr. Vincent is putting a “For Communists Only” sign on the open door, a sign which Gen. George C. Marshall is expected to order taken down just .a8 soon as he becomes the active secretary of state.

FIRE ISN'T FUNNY

grea amqunt of property.

DON'T know how the clause forbidding hotel guests to smoke in bed got into the ordinance city council passed last Monday night, and like most everybody else in town we've been chuckling over the enforcement possibilities it conjures up. You know, the vision of the house dick with his eye to the keyholes, checking up on the guests, and so on. : But let's not let our levity, or the absurdity of that . special section, make us ignore the main purpose of that ordinance, which is enforceable and which is a needed safety measure. Smoking in stores, especially in crowded department stores amid stacks of flimsy and inflammable merchandise, is definitely dangerous. Carelessly wielded cigars and cigarets have caused some small fires already, and could cause fire of truly tragic proportions. It ought to be stopped. Perhaps the stores themselves could have stopped it, but they'll be able to do so more effectively if they have the backing of - & city ordinance. They should have the co-operation of all smokers in doing so—after all, it is a very small concession * they ask to protect a very great number of lives and a very

: Citron S. WOOLWORTH, aged 90, died Tuesday in . = Scranton, Pa. He and his brother, Frank W. Woolworth, multi-millionaires by building two small retail shops huge international chain of 5-and-10-cent stores.

Ruccess Tormala was ver, small profit margins per unit of goods 8 became, as some would say, “fan-

peculiarly American—big

earned { them by making it possible for

e goods at lower prices.

merican . business; industry and labor to make that formula work gen-

‘ the sooner this country will oh’t all become multi-million-off than we'll ever become by

t ov Fhe i division of profits not yet

responsible for a very small per-

All over America safety has been stressed from the material side, the

Our safety classes in the public schools are doing a good job of {this. Isnt it about time we began to put some emphasis on the mental attitude in safety? The insurance companies are generally aware that there are extreme personality types who tend toward an excessive number of accidents. This type may or may not drive under the influence of alcohol. With modern tests and measurements it should be relatively easy to spot such personality patterns. The time seems ripe at least for research which would reveal a practicable process for screening out the most deadly potential killers. In the matter of safety education, it ought to be stressed that the

vere emotional strain is a menace to puhlic safety in the same class with the man who drives a car under the influence of intoxicants. There are those who are too stupid (without enough brain or nervous capacity to make normal observations) to be trusted behind the

skill- side and the knowledge side.|’

individual driving a car under se-

"Mental AHitude Makes Person |Safety-Minded or Indifferent"

“WHO'S GOING TO DEFINE SMOKING IN BED FOR ME?" By F. H. B., Indianapolis

nance promises to provide a lot of! fun. In a town where rooming-house proprietors, flushed with triumph over the housing shortage, advertise: “No smokers or drinkers,” it may mean a new crop of evictions. Steel-hearted landladies with smoke-trained canaries, like the ones used to detect fire-damp in coal mines, will call the squad car at the birds’ first warning chirps. But how will. the courts define smoking in bed? Does the smoker have to have one foot or both feet or his head under the covers before he is guilty? Will there bé a legal definition of smoking in bed with intent to commit arson (like assault and battery with intent to kill?) As an old-time bed-smoker, I want to know if it will be legal to set a hookah in a dishpan of water in the middle of the room and

wheel of a car, These could be smoke through a long tube.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

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“I'm bringin one of the employees home to dinner, Pet! Try not to bum the roast or I'm liable to have a stele on my hands!"

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“IT EMBARRASSES ME FOR MAN TO OFFER SEAT"

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“WHY CANT FOLKS GIVE OPINIONS PEACEFULLY? By ‘Fifteen,’ Greencastle To Mrs. S. A. and whom it may concern: Before I state my opinion 1'll give you some information about myself so you won't jump to conclusions. I am a 15-year-old girl and a high school sophomore: I was born. in Indiana. I myself could give off with some heated words, too, and 75 per cent of them would undoubtedly be in Kentucky's favor. But such as this is useless. What I have to say is this: There are good and bad people in both states. The scenery in both is lovely, and they both did their parts in the previous war. God didn't make Indiana and Kentucky; he made the earth, and saw that it was good. : And so why is every hot-headed person bickering over such a trivial matter? It won't take him or her and the beloved native state to heaven. Of course everyone has freedom of speech—that goes with our democracy, but if people are going to go to extremes and use it to cause disturbing uprisings in their own country, I think it's silly. It seems more like a quarrel among spoiled children than anything else! It just shows that littleness can even be found in our broad-minded America, 1 wonder why people can’t state their opinions peacefully.

DAILY THOUGHT

Verily I say unto you, except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.— Matthew 18:3. » ” »

They are idols of hearts and of "households; They are angels of God in dis-

His sunlight still sleeps in their ‘His essa still” gleams ini their

es; Those truants from home and from heaven, They have made me more wabily and mild; And I know how Jesus could liken, The kingdom of God to a child.

~Charles M. Dickinson.

NEW "YORK, Jan. 9.—During this recent hulla-

butter, the Men's drawers marked down from $5 to only $1.65, I have been hearing a variety of explanations about what is causing price collapses. In the rough order of -my.memory, I can list such reasons as consumer strikes, over-buying by merchandisers, the quarter of the moon, failure of snide plots to rig prices and the Republican majority in the new

Many Quietly Going Broke: RR RR

Somebody's got the money, I suppose, but it's nobody

{I know , . . and it certainly isn't me.

A year or so ago, when the war plants closed down, and the soldiers stopped scattering their dough, and people started thinking about the morrow rather

‘than the moment, it was a pretty improvident fellow

who didn’t have a couple of bucks stashed away in the

Bob-T-think more of vs thal we Fealintd, heretofore, went down into that sock, sucking on the surplus to

a man offers me a seat on a bus it live daily until the surplus went away and we were | forced to stop buying, account of no funds. Simple

addition and subtraction shows that when the cost of living is more than the income and there ain't any Hest, 6g Ie1t, you Sithiet Quit buying Or Stas, running into debt in order to live. . Quite a few

to Bock ther future In order to buy §0d-poned seek

and platinum eggs. - A couple of lady friends of mine, both named Katy,

‘have been barnstorming around the ‘country for the

balloo over the skidding price of mink, the slump in“

servative that it is a barrier to an alert progressive type of mayor. : Party responsibility for selecting the men to be backed by the regular orgapizatiéns lies with Henry E. Ostrom, Republican county and district chairman, and Walter Boetcher, Democratic county chairman. Mr. Ostrom, who is an excellent organizer and

"aggressive campaigner, is known to be viewing the

‘field to find a capable candidate, and to have mad commitments to none, He has said that he will “for” the Republichn who is the best among available timber, and that he will seek out such man. The present mayor, Robert H. Tyndall, was elected over opposition of the regular organisa and the city hall faction of the party have candidate in the primary race. :

. Democrats Have Good Chance

"THE LOCAL DEMOCRATIC organisation did not

make a good showing in the fall election, organization -

wise, apparently conceding defeat even in the case of strong candidates. It conducted a “lovial”. and ineffectual campaign. The two Democrats elected to major offices, Rep. Louis Ludlow and Juvenile Court Judge Joseph O.

REFLECTIONS . le By Robert C. Ruark ‘Lots of Morey’ Myth to Many Folk

past ‘year. 1 Jo /iviany role:

drove 19,000 miles. They report a national poverty Smang the small People Which mbkes » out of formal statistics. “All over,” they said, “you folk comitig to the store, and with them... They would ask cornmeal and if it had risen a would put the money back away without buying. It

«pull oy thoy ecaldn't- Duy.

their backlog.” The two Katies tell me the popular myth about

towns of the West and Northwest there was all manner of hotel and tourist-accommodation space. It seems that, while a few ostentatious rich people —the gamblers, the black market folk, the war industrialists scattering deductible money—spread their coin around the Miamis, New Yorks and Hollywoods, that a majority of us simple fellows have Bee quietly and desperately going broke.

Has Spare Cash Been Spent? SOMETHING UNFORESEEN has certainly snapped in the middle of qur big-boom talk, because four or five airlines are having financial difficulty, at a time they supposedly couldn't cope with all their customers. You have no trouble on trains anymore, and even in this money-fat town, hotels recently have enjoyed a comparative famine, and sucker- ~spots are beginning to talk fold. It is bitterly ironic if, in this past year of great incéme, with consumer-goods shortages beginning to ease, we have piddled away our spare cash for shoddy substitutes and cheap doo-dads.

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

‘Whig Husbands or None,’ Old Slogan

“DOUBLE, DOUBLE, toil and trouble, fire burn and caldron bubble.” This is William Shakespeare speaking—through §is witches in the cavern around the caldron “where boil and bake eye of newt and toe of frog; wool of bat and tongue of dog.” Of similar stew, politically speaking was the campaign for President of the United States in 1840. It was as hot ws any political pot that ever stewed In America. :

‘Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too' THE CAMPAIGN OF 1840 was in reality five years long. As such it is unmatched in American history. It opened in Indiana with an eight-day meeting on the Tippecanoe battlefield on Nov. 7-15, 1835. The was officially a part of the campaign of 1836. For Harrison, as it proved, it was only a warm-up for 1840. The most they did at the meeting was talk and eat, especially the eating. At the feast, the barbecue was served at tables with a seating length of 5400 feet—over a mile of diners side by side. For the tints, this was an unparalleled occasion, and has become a tradition in the politics of the state. This meeting was followed by similar ones at Columbus, O., Feb. 13, 1836, lasting two days, a rough, boisterous affair; at Lexington, Ky. with a decorous crowd and a polished kid glove touch; in Philadelphia, staid and orderly; in Virginia, where Harrison was born, and where, at Hot Springs, he met the rich planters of the South; at Baltimore and Princeton, N. J.; New York and Pittsburgh, where Harrison took & river steamer for home. The electoral college vote that followed this campaign was: Van Buren 167; Harrison 73; ‘White 26; Webster 14; Magnum 11; total 291. Though this vote

WORLD AFFAIRS .

reflected the normal political setup, it marked the political death of Andrew Jackson rule in national politics, Then something new happened in America. The national political campaign which had just ended in 1836 rolled right on without a briak as the campaign of 1840. The Whigs who backed Harrison, who won the election, ‘had no platform. They proclaimed no principles. They made no promises. It was like playing a football game without rules or officials. There were parades dotted with barrels of hard cider and log cabins on floats slurring the slurs of Harrison's scale of living. The bobbysoxers of 1840 called their sunbonnets * ‘log cabins” The girls wole sashes embroidered with “Whig Husbands or None.” Glee clubs sang for “Tippecanoe and Tyler, too.” Everybody yelled: “Maine went hell-bent for Governor Kent.” In the electoral college, as-the result of the election, the vote was: Harrison 234; Van Buren 60. The popular vote was: Harrison 1274203; Van Buren 1,128,303; Harrison's majority was 145900. Harrison carried Indiana by a majority of 13,698.

Common Man Rules .IN THE PERSPECTIVE OF 100 years, the political campaign of 1840, from beneath the noisy clatter at the surface of it, flashed this basic truth to the nation: In the last analysis and in the long run, the considered judgment of the common man rules a nation of free men, This especially applies in all things religious; to

rights from every angle, social problems of every sort, as examples. The campaign of 1840 was the common man's sig= nal that this is so.

. By William Philip Simms

New Secrelory of State Stands High

WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Diplomatic circles are inclined to regard the sudden resignation of James F..Byrnes as secretary of state both as “unfortunate” —coming, as it does at this time—and as a great loss. But they seemed equally confident that choice of .Gen. George C. Marshall to fill the vacancy might prove to be an inspiration.

Views Similar to Byrnes’ FOR 18 MONTHS Mr. Byrnes has been waging an uphill fight, especially with the Russians, for a just and durable peace, That peace is still a long way off. Only fringes have been settled in guise of treaties, still to be signed, with Italy, Romania, Bulgaria, Hungary and Finland. Peace with Germany and Japan--real crux of the wholé post-war settlement—is yet to be tackled. The German peace will come up at Moscow in March. The Japanese peace is out of sight, beyond the horizon. Then there is atomic contro}, disarmament and many other related pieces of unfinished business. Mr. Byrnes’ reason reason for retiring is the state of his ealth. Some might have doubted that, believing instead that he had been. getting “too tough” with have thought he was not tough H succeeding

inconsidergble, whatever the reason. American can walk into the state department almost cold and do a good job as secretary that man is probably Gen. Marshall. As much as any U. 8. official, military or civilian, during the past

few years, he has been in close contact with foreign leaders. As our chief of staff, he sat in at the meet-

ings of the allied joint chiefs of staff whose job was spin Veter) ie bistdn ji 1a Whey 9

win it from scratch——after the allies first had been defeated in every corner of the globe. Foreigners who worked with him seemed genuinely impressed

‘by his soundness and fairness, and that was a great

tribute. For everybody wanted all possible American ald and Gen. Marshall's view’s ‘carried great weight in making such decisions. As an organizer, Gen. Marshall proved what he could do by building the American army. Named chief of staff the day Germany invaded Poland, he took over an army of less than 200,000, No major power ever faced war so poorly equipped, and to him must go much of the credit for what happened. In presenting him with the distinguished service medal after victory, President Truman said: “He takes his place at the head of the great commanders of history.” Today, as the incoming secretary of state, the general faces another organizing job. In many ways the whole state department, if not U. 8, diplomacy generally, needs reorganization. For some time before his retirement, Secretary Hull was ill. Since then the turnover has been rapid, Mr. Byrnes succeeded Mr. Stettinius on the fly, and has been kept so busy at Potsdam, Paris, London, New York and elsewhere that the state department almost had to run itself.’ When important decisions had to be made and no one with authority was on hand to. make them, something had to be doné and, as was to be expected, it was often wrong, ie

Gen. Marshall's Toughest Job THIS 1S NO CRITICISM of Mr. Byrnes, who had to function asa sort of one-man peace delegation. He literally had to spend more time away from Washington than here. It is a criticism, however, ot

the way the U. 8. and its allies have gone about the

peace-making. With all his skill, Gen, Marshall— who also finds himself tagged for the job on the fun —now faces what, in many respects, will be his tough- » sssigumen.

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