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Democrat and Andy a Republican. But now Secretary Snyder, Democrat, wants to know “how come” about ex-Secre-tary Morgenthau, Democrat. He calls upon Mr. Morgen‘thau to return to the treasury some 900 volumes of inti‘mate records that Henry carted—or rather trucked—away when he left the cabinet. Mr. Snyder's contentions are that ‘the property belongs to the government, not to Henry; that much confidential material is involved; that the treasury files are incomplete without that vast mass of printed matter. It seems that Henry was 3 ! of conversations, face to face, or telephone; that he was fond of conversation-recording devices, and that there always "must have been a stenographer around ‘when visitors called. / At least so the story goes. Certainly Henry couldn't have recorded 900 volumes in longhand, personally. Anyway, Mr. Snyder wants those intimate papers back “in the treasury department and out of the hands of the history professors who are now sifting the records into a voluminous Morgenthau diary. : Certain rather juicy portions already have been displayed—the- one ‘about President Roosevelt calling Dean | Acheson, now undersecretary of state, a “lightweight,” the late Montagu Norman, head of the Bank of England, . “Old Pink Whiskers,” and the one about Roosevelt approv“ing a 21-cent increase in the price of gold because 21 was ‘a lucky num Yod or » - » s . [NCIDENTALLY, since Henry has gone in for memoirs in a big way we trust it's not an impropriety to trot out one of our own. It's pertinent. So, we hope that, recorded in the collection, is a conversation between the writer and Mr. Morgenthau. The time was May, 1937. The writer was ‘invited by Mr. Morgenthau to have lunch in the secretary’s private dining room at the treasury department. The ocsasion was pleasant and the day was beautiful. - A - Mr. Morgenthau explained that he wanted to make just one point. ; “We are going to balance the budget,” he said. He had just come from the White House and his declaration was of the stentorian, so-help-me tone. We tried to. ask him-about-other matters, but he said he wanted us. to leave with just one message in mind: “We are going to balance the budget!” : pir bi We congratulated the secretary on that worthy purpose and departed with the good news literally burned in ~ our brain. sf! g.. The national debt that month was $34,984,637,020, it having been about $2214 billion when Henry took office in January, 1934. In the year just before the war the debt was $30,440, 000,000. ‘When Mr. Morgenthau resigned in July, 1945, the na‘tional debt was $258,682,000,000. But of course we couldn’t blame him for the extraordinary war expenses. However, we'll always be curious about what happenéd from 1937 until the war did come on, and why the so-help-me promise never panned out. ; :

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~YT is only just and reasonable that all nations which gave actual physical support to the war against the axis powers should have a part in writing the terms of the peace settlement. But the Soviet Union doesn’t see it that way. In London where preliminary drafts of the German and Austrian treaties are being discussed, the Russians have deadlocked the proceedings by objecting to Canada’s demand to be heard on matters relating to the German treaty. iv . The Russian view is that participation in the actual treaty making should be limited to the Big Four: Russia, the United States, Britain and France.

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- : THIS position is as arbitrary as it is unjust. The small nations which contributed blood and treasure to defeat of the axis dictators should not now have a new set of dictators-imposed upon them as one of the prices of victory. We do not see how the United States can consent to such

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"Sports Fans Should Join to Ban Gamblers at Athletic Events"

By M. W., W. 21st st. : 1 am in favor of getting sports fans interested in putting a stop to gambling at our sports events. 1 hope now the people can see why| Gen. Typdall has been driving against organized gambling In our city.

He has done a good job. There will

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At our baseball park in the summertime you can get down around certain boxes and also hear the wagering. It is also done in different places at hockey games. We sports fans go to see these events because they are kept clean and honest. There is no. tellihg how far these gamblers will or would go to gain their own goal. They have no for the people who go to those games, they are in only to the extent it will benefit them. A lot of money has been spent to give Indianapolis a fine pro basketball game. It has taken a long time to build the sport up. Are these would-be big shots going to be allowed to tear all of this down? At our ball park a lot of money has been spent to try and give Indianapolis a first class ball club. The attendance can be torn down by the gamblers, The same applies for ice hockey. I believe that the managements of each of these sports events will take mesisures to stop such activities; if they cannot then they sould ask for help at once. Once it gets into full speed these ‘gamblers would try it on our state basketball tournaments and high school games. -Now is the time to act in putting a stop to it, we know what has happened elsewhere. The managements of these sporting events owe the gamblers nothing, but they owe the other fans plenty. It isn't the gamblers who make the sports what they are. I believe The Indianapolis Times would be more than willing to do its part in helping to keep sports clean,

Editor's. Note: The Indianapolis baseball club took steps two years ago to stop open gambling at Victory field. Known gamblers were put under surveillance of police summoned to the park for that purpose. It is-assumed police alse would co-operate {if called by other

but when it gets into our basketball games, football, baseball and hockey, then it is time for the people to break it up or help to break it up. When pro basketball games are piayed at Butler, you can step to the

are made among the gambiérs themselves, but would it be impossible to go further than just.them? It was attempted in New York.

always be gambling on small scales,

and hear the wagers. Those bets

“DEMOCRATIC MAYORS GIVE CITY BEST GOVERNMENT”

By Harry J. Gasper, 903 E. 11th |

1 In the past few weeks (or I should-ar an ‘provided by “federal law.”

say the past four years) the gen< eral public has been treated to a sample of how a city should not be run, : Régardless of the high-powered build-up the press gives our present mayor, he stands indicted for his incompetent handling of our police department and other important departments of his adminidtration. As the elected head of our city government it is his duty to see that the proper men and women are placed in positions. to render the most competent service to the people of this community. For the past four years we have read and seen constant bidkering within his official family. We have seen .row upon row of uncollected garbage and ashes, streets full of chuckholes and filthy dirty, slippery and undriveable in freezing weather. History of the city of Indianapolis shows that Democratic mayors have given our city its best and most efficient government, and for proof you have but to check the record. Whenever our city gets into .. mess such as it is now the people always turn to a Democrat. In Indianapolis the Democratic party, of which I am & member, has the type of a man who will give the city the goed government it enjoyed under forme¥ Mayor Sullivan. He is a man whose honesty is above reproach, who is not connected with any political faction or clique. A man who helped take the state police department out ,of politics and who gave Marion county the "best sheriff's administration it. ever enjoyed. He is an ex-serviceman and will run the city for the best interests of all the people. refer to is pone other than Al Feeney.

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an arrangement, despite the bad precedent set in the Italian and Balkan settlements. We have a vote, just as Russia has, and should not bow to the totalitarian theory that might makes right. Had the small nations been given a real part. in drafting the Italian and Balkan settlements, those agree- . ments might have been more satisfactory, and admittedly | they are anything but satisfactory to any nation concerned. J The fantastic répardtions burdens imposed on Italy by Rus- * sia’s arbitrary demands, for example, are far beyond Italy’s ability to pay. By yielding on that point, we practiced futile appeasement and bought future friction.

we continue to make unsound and unjust concessions.

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GQHADES of McCumber and Fordney, Smoot and Hawley, ~~ Joe Grundy and 1929! Some of the Republicans in congress are talking about repudiating the reciprocal-trade agreements, in favor of high tariffs and the economic isola-

Tariff barriers we raise today can only be against |

ing money to most of the other nations. They" r goods, except in exchange for theirs. They ebts to us unless we will do business

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“I WANT TO STAY A FREE MAN" By An American, Indianapolis Having read your Hoosier Forum for as far back as I can remember, I have never contributed an article, but now after having read

known place. - " Teamsters Local 135 stated in their ad that they had taken action

It seems to me they have made a false statement for no man can work at any company or shop that is a closed shop unless he joins the particular union that has said company or shop under control. Teamsters Local 135 asked that the publc understand and be tolerant. It seems to me that the public has been more than tolerant in the past, and now the most of us are beginning to understand, but not to the union's advantage. So tread softly unions for your closed shop deal is soon to be a thing of the past,

It seems to me (and I am just one of many) that if a union would do the right things and settle things like -men instead of a bunch of fanatics and'show and prove to men that they will benefit instead of being hampered, there would need be no such thing as forced organized labor. I for one would be only too glad to pay dues to any organization that has true American rules and will benefit me. As I stated earlier in this article, I am a union member but I am also a true American and want the right to stay one. I want the right to work and compete for any job that I see fit or am capable of doing. Also I want the right to join any or no organization. In short, I want to stay a free man. : In closing, I say more power to Coca-Cola for a none-closed shop. The sooner more companies follow them, the sooner we will form a better America. : ao » » “CAN SOMEONE : ANSWER A QUESTION?” By Tech Pupil, Indianapolis Should this letter be printed,

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man going to school at Tech to get a -working knowledge of auto mechanics, Here is my question: Why isn’t a student, veteran or otherwise, allowed to bring his own car in to be worked on by himself as part of his training? ' Other people’s cars are brought in for everything from a tune-up job to a major overhaul. A car is a car regardless of whether -or not it belongs to a student. So why the discrimination? Please withhold my name as I ani still going to school, : » ” ”

THEIR OWN THROATS SOON” By G. H. Campbell Let the Republicans keep on and they'll cut ‘their own throats before long. The idea of a law: to take the house or roof over their head from a sick and.aged couple is scandal. For a big sum of $11 a month, which goes out to some merchant who pays it back in, and the other making the adult children keep them. It's okay for them to do it, but it takes a-lot to clothe and feed a family. Reduc~ ing taxes, Yes, but the Republicans

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IT pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for them which Thou hast given Me; for they are Thine.—John 17:9.

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WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—Great pressure is being put oh Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg to persuade him that his duty is to go to Moscow with new Secretary of State Marshall for the initial German peace conference. It is necessary, so the argument runs, to keep as many of the on the foreignpolicy team as possible, now that a new captain has taken over. : : On the surface at least, this argument has a certain persuasiveness. It would undoubtedly be a

in favor of a non-partisan foreign policy major aim of world co-operation through the Uni Natiohs.” To make that fine talk a reality, publican congress must take certain definite steps. They must take those steps in coming weeks, at th time Senator Vandenberg would be in Moscow. Peace treaties with Italy, Hungary, Rumania and Bulgaria aré coming before the senate. As chairman of the senate foreign relations committee and president

those treaties through. to approval. He knows far more about them than any other member of party, since he helped negotiate them. With Senator Tom Connally of Texas, his opposite number in the Democratic party, he is one of the authors of those treaties. If he were absent, the treaties might run into- trouble. e : There is far more likelihood of trouble over the reciprocal trade program. Some horse-and-buggy Republicans out of the McKinley era, such as Senator

MEMPHIS, Tenn, Jan. 31—W. C. Handy, who is old now, nearly blind, and living in New York, wrote a couple of songs down here a long, long time ago, On the strength of one, he became the author of America’s greatest—to my mind, anyhow—piece of music. ! : . Mr. Handy wrote “St, Louis Blues” in a.gambling parlor called Peewee’s cafe on. Beale st. Beale st. was called the birthplace of the blues, as “Mamphis Blues” and “Beale St. Blues” circulated the country. It was, to the Negro of the South, synonymous with Broadway a the sharp stem.

Once a Wicked Town THIS MEMPHIS was a wicked town once. A town where a man could go for his uneasy money in a few minutes. And where the cards and the wine and the women and the loud music were available in job lots. And Beale st. was the headquarters, "It was—and still is—lined up with pawnshops, because Beale st. was the kind of place where a sport could be stewing in dough one minute and in heavy need of a benevolent hockshop the next. The old sons say “Beale st. was lined with gold” and it referred to the clustered three balls of the pawnshops. Beale st., like so. many othér sites of picturesque

The shops are bright and the movies are gaudy. Old man Handy, one of the few Negroes who has been honored by the South by having a park named after him, was down here not long ago. Through his dimmer eyes he took a long look around the locale of his youth, and sighed that the old place didn’t seem the same any more, He was right, Its glamour has

WASHINGTON, Jan. 31.—After preliminary discussions of the atom at the state department and in congress, officials soberly admit that while foolproof international control is imperative, it would require

| almost a miracle to achieve it:

Secretary of State George C. Marshall was given a fill-in by Warren R. Austin, American spokesman in the security council and on the United Nations atomic energy commission, Like Bernard M. Baruch, Mr. Austin does not want any nation to have the right to veto action against a violator of an atomic agreement. But, He holds, we can allow the security council veto to stand and still get effective safeguards through articles 1 and 51 of the charter.

Broke Down at First Test NOT EVERYONE agrees with that thesis. It is true that article 1 imposes a general obligation on members to take collective action against a peace threat. Also that article 51 reserves the right both of collective and individual self-defense ‘against armed attack” pending action by the security council. But, it is recalled, article 10 of the covenant of the League of Nations posed obligations on all members “to respect and preserve as. against external aggression the territorial integrity and existing political independence of all members of the league.” And that article 16 made an act of war against one member automatically an act of war against all members. The mchinery was beautiful and it worked

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Glamour Is Gone From Beale Street

sin, has had its day. Peewee’s cafe is a poolhall now.

| of him (or her) who may one day attempt hist of Indianapolis with some Tegard for detall: | boy who plied his trade (circa 1000) ihe Strauss camer, ted 10 big; " ae | “Down Went McGinty to the Bottom of the Sea.” Said Rube: “I. was just done playin’ fer 400 consecutive nights in the Bowery “| theater, The company I Was Sa Er Butea. ge There was an awful wind & blowin’, Said Frank [OF revolutionary was the New York Store's guaranRyan fo me, ses hé: ‘Yer goin’ down tonight Mo. '°® that only 13 eggs were necessary to produce a Ginty to the bottom of the ses! and that was oi rove Angel food cake. Today youre lucky fo EA ram TWO: Reuben Glue sold his papers from a oart, d s policeman the wheels of which had ‘13 spokes. Nobody could Saticued ak the oid Empite fester buck In the days atoount ior Ye SEI Poe, Xe would Rube tell. 1887, Vas yolngo Ly ok vo Sowbay : ; Police Start Pressing Their Pants Mr, Reed? wnt wiih him and stayed two years. On | THREE: It was right here in In in 1896 Sachs ueen Victoria's Jubllee, Mr, Reedy a EE or ay festival that Lilian Nordica or} nmon Bog. riage coach through the atrects married Zollan Doeme, a Hungarian tenor Who Had pire wires de him an the driver's seat sat the 4 also been billed as a soloist. It was supposed 10 be or meward Vir Don? ho lived long enough to a secret, but somebody let the cdt out of the bag. Siw IN. Inside the coach sat Buffalo Bill Leon Bailey, a leading local lawyer and a cog In wo or a our kings, all of whom had turned the Democratic machine at the time, made all the yP pay their respects to England's queen. When arrangements. The two singing stars were mapriea 1. chme time to unload the coach, the prince said: at the Bates House, Bishop White of the Episcopal. sine yeoionel, You don't often hold a hand like this church officiating. The marriage lasted eight years. an Kings. gh No,” said Buffalo Bill, “four Nordica's next husband was George W. Young, an "6° And & joker § Tare rand, indeed. American banker. How Old Is Anne? :

EIGHT: In 1903, everybody in Indianapolis was || busy figuring the age of Anne, ' 8 Mary is 24 years old. She is twice as old as Anne was

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when she was as old as Anne it now. How old is Anne? The people living in Ir said 16; the rest of Indianapolis held out for 13.

IN WASHINGTON . By Marquis Childs” wo] Should Mr. Vandenberg Go to Moscow? |

Hugh Butler of Nebraska, are talking about getting tariffs back into congress, where the good old ‘lJogrolling technique would kill any hope of expanded world trade. Senator Vandenberg believes he can bring his party .around to a moderate stand on tariffs and the reciprocal program. But he cannot-de it if he is 10,000 miles away in Moscow. Another responsibility is international relief. Ree publicans are economy-minded. They want to pare

thie UN budgets because he ° helped to work them out. on ‘Weighed in the balance, the senator's duty to stay home and take care of his job in the senate is seen clearly to outweigh any obligation he might feel to 80 to Moscow. If Secretary Marshall feels it ime perative to have both a Republican and a Democras at his side, he can take John Foster Dulles as a substitute for Vandenberg. Goo

THE COMING CONFERENCE in Moscow will be

on a non-partisan foreign policy much. It would be little help to

been hopelessly entwined with its sin, and Memphis, Tenn. today is very probably the least sinful city in the United States. : : The tarnished sparkle of Beale st, was further dulled the other day by the death of Mac Harris, Mac was called “king of the gamblers” in the old, violent steamboatin’ days. He swung a neat little

cane and strolled down Beale st. as sassy as a tom-

cat, ready to lose or win $1000 or $10,000 or, if “he had it, three times as much. : “Tales still survive of the casino games in which Mac Harris was involved. Mac was supposed to be the best casino man who ever lived. They finally imported another expert to take him on, They say they played three days to a draw, and Mac quit the game in disgust.

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FROM A RECENT inspection of Chicago, Montreal, and St. Louis, it seems to me that most of the

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ed on illicit doings and rough living. The gambling, the drinking, the brawling and shooting, while de-

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“and the romance. If this is an indication that people and places are stodgy unless they once were gay and wicked, it is not something I thought up. ‘Beale st. is no longer the American Negro’s Paris, just as New Orleans, in a wave of reform, is losing the aura of- easy iniquity which once made it famous, Beale-st. is just another street, as New Orleans is getting to be jugt another river town with a yen for heavy commerce. Memphis likewise, has become pure it is almost ul. 1 suppose this is very good, but very dull.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms A-Bomb Easier to Make Than Control §

the United Nations Charter states that one of the “purposes” of the United Nations is to maintain international péace and security and to take effective collective measures to that end. But article 2 stipulates that the members, “in pursuit of the purposes stated in article 1, shall act in accordance with the following principles.” Whereupon, in 19 chapters and 111 articles, it sets up the machinery and lays down the directions for using it. ‘ In general, it is up to the security council to “determine the existence of a threat to the peace” and decide what measures shall be takn to “restore international peace and security.” And in the security council each of the Big Five a para-

lyzing veto. :

No Action Authorized

ARTICLE 1 gives no authority to act. It merely states a “purpose.” And while article 51 says any nation has the right to act in self-defense “against armed attack,” it does not- authorize action against the fear of attack such, for example, as might be provoked by the knowledge that a neighboring nation was engaged in the manufacture of atomic weapons Nation A might be' convinced that nation B was getting ready to attack but, under the charter, nation A’s only recourse would be to put the matter up to the security council. And there nation B would promptly pooh-pooh the idea and veto any action

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