Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 February 1947 — Page 12

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are, we believe, as much impressed as anybody with ‘VY the desirability of the four<block downtown ‘park getting for our state capitol buildings. It

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would brighten up our own end of town a lot, and very likely be a beauty spot we'd show with pride to visitors from less fortunate cities. It would, in short, be a nice thing for

Indianapolis to have,

But somehow we don’t feel as if we could enjoy that grassy vista very much, knowing as we do, that 2000 men‘tally ill men and women are crowded into a 75-year-old firetrap that we call Central State hospital, right here in

ve ‘Indianapolis. And that the rest of our state institutions,

“almost all of them, are ancient, ill-equipped, overcrowded, inadequately staffed. And that our schools face an actual

crisis because we don’t pay enough to keep them staffed

c with competent teachers. There are a good ‘many things that ought to be done by Indiana, right now, that are not going to be done because we haven't enough money to do them. Thoughtful ‘members of the state legislature are very properly concerned about the state’s income, and about new sources of revenue they see will be needed just to maintain state projects and services that are considered essential. A great many of these things seem to us more important to the welfare of Indiana than a downtown park in Indianapolis. We believe we shouldn't be planning frills until we can afford to take care of our immediate and urgent responsibilities, such as state institutions and public schools. . The state house plaza will be just as practical, and to us at least, a lot more beautiful, after we've met our minimum obligations as a state for the welfare of all our citizens. -

WE MUST PAY FOR PEACE A FEW days ago, Indiana congressmen met with war department officials to urge that Camp Atterbury be maintained as part of the peacetime military establishment. The ensuing discussion found none of the Hoosier legislators prepared to support universal military training. Most of them were opposed to it. Yet, without such a training program, the army will have no need for Camp Atterbury. This recalls the congressman who voted for all appropriations and against all taxes, hoping to make everybody happy, A great many congressmen are like that— and so are a great many of their constituents. But if we . want security we must pay for it. Ludwell Denny, Scripps-Howard staff writer now in Germany, finds that most of the complaints against our troops can be attributed to their immaturity and to poor discipline, due to inadequate training. That isn't the fault of our military leaders. They must use the mén congress provided. We are getting a black eye in many parts of the world because raw young recruits are on assignments which should be manned by seasoned, professional soldiers. The war department seems to be doing the best it can with what it has. But an untrained boy can’t do a man's job.

2 2 =» ss #8» ’ HE policy makers in Washington are more responsible than our harassed generals for the extent to which we are failing in our missions abroad. But ultimate responsibility rests with the voters. We cannot long maintain a firm foreign policy abroad without the force to back it up. We have neither an adequate professional army for the nation’s defense, nor a program to provide the only known substitute for such an army—a reservoir of trained manpower which can be called to the colors on short notice. Other nations know this. And the fact that we are the only great power without such a program will subject our prestige to increasing discount and our country to increasing danger until the situation is remedied.

OUR BIPARTISAN FOREIGN POLICY ENATOR -VANDENBERG'S apparent disinclination to attend phe Yoyo meeting of the council of foreign ministers, becaude of demands upon him in the senate, threatens further to weaken liaison between congress and

the state department. This poses a real problem for Secretary Marshall. ; The Vandenberg-Byrnes combination was a happy team. The fact that one was a Republican and the other a '. Democrat made little difference. They talked the same language. Working together they made our bipartisan foreign policy a thing of real meaning. Having been a senator, Mr. Byrnes belonged to the lodge, an advantage Secretary Marshall does not enjoy. The general got along well with congress as chief of staff 5 of the arriy” But he was a respected military expert, dealhg with civilians, * His present relationship to congress is altogether different. Nearly every member of that body regards himself as an authority on international affairs. Bo in his new role Secretary Marshall must make his case

ia re a critical jury, most of whom haye preconceived con--.yictions on every issue.

o » » : » » WH the new Republican majority, responsibility for . foreign policy has become virtually co-equal between the senate and the state department. If Senator Vanden- . berg finds it inexpedient to participate in the German and + Austrian negotiations at Moscow, Secretary Marshall will

% need a new Republican adviser. of high caliber and avail- |"

ability, who has the confidence of the Republican majority. We can think of no one who would fill the void quite as iy well as John Foster Dulles. Mr, Dulles has participated in the development of the

United Nations. His knowledge of the German and Austrian problems is perhaps equal to that of Senator Vanden- |} g's. Not being a senator, he would not be expected to v the same influence in that body. - But Secretary Marshall can remedy that deficiency by improving his own con-

contacts,

4 tis the secretary's No. 1 problem to operate in haring with the senate’s Republican main his new position will be measured in | ; 2 rement. He undoubtedly appreciates — 3 we. : | e supports the expectation

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By William Stokes, Secretary, “Let the People Vote,” 136 Lemcke bldg. In & recent editorial you indicated that the Marion county delega-

bill because Marion county is wet. “Let the People Vote” believes that it makes no difference whether or not a county is wet or dry in connection with the local option bill (H. B. 54). There are two reasons for our contention. 1. The purpose of House Bill 54 is to give the people a chance to vote for or against the sale of liquor in their own communities. As the present law stands the people have no voice in deciding where liquor establishments will be located. We simply ask to “let the people vote” on the question. = . 2. House Bill 54 is not a counfy “LIKE MANY MEN, MALE bill. It is a precinct bill. It would MOTORIST IS HALF BLIND” permit’ people to vote for or againstiy, uy. wm 8, Indianapolis counties. It is.conceivable that only a few precincts. in Marion county himself S. H, F. and who played might vote against the sale of liquor.| ver the same old broken record for Most of them might vote for the the benefit of Forum readers last sale of liquor. But at least the priday, proves that he, like many Marion county delegation ought to! be willing to “let the people vote.” | > men, is half blind. If he is is not a moral issue. “It is! purely a matter of democracy. Why is it that the politicians are so unwilling to “let the people vote?” ¥ » » “WHY CAN'T THE TIMES HAVE 2 COMIC SECTIONS?" By C. 0. W., Indianapolis There are seven people in this family. I suppose we are the average American family. I have been

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would avoid a lot of discontent confusion in the large families could be the means of keeping the man of the family from leaving home. 1 sincerely do believe Times carries the best comic section of any paper.

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“WHY DON'T THOSE WHO FAVOR BONUS SAY 80? By Veteran's Wife, Indianapolis I wish someone would be kind

enough to tell me why the Indiana

a lot of hot air, too! The veterans who really need help can't get it. Why doesn't The Times or someone try to help the veterans. Why not show in your paper just how far $30 a week will go for the vet‘eran with a wife and an expected baby. Can he buy a house or furniture? I don’t think a bonus would be -a “handout.” I think we owe it to the veterans to help them get a start. My brother-in-law was a prisoner in Germany. He lost a leg. He gets his pension check, but he has a wife and two

‘children and with groceries and

rent, what's left. He is supposed to get one of those cars. But for four months the car dealer has been saying “maybe next week.” Another run-around. He has tried several places to get employment but he can't get a job because he's crippled. :

many letters in the Hoosier Forum favoring & veterans’ bonus. What happened to those people? The only letters you print now are the

veterans’ bonus. Well, how about it? Do the little people get a chance or don’t they? Why haven't the people who want a veterans’ bonus say so? Come on, veterans’ wives, let's get together, 2

Editor's Note: The reason more letters would be printed in the Forum the bonus than in favor of it, if that statement were correct, would be that mere letters against the bonus were recéived. However, in scanning the Forum for the past four months, we find eight .letters .for .a .bonus, .one against,, Perhaps Veteran's: Wife hasn’t read the Forum carefully, . ® ” “OH WELL, PEOPLE ARE IGNORANT” By William J. McDonald, 1020 Willow Dr. One of the most popular records of the season is reputed as having sold 3,250,000 records so far. What an awful shock that must be to a long-haired musician who has to resort to legislation, subscription and appeals to support the symphony. Oh, well, people are ignorant, they just don’t know what is good for them.. .

DAILY THOUGHT

Then Jesus answering sald unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached. ~Luke 7:22, ie il : ” » ” The course of nature is the heart of God. : The miracles thou call’st for, this attest;

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ew Understanding IN THE LIGHT OF THIS STATEMENT by Mr. Luckman, van we assume that the industrial leade.. of this country will begin to put into practice these ideas, or must we assume that his is a voice shouting in the wilderness and that industry will continue to oppose everything that means a better way of life for the working men and women of America? We have recently witnessed, in an atmosphere of complete ordiality, the representatives of the United States Steel Corp. and its six basic steel subsidiaries meet with the representatives of the United

ing continuity of operations during the collective gaining that is now in process.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—When Adam ate of the tree of knowledge, man's troubles began. Prom that moment, fear and suspicion bedeviled the once inno-

cent dwellers in the Garden of Eden. Something like that first fear and suspicion have come out of our knowledge of how to split the atom. In the hearings into the confirmation of David E. Lilienthal to be chairman of the atomic energy commission, you could almost feel the fear and mistrust which hung over the men whe sat around the green baize table. It was oppressive and deeply troubling.

lustration in Canada's Trojan Horse SUSPICION FEEDS on suspicion, is an appetite that grows with feeding. That is one of the tragic aspects of Canada’s discovery of a Soviet espionage network reaching into government departments and military services. In first reaction to discovery of the network, the Canadian government clapped the suspects into jail and held them incommunicado for questioning and. cross-examination by a royal commission. The Montreal Daily Star, comhmentifig on the acquittal of one of the defendants, said: Public opinion never approved the extra-judicial methods employed. Due process of law were discarded in favor of methods which were identical in principle, if less brutal in practice, with those of the German gestapo and the Russian OGPU. “Fortunately the victims of this procedure were eventually brought into court, where the case against

THEN THERE WAS THE MAN who cut off his dog's tail inch at a time because he couldn't bear to cut it off at one clip A plausible parallel to this is the process by which the voters of the state and nation killed the Whig

party in America. Only they were cutting a political neck instead of a dog's tail. That was fatal

Whigs Hold Tumultuous History ON DEC. 15, 1831, Noah Noble became the first Whig governor in the state. He led the Whig party in a political swing to the right in American politics. His first major move was to back the internal improvement plan then forming in the state: This was the state-wide move to build canals, turnpikes, and railroads in Indiana.

logrolled the legislature for suthorify and money to carry out the plan. It teasingly dug enough canals, built enough turnpikes, and planned enough railroads to wheedle the Mammoth Internal Improvement bill out of the legislature. The bill made a $13 million ‘appropriation to carry out the provisions of the bilk About three and one-half years after the improvement bill was passed on Jan. 7, 1836, the entire plan under the bill collapsed. In August, 1839, all internal impwovements in the state stopped. The whole state

WASHINGTON, Feb. 4—With collapse of Ameri can efforts at mediation and withdrawal of such U. S. forces as now remain, China today faces her gravest crisis since the great powers’ attempt to partition her after the China-Japan war of 1805. China seems doomed to become another Bpain— only bigger, bloodier and more dangerous to world peace, Civil war already is in progress and is bound to spread as the Communists, who hold most of the northern and northwestern provinces, intensify their efforts to overthrow the central government of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. No one who knows the Far Eastern.situation expects Soviet Russia to withhold aid from Chinese Communists. That the central governemnt will refuse such assistance as it may be able to obtain from outside, is equally unlikely. Thus the Spanish tragedy may We re-enacted in the highly explosive orient. The one thing fairly certain about all this is that the United States will try to remaih aloof. It is no believed, however, that we will wash our hands of China

Hay Faced Same Problem "BACK IN 1899 when Secretary of State John Hay faced a somewhat similar problem, he took a firm stand, * He warned Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Germany and Japan—then scrambling for slices of China—to watch their step. China's sovereignty was to be respected and her door left open to all nations alike. ~And the great powers took the hint. Again, in 192], the United States called a two-in-one conference to meet in Washington. One was an arms-limitation conference. The other was a Pacific

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IN WASHINGTON . « » By Marquis Childs War Danger Is Lurking in Suspicion

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restrictive or repressive legislation against labor. We must recognize the fundamental principle that if we cripple or destroy labor, in the end, we will surely destroy industry. }

Avoid Restrictive Legislation THE BIG QUESTION facing America 18 — can labor and industry peacefully resolve their differences: and through collective bargaining resolve the issues and assure continuity of production? The answer is yes! We owe it to ourselves to encourage to the utmost free collective bt ning and avoid, as if it were a plague, any legislation that} takes one ota of freedom from us. This course of action spells a better America. It means an increased standard of living, better wag better working conditions, greater educational op portunities for the men and women of labor and their children who are dependent on them. The signs are increasingly hopeful Will a democratic America accept the challenge?

them was placed under the scrutiny of our nor system of justice. . . . But it sharply raises the que tion why, from the very beginning, the same method were not employed.” } Answer to that question is fairly obvious. It is:@ Pear. Under the circumstances, it is not hard tc understand “why fear should have been the 1 reaction. From June of 1941, Canada and Russia had beer’ allies. Canada had sent enormous supplies of food and armaments to the Soviet Union. In addition) private citizens had sent substantial relief to the Russian ally, Suddenly, just at war's end, it is dis{ covered that Russia has been hiring spies to fe out Canada’s strategic secrets. It is small wondey' that, in the first reaction, the suspects were held in Jail contrary to basic guarantees of Canadian law. | Danger of Destruction i THE CANADIAN REPORT makes clear Canadian Communists and fellow travelers felt themselves oblif; gated to serve the Soviet espionage ring’ despite thes fact that as Canadian citizens they accepted thes rights and privileges of a free society. They were kind of Trojan horse within Canadian democracy. Two things seem to me terrifyingly clear. First§ unless we in America achieve rational civilian controg over this new force, we are likely to lapse into a mili4 tary dictatorship. Second, unless international sus§ picions are overcome, the danger of a war of infinitgs destructiveness will grow greater. The fruit of thij tree of knowledge will not be denied. §

SAGA OF INDIANA . . « By William A: Marlow 1 1848 Campaign Included Slave Issue

was surprised, disappointed and sour. The bonded under the plan was §1 million. For these bonds the state had receive $8,503,000 in cash. It had $4 million of worthl securities. Over $2 million had been embezzled b state officials and agefits. The Whig party in Indiana never quite recovere from “its handling of the state’s canal and turnpik days. Yet in spite of all this, in the hurrah cam paign of 1840, the Whigs carried Indiana for W ny Henry Harrison for President, and elected Samuej Bigger for governor. But this was the list m political victory for the Whig party in the state. The Democratic party won in 1844 because th U. B, wanted Texas, ’

Yan Buren at Center of Fight THE REVEALING CAMPAIGN, however, of Amer| ican politics in the 19th century before 1860 was th’ campaign of 1848. Its revealing spot centered ii Martin Van Buren, who, in revengeful mood, wa running for President against Zachary Taylor, Whig, and Lewis Cass, a Democrat regularly nomi| nated by the Democratic national convention. The revelation in this campaign centers in Mart Van Buren, because among the 291,263 men who vote for him, some were openly against slavery. This i the first officially recorded opposition to slavery ii presidential elections in the United States. |

WORLD AFFAIRS . + « By William Philip Simms China Again Faces a Grave Crisi

danger, the balance :of power in the Pacific wa threatened, and world peace menaced. At that time the United States had the bigges and most powerful navy the world had ever 80 we let it be known at the outset of the conferenc that if the peace of the Pacific and Far Hast coul be secured, we would disarm to the limit. { The Far Eastern conference produced the nine power pact. Other than China, the United States Great Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Holland, Portu gal and Japsn agreed “to respect the sovereignt; independence and territorial and administrative in tegrity of China,” and “to provide the fullest oppor tunity to China to develop and maintain for hersel a stable government."

May Seek to Revive Pact THERE SEEMS reason to believe that Secretar of State Marshall may seek to revive that pact. Russis was not a signatory, Perhaps her signature now maj. be sought. True, Russia subscribed to the principle of the Atlantic Charter. She also has a treaty witl China, signed in August, 1045, pledging “mut respect for=gheir sovereignty and territorial entit and non-interference in the internal affairs of bot} contracting parties.” But if she won't honor th{ commitments of 1942 and 1046, she would har respect & similar one dated 1047, : , However, Secretary. Marshall probably know} China better than most of his predecessors. tainly as military man he is in a far I

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