Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 February 1947 — Page 8
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the question of who is going to be of Indianapolis is beginning to awaken. the most important the community { ‘election May 6 will deterne “It is to be hoped that both the Re‘Democrats will select such a good man s, the city itself will be the winner in leader for the next four years. parties are seeking strong candidates n A far without much suc-
v janis ge la election and the effort A letter in the Hoosier Forum yesterday sounded an elementary note with the statement that Indianapolis, with jts tremendous post-war problems, will need a mayor of vision, force and character during the next four years more than it ever has in the past. With that statement we _agree fully. : Tow political development of the week locally was a frank appraisal of the problems of the city by Walter Myers Jr., young Democratic attorney who made the first fighting statement by a Democrat, on local problems, that - we have read since the successful campaign of Judge Joseph 0. Hoffmann for the juvenile court bench. ‘From the sidelines, it. would appear to us that the “Democrats, with the aid of the independent voters who elected Judge Hoffmann and Congressman Louis Ludlow, ‘could elect a mayor if they offered the better man. The issue is far from decided. For the sake of ‘Indianapolis, we urge the leadership of both parties to seek unremittingly candidates who can provide the type of government we so badly need.
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LILIENTHAL'S PHILOSOPHY AY interesting angle of the Lilienthal subject has to do with the New Deal and its philosophy. %" The New Deal's original spiritual driving force was human rights and needs, measured in terms of the individial man. As the New Deal aged, there evolved a philosophy of centralized control, of Washington as the source of all wisdom, of passing out more and more government from on high into the provinces—and, with it, more and more
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"1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.
Rate Hike Isn't Only Remedy
Teachers, parents and property
less qualified will result in
educate the children wherever they may be. It would be far better and more democratic for the state to bear the total cost of teachers’ salaries, but if local taxing units must bear a part of the cost of the proposed increase in teachers’ salaries, why not have the local unit pay a part of the cost of a minimum educational program; that is a loeal salary budget that assumes all teachers employed at the increased mini-
LILIENTHAL set himself against that trend. He enunciated a policy of home rule, of TVA management in the Tennessee Valley. Because of that policy he in-| curred the enmity of Senator McKellar, the patronage | hunter; of Harold Ickes, who as sec of the interior | tried to horn in and take over; of many others. The TVA, definitely a New Deal agency, was not New | Deal in respect to the rapid trend toward centralized con- | trol. My. Lilienthal was a New Dealer in his own way, according to his own lights. He wore no man’s collar when | it came to doing his TVA job. And he did a great job. | we apotes from his own writings—his book, “TVA | on the March,” published by Harper & Bros. |
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" Cities ares. “alization at the national capital or within a busi- | president of the taking always ‘glorifies the importance of pieces: Sours DX This dims the sense of reality. . .. The reason | _... Two overe is and has always been so much bureaucratic pire such organizational intrigue, so much pathological | “personal ambition, so many burning jealousies and ven-
dettas in a capital city (any capital city, not only Wash- |
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‘tralized institution deals tends to be the men and women of that institution itself, and their ideas and ambitions. To | ~ maintain perspective and human understanding in the atmosphere of centralization is a task that many able and | conscientious people have found well-nigh impossible. . . . " “Making decisions from papers ~has a dehumanizing effect. - Much of man’s inhumanity to man is to be explained | by it. . . . To see each citizen as a human being is easy at | . the grassroots. That is where more of the functions of | our federal government should be exercised. © “TVA, if it were politically managed, could become a gurse to this valley. . . . It would mean that . .. a city that votes ‘right,’ a county that delivers the ‘right’ number of votes for a particular organization or candidate, an industry that ‘comes through,’ could be rewarded by advantages in the location of transmission lines, though such a location was not justified by the business facts.”
THT book, “TVA—Democracy on the March,” would be ! good reading for Senators Bridges, White and other blicans who have joined Senator McKellar's campaign
: 8 nst Mr. Lilienthal’s confirmation as chairman of the energy commission.
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BEDFELLOWS
TARIFF Republicans who view the reciprocal trade ements act as an unmitigated evil are receiving . from an unexpected quarter—the Soviet Union. , the new recruit, Otto Kuusinen, member of the m of the supreme Soviet, is not of the Smootley school. He regards reciprocal trade as an obstacle
“protection,” of American industries. ] in “Pravda,” Mr. Kuusinen warns western ainst the Americay plan for a reciprocal lowering
to retain its on
Jud progressive economic
nomic | ia face of the “American | f France. He says, already and | chance of carrying out “al
mum salary for beginning teachers. Then if local officials can, or have to, employ teachers whose qualifica~-
tions call for higher salaries as set
by the state schedule, the state | would pay the total amount of these salaries in excess of the beginners’ !minimum. This is the exact reverse of the policy and procedure of {the past, but it is much more demo{cratic and is, in fact, the only plan
by which local units could be made
to bear a part of the increase in | teachers’ salaries without being | tempted to discriminate against the better qualified teachers. Otherwise local officials would | probably employ their local favor{ites at the maximum salary and make it up by turning away the |better qualified non-resident appli|cants for beginners; or, if only a “permissive” maximum is estab-|
lished, as has been proposed, many | ment. | local officials will emplcy favorites | { hotels, they were informed’ that the
and constituents at this maximum and non-resident teachers at the minimum, Teachers and others whose inter-
/members of committees working on | {educational and revenue measures land make their desires and objec- |
{out on the floor where they can, {in the main, be only accepted or| rejected.
| “STOP GRABBING FROM WORKERS’ PAY CHECK” Ld John Ellis, R. R. 9, Indisanpelis
vigorously enactment of any legislation that will deprive smaller and less communities of the services of the better qualified teachers. that would Sores the Jocal eoipcration Self So LS SbyLyert of difference- between the salary of a better qualified teacher an
highly to the democratic principle of equal educational opportunity for which requires us fo tax the wealth where it is and use.the revenue to
"Tax Wealth Where It Is, Use the Revenue in Education Everywhere" By Laurel Elson, Mooresville
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8.8 8 “SAME TYPE OF THING OUR BOYS DIED FOR” » ing W. James, hesident Years.
The Declaration of Independence is.still a part of our civic, and political philosophy. The doctrine of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man is still being printed in the Bible. No group of people should bé more friendly to these ideas than the citizens of our Christian nation. Yet, no later than last Friday, Feb. 7, our attention was called to an article by Mrs. James H. Smiley, president of the Indianapolis Council of Church Women, stating that the proposed national convention of this council would have fo go elsewhere with their meeting due to the refusal of the Indianapolis downtown hotels to house Negroes. I would like to inform you this is not the first convention that had to go elsewhere for their meeting because of this segregated policy of the hotels. And now since world war II it is on the increase. Even last year during the Indiana state basketball tournament many
of the state high schools brought their mixed teams to the tournaSeeking: housing at the
white members of the team could stay but not the Negroes. Paul { Robeson, an outstanding Negro singer. made the statement here a
| ington), is no mystery. The facts with which a highly cen- lests are at stake should contact|few days ago that in all of his {traveling around, Indianapolis is
{the only place north of the Mason{Dixon line that he could not stay
tions known before these bills get | in downtown hotels.
| As leaders in this great state of {Indiana and capitol city of Indian- | apolis, you cannot afford to sit by and pass Up not lending your efforts to eradicate this kind of policy. You can plainly see it's the | same type of thing our boys bled
“UNIVERSAL MILITARY TRAINING NO PEACE AID” By James L. Merrell, 2010 Broadway Recently the newspapers have
thrust upon the war-wearied public a meaningless question as: “Would you favor a short, basic military training period for our boys if it would insure peace?”
why would we need such a huge reserve when the atomic bomb can wipe it out in the space of minutes? Is it not better, then, to prepare only for world peace in-
fare? Advocates say that army life builds character, and that it is| good for our young men. In the! first place, a year or six months of | UMT .would only scratch the sur-| face and army life in the meantime! would be making robots out of the! men. We have seen only too much | of that thing recently, If we depended on the military to solve our|
side-stepping them. We need education for peace, not education for war that brass hats and chronic! militarists want, America must realize that the answer lies in a strong peace organization in the world, not in a strong, immobile!
the immediate answer!
stead of disorder and regular war-|
social problems we would only be|
ALL THROUGH THE ’'30s, the ailing railroad industry limped along. Then, with the transfusion
How powerful the railroads are in fixing the economic pattern of the country is being demon~
“I HAVE HAD the pleasure of reading your address to the Philomathean society of Wabash college It strikes me as an original performance, and I will be much obliged if you will send a copy to my address at Boston.” This was a letter to Andrew Wylie, dated March 8, 1839. It was written by Daniel Webster, United States senator from Massachusetts, and one of the distinguished men of America.
| A Top Level Thinker
AS READ between the lines, this letter reveals Andrew Wylie as few things could do—his standing in his world: his solid worth conceded by substantial men of his generation; as a thinker at the top level of his day. Andrew Wylie was an Irishman one generation out of Ireland. His father came from Antrim on Loughneagh, to America in 1776, He settled on a | farm in Fayette county, Pa. | The son Andrew was born in the adjoining county of Washington south of Pittsburgh April 12, 1789. He | graduated from Jefferson college at Canonsburg, Pa, in 1810. : He tutored at Jefferson college two years, became president. of the college In 1812, and served four years. Then he became president of Washington college for 12 years ending in 1828. In May, 1813, he married Margaret Ritchie,’who
It's bound to happen. Stop grab- and died to get rid. of in world | TY: A small technical volunteer | survived him when he died of pneumonia at his’home
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this across the front sheet: eral ,8trike Called.”
“Gen-|the Pederation of Associated Clubs Workers de-| seek from
war II. We, the officers and members of |
mand full pay each payday with no! vou will give to eradicate this evil
{here in our capitol city.
deductions of any kind.
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By An Interested Reader; Indianapolis If the streetcar company wants to increase the fare why don’t we have better service on the W. Washington line? :
and mysélf were “from 15 two 25 minutes late to work. And when there is service, the feeder busses fill up the cars before they leave the end of the line, and they pass us up one after the other. And in zero weather it isn't so nice. When we do get on we have to stand. If people would pick us up
ion the way to town it wouldn't be
so bad, but they don’t. Where I live, we just don't have a chance. Bpeaking for myself and all the
/| other West side people who have to ||g0 to work on the streetcar, I just
don’t see why the service can’t be a little better. i "Bn » “WHY NOT PUT LIMIT ON U. 8. OFFICE TERMS”
By Roy Kirk, 2425 N. Delaware st, oily
Why. so much kick about F. D. R. serving so much time as one of the best presidents the U. 8. has had when that was the people's choice? And why not put a limit on the senate and represéntatives and all members of government offices to two to four year terms as well as the president? Maybe we would have a little cleaner political peo-
; ple in’ office.
DAILY THOUGHT Fxcept the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep
| the city, the watchman waketh
but in vain.—Psalms 127:1.
The last week or so several girls:
in Bloomington, Ind., Nov. 11, 1851. His home, 112 years after it was built, is the oldest house in Bloomington. Except as remodeled by Dr. and Mrs. Amos B. Hershey, the home was substantially the same as when Andrew Wylie died. The
WASHINGTON, Feb. 22.-Moscow's charge that the U. 8.-Canadian defense arrangement is “in preparation for aggression,” has led officials here to have another look at Russia's own activities in the Arctic. They find that for at least 20 years Soviet maneuvers in the North Polar regions have been ceaseless and at times feverish. Diplomatically, at least, these continued even. during the war when, taking advantage of Norway's plight, Russia attempted to gain control of Norway's Spitzenbergen and Bear island.
We're in Kindergarten Class
LAST YEAR'S American-Canadian “Operation Muskox.” and this year’s maneuvers in Alaska and the Aleutians, admittedly just about brought us up to the kindegarten class compared with what the Russians have been doing. -Ostensibly, Russia-wag-opening-up-Aretic-sea-routes— and Polar air lanes purely for commercial purposes. Anyway, that is what they sald. By 1934 (to go back no further) the Soviets had some 30 Hifferent expeditions in the field supported by no less than 40 ships and by airplanes. Along the “Arcfic coast they had established 38 meteorological stations, some of them on the islands extending well up toward the North Pole. ‘Icebreakers roved the year round, making soundings and maps and studying navigation conditions, compass behavior, ocean and air currents, temperatures and ice formation. Incidentally, but quietly, the Red flag was raised over Herald island, discovered by the. Bennett expedition of 1881 and claimed by the United States. } By 1036 the number of Soviet expeditions in the Arctic had increased to 46. Extensive explorations ‘were in progress along the lower reaches of the Ob, Yenisei and La rivers. a bases ii in etng
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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs Railroad ‘Monopoly’ Faces Rebellion
SAGA OF INDIANA ... By William A. Marlow 1st 1.U. President Inspired Many Men |
In the fall of 1829, Andtgw Wylie opened Indiana university as its first president. He continued as
young and old to better things. But planting a university on Indiana soil in his generation was very much like planting a commer-
+ cially profitable orange orchard on the same soil 100
years later. But Wylie had the moral fiber as well as the intellectual flavor to do the job well. This stemmed from the fact that he was a preacher as well as a teacher and administrator, For about 15 years ending in 1841, he was a Presbyterian minister. From then till he died some 10 years later, he was an Episcopalian. He was admitted to the priesthood of this church by Bishop Kemper at Vincennes Th May, 1842.
Lectures Attracted Attention
TAKING A BROAD VIEW of the world of Wylie's era, his was a relatively narrow fleld in which to achieve great things. However, this gavé Wylie's efforts the ping and the punch of the rifie’s bullet rather than the scattered shot of the shotgun. Two revealing instances of this are: ONE: His routine lecture in a western college town attracted the attention of Daniel Webster, one of the great statesmen of his America. TWO: He drew students to Indiana university from Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the deep South who had known him before he came west It took a stegng man to do that in his day.
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms re Russia's Polar Survey Has a Purpose
all the way from Archabgel; on the White ses, to Bering strait opposite Alaska. The entire length of the Arctic coast ‘line had been charted for the first time and test flights made between Moscow and Franz Josef Land to within 450 miles of the Pole. Another test flight (in August, 1936) was pioneered by Pilot Levanevsky, from San Francisco to Moscow, via Alaska and Siberia. They sald he was surveying an air route to be opened up in 1937. (To this day neither that nor any other authentic International airline is operating into and out of Russia.) And
~Pilot S8hkalov with two assistants flew non-stop from
Moscow, via Franz Josef Land and tQe Biberia coast, to Nikolayevsk at the mouth of the Amur river on the Pacific coast. He passed within 400 miles of the Pole. By 1937-10 years before our Alaskan maneuvers Russia had laid a solid foundation for Arctic opera tions of all sorts—but mostly military—by land, sea and air..
The Russians had found out, by long and scientifie * research, exactly what they could and could not do in the Arctic.
Who Began 'Operation Polar Bear?’ THESE ARE only some of the highlights. Compared with Russia, therefore, the United States and Canada are still mere tyros. As for “preparations for aggression, ” it would look as if the shoe—usually the case with such ' charges—were on the other foot. The Soviet bloc bloasts an area of more than 10 million square miles and a combined population of 260 million as against seven million square miles belonging to Canada and the Uinted States with a population of 152 ‘million. - If either side astraddle the North Pole has grounds for suspicion, it is re the he would sound more reasonable. coming from us. began "Operation Polar Bur anyway? 4
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