Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 February 1947 — Page 12

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2 the general assembly are getting a bit restless. under the ¢urb of the policy committee which usually tells them what they can and cannot do,

The restive legislators may break the ranks

of party

solidarity that have prevailed throughout the session on the question of liquor control. Whatever course they take

will

place Governor Ralph F. Gates on the spot.

There also is some strong difference of opinion on a surtax; which will be killed within the organization if machine leaders have their way. The veterans bonus bills likewise are expected to die without final action, there being some doubt as of today as to whether even a referendum will be approved. The health program is stalled to a considerable degree. “ A'few local grab bills have been passed, but blanket salary increases seem to be doomed.

The legislature adjourns in three weeks. It

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to have to accomplish a lot in the-time remaining of the 61-day session if it is going to make much of a record for itself. So far, the governor has signed only 15 bills and two resolutions.

CONGRESS LAGS AGAIN

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polls show that a majority of Americans favor

universal military training as security insurance’ against another war. An even higher percentage of war veterans favor such a program. The major veterans’ organizations have indorsed it. Yet predictions are heard on Capitol Hill that congress will not vote for a training program. . . Congress will catch up with public opinion if its members hear from the people. Militant minorities such as the pacifists and isolationists represent, however, often make so much noise that their views are accepted as the voice

write to his congressman. But the need for military training is so vital every voter should make his position known.

: the immediate We have a smaller professional army than any other {lute responsibility of "major power, Without a civilian

trainipg program, we will

not have the reserve manpower needed to defend ourselves ‘ against sttack—an attack which could come at any moment, | without warning. The issue is as simple as that. The ‘difficulty is, the problem cannot be dramatized in the absence of an aétual attack such gs Pearl Harbor. And if for the best interests of all its | money, civic safety and welfare. we wait for that it may be too late. '

THE Pearl Harbor debacle served a useful purpose be-

cause it united the American people as nothing else before the matter gets tg the

could have done. Fortunately, the Japs did not follow up . their attack by invading our mainland, and we were given

time to organize, train and equip the forces needed to defeat |, them. But any future aggressor will profit by that Jap- to bring

anese mistake, and we must realize that to be caught unprepared again might be fatal. We will be unprepared unless congress is prodded into passing & universal training law. The prodding should begin now—+4oday. It would be a good idea if those favoring and those opposing universal military training—for both sides should ~ voice their views—were to write to Senators Capehart and ~~ Jenner setting forth their position.

A poll condneted by Mayor Robert H. Tyndall's army |P’

advisory committee in Indianapolis shows that to date the

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Why Tinsleys Never Laugh ON NOV. 18, 1838, the little wooden structure was opened for worship. It remained open until 1857 when it was sold to Bethel church, a Negro congregation, The devout Negroes moved it to W. Georgia st., in the vicinity of the canal. A few years later, it burned down. Legend traces it to incendiary hoodlums. : Only reason for selling and moving was to make room for a bigger and better Christ church. On the same site, mind you. I labor the point because the Episcopalians are the only denemination in Indianapolis who still worship on the site of their first

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Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it.” — Voltaire.

"Good Citizenship Begins in ' Municipality; Elect Able Mayor"

By R.J.F, N. Meridian st.

a worthy and timely suggestion [De used to raise the funds for

abso-

hope to prosper. Good citizenship ‘begins in the [citizens schould look further in

citizens. An apathetic attitude now s = = in the selection of a candidate can, («KNOWLEDGE IS CALLED as it has in the past, preclude our| THE CURE FOR PREJUDICE” chances for & good city Mayor |, ,... » mews, 4040 N. Hiinels st.

to raise a4 voice administration, I to your ord of an Indianapolis man

revenue bureau

appointment and training of capa-

majority of persons favoring some form of universal [ble individuals throughout this Appears. military training in peace time is somewhat smaller than that in other parts of the country. However, when the poll is

been obtained.

THE FINNISH LOAN THE export-import bank has made a sound investment

that thrifty little Baltic nation.

by extending a $2,500,000 credit to Finnish private

of joining the international breadline, the Finns began working like beavers to get back on their economic feet the moment the shooting was over. Today their outlook is_one of the most promising in Europe. Lumber, pulp and paper products are Finland's major export items. But with less territory to support its population than it had before the war, a more diversified production is needed to meet its new requirements. The loan will be used to buy machinery and equipment for this progtam, The big problem in Europe is to get people back to work at productive enterprise so they can begin feeding themselves. By giving a helping hand to Finnish initiative, we may encourage other nations to follow the Finnish example.

NOT TOO MANY COLONELS

THE

point has been made that the army today

3 ] has 6489 || colonels and 1,070,000 enlisted men, although only

10,590 colonels were required when the army was at its war- . time peak of 8,000,000 men. The number of colonels seems out of proportion for the present army. But is it?

"Roughly, the 6489 colonels fall into two categories. One

is made up

ip will reach retirement age. In the second generals of tomorrow,

of caréer men, who rendered faithful, often dis- || service in the war. Within a few years, this ||

category ||

ny of the outstanding general officers of the recent re pre-war colonels. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower was

pcétime, officers in the higher ranks are out of

to the army's enlisted strength, because they the nucleus of an expanded, civiliatt army, which in the event of war. We do not have too tenant colonels or majors. They are

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state. in| “SPLENDID RECOGNTION

the collection and handling of|OF THE NEGRO RACE"

accountability.

Mr, Smith has been a public servant. His personal indus- commend you

Here is the kind of man we and continuous battle.

securing the {should seek out, encourage or even right kind of management for the draft to give the communnity the eity in which we live, work and bemefit of his wide fiduciary and management experience. jutdresied if they wi municipality. Here in our town we his fine record. We should know can demonstrate how much or how [this and every other man’ whom little we know about government /we are to trust to handle our

uncertain ,| tainly would prefer senators’ opin-

.| thing that even Litienthal could not

alone his office collected $987.000.-| on wep, 17 1 read some illustrated 000, involving extremely detailed | riicles displayed in your paper |acuteness of mind on some moral on the health center. directed by|things than most Americans. genuine Dr, Walter H. Maddux. I wish to| wonder why there is so much vioand your editorial|lence and gangsterism. and im-, try and integrity inspired and de-|staff on the splendid recognition morality, yet Capone said: manded honest, energetic Workiyou are bestowing on the achieve9 from the some 2000 mén and wom- ments and advancements of the «interests for expansion and modernization of industry in len who worked under his jurisdic-|colored race. Often, as I read your tion. He possesses that raré execu- paper, I observe the illustrations tive ability of being able to. sur-iand articles on the achievement of Finland earned a high credit rating after world war 1, [round himself with capable Deapie the colored people. If enough of c 1 i i who can do their jobs, and these are printed from time to time and has taken the wounds of world war II in stride. Instead Ne hs thoos are Drinfed from Wt 2 me to his employees’ suggestions for|to break down racial intolerances the improvement of ‘his operation. |and ptejudices will not be a hard

Side’ Glances—By Galbraith :

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® “GOING TO HELL ON ROAD OF INDIFFERENCE” A By D. A. Sommer, 918 Congress ave. i ; wis . As respulsive as the life of Al completed, a broader picture of Hoosier opinion will have [large sums of money. In one year|P7 Tie Anshalita M. Jomes, Sumnysde|\. .\\/\0 is to us who lived in his

so wonderful you can cancel my order for that new one you | a shall have a . i : : 3 Proverbs .

“HOLDS VETERAN'S WOULD

To build a bigger and bétter church, the Episcopalians with the help of Bishop Talbot engaged the services of William Tinsley, an Irishman, born and bred in Clonmell. He came to Indianapolis in the early fifties by way of Cincinnati. He got to Cincin-

nati by way of the O'Connell revolution. Reason for his coming here was because trustees of the Northwestern Christian (now Butler) university had enrusted him with the design of their college, a Tudor structure located on College ave. and Home ave. (now 13th st). That's how College ave. got its name. Except for its spire, the present Christ church was completed in 1860. . Nine years later, the spire was

DEAR BOSS . .. By Daniel M.

Man's Choice Now Is Peace or Pieces

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—-Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves of the Manhattan project, and. many others who helped split the atom, went to the Palace theater

| here for the first showing of a new movie built

ters favoring a veterans bonus. 1I,|

The éolumn “It's Our Business” by Donald D. Hoover in The|t00, am a veteran's wife, and think | Times Feb. 20 challenges the people of this eity to give serious thought |8 bonus would be appreciated. Con- | ; > to selection of an honest, energetic and capable man to serve as of the people, because the average citizen doesn't often mayor of Indianapolis. This is, indeed, In these times we are all inclined to focus our attention on political matters of a foreign, national and statewide scope, and perhaps overlook | Person with

the fact that taxes would | bonus, I am against it, beca the veteran would The

living quarters and better

2 = 8 “BREWSTER STATED FACTS ABOUT MR. LILIENTHAL”

By William A. Poe, 519 N. Pennsylvanis sot.

jon “rather than the biased ideas held by the Indianapolis Times editor. Roosevelt, the quack, cheap chisler, appointed Lilienthal over the head of an engineer, not an excuse of an engineer for TVA, and to the repercussions therein involved. Perhaps McKellar did as you say have a grudge against Lilienthal but it certainly was based on some-

deny. I do hope his confirmation is denied and that a real man is confirmed.

heyday, yet he seemed to have more

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‘It is not gangsters who make other gangsters, but the motion dictures of gangster plays.” we really know that we ought to do something to stay the downward trend, but we sit on the stool of do-nothing 3nd say, “Let Tom do it, Let Mary We are going to hell on the rpad of indifference, and taking our nation with us. “To him that knoweth to do good and doéth it, not, to him it is sin,” and “the wages of sin is death.” mans 6:32.) . » » REALLY HURT BY STORY OF CRUELTY TO HORSES”, By Billy Sellivsn, Indianapolis People who love

story about the abusé of some poor old horses in this city. We children of School 9 belong to the Band of Mercy,

(James 3:17; Ro-

animals were

which is a society for the

a day. When he enters the stable they nicker and prance around. He says, “What's the matter, féllows? He pats Buck on could never be cruel to them. the back. He loves them all. He

DAILY THOUGHT HAST thou not learn'd what thou art often told, A truth still sacred, and believed of old, : , That no success attends on spears and swords Unblest, and that the battle

: is the Lord's? . ~Cowper. —— In the fear of the Lord 1s ..rong confidence: and His ¢hil-

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| around the atomic bomb.

In true Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer manner the picture, entitled “The Beginning or the End,” was presented to Washington in what was termed its “global premiere.” Besides the soldiers, sailors and scientists who made the bomb, the diplomatic corps, congress, administration officials and the press were guests,

Atomic Power Forces Decision BRIG. GEN. THOMAS F. FARRELL, who lived with the A-bomb through its hundreds of hours of incubation to the taut seconds of time over Hiroshima, was on hand. Jaunty in tuexdo, it seemed difficult to associate him with the tense time of that bomb run, : S80 wag it with Adm. 8, Parsons in his full-dress navy uniform. Both are part of the picture. It was Adm. Parsons who assembled the Hiroshima bomb at Tinian. He also rode in the B-290 bomb bay en route to the target. The admiral thought the picture made the take-off appear too hectic. “We had gone over the whole thing for months in advance,” he commented. “There wasn't any danger until we were in the air and I had put the thing

: | together—ready to go.” i

Also present was President Walter 8. Carpenter of the Dupont company. It was his concern which constructed and operated the huge plutonium plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn. Scientists who contributed and are credited in the picture in one way or another include: Sir James Chadwick, who discovered the neutron—the key that

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ancestral home of the treasures. When this ancestral he found gathered around including constables, a hangman culprit’s hands were tied, and a noose his neck. He was swung in sudden, a laughing fit seised ley. The more he tried to his diaphragm acted up.

An Ancestral Curse

platform and walked over to the laughing ley. Raising aloft his crucifix a f the priest thundred: “No again!” , And, sure enough the very next year when the

stork saw fit to visit this Mr. Tinsley, he léft a baby !

boy who was never known to laugh--not even’

thing on the order been so much appropriate.

Kidney :

nevar Bush, Conant and Einstein. ’ Mostly the film is fairly factual. But a romance has been added. It comes off the cob a little when the tear-jerking scene shifts to the Lincoln 0 here. That may be a bit of Bob Considine, who wrote the script. He was a sports writer on | Washington Post. Or it may be thé customary prod. essing, which sometimes appears determined fa everything Hollywooden. as Personally I didn't mind, but some of the profess sional movie critics here thought that of th picture pure piffle. These love scenes are cient to lose thé pictures’ main spots where it drama brings your up - start, particularly the gripping scene of the first chain-reaction pile at Chicago. Mexican test of the A-bomj and Hirashima aflame, Y Now Abolish Primitive View I HOPE OUR LAW-MAKERS got. this film is designed to drive home great urgency of the time. That truth is that man to make this earth a paradise choice between peace and pieces. Try a8 wé may and wish as we solve the probléms of our atomic attitudes. We have split the atom. abolish atavism. For harnessed for peaceful 0s and the general welfare, this great natural force made such pseudo-progressive thinking as Marxism absolutely obsolete, DAN KIDNEY.

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

Rhumba of Snake

HAVANA, Feb. 24—When a man wearies of watching the discreet gyrations of the natives here, as they perform the art of that famous Cuban mystic, Senor Arturo Murray, it is pleasant to get in a car and drive out toward Marianao, to visit with Chori and Clara and Alberto and Caralinda and Shirley Temple. Pirst, I should tell you that Caralinda means “pretty face,” and that the owner of the name is male, black, and uglier than a gargoyle. Also, Shirley Temple is pronounced “Sheerly Templay,” and the Cuban “Sheerly” is a brunette lady with little twisted pepper-corns for hair, Miss Temple likes to dance and drink rum and pick pockets, an occupation which keeps her in the clink about half the time.

Tourists Miss Real Dancing CHORI IS BIG AND BLACK and wears the same shirt for a week or more. He loves rim. He drinks something he calls a “two-base,” and he describes it as “una copita de ron malo sin Coca-Cola"—a little cup of bad rum without Coke. Chori is 4n artist. He plays the timbales, double drums which boom like the knell of judgment day. He plays so violently that he is always breaking his home-made , and he plays on the wall, on the floor, on Caralinda’s head. : Clara is a rhumba dancer. She is also a fine lady, as Alberto, her partner, is a fine géntleman. Clara and Alberto take a small tot of rum, from time to time, and have, for the six years I have known them, but they do not truck with the more vicious stimulants, Neither do they pick pockets, or prey on tour~

God, Papa Chango

ists, or otherwise exploit the sucker life they ses around them. They merely dance, mostly for their own pleasure, in a smoky little cafe in “Las Fritas.” Operating base 6f Chori, Olara, -Alberto, Caralinda and Shirley Temple is oné of the few places in this Yankee-fied, neon-lit boobytrap for unwary visitors where one may still observe the old rhumbas in some vestige of its pure, ritual form. It is something one never seés downtown, since it is a frankly orgiastic dance—one perfected by Negro slaves who still believed in the Congo gods of swamp and forest. And for some reason, the tourists never seem to get there. I've never seen migre than six customers in the palm-thatched hut. : Before the Messrs. Cugat and Murray ‘pervertéd the rhumba into a circumspect wriggle, designed for performance on small dance floors, it was a vaw, rough dance. It was all tied up with the sacrifice of black roosters. Its performance was erotic to a high degree. It was performed under the segis of Papa Chango and the Snake God, Babalu, two very carnal deities and an inspired rhumba party some times carried on three or four days. .

Dank Jungle Atmosphere . CLARA AND ALBERTO managé to conjure up something of the old dance, as it once was performed in the slave compounds of Oriente province. Sitting there in the grotto, with a candle gutter ing and Chori's little band making tree-frog noises over the constant pound of the drums, an imaginative man can see an Adam and Eve in a dark, wet forest, and the atom bomb is suddenly vety far AWAY.

WORLD AFFAIRS . « « By William Philip Simms Major Indian Unrest Almost Certain

WASHINGTON, Feb. 24.—Britain’s notice to India to patch up her internal differences by June, 1948, or be left to get along as best she can without. her guidance almost certainly means civil war, At any rate that is the widespread conviction among those acquainted with the issues. The Moslems have said they would fight rather than accept unity based on majority rule, and the Hindus are just as opposed to Moslem autonomy within an independent India.

Religious Differ8nce Is Key IT 18 THIS HINDU-MOSLEM feud which has been holding up Indian inflependence. Long ago the British government promised freedom to the Indian people just as soon as they could agree on a constitution. London has sent out several official missions to help get such agreement only to fail because of the Hindu-Moslem A “The fact is,” proféssional twisters of the British lon’s tail charge, “the British don’t want the Indians to get together. They want, and fully intend, to hang on to India. The Hindu-Moslem schism is merely an excuse.” Now Prime Minister Attlee has thrown such critics out of a job—at least insofar as India is concerned. Britain, he says, is getting out, He hopes the Indians “Will reach an understanding, but whether they do or not, the government intends to liquidate its commitments there and wish a free India the best of luck. That either Hindus or Moslems will give in appears

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million Moslem. In & democratic India ru more or less like the United States or Great Britain, the Hindus would be assured of having things thelr way, That is what the Moslems fear. On papér it would séem to be suicide for whe Moslems to fight the Hindus, so outnumbered are they. Yet Mohammedans are traditionally unafraid of battle and bloodshed. Historically the Hindus have been less warlike. ~18 is & fact that India’s Moslems

converts and differ little from the Hindu masses. Outlook for the new India is dark. Neither she nor the world can well afford a eivil war. What

people—half the population of, the globe—would seem to be on the verge of bloodshed and chaos.

United Nations Not Ready BRITISH LEADERS have béen saging that ever and wherever they pull up sti th not leave a vacuum. If they afe do India they seem to be coming too close comfort. But for Britain and the U, 8, J now control India. If ‘the Indians.and the rest of the As start fighting among themselves, who is to some other aggressor from moving in?

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