Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 March 1947 — Page 20

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TRUMAN'S MESSAGE ON PEACE

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war was not ended when the shooting stdpped. Presi-

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gress made that plain.

out a way of life free from coercion—has not been plished.

“coercion and intimidation” by means of which “totalitarian

other countries. Nor did he attempt to conceal the fact that he meant Russian communism wjen he spoke of a way of life—the

upon terror and oppression, a controlled press and radio, fixed elections, and the suppression of personal freedom.”

w 5 » J » » LEARLY, it is for the purpose of halting Soviet aggression that the President would commit the United States to support of free people who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures. If this were merely a matter of $400 million in financial and economic aid to Greece gnd Turkey, or even of that plus the sending of military advisers to those countries, the decision now before congress and the American people would be comparatively simple. The cost would be, as Mr. Truman said, little more than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the $341 billion American “investment” in the winner of world ‘war IL. But the President did mobesapd, as an honest man, he could not—promise that this would be the total or the final cost. No one now can possibly foresee what expenditures may be required once the United States accepts the role of * defender of the democratic faith. Mr. Truman did not even promise that this program would mean peace. He could not do that, either. There are risks, obvious and great, in what he proposes. We are certain that he spoke with utter sincerity when he said he would not recommend embarking on this “serious course” if he were not convinced that the alternative is much more serious. ¢

” . . » » s T is that alternative? The President, clearly, believes it would leave weak nations unprotected against the expanding Red empire until, one day, America would be left standing alone in a hostile totalitarian world. And certainly we are not prepared to say he is mistaken. Yet his proposal will and should be debated in congress and in the country before the decision is made. We hope | the debate will develop a maximum of light and a minimum of heat, This is no issue for partisan division. This is no little problem to be dismissed with easy phrases about meddling ia the afaire of Burepe or pulling British chestnuts from the fire. This is a question as grave as any that ever has confronted the American people, and the answer to it may, for better or worse, decide our own ultimate destiny as a free

people.

HAPPY YAP STRANGE news comes from Yap. The wative of that ity Pacifie island, westward of the Philippines, are displaying indifference if not hostility toward well-meant American plans for improving their lot. In part, perhaps, their attitude. is due to incredulity. The people of Yap have lived under Spanish, German and | Japanese masters, none of whom cared whether they were happy or not. The Yapanese seem to suspect they're being kidded when American navy officers ask what they'd like | Uncle Sam to do for them. But there's more to it than that. The truth, apparently, is that it’s practically impossible for folks who live on Yap to think of anything they need that they haven't al- | ready got. Food grows abundantly on the island and in + the surrounding waters. The palm trees provide free build-

‘pain sap; (oftiiencdd, becomes a potefit ‘beverage.’ ~~ HK a Yapanese craves money, he can carve it for himself out of shells and big stones, but there’s almost. no use for it except as a token of social standing. No worry about the cost of living on Yap; no corporations; no unions; no wage rates. On the rare occasions when there's any hard work to be done, the people get together and do it out of _ friendship. Of coufse, it's hard for Americans to imagine being contented in a place so benighted. But if Yap is stubborn

would do well to leave it that way instead of educating the Yapanese up to the good old American tradition of yapping for lower taxes and more benefits from Washington. .

THE ISSUE -OF GOOD FAITH A a the war this country extended to the ‘Soviet

lion. The state department has written four notes to Moscow requesting a settlement, but no reply has been received. Every other country. with which we had a lend-lease treaty has settled its accounts. In"1942, we loaned the Russians 125 merchants vessels, the stipulation those not destroyed during the war “Teturned to us on demand. Last March, this ussia that if she did not want to buy the ] them to us within: 60 days. Almost a year Russia thas neither bought the ships nor

. child, F Understanion with

the American people’s earnest hope for peace, : dent Truman's brave and admirably candid address to conGermany and Japan were defeatet, but the conflict * hetween freedom and totalitarianism goes on. One of the

aims of American foreign policy—creation of conunder which we and other nations will be able to

- & Mr. Truman did not name Russia as the prevent threat | the institutions and the integrity of free peoples. But “he left no doubt what power he held responsible for the

regimes” have been forced upon Poland, Romania and Bul-| . garia, or for the similar developments in a number of |

antithesis of our way—which is “based upon the will of a minority forcibly imposed upon the majority,” which “relies

ng.materials and fibérs for a all the clothing necessary, Yap’ gen

enough to insist that it’s happy the way it is, maybe we

Union lend-lease aid amounting to more than $11 bil- |

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Hoosier Forum

not agree with a word that you | will defend to the death

your right fo say it.” — Voltaire.

"Yes, Charity Should Begin at Home, but Shouldn't Stop There"

By Richard W. Mote, Danville

for the many ex-G. Is that have returned from American going to that war-torn place could sit down and eat as

be- |and not my stomach which was =p Hawarg Davis, 1231 Keysbene

far less calories of energy a day and warehouses piled high. Com-

per a T Yc 80 you're goat all this not because r am a college So wake up, stay out of the li student myself, but because such suckers and remember this an extreme manner of protest money is like a snowball in hell—it seems necessary to awaken their doesn't last long when your buying fellow Americans to their Christian dollar is only. Worth 40 cents. responsibilities toward their fellow » human beings in Europe. (And “NEED MORE RELIGIOUS Asia as far . 1 Jt 0 Smears, RADIO PROGRAMS TODAY” What (the opposite of YN unable to ®7 Ts Coffman, 700 Massachusetts sve. infini SecIns I surely do agree with an article comprehend, Mr. H J. O, is that a full stomach to those people in by Charles EB. Faulkner. He said the | Burope can be a means of prevent-'same thing I have been thinking ing a third and even more devastat- for a long time concerning the lack ing world war. If they receive of church programs on the air, ete. enough food they can: think and Surely anyone ought to agree the {work like normal people, . If they world needs to hear more of the can think they can be educated into word of God in this discontented, |a way of life tha} we Americans be- | upside-down nation. To me it is {lieve in, and have proven is work- soothing to my nerves and soul after able if given a chance. reading in the papers all the Surely you have never been near catastrophes happening in this starvation, or even hungry, Mr. H.! world every day. J, O, or ‘else you could never have, Yes, we need more -church. promade such statements as you did grams, and I mean the old- -fashioned in your article. Yes, charity should kind which might o rshould ‘wake {begin at “home, but tharik God people up” to realize God's ‘hand-

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in America today. On the basis of that, and other remarks which you made in your ay i you were a G. I. yourself, or that you were ever in Europe. ‘I am an ex-G. I and I spent two years there. I have Gelen Madi With {anifies i Frases, Bigtum, Boland. Snsiund, Som and Wales, and i could | ss = = an one “DOLLAR IS WORTH meal of the average workingman's ONLY 40 CENTS" family, then it was my imagination

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“CARL FISHER'S LIFE STORY IS FASCINATING” By Mary Studebaker, 1860 Central ave.

Reading books as seldom as I

: ‘do these days, upon completing Mr. H. J. O, I find your article in the Forum, “Student Starvation “Fabulous Hoosier,” by Jane Fisher, Isn't Needed,” most interesting. You say that you are a SpoKes- 1 fet fmpelled to tell someone of

the excitement and pleasure this

meal than at the table of the a * man | lively Book afforded me. good, if not better, a verage working ih ile, pono tions, great projects of Indianapolis’

own Carl Graham Fisher—of Speed-

Lite. To bring workers to Speed-

Speedway City. It is exciting to read of the ing of the Lincoln highway across | the continent. It struck the imagination of the world and contri-

And after this, then! Dixie highway. Through it all the man races with a blueprint in his hands, eating peanuts, and grin- | ining when it's tough-going. A Hoosier boy who worked from {the time he was 13 years old, with poor eye-sight, he became a fabulous Midas whose wealth at one time was estimated at between seventy to ninety millions, and who spent $52,000.00 a day dredging a primeval morass which was to become Miami Beach. Fantastic times—fabulous man! Before or since, Hoosierdom has never seen the like of this man, I am convinced. His life is so full of speed, the book fairly rushes. Pacing and structure never lag, and the style is as vital as the man it describes!

. » n » “WHY ISN'T SOMETHING DONE ABOUT POLLARD” By Ex-G. I, Indianapolis As I looked at the front of The Times, “I saw four young :- kids. They have shot a state policeman. The state is asking the death yet we have around our city Jail a fellow that murdered another, then cut his hands

and feet off, tried to burn them so they wouldn't: know who -he was. The person I'm talking about is

Howard Pollard. Nothing has been |

done about him yet. He, as I'm

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going to see 't done about I work every day to , but yet I have to feed a killer. Let's get this trial started on Pollard. It's a shame when s Republican or any other party gets away like

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DAILY THOUGHT

Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost. — Titus 3:5,

THE com that makes the holy - bread earns ‘priced, The oven

way fame. This man's promotional stunts almost take one’s breath away. Once he had his white automobile secured to the under-carriage of a huge red balloon and in it he rode over downtown Indianapolis, furthering interest in the new automobile fancy then moving across the country. He was fascinated with the idea of driving an automobile at night and developed Prest-O-

way and to Prest-O-Lite, he built! a village for them. Now it is |

FATHER ALSO ENTERTAINED a notion that it

was part of his business to supplement the work of the public schools. For this purpose he always

; appropriated Saturday or Sunday (or both), a system

which, more often than not, seriously interfered with ans for the week-end. Howmy worked out better than you might believe; at any rate, not as bad as you might think. Under Father's tutelage, I picked up a lot of things—both new and novel which, for some reason, the public schools never thought of including in their curriculum. 7 One Saturday afternoon, I re at BaITORY es wou tf 10s UIASES of the rolling mills over on W. McOarty st. And, on another occasion, I learned what went on behind the walls of Kingan's porkhouse. The two most memorable Sundays that stick in my memory were the afternoons we spent roaming the grounds of the hospital for the insane and examining the headstones out in Crown Hill. Both trips, I recall, afforded Father a grand opportunity to make ppropsiats remarks, mostly by way of lugubrious poe

Lesson in Naivete

THE MOST THRILLING ADVENTURE, however —and ‘the one I'll never forget—was the Saturday afternoon Father took me to, the Silver Dollar saloon, then in the process of construction. I mention the detail of its unfurnished state for fear you might get it into your head that Father contributed to my delinquency. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Any signs of turpitude in my make-up have their roots in the Indianapolis public-school system, and not in anything Father taught me. The saloon under construction (YT (insist on 4) was the emporium conceived by John R. Barrick and was located on the east side of Pennsylvania st, just south of whére the Keith theater people now do business. ‘It got its name because of the transparent fact that its floor was paved with silver dollars, or so it seemed to a little boy. The truth is that it was a tile floor laid off in small “squares with a silver dollar imbedded in each corner of the units, thus forming what in higher architectural circles is known as a diaper pattern. Its aesthetic effect was immense.

WASHINGTON, ny 14.~The gremlins “Too Little” and “Too Late,” are enemies of peace and stability just as they were our enemies during the war. They have contributed to the jam over wheat that is reflected in the soaring price of this basic grain. Before a bumper crop of spring wheat comes on the market, we may see wheat at $3 a bushel. It touched $2.80 in Canada. “Too Little" and “Too Late” have valuable allies in the weather that has plagued Europe during the last several years. First the drought in the Mediterranean area worked serious harm. Then a prolonged and almost unprecedented drought cut deeply into the food resources of eastern Europe,

Harvest Curtailed

THE RUSSIAN habit of secrecy and concealment kept word of this from the outside world. In the Romanian province of Moldavia, the .peasants have eaten their seed grain. This is an ominous portent of worse hunger to come unless steps are taken to provide new seed. In Yugoslavia and the Ukraine, the level is one of acute hunger which is not far from starvation. On top. of all this came Europe's Yearful winter of cold and snow. This has greatly curtailed the harvest of winter wheat. It will delay the spring planting. Flooded flelds are almost a certain consequence of the terrible winter.

But when all this and much more is said about the misfortunes of the weather, “Too Little” and “Too Late” must still take part of the blame. of Agriculture Clinton P.. Anderson is a

| Secretary builg- | cautious man whose timidity has repeatedly worked to

OUR TOWN . «¥e By Anion Sobotrie i | : The Silver Dollar’ Keeps ts Coin

One couldn't say as much for its however. When I first saw the silver-lined floor, 1 distinctly recall that I doubted its practicality—first by mulling it over in my immature mind, and finally by putting my apprehension in the form of a direct question, What I wanted Father to tell me was how in the world Mr. Barrick expected to keep the silver dollars permanently in place. And to support my

query, I pointed out that it would be the easiest thing,

for instance, to kick up the coins with the toe of a shoe, after which there was nothing left to do but stoop. over, pick up the loosened dollar and make a quick getaway. In extreme cases, I. pointed out, it would even be possible to sw! ‘out the: coin, using the two feet as a kind of broom when leaving the

sald only a member of the younger generation could think up anything so fiendish. I will now tell you what happened. Exactly what I had predicted. I can't recall how many dollars were first week Mr. Barrick opened his plenty. There wasn't anything to do when it came time to replace a new one, there wasn't a tile setter that could keep the second dollar down. third or fourth one, either. " As » matter of fact, the Silver Dollar saloon right on losing money.

what might have happened had not Reginald done something about it. .

Progress to Sophistication

IF YOU'RE OLD ENOUGH to remember Mr. Miller, you'll recall that he had charge of the orchestras connected with the Grand, Park and English theaters, And besides, he was an experienced. watchmaker, having learned his trade in the old country. MY. Miller's mechanionl Sebi however, and musicianship that kept Mr. In some miraculous way, Mr. Miller wired each coin an using spirals so small that on handle them. The result was the Stiver Dollar saloon lots its aesthetic appeal so far as a lot of Indianapolis men were concerned. phenomenon moved Father to say that the money and the appreciation of art have a affinity for one another.

IN WASHINGTON... By Marquis Childs - ‘Too Little,’ ‘Too Late,” Still at Work

prevent the kind of bold decisions that were ealled for by the desperation of the times. If Mr. Anderson had made purchases of grain sufficient for relief commitments last fall government necessity would not now be a factor in forcing up the price. Mr. Anderson based his cautious polic grounds. First, he said he did not want to with high-priced grain in the face of a swing of the market. With another American crops, it hardly seemed possible that could be a scarcity of wheat. Second, poin the embarrassment that would result if the government bought too much grain. Back of this was a firm resolve that made last summer. He was determined fixed quota for America's 3 ain commi Privately the figure of 250 million was used. Some of Mr. Audsenp's argued that this would be For some time it has been jos mitments would be inadequate. Efforts are made to augment the wheat with corn total up to perhaps 400 million a

Look to Early Harvest

MR. ANDERSON'S associates are looking to wheat purchases tobe made out of the early harvest in Texas and Oklahoma to relieve the present pressure. The promise is once again for a record harvest of winter- wheat. That has been a remarkable feature of the world food picture—the long series ‘of record harvests in America. If we had had a crop failure in any one , year, the consequences for hungry people in Europe would have been disastrous.

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

Parisian’s Are Invading America

NEW YORK, March 14—A man I know named

| Floyd is using his G. I. bill of rights educational

credits to study French at night, and from here in he has a partner. The reason I want to learn French is so I will know what is goihg on in the United States. English isn't good enough any more, n’est-ce pas? Les Americains invaded France, which is to say Paris, after. world war I. Now it seems the French are getting even by invading America, which is to say New York, after world war II. A lot of the refugees have gone home, but they are being speedily replaced by entertainers. Once again the elevators bum with crackling Gallic conversation.

Mer. Chevalier Is Back

MAURICE CHEVALIER, after a 14-year exile, has just stepped off the boat, with his straw hat in one hand and the other outstretched for that intriguing American specialty, the dollaire, or frogskin. M. Chevalier’s anthropoidal nether lip is quivering with eagerness. Soon his best nasal .tones will assail us from all sides.

A strange malady strikes us, after each war, to the ‘point where a ditty which is sung in English is

thin and’ unsatisfactory. At Cafe Society uptown, Mme. Lucienne Boyer is stacking them in’ the aisles, and, Lucy, while: still dynamic, is no en any more. She wis givitig us *Parlez-Mof d ir about 17 of 14. years ago. M. Jean Sablon” Kas been going great on a sponsored program which sprays Parisian chansonettes and heavily accented tin pan alley products to the stout Gascons and Bretons who live in those old French provinces of Missouri and Idaho. Even athletics has fallen to this inspired pincer movement. . Marcel Cerdan, a loyal enfant de la

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patrie-ah, North African branch, came over and knocked off the block of M. George Abrams in a contest of le box. He is back again to spoil the features of some more of our brave young bucks. This time Mr. Cerdan brought the wife and kiddies, with a view to a permanent stop here. In addition to the names, there is such generous sprinkling of -undistinguished singers of chansons and rollers of eyes that even Hildegarde, that bonne fille from le province de Milwaukee, can find plenty of people to talk to. I guess poor old Hildy has her nose out of joint a little bit. For awhile she had a corner on the broken-English and naughty phrase fleld. You will see a packed house of solid bourgeoisie from places like Des Moines and Cheyenne, rocking back In their seats and howling at Maurice or Lucienne or Jean or our native milkmaid, Hildegarde. Most of the most violent nudgers and chucklers. couldn't scare up -the French word for “waiter,” but they have that high time trying to convince each other that they are getting every muance of the double meanings. -

Garsong, the Phone’

I LIKE A naughty ballad as well as the next man, but I want Ene more concrete than g shrug or led eve to ‘pernt Ld a and the Wifik tHe” es one of these croaking frogs could rénder a. husky translation of “Nearer My God to Thee” and the temporary Gsullists in the house will still knock themselves out laughing at the utter deviltry of it all. Which is why, as I say, I aim to pick up some parlez-voo. Life is passing me by without it. Garsong, will you get Mr. Berlitz on the phone pour mol, toot sweet?

By William Philip Simms

«| Panama Canal Safety Made Issue Again

WASHINGTON, March 14.—Either the United States will have to build and maintain two navies instead of one, experts agree, or there must be ample and safe means of passing the battle fleet quickly between the Atlantic and the Pacific. Thus, for the umpteenth time, the old and bitter battlé over the best way to get ships across the Central American isthmus is about to be revived. Should the Panama canal be widened and made into a sealevel waterway? 8hould new, wideg and longer locks be constructed at the Atlantic and Pacific ends of the present canal? Or should an eniirely new canal be dug across the isthmus?

3 Plans Presented

THE DEBATE, often heated, revolves around these three plans. Congress, which will have to pay the’

1 bill; will make the final decision. Thus a congressional

subcommittee will leave for Panama soon to conduct

-an investigation on the spot.

- During the decade following world war’ y, most authorities were pretty well convinced that to attempt a sea-level canal would be folly. Some held that additional locks near those existing would do the trick. Some favored a second canal--across Nicaragua. Others believed that eventually the United States ‘both improve the Panama cut and build the canal. next 10 years ave ‘almost certain to

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During that decade, if ever, Uncle Sam should keep his powder dry. To put the Panama canal out of commission for all, or nearly all, that time—which is what a sea-level project there would do—dangerously would weaken the national defense when it most needed to be strong. The Culebra cut is nine miles long. It takes.the canal across the continental divide. Its ‘banks rise 300 feet above the bottom of the present ditch. Not until recently have engineers been able to control the frequent, landslides which used to block the canal for weeks on end. To widen and deepen these cuts to below sea level, would be inviting disaster. Shee {m0 fin-

Jshed, a modern bomb, dropped even close by, could

slide the banks into the channel. It is estimated that it would cost up to $3 bildon

to° cut the Panama canal to sea level. To build ad-

ditional, more capacious locks alongside those now

in operation; would cost approximately one quarter

that sum. It would take considerably. less time and would not put the waterway out of commission meanwhile. a +

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