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8 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own way

HARRISON FOR HOMES HE decision of the army to leave Ft. Benjamin Harrison July 1 puts an answer to our housing shortage right in A few hundred families could move into permanent houses there the day after the army moves s out, without any building at all. From 1500 to 2000 more families could be , living} in per‘manent homes there by next fail after minor remodeling and alterations. Otherwise everything a community needs is already there — water, electricity, sewers, paved streets, central heating, schools, churches, community houses, a swimming pool and even a country club. ‘There is already railroad and bus service. There is plenty of room for orderly expansion by new building. , Under the war department order all this will be offered for sale immediately, subject to the usual surplus property priorities. These priorities give first chance at purchase to federal, state or municipal bidders. It is unlikely that any of them will bid. The veterans administration, once interested in the property for a tubercylosis hospital, apparently has decided fhat it is unsuitable. The state, which once considered it for a mental hospital, finds that it would cost about as much to rebuild it for such cases as it would cost to build a new mental hospital. Mayor Tyndall has announced that the city is not interested, and we believe his decision shows sound judgment, too. ¢ If these agencies do not bid, the way is open for private purchase. : ® 8 =

» ® td . WE suggest that this property be purchased by a private, non-profit corporation organized for the purpose. Such a corporation undoubtedly could obtain long and favorable credit terms from the federal, government, reducing its initial investment, or perhaps even without an imitial investment, The homes already there could then be sold, or rented, with preference to war veterans, and under suitable restrictions to preserve their value. The buildings which need to be remodeled into apartment houses could be remodeled and rented, or could be sold for remodeling and renting to investors or co-operatives. The thousands of additional home sites on the reservation could be sold for new building. There may be objection that this doesn’t give enough lee-way to “private enterprise,” but we see no reason why it should. Ft. Harrison was bought, and built, with public money, taxpayers’ money, which created all the values there are in it. The public, and especially the home-seeking war veterans, should get whatever profit accrues. And at the same time i could add millions to the county’s tax duplicates. ~The army has been a good neighbor, all these years, and we're sorry to see them go. Ft. Harrison has served the nation well, in two great wars and in 40 years of peace between wars. ; It still can serve the men who fought those wars. If Indianapolis acts, right now, to make it possible.

WELFARE SURVEY NEEDED NVESTIGATION of facilities in Marion county for handling the problem of child welfare will be started in the near future under direction of a nationally known expert in that field. Credit for the decision to make such a survey for the sake of the children and the community goes to the county council, the county welfare board and the Indianapolis Community Fund. The Community Fund will share cost of the survey as a contribution on behalf of private welfare agency members of the fund. Both public and private facilities for care of dependent, neglected and orphaned children will be covered by the survey with a view to determine overlapping. services or conflicting policies. As the series of articles on Marion county's depaiiment of public welfare, by Times Writer Donna Mikels, has . pointed out, that department is in a most unhappy state of morale and efficiency. For a long time, the survey such as that to be made -' has been badly needed. It can provide a blueprint for the . futare if it is properly. done, and if the- -public-and. rivato: “mgeticls involved co-opérate sincerely to improve SR pres- : “ent “unsatisfactory condition. First meeting. preliminary to actual start of the survey will be April 7.

: TIME TO WRITE BETTER TAX BILL tax reduction bill was steam-rollered through the

house. That will not happen in the senate. The senators say they will take their time. They should. ’

People are doing business, and doing pretty well, on |

the basis of plans long since made, plans which took into account the present tax rates. They have filed returns on this year's anticipated incomes, and are paying the taxes. . The senate, in our opinion, would do well to let the present * rates stand for this year. And start on legislation to make next year’ 8 tax burdens lighter and fairer,

HOOSIER HONOR ROLL

JFOR his success in “directing attention to the need-of broad free markets in the nation,” Peru-born Emil Schram, president of the New York stock exchange, has been selected as outstanding Hoosier of the year by the. 8 of Indiana. his organization, similar to the Indiana Society of 0, consists of some 500 Hoosiers who live in the New

Di mts of the the award in past yeas have been Roy and, president of the Indianapolis Times and head 1d newspapers ; our own Ernie Pyle, Wener, executive director of the Asso‘Walter Bedell Smith, present

Hoosier

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

The following is a “letter to A

“I am the unknown soldier. I war, buried as representing all who

me. I may have been the rich man’s son, the poor man’s brother, or a sweetheart or ‘a husband. Many people love and cherish me, hoping | and thinking that I belong to them, ! as someone who didn't come back. But I belong to all America. “I am an American soldier. I have a great and beautiful country and flag behind me. I loved America and love it still. Yea, I have slept many years, but I have watched America pass day by day, year by year, and now the reason for my letter.

“My beloved country,

in your hands. I was proud to have served you; but America my sleep has been restless. . “Yea, though I sleep, I watched another world war come and go. I have seen brave men answer their country’s call again, just like I did, and have seen many die, and many maimed for life. “I understand, America, that some people don't know of brave men and why wars are fought. I hear of the handless veteran who was asked to leave the restaurant because he had no tie, due to the fact he couldn't tie it with his hooks, and of another incident | where some women were playing bridge in a fashionable cafe and were shocked when three veterans entered bearing the scars of their sacrifice on their faces. The women, I understand, askedwthe man-| agement to have the men leave. | America, wake up. Those stars those men wear are honorable, and every man and woman should shake their hands, and feel proud to know them, .“We fought and died for you, |

when I} gave my life for you I left peace;

"Please, America, Guard the Peace

For Which So Many of Our Sons Died"

By Mary Lee Tilson, 2848 S. Meridian st.

merica” from the Unknown Soldier.

“Dear America: The land of the free and the home of the brave. am an unidentified soldier killed in|

fell in the struggle.

“In the United States, my tomb is in Arlington national cemetery, Washington, D. C., and it is a national shrine sacred to the memory of those who died in the world war. In Great Britain an unknown soldier is buried in Westminster abbey, in France beneath the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, in Italy in the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli, Rome. “America, there are many like

VIEW ON THE NEWS

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Under Communist rules an out-

{law is a comrade caught thinking!

for himself.

The Yiston ideological question facing half of mankind today ‘is “When do we eat?” ” = . Success of the new Truman foreign policy will depend upon whether dollar democracy delivers more groceries than a Communist promissory note.

t J t J » A PF. of L. President Green told the house un-American activities committee that he is “no oneworlder.” Probably never will be so long as there isa C. 1. O.

ever had. Guard it well, and use it wisely. ? “America, I haven't much time left to write. I am tired and want to rest; but the last few weeks: have been restless for me and, others. We hear of more war talk. “Please, America, be careful.| Many boys have died for you to keep your peace. Shall we keep on thinking that we died in vain? “I am going to sleep again, America. I have a smile on my face and a wish in my heart that all men, both gréat and small, shall live together as one and in peace, then we shall know we did not die in vain. Please, God, let this be so.” » = s “GET NEW PROSECUTOR AT NEXT ELECTION”

vigorous investigation of the police department. Your paper, in reporting the last murder, even gave the names of the type of ticket that the peddler was selling and no action has been taken yet by the police department or by the prose|cutor's office. Mr. Stark's record is a miserable failure for the following reasons: 1. He has not tried one jury case since he has been in office. 2. He has not convicted one murderer since he .has been in office. 3. He has whitewashed what little investigating he did, the motives from which he (acted we do not know. 4. He has permitted prisoners to lie in jail in filth and vermin attendant thereto; some of these prisoners are

dent of this community by neglecting to give prisoners speedy trial

If this is the type of law enforcement ‘that we voted for, let us prepare to nominate a different man for prosecuting attorney in the next campaign. ] o » » “MAKE EVERYONE UNDERGO ANNUAL MENTAL TEST” By A Citizen, Indianapolis Why are wars? Why are sex crimes? Why are broken homes? What makes a grown man or woman abuse and butcher little children? Is not this increasing number of maladjusted persons more dangerous than cancer, tuberculosis, etc.? We waste billions of dollars on wars, peace talks, penitentaries, asylums and honies for children whose parents aren't capable of

others fought and lived but bear By 0. J, 85. West sb the scars, so that you can live| I see by your paper that we have today. {another murder committed arising “And now there is a new threat | from the traffic of gambling such to- my peace I died for. The atom | as “pick and win”. jars and baseball bomb. America, I say to you, guard | tickets. When I voted for Judson Ci S1ese OS Behe Tor “destruc- Stark, +1 “THOUGHT the community tion. The atom 1s powerful. More {would be cleaned up and I still had | powerful than anything you have faith in him when he started his

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WORKER, DESERVES THANKS”

‘lof Red Cross services in time of

raising them. What's wrong with passing a law that every man, woman, child must bé examined an{nually by a psychiatrist. Make it a {universal law. If anyone does not {have the requirements of a normal, {healthy mind they must take treatments or have the consultations necessary to get straight with themselves, Yes, I would be willing to .ake the test, and be grateful for the opportunity for aid if I needed it. Would you? If you're interested in making this world safe, read the article in the Feb. 15 issue of Colliers; “The Biggest Taboo.” It's food for thought. And not pleasant either. If you want to do something about it, write your congressman asking for a law passed for compulsory psychiatric examinations and treatment for everyone. Do this and there'll be no need for

need no: EORTC DOME or Trmétttutions’| ‘which are a disgrace to humanity. ’ . ” " “RED CROSS CONTRIBUTOR,

By James F. Carroll, President, Indisnsy- \ olis Chapter American Red Cro

The Red Cross ADR which just closed was such an outstanding success that, as chairman of the Indianapolis chapter, I want to make this public statement of appreciation to: The 2000 volunteer workers who so, completely 4 Co-operated with us in" forming an unbeatable sales organizatidn, which meant a sacrifice of many hours of time.on the part of each individual worker; The various media of publicity which gave so freely of time and facilities in telling the Red Cross story, and without which we could not have been so successful; housands of contributors who gnized the continuing need peace, as well as in time of war, and who extended themselves in making their subscriptions- to the 1947 Red

Cross fund, resulting in an oversub- |’

scription of more than $87,000; and, To all others who had any part in making the campaign such a grand success— It was a big job well done for Wilieh I shall be everlastingly grateful. 1

DAILY THOUGHT

"10; this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out jpany 4 juventions, Ni Ecclesiastes 29.

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innocent. 5. He has violated the! *{ constitutional rights of every resi-

‘DEBATE OVER THE PROPOSAL to extend ald to Gireece and Turkey is bringing to many Americans

| the realization of some of the responsibilities that go

with American status as a real world power, This last war ‘brought increased moral, military and economic, responsibility to the United Blstes rom lease-lend to V-E and V-J days. But these are a burden few people appreciate. ‘President Truman's policy on helping these countries does not undermine the United Nations. On the contrary, it supplements United Nations by going

‘| ahead with positive action which the world argan- "| ization is unable to take at this time,

Land of Lost Faith

ALTHOUGH THE LETTER is just exactly two years old, I'd like to present, the observations of a British intelligence colonel with whom I served . . made on his return from Greece. e communication gives significant background. “Can you imagine,” queried the Englishman, a former newspaperman, “what I felt when we landed on the Athens airdrome; full of twisted wreckage, which I had known so well four years earlier, and motored into .an Athens gaily beflagged with the British colors while inscriptions in optimistic and ungrammatical English welcomed the gallant allies (meaning you and us)? “It was the Athens that I knew; the lovely Zappeion gardens, trees silvery with snow; the graceful buildings of Pendeli marble; the greyish rose slopes of old Hymettos; the honey-colored columns of the temple of Zeus; the serenity of the Parthenon, when

1 I saw the sun set once again over Aegina island;

the grave sweetness of the Korae on the Acropolis; and the simple friendliness of the Athenians. “And yet it was not the Athens that I knew. In 1940 and ’41, she had been grave and grim, very proud and determined. There was vital work to do, and she, set about it, with such unity of purpose and confidence! And now, despite all the gay flags and the outward trappings of liberation, she is tired and bewildered, a prey to all the passions that have been pent up during years of hatred. “The scars of the recent fighting are visible here and there. But she bears deeper scars which are

WASHINGTON, April 1.—We are beginning to see the consequences of meat-ax economy. We are getting policy legislation by way of crippling budgetary cuts. It is a method calculated to produce the utmost confusion and uncertainty. The first victim to come off the house operating table was the department of labor. On the surface it looks as though the cut in that department's appropriation was reasonable enough. The appropriation requested was, in round numbers, $103 million and the cut was nearly: $13 million. But when you examine the figures more closely, the real nature of this reduction becomes evident.

Wrong Way to Make Change

OF THE total amount asked for the labor department, $71,728,000 goes to the states to pay for state employment services. It. pays jobhalders in the states. This entire amount was approved by the house appropriations committee. So the cut of nearly $13 million comes out of the $32 million which the de-

partment of labor asked for its normal operation.

As a taxpayér you may think, “Well, what of it? There are too many government employees anyway.” The bureau of labor statistics in the labor department was cut originally 40 per cent, and then another 20 per cent was added on the floor of the house. Actually the BLS is tied into the nation's industrial economy very closely. The cost-of-living index compiled by BLS is relied upon in hundreds of union

SAGA OF INDIANA

ON JULY 4, 1863, on the authority of Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside, stationed at Cincinnati, and by the order of Gen. Jeremiah T. Boyle at Louisville, Ky., Dr. George William Lamb Bickley, with his wife, was arrested as he landed from a boat at New Albany, Ind. Dr. Bickley was born in Boone County, Indiana. He it was who conceived the Golden Circle. The

Circle was born July 4, 1854, at Lexington, Ky. It had five members: But it was a lusty youngster. By 1860, it had spread over all of the' South. Lodges reportedly existed in California and Mexico. The Golden Circle was conceived and drawn on a master plan.’ Its’ center was Havana, Cuba. Its radius was sixteen geographical degrees, about 1200 miles. Within its circumference were Maryland, Kentucky, southern Missouri, all the states south of them; part of Kansas, most of Texas, Mexico, Central America, northern South America, and all of the West Indies.

Designed to Rival Roman Empire IN THE CIRCLE was to be a slave empire that would rival the Roman Empire in wealth, power and prestige. Froni this empire wofild come the world’s supply of tobacco, cotton, sugar, much of its rice and coffee. It would be a rich region, encircling the Gulf of Mexico. It would Sontros the commerce of the Gulf the-Wiask indies -of-aWg Isthmian “canal, Folitaks. 0 matter how many; the rivers Mississippi, Crinoco, and possibly the Amazon. "The Golden Circle, thus conceived and planned,

REFLECTIONS

NEW YORK, April 1.—Old man Handy is as blind as a bat and pushing 74, but it doesn't seem to hamper him any. I spent the better part of an afternoop with the author of “St. Louis Blues” the other day, and he wore me out, just watching him. Lawrence Tibbett once remarked that “St. Louis Blues” - was the greatest American song ever written, and George Gershwin told old W. C. Handy that “Your work was the grandfather of mine.” No music critic me, I would indorse both statements wholeheartedly.

Upsetting Common Belief LEGEND HAS IT that Mr. Handy hung around the low dives in Memphis, notably a place called Peewee's cafe, consorting with gamblers and sweet men and easy ladies . . . and that out of this atmosphere came his blues, especially the St. Louis version. That is not, unfortunately, true. Mr. Handy seems to have been a businessman then, and a prim one, even as He is a businessman now at the age of 74. “I have written five spirituals for every “blues song I ever wrote,” W. C. says. » “My anthologies, this symphony, all thé othér “music ¥. have written or arranged, is a heap heavier in the scdles than the

it can handicap you. 3 “lI was a preacher's son and my old daddy said he'd rather follow me to fhe grave than see me become a musician. The reason I got into music I was trying to get enough money to study to be a. preacher. fie “I didn’t write St. Louis Beale st. I wrote it in 1014 Solvent Savifigs bank in

Blues in Peewee's cafe on a the second ‘floor of the »mphis, where I had set up

and the Pace & Handy Music Co. I played in the churches

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IN WASHINGTON « « « By Marquis Childs Meat-Ax Economy Confuses Taxpayer

blues. You understand that once a legend gets started .

rs OW BUSINESS . A ty Donald D. Hoover

Truman Aid to Cane Plan a Good | One

not perceptible to the naked eye. She has, tem-

porarily, lost her soul and her confidence and faith in the future. *The country is at a standstill and there appears to be no Greek with enough vision and enough prestige to set dt going again; revenge is the main obsessién of one and all, “We could have done .it, had w¢ had the courage, and I am sure that had the right people beén; put in charge the Greeks would have pulled themselves together, for our prestige there is incredible, You will want to know what I thought of the post-libera-tion fighting. It is a long story which can keep; it could have ‘been avoided had Greek policy’ been handled intelligently from 1040 onwards; it could have been avoided had some glimmer of understanding reached the top levels; but it was necessary when it came if Greece was nof to fall into chaos and the iron grip of 4 ruthless minority: You cannot arm thousands of men living like outlaws for years and then expect them to lay down like sheep just because & British flag has appeared. “I gather from the papers that’ there are two schools of thought at home: those who think that E A M (the Partisan Movement) can do no wrong and are ‘only trying to ensure a democratic Greece, and those who think that all Greeks are a nuisance, that they should have gone down on their knees to thank us, and then shaken hands all round and lived happily with each other ever after. “Both are wrong; the Greeks of any shade of political color are not angels; they have known civil war and violence and alien occupation for centuries, and the laws of cricket have still to be taught them.

And let's forget about those twin farces: democracy

and free elections. But let's not forget that the Greeks are hungry, yes, still; that they did us all a good turn in '40-'41, and that they need our help. I am desperately sorry for them.”

Look to United States

DURING THE WAR, the Greeks displayed great courage . . . were of valuable assistance to the‘allies whenever they could serve that cause. Recent word from that country supports the letter I have reprinted today . . . and it shows it is a part of our new. responsibilty to help Greece and Turkey in every way we can.

contracts to determine when wages shall go up in accord with increases in the cost of food and rent. With 5300 back cases to be cleared, the national labor relations board has had’ its appropriation cut in half. This means. that plans to clean up back

cases will go overboard and that the present staff will:

be cut. It is one way to emasculate the Wagner labor relations act without ever voting on it. The chief mover in this economy drive is Chairman John Taber of the house appropriations committee. back to the scale of an earlier America.

Disastrous Consequences

IT MIGHT be highly desirable to go back to that earlier America. Thinking back to that time, we remember it as a simpler era when values were not confused and complicated as they are today. But it is fairly obvious that we can't go back to it merely by cutting the government in half. The centralized economic power would still be there. So would the tangled skein of our relationship with other nations and other peoples. The effort to cut the government down to the scale of that earlier America can produce disastrous consequences in our highly complex, industrialized society. We now have a debt of $260 billion. That cannot be reduced by saving on government candleends. It can be met and reduced only in a flourish ing, expanding economy in which government is recognized as having a definite place.

By William A. Marlow

Golden Circle Planned Near-Empire

was a master thing. Its dream empire-to-be, had it come true, could have rivaled the world's greatest. When a thing like that elbowed its way into the Civil war picture, the North was angrily aroused and deeply disturbed. : In July, 1864, C. E. Dunn, second in command of the order in Missouri, in a sworn statement before Provost Marshal Sanderson at St. Louis, declared the membership in the following states to be: Indiana, 125,000; Missouri, 100,000; Illinois, 100,000; Ohio, 40,-

000; Michigan about 25,000, total 300,000. .

As the Civil war wore on the grandiose scheme of the Knights of the Golden Circle gradually faded into more immediate and pressing things.

Order Replaced in 1863

IN THE EARLY SPRING of 1863, Phinneas C. Wright, a St. Louis lawyer, established the Order of American Knights to take its place. This order operated mainly in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana. On Aug. 27, 1863, a temporary organization for Indiaria was made at Terre Haute. At a meeting at Indianapolis, Harrison H. Dodd was elected grand commander for Indiana, and William H. Harrison secretary. By February, 1864, 40 counties had been organized, and 20 ‘more were being organized. The total membership in the state at that time was 12,000. At the meeting of the supreme council of the American Knights, the name was changed to the Order of the Sons of Liberty. This organization narrowed its field to- Ohio, Indiana, and Tllinois. It had about 1000 members in

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By Robert C. Ruark

How ‘St. Louis Blues’ Was Written

played for funerals. My partner; Harry Pace, was a cashier in the bank. “The printers would run off 10,000 copes for $80,” Mr. Handy was saying. “I only had $20, so I got them to send me 2000 copies and another 8000 collect. When the first batch came in I hustled them down to the

Five & Ten and sold ‘em for a nickel apiece. "With -

the money I got I was able to bail out the other 8000 copies.” Pat, Louis Blues” sells for half a buck per copy now, but the bulk of its sheet music sales averaged a quarter. Two million copies have been sold, and if you start computing the number of records made, the number of live renditions, you run out of ciphers. Something close to a million bucks must have flowed from the song. “All the other pleces are good,” Brother C. E. said, riffing through “Memphis Blues.” “Yellow Dog Blues,” “Beale St. Blues,” “Ever After On,” “Loveless Love,” “Careless Love” and “Atlanta Blue.” But that old St. Looie, she's the breadwinner in this family. She fetches in that bacon. “I really hated to see that evenin’ sun go down,” he says. “I was sleeping on those cobbles and on

~ those docks. That was the roughest time I ever hi

St. Louis Loses to Memphis MR. HANDY'S FAVORITE SONG is “Memphis

Blues,” which he wrote as a eulogy to a young pol

tician named Crump.

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feel about ‘Memphis Blues’ like a mother with a wayward soh. It didn’t make me but $50 in 28 years, but I was like a shepherd with a strayed lamp.” . Mr. Handy's melodies reek of the easy streets, but Mr. Handy hardheaded businessman toota his cornet for :

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