Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 April 1947 — Page 22

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A VOTE ‘AGAINST ‘AGGRESSION THE senate vote approving the Greek-Turkish aid bill should convince the world of the substantial support in this country for President Truman's peace offensive

. against Communist aggression. : That vote, 67 to 23, is resounding reply to the Henry

Wallaces at home and abroad. .. With this demonstration of American solidarity, free nations everywhere should find encouragement to resist threats to their sovereignty from within or without. And that they must do, for we cannot carry the load alone. Of course, the vote does not accurately reflect senate sentiment on the underlying issue of Soviet aggression. All but one or two senators are opposed to that. But inconsistencies in the administration's general foreign policy left room for honest dissension from the majority view on Greek-Turkish aid. This found free expression in the debate, and our policy-makers will be foolish if they ignore such warnings,

~ - . td ¥ . WE can't carry water on both shoulders. Average Americans can't be expected to go all out for a policy of halting communism in Greece and Turkey without asking why our government so recently was urging a Communist- ~ coalition government in China. Some confusion about the sincerity of the Greek-Turkish policy is inevitable when a companion measure before congress would provide relief funds for nations which have surrendered to Soviet domination. The fine distinctions which may appear to have

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

sion has. become a threat to world peace, and even to our survival. Then why any quibbling? Why any compromises with evil? We cannot contain communism by a holding action in Greece and Turkey, if at the same time we build it up in Poland, Hungary, Romania and Yugoslavia. Nor can we maintain democracy and free enterprise in the world by supporting a beachhead on the Mediterranean and another in Japan, if we surrender our position on the Asian mainland by default. : The President has won a notable victory for his policy,

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his country, and the free world. But to win the drive for peace he must consolidate his position by harmonizing our policies in various parts of the world. Only then can he command decisive support, at home and overseas,” which his program merits.

BUSINESS CAN'T DO WHOLE JOB

™ his New York speech, as in his recent press-conference remarks, President Truman held business primarily re-

He acknowledged, however, that preserving free enter- _ prise called for joint effort. “There must be moderation on the part of business,” but also “forbearance on the part of labor, all-out effort on the part of the farmer, and wise action and guidance on the part of the government.” It is not government policy, but phenomenal world demand for food, that keeps farm prices so high, Mr. Truman said. And no one can deny that high farm prices have the effect of stimulating the farmer to all-out effort. Why, then, was it so wrong for businessmen to argue that abolishing price controls would encourage production to overcome the shortages that cause the pressure for high prices? Business should reduce prices wherever it can as far as it can. But when the U. S. Steel Corp. raised wages of its C. I. 0. employees 15 cents an hour, it estimated that ifs labor costs would be increased by about $75 milion a year. A reduction of $75 million in the price other industries must pay for steel in the next 12 months probably would have benefited a great many more people in the long run. However, that wouldn't have done much to lower the cost of living, which is kept high chiefly by food and clothing prices. And so, understandably, it wouldn't have satisfied the C. I. O. union or saved big steel from a strike. tas As compared with 1939, farm prices are up about 180 per cent; food prices, about 90 per cent; clothing prices, about 80 per cent—all much more than the prices of manufactured products, such as automobiles, and of industrial materials, such as steel. We still think it’s fair not to expect too much of business and industry, as long as the farm prices, which have 80 much to do with the cost of living, stay high.

THINK ABOUT NEXT TAXES

ONE thing in the tax bill proposed by Senator Lucas of Illinois we like better than the Knutson bill passed by the house. : It would make tax reductions effective Jan. 1 next, rather than Jan. 1 last. Tax cuts would be wholly anticipatory. If the Knutson bill became law, tax cuts in substantial amounts would be retroactive. It would put a mortgage : on the surplus that is being built up this fiscal year, It ~ might even force the government next year to borrow additional money to rebate taxes paid this year. Even the suggested compromise—to make the new tax rates effective July 1—would mess up the books. Most taxpayers pay taxes on a calendar-year basis, and already are paying 1947 taxes at present rates. That is money the government should continue to collect, and should keep, applying any surplus to reduction of the public debt. By making the tax cuts wholly anticipatory, it is enpossible that revenues may be increased rather than hed. The definite promise of lower taxes next year ectively encourage the starting of new enterprises, of old ones, greater-production, more jobs, more from the expanding business activity, produce to be skimmed at the lower rates.

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any study in their school books. It is because they are in themselves studies of humanity, nature and the great outdoors and God. I crept to school myself, along with crowds of country boys and girls. Never was there a bird nest, a snail, snake or yes even tumble bugs that we didn't stop to éxplore and enjoy on the way to that country schoolhouse above the river, Children in this e have to resort to being whisked to school in high powered cars and busses, with never a moment for nature studies and the wonderful outdoors. If teachers today took the time to really understand the restlessness in those little bosoms, perhaps the handicap of teaching would once more seem like a privilege and an aid to mankind by building wholesome lives and shaping destinies of nations by the proper understanding and guidance of children in their formative, impressive years. Teachers can leave stronger impressions sometimes on children than their own present day parents. Most children go to school be-

laws compel them to. Most parents want their children to attend regularly and like school, and a lot of this liking depends largely on what kind of teachers they have after they get there. A closer tie and contact between teachers and parents would tend to a mutual understanding and happier relations for all concerned. - “I KNOW HOW VALUABLE DOCTORS ARE” By Mrs. G. 0. P., EB 10th st. How my blood did boil when I read the criticism of our beloved doctors. A doctor is the most unsel-

+i fish man in this world. It costs to -| become a doctor, time, studying and

a great sacrifice. It seems that some people think that doctors play. I think that a doctor works longer hours than any other person in this world. He is up at all hours, early morning, making calls, hospitals, afternoon hours seeing many patients, then more calls, then night office hours and more calls. Many a meal they do without and with-

out sleep. Days go by not seeing

their families. When God sees fit to send us that precious little bundle from heaven, whom do we have to call on? The doctor. He stays with us all no matter how long. If Qur loved ones are ill, what should we do? Again the doctor. Haén't everything gone up. I don’t think there are many doctors who charge $10 for a call at night. If so, they save a loved one. Well, I think that would be cheap.

out of hell in the early Thirties. If there was ever a man for you and me, we common people, it is this assistant of our late President. If there was ever a man to break this strain and snap this country back on its feet it is Wallace, If there was ever a law apprehended by the American people, it should be the 148-year-old law, the “Logan act,” that was passed in the year 1799 as a result of abortive conspiracy of Aaron Burr. If it takes this to save Wallace, then let's do it. It is a law that is too old anyway. If you don't want to look upon | Wallace as a past hero as you do Capt. Nathan Hale of the Civil war, who was killed for treason, then let's help this true-blooded | American along. | My two reasons for this letter are: -(1) Let's nominate Mr. Wallace for President of the United States. (2) Let's elect him for President." Not put him in prison, nor fine him, no sir, let's say he is a hero, not he was a hero. I would like to say, come home, Wallace, we will listen. T believe it 18 time for the American people to look around and see if there is not a better form of government. I agree with Jasper Douglas that this country is heading toward socialism or a Fascist {dictatorship. Let's not wait till it's {too late. Let's wake up, America. “ALL FACTS AREN'T KNOWN ABOUT PHONE STRIKE” By Member of Indiana Bell Commercial Employees’ Association, Indianapolis.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

Bless them all, and what would be-| American Telephone and Telecome of us if the doctors would go|graph Co. would receive less symon a strike? That never enters their [pathy from the public if all the minds. May God give my dear doc-|facts were known about this strike, tor and all the doctors in the world They are a good advertising account the strength to carry on. The Ones to the newspapers and magazines, that don’t like the way doctors run put— their business—just don't bother| Their Mr. Craig =ays they do not calling them when you and youts|recognize the present increased cost get ill. I'm one who knows how val-| of living to be a reason for increasuable the doctors are, ing wages, claiming they did not cut wages when living costs decreased. They had employees take time off during the depression. Isn't

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that actually a decrease in wages? And Bell employees received extremely low money during the war years. Mr, Craig insists that present bargaining be done on a regional level, We employees know that Indiana Bell Telephone Co. never signs a contract until it is approved in New York, This very week, the local management of Indiana Bell refused to sign a new contract—to all practical purposes refused to bargain — with the independent union representing commercial department employees of all Bell points in Indiana—about 500 employees and an independent union that has always co-operated one hundred per cent and in good faith with management. ; Indiana Bell often gives pre releases, but they did not report their refusal to bargain locally this week with 500 employees.

DAILY THOUGHT

The Lord shall send upon thee cursing, vexation, and rebuke, in all that thou settest thine hand unto for to do, until thou be destroyed, and until thou perish quickly; because of the wickedness of thy doings, whereby thou hast forsaken me.—Deuteronomy 28:20. | : VENGEANCE comes not slowly - = either upon you: or any other eg Yi ia ‘| wicked man, but steals silently and and | don't know hie). appear’ [rupeteapuly, Dacing its Toot on

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THE FIGHT OF G. O. P. REGULARS against Roy E. Hickman, anti-organization candidate for the mayoralty nomination, is getting plenty rough . . . and 80 is the retaliation of the Hickman followers, In fact, it is generally believed that Mr. Hickman’s nomination would result in resignation of Henry E. Ostrom, Republican county chairman whose organization is supporting William H. Wemmer for mayor. vr ; Here's an example of one of Mr. Ostrom's pep letters to his precinct committeemen . . . an example that is an illustration in the working of practical politics,

| ‘This Makes Me Mad!'

“IT 18 NOW five minutes to 13, midnight, “I have just returned from meeting with the precinct men in the 14th, 11th,“and 31st wards and with Bill Wemmer, our candidate. My he's comfortable to work with, “But there is growing in me a very deep resent--ment. The Hickman camp is putting out rumors and | gossip, plus the same old political meddling. “They have scads and scads of money, so they say. They have been collecting it for a long time. They are going to buy you committeemen, “Just think of that! “This makes me mad! “With all their reported wealth do you think they could buy this nomination through this organization— 4this organization that elected Tyndall after he defeated me in the 1942 primary? Then asked me to be county chairman. We elected him! “Then one year ago after a bitter, unfair attack on you directed at me, Stark won the primary, but you elected him in the falll And not one squawk out of Stark except he wanted a new automobile and more money to run his department, “Hickman's stooges must not have a high moral

IN WASHINGTON . . . By

WASHINGTON, April 24.—Assistant Secretary of State William Benton was testifying the other day, before a house appropriations subcommittee, on the

Chairman Karl Stefan interrupted the questioning to ask the ladies please to leave the room. Mr. Benton was astonished. He could not imagine what was coming next. He had heard reports of how government officials were put on the rack and tortured by congressional committees but he could not believe it was about to happen to him.

Reptesentative Literature

WHEN THE LADIES, including one of Mr. Benton’s assistants from the state department, had Jeft the hearing room, Mr. Stefan pulled out a book from under the table. Fixing Mr. Benton with an ominous look, he announced that this was one.of the books | which the state department was sending abroad to libraries in American information centers in 24 capitals, Then the chairman began reading a lurid passage describing in antomical detail a love affair between {two of the characters. Committee members giggled, | exchanged embarrassed looks, and finally, as the

| reading continued, glared at the witness. | When Mr. Stefan stopped reading, committee {| members piled onto Mr. Benton with angry and accusing questions. They made it sound as though he himself had deliberately chosen the offending book. Mr. Benton could only say that obviously a mistake had been made somewhere down the line, and that he would look into it and correct it at once. During the noon hour, Mr. Benton had a chance to find out the actual circumstances. This is what had happened. The novel in question had been selected from a publisher's list, since the author had a high literary reputation both in this country

NEW YORK, April 24. — It would please my grandpa to know, 20 years after he quit struggling with a world which obviously was never going to see things his way, that he is a hit. I included a few references to grandpa in a piece I did awhile back, about the phone strike, and. the mall would indicate that grandpa, even 20 years later, has box office. The customers have probably got him mixed up with Monte Woolley, which is an understandable mistake, for they both had a lot in common. Gfandpa, for instance, had a beard. It was red, and it stayed red, up to the time he died at 80 something. Grandpa's beard was about as fierce as any beard you ever saw, and few people knew that he grew it to camouflage a weak chin.

Grandpa Was Irked by 'Em

WHEN GRANDPA QUIT WORKING at either 37 or 40, I disremember which, it was not because he was sick,‘ or tired, or untalented. It was because he regarded labor as debasing, for one thing, and for another, work interferred with his esthetic life, Grandpa was a complete artist, in the fruest

| sense. He not only learned to play a violin without

instruction, but he built the violin on which he learned to play. In addition to the fiddle, grandpa loved three other things. - He loved togpit tobacco juice into the fire. He loved to drink corn whisky. And he loved, best of all, to be left alone by Miss Ca'line, my grandmother. Miss Ca’line was a driving woman, and if there was anything that grandpa disliked more than ordinary women, it was a driving woman. Miss Ca'line had no artistic sensibility. She greatly admired money, and the fact that grandpa was oblivious to the necessity for making it used to infuriate her. If it had not been for grandpa’s pension from the civil

erant of grandpa. Grandpa was a great swearer, but he always emasculated his expletives. He said “dodrot it!” when he was annoyed mildly, but when he was really upset,

“HAD HANNEGAN entered congress before I entered it, I fear I never should have been known for my eloquence.” : This was Daniel Webster speaking, from a background of 30 years in congress since March 4, 1813, and with a reputation for eloquence for over 30 years when Edward Allen Hannegan became United States senator from Indiana March 4, 1843. In the fall of 1842, in Switzerland county, Indiana, a man was accused of mwder. He was tried and acquitted. He was very poor, with no money to pay his attorney. But.he and his son, a boy 16 years old, pledged him that if he ever ran for office, they would vote for him. : ’ The father died. The boy was stricken with hasty consumption. At a state election a Whig candidate, David Kelso, took the boy to the polls to vote, .

Elected by | Vote THE BOY PROMISED to vote for Kelso provided that, if elected, he would vote for Edward A. Hannegan for United States senator. In a tight race Kelso was elected by one vote. . In the ballot for United States senator in the legislature of 1843, Tilghman A. Howard, Democrat, on the first two ballots, came within two votes of being elected. ol On the second ballot, Oliver H.- Smith lacked

ballot, with Kelso voting for Hannegan on every ballot, Hannegan, with 76 votes, was elected. This

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark ‘Miss Ca'line Was a Driving Woman’

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standard when they think they can put a cheap price tag on you and lead you by the nose at will, “I am jealous—very proud of the good name of this Marion county organization which has put the largest metropolitan center in the nation in the Republican column. I will not let these wolves besmirch this name if I can helpit, © ~ “Besides I can't raise money and get the other necessary things to run an election in the fall for Hickman, I don't believe Hickman can be elected in the fall. His money is said to come from the wrong places. You know what I mean. : “But I am not worried, I know you're not for sale. “They're stuck.” : Precinet committeemen like that sort of stuff . . many of them are writing or calling in that “nobody can take us away from you, Henry.” And, after all, (t is the precinct committeeman who is the keystone of the political structure. As the only elected political representative, it 1s he and his fellows who do the spade work and who choose the county chairman and other party officials. } 80, if “Henry” can keep his organization in line, these men and women who take the poll, beat the bushes for vetes, and urge the voters to go to the polls on election day should be able to garner a formidable vote for Wemmer.

Don't Forget Council Aspirants IN THE FLURRY OVER who's to win the nomination as mayor, there is danger that the. voters will not know enough about candidates for city council to vote intelligently, Organization candidates will receive the votes rustled by the precinct workers. The anti-organization group has a machine of its own, $ Candidates without factional support will have to

depend on an informed electorate if any of them are to be elected.

Marquis Childs

Torrid Book Embarrasses Congressmen

and in Europe. But when someone in the state department read an advance copy of the book, it was immediately taken off the list and the advance order for 24 copies was cancelled. ' When Mr. Benton resumed the witness stand, he told the committee what had happened. - The members did not seem to feel that the explanation condoned the original fault. Chairman Stefan went sq far as to say that putting thy book on the list nullifled any good that the $31 million information program might do. The attack on Mr. Benton, as on one or two other occasions, seemed to be out of all proportion to the cause. It looked as though the Republican committee members had already reached a decision to meat-ax the information appropriation and were deliberately seeking some justification for their decision. Another time when Mr. Benton faced Mr. Stefan, the chairman held up photographs of modern American paintings which were part of an ‘exhibit that the state department purchased and is circulating in Europe. He demanded that Mr. Benton tell him what

the pictures were about. This went on for several hours.

Slightly Ironical

IT 8O HAPPENED that, at that very moment. the pictures were being exhibited in Prague, where they attracted so ‘much favorable attention that President Eduard Benes asked permission to show them in other cities in Czechoslovakia. There is a_terrible irony in all this. Among those who sneer an r loudest at any effort to further understanding \getween peoples are the noisiest swordrattlers who talk about spending billions for “defense” in every corner of the globe.” Not one cent for understanding but billions for armaments, seems to be their motto.

he said “dodlimb it!” Occasionally he would come up with . & more virile word, but never in front of company. Grandpa, I believe, was the first man to sense the fact that we are living, at best, in an impermanent world. He died just before the depression, but he -had been predicting it for years. He had an unholy fearof all gadgets; and I am sure he felt the imminence of the atom. He would never ride in an auto, and he used to take an extra drink when a plane

‘flew overhead.

While grandpa disliked company, he also disliked being left alone. Whenever my mother and father announced that they were going out for the evening, grandpa would walk out on the porch and stare mournfully at the sky. He would then’ return and say, as if to himself: “Squall's blowing up. Don't know's if I'd go out on a night like this.” Then he would go upstairs and brood in front of his fireplace if itdailed to rain, snow, thunder or hail. My grandpa once gained a wide measure of esteem in the gigtibertion when he planted an utterly false story th y he had put dynamite in the sweet potato beds. The word spread that he had mined, not only the sweet potato beds, but the pigpen and the chicken house, and we never lost a shoat, a sweet potato or a pullet. 4 -

He Hated Taxes, Too

YE GAINED MUCH ESTEEM when his ghost came back. Grandpa's ghost used to walk the 100 yards from the house to the cowpen every evening, red beard and all. I know this is true, because Jake, the hired man, saw ,him, and once the cow went unmilked. Jake said he just couldn't stay down there and milk no cow with the old man looking over his shoulder. yo - I've told you before of grandpa's dislike for corporations, telephones and little boys. He would have

“hated taxes, too, if he had ever been forced to pay

any, but taxes never fitted in with the fiddle, and he left all business details up to Miss Ca'line.

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow . Te ] » . Hoosier State's ‘Amazing’ Mr. Hannegan

In 1846, the Dempcratic caucus of the United States congress met to decide whether the government should declare war on Mexico, The vote was a tie, Hannegan not voting. On another ballot, Hannegan cast the deciding vote to declare war.s : Thug on a one-vote margin that ran back from a murder trial in Vevay, Ind., for 15 or 20 years, came Edward A. Hannegan, United States senator from Indiana and his one-vote majority in a Democratic caucus to declare war on Mexico. On March 6, 1852, Hannegan stabbed Capt. John R. Duncan, his brother-in-law, with whom he and his wife were living in Covington, Ind, ’

Filled With Remorse

HANNEGAN was drunk. He was filled with remorse over the deed.’ Before Duncan died the next day, he said Hannegan should -not be blamed for his death. Hannegan was .never tried for the murder. The record against him stands as follows in the sixth Judicial circuit court: “comes now the defendant on a bill of indictment having been found by the grand jury, it is ordered by the court that the said

‘defendant be discharged and go hence without day,”

signed by Isaac Naylor, circuit judge.

but one vote of being re-elected. On the sixth * On March 3, 1849, President Polk appointed

Hannegan minister to Prussia, He got drunk on the job. At a state occasion, he kissed the h the Jan, 13, 1850, he was recalled.

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