Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 April 1947 — Page 14

ORE 'ARY MARSHALL'S report to the nation on the oscow conference held little hope for an early underng witht the Soviet Union on major German and

illy slow, he sad. : * Meanwhile, he asserted, recovery of Europe “cannot wait compromise through exhaustion.” " © Whatever action is possible must be taken without delay, “because the patient is sinking while the doctors deliberate.” On the political issues involved in the proposed German and Austrian settlements, the secretary of state found the disagreements serious. The Russian program for Germany not only demanded “indefinite American subsidy,” but could result in no less than economic deterioration and eventual dictatorship. A mortgage upon Austria was ..claimed which, in effect, would have made that country a Soviet puppet. “We must not compromise on great principles in order to achieve agreement for agreement's sake,” Mr. Marshall said. conn '

Gal cam re, s = = AMERICANS will indorse that view. We cannot afford "™ to sell civilization down the river for a scrap of paper. ‘We did that at Yalta, and again at Potsdam, to the detriment of present and future generations. Mr. Marshall said Preimer Stalin expressed to him the view that compromises were possible on all main questions, including demilitarization, the political structure of Ger-

many, reparations and economic unity. But to our soldierdiplomat this implied only that perhaps the Soviet delegation will be more co-operative in future conferences, whereas action toward European recovery is vital now.

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The secretary’s radio address reflected a deep appreciation of the problems at hand, and of the urgent need for action in the economic field, pending further efforts for political agreement. Meanwhile, by telling the Soviets bluntly that we are making no more one-sided deals, he may have brought us closer to an understanding with the Kremlin than is now apparent. In any event, the Moscow conference was not another Munich. Our position has been clarified before the world. We now can proceed to do our best to establish peace and stability on the terms we have presented, with the door open to Russia to join us in that undertaking if it will.

than generation past. Now, I'm a delinquency. Sure, it exists. And

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kids have too much, live at too fast a'pace, and have too much of the wrong kind of fun. Mr. X wrote that Halloween pranks today aren't the fun they were in his childhood because they are frowned on, misunderstood, and prohibited. What kind of Halloween pranks? No, I don't mind having my windows soaped, sand thrown on the porch, the door bell rung, and I might add that I love giving out treats in fair trade for tricks, and I equally like to share in the bag of treats that come home every Halloween. But I draw the line at breaking windows, puncturing tires, and the like. That is not being broadminded but encouraging destruction. Now let's turn back the calendar. When you were a boy you used to pull the neighbor's buggy up on the barn roof, tip over the backhouse and turn the horses out. Was that fun?

My mother used to say I had a| much’ better life than hers because I didn’t have to carry in wood and empty the slop jar every morning before I went to school. There is the contrast of those generations. And my kids have the radio, the movies, and the greatest of all evils today, the use of the family car for their pleasures. I'll bef you didn’t have that. Every conscientious parent today is doing his level best to rear his family to become useful citizens, but they are doing it in competition with the influence of the outside world. : Bear in mind that we forget the difficult trials of childhood as we grow older, and remember the fun we used to have, and yours and

EXPERIMENT AT FT. KNOX

MANY fathers and mothers have worried about what : universal military training might do to their young sons. : If you are such a parent, we hope you'll read the articles Scripps-Howard Reporter Jim G. Lucas is sending up from Ft. Knox, Ky. We think you'll find them interesting and reassuring. Since last January Ft. Knox has been the scene of an experiment, undertaken by the army ground forces, to show how well UMT might work, not only from the viewpoint of preparedness and national defense, but also from the viewpoint of the youths who could be trained. Reporter Lucas has been studying the experiment, appraising its effect on the 664 boys, aged 17 and 18, now in the fourth month of a half-year course at Knox. He concludes that it is “by all standards, a brilliant achievement,” and a convincing answer to those who fear that UMT would plant the seeds of militarism in young Americans. We hope, also, that these articles will be read in congress. As yet, neither house nor senate has even scheduled hearings on legislation to provide this urgently needed safeguard for the country’s future security, not as a mere experiment but as a large-scale, continuing policy. Sécretary of War Patterson, we. believe, is correct in saying that universal military training is a “sheer national necessity” under present world conditions. Delay in providing it is foolhardy, and might prove fatal. » Two groups are being trained at Ft. Knox under Brig. Gen. John M. Devine. One consists of the youths, the other of army officers preparing to become instructors in a wide extension of the plan, studying a new basis of relationship “between officers and enlisted men which may have pro-

"Can't Cure All Ills by Feeling Sorry for Kids; Relaxing Discipline"

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There was a letter in the Forum recently concerning child delinquency being due to the fact that children had so much less fun today

little tired of this chatter on child true that strenuous measures must

be taken but I so heartily disagree with the writer that I've held my

I come from a large family of a mother who came from a large family and I have five children of my own. And I'd like to bluntly state here that the main reason for child delinquercy today is that the

which you speak? I can remember. They were neighborhood gatherings in the backyard or before the fireplace. They were card games on the floor, they were gab sessions over bowls of popcorn and plates of fudge. Yes, that was fun. But wil] the kids today do it? “They don't know their next door neighbor, and I might add even the members of their own family. They are so busy with their movies, and the evenings spent at home must be in reverent silence so that Inner Sanctum and Franky can be heard.

Now, I'm not advocating the abolition of the machine age, that we all' go back to wearing leopard skins, but don’t you see that we're letting others do our thinking. I certainly don’t think that we should start curing the ails by feeling sorry for children and relax discipline, It's a big problem and up to the home. » »

= “I THINK FLL GO BACK TO THE ARMY” By A Sucker, Indianapolis Unionized labor is okay if, not run into the ground, but things have about come to the dictatorial stage when a man wants to change unions and is afraid to for fear of fines and his job. A fellow naturally will think of his family first. But here is the situation in our city at Allison's A chosen (or paid) few went down to vote strike. That made it not majority ruling, but®it was passed. We struck, and a large percentage of us worked elsewhere. Quite a few suckers did picket duty and used their savings to live on.

foundly good effects throughout the army. More of these officers are becoming available each week, i but unless congress acts soon they will be scattered around the world, to routine duty in Japan, Korea, Germany and elsewhere. And the lessons they have learned in prepara-

my kids will do the same. What are these good times of

One man in particular had $750 in bonds that he used; and he re-

ceived from the union as strike benefit the large and generous sum of $50. Sounds good, doesn't it? We finally went back to work, and for a long time no dues were taken out of our checks. The true reason for this was that General Motors refused to sign an agreement making them equally liable in case of suit. The union finally had to assume full responsibility. The reason for this delay is an Indiana state law which says a man can revoke or withdraw at. any time from any union upon written notice to same and employer. Now the union is trying to stick a few of us for dues previous to the strike, plus any amount of fine they feel like imposing. They have what they call an umpire to make the decision which, in the opinion of many, is a C. 1. O. stooge. If this is the freedom we fought for, I think I'll go back to the army. n EJ f J “WHO IS PROTECTING THE POLLARD BOY?” By Mrs. EB. L. Q., Indianapolis ; After reading the Hoosier Forum I'm wondering myself just why the Pollard case hasn't been tried. Who's the great arm that's keeping him from getting his justice? The little mother will soon be tried who knocked the entire daylight out of a no-good drunk that really should have been done long time ago. The Imel boy is another case. They just can't wait until they get their hands on his case. The Price boy and his gang got their justice. Now why and who is this great arm that is keeping and protecting the Pollard boy, who not only committed a murder but also has a nice line of police records? Mr. Stark, you seem to do your duty with everyone else. What's wrong with doing your duty toward this boy who not ony! killed. Oh, no, the killing didn’t quite satisfy his ego. He also cut the body up. And yet he is protected and kept in one county jail and then another. I wonder if they just keep hiding him around and think the public will soon forget this case and let him go free. Well, it's a good thing it’s not one of my boys. I just don’t have that kind of pull. He would have gotten his justice long ago.

Editor's Note: The Pollard case is set for trial July 16 at Greenfield.

Side Glances —By Galbraith

tion for a vital special service will be forgotten and wasted.

THE . “VOICE”—MISCALLED AMERICA’S ONGRESS ‘should uphold the action of the house subcommittee which eliminated the $31,381,220 appropriation for the state department's office of international information and cultural affairs. The United States needs no part of this outfit. American performance is our best salesman abroad because we have established a reputation for delivering . the goods. We detract from that reputation by the thirdrate educational and entertainment programs radioed to arious parts of the world by the so-called “Voice of Armenian 1 The recent incident at Moscow, where the acting director of our new “cultural diplomacy” resigned in-a huff ring the meeting of foreign ministers, hurt American ge and more than offset anything the program may accomplished in’ Russia. ° then, while Henry A. Wallace was assailing. American m policy in Europe, the “Voice of America” went ® air from Frankfort, Stuttgart and Munich with a laudation of Mr. Wallace under the guise of book, “The Wallaces of Iowa.” = g that a more untimely broadcast could not | nade, Senator George. of Georgia inquired our state department knows | t didn’t. ‘For Acting Sec1't a broad-

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» » » “PASS SPEEDWAY TICKET INCREASE ON TO DRIVERS”

{By R, T. Coffey, Cincinnati, Ohie

Speaking from the viewpoint of one of the thousands who annually attend the greatest sporting event in the world, the 500-mile race: The mercenary bickering of the Speedway officials will. hurt them

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loss of good will of the paying customers than the requested increase in prize money. I would sincerely miss my annual trip to your great’ city with its typical Indiana Rospitality. I den't believe that any of the persons attending the great spectacle can think of auto racing without recalling some pleasant experience in dianapolis on race day. I have had my reserved seat tickets for three months, and although there is a $3 increase per ticket this year over last, I would not object to this if the increase was passed on to the drivers who stage the event along with taking vhe risks and’ expense involved.

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and ‘the :weapons of war perished !=-IT Samuel 1:27.

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{IT'S OUR BUSINESS .. . by Donld D. Hoover Women Voters to Hear City Candidat

WITH THE MUNICIPAL ELECTION only a week away, quickened interest is being shown in the Qualifications of candidates who seek nominations for mayor, city clerk and city council. . Next Thursday at 8 p. m., the Indianapolis League

of Women Voters is sponsoring a public meeting in the auditorium of the World War Memorial

Council Candidates Representative

+ FORTUNATELY, THERE 18 a sufficiently large number of persons seeking council nominations to enable the voter to choose carefully and to avoid taking blindly any slate which is attached to the candidacy of any individual in the mayor's race. It is particularly important that the scrutinize carefully the records of those seeking the nine council seats . , . and the league meeting offers the first real chance for the public to look these folk over,

Ldn service which will be of take time to analyse their meetings such as that to be held Thursday night. It

WASHINGTON, April 20.—We can expect that & great many odd and assorted governments will try to cash in on the Truman doctrine. The line of governments has already formed on the right. Some of them, it might be added, on the extreme right. Beneath the surface, significant developments have occurred since the President's message to congress on Greece and Turkey. Powerful men are maneuvering in Washington and in the Argentine to get Dictator Peron the kind of help he wants from this country,

Follows Nazi Pattern

THIS IS HOW their argument goes. In coming to terms with Peron, we would be giving a demonstration of solidarity that could not help but impress the Russians. Our success would be in marked contrast to failusg of the Soviet attempt to woo Argentina's dictator. This argument comes from influential men who have supported the so-called Truman doctrine. Assistant Secretary of State Spruille Braden is as firmly opposed as he ever was to any deals with Peron. Braden can present a mass of evidence to show that Peron is in the pattern of Hitler. Braden believes he has the backing of President Truman and Secretary Marshall for his policy. If Braden goes out, it will be a fairly clear signal that the pro-Peronists, both in and out of government, have won a victory. One of the most conspicuous pro-Peronists is our own ambassador to Buenos Aires, George 8. Messersmith. Peron is moving in a direction that cuts right across American plans for a world trade organization based on the more or less free exchange ot goods and services. He is using state controls over industry and agriculture to build up vast reserves of cash to further his own arrogant adventure in super-nationalism. This is the way it works. A government agency buys up linseed oil from the producers at one price, and another government agency sells it on

" NEW YORK, April 29—“Radid is the only 25-year-old mongoloid idiot in the world,” Fred Allen said waspishly last week, when he was scrapping over censorship with the National Broadcasting Co. “Instead of growing up it is growing backward. “Eight vice presidents—hyperthyroid office boys— read your stuff, and try to cut as much out of it as they can, without knowing what they're cutting or why. Radio is getting just like the Kremlin.” The network, still blushing furiously over the silly situation in which it became mired last week, was forced to back down and restore—at least officially—the right of radio performers to kid radio itself, after an avalanche of bitter criticism for knocking Allen off the air.

Too Much Commercial Emphasis THE WHOLE SITUATION had become so ridiculous that people were being cut off for referring to the fact that Allen had been cut off. Carried far enough, this chain elimination of performers might have wound up, happily, in the first full hour of sponsored silence ever to crawl out of the loudspeaker. There's a little lesson in here somewhere, for both the people who run radio and the folks who perform on it. One is that a business which hawks its liverpills and deodorants by means of the singing commercial and the abrasive, repetitive plug, can scarcely adopt an air of outraged innocence when somebody occasionally pinks it in the pomposity. I think Fred is right when he attacks radio's unwillingness to grow up. The employed advertising technique of the late George Washington Hill— hit' em over the head with it, rub their noses in it, smear it in their faces so they can never forget it— has robbed the business of its right to squawk over rough handling. A great majority of radio’s top people, evidently, still think that the selling job—the commercial—

WILLIS S. BLATCHLEY, state geologist of Indiana, for 16 years ending in 1910, put it this way: “A wise man once said the Good Lord made the geology of Indiana simple so. that it could be easily understood by the state geologists elected by the people.” This quip of Blatchley packs a triple shot at himself as state geologist, at the people who elect the geologist; and at the geology of the state. None of these shots quite hit the mark.

Blatchley a World Authority ESP ALLY AS to Blatchley. He was an outstanding authority in science, including geology. He is the author, for example, of “Caleroptera of Indiana,” one of the largest orders of insects in the world, with about 195,000 species. Blatchley is concededly a world authority on these irisects, the common beetles and weevils. He is 'also an authority on the geology of Indiana, epecially of its coal and iron, including their commercial side. Thus we come face to face with one of thé marvels of the universe, first disclosed to mankind in the ninéteenth century. Reduced to simple terms, this leads directly to the natural resources of Indiana. There are two! a : “ONE: Matter, There is just so much matter in the universe. It can, be neither created or de-

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would be of little value if most of those at were league members and their husbands . , , thal

practically amounts to talking to oneself. The contrie y

bution to creating an informed electorate will come only if the general public takes advantage of this opportunity. Women are playing an increasing role in local politigs . . . and on an independent basis. It was the aroused feminine vote, to a large extent, which swept

- the last judge of the Marion county juvenile court

out of office and elected Judge Joseph O. Ho

a Democrat, in the face of general Republican victory last November, This vote

race for mayor, where a multiplicity of candidates will split the vote of Republican women.

However, it will be a different story in the fall,. And that makes it incumbent upon both parties to select a ticket that will appeal to the women voters , ‘and to the independents. There is a growing ‘

tendency locally to cross party lines, particularly when national - issues are not involved. There is no other issue to confuse the voter in November . , . and perhaps more emphasis will be placed on qualifications. ,

School Board Election Scheduled

THERE WILL BE a school board election in the ' fall , . . but this will not affect the May 6 primary, It would be helpful if the.league were to sponsor a similar meeting at which candidates for the school board could present their policies and platforms . . .° and discuss frankly the operations of the city’s school system.

IN WASHINGTON « « « By Marquis Childs Peron Is Not Entitled to U.S. Aid’

the world market for twice that much. It was for nothing that Peron studied at first niques of Italian fascism. He 3 0. be snovuaging Chile the same d of controls over copper. be of immediate concern to the United Sta there are large North American interests copper companies. The new argument in behalf of Peron he has now slammed the door in Russia Evidence for that is seen in the abrupt of the Soviet trade. mission after they ously falled to win friends and influence the Argentine. This is a specious argument. Over the when the present seller's market ends, can scarcely expect to profit from trade Soviet Union. They both produce for the same commodities. Peron cannot USSR in any forseeable time the dustrial machines and planes that he can come in quantity only from this coun gives us most of the bargaining power,

U.S. Policy Watched Closely ARGENTINA'S DICTATOR has taken importang steps to comply with the stipulations laid down at the conference of Chapultepec. But Nazi agents are still operating with more or less complete freedom in Argentina, although one of the principal require«

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Hints have come from at least two Latin-Amerie can nations that they are having Communist trouble and would appreciate a little help. Buch requests must be carefully screened. We cannot afford te back dictatorship. If our assistance is to mean new life for We democicy Bt Sue Slowing middie stratum, then merely to be anti will be enough. Nothing that has happened in the three months has made Peron eligible for help encouragement from this country.

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Radio Shows Reluctance to Grow Up

must be either infuriatingly repetitive or oilily

unctuous. Yet Henry Morgan has made a big busie °

ness out of kidding sponsors, and his current middle plug for razors is usually one of thy more enters: taining portions of the show. There is no more annoying hogwash in all of radio than Lucky Strike's LS/MFT routine, with half-a-dozen announcers trying to outdo each other, But Sunday night, Jack Benny achieved the funniest business in his show when his quartet kidded the pants off Lucky Strikes with an adaptation of “Chloe.” Benny's mid-show commercials, all aimed at kidding his sponsor, have been uniformly non-irritating, and would sell me more cigarets than a carload of trained announcers with voices ideally tailored for hollering down rain barrels. At the same time, I can see how the vice presi~ dents and program directors have one béef, a valid one, against their fat-priced entertaining talent. In the last few years the ad lib has crept into the comedy shows, to a point where a script is a powers ful small indication of what's to come over the air,

Performances Could Improve, Too ON SOME OF THE SHOWS you would almost think that the aim is to go on the air with the saddest possible material, in order to milk it for thé break-up potential. It drives the executives nuts. Bing Crosby recently threw a big, loud, ade libbed cuss word into the Benny show when he was guesting there, and one of these days some comic with a snootful is a cinch to turn Marcond over in his crypt. : Fred's “hyperthyroid office-boys” are largely te blame for the current strife, because their stuffy censorship bred the departure from script. Bug there are a couple of holes in the performers’ fences which could do with some patchwork right now, too. ¥

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow State Once Was Rich in Natural Gas

plants. These include the végetable diet of meh. As animals through the ages are changed te coal or oil or gas, or some form of matter, the long process of the ages starts all over again. As soon as we mine and use all these resources in the state, that will be the end of coal and gas and oil in Indiana. ' Two little Indiana boys make this crystal clear, The boys at the end of pioneer days of. Indiana pioneered with their family to Texas. Unsuccessful, the family decided to return to Indiana. On the way back in the dusty heat of Missouri, the father chanced to find a few choice apples. The boys tackled their portion as only two apple-hungry boys eould do, ‘The younger boy recklessly devoured his share, Then he begged the older boy to save the core of his last apple for him. The big brother, munching with teasing uncertainty, finally said, slowly but firmly: “There ain't gonna be no core.” There wasn't.

Gas Supply Exhausted AND Indiana burned her gas with reckless abandon in house, barn lot, or roadside, it did hee no good to tease nature for a little more. With more blunt finality than any apple-munching boy could say it, nature said to gas-pleading Indiana with . finality: “There ain’t gonna be no more’~—gas, : Indiana's iron, as blast furnaces blew in and out, faded economically, at Mishawaka and Terre Haute in 1833 and 1895. >” Ignoring her supply of coal and iron, Indiana

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