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THE voters of the Republican and the Democratic parties are to be congratulated on the decision made by the majority in each on the selection of its nominee’ for mayor. Both William H. Wemmer, the G. O. P. nominee, and Al Feeney, his opponent in the election next November, are men who are capable of directing the affairs of Indianapolis during the critical expansion period which will confront the administration. . est a we feel confident that each also has the courage to clean up the police department and other present inefficiencies of the present city administration. : We are not as pleased as we might be with the city council nominations; On that subject, we shall have more to say as the fall election comes nearer. Neither Mr. Wemmer nor Mr. Feeney can do a thoroughly effective job unless he is backed by.a council whose first interest is the welfare of the community. The council majority cannot be too beholden to any political group. If it. is, that group can pretty effectively run the city, regard-

less of the high caliber of the mayor. : |

REPORTER WOLTMAN’'S PRIZE

FREDERICK WOLTMAN of the New York World-Tele-gram, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, has won a Pulitzer

* prize for distinguished work as a reporter.

The Indianapolis Times, a Scripps-Howard newspaper, is pleased and proud that this honor, so coveted among newspapermen, has come to one we know and admire as an earnest, resourceful, tireless seeker of facts. Reporter Woltman’g chief assignment is to study and expose Communist activities in the United States. He has made himself a foremost authority if a difficult and important field. The Indianapolis Times has published many of his reports on the efforts of Communists and their sympa‘thizers to penetrate and pervert American institutions. They have won him the hatred of the borers-from-within,

"but we think they entitle him to the gratitude of the

The Pulitzer prize citation recognizing the “accuracy

and terseness” of news stories written by Mr. Woltman |

“gander the pressure of edition time.” We know that he is always under another pressure—the pressure of zeal for truth. And, while this award is for work done in 1946, we know that he never can be too content to rest on past achievements. For many years, we trust, readers of Scripps-Howard newspapers will continue to have the benefit of Fred Woltman's distinguished reporting.

HOUSE G. 0. P. MAKING A RECORD WHEN the session started, senate Republican leaders : got most of the publicity as the “strong men” of this congress. But after four months it is evident that Speaker Joe Martin and House Leader Charles Halleck, who hails from Indiana’s second district, are the ones who actually have their show on the road. * Sl z While the senate has wasted time talking, the house has been grinding out legislation. Some of it we don’t like —the labor bill was too drastic, we think, and the tax cut premature—but they were party measures and in the house party leadership functioned in high gear. The house is now scheduling appropriations bills at the rate of two a week, and it’s really economizing. The senate has hardly

‘In a rush to adjourn, the senate Republican steering committee has started cutting down on the program for the remainder of the session. The “priority” list announced by Chairman Taft omits the two measures most vital for national security—the armed forces merger and universal military training. ; House leaders have been too busy getting their job done to start talking yet about curtailing the program. “We hope they will not—and on the basis of past performance we trust they will not—consent to the irresponsible scuttle-and-run strategy of the senate Republicans. It will be to the everlasting shame of the Republicans if congress adjourns without acting on merger of the armed services and universal training. Responsibility for keeping our nation militarily strong rests with congress. Republicans control both houses. They will be judged by the

- record they make.

THAT “VOICE” AGAIN REE-SPENDING bureaucrats are raising a hue and cry because a house committee has killed an appropriation of $31,381,220 to maintain and expand the state department’s new program of “cultural diplomacy.” Like every other item in the budget, this appropriation has its friends who call it indispensable. But is it worth $31,381,220 to the taxpayers? We doubt it. This operation is-one of the war babies that survived demobilization. It has continued without authority of congress, by virtue of a presidential decree, which is not a practice to be encouraged in peace-time. It includes, among other things, the so-called “Voice of America,” which has 36 radio outlets overseas. % ~The contention that this “voice,” the cost of which represents about half the total appropriation, is on the air in various languages for some 400 hours a- week means little when we don't know how many listeners the programs Even good propaganda is valueless if no one hears it.

Congress should demand reliable statisti isteners on all of the program's outlets before seriously g a revival of the “voice.”

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"Here's Team of Only Two Men, One Woman Capable of Running U. 8."

By Alten Nash, 216 §. Senate ave. Abraham Lincoln has been dead for a long time. Edward Bellamy, H. G. Wells and Pranklin D. Roosevelt have also passed on. Unfortunately these great men have left us with only two men and one

‘woman mentally capable of handling the reins of our United States

government. They are Henry Wallace, Upton Sinclair and Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt. The best arrangement would be as fgllows: Wallace, President; Sinclair, vice president; Eleanor should direct all social reforms, Sinclair would help her now and then with much advice and many suggestions. The wise and thoughtful Henry will never eat out of

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hand), he will keep us out of trouble abroad with his common-

various systems of foreign governmental philosophies that we call “ideologies.” . I doubt if anyone could be found who has a greater knowledge of China and a better understanding of the Oriental mind than Pearl S. Buck. She should therefore be vested with full authority to promote and guide our good will relationships with that strange far eastern populace. Jeanette Rankin and Phyllis Bottome should also have . responsible positions. If I owned an automobile I would probably hesitate before permitting any woman to ‘drive it. I believe the | fender finish would last longer if I} drove it mysell, but the power of pure reason, fhe acquired knowledge and the invincible will of our intellectual females should make many men turn green with envy and blue with shame. Your correspondent may be what is sometimes called a “crack-pot Utopian dreamer” but why not ask the historian about the dreams of our ancestors. Free America is the result of such dreams. ~ ® = “DON'T LIKE WAY STREETS ARE TORN UP FOR REPAIRS” By M. E. Jones, 2878 N. LaSalle st. I wo to register a complaint against utilities which are permitted to dig graves in the concrete streets and then fill them up with dirt; thereby creating a breakneck in the good concrete streets of the city. In the 2800 and 2000 blocks of LaSalle st. these break-necks can be seen. Thousands of dollars of damage has been done to the streets here by these outfits. If a water line springs a’ leak, or a gas line, they will come out and dig a hole

the hand of the mercenary politician (Upton will literally bite any

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too. The streets, and y certainly don't like to drive a car over a hole or a hump, as the case may be. If they have to dig a hole in the street, then at least they should leave it the way they found it, and in a concrete street, fill it with concrete, not mud.

Editor's Note: According te City Engineer Thomas R. Jacobi, utilities finding It necessafy to tear up streets to make’ repairs leave the streets as they were. The wusual practice, is to refill holes dug in paved streets with dirt. The holes are left in this condition until the dirt settles. Then, pavement is replaced. If pavement were to be replaced immediately it would break

leave no support, Mr. Jacabi said. » ~ " “PRIMARY VOTES COST NEARLY $2 APIECE” By H. C. C.; N. Pennsylvania st. I notice in your paper that the primary election costs around $90,000. The same edition said the vote probably wouldn't exceed 50,000. By some pretty rough arithmetic, that means nearly $2 a vote, plus a lot of time spent by officeholders and others seeking to hold on to their jobs or to get someone into officé belonging to théir faction. The comparative expense points up the fact that relatively few peo-

|ple believe the primary election is {of sufficient importance for them

to go vote. So the politicians get their men in, in both parties, and only a very small percentage of the

two by five and six feet deep, in a perfectly good concrete street, then

actual voters have anything to say about the candidates. I don't like it.

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Mr. Pogue places a premium on education, I am sure, and meant no ill will toward children, teachers, or parents. Each has a’ place in life and I am sure Mr. Pogue has hig The world would be a better place to live if we had more people like Barton Rees Pogue. » . > “LEGALIZED GAMBLING WOULD REDUCE TAXES” By as Northside Resident How many people stop to realize

Evidently not very many, for if they did, they would find some means of getting together and getting a bill approved. First of all income and property tax would be reduced to an absolute minimum, and such items as an extra cigaret and gasoline taxes could be done away with. The revenue from the reported $9 million

.|a year lottery racket would go to

the state. Next, the system of police payoffs would be endéd. If a gambler /had nothing to fear, being in a legitimate business, there would be no need for him to pay money every month for protection. Persons engaged in selling lottery, baseball tickets and etc., could be charged so much for a license (say $500 per year) and 1 per cent of their gross take. People are going to gamble regardless of what may be done to stop them. Why not get some money for the state, reduce taxes, improve roads and stop graft?

. = ” “THANK YOU FOR SERIES ON FEDERAL SPENDING” By L. B. Rial, 2624 Manker st.

series of articles about federal spending, especially - where hardearned taxpayers’ money is illegally spent for non-essentials, such as the entertainment of officials with booze, etc. Maybe these will wake up the citizens enough to demand some real economy” in the federal government. | » » ¥ “PERMITTED TO PLAY WITH GUNS AT ¢” By H. 5., Indianapolis

‘DAILY THOUGHT

He teareth me in his wrath," | hateth me: he gnasheth upon me _ with his teeth; mine enemy sharp~eneth his eyes upon me.-=«Job 16:9. : > Pr ye % THERE are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder.

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|OUR TOWN na By Anton Scherrer. i i ! La x

ON- THE SOUTH side of New York st. just a stone's throw east of Military park, is a orfie-story

“| frame house that looks like an architectural frag-

ment left over from President Grant's administration. It's the woree for wear today, but » coat of paint

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taken root beside the-queer jig- : sawed portics and, under the ten. der care -of -its gardener, had

family carriages just to have a look have - horses to emrry them around took the trouble to walk. ’

Wanted to Visit Home ONE EVENING in the 80's or maybe in the 90's— I can't remember just when, but it was sometime after 1883—a distinguished-looking stranger knocked

departed friend. When he rose

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can figure out, Joe Jefferson visited the first time in 1860. He appeared on the stage of the Metropolitan theater when it was

WASHINGTON, May 7.—In spite of the threat of a balky house, the administration is going ahead to try to put together a “team” to carry out the program of aid to Greece and Turkey. This is being done with a full realization of what a very important and difficult job the team will have to do. Peelers have been put out to several individuals who might captain the team. That, of course, will be the key position. As the White House sees it, however, the program cannot depend on a single

Hndividual.

First-Rate Men: Needed

THIS IS WHY stress is put on the kind of team which will be sent to Athens. The hope is to get first-rate men for each specialised job. Thus, the objective in the field of transportation is to get a top executive who would command in private business not less than $50,000 a year. - This is easier said than done. An illustration is the fate of a tentative move: in the direction of a; prominent executive who was considered for the cap-

United Nations commission to investigate Greece's charges of outside intervention in the Greek border

NEW YORK, May 7—For some months now I have been taking an occasional gentle belt at the business of overstressed psychiatry, psychoanalysis and kindred forms of mental tes-leaf reading—not because my mother was frightened by Freud, but because it seemed to me that a lot of people with the bellyache were scurrying off to have their souls probed, and wound up about twice as frustrated as before. It struck me at the time that few reputable medical doctors shot off their mouths at every possible opportunity, in order to grab space in the papers, but that you couldn't buy a racing form without reading a column and a half of free advertising for a psychiatrist with an unground ax. No professional group I know of, including actors, is freer with a quote. Everything from kidnap to kissing has been run through the psychoanalytic wringer. .

'Overdone,’ §sychiatrist Says IT 18 gratifying, then, to read a statement from Dr. C. Charles Burlingame, psychiatrist in chief of the institute of living, that Americans are- becoming too self-conscious, too eager for psychiatric treatment. Dr. Burlingame's quote is that overdone psychiatry “is causing a dangerous situation in which people in all walks of life are being instilled with the belief that they need psychiatric attention to save their minds, if not their souls. : ? “Hundreds of thousands of people satiated with a superficial knowledge of the psychological implications of life . . , are beginning to interpret every trivial thought and feeling in psychiatric terms. . . .” This is not to say that there is no need for psychiatry. The old family doctor was a fine psychiatrist, in that he comfortéd and suggested and’ told you where you were running off the track. So was the priest. So was the old friend of the family.

~ is a ‘ » Bread at Bottom of WASHINGTON, May 7.—Prance faces a grave situation—political, social and economic—regardiess of the immediate outcome of Premier Paul Ramadier's cabinet crisis, ene. phase of which he umount this week. , First in importance is the food shortage— particularly - wheat. This first because most people have acquired the habit of eating and if food isn't forthcoming, it" makes for trouble.

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3 under the management of Charles R. Pope and it was probably on that occasion that he first met Tom Glessing. On the other hand; it may have been case of renewing his acquaintance started. out to be an actor. Be that as Glessing came to Indianapolis in 1861. until ‘1878, during most of which he was the principal scenic artist of the Met; the first theater around here especially desigiied and erected for

purpose. : .. Back in those days, the traveling companied didn't carry much scenery. They had to depend on the props the provincial ‘theater had to offer with the

had to improvise on the spot and paint scenery as called for by the play,

Advertised Their Wares

EVERYBODY of that period who had the negessary price used the Met's drop curtain to advertise his wares. Even the bill posters took advantage of it to proclaim that they still had faith in their own business which, apparently, was in a highly competitive field. Well, it's a matter of theatrjcal history that Tom Glessing painted some special Scenery for Joe Jefferson's Indianapolis debut in the play “Rip Van Winkle.”

rose bush on W. New York st. didn't’ feel like going on, either. At any rate, there isn't a sign

IN WASHINGTON «vv By Marquis Childs Greek Aid Program Needs Key Men

dispute. The commission is now in Geneva, Switzerland, struggling to write a report on which st least a majority of the group can agree.

Those who are working to put the team together are well aware of how much turns on its success. Failure might well mean the end of any further effort to use America’s economic power in building up the strength of and Democratic forces. The extremists on the left nd right in this country who have opposed the program would say, “I told you so.” Failure would also have the most far-reaching political significance. A year from now we would know -it if the program had bogged down badly. That would come on the eve of a Presidential election. It is just possible that certain statesmen on Capitol Hill may be aware of these political meanings. It is barely possible that this may be the explanation of the stalling tactics in the house. How nearly we can carry out a bipartisan foreign policy under our system of divided powers and fixed elections is becoming more and more of an uncertainty.

Positive Approach Needed WE SHOULD MAKE the effort more often to see ‘ourselves as others see us. The Greek-Turkish program was proposed on March 13 as an emergency program calling for the quickest possible action. Now, nearly two. months later, the final decision is still talked of as though there were a doubt of the outcome. - . In his recent press .conference, Harold Stassen said some very wise things about the futility of a

negative approach in foreign policy and the need for |

a positive, constructive approach. But how you get

a positive aproach with the great divide in Washing- |

ton, no one has yet said.

REFLECTIONS . ... By Robert C. Ruark - Psychiatry Is No Bellyache Cure .

Many a man has straightened himself out because, somebody told him an unpleasant truth whieh, heretofore, he had been unable to make himself believe. That, however, seems to be a different thing from the loud and frequent ballyhoo intended to -lead anybody who can read into darkened room for a

seance. The movies, the papers, the radio have flung

so much psychiatry at our heads lately that it is practically a social disgrace to regard yourself as fairly normal, reasonably uncomplicated. This sort of stuff: Ip the last month, Dr. Harriet O'Shea of Purdue university comes rolling out with the statement that 50 per cent of parents hate their children. According to Dr. O'Shea’s widely printed theory, a child may become a juvenile delinquent because his great-grandpappy disliked the child's grandfather.

Sign of Intelligence , BUT, continues Dr. Shea,” they can be helped by psychologists and it is a sign of intelligence when

people seek highly trairied help to straighten out their ~

family life.” Try another.

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chiatrist and author, naturally with a book to plug, ®

speaks over the air and is widely quoted on an assertion that American women are the unhappiest in the world. “They have no grasp of the real privilege of being happy, Integrated and of having some sort of consummate life,” she says. With such suggestions running steadily along, we will soon have quite a pleasant place here, with the women all sore and brooding about their souls, the parents hating the kids, and the rest of the population tied up in a mental bowknot as a result of either being in or not being in the army. With your permission I'd ‘like to tackle that army angle tomorrow. Selective service, it seems to me, was the biggest mile-

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FOREIGN AFFAIRS xr By William Philip Simms

Crisis in F that any tampering with this fund might prove disastrous, . Which brings up another of France's difficulties. She is trying to carry out her five-year Monnet reconstruction plan. This requires capital, too, especially dollar credits. A $300 million purchase of food at this time means a serious setback for national recovery. Frarice can not buy the necessary machinery —even the machinery to build other machinery required to put people to work making consumer goods. downward. » Communists on the Job LITTLE imagination is needed to

It is a vicious spiral whirling’ the eountry

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