Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 May 1947 — Page 20

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WELCOME TO THE ROASTING!

"Indianapolis, out-state and other parts of the country,

iron dinner tonight at the Murat temple,

directors of the satirical skits is lampooned. Guests for the affair include, in addition to a number ~ of persons eminent in journalism; Governor Kim R. Sigler of Michigan, Governor Thomas J. Herbert of Ohio, Will 'H. Hays, former postmaster general; Judge Sherman Minton, of the U. 8. circuit court of appeals at Chicago; Clarence Budington Kelland, author and Republican national

in which Indiana politics

Capehart and Jenner, House Majority Leader Charles Halleck, and most of the Indiana delegation in congress. Governor Ralph F. Gates, who is a member of the club, is the “hero” of the hectic drama, which covers local as well as state polities. : Jt Title: of the presentation is “Fidgits of ’48,” which applies to the’ political ambitions of Hoosiers for national and state office in the elections next year.

HANDICAP TO ECONOMY T is possible that, in some cases, congressional pruning of "the federal budget will go harmfully too far. : But the government costs so much more than it should that reckless economy is a lesser danger than reckless extravagance. And the heads of federal departments and agencies, of their own accord, never will make such savings as are possible and necessary. So we aren’t impressed by the Washington spenders’ anguished cries of, “Woodman, spare that tree!” each time the economy ax touches a bureaucratic bough. Most agencies, we think, can finance their really essential activities with many fewer dollars from the taxpayers. J Yet congress should know more about what it is trying to do. A good deal of the cutting shows little evidence of accurate information and careful thought. Thanks to the La Follette-Monroney reorganization act, the appropriations committees now have more experts and investigators than ever before, and they should be equipped to do a better job in the future. Tu We believe, though, congress always will be handi- ~ capped in economy efforts unless the huge, sprawling federal bureaucracy is simplified and its methods brought up to date. The machinery of the government's executive - branch is so complex that the people can’t understand it, the President can’t supervise it properly and congress can't control it. It is a baffling maze of duplicated effort, overlapped authority, waste and inefficiency. : Two Republicans--Senator Lodge of Massachusetts and Representative Brown of Ohio—have proposed a hopeful remedy. They suggest a thorough study of the executive branch by a bipartisan commission, including six private citizens recognized as authorities on management. The President and congress would join in naming the commission. It would report in January, 1949, on how to substitute modern management methods for the present bureaucratic disorder. ? This. Lodge-Brown plan, we believe, promptly should be authorized by congress. The proposed commission’s task will be long and difficult, and the sooner it gets started the better, Fx rng ;

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SOVIETS CALL OUR HAND UGOSLAVIA and Albania have informed the United Nations Balkan investigating eommission that its agents will not be permitted to enter their countries to investigate alleged interference in Greek affairs. This revolt against an authoritative attempt by the United Nation's security council to maintain order in an area threatened by Communist aggression undouhtedly has been encouraged by congress’ delay on the Truman GreekTurkish aid program. + Bulgaria has indicated it also will defy the commission. ~ Governmental crises forced by the Communists in France - and Italy suggest that the Soviets have started a new war of nerves all-along the line. ; . This deliberate challenge to the United Nation’s basic purposes should dispose of the fallacious argument that American relief for Greece and Turkey should have been channeled through the United Nations. If the Soviet bloc will not co-operate to prevent acts of war on the Greek border, it certainly is not likely to support a relief program for the hard-pressed Greeks. And Russia's vote alone could kill such a program. It is reasonable to assume that the Slav challenge to United Nations authority was well calculated, whatever its immediate or long-range purposes. A provision. of the . United Nations charter requires all member states to “Maccept and carry out” decisions of the security council. The council had directed its Balkan commission to establish , Observers in the troubled area, and that order is binding on + Yugoslavia and Albania as United Nations members. The next chapter in this new phase of the Greek situa- + kion will be written at Lake Success, for the Balkan commission has referred the issue raised by Yugoslav-Albanian defiance back to the security council. That invites a showdown which may determine the future usefulness of the organization, as now constituted, for if it cannot maintain ~ order in the Balkans it cannot deal with any other serious threat to peace. r raf Hi Em. v an PUT the major issue involved here may be decided by the " United States itself, long before the Balkan controversy |

situation may get out of hand. The , may go on the rocks. , the Russians are pushing ahead. anything more than talk, we had President's message to corigress pause in the Communist

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BEFORE a distinguished group of 1000 Hoosiers from

the Indianapolis Press club presents its first ‘annual, Grid-

: # ~° The men who write the news for the newspapers and those you hear over the radio are the authors, actors and

committeeman - from Arizona, and, of course, Senators

can be reviewed by the security council, 1

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your right to say it." — Voltaire.

agree with = word thaf you I will defend to the death

the two days to be set aside and changed. by some’ other ideas.

the idea of Stopping it altogether,

get on the band wagon. . P.-T. A. groups, the Woman's

Voters and many others could take an organized stand against the of thesagtwo days. I, for one, heartily detest the whole thing and I know many more resent the false position in: which the parents are placed. No lavender and old lace or halos for me. And I always draw a sigh of relief when it is over. The press, radio and sometimes the pulpit come in for their share of criticism, too. Having had a devoted, loving and beloved mother, as well as an equally fine mother-in-law, doesn’t keep me from seeing that the special observance of these days is wholly unnecessary and decidedly out of handy 5 » = “REMEMBER, CITY JOKERS, GOD IS WITH THE FARMER” By B. F. L,, Colfax Is the war over or why are 'the people wanting -to change the time. Does it benefit anyone but the golfers, and if he is so crazy to play golf let him buy a railroad lantern, tie the balls to it and. then he can see to hunt them for railroad lanters will not go out. "This changing time mdkes a mess for the farmer and what we want to know is did the golfers play any part in winning the war. They only helped to make a shortage of rubber in buying the balls. Like our government told us, we were short of lumber to build houses to store-our sugar in so farmers had to plow their sugar beets under and that made a shortage of sugar. for us. Now remember the farmers helped to build the court houses and they should have a part in running it.

"Too Much Commercialism Surrounds Mother's Day

By Mrs. H.R. McKinstray, Indianapolis On Mother's day. Well, here we go. It's about to be her day and then in a few weeks, his day. Many fathers and mothers are like the recalcitrant youngster who is being forced to take a dose of -gocey, sticky medicine because it's good for him. If the high pressure advertising connected with these two days isn't curtailed they are going to kill the goose that laid the golden egg because everyone, generally, is heartily sick of it. Christmas, Easter, Valentine’s day, birthdays afford ample opporturiities for remembrance and thoughtfulness on the part of children toward their parents, to say nothing of daily affectionate concern, so there is no sensible reason for

celebrated, as they are. It started|Also so they should have a say on *with an idea and can be stopped or|the serambly-amhly time mess for

Af someone with the gift of the clocks like a bunch of kigs. Now leadership could ‘only take hold of|

{can make it tough on the farmers many, like myself, would certainly but it looks liké God is with them

Department club, League of Women |

(“RUN CITY POLICE LIKE

they seem to be just playing with

temember, city jokers, you think you

for with the strikes that are about to take place as it looks like’ God is with the farmers by this weather, {as it has been, it's going to help {starve the city ‘people. For the {farmers will plow their small grain {under, shake the fruit from the trees. They will make the telephone strike seem like a sissy, and all other strikes, too, for the Democratic party has played with the time and made a mess of it. It also will be a scrambled egg time if they keep it up, and such a mixup as there will be, I only hope and pray our country has sense enough to let God's time be good enough for them, for one thing sure, you cannot change the sun. » » » ROSSOW DOES STATE €OPS” By the Observer, City I think the most depressing news in the papers is our Indianapolis crime situation. Is it the young folk, many of whom lost their sense of values in the last war? Is it parents who just don't seem to care about their kids any more? Maybe it is just. the general unrest in the world today. Or maybe that people just don't respect the good old solid things in life that they used to. Certainly the antics of our. police force of late haven't helped things any. It was certainly disillusioning to learn that not all policemen are not the good kind of people like several. who are my friends and whom I know to be honest men, proud of their uniform. This is an election year and 1 hope something is done to straighten up our police force. Look at the good job Col. Rossow, has apparently done in bucking up our state police force. Why can’t we have the

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“I'M TIRED OF READING COCKTAIL TYPE COLUMNS” By H. E. M., Salem st. I don't know what has happened to this new crop -of newspaper columnists. It used to be that a man could settle down in his favorite

favorite newspaper (The Times) stoke up his pipe and, after scanning the news pages, comics and sports ection gnjoy a number of columnists who really knew what they were talking about. I do enjoy the writings of Mr. Hoover and Mr. Scherrer. This fellow Othman is very amusing and I enjoy his writings, but why are so

of him? I think Erskine Johnson writes drivel and Ruth Millett reads as though she is hard put to find enough stuff to prove her thesis that women are a race apart, a sort of secret army that will some day arise to throw off their shackles. (My wife seems happy enough. I hope she doesn't discover Miss Millett’s column.) Just who is this Marlow fellow.

William Philip Simms. And this guy Ruark! His stuff- sounds just like cocktail party patter—all clever, breezy language out of the side of the mouth without a solid thought in a pageful. And, this being Indiana, why don't you get a farm columnist? I don’t mean someone who discusses pig crops and corn—I'm not a farmer and if I was I'd get that kind of stuff elsewhere like out the bulletins Purdue university puts out. But I would like to read someone who would express the philosophy of those close to the soil, who had the feeling of rural life and the clean, fresh air living that it is. I'm tired of reading second-hand reports from the cocktail parties of Washington, » » » “EVEN THE WEATHER I8 DIFFERENT THESE DAYS”

bry far Ter peng an oldtimer since I have only lately begun to worry about how thin my hair is getting on top, but it seems to me that even I-can say “things ain't what they used to be.” . Lots of your readers have commented on how changing times have cut the value of the dollar, what has happened to the housing situation, how the world itself has changed politically and the labor unrest .in our country. But have very many realized that even the weather is different? Correct me if I'am wrong, but it seems to me that last winter wasn't as cold as before—only nastier and longer lasting. And it seems that even springtime and summer are longer in coming. Last summer wasn't the scorcher like many I remember. In fact, looking back, it seemed all too short. And, then, maybe I am just being impatient for the warm weather

ing and putter around in my yard all IT want to.

[to hurry the season along, will you?

strike. Is it ever going to end? And

See what you can do, Mr. Editor,

: ® 8 » ‘WANT TO SETTLE DOWN TO GOOD OLD LIVING WAY” By R. D. C., City Telephone strike, gas strike, truck

whatever happened to that Claypool strike? “Are they going to tramp the streets right through the summer? . I just wish we could get this labor trouble all ironed out so we could settle down to some good old-fash-ioned American lving. I dom't know who is at fault—the manufacturers jacking up prices for materials and goods or the workers, asking for more and more money. But I sure wish we could have some peace,

DAILY THOUGHT Now therefore, our God, -the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, who keepest covenant and mercy, lét not all the trouble seem little before thee, that hath come upon us-—Nehemiah 9:32.

OPEN thy gate of mercy, gracious God! CL My soul flies through these wounds

chair in the evening, pick up his

many others just poor imitators:

He's as dull as Marquis Childs and |

Hoosier Supported

|SAGA OF INDIANA:

“WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT!" This was the ‘world’s first telegram. It was sent from the supreme

“| court room in Washingion, D.C, to Baltimore, Md,

{0 miles away, May 2¢, 1844. — : Behind this message stands a Hoosier in the | shadow of $30,000. Without this message, nobody can say with finality that a telegraph message would » ever have been sent anywhere in the world at any time. Once sent, it set the tempo or the modern world. :

Argues for Wireless

ABOUT THE HOOSIER: He was David Wallace, One day in Washington, D. ©, he chanced to meet four men who had argued to a deadlock. Two were for it. Two were skeptically opposed. The bone - of contention was a $30,000 congressional appropriation. Samuel PF. B. Morse wanted the United States congress to appropriate that amount to build the first telegraph line in the world. Mr. Wallace] with the four men arguing, was a member of the committee of the house of representatives that was to approve or deny the appropriation. After investigation, Mr. Wallace approved the appropriation. He pleaded convincingly in open session in the house for a favorable vote on it, Mr. Morse got his $30,000. The world got its first telegraph line. David Wallace was congressman from the seventh Indiana district. This included six counties—Vigo, Clay, Putnam, Parke, Vermillion and Hendricks. He was elected in 1840, and was on the influential ways and means committee. Mr. Wallace was a Scotsman. His great-grand-

IN WASHINGTON . . . By

# WASHINGTON, May 8~—The visitor from Mars— and if we accept the word of our more romantic ‘scientists, he may be here any day now—is bound to find many puzzling ‘contradictions on our troubled planet. Here in the United States, he is certain to be confused by the way in which the word monopoly is bandjed back and forth. It figures largely in the drive for restrictive labor legislation. The National Association of Manufacturers is spending a great deal of money on advertisements hitting at industry-wide bargaining. The public is being told that this is a monopoly of a little clique of labor leaders. But curiously enough, at the same time we find the N. A. M. growing red in the face with anger at anyone who dares to say that monopoly in the ownership of business is growing at a new and accelerated pace. It is only “left-wingers” and “collectivists” who would dare to say such a thing.

Attacks FTC Report

EARL BUNTING, head of N. A. M., attacks a report issued by the federal trade commission. Now the federal trade commission is a respectable old-line agency that existéd long before the fiew dedl was ever heard of. Yet Mr. Bunting interprets the report as sinister evidence that the FTC has been captured by “left-wingers.” a

refute the FTC report on the growth of monopoly: He, or his economists for him, takes the number of corporations that have been absorbed by merger since

Transition Into a Sol

NEW YORK, May 8—I sure hope they don't snatch Dr. C. Charles Burlingame's medicine pouch for saying that the psychologists are endangering the mental health of the nation by crying their wares too loud and too often. — Dr. Burlingame, a practicing psychiatrist himself, has just annqunced that his eolleagues are filing the heads of “our cbmmon folk full of personal ghost stories, to a point where they are fretting about their

Dr. Burlingame, psychiatrist-in-chief of the institute of living, has ‘turned traitor to the guild by saying flatly that it is uncriket to go around planting suspicions of instability in the lay mind. There are enough nuts loose, he infers, without creating a surplus by power of suggestion.

Still Legally Sane

SOMETHING of - what the doctor says can be found in the field day that psyche-feelers have created out of the late war. THere seems to be a campaign on to convince all the veterans that if they haven't started to twitter yet, it's only a matter of time before they wind up in the eaves. Although, as a graduate of the late mess, I am still legally sane, I am personally planning to. go crackers in a couple of years, just to keep the soothsayers happy. ; ’ Speaking recently before the American College of Physicians, was Dr. William C. Menninger, psychiatric consultant to the surgeon general. In a voice of doom, the doctor succeeds only in adding to the mental load of men, who already have been sufficiently harassed by war and peace, Dr. Menninger says that the wartime discharge of men on neuro-psychiatric grounds—that meant the guy didn’t like the army—outnumbered discharges for all physical reasons’ except wounds. He says that for every man medically discharged, there is statistica] evidence that at least five other men were “seen” by psychiatrists for some personality disorder that did not lead to discharge. In addition he says 150,000 soldiers were let out through admin-

British Need an Ou

WASHINGTON, May 8—The British are expected to give up their Palestine mandate, probably before the year is out or, at least, accept the final recommendations of the United Nations.

The reason is this: Palestine-has got out.of hand, 80 far as the British are concerned. Two alternatives -remain: One is to send in reinforcements and engage in an all-out “colonial war” against the Jews, and the other is to dump the whole problem into the lap of the United Nations. Theoretically, of course, there are other possible courses. Britain, for instance, might say to the Zionists: “All right, you win, From now on, the doors to Palestine will remain open. Send in your emigrants.” Or she might evacuate the country, saying: “Now Jews and Arabs can fight it out.” Or she might say to the United States: “You took our 'Greek and Turkish commitments off our hands; now do the same for us in Palestine.”

Not. Suitable Outs for Britain

BUT BRITAIN can't take any of these outs. The first and second courses mean abject surrender, and there is a limit to the prestige which she can afford to lose. The third is out of the question because the United States hasn't the slightest idea of taking over of this particularly hot potato. di Britain's best, if not her only out, therefore, would seem to be the United Nations. Dr. Abba Hillel Silver, chairman of the American section of the Jewish Agency for Palestine and of the§American Zionist

‘Emergency Council, told a small gathering here * playing both ends against the -middle.

«to seek out thee. . y —Shakespeare.

Monday that he questioned Britain's sincerity referring the issue fo the United Nations. =

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Rusk “~ -

sanity when they should be worrying about the rent.’

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father, Andrew Wallace, came to America with his

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_His father, Andrew Wallace, married Eleanor Jones, who was probably the niece of John Paul Jones.

The family moved from Miffin county, Ps, where

David Wallace was born April 14, 1799, first to Troy, O.,

and then to Cincinnati: : . Here the elder Mr. Wallace ran a couple of newspapers for two years, and moved to Brookville, Ind. where he ran a tavern. Here David, the oldest of seven brothers studied law under Miles O. Eggleston. He practiced law at Brookville, was a member of the Indiana house of re tatives; lieutenant-gov-ernor under Noah Noble; moVed to Covington-in,.1832, where he was elected governor of Indiana in 1837. In 1840, Wallace was defeated for re-election as

governor, This was caused by the two most construc-

tive things he did in a. lifetime: ONE: His support of the internal improvement

plans in Indiana that collapsed in the panic of 1837,

to leave a bad taste in everybody's mouth, . TWO: His part in the appropriation of $30,000 to “launch the first telegraph line in the world.

Political Career Ended

WHEN HE tried to explain his record on the

telegraph, they chanted: “This fellow voted $30,000

for the electro-magnetic telegraph.” He was snowed

under at the election. This ended his political career. He did, however, salvage the honor of presiding at a mass meeting in Indianapolis Aug. 17, 1888, to Selsbra the construction of the first trans-Atlantic: cable. r

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1940 and compares it with the total number of business firms. ‘Thus he reaches the conclusion that, at this rate, it would take a thousand years to monopolize American industry and therefore we are perfectly safe. . In so doing, he ignores the major conclusion of the report. That was the fact that the 1800 com. panies which were merged with larger companies represented 5 per cent of the total value of all manu-

place in the last two or three years

Not Important Point

THE TOTAL number of companies portant point. The important point is which is not to be derided as the wingers and collectivists. Five per cent is a chunk of our economy. The threat of merger and -absorption is a very real one to thousands businesses throughout the country.

Naime-calling is so silly and futile. It is always the

last resort of a man with a bad case or a bad conscience. nw -If congress is going to attack the labor monopoly by law, as the N. A. M. wants, then congress cannot very well ignore the monopoly that exists in many fields of business. There seems to me to be little point in arguing which monopoly came first. Indus-try-wide bargaining may have grown up because of the existence of industry-wide trade associations and industry-wide price-fixing. But like the argument over which came first, the chicken or the egg, this is irrelevant. hn . :

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istrative channels whefl they really should have been given the bourice as i

All this is offered as documentation to the theery -

that one of these days everybody will’ be twitching and muttering—except maybe the psychiatrists. “K surely reflects that army life was diffioult and exacting,” Dr. Menninger continues, “and our way of life had nof prepared many American youths for such demands. It probably indicates s eritical state of affairs in the American family.” Let us assume that this fuzzy statement, first, is going to do no good if it plants an unhealthy seed in the brains of men who had a pretty rough time and are just beginning to get back on the ball. And

then, for the sake of commentary on psychiatric

thinking, consider the ‘reasoning of a man ‘who wil predicate a criticism of the American family on the fact that man is maladjusted to war.

I should hate to rear a youngster who could bounce

through a war without being a& touch ruffled in the process. The transition from ball bat to flame thrower was mighty swift. Anybody who was truly “adjusted” to war was a real case for the Section 8 croaker with the thick glasses.

'Psycholagist's Son Kills Cops’

AS TO THE STATISTICS-wthey were madhouse statistics, hurriedly gathered. War was a madhouse, and the men who wandered in and out should SCarce-

ly be ‘annoyed with them now, especially when you °

weonsider that the average time allotted to the aver-

age examination wouldn't be sufficient to determine whether a guinea pig wasn't a racehorse. The only thing you can prove conclusively by military statistics is how many went in and how many came out. Using the psychiatric technique ef employing a weird and isolated incident to prove a broad point, I will now proceed to show that all dabblers into the soul and brain are unfit candidates for parenthood. This is a recent headline from Philadelphia: “Psychologist’s Son Kills Two Cqps!” And the text said that although the boy's mother is a noted child psychologist, the boy had been arrested 19 times in connection with robberies, three times for car theft.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

tin Palestine

London, he said, had declared in advance that the government did not intend to be bound by the United Nations’ recommendations. He recalled with some - bitterness that Foreign Secretary Bevin, after turning down President Truman's request to open up Palestine, hagiioffered a substitute. That substitute, he said, was an Anglo-American committee of inquiry whose

unanimous recommendations-in turn were rejected by

Mr. Bevin. : : Realistically, however, observers both here and overseas. are inclined to doubt that Britain has much choice in the matter. She has been forced to cut her commitments in India, Burma, Egypt, Greece, Turkey and other parts of the globe and, given half a chance, probably will do so in Palestine.

Reds Seem Arab Backers

IN-THE NEAR EAST, Britain has to deal with more than the Jews. She also has to reckon with thie Arabs and, indirectly, with the entirely Moslem world. Russia may back the Jewish agency's right to a

. voice in the United Nations because she knows it

would embarrass the British. But in the Middle East, and on the larger, long-term issue of Jew versus Arab, Russia seems definitely.in the Arabs’ corner. The United Nations certainly would appear to be

~the ideal authority to settle the dispute. . : Clearly, Palestine is—or is fast becoming—a danger |

to the peace, A United Nations decision will force

a show ,of hands. Britain, Russia and every other

member will have to stand up and be that, it will.be difficult for any one of

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