Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 May 1947 — Page 12

nr a i OhG-word prescription for

ails it. are Leon Henderson, Paul Porter, Robert , Currie and other advanced thinkers planning and directing the government's sage the national economy before, during or recent war. of them are now laboring in other vineyards. measures they argue all have one purpose— ] { power, here and abroad. They want

10 per cent, under. guidance of a governd board, At the same time, they would Sy the 15-cents-an-hour wage-rise pattern widely and ; extend wartime support of farm prices; increase benefits &nd coverage of unemployment insurance; give th relief in ‘the lower income brackets; start a public housing program of 500,000 rental units a year; provide federal guarantees for another 1,500,000 housing units a year; lend $814 billion a year for economic reconstruction in other ~countri ete. wit, ue to the brilliant Mr. Bowles his learned associates, we still think the country would do well to heed another economic adviser who, by the record, has pee wiser than any or all of them. We mean. Bernard |

~ M. Baruch.

be placed over them all, including wages and farm prices. But Mr. Henderson didn’t believe that was advisable at the time. So wages and farm prices got a long head start in the spiral race that’s been going on ever since. i ‘Before world war II ended, Mr, Baruch predicted high . terzuld follow it. But Mr. Nathan and others of the Bowles group sold President Truman the theory that the government must’ encourage big general wage rises without price increases or see six to eight million people. jobless: by the spring of Jade. You know how well that turned out.

ME BaRuUCH'S present advice is summed up in a short word that we find emphasized nowhere in the Bowles program: Work. 2 “The world, he says, can’t be set right by borrowing money. If war's ravages are to be repaired, if we are to aid recovery abroad, if we are to have steadily rising living standards, economic health and national security, “men and women will have to work longer and Karder for some

om , pleasant rescription. It's too oldThat's not such a p 's fashioned for some of our great New-style Seondmists. Its

EE ee that It ued seat This country can maintain high employment. It can have higher wages and lower prices. It can escape recessions and depressions.

tools of production and enought plain, hard work to keep the volume of production rising, the unit costs of production falling and the markets expanding.

VENANTS, OPENL REACHED | OPEN COVENANTS, OPENLY REACHED

age of the foreign ministers’ meeting in Moscow by the American press as one reason for the failure to draft a German peace treaty. At the next conference he wants important proceedings kept secret until agreement has been reached. Yet he insists he does not want “any secret agreements. His position jsn’t clear. Nor has he shown that the so-called full coverage of the Moscow meeting contributed to that stalemate. Before the conference met there was little if any hope for agreement on a German treaty, because of the wellrecognized differences between the Russian and BritishAmrican positions. The meeting only emphasized the depth of these differences. If the Press separated this wheat from the chaff, that was no more than sound reporting. ¥ All the basic conflicts between the Soviet Union and the western powers stem from the loose, ambiguous terms of the Yalta and Potsdam agreements. Both of those were made by the kind of secret negotiations Mr. Bevin is talking about. And as to the agreements themselves, the full “scope of the one at Yalta is yet to be given to the world.If the differences among the great powers are insur--mountable, the sooner. that is understood the better. Then we can proceed to make the best of the situation, without delay. Occupied Germany has been allowed to drift into its present critical state because of too much wishful thinking in high places. General conditions will not improve until there have been drastic changes in policy. The republic understands the problems, and is entitled te know what the statesmen are doing about them. Too much secrecy got us into the jam we're in. More hush-hush won't get us out of it.

E POLITICS IN UNRRA DISILLUSIONING ‘story of UNRRA’s operations in

Europe has been brought to Washington by nine displaced persons who have been liberated from UNRRA camps.

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As one of the group put it, “We have been persecuted one year by thé Soviet, three years by the Germans and two years by UNRRA. : DNRRA camps, they charged, were opened to Soviet officers who were permitted to question the DP’'s : away. those they wanted. The organization's ! ith Communist agents and Soviet secret

., When refugees . rejected repatriation id the iron curtain, rations were reduced alories a lay. Other forms of pressure

ister our own relief re charged that this was putthere is abundant |

Long before Pearl Harbor, he told congress that, if | prices were to be controlled successfully, a ceiling first must | -

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Feeder Bus Service North of Fair" By Genevieve Sherrill Heckman, 4225 Ralston Ave, City I hope someone who wishes to go into business for himself sees the Wagner.Ellender-Taft bills which profit which could be made in what I am about to suggest. We need transportation out here north of the fair ows, between our war veterans at the peril of our : | American “way of life. which is to

46th and 42d, Keystone and Ralston. Yes, wé can ride’ the 524 at. Keystone Jus. but dere » seems hardly let things take their course as we

your right to say it."

Besides, it is four blocks to the bus stop. This acghboriwod {8 be-

“I do not agree with a word that you

will defend to the death « Yoltaire.

“WHY SHOULD VETERANS COMPLAIN ABOUT HOUSING?” By Disgruntled, Indianapolis I want to commend the American

Legion for its stand against the

+would provide cheap housing for

‘all know."

This adious. bill which would

DEAR BOSS . Washington Potpourri of Confusion

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ginning to fill up. The vacant lots are disappearing. It was more than coddle our boys by building homes crowded on that bus before most of the Marcy Village residents began ‘for them and implant Communistic

ey was used for

new homes being built in the same

the crowded | could get to

plight. We need transportation of

‘But'it can’t have these blessings without constant improved | sotice.

Thers are 4 1ot of votes out here.

“BUILDING FOR WAR WON'T BRING PEACE” Br 5: W. Dusche, 1140 N. Iiinels St.

All final conclusions reached in several investigations of Pearl

Every war fought by highly militarized nations was an ultimate loss to that nation. A big stick is merely oné type of bluff, and never accomplished anything. Persecution, concentration camps, firing squads, etc, never did and never will stop the onward march of. humanity to put a stop to that urge, war. Peacetime military conscription will give the “brass hats” the power that they can and will usé to the extent that it will make our past record of 76 invasions of foreign territory without a formal declaration of war, by a 17-year-oldster, look like a Suffday school pienie. ~~Theassumption that prepared« ness would prevent war is entirely problematic, and is not proven by

riding it. Now we have about 5)

'men, frequnt deaths, abolition of

{background of the nations of the | | world as a whole. | Early California days, two gun-

gun toting, situation relieved, as

{the ‘individual, so the family, the|

state, the nation, all nations, {building for war will never make

2 . » |“HERE'S MORE ABOUT YOUNG. GIRLS’ STYLES” By Aan ¥., indianapolis In regard to the article by “City Ladies” in May 14 Hoosier Forum. 1 would lke to know just who {these women consider they are. The good and better class of our citizens, they say. Probably a group of snooty and old women who can find nothing better to do with their time than gossip. Why base your opinion of young girls on four that you happened to see on the streets? {Pid you ever stop to consider how llittle a percentage that is of the total population of young girls in this city? Personally, I think you are stretching your imagination a little too far when you stated the girls were nearly naked. I grant you that you might see that on the beaches this summer, but hardly on the streets downtown, especially with our changeable weather. Do you think other citizens would allow such goings-on as you describe? If the manner of dress of the younger generation of girls is so shocking and shameful to you, why don't you stay home and tend to your knitting? Then you wouldn't be subject. to the shocking way we younger girls dress. Also, I think you are going way too far when you say the girls are to blame themselves for the increasiftig- number of women being -attacked these days. I doubt very much if you happened to be at-

someone. saying it was your own fault. ‘This world would be a lot better off without gossiping women

'sélves thé better and good-¢lass of {who

people. Rn

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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U. 8. PAT. OFF. "You're right—thoughtless husbands ruin many marriages! And that reminds me, | must order flowers for our golden wedding anniversary, because J now Henry Wiliorgatt®: :

either the historical or factual]

ideas into their heads that they have it coming deserves to be de- | feated. Maybe we will Rave race traoks,

| ball parks and hot dog stands built

jinstead for a while, but after a while it will all straighten itself out and we will have some homes again. Our boys don't want homes sponsored by the government anyway. They are willing to wait and let free enterprise take its course, knowing it will build homes for them.-if npt today then tomorrow or the day after maybe. Besides all this talk about a housing - shortage is just so much propaganda. Did our mayor, Genéral Tyndall, say that the housing shortage would be over June -1? Isn't it almost June 1? x Our boys don't even appreciate the homes they got at Stout Meld which don't look like barracks at all when you get used to them and are dry even in a hard rain most of the time. . Those other veterans in Tacoma Village don't seem to realise what a fine. thing the real estate men did who built those homes for them on a non-profit basis, or very little. They are worrying those poor men to death just because the windows won't shut. Now is that fair? I say what we need is more Americanism and less communism and everybody would be better off. So I say: : Hoo-ray for the Legion. Tt is the only veterans’ organization with enough courage to fight this thing of homes for veterans. ® . » “WOUNDED VETERANS HAVE HARD TIME FINDING JOBS”

By Ex-Pfe. Elbert U. Hatfield, 530 8S. Als Sama St,

1 have on reading your paper ever since I have been big enough to read 40-1 hope you can find a place in the Hoosier Forum for me. I am a wounded veteran back

tacked that you would appreciate!

‘of wounded. Ibe a burden ont any one.

from the hells of war. I dm just one out of a. thousand diabled vets who are looking for work and can't

get it because we aré disabled. What like you and who consider them- I want to know is, if these big shots

who-were fortunate enough to get deferred are afrald to give us a chance, what is to bécomeé of us. I

{hada good job before I went to

war but that job is too much for me now. I have my application in all over

the city. Even civil service hasn't

got an opening. We would have been better off if we would have beén killed instead At least we wouldn't

= 8 =» “WILL WE HAVE OPERA AGAIN THIS SUMMER?” By Opera Enthuiast, Graceland st. What ever happened to the plans the city had for summer opera here? I remémber well last sum-

"| mer's performance and liked it and

wonder if the idea is going to continue or was it just a orie summer stand?

Editor's Note: The e¢ity park department . will present suinmer opera again this year, due fo the acceplance of last year's offerings by the Indianapolis public. f » . “MODERN GIRLS LACKING A PROPER SENSE OF MODESTY” Hy OM Timer, Indianapolis . The Forum writer who took the younger generation of girls to task for the manner in which they dress

rand act toward men hit the nail

right smack on the head. Modern

'girls are smartealécky and dis

resepectful to their elders and have no sense of modesty. It was different when I was a girl 50 years ago. These young girls of today should

"Ibe made to do their share of work

2 Beggar's Te es OF ALL THE BEGOARS that used 0 some to our house when T was & little boy, I believe 1 liked Mr.

A 200th Anniversary HE DUG INTO THE DISH, discovered its condition, and pretended it was hot. At the completion of the meal, which was a. mighty good act the way he put it on, Mr, Vergoose pulled a greasy little book from somewhere in his coat, turned quickly to a well« worn page, and without a moment's hesitation read: “The man in the South, he buined his mouth, With eating cold plum porridge.” One of us kids, more realistic than the rest, pointed out the absurdity of anybody burning Nis mouth eating cold porridge; let alone getting it in print. Mr. Vergoose didn’t like the reprimand at all, I remember. As soon as it was uttered, he turned in the direction ‘of the smart aleck and, with some bitterness, said: “Mrs. Vergoose never makes a mistakéd.”

WASHINGTON, May 19.—Don't know whether you have been following the story or not, but » great hue and cry was raised around here when four western high school students walked out on a Russian woman who was telling the general assembly that she had a baby for free in the USSS and had to pay $150 for the same service in the U. 8. A. Of course the immediate American reaction .t0 such stuff could well be summed up in the saying: “Whatever you get for nothing, take very little of.” And everyone knows that state medicine is far from free. :

Reaction 'Back Home' NEVERTHELESS it was spring, so three girls and one boy slipped out-into the wide-spreading lawn -at Western, made some crayon gous pus ¢ of protest and be-

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‘to skip the way they did. The ldcal papers were filled

pressive that the youngsters were invited to the house side of capitol hill, praised for their great patriotism by Speaker Martin and given a.flag which had been flown over the capitol dome. The best thing that can be said about the whole incident is that Washington has an attack of spring fever and nobody seems’ to be immune. That it doesn’t sound so hot out in Indiana was brought to the attention of one of our statesmen here. He received a letter from Indianapolis. signed by 8 guy named Joe. It begins with the Western high incident and closes with a warning for congress to keep us out of war with Russia. Since it is so obviously. done in that high class Hoosier tomgue-in-

REFLECTIONS .

NEW YORK, May 19.—1 have been reading Ernie Pyle's last book “Home Country” . . . actually, it should have been his first, because it is a compilation of his early roving columns . . . ahd it seems to me that all the fame he amassed in the WaAf was Acquired on his second-best effort. It is amazing, really, that the importance of 1e cotld have been widely unrecognised for so long. Ernie wrote magnificent pieces for years. His series on the leper colony on Holokal should have won him 4 Pulitser prise—and a lot of us, I remember, said so at the time. But it wasn’t until he went to Eng land during the blitz that he started to go big.

He Knew the Ordinary Folk THE MOST COMMON QUESTION asked of thé ment Who knew Ernie is this: Why did it take so long for him to become nationally recognized? I think the answer is that the readers scooped the editors on Ernie. As 4 Boswell of the ordinary. guy he had been on the ball for years. It took a war,

nence by virtue of the seéléctive service act, to turn the hot light on Ernie. He didn't have to change his technique. It was as if, suddenly, his audience had discarded a blindfold. ° 1 can tell you something of the last days of Pyle because 1 was 4 navdl censor on Guam when he came out to the Pacific, 4nd I handled his pieces. There was never a more unhappy man. He was weary and confused by fame. He khéw he was going to get killed. He talked of little else. Ernie had left a woefully sick wife béhind him, He had ceased being the simple Pyle, and had reécognized that he had become a living legend, and I don't think he liked it. The navy, well-intentioned iit bumbling, had assigned one of his best friends, Lt. Cmdr. Max was supposed to act 4s 4 Buffer between Ernie and his following—guard mount at thé door and all that. The little fejow wha had made a byword of his simplicity was suddenly Being handled

FOREIGN AFFAIRS .

WASHINGTON, May 19.—Many top military men, diplomats and statesmen, here and across the Ate lantic, are warning that today we are right -back where we were in the middle 30's when the war could

have been stopped by the exercise of a little horse These same leaders agr: definition of that conflict

with Winston Churchill's “tHe unnécessary war.”

peace job differs but little from what it was then. Yet now, as then, theé-great powers are repeating the same fundamental a

Churchill s | s View View Supported THIS ITER'S ' eontain memoranda of three Se with some of the foremost French fnen in Paris in 1934, substantiating Mr. Churehill's thesis that world war IT was uhinécéssary. They were with the late Louis Barthou, foreign miinster; Frank. lin-Bouillon, head 61 the foréign relations committee of the chamber of reputids, and Piérre Oomere, of the Qual D'Orsay. “Germany,” said Pranklin-Bouillon, “is preparing for war (and) nothing can stop her except that knowledge that she can't win. France must have 4 strong governmégt of national union; also a strong army, and a strong Britain must join France in letting Germany know we stand together . . . there will be no war if the nations of Europe which want peace will unite to head it off.” Said Pierre Comere: “There are four tations $incerely desirous of péace, These are thé United States,

Prin, res Sein. aoa Risin hn, thre dre.

with the thing. The storiés and pictures were so im- °

. By Robert : Ruark

‘Ernie Pyles Early Writing His Best

when the “ordinary guy” suddenly achieved emi-

Max Miller, to Ernie as a sort-of bird dog. _

By William Philip Simms

World Situation like Middle 30's

And they add, not without bitterness, that the preset

Wis the first intimation ‘Me: WAS Suh Worn. Alter that wb od her; so much so, jideed, Wak we stuck

OR Ty An. 1000, vo heard tae Ta. 1

that day Mr. Vergoose turned, quite excite and te- i ported that he ‘had just celebrated the anni. WA Year of Mrs. Vergoose's marriage. , HE was. Awan Central ing something queer like that, oghition ¢ And then he went on to explain that sxaetly. 300 tomorrow years ago that day, Miss Elizabeth ,and mare Twe=hur tied Isaac Vergoose of Boston. In due time they had will recel a baby daughter who was so Jovely when she grew “Musie di Up that it Wan tleapd, thie aves of “Thomas Fiset of are: Pudding Lane with the Melt, of course, that the De got married. \ Jon, be "Well, When ft came tma for Mr. And Mis. Peel Huse) Klay to have a baby of their own (so ran the beggar's bars Reidy tale), Grandmother Vergoose had 23 jolly little OM rhymes of her own invention with which eset Alice. Amo the little one. She ended up with 154 mun. Fat

I remember our beggar saying that, \t we Kids Ma profited by the arithmetic taught at Public School 6, we'd know right away that Mrs. Vergoose eventually had seven. grandehlidren.

Last Appearance e on South Side 8 UR BROOAR he had every one of Mrs. | ule Bob — 154 Rw in the little book he carriéd i Sembies—Ma around with Mim and that he could recite them all | Tardy.” Boa without opening the book. To prove fi he did that 1 Paul Sawper very thing that day, ending up with: vl Roy, Start “Hickory, dickory, dock, g - Girl Sextl The mouse run up the clock; he, The clock struck one, and down he run, , § soins. Til Hickory, dickorw dock.” : A Boloiats—D After which he picked up his tattered op ahd i Jeovustyn : walked away, ‘remarking as he went: “Time and a Ladtin, Sam doom that hold us all and end us all are written in i ie these lines; Mrs. Vergoose never makes a mistake.” Olinghouse, After that memorable Thursday, I never saw our Dent Bie” beggar friend again. Nor did anybody else Uving on Woodwind the South side, E Koehring, Jt en . « By Daniel M. Kidney ; y ne om 1] mmm,

cheek ‘style 1 want to relay it to you verbatim. The letter tends: “Rankin takes up the time of congress % hero “ lot‘ of silly, ignorant, pimple-faced goslings because they walk out on a teacher. Homer gallops over the country on a broomstick with a Napoleon hat on with P. Revere printed on it yelling—'Mere comes the Reds.’ Mundt of that silly un-American Action Committee will investigate a teacher that told her pore little scholars a country in this world has gov- * ernment medicine. “And Bilbo sits at home having spasms because even this gang of fruitcakes won't let him play with them. The rest of congress investigates May to find out how he stole more than they did and $400,000,000 and otir sons to Turkey Nast and G& Nazi kings that helped Hitler while one. by gne wa___

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‘For the love of Mike-in. a damped insane asy-. lum like that—why couldn't you get up on your hind legs and stand far enough above them to command some respect? A man don't have to do much congress to get credit for having brains. Nothing good or bad except by comparison and any grade Saloon bum ought to rate A+plus in that vongress,

New Label for Taft “SLAP HOMER DOWN. Tell him that they won't take his juke box factory away from Him. Tell Taft he can continue to be a make-believe nobleman. They can't if they get us in war with Russia” Maybe the statésman who received this Missive will stand up and be counted. When he does it will be a8 a party-liner—Republican party that is.

DAN KIDNEY.

a8 A Hollywood celebrity, and it puzsled and ane noyed him. Ernie was now a production, and Ernie had nevef been a production before. Maj. Pete Eldred, an old friend from the European theater, used to sneak in for a quick drink with Ernie then. I was To intimaté of Pyle's, bit I was & momentatily displaced memibér of the samé firm, and we used to go to some of the same parties back home. He reached eagerly for an opportunity to talk to the old facés—the pre-Puilitder pride, pre-Time-cover, pré-pérsonal équerry faces. ; He didn't get much time to spend on Ris own pleasure... The navy threw a barricade around him. He had to see this admiral, that general, this selected, carefully. culled séaman. Somé of thé timé he sat, lonely, in his room in the BOQ. because of the wall about him. When he got a chance to talk, though, he talked of death—of how he never should have come to the Pacific; how he felt that he had run through his chances. His §loom rode him like a heavy pack. I censored s few batches of his copy-<acocounts of the: trip out, of sometime he spent with the B-20's, but it wasi't the old Pyle I remembered. It was the competent. pro doing a compétent, preoccupied job. Along about then I went off to Australia dnd Ernie went to Iwo. I never knew a man less enthusiastic abotit 4 journey.

Premonition Fulfilled SOME WEEKS LATER the boots in the Prince of Wales hotel ii Melbotirte Brought the morning papers, and on the front page of the JArgus” was a héadliné which Said 4 noted war correspondent had

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béen killed. T It 18 strange to recall now, but it seems to me JUNI 1 nodded my head,as if in confirmation. Pyle had calléd his own shot, lorig ago, and I had béén as MN

certain of his accuracy a8 Frine himsélf had been, Insofar as his death was concerned, it was just—&matter of when, wheré and how, from the ifstant J he stepped aboard the outbound plane from Ban Prancisco. v

Gérmatly and Japan. If the four nationd ean find a way to make felt their united desire for peace, neithér: Germany nor Japan will dare start Anything. There will be no wir.” ' Foreign Minister Barthou had flst returned trom’ a peace-promotign trip to Warsaw. He éxpressed approximately the same sentiments as the other two and added that he had seen Germans drilling along the railway line all the way #across y. That not only Burope, but even France and Britain, failed to stand together against war is now history. It is also 4 matter of record that if the British and French had followed the advice of Barthou, Franklin-Bouillon; .Comere and others, and had 3 stood firm against. Hitler, he would have backed do

The record ‘18 conclusive that Mr. Churentil is \ right in calling world war IT “the unnecessary wat.” TT Yet when he and other European leaders again call on Europe to unite to save the pedce, thers 18 evie dence that words are still falling on deaf” ears. Russia Is Obstacle Now. A . Vv BACK IN the 30's, it was Hitler's reich that Ju opposed the European pedce bloc. - He said the bloc was aimed against Germdny. Today Stalin's Russia : 1s the obstacle. Moscow says the bloe » “uted against: Russia, © Yet now, as before, “the le pur- Cotto pose of a unitéd demodratic Europe (Mt. it’s poplin words) is to give decisive guarantees against ag crepe’ gression.” T Today the same big four—Russia, Britain, France the b Apa the Uutied Btates—hold the key to peace. - Or, clothe, happened in the 30's they the sense to “fy Wat Iu 3. the key 4.790 another mnscemsary war. a