Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 May 1947 — Page 14

't raise their boys They sent their oldest off to Germany and Japan, and they want to keep r ones at home. That's easy to understand. it wm military training won't make them solThey will remain civilians, under the control of a ian commission of which no member can be a soldier. CST gl “i = =» IV military training is precisely that—train- : ing. It is a long-range program to teach each boy for ‘ane year, whenever he can best spare the time between his 17th and: 20th birthdays, just what will be required of him if his country ever has {o go-to war again and he is drafted to fight. While in training, he avill not be subject to the articles of war. Instead, he will live under a special code of conduct, x up by a committee of civilians. For minor offenses, rai will try each other. _ | He will pot be sent overseas. He will not be liable for any future military service unless there is war. If war comes, he can be drafted. But he would be drafted anyway.

: CE em .- . MOTHERS would want their boys—if world events force

Hoosier Forum

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

‘want their boys, if they must become soldiers, to live to

: Universal military training is good insurance for that,

2 detailed news reporting of meetings of the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers. "In this; he disagrees with the Birtish foreign secretary, finest Bevin, who complained the other day that the “openness” of news coverage, especially by the American had been one of the greatest handicaps of the council's recent Moscow meeting. "Certainly the difficulty of international negotiations is great. It may, on occasions, be increased if, as Mr. Bevin Sut it, “every word which is said is reported by the press,” and if appeals to passion and prejudice find their way into Headlines. * But, Secretary Marshall observes, the remedy is not "Secrecy and suppression of coverage. The rémedy lies in fewer appeals to passion and prejudice. The Moscow eeting, he points out, twice tried secret sessions, and both ere wholly unproductive. We would add that a great present troubles stem directly from the complete of the wartime conferences at Yalta and Potsdam. We agree with Secretary Marshall that general news ‘Soverage of such negotiations is “very important.” The orld’s people need, and are entitled, to know what goes on meetings that concern their future. And the press of merica and other countries never should forget that the ight to report freely carries with it a great responsibility for accuracy and self restraint.

wh FREEDOM TRAIN E accept fresh air and sunshine as a matter of course. *T As the decades and- generations have accumulated in What after all is our comparatively short life as a nation, we have come more and more to take freedom as an inheritance “for keeps.” : * The right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, and all that, habeas corpus, hemes your castle, freedom of expression—those things written in the -declaration of ‘independence and the constitution we have assumed were things the founding fathers handed us in fee simple and in perpetuity. That's been our attitude, even through two world’ wars when democracy and our way of life were desperately at stake. “Not until world war II was over in its fighting’stages did we begin to rub our eyes and wake up to the realization that our way of life was clashing with the way of most f the rest of the world; that totalitarianism was running smuck, and that even our British cousins were going socialistic. 2 : It remained for our attorney general, Tom Clark, to dramatize what was happening. In effect, he said, let's take notice of our blessings; let's recognize that freedom itself needs attention and promotion; that eternal vigilance is in truth the price of liberty. So he headed up an organization to “sell” what centuries of struggle and rivers of blood had brought us, and what we so carelessly have Accepted as indelible, “4 We must read way back beyond our declaration of * independence and our constitution to get that full story of the fight of man versus the state. We must revert to Runnymede and the Magna Carta and review all the King and Charleses and Georges and Charlemagnes and ; Khans, and all the other emperors and tyrants ] ally, from Alexander to the Hapsburgs and the-Hohen-golle to Joe and Tito—they being all off the same bolt of cloth, £ So now here comes the freedom train. It will take off from Philadelphia Sept. 17, anniversary of the adoption of . constitution. It will tour the country and display those

g rights.”

"Terrific Smugness About So Many Patriotic Bodies; Need New Blood"

By One Whe Could Belong, City I notice by The Times Saturday paper that you congratulate Indians and Mrs. O'Byrne, a Hoosier, on her election as head of the D.A.R. Well, I read the story in the paper: the night before and I want to disagree violently with some of the things this new head the Daughters of the American Revolution seems to stand for. of the record, my folks landed in Massachusetts thought of a “revolution,” and how the dear ladies at the word, and one of my ancestors was 8 another was an ensign in the army. Enough of that. What I want to quarrel with is the statement in the news tem about restricting immigration. = = 8

RIGHT, MR. SECRETARY :

of the members of the D. A. R.|ADEQUATE SHELTER HERE" come from, anyway? They weren't By Thelma Lyons, 3502 Central Ave. Indians. Mine happen to. have! I read with interest the article come from England as indentured by Eldon Roark, published in The servants. And there are many Times, regarding the Humane BSopeople in Europe today who would ciety in Columbus, O. make just as good citizens as the The newly organized Indiana 8. descendants of, to take my own |P. C. A. hopes to accomplish just such a project in Indianapolis with|Pleasant. wes the bound servant gil who |e oo cp re Srecyone became the mother of one of Co e. " knows. the. . deplorable plight of| With, so that both homeless dogs in Indianapolis and| Would have a Marion county (even visitors to the Shae DIAS 10d 3 on. city comment on it). ..I sometimes patriotic societies these days. We hops goon to the butid- | 1 in the ; ing of an adequate shelter and spinster’s life is a clinic for unwanted and homeless | dogs and cats and to build up an

DEP Wi 0 Bow, nq hey organization as efficient as the one

“spokes in the wheel.” There is a terrific air of smug-

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“HOMELESS DOGS NEED AN

“HERE'S ONE SPINSTER WHO IS TRULY LONESOME"

in Columbus and Boston. Anyone who is interested, please call or write the Indiana 8 P. C. A. at

this country to those who 108 EB. Washington, a.

standards. They will | <pARENTS HOLD CUE TO bring hew Vigor to. us. And We Sure | JUVENILE DELINQUENCY"

By H. D., Irvington The article by Noble Reed in The

“GROWN-UPS MIGHT BE Times Wednesday about the proMODEL FOR TEEN-AGER” bation staff of the juvenile court By. Another Teen-Ager, City There has been some comment in your paper about the way young girls dress and how we're supposed |. .i0 it at the root, the home. to have bad manners and ¥ry 10|yes there must be harmony bes attract the men. I suggest taking at some of the older women and the way they dress and their mahners and how they try to attract the men. kids would show up so bad in that kind of a comparison. Most of those who write the criticisms of teen-agers probably are just as bad

here working on the parents to cut

looks like Judge Hoffmann is ate

instilled in his.

are in some towns I'm

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child delinquency hits a most ime portant factor in this problem. It

tween parents and more unselfish attitudes in family life, as the judge says. A good home background, and it doesn’t have to be a home with economic advantages either, will do more to combat juvenile delinquency than anything else. The schools, the churches and the courts can help—but home holds the key to respect for the rights of others down in their hearts as they would{and for proper conduct. More try to have you believe we are. The kids I know are o. k. Not all the

power to a8 court with the philoso-

phy Judge Hoffmann seems to have | HEART OF N

WITH HARRY TRUMAN"

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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‘our freedom which we so nonchalantly have ac- | |

lot about that freedom train. along the road and cheer it on or domestic Jesse, James

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general for prompt. fo do somethi

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1|'. - DAILY THOUGHT 29 ave; sug sive lms. His Aljs were money put to > | interest he of fo do something about my teeth, Miss Brown! Will you call | In the other world. tist of yours, the one you said was booked through !

uly?" —Robert, Southey.

First Mustache Was

THE PIRST MUSTACRE of record In Indian.

them spolis waa the one worn by Nathaniel West ciros 1040, there was neck

And the reason we know about it today is because a that certain literary lady of the time rushed into print ,uaacity. It with the news. The punch line ‘ SM they were on chronicled by a paper of the period ran aa follows: “For fear Indianapolis that they should kiss him, hes when I was a raised a. tharn-hedge on his lip." Jason It appears, however, that de~ i the Iady coyid 40 this type of

represented a growth of anywhere from 30 years; which is to say that I had the luck to see them at their best. The long beards, I remember, always impressed me most. 1 had almost ‘forgotten all about it, but it all came back to me a couple of years ago when the Townsendites had a convention in Indianapolis.

Or, for that matter, the beards worn by B. O. Atkins, Dr. BE. CO. Wright, Willlam Watson; Woollen and Judge Byron K. Etliott. ; Every one of theip beards covered the last button on their vests. The best the Townsendite eould do was to hide his necktie. > Another beard that éaught my boyish fancy was the so-called “mutton chops” or “sideburns.” Barbers who knew their stuff called them “cotelletes.” O. A. R. veterans called them “burnsides,” probably because of the general who gave them distinction. 1 never could make up my mind whether I liked

and Dr, Oharles Parry. i She Indicates Big Ideas the man with a

bearded chin and a smooth-shaven upper lp. Mr. Schwomeyer, our grocer, oultivated this style. And so did Willlam Rockwood, Augustus Spiegel and John Thomas who used to run the big mills down on McCarty st. Nearly alway such a was a sign of a man with big ideas

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THe “goatee” or “imperial” which represented the first earnest effort to bring the mustache and beard in an aesthetic way, flourished like every.

thing when I was a kid. Emil Martin, our

durggist, had a wonderful “imperial,” I remember. 1 don's there was a better one in town unless, per-

. chance, it was the one of August Kuhn or that of

Albert Sahm. That leaves the type of beard Dr. Guide Bell wore. He was our family physician. It was a short heard covering the entire chin snd included s drooping mustache which had a most engaging way of meet-

clan in Indianapolis when I wes a boy.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs Gov. Dewey—Dictator or Mediator?

ALBANY, May 26.—“It's time for a change.” That was the slogan of the Republican presidential campaign of 1944. Repeated over and over in Governor Thomas E. Dewey's firm, full-bodied voice, it was familiar to millions of radio listeners. With the war still on and the likely prospect at that time of a long pull before the defeat of Japan, the voters decided it was not time for a change. The members of the Dewey team—shrewd, able, on the whole realistic—are inclined to say now that they knew in 1944 that the chances of victory were slim. What they feel about 1948 is something else again. The atmosphere in the inner circle is one of econfidence. If Mr. Dewey is the Republican nominee next year, it is not hard to foresee the kind of

campaign he will wage.

In Control 16 Years THE DEMOCRATS will have held the federal government for 18 years. For 14 years they were in control of both congress and the executive branch. Under our two-party system, that is a long time. The slogan of "44 will be far more potent in '48. In his gubernatorial campaign of last fall, Mr.

Dewey paid little attention to his Democratic op- paign

ponent, former Senstor James Mead, The object was to put Mr. Mead on the defensive’ The same technique will be used against President Truman’ if Mr, Dewey wears the G. O. P. colors nex: year. The

campaign will be carefully tailored to appesl to the band of independent voters who have become the deelding factor in presidential elections. One theme certain to be stressed in a Dewey campaign is unity of action in governmeni Each Sunday evening during the New sion, Mr. Dewey and three or four members of his inner- council meet with the Republican leaders of the legistature. At these sessions, they thresh out the legislative program for the coming week. The from Washington is told that party discipline is high once agreement has been reached.

Leaders Are Kidded - WHETHER MR. DEWEY is dictator or mediator depends on how you look st it. At the dinper show put on this year Albany's political reporters, the Republican legisla leaders kidded for their futile efforts to the half-billien-doliar - surplus. The of the they sang ended: “Bu en Dewey ‘no,’ outveted and so— They are birds in » gilded cage.” The score of the Dewey team is as follows: 1938, Republican nominee for governor, defeat; 1940, cam-

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defeat; 1943, Republican nominee for governor, vietory; 1944, Republican nominee for President, defeat;

1048, Republican nominee for re-election as governor, ; _victory by near-record majority.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

Town Works Hard

ZANESVILLE, O., May 26.-This is an average town. It is so average that one of its earliest fathers Usual. Usual Headley was the name and a doetor named Increase Mathews. I do whether he specialized in obstetrics, but I

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t, | very poor, either. It has a class D farm team which

belongs to the Brooklyn Dodgers. Its teachers, ex-

plans | perienced, make around $2400 a year. You never ormer

saw a town that leaned over so far to be average.

ee ak seesanes ri 1. Fo Times Re

of ther | order is the morning paper, and it is Republican in afte

ike this. Politics, for instance, Zanesville Is pre. dominantly Republican, but the sheriff is & Demo-

{liness the |crat. And once there were two her, | hers. One was the regular Republican faction and

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms mine ne moon os | | Jncle Sam's Santa

th th WASHINGTON, May 26. — Secretary of State Symp wi Hay Marshall's new policy-planning committee is certain.

to put an end to Uncle Sam's role as & universal Santa’ Claus. This does not mean that the United States will cease to extend the utmost possible aid to those

goodness there going nations which really need it. It does mean, however, a A that the aid will get careful consideration

Reports from observers on the spot indicate that

this year. I heard one Friday aft-| is high time the United States began to

re-examine its foreign-aid program. Experience has

of my wits as I'was driving past the drug store at 34th st. The injury shown that while it is nice to be generous, there

of a schoolgirl reported in the pa- , pers 1ast ek wasn't ney. Leis Fist Under Our Nose Is Thanks ve a sale and sane CERTAIN CIRCLES in Qreat Britain, France, yepr. Minus all the noise | 1151y, Greece, Turkey, China and elsewhere respond ‘and injuries it can be a holiday | with abuse when we try to help. They seem to instead of an occasion for the an-| take the position that our loads nual recounting of the death toll | pjllions are being forced upon reluctant from firecrackers and accidents. Me, | peoples and that our res! purpose is d of

seems to be such a thing as beifig too generous,

but helpless to enslave A faction of the governing party in Bogland loudly condemns U Greece and

at Being Average

one was a maverick outfit led by a rich old mani named Peter Black. There was no differefice in po-

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personnel Its population is ; People drink a lot of w here, more than before the war, The businessmen and grumble at the

unions, say they are ruining everybody's business.

But there have been no outstanding strikes in the town.

Like Normaley . .

Claus Role Ending it necessary to deny a published report that he had informed Washington that Britain would require a further loan from the U, §.—whish, sceording to informed sources, she most certainly will before the end of 1048. J In France, as in England, “the rebellion against the dollar” is not confined entitrely to the Communists and other leftists, For reasons not always

easy to follow, the government itself has echoed somewhat similar expressions, More than once,

Premier Paul Ramadier has spoken of risks to French independence in U, 8. loans. Apparently meant this #8 & warning against ryn-away Shakespeare Knew Peril Fin _ THE IMPRESSION seems to be spreading abroad that the U. 8. must shove its dollars down the throats of unwilling borrowers in order to get rid of huge

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