Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 June 1947 — Page 20

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nulabiousof the vo of siding A. F. of 1, million of projects in the city which have been

The ca eatpetiters. agreed to accept a compromise hourly ® of $1.9744 after the Building Contractors association er $1.95 as compared with the union's led e $2 perhour. one wins in a strike like the one just ended. Certhe carpenters can’t make up lost earnings. And those

the beneficiaries of ‘veterans housing and industrial ents which held up by the disagreement. ¥ the strike could | be settled by the compromise acted yesterday, one wonders why that compromise in’t have been reached earlier in the seven-week paraly-

is of building here.

There still are four strikes going on in local industries. Thee avs he Cine Go Coke Sly, Grr Coe Co,, Metal Industries, Ine, and Hunter Corru-

# Ne FALSE ARGUMENTS DEMOLISHED OV Cm ts Semolishes five false arguments against universal mili- { , it observes, are heard with “almost or nt, : ONE: That universal military training i is conscription, tn American, un-demoeratic. - t Says the commission: “These same epithets were hurled at universal compulsory education when it was first proposed. ‘Conscription’ can be used to describe anything which people are called upon to do by their government — taxes, military service, education. ‘Un-American’ simply ~ means that it has not been done before in America. Many good Americans, including George Washington, have urged universal training. ‘Un-democratic’ seems to us a wholly improper characterization of universal training. One of our basic tenets is that every citizen owes service to his country i That need or lack of need is determined by the tic vote of the representatives of the people, subdect to safeguards provided in the constitution.” |

. TWO: That if the United States adopts it, other na-

will be encolraged to do likewise. ° Says the commission: “Nearly every nation outside . America has universal military training already, and the : kore powerful ones also have universal military service.” we THREE: That military preparedness leads to war. Says the commission: “The axis powers went to war because of the unpreparedness of France, England and the ~ United Sta FOUR: That what this country. needs for security is better business, full employment and lower taxes. Says the commission: “Excellent; we agree. But we still must invest money in police and fire departments for insurance and protection. Similarly, the risk of war's de- ~ struction requires us to carry our war-risk insurance — military strength and security measures.” FIVE: That military training will make our people militaristic. Says the commission: “There is no evjdence that the returned veterans have come to want war or to he eager + for military life. On the contrary, they have been notably eager to ret away { from it, once the Recessary job was done.”

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ET, with some members of congress, i false argu- , ments seem to carry more weight than all the sound and urgent reasons why universal military Saining should be adopted now.

SPEND AND ELECT, G. 0. P. VERSION LEAN ING is leaning, any way you figure it. Whether it’s on a shovel by the roadside or a set of clippers in the sheep pasture makes little difference to the public purse, which gets nicked heavily either way. But it makes considerable difference whether the shovel leaner or the sheep owner gets the money. A Republican congress was elected last November on a wave of impatience with New Deal extravagance and . nosing into private business. What aroused the country was a tendency to carry the system over into more prosperous times, to expand the field of government subsidy and control, to tie up the voters Wo government handouts. ~~ Now a faction of Republicans, including many who were most indignant at New Deal extravagances, is attempting a return to its own pet handout system. The trick first comes to attention in the case of ‘wool, already heavily subsidized. The plan is to increase both government subsidies and tariffs. Wool comes first on the new grab list, but by no means This is a system for appeasing special minority groups—wool growers, in this case, instead of reliefers— or winning friends and influencing votes with public funds. i 1 This scheme should be understood for exactly what it , and its advocates exposed for exactly what they are. They are of the same school of practical politicians, so roundly damned in the New Deal, the spend-and-spend, elect: boys. 8 sort. of legal thievery is wrong, no matter which attempts it,

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teriorated. Another utility, Indianapolis Railways, Inc, is required by law to establish a reserve for depreciation so that when equipment wears out there will be money to buy more. However the Indianapolis Railways, by shifting from depreciation reserve to capital surplus, gets the benefit of $2,600,000. Further than this, the Railways claims a value of $14 million“for rate making purposes and Center township's records show a value of $1,187,996 by the assessor

Washington st. and those on Highland ave. are not being taxed. Why? The public service commission should appeal this one-man circuit court decision to the hest court in Indiana and if ed against there, the civic clubs of Indianapolis should sue for the recovery of $2,600,000 of public funds to be used

Were Mayor of Indianapolis?" By M. B. 8, Alton sf. . We seem to have a number of self-appointed critics of our town and the way it is run, from suthors who stop here for a few hours and then label us the “dirtiest city” to local experts who criticise everything | from garbage collection to the way the police department is run. 1 wonder what these people would do if they were mayor of Indianapolis. It's a big job to run a business the size this city has reached.

harassing problems. would advance some constructive ideas, it might help the town. Other-

wise, I say let them keep their mouths shut, I believe Mayor Tyndall has done a good job, and I for one have

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lieve the other side should be presented. So far, I haven't read one good reason against requiring everyone who is able to take this training. I challenge any Forum reader to present a sound case on the other side. I don't think it can be done on a logical basis.

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“MORE THAN HALF U. 8. COMMUNIST UNKNOWINGLY" By Charles A. Hubbard, Martinsville America forces men into. the

army, teaches them to fight, kill and destroy. This is freedom (?), American style.

but it be preserved by making war communism. Communism es on war and depres- "= ” J “PROTEST EVICTION OF By Pienel Adams, Indisnapelis branch, N. A. A; OFF. * It is hereby by the In-

disnapolis branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People that the action of the present administration in ordering eviction of certain tenants from federal housing projects, and in Lockefield Gardens project here in Indianapolis, is unwarranted, unjust and can only result in further hardships at a time when Housing shortages are t a critical stage. Instead of seeking a constructive solution in the housing debacle, - the government

groups as the real estate interests and the American Legion—which can only lead to. disaster. How a housing shortage can ly be solved by evicting one family to move in another is difficult to conceive. The remedy is to

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WASHINGTON, June 5.—Social notes from all over: Andrei Y, Vishinsky, deputy foreign minister of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, has gone to Carlsbad in Osechoslovakia for a rest cure at that famous spa. This is a social note which the foreign offices of every capital are studying with great diligence. Mr. Vishinsky is not the kind of man who goes traveling for pleasure, nor even for his health.

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NEW YORK, June 5.—I chant a lament for the knee, a piece of feminine equipment which has tempopassed from our ken, and as I sing it occurs that T have not commented lately upon ladies’ been hiding the issues of Vogue to keep stern reality from

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Shorts Brought Few Winces HIGH STYLE, I understand, is to have the skirt

Claudette Colbert. Unfortunately they are succeeding. I saw a picture of a 1935 version of Claudette Colbert the other day, and it's a crying shame to do that to a lady with legs like Claudette’s. A long dress, which sweeps along the floor, is a poetic thing, especially if it crackles crisply. A short dress, cut off somewhere in the vicinity of the dimple, is good if you've got the right legs, and terrible if you ain't. While exposing the inadequate, the short

WORLD AFFAIRS .

BOMBAY, June 5—The United States is getting a Lad press in India. A six-day survey of 17 English-language newspapers of northern India reveals a four-tp-one adverse emphasis in editorial comments on American

foreign policy. This is partly due to a generally critical attitude toward western powers. In the same period, for example, Soviet Russian actions were condemned twice as often as they were praised. Attacks were also made on French and Dutch colonial policy in Asia and, as usual, on British rule in India.

New Control Feared EDITORIAL ARTICLES suggest g§ widespread fear that Britain's old-fashioned political control over backward countries may be giving way to a new-style streamlined American financial imperialism. “With the (American) loans to foreign countries will go American civil and military advisers,” the Indian Congress party's National Herald of Lucknow has commented, typically. “And it will be they,” the paper adds, “who. will be the real rulers of those countries.” Another paper, the Telegraph of Cawnpore, has

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“From professing allegiance to democratic ideals, dollar imperialism seems to be ready to switch to a. policy of naked intervention.” Some editors predict the world’s ruin as the final result of conflict between “American financial imperialism and thé "expanding Russian imperialism." Others declare that President Truman sabotaged the United Nations by proposing direct U. 8. ald to Greece and Turkey. Protests have also been voiced against American intervention in Palestine, Gen. MacArthur's adminis-

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i pandora's box. From pandora’s own box ing escaped except hope. From Indiana's dors box everything escaped except silence, as the ¢ world by 1047 will attest. Bat as you might expect, Finley as a good Hoosier, kept one eye on the larder as he dallied with the hope chest of poetry. With the average Hoosier's Boras sense, he did a passingly good Job of both.

Took Care of Himself AT ANY RATE, when the British during the War of 1812 stole a cargo: of flour from his father, and as

By Marquis Childs

At the last election, the Communist party got the largest percentage oY votes—38 per cent. Indications

Sen; \n Powes by Sarse of, pole ang sdleiesy 4.8 virtual dictatorship. * That. would not be easy to engineer. The Czecho-

about. Czechoslovakia Next? CARLSBAD 18 NOT FAR from Joachimsthal, where mining of extensive uranjum deposits is said to be going forward under Russian direction. What happened in Hungary is bound to mnoke a deep impression in western Europe. and cannot conceal the brutality of the method used to destroy a duly elected government. The west will certainly watch the course of developments in neighboring Czechoslovakia,

. By Robert C. Ruark

Moths Feast “and Knee Oglers Fret

skirt also exploits the beautiful. Since most of our women have been subjected to vitamins and early exercise, the leering populace woo-wooed more Wan it winced. But ‘this half-and-half proposition is no good to anybody. A dame with parenthetical gams proves up just as bandy in 8 calf-hugging skirt, while the babe with the lush pins hides her light under an afterthought. ' It comes down to the fact that we are being deprived of the esthetic quotient while being reminded of the grotesque. I resent it—both as an admirer of living art and a champion of womanhood. There is someone in the fashion business— probably a gnarled little man who never did very well at the postoffice parties and who has been getting even ever since by trying to drive women crazy. For instance: Sheer stockings, especially the black ones, are a big thing now-little wisps of cobweb designed to make a broomstick look as if it were connected to Dietrich. Just as these visions of delight become plentiful, somebody named Antoine or Pierre says drop the skirts. Boom-—the legs are there, but /who sees ‘em? It makes no sense.

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AS A PROFESSIONAL billpayer, T am alto beginning to brood about 1946's little black suit, which cost slightly less than the Hope diamond. Where is it now? I can tell you, gentlemen. It is provid a midnight lunch for moths, merely because it happens to strike the old lady precisely on the callous of her housemaid’s knee. I do not go so far as to advocate another war to bring skirts up again, but I warn the women that they "are lousing up a good thing. A lot«of people like me have become accustomed to a clear vista of yea. leg, and we aren't the boys to settle for an ankle,

. By Phillips Talbot

U.S. Policy Criicized by India Papers

These criticisms of American foreign policy do not interfere with ‘intense interest in what is happening in America. While newspapers feature important speeches and congressional proceedings, shoppers hunt eagerly for American goods, students in large numbers seek admission to American universities, and industrialists study American production processes. Many thoughtful Indians believe that their country will want many American goods and services in the coming years, with special emphasis on food stocks and heavy machinery. They Regard the outlook for Yet more than 90 editorial references in the papers under review either imputed selfish motives to the United States or contained outright attacks on American policy. Twenty-one references, In contrast, indicated approval of American actions, or at least unbiased understanding ‘of them. Enthusiasm was expressed or several cultural and educational activities, such as exchange fellowships and he teaching of labur courses in American niyersies.

Lahoré Paper Favorable ONLY THE CIVIL AND MILITARY GAZETTE of Lahore, once Rudyard Kipling’s newspaper, has vigorously and | steadily supported , American policy during this period. - Whether newspapers published in the many Indian languages react similarly cannot be judged in thd

‘absence of an adequate survey.

Why do Indian newspapers View the United States with suspicion? : One reason is a long-standing distrust of all western countries. This grows out of the Indian nationalist struggle against British rule and, by extension, all imperialism. Because of it, editors hunt the im-

perialist hobgoblin behind every tree.

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