Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 June 1947 — Page 14

. Truman denounced the Russian coup in r as an “outrage.” But—

Lee. s 8 8 NZ vos oi to vent i credits previously ++" extended to Hungary. But we have decided against that, it is reported, the excuse being that we want to keep Westar: sentiment” alive in Hungary. . ~ That is appeasement. We bark but we don't bite. And the Russians know that. ic Why a listening post in Hungary? We will have no freedom of action or movement there, We will hear what ' the Soviet overlords want us to hear. Nothing more. Sentiment? police state where the choice is between voting for communism or going to a concentration camp? The Red steamroller goes rolling along, crushing everything in its path, and we help supply the fuel to keep it moving. That steamroller is becoming a Wndwigon because ~. there is no follow-through to what we say.

EN the President speaks out against treaty violations and outrages to human dignity, the state department waters down his pronouncements in its policymaking division until they become meaningless. That is the big hole in the fence we are building to contain com- .. munism, and the Reds are marching right through the gap .-tonew and greener pastures. ~~ American resources given to Yagosavia "through UNRRA have helped to finance the Soviet campaign against Greece. Any money we send to a Russian-domi-nated Hungary will be used to buy fuel for the Soviet steamroller when it moves upon Austria, Italy or France. When it isn’t needed for that, it will be used to finance Communis-. tic enterprises, as it was in Poland, Albania and Czechoslovakia. We can’t win the fight against commurtism that way.’

ONE SET OF SIGNALS

"THE proposal of W- B. Griffis to place all the traffic signals under one control sounds to us like a good one. ‘Ak it is now they can't be touched without the approval of two or three different municipal agencies, and at ~ some intersections it appears thé state police also have to be consulted. Very likely any one of those agencies could handle the traffic signal situation very well if it could do it alone. Divided control is almost certain to delay, if it doesn’t block entirely, any improvement in their operation. Quite a lot can be done toward safe speedy movement of traffic by proper co-ordination of the signal lights at intersections. Various cities have experimented, several with notable success, in the timing of control signals as an aid to regulation of traffic speed on main thoroughfares. Because of the large number of sharp angle intersections in Indianapolis the job is a particularly difficult one “here. It seems very likely it can be done better by giving one municipal agency complete control and full responsibility for their operation.

ONE WAY TO SAVE MONEY

OME congressmen, like Rep. William J. Crow (R. Pa.), say they are opposed to universal military training be.cause it would cost too much money. That's a reason calculated to impress an economy-minded congress.

.. Let's see about it.

The Compton commission estimates that universal military training would cost $1,750,000,000 a year —a lot of money. But less money, the commission points out, than it took to pay for one week of world war II. And only onetenth as much as the American people spend each year for tobacco, cosmetics, liquor, amusements and jewelry.’ The commission is for universal military training because it would save money—a great deal more than it would -cost. It's the way, says the commission's report, to provide such protection as this country must have “without such prohibitive costs that they wotild bankrupt the nation or destroy the ability of our government to provide the hu-

America.” .

The other way to get such protection would be to maintain a huge standing army, navy and air force. But, the report explains, “paying for a professional force the size needed would impose a ruinous load on our economy. » And it continues: “Only through universal military training can we get the kind of armed forces that would be both adequate and . within our financial capacity. This does not mean that “universal military training represents a cheap way to.buy security. It does mean that the cost in proportion to the return will be much less than under any alternative method of raising our military potential to the levels required.” Congressmen who are really economy-minded ought to read the Compton sonmission’ 8 repurt,

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full responsibilities thereto, from a today would not even be candidates

qualified for the office, toward the Within the limits of our power

political chairmen or lesser satellites, with their patronage power and bring about civil service to all branches of civil government, as far as humanly possible with present laws. Any laws of today that would interfere with this program, would be on our list for repeal, as soon as

Trafic regulation. We would send some of the younger and capable trafic officers to school, for training, in those cities that have established themselves as to their ability to maintain low accident and death traffic records over a period of years. After training

they would be placed in charge

of our traffic department with full responsibilities, where they would have to produce favorable results, or else. To provide funds for these and other objectives we would bring about municipal ownership of our supply of water, light and power, street transportation, so that eventually the patrons of today would be the owners of tomorrow. If 1 were mayor, I would be the mayor, and only mayor, and no ward- or political chair man, large of small, would be in a position to say truthfully that 1 was not the mayor in fact. . » . “WALLACE STRAINING AT FREEDOM OF SPEECH” By E. R. Egan, Indianapolis But for the possible effect of the speaking tour of former Vice President Wallace upon the belligerence of the Russians upon pending treaty negotiations, no one would pay any attention to his most vociferous criticism of the administration's European policies. Freedom of speech is guaranteed disgruntled politicians with that of any other citizen until it becomes subversive in character. But whén he declares we will soon be fighting Communists all over the

| world, the poetic license of even

politicians is somewhat strained. A recent survey shows a surprisingly low Communist world-wide

victory, under today's political setup.

"Complete Civil Service Should Be Installed i in the City Government"

By H. W. Daacke, 214634 N. lllineis st. If 1 were mayor of Indianapolis my first move would be to select | official heads for the various departments of the city government, wi

group of many able citizens tha for the office of mayor, with assured A group of citizens that are better “betterment of the city in general,

than any that have held the office over Svéz many a Year,

(it is now my cabinet and myself)

we would direct all our efforts toward the immediate elimination of

Countries unacquainted with the give and take of democracy might assume that criticism of adminis tration policy represents a large faction of American sentiment. As a matter of fact, they are not much more than trial balloons. If communism is a world threat it could be controlled at will—they have no money and this nation is not so misguided as to finance another war. Communism is not likely to attract a world-wide following without it. . . . “WISHES PEOPLE WOULDN'T WASTE TIME ON RUMORS” By Mrs. Earl Leisure, 1991 Houston st. He was just a little rumor when he started out one day but he met s0 many people as he traveled on his way that he hardly recognized himself, he felt so strangely changed, this surely isn't me, said he, I've been so rearranged. And yet, it's my same body but my hair has turned quite gray. It's funny what can happen in just a single day.. Why, my clothes have changed their color and now I.seem quite tall. My direction's even different, I didn’t start this way at all. I think I'd better turn around and go back from where I came before I start some trouble or before I lose my name. If ‘folks would be more careful and just pay no mind to me, I'd fade completely out of sight and they would quickly see the worry that I'd save them, if they wouldn't waste their time on just an idle rumor that isn't worth a dime.

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ing, medical and dental care so there will be a savings left to provide for them .a good education, I'm quite tired. On top of this I manage to find time to answer a million questions and teach my children the Bible, that great book of fundamental human principles. I expect my 7-year-old son could give most of the last § tion & run for their money those principles, too Your opinion was ‘just a little too broad. I know of many a child whose mother neither drinks nor smokes “whose children are much more to be pitied. Smoking and drinking do not make a mother cruel, selfish 'tyranical, intolerant, without the quality of understand- | ing. Smoking and drinking are just a product of past generations. My pity goes to those children whose parents do not regard the sacred job of instilling in them the great principles of kindness, tolerance, thoughtfulness and, a love for the Almighty. You might try cultivating a few of these yourself. I think all the mothers who are putting up a terrific struggle today, and that is 999 out of a thousand, will rightly agree with me. If our level is low, we did not establish that level ” so» “INDIANAPOLIS IS KNOWN AS BIG INDUSTRIAL CITY” By KE. KE. W., Indianapolis In reply to Virgil Fisher, of Lawrence, and anyone else who thinks Indianapolis is known only by a race track. We are known the world over as the largest inland city not on navigable water. We are known as the crossroads of Amer-’ ica. As a big industrial city, some products made here are sold and known the world over. {Ours is a well-known convention’ Jeity where nationally known organizations meet annually. We are known as a city of homes and fine schools. Our airport is one of the most modern and safest for blind flying in bad weather. Our war memorial plaza is one of beauty and one of finest architecture in this country. If we did not have good hotel accomodations,- trailer camps and cabins and up-to-date city-wide transportation service, and some place to go while here over the "holidays, I doubt if we could keep the 500-mile race of which we are so proud, but at the same time is only a part of our well-known city.

DAILY THOUGHT Truly the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the oles to behold the sun.—Eccl. 11:7

FAYREST of 30 The ca ‘Aoowe, Thou sun, whose beams adorn the spheres, And with unwearied swiftness move, fo 1m. the slisies ol our years.

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SOMEHOW, IT TIOKLES this department to be able to report that, once upon & time, an Indianapolis church choir staged a strike, all on account of &

{couple of sopranos acting up.

Back in 1885, or ola William Horatio Clarke was the organist of Ply« mouth church, an office that embraced ‘the handling of the choir, Even more to the point was the

four boys--Will,"Ed, Ern and B@t ~-a8 precocious a bunch of kids As ever entertained Indianapolis. It was during this musical period that Bert conceived the bright idea of organising a brass quaral, Jometnine ® asked Walter Rogers what he thought of the idea. Walter was the 17-year-old Wundefkind, born in Delphi, Ind., who handled the cornet in Henry Beis senhers's orchestra over at English's opera house, Competent critics at the time pronounced Walter the niftjest cornet player anywhere around here. In support of which they always cited the indisputable fact that he could play the Excelsior Polka of Frewin and repeat it for an encore without getting purple in the face. :

Brass Quartet Born ROGERS FELL for Bert's idea soon as he heard it, and without further ado the Schubert Brass Quartet was born. Except for Walter Rogers and his inspired cornet, the quartet was a strictly family affair. Ed played the alto horn; Ern, the trombone; and Bert, the second cornet. (Ten years later, Bert Clatke and Walter Rogers played side by side in Sousa’s band.) The Schubert Brass Quartet practiced like everything—sometimes as often as twice a day. It was going pretty good when the Plymouth church choir of 35 voices started acting up. Seems that the choir had a bunch of temperamental sopranos, every one of whom entertained the notion that: nature had equipped her——and nobody else—~to be a prima donna. And to complicate matters still more, every one of the gals had a following of friends who did what they could to give their favorites a push. The ecclesiastical row finally reached the boiling

IN WASHINGTON ‘Value’ of Wallace

WASHINGTON, June 11.—Voters in the state of Washington have just given an advance demonstration of how Henry Wallace can help the Democrats lose the presidential election next year. The Republican victory in Washington's third eongressional district revealed above all the split personality of the party of Truman and Wallace. The election was to fill the seat left vacant by the death of Fred Norman, elected in last year's Republican landslide. Republicans had been fearful of losing the seat in view of drastic G. O. P. cuts in appropriations for power and reclamation projects. .

Democratic Lead Disappears IN THE PRIMARY on May 17, the Democratic vote was almost twice that of the Republicans, Executive Director Gael Sullivan of the Democratic national committee hailed this showing as “proof of a Democratic tide in the northwest.” But when the ballots were counted in Saturday's election, Republican Russell Mack had defeated Democrat Charles Savage by 1400 votes out of the more than 60,000 cast. Republican Mack was an open advocate of the Truman doctrine. Savage walked a tightrope across the yawning chasm of the foreign issue. He did not, however, repudiate the support of Wallace, who spoke twice for Savage in the district in the course of his barn-storming tour of the country, Savage represented the third district for one term which ended with his defeat by Norman. He was one of the extreme left-wing Democrats whose most articulate champion was former Representative Hugh Delacy from the neighboring first district. Delacy was also defeated last fall in a bitter campaign in which he was charged with Communist backing.

REFLECTIONS .

NEW YORK June 11.—Despite the recent crashes, despite the tragedy, you don't realize how fast the flying business has developed as an ®xact science until you talk to one of the real old-timers—Clarence Chamberlin, say. Mr, Chamberlin was the second American to make the non-stop flight to Europe. He made it 20 years ago last Thursday, a few weeks after Charles Lindbergh knocked a permanent hole in fame’s wall. Ironfeally, Mr. Chamberlin might have become an inter< national idol, and Mr. Lindbergh might have finished a slow second, but for a freak of luck. The Chamberlin flight was planned six weeks before Lindbergh took off, but the odd financial habits of Charles Levine, who accompanied Mr. Chamberlin, had resulted in an injunction against the plane. A couple of burly deputies hovered over the single-en-gined Bellanca, and Mr. Lindbergh was airborne first.

Image of Ernie Pyle CLARENCE, at 83 a robust image of Ernie Pyle, was telling us something about the flight the other day. Mr. Chamberlin was a wild flyer, a barnstormer, and his navigational knowledge was exceedingly frail. He made it most of the way from New York to Mansfleld, Germany, on a cheap compass: “Our good compass—the $1100 one—went out over Pewfoundland, and all we had left was a $50 job stuck behind me. I had to look over my shoulder to see where I was going, Berndt Baichen had plotted course for me, with a change every hundred miles— but after trying to explain it to me, Berndt said ‘Oh, hell, fly 100 all the way.’ “We flew low over the waves, s0 we could see how the wind was blowing, in order to compute our drift. I had a drift indicator, but I never took it off the rack. I'd never seen one before. “We hit land's end square on the nose-<for a good reason. We ran across the 8. 8. Mauretania,

WORLD AFFAIRS .

ATHENS, June 11.—~The Greek inheritance 1s mixed. Besides the glorious democratic origins there are the ancient Athenian curse of factionalism and a heritage of corruption, both of which retard recovery. If the Greeks’ heroism against Italian and German invaders was not matched by their capacity to

civil war along Greece's borders with a low thousand guerrillas. Such being the case there are lnits 0 what American aid in the form of military supplies or dollars or advice can accomplish alone. This aid must be funneled through the Athens government. The result will be determined largely by that government's integrity and ability to co-operate, and the people's confidence in it. Opposition parties charge it is a reactionary gove ernment which cannot provide the basic reforms needed for recovery. Center parties which profess to speak for a majority of the suffering, peaceloving

of Greek democracy,

Facts Hard to Uncover WHAT ARE the facts? They are not easy to find. Two elements which customarjly confuse such ha situation can be eliminated. One is the large landowner class. There's none in this country. The er is church control in the government. The Greek Orthodox church generally tries to stay above partisan politics.

source of strife in Greece but at the moment fortunately a postponed issue, Fie Son Xing P00} 9.4030 unknown. quantity.

fight each other, Premier Stalin could not keep up «

people deny the Athens government is representative :

The third element fs the throne, traditionally a

point Which 18 10 say that Mr. Clarke | woke up one morning ih Sa

way of telling it , et Plymouth church without a musigal Sttwotion

for the following Sunday. \ wn The parishioners couldn't believe thelr eyes when, on the following Sunday, they took thelr fn Plymouth church. Instead of a nicely starchad in the sanctuary, there sat four scared boys “dressed in their Sunday suits, each one holding & shiny brass instrument in his lap. Surprised and even angry murfiurs. came from all parts of the audis torium, mostly, I regret to report, from discharged choir members and their champions who ‘had turned up in the hope of getting a good laugh at Mr. Clarke's expense. The boys were visibly nervous when they started, but pulled themselves together and improved as the program progressed; first time in their lives, a lot of churchgoers around heré got wise to the fact that shcred music could come out of the end of horns. Indeed, the Schubert Brass Quartet went over so big that it was engaged

for the rest of the season, leaving the church choir

to stew in its own juice.

Went On to Symphony: WHICH LEAVES ME just enough room to tell you what became of the Clarke boys. Will, a promising organist and pianist, was the only one who didn't pursue music as a profession. Edwin (Ed) got to be a bandmaster of the 21st Infantry (the real-for-sure army) and later played cornet in Sousa's band, B8till later he served as Sousa’s manager. * Ernest (Ern) got to be trombonist in Patrick Oll« more's band (the first ‘musical organisation to use honest-to-God canons to pep up Tschaikowsky's “1812"). After that Ern was with Victor Herbert. Then Walter Damrosch picked him up and stuck him into the New York Symphony Orchestra. Me stayed there more than 15 years. As for Herbert L. (Bert) Clarke, the kid who thought up the Schubert Brass Quartet, he played with the bands headed by Gilmore, Innes, Vietor Herbert and John Philip Sous, to mention only the more important ones.

. By Marquis Childs

Backing Bared

In the primary, regular Democrats were for Sav. age's opponent, Smith Troy. Troy, attorney general of the state and a veteran with a splendid combat record, spoke openly for the Truman doctrine, Mgured as the winner, his defeat by Savage upset the calculations of Democratic planners. They quickly rallied. Three days after the primary, Sullivan and Governor Mon C. Wallgren issued

a joint statement heralding Savage as a “consistent * supporter of President Truman and his liberal poli Cies.”

At the same time, however, in his own paper De. _

lacy in a banner headline had proclaimed Savage As

a disciple of Wallace. Savage denied this in an inter

view. In-his campaign he stuck to domestic and, particularly, to state issues,

Cut Old-Age Pensions THE REPUBLICAN legislature had Just voted to cut old-age pensions in the state, which has the high. est. pension level in the country. Savage denounced this action, as well as drastic economies by the Ree

publican congress in Washington which directly affect the people of his state,

The. Republicans, of course, worked ‘hard for vie-

tory, knowing the outcome would be taken as an in. dication of national trends, An unprecédented amount of Republican money is said to have been sent into the district. Twenty-four hours before the election, the news was carefully leaked out of ‘a senate sub« committee that the senate would restore house cuts in reclamation and power. Nevertheless, those who followed the contest with a background of local knowledge believe the election was decided on the foreign issue, with Wallace's in« tervention a district handicap for Savage.

. By Robert C. Ruark

Old Timers Know Flying Has Advanced

and we knew "er course. I went down and circled

her, and then I flew right down her middle We

checked the compass that way.” Mr. Chamberlin hand-flew the Columbia all the way, keeping awake on coffee. Me had been up 14 hours before they took off. The flight itself consumed 43 hours, and he didn’t get to bed for 24 hours after they landed in two wheat flelds in Germany. I say two wheat flelds, because Mr. Chamberlin did

“things the hard way. He ran out of gas at dawn,

set the plane down in one field, hop-skipped over ‘a road, and rolled to a halt in the other, It makes you shiver a little when you think of that early flying. Mr. Levine, a millionaire junkman, was the other man—the first passenger to pay his way across the Atlantic by air. <He paid Mr. Chamberlin $10,000 to go along. Mr, Levine knew a little about flying, but had never landed or taken off a plane. He knew nothing about navigation.

450 Gallons of Gas

THE BELLANCA, whose single engine packed 220

horsepower, took off with 450 gallons of gasoline—exactly twice its weight. It had a bank-and-turn indi-

cator, a rate of speed dial, a tin compass and an -

altimeter. No radio, naturally, Its pilot had already

become famous for landing on Riverside dr. and for

setting down a racing plane inside the Eastern penitentiary walls, in Philadelphia. Mr. Chamberlin had run out of gas on his way to the races, and the pen's grounds looked inviting to a wing-weary flying machine. But Mr. Chamberlin says he made $78,000 in prizes and contracts as a result of that trail-blaser wo Geraly; and he still marvels at all: the fuss everybody made. “I saw a story the other day about a guy who had made 80-some Atlantic crossings,” he said. “They gave it one paragraph.”

. By Ludwell Denny

Greek Disunity Poor Soil for U. S. Aid

The fourth element is the military. Greece long -has mixed the army and politics to the detriment of both. Generals have started her-periodie revolutions and have become her dictators. That was a current danger until restrained first by the British and now by the American aid program. But generals are still powerful, Secret militéry organizations masking under loyalty to the king and hatred of the Reds carry on a white terror similar to the barbarism of Communist bands. The fifth element is politicans, and their henchmen in office and in the press. Many of these are such extreme rightists they consider the” Cireeks who want the American type of democracy ganguro radicals and fellow travelers. Then there are the profiteers, speculators and black-marketeers. They are influential in this government ‘as they have been in previous regimes. Regime's Record Poor FINALLY THERE are average, honest, diitore citizens who have joined the right as the only immediate alternative to a Communist dictatorship. The boss is rich, shrewd former Premier Tsaldaris. If the regime is judged by its 14 months in office it’s not: good.

Despite the UNRRA relief and British military and economic aid, it has made no serious effort to end

‘the terrible misery. It has jailed or deported thou-

sands of Democrats and ‘anti-Com increased disunity in the 90 j fe tent ‘of Hh eh a not ‘Comm 3 ®pnot counter Coi

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