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

Secretary

lican congress

Secretary 1 , Senator Vandenberg and former Presi-

foreign countries without endangering our own economy.

that, if they will agree on a unified reconstruction program, we will co-operate. Apparently interpreting that to mean’ that we will underwrite whatever they want, British and French officials are meeting in Paris to draw up plans. Some unofficial estimates of the cost of an adequate relief and rehabilitation program are reaching astronomical figures. All of them would top our present spending rate. Yet Mr. - foreign spending on the basis of the past two years without undermining our qwn stability. # Mr. Hoover's views carry weight because a Repub-

. Formationbf a bipartisan council to take an inventory of our assets as a guide to long-range planning was urged by Senator Vandenberg in his most recent policy statement. There is pressing need for such a body, for important decigions should be made before we become more deeply involved than we are now. We do not want to promise more than we can deliver. Nor do we want to wreck our own economy in an ineffectual attempt to save the rest of the world. ‘While our spokesmen talk in generalities, ) cal, Europe's planners are budgeting their needs, probably with little deference to costs. The wishful estimates placed upon our generosity are best illustrated by the hope expressed in Paris and London that even Russia will join the

_ Princeton—the strongest appeal he has made for universal military training—seem to us compelling arguments. But congress won't pass the training bill unless the American sidetracked, at least for the present session, unless public demand puts it back oh the through track. We should have this program in operation now. Here

an foreign policy is headed for the rocks r key policy makers get together soon and

chiefly concerned are President Truman,

to be settled is how far we can go in aiding

Marshall has promised the nations of Europe

Hoover has warned that we cannot continue

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say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

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Minority pressures will keep it

# “TALL BUILDINGS A THING OF THE PAST” By T. McGuire, 1126 Eugene st. As a rule on reading an article | zs =

by anyone the first thought is an- | other with an ax to grind. Why? |, "po. “tegianapelis And whose ax is in need of an | 1 see where Indianapolis may get jmmediately form a co-operative edge? I apologize, Mr. Epps, no in- $140,000 in new

is an issue on which the President ngeds and deserves

prompt, vigorous and determined support.

BIPARTISAN AND HEARTENING

It is due to Senator J. C. O'Mahoney of Wyoming to include

him as an original proponent of the inventory and stockpiling idea, currently being urged by Senator Vandenberg and Herbert Hoover, and advocated by Bernard

Baruch for many years.

Senator O'Mahoney as chairman of the temporary national economic comniittee which made its final report in March, 1941, worked actively for the same cause. In the Congressional Record the Wyoming senator, a Democrat, compliments his Republican associate, Senator Vandenberg, and ex-President Hoover and Mr, Baruch for

their expressions on the subject.

While Senator O'Mahoney is critical of certain pro-

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sult intended. As plain people from the Hoosier capital city, let's survey the trend | of the times. For the past 25 years | there has been and is a tendency

is a very good exampie. Tall build-

past for many reasons. Tall buildings are expensive to build and maintain. It takes a long term of years to get even a nomi-

skvscrapers are for ballyhoo and show purposes, Tall buildings are dangerous to tenants, to passersby and aircraft, In case of earthquakes this hazard is greater. Frontage and building space is far priced when a $100 million house sits on a lot. hazards te any town, first by placing too many people on one spot, second by causing too much traffic

- cedures in arriving at the objective it is heartening to see the bipartisan nature of the support of a project which so vitally affects both our domestic and foreign future. In essence, it means: Find out what we as a nation actually have, and quit flying blind; do not impair our pro«ductivity at home by unscientific allocation of materials rather, through multilateral understanding «and trade, keep ourselves strong while helping to restore a | stricken world. Otherwise, as Senator Vandenberg put it, if we sag the world’s hope sags with us.

- TWO WAYS 1 an attempt was made to prevent Henry A. Wallace from speaking on government-owned property in Washington, his right to speak was defended by the department of justice and upheld by a federal court. The meeting was orderly and undisturbed, although he was attacking the President's foreign of the national government. That is the American way. On the same night a meeting was held in Hungary by

abroad, but,

policy at the seat

party to test its right to free speech and the new Soviet-sponsored govétnment.

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The police stood by ty members finally sub-

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By G. W. Paschall, 734 S. Shepard st.

"Zoning Board Approves Tavern, Turns Down Tent Revival Plea"

“PRIVATE ENTERPRISE IS CHALLENGED ON HOUSING” By Maria Burkett, 1438 Park ave, _ While fully cognizant of the prob{lem involved, I should like to take

Representatives from the River Avenue Baptist church came before oy ception to the position of the

board Monday afternoon with

an appeal for a permit to

| NAACP which brands ousting of

zoning board voted almost unani- middle income families from Locke-

eld as “unjust and unwarranted.”

to it, but the No thoughtful person can dispute

line: forming on the right. The obvious feeling is that | hold a two-weeks revival on two vacant lots which the church owns America will have enough for all. the 2200 block on Villa ave. The PE 3 Te. Celiigih . mously against this appeal—one member voting in favor of it. We are inviting trouble by permitting these false Of course, tere Wee aoe Juoge there objecting expectations to get out of hand building of extrava- | soning president only questioned two of them as. location of their han: to of The of SE EA ane To: Vio -oblocuors |e

justice of Lockefield rulings which were designed to guarantee that this publis housing would actually be restricted to families of

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equipment soon.

cities to spread out. Los Angeles around town.

return on the investment, Most near the curbing.

of it in their eyes. wo highly

They create extra |clean.

too | the lowest ineome possible. ously.!| The average industrial income tould we of day is $47 ‘per week, exactly the e a short | level of families who will be leaving

may take their places.

Away fiom Private builders and realtors have

Pe! . . speak than for the supporters. In fact, just as we thought we were result in such a disillusionment as would deal the final | spout to present our side of the case, he struck his mallet on the desk blow to Europe's shattered moral and called for a vote without giv- » .! . ing us a chance to answer objectors. Italie Namry 3 Sregict ae s YY During the Session previous vo SRY Jevpls MIX jo oo A MILITARY NECESSITY - our appeal, we heard the case of a| Seems fo me that shou » wa . . | man wanting to equip a building] : training is a military necessity, not to win | with a bar in it. There were those r bu i i who objected to it, but the board 3s did Rip Van Winkle, maybe our a war but to prevent one. It is an essential element | Who oblected "0 1. Bt tO CONC ideas would change. nes yam for national security pt Yea | speed in a balanced program : . Suef Wiligh Whisky, beer and Wine lon hurry and slowly find ourselves . Weakn on our part will create fear among other ould te 2 wba kind of with Teal beauty before us and in nations that we are “giving up our world leadership.” It | We Jo Wad WO TO the us: The Grand Canyon of the Colowill appear to them that we lack the will and means to | soning board have who could grant [rado, the tremendous power of fulfill our pledge of aid to independent countries in main- | a permit. fo isos wi 1 out (NMagars Svuipered with the past taining their freedom and resisting “the encroachments of | 7 and Shen fafy FHI © DAFT! warts man's ability to build towers totalitarian. ns ; . five Limes as many places in theiof Babel ids. 1 hope tw sek ibe time ~~ We must not lose friendly nations to communism by Duta Suites Jeling urine Sl a peopl aie tnsible enough 10 default. . ing that our crime bill is fifteen let downtown decay and suffer a "These high points in Président Truman's speech at | nillion per year. natural death that a better city may

¥ : spread out for a 25-mile radius from where Market ste crosses Meridian. Folks, I hope to tell you “we ain't seen nothing yet.”

“OLD STREET-CLEANING MACHINES MAKE DIRT”

and danger, turn our backs repeatedly maintained that they can

provide decent, adequate housing for families of average income. That residents of Lockefield have achieved middle-class economic status is a tribute to their individual ambition and competence. It also proves that good housing produces better workers than bad housing. Their rise presents a challenge to local builders to prove that private enterprise can take over from here on. The public is going to watch the rehousing of this group with deepest interest for on its success rests public support -or opposition to city slum clearance, which can be stopped by the taxpayers at will if they find it creates greater hardship than its benefits warrant. The Lockefield families should

street-cleaning | association, elect officers, determine

Yes, it's good to have the streets’ cleaned—but not at the expense of | getting blinded or winding up with mud all over the sidewalks,

| their exact needs in terms of size,

) type and location of housing, hire a If it does, I hope the new gadgets i ! nes: IO 1 She lawyer and consult an architect. I funny-looking doodle bugs they have a government pamphlet on now use to “sweep” the streets formation of mutual housing groups,

step by step, describing the types

other day one of them was of federal aids available, ete. Local ings are becoming a thing of the | up and down N. Emerson| co-op leaders can be helpful in or\ave., swishing dirt out of the gut- ganization and in procurement of ters—right smack on the sidewalk. materials, and doubtless such a The remaining dirt the machine project ‘would enlist the assistance didn't swish around lay loosened of many other interested persons.

The first step in self-help is diffi-

The next day a big wind came up cult, but strength comes with pracand the dust was blown over the tice, neighborhood. Pedestrians got most’ ® » =

“WHERE ARE MEN HIRED

Then came rain. The result was TO KEEP STREETS CLEAN?” the sidewalks were left full of mud By Mrs. MeClennon, president; M while the streets were left fairly]

; Mrs. Yancey, secretary, st., 16th pl, 17th of. Community Improvement club. ‘

We have been reading about the man being knocked down because he wanted his trash hauled away. We are having similar trouble in

Side Glances—By Galbraith

our neighborhood with the trash and garbage men—when they pass.

They shouted down speakers

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(Notice we say when they pass.) Most of the time the trash and

garbage are left in the street and the ' containers are carried away. 80 you see, we are having some of the same trouble trying to keep jour streets clean that the other fellows are having. - We have not i| been knocked down, but we do get a good “bawling out” if we speak about the trash that is spilled. | No wonder tourists say that In|dianapolis is one of the dirtiest !| cities in the United States. We can {verify that statement, for there is {|& dump on 16th Place between Senate ave. and -Missouri st that is 20 feet long, six feet high and eight feet wide. With every kind of thing having been dumped on it over a period of years, it has become infested with rats as large as cats, and besides being very unsanitary, tit is a disgrace to the city. '| Glass dropped by the trash men ‘| and broken in the streets gets so bad that we are afraid of having the shoes cut from our feet as we ‘| walk down the street. 5 | ‘Where are the men the city hires | to: keep, our streets clean?

DAILY THOUGHT Remember, T beseech thee, that

|| thou hast made me as the clay,

and wilt thou brnig me into dust again?—Job 10:9. a

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ow to Whip Up * 7 Th ne Sa nip vp ! point to the fact that gastritis is more common’ than J ee ot b What she a + It may not iss to thumb of Marian McFadden—embraces a collection of 26 very old, vellum-bound cookbooks, every ) one of which bears the book plate 8 of Wright Marble. : On July 17, 1933, Mr. Marble was seized with apoplexy at. the corner of Washington and Penn. sylvania sts. He died almost im< yr mediately, The newspapers at the we “| time dutifully recorded his sudden demise, but that as far as they evar got, Not a word, for 1 about the epicurean days he spent as ste of the old Bates House back in 1805, and later of the Denison House, directing its destiny from 1808 to and through 1901. : And; of course, ‘not an inkling of Mr. Marble's priceless collection of 300 old cookbooks, considered by connoisseurs to be one of the finest of its kind anywhere in the country—possibly anywhere in the world, outside of the Vatican library. Death Before One-Arm Cafes

Ragoo of Pigs’ Ea

* pigeons, four ‘suckling rabbits; cut them in

Juxurious table, When, by the gratifidation of he 1a ns, i i i of his fortune, and had only & paltry $400,000 left, poisoned himself to avoid the misery of plain diet.

book appears to have been de sumption. At any rate, if you read it did, you'll learn somewhat to your amagement also deals with leftovers: “To make a good (Ut mel malum bonum facies)” Roman, “add double the amount of good nobody will be the wiser.” :

Battalia Pye Easily Prepared MORE MODERN is “The Noble Book of

published in 1467. To make a “Battalla Pye” the Noble Book, “take four small chickens,

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season them with savoury spice, and lay pye, with four sweetbreads sliced, and as tongues, two shivered palates, two pair of 20 or.39 coxcombs, with savoury balls and Lay on butter, and close the pye” ... and too, if you ask me. Another mighty interesting item is a contained in “The Art of Cookery Made Easy, Which Far Exceeds Everything of th Ever Yet Published.” Published by whom, suppose? Well, believe it or not, “By a first woman ever to try her hand at writing book. She turns out to be a Mrs. Grasse, wife of an attorney living in Carey st, London, To make a “Ragoo of Pigs' Ears" wrote Mra Grasse, “take a quantity of pigs’ ears and boil them in one-half wine and the other water; cut them in small pieces, then brown a little butter, and put them in, and a pretty deal of gravy, two anchovies, an eschalot or two, a little mustard, some slices of lemon, some salt and nutmeg; stew all these together and shake it up thick. Garnish with barberries.” “It eats very well” says Mrs. Grasse.

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IN WASHINGTON « + « By Marquis Childs Foes” Stupidity Boon to Wallace

WASHINGTON, June 20.—If Henry Wallace is built up into a political hero, he will owe a considerable debt to the stupidity of those who profess to

The house un-American activities committee rarely fails to chip in its free publicity build-up. In connection yith Mr. Wallace's appearance in Washington, the committee went so far as to suggest a gestapolike surveillance of the audience, apparently in the expectation of frightening away timid government employees, Americans will always react against such tactics.

Negative in Great Britain : THE EFFECT of his tour of Great Britain, Insofar as it was meant to strengthen left-wing opposition within the Labor party, seems to have been largely negative. Jennie Lee, Labor member of parliament and wife of Aneurin Bevan, minister of health in the Attlee cabinet, criticized Mr. Wallace in an editorial in the left-wing London Tribune, of which she is co-editor. The editorial noted that leading New Dealers and labor leaders in this country are not ambng Mr. Wallace's followers. “Though mixed in character,” she wrote, “most influential is Jee Pressman-who did all in his power before Pearl Harbor, to ogranize C. 1. O. opposition to Roosevelt's lend-lease to Britain.” In his Washington speech, Mr. Wallace's only reference to Britain was as one of the powers that had attempted after world war I to put down communism by arming Russia's neighbors,

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Rubrk

In the course of his tour of this country, in only two instances did Wallace have any real political backing. In Minnesota, his appearance was spon sored by the Democratic-Farmer Labor party. Bus the most dynamic figure in the D..F. L. and their only conspicuous vote-getter today, Mayor Hubert H. Humphrey of Minneapolis, had nothing to do with Mr. Wallace's appearance. In Bouthern California, Mr. Wallace had the sube stantial backing of the left-wing of the Democratie party. His chief sponsor in California is former State Attorney General Robert W. Kenny, who was badly defeated for the governorship when Earl Ware ren last year won nomination in both the Republican and Democratic primaries. The split in the Democratic party in California is so_pitter that the Republicans seem almost certain to carry the state next year.

Boomeranged in Washington EVIDENCE ACCUMULATES that in the state of Washington Mr. Wallace's appearance in behalf of a Democrat who straddled the foreign issue helped to elect a Republican who favored the Truman doctrine, That was in the special congressional election in the Third district. When he criticizes the negative aspects of the

program for Europe. : The effort to suppress intimidate Mr. Wallace will only add to his following. We as a people will always resent being treated like children who are not old enough to distinguish between true criticism and false,

Pining for Dirty Gertie From Bizerte

NEW YORK, June 20.—I've got my foot in my hand, and I aim to see some far places, and it is partially the fault of Mr. Mohammed Ben Mohammed. Mr. Mohammed is an Arab, although he is not orthodox anymore. There is only one mosque in New York, dnd that is in Brooklyn. Mr. Mohammed says his life is too irregular to allow him to be a good Moslem. Also he does not care for Brooklyn. Mr. Mohammed was talking to me one night in the cab and he said he sure would like to see Tunis and Bizerte again. JHe comes from Bizerte. I told him’ he wouldn't like Bizerte the way I saw it last. Everything was so flat you couldn't hide a cat in the town, Mr. Mohammed said he wished he knew somebody who was going to visit it, because he had a lot of things he would like to send his people in Tunis. I told Mr. Mohammed that if I ever took a trip in that direction I would be glad to run any little errands he had in mind.

Carpetbag Full of Gum

THAT WAS a year ago. So now I am off to visit Mr. Mohammed's relatives, with a carpetbag in my hand. It is full of chewing gum. That is one of the reasons for the trip. Another is that I am sort of homesick for places like Casablanca and Algiers and Tunis. I keep wondering what happened to the blond cashier in the Bar Nolly —she called everybody Sweetiepie and made a thousand dollars a day selling beer and smiles. A gallon of the beer wouldn't have made a canary hiccup, but the smile was pleasant, I got a mansized yen to smell those smells and feel that hot sun and sit in the Cafe de 1'Opera and watch the pretty French girls pedal past on bicycles —followed, maybe, by a carriage drawn by two dappled horses, then a Buick sedan, then a grizzled bedouin on a camel, and then an old Jew from the mellah, fresh out of the Old Testament. For my

money North Africa is the greatest pageant on earth In five minutes you can see the centuries roll by. I felt thwarted during the war, when I was kicke ing around the Mediterranean. that was worth seeing was off-limits. You eouldn’t go in the casbah, You couldn’t go in the medina. This cafe was out of bounds for enlisted men. Another wag tacitly off-limits for officers. Everything was restricted. A man felt cheated. You were in close touch with romance for the first time in your life, and you eithee ran swiftly past it, or an MP said take it easy, Bud, you can’t go in here. Me, I wanted to play Beaw Geste. But somebody always hauled down the few and you had to go back to the ship, or the racks, or whatever. : There was never time enough to 'see anythin much, in a war, and what you saw was corrupted the presence of hundreds of thousands of strange There was a saying that it only took the Yanks week to spoil a town, and it was largely true. were just too many of us,

It Was Great Excitement

BUT SOMETHING of what we saw rubbed off and stuck, because there is a growing nostalgia for where we were and what we did. Say what you will of war, it was a great excitement for millions of peoe ple who otherwise would have been condemned. pere petually to dullness. That is why I want to see Africa again, and ge over to Sicily and Italy and France and England, Millions of American feet left prints in those places; * parts of our personalities clung to the lands we visited. I was really kidding about Mr. Mohammed being the reason for my tirp. I promised myself, away back in 1043, that I'd get back as soon as possible, to see what it all was like without a war to louse up the landscape. That is a promise which has been silently, by millions of other guys. The fact that 2

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

France Is Key to Salvaging Europe

PARIS, Jung 20—France is making a strenuous and gallant fight to save the fourth republig, key to all that is left of democracy on the continent of Europe. This is a basic fact. Greece and Turkey unquestionably are important, but the fall of France would seal the fate of all western Europe, the whole Mediterranean basin including Greece and Turkey, plus North Africa and the Middle East.

Communists Tied Her Hands IF AMERICANS ARE TO GET a clear picture of what President Truman and Secretary Marshall are trying to do in Europe they must see that if France is allowed to go under, the Truman-Marshall salvage operations will fail. What is going on in France today is a decisive tug-of-war between the Communists and the coalition government of Premier Paul Ramadier. The Communists, once a part of this coalition, had to be ousted because by their obstructionist tactics they tied the nation’s hands as France and her far-flung-empire raced toward disaster. Now they want to get back and are using the strike as their chief weapon, The social and economic situation inside France

tion for their grievances. Leftists no longer have to work to provoke strikes. Nowadays the Communists can confine their activities chiefly to utilizing such conflicts to their political advantage. All this has backed France against the wall. Most of her heavy industries, her railways, public services, etc, have been nationalized. Grants of higher pay now under way can be met in only two ways: Either by raising prices another notch or meeting them out the treasury—in other words, taxes. And as the treasury is almost empty with huge maturing bond

issues to meet, plus other drains, the result is more ’

“borrowing” from the Bank of France, also nationale ized. In short, it's the printing press that's left. Premier Ramadier has surprised everybody. He is meeting these attacks from all sides with courage and patience, but the forecast is for more and still more strikes, probably next in coal and steel. He can’t defend the fort forever without help. Inflation seems inescapable, with all that that may meen, unless help comes soon.

Stilt War Taix Germany now held by the Americans and British will go the same way. Eventually so will- Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal, North Africa and the rest. Greece and Turkey will be isolated and gobbled up, Truman

doctrine or no—unless of course the U. 8. and Russia

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