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STREET CAR RATE FIGHT HE street car company is in another fight with its patrons and the public service commission, this time over the question of charging two cents for transfers. We feel that this latest conflict with the community shows a lack of understanding of the importance of sound relations with the public which reflects no credit on the management of the utility. a i Without going into the legal ramifications of the proceedings extraordinary—Saturday evening restraining order, Sunday afternoon supreme court decision—the street car company’s position is increasingly taxing the patience of those who believe that it was entitled to a reasonable in-| srease in rates. When it obtained the three-for-a-quarter rate instead of the four-for-a-quarter rate, the resulting substantially increased income should have satisfied the company. Instead the company seeks the two-cent transfer charge, which raises the cost of a ride to 101; cents when a transfer is required. ! The brunt of that charge falls on folk who work in | other parts of the city than those in which they live, And | they are perhaps the ones least able to afford it. The whole manner in which the company has conducted | Z this rate fight gives ammunition to those who favor munici- | pal ownership. of utilities and who argue that such busi- |

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street car company. “The company appears to be a little impatient of gov- . .ernment or legal control,” commented Superior Court Judge John L, Niblack, whose order restraining the company from charging two cents for a transfer was nullified by the writ of prohibition issued Sunday by the supreme court, 5 This matter hasbeen pending for many months, making

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mission. The delay reflects credit on no one-—and specifi-| and democracy cally not on the commission, the courts or the street car |

time and money spent in those efforfs to improving its cynical disregard for the general Er rVitE - net al i welfare and sycophantic concern

for the whims of big business. Congress makes big talk about cutting taxes; yet the first impor-

SIXTY MILLION JOBS PLUS FEW years ago Henry Wallace and others began talk- tension of the wartime rales (exing about 60 million jobs as America’s post-war full- | cise) taxes. And the much touted employment goal. and vetoed tax cut oill Is the sor-

i - . riest phony of years, a sheer gift If this goal was to be reached by 1950, they said, the | of thousands to the ultra rich and

government must make proper plans for management of |» handful of pennies to the poor. i Congress condemns “labor monopthe hatiopal economy. olles,” but refuses to come to grips Well, the census bureau now reports that last month-— with the lynchers and white suJune, 1947—the goal was passed. There were 60,055,000 | premacist nazis of our Southland. Americans in civilian jobs, and 1,400,000 ‘more were em- oie mutiates Ie ge out ployed in the armed services. Civilian employment was |iabor (now reduced to essentially 1,730,000 higher than in May, 1947; about 3,700,000 highey | t¥o bureaus: the women's and chil3 than ii June. 1946 ra : . {dren's bureau and the bureau of pt y ’ " 2 : : # labor . statistics); congress butters Beating the Wallace goal three years ahead of the | up to the real estate lobby with a ‘Wallace schedule is quite an achievement. But don’t expect '*"* decontrol and’ dehousing bill; eat ie think { the Wallace school I ~ | congress chops up the budget for greal economic un ers o e Wallace schoo to be happy | ihe department of interior for reabout it. It wasn't done according to their plans. In fact, it | clamation and flood control at a was done in spite of their many warnings, over the last | ime when the greatest figeds - In gers! : » ’ : generations wash over the country two years, that vast unemployment was about to hit. | Congress dodges the anti-poll tax So now they'll say that the 60,055,000 jobs result from | issue, the health issue. But that's n unh A ; 0 : a Xa , | enough : an un calthy boom. They'll point to the way prices have Congress cannot expect respect gone up since government controls came off. And they'll for its sense or integrity when it predict a terrible bust unless the government does a lot

exhibits no respect for the people's of the kind of planning they advocate.

intelligence or needs. Many of us | few) deep contempt for this con0 be sure th ¢ ‘ord 1 1 » al d n i. | BrESS Few of us can prove our : , that re oye -smashing job tota does not Justi= contempt by a. jury verdict. The Sty complacency. There are dangers to be avoided. There is need for great wisdom in the policies of gov , | bY the way iy aot final since it has . £ ee he policie of go ernment and | been appealed) is a badge of honor business. But if prices have risen, so have the hourly wage | w uw = . . wp ¢ 1 yop pr ye rates and weekly earnings of millions of workers, to the | REACH INTOLERANCE highest levels in history. There are many evidences: of | my A. 1. Schneider, 504 W. dr i mee “ *" ... ru ace solidity .in the present “boom.” At least, by comparison! An editorial Thursday commented

with any other country, the United States is in remarkably | on tg lute ot ne ity sonal to ¥ | atinct the A Io good shape. | C he anti-lottery bill, and you

: } {end the editorial with the querry, There is a-country—much admired by Mr, Wallace and | Why? Do you intend for us to behis followers—where government planni lieve that the editdt f your news- ; g r mer t I lanning “and manage- paper is so naive and immature and ment of the national economy is complete. That country, |so out of touch with human nature, Russia, probably has even “fuller” employment than we do. [that you do not know the answer? Soon : . oa v . i A 1 The city council is realistic and People there are compelled to work. Wages are tightly! pject to the will of the citizenry controlled by the Soviet government. There are no “profit- ! for re-election Members of the city

greedy” corporations to “rob” the workers. [council a) aware that some seven

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"Howard Fast's Conviction for Contempt of Congress Is Honor"

By Walter Frisble, 1808 Orleans st. In The Times Saturday an obviously sincere person expressed concern that movelist, Howard Fast is to, speak at Indiana university. The lettér-writer who didws-sign his name hints that Mr. Fast is the E. : ; iy wg He says Fast was convicted by a federal jury for contempt of might say is one of the rest a joke of the regulatory powers of the public service com | congress, that he is thus disqualified for speaking on American literature served in the city el

Frankly, a certification by a jury and a court that you are bona-

‘oe bh ‘ . | fidely in contempt of the 80th congress should be the highes you know that the Sunday interval company. It's time the company stopped trying to wring | oc aineation oo. ling or deTORTacY: hes; possible y

the last possible penny from its customers and devoted the | expressed nothing but contempt for the people. Its record is one of minutes in the evenings on week-

coviction of Howard Fast (which

In Moscow, wages have gone up 25 per cent, average Side Glanzee By Galbraith

“COME ON, EAST SIDERS, QUIT BEING LED AROUND” By An Eastsider, Indianapolis Since trolley service is my only means of transportation, the subject is very important to me. I use 10th-Arlington, which I

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out of every 10 adult citizens enjoy 3878? And what is being done gambling in one form. or-another. about it? Absolutely nothing. Did

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against the form of intolerance you!Fublic Service Commission ordered

Now turn to some of the other|\Ce &nd do you know that the print |pages of your book and see what | Wasn't even cold when the railways you have to say in no uncertain Cut run off the East 10th line? terms about the other fellow’s in| 110is run wasn't just a rush hour |tolerance. Isn't it strange that the '7iPPer. but a ful] day and evening rule doesn't work both ways? And fun. This I can prove. And just |whenever a newspaper or an|%ho is this Public Service Commis- | entrenched group attempts to over-|Sion? It appears to be just someride the will of the majority, it is| ‘NINE you read about in the papers. |the tail-wagging the dog breeding | Can anyone of you show me where defiance. [they have ever come out with anyIt is your privilege to preach n-| thing but second best with any tolerance if you wish; but at least | 1Spute with the railways. Fares, |consistent—don't ask me to indulge | Service, etc.? > [tolerance while you indulge in-| And what happens when the rail(tolerance. ways get new trolleys? They go | ““The.answer lies in. heavy taxauan| OP Central ave first. The railways land other controls which willl Would have ou believe that E. 10th \squeeze the rackets out, rather than |St: 18 too narrow for these cars. That's \prohibitory legislation which wij}{{00lish-—would you consider Central |drive the rackets under cover into|2'e: from 10th st. to 34th st. wids? ‘more lucrative angles. A little explanation is that 82 per ‘nn cent of the stockholders use the | “INDIANAPOLIS WICKEDEST Central line. Could it be that is the CITY IN THE WORLD” reason? By Carroll Collins, Indianapolis Come on, you East siders, let's do 1. DDT makes the poor cats sick.|Something about this thing. Let's Don’t use it. It's criminal to put|qQuit being led around. Petitions stray dogs to death but, certainly,|won't do it. It takes public civic let them run wild and bother every. | meetings. The people of St. Louis body but their owners. . and Columbus, O., did it that way 2. Put laws on our books to give and got action and right nov. the sweet motherly W. C. T. U.| Let's see to it that we get what $5000 for a convention (don't tell me We are paying for—good. service on this 18" bt so—1 have i copy before | the East side. ng {me of that act, April 21, 1047) and I ; 8 resent paying tax for that gang. “G,0.P. STILL CAN GIVE | 3. But leave the rats eat our fu-| GOOD OLD SOB STORY” {ture generation. These children|By H. C, City will grow up some day and be! A quick glance at the news from voters—I do hope they have better washin sense than their parents. John days lon dues DAY ey lGunther Was righi—we- are dirty.| 53 Should prove quite. con|Our present Indiariapolis and Indi- clusively, to even the most skeptical, lana politicians are lax in respect|that the G.O.P. legislators haven't for humanity. {lost their technique for handing Fight gambling (all life's a gam-|the voter a good old sob story on {ble), liquor, but for heaven's sake legislation they have refused to don’t bother about children or sex pass. maniacs or murderers. Don't even| They stall around until eongress go look for them. Today Indian-iis almost ready to adjourn, then {apolis is the wickedest city in the bring up some much needed legis- | world and will be till the Blue| lation and send it to committee to Noses are put in their proper places. | die there. This gives the congressmen a chance to make a lot of speeches and come home and tell the voters that he tried to get that

wage of an average Soviet worker will -buy only 23 loaves of bread, or 17 pounds of sugar, or 16 quarts of milk, or | less than 10 pounds of beef, or four pounds of butter. The living standard of the average American worker, deprived though he is of Wallace-style government plan. | ning, is almost 10 times as high as that of his Russian counterpart. The average American factory worker can buy with his present weekly wage at least 390 loaves of bread, or 500 pounds of sugar, or 275 quarts of milk, or 82 pounds | of beef, or 70 pounds of butter, Thus the employment picture, and some light on com- | parative purchasing power, but— LET'S QUIT FLYING BLIND | NE way to help maintain an equilibrium in our country's economy would be to bring some certainty in our taxes. Let's be sure what our taxes are going to be for at least one whole year. That is the strongest argument for the overwhelming enactment of the bill now due for final vote in the senate. - If the income-tax rates for 1948 are left undetermined, | there will be months of backing and filling and blind flying. | Such a condition doesn’t make sense, even in stable times. . Our national intake now definitely exceeds the outgo. | All sighs indicate that such a trend of income over outgo | is increasing and will be stronger as the months go on. One ‘make, it stronger is to let people know what they are ) have to pay, and thereby let them plan their activ- | | ‘necessity for over their shoulders, | assurance will prove a national asset of in- Jive, Mast hE 3h

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in time. This has been especially true on any legislation to ald the veteran and the average working man. Under the leadership of Senator | Taft and his yes men—two of the | most voluble ones being Senators | |

'tfing up all progressive legislation. As a matter of fact about all y have doné is to raise the cost of living 40 per cent plus the new 15 per cent rent increase. Perhaps I am a little old fashfoned in this respect but I still hold to the theory that when a

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THE MAYORALTY RACE next fall between

cross party lines can determine who is the next mayor of Indianapolis . . . % the ; and: the make-up of

The normal advantage the Republicans Soupty Sleckiona will be cut drascoally “is ou as much as I... pecause this election is” to Indianapolis alone. A heavy percentage 3 Himitée Republican majorities comes from that part of the county outside the city limits. The councilmen are in effect the board of directors for the city, If they co-operate with the mayor, he can have a good administration . , , assuming that the minority will be militant and constructively

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critical, The importance of the council has just been illustrated , . , in a negative way . . . by the refusal of

that body to co-operate in cleaning up the $9,000,000 lottery and pool ticket racket .in Indianapolis, The president of the board of public safety had asked that an ordinancé be passed making it unlawful to manufacture or possess pool and lottery tickets . . . without such an ordinance the police can't make arrests which will stand up in court and effectively stop the racket. The councilmen evolved their own horseback legal opinion- and said they didn’t have the authority to take such action. When. the city attorney told them they have the power, they ducked the issue and did nothing about it. Mayor George L. Denny has said

TANGIER, Motoceo, July 15.-—~Ali Baba and his forty thieves would have ‘lost their teeth to the Tangier mob, a flock of spoilers bent on getting rich on an international game of beggar-your-neighbor. There are, for instance, 31 banks and a stock ex-

change here—to serve a banking population of no more than 12,000 people. There is a money changer on every corner. Every table cloth in every cafe is covered with a criss-cross of figures.

International Scandal Mart MONEY 1S THE COMMODITY that is bought and sold and hawked abroad in this last stronghold of unfettered enterprise. A Tangier-bought franc is worth twice its value anywhere else. You can buy lots of gold double eagles, gold sovereigns and louis d'or, in the stock exchange, although trading in gold is illegal in those coins’ parent countries. The streets of Tangier are crowded with sparkling American cars—one of the reasons you can't get a new one at home. But those cars don't stay here long. Somehow they find their way to Spain—where, although the posted indemnity amounts to the cost of the car, the black market price is large enough to return a profit of more than 100 per cent. Money has come from all over the world to Tan: gler, and with it have come the people who fattened off the war's misery, to turn it and twist it and corrupt it until it is nearly valueless in its homelands. Some: diplomats get rich, enormously, in Tangier, off this racket and that. The constant steady struggle of the French, English, Spanish for dominance breeds a fair field-day for freebooters. The state of nations—the return of princes, the falling prestige of a regime, a prime minister's statement, a dictator's new policy—these things are talked in terms of money in Tangee, International politics is reduced to gossip, intensely interesting gossip, and conversation is carried in low tones, as befits scandal. Business of Tangier is not done in offices. It is done at cafe tables, in bars—anywhere that forbids the possibility of too easy eavesdropping. There is a furtive glitter in the hooded eyes of the men as they talk—then, suddenly, they rush away to a mysterious “appointment” in the socco chico—the little market.

IT'S OUR BUSINESS . .. By Donald D. Hoover, 5 11

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he woilld press for such an ordinance . . . realizing that without it the racketeers can flourish. Neither has the incumbent council done anything shout clean-

_ing up the police force or pinning down the charges

that certain policemen were involved in rackets. In other words, the council can take a stern view of the responsibility to build a better lis, or they can hold back the community's development by inertia. i It is important to know, then, all about the candidates for council so that the six each qualified person votes for will be the best qualified, regardless of party. Here are the candidates: Republican First District Donald Jameson Porter Seidensticker

© + Second District Harmon A. Campbell] Joseph C. Wallace

Third District : Clarence Suggs Guy O. Ross Fourth District Charles F. Ehlers Joseph A. Wicker Fifth District Harold C, Schulke Christian J. Emhardt

Y Sixth District Joseph E. Bright. Mary Catherine Connor Don't cast your ballot blindly on Nov. 4 .., know the candidates you believe to be best qualified.

No Vote, No Squawk THOSE WHO STAY AWAY from the polls forfeit their right to complain about the kind of government they get. ‘Apathy in the primary enabled the organizations of both parties to nominate their men . . . thus narrowing the field in which the voter could express himself. Check on these council candidates . . . they seek important jobs on the payroll to which you contribute throtigh your taxes. ‘ *

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark World: Center of Evil and Duplicity

Gossip. rumor, scandal, violence—they all retail swiftly here. All the Europeans know each other, and work subtly against each other, both as cliques and individuals. A ; Supreme spectator of this carnival of coyetousness, and a cold, smiling, cynical receptacle for the secrets of all is Dean. Dean is an Egyptian of English birth. He is 50-ish, coffee-colored, and speaks with an impeccable Oxford accent. Dean owns a little bar around the corner from the Minzah hotel, and through that bar pass the rich and the would-be rich, the bums and the diplomats, the traders and the robbers and the exiled. The spicy scandal of Tangier flowers and grows in Dean's. He is a clearing house for information. If you

- want to get in touch with someone, you leave a mes-

sage at Dean's. I found six people that way in one day. Dean listens, smiles, makes a graceful motion of the hand, and tells an illustrative anecdote of never less than 20 years’ vintage. He hears everything and says nothing. At one time or another he has worked in every capital of Europe, and he has collected the great and near great, the plotters and phonies, as another man collects stamps, After years of roving, he settled in Tangier long

. before the war. Few days pass, however, without acquaintances of 30° years ago dropping into his bar.

Dean knows the location of the skeletons in half the closets of Europe, and is smilingly content to rattle them only for his own amusement. Lik

Gentleman Bartender DEAN IS SHOCKED BY NOTHING, no matter how evil or sad, and recognizes only two sins—~to be boring or to pretend to be what you are not. But he is a kindly man—his list of unpaid tabs is enormous— and something inside him attracts everyone. His tact is great; during the war he handled Germans, Japs, Italians, Spaniards, Americans, English and both kinds of French simultaneously, and without incident, in his bar. Internationalist and connoisseur of his fellows’ foible, Dean has waved no flags. But his part, some say, in the allied underground was immense during the war. And the greatest lady in Tangier sdys that

Dean, the bartender, is the city’s greatest gentleman.

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow Henry Smith Lane—Governor in 1861

“HE WAS CONDUCTED to the chair, and stood forth on the platfoim—a man about 6 feet high, marvelously lean, his front teeth out, his complexion between a sunblister and the yellow fever, and his small eyes glistening like those of a wildcat, He ‘went in’ and made the most astonishing speech ever heard in these parts. Then the orator continued his .westernisms,’ as the Eastern “Then called them, ‘filled his mourth with tobacco, placed one leg over the ‘table behind ;which he was seated, and put the. votes and made his decisions in the most off-hand style imaginable, and infusing ‘into everything a spirit of peculiar humor that was irresistible.”

Product of Kentucky THIS IS the thumb-nail sketch of Henry Smith Lane, as drawn by & live-wire reporter of the Cin-cinnati-Commercia] at the first national convention of the Repuhlican party that met at Philadelphia in June, 1856, to nominate John C. Fremont as its first candidate for President of the United States. Lane was a Kentucky product from the Henry Clay section of the state east of Lexington. He was born on a farm near Sharpsburg in Bath: county, Feb. 11, 1811, and was admitted to the bar in the adjoining. county at Mount Stirling in 1832; at 2L When still 20 in October, 1831, in his home county, he showed the qualities that carried him far in life in an address to fhe Colonization society in which he said: “This soclety is the plausible way of removing slavery from this country. The history of all times admonishes us that no nation can be kept in slavery forever. The light of history shows us that men determined to be free cannot be conquered.” Even at 20, he had the swing and the punch that aroused a seasoned newspaper reporter at Phila-

delphia, and thrilled a convention that nominated the first. Republican , presidential candidate. When he came to Crawfordsville in 1834, he settled down to practice law. After his wife, whom he had married in Kentucky as Parmelia Bledsoe, died in 1842, he married Joanna Elston, Feb. 11, 1845. to become the son-in-law of Isaac C. Elston, the banker of the town, and later the brother-in-law of Lew Wallace who married Susan Arnold, the daughter of Elston, May 6, 1852.

Election Was a Hot One

LANE REACHED his peak “politically in Indiana

and the nation im the state and presidential campaign of 1860. He and Oliver P. Morton were pitted against Thomas A. Hendricks and David Turpie for governor and lieutenant-governor of Indiana. Probably no other four men of comparable ability were ever candidates for these offices at any election in the first century and a quarter of Indiana history down to 1947. Lane and Morton were elected. Lancs majority over Hendricks was 9757, Morton's majority over Turpie was 10,178. Nationally in 1860, Indiana voted: Lincoln, 139,033; Douglas, 115509; Breckinridge, 12,205; Bell, 5306; total, 271,800. This election was a hot one even for Indiana, and notably the vote polled, as it is the most accurate and complete test

“that was ever made on how the state stood on the

slavery question. . On Jan. 14, 1861, Lane was inaugurated governor of Indiana. Two days later, he was elected United States senator, serving six years, March 4, 1861— March 3, 1867. His service in the senate was normal and undistinguished. In a commonplace way, it was a credit to the state. Except in minor ways, it ended his political career. As a banker and hdnored citizen, he died, aged 70, in a beautiful home in Crawfordsville, June 18, 1881.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms ‘Reds Drop Mask—Europe Is Split’

PARIS, July 15-~The peoples of Europe and America will be living in a fools’ paradise if they expect too much of the conference here on the Marshall plan to aid Europe. Despite the flying start of the conference on Sat- i urday and Sunday-—thanks to the absence of Soviet Russia and her stalling tactics—and notwithstanding the utmost good will and. determination of each of the 16 nations present, the outcome will be hopelessly hampered by the blighting fear now gripping all Europe, ; Specter of Fear RUSSIA 18 ABSENT but her shadow falls over the conference table. Her boycott already has done

| that some organizations do, such damage there 8 1h8 Jen) estata interepia and the Veit damage atid Xe SHE Here: dqubn ile § Nations), Asnciuion of Manufac-| I have just returned from Finland, Scandinavia | , the poor old voter | and Czechoslovakia. Everywhere I found an atmosBully Syures Sungs ou fob hum. phere “reminiscent of the days when Hitler 4 congressional | was summoning heads of neighboring states to Berlin | election should see a record turn-| und Berchtesgaden telling them what to do. The out and after it is over there will | gremlins action of throttling Czechoslovakis not only | be 8 lot of new faces in Washing- | sent shivers down the spines of Moscow's satellites a a a Ea ie - t Europe for a time. DAILY THOUGHT | “pur” example. Swiseriand. came to Paris wih > / k three reservations. She would undertake nothing inus anrwering Mary | compatible with her neutrality.” The conference's X acts are not to be binding on her without her specific

that she thought it prudent publicly to volce them. And if she is jittery lest Russia retaliate, it is asked, what can be expected of those in a more vulnerable position with regard to Russia through fifth-column activities and otherwise? . There's not a single nation on the continent today that dares challenge Moscow's wishes now that the showdown has come. This means that real co-opera-tion in the sense called for by the Marshall plan

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