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Friday, July 25, 1947
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UN's Useful Open Forum STRESSING the need for amendments to the United Nation's charter to curtail the veto power, the American Legion calls United Nation's security council “a perpetually hung jury.” The Legion admits this may not be the time to ake fundamental changes in the charter. : goal which it feels must 'be attained before the United ‘Nation can be “fully effective.” This, we think, is a proper approach to the problem. The Unifed Nation can not be fully effective so long as :! there are major conflicts between the two blocs which now divide the world. but just as essential not to dismiss the organization as an institution of no great value. Something like a “hung jury” results from every clash between the Soviet and the Western viewpoint. cussions before the security council put the spotlight on | troubled areas and so contribute to public understanding of international controversies and to creation of a world opinjon that can become a mighty force for peace. ond charter amendment to eliminate the Soviet veto | would not itself bring a change in Russian foreign policy. JHowever, continuing abuse of the veto will tend to reveal the real Soviet objectives. with Soviet propaganda, misuse of the veto will defeat its Own purposes. Kicking Russia out of the United Nation would settle nothing, tempting as that thought might be. We've got to live with the Soviets, like them or not, in or out of United So long as they stay in, they can be called on to explain their conduct before the world. The United. Nation's open forum can be useful if we make the most of it.
Something for Sugar FT HE house has passed, and the senate seems determined to pass before congress adjourns, a measure called “the sugar act of 1948.” This measure, we're sorry to say, has been approved | hy administration agencies. President Truman should read | it ‘with his veto pen in hand, for it is at complete variance with the administration's professed interest in removing |... increase! barriers to international trade. © Also, it's very strange legislation to come from a Re- |. publican congress which has talked so much about New comes from city taxes as I under- | ; ; Deal “Socialism” and the virtues of free enterprise. It is |stand’ I wish this statement were | Let Council, Police a five-year extension, with fancy added features, of a New | true but the facts are, not one Ryn City, Will Do OK" | Deal law enacted in 1937 to hold down the supply of sugar, | cent of city taxes goes into this en- gy yo oun p, 0'Brien, 538 Virginia ave. Of it, the Wall Street Journal, which can't be accused of enmity, to business, says: “It will regulate the sugar industry down to the smallIt will tell the grower how many acres of cane or beets he can plant. It will limit the amount of sugar an importer can bring in. It will put a ceiling on the business. of processors and refiners. . . . Its effect will be to put the industry under a completely ‘planned economy’ , , . which is another name for a monopoly. monopolies, the consumer is to pay.” All parts of the sugar trade—the cane-sugar growers in this country, Hawaii and Puerto Rico, the beet-sugar growers, the refiners—joined in asking for this measure to! eats. However, with an estimated
Apparently they want to put | cost of $150,000 for the season, were, . .. charges that gambling ex-| I have been in several large] r
est detail,
their industry. themselves under a government-directed cartel tod@scape
“stabilize
the risk of a free market.
by controlling domestic production ahd imports. orders the Secretary of agriculture to estimate, each Octobér, the demand for sugar in the next calendar year and the amount needed to maintain the same supply-demdnd ratio that exists in the present sellers’ market of 1947.. As one indication of what this measure can do to consumers, the Wall Street Journal cites bakers’ estimates that it may make the price of sugar 3 cents a pound higher than it would be in a free market. ican people's bill for cake and other sweet pasteries about | $30 million a year. . ) Another result of the sugar act quite possibly will be an insistent demand by consumers for permanent government control of sugar prices.
Peace Can't Be Vetoed
THREATS of a Soviet veto. should not deter the United | States and the other nations concerned from beginning negotiations for an early peace settlement with Japan. | It is true that the nations that signed the United Nations’ “fight-to-a-finish” pact of Jan. 1, 1942, agreed not y to make a “separate armistice or peace with the enemies.” But Japan lost her status as an actual enemy state when she surrendered on Aug. 14, 1945, on terms accepted by all the | nations engaged in the Pacific war. It would bea tortured construction of that agreement | to hold that the United Nations must remain in a perpetual state of technical war with the Japanese people because one of the allied nations refuses to join the others in a formal | peace settlement. ; | The door is open for the Russians to attend the peace | conference, if they wish. If they decline, the conference | t . should not be delayed on that account.
Veteran Editor Dies
r DWIN M. SOUDER, one of Indiana's veteran newspaper. men, died at Kokomo this week, shortly after he was honored by the city of Kokomo on completion of half a century with the Kokomo Tribune. : His newspaper had suggested he take a trip to any!" part of the world, and he was to leave in the fall for England returning to his duties.
d Souder. His philosophy of gentle living was
But it indicates a
It -is essential to recognize that fact,
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If these are not in harmony
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terprise.
uals and corporations for the enjoyment of their fellow citizens. Of | course,
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nothing better than to be able to make 50c the admission price for all
Hoosier Forum
"| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will
detend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.
Commission
On behalf of my fellow directors of the Indianapolis centennial church federation. commission, I thank “Music Lover” who took the trouble to write in their own business and let the city Tuesday's issue of this column his praise of the outdoor concerts and |council and the police department musical comedies being presented this summer at the Butler Bowl. are delighted that he and thousands of his fellow citizens are not | only attending these productions but are enjoying them so much that and talent tn trying to make The
many returned time and time again for “The New Moon"—may their Times a better newspaper.
It is entirely Jorivately
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"Can't Cut Summer Opera To 50 Cents Because of Expense"
‘im By Harry V. Wade, Executive Vice Chairman, Indianapolis Centennial
I want to correct an erroneous statement that appeared in “Music
er's” letter, He sald, “Part of the financial support for this program | instead of trying to black-jack city -
the people of
Our board of directors would like! Times thinks.
we to fill every seat foi every per-|icis : : : Ly ‘| formance at 50c, we would still lose | cities and I find less gambling here As a rdilway worker since 1899, 1 over
lion” dollars worth of lottery tickets a year are going to quit on account of the proposed ordinance, he is without doubt a very unpractical an, to say the least, It is high time that everybody, including The Times and the start minding
We | Fun the city. I believe they will do el : {all right,
The editor might occupy his time
There {1s much room for such action. And |the church’ federation might try (to educate people in their churches g:" councilmen into passing more silly jordinances. When ministers of the {gospel have to leave their churches {and try to have laws passed against {what they consider wrong, it is in
With the city overrun with hood- itself a confession that there is a supported by civic-minded individ- | lums, with sluggings, robberies, at-| serious breakdown in the churches | tacks on women and even murder and that the ministers are unable to almost a nightly occasion, The In- stop this wrong in a truly religious dianapolis Timgs continues its re- and educational way. city departments, | lentless holy war against gambling, | notably park and police, have by and what the editor likes tos call page, the better I like the comic their contribution of services made| the “Nine Million Dollar Racket.” this great public enterprise possible. 1f The service of safety and such a|gpend nine million dollars a year| contribution- to the enjoyment of for baseball tickets and its citizens are among the reasons| jt stands to reason that th ; why such departments of a great jjke to gamble and will continue : {to do so regardless of what The Does Safety Keep
The more I read your editorial
| page. : Indianapolis | em— Editor's Note: Confidentially,
tteries| we enjoy the comics, too. people | a ..n_ a
Pace With Speed?
Your newspaper has baited the gy 1 mM. McGinnes, 1126 Eugene st. { police department ever | start of the current administra-|
since the, Mr. Hubble, writing in the Forum,
advocates giving the railways a eak.
20,000. It is interesting to! han anywhere else. What is hap- feel sure that most sensible railroad
. =» " a 0» | reutize that a higher percentage ofl pening here is infinitely worse. | Workers, great or small, don't need
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That would boost the Amer-
|e audience.
sponse to this season's programs, all of us here in Indianapolis and sur-| federation rounding cities can look forward to stampeding the city council into with us as commercial carriers. many future summers of musical passing a law which would make enjoyment at prices scaled to meet | possession of lottery | the pocketbook of any citizen who|lawful.
. : : : ! ohB ' { ; . wv a break. Any man who has viewed . 8 8 «att is to keep prices up our reserved seals have been sold| Murder, rape, and robbery is more HE plain purpose of this sugar att is to keep prices up |than the non-reserved. After all, | important to me than people buy- he debris and parts of bodies on It | oven though one can see better from | ing’ baseball tickets. Our . police rain or track where he earns. his
It is time the railroads need their
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proved the least part of Mr. May Kee's business. His big turnover was in the line known as “bric-a~ brac” at the time.
Bric-a-Brac Filled Store MR. MAY KEE'S store, I recall, ‘was a veritable mine of bric-a-brac, consisting for the most part of porcelains, fans and latquered ware the like of which had never been seen around here. The most gorgeous fan in mother's collection came from his store, 1 remember. And I don't mind saying, too, that Mr. May Kee's stock of blue china, especially the willow pattern depicting the story of the mad mandarian making love to the mincing maiden on the rickety old bridge, had the authentic quality of an unexpurgated edition. Besides all these lovely things, Mr. May Kee also had a decorative wife, She was part of his entourage when he arrived In Indianapolis. Everybody who caught a glimpse of her sald she was exquisite, and it was no secret at the time -that she lent lustre to her husband’s shop in much the same way as the lacquered ware on his shelves. She was .just as genuine, too, for almost immediately upon her arrival, somebody spread the news that she was a real-for-sure example of a Chinese lady of high caste. Those who weren't in on the
IN WASHINGTON . By
WASHINGTON, July 25. — Republican political leaders would probably be the last to admit it, but the record of the congressional session just ending shows the G, O. P. has a New Deal all its own. The Democratic: New Deal that was born and died with Roosevelt developed some very specific objectives. In simplest terms they were to raise the standard of living for the one-third of the population supposed to be ill-paid, ill-fed and ill-housed. ~All this came to be identified as a “pro-labor” program, though it was more than that. It'was a social welfare program for all low-income groups.
Against Federal Expansion WHEN. THE VOTERS in 1946 kicked out the liberal majorities in congress, the conservatives of both parties took it as a mandate to substitute a social reform program of their own making. This program has not yet been carried out in full. It will take another session of congress to do
Editor's Note: This is the second of a series of five articles by Peter Edson discussing the accomplishments. of congress this session.
that. But its broad outlines emerged in the 1947 congress. It does not quite repeal the Democratic New Deal, but it changes it beyond recognition, These seem to be its main points: The social security system has been frozen as is until 1950, both as to deductions and benefits The law called for its expansion. - For the unorganized poor the Republicans pro a health program to be financed by federal tax money grants-in-aid to the states. Local health offices would then have the responsibility of paying hospital and doctor bills for people who could not afford to pay their own. + This same procedure of giving authority to the states 1s proposed in the Republican aid to education program. What this trend implies is that the Republican party is becoming the champion of states’ rights.
CASABLANCA, Morocco, July 25.—Madame Gala used to ride the cash register in the Bar Nolly, which was an officers’ club by designation, a general clip joint by practice, and a hive of activity from 6 p. m. to 8 when the curfew allegedly closed the town, ’ | Gala worked for a dame who called everybody
|the reserved seats, one can hear department, undermanned as it is, read, knows’ that laws regulating | “Sweetie Pie” and Gala called people that, too. They qually well from any seat in the/cannot stop these more serious Unsafe speeds is to be desired. | offenses, it must take orders from
(used to call Gala “Madame Okey-Dokey,” because | anytime anybody offered to buy her a drink, she
If our private guarantors are en-| newspaper editérs and other starry | Mist dues and we hope the day will | sald “okey-dokey.
couraged by their fellow citizens’ re-| eyed unpractical individuals. {soon come when our government Your newspaper and the church | ¥ill ceasé to subsidize other forms
is
The fact that this usually can afford any entertain-|nance would be illegal, ridiculous|f*nHirY: One am 36 he develop: ment to which an admission is and unenforceable is beyond the|™rv Of .waler, highway, railway charged. However, the response this| point. Laws of this nature should | summer will tell whether this grand be handled by the state legislature | form of recreation can go on. Under and not -by -city councils, regardless | the circumstances, the attendance of what the starryof all citizens at the Butler bowl is editors think.
earnestly sought. {thinks the boys who sell “nine ml-|
in|of transportation which compete
now engaged
Seeking a solution for trafic contickets un-|tro! should not be haphazard or
a rdi- | thoughtless. Looking back only a
and ‘alr transportation in our United States. These four forms of {common carriers have reached a {point where they should sustain NEWSPADET | thir properties without aid from if the editor |, taxpayers. The. railroads, like the automobile and airplane, have passéd the promotional stage and should surui vive on their own merits as to size,
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
speed and safety. Has safety kept pace with speed? .
‘More Publicity on Railroad Wrecks
| By Interested, Winthrop ave. | Considering the number of recent |railroad, wrecks there have been think the public has a right to know what the cause has been of & num{ber of them. I know there is always {an Investigation, but sometimes the results “are kept quiet. It is rumored that the engineer, jat fault in a recent train wreck {Where three men died, has admitted he was asleep. The officials of the {railroad should admit or deny this |fact, and protect their own interests as well as those of the public. If j= automobile ie falls asleep land hits someone, and the person dies, the driver is tried for manslaughter. If the roundhouse foreman is too
{of the rules then let him be put {out and another take his place. Men {who believe in being faithful, sober | husbands and fathers are the ones | Who are good railroad workers.
DAILY THOUGHT Hathwiot the potter power over the clay; ofthe sam :
Way of Major With Barmaid EVERYBODY CAME THERE—naval officers and army officers and merchant marines and local French, Vichy and free, Poles, Spaniards, spies, German submariners ashore in civilian ‘suits, French trollops on the prowl for rich airplane jockeys, in from the deserts with a fat roll—everybody except the enlisted man came to the Nolly. ’ Madame Gala was the queen of the joint. She was pretty in the brittle’ French-fashion—a two-foot blond hairdo, four or five pounds of diamonds on her fingers, neckline as low as she could get it, and a swift, sharp tongue. She was never known to refuse a drink, go out with a customer, or allow the evening's intake to confuse her cash register. I got to wondering what happened to the lady, and paid the Nolly a little call. , Ordinarily I would have expécted Gala to become a victim of l'amour on the same day that I accuse | John L. Lewis of benevolence, but that, it seems, is | the case. Somewhere in her early 40's, my friend was nipped by the deadliest of viruses, and all her Gallic practically went out the door. I ran the lady down. She is working now from 10 to 5 a. m. in a nightclub called the Don Quijote—
FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . ..
PARIS, July 25.—According to high French -offclals France neither will wreck the European recovery plan over the Ruhr issue nor unduly retard its operation. But, they say, she will not buy temporary assistance-—desperately needed though that may be— at the price of her national security. France, as the cornerstone of continental demoec-
OUR TOWN + + By Anon o—_. A Mystery of the Small Glass Slippe
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use Rudyard Kipling had written). It turned out, however, that Mr.
right. Instead of being satisfied with a good start .. in establishing amiable international relations, the,
two Indianapolis cops (either by accident, design or curiosity) opened the door leading to a room in the rear of the store. It proved to be Mr. May Kees private apartment. Ny
Dressed in Oriental Splendor a ti SEATED IN front of a table there, they saw the lovely Mrs. May Kee dressed in her Oriental splendor, On the table was a little glass slipper not over two inches long. One of the cops picked it up, so runs the ‘story, and marveled at the size of foot it would fit. Nobody knows for sure what happened after that, but that night Mrs. May Kee broke down and told her husband that one of the cops had asked to see her feet. Of course, Mrs. May Kee refused to show them. In spite of her exemplary behavior, however,
ihe incident made her husband so all-fired mad that
he dropped everything to see: Chief of Police Quigle:
about it—in the dead of night, mind you. 57 Eg
The following Saturday, the chief had everybody in his office to hear both sides of the story, For some reason, however (possibly because of Occidental inhibitions), Chief Quigley had his door locked that morning. And to this day nobody knows whether
the two-inch glass. slipper on Mrs. May Kee's table
fit her foot or not.
Pater Editon
How Republican New Deal Functions
While Repblican Senator Taft, in collaboration with Democratic Senators Wagner and Ellender, ® sponsoring a long-range federal housing program, the rank-and-file of the conservative congressmen have shown no inclination: to go along. As matters stand now, there is ample evidence that a majority in congress would favor liquidation of all federal housing activities returning the problem to private industry and loca! governments. Passage of the Wolcott bill, easing government.
controls on rents and housing, was a definite move’
to ald landlords and the building industry at the expense of the home owner and renter. x In Ahree fields, the Republicans take leadership
over the traditionally more liberal Democrats. These .
are in G. O. P. proposals to put through an anti- .
poll tax bill, write a national anti-lynch law. and create a permanent fair employment practices commission. But again, no action till next: year. Pros posals to increase minimum wage standards: to 60 or 75 cents an hour, first advanced. by now have Republican backing.
Strange G. O. P. Turnabout Ais IT
8 TOO EARLY YET to tell what the effects
of the conservative .labor reform program will be. Union leaders are predicting calamity, but the show-
down is eight or 10 months away.
The complete conservative tax program has ‘still
to be written. As revealed by the vetoed Knutson
tax revision bill, it would have reduced taxes more + for the well-to-do than for the lower income groups, percentage-wise as well as dollar-wise, On the jong
range tax program, Republican sentiment now seems to be more for reducing income taxes and increasing excise taxes. There -is strong likélihood of & federal sales tax emerging. Again, a greater proportionate burden would be borne: by low-income groups. ‘ Summing up, the Republican formula seems to be one of seeking continued prosperity by making conditions favorable for business leadership.
REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark The Brittle Maid and the Silver Fox
matching drink for drink with the customers, My hardboiled chum, it appears, successfully with= Stood the barbs of cupid until late in 1943, ‘when along came a major in the A. T. C. He was a very handsome ma jor—40-ish, gray as a wolf, and a very smooth guy with a doll. Somewhere between the ninth grenache and the vin rosee, Madame Gala looked across the bar and fell smackdab in love. She called her major Silver Fox, because of his picturesque hair, and they became, &v the saying goes, engaged.
Demporats, .
Gala and the major shacked up, for two. years, .
The major was a very proper sort. He didn’t want his affianced bride to be peddling bad hootch in a ginmill, so Gala retired from the position of eminence at the cash drawer, and devoted herself to housewifery. Holisewifery is somewhat expensiVe, if done well, and majors don't make all the money in the world, especially when they have stateside. obliga tions. So Gala ran through a lot of her own money in those two years.
How Many More Bruises THE W. ENDED, and the major went home, and Gala was a very happy girl. She put through the papers and took the blood tests and talked to the congul. Nothing came of her preparations to be a war bride, however—and finally she went to the major's general and the general gave her the word. Her silver fox had unfortunately neglected to mention an ever-loving wife back home, I would not go so far as to say Gala’s heart broke, because I don't think you could break her heart if you pounded it with a sledge. But it got pretty
badly bruised, and I keep wondering how many gifs -.
there are, like Gala but with softer hearts, who reaped 4 silver fox as their share of the American invasion abroad?
By William Philp Simms
It Cant Happen Again, France Insists.
friendship for France, of democratic solidarity agains aggression, etc. France the triple enténte with Britain and Russia but that didn’t save her in 1914.
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