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Circutations ‘Price In Marion County, 5 cents a copy: deltv"ered by carrier, 25c a week. Mall rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, 0 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, $1.10 a month. Telephone RI ley 5651 |

Give LAM dnd the Peopls Will Find Thew Uwn Way

Congress Is Over THE first session of the Republican-controlled 80th congress has adjourned. Its record was neither as bright as the Republicans will claim nor as black as the Democrats will try to paint it. It fell far short of G. O. P. promises to slash government spending and trim the federal payroll. President Truman's two vetoes blocked its efforts fo keep the tax cut pledge. It did almost nothing to remedy the housing crisis. It gave little or no indication of f mowing what to do about high prices. On the positive side, its most conspicuous success was the enactment—with quite a lot of Democratic help and despite a veto—of the Taft-Hartley labor law. This fulfilled a Republican promise of legislation to ‘curb abuses of unionism’s power. The ‘measure is, in the main, sound and constructive. With good administration, it can improve labor-management relations and promote industrial peace. Another real achievement is the law to unify the armed

tary training, also an urgent defense need. In its closing hours, the house military affRirs committee gave 20- to-0 approval to a training bill, which will be ready for house action when congress reassembles. . =» . "nn § HANKS largely to Senator Vandenberg's fine influence, senate co-operation with the administration's foreign

controlled congress. Toward the session’s end; though, there were some disturbing signs. “These suggest that Mr. Truman and Sec-

the Republicans if they want the appropriations essential to American programs for world reconstruction and peace. House and senate leadérs ignored many domestic measures advocated by Mr. Truman—expansion of social security, higher minimum wages, health insurance and the like. Although Senator Taft is onexof the sponsors of a longrange housing bill, there was no. action on that. Republican feeling seemed to be that such social and welfare leg--

islation could wait, but they talked of getting around to |,

quite a lot of it in 1948, 4 presidential election year,

The most disturbing aspect of this Republican congress has been its susceptibility to the lobbyists and special pleaders for such interests as electric power, natural gas, wool, sugar, real estate and building, etc. The real estate lobby, fh particular, had an unbroken record of stccess. Some of the others didn’t put their projects through, but they'll be back trying, and the G. O. P. had better watch its step. § . . » j ” ” . bids} AST November's elections, we think, revealed strong sentiment among the American people for a moderate trend

controls, for correcting certain excesses of the New Deal, for giving business and industry a fair chance to go ahead | under the free-enterprise system. But if the Republican party believes it has a mandate to take this country all the way back to the high-wide-and-handsome days of the 1920's, it is sadly mistaken. -And if it keeps on falling for the blandishments of special-interest lobbyists, it is likely to get a rude shock in November next year,

An Inexcusable War

THE Neshorimnds ‘government has projudiced its posi tion before the world by its military operations against the Indonesian people, What Dutch officialdom has " deadeivel as “limited police measures’ is in fact war. Civilians as well as military installations are beihg bombed from the air, and bombarded by sea and ground artillery. Those acts cannot be condoned. Some phases of the controversy in the Dutch East Indies are obscure. No doubt Dutch patience has been tried by the long negotiations with representatives of the new native government. But the basic issue is the inde- | pendence of 70 million people. | The British, with American support, sought to medi- | ate the dispute, but the Dutch declined the offer and | are undertaking to crush the independence movement by force. That is one way to bring about a satisfactory new relationship with the Indonesians. Britain has been wise | enough to recogrize that colonial imperialism is outmoded. | If The Netherlands cannot adjust itself to the new order, | . organized society should intervene in the name of humanity apd justice. The Dutch should be called to prompt account before’ the United Nations. All Asia could become inflamed | against the western world if this reckless attack on. the| Moslems of Indonesia is not halted.

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Russia's 10-to-1 Ratio THERE are approximately 1000 Russians in the United , States on official business, but because of rigid Russian | septrictions the number of Americans in the Soviet Union |

does not’ exceed 100. :

# Members of a congressional committed who have been |

10-to-1 ratio in favor of the Soviets should be made a 50-50 proposition. They are urging the state department cancel all Russian visas in excess of the number of ericans now in the Soviet Union. And why not? ! & Of course, it might not result in the exodus of the full potential of 900 Russians. Some of them might, like Victor Kravchenko, the former Soviet purchasing agent, ** choose freedom rather than a return to the land for which

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“We c can what a 0 ‘it must be fora iceman bringing, in a . belfigerent drynk to lose his own temper “and slap the man dewn. We fully appreciate’ the need. for a policeman to be able to protect himself while performing his duties. - ’ ‘But there is just no excuse at all for any policeman, ever, under any circumstances, to give a prisoner the kind of brutal and sadistic beating that two or more Indianapolis. policemen gave Duite Fisher the other night, After the carefully concocted story with which the police department tried to clear its guilty members broke down completely in Judge Howard's court

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will stick together .and deny it. Oddly enough this tough treatment never seems

to apply to the really tough hoodlums and | criminals the police occasionally bring in. They know how to get along with cops,

from long experience, and apparently are treated with every cunsideration. The beatings and the sluggings mostly go fo rela tively harmless, although perhaps unpleasant individuals who are accused only of being intoxicated—a crime that is punishable by fines running from $1 to maybe $10,

"Police Brutality. Uncalled for,

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ied visas to visit Russia this summer believe that this |}

last Friday, the facts stood out without a and a condition in which one unarmed and shadow of doubt: almost helpless prisoner can hardly be conTwo policemen simply brought this man sidered a danger to five or six armed, preinto the police station on 4 charge of being * sumably sober, and certainly husky policedrunk, and there one man held him while men, others beat him savagely into insensibility, ". n . his injuries including a broken nose, sunken That is the-poorest and most amateurish jaw-bone, a blood-clot in the sinus region kind of police work, of course. No effi-

and injuries to his right leg. cient modern police force will permit its

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"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | will .detend to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire.

have saved $1.50 under the proposed law. n On the other hand a person with Practice Should Be Abandoned , SEH other Jud 4 person Wik By M. E. L,, Fairfield ave. $338,820 under the law as it now There have been several news items lately about people who claimed stands and has $61,180 left. Under they were beat up by the police. Some of these people were arrested for|the proposed law the person with: being drunk, and everyone knows that anybody who is intoxicated enough [the $400,000 income would have to get arrested is not in control of his faculties. Most of all, the police should know this because they are dealing with | 896, 756 lets after having paid the drunks almost all the time. Even-if one of them did take a swing at a tax. policeman, there is no excuse for brutality, There séems to be something | Under the proposed law one perabout having a gun and authority and a uniform that makes brutes out son with a yearly income of $400,000 of some men. That doesn't apply to all policemen, of course. But a/would have saved the same amount man is a brute who beats up someone who can't defend himsel?. would have boss saved fo 2374 Whoever Is responsible for bru-| Come —— magried couples w an income o rll oh quick hearing. Cost of living is now just about[g1135. Or, to put it another way, If the stories that are told in thé double what it was at the time that one person with an income of $400papers by the victims are correct, thé $500 exemption bechme the law. | {000 would have saved the same

then those at the top should clean roportio th h amount 8s 4743¢ persons would up the police dopartment. | 1nprupottion tothe higher sit of | ve saved, the same 47,434 persons

[living the exemption should now be being 23,717 couples with an income » . n

at least $1Q00. of $1135. President Right

A single person with a yearly in-| The increase of the final net income of $575 as the law now stands come under the proposed law to the pays an income tax of $5. The bill| poor couple would have been thirBy Del Mundo, Indianapolis as passed by the corigress and vetoed | teen one-hundredths of 1 per cent The President used good judg- by the President would have saved and the increase of final net income [ment in vetoing the income tax bill this person the sum of $150 and|to the person with the $400,000 inrecently passed by the congress and a married couple with a yearly in- |come would have been 58 per cent. the senate used good judgment in come of $1135 under the law as it/ ® n=

upholding that veto, ‘now st stands also pays~$5 and would | Streetcar Worker

Side Glances=By Galbraith Should Sign Name"

By G. F. Lee, 4000 Cornelius ave. Isn's it about time we heard from some of the streetcar riding pa- | trons? We had one forum letter wednesday, July 23; who signed himself, (or herself) disgusted. Quite !a lengthy article, too, but written | entirely from a prejudiced and | biased viewpoint. HOw can a person |in his situation be expected: to see | this fare increase argument from | any other angle?” Sure, he works for | the’ Indiariapolis Railways, Inc. He states all the company employees got a big increase in wages (which |is paid by the street railway riding | publie). He never has to pay a | cent fare, when he rides when off | duty. : 0 "wonder what sort of tactics the | streetear company, and fits employees, would use if it ever lost a tase? That would be something to} see. " If I thought as much of the Indianapolis Railways, Inc, as ‘“dis-

of reciprocity be applied to a situation of that kind, | | ; recent’ American eterno, dear! Y

OUR TOWN . City Girl Painted Tsi An's Portrai :

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prisoners ih his custody,

of it. But do they? On the contrary, we find Inspector Donald Tooley, their responsible superior, condoning the offense, defending the policemen involved even after their own conflicting stories of what happened, and the statements of other witnesses in court clearly proved their guilt, and in effect issuing a

blanket invitation to all. other policemen.

to do the same thing. “I don’t pay my men to lose fights,” said Inspector Tooley. “I expect them to win.”

We might remind Inspector Tooley that -

he does not pay his men at all. The city

~ This, my children, is the story of Kate Augusta Carl, an Indianapolis born girl who, in ‘the divine scheme of things, went to China to'visit’ her brother and stayed long enough to paint the portrait—the very first portrait, mind you—of the Dowager Empress Tsi An, sometimes also called “the terrible old lady with

a woman.” : Some people, indeed, went even further ‘and called her worse names — behind her back, of; course. Feeling ran high at the! time, for the miley of my story _ was that of the Russo-Japanese war in 1904. It also happened to be the year of the Louisiana Purchase exposition at St. Louis, Up to the time of Miss Carl's visit, practically nobody knew what the awful dowager empress looked like. -To be sure, there were some cariCatures of her in circulation done for the most part by male Oriental artists who, apparently, exercised the prerogative of their sex by rendering authoritative opinions

~ concepning.. fhe _“sopl. of & tiger in the skin of a woman.”

.| Doubtful of Corcalurss.

THERE WAS REASON to believe, however, that the caricaturists never got close enough to Tsi An to capture her features. As a rule, only those connected with .the royal family were ever privileged to see her. And even more to the point was the Chinese superstition that anybody who had his por-

| trait. painted—or, indeed, who had his: photograph

snapped—was fooling with fate and had better look out. Seems, though, that “the dowager empress had no compunctions about letting the ladies of the foreign legations have a look at her. As a matter of fact, it was by way of such a party that Miss Carl first met her patron. Miss Carl's brother (Francis E) had been a collector of customs in China for 17 years, an office that, apparently, carried with it the prerequisite of invitations to every kind 9 party,

—tHincluding even those of royalty.

REFLECTIONS .

PORT LYAUTEY, Moroceo, July 25-Gentlemen of congress, I would like to tell you that our mighty air arm, in this great strategic area, consists of one tired-out naval base here in the little town of Lyautey, about 30 miles outside Rabat, capital of French Morocco. It consists of a naval captain and an army major and 500 naval personnel and 100 army people and one Red Cross guy and about a dozen transport planes of one type and another and two Piper Cubs. That, gentlernen, is all that's left of our people in Africa, because they just folded the basé at Tripoll the other day. We bought it all and paid for it all and now we have given it all back to the Prench and the Arabs because of no people and no dough to fun it. The Ainérican armed forces in Africa today couldn't come out on top of a barroom brawl.

A Good Skipper Commands

THE AIRBASE AT LYAUTEY is a curiosity now, since it is the last American installation in a land where once our planes blackened the skies and our ships crowded the docks and our men swarmed the streets and the deserts. Far as I know, the only reason the navy has kept Lyautey open is that we are showing the flag around the Med, with our ships, and in the peacetime navy the ships have to be supplied with mail. Capt. Paul L: Dudley, USN, is bossman at Lyautey. He is the kind of skipper who never succumbed to ring poisoning, which is to say he is the breed of regular navy four-striper for which we of the reserve were always looking and rarely met, He runs a happy ship at Lyautey, not too easy in peacetime, far from home in an African backwash.

where the morale starts with the old man and runs

down to the seaman second. And Polly Dudley, the i WAR'S Wife, is the He Stl WH) a make 4

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Capt. Dudley's base is ‘a model of sharp eperition,

0 Of iy “after all his years in the: ER # ” - . ¥ OYALTY of a superior officer townvxd his * own men when they are under fire is hs commendable thing; but enly if it is backed by stern action by the officer if they are guilty. We see no. hint that Inspector.’ Tooley or anybody else in authority con- \ templates any such action. There have been a good many white ' washes in the recent past of Indianapolis ; policemen found guilty of accepting bribes and other felonies, and we suppose this is ' going to be another one. Little by little this attitude is destroying what used to be ' a pretty fine police Separtment. : i

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Anyway, it was at one of Tsi- An's parties, designed to receive the distinguished ladies of foreign legations, that Miss Carl picked up the necessary courage to say: “I crave your majesty’s pardon, but will hot your majesty honor an American girl by sitting to her | for a portrait?” (Goodness knows, where Indianapo- | T “Tt pleases me to do 80,” said thé dowager empress. “We will have three; one will hang in my pri- . vate suite in the palace, one in the hall of atidiences where I receive royalty, and one I shall give to the . United States in testimony of our present friendly relations. We shall begin tomorrow at 5.” . “l humbly thank you" sald Miss Carl mean, of course, 5 in the afternoon.” “Hell, no” (or the Chinese equivalent), tartly replied the tiger woman, angrily pounding the floor of the throne with her golden cane—the one with the jade-eyed dragon's head which, according to rumor, she always carried round with her (and which the caricaturists never failed to Suyorsie in their cartoons).

Chinese Love the Night : “THE CHINESE" continued the dowager em- , press, “love the night: Our enemies say it is because our deeds are done at night. But that, like the story ' that I was a common slave, is a gross slander, We | rise at 2 in the morning. Our cabinet meets at 3. At | 4 it reports to us. At § I am' weary enough to sit * still and have my portrajt painted.” - It took Miss Carl six weeks to paint the first portrait, a 15 by 7 foot affair (including frame). It was exhibited at the St." Louis fair, I rémfember. The reason it sticks in my memory is because it was hung between the portraits of Queen Victoria and Pope Leo XIII. Except for a weary look which exceeded that of her two aged neighbors, Dowager Empress Tsi An's expression wasn't any more terrifying than that of some schoolteachers whose luck it was to have . to put up with me (at No. 6, if you must know). As for the other two portraits of Tsi An, I never did learn whether Miss Carl finished them or not. Maybe you too have observed that it takes a long time for news of the Orient to filter through.

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base tick right Just by her presence in it. Some of

those brass-happy harridans could wreck paradise /

in 20 minutest using no hands. This is a type of navy here that most of us exeroes know nothing about. There is some spit and there is some polish, but there is. a feeling of tight camaraderie, of professional .competence, that you missed in the late rat race. Living is good at Lyautey. The officers and men have imported their wives. They dwell in halves of Quonset BS~surprisingly roomy and comfortably furnished. There is a big stable of horses for the men: to ride. The shooting is wonderful—quail' and grouse and ducks and snipe and wood Fishin’s good, too, and there is a six-hole golf course, a swi beach, tennis courts and softball diamonds. The ship's store is as good as a grocery store back home, and the ship's service, or PX in the army, is stocked with * everything. The food in those parts is wonderful. Native meat is juicy and tender and vegetables are outsize. They have licked malaria.. There is sufficient beer, Cake and whisky for all hands, and single men are pretty well set up with the French dames in town. There is plenty of transportation.’

“Everyone Gets Along .

AS 1 WAS SAYING, this is a kind of navy I never met during the war, and one I'd like to see more of. Discipline is rougher, probably, because Capt, Dudley runs 4 taut ship. There no longer is the shared incentive of survival ¥o keep guys on the ball. But Dudley's men have a good time in Port Lyautey. Capt. Dudley's command is sprinkled with former enlisted men who made officer during the war, and with reserves who have decided to stay in permaey. The captain speaks very highly of their work.

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