Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1947 — Page 12

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‘Off-the-Street Parking .

HE City Plan .Commission is going about the problem of providing off-street parking downtown in a careful and

methodical manner that ought to produce the best results|

and the fewest head-aches. There isn't any disagreement about the need for more places to park downtown. Everybody agrees we do need more parking space, and that the normal business of the city as well as the convenience of people who drive cars will be hurt if we don’t get more. But downtown real estate is pretty expensive, and pri-

“vate industry seems to have gone nearly as far as it can

profitably go right now in meeting this demand. The

#lternative is for the city to meet it. The question is how? a “ ~ n

HE special sup-committee the commission has set up reported to Mayor Denney the other day that it had tentative plans for four downtown parking places, of a type not previously in use here. They would be four-story opentype buildings—in effect just four platforms one above the other, for parking cars. They would be entered by ramps, and each motorist would drive his own car up and park it himself, just as he does on the street—when he can find the room. That will make it possible to rent the space at very low cost—10 cents an hour is the suggested figure. The one with top priority on their list—top priority because it is in the center of the most insistent demand—would

handle 900 cars at a time, ” ~ ”

. » . HIS plan seems to be a sound one, but the big question remains how to finance it. It will cost upward of $2 million to buy the land and erect the building. Conservative estimates indicate that revenues from its use will pay off this cost in ‘a reasonable period, pay interest on the invest-| = ment during that whole time, and leave a profit, plus the! property itself after it {s paid for. Careful study is being made of bond issues to provide the capital investment for it, and the type of bonds to be sold. On the whole it appears to be a very attractive proposition for the city, from a financial viewpoint as well as for meeting a serious downtown need. But even if it were less attractive from the financial angle, something of the kind is going to have to be done. The city just can’t be strangled by lack of places to park cars. We like the way the City Plan Commission has tackled | this problem. And we're confident they are going to find| a satisfactory solution for it, i

Taft On Foreign Policy ALLOWING for the usual partisan license permitted a candidate for the presidential nomination, that part of Senator Taft's Columbus, O., speech devoted to foreign policy was a reasonably accurate review of the American position, past and present. The senator said he was not happy about American] foreign policy. whom the senator directed his most raking fire—President | Truman. : : Much of the trouble we are in stems from the unfortunate agreements made at Tehran and Yalta by President Roosevelt, and at Potsdam by Mr. Truman. But at Potsdam the President was new on the job and did little more than acquiesce in the working. out of commitments made by Mr. Roosevelt. A Republican might have fallen into the same easy error. :

. . . i » . " MISTAKES vital to the well-being of mankind are not to be condoned. But it’is well to remember that at Tehran, Yalta and Potsdam we were in a period of confused thinking and misplaced confidence when everybody hoped a way could be found to live on good terms with the Russians. Now, it is not exactly true that our “Morgenthau” policy in Germany has “wrecked the economy of Europe,” as Mr. Taft charged. But that policy has delayed European recovery, though the British and French are as much at] fault there as the U. S. Mr. Truman, however, must be held to account for procrastination on German issues.

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th your right to say it." —Voltaire.

Ft.H Harrison Housing Rents Should Be Kept Low

of providing a housing project.

with a desirable and reasonable rental area at normal profits. Facts speak for themselves and {in this instance they scream. For a one bedroom apartment these, altruistic gentlemen have suggested a rate of $40 per month and for a two bedroom apartment a mere sum of $60. Now if these apartments) were to be constructed within Buckingham palace, this might be a reasonable request, but these absurd rentals are asked for dwellings formed from the temporary wooden barracks. The American Veterans Commit- | tee on the other hand has incor- | porated to purchase and maintain

son area, This project will be run lon a co-operative plan. Our noble politicians scorn this idea and prefer the speculative plan. The Fort was built and main-| tained at the expense of the taxpayer. Will this already well developed area be turned over to the business group for financial exploi-

veterans to run as a co-operative for | the benefit of the public? “The public be damned” attitude has gone too far in this instance. It is time for the citizens to demand fair and equal consideration for the a. Vv. ©. plan when they submit | their bid to the war assets. The people must demand that political | influence be’ exerted in the right | direction in this matter, . = =

More Complaints About Garbage

By C. E. Y., 300 block S. Rural sl. This is my first attempt to ex-

press publicly any subject in news- |

By ap M. Traugott, 903 E. Palmer st. If and when the war department decides to abandon the Ft. Harrison area it might be well, for our so-called-public servants to reconsider as it has always gone. their support of those individuals who have announced their intention follows the dollar and the jackals

Certainly it is no crime for a group of businessmen to plan and !the body politic for the benefit of maintain a housing project at the _Fort—it they present the public | | those in power. History has a nasty

rubber r plantations and “the bulk of! { the quinine in the world. | Old Ma Orange, one of the richest persons in the world, and some of | her crowd that helped control the | trade from Java are anxious to get | it back. When old Hitler was on a Irons rampage the Dutch agreed almost anything to save their ty Now that Uncle Sam is send- | ing some of his: boys to look after | trade in Greece, the Dutch are going back to -get that rubber and {quinine and keep the price of the | latter up by burning it if necessary. | | The Javanese are doing the burning | for them, We sent them word not

Who is? Certainly not the gentleman at|on a non-profit basis the Pt. Harri- | to destroy property as politicians

| consider it of more valde than humans. Butch Franco still has hundreds of thousands of political prisoners shut up in the dungeons of Spain.

Views on the

News

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY With another price increase announced by Big Steel, some people

tation or should it be given to the

| think they change te spelling.

= When steel prices Tise and steel | | stocks fall, it looks like a vote of | no-confidence by the owners in the Management.

~ ~ Those new * Lincoln letters show how well our politicians have withstood improvement.

- » LJ High clothes prices are being compensated for by longer skirts for women. But you can't beat them by Buying Digger shoes.

Presidént Truman "has assigned Russian-speaking Charles E. Boh-

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1 ever knew-—exceeding even the * profound knowledge of the brilliant teachers of English literature Manual had at the time. Some of Dad's material was picked up as a boy in his native land. He acquired the rest of it as a grown-up American when, occasionally, he spent his summer vacations in England, mostly in and around the town of Bath. With every trip Dad made, he shed more light on “The Pickwick Papers.”

How He Got Pickwick’ ' DAD HAD TWO theories regarding the origin of the name “Pickwick.” One wes the geographical fact that “Wick” was the name of a one-street hamlet on the Bath-London road. It was just possible, sald Dad, that Dickens exercised the prerogative of observant authors by making a mental note of it on his way to the White Hart inn. “ The other theory concerned the White Hart inn itself coupled * with -the fantastic fact that it ‘was part of Dickens’ luck, when he arrived there, to find the place run by & hotel-keeper with the unbelievable name of Moses Pickwick. Of the two theories, Dad diked the second one best —not only because it explained how Dickens found a name for his whimsical hero, but also it cleared up the mystery of Moses’ surname. Moses Pickwick, said Dad, was the great grandson of a foundling. Seems that a long time ago,’a woman driving through the village of Wick saw a bundle lying in the road. It proved to be a baby boy. (Upon my word, that's exactly the way Dad told it.) Well, the woman took the kid home and cared for it as if it were her own which, of course, left her little

IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON,. Aug. 4—The Brewster investigation of Howard Hughes’ wartime airplane construc‘tion contract has accomplished at least one good end already. It has brought out into the open the political pulling and hauling to get overseas air routes and. the government subsidies that go with those routes. So far, this has been merely incidental to the effort to find out whether political ‘influence’ was used to jam through the Hughes contract over the protest of experts in the field. The latter is a side-show. The big show, if any senator or group of senators had the courage to look into it, is in the politics behind the assignment of the overseas air routes.

They are called Communists, but Whe Gets the Monopoly?

their crime is that fhey did not want a good for nothing king and fought to preserve the republic. Our

{ government refused to allow arms to

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| gu to the revolution. But so it goes, The flag

| follow the flag to strip the bones of

| way of repeating itself and all because rulers think that history is Just a record of their greedy acts. When it becomes a record of accomplishments of taxpayers it should not repeat. The atom bomb will accomplish that.

More Taxis to Cut

Streetcar Fares By Robert Stegemiller, 707 Shelby st, May I offer another suggestion to assist our poor overburdened | Street Railway System which is un|able to care for all its customers? Why not issue taxi licenses to

IT HAS A little the sound of the old days when the railroads were battling for position and power, when senators were bought up by the resourceful men promoting the roads. It was a crude process that rarely came to public attention, Up to 1940, the only airline to operate overseas was Pan-American Airways. Under the direction of Juan Trippe, president of the line and one of the most extraordinary personalities in a field in which daring and imagination are conspicuous qualities, Pan-American pioneered routes to South America and later to Europe and Asia. In 1940, a rival line obtained a certificate from the | elvil aeronautics board to fly to Europe. Established after the war as American Overseas Airlines, it became one of a half dozen to operate in competition with Pan-Am. Trans-World Airline, in which Hughes has a dominating interest, got exclusive privileges to fly to Paris, Rome, Cairo and other world capitals. American got exclusive rights to Berlin. Trippe and other Pan-American executives were bitterly resentful. There have been repeated intimations of political pull, especially in the case of Hughes, whose name is invariably linked with hat of Elliott Roosevelt.

veterans and give them “jitney” privileges? In other words let them follow our car and bus lines carrying passengers for 10-cent fares, I'll venture to say that I could make a good living just picking up passengers that the poor “nearly bankrupt” Indianapolis Railways passes up every morning and evening.

Fast Work by Indianapolis Police

| By Art Bramkamp, Night Clerk, Jefferson Hotel

I saw a man break a window in a car parked across the street in a parking lot at Illinois and New York sts.'and called the police. To my surprise the police already had him when I went back out. They | said they had been tailing him. All police are not asleep on the job and I wish we had more like them. I forgot to get their badge numbers.

DAILY THOUGHT

Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye

are wasting time and money there while all Europe i 18 cry ing| { print, although I read your paper | len to improve state department | may know how ye ought to answer

for Ruhr coal.

On the constructive side, Senator himself or his party with the isolationists.

He favored reasonable loans to enable foreign countries |

to go to work and help themselves. But he would move cautiously in this field, and no exception can be taken to that. We have been too prodigal with our money, and in some instances it hasn't even bought good will, much less practical results. He admitted the Greek-Turkish loan had been made necessary ‘by the stupidity of our previous policy.” ~ » . . » . - BY Senator Taft's general position was best stated when he said: “We realize that the Constitution and existing law confer upon the President almost complete power over the foreign policy of the United States. In general, 1 believe congress should hesitate to interfere unless that policy involves us in the danger of an unnecessary war, or proposes to drain the resources of our taxpayers and our productive labor to an unreasonable degree. “I believe it is a field where congress should not, except with great provocation, give foreign countries a picture of a divided America.” This attitude is eminently sound. Moreover, with cer-

- tain slight deviations, the Republican congress has adhered

to it. The exceptions were in fact less detrimental to our bipartisan foreign policy than the administration's occasional neglect to take congressional leaders into full confidence.

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OVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY recently spent some Simie | in his. home town of Owosso; Mich., renewing acntanc th Yooyle whe remembered hin as. 4. boy, leaders po

| when it was called The Sun.

Taft did not identify |

In the free-for-all column I have | read expressions on many subjects

attention to.

I have never seen the alleys south |

of the tracks, where I live in the 300 block of 8. Rural, with ash cans with last winter's ashes, boxes of cans, garbage, etc, of weeks standing” I just assumed all the city taxpayers paid -toward the allotment for collection service. If so, why don't we get it and why do some sections of the city get spotless service or perhaps south of .the tracks is the wrong section, A reporter with -a camera could produce an interesting column if he would just follow the collectors and register the care taken of containers even if they cost $4 or 4 cents, what is taken and what isn't. I am sure those on the other side of the tracks would get a big kick looking at pictures and reading what this side gets for their tax allotment. * Probably would be better to follow the example of neighbors and haul your own practically across town to the closest dump. We could then afford uniform containers without

collector's truck. ; .-88 Dutch Are Out for Profits in Java By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Mlinels st. ‘Yes, the chains of slavery rattle Just as loud today as they did in the days before the wealth and manpower of the U. B.-A. war Poured

fear of having them run over by the |

out to stop such things. In Java

relations with congress. He'd bet- | ter learn to Joa Turkey”

| Rumania dissolved” the Peasant “unanimous democracy” of Comimunist dictatorship.

every man.—Colossians 4:6.

DISCRETION N of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agree-

except the one I would like to call party as another step toward the ably to him with whom we deal is

more than to speak in good words or in good order.—Bacon.

Side Glances=By Galbraith

REFLECTIONS .

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. By Anfon Scherrer

and Mr. Pickwick. 4 nl |

time %0.do anything else. Fhe. Toke ‘Sms she od call her own, however, was spent ransacking her head

for an appropriate name to fit a kid found under such circumstances. ¥ Finally she had it—Eleazer Pickwick. The Eleazer,

part, said Dad, was good Hebraic for “to whom God is a help.” As for the Pickwick part, it was, of course, a woman's whimsical way of designating a kid picked up in the town of Wick. Dad, I remember, always nad this story up his sleeve when confronted with the American contention that English women lack (Dad never had to have to defend humorless Englishmen because there never was an occasion to bring up the subject when he was around.) On his last trip to England, Dad discovered a half dozen Pickwicks living in Bath, He went to call oh one, he said, but the fellow- wasn't very communicaFinally, however, Dad got the fellow to talk and, “somewhat to his amazement, learned from the fellow’s own lips that a name like Pickwick is not an unmixed blessing. We

What's in a Name? Plenty

INDEED, THE PRESENT Mr. Pickwick told that whenever people heard his name, they expected him to be funny, and that he was mighty tired of it. His two brothers, he said, sick of it that they went to America to escape America, they discovered that people expected even more of them in the way of wisecracks. “We can't . run away from our troubles,” the present Mr. Pickwick told Dad Yule:

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liked to tell of another visit, sometime around 1900, when he found a Mr. Wardle holding down the post of town clerk in Bath. Try as he would, though, Dad never found any descendants of Sam Weller. He had a theory to fit that one, too. Dad suspected that when God and Dickens put their heads together and cast Sam, they forthwith destroyed the mold.

. By Marquis Childs

Who Gets the Overseas Air Rd

The other lines have retaliated with charges

against Pan-American. The strategy of Pan-Am has’ .

been to push in congress bills: providing a “chosen instrument” or United States monopoly line for overseas in which, theoretically, all lines would have a share.

Senator Owen Brewster to the fight for Pan-Am’s goal.

The letter suggests a political tie-up between Brewster and Pan-Am Vice President Samuel F. Pryor Jr, who is also Republican National Committeeman from Connecticut. Pryor is sald to have agreed to go all out for Brewster for the G. O. P. vice presidential nomination.

Senators Favérites

OTHER SENATORS are linked to other airlines. The name of Senator Warren Magnuson, Democrat of Washington, is frequently mentioned in connec tion with Northwest Airlines. Alaskans, .who hoped to see an inland air route established, with lower fares than those on the route through Seattle, blame him for checkmating.their plans. - Magnuson denies this charge. He says that he owns a small block of Northwest Airlines stock and that his former law firm in Washington state does some local business for the company. But his interest, he insists, is only that of any senator in a local enterprise.

The taxpayer foots the bill for the subsidies to the airlines. How much has actually gone out to the lines is snarled in a complicated confusion of post office and airline bookkeeping. Certainly it is hundreds of millions, and it may be billions. How much has been returned to the government for carrying the mail is also a matter of figures, and the interpretation of those figures is beyond the comprehension of the ordinary citizen, A senate committe should find out. That is the heart of this controversy—how much you and I are paying to keep the airlines going.

. By Robert C. Ruark

Algiers Hotel Has Fallen on Evil Days

ALGIERS, Algeria, Aug. 4—The Hotel Aletti, built on the side of the mountain in Algiers, probably became more famous than any other single hotel in the war. Algiers being the joint allied headquarters before Gen. Eisenhower moved to Italy, the old Aletti was a beehive of brass and the odd camp followers of battle. Memo to members of the OWI and Red Cross, base section commands and intelligence, general staff, Stars and Stripes, Yank magazine, the newspapers and wire services: Your old home is still operating, but youd never recognize it today. ‘The bar. is gloomfer than. a tomb, and the terrace, which used to be packed with uniforms and predatory ladies, is lone and lorn and empty.’ Upstairs, the gambling casino is open, but the play at the tables is sparse and half-hearted. Only one local lady dispiritedly patrols the lobby, looking for the post-war traveling man. She is fat, partEgyptian, and has a mouth full of silver teeth.

International Flavor in Lobby THREE MEN hold up the. Aletti today, and you can see them there for most of the morning and all of the evening. They are what is known as international lobby sitters—expatriates who are waiting and have few places to wait in. When they go into | the bar they order anisette, step-child of absinthe, because it only costs 25 francs a slug, while whisky costs 250. The tall, handsome Englishman is named Noel, and he is waiting to go back to England. He has been waiting for a long time to go back to England, and they offer even money that he will never leave Algiers. The short, slim Englishman with the mustache is named Barry, and he is just waiting for something to turn up. Barry used to be in the movies, and he lived a long time in the south of France before he drifted to Algiers. Barry is busted and just sold his tails the other day. He hopes he won't have to sell

WORLD AFFAIRS .

Congress and the state department batted only about .500 on co-operation, & checkup of foreign

priority. Six got through. The four top-priority items on the “must” list that were stymied were: The Anglo-American petroleum agreement; legislation to admit 400,000 displaced

Ratified Peace Treaties PEACE TREATIES with the axis satellites were

his dinner®jacket as well. Barry and Noel are old acquaintances. They met, years ago, in Don Beachcomber’s bar in Hollywood, and were reunited in Algiers. The third member of the fraternity is a Dutchman named Jan. Jan has curling, blond, guardsman’s mustache, and is given to moods. He is a remittance man and has lived everywhere but Holland for many years. He is not waiting to go anywhere in particular, Jan owns a slave. He picked him up in Bou Saada, the oasis resort on the rim of thé desert. Jan's slave washes his clothes and brings him two eggs every morning, which he cooks in his cheap hotel room. Jan pays his slave's lodging, and gives him a few francs to eat on.

Ah, for Good Old East Africa

THE REASON Jan has a slave is that he says no gentleman can exist without native servants, and he is very bitter that he lives no longer in East Africa, where a bloke could have six houseboys, a cook and a gardener for a few bob each month. But one slave is better than none at all, says Jan, and a man must take things as they come. : After achieving a consistent exhilaration on anisette, Barry, Noel and Jan dine every evening at a little Arab. restaurant. They eat cous-cous, an esteemed Moslem dish of barley-tails and mution or chicken, and then Shey dring anisette until dime to go to bed. They do this every day, including Sundays and feast days. Barry says he must get cracking, "and that. he would go to Tangier, where things are livelier, if he could just make a stake. TO that end, he took me to the gambling casino, and I told him he could hav half the profits if I won. I won 12,000 Irancs 3 so maybe Barry will go to Tangier with his the winnings. But I doubt it very much. Agr we I saw him he was headed resolutely into the bai.

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. By Peter Edson How Congress Acted on Foreign Policy

gee organization was approved. The UN site in New York was approved. Taxes were exempted on gifts to the UN. Special priveleges and immunities were granted to UN delegates while In the United States.

Low-Priority Items Fared Badlly , BY AND LARGE, however, the record of co-opera-tion on the low-priority requests wis worse than on the urgent items.

oO is taken “on ‘the Oanadian-Asieriosn

St. Lawrence river waterway agreement. The senate foreign relations committee never ED te ln yr

' working on U. §. railoads in

A newly issued aviation business letter, dis- - cussing the fight over the “chosen instrument,” links.

A propos for » nancial grant-in-aid to Kores

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