Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 August 1947 — Page 14

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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 private industry seems to have gone nearly as far as it can profitably go riglit- now in meeting this demand. The alternative is for the city to meet it. The question is how?

~ ” » ~ . ~ HE special sub-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.

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER

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» . » ” " » 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

ment during that whole time, and leave a profit, plus the!

property itself after it is 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, .

Taft On Foreign Policy AAOWING 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. Who is? Certainly not the gentleman at 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. loosevelt. A Republican might have fallen into the same easy: error.

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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. We "are wasting time and money there while all Europe is crying! for Ruhr coal. vo On the constructive side, Senator Taft did not identify | 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.”

~ » " . . » BT Senator Taft's general position was best stated when he said: v “We realize that the Constitution and existing-law confer upon the President almost complete power dver 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. * “] 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 certain slight deviations, the Republican ¢ongress has adhered to it. The exceptions were in fact less detrimental to our biparti foreign policy than thie administration’s occasional neglect to take congressional leaders into full ‘confidence. : he ’

YOVERNOR THOMAS E. DEWEY recently time in

: spent some fi¥s home town of Owosso, Mich., renewing ac-

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with a desirable and reasonable rental area at normal profits.

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OUR TOWN .

‘I picked up as a boy in his native

Manual

William (Dad) Yule, 4 born

of Charles Dickens

the ways and whims 1 ever knew—exceeding even the profound knowledge of the brilliant teachers of English litera ture Manual had at the time, ih Some of Dad's material was

than anybody

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 thie 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 a hotel-keeper with the unbelievable name of Moses Pickwick.

a kid, had more first-hand information concerning such

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Hoosier Forum

this cost in a reasonable period, pay interest on the invest-| ERI IR RAR

Harrison Housing Rents

Should Be Kept Low

. _By Robert M. Traugott, 903 E. Palmer st. 1f and when the war department decides to abandon the Ft. Harrison gu to the revolution. "But so it goes, area it might be well for our so-called public servants to reconsider | as it has always gone. The flag their support of those individuals who have announced their inten

of providing a housing project.

Certainly it is no crime for a group

maintain a housing project at the

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 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 incorrated to purchase and maintain on a non-profit basis the Ft. Harri- | son. area. This project will-be Tun on a co-operative plan. Our noble politicians scorn this idea and prefer the speculative plan. The Fort was built and maintained at the expense of the yi

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payer. Will this already well de-

veloped area be turned over to the

business group for financial exploi-

[tation or should it be given to the

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

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 st. This is my first attempt to ex-

press publicly any subject in newsprint, although 1 read your paper when it was called The Sun. In the free-for-all column I have read expressions on many subjects]

{except the one I would like to call party as another step toward the | “unanimous democracy”

attention to. 1 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 fhe 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 acroés town to the closest dump. We could then | afford uniform containers without fear of having them run over by the collector's truck.

Dutch Are Out for Profits in Java

By Stan Moore, 2858 N. Illinois st. Yes, the chains of slavery rattle

days before the wealth and manpower of the U. 8, A. was poured out to stop such things. In Java

rubber plantations and the bulk of the quinine in the world.

| trade from Java are anxious to get| accomplish that. [it back. When old Hitler was on a/| | moronic rampage the Dutch agreed | | to almost anything to save their| necks. Now: that Uncle Sam is send-| Streetcar Fares ing some of his: boys to look after trade in Greece, the Dutch are going back to get that rubber and

for them. We sent them word not|y.iarans and give them “jitney”

to destroy property as politicians | i ~ | : : privileges? In other words let them! San sider if of more value than hu-|¢oow our car and bus lines carry-|

{ nounced by.Big Steel, some people | think they change the spelling.

“I 40 not agree with a word that you say, but | will. defend to the death your right to say it." —Voltaire.

They are called Communists, but their crime is that they did not want a good for nothing king and fought to preserve the republic. Our

| follow the flag to strip the bones of of businessmen to -plan and the body politic for the benefit of those in power. History has a nasty | way of repeating itself and all because rulers think that history is Old Ma Orange; one of the richest a it oy pind prio

Fort—if they present the public

persons in the world, and some of | 5iichments of taxpayers it | her crowd that helped control Pl repeat. bayers should

The atom bomb will

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More Taxis to Cut

’ By Robert Siegemiller, 707 Shelby ot,

| government refused to allow arms to

tion | follows the dollar and the jackals

May I offer another suggestion {to assist our poor overburdened quinine 234 dee tne Plice of the gireet Railway System which is unlatter up by burning Necessary. gple to care for all its customers?

The Javanese are doing the burning | Why not issue taxi licenses to

Of the two theories, Dad liked the second one best ~not only because 1t 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

WASHINGTON, Aug. 4—The Brewster investigation of Howard Hughes’ wartime airplane construction 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 Took into it, is in the politics behind "the assignment of the overseas air routes.

Who Gets the Monopoly?

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 1040, the only airline to operate overseas was Pan-American Airways. Ugder 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-Americén pioneered routes to South America and later to Europe and Asia. In 1940, a rival line obtained a certificate from the civil 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 dom-

“| inating 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 that of Elliott Roosevelt.

ing passengers for 10-cent fares.

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Butch Franco still

lof thousands of political prisoners)... a [shut up in the dungeons of Satis. Tee B $000 VINE Jos Piping ab

bankrupt” Indianapolis Railways

Views on the

News ay By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Fast Work by

With another price increase an- | |ndianapolis Police

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| him" when I went back out.

” » » Those new Lincoln letters show said they had been tailing him

how well our politicians have withstood improvement.

o » » High clothes prices are being | them. compensated for by longer skirts numbers.

for women. .But you can't beat them by buying bigger shoes. DAILY THOUGHT

» » » + Presidént Truman has assigned | Let your speech be always with Russian-speaking Charles E. Boh-| grace, seasoned with salt, that ye len to improve state department| may know how ye ought to answer relations with congress. He'd bet-| every man.—Colossians 4:6. ter learn to “talk Turkey.”

» » . Rumania dissolved the Peasant

of Com-

munist dictatorship. or in good order.—Bacon.

passes up every morning and eveni

y Art Bramkamp, Night Clerk, Jefferson ote

I saw a man break a window in

A - : nih \ : When steel prices rise and steel | BRP to be condoned. But it is well to remember thats at fair and equal-censideration for the | stocks fall, it sing aBgi ot| ® parked across the street in

. V. C. pla en they submit) rio-confidence by the owners in the v ts. &) od tl AV. C n when th ubmit | Z {their bid to the war assets. The management. | York sts. dnd called the police. To

parking lot at Illinois and New

| my surprise the police already had They

| All police are not asleep on the | job and I wish we had more like I forgot to get their badge

DISCRETION of speech is more than eloquence; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words

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ALGIERS, Algeria, Aug. 4—The Hotel Aletti, built ! on the side of the mountain in Algiers, probably. be- | came 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 you'd never recognize it today. The bar is gloomjer 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 Lobpy 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.

Side Glances==By Galbraith

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 . . . ByP

Congress and the state department batted only about .500 on co-operation, a .checkup of foreign policy legislation in the past session reveals. Last February, the senate foreign relations committee gave out a list of 27 items which Sec of State George C. Marshall was sending up for consid-

priority. Six got through. The four top-priority that were stymied were: The Anglo-American petro-

persons; U. 8. adherence to the World Health organization; and legislation to authorize exchange of

scholars and information with foreign countries—the so-called Mundt cultural co-operation bill

approved, with limitations on spending any membership in the International Refugee

eration. Ten were considered urgent and of high . items on the “must” list

leum agreement; legislation to admit 400,000 displaced

... PEACE satellites were ratified without change, but other urgent matters handled were cut down. Post-UNRRA relief was of the $350 million in countries of the Russian orbit. U. 8. organization

was approved, but funds were cut from $80 million

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time to do anything else. The little time she could call her own, however, was spent ransacking her head for an appropriate name to fit a kid found under, circumstances. i

Pinally 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 eourse, 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 imagination. (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 on one, he said, but the fellow wasn't very comm tive at first. Finally, however, Dad got the fello to talk and, somewhat to his amazement, learned from the fellow’s own lips that a name like Pickwick is not an unmixed blessing. he y

What's in a Name? Plenty - INDEED, THE PRESENT Mr. Pickwick told Dad that whenever people heard his name, they always expected, him to be funny, and that he was getting mighty tired of it. His two brothers, he said, got 50. sick of it that they went to America to escape i. In 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. Pick-

wick told Dad Yule.

Dad also had a pet theory that Dickens picked up other material during his stay in Bath—the name of Wardle, for instance. In support of which Dad 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. :

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs Who Gets the Overseas Air Routes?

The other lines” have retaliated with charges against Pan-American. The strategy of Pan-Am has" been to pushin. congress bills providing a “chosen instrument” or United States monopoly line for overseas in which, theoretically, all lines would have a share. A newly issued aviation business letter, dis- - cussing the fight over the “chosen instrument,” links 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 connection 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.

REFLECTIONS . . By Robert C. Ruark Eo | Algiers Hotel Has Fallen on Evil Days

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 the 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 gome. ~ ° After achieving a consistént 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 mutton or chicken, and then they dring aniselte untildime to go to bed. They do this every day, including. Sundays and feast days. 3 , ‘Barry says he must get cracking, and thal’ 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 Have half the profits if I won. I won 12,000 francs, so maybe Barry will go to Tangier with his share of the winnings. But I doubt it very much. Last ‘time bar.

I saw him he was headed resolutely into the

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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 Badly BY AND LARGE. howeyer, the record of co-opera-tion on the low-priocity requests was worse than on the urgent items. ;

No action was taken on the Canadian-American

St. Lawrence riyer The senate foreign brought up for ratitication

agreement. relations committee never the treaty of friendship

was never brought up. A bill to create: a semi-public corporation to America

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