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Gire LAght and the Peonle Will Fins Their Own Woy

The News About Gambling ENJOYED your front page editorial“criticizing our city council for not taking action on the lottery proposal. However, would you please explain why you publish the results of the leading horse tracks right in the next column? Doesn't that come under the heading of gambling information, or don’t people bet on horse races?’ ... (From a letter for the Hoosier Forum.)

» ” ” : 2 OF course people bet Qn horse races. We publish the news of that just as we try to publish the news of every-

ested in, without putting ih the paper only the things we like or leaving out the things we don’t like. So you'll find stories in The Times about burglaries, for instance, although we Tos In The disapprove of burglary. And we have published, we believe, very complete and authentic accounts of the lottery rackets as they operate in Indianapolis, which is why the subject is before city council today. There is this that might be added, though. Betting on horse races is entirely legal at all the race tracks from which we publish race results. It.is supervised by state governntents which see to it that the races are honéstly run and that those who win bets are paid what they win, and which levy taxes on the betting that brings them huge revenues. The Indianapolis lottery rackets are not legal. They are expressly forbidden by both state and city law. They are not supervised by anybody, and in general they are not run. honestly enough to give the suckers who play them even the one in 1000 chance of winning that they purport to offer, Nor do they pay any taxes to the state or city,

Blow to 'Old China Hands"

SECRETARY MARSHALL'S appointment of W. Walton Butterworth Jr., as new chief of the state department's office of Far Eastern affairs implies a new deal in our Asiatic relations, particularly in China. When John Carter Vincent's term expired as chief of the Far Eastern office and he was sent to Switzerland, instead 6f China, it was a blow to the division's anti-Chiang Kai-shek and pro-Soviet clique. ‘The significance of that move is emphasized by the Butterworth appointment. The men who have dominated our China policy for vears confidently had expected Mr. Vincent's deputy, James K. Penfield, one of the “old China hands,” would be named to succeed him. Mr. Butterworth has just returned from- 18 months’ duty in China. But most of his foreign service has been in the Mediterranean area, largely in Spain and Portugal. The appointment is a good one, by any yardstick. But the Butterworth selection is impressive because it indicates that at last a secretary of state has managed to break up the geographic cells which have grown in the department and have done so much ta subvert policy at working levels. The department's Chinese desk remains in control of the Vincent clique. But changes may be anticipated there, in view of the Butterworth appointment. When Secretary Marshall indicated recently he intended to do some housecleaning, he evidently was serious about it. His two moves in the Far Eastern division certainly have been in the right direction,

~ 'Where's the Nurse ?' HERE'S a pointed lesson for each of us in the window display of a dogmtown Indianapolis store this week which depicts a surgeon ready to perform an operation but gazing at a nurse's uniform with the question; “Where's the nurse?” : : This and other-displays of a similar nature in other store windows were a part of an effort to enroll more young women as students in nurses training schools by pointing out" the shortage of nurses in our hospitals and the advantages of nursing as a professional career. : It is a timely reminder that if Indiana is to embark on a public health program involving the spending of millions of dollars for community hospitals and health centers, some thought must be given to the training of the nurses who will be required to staff these buildings. Of the many professions and careers open to the girl comipleting high school today, few offer greater advantages «.. . than that of nursing. The graduate nurse, trained to meet emergencies, holds the respect of the community. She has working hours, compensation and surroundings that compire favorably with those. of other professions. She has a rapidly expanding choice of fields of service in industry, in federal services, in public health, in hospital and training . school administration, as well as the more familiar roles of the bedside nurse in the hospital or private home. ‘These choices are open today to the girl who has completed high school and enrolls for a three-year period of + education in the classroom, laboratory and the hospital. Indianapolis has four schools which prepare girls for nursing careers and there are 24 others over the state. All of them have facilities for more students than have been enrolled to date for the fall semester. It is time for the people of Indianapolis and Indiana to see that when the surgeon is ready to operate he won't be asking, “Where's the nurse?” !

The Indispensable Banker

ONE of the by-products of the Communist coup in Huns gary, it now develops, was the exiling of the bankers with whom this country had negotiated a $7 million cotton 10an, :

cancelled the credit which it had approved three months ago. Secretary of State Marshall explains that the bank had confidence in the missing negotiators, leaving the implication it has some suspicion about the new regime. Communism theoretically has a year-round open season

master minds must be finding it unprofitable.

thing else that some people do and other people are inter-|

As a consequence, the export-import bank has just

- This may be a vital part of the doctrine, but|

The Ground Crew

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

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Your paper is good at getting

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to put them on, goes in the used license plates. I can understand the post-war

These cars were built and paid for before the war. Now years later and from 40000 to 100,000 wmiies later some fly-by-night dealers are asking twice the original price. I understand taxpayers paid on these cars at bluebook, then they should be sold at bluebook. I say bond and license these used car lots high enough that any Tom, Dick or Harry can't go in business and tell their prospective customer anything they wish and get away with it. I don’t think the old reliable dealers would be against such a plan, for more reasons than one. Also the total price of cars should be in plain figures on the windshield of cars at all times. Also when they advertise in the paper the total price should have to be put in, too (that means all, not just some, of the ads). Hope to see this in your paper (which I read every day) and also Lo hear some comments from other

people on this subject. \

» » ~ > . . . Cooling Off' Period Urged in Divorce Suits By W. W.,, Fleleher Trust Bldg. Several of my fellow attorneys and myself were having lunch together the other day. The subject of divorce was discussed at some length... We are all agreed that there are entirely too many being granted too hastily and for any but good reasons, Now this country of ours is suffering from the effects of such divorces by broken homes, broken adult and juvenile lives. We are in accord that there should be no divorce granted for “unsound” reasons, and none should be granted hastily. A much longer waiting period between the actual filing of a divorce and its ultimate conclusion should be in effect, and

Used Car Dealers Should Be

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By Arthur Leckwood, 126 E. Vermont st.

things started, why not this, which

is awful? If the lottery ticket racket is worth $9 million a year, what is the used car racket worth? Lottery ticket pools are peanls

Every person that has a junker or two and can find an empty lot

car business even including dealers’

used cafs being high, but the pre-

war cars cost more now than they did off tlie dealers’ floors when bought new from six to 10 years ago.

where it can be avoided no divorce should- be given. Divorce should be granted for only the most grave reasons and then only after thorough consideration has been given as to the final results. And while on this subject, we all agreed that it is time the American public began treating philandering, irresponsible married persons with the contempt which they so rightly deserve instead of viewing it as another “case of measles.” Philandering would not be on such a wide scale as it is today if good men and women had the courage to act thus, Why are the legislators, civic leaders, churches, clubs asleep on this vital problem which is undermining the American home?

"Use Lie Detector On Witnesses"

By James J. Cullings, 107 8. Capitol Ave. In the past few days The Times has carried stories about graft and beatings in connection with the po-

lice. department, You also carried

stories about the special judges giving rulings favorable to the gamblers. You also know that the common people feel there is more perjury written on the court decisions in their court records than there is truth, I doubt very much that there are five divorcys granted in Indianapolis a week that are pot full of plain lies. The people ih court as witnesses take an oath as to truth, So do public servants. The court of justice, as I see it today, is a mockery. e 8O-called . responsible citizen bs on the band wagon of any movement to gain votes and popularity, yet to crusade for ‘something that should be done, “that is new and there is no band wagon con-

nected with yet, he evades, a moral coward, . I do not gamble in any form, yet I have intelligence enough to know that you cannot legislate it out of existence. People who want to gamble will. Just like where I worked once. They shot craps &nd had

, | their own lottery and I have heard

of companies who do not obJect to that type of gambling. The police and the so-called leaders want the police to have a club to hold over the head of everyone. But these legal clubs gain law enforcement nothing when the so-called leaders and responsible citizens are moral cowards and refuse to do their duty, Be honest and truthful. In regard to the police, they say they did not beat up that man, he said they did. Who is telling the truth? Now if there was just one | so-called leader or so-called responsible citizen who had just plain decency or guts to start a program to have a law passed in our next legislature simply stating in the future all public officials connected with arrests, courts and other law enforcement agencies, including all trial witnesses, were to be questioned while the lie detector was attached to the witness in court trial, . ] In other words, the law would be when a person became a witness in court, both for the prosecution and the defense, he or she would take the oath to tell the truth, but the law would require the lie detector be attached to see he or she did tell the truth, There should also be a clause that each certain length of time all police and officials in re-

a lie detector examination and asked if they beat up anyone, if they accepted graft, free meals, cigarets and so forth. You see this would end your lies and deceit and if the socalled leaders, newspapers and responsible citizens want justice and honor of court, a law of this sort should be passed to take the mockery and disrespect out of court and the police department. As for me, I have read of so much fifth and evasion of police and courts that I have no respect for either. . » “

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I noticed in the Forum of July 30 that PIH. had a letter in regards to the noise in his neighborhood. Well brother,, you ain't heard nothing yet until you visit the 2600 and 2700 blocks of E. North st. Talk about sleep. Why, that’s impossible. All day it's mothers hollering “don’t do this or don't do that" to their

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IF YOU are old enpugh to remember what a summer Saturday night (circa 1800) was like, you may réeall the curiously mixed. state of your emotions when you tumbled into bed. It was tell whether you felt excited beyond the point endurance, or just so dog-tired that you didn't care. what happened next. The reason for this funny feeling was, of “course, the fact that on that night we kids were permitted to go “uptown” to _ listen to the When Band. (To get to the same place, the kids living north of the Circle glways . said they went “downtown,” which was

‘more example of the long windedness of Northsiders

to get to the point.) . For sheer excitement there was nothing like the combination of a Saturday night and a When Band congert—not even ham and eggs and pork and begns. Indeed, I still recall how we kids used to bolt our Saturday suppers and hurry outside to scan the sky, fearful that something might yet happen to ruin our night. The state of weather had everything to do with the success or failure of a summer Saturday night when I was a kid—for the reason that the When Band couldn't possibly operate when it rained. That was because the concerts were served al fresco from the top of the big portico extending over the entrance to the When store. It was another example of John T. Brush's amazing genius,

Calls Store the 'When'

MR. BRUSH HAD more ideas whirling inside his head than any man in Indianapolis ever had. In 1875, for instance, in company with some other men, Mr, “Brush opened a little one-room clothing store on Pennsylvania st, in the middle of the block between Washington and Market sts. He might have called -it “Brush, Owen & Pixley” had he been an ordinary man, but Mr, Brush wasn't put together like that. He called his store the “When” which sounds rather foolish until you learn the reason why. I can't remember*how long it was, but it must

ROME, Aug. 8—1I do not know what other weighty contributions to world culture the: Americans implanted during the war, but I can list the three most obvious: the jeep, the jitterbug and jazz. The jeep is the accepted mode of transportation abroad for every one who can afford to ride on wheels. Wealthy sheiks has discarded the camel in favor of the jeep, from Casablanca to Tunis. French farmers ride in jeeps. The police drive jeeps, and so do the military. I'll bet there are more jeeps on the streets of Rome today than there were during the war. Some of them have been painted brilliant salmon, on the hoods, with lime-green canopies and elongated es of varnished woodwork, But they still ride just as rough as ever.

"Music Hath Charms . . .

~ THE LIGHT MUSIC’ OF AMERICA has become the dance music of the world. From Ankara to Tokyo, they tell me, when the radio” blares or the phonograph is turned on, what comes out is mostly Tin Pan Alley. I have heard the tortured tomcat squalls of Arab music interrupted by “Dinah.” “Chattanooga Choo-Choo,” when sung in English by a Hungarian employing a’ Roman accent, is something for the collectors. 5 I have a hunch that the songsmiths have made a deeper imprint on world consciousness than all the combined efforts of the statesmen—and that Hollywood is still more potent than the combined foreign offices of the world. North Africa, for instance, is steamingly angry because “Gone With the Wind,” with M. Clark Gobble, has never been exhibited in those parts, - As for the jitterbug, it is the free gift to the one world, with no snide implications, no devious degigns, and no strings attached to the donation, y You see it everywhere—in Spain, where the G. I. never was, all over Africa, all over Europe. There must be something “about the jitterbug that has brought release to thwarted esthetes.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 8—When President Truman presented his program of aid for Greece and Turkey, he was’ criticized for failing to use the machinery of the United Nations. It was felt to be a blow at the standing of the United Nations. In the passing months since that historic message, a great deal has happened to put this crificism -in a different light. First, the United Nations commission sent to the Balkans to inquire into the causes of the Greek border dispute could not agree on a report. The split was along familiar lines. Russia and Poland dissented from the careful, thoroughly documented statement drawn up by the other members of the special commission that had gone over the ground. The dissenters would not accept open-and-shut facts as unearthed by the investigators.

Soviets Keep Stalling FOR SE L WEEKS a wrangle went on in the security council over an elementary proposal— whether the United Nations shall station a watchman on-the Greek border. A commission in the role of watchman would merely report back to Lake Success the facts as observed on the- spot. The Soviet delegate has stalled and stalled and stalled on this proposal, with help from the Polish delegate. If the stalling tactics fail, then the Russians can fall back on the veto. This is occurring Just at the time when the need for an impartial watchman is most obvious, : Behind the increasing tempo of the rebellion in northern Greece was a concerted effort launched from across the Greek border, The stupidities of the Greek government to one side, this can be the only explanation of the new outbreaks.

TOKYO, Aug. 8.~There are a good many honest

| Americans out here who feel that the people of the United States have too rosy a picture of

how things are going in Japan. + .

Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, General of the Army Douglas MacArthur, who may yet run

| for President despite his 67 years. | Opinion vs. Fact o SUMMARIZED

, their criticism of MacArthur follows: : ONE: As Japan's best friend and benefactor, he

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For this they blame an undeniably great man-— .

instance—the man who led and made the Band what it was—was a floor walker in Mr, store.

Played the Snare Drum

THE BEST place to listen to the ban the opposite side of the street, just about Levinson hat people now do business straw hats at half price). At any rate, best place to watch Pink Hall, who sold clothing during the week and played the snare drum like nobody’ business on Saturday nights. - It wasn't always my privilege to stand there. Like as not when I got there, the place was occupied by kids who had gone without their suppers to beat me to it The concert started around 8 o'clock, I remember, and lasted about 90 minutes. We newer started for home, however, until 10:30. That was because father and mother always spent the hour after the concert, shopping around and looking at show windows. Mr. Brush’s concern brought so many people up (down) town on Saturday nights ‘that the other stores had to keep open too—see? : Well, that brought about a real complication be-

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cause when 10:30 arrived, like as not there wasn't

a street car to take us home; which Jeft us no alternative but to walk-—thus aclounting for the frazzled state of our emotions when we tumbled into beg.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark a G.1. Trace Is Jeep, Jazz and Jitterbug

I will never get over the shock of Jitterbug in southern Spain. The girls nag high combs in their hair, and formal black dresses. When they sat, they swished the air with fans. I watched them complete a swift Spanish two-step, the paso-doble, and then a vivid flamenco, the gypsy dance. : >

Suddenly the loud, tinny band launched into

-“Sho-Sho Baby,” and a couple thousand years of old

world repression fell away. The floor was immediately

jammed with dancers. Mantillas toppled off the high combs, and the combs sat awry in the fancy hairdos. The demure, black skirts swirled to reveal a shocking amount of leg, while the greased-haired dandies and their ladies worked up & Texas-style sweat, Since then I have seen a handsome young Arab shuck off his flowing djellaba, which is not suitable for rug-cutting, and go to town on “One O'Clock Jump,” his fez bobbing and his yellow slippers raising smoke from the floor. The French have largely abandoned their jerky jazz for the more violent Americhn brand, and the Casablancaises and Algeriennes are as slick chicks as the groovy bobbySo are the Italians—the Jitterbug is the national dance of young Italy.

Answers Urge of Movement EVEN THE FACIAL CONTORTIONS of our young have been adopted. There is the soulful, but bored expression of the cud-chomping cow, occasionally giving way to the rapturous look of a dog scratching fleas, which seems to characterise an especially hep entre-chat of le jitterbug. As it is impossible to swing out back home without chewing gum, so it is impossible over here. The jaws work regularly, in time to Tommy Dorsey. America, I believe, is now faced with a decline in the arts and crafts, for with le jeep, le jazs and le jitterboog, .we have achieved a perfection that can never be improved. In their. respective fashions, they are the complete answer to the urge for violent movement-in the young of all creeds and colors.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs U.S. Undertaking on Greek Aid

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If this is not true, then an impartial watchman -

could report the real facts and the Russians would

» have support for their position that the trouble is

internal. ‘Alexandre Parodi, French member of the United Nations commission to Greece, made the suggestion that the border commission be composed of representatives of the smaller states with no stake in the Greek tragedy. That may be sound advice. It has by now become abundantly clear that the Russian game is to stall while the Russian satellites promote rebellion in Greece. While President Truman would have done well to ask the help of the United Nations in the Greek program, it is obvious that Soviet tactics would never have permitted any immediate, practical program. A significant sidelight on this whole controversy is the personality of the man who represented the United States on the United Nations commission to Greece—Mark Ethridge of Louisville, Ky, Mr. Ethridge has all of his life been a progressive. His ehemies have sometimes called him a radical.

Twq years ago, President Truman sent him on a

mission to the Balkans. Like many other progressives he wanted to believe the best about Soviet Russia, arfd if he went with any bias, it was in that direction.

Petty Spite of Senators : B IS ALSO a very able newspaperman who has learned to appraise and correlate the facts that come to his attention. In the course of several prolonged trips to eastern Europe, he saw repeated evidence of Communist repression and Communist brutality. : Mr, Ethridge might well have played an important role in our own undertaking in Greece. The petty ‘spite of certain senators made this impossible,

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Keyes Beech Will MacArthur's Claims Stand Test?

No one can dispute the fact that MacArthur fre quently embarrasses his subordinates with sweeping claims that cannot be supported by facts. . It remained for an Australian, cool and scholarly W. MacMahon Ball, British representative on the allied council, to voice the most frequently uttered this occupation when he said: “It isn’t that SCAP has done so little, but that it claims so much.” Ball was speaking of Japan's land reform program sponsored by the supreme command of the allied powers. He might as well have been talking about any

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