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. PAGE 12° Wednesday, Aug. 20, 1947 yBox W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY t Editor Business

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‘Do Something About It : F vou believe taxes are too high now and that your public 4 servants should take steps to cut unnecessary expenses, it's up to you to voice your opinion. ’ Should the individual taxpayers fail to speak their piece, their officials are entitled to assume there is no pro- | ‘test over mounting government costs, no demand for real ‘economy. Special interest groups are represented whenever “taxes are established, but John Q. Public rarely is. Here's "a tax calendar, if you want to do something about it. The city council is meeting at 4 p. m. daily in its ‘chambers on the top floor of the city hall to go over the record budget for next year. The council will take final

‘action at 7:30 p. m. next Monday. Ww

Township advisory boards will hold their budget sesgions next Tuesday, probably in the evening at the town. ghip trustees’ offices. A telephone call to the trustee will inform vou when your township levy will be fixed. The Indianapolis board of school commissioners will take final action on ‘the school city budget at 1 p. m. Thursday, Aug. 28, at its headquarters at 150 N.. Meridian st. The budget already has been approved tentatively. The county council will meet Tuesday, Sept. 2 at 10| a. m., in Room 35 of the courthouse, to consider the county budget. These sessions will provide an opportunity for the tax- | paver to demand that needless expenses be cut. from the | levies for next year. jira And, finally, the ‘county tax adjustment hoard begins its #bgsions Mn the courthouse—probably in a superior court room—at 10 a. m. Sept. 8.

Russia Breaks More Treaties

“%* QTALIN continues to smash treaties and agreements in his mad pursuit of power over the Danubian-Balkan countries. He already has dictatorship over all of them except Greece and part of Austria., But the tribulations of the tyrant are many. His power is never secure; he must forever be tightening tie screws, first here, then there. The people seem so unappreciative of Bolshevik blessings bestowed upon them against their will, So Joe's bullyboys have been unusually busy the past few days. In Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania they are again using their familiar terrorist methods to silence the few still living majority leaders, who are in opposition —the so-called governments being in control of Communist minorities, In Greece, they have just set up a guerrilla regime with ted “courts” or purge mills to grind ott the lives of patriots who fall prisoner. This is in preparaiion for their anticipated civil-war victory and seizure of Athens, so far delayed by the United Nations invéstigation and the presence of the American aid mission. In Austria, where Amerjcan and British military occupation prevents Soviet seizure of western‘areas, Stalin agents are plotting division of the country to consolidate their stranglehold on the eastern zone. In the case of Roniania, American officials report from Bucharest a new wave of persecution, third-degree methods and other barbarous efforts to extort phony “confessions” for use in forthcoming purge trials. In Sofia, the American and British members of the allied control commission have ,demanded, through the Russian chairman, that the Bulgarian Red regime suspend the death sentence of opposition leader Petkov.

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What Will the §

Hoosier Forum

September Safety Campaig

county will be going back to their classrooms.

officials for the salety of the youngsters in traffic, case of the primary grade “begifiners.”

of all motorists for the safety of|' school |

Ny 8 » Dog Owners Should Keep Animals Quiet By Another Disgusted Reader When people pay taxes and buy four men and permission to let said dogs run desert in the rampant? |had to hunt it

Owners of these dogs seem to. the camp fire, think because a dog wears a collar “squaw” dance,

no consideration whatever to their negihbors property or rights. nights and in order to get eight We would turn to sleep until eight or nine in the Finally we saw morning. There seems to be dogs and pulled up six-thiry (and even earlier on occa-| We eased up sion) by as many as four dogs out- stared in fascin

barking and romping. dogs feem to, be tagged, which I all over the

It seems odd that these pet own-|0odd how silent else isn't as fond of their pets as| pers. . .

tered with them.

In Hungary, not content with the recent Red coup which ousted the premier and majority rule, the Commy : dictatorship is rigging more “free elections for parliament. |

» - » LS J ” | : "no QQ . ¢ with | our rest means more to us than all| When the dance started a squaw Dot BTLESS these current protests will be treated ith | the dogs these owners don't care would go up to a buck that ap-

the same contempt which Stalin and his stooges have | shown in the many similar cases of the past two years. Nevertheless the Anglo-American protests, though futile in some respects, are exceedingly important for the record. It i¢ bad enough to be unable, at least for the pres-

ent, to enforce peace agreements. But it would be far worse to condone this international brigandage by silence. The least our government and others can do is to make clear to the terrorized millions of eastern Europe that neither they nor the Dbroken treaties will be forgotten.

Gen. Lee Not Typical of Army.

E hope you read Robert C. Ruark’s report from Trieste. His description of our troops there under command of Maj. Gen. Moore makes you proud of the United States army in peacetime. It is doing the thankless occupation job with high efficiency and morale. That makes the contrast of conditions which Mr. Ruark found in Gen. Lee's command in Leghorn all the worse, It also shows, incidentally, that this capable reporter and vate] time officer is not trying to smear the army. we

\ A certain amount of pomp and show of power on the :

part of our occupation commanders, commensurate with their responsibilities, is not only expected but necessary. But the complaint among G. 1.'s at the Lee headquarters is not ahout the general's power or front, but his misuse of the discipline and dignity essential to our commanders abroad. Our troops are supposed to have something better td do than act as nursemaids and servants for officers’ wives or, as Mr. Ruark puts it, be “turned into buffoons to gratify rank-mad desk commandos.” They are promised ‘better living and recreational facilities than they are getting in Leghorn, where some officers fare so well. | You don't have to go to Gen: Lee's headquarters in person to get the reaction. The low morale there is reflected in the G. I. letter to the folks back home. That is ‘not helping »ecruiting a bit. © Fortunately the Ruark factual report has forced an

general of the army to Italy. : ‘ . There must be no cover-up, no face-saving evasions

{in this one. The objective should be to create the same kind of good army. conditions at Leghorn as exist at

Jinvestigation. Gen. Eisenhower has sent the inspector]

be a few dead dogs in our yard as Where I am going to use the shotgun, as “bucks.

enough about to keep in their own |pealed to her a yards—and keep them quiet.

Holliday Park Has Been Ruined

By Golden Glow Garden Club beautiful Holliday park? Why has| gaged. this lovely place been allowed to| deteriorate?

can't it be done now? “We miss the remembered beauty over to us an of this. park.

Will Protect School Children

By Todd Stoops, Secretary-Manager, Hoosier Motor Club . . Within a few weeks, the school children of Indianapolis'and Marion Every year, this occasion is the cause for concern among parents and school and police

It 18 my hope that the Hoosier Motor Club, in co-operation with parent-teacher organizations, public school officials and police and safety groups, can plan and promote an active school child safety, campajgn in September that will bring about a greater, more widespread feeling of responsibility on the part| ~~~

quaw Dance’

hildren in this cit d oy. gress, “tw #9 1s One Chance

By Miriam -L. Gordon, We saw a “square dance.” It came about after this fashion: We were on a conducted scenic trip in southern Utah, seven of us,

and tag that they are privileged to chance the young squaws have of

run where ever they please, giving picking a husband. We drove along

{ (part of it thru sand dunes under My husband and I work late at @ gorgeous moon.

hours sleep it is necessary for us | scan the horizon for the camp fire.

all, over our neighborhood and it is! off our lights and listened to the nothing to be awakened at six or “bucks” chanting.

side our bedroom windows—fighting, |fire with a “hogan” built around it All these for cooking. Indians were stretched

suppose gives them. any privilege sleeping and resting. .

ers cannot realize that everybody/any conversation and it in whis- . About 40 yards from they are and don't care to be pes- | the cook fife «was the dance fire, | with “bucks” all around it singing I like dogs (in their place) but their chant. After a certain chant

: one of these days there are going to|the squaws sprang up from every- : and gathered near the

cellent condition during the war squaws. It was a scream to watch, when manpower was scarce--why | utterly fantastic. . . The “pay-off” {was when a couple of squaws came

men, making them dance.

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

Are There No Good Samaritans?

particularly®in the

teeth loose.

Shelbyville call the police.

aid to this'woman. .

three women.

moonlight, and We gamaritan on hand.

up by watching forme an idea of how much help

By A Disgusted Reader, 1142 °N. Penn st. On Aug. 12 there appeared on the

front page of The Times an article about a woman having been attacked by a purse snatcher who broke her jaw and knocked her

The article stated that two boys. witnessed the attack to the point of being able to describe the attacker even to his age and his crew hair cut. A woman who opened her door and’ saw the victim slammed the door in fright while her son tried to Apparently, these people were too interested in their own skins to even give temporary

This article reminds me of the istory of the Good Samaritan, exa tag for dogs, does this give them The dance was to be out on the |... anharently there was no Good It also gives

It. was called 8 061d depend on were I to be a vic-

for it is the one, in,

the desert road

Every so often off our lights and called intestinal fortitude? it in the distance close, We turned

to the place and ation. They had a

the unsolved murders. ground around it, . It was they were, hardly

tion.

the bottom of the trouble.

it? #8 mn

"Why Have. Lies Been

nd grab him by the

seat of the pants and force him . » out to the dance area. After danc- Published on a Fellow?"

ing with her (unless he balked and By Joseph RK. Wyatt. 805 Collier ot. refused to dance), he would pay| The her off with 20 or 25 cents, * If he | July 31, “Three Gunmen Shoot |agreed to dance with her three It Out” is absolutely a lie. I was What has happened to our once times, they were considered en- trying out some guns at a block of

writeup in The

May I ask what is wrong with people who fail to help anyone in that predicament? Could it be that they have never heard of helping anyone but themselves, or are they just spineless without any of the so-

And may.I ask in the name of common decency and protection what is wrong with the Indianapolis police force that such nightly occurrences are permitted to go on week after week? They catch up with a few, but not many—look at Indianapolis is certainly getting a’ fine reputa-

It's about time that law-abiding citizens got together and demanded enough protection to stop this stickup, burglary, etc. racket. If there is an inadequate force of police it's about time to investigate and get to Or could it be that those in authority are Just too lazy to do anything about

Times of

in my back yard. Very often

called the sheriff,

d took t f "9 of. our ones who had. it dene.

. oo. on Stop Crime—Not Urge to Gamble

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Nothing less will be acceptable to congress and|

By Walter Cress, Crawfordsville

ent drive to curb:

vainly to stop the gamble. y

glance at the criminal news'of most any edition of the local papers| should show any intelligent. per-| son that the police department could be better employed trying to curb robbery, assault, murder, ‘etc. than spending so much time trying normal urge to

Some of the .bucks would take Someone is shooting in this neigh-

It was kept in ex-|off in the sage brush to escape the borhood—probably the ones that do some of the shooting down here

Why have lies been published on a fellow? It did-not help me or the

Regarding the capital city's pres-

the , he's living in a feol's ad

In support of .which I cite the histori¢ fact that 60 and more years ago, when the Republicans contracted the habit of winning local elections, they did it not with speeches, as Mr. Wemmer seems to think, but* with songs delivered by the Bald-Headed Glee Club. The’ origin of that political power can be traced by people as old as I am to the first Harrison campaign (1884). According to James Whitcomb Riley, who took .a night off back In 1907 to write a 299-line-long poem about the redoubtable Republicans of his day, the original Bald-Headed Glee Club included voices of the caliber of Jimmy Blake, Harry Adams, Ozzy Weaver, Dearie Macy, Dan Ransdell, “Sloppy Weather” Slauson, Bob Geiger, Mahlon Butler, Dave Wallace, Burgess Brown, Ed Thompson, Doc Wood, Will Tarkington and a kind of Damon-Pythias team Lknown as Sabold and Doc Woodward.

Named 16 Years Late HOWEVER, THERE are a few things that Mr. Riley neglected to tell, ‘possibly for the reason that poetry—even dialect poetry—is a medium that lends itself least to falling hairs. At any rate, Mr. Riley forgot to. say that the old glee club didn't get its name until 16 years after its organization. It appears that the club was officially labeled around the turn of the century when it sang at a soldiers’ reunion at the Memorial Presbyterian

. WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—For nearly 75 years the federal government has been trying to regulate transportation. The effort at regulaiton began when the railroads struck out across state boundaries and the interstate commerce commission eventually came into being to-police them. Subsequently, other commissions have tried to cope with ever faster forms of travel and*irade. A glance at the record will not encourage those who champion the principle of regulation in the interest of fair competition and reasonable rates. What happens is that gradually within the bureaucracy intended to do the regulating job a set of vested interests grew up. The interest of the railroads, the airlines, the steamship lines comes to seem identical with the public interest. Sometimes, to be sure, it is. But often the private interest is directly contrary to what is required in the public goad. Two dreary examples are conspicuous at the moment. One is the maritime commission. It is a cumbersome, weary bureaucracy that seems to exist merely to ratify the decisions taken by the steamship lines. y This is pointed up by an action which came up recently for hearing before the commission. Wallace Howland, head of the department of justice’s antitrust office in San Francisco, brought a charge of monopoly against a group of shipping companies on the Pacific coast.

Uniform Contract Plan Charged UNDER A RATE agreement by the .companies, it is charged, shippers are compelled to sign a uniform contract. If they do not sign, they must pay a higher rate. : The anti-trust action has caused a tremendous stir in shipping circles. That is because similar rate

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—At the inter-American conference in Rio de Janeiro, there will be a lot of diplomatic lingo about unanimous agreements, vetoes, sanctions, procedures and such stuff which will be hard to read and considerably duller than the Brewster-Hughes brawl. «But there is one thing American newspaper readers will be able to get from even the most superficial following of the news from Brazil. That will. be how the Argentine delegation behaves.

Caused Long Delay : . THIS RIO CONFERENCE has been put off fo more than two years for the single reason that the government of President Juan T. Peron has been on probation in the eyes of all other American republics. The Argentine government was the only one of these countries not present at the Mexico City conference in March, 1045. The act of Chapultepec was drawn up at this conference. It recommended the drafting of a treaty to stop acts of aggression against any American country by six lines of action, ranging from mild to strong: Recall of ambassadors; severing diplomatic relations; breaking off consular relations; cutting off postal, wire and radio communications; ending trade and banking relations, and the use of armed force. March 27, 1945, Argentina declared war on Japan, primarily, and on Germany, secondarily, merely because the Nazis happened to be partners of the Japs. The Peron government also agreed to the act of Chapultepec. On this basis, Argentina was invited to the San Francisco conferénce and became a -charter member of the United Nations. But the Argentines never did sign the declaration of the United Nations. It has been evasive performance of this kind and

plans for {ransforming all Germany into ‘another Poland, and by much the same process. Long before the Red army occupied Poland, the Kremlin had handpicked a group of Polish Com-

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the ves—at least as far as local elections were concerned. Four weeks after Col. Will Tarkington's death, John T. Brush invited Harry Adams, Mahlon Butler, Dave Wallace and Burgess Brown—the four surviving members of the old Bald-Headed Glee Club—to come to his home which, if you'll recall my ramblings of last Monday, was quite an estate known as Lombardy on E. Washington st. ;

Recording Heard - WELL, THE quartet arrived at Lombdardy, they found their host sitting beside a table on which stood a strange looking box. At the proper time,

Brush leaned over and gave the box a magic touch. /

The guests couldn't believe their ears when out of the box cames the singing of the 1 BaldHeaded Glee Club with not a man missing and Will, Tarkington's voice leading all the rest. Seems thats without anybody knowing f® Mr. Brush had

phonographic recording in “The Boys of the Old Glee Club,” most of the people around here wouldn't believe it—said it was just another example of a poet's romancing. Those who accepted it as a true story did so with the knowledge that John T, Brush

a hard-headed businessman, endowed everything he

did with the imagination of a ‘dreamer,

IN WASHINGTON: . . By Marquis Childs Politics Bars Transportation ‘Control

agreements. cover the companies operating eut of other ports. This is done, it would seem, with the blessing of the maritime commission. : It is a bonanza for foreign shipping. companies. They come in under the rate umbrella, too, and because they pay their seamen much less than we pay ours, their profits are huge: : It the commission should find that the Pacific companies were enforcing monopoly rates,'it would cause profound repercussions throughout the shipping industry. Should the commission rule against, the department of justice, then the department could take independent action in the courts. Whether this is done will be decided after the commission acts The second example of decline and decay is the civil aeronautics board. The recéntly appointed chairman, James M. Landis, is t1ying to shake yp the CAB, but thus far he has not been conspicuously successful. The dominant interests in the aviation industry, are not so firmly entrenched in this bureaucracy, since it is comparatively new.

-Many Reasons Are Cited

ARE many obvious reasons why the effort to regulate a powerful industry should be difficult or impossible. Over and over again, when a¢ bright young man has learned his way around on the government side, he is persuaded by a much larger salary to move over on to the industry side. But there is another and even more, important reason why the effort is so feeble. You can’t Balkanize the transportation industry in this day and age. The separation of ocean, rail and air under separate commissions is purely arbitrary. They all compete with one another. The urgent need is for an over-all commission or department with powers over all transportation.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Peter Edson a Argentina in Rio Parley" Spotlight

talk out of both sides of the mouth that has made .

the Argentine suspect in the United States and delayed the Rio conference until now. Officially, the United States and Argentine governments have patched things up. President

Truman accepted the resignationscof both Assistant

Secretary of State Spruille Braden, who didn’t like Peron, and Ambassador George Messersmith, who did.

The new team is led by Norman Armour ine

Braden’s place and James Bruce — an ex-milk company executive and a diplomatic unknown—in Messersmith's job at Buenos Aires. In the meantime, double-talk from the Argentine is still heard. On July 6, Peron made a big speech which every Argentine radio station and newspaper had to carry, every citizen was supposed to read or listen to, every upper grade school kid was supposed to write themes on. + Among other high-sounding utterances, Peron said that the Algentine’s “spiritual and material resources had been mobilized for peace. .-. , We Argéntines believe that the countries which suffered so horribly in the war have a right to ‘a better life.” . Well, look at the record. The Argentine was not a member of UNRRA and contributed nothing to it, though it did sell over $20 million worth of supplies to other countries which did support UNRRA. The ‘Argentine has never joined the international food and agriculture organization. It only observed.

Watch for Action »

BUT THE THING TO WATCH at th®¢ Rio conference and after is how well the Peron government lives up to declared pacifictic principles. If the United States starts pouring out arms. loans: and other assistance as demanded, without full g tees on what is to be done in return for th rs, it 1s most apt to be played for a sucker. still needs watching. :

IWORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Reds: Train Nazis to 'Sovietize Germany

BERLIN, “Aug. 20—Russia already has complete, She can afford to wait until Britain and France fall

and the U. 8. turns isolationist and withdraws, Even before Stalingrad, Russia was wet-nursing the so-called “Free Germany” movement, chiefly

either were Communists or who pretended proSoviet sympathies. After Stalingrad, the movement was strengthened. Nazi Ma). Gen. Walter von Seidlits and Field Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, com-

Since: the war, however, both the “Free Ger-

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