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The ‘Indianapolis Times PAGE 20 . Thursday, Aug. 21, 1947

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SAGA OF INDIANA . SE ay 2 Hoosier First Yank Killed in 1898 War

In all of these wars, big and little, that have come to America and Indiana always came tragedy

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A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER .. for an attack. We were then deployed and had ond comedy; slugging fights and high courage; "Faces 45 - nok more than 50 yards when Spanish °C .PPUng wounds and grim death. The Spanish- $113,123 Owned and published ‘dally (except Sunday) by . advanced American war was no exception. Glimpse this one: ’ Indianapolis Times Publishing Co., 214 W. Maryland y / outposts fired on us. Troop A was ordered t0 Gen. Nelson A. Miles was invading Porto Rico. Gen. Delmer C. Sc st. Postal Zone 9 REMINDS ME! advance at a dead run, and it was then that Stork Brooks, of his army, was preparing for an attack. 60-year-old bar Member of United Press, Scripps- -Howard News- vas Hf killed.” A battery boy from Indianapolis had a cannon loaded guilty today in f paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of The “Stork” of this statement was Jesse KX. Stork with shell. One of the gunners had sprung back embezzlement of Circulations., WHATEVER of Evansville, Ind. He was the first American with the lanyard in hands. The command came: of the Irwin-Un Price tn Marion County, 5 cents a copy; dellv- soldier killed in the Spanish-American war, 1808-1899. “Ready, aim"—but before “fire” was uttered, Lieut. tumbus. ered by carrier, 25c a week. BEC A ME OF He had enlisted in the United States cavalry May 5, McLaughlin dashed up on a mule showing that the Judge Robert Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, 1806. His regiment in 1898 was attached to the protocol for peace ending the war had been signed. the case to probe U. 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, $1.10 a HEN RY “Rough Riders” of Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt. . A vestigation Selth month. Telephone RI dy 5851 The tombstone on his government monument bears Rides Horse to Death tence, which co! Give Light and the People Will Ping Ther Own Way ero or vile th bactle tn the Grants. BUT THE grim, hard riding McLaughlin had rid- 4 years impriso American ps killed den a horse to death before he grabbed the mule to or both. i, an- U nd Clam- U rican ' deliver the protocol in time to prevent the battle, Schuder was a e P 9 P Hoosiers in Kev Rel when he could have phoned the message in a couple inal information EN. J. C. H. (Court House) LEE has begun to use oosiers in Rey $ . of minutes. Any way you view it, Gen. Sherman After he admitte G THIS GRIM battle tragedy was but an incident in was right about war. over a 12-year purple. language in denouncing Robert Ruark's ex- an opening battle of one of the six major wars of . In the Spanish-American war thousands of mm, trial pose of conditions in the Mediterranean theater. the 96 wars that America has fought from the pousiisen soldiers were getting their first touch of June 12. For , : ’ “ beginning of the Revolutionary war, 1775-1783, to fore lands. They were comparably as alert and Mr. Ruark 5 Articles, the general EaYE Jere a stab the end of world war I, 1017-1919, both inclusive. resourceful as their successors nearly a half-century Although he in the back” and “not only -an injustice to the soldiers of In every one of these wars some soldier was the later in world war II. A lad from Richmond, Ind. what purpose th my command but an injustice to the United States.” first one killed, but never the last one of the Joseph H. Mangold, will illustrate. He sailed for FBI officials st Strange, the newspapers publishing the Ruark ar- countless ones that suffered and died in these 96 Cuba with Thodore Roosevelt's outfit. Later he was years he has pu

ticles have received no complaints from taxpayers who thought it was wrong for him to write what he found out about Gen. Lee's lavish spending. Nor have we received

wars, In all these wars, barring only the first 18 that were fought before Indiana became a state in 1816, Indiana men were in many of the minor ones and all the four major ones that came afterward—

in the Philippines. Caught out in the provinces without writing paper, he improvised. He dried a coffee sack he found in the mud, wrote his message on it, tied it with a

cars, including t eral horses. Hc men said the vs was far from

: Idi h red under G Lee’ the Mexican war, Civil war, Spanish-American war, » string and mailed it to his sister in Tipton, Ind. It total, any complaints from soldiers who served under Gen. Lee's and world war I. Some of the minor American wars, arrived. Thus in things minor, tragic and great, the Eight hours ai present command, or under his former commands, in France to round out the picture, were the Seminole war in. Spanish-American war widened the horizons of a

and England. To the contrary, we have received letters, telephone calls and personal visits from both officers and | enlisted meh. who have served under Lee. They say such

things as: “Ruark hasn't scratched the surface yet,” and “Let me tell you what I know about Lee.” Inspector Gen. Wyche, who holds the rank®f major general—which gives him one star less than Lieut. Gen. Lee—is in Italy to start the official army investigation. | Dispatches from Italy indicate the stage has been well set, Newspaper correspondents had a “guided tour” of installations. They rode on Gen. Lee's de luxe private train, wound up at Leghorn headquarters, in a conference attended by Lee's chief-of-staff, a major general, and 20 colonels, It is to be taken for granted that the conditions which the correspondents viewed on the “guided tour” were not the same as those viewed several days earlier by Ruark, whose tour was unguided. There has been time to clean up all messes, and to “clam up” all who might have been | — inclined to talk. Even on the “guided tour,” reporters found some of the same conditions that Ruark reported. Gen. Lee's cover-up and “You're-another” technique

Florida; the Black Hawk war that scared Indiana stiff; the Dorr war in Rhode Island; the attack on Canton forts, China, and the Gila expedition in Mexico.

IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Aug, 21.—No figure in what is laughingly called private life has stirred more con-

troversies during UeREet 30 yours than Henry J. Kaiser. Se

He has been called everything under the sun by practically everybody. Yet with his massive, allencompassing drive, he seems to go right on. Seeing him in action, he reminds you most nearly of a bulldozer. Mr. Kaiser uses the bulldozer technique in clearing his way through the industrial woods, which is probably why he stirs so much violent reaction of one kind and another. The heart of the charge against him is that he

Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but | wil

defend to the death your right fo say it." —Voltaire.

used political pull to further the growth of his industrial empire. Specifically he is accused of riding the New Deal comet to favor and fortune. The whole controversy has been revived by an

raises the question whether a routine inspector general's : : investigation will be sufficient. Maybe it would be a good Here Are Some Streets Which idea to reconvene the Doolittle board—which soon after Sill Need Repairing Badly

the war's end made strong recommendations for reforming the so-called caste system—and have that board de. termine how many of its recommendations actually have, been put into effect. |

By A Taxpayer, City

Here is the answer to Mr. Walker's reply and figures on street apolis police force, in spite of many | for an $85 million hand-out. Theirs is a hard some new sidewalks and alleys but the job and it is impossible for a lim-

epairs, ®

You might have built

Clean Up First Things First

[By Mrs. George Robinson, Indianapolis

action just taken by the reconstruction finance corporation. In a letter to Mr. Kaiser, that agency said it could not take responsibility for scaling down Mr, Kaiser's loan on his Fontana, Cal., steel plant. To Mr, Kaiser's enemies his request to the RFC for

| 1 have all respect for the Indian-/a reduction looked like a pure and simple request

recent criticisms.

But passionately, persuasively and persistently, the driving westerner with the massive hands, the big head and the hunched shoulders makes it sound like something else. And

We hope the army. cleans its own house atid sees to ones in my neighborhood and downtown are just as bad as ever, ited number of men to be in alll quite obviously, his own conviction of his righteous-

it that Lee's way of doing things is changed. Of one thing | we are sure, No attempt to “whitewash” Gen. Lee can! in the end succeed. There are too many people who know of, and are all too cin dg to talk about, his conduct.

Openly Arrived At

THE JRE could not be an international conference without the old secrecy bug raising its slick head. That hams

i Tllinols, or- take a ride on Washington st. 8 Ca Southeastern ave, just to mention a few out of dozens. They are a ment on foot to clear out gambling} ases ase on

For an extra dose of pleasure we recommend a Places until worse places are cleaned I would suggest that the|be a precedent set by the RFC in selling a steel

police make a concentrated effort|plant at Geneva, Utah, to the United States Steel

disgrace to this city. walk through the downtown streets on a rainy day and get splashed

ncluding the streets. Just go out College,

or upper Delaware, east or west,

or places at all times. However, or out on have no sympathy with the move

out first,

I ness is deep and abiding.

Plant Sale MR. KAISER bases his case on what he claims to

by cars going through puddles of water, Winriks w the wonderfully {, c10se up existing pools of filth|Corp. The plant at Geneva was built by the govern-

surfaced streets.

No, Mr, Walker, you cannot con- No Sloppy Sylos

vince me with a few figures. I'm from Missouri,

you've got to show For This Little Lamb me. By P. J, Central ave.

operating without restraint

degredation and juvenile

and ment and oO with no secrecy—inviting youth and |The company even young children to view scenes |equivalent to about 20 cents on the dollar, and pictures which lead to moral delin-

rated during the war by big steel. sought it from the RFC for a price

The difference in the Kaiser case is that the

Kaiser company borrowed the money directly from

Bulldozer Kaiser vs.

., tion.

Hoosiers and all Americans. In the long view snd from this angle, this war could become the moss significant war that Indiana and America have ever fought.

. By Marquis Childs

P . H : Ri part of the war effort; to forgive four-fifths of the cost of the plant acquired by big steel while making Mr. Kaiser pay 100 cents on the dollar is patently unfair, Mr. Kaiser still owes $105 million on Fontana. At present steel prices and capacity operation, he can pay both interest and the installments due on the loan. The irrepressible Kaiser pushes this even further, He says he wants to show the steel industry some real competition by bringing down prices on the West Coast. In his spacious, large-handed way, he talks about Fontana being owned eventually by its employees and its customers. How, this would be spelled out is not clear.

Passes Buck to Congress RECOGNIZING what a long shadow the decision will cast, the RFC directors passed the buck to congress. Congress alone, the agency held, can decide. That puts it right into politics in an election year. There will be powerful] pressures to make Mr. Kaiser pay up. In the steel industry, mavericks with ideas about competition and lower prices are about as welcome ag a boa constrictor at a picnic. But equally powerful pressure will be exerted on the other side. Evidence is accumulating that in the West they regard this as not just a matter of Henry Kaiser's personal fortune. Major business interests in the West are resentful of eastern dominaThey have high ambitions for their own burgeoning industrial empire. An independent steel plant fits into that empire. Here is a sensitive spot for the G. O. P. Western resentment over deep slashes in reclamation and power appropriations is said to be burning. To charge Mr. Kaiser with ‘playing politics “for favors sounds a little funny. “Politics played a part in deciding where the railroads should run and how they should be financed. Politics is part of the

“Look around for yourself and you| I don't know whether -to uss, quency. I refer to certain shows RFC to build the Fontana plant. This, in the Kaiser will have to admit the situation,jcry or laugh when I look at the {operating on Illinois st. and to view, is merely a technicality. : mildly speaking, siselis bad, (nightmarish fall fashions in the + ‘peep” shows in the basement of| Both plants, so the argument runs, were built as »

» Sowntown store Visiaows. Luly the Traction Terminal building. n at my reaction is not one Give the mothers of Indianapolis REFLECTIONS Congress Junket to

airlines battle. To rule out a newcomer on this score is to say that things as they are shall stay as they are,

pened almost as soon as the current ‘inter-American defense conference near Rio de Janeiro started. Debate began on a definition of “aggression,” an exceedingly difficult question. When disagreement arose, the| Socialists Do Not

Argentina representative moved that the meeting recess Foster Violence Are the American women going Pool ticket once a week with no

for “informal consultations’’—standard diplomatic lingo sy christian Spirit, Indianapeiis to be led like sheep to the slaughter Worrying on my part—but to have for backroom deals | Mr. Maddox, whose letter ap- jut because the fashion experts my boys see flithy pictures and

of pleasure, a break. My husband may buy a

By Douglas Larsen

Check Propaganda

y : at peared in the Hoosier Forum on ANd clothing manufacturers have morally rotten women—that's anWhereupon Senator Vandenberg, Secretary of State decided that now is a good time to other thing. Let's put first things Marshall's right arm at Rio, shocked the professional dip-|

lomats with this common-sense comment: “I see no reason why we should not ‘go to work-—why we can do anything informally outside the room that we

{probably take pains not to do in his and sloppy waist drapes.

Thursday, the 14th, would be very

embarrassed, I am sure,

he Is completely in error

if hejjttle lamb says

make a big killing in profits? This first and don't blame parents too “Bah!” and does much when children do wrong, | should ever find out—which he will not intend to succumb to the When the public is throwing tempta- | that droopy shoulders, sloppy hem line tion at them from all directions.

I think I y NAY

remarks about socialism. Although can manage to wear my present Everyone Can't

WASHINGTON, Aug. 21.—The congressional committee investigating the state department's propaganda activities, headed by Rep. Karl Mundt (R. S. D.), is now =et to invade Europe.

They're going to try to find out just how gocd a job has been done selling America to the Europea:s

these sources will turn up can be gotten just as easily in Washington. ,Members of the committee themselves aren't agreed as to how they’should proceed over there, One sensible suggestion is that they tear up the scheduie and strike out, each on his own, or divide up into

can't do formally right here. I don't see w hy everything Marx may have been a very bitter wardrobe until something sensible Hi B d d and also try to find out how many listeners the state rout They more they Sones) the os , Co ) . arog goin ha toy : : | ngressmen on an investigation can't proceed openly at the conference, man, the only violence he believed comes back into style again. re a boayguar department's radio program, the Voice of America, the better their chances will be of getting at on ps

» {By G. V. C.,, N. Keystone

- y ) . iin was against injustice t Senator Vandenberg used to be a newspaperman him-} Members of Socialist party do not How to Keep | What does an honest citizen of| has there. BF Wit they ae lookldy or, No Buropeas 5 going to T r BE hi iv - Y : ¥ . an interpreter, while a self. That may.account for some of his sensitiveness about {Indianapolis need te -do for pro-|QOne Qualified Investigator group of plump congressmen sit around taking no

the diplomatic-secrecy racket. But even without that experience, he and others who know their history have good

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in hush-hush trading. -

Woodrow Wilson lived to regret his inability to honor, | ne gocialists Will never object 0 will write a book.

believe in violence at all—it is defi | nitely not a part of the Socialist A Husband As far as religion Is con- my Jeanne Seymour, City

ideology.

cerned, nothing could be more

Ruth Miflet in * reason to remember that democracy usually takes the rap Christian than socialism, and there said in her column that maybe some | when we. have to be out. {1s certainly nothing In capitalism to day some successful wife with at now there seems to be a wave of

tection if he has to be on th

{streets late at night? ‘We the Women” | ‘We can't all

[bear out the teac hings of Christ. jeast 80 years of happy marriage tracks and. robberies.

“How to Manage! 1 can remember when a hold-u

® REP. MUNDT and the rest of the congressmen

are apparently sincere in their desire to do a fair

hire body games job of reporting what they find. The report is sup1g

posed to give the rest of congress and the public an intelligent basis for deciding the future of the department's foreign information activities. P| Unfortunately, the committee is starting out

It takes a friendly, but subtle, job of questioning the right people to get-a penetrating look at -the European mind. And it takes wide-open eyes to see the various shades of American influence expressed in such things as what sheet music and books are being sold and what movies are being shown. ‘These things, too, are part of the state departments Pivpagandy

in the peacemaking after world war I, his wise demand |accepting anyone who believes in thout N In the! : g Sto , eel a. ua Man Vino MgEIng." " frat TAD merely “took a pocketbook or| pandicapped. It's unlikely any of the members wil eorts. Le for open covenants openly arrived at. F. D. Roosevelt |'helr very common sen Nn of'same edition on page 9, the firstig pyjifolq, | get into Russia. and maybe not into more than one lived | f seeks after his Yalt t p t |world problems Just because that section.of the paper, a couple cele- | Now it seems customary to get a |8 8 y 'The Voice' Not Well Known new ived only ‘a few weeks [alter his lalla secrel agreements person insists on clinging. to his brated their 62d anniversary. M {bashed -in head at the same time.| tvoof the s ‘eurtaip” SUymtEies. Those ale the areas . EMBERS . with Stalin, but that was long enough for him to realize superstitions. Socialism is a religion be Ruthie, with a little encourage-T Curbing gambling and slot ma.| “DeT* an evaluation of American influence and pres- MOST OF THE ME of the committee are une that | had t the worst of it in itself, which also makes complete ment, she might. tell you how to! Lr ym ga fine oh tige is most important and where the state depart- “especially eager to find out just how many Europeans 1 '( . “ “Unie e . fo in ‘ _, |sense and has no ritual with which keep your first lover. For I'm sure put I've never heard of a slot ma- ment is most eager that the “Voice” is heard. The.r Users to ihe i ute and How eiteelive 1t 1a. A cursory At Rio, so far as we know, there is no question of secret |i; confuse thought. It also happens'that all the modern onveniences chine handle «mashing a head after| DUd8¢t and tentative time schedule calls for only a qe ipning of geores 0 persons by i Yeportas due Ria covenants. But Senator Vandenberg is wise in insisting to be the only real solution to the were not in circylation then, yet 62! robbing the’ player. few days in most places: ng a tour of Europe recently revealed what a dif« 9 that tiie oper vies be.openly arrived at. diMculties of the world, but those years have tightly sealed their love| . : Only one committee staff member is really trained ficult job it is going to be to get any kind of an ac« s | a p Pp |who are holding In their greedy for each other with never a thought | (~}14 S 4 to do the job that the committee members them- curate count. Many of the more educated persons, ove For one reason, because the United States has noth-!) ands more than their share of the of divorce. Suppose The Times re- | are Stu y selves will try to do. And he will probably be saddled including government officials, teachers, industrialists, ing to hide, For another, because an informed public wealth of the world are still very porter ask this lovely young wife! ‘Should Be Followed With Use handily of meet M in Setails o he ge row “ A stents a I oy here ath th sence of derno |} loathe to admit what they fully’ how she managed to keep the fire my m. 1. 8. City a group, ralher lhan being lree rect lhe in- havent heard, i 725 8 One a mn { opinion here at home is e essence of democracy, as we YeRiip. burning for so-Jong & time. The report of Community Sur-| vestigation. it is merely because they don’t have a radio, or one { as the price of popular support and senate ratification of | |veys, Inc, on the Marion svn In a brief stay in a foreign city, the best theyll not good enough to tga in Ev o : . : g child welfare program is to be com-| Probably be able to do is get to some of the officisl But many persons eard of the “Voice” only international agreements. g Side Glances - By Galbraith ga we Pp | sources, such as government men, etc. And they will because of the press reports of the fight over its ex Moreover, in Rio where she is not officially represented | It is high time that experts were have to consult with the U. 8. embassies, too. What istence that had been waged in congress. ! as at other conferences where she is, Russia is trying to{[~ { brought in to survey the situation smear United States policy and motives with most fan-| here, Dn wh WORLD AFFAIRS By William McGaffin i i , ov i i % y every one in the county hope| tastic Propaganda distortions. aren negotiations always that the study will not die before Ja are our best insurance against liars. something constructive can come 2 t b P C k t U S T a gr ritish Press Cracks at U.S. Treasury From personal contact, I know i : : what a “mess” it is to attempt to, LONDON, Aug. 21.—Canadian-born Lord Beaver- aid without security. He was slow in realizing Brite Winter Gasoline Shortage ? adopt a child. This factor should|y.. wv is taking some wicked shots at America these &in's dollar plight. So far there is no evidence that fall into any attem ” 1d cardinal prinEY ERYBODY admits it, nobody is doing much about it, A the {nic an rogram. lo “redesign” | 1vs as he pushes empire preference in opposition to he as He a Se = be ad) and, so far, nd understandable explanation has been } American efforts to break down Britain's tariff walls. 14 never wiped out.” offered. Why Do People od vali Uiethe Ip Jus weuipapéss; wich foughe i The, edition of Beaverbrooks Evening Paiat We are talking about the gasoline and fuel oil short- Stand for Abuses? . Col. ‘MoCarmick and hn Mid Tribune. age which, if it persists into the winter months, is going By John Ward, 200 Peansyivanis ot. |Hits at Secretary Snyder The Low cartoon entitled “Little Elmer's History to create serious physical and economic handicaps. | If the truth and exposing the| wo onypensy MORNING, Beaverbrook’s mass Of England.” shows a group of heavily armed “com~ y Y , [police courts on the front sheet of ly Mmandos” led by a caricature of Col. McCormick desThe senate small business committee has announced "The circulation London Dally Express carried a snidely an inquiry, but it will be limited to the effect of the short- wasn't the best I have ever read {org Ue ruil Snyder, headlined: “He Is the Man ® §roup of laughing women and children, and aston age on small, independent dealers who have become alarmed lt leu, to. ody in pulbile Who Tod Us. to Work Harder.” hos Dime Attlee sr & brief case, oe. is . cy . . or C -" ption reads: McCormick Cb and who, they claim, are faced with threat of being wiped » S Sample excerpts: “He has no sort of reputation .

out, Such an inquiry is in prder, but it will be useless if | cause as well as effect on the entire national economy is not determined. Governmental agencies engaged on essential activities related to public safety are finding it difficult to obtain fuel oil in quantities sufficient to meet opera-

Me-picked committee {clean this up.

lthings as this and many others? ‘Can anyone answer this?

DAILY THOUGHT

eg hte to the head op ahoudlas a Bold or outspoken originator. He is noted more at once too" : to have said in

q Why do people stand for such|pi% Gullo Tee was an artillery captain fn

“he was born and in Missouri where he became a re-

cago Tribune boys arrive by parachute to save Mr, Churchill froth the concentration camp they are. Sure Be must De. after last Saturdays countepe; ‘revolutionary broadcast.”

That Shrinking Suit ’ IN THE STANDARD yesterday, Low took & erack

~ tional requirements. | banker. “J. 8. Treasury Financial Outfitters, Natty Dollar Cove | : e sources blame transportation lacks. Others oT den may delet Pe He became so respected and so solid thet he ering” Snyder is laughing ot Sir Witred Buds, fr xk that the shortage source is in the producing fields. | | open his folly —Proverbs 13:16. when his subsequent crony George Allen ivan asus st och 3a Pir ii him, labeled: : j

. ee eat Hhat when hank siienia asked Jott Suydes A FOOL as man’ are| for his favorite security was his customer's “American Loan.” alike both dn the starting Bhi 3 ; Eady says: “You see fellows, this suit turned ows (their birth, J eir| “He is be tdo small”