Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1947 — Page 12

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‘The Indianapolis Times/Doughnuts to You "PAGE 12 Monday, Aug. 25, 1947

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE President Editor

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3 . The Mayor Moves on Traffic AYOR DENNY is right in giving top priority to solu-| tion of the traffic problem, which he has approached in his usual sane and thorough manner. It is a grave problem, and it is steadily getting worse. In addition to the ordinary causes of congestion common to most cities, we have an extra lot of bottlenecks resulting from the circular lay-out of our city, which creates the numerous “acute-angle’ intersections and the large number of “five-point” crossings around town. Washington. I. C., and Detroit have struggled with similar physical

THE RECENT sale of the Security Trust Co.

Just as sure that It was the property across the alley where the Vonnegut hardware people now do business. No doubt a visit to the courthouse could settle the controversy. “The only reason I have for not doing so is a well-founded fear that a loose timber dangling from the decapitated tower may take a potion to drop on my head. (Loud cries of “So what?") ! For the purpose of today's piece, it isn't necessary to take such inviting chances—no matter what my customers may expect of me. Much more important than the establishment of the exact location of Miss Abbott's investment is the fact that the most famous

THE TRUTH is that Indianapolis was one of the most appreciative towns on Miss Abbott's itinerary. In 1882, for instance, our town went crazy ‘with delight when she appeared at Dickson's Grand Opera house in Gilbert and Sullivan's “Patience.” The date

Emma Abbott Thrilled Audiences Here

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try with her opera company. It was a message sent from heaven. She timed her performances of “Patience’™ to be always a jump ahead of Mr. Wilde's lectures, a feat of showmanship which permitted her to cach in on the enormous publicity that the newspapers handed Osear at the time. Jt worked the other way too, of colirse, with the result that Oscar’ also became the beneficiary of Emma's financial genius, Indeed, in the case of Indianapolis, Oscar Wilde profited not only by Miss Abbott's performance, but also by way of a historic fancy dress ball thought up and staged by the Henry D. Pierce of ‘North Meridian at 4

The Pierce party was pulled off the might of Feb. 1, 1882, a date midway between that of Miss Abbott's Appearance and Mr. Wilde's performance. And jt is

ALL OF which might lead my superficial readers to jump to the conclusion that Indianapolis achieved its present distinction of a Gilbert-Sulli-" van-crazy town because Emma Abbott, Oscar Wilde and the Pierce family. The fact is that Indianapolis

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When “Patience” achieved the proportions of a travel property recalls a .local legend that, on One occasion, smash hit in New York in the fall of 1881, somebody pon a Emma Abbott Invested some of her earnings in that got a hunch that it might pay to bring Oscar Wilde ball-and-needle part of Washington st. Th ce in the flesh to America and have him deliver a Se indeed, some {g-uibets insist that she planted course of lectures. Right and Emme part of her profits in the pre- Abbott co nine the councise plot recently sold. Others are Sonveived Soc Jaeat Je DON'T !

prima donna of her time, who was then the head not insignificant that on this occasion many of the pi of her own opera company and making oodles of guests appeared as characters of the three or four -n money, should have thought enough of Indianapolis operas Gilbert and Sullivan had designed up to that , mol to pick it as a place to park her enormous profits. time, Indianapolis Most Appreciative Opera Put on by Infan { i3™ |

people are to become self-sustaining. they might feel or it might be they Russia objects to American plans to revive this indus- did not know

i ; ; . time the meetings were to be held trial region unless it is given a voice—and a veto—in its

where and at

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Russians would come in only to dominate or destroy any fourth floor of the city hall at

, . ' ; fp 7:30 p. m. Let's at least try to program. We have had enough of that. get something done about the ever-

German recovery is vital to European recovery-—mean- j creasing tax rate.

any trouble justifying a tax reduc- to be fed and under foot. what tion

, aug 25. a tax Bush Blocks View, administration. We can’t consent to that, of course. The; qeet review will be held on the Is Traffic Hazard

By MF. L, Indianapolis

some of my neighbors value a bridal |Childless and petless, they seem to “fiscal '49" will be handed to the 80th congress when wreath

situations for years, for the same reason. of her appearance (Jan. 20) was just a month ahead enjoyed its first performance of Gilbert and Sullivan In Poise On the other hand our streets are level, if occasionally o Cacar Wiges Jestire (Pe. Bo ; ea as aly as i= Wen, the Indianapolis Light © pa Pr 4 : - ‘ | e opera “Patience” (as everybody except maybe. infantry put on a pirat tion of “Pinafore” with narrow, and there are an unusual number of potential major you benighted youngsters knows), embraces the fap- all the characters taken by men. It's the gospel truth. 500 Additi out-hound arteries which few cities can match. tastic character of Reginald Bunthorne. When the On that occasion Pink Hall was the original Little "w We have clung to street-side parking, largely because opera was first performed in London, everybody who Buttercup. Apparently, he played his (her) part so : ith , und ik in i read’ Punch (and everybody did) immediately rec- well that he had everybody fooled into believing that Kate Smic there wasn't any other parking space available, but it is ognized the character as an.excoriating burlesque of he was a real-for-sure girl. In support of which there | Maud T likely that a lot of that will have to go if we are going to| Oscar Wilde. Gilbert and Sullivan had stripped is the authenticated tradition that both Bill Fanning } | ' ir streets simply are nét wide | Oscar to the skin and lampooned him so successfully and Bill English, two eminent judges of feminine end congestion, Most of our PL bl that the opera had to be transferred to the newly- puichritude, went backstage if the intermission and | SPECI enough to allow two whole traffic lanes (out of a possible (built Savoy theater to accommodate the crowds that begged io be introduced to the beautiful actress, || four or five) to be permanently blocked by parked vehicles. fought to see it, . Wonder why nothing like that Happens nowadays. || THIS W | : & Plans to provide off-street parking are being developed | | : ) : + gw i i Nearly all of us have good examples of the difficulty park- | REFLECTIONS SR. By Hal Oo Flaherty 8x10 Pos ing causes clearly in mind—30th st. from Fall Creek to| i ee . i= : i Reg. 4 gr caviar claatly ip suialaBith ui. | ret ‘World Politics R qq C Point |] White river is one of the most flag ant od [ or Oo | ICS eacC in risis olin $ An increase in the number of trained policemen avail- ~€9my X NOW . able for traffic duty of all types is probably going to be A SHOWDOWN in the great game of world United Nations will have an opportunity to display yo 3 - ) inal ale {polities 1s scheduled for September both its strength and its weakness. It is possible essential. And a thorough follow-through by our municipa The showdown will be in full view of a large that many of us who have slowly lost hope can | courts in not only ordering stern penalties for reckless or ere ~~" audience be@ause the game is being played in the find in the assembly of nations some new and § ; A ' . . . " L | ‘ 10€ 5 of ti J Nations.’ Unfortunately, the hitherto unsuspected virility. It is hi ti 4] y that those penalties stick | do rot acres with ord t vos , but | will meetings of the United gh time. : drunken Ying Ie 0 onus oosier orum > > 8 yo : 2 0 Le players agreed to use a Jaker marked ‘‘veto” and There is so much gloomy foreboding, much of it i v after they order them. delend fo the aeafn your right to say it. —Voltaire. pysia held it on nearly every deal. Justified, that another supreme effort must be made = JUST Some of those remedies already are under way, albeit, __ , en - en _— — uJ). 5. Versus Russie to recover the enthusiasms and the determination ! perhaps a little tentatively, 1 is obvious that Maver Denti Jj, Jog Cork 49 Be Commended ery, oui be taken out mmel-| *’ ,” FORMIDABLE LIST of disper and won Do Barked Ue mesings at Duitianign Oaks wad | SELEC - s re 3 : To ately : ] fe LL tes is e display only of reasonableness | : contemplates no hasty or ill-considered experiments, but | : . They were very much irritated, "ested decisions will be on the agenda of the on Russia's part would restore the vision of a united | that he is determined to take the basic steps necessary For Method of Choosing Judges gavé me to understand they would Shite Nations hae outside he organization grave world, ! : ’ ’ ‘0: n=3 y x i ,3 1 ”y situations are reacning crisis stage. i i i to correct a situation he accurately describes as “intoler- | By H. K. W,, Udell st. So what they pleased on thelr own S00 THE V2 S00 Res: petit the 5 It. is this vision of a worid made secure by | " | I see by The Times that Judge Clark, of police court, has taken premises. The bushes are still there ? gg + NAS spent Lhe Summer agreement among nations, mot by threats or subtle || ¢ able.” : steps te assure that elected judges sit in the gambling cases to be tried It is only a matter of time until you Studying the : Palestine proviem Will report In warnings of decision by force, that must be brought | In that we are with him 100 per cent, and we believe early next month. J think this is a good idea. and one which should bear of an accident at that corner Seplember. The Indonesian war will come to a. 14 life, Keeping alive this vision even in the face 1 . the whole community will be likewise. eliminate some of the criticism you have been making in your news- Then the property owners will be Dead. The Marshall plan” for aid to Europe Will of the vetoes and the .stream of invective coming i ; | paper about substitute Judges in these cases very sorry and remove the bushes. 8° ibto operation. The British loan will be exhausted. from Moscow, may be the only meams of keeping | A judge is elected by the people or appointed by the governor, and But the damage will have been A Peace with Japan will come up for discussion. the United Nations alive. i . ; has a definite public responsibility. Substitutes, however, don't have done It will be too late Decisions affecting the output. of the Ruhr mines Amer: Beli in UN 1 Revival of German Industry that same respousibilily, as you have pointed out editorially What a good deed it would be if Wil be made and the whole: Balkan trouble will mericans Delieve in | . : . While I'm on the subject, I hope the city council will have the cour- these and other home owners in come up for debate. ON ONE or two occasions in the past, Russia | T is not easy to accept in good faith, Polish, Cen) and! age to pass that anti-lottery bill en it meets tonight, Aug. 26. The ka unapeys Vinge Jawse ae Jang 13, 58 TEtell) rey Afihen 5 be whaiasy eit HSS Moditey be Dan ue Suge so tie over i Dress | r . i 'evive st council should have passed it such a way to traffic A 2 Uni S, ! ) . as, true i French contentions that a revived German indu Ny {Comme ago. Then te police would Vi oO hazards would transplant the of- super-powers, Russia and the United Statek, are case of Iran and in lesser disputes during the new c« .in the Ruhr would threaten European peace. have something 10 go on in getting ews n fending greenery. confronting each other. Both are moving in the Paris conference. Such changes in pace and direction ‘i: . . - : “ ate!" is orV & f litics; outside the United Nations followed a display of strength on the rt of 1 ch talk sounds suspiciously like a Moscow propa- evidence. Too late!" is a very sad phrase, field of power po ; pla; : pa ue If the gambling racket here is as The News don't you think? with results similar to those created by Hitler in United Nations’ supporters. The same may be true in colt ganda line. ; : rion Bike tire dally news-| By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Sha 1939 ; : When fie cards go Sown in September, wide v We are not dealing with the old German empire, ner tw rv iv. conn! Maybe congressional investizstiots Tags No Factor in Whether the United Nations will go on in its There is no underlying hostility between ourselves with the Germany of Adolf Hitler, but only with western g.o.u4 he seriously concerned and ghouid be covered by sports writers Let D R present form depends upon the atmosphere that and the Russian people. There is no immediate issue to har % g i Briti d French ass the ordinance : d written up by rounds ering Vogs Run develops in September. Certainly the patience of upon which Americans and Russians would fly at Germany—that part under American, British an rench pass an PP) . By Angry Resder, City !the national leaders in the United Nations is each other's throats. There is only the paramount schem control. | ys Y Foreign CH seem more ot Fong an hich in this Solum wa pping. sask of keeping the National Jeaders from wpierting a! : i ! e "3 , o condeming stray, As the crucial days eof Septem ive, the : to for 5 ins , Prewar Germany had an area of 181,699 square miles Attend City frainc interested in “dollar diplomacy’ dogs, dogs that have tags. What | : ’ September. arryre . £84; 21 TusupeRl o1 puitey and wi : 10 67 million. At Potsdam, this area was Tax Meetin ‘onight than the U. 8. Perhaps because it's about the hundreds that don't? 2 3 PDL ion uf el re miles when East Prussia Was Br Local Tasp "9 9 . our dollars, They enjoy the same freedom. IN WASHINGTON enn By Douglas Larsen "€ vi yi Q a 8 ] “As » = b pay ’ > i , di ded bet n Riad and Poland. The new Germany to-], It 8 10 be regretted that the) Lo, Lo 0 * jo yap Jil a Wie EIOWIUPE | oo . hi « . . . Blocks wie wee a . ; - cei ac 1ese days. ey have forgotday is divided by a Soviet iron curtain which to all prac- ongoing vg rt ne Ladle Sam He die in their busl- ten all too soon they were once Billion Dollar Ca pital. Penny-Pinchin yn ’ . d i i ness—except with money. small and loved pets. a . , are y 20 mil- sit in on the council meetings - } tical purposes has brought 46,400 square mile 8 and lh i Te en i the pau eww No matter how well you keep ani-| WASHINGTON, Aug. 25—A peculiar race between the secret pruning sessions start. i lion people into the Soviet Union. So western Germany, |... ces pertaining to the 1948 Our army seems to have sipped mals penned up, they have a way President Truman and Rep. John Taber, chairman Several of the agency's budget officers gloomily | which includes the Ruhr, contains only 95,800 square miles, tax rate. Their absence may be Padly in the prodiction of great of getting out. I would lay a bet of the house appropriations committee, is now under predict that the President has in mind cutting down | $ofa--52.50 with a population of 46 million crowded into the area attributed to the fact they were Senerals named Lee lo say not too many years ago these way, with the President already about one lap ahead. about $4 billion from this year. It would mean about | Pp p } . . not aware of their privilege to be x = same people loved to romp with | The beauty of this contest, no matter who gets a $33 billion request from congress, apart from what i Chair--30.0( A revival of German heavy industry is essential if these present and register any protest! A cut-rate congress shouldn't have dogs or pack home a stray kitten under the wire first, is that the U. 8! taxpayer will might be done with the Marshall plan. The various i : }

| be the real winner. The race is to see who will get Instead of griping about the sit-' credit for largest cutting of the 1940 budget. It is uation, it seems to me a little more | the 1949 budget which will be the real economy issue humanity would be the answer. A|before the public during the presidential election of shotgun indeed. What feeling can! 1948. All the arguing and debating over the '48 a normal person show for* such | budget will mostly be forgotten in the fight over the intolerance? We have several of new one by that time. The President's idea of what Perhaps you won't believe me, but your kind in our neighborhood. it's going to cost to run the government during

agency officials claim privately that they just don't | know where the cuts can be made. But then, that's what they always say about cuts. i If President Truman is successful in handing a |! '49 budget to congress which is $33 billion, er any- | where near it, where does that leave Representative Taber and the Republicans’ big economy campaign issue?

With the bureau of the budget's own report in it

bush more than precious feel those who bother are just it convenes for its second regular session this coming

ing that part of Europe not under Russian political control.| 1t a large enough representative , 0. Before the war, The Netherlands got 21.3 per cent of its &roup of taxpayers can be induced D4 to attend these meetings where cerimports from Germany, Denmark 24.2 per cent, Belgium 0 000 can and Luxembourg 11.3 per cent.

Norway 16.9 per cent, decision satisfactory to the ma jority Sweden 21.2 per cent, Switzerland 23.2 per cent, ltaly wl Kn) fo that om would cover only

. \ ‘ 3 . expenses deemed 18.6 per cent, Greece 28.8 per cent. Exports to Germany 0 (he present economy.

were in approximate balance. The German market took “« n=

pests Twice I have stopped my car at collided ‘with encoming traffic. beauty,

could not see through or around Otherwise.

acarly all of Greece's export tobacco crop. . "As UMT Soldier Am them rt Success of the Marshal recovery plan will depend large- For Army Training" The first time 1 made thls Merrow DAILY THOUGHT ly on rehabilitation of Ruhr industry, because most of y eschpe 1 did nothing about IL, rh If any man has ears to hear,

Fei. David E. Napier, Experimental ( assure myself it wouldn't happen

let him hear.—Mark 4:33,

learn always, it ig thus

} . Just about petrified to lucing enough coal for its own consumption. Industrial Mm T. 1 am one of the teen-agers : 2 Bey a JI0. ea aly fuel must come from the Ruhr or there will he no recovery, Who volunteered to find out just Thit night T went to ¢ 1m) v. i * what the army had to offer in that

rs rn direction. We are now in our sixth ho uncertain terms that the shrub- (worthy of living.—8ir Arthur Helps

Anyone these days has to have 5 cross street and then started into ® lot of courage to raise a happy be discussed, & 0 tersection too soon and almost family in a happy contented home A if you are allowed such pets in a taxes heavy clump of bushes, planted for house. Yes, it burns me up. What at the corner of the lawn to ® strange world we'd have without my left screened my vision. I simply children and their pets—tagged or

. bs western Europe must look to that area for its coal and steel. Unit. Fort Knox. Ky again. But the second time, my hn ! ) ’ 1'd like to say a few things about od turned ‘at and I Was rr ) Poland's coal is no longer moving west. Britain isn’t pro- President Truman's. request for U blood turned to water s TO hear always, to think always,

J FFICIENT operation of the Ruhr industrial area is vital week of a very interesting and

to all Furope. Present coal production there is far stimulating basic training. The Side Glances=By Galbraith

army is actually proving that you below prewar levels.

We are concerned because the United . “\. . coidier and a gentleman States 1s carrying most of the cost of the Anglo-American it has entirely disproven the theory

i y kes you lazy and scupation pr am. ere is was 1 [that the army ma ) a) | pecupation program, If th is waste and mismanagement diercputable. 1 know that it would!

in Ruhr industry, it should be exposed and corrected, not i, a world of good for a lot of my concealed. buddies, who need to know a Jot

{Cans adv ar "pg — Pry n ’ , more about table manners and how : Americans already are greatly. confused by the whole [Tt to hich are Aropean picture.

If to that confusion is added the sus- (wo of the subjects taught besides picion that they aren't being told the whole story, Anglo- how to march anc fire a rifle. &o

y . c oh I'd like to say t0 you and the American relations will in fact he endangered. For, if the motes and fathers of thoussnids df

American taxpayer should decide to pull out of the Euro- boys my age who are afraid of - i y y don't ean occupation, the bottom woul wh what your son is headed for, P cg Pp i fall out of the Ole. if you're not sure, tome down business. and see for yourself, - Every day is open school day here, and if we can help you to see {straight about thus, well, its another

1 Sabath $ Lowdown : good deed for the U. M. T. REP. SABATH of lllinois called at the White House Fri- ‘nm 3 day to talk over the Russian situation with President co Sian n "Parents Should Tell Truman. Afterward he said he found the President *obvi- Kid : of Swim Da er ously not pleased with the Russians” because they don’t | M AP L. dew h (feng carry out their promises. The tragic drowning of several On this point Mr. Sabath observed that he thought Mr. [children over the state should emTruman “was being misinformed.” If that is the case, My, |Tasise he Red Ul ie Yan Sahath owes it to the country to say who is informing Mr. unguarded places, not to go in too

“Sabbath correctly about Russia. or soon alter eating and not to swim : in deep waters unless he is an ex-/ iy perienced swimmer, Many of these tragedies which happen every summer could bé averted if parents

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’ Reminder to City Council

January. Then the fireworks start in earnest.

New Budget Check System

| PRESIDENT TRUMAN, however. is planning a | little surprise for the boys. He has staried by instituting a brand-new federal budgetary procedure. In the past, the routine has been for the agencies to | start preparing their estimates of what they will | need for the next year, as soon as the current year's budget is settled. The only instruction they got from the bureau of the budget were on the mechanics of preparing ‘their estimates. This year, however, the bureau of the budget, at | the President's request, has added to the mechanical | instructions a flat order that no estimates can be more than their present budgets. In other words.

that any savings that-congress made in the cost of governHe who aspirés to ment this year, plus the President's economies, are esthetic neighbors and told them in|nothing, who learns nothing, is not, to be accepted as the starting point for the bureau's

pruning of next year's budget. ~ Agency officials aren't very happy about this new arrangement. But they can't complain in the open | because, after all, you don't argue with your boss in | public and expect to keep your job. Just how much | the President and the budget officials will prune the agency estimates remains to he seen. The. estimates for the 49 budget have to be in by Sept. 15. Then

| grate Germany in Europe's economy will cost Ameri- | can taxpayers at least $10 million a day for years to | come. It could lose them the war. . | The cost of feeding the hungry Germans in the British-American zone alone will amount to $1 billion in the next three years, “And as Britain soon | will be unable to pay her sharé the United States | will have to shoulder the entire burden. Add the | estimated $3 billion annual cost to the Marshall plan | —ghich is imperative largely because of the allied | failure to make world peace—and the $10 million a | day cost might be a conservative estimate. Occupation costs of course will be on top of this.

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i : : ~ |accepted that responsibility as one sg city council meets tonight. : >. lwhich ‘must be met before their ] Ny The anti-lottery ordinance aimed at the $0 million youngsters went swimming.” I want \ .

loc al ga mbling racket i ion again. ake it clear 1 t blaming | ? : ) ed ; nag Tus Somes ap Jor Mis sideration real 4 19 30a for these iromings 1 "If you own a merry-go-round when you grow up and | m a doctor, The AS aN oppo y to perform a re BerV- |i. just a thought that occurred to = I'll take your appendix out free if you'll let me ride any foe to the community in passing this ordinance. ~* |me in reading.about. the deaths. ne LR oma a wh

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is now pretty well established just how much Representative Taber's efforts reduced spending. And many of his committee's exaggerations on that score are pretty well spiked mination to cut costs at all costs has certainly spurred the ‘executive to do some This is good. But it dilutes the credit to Taber,

Benefit Show for Taxpayers THE 80 SO-CALLED TBI-—Taber bureau of in-

' vestigation—men, whom Representative Taber hired

to find the “fat” in government budgets, discovered Just what a tough job this is. Some agency officials grudgingly admit they did a fair job of finding what they did find, and it is possible that with their experience they will be able to do a better job next time. But next year the federal spending problems | won't be much different than they were this year. | And if the TBI-men only got meager results so far, the chances of further reducing an already expertlytrimmed budget in the coming year will’ be much worst. And, finally, if by chance the TBI-men do manage to find places for cutting, screams that essential services are being eliminated will go wp frem the agencies in twice as much volume this year, This is one political squeese the taxpayer can en joy.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

West Must Act Alone for World Peace

l. BERLIN, Aug. 25.~Failure of the allies to inte-"

It is pointed out here that current conferences in | Washington, London, Paris and elsewhere all have a | common purpose, namely, saving Europe by raising | Europe's capacity to help herself. The dollar crisis whether in Britain, France or elsewhere largely is a consequence of failure of European production and Germany with its coal, steel] and skills deliberately barred from contributing. Result is, almost the whole burden has fallen on the United States. Common sense dictates that Germany be made to help instead of being a burden herself. If the Marshall plan"ails; if Britain and France collapse; if Asia drifts into chaos; if world trade and reconstruction indefinitely are delayed end the United States is forced to withdraw from her world wide commitments, admittedly it all Sts into Moscow's long-term plans.

If nething else, Taber's deter-. |