Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 August 1947 — Page 14
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‘Good Entertainment at Butler
THE excellent summer opera and concert program at the Butler bowl closed last week, and plans now. are being "discussed for 1948, Congratulations are due to the centennial commission which had the vision to plan the program, to the public for its generous support, and to the participants in the “stars under the stars” program. It would appear that the Butler bowl is adequate for next year's program, despite the weather hazard. More than 100,000 folk attended during the five weeks of presentation, and the number would have been greater had selec tion of guest artists included more “big name” attractions, It is not too early to go to work lining up such attractions for next year. = The summer orchestra should be strengthened, as it undoubtedly could if there were more money available for musicians. : More money can be available only if there is a good advance sale—which will come about only through planning and promotion—and if the featured artists are sufficiently well-known to attract larger audiences. The over-all results this year have heen encouraging. With foresight in planning for '48, they should be considerably better, It might be worthwhile, as a means of stepping up interest, to consider Henry Butler's suggestion that a Hoosier musical comedy operetta be presented—after all, there's “Oklahoma,” why not an “Indiana”? The Times’ amusement editor admits there are difficulties in getting a local talent job—but points out that Hoosiers Cole Porter and Hoagy Carmichael could provide a pretty good bunch of tunes for the right libretto. Job One, of course—find the script,
Bloody Sikhistan
NE of the worst massacres in history is raging in the Punjab. Incomplete reports estimate the number killed, in the past two weeks at 15,000. This covers only the one divided province-—~West Punjab in the new country of Pakistan, where Moslems are killing Sikhs, and East Punjab in the new country of India or Hindustan ‘where Sikhs are exterminating Moslems. The basic cause is the ancient feud between religious communities, and the poverty and ignorance linked with it. Before Britain's free grant of independence to India this month, nationalists argued that such communal strife largely was provoked by the British to keep India divided and that it would disappear quickly with freedom. Even allowing for a time lag; the mad and bloody record of recent weeks proves that the nationalists were indulging in wishful thinking or deliberate propaganda. However high the price of British rule, Indid at least got a degree of political and economic unity out of it. The British government in leaving insisted on turning over power to a united India—until it Was clear that would mean civil war. So to prevent war between Moslem Pakistan and Hindu India, those two agreed to formal separation and the British reluctantly accepted. In addition, two large princely states have refused to join either Pakistan or Hindustan. So there are already four separate Indian nations, not counting some of the hold-out small princely states, Now comes the new massacres in the Punjab, with demand for still another separate Indian nation—Sikhistan. When Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan formally were divided about half of the six million Sikhs of the Punjab —logether with their holy city of Amritsar—were left in the new Moslem nation. This outbreak is even more serious than the riots elsewhere because the Sikhs are the best soldiers in India, and this violence is organized from the top. Unless there is a speedy settlement, the fanaticism engendered might prolong the violence for many months or years to the point of virtual extermination. A leading Sikh paper proclaims, “We shall make the existence of Pakistan impossible, whatever the cost.”
There is hope, however, in the fact that the two chiefs |
of state—Nehru of Hindustan and Jinnah of Pakistan— are both strong and resourceful men. They have a selfish, as well as humanitarian, interest in reaching a Sikh settlement before civil war wrecks what is left of - divided India.
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Raise the Ante
HE wage-hour administrator is considering some new |
rules on the subject of executives. If a person has a little authority to boss the help around and gets as much as $30 a week, he's officially defined as an executive and is exempt from provisions of the law requiring. overtime pay. One result is that many an “executive” pays dearly for his title, working long hours and taking home less cash than a day laborer, The situation could be remedied by a considerable increase in minimum wages for executives. They should be placed well above the level for non-executives, thus temoving the temptation to chisel at their expense. As a matter of fact, the whole wage-hour setup-could
be simplified by fixing a cash wage above which the over-
time law would not apply. Highly paid workers, whether they're executives or not, can take care of themselves. The law was designed to take care of those in the low-wage brackets. If the administrator could concentrate on that he could do an infinitely better job. in a field where it’s needed.
- Legal Note to City Council
OW. that. the city budget is out of the way, the city
council plans to take up the anti-lottery ordinance re- | ted by the mayor and law enforcement authorities who
the $9 million 16cal gambling racket. Article XV of the state constitution says
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“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."—Voltaire.
Indiana Women Slow to Catch Up With Style Trend; Long Skirt O. K.
By Mrs. Fred Meds, Greenwood I for one am glad to see longer skirts and more graceful lady like fashions, Perhaps women at last will cease to go about so sloppy, and be more charmingly groomed. Very few women really look nice in short skirts, you may as well admit it. ¥very woman should own and read carefully the book “Style Your Personality” by Renee Long. In it she speaks about hem lines among other things. She says mid calf’s a smart length and always in good taste, during a regime of short skirts. Now I shall tell you about two very lovely ladies I saw a few days before the races. I was standing just inside the entrance of a large department store when I saw them., — a They were well groomed, tastefully (Us make pfovisions that such men dressed. One lady in a black suit > prosecuted and be given due and one in blue. Two things I Punishment instead of spending noticed then, one was the hem thousands of dollars of the Amerlines which were a trifle below mid|ican- people’s money on investigacal. Second, was the darker shade tions which result in the guilty
of hose they were wearing which man’s retirement from the service definitely added glamour to their Which he wholeheartedly welcomes.
legs, How smart they looked and| ® 5 x '1937 Prophecy Has
how dowdy and out of style all the rest of us looked. I bet they were . ‘ Come True in World By Del Munde, Indianapolis
not from Indianapolis for they were When one considers the inter-
away ahead of us in style and Indiana women are slow to catch on, it seems to me. [national situation as it exists today ..0. 8 and it's relationship to the present 1 monetary inflation taking place in Men Like Lee Cause the United States there is sufficient Hate for Officer cause to make an American shudder By Quentin W. Derr, 946 N. Meridian st. [If he fully realizes what may I am glad to see that The Times happen to his beloved “Land of is bringing the activities of such Liberty” within the next few years. men as Gen. Lee to the attention] With regard to this same matter of the public. I believe that none|please consider some remarks which of the men who served this na-|I had in a letter in this Forum on tion against its enemies was sur-|June 5, 1937. . .. “There gentleprised to hear what Gen. Lee has/men, the orthodox economists, been doing. In fact, there has been know little or nothing of true many a “Gen. Lee” in our armed economics. They are consistent in forces, undermining the men’s/only one thing and that is that they morale and making them hate the are always wrong. They are the word “officer” instead of respect outriggers of their greedy masters, ing it. ' the international money changers. What interests me is the fact The study that they pursue is not
that such weaklings who must see economics at all. It is a study of
prices, the relationship of prices other men suffer to satisfy their own ego can run our armed forces, and how to manipulate the purchas-
ing power of the monetary unit, doing what they please because, . ... a tuating prices in order to they are supposed to be officers and make profit. If those who occupy gentlemen, The crime is not that high positions in the capitalistic, they take advantage of their posi- democratic governments of the tion, but that they can take ad-|y,u4 cannot or will not understand vantage of their position. When and apply the true economic prinGen. Lee is finally brought to trial, ciples of nature to the production which is very doubtful, the most and distribution of products and [that can happen to him is that he! ommodities, they may as well pre- | Will be discharged from the service.) ., eo epitaphs for their governments. pf it were an enlisted man who/p, 5 few years such governments 'had failed to do his duty in such yi pass into the limbo of abolished a stupendous degree, he would ingtitutions, along with slavery, | probably be facing a firing squad|giyine rights of kings, serfdom and or doing life in one of the American (eo, dalism.” versions of concentration camps for| gince writing the above many offending enlisted men. [governments have passed info the I am with you 100 per cent in|limbo of abolished institutions ex{trying to prosecute men like Gen. |actly as I sald they would. All of Lee, But let us not stop there. Letithis has been brought about because
Side Glances=By Galbraith
of the application of two of the most evil principles that exist in the human mind, namely the éexcessive concentration of political and economic power into the hands of a few people. The final showdown may now be near at hand. Let come what may, the never fading aspiration of men who are worthy of life will always be pointed toward a free government for free men, And it is absolutely necessary that those who love the freedom that goes with political democracy learn that political democracy cannot and will not endure -unless it is supported by economic democracy.
will Atm Bross Whitewash Lee?
By Jud Haggerty, R. R. 6, Indianapolis You can’t hear anything above a brass band. And the band of army brass hats now on its way to drown out Columnist Ruark’s cries for justice. It threatens to be another expert case of covering up. You won't have to pay for this performance ,. . and it will be even funnier than the Hughes investigation. It will be just another case of the pot and the kettle, except that this time the kettle will look at the pot and say; “Why, no, it's not black.” 7 According to American tradition, civil rule outranks the military in peace time. Perhaps no one has informed the brass that the army no longer reigns supreme; it is answerable to a much higher authority, the people. It's a cinch that Gen. John (Court House) Lee's brass buddies won't be too harsh on him; after all, he’s “just another G. 1.” to use his own words, And if professional coumesy or something like that doesn’t keep them from acting altogether, they'll probably just put his name back two or three places on the advancement list. . It's time congress took action for the people. Maybe they would get to the bottom of the brass “pot” and scour out the dirt. would even query enlisted men during their investigation. It's just a chance but it could be worth-while. The people have a right to know just how far army injustice can go unchecked; how long the army can ignore rights of enlisted men and, in so doing, ignore the constitution and everything American it stands for,
» ¥ ” White River Bridge Cause of Worries By A Pedestrian, City I am a working man and walk to and Ir my work over the Kentucky -dve.-White river bridge. I have noticed many bad breaks in the south side of the wall, caused by the heavy trucks that use this bridge.
I do not wish that suddenly some portion may give away and cause
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the bridge to see if it was cracked but the weeds are easily seen growing up through breaks in the side-
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 27.—It's frequently the contention of federal employees that they are just normal folk who think and enjoy the norma] pleasures of life like everybody else. This is a debatable point, The person whose daily life is a menu of high- and low-level decisions, top policy, channeling, budgetary ‘ procedure, 17 carbon copies, programming and organizational charts, and who can still maintain complete normalcy, hasn't been born yet. In one way or another, bureaucracy gets you.
Should End Uncertainty
THAT 18 PROBABLY WHY you get such a surprising reaction from the government workers on the present $11,000,000 loyalty investigation being
is in their midst. You or I would resent having to fill out a long form requiring pretty personal information. And we'd be irked at getting our hands smeared with fingerprint ink, for the fourth or fifth time, with the chance of having intimate details of our pasts opened up and probed. But a consensus among the rank-and-file federal employees in Washington is one of relief over the whole thing. A clerk in the department of labor expresses a typical reaction: “Maybe when the FBI finally gets through investigating every one of us, and a few get fired, the people and congress will be convinced that there is no more communism in the government and get off our back.” Opinion varies among the federal workers as to just how many dangerous Communist-indoctrinated persons there are on the federal payroll, : A check of top government personnel officials gives a similar reaction. Based on what they know from their own records and reports on the persons in their own agencies, they don't expect any great numbers of Communists to be uncovered. But they
SOFIA, Bulgaria, Aug. 27.—"“United States prestige is at an all time low in the Balkans,” mourned a high American army officer in the allied control commission here. . : - “Relations are good with the Russians. Why shouldn’t they be? They tell us what to do and we do it.” To picture Bulgaria today, it is necessary to imagine what Japan would be like if the U. 8. had begun a political retreat immediately after the surrender,
Truman Doctrine Aids Communists
THE SOVIET UNION fought two days in the Pacific war but speaks up with a loud, clear voice on all Pacific questions and has gathered the major booty of war in the Kurile islands and Manchurian
In Bulgaria, the Soviet Union fought one day as against our four years of war against Bulgaria. Yet that one day, Sept. 8, 1944, when Russia declared war after Bulgaria had requested peace terms, was sufficient to give the Soviets post-war control Bulgaria's press streams forth abuse in unlimited quantities against the U. 8. NevéF one word of criticism of the Soviet Union is permitted. Had Americans known that their bomber crews, shot down in flames over Sofia, or while en route to Ploesti’s oilfields, were gaining nothing politically, perhaps America’s post-war course in Bulgaria would have been firmer. Certain Americans and British are held as prisoners in Sofia as they are in Berlin, Vienna, Bucharest and Budapest. But without great difficulty they can
LONDON, Aug. 27.—~The British crisis is almost certain to produce a new prime minister and a reshuffled cabinet before Christmas and possibly a whole new government in 1048. When this writer in England two months ago, nothing of the kind y considered. The Socialists seemed ; Today atmosphere is different. Insiders admit the present government is slipping while the Tories openly are maneuvering toward new elections which some ‘of them. at least, believe would restore them to power.
Represses New Leadership
DIANA .™. By William A: Madow '
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realty treaty to the senate there was a hostile under-tow of - Two days after the treaty was submitted
is his comment on Indiana:
Meaning Remains Same
“IN ALL MY trip the most significant comment
treaty should be ratified s the treaty drew Indiana and America taut and
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Douglas Larsen U.S. Employees Want Loyalty Check.
think the net result should be worth the time and money. T. Roy Reid, personnel director of the department of agriculture, says: “I think too many people have the impression tha$ there are more Communists in the government than there really are. I don’t expect this investigation to turn up very many, at least in agriculture, but any we do get rid of will be worth the effort.”
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Employees Scattered Over World
scattered all over the U. 8, including employees stationed in remote spots. Getting these hands fingerprinted again is a rather expensive But it probably won't be as costly as finger-printing the
REFLECTIONS « + « By George Weller Placating Reds in Balkans Hurts U.S.
to offer against the Soviet army of occupation.
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms -
‘New’ Churchill Has Tories Worried
in a cabinet headed by the other and, as the services of both were regarded as indispensable to a Labor » necessary,