Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1947 — Page 10
The Indianapolis Times PAGE 10 / Saturday, Aug. 30, 1947 ,
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Give Lioht and the People Will Ping Ther Own Way
You Can Help the British
EPT. 15, 1940, was a Sunday. On that day, the few to whom the many owed so much--the R. A. F. fightér . pilots—knocked down 185 German planes over Britain. . 41t was the climax of the Battle of Britain. After that, the «= people of England knew they could ride out anything until victory, Viclory came—nearly five years later, ” ” » ~ » ” TODAY, almost seven years after that red-letter date in 1940, the people of Britain have increasing cause to wonder about the substance of that victory. Their food ration is smaller in meats, fats, cheese—the hody-building protein foods—than it was when, their backs pressed most firmly against the wall, they stood, as their wartime prime minister said so often and so proudly, “alone against the foe... .” In many other respects their “austeritv" restrictions are more severe than those of wartime. Feonomists and political scientists offer all sorts of reasons for Britain's plight. Some say it's the Labor government’s fault for putting national socialization ahead of industrial recovery and production. Others say it's simply that the dislocations of war are to blame, Still others contend the trouble is that England, like Europe, is finished, But we're not writing now about politics and eco-
nomics. We're thinking of the immediate, human problems of this generation of men and women and children in Britain who underwent the years of blitz, the-wrremitting years of danger and privation. In the approaching months of
autumn and winter they will face their ninth cheerless seagon since the war began, Many Americans know, all this, and have been doing something about it. Here and there in Britain they know a family and that family has become their adopted responsibility, Most of these friendships sprang up during the war when some millions of Americans were quartered in Britain. Most of them, too, began with the hospitality shown Amerfcan soldiers in English homes when, often, American mess rations and the much slimmer British civilian rations were pooled as befitted comrades-in-arms. It isn't hard to do something about this now,
packages of non-perishable basic foods that meet both the need and the postal requirements, Or, easier still, there's CARE (Co-Operative for Amerjcan Remittance to Europe) which guarantees delivery. Prices of CARE'S packages are $4 and $10. » a. 0» nr » » (ORDERS for CARE packages may be placed at any local bank and at L. 8S. Ayres’ & Co.,, Wm. H. Block Co., Sears Roebuck & Co., L. Strauss & Co., and H. P. Wasson & Co. You can designate the person to whom vou wish the package sent, or CARE will handle this job if you do pot have someone to whom you wish to send one, Bishop R. A. Kirchhoffer is general chairman of the Indianapolis CARE committee,
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‘Dewey for Military Training "THOMAS E. Dewey's critics have complained loudly of
Jate that* the New York governor has ducked important public issues—and that he ought to stand up and be
counted, “Well, speaking Thursday before the American Legion convention, Mr. Dewey said: . "It is our duty to provide a program involving parTRicipation by all able-bodied young American men under universal military training.” Which is about as flat a statement as a man can make on one of the hottest political issues of the day—and directlv opposed to the view of Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio, now Mr. Dewey's chief rival for the Republican presidential nomunstion. It ig an issue which we hope will be fought out the Republican party in the next session of congress, before the nominating conventions of next sum-
mer, The Democratic party, as represented hy President Truman's leadership, 1s already on record in favor of universal training : Anyhow, Mr. Dewey has struck his blow. On this issue, in our opinion, Mr. Dewey is right, and My. Taft is wrong.
Hors De Combat
“Forward, the light brigade . .. Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to glow or die.” ESIDENTS of Hempstead, Long Island, N. Y., have been taking a dim view “of horses. Farmers, particularly, have complained about people riding over their fields at night, trespassing and scaring the daylights out of folks who sensibly cover the same ground in station wagons, Jalopies and jeeps. ' : : So the town board of Hempstead has passed an ordinance requiring horses on night rides to be equipped with head and tail lights. The head light must be visible for 500 feet antl the tail light for 200 feet. Methods of attachment and source of current are not specified. If there is
think what it might be except to equip him with retractable steps for mounting.
No Command Performance A DISPATCH from London says that the Lord Chamberlain, who is thé theatrical censor, has banned America's perennial “Tobacco Road” for public showing in Britain. “There was no explanation,” said the news story. Well, Britain is a place where one county council-ban-ished “Punch and Judy” from the stage as being cruel and
Riding Hood” be suppressed for the same reasons.
might find Jeeter Lester's language, actions and
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LULU BURT, I guess, was the prize example of those Indianapolis girls who took advantage of the Gilbert-Sullivan period and made the most of it. Lulu wasn't a day over 16 (more guessing on my Alexander asked her
Indianapolis Lyra, the stylish mu-. sical group about which I raved
teur production. That was back ‘ in the days when people knew nothing about streamlined opera, a situation which left a girl to do but sing her part through from start On both occasions, Lulu acquitted the business. She had the away with it, they said. ' Lulu’ made her professional around 1800 when she changed her
apolis girl. Miss Abbott died the following but her company kept right on going—as a of fact for four more years, during Bertram sang all the prima dohna Exciting Personal Life WHILE WITH THE Abbott company, Miss tram met Tomasi, the director of its orchestra. the two were married. Somehow, they didn’t off. Professional mugictans seldom do. It in divorce. I wouldn't have mentioned it except for the fact that Miss Bertram's private life was as exciting as her professional career, Miss Bertram's next engagement was with the Conried Co. in a magnificent production of “The King's Fool,” after which she appeared with the McCaul Co. Still later she was the prima donna of the Duff Opera Co. And it was while she was
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.—Just when Gen. Douglas MacArthur was getting an aching back from so many American visitors to Tokyo patting him for his high score in bringing democracy to a defeated Japan, along comes Rep. Forest A. Harness from Kokomo and warns us that a mission asked for by the general-may blight, apan with socialized medicine. » = : ; ( Since he got $25,000 to set up a special subcommittee for himself, Mr. Harness has used it to blast the administration and challenge its basic post-war
More First-Hand Comment on Ruark Revelations in Italy
Hoosier Foru m "1 do not agrae with a word that you say, but | wil
defend to the ceath your right to say it." —Voltaire.
| policies. J The title of the outfit of which Harness is chairman is subcommittee on publicity and propaganda of the committee on expenditures in executive de-
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By Herschel L. Sartor, 39 N. Sheffield ave.
Having read the articles by Robert C. Ruark, I couldn't help but | try to confirm his accusations of the poor command the army has had While I am on the subject I would
{in the M. T. O.\
Having been in the engineers depot in that theater, T believe the are in bad repair, and that means |
records would show how some of the taxpayers’ money was wasted.
Following are comments on a few incidents that have been men- usable condition: Even Washington
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|our city streets. They are a menace [to vehicular trafic as well as to Has Paul Pry Jo the pedestrian. How do they expect ANY MEMBER of the press gallery here could { have spent that $25,000 to prove that tons of useless jour children to be safe when they : t | governmental information is sent out daily by ihe must use routes such as these to : get back and- forth from school. top-heavy bureaucracy which was jerry-built by putting New Deal upon old line departments and | agencies like to ask why the streets that|,e ¢pay But so 4ar Mr. Harness has used the committee most of them, jare not put into ang jts staff to put out propaganda of his own. For years as a prominent American Legion leader
tioned in Mr. Ruark’é articles. But, regardless, the general will-not be st, which is part of a national jn Indiana (he was state commander, 1929-30) he | reprimanded but will retire and live happily ever after. ;
i The trailer incident is minor, but the fact tha#1 reag that a trailer used by the general was returned to the states arouses this comment,
When I left the M, T. O. last | October, Gen. Lee had a trailer {under construction in the 86th {ordnance depot. Two frst-three-|graders wepe assigned to obtain materials and they spent many a day traveling .over Italy. An ordnance vehicle was dismantled to mount {this trailer, so I believe the taxpayers lost closer to $25,000 than | $14,000, During the period Gen., Lee's house was being built, the engineer depot could not issue plywood to the troops. It was a verbal order, that all plywood was frozen in the depot until Gen. Lee's house was finished. Part of the 345th general [engineer regiment - constructed this project and that brings up another The Foggia air base—as yet I {have not read of any criticism of this project, but it was the pay-off {It seéms as if the project was about {to fall through when a lieutenant colonel announced the project could be built with the materials already [in the theater. What all happened {1 cannot say, but this project was {abandoned only to resume opera[tions again after a visit from the |general | Some officers were being held in {Foggia who were eligible for dis{charges until a brave lieutenant wrote a letter sending one through {channels and threatening to send “ene to Washington, from any action taken. in getting those men on their way home. Seems as if Mr. Ruark has . missed the worst waste of | money of all. When dependents arrived in Leghorn, -the 3196th gignal corp in- | stalled telephones in some of the quarters. One lieutenant colonel’s | wife wanted a blue telephone in the bath. A sergeant explained that the army had only black telephones
Side Glances = By Galbraith
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FE. D. A, Cit ' For the life of me I cannot un- one's feet.~This is no longer the Prices weren't so bad then, either, with some cuts derstand how the city administra- America our ancestors fought for. |of beef going for under a buck a pound, cheaper tion can allow such things as the “Love thy neighbors.” Can't anyone {shirts were advertised at less than five dollars and at Pleasant Run to exist.
There are many such traps along Traffic Laws Are
so could not supply the blue one before he could escape from her unhappy mood, she had her husband call the sergeant to attention, ‘then she proceeded to WOuld ream him out--but good. The rerouting of traffic in Leghorn so the general's would not be . . in practice vefore Wartime Sentiment
Gen. Lee moved his headquarters [y. Jn '4 Come True
Veteran Housing Still An Unsolved Problem
By Ex-Leatherneck, City
| Well, in a few days it will be tWo ta)ked with a lot of G. L's about | years since the Japs signed the Sur- (heir dreams in the future. Everyrender aboard the Missouri.
I'm one of those who is living Lights Go On Again All Over the with the in-laws because we can't world."
find any place we can afford. And pe really want to bawl was “Victory | COmPleted by the end of September. The reason for there are many more of us. What p, iyo It was hot a sentimental | 811 the rush in the midst of the summer heat is is the matter with the real estate; .. phyut the words were enough that it's really the second >time the FTC has tried business, the labor unions, the in- , .hoke an elephant. For instance |*© do the job. The first time the prices rose so fast vestors and the government — that .wpen a mail can proudly say. | they can't get together and solve 1. treet and they'll come march- printers, it was obsolete, this very basic need.
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LOVE thyself last.” Pherish those
highway, and is used by great num- : traveled up and down the state urging the Legion bers of out-of-state drivers, is in program of universal military training. Now that very poor condition. I, for one, am | UMT seems more vital to all experts than at any willing to pay to straighten up our | time in U. S. history, Harness is more or less ‘ “fair city.” 1 “agin it.” So he took out after the war department Right now, T am convinced that for employing civilian advocates of UMT. John Gunther was right, but I| His next peeve from the committee was against also like to see his state- Secretary of State Marshall's state department adments refuted by a sound policy | vocating the Marshall plan. From that statement it seems that the way democracy should function in America is to employ only dedf mutes, or at least gag the experts to keep the citizenshif from finding out sufficient facts upon which to act. | The climax, even for Mr. Harness and his Paul Pry committee, came this week when he issued a
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[By A High School Student, Richland st | T just happen to be looking {through some of my old music | sheets a while Ago. You see, during | the war 1 sang at Atterbury, Fort | Harrison, hospitals and canteens.
" WASHINGTON. Aug. 30. — The government's
Most one was praising and promising the | relentless statistical assault on the high cost of living of us civilians who saw war-time GG 1 anything his heart desired. continues,
service are out of uniform. And too Nothing but the best for the man | many of us are still looking for a i» uniform!
place to live. It is to nobody's credit 1,0 but not of joy! that a nation that could whip the (pic cong :
Germans and the Japanese can't guer the White Cliffs of Dover,” solve the problem of veteran hous- ,i.e thought. isn't it, Ha' again I
The next agency to tell U. S. citizens that prices Ha, that. makes me are too high will be the federal trade commission. Remember | yg ging to be a report on an investigation of how “There'll Be Bluebirds nighenrices have remained on certain consumer goods which are controlled by “manufacturers’ restrictions.”
Then there was “When the
laugh!
Sound and Fury
Bat the he. tut: made] THERE IS FEVERISH ACTIVITY to get it
that, by the time the. report returned from the ing down 5th ave. the United Na- This particular FTC investigation got started last tions in review.” Makes a person | Winter when the “Newburyport Plan” was big news. {think our loved ones died for noth- |Remember? That was the plan cooked up by a ling when I think. of the way the |group of merchants in the small Massachusetts town, {“peace” is being handled. The G 1, based on the apparently fallacious idea that you |and ran is dirt under every | could get prices down by simply lowering them.
green peppers cost a dime apiece. At the same time, President Truman said the Newburyport plan was peachy and suggested that all businesses co-operate and try to get prices down: Almost the next day there were big ads by local
‘Joke: Revise Them By Robert Stegemiller, 707 Shelby st. May I compliment The Times on
the arrests of speeders in the mile zones. It really looks silly to find one column of a newspaper condemning the snarling pace of downtown DIMITROV DAM, Bulgaria, Aug. 30.—Bulgaria’s driving and. the next column blazing Communist fatherland front has swung the loyalty with a report of the arrest of mo-1of youth into the task of harnessing lawless rivers. torists for driving ‘more than 20 Here between the Rhodope n.ountains on the miles per hour, } south and the old Balkan range on the north, hunOur trafMc laws are a joke. Our dreds of brigadiers and brigadettes—Bulgaria’'s teenlaw enforcement is a bigger joke. |agers—are building a dam named after the nation's | The police of this town have |Communist boss, Georgi Dimitrov. They work all most motorists afraid to move when | Summer, get tanned. feel patriotic and most of them a policeman is in sight. A few one- make money on it. way streets, co-ordimited traffic sig- || aborers and Students Build nals and ‘coppers’ With an 0CCA*| wiTHOUT A FOREMAN in sight anywhere, and sional smile and just the normal|o..). "fey engineers, these ere ne amount of common sense would be... nq girls are closing the narrows ir. the Tunja |& great step toward making a mod-| jue; gnout 10 miles south of historic Shipka pass ern city out of our otherwise Rick | pore the Russians in 1870 defeated che Turks and town. $1 freed Bulgaria. . d . I asked a bronze-armed girl, heaving a shovel, DAILY THOUGHTS why she had volunteered to work for nothing and But I say unto you, Love your |got a quick answer:
enemies, bless them that curse “Because I want to give my strength and energy you, do good to them that hate to my country.” { you, and pray for them which As hundreds of these youngsters raised their picks,
despitefully use you, and persecute you.—~Matthew 5:44, y
The workers’ planning n i pictures of Stalin, Dimitrov and Bulgaria's former ) minister of electrification Traicho Kestov, for whom | hearts that hate thee. this battalion is :
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| oy ROMESEY. . Still in thy right hand carry gentle | 5 | peace ; A oh
OUR TOWN oso By Anton Schrier a Local Girl Makes Good in ‘Big
DEAR BOSS . .. By Daniel M. Kidney Harness Uses Committee for Own End
and then piling the wartime setups on top
“to get $25,000 of the taxpayers’ money to conduct
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Douglas Larsen Here's Another High Price Inquiry |
stores th all the papers saying, “Mr. President, we will"
its editorial of Aug. 26 concerning WORLD AFFAIRS 2 . . By George Weller Reds Utilize Slavic Youths’ Zea
! * { 4 » Time with the. Bostonians (following the Dufi Co.) that
she met a Mr. Henley, who eventually achieved the a distinction of becoming Miss Bertram's second hus-
After the death of Mr. Henley, Helen Bertram joined the Savage Operas Co. and originated the role ‘ of the widow in “The Prince of Pilsen.” Gosh, how n I pity ‘you youngsters for having been bora so late. Later Miss Bertram appeared with the troupe that produced George Ade's “Shogun.” Af the conclusion of this engagement she began her career in vaudeville. While on the big circuit, she turned up at the Grand Opera House in the fall of 1804. Most of her old Indianapolis pals hadn't seen her for 15 Rus years. Except for a little embonpoint (fortunately On distributed in the right places), she was the same old Lulu. PEP By this time Miss Bertram had a third husband hare He was Edward Morgan, the actor who created the po role of John Storm in Hall Caine’s dramatised ver- Mongo sion of “The Christian” (which, ®ven remotely, didn’t have anything to do with musical comedy). And, today. unless my memory betrays me completely, he was He ha the original Ben Hur, too. dre ty Lulu Comes Home ital. IN 1905, less than a year after Helen Bertram Chines appeared in vaudeville in Indianapolis, Edward Mor- as he cr gan turned up at English’s in the world premiere of § out sect Booth Tarkington's dramatized version of “The Gen- y rug in tleman From Indiana.” It was he who created the Tang, n réle of John Harkless, and don't let anybody talk a Chines you out of it. ‘ ! He wa On that occasion Helen Bertram ran down from bound { Chicago and sat in the audience without her hus- Nazis, w band (or anybody else) knowing it. After the per- the U. | formance, she told him how good he was. Next morn-~ I ing, bright and early, she took her husband by the hand and led up N. Delaware st. And there, on \ Schmi the east side of the street between 14th and 15th Wedd, s sts, she proudly pointed out the porch-adorned / Peiping, double frame house where Lulu Burt had spent her Bastien c dno, surrende “I hav years,” } cigaret, | “Tm §g have last squealed blast against sending a combination public health matter. and social security group to Japan to study both Schmic those setups there. Adalbert According to the war department, Gen. Mac- him late Arthur had asked for such a group to make a study chief. | tour for him way last April. But they were not \ listed as’ ready to take off until this week and then Harness elals sai hollered “stop 'em!” ; : ployed 1 Needless to say they went anyway. They are of one Dr. Joseph W. Mountin, M. D., and Burnet M. Davis bureaus. from the U. 8S. public health service; Baker S. Sanders from the social security administration, and wy Francis A. Staten from public housing. ~ Later two 2 more are expected to be given assignments and per- Yurking haps Chairman Arthur J. Altimeyer of SSA will Ps, gal go to Japan as head of the entire mission. He Was not only knows more about social security than any x f man ip America. It is against such experts at their hii
job that Mr. Harness seems to react most violently, ‘wh He employed a Bricker Republican from Ohio, man, ,¥
Frank Bow, as committee counsel. The committee hiding, : has a special office on the fifth floor of th old house yepar, § office building on capitol hill. After the latest blast Sr was issued on Wednesday of this week, Mr. Bow Japanese took off and wasn't due back until after Labor day. in Tokyc So I guess he is just resting from his labor, as is He cla Mr. Harness, who likes to make hay on his new counter-| farm near Kokomo. Roviete » . > a e Publicity for Chairman working MR. HARNESS RATES HERE as one of the He sal most partisan Republicans in a congress which is the Japs really filled with competition. “We d Yet it was the New Deal Democratic adminis~ added. tration which gave him a leg up on his congres- wars.” sional job. They let him stay on as a justice de- Ye——
partment lawyer and bring the late Samuel Insull back from Greece to be prosecuted for utility stock frauds. That put Mr. Harness more in the public eye than he ever has been since. : And that may be the answer as to’ why he wanted
this propaganda for himself from the anti-propa-ganda committee. DAN KIDNEY.
co-operate, look at our bargains.” But what the average person didn't notice, but the FTC did spot in the ads, was a line in fine print which said something like this: : “Of course we cannot reduce prices which are restricled by manufacturers.” ~ There are two ways by which manufacturers can “restrict” prices legally, according to the FTC. One is by fixing prices under fair trade agreements which is done, for example, with many drug items. Or a manufacturer can “suggest” to a retailer that a price be pegged, which is the same as making it an order because it is backed up with the threat of giving the dealership to another merchant. Part of the idea is to permit national advertising of prices.
The Iron Grip
ABOUT THE only thing the first study turned up was that, apparently, department stores and other retailers were perfectly justified in including that fine line in their ads. Manufacturers had, indeed, gotten an iron grip on certain prices which were beyond the effort and ability of retailers to lower. But by the time the report got to the White House, prices on everything had gone so high there wasn't any point in releasing it. At least that's part of the explanation for why it never came to light. If there was any thought of finding prices which manufacturers were illegally “restricting” in the first investigation, that idea certainly got quashed somewhere along the line. : Meanwhile, prices are going up and nobody yet has come across with any idea for getting them down.
‘Pick-axe, shovel, wheelbarrow and
waters. . The granite face of the cliff single grunting compressor pump and an coughing pneumatic “drill. © Dirt travels in barrows, trucks being few. Attempting to blast a half-mile-long feet high, with such crude equipment is wasteful human iabor.. ;
"But the Bulgarian teeoaees burning with Slavic