Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 September 1947 — Page 24

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Give. LAght and hs People Will Fina Thew Own Way

“Preview of 1948"

SENATORS Taft and Capehart notwithstanding, organized labor will make the Taft-Hartley act the outstanding issue in 1948. So says A. F. of L. President William Green, who adds: “We are determined to write that law off the books and ¢ to-retire every member of congress who voted for it. That is our fixed, static, immoygble and ugcompromising position. § Can I make it stronger?” ; Well, hardly. But, before getting any more fixed, static, immovable, etc., Mr. Green and other union leaders had better take a long look at the election in Pennsylvania's eighth congressional district. This first great effort of

turned out a dismal flop.

THE election, widely heralded as a “preview of 1948," to fill a seat in congress vacated by the death of a re publican, In 1944, and in other congressional elections since 1938, the district voted Republican, though the Democrats won three times early in the New Deal. It is about half urban and half rural, and contains the industrial city of Allentown. “ The Republican candidate, Speaker Franklin Lichtenwalter of the Pennsylvania house, had led in enacting state laws similar to the Taft-Hartley act, The Democrat, Philip MH Storch, is president of a C. I. O. union, the Lehigh Valley |

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repesl, While A. F. of L. and railroad unions also backed Mr. Storch, the Cc I. O. took over the Democratic campaign. It openly defied the Taft-Hartley ban on political spending of union funds. Outside speakers were brought in, the district was flooded with C. 1. O. political literature and an army of workers was mobilized to get out the vote. The vote came out, all right-—75 per cent of the total registration, remarkable for a special election. But almost two ballots in every three were cast for Mr, Lichtenwalter. He polled what is said-to be the largest major ity the district ' ever gave a Republican candidate, ” ‘ wn LL in all, we think, what happened in the eighth Pennsylvania pretty well proved a number of things: That most of the voters in a fairly typical American district don't like the kind of political action practiced by the C. 1. O. That union politicians aren't likely to be able to do as much for the Democratic party as they demand the party do for them. And that it's chiefly the professional labor leaders, rather than the general public, who are steamed up about! repealing the Taft-Hartley act.

Occupation Costs « N excellent example of how to handle our complicated foreign relations is presented by Secretary of War Royall and Chairman Bridges of the senate appropriations committee, When Britain asked us to take over a larger share of occupation costs in Germany, Mr. Royall asked] Senator Bridges to call an emergency committee meeting | to examine the facts. The committee promptly was called. That sort of co-operation is far better than the old method under which the executive tries to settle everything in advance and then presents congress with a take-| it-or-leave-it choice. In this case, as in most others in for. eign affairs, there is no reason for conflict between executive. and legislative branches—much less for partisan ship. The overriding interest is national. There is little doubt. that Britain can't carry half of

bills for Germany cannot be paid in pounds sterling. Because food and other products can be bought only with dol: lars, Britain this year is paying $273 million in dollars of a total $380 million occupation cost, Adthough adjustments must be made, it does not: follow that the United States should assume the entire burden or even more than half in the final settlement, Germany must repay occupation costs. Since the Ruhr 18 the richest productive area in Europe and is in the merged zone, America and Britain should be able to get their money out in time. The Germans being willing to work to eat British-American mismanagement will be largely to blame if Ruhr production. fails to make it up to the taxpavers back home Perhaps Secretary Royall, Chairman Bridges and their colleagues will be able to find ways temporarily to reduce Britain's dollar burden on Germany's account without changing the 50-50 setup. Perhaps also they can improve management and speed up Ruhr production, which is the! key not only to occupation costs but to most other European problems,

Discouraging Reaction UDGING from current reports, the reaction of some Chinese politicians to the findings of Gen. Wedemeyer's mission is both silly and discouraging. The reports say that if American aid to Generalissimo Chiang is cut, or made subject to supervision, a right-wing group is set to launch an anti-American propaganda campaign, The United States poured hundreds of millions of dollars into China to aid the fight against a common enemy. These funds seem to have been misused, largely to faften the Kuomintang government. America doeg not intend that | further funds be so misused. Yet, instead of instituting | any reforms, these politicians would embark on a program | almost certain to estrange this country” and complete the collapse of the Nanking government. It may be hoped that wiser heads among the Chinese leaders will prevail! in the end.

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Insurance : TE United States had better keep its premiums paid up on the policy called national defense. ‘There are too many bonfires in the world today. Someone's house - “may burn down, and it's up to us to Keep the water buckets ~ handy." —Gen, George C. Mekenney, chief of U. 8. strategie) alr command.

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the bi-zonal occupation costs under present methods. The Get Statute on Books to Stop "difficulty is not only Britain's economic crisis at home. Her Menace of Red Infiltration

By Dr. Harry H. Nagle, 11th District Un-American Activities Committee, “thought” to

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In Tune With

AWARENESS AND HISTORY

THERE ARE those whose way of wisdom has been lighted by the lamp of history. Guided by that wisdom as it relates to retrospect and prospact, they’ aver that times of tension ‘have been the world's creative days. Out of such days, it holds, coming events cast their ghadows before. And, not once or twice has it transpired that gray-and somber shadows have been the harbingers of bright shadows of new things to be “ Spending the August vacation days in the Thousand Isle regioh of "Canada was camping metaphorically on the boundary lines of things that are and things to be. The economic issue runs both high and deep in the thinking of our Canadian friends. In the first instance the pattern of thoughtful concern seems to be triangular. Canada, England, United States: That is the course the International relations have taken. But now that the convertibility of English pounds sterling into , American - dollars Is tightened drastically Canada's worries ‘are not only, triangular but global 80 the Canadian mind sees itself no longer a Dominion mind, or a British mind, or a Continental mind. It sees the world crowding into the picture, From dominion-mindedness Canada is developing the global mind. And this trend of mind has strong motivation from considerations basic in subsistance and welfare. Tenslon-—-awareness—history, Is it not a sign of the times? Is there a new era in the making? . -=W., A. SHULLENBERGER. A . ” » ¢ Fashion note: Women's skirts will be longer and men's looks shorter,

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GYPSY MOODS

I'd like to ride in a gypsy cart Of red and orange and brown,

"And follow the road with a song at my heart,

« Away from the hot, dull town,

rd like to sleep in a gypsy tent, A campfire crackling by,

And count the stars when the day is spent, -

Beneath the open sky,

I'd like to dance in a mad, gay whirl, To the clink of a tambourine, No longer a made-up city girl, But a flaming gypsy queen,

And I would love as a gypsy loves, With love that's wild and free, Forgetting my powder and paint and gloves, And be just natural me. i MARTIN. ” n A SCHOOL TEACHER reports that in answer to. a question concerning poems read during the summer, one boy listed Gray's “Allergy in a.Country Churchyard.” »

” ” n LORD BYRON said it—"Southey’s epics will be

read when Homer and Virgil are forgotten—but not until then.”

” » . HOW about writing a “deathless” piece for “In Tune With the Times” and sending it in? Most

contributions in these early columns are solicited, but there's” room for yours if it meets the requirements of literary. quality and timeliness , , . and it should not exceed" 250 words.

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the American Legion was made a mistake in an action taken at national convention in New York when it urged an amendment to the United States constitution providing “No guarantee of freedom freedom of press; freedom of assembly ‘or freedom of elecconstitution or the constitution of any state, | stitute a valid defense in court to a charge of promoting the overthrow of the government of the United States by force.” “it is conceivable that -who urtler the amendment urged by the Legion would be forbidden in advance of trial to attempt to defend themselves by invoking , the bil of rights" oF Communist becomes too hot. always aloud to whatever heaven they do innocents and a perfect Red Smokescreen)

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of the pillars of an experimenta structure in government date has been the finest in history for the man as an individual Will the historian of the dim future record the “Rise and Pall ‘of the American Republic?” must not be

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DAILY TRS | When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint | in me—Jeremiah 8:18,

“I nope it won t shock you home is or a month from today!”

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entails from slave labor camps to anti-Christ, or soon ‘get a statute upon the books that will stop this Dr.

ele- nominated ‘to succeed himself. ment of chance in thus controlling President Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium is expected this menace that other worthy or- to be a candidate but we are India. a+will probably

Pause for a moment and ‘think the Soviet sphere of influence. Bulgaria, With Communist Rusthat

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How about the residents around |

[the southwest corner of Delaware the officers of the government were to take. Before land 14th sts. co-operating with a the war they were required to swear “by Almighty “less God’ that they would be'faithful to the law of the

wind." Ten minutes with a couple an |scythes and a few able-bodied men |(or women) wielding them and the improved and fear of fire eliminated. Or maybe you're the type that hires the other guy to do your menial tasks for you

OF ALL created comforts, God |. 1s the lender; you are the borrower, give the state what is virtually absolute power. Take,

: MY WAR

THERE HAS BEEN lately so much talk about the world conflicts which created the war, about conflicts which may create another one that I “decided to say something about my own private: war My private war is with the English language

war. v Ever since my arrival to the U. 8. I was determined to learn Ameérican. My first teacher was So inattractive (my wife's choice) that I was compelled to stop my lessons and ever since did not take any but went religiousiy to all the western movihg pictures, listened to all the crime stories and tried to remember all the expressions 1 heard. But when I finally began to speak I was terribly disappointed because nobody understood me except my: wife, American is full of difficult words and expressions which sound alike but mean Something else, For instance: Adoption is different from Adoptation, Conscience from Cdnsclousness, Store from Storage and it is impossible to. find "out why one must pronounce to “go” apd to “do” differently when it is spelled alike, And why don’t we say: To Goo and to Dow? But there is no explanation and I must continue to struggle.

Ever since T came to Indianapolis things seem j

to go better because when I ask my musicians to “give me a little more of less” they understand. And in Boston and Philadelphia they definitely find that I speak with a Hoosier accent.

—FABIEN SEVITZKY.

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‘OUR TOWN.

Bachelor ‘Papa’ for 43 Orphans

DRIFTING ‘ABOUT this lavish “town of ours®is a paradox in the person of Adolph G. (fof Gustav) | Emhardt, a 30-year-old bachelor lawyer (Harvard 36) who hasn't found the necessary time to pick a | wite because of the 43 orphans and 49 septu-octo-|genaria ns over whose welfare he

has to wateh. Bachelor Emhardt is the pres- | ian of both the. General Protestant Orphans association and the FS RAR Sprains + SBIR | you). Obviously, this leaves the {rest of humanity either to go to | hell or to Yale. Waxing eloquently and without 'a trace of Harvard accent, Mr. Emhardt took me | aside the other day to impart the historical signific ance of next Sunday (Sept. 14). It marks the | 80th anniversary of the foundation of his ‘orphanage. | Of course, Mr. Emhardt wasn't present at the [foundation of his orphanage, but his maternal grand- | father was, you bet. And it is by way of legends | hahded down by David Bernd that his grandson lis in a position today to know something of the con- | ception and birth of the German Protestant Orphans | asylum which was the original name ‘of Mr. Em'hardt's present, extra-curricular activity.

"No Delinquencies Here WELL, IT TURNS OUT that Mr. Emhardt's orphanfige was conceived on the night of Aug. 11, 1867, with Frederick Thoms as president. (Mr. Thoms, in case you youngsters have to be told, was a pioneer East side cabinet-maker who built his furniture so solidly that people hesitate to this day to discard it: with the result that Indianapolis attics are piled {high with products of his skill.) The orphanage was born two years after its conception, a Harvard biological contribution that didn’t escape this cub reporter who knows lamentably little about the facts of life... At -any rate, in"1869-70 a | plot of 11 acres was purchased on the south bank {of Pleasant Run on what was hen known as Pleaslant ave. (now 1404 S. State), | Fifteen years later when the orphanage got going good (28 boys and 26 girlsy, the cost of the Kids’ upkeep amounted to $89 per head per annum. Today it's all of $750 p. h. p. a. and nobody knows it better than its present president. The reason for { this, savs Mr. Emhardt, is because the orphanage at lone time was a self-contained and self-sufficient in-

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RE Speed laws aren't the only good reason it ig wise to know what ou ‘re driving at. . » Radio is back on te winter schedule, but some of the summer programs left the listeners awtal cold. | wy", : Winter will bring the usual crop of women trying to live up to the Kind > fur in their eoata,

TO A LOVELY LADY

When I see you walk into a room Serene in gentle dignity and grace, It banishes all thoughts of gloom, That radiant loveliness of your face.

But when I see you walk away, Part of my heart goes with you, I wish that longer you would stay Or, better still, be mine to come home to. : ~—AUGUSTINIAN. » » » Based on the purchasing power of the dollag today, we sometimes wonder if the legal tendee

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stitution. If had its own cows, pigs and chickens and did its own butchering. It baked its own bread, too. Moreover, it raised ‘all its own vegetables— enough indeed, to can tomatoes in 100-gallon lots and sauerkraut by the hogsheads. “Tempora mutan= tur, nos et mutamer in illis,” sighed Mr. Emhardt dipping into the. vernacular of Cambridge, Mass. to relieve his pent-up emotions. After having collected himself, Mr. Embhardt pointed to another significant sign of the times. Said

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at any rate, so far-as Indianapolis -is- concerned.” It's explained by the discovery that the demand for adoptions exceeds by far the supply of orphans. This startling revelation on the part of a bachelor moved me to stick out my ears. Asked whether he could point with pride to some prize examples of orphans, Mr. Emhardt said it might pay me to look up Adolph Ziegler, a Waisen Vater (orphan’s father) who managed the institution for a period of 25 years (1914-39). I discovered Mr, Ziegler a happy inhabitant of the Altenheim which, of course, was just another Harvard lawyer's trick to trap me into examining the other institution over which Mr. Emhardt presides. I found Mr. Ziegler, a delightful 82-year-old gen= tleman, puttering among the flowers of his adopted home. He-sod he comhs the newspapers everyday to see whether any of his old boys (and girls) have gone wrong. Up'to a latechour last night, there hasn't been a.single case ‘of delinquency reported— not even for speeding in the 20-mile zone,

Leaders Develop There AS FOR THE PRIZE ORPHANS Papa- Ziegler sald his modesty permitted him to cite only those in the institution before he took over. There were three in particular that he liked to remember—Alfred R. Leeb, Charles W, Stolte and John J. Nelson. Mr, Leeb got to be a contracting painter, and Mr. Stolte, a contracting plumber. Today both men are meme bers of the board of directors of the institution which, once upon a time, gave them comfort and aid. The most spectacular case, however, is that of John J. Nelson, the present horse-radish king of the city market. Believe it or not, Mr. Nelson actually achieved the distinction of becoming the president of the General Protestant Orphans association. As a matter of fact, ‘he wag Mr. Emhardt’s immediate

predecessor. ' It's something for Harvard to think about. Peter Edson

Red Tape at U. N. First Sessions

WASHINGTON, Sept. 12. First few weeks of the United Nations general assembly, convening - at Flushing Mea pug, N. Y., Tuesday. will be spent in the somewhat dull, red tape business of getting organized. Hearing a lot of reports and electing a president,

They know only seven vice presidents and the chairmen of six standtoo well that their efforts to sub- ing committees are first important business. dictatorship” for our constitutional government committee, which really runs the proceedings.

-These 14 officers constitute the general assembly steering It is

responsible for the agenda. Tentatively on this list

Take your choice and soon—ac- are some 62 issues now troubling the world.

New Nations for Councils OVER THE PRESIDENCY there may be a battle. Oswaldo Aranha of Brazil, who presided over session on Palestine, will probably be Ex-United Nations

the special

Mrs. Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of glamor dame of "all international conferences, be nominated. 'So-will Herbert Vare

Evatt of Australia, international gadfly and spokes-

ser of two evils by cleaning them man for the small nations

All these candidates come from countries outside Russian bloe candidnte is expected to be Zygmunt Mondzelewski, Polish minister .of foreign affairs. Early in the proceedings will come election of new members to United Nations councils. Three new non-permanent members must be elected to the 1l-nation security council, to succeed Australia, Brazil and Poland. 8ix nations must be se-

mistakes lected for the 18-member economic and social council. '4n this free republic, but once it be

gone there will only be memories gecretary General Trygve Lie has a number to file,

Some time will have to be consumed by reports.

| The three councils must make reports on what

WORLD AFFAIRS .

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WARSAW, Sept. 12:Ninety- six per cent of all Poles are Roman Catholics. ground that a few resourceful, shrewd, ruthless men in the Polish government are trying to bring boys & Communist revolution, In parliament; the question came up of what onth

the words “Almighty God" be taken out and that a simple “I promise” be substituted in line with their anti-religious tradition. But the Communists in the parliament demanded that “I swear by Almighty God" be retained in the oath. They won. The Socialists abstained from voting.

or do you-want me to show you Reconstruction Advances

| THIS TYPIPIES the way in which the Commu- | nist managers of Poland's revolution are approaching {their task. Some of the harsher doctrines of the early ‘days of Bolshevism have been expediently brushed 'aside. But nevertheless the machinery for absolute control over the nation’s economic life is being or|ganized and put into effect as swiftly as possible, New Polish laws are drawn so broadly that they

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The Socialists in the parliament demanded, that

they've been doing in the past year. After them come the specialized agencies—international bank, monetary fund, refugee, children’s, aviation, educae tional, world health, food and agricultural organiza« tions. Incidentally, Russia has boycotted eight of these outfits. Finally come reports from the six principal stande ing committees of the general assembly. committees. Like congress, much of the work of the United Nae tons is first threshed out in committee proceedings. In their long-winded debate, it is easy for the impatient citizen to get not only lost, but also disgusted,

Ten Applicants for Admission

FIRST BOUT before the political and security committee is the matter of United Nations members ship. There are now 55 member nations. The security council has approved admission of two others —Yemen and Pakistan. Over admission of 10 other applicants there is trouble. They are Ireland, Portue gal, Trans-Jordan, Outer Mongolia, Albania, Austria, Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. Outer Mongolia, Albania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania are definitely within the Soviet sphere of influence. Taking them in would increase to 11 votes the Russian bloc of nations? which now includes only Czechoslovakia, Poland; Yugoslavia, the Ukraine and White Russia, besides the U. 8. 8. R. itself, Finland has not yet applied for membership. Australia has put on the general assembly agenda a proposal to revise completely the procedure for admission of new membets, and to take away from the security council its sole right to approve or veto applications from non-member countries. That may provide one of the livelier debates at the. forthcoming general assembly session,

. By Marquis Childs

«Economic Thumbscrews i in Poland

of offenses in bu#ness and industfy. ° Imprisonment is provided for “whoever commits an act of sabotage such as making the regular work of the offices, workshops, machinery, plant and equipment , , . difficult or impossible.” “Whoever spreads fake news which is capable of injuring essentially the interests of the Polish state or of lowering the dignity of its authoritiative organs” can be sen~ tenced to prison for not more than five ye The economic thimbgcrews are being tightened from day to day. Government has the po nel all goods into industry and agricultyfe. On farms this is used to convert the once-indpendent pro ducers’ co-operatives into 2 controlled hgtrymient + the state. In business, it is used to eliminate anyone not wanted. Power of taxation is employed diserimi« natingly to make over the political and economic ‘structure. Perhaps in spite of this program rather than bee cause of it, reconstruction js going forward.

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The Grand I iliary to the Bro motive Engineers post-war Indian wext Friday at t ‘erand afficers e »praptiSn Thu breakfast Friday Hotel Washingto spect ritualistic w two Indianapolis morning: Mrs. Walter Ti 4 Indianapolis divi Sarah Gilkison Monumeptal” dh which will’ exem] A luncheon wi at the YYW.CA. ingstone, Indians lain of the broth ored guest. On committe meeting are Mrs. Mrs. Grace Noe i organizers and {l grand president; . {#on, chairman, a Huffman, Mrs. lL Vinnie Clow, M and Mrs. Nellie | Wilson, chairmal Bessie Wikoff, Mrs. Helen Seq Mrs. Helen Mur Dorsey. Grand officers will be Mrs, Em Ga., president; Ft. Madison, ! Mrs. Lucy Wadl second vice-pres Turner, St. Lou Mrs. Emma I I secretary; Mrs. I EE catur, Ill, . se Martha Fulmer,

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