Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 September 1947 — Page 22

" period from July 1, 1947, through last Wednesday, compared

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President Editor Business Manager

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Gino LADKS ond the People Will Fing Thowr Uwn Way

Where's That Economy?

AST night we got to thinking about all the promises apd statements, made a few months ago, that the federal government would cut its spending and maintain a well balanced budget in the fiscal year that began on-the first day of last July. 80 we looked up the treasury’s latest report on government expenses and receipts. Here are the figures for the

with the same period in 1946:

This Yedr Last Year ....$9,196,009,204 $9,208,152,874 8,950,367,199 252,785,675

‘Expenses Receipts ..... 9,128,676,840 Deficit ....... 67,422,364

As to taking in money, the government seems to be doing prefty well. Receipts are up more than $178 million. And spending also is up some $7 million. So there's a red-ink-entry. While it's a smaller deficit than there was a year ago, it's still a deficit.” Of course the current fiscal year is still young. Not quite a fourth of it has gone by. And we aren't forgetting

—+that, despite the larger deficit at this time in 1946, the gov-|

ernment finally wound up last fiscal year with a surplus of | nearly $754 million. - Maybe—we hope—something. of the sort will happen again. But we're still thinking abouts those statements and | promises that government spending would he cut. Instead, | for nearly three months of this fiscal year there's heen | heavier spending than there was in the corresponding period | last year. May we be pardoned for inquiring when all that |

ing the budget balanced is supposed to start?

War Threat in Trieste

Tro is acting like he wants war in Trieste. During the Paris conference of last year, he and his foreign minister repeatedly sf Yugoslavia never would | abide by the Italian settlement unless she got what she wanted. She didn't get that, but she got far more territory than she had a right to and also more of her Trieste demands than were wise, That was the time Tito’s men were shooting down unarmed American transport planes. Now that the free territory of Trieste has been born belatedly, Tito is doing his best to strangle the infant. The two-day general strike there run by the Yugoslav Reds was politieal, with intimidation and violence against Italian workers who refused to join it. Apart from its terroristic | aspects, the strike tied up the shipyards, port and transport | on which the existence of the weak free state depends. | Thought the strike was ended Wednesday night, there will| be more. . At the same time, Tito's soldiers are provoking Ameri-| can and British troops. They have kidnaped a United States officer and two G. 1's. This is not the unauthorized act of chauvinistic or drunken Yugoslavs. That jt is official Belgrade policy 1s proved by Tito's bland ignoring of the

" United States’ two sharp demands for immediate return

of our men, . Tito’s troops are trying to take territory on the AngloAmerican zone side of the provisional frontier line in violation of the treaty. The state department has announced that Anglo-American troops have been ordered to hold their line.

» . ~ » » ~ ’ Y UGOSLAVIA'S conduct is described by Acting Secretary of State Lovett as “exceedingly dangerous and likely to precipitate incidents leading to most serious consequences.” In the language of diplomacy, the phrase “leading to most serious consequences means “leading to war.” This is precisely the kind of conflict which can start a

war most quickly and easily, as every school-boy knows. No American knows definitely whether Tito's boss, Stalin, is trying to pick a fight now or merely blufting in order to advance his strategic Stettin-Trieste line cheaply in

preparation for a later war, Current Soviet warmongering in Greece, China and Korea, and at the United Nations

assembly meeting, tempts one to believe the worst. And vet it seems impossible that Stalin, with his demonstrated shrewdness in the past, would deliberately precipitate a war now when Russia ig obviously much weaker than the western allies. Therefore our guess is that he is blufling. That js cold comfort, however, even if true. For world

war 1 and world war 11 were both started by aggressors who hoped to get the fruits of victory without a big conflict. But little wars cannot be isolated in these—days, even by dictators. They flame up and spread overnight. So even if Stalin and.Tito are -bluffipg, the danger of world war 111 starting in. Trieste or Greéce ig real. It will remain real unless and until the Kremlin ceases its aggressive acts,

More Blood on Stalin's Hands

HE state department's extreme dénunciation of the Bulgarian dictatorship for the execution of Nikola Petkov is not too strong. It could not be. : The Agrarian party leader was railroaded to death after a fake trial for practicing the political rights accorded him in sundry international agreements and in the new Bulgarian peace treaty. Because he dared urge enslaved Bulgarians to vote against the illegal dictatorship, he was convicted of trying to overthrow the government. The Reds can see no difference between a free election and ‘reason, > : ‘Stalin is personally responsible for the official murder of Petkov. For Washington three times appealed to the Ikremlin to prevent its satellite from thus violating Stalin's 'arliep pledge of representative government and civil liber ries in Bulgaria. But of course Stalin's right hand was not soncerned with what his left hand was doing, .

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The Indianapolis Times

~~ InTune With the Times |

Donald D. Hoover

PRAYED OUT OF COLLEGE

N THESE DAYS when a certificate of admisslon to an institution of higher education is one of life's most precious possessions it is well to recall the experience of Jimmie Letcher. * Jimmie grew up near Evansville in the days of- reconstruction; right after the civil war. His father sent him up to Bloomington so that he could enter Indiana university. He stayed all night in s local inn, but, being a farm boy, his early raising was too prompt for breakfast service by the tavern staff. 80 he took a walk. Cyrus Nutt was president in those days and, by chance, Jimmie found that learned gentleman at work in his garden. ; ! Jimmie introduced himself ¥hd as they chatted Dr, Nutt was called to breakfast. He invited the boy to share it. After breakfast there was family Worship during which Dr. Nutt led in prayer.” Among his petitions he asked for God's blessings upon the young man who had just come to college and upon the home from which he came, for the father and mother in that home, who were so interested in the welfare of their son, In fact, the good president was so earnest in his plea for the parents that Jimmies became sb homesick that he went back to the tavern, got his ‘belongings and went home immediately, There have been many reasons why students left Bloomington but Dr. James H. Letcher, eminent practitioner in Henderson, Ky. is .undoubtedly the only one ever prayed out,

~LAWRENCE WHEELER,

* % THE QUESTION If a guy wants to break Into your colyum Does he write something silly Or something solyum?

THE ANSWER

Well, it could be silly, could be solyum And still get in contributors’ colyum. But keep it short and make it snappy. A It may get published, make writer happy. Here's one suggestion, since you ask ‘it. Too many lines may hit wastebasket. ~ED,

~DUFFY.

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spread scandal, commented: “Ilike the parrot. It is the only creature gifted with phe power of speech that is content to repeat just what it hears without trying to make a good. story out of it.” fines ¢ oo ¥

AUTUMN

You can tell by the breath of morn That autumn is here. And you miss the robin's song, Geel the trees are bare.

The golden rod puts on its dress of yellow, The sunflower nods its head, The pumpkins on the vines are mellow, Boon snow will cover the flower beds.

The squirrel now. makes its annual rounds And gathers nuts from off the ground, The frog's croak, the cricket's sound, All tell us that autumn abounds. - ~JEANNE SEYMOUR, 4 @

SKIRTS

You have my sympathy, little girl, the men don't | like your clothes, nor your hair combed over your pretty ears. They poke fun at your powdered nose, say they, dress modestly now that you're all grown up. But you're just as sweet as your grandma was, when she had her wishbone covered up. 1 remember your grandma wore a train and she swept the sidewalk clean, The men stood back and growled as they always have. But she went right on in Lier own sweet way just as you do, my dear, as she mopped up measles and typhoid germs. Bo you're just as swedt as grandma was, she was winsome and true. You'd look like sin if you dressed like her, and she wouldn't have dressed like you. But her heart was clean, her fair name undimmed. It is not the cut -or length of your gown, my dear, but the way that your soul is trimmed. MRS. DAN E. SEAMAN, *

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Moslems and Hindus Concentrate in Separate States

LAHORE. West Punjab, Pakistan, Sept. 26 —Despairingly and

disastrously the Punjab.ls now on the march in one of the greatest human migrations of all time Probably two million people are involved. number may follow. Clogging the finest provincial roads in India, refugees are fleeing from the catastrophe that has overtaken them in the six quick, brutal weeks since their province was divided between predominantly Moslem West Punjab and mainly 8ikh and Hindu Fast Punjab Their chhotic plight 1s part of the apparently underestimated price of independence, coupled with the way partition of the country was effected

Sharp Religious Demarcation

MILE UPON MILE OF REFUGEE COLUMNS heading west toward Pakistan demonstrate that few Moslems retain a sense of security in their ancestral homes in East Punjab. Likewise. the exodus of apparently all Sikhs and most Hindus from West Punjab reflects distrust of the Moslem regime theye. What “is happening in this unprecedented two-way march is, therefore, bluntly simple. West Punjab .is becoming an exclusively Moslem state while East Punjab will be inhabited almost solely by Sikhs and Hindus. Alrendy in Lahore, West Punjab's capital, the Sikhs dare not appear on the street, juste as in Amritsar on the other side of the no Moslem is seen Hindus and Moslems for hundieds of years have been as closely interwoven functionally as sheets of cleansing tissue, Though these relations continue albeit shakily—in dher three-quarters of the country they teem finished in Punjab, The tearing away process has been speeded here by tens -of thousands of casumties already inflicted in Punjab’s vindictive priate civil On each side of the new international frontier between

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religion have forsaken their homes and lands and run in terror lest

their turn be next,

They are moving by every means of conveyance. Some travel in

motor convoys, usually with machine-gun equipped soldiers of their |

own religion installed on the roofs of truck cabs. Others ride dangerous!ly on trains that seem critically vulnerable to attack.

A few wealthy ones charter aircraft—at such rates as $1000 roundtrip between Delhi and Lahore—to save their families, although

abandoning’ most of their possessions,

Caravans of Despair BY FAR THE LARGEST NUMBERS plod along the roads with their bullock carts and if possible gheir cattle. From the air these caravans of despair look like ant trains. Descending to lower altitude, the watcher picks out more details

of their interminable trek. These processions are of mammoth proportions. Flying 100. feet

above a Punjab road at 2's miles per minute, I traveled along one |

solid column for six minutes. : Another stretched beyond 20 miles. Before the aerial survey .was completed six and eight-mile convoys became commonplace. - The Indian government has officially estimated that the longest column now moving contains 400,000 people. Some of these columns are well organized. At places; scouts were visible on the flanks. e

Herds of cattle, water buffalo and goats, as well ss stray camels

were being driven along the shoulder of the road. Hundreds of

people were walking on either side of the train, whose main axis |

Each cdrt was piled high with what fainily goods could be car- | ried along. Women and children rode atop the load. Only occasional against marauding bands |

armed guards were observed. For protection inflamed by communal passion most columns kept tightly closed | To prevent vulnerable gaps, according to military officers to guide and control these columns, most groups have moved only five to 10 miles a day. 4 sa

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OUR TOWN . . . : sovwoon mimi om IMAYStery of Chinese Romance

TO SAVE MY LIFE, I can't remember the lady's I distinctly recall, however, that in some mysterious way Cupid led her to Pang Yim, a Chinese ¥ merchant who flourished around here when I was a little boy. Indeed, the two got married. Their wedding was -good for a six-month ° .rlong period of wninterrupted gossip, for this was the first instance of a Chinese marrying an Indian-

After the birth of their baby (a bey), Pang talked of nothing Indeed, he entertained af Jot of fancy notions including, I a trip back home- . to show off his Indianapolis wife and baby boy. And, sure enough, in the course of the next few years he had enough money saved up td start the

As nearly as { recall, they went straight to Hongkong, the home of Pang Yim’'s parents. round of parties, teas and receptions, for besides having & pair of parents, Pang also had a long line of Oriental relatives all of whom, | Chinese etiquette, had to be looked up. It all went | off surprisingly well—so well, indeed, that Mrs, Pang Yim congratulated herself on having married inlo sich a nice family, |

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Pang caught on. way.

vestigation of her own.

version of .the story.

Falls in Love AND THEN A CURIOUS

round, including even China,

a Briton employed as a bartender owned hotel in the city. She told

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child, returned to America and Indianapolis.

This time, however, only Mr. Pang participated. Mrsg Pang stayed away not only because of her real grief, but because of a suspicion that, maybe, er husband had another wife living somewhere in ‘China. Seems that a couple of Parig’s old-time pals had done some whispering on the side. Indianapolis girls are smart that

The truth of the matter was that while Mr, Pang was making solo appearances at the teas given in his honor, his Indianapolis wife was doing some inShe found enough to confirm her suspicions. At any rate, that was the Hoosier

thing happened— one of those strange things optimists make the most of when they insist that love makes the world go - In the course of her sleuthing in Hongkong, Mrs. Pang Yim ran across

he told her his, and gradually because of sympathy for one another, they fell in love. the first boat bound for America to start a new life, And in the course of time Pang Yim, minus wife and

Nothing happened for a dozen years or more. Then | one day around the turn of the century, Pang Yim

| Hoosier Forum " do not agree with a word that you say, but |

Revive OPA to Check Prices By Raymond Medsker Jr, R. R. 1, Indianapolis. In my opinion, two important indexes of busis nesses are behind these high prices we have in the United States. ° The first index is foreign trade. Since the war, no foreign country has been producing goods with which to sell. Thus, American business has “no competition and since only they produce enough goods to sell, they can set their rates, But one wonders how they get by with this practice. The answer is simple. All the businesses engaged in

formed trusts. This condition is partly due to the war, During the war, many industries combined to enlarge a greater volume of war materials. It has never been broken by the federal government and until they do, prices of all materials made of steel, lumber, etc, will remain high. The reason for the high cost of food is partially due to the weather and foreign needs. The only remedy I know for relieving this condition is for the revival of OPA with powers of rationing and rate fixing. This would be temporary until Secretary of State George Marshall's recovery plan for the world is in full swing. ’ : The second index is high-pressure lobbyists, who have put through unfit legislation to benefit themselves. The remedy for this lies in the congressmen themselves, Co-operation and careful study of problems is the only remedy I know. for this practice. As soon as congress achieves this, then rent bills, housing bills, etc.; won't be passed to benefit these lobbyists, who are out to bring conditions 6 high prices and shortages of houses. The price situation is only temporary and can be remedied only when Marshall's plan of Buropean recovery is fulfilled. When these countries resume production, then trusts will have to break up to go into competition with foreign markets. The OPA then will have to be dropped before & surplus of goods could exist in the United Bates. LJ

Wishful Thinking on Russian Crop By William B. Duncan, Bloomington T can't resist writing in in regard to Mr. Made dox's statement about the Ukrainian wheat crop and his wistful hoping that it will be a failure, I don’t believe Mr. Maddox is a dirt farmer or ever consulted a grain expert. A grain expert cere tainly would not have told him that a drought » would hinder harvesting a wheat crop after the crop had matured. A drought appearing immediately after -a wheat crop ripens would be the greatest assistance nature could provide in harveste ing a wheat crop. And if the weather is anything like our plains inthe west or northwest it would be ideal for piling wheat in the fields until the following spring when transportation would be available. So transportation or shipping or the lack of it in the Ukraine need not enter into Mr, Maddox's wistful hoping.

Sure, Mrs.

of wheat lay in piles in the Dakotas all winter, some in snow fence pens lined with builders paper and some merely spilled in huge piles, neither with any roof or protection on top. And I think the Dakotas would compare more favorably with the Ukraine than our southwest plain such as Oklahoma, Kansas, Texas and ete. So if Mr. Maddox wants to take a dig at Russia he should write about something that he has some conception of what he is saying. Maybe Russia doesn't give us figures on their wheat crop for the same reason we don't give them figures on the amount of atomic bombs we have stored.

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‘Don’t Hide Ruth Millett’

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“will defend to the death your right to say it"

the same line of production have combined and

I have seen hundreds of thousands of bushels’

' Child Disappears THEN, ONE DAY when the Pang Yims of Indian- | apolis were strolling along the wharves of Hongkong, their little boy suddenly disappeared. They couldn't find him | mother was certain, however: | "have fallen into the water, | suaded to believe that the child had been kidnaped. The search continued for a week or more, but it revealed nothing. After which, of-course, there wasn't anything left to do but continue the round of family

anywhere.

Of one thing, Her baby couldn't Nor could she be per-

appeared at the courthouse and asked what he had to do to bring his American-born son back to Indianapolis. Seems that all this time the boy was safe in China cared for by some distant relatives, As for what happened the day the three walked the wharves of Hongkong, I'll never téll<not because I don’t want to, but because Pang Yim never told. Pang Yim's silence takes on added significance today —indeed: historical significance—for it anticipated by

the

at least 50 years thé practice of modern writers to

By Just An Old Man, Indianapolis Please, oh pretty golden please, put Ruth Mille back in her old place and add two more column inches to her allotment of space, Her stuff has more good common sense in them than all your

other columnists combined. *

It was a sad mutilation of The Times whes you moved her over to an obscure position elses where. ’ : I do not know Ruth, but I do know good sense when I read it, so again, pretty please.

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| NEW YORK, Two landlords, t i to jail for violat . control law, wer today, serving a Magistrate Ch . B | sent the pair,

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India’s East Punjab and Pakistan's West Plinjad families of minority .

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Thus, thousands of these refugees will be on the road for a month or more before reaching the dominion of their choice. The same military officers reported that disaster already stalks many refugee columns. slow-moving processions at places have run’out of food or been unable to water their animals. In addition, dread cholera has broken out. In one border town alonie—Kasur—350 deaths a ddy have been reported by the medical officer. This figure has not been confirmed, however. . "At close range the refugee trains show the effects of these catastrophies. Driving to the head of one column and watching it creep past for a while, I couldn't repress a feeling of horror. There were human beings in wretched circumstances. faces carried a haunting look mixed with forlorn hopelessness. Many men carried children on their shoulders while women trudged along with babies on their hips or held between their folded arms. Some stumbled, many limped. : .

Trek of Hopelessness : AS THEY NEARED THE night camping-ground previously assigned by the military, the weary unsegi efugees passed carcasses of draft animals, which had apparent] died on some earlier convoy. Their own animals were tiring and dying, some said, but there was nothing phey could do about it. i Whether ‘Sikh and Hindu or Moslem, the Punjab refugee wears a dispirited air of futility. ' #

Their

Apart from attacks by unfriendly mobs, the -

Side Glances—By Galbraith

By Phillips Talbot

Sometimes he doesn’t know why he's been uprooted, turned on by his neighbors and headed for an unknown destination.and an uncertain future. In one case a reliable witness reported a sympathetic talk between the members of two columns moving in opposite directions—a situs tion that military controllers in India and Pakistan try to avoid to prevent clashes. “We don't know why we've had to leave our homes,” was the reported tenof of one conversation. “But as God wills it, so you ge to my village. Tell the head man I said you could take my house and lands. I'll find your place.” Mass terror and mass retaliations have by now driven religious frenzy deep into the hearts of many Punjabis, however. Whatever some ordinary peasants think, the leaders of all communities know that the present Punjab convulsion is completely and disastrously transforming their societies. : Pakistan, for example, is losing much of its middle class, a largely . non-Moslem group that did banking and merchandising for the come munity. Already some banks have closed in Lahore for lack of sufe ficient Moslem staff, ; Likewise, India is losing many of the artisans and field laborers who made the agricultural system work. Migrating Hindus and Sikhs are not likely to plug these gaps. Government leaders on both sides know that caring for these. millions of refugees while they are on the march and until they somee how get settled in new regions is fantastically. The assault on government finances is already dangerous and # is on the way to threatening the survival of the governments them. selves. : In addition, hormal administration is affected and in some areas has virtually been suspended. Even without these troubles the administration on both sides of the line would have been skinny, bee cause no new officials were recruited in the beginning. Most British left when independence came and those who remained were divided. into separate governments. .

Crowded Transport

WITH CATASTROPHE HITTING PUNJAB on the very day the new governments were formed, officialdom never had a chance. All of its limited energy has been diverted to dealing with communal “troubles and refugees. Yet flaming communal passions and the march of despairing men continue, So eager are the people to get to their coreligionists’ do. main that the trains, though dangerous, are filled to the brim, with even roofs and engines crowded. . * Trucks carry at least 70 passengers on one trip. And one U. 8° army-style Douglas C-47 that normally lifts 21 a trip moved 688 pase sengers in 10 trips in three days. ’

BACKGROUND . ..

" CHICAGO, Sept. 26 (U. P.).—Competition between oil companies is solving the Midwestern oil shortage, Dr. Robert E. Wilson, board chairman of Standard Oil of Indiana, said here yesterday. =~ “The competitive forces of the industry have concentrated on | supplying each company's customers almost regardless of cost,” Wilson | told several hundred Chicago oil industry representatives. He spoke at a meeting inaugurating the “petroleum industry publie relations program.” ; Despite strikes, fires and the Texas City disaster, Wilson sald, | the gasoline supply problem is “pretty well solved.” But the problém of fuel oil supplies for the winter still exists, he said. oe , Wilson said transportation is- still a bottleneck but he if ‘the public will co-operate in “reasonable conservation efforts” the 1047 demand at nearly 32 per cent above

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