Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1947 — Page 14

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Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Own Way

Why Work Harder? ONEY has lost its value in much of the world, becau : there's nothing to buy with it. You can't eat it, wear it or live in it—-go the argument goes—so why work harder to get it? In Britain, for instance, food and clothing are tightly rationed, and both housing and house furnishings are scarce. Britain badly needs more coal to boost her industrial output, But why should a British miner work harder? He already earns all he is allowed to spend, Textile exports could help Britain's dollar shortage, but the miner's wife doesn’t go to work in the textile mills. Her family is already getting all it is allowed to buy, France needs more food, but the French farmer hasn't much incentive to increase hig.crop, because the things he can buy

are so limited, fy no» . ¥ » : E'VE had some experience with that sort of thing. Our

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experience, fortunately, was on a much less austere!

level, but the problem was the same, During the war, we had to stop manufacture of many consumer goods to devote our facilities to war production, At ‘the same time, production workers got overtime pay. The average family had more money and less to spend it on. We kpew we couldn't supply war needs and at the same time supply the huge consumer market created by wartime earnings. We had to defer the demand created by the higher income, We did that through sale of war bonds—now known as U. S. savings bonds. The story was spelled out to all employed workers. They couldn't spend all their incomes without damaging their economy and harming the war effort. So they stored up some of their surplus earnings against the day when it would be safe to spend them, the day of need, and the day when buying is more attractive.

» » » ~ ” » SOME 30 million Americans bought bonds worth $45 billions. The bonds continue to sell at the rate of better than $300 million a month, of which about $100 million are

With the Times

Donald D. Hoover

WATER WITCHING ATER WITCHING has always been a controversial subject. Some say those who beHeve in it are loco, Others aver there is sufficient proof water ean be located by some few persons with the forked stick. Scientists, as a rule, Belong to the first group, working on the theory that things that can't. be explained “ain't true.” The Peoples Cyclopedia Dictionary says many persons over the years “pretend” they can locate water, Kenneth L. Roberts, noted author, in his recent book, says that “the most mysterious thing: about water-dowsing (witching) to my way of thinking is the determined antagonism and disbelief on the part of so many people who have never investigated the matter and apparently wouldn't investigate if they could. My own personal experience has shown me clearly that any good water-dowser is exactly as accurate as the magnetic compass and 1 don’t give a hool why either of them work. It is enough for me to know that they do work and I would be a lunkhead of the first water if I refused either of them when I needed them.” Thousands of persons using water from wells that were “witched” will argue strongly for the believers. Others say the well-driller couldn't help hut find. water because it was there anyway. Have you had any experiences in water’ witching worth repeating? ~RAY D. EVERSON. 4» : Henry A. Wallace Is against zn “economy of scarcity.” It probably isn't any good since he invented it by killing the little pigs. » » Too bad fall didn't get here sooner , ., it-would

have won all the beauty contests, °°

“ SAGA OF THE SORE JAWS

(Part II)

Came the Arpees with their arrows, With their great big bows and arrows, With their war paint and their feathers, (Never did you see such feathers— Not on women’s bonnets even.) On they came prepared. for battle, With their bows and arrows ready. Up they came close to the warriors, Close to Hiawatha's warriors, Hiawatha's champing warriors— Saw their eyes, the very whites of, Saw their wonderfyl grimaces, Saw their jaws move strangely, strangely, Saw their jaws move upward, downward. Suddenly they were affrighted, Suddenly they dropped their arrows, Dropped their bows and great big arrows, Turhed and fled them from the warriors, From the warriors with the sore jaws. Home with pride came Hiawatha, Al] his warriors trooping after, And they took their gum and threw it Straight and hard in Gitchee Gumi,

deducted from industrial paychecks. Most of this money is still being held—more than $30 | billion, as of the first of this month. Those bond owners! aren't spending their savings at inflated prices, . Such buyers did more than help fight inflation, protect | their savings and help their government, They also provided a demonstration to the hard-pressed British and French that they can offer other incentives than fastspending pocket money,

* . Business Babies IKE human beings, most business institutions are born small and must survive many hazards if they are to reach a flourishing maturity and a prosperous old age. Fred Lazarus, of the F. & R. Lazarus Co. at Columbus, O., writes an apt paragraph in this connection in The Digest, published by the Committee for Economic Development: “If we are to preserve a dynamic and progressive edon- | omy in our country, we must have a satisfactory birth rate| of our business babies and an economic diet and climate that! will favor and not handicap their growth.” Mr. Lazarus speaks from experience. His department store—one of the nation’s largest—got its start in one small room. It has attained great size and importance within the lifetime of Mr. Lazarus and his brothers. Meanwhile, many | other stores, big and prosperous when the Lazarus enterprise was voung, have disappeared. The same is true of manufacturing companies. Who remembers the Westcott automobile, the Allen, the Dort, the Regal, the Inter-State? On the other hand, as Mr. Laz-| arus gbserves, Henry Ford, Cyrus McCormick, Alexander Grahani Bell and Thomas A. Edison were once small businessmen, , 5 We can’t, and shouldn't, create conditions under which all small businesses are guaranteed success. Yet a good many people in government and elsewhere seem to think| this desirable and there is quite a lot of evidence that, as a result of their eager attentions, little business is in danger | of being loved to death.

But we should leave the way open to skill and energy—| | Uv ro pea

give the little fellow a fair chance to show what he can do. Mr. Lazarus quotes a C, E. D. statement: “Whatever its type or stage of growth, the small business is a manifestation of one of the basic freedoms of American life. . This is the freedom to enter or leave busi-! ness at will, to start small and grow big, to expand, contract, or eyen to fail. This freedom to be enterprising is'in aspect of the economic democracy without which our political democracy cannot exist.” Bigness, of itself, is not bad. But bigness, to keep it from becoming bad through monopolisti¢ practices, needs the competition of small enterprises striving hard, and with fair opportunity, to grow bigger and reap the rewards of efficient service, The C. E. D. has issued an exceptionally sensible report

‘on how to maintain a satisfactory birth rate of small busi-

nesses and how to prevent a dangerous death rate,

First in the Air

HE U. 8. air force now has attained co-equal status with the army and the navy in the nation’s defense system. All three are represented by departments of their own in the unified establishment headed by a member of President Truman's cabinet, Secretary of Defense Forrestal. “Without slightest intent to belittle the importance of | the other two branches, or to suggest that their needs

safely can be neglected, we think an extraordinary respon-|

sibility rests on the new department of the air force and its civilian secretary, Stuart Symington, ’ American air power has dwindled perilously since the, war. In men, planes, research and development it has! shrunk far below the strength essential to national security in the world of today. We believe that this process of disintegration must be halted and reversed—that, for the forsee-|

able future, this country must maintain unquestionable air

supremacy. : :

{| Freeman please note),

Sat them down and held their sore jaws, Held their jaws and gazed: afar off. In her wigwam by the Big Sed, In her wigwam softly chuckling, Old Nokomis wrote an order, Wrote an order out for more gum, For the gum that makes the jaws sore, For the gum that makes the sore jaws ~DOROTHY LYON, * & @ It's a safe het that Vishinsky will win all the newspaper decisions in the Soviet's kept press, "oN » Most people get a big boost out of a new car « + « Mostly in pride ¢* @

PARADE OF THE LEAVES

I stood on a hill, and mused at the thrill, At the beauty and pomp of it all Down under my feet and on yonder ‘hill Was Brown county dressed up in the fall. The sky was so clear, I could almost hear The leaves boasting one to another, But after awhile it seemed to appear One was as gorgeous as the other. The crow flying high, dipped down from the sky, And joined in the parade of the leaves, While I stood there with a stare in my eyes, And marveled at the beauty of trees. —H, T. JOHNSTON, > >

A style committee of clothiers says there will be no change for a while in men’s clothing (Sam Except from one old suit to another, probably, * > 9

Brooklyn's Jackie Robinson has been picked by a baseball magazine as ‘rookie of the year.”

| That's two strikes on him in the big series.

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EARLY APPEARANCES of “In Tune With the Times” may be studded with well known namo>s, but the number and caliber of unsolicited contributions is mighty pleasing. We have received sn many voluntary pieces . . . we already had invited the “stars” to write , . , that we'll be hard put to select the best. But keep on sending them in, ., the more we receive, the better the column.

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OUR TOWN . ..

By Anton Scherrer 7

Schwarz and Cellini Made Statues

THERE 18 an Indianapolis legend that Rudolph Schwarz employed a process of casting bronze, the

. trick. of which was generally believed to have been

lost some 300 years ago (or after the last of the great artists of the Italian Renaissance had left this world), ‘ The Soldiers and Sailors’ monument on the Circle brought Mr. Schwarz to Indianapolis. More specifically, it was Bruno Schmitz of Coblenz, Germany, whose design was adjudged the best in a world-wide architectural competi- 4 tion held in 1886, By the time Architect Schmitz had all his working drawings finished it was 1887. It required the better part of another 10 years to complete the 30-foot deep foundations and the 246= foot high shaft, which still left somebody to do the carving of the two side groups and four incidental statues called for by Mr, Schmitz's design.

At this point, Architect Schmitz realized that he needed somebody with artistic training who could not only do the actual work of carving, but who could also train and direct others. He combed the studios of Europe ‘and, in Berlin, found Rudoph Schwarz, a sculptor then in his early thirties who had profited by training in the Academy of Vienna In 1897, Mr. Schwarz was engaged to come to Indianapolis with the understanding that he was to remain until the monument was done. When the monument was ready to. be delivered, Mr. Schwarz kept right on staying here. Indeed, he stayed until the day of his death in 1912.

‘New’ Process Used Here

WHEN THE MONUMENT was completed, Mr. Schwarz had to look for another Job, of course. As luck would have it, just about this time he heard of % competition in Detroit, the terms of which called for a bronze statué of Governor Pingree. There were 16 competitors and Mr. Schwarz came out on top. The winning design portrayed the seated figure of Michigan's governor and measured 11 feet over all, a challenge for anybody who worked in bronze. Mr. Schwarz modeled and cast the figure right here in Indianapolis in a ramshackle old shed on E. Raymond st. (On the south side, I'm pleased to say.) The only entrance to the studio was a rear door provided with nothing more than a primitive wooden latch. The foundry was located in a hole dug in the ground of an even more dilapidated lean-to, Not 4

only was this the first bronze statue ever cast in Indianapolis, but maybe the first anywhere in the world—this side of the Italian Renaissance—to make use of the so-called “lost wax process.” The “lost wax process” was described most min-

utely by Benvenuto Cellini (1500-71) in his “Trattato

della Scultura,” an almost forgotten book until translated into English by John Addington Symonds (1840-93). It is hardly probable that Mr, Schwarz could have read the translation, for two reasons: one, because of his limited command of English before coming to Indianapolis; and two, because artists don't, as a rule, do much reading. In this case, however, it worked out for the best. Had Mr. Schwarz read.Mr. Cellini’s own account of the bitter troubles he encountered while casting his “Perseus,” he would have been foo scared ever to fool with the tricky process. Which, of course, leaves one mo alternative but to believe that Mr. Schwarz remembered what he saw in Europe during his student days. Like as not, it was the same thing observed by Brandt Steele, the one with the dreamy eyes who may be seen any noon eating his lunch (a Bartlett pear retumbent a bed of cottage cheese) at the round table of a North Pennsylvania st. restaurant,

Courtesy of Stegemeier’s

MR. STEELE RECALLS that when he spent his formative years abroad, the “lost wax process” was used by a foundry in Munich and one in Vienna. With. this difference, however: In both cases. the two foundries limited their work to small castings whereas, Mr, Schwarz didn’t let anything bluff him in the way of sizg. o> Well, it turned out that Mr. Schwarz had just as much troublé with the wax process in Indianapolis as Mr. Cellini did in Florence. The 8000-pound Pingree statue, for instance, had to be cast twice before it was successful which, of course, didn’t leave him a cent of profit. Theodore Stempfel of the old Fletcher Bank, who was one of Mr. Schwarz’ best friends and backers, used to lament that the Pingree statue was a ‘‘great” artistic success but a disastrous financial failure.” Mr. Schwarz had the same experience with any number of bronze memorials. | As a matter of fact, it wasn't until comparatively late in his career that he turned out a statue necessitating only one casting. That was the figure of the grieving woman which identifies the monument erected in memory of Mrs, Albertina Allen Forrest in Crown Hill ° Mr. Brandt Steele appeared on today's program by epurtesy of Stegemeier’'s Cafe.

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*% do not agree with a word that you say; but |

Report From Former Hoosier By Mrs. Ed Ralchliffe, R. Nay, 2, Sheboygan, Wis. I'm not used to writing to a city paper for anything, but since I lived in Indianapolis all my life until ‘May, 1946, I still feel. it’s home. We moved here (my husband and son, Bobby, 10, and myself), May 17, 1948, and haye encountered some odd weather, Last summer it was heavy cloud~ bursts ef rain and snow in the winter as deep as 20 ft. (in drifts), On the level though, it was about 3 feet here. There was hardly a day that some snow didn't fall. The coldest weather 28 degrees below zero and our boy played outside just the same. One storm (blizzard) lasted three days and you could hardly see more than a few feet anywhere, The reason I'm writing is

because I've not seen a notice this year in The

Times (we have it mailed up here to us) of any early snows. Today, Monday, Sept. 22, 1047, it snowed quite a long time at about 7 o'clock &, m, Also atgnoon it snowed quite hard. I'm wonder~ ing if you have had any other reports of early snow? Hunting season will soon be here and they say the woods are full of deer and that the are plenty of signs of bear too. We havé seen lots of deer, but no bears yet, although we've seen plenty signs of them, road was chased by one only a few hundred feet from’ our house and a large black bear Was seen in our garden three weeks ago. Of course, we have more chance to see things like that since we live on a 312-acre farm, 10 miles from Sheboygan, in what is called Alverno, I'm hoping others will write about early snows to you or very odd weather, It makes very inter esting reading. Several people always ask for our paper to look at when we finish” reading it as i has some very interesting items in it, % Sr ———— Editor's Note: We've had no other reports of early snows in these parts, Mrs, Ratchcliffe, but it was good to hear from an old subseriber, > + 9»

Favors Extra Session

By Del Mundo, Indianapolis In the article Washington Calling in The Times on Sept, 6, some remarks were made with regard to the possibility of calling: & special session of gongress, The article stated in part that the “situation Is loaded with political danger for Mr. Truman, Senator Vandenberg’'s statement that special session decision must be made by President alone means Republicans want to avoid responsibility for whatever happens.” If the President does not call a special session and the international pot of power politics blows the lid off they will blame the President for not acting. If he does call a special session and the congress refuses to make the necessary appropriations to bolster up the crumbling, economically putrified administrations of Eurépe again the President will be blamed. ’ Clearly they are playing politics with the. de tiny of the American people. This calls to mind a statement which I made in this Forum o. May 20, 1937. Here is the statement. “At election time they (the congressmen) respect everybody, but after the election they respect no one except those .who hold positions, political or financial, equal or superior to their own. They think little of the welfare of the nation, but much of the welfare of their ty and their own re-election.” There should a special session of copgress ab once, not for the purpose of bolstering up the politically and economically rotten administrations of Europe, but rather for the purpose of halting the ohward march of inflation and “impending complete debauchery of our own monetary system, > > @ A

Venture Into the Unknown By Rufus Brown, City Any morning now I expect to drive downtown and: find myself wedged into a fraffie jam from which my car will never be extracted. There, “old Bessie” will sit for years im the middle of, the street with thousands of other cars, an eyesore on the otherwise beautiful scene of Kentucky or Virginia aves. i Ican see it all. Every intersection and every street in the mile square will be a sea of automo= bile tops—a jam which will take years to une ravel because all the tow trucks will be pen in toe. - Overhead walkways will eventually be come structed for pedestrians. Eventually dirt will be filled In around the cass and new streets will be built on top of them and the city will begin anew with another Waffie campaign. : That seems to me to be the prospect as Indians apolis discharges its traffic engineer and strikes

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engineer did not have a program. I can't see how his advice would be valueless, He must have had qualifications or he would never have been hired in the first place. But the city wants someone to wave a It is now being waved—in the middle of the

and on the sidewalks,

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1-—American

very slowly at best.

There are three reasons why President Truman has not himself called a special session of the house and senate for immediate consideration of his request for $580 million to be spent mainly on food

in this country and shipped abroad.

One is that congress could do nothing anyhow until its commitHe has asked the committees of both houses dealing with foreign policy and appropria-

tees had brought in bills for floor consideration.

tions, four in all, to meet as soon as possible,

The second reason is that the President hopes members of those committees now overseas or soon to go will bear out the contentions of great misery and Communist dangers when they retum. He does

not want to rush them. The - third 1s that prices ‘at home if prices are not controlled. political kettle of TNT. . The regular session, opens Jan, 2.

Republicans Don’t Believe All They Hear MEANWHILE, ALTHOUGH some of the Democrats think the President will call a special session to meet around Dec. 1, the Republicans must be convinced that the situation is as grave as the President. |

and Secretary of State Marshall say it is, They don't believe all they hear.

What this boils down to is the general belief here that final action won't come until some time in January. The President says

the food pipeline will run dry by December.

It took congress more than five months to pass the $3375 million The Greek-Turkish $400 mi

British Joan last year. year was-18 weeks in the process of adoption.

Hause Leader Halleck (R. Ind.) now believes that congress was “rushed” into enacting the Greek-Turkish bill without adequate | information. The President in urging that appropriation had insisted Greece would be gobbled up by the Communists if we didn't act. Neither the President nor the state department has made clear whether emergency relief should be on the basis of an outright gift,

or called a loan,

Looming up behind all, the skirmishing is the request of 16 | European nations under the Marshall plan for $19 billion in American dollars, food and goods over four years, That is going to bring

on an epic fight in congress later.

The stop-gap and Marshall plan issues are ®ntirely separate

things. Chairman Eaton (R. N. J.) of the

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emergency relief to carry France, Italy and Austria to March 31 is going to come from congress

more food shipments will continue to affect And that is another

house foreign affairs committee, says he will call his commitee to meet early in November. Chairman Vandenberg (R. Mich) of the senate foreign rela- & expected to make the same announcement,

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his members for mid-November.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

d Slowly . . . By Paul R. Leach

Chairman Taber (R. N. Y.) of the house appropriations committee, is in Europe, due back in mid-Noveffiber (R. N. H) of the senate appropriations committee says he will call

Chairman Bridges into relief needs.

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Two house foreign affairs committees are now in Europe, looking

Mr. Bridges and 10 members of his committee are to leave Oct. 8 for Europe to look into all requests calling for dollar aid. They're due back Nov. 13. . Getting all these people back to Washington is the first cause for delay. The second involves the ponderous processes of congress, The foreign policy committees of both houses must first authorize use of money. Then appropriations committees of both houses must provide the dollars. arings to determine emergency need and the amount required ke weeks. : The" committees could act in a week's time. Both houses could act in less time than that by suspending the rules. Washington believes those things will happen.

IN WASHINGTON." . By Pater Edson fh ‘Big Shot’ Committee of 19 | Facing Tough Assignment

WASHINGTON; Averell Harriman's | mendations for carrying, on the Marshall plan to aid Europe, is as | tough an assignment as was ever handed any presidential advisers. | The group is made up of 10 big-shot bankers and businessmen, like Owen D. Young,"six nationally known economists of tke caliber of Dr. Harold G. Moulton of Brookings institute, two representatives | of labor organizations and one lone representative of the public, ex Senator Bob LaFollette Jr. of Wisconsin, Since it was named three months. ago, the Committee of 19 © has had two meetings, and done practically nothing. There is little chance that the Paris report on requirements for the 16 western European nations will be broken down in enqugh detail for the come mittee to do anything about it at its next meeting. If the committee meets its present self-imposed deadline of having recommendations | ‘ready for the President by Nov. 1, it will have accomplished waoriders. That means congressional committees can't be- called in before | that date. Allowing them a month for hearings, it almost rules out the | possibility of congress meeting in special session on this issugg before; Dec. 1. To consider high prices, it could, of course, meet earlier, One trouble with having a public group like the Committee of 19 make any recommendations is that its members are all outside the government, working part time, but forced. to make decisions on complex issues. It's a six-month job for p big group of full-time | experts. The Committee of 19 is supposed it dare not go before congress with any idea. that is half-baked,

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