Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 October 1947 — Page 24
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® Give Light and the People Will Find Thew Own Way | Bees No Truman Plan for Stop-Gap Ald A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Pr. Russ to Turn on U. 8, British Learn —— - Army, Urged to Speed War Dead Return | Traffic Mishaps- Take Lives of 4
Gen. Wyche $ Report on Gen. Lee Unemployment Lowest- Since the War
E have read from cover to cover—some 12,000 words— Police Win Race to Save Life of Tot the report of the army inspector general on the mat-| Albanians to Die for Opposition Plot te . Gen. J. C. H. Seri Howard | Missing Spinster May Be Dead, Kin Fear r of Lt. Gen 4 C. H. Lee and Scripps Howard Columnist Forecast. Weather 10. 88 Wariner Hers Robert C. Ruark. Though trying to be judicial we must | ~POOR RICHARD » ’ » y ’ | admit that in the reading we acquired a prejudice—for our, , 00 man, Mr. Ruark. MY CHECK-UP ; a Fach night I look at my hands and say, We admit further that perhaps the prejudice arose for the same reason that the army demonstrates a prejudice
What have you done that is good today? Have you shared a burden, help carry a load? for its man, Gen. Lee. Anyway, here about the report:
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is what we think Then, to my eyes I say, have you seen Everything that is small and mean, . | In a fellow being? Or looked for the good Of all the smug and sustained alibis we ever have laid! In friends and neighbors as each one should?
eves on, the report is, literally, the limit. Of all the weasel-| To my ears, have you listened to gossip told? i . ) | Of one who is brazen and bad, and hold. i languaged documents ever penned or mimeographed, it be- Or did you turh and listen with pride longs high up among the books of the month. It is a Of things that were said of her better side? masterpiece of double-talk,
| To my lips, have you uttered the truth all day? Speak softly and kindly each word you say. It is an obvious fulfillment of the urge to whitewash, | Help cheer another who's feeling blue? The only constructive lesson we get out of it is—why | Then if you have 1 am proud of you. ; : | To my feet, have you walked in the narrow way? have a set-up in which any outfit, army or otherwise, can Neither stumbled or fell, through the trying day.
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”» will defend to the death your right te say it. i 41: detun your tig Bl Gollum EM | : Acquitt i | ANTA AN jon Stand Defended igi By Sherman Hoar, South Milwaukee, Wis. Beulah Louse The National Headquarters of the American flancé, Georg Legion has sent me a copy of your editorial of goes to the
Sept. 6, entitled “A Legion Mistake,” with the reguest that I answer it direct. f In that editorial you criticized the American i Legion's advocacy of amending the Constitution
weeks of test " . Superior Jus yesterday rev
se to of the United States so as to deny the defense dhe Sa en of freedom of speech, etc. to those accused of had to keep Jromoqny the overthrow of our government by the night. oree. He also proi In this connection you overlook the following in lmisidiin foundation which the Legion's resolution lays for day unless 3 the proposed amendment: earlier.
- “WHEREAS, by judicial decision it has become # recognized principle of constitutional law that: | civil rights cannot lawfully be used to shield those ' |
He expectec instructing ju
ollul who are seeking by force to destroy the same Bilin in rights on which they themselves rely; and vealed he “WHEREAS, subversion ought to be suppressed acquittal th whenever it first rears its ugly head, instead .of packed his |
waiting for it to become a “clear and present i danger”; and “WHEREAS, these principles can best he safe.
waiting in wt on ah extend
guarded and perpetuated by making them a part $e Dalen. of the Constitution of the United States.” ontends it ¥ You say: “It should be left. for judges and hi ith tk juries to determine whether the constitutional r v . ‘ " r. and Mrs guarantees of freedom are ‘a valid defense’. Gollum sais Quite so. But in that determination, they muss tained releas be guided by established principles: of constitu- pounded bY tional law. Too often judges and prosecutors are eu died it 10 unaware of these present principles, Too often There haw dangerous subversive individuals get off because ft in the 10 judges mistakenly apply the so-called “clear and Bis Ovierell
present danger” doctrine, which the Supreme Court has repudiated. All that the Legion seeks to do {s to crystalline present principles in plain English, where they
the youth sa was concerne be with him
become judge, jury, and prosecutor—or, in this case, de-| But reached the goal that was set for thee. en : : . If you have, then I'm truly proud of me. fense counsel? Why should the army for which, net, we| —EDITH LINDSEY. ; : tiinn. wham reali Te 4 : have the highest respect, be in a position where it investi-| The greatest argument against hunting for an gates itself, and then, as is only human, absolves itself ?| argument is losing it right Heras. Why not have an inspector general who doesn't belong to!
the club? BOOK-OF-THE-DAY
HAVE A FRIEND and fellow-artist in IndianWithout considering the report in all its detail we
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Fashion Designer: Spare that hem.
apolis who keeps telling me that the world is i ra . | cursed with stupidity, Perhaps he is half-right merely advance the considered _opinion that Maj, (Gen.| about that. Having attained the mental stature Wyche-has made for himself and the armv he re resents | of a grandfather, my friends, I am inclined to think Wy TT elf and th A my rep nts an) that a real analysis of both present and past hu= almost unbelievably lame and creaking God-how-I-dread-' man history will reveal unmistakably that prevail-it-but-it-just-has-to-he-done presentation, 3g Yenotiies has been resporsible lor the Wiongs So saying, we turn the continuity over to Robert C, Indeed, the wise writer of Proverbs urged men : : and women to get WISDOM lacing it above Ruark who i entirely able to’ take care of himself. : : P We: quote from Mr. Ruark's statement today:
| rubles and gold and silver. How often has man “In mv| sought many other things—money, power, fame, | own good time T will have the necessary answer to army's findings in this case.”.
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can happen in
political prestige, worldly possessioris~and found: the. all of them fleeting and unsatisfying possessions, Another friend of mine, a poet, has wooed the gods of earth to gain FAME, and I have constantly told him, as he has visited my fireside and we have discussed the ways of the world, that FAME is a fickle dame hardly worth the flirtation. I | have wrged him to memorize the prayer of Solo- | non instead of ogling at the altar of FAME.
Trucks . . . and Safety Almost daily I have conned passages of Eccle-
¥ Tr : » { y y NYONE who follows the grisly record of highway clastes during the past decade of my sojourn in
around fiere sha today can't mate
the hope that come to my way
dianapolis baby Believe it or not
unchallengeable
hair terminated
barber,
because I had a iswhyI amin a
traffic accidents that is being written in Indiana can Brown county, Mor, therein, have I found much covered much wisdom that we need today to solve Nor does the written record necessarily tell the whole| worthless, but the wisdom of the Creator has kept figure itself | human progress, let us make the Bible THE It simply isn't safe to drive a 10-ton trailer truck as! HEMLINES | | about the baby's
: . : : WISDOM, my friends. Do not get the idea that hardly fail to be impressed by the large number in which “The Preacher” was a pessimist—nay, he discks , 0 tru figure many of the national and international problems. Too often the avisdom of man has proven to be story. For there are at least some accidents for which a jp, planets in their places and directed the thinktruck has set the stage, but in which it does not directly ing of men into rightful, gainful channels of 5 | “book of the day” folks! Any observing motorist who spends much time on the =THE BROWN COUNTY SAGE. main highways around here could tell you why. i ' A : Hemlines go up, then drop down, fast as you'd drive 2 passenger car... no matter how good At one time they swept the ground. the driver is, or believes he is, at the wheel.
thd other hand, Ago when I was a little boy. In now chronicle the birth of an In-
| ‘with bangs—at a time when bangs and bustles were all the rage, S80 help me heaven, here are the
glossy as that of her mother's, started on the top of the kid's head and came down to within a fraction of an inch above. the eyebrows.
blade squared off as if it had been handled by a Lily Langtry with all of her years of experience couldn't have produced a better job.
A Woman of Fashion—Except One
WELL, SOON as the phenomenon turned up, everybody around here tried to account for it.
WN ... By Anton Scherrer
A Miracle of Hairline Precision
‘BY THIS TIME, no doubt, readers of these encyclicals are fairly well convinced that anything
she parted her hair in the middle on the top of her head. Indianapolis—and usually does. On’ I'm not at all sure that people re my opinion that the miracles of h those of 60 years -accounts for what happened next. What happened next depends more people may of thinking, I will story. girl in the '89's. , this kid was born
little girls (with their hair brushed
mother to bed. When asked to facts: The baby's hair, as thick and
was at Lettie’s house and banged
At this point the in a perfect set of bangs with every
A Doctor Unburdens His
that while waiting for her baby to
And pair of receptive ears at the time position today to tell you something mother and the other members of
(That's the way she had it when the baby arrived). Indeed, she was so strongly. opposed to bangs that she wouldn't allow her. two little daughters to wear them, either, Which probably
heard the emotional or the biological version of the I heard both, The emotional version had it that, some weeks before the baby was born, the two
went to spend the afternoon with a playmate. They returned home with their hair banged. amateur job, but it was good enough to send the
changed appearance, the kids said: “Oh, a big girl
when she had Lettie fixed up, she asked us if we didn’t want to have our hair banged, too, and when we said we did, she went and done it.”
AS FOR THE biological version, it turned out
had read a newspaper article in the course of which a doctor had unburdened himself concerning the possible consequences of women wearing bangs. The article ended up with the 'direful prediction that it was only a matter of a few years—maybe, only a few weeks — when Indianapolis babies would be born
Fashion be in the past.
and wore it coiled
on whether you
back and braided) It was an account for their
Lettie’s hair; and
Heart
come, the mother
Congratulations, Chief By A Tax Payer
A couple of years ago all we could hear was,
much skirt. I will admit they were pretty short with the hems for awhile but just as we were
Now can you imagine a 117-pound girl, 5 feet 7, wearing a dress fo her ankles looking nice and. in
changes should have waited at least a couple of years yet to change them, as most of the girls worked during the war and had to have more
cannot be overlooked, disregarded, or misapplied, trip. namely as a permanent part of the Constitution itself, Report * + o 2 T Ww Down Go the Hems o vve By Lillian ROME, O
Communist-s La Republics
save material. We had to go without -a lot of Edda Ciano frills and puffed sleeves and men without two pair : ’ of trousers with a suit and also dresses without ly daughter,
Naples jewel a three-room
getting them where they belonged, “Bang,” on La Republi down they went, back, almost to the Gay 90's. her friends: Why don't they let Grandma's younger days becoming cu
mother has 1 Romano is a getting marr
style? - Humm! - Or a shortie about 5 feet and The jewele weighing 145 to 150 pounds in one. If you can, described as brother, you've got a good imagination. he never lets Any size, height or weigh girl looks good in a Mr. Capua just-below-the-knee dress, but just put some of Edda even | us in these sequined trimmed: nifties and see i "Mer husband, we look human. : Minister Co I think the designers who made these drastic . executed. S
war, he was come her c«
clothes than now. Like me, they are married Need Fo and buying homes and have to be more saving and "A wear out what they have. With Ge I like to be in style but I can't change to such “We can ¢ an extreme as that, By the time I bought new style dresses to replace my old ones, I wouldn't talk or com have any money left to buy a coat to go over them. would : talk If you see a girl in an out-of-style dress and friend.” one that has a hem line just below the knees This is or you can say, “That is Lillian Honington” because prayer exp that is where mine is staying. I do know though, Carey, of Di that I won't be by myself. - Christian Sc I've heard people say “I'd rather be dead than in the Mu out of style,” and some stick to it. Me, I'd rather sponsored b be dead than in style. Christ, Scier Oh well, maybe you don't agree, but I do have AS we ne a right to say it, don't I? " prayer Wy . . ’ give us, we
! wisdom guid recognize an
They trailed around and collected dirt: the family, Before the baby arrived, the family Without foreheads. Dear, Chief: ] ties which 5 rw "Twas yards ‘round milady's skirt. | besides the mother consisted of a father and two The sudden appearance of a banged baby with Congratulations on your crackdown on “Just | bring His c Should a lady's ankle peep out, | litle daughters, one 8 years old, the other 5. As for hardly a sign of a forehead completely upset | Married.” We wonder if we had a Circle or you | gree of hap] "THE truck driver, and especially the pilot of the big cross- Sne ves quite bold, without a doubt. He lather, he can be dismissed, for he played no Indianapolis, and I don't know what would have | had an automobile to run around when you were hed, Fat y { II they at last revealed the knee, part in the story. happened next had not Charlie Dennis tak married. “our - ; a en our uh country freight van, has had good press agents and a| Then skirts shorter got to be, The mother was a very good-looking woman and minds off bangs. When news of the banged baby The above question only you can answer but Jou individ good press. The romance of his runs through darkness and! Now fashion decrees new hemlines, - | kept up with all the fashions of the day—that is to reached Mr, Dennis, he said: “After this it wouldn't | we taxpayers would appreciate it deeply if you pose that y storm with his precious cargo has been amply exploited. | Accept them now, be in tine with the ig Sy, all SHoehy he She wouldn't subscribe to bangs surprise me to hear that Indianapolis girls are born | would do something about the thieves and murders bappy and | ; y ~NONA J. MORFORD. and, to show her disapproval of the pr ; th stles, too.” £ Generally he has been presented as a kindly KRIZNT OF ThE | cima m——— . wn i 8 prevalling Isa, With Bauiral busties, 109 in our hopetul ity. Lady Iris open road, a kind of combination of Sir Galahad and Casey IN WASHINGTON By P | + ; : WA oh : wwe ter Edso | -— : illi ilip Si : ins We Jones. Alert to blink his lights and warn you if a traffic cop y Pete n Side Glances By Galbraith | WORLD AFFAIRS ... By William Philip Simms Wins We happens to be around, Always ready to change a tire for . y e | i" | * . : , ou. Quick at nding hand to ay motors in ares. PY@SICA@NY'S Ma vi] tae vie you. Quick at lending a hand to lady motorists in distress. | a—t ret | > : cently denie Especially lady motorists up to the age of 29. . ° | Rl — | | y * Sits Unite Well» great many of these arvers wre a 1, it COMplains of Prices || 7] 4 . To France's Plight? ce, perhaps more. But also a very large proportion of them| : 4 Lady Tris habitually travel the highways at speeds far in excess of | WASHINGTON, Oct. 3.—Returning from his trip to Rio to face WASHINGTON, Oct. 3—French Foreign Minister Georges A oF England, il . y 4 . : A world food crisis, President Truman has also found an accumulation Bidault's visit to Washington may prove to be the turning point of , safe limita, Any motorist can check this for himself merely of mail from outraged citizens complaining about high prices. It | the whole program of American aid to Burope, Marshall Plan and all. i her pita for by driving out US 40 at a steady speed of, say, 50 miles an isn't a tremendous volume of letters, as White House mail goes. But 2 yuo Drogra rand a President Trum bef 3 Laat those who wrote, taking advantage of their constitutional right to | Mr. Bidault, this writer unders 8, will give n an en oa
hour, and counting how few trucks he overtakes, and how many overtake him. This almost universal disregard of speed restrictions, added to the inevitable minority of drivers who insist on trying to handle a 10-wheel trailer job like a sports convertible, must be costly to shippers and truck owners as well as a safety hazard of large proportions. Traffic engineers studying ways and means for making highways safer than they are, might well give serious. con. | sideration to the problem of trucks. |
run, minced rio words in letting the head man know how they felt. Most of the letters demand that the President calha s session of congress to deal with this situation, somehow. y But one self-styled “plain working man" from Memphis writes,
ial
controls as I do not believe the people would like to read all the baloney that congress would sling.”
No Evidence of Organized Drive
CITY COUNCILS, labor union locals and women's clubs, that have passed resolutions protesting high prices, always send copies of their “Whereases” to the White House. But, in this food fan-mail, there | 1s no evidence of an organized letter-writing campaign with a lot of | dictated, rubber stamp repeats. This is just voice of the people stuff. It is a good cross-section of opinion on public issue No. 1. Some are pathetic appeals. A veteran's wife writes, “Please, Mr. President, do something for us. Imagine us as your children. (We are about your daughter Margaret's age)”
One Bushel of Grain
RESIDENT TRUMAN has put it in words that are easy to understand: |
“We must get prices down and help hungry people in! other countries at the same time . . . the saving asked of each individual is actually very small. One bushel of grain | saved by every American in the next few months will do! the job.” se Charles Luckman, chairman of the committee of citi-| zens named by Mr. Truman to plan and direct the food con-
servation effort, has told how each American can save one bushel of grain: |
By cutting down purchase of wheat, corn, meat, poultry and eggs. By avoiding waste. By planning meals care-| fully, to provide adequate food value while using less of | the critically scarce grains and of the products of grain fed to animals. Can it be dome by voluntary methods? If the job is to be done in time, it will have to be done that way. For it would be impossible, within the next few months. to author-| ize, organize and start any effective system of compulsory | rationing. Will it be done? If the American people are given full and frank information about why it should be done—if they are helped to understand that the saving of a bushel
gin by nteh of them is essential to the welfare of their intr ity and of themselves—we believe it will.
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to grow into healthy citizens if our parents can't afford to set. a good table at present prices?”
Many Letters Note Selfishness
SELFISHNESS, however, is evident in many more letters. A businessman from Chicago admonishes, “Now you and your administra- | tion propose some more aid for Europe. It seems that you have forgotten that we American people need help as well” And a Philadelphia sign painter exclaims, “I can't for the life of me understand why we Americans must tax and ration ourselves to clothe and feed unappreciate peoples.” Mr. Truman gets a good scolding from some of his correspondents. A Florida lawyer coaches, “In foreign policy yott have been doing some spectacular work. On the other hand, when we turn to domestic economy, it's hard to find you on the field. If you're going to lead the team, get in there and pitch.” An “Independent Democrat” in New Jersey dictates to his stenogs rapher, “I should like to add that it is practically out of the question
!| now reinforced by positive action to reduce prices.” People with special interests make special pleas. A Cincinnati druggist complains that the price of insulin has gone up from $1.39 to $2.84 a ‘bottle, and diabetics must have insulin to live. A preacher complains, on behalf of southern farm labor, that men are hired for $250 to work 12 and 15 hours a day, but if they buy any clothing at present prices, they have to do without food. Few people have any- constructive suggestions. But among them a Texas banker writes, “By requiring the serving of a half-portion meal, when requested in restaurants, even at a slight increase in
price in proportion, we could almost feed the world with what we throw away.”
curb exports. Let down ‘the bars on imports. Create a surplus. Prices will then level off, taking care of the situation.” : ve : NG a a
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yell to the authorities when they don't like the way things are being |
“I'm not asking you to call a special session of congress to reinstate |
A girlish hand on pink paper writés, “How are we girls and boys |
for you to be re-elected unless your constantly improving record is |
An Ohio "died-in-the-wool Democrat” makes it simple. “Why ‘not i
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"Don't take it too hard—the barber says it'll grow out eventually." |
QOPR. 1947 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. REC. U. §. PAT. OFF. — HE ———
Views on News |
| By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Russian Author Boris Gorbatov referred to President Truman | | slightingly as a one-time bank clerk. That's another difference between the U, 8. and the U, 8. 8. R. They like bank robbers better. . - . » ” > | President Truman's administration seems optimistic. He thinks there is nothing wrong with the country that another committee can't cure, | « =» =» i ® ® » Food speculators are making (he same sort of patriotic
contribution to their country as the Communists. .
® = =» HET ® Now that the barefoot season is Over, shoe manufacturers have cut production 235 per cent. . . . r . ” * Those religious snake-handlers should remember that was the | way Adam and Eve lost their social security. ? | . = » “ ‘ . » » President Truman called the White House the “world's finest | sail’ Next year he'll by trying for a four-year sentence.
and other high officials here a first-hand account of his country’s economic and political situation and ask for immediate aid. He will
standing from the United States and Britain. _ Without these, no French moderate stands much of a chance of outlasting the coming winter. The Communists are pressing the government hard. : Among other items, France's Ruhr stand is not well understood either here or in London. Nor her views on German production. She asks only that Germany be not favored ovew her, especially as a pro-. ducer of steel. Existing French mills could produce 10,400,000 tons a year as they stand if they could get 1,000,000 tons of coal annually from the Ruhr. / J ‘ To allow Germany again to raise her steel output
can consula for a visa ti
resident unc also discuss France's position regarding the Ruhr and the German The visa peace. : Iris was ad Both Washington and London have shown a marked disinclina« New York, t tion to listen to France after World War I. This failure on the part p d of London contributed to World War II. Washington—which, like i Or er | London, was in too great a hurry to leave Germany to the Germans | For Wo ~is almost equally to blame. : WASHIN( --President Diplomats Heed the Powerful the U. 8. fiz SINCE THE LAST WAR, the Anglo-Americans more than ever Says pen Rave been inclined to give France the brush-off. She was not even He specifi permitted to sit with the Big Three at Potsdam. Russia insisted that = When memo only the strong had the right to dictate peace and the United States in San Frar | and Great Britain let her get away with it. he uous Today France has almost no navy, no army and no air force. resting plac And, unfortunately’ diplomats have a way of heeding what the mili- ——— tarily powerful say and turning a deaf ear to the weak. Yet France Drys WwW is as much thé keystone of the European peace structure today as she Winona was at the congress at Vienna more than 125 years ago. If she falls, ; all the work the United States had done and is doing in Greece and a Nona | Turkey will be effort wasted, headquarte: J . - . * tion Party 1 Reconstruction Viewed as Vital Fg THE RECONSTRUCTION of France as a strong, stable, demo- The nati cratic state is vital to Europe's reconstruction. Without France, the’ moved its Marshall Plan can't and won't work, Chicago re Washington and London failed to realize, after World War I, that | The ded the peace of Europe depended upon French security. When Prance f housewarm got tough because the Germans refused to live up to the Treaty of | building re Versailles, they chided her with having “turned militarist.” They Use. | repeated the charge when she suggested doing something about Hit. ler's occupation of the Rhineland. And so on. I have just returned from France. Her plight is desperate. She | needs coal, food and, as much as anything else just now, under- |