Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 October 1947 — Page 16

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The Indianapolis Times PAGE 16 . Wednesday, Oct. 8, 1947 ;

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The Saar Vote

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HE Saar election results are more important than the | size of that small area—Iless than 50 miles across— | might indicate. It is a key place economically because of its rich coal, steel and iron industries, second only to those of the Ruhr. And it is a hot spot politically because it is betwgen France and Germany, and a breeder of wars, Though Sunday's balloting was for a legislature, in effect it also was a referendum on #he political and economic future of the Saar. Under the proposed constitution, the area is to be joined to France economically but have political autonomy. The alternative is to remain part of Germany. In virtually every respect the election results were favorable to democracy and peace. More than 92 per cent of those eligible voted. And nearly 92 per cent of the votes were for candidates pledged to the constitution and eco- | nomie unification with France,

This was a complete reversal of the 1935 referendum. |

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Then, after 15 years under League of Nations mandate and | 10 years of customs tie-up with France, 92 per cent of the | 9% per cent balloting voted for incorporation with Hitler's Germany. Obviously bread-and-butter considerations. were upper- | most in the minds of the Saar electorate Sunday. Return | to Germany meant dismantling some of their factories and sharing the uncertain fate of a defeated, prostrate Reich. But even so, the number of last-ditch pan-German and prototalitarian voters: was surprisingly small, If France faithfully respects the Saar’s political autonomy and operates the economic merger fairly, that area should become a peaceful and productive bridge—instead of a pawder keg—between Germany and France. The overwhelming popular vote for such a settlement makes it easier for Britain and the United States at the forthcoming foreign ministers’ conference in-London to insist on this status, which Russia hitherto has:opposed. : I Significantly the~ Saar Communists, who favored merger with Germany, won only two out of 50 legislative seals and polled a smaller vote than in last year's local elections;

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In Again ELL, Lady Iris Mountbatten is back with us—this time with a permanent visa. She is the titled one who was given the heave-ho last summer for bouncing a check and for violating visitor permit rules by commercializing her | name and. picture. - Which hrought forth at that time from the then Com. missioner ‘of Immigration and Naturalization a rather remarkable doctrine, in these words—*“when an alien does something she shouldn't and it comes to our attention we begin to check up on our reeords,” adding that “the system is good but it doesn’t wok.” Anyway Lady Iris was finally ordered out as of Sept. 1. Her punishment proves to have been brief. She re- | turned ‘Sept. 30.. “Thirty days,” as the judge is so frequently wont to say.

Our State Department explains that she now comes | under the: regular quota certified by the U. S. Consul General in Montreal, Canada, who thinks everything is regular and Jake and that Lady Iris is not likely to become a public charge, such a likelihood being one of the grounds for exclusion, Is quite capable of supporting herself. Past performance would indicate that the consul is right, in a way, if you get what we mean, . If self-support should not prove out, however, it is an | interesting conincidence—to us—that we received today a handout from the British information service. It made no direct mention of Lady Iris Mountbatten but it did list a | break-down of the king's annual income as follows—translated from pounds into dollars at four bucks to the pound:

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Privy purse (for king's personal use) ..... $ 440,000 Household salaries and retirement allowances 536,000 Maintenance of household ,............... 611,200 Royal bounty, alms and special services... .. 02,800 Total. . .... Cons iaies rates ada lua £1,640,000 < -

So, if; Lady Iris should fall again into. hard ways and start suffering once more from overdrafts, it would seem maybe, and with no desire on our part to be presumptuous, that the king might help his cousin out a bit. Or, if he is too hard pressed, some of the other royal relatives might want to kick in: Queen Mary draws down.... The Duke of Gloucester . . Princess Elizabeth Prince

even. $280,000 per year sevens 200,000 per year / 60,000 per year 24,000 per year

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Those Good Old Days

H! for the time when World Series baseball again will be the biggest story of the vear. in 1912 or "13, before World War 1 blew up in our face, And another Oh! for an era when the names of the DiMaggios. and the Cookie Lavagettos, the Bucky Harrises and the Caseys will drive off the front page the Stalins and the Vishinskys and the cominterns and politbures, and our own diplomats and bureaucrats and military leaders and politicians, and those of the rest of the glole. When we can be assured that baseball is the greatest of American games and the only war of nerves will come in the ninth inning. When the shadows of" strife and starvation will no longer cloud the sunny serenity of our Indian summers. When joy really can-be unconfined and the word “peace” won't stick in our throats, as it ‘does today. :

It was a great World Series, but marred, Marred by |

the fact that now we have to turn to reading about a cold’

war that is turning too hot for the comfort we used to | '° enjoy

8 we fanned over the getail of how the ball game i ‘came ut 5 \ % we

| some need special attention, Family responsibili-

“know this and know how to cope with this type

| no place in a peace-time program that is designed | to finish the job our service people so valiantly

| more than that, they fought and many died that

| Can we do less? | divide and sacrifice where and when necessary { so that other nations may be fed and clothed.

| world-but | principles to ald nations to help themselves. | can we do this? Let us furnish food and clothes | and fuel to those in danger of starvation now.

With the Times |

~~~ Donald D. “Hoover ~

WORLD NEEDS OUR HELP

. IT 18 TIME that those in authority begin to take cognizance of the fact that the government is not using some of the greatest power we possess in America in trying to remedy the tragic world conditions. I refer to the woman power of this country, Women have a real opportunity for serv~ :

to help solve the problems of feeding, clothing

And who better than qualified women, can under stand these problems? Women have through the rges taken care of these needs for their families; they are experienced and, having mothers’ hearts, have sympathy for those less fortunate ones. They understand that some need more than others

ties have taught them this, Today, when tragedy stalks the earth fine people are so underfed they are not physically able to do a full day's work. The women know that physical weakness and neglect breed mental and moral weakness. They

of situation, Let us give women a chance to make their contribution to a world that needs this experience. Now is no time to make political issues out of a situation that offers the alternative of saving human Mves or not—according to the degree in which we, the most fortunate nation in the world, accept the responsibility of carrying out the program for liberty and justice in peace time Just as we asked our boys and girls to make the supreme sacrifice, if need be, to preserve the democratic way of life in time of war. Politics had no place in a war-time program and it has

and nobly began, They fought for America, surely they did, but

other nations might also enjoy liberty and freedom. Let us finish the job. Share,

Then they can and will help themselves, We can't furnish money to rehabilitate all the we can help to use the democratic How

Let us distribute that food, clothing and other aid

| ourselves. We did not send our armies and navies

out without our own officers, What we must do now to really relieve world suffering is to assume our responsibility—"“be our brother's keeper,” 'We must send qualified people to administer to these needs and to distribute our aid to .them. This

| means. many. qualified. and experienced women

must be among those that will be used to do this Job, - The future of world affairs well may depend upon who helps those in dire need today—let it not be sald the greatest democracy of them all failed—that America did not have a heart, Let us work to the end that men and women will labor together as human beings, each with a contribution to make. I am. sure women can and .

- will help to do a superb job ir this, our great task.

- Let us use this great storehouse of ability to preserve that idea which inspired our men and women to face death, Let us not only die for an

idea, but let us live Tor the same ideal

: ~SALLY BUTLER. > Sb SMALL TOWN The house lights wink, one bf one, "As purple twilight sweeps Across the neat trimmed lawns That line the tiny street, Where gleaming fireflies stalk Along the lonely wooden walk.

Above the roofs, the swallows dart and wheel. A frog boasts loud of coming rain. A dog bays sweet, far across the field, A sleepy bird complains Of plodding hooves in silken dust And friendly wheels that squeak of rust

And In this stillness, words are low; A dog's tail thumps the floor: Matches scrape and pipe bowls glow As moments turn to memories forever more; And for errant feet that may later roam, Here, and here only, will always be home ~CURLEY FORDE.

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TOWN ¢'ve By Anton e ' Research Needed on Snake Bites

THERE'S A PURPLE PASSAGE somewhere in Berry Sulgrove's history of Indianapolis that always

leaves me bewildered. It's -to the effect that, once

upon a time, Ira Plummer was bitten by a rattle

snake but survived and, recovered wholly through the’

efficiency of whisky and a tea | made of blue-ash leaves, I've always wondered what the blue-ash leaves had to do Now I know. And it's all because 1 am the beneficiary of an article by Dr. R. "W, Terhune titled “Pioneer Folklore Relative to Snakes.” It's grand reading Dr. Terhune goes way back to 1830 and cites what

happened to his great-grandfather. Seems the pioneer

Terhune was bringing his wife and nine children from Kentucky and had almost reached his destination in Johnson County when one of the boys, who was running ahead of the wagon, was bitten by a copperhead.

Equal to the Occasion AS LUCK would have it, they were near a cabin,

The man of the place was equal to the occasion and’ immediately yelled instructions to his wife and two

grown sons: ‘ “Build a hot fire under the kittle! Git plenty of hot water. Git your axes and cut down that little blue-ash tree down yander! Bring a big arm load o’ the leaves; dig a hole in the gvarden and put the sick boy in it." (I trust the authentic rendering ot Hoosier dialect doesn't escape you), “To the practical*mind of the boy's father” says Pr. Terhune, “there was no magic in what had been done.

“or ‘Tree of the Universe’ from which the gods formed

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garden earth, a hot fomentation of green leaves. But what the unknown frontiers man did, con-

tinues the doctor, “carried in its significance some - -

of the most beautiful symbolism to be found in the whole realm of folklore.” And here's the way the doctor ‘has it figured out: “In India, central Asia and southern Europe there 1s a tree known in scientific phraseology as the Praximus Ornus. It is also found in this country where it is popularly known as the blue-ash. In olden times 4his tree was much venerated and-.in the narthern mythology it was called ‘Yggdrasil’ (the sacred ash),

mankind.

Sap as Sweet as Honey

“THE SAP of the Tree of the Universe was as sweet as honey, and honey dripped like dew from its leaves. At its foot was a serpent (evil or darkness) that constantly bit at its reots. But the serpent could do no harm, for the leaves of the tree had power to cure its deadliest venom. “When our Aryan ancestors left the cradle of the race, traversed Persia, Asia Minor, and southern and central Europe, in successive migrations, and crossed the channel jnto England, they carried this super. stition with them. Two thousand years ago Pliny claimed that ash tree tops and leaves were a remedy

for serpent bites. “Such,” says the doctor, “are the reasons why James Terhune, when bitten by a poisonous snake in a little Johnson County clearing was medicined so industriously with the same magic blue-ash leaves that were used by our Aryan” ancestors in their first dome thousands of miles away, and centuries ago.” Which, of course, leaves one no alternative but to wonder what in hell the whisky had to do with the case of Ira*Plummer chronicled by Berry Sulgrove.

‘Hoosier Forum J

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‘Hardest Town to Drive In’ A JB Be ine a citizen of Indianapolis for 42 years, I feel there are several things in this town that should be corrected in order to help this overgrown hick town, First, our traffic problem. ONE: Start a school for all new drivers.

TWO: Make drivers take a test after each ac-'

cident or arrest. "THREE: Time stop and go signs so traffic can move along without stopping at every one. It would help to post signs entering mile square informing motorist of same. FOUR: Make more parking spaces. Our present parking conditions are worse after 3 o'clock. It causes more crowds on the streets with people shopping and one driving around until they come out. . Take our famous police force off of their beats and put them back on their feet. If. they are walking from box to box they can see more, Then install substations for the radio cqautrol cars, to answer the rush calls. Also hire checkers to check all beats for the lazy- police. Make the police force the same as a factory worker, If they don't do their job, fire them. : Have our safety department check on all core ners for high slopes and bushes. At the corner of Ringgold Ave. and Pleasant Run Blvd., 2100 block going north. East traffic is hidden from view by bushes. Going east on Cottage Ave. at Qlive St. the south corner is hidden with a high hedge. In fact there are several corners in this town that could be improved. Pass a law forbidding such hazards. Also cut some of the weeds which hide a lot of views. Elevate all railroad crossings. Round corners on all street crossings in order to make shorter turns. Have a drive on. bright lights in town and also in the country. Question all drivers who do not appear to understand driving conditions, Ones who turn without using their hands. Ones who get on the right side of street and make a left turn, etc. Also ones who pull out of side streets and then slow down, Ones who pass you going at a high rate of speed and then park. I think we could spend a little time and money and patience and help matters. It might help also to improve this small town. Of all my traveling this is the hardest town to drive in and I know most of the streets and their rules. . And last, instruct our famous police car drivers to show some common isense in driving on our streets. * 4 4

‘Elect Mayor Who'll Act’ By Arthur V. Foster, Fletcher Trust Bldg.

To any thinking person, it is very apparent that this city of ours needs a change of administration. Never since the days of Chuckhole Charlie have I seen the city in such a wretched condition as it is—vice of all kinds running amuck, neglect of the traffic problem until this has become a huge Joke, all the planning notwithstanding, as the situation is exactly where it was when all the talk began. “ : . Men, do you like for your womenfolk to be out on the streets alone at night? Certainly not, bee cause in no section of the city are they safe. Now let's give our full support to the man who will give this city the kind of government it needs —=& government of action instead of the kind we have now, to wit: A government of future plane ning. We need drastic action now, and the only way to get it is to get rid of the present ine cumbents and elect Al Feeney for mayor, a man who will see to it that the men under him are capable of doing what is necessary to put this City of Indianapolis in condition again. It's deplorable the ‘shape it is in today, no one will deny this no matter what his politics, so again I say, vote for Feeney, the man who will get us the action we need, so urgently need. > >

‘A Good Use for Money’

By F. W. Bradshaw and 0. K. Chastain, City A statement has been made by a columnist in one of our daliy papers that the State of Indiana possesses the sum of $24 million in “dormant funds” in various banks. Is there any reason why a portion of this money could not be used in the purchase of the Shades? It seems to us that this would be a very good

But the Consular Department believes she !

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UNCLE SAM IS ATTEMPTING the world’s hardest selling job Most of the prosf®ctive customers are too broke to buy unless he lends them the price. Then, too, a lot of them don't like the article And many of them couldn't use it without long training The product he is trying to peddle is democracy. America has the world’s best model. But, after many years of use, it still has many bugs to be ironed out—and nobody emphasizes its flaws so much as some of our own people. A lot of them yell for perfection, One big handicap is that the article is hard to use. It requires more care and intelligence than any other kind of government. Democracy is the most difficult way of running a country. Its chief competitor—absolute rule—is the easiest, 4 To us, who know the rewards and privileges, the advantages of democracy are worth the trouble it involves. But most people would rather “let George do it” when it comes to government. : While trying to sell democracy abroad, we are having great trouble at home over another of its handicaps. This has to do with the diffienlty of defending it against attack. In a contest with such a simple; system as dictatorship, democracy Is under great disadvantages. Evervthing itd is supposed to be done In a democratic manner, while, with abso RAS OIE are barred I('s like throwing a decent man into a free-for-all with a gang

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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of 'hoodlums. If he conducts himself strictly as a gentleman, he'll

be gouged, tripped, kicked and slugged from behind. But if, in the desperation of self-defense, he uses any of his opponents” tactics, then he’s no gentleman. The thugs will protest loudly if he acts in any respect as they do. They will ery for him to be a gentleman—hoping thereby that he will get himself licked. Even more critical will be some bystanders of the long-on-theory cult. They will say that their hearts bleed for the gentleman. But they will yell “foul” in horrified tones if he twists an arm or kicks a shin while trying to prevent having his eye gouged out,

Communists Stop “at Nothing

THUS THE DECENT MAN HAS TWO OPPONENTS-the thugs who want to pulverize him and the critics who are more interested in his ethics than his skin. The hoodlums are not bothered by such critics Being hoodlums, they batted down any kibitzers a long time ago. But our gentlemanly contestant must suffer in silence because of his good manners. This is the plight of democracy today in its fight for survival against, Ihe opsiaught of communism, dR AY nening. They hit-below the belt, kick in the clinches, bite. butt. and bellow for democracy to be democratic. They try to trick democracy into lowering its guard so they can sneak over a knockout. And. all around the ringside, a lot of bleeding hearts yell for democracy to remember its manners and be nice. bo Now communism fights with two deadly weapons—force from without and sabotage from within, It is uniquely skilled with the latter weapon. It bores expertly from within.. trying to sap its opponent’'s strength and will power so that its outside force can make the kill As anybody who has watched their methods knows, the Commies

IN WASHINGTON .

Suicide?

use for this money which is now lying idle,

By E. T. Leech

picked two chief avenues for their sabotage—government and labor unions. They tried to slip agents and friends into places of power or usefulness in politics and organized labor, as a preliminary to stabbing democracy. ‘ Democracy has been awkward and ineffective in opposing these tactics. It has tried to meet a hidden, insidious, ruthless foe in a democratic manner, It wanted the voters and union members to exert shee selves and clean up their own houses, When this course alone didn’t work, democracy reluctantly tried some measures which admittedly are undesirable and distasteful, Such measures as loyalty tests for public employees and anti-Com-munist affidavits for union officials. Which, under very grave condie tions, aren't much to ask of Americans who profess to love and serve their country.

Don't Over-Protect Enemies

WHEREUPON THE COMMUNISTS yelled bloody murder. And the’ theory-first boys rushed to the platform, microphones and type

writers - with charges about “suppression of dissent” and “outrages ®h YE ALLE GEE

against individual liberties” and “denials of freedom of #GAEEA. These so-called loyalty measures were taken only after long patience and hesitation, Democracy doesn't use them well. in a clumsy manner.

They can be abused and used Democracy suffers great embarrassment over

. the zeal and impulsiveness of some well-meaning but bungling friends.

o But don’t forget that these measures were enacted® reluctantly, by overwhelming action of our elected officials, in the democratis manner prescribed by the Constitution. 5 They were demanded by the people in self-defense, Some seem to think that democracy must commit suicide by using its own forms to protect those who seek to destroy it. Before we can sell it to the world, we may have to solve this problem at home.

j By Peter Edson

Bringing Farm Prices Back Into Line

WASHINGTON; Oct. 8.—~When [OPA controls ended on June 30, 1046, prices paid to farmers jumped nearly 25 per cent in a few months. They have never come down. Instead, they have gone steddily up. U. 8. Bureau of Agricultural Economics, reporting on prices paid to farmers as of Sept. 15, finds them at 286 per cent above the 1909-14 base period average. That is four per cent above the previous month, 18 per cent above a year ago, and 22 per cent above the post-World War I high of 235 in May, 1920. : While the prices received by farmers have gone up, the prices paid by farmers for the things they buy from fown, such as farm machinery, building materials, fertilizer, mixed feeds, furniture, cloth ing and the foods the farmer can't grow for his own needs, have gone up, too.

Parity Formula Based on Index

PRICES PAID BY FARMERS went up 1-per cent for the month ending Sept. 15, to a new all-time high of 237 per cent above the 1909-14 average. This is 18 per cent above a year ago and 17 per cent above the post-World War I peak of 202 per cent, in 1930, ., This 1909-14 period is taken as base because those were the years when farmers were supposed to be getting a square deal. Wheat was only 88 cents a bushel then, and hogs were $7.27 a hundredweight, Rut prices were stable, the things farmers bought cost far less, and, in general, it was thought farm living was almost equal to city living. To get dt the measure of this relationship, the so-called

“parity. formula” was devised. It is ‘the ratio ‘of prices received by

farmers to prices paid by farmers. ‘As the figures cited above show, vices received by farmers are at the index number of 386, while prices

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paid by farmers are at the inde figure of 237. The ratio is 121 to 100, which means that the farmer is now selling at a level 21 per cen higher than the level at which he buys. ‘ On today's farm market, there are less than half a dozen farm products selling for less than the parity price. Wheat and corn are. both selling above $2.40 a bushel. The parity price on wheat is $2.19 and on corn $1.52. Hogs are now selling above $27 a hundredweighs, The parity price is $17.20, : !

Revisions Made in Parity Setup

THAT MAY GIVE one measure of how much out of line farm prices are today. They could come down considerably without causing the farmer any hardship, and without causing the government to step in and buy up large quantities of farm products at 90- per cent of parity, as it must do if prices go below that figure. ; The farm parity formula has been revised from time to time. In 1935, Congress included taxes and interest in calculating the ‘index of priceg paid by farmers. There is agitation now to have the price of farm’ labor includéd in this index. Such an amendment would give the farmer further protection. : ‘ Prom the consumers’ standpoint, that is the trouble with the.phrity formula calculations as now. set up. It is a one-way street. It can work only to the advantage of the farmer, to see that he gets his Justice and an even economic break. 3 nein Some revision of the parity formula that would automatically reduce. government prices guaranteed to farmers, when the index of prices they receive’ too high, would tend to correct

Class | Time BEDFORD, old Indiana s bling offenses tional by Ju in Lawrence f grounds that and is, theref The opinio case of Bert fendants awa of a series of bling places } fin and most ants are ch gambling hou Judge Dav motion to q the Griffin the statute u was brought. cause it proy tion of men, tioned in the The court, handed down deliberation, is class legisl federal and Appe Prosecutor said the ruli be appealed The motio tionality of filed by R. ] torney, who of the defe While today Griffin case to have equsz pending act casgs had be Local aut should the law inforcen an even mor bating gam! gambling hc invoked fre facts are rel court, while ing by an i possible. “In decid personal wis the judge o effect or avi tion to be over, which. trol,” Judge . opinion.

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