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The Indianapolis Times PAGE 18, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 1947

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The City Election :

City Council at the municipal election Nov. 4. This is one of the most vital elections in the city’s history. Many problems have accumulated during the war years, and in the two subsequent years of peace. To solve these problems, Indianapolis must have a Mayor and a City Council who work together closely, actuated only by the welfare of the community, . ~ # . . FE, L.SEWHERE in today’s Times, a series of articles giving | the backgrounds of the candidates for City Council is | begun. It will continue until all have been discussed. Scrutinize these candidates carefully , . , they are the “board of directors” who will run the business of your city. The Times also is asking the two mayoralty candidates how they stand on specific public problems. Among these problems are:

ONE—Clean streets.

FOUR-Grade separation. FIVE-—Temporary sidewalks where children must walk | in streets to and from school. SIX Public health regulations enforced, particularly in slums. SEVEN—Better trash and garbage collection, EIGHT—Crosstown transportation. NINE—Better safeguards than flasher signals at rail Crossings, TEN-—City planning which won't be forgotten. On the specific views of the candidates, the public should make up.its mind as tq, whom it wants for Mayor. Generalities of campaign promises or political affiliation are not sufficient grounds for selection of your sity officials.

» aC AN their rotors, analyze their pledges ‘eo before you decide which candidate for Mayor and which candidates | for City Council can best work together for the city's good.

De Gaulle's Victory

G EN. DE GAULLE appears to have won a striking victory in the French elections. Latest returns indicate he gained upward of 40 per cent of the votes. Since the Communists polled as large, if not larger, percentage of votes than they did in the November and April elections, strength came from the moderates whom he swung to the right. Nevertheless, Americans cannot view such results with too much complacency, The peace of Europe depends upon that majority of citizens who normally seek the middle way of constitutional government, unwilling to trust their freedom or their welfare to extremists of left or right. Gen. De Gaulle often has been charged with being a potential dictator. While his patriotism is above question, his inability to work with other patriots without having 's own way is a matter of record. Not only was he unable to co-operate with his American and British allies during he war, he could not get along with the political party he the MRP—and which he is now destroying. He says his present movement is not a party, but some- |

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thing above party for the salvation of France. Maybe so, and we haope so, but in. the past movements owing alle- | glance to one man have not advanced representative govern- |

ment or peace. De Gaulle's avowed purpose was to lick the Communists whom he now despises—though when he was in power he tried to balance Russia against Britain and the United | States. Even now his victory weakens Bidault’s moderate Catholic party and the moderate Socialist party which the Communists correctly rate as their most effective enemies. |

people. Three-fourths of the Communist vote polled in France

eomes from outside the party. Both in the political and economic fields the Reds have to depend on non-Communists. That is at once the hope and danger of France. LJ » ~ ~ ~ ~ T 15 the hope of France if De Gaulle is willing to co-oper-ate with moderate parties in a democratic united front against chaos and communism. It is the hope of France if American and French co-operation through the Marshall recovery plan can reduce the suffering and fear which make

non-Communists support Reds. It is the danger of France if De Gaulle seeks one-man rule and if American aid for French self-help is long delayed. That is the road to more chaos and more Violence, | which leads to dictatorship. The choice in France is still open. What America does will influence the choice tremendously—even De Gaulle’s policy.

Home, Not-So-Sweet Home

DESER TION by Russian soldiers in the occupied zone of | Germany has forced a change of policy by Soviet mili- | tary authorities, It seems units were being notified too far in-advance that they were going home. in mass desertions; so now the troops are going to be | alerted only. 24 hours before they must pull out, One reliable estimate is that 60,000 Russian soldiers had gone over the hill in Germany by the beginning of 1946. That is more than three infantry divisions. The number o Soviet troops in Germany is unknown, of course, but it

the equivalent of three divisions deserted. All of which recalls the intensive campaign in this counr to “bring the boys back home,” soon after the war. We | g such clamor from the Kussians, and possibly for the; y Obviously didn’t “wanna go home.”

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In Tune With the Times

Donald D. Hoover

VOTE AMERICAN

WITH THE APPROACH of the November election many voters will feel that reminders from the press and other public spirited agencies to go to the polls on election day are useless reiterations. | Blinded by party issues and personal sentiment to the real problems of the nation hidden behind the contentions of the two major political parties, | many voters refuse to visit the polls because they | believe elections are “fixed” and their vote, one | way or another, has little or no effect upon subse- | quent legislation.

This dangerous sentiment undermines and weakens the religious, educational, economic, social and political welfare of the nation and keeps it vulnerable to subversive groups. Some of the greatest issues confronting the people of. ‘the United States today have little or no bearing on party politics but represent conditions which can ' only be governed by fair legislation. Foremost | among these issues, and one which is destined to | have lasting effect upon our national life, is the revolution that is currently taking place in publishing. It has been proposed that an “authority” be set up to control all authorship in the nation. This authority would have jurisdiction over all lit- | erary production and control its use by publishers, editors, newspapers, motion picture producers and other purchasers. A group of five would constitute the authority and hold all copyrights in its name. This is impossible under present copyright laws. Strangely, this extraordinary plan has met with much approval and has already been indorsed by two of the four guilds in the Authors’ League of The plan, which has a parallel in efforts

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present by a group of prominent writers who have organized the American Writers’ Association. The

TWO-—-Dump eradication, consensus among authors and publishers, however, :! is that soon a modified plan will be proposed by THREE—More playgrounds and use of the ones now | an. “Action Committee” within the Authors’ locked up. League. This committee is an alleged Communist wing.

There is no question what such dictatorship will do to free expression. The leading authors of the nation will be controlled by a “boss” and American literary standards considerably lowered. New authors and journalists will have to work

| under the authority or never have their work ac-

cepted, paid for or published. Talented beginners will be discouraged by every possible measure, their ideas pirated and used by “name authors” who, in many instances, are far less qualified to present them. It is also apparent that subversive ideals will creep insidiously into church literature and school text books to pervert the minds of growing American children, Many college: and university groups, writers’ clubs and magazines are fighting the proposal, Publishers, too, are doing everything possible to protect the author—particularly the talented beginner. ‘But only legislation governing weak and outmoded copyright laws can bring full protection to the author and properly control the issue. The voter should visit the polls on election day,

+ support the man or the party of his choice, but

above all stand for legislation thst will insure the people that the United States will remain “one

| nation, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.”

~—RUBY STAINBROOK BUTLER. ¢ © The number of federal job holders totaled The dispatch didn't mention the number of workers, * & When fat folks start down the old road to thinness, it's a pleasure for them to lose their weigh.

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HIS LIGHT ’

0, such a wondrous sight to behold— Cotton white clouds all framed in gold, Shafts of amber sun sift through And play on heart-strings sad and blue,

My room before was sad and grim, But’ iow these rays of God's own gold Symbolize the light of Him, Worth more to me than treasures old.

Oh, listen all ye people, hear. When your souls are filled with care Look for His eternal light

That shines forever firm and bright ~—ALICE M. SCHEFFLER LE I

A new baby makes the days brighter, says a doctor, And during the teething period it brightens up the home by night, tee. > 9 ® A golf club can simply ruin itself by letting nature take its course,

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left largely to the Senator from : Michigan,

Overcoming this uncertainty, tion,

in direct quotations: Atlantic Charter—

OUR TOWN + By Anton

THE SOUVENIR SPOON FAD lasted every bit of 20 years. It started in 1880. It wasn't until three years latér, however, that Mother got sufficiently interested to take it up. Mother's first spoon, I distinctly recall, was part of the wagon load of souvenirs brought back from the Chicago World's Fair. It portrayed the head of Columbus on the end of the handle and a’ fairly accurate reproduction of the ferris wheel in the bowl ; The size of Mother's collec~ tion wasn't anything to brag about—certainly not when you consider that something like 3000 patterns were already on the market when she got around to it. Indeed, Mother's case was nothing short of hopeless. Even I, who entertained a rather high opinion of Mother's winning out in the end, had to concede that it was simply impossible for her ever to catch up. Considered qualitatively, however, Mother's collection had some honeys. For example, there was the Boston souvenir spoon. It was chockful of local color and beat any guide book I ever saw. Strung along both sides of the handle, inclosed in separate medallions and carefully labeled so that a kid couldn't go wrong, were pictures of Paul Revere on his horse; the Bunker Hill monument: the Washington Elm; a bean pot and something that looked like a casriage wheel. In the‘ bowl was a picture of Fancuil Hall with all its windows washed.

Indianapolis One Was Pretty

THE BOSTON SPOON didn't leave anything to the imagination. With the naked eye you could count the leaves on the Washington Elm and the

Taft did make one major foreign policy speech and he issued several statements on the international situaAgain boiling down all his remarks in an effort to get an accurate line on the man's ideas, this summary index is presented,

"Beginning. at ‘Teheran we gradually abandoned

Side Glances—By Galbraith

number of beans in the pot, to say nothing of the number of hairs of the flying mane of Paul Revere's horse. Even the cryptic carriage wheel was exexplained. It was labeled “The Hub,” which was my first intimation that Boston had a nickname, a piece of information the teachers of School 6 had neglected to tell us kids—probably because of its intimate private nature. As for the Bunker Hill monument, it carried the illuminating footnote: “221 Ft.” Compared with the Boston souvenir, the Niagara Falls spoon in Mother's collection was a complete

lost the peace.”

But the Communists quickly indicated their fear of De his ideas. $i ‘a , ~ i qs : In the first press conference on his recent Pacific Coast tour, American nations.” Gaulle by appealing to the Socialist party to merge with Taft admitted om whole foreign policy is just in a state of them to help stop his anti-Communist union of the French | transition and you do not know exactly what the issue may be.” courage war rather than discourage it.”

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most of the ideals of the Atlantic Charter until today attainment of many of them is impossible. We have won the war, but we have

Bi-Partisan Foreign Policy—“It has covered a very limited field. It has really extended only to Sen. Vandenberg's participation in the formulation of the United Nations Charter, in negotiations regarding peace in Europe, and in the regional agreement with South®

Universal Military Training—“In the end, I think it would en- ¥

Communism—*“1 do feel that Russia desires to make communism the accepted form of government throughout the world.”

Criticizes Our European View EUROPE—"“The result of our policy has been to destroy the reputation we had acquired in the world for justice and fair dealing. Until this war, the United States was looked upon in Europe as a disinterested party, but today we are regarded as another imperialistic nation acting in our own self-interest. keep our promise to many people yearning to be free.” Exports—“We should restrict exports of . those products where the supply is short, as in the case of corn, volume of exports more than we do today.” ’ Germany—“There is only one way in effectively controlled. That is to control the production of a limited

Integnational Bank—“"We hastened into a theoretical plan for | an international fund and ap international bank costing $6 billion.

| WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Crucial Test Lies Ahead For Europe and Reds

to come up from total eclipse to the ieadership of what is now “the. strongest political group in France was something more than sensa-

FLUSHING MEADOW, Oct, 22—Gen. Charles de Gaulle's sweeping victory in the French elections Sunday is widely regarded here as the opening gun for the showdown between the East and West in

For Communists everywhere, it will be the signal that the tide has begun to turn against them. And because this is so, and because they will stop at nothing to gain their ends, observers here warn that the . next 90 days are likely to be the most crucial that Europe has seen

Moscow's aim will surely be, said one authority, to present the United States and the United Nations with an accomplished deed before democratic processes, as expressed in the Marshall Plan and its

France, Italy and Austria are expected to be the focal points of an intensified Red drive for power. Moscow, and the Arab world hostile to the West, Greece and Turkey would be cut off and the basin of the Mediterranean isolated.

NS. Since VE day has Buon x Perienced 4 more significant event than the comeback e.

The French Communists made American ald an issue. France, they said, should tie to Russia. The Marshall Plan was a “plot to undermine French sovereignity.” The opposition said that only with American help could a strong, self-reliant France regain her piace

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washout. It portrayed nothing more than a wisp of a waterfall starting at the top and spilling down the handle. The water was mighty skimpy and didn't even reach the bowl. And not a word, mind you, about its height or the number of gallons it used up every hour. It occurred to me while examining Mother's collection that the Niagara Falls spoon should have had

the help of the designing genius who turned out the _ one for South Bend, Ind.> He- put -a: picture of La

building in’ the bow! of the spoon and ornamented it with the legend: “Most Complete High School in Northern Indiana.” I guess it was somewhere around 1895 when Mother acquired her Indianapolis souvenir spoon, the one the Julius C. Walk people put. on the market at the time. It caught my eye right from the start not only because it was the prettiest example in Mother's collection, but because it was the only one whose design was patented. I can clear up that, too. When the Walk people decided to bring out an Indianapolis souvenir spoon, they had their minds made up that it should incorporate the Soldiers and Sailors’ monument. Which wasn't as easy as it sounds. For one thing, the monument people kicked, claiming that nobody but the commission governing the memorial had a- right to reproduce the design. Indeed, for a while it looked as if Indianapolis would have to go without an official souvenir spoon. Finally, however, William B. Burford talked the monument commission into letting the Walk people have their way and to be absolutely sure that the same problem wouldn't pop up again, the design was patented,

Local Designer

THE INDIANAPOLIS SOUVENIR SPOON got off to a good start right away. It came in two sizes—the teaspoon ($2.50) and the coffee size ($1.50). They sold especially well every time the GARs. had an encampment in Ine dianapolis. Mother, I remember, had the teaspoon pattern, the one Dare Macbeth designed for the Walk people, Dare Macbeth, a gifted member of the Pittsburgh family (glass) was a law student in the office of Charles Warren Fairbanks at the time. And to save my life, that's all I know about Mr. Macbeth.

Taft Follows Vandenberg On Foreign Policy

WASHINGTON, Oct. 22—When it comes to international relations, Robert A. Taft's ideas can best be summarized in one word, the Senator from Ohio has concentrated on domestic issues to such an extent that foreign relations have been and Taft has taken

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‘Railroads D Don't Tell Story’

By a Railroad Worker, City

I have been a reader of The Times for several years and have always thought it expressed the views ofplabor and management on an equal basis, Yow ad by the Eastern Railroads published in Tuesday, Oct. 14 issue is the most gross 1 misrepresentation of facts I haye ever seen. 1 am surprised your paper would even publish an ad of this sort without first thoroughly investigating and learning the true facts, There are plenty of railroad union*men and union leaders in Indianapolis who would be glad to explain the facts’ of this so-called feather-bedding, if they were asked, The railroads are now pledged to an advertising campaign that will cost them more money than the just demands of railroad workers would cost, Does the public know that the railroad men in the transportation department work eight hours a day, seven days a week without one cent of over-time. Does the public know that this same class of employees get only one week's vacation with pay while other employees the land over get two weeks. Does the public know the railroads are now making more money than they have ever made in the history of railroading. Yet they claim in their ads that they are on the verge of bankruptcy and are going in the red all the time. It is such ads as that of the Eastern Railroads which you published on Oct. 14 that causes labor trouble by misleading the public and turning them against labor. I think the editors of The Times should make an effort to put both sides of the railroad controversy before the public and give the railroad men a fair chance of getting what they -deserve.

Editor's Note—The advertising columns are open to anyone to tell his story. Both sides of the controversy between the railroads and labor have been presented in the news columns, and will

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‘10th District Democratic’ By Walter C. Reece, Shelbyville Mr. Reece, the Republican National Chairman, makes the prediction that the 10th district will ‘go Republican. Such an assertion is not even .in the realm of prophecy because the 10th district is situated so that unless there is some issue that divides the support of the Republicans, it is a foregone conclusion that, a Republican will be elected. The Democratic candidate does not. care .to offend a large non-union vote in his district and the impression is given that there has been an understanding with the labor vote that he keep silent on the Taft-Hartley law and of course ‘Mr. Harvey has taken the same position, but he indorses the Republican Congress. Since the Democratic candidate has taken no definite stand on the Taft-Hartley Act, that is he is not making it his chief issue, the true friends of labor throughout the 10th district will refrain from indorsing the candidate because they are not sure that he will vote to repeal the law if elected as he has not made that pledge that I have heard in any of his meetings. Labor is free to vote for either candidate as neither of them are making an issue of the Taft-Hartley Act and the Republican candidate will welcome such aIpendments as are needed to clarify the law. It is a safe prediction to say that the vote in the 10th district contest will not be a test of thé labor vote in the nation on the issue of the repeal of the Taft-Hartley law. Since the majority of the voters are Republicans and will stay with their candidate it means that Candidate Harvey will be elected to Congress. I know the 10th distirct as well as any one and since there is not a definite lineup on the issues the voters of the 10th district are free to vote as they please. * >

' Two-Way Red By Julia Roome, Indianapolis

How can a man earning $30.00 a week provide for his family and pay carfare to go to work if fare is raised. The streetcar company said that they are going to paint the cars and busses red. They also said that they were operating at a loss when fighting for higher fares. How can they buy paint? You see they needn't spend money for paint. I'm already seeing red.

By Peter Edson

It was a complete waste of funds to set it up before we had created a world in which it could effectively operate.”

should proceed to make peace as rapidly as possible.” Inter-American Treaty, credit for which shall and Sen. Vandenberg, offers more hope It sets an example which ultimately may be extended

to the entire world.”

Says Marshall Loans Won't Be Repaid

PLAN—“We have proposed the so-called Marshall

Plan, which is not really a plan at all, but only a combination of . We® cannot afford to go on lending money on a These loans, in all human probability, will never be

National Defense—" While the Russian attitude is what it is, we had better retain the atomic bomb.” ~ Palestine—"I believe the (United Nations Special Committee) majority report (providing for partition of Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state) submits a sound compromise of the dangerous

Russian Relations—"Until Sen. Vandenberg entered the picture, our attitude toward Russia was one of complete surrender.” United Nations—“I believe our most creditable efforts have been in establishing the United Nations . . .

there we have made a serious our promises. There we have created a forum in

which the problems of the world can be brought out in the open, at

tional.

least, and partially solved . . our own veto powers.”

« (but) I do not see how we can abandon

Quite possibly it marked a turn in world history. It was all the more remarkable because of the fact that the Communists not only

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of other dailies, weeklies and monthly publications all over the country, and American information service is virtually non-existent. Another thing remarked here is that Sunday's abstentions amount. ed to approximately 27 per cent of the registered voters. Notoriously,

always deliver every vote for their side. This would

indicate that in the national elections next May, Gen. De Gaulle may

rger majority than the 41 per cent of the total he

The conclusion here is that, as a result of Gen. De Gaulle’s landslide, Burope's Communists in general and France's in. particular will change tactics. To sit by and allow nature to take its course would mean theif steady decline. The obvious move would be to strike while the fron is hot—before Europe can recover, before the United States

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