Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 October 1947 — Page 24

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Your Candidates For City Council ON'T lose sight of the fact that when you go to the polls a week from next Tuesday to elect a Mayor of Indianapolis, you also will choose the City Council of nine which will administer the affairs of the municipality. As a public service, The Times is presenting the background and qualifications of all candidates for the council, labor candidates who seek the nine gouncil seats. The nine receiving the highest number of votes will comprise the new council. You vote for NINE candidates. The fact that pictures and biographies of candidates front the same councilmanic districts appear together does not mean that they are running against each other. : lead about every candidate . . . then select the nine you believe best qualified to run the affairs of Indianapolis. The “drama of the race for Mayor might well overshadow the importance of the City Council race unless the public realizes that no Mayor can do a really effective job without a good council to co-operate with him. A poor council can hamstring the city's operations. Look the field over before making up your mind.

Poultryless Thursdays

HE country's chicken and turkey growers have submitted a plan which they say would save more grain than can be saved by poultryless Thursdays, It calls for cutting the size of theit flocks and stopping the use of better-grade wheat in poultry feed. Whether ‘it

would save as much grain as they say, we don't know. But

we think Chairman Luckman of the Citizens Food Committee should tell them to go ahead with it, and should call off poultryless Thursdays. Not that poultryless Thursdays mean any great hardship to the American people. If eating one-seventh less poultry would save one-seventh of the grain now being fed to the huge number of fowls on the farms-—which, presumably, was the idea-—we'd continue to be for that. However, it doesn't appear to be working that way. In the first place, Thursday isn't a big poultry-eating day anyhow. In the second, the way to stop chickens and turkeys from eating grain is to kill them and then either eat them or put them into cold storage. Since there's already a record amount of poultry in storage, it seems clear that more grain will be saved if people eat more poultry, rather than less, If there were a poultry shortage, poultryless days might make sense. But there's the reverse of a shortage. So a lot of people not only are concluding that poultryless Thursdays don’t make sense but also are becoming suspicious of the whole food-conservation program. We believe that program is necessary. We want to see enthusiastic public support. That's why we are for prompt correction of its mistakes.

messes sass a.

Suppressing China Report

PE SSIDENT TRUMAN and Secretary of State Marshall in our*judgment have blundered badly in deciding to suppress Lt. Gen. Wedemeyer's report on China. That will not speed American aid to the Nanking government. It will not increase public confidence here in the administration's policy. Both are needed. Publication of this long-delayed report would be “actually harmful to the interests of the countries concerned, including the United States,” the State Department says, This is the lame excuse always trotted out by officials in gustification of secret diplomacy. sion rarely sul eeds. sided leaks. Secrecy is justified only in the case of strategic data directly touching national security. That part of the Wedemeyer report relating to the general political and economic situation in China, and to the Russian-aided military campaign of the Reds, is essential to informed American public opinion. Without informed popular support the State Department cannot get far with any policy. The administration's strange attitude toward this report already has increased suspicion that it has no definite China policy. That seems inconceivable. Yet months .of Washington inaction, while Red armies advance, is hard to explain on any other basis. . : Admitting there is no easy solution to the Chinese problem, the fact remains that the administration’s indecision is weakening our ally and unwittingly aiding vast Soviet penetration, That is one situation in which the administration cannot afford secrecy and further inaction.

It only distorts by producing one-

Free Expression No Monopoly

A CONFUSED type liberal can see an insidious attack on free expression in the Communists-in-the-movies inquiry of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Bot freedom of expression is a constitutional guaranty that is not restricted to those engaged in writing and the arts. It is freedom shared equally by all the people, including members of Congress elected by the people. And including a committée of Congress, which has been assigned to conduct a specific investigation and therefore also has the duty to expose. "It is not strange that a number of Confmunists and fellow-travelgr propagandists have flitered into the movie industry. The movies are a medium of world-wide communication offering obvious and exceptional opportunities to promote the party line, But it would be strange indeed, and a queer conception of the rights and duties of all citizens, if the pro-Com-munists were to be permitted continually to peddle their

lenged and scrutinized.

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Donald D. Hoover. .

THE FIRST TRIAL

AMONG THE “FIRSTS” in early Indianapolis history is the story of the first trial after the organization of the town, 3 Although Judge William W. Wick presided over the first formal county court of Marion County, and Hervey Bates was sheriff, there was a justice of the peade, even before that, and he tried some cases, James Mcllvaine was his name. His office was

| authorized by the 1821-22 Legislature, and he was

There are six Republicans, six Democrats and three |

commissioned by the Governor. He lived in a log cabin at the southwest corner of Meridian and Ohio 8ts. (where business branch of the library is now located) and his first case was tried in his front yard with the jury lined up before him “astraddle a single big log,” according to Jeanette Covert Nolan in one of her recent books, “Hoo#fer City." : Calvin Fletcher had just arrived in the backwoods village from Vermont. He was 23 years of age, and at the time he was the only lawyer in the town. Bo, when a group GI miscreants were arrested and charged with “poaching” their neigh~ bors’ pigs and corn--a most idous offense to the early ploneer—Cal Fletcher was the only lawyer available to defend them. Here's Mrs. Nolan's version of the episode: “Mr. Fletcher,” says she, “could quote long passages from BShakespeare, the Bible, and law books, - “Hearing the language and the quotations McIlvaine was puzzled and lighted his pipe and puffed at it, scratched his head, and wondered what in tarnation Mr, Fletcher was drivin’ at, “Why in blazes couldn't the man speak English! “Your Honor, may. it’ please the Court, I have here an excerpt from Blackstone which I should like to read.’ ! “Blackstone?” Mcllvaine blinked at the fidgetjurors. ie fll 2 “'Now Calor Mr. Pletcher, let's don't bother too much with them foreigners. You jest tell us whether these fellers been poachin’ or not, Are they guilty--or ain't they?'" Mrs. Nolan doesn't tell us how the case concluded, but even if the defendants were found guilty there was no jall in which to confine them. The usual punishment for simple “poachin’” was to drive the rascals out of town,

—JOSEPH G. WOOD, * °°

EMPRESS OF THE RUSSIAS

Buch a strange dream, Zubov, I dreamed that 1 was old, Old and heavy looking. You cannot know the fear that thinned my pulsing blood To see a woman wrinkled, gray, and stout, They said was I. 1 shouted, screamed, denying it, and so awoke, | Awoke to life, my Zubov, to life; and love, and you, Your strong young arms, your tender lips, the passion in your eyes. I am not old, am 1, Zubov? Ah! Bay it once again!

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MYRA AHLER. * o An executive says hushands should stop wives gossiping so long on the phone. Now is the time

| for all good men to come to the aid of their

| party line,

| England.

‘Speaking of Iron

> So Pleasure driving gas has been banned in We still have gas but there's darn little pleasure driving, >. 4

WOULDN'T YOU?

If I were a child again I would wade more. sand along the beach, I would catch more bird notes everywhere And grasp.more beauty within my reach,

I would roam each field and meadowland And chase more rabbits to their lair, I would see all changes Nature makes And catch more fragrance everywhere,

I would not sit and idly dream Of . ,.. When I'm grown and what I'll do I would only bea ¢hild .~ . and live More fully, Wouldn't you? --ANNA E. YOUNG. * S& @ A lot of fall cleaning is prompted by folks seeing the hand writing on the wall, 8 Bb Cheer up! Cold weather is going to have its charm, too. We won't have to listen to the radio next door, :

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IN WASHINGTON . . .By Peter Edson

Marshall Plan Will Be Tough

WASHINGTON, Oct. 23—Carrying out the Mat« shall Plan to aid Europe is going to be no breeze. The outlook for getting the Europeans enough to eat is bad, but the outlook for getting them enough steel * and manufactured goods is worse. This is shown by comparing import requirements of the 16 Western European nations with American surpluses available for export. The things Europe needs worse are things the U, 8. is also short of. The Paris report of the 16-nation Committee of European Economic Co-operation admits there will be a four-year shortage of 12 million short tons of ingots and semi-finished steel,

Can Steel Supply Demand?

THIS ASSUMES THAT Europe will be able to import all the coke it needs, plus 15 million tons of rich iron ore, eight million tons of scrap and three million tons of manganese. There is.no assurance this can be done. The U. 8: is now exporting steel to Europe at the rate of 1.5 million tons a year, This is about half of the three milion tons required. The U. 8. may be able to supply all the coking coal that's needed. There is, however, a U. S. shortage of coke and scrap. Before the war, this country had great surpluses of scrap which were shipped all over the world—Japan as well as Europe. It's no longer here. Scrap collection drives may have to be reinstituted, as in wartime. As shown by Secretary of the Interior J. A. Krug’'s new report on national resources and aid to Europe, U, 8. domestic steel consumption is now at peacetime peak. Steel production is running at 97 per cent of rated capacity, but still can’t produce enough for home needs. There is a first-class fight on whether the U. S. steel industry is big enough to take care of today's demands. The big steel makers insist it is, and they oppose expansion, One of their arguments is that

there are not enough raw materials to feed increased steel-making capacity. Another is that any contemplated expansion would, itself, consume needed steel. Europe apparently needs all three—raw materials, steel and steel-making capacity. The Krug report’ indicates there is plenty of American plant capacity to manufacture all the freight cars, tractors and new machinery needed by Europezif the steel is available; The Paris report says Europe will néed 103,000 freight cars in the next two years. - European freight cars are only half the size of U. S. cars, so the need is translated into 51,500, It is no great order, considering that the U. 8. car-building industry turned oyt 80,000 cars in 1941 and has an annual capacity of 204,000 cars today.

U. S. Production Still Lags

THE KRUG REPORT says U. 8. production reached a peak value of $18 billion.in 1944, but is now running at a rate of only $11 billions The volume is a fourth less than indicated, because prices are now 28 per cent higher than in 1940. Exports are now 10 per cent of total U. 8. production of industrial equipment, or about $1 billion worth a year. Theoretically, it would take little increase in volume to meet European requirements, But again the things that Europe needs are the same things that American industry wants—increased eléctric generator and line capacity, more or bigger steel plants, greater petroleum refining capacity and more petroleum to run through it. Looking at the whole picture, as Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman's Committee of 19 will do when it meets again, it will be apparent that aid to Europe under the Marshall Plan-will be no cinch. Smart management and the exercise of considerable government control over exports and allocations will be necessary to put it over.

British Retrenchment Ups U. S. Responsibility

Experience shows that suppres- |

LONDON, Oct. Fleet Cut to Five Vessels.

23—A headline

shook Britons from one end of this island to the other,

in the Sunday Times, “Home Not One Battleship on Active Strength,”

The ancient sources and manpower.

is impossible to support weapons of the past and at the same time prepare weaporis of the future, which are enormously costly in re-

Far East,

Hoosier Forum

"1 do not agres with a word that you say, but |

will defend to the deaths your. right Yu way fh"

“Wish the Jones Dead’ .

By a Good Mother, City Had to get this off my chest. It was such a hurry, always work calling me, expresses the feeling of a lot of paren like to find the Jones. We dear children but this Jones strain is out of us. We have tried in where our children are concerned isn't enough. We can’t make them see so much but not as much as the Jones, when we get to the poorhouse will we Jones have beat us thers You may call this “Keeping Up Wi Jones,” or whatever you please. the Jones were dead. Anyway, write this down to get it off my moments—I know there is no las hurrying with the breakfast dishes get to beds, straightening up and (Note: average laundry per week 65 was hurrying, as I said ‘before, so making over two young ladies’ suits, By the way, I have four children and band. To get back to the dishes, were as busy as my hands and they on the idea that struck me as I | last night, weary from another the sheet and light quilt over me, I eyes and started my prayers, first Lord's then Prayer Perfect (I remember singing it in schoel, love it and it is so beautiful), then the

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Twenty-third Psalm, then—as has been a habit for

20 years, I began my own personal prayer. “I'm

don't need a doctor; what I need is less of the Jones. ¢ &

‘Name Parents of Delinquents’ |

By Willard H. McCormack, 1415 Lawndale St. I just read in the Indianapolis Times of six teen-agers being sentenced in federal court on various charges. The parents were absent and no names given. In the past I have read several such items like it and I don’t approve of ‘the news< papers not naming these parents. They are the real guilty ones in every case. I am the father of four boys and one girl. Two of my boys are high school graduates, the oldest in the Navy and one has a full-time job. The others are in school and work part time. I am proud of my family and if one of them steps out of line I certainly will be right there to help him get back on the level. Let's give these parents of delinquents a lot of publicity and I'll bet there will be a lot less devilment by our youngsters. These kids are to be pitied, not condemned. Let's make the parents liable for the errors of the youngsters and see if these lads and lassies won't change almost over night. People who are responsible for some=

one else should make it their business to know.

what the other person is doing. Let's get behind the kids and give them a boost on the right road and give the parents the penalty to pay. Begin now and the next generation will be a log better and parents will find less time to drink and gamble their time away, Names and faces in newspapers will help a lot. Not the kids’ faces but the parents’. Force parents to answer the charges in court and if the charges are tough give the parents a lot of publicity and watch results, : * ¢

‘Get Husky Policemen’

By Jud Haggerty, R. R. 6, Indianapolis Whoever becomes Mayor, he'll have a job om his hands. Let's hope he gets some huskier policemen, and equips them with bigger and better clubs. Let's hope the next Mayor gives our cops some more guns to carry—anything short of howitzers. Why? To protect the mistreated creatures, of course, Just to cite an instance: Our abused officers arrested a motorist the other day. Just a friendly little arrest .,. nothing personal. But some over=bearing bully standing nearby said: “Be careful or they'll beat you up.” ® Now this naturally irked the honest and efii« cient officers; who in Indianapolis has ever heard of a cop beating up anyone? So they chased him down and arrested him, The “charge” was disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. Maybe bigger and better clubs and guns will be a good thing. I'm for anything that will proe tect our poor cops. - Did someone whisper, “freedom of speech?® Sh-h-h-h ... There might be a policeman around,

By Marquis Childs’

essential to the operation of the U. 8. Navy in the Near Bast and ' That is why every sign of American action or inaction on

Palestine and the Near East is being watched so closely here.

symbols of British power seem to be passing swiftly, All the opposition papers have now taken up the Sunday Times scoop. They are uttering loud outecries of anger and dismay. But the question is whether this is a rea] shift, indicating a weakening of British power, or merely a decision to dispense with costly tokens of past grandeur and might, Rumors long have been prevalent of how deeply the Labor government ‘had cut into the Navy. When Minister of Defense A. V. Alexander appeared before a naval reserve dinner, he was heckled, which was .an almost unprecedented violation of traditional Navy restraint, The alert U. 8, Navy staff here had advance information of the cuts and was disturbed at the extent of the cutting. The claim within the government, however, is that all possible

| resources must be allocated to research and new development. It

- “propaganda on the screen, without ever being publicly chal-

Those who live by the spotlight should claim no right

to hide from it.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

COPA. 1947 IY NEA SERVICE, INC. ¥. W. REO. U. 8. PAY. OFF.

enough yet for a paper route!”

Empire Commitments Cut THAT IS THE REAL MEANING of the cuts in the British Navy. Research and development are being pushed here to the fullest extent possible, given the harsh necessities of the British economy in a period of critical transition, In the same way and for the same reasons, long-term government expenditures are being con-

centrated in South Africa with the goal of eventually having a new -

major source of raw materials. Cuts that will vitally affect the United States are thpse now being made in the British Army. Lord Montgomery, chief of the imperial general staff, is engaged in cutting the force to approximately 200,000, which was the pre-war strength of -the army. British forces are still extended in various parts of the world

| to a strength three to four times that which can be sustaified in

| peace.

They must be removed as the cuts are made. This will put

| responsibility squarely up to the U. S. A.

| months.

in the | far as to say that

| East oil being developed by American firms.

All British forces are to be removed from Palestine in coming The controversy before the United Nations on Palestine's future can delay the evacuation, but not for long. : Departure of the British forces will leave a sigriificant vacuum Near East. Some top British policy-makers take a gloomy view of what may happen after the vacuum is created. They go so lestine will become a Communist state, At the same time, they are aware of the important stake in Near That oil is considered

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

German Occupation Cost at Issue

Montgomery has received an operational order to remove British troops from Greece. Only a small force is left there, but removal of this token army would cause an upheaval in Greece, with repere cussions throughout the Balkans. The order can of course, be coune termanded from the highest level !

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THE SHARPEST ISSUE OF THE MOMENT is over the payment for British troops occupying Germany. The likeliest outcome is a compromise under which the British, would pay down a final lump sum for current costs with the undere standing that no further payments would be possible. The cost of the British occupying army is nearly one-fifth of Britain's twe bile lion deficit of dollars. This is still another child of trouble that Congress will find om its doorstep. It is almost as urgent as relief for Europe. While there is a realistic awaréhess here of what Britain faces, there is none of the hysteria such as is spread in the U. 8. A. by cheap sensation-mongers. Those best informed through world-wide intelligence, both public and confidential, do not believe in the ime minence of war. Top officials, military and civilian, believe Russia does not want. war, In fact, beneath all the bluster of words, the signs point in exactly the opposite direction. It is for the longer future that Britain is trying to prepare, by strengthening her economy and basing her armed forces on a sound structure which will be capable of maintaining maximum security measures without undue strain.

World Looks to U. S., Not UN, for Help

lo-23 | : “I've been studying jet propulsion, but | don't think it's practical

FLUSHING MEADOW, Oct. 23—Inside the assembly hall dele- -

gates were quarreling bitterly over United Nations’ procedure. Outside, in the lobby, I ran into one of its most brilliant attaches. “It's tragic,” he said, “I wonder what they would say if I got {ip and told them I came fresh from Europe and that, over there, not one person in a hundred gives a damn about the United Nations. The big question over there is when do we eat? : “Europeans and most of the world are not looking to the United Nations for aid in their time of need. They are looking to the United States. What they are counting on—whether wisely or unwisely, only Congress can tell—is American aid. § “The common man has lost faith in the United Nations. All we do Ys talk, or, more accurately, quarrel. While we are wasting time, the fate of the world is being settled over in Europe, and in ‘Asia and in Washington. Most certainly it is not being settled here.

“Three things sway mankind: Food, shelter, clothing. And yet

we go on quarreling., When we finally make a little progress and

says ‘No.'. If we do it, she'll quit. So we bog down again. And keep on talking. .

“We are like Marie Antoinette who suggested that her bread- -

less people eat cake. Three-quarters of the people of the world today lack bread-and sll we do is give them words.

40 take a certain line of action Russia .

There is reason to believe that the vast majority of the United Nations delegates agree with that view. They privately admit the. United Nations has lost and continues to lose prestige among the masses,

But unless and until the middle-sized and little nations which hold most of the seats really rise in revolt against nullification of their votes by a single big nation, the United Nations’ death by creep ing paralysis eventually will be complete.

The charter, or at least practice under the charter, many believe, :

is in need of reform. The United Nations should not have the power to vote a member into a war against its will. It simply would ree fuse to fight if it did. The veto therefore should be limited praee tically to that. . Russia and her satellites today use the United Nations for theip own purposes; they scorn it otherwise. : . {The fact is, the United Nations is not an infant. Most of the men who died in World War II were born after the United Nations) It is 38 years old. It was born back in 1919 at Versailles, under the

name of the League of Nations. Its membership is much the same,

Its name was changed, after a few alterations, mostly facade, much as a theater sometimes changes its name to get rid of a jinx. Realists here admit the United Nations isn’t functioning because Russia won't play unless all the others give in and let her have ‘her way. The trouble is as sible as that, :

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