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PAGE 12 ~~ Monday, Oct. 27, 1947 : oh Marr; ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LEOKRONE HENRY W. MANZ | : ; * 73 hg Aa i PU . arri President Baer Business Manager With the Times ¥ 3 J8h aes ile wid Yost vel ba Arne A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER «@ie~ Donald D. Hoover he — | Fag Owned and published daily (except Sunday) by . . (ndianapolis Times Publishing Co., 214 W. MAYA | © me nistory of the United States In the past Op Controls : Read: Wi. ‘Postal Zong 3. : 25 years might be written in four words: Boom, By J. F. Frants, § Mr. and M Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard News- | Bust, Bang, Bingo! ~~BILL EVANS, From necessity, legislation of special character Jr. are at ho paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of * o ¢ must sometimes be had, and there will be little ware St. fo Circulations. THE RECENT DEATH of Lord Passmoor re- ground BO. Somplaint when such legislation is Oct. 19 in the Price in Mario ‘ « | calls a pleasant evening I spent with his wife at standard or of general application. tist Church. ered i nowy.» Seats 4. wpy; deny Barron Te, fn the Lake District, the summer | . But to pass legislation to control or protect one officiated. Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other states, | home of the Fabian Society. He was then.8ydney group of individuals is class legislation. It cremies The bride, 0. 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, $110 a Webb, founder of the Fablan Society, with Bernard conflict by pitting one group against the other with Pope, is the month. Telephone RI ley 6851 | Shaw and H. G. Wells. our government on one side or at best in between Mrs. Roy A. ; Pr Wii Find Thotr w I had attended a lecture by Mr. Webb on the two groups of individuals. Controls demand St. and Mr. Give [Aght and the People Will Own Wo | China. Afterward my wife and I were invited the individual's full co-operation and if it is not Mr. and Mr . to the terrace, with Mr. Webb and his wife. There given, the individual is subject to punishment or Chicago. Your Board of Directors we listened to the singing of Scotch ballads by a damages and jail. Under controls, he must accept The matro ROM the 15 ! didates for the City Co il fine baritone, accompanied by the gentle lapping new duties and responsibilities and conduct his R. Bruner, ¥ among ae 4 Can or the Lity Council, YOU 4 of the water of Lake Derwentwater. business according to regulation and rules laid crepe dress. will select on Nov. 4 nine who will become the board of Mrs, Webb left me for a moment, and returned down for him by federal law. Mary Beth | directors of your community next year with a lighted cigaret, I lighted my pipe and for Strange as it may seem, there are some who Lou Smith, a 3." s a) : the first time smoked witli a woman. By the way, favor and urge this peculiar system set up by wore brown ¢ This is a big job, a job important to the future of | ;1. never used her husband's title. Congress. Their every action indicates that they . was the flow Indianapolis. It is a job for which all applicants should I have met three peers, Lord Oxford-Esquith, are definitely against the American system of free erald green f ini Viscount Lee and Lord Passmoor and found them enterprise. They oppose our Constitution, which was ringbear be carefully scrutinized before you cast your ballot. is essential in protecting the individual liberty tas . : simple, courteous gentlemen, Ed Sovola In addition to the many problems which resulted from FRANK 8. 0, WICKS of peviieges and immrities against ihe Snerosh the ushers W the War years and delayed municipal recovery, Indianapolis * rR AN ANIAS! men! 3 Selcputos ow Soneres api Budhler, wh municipal affairs present a challenge in management which CALL FO a individuals, our liberty vulla, B will require not only ability and judgment, but also closest 0 robin prices , mn ini ihe Conti on big siousy ” gown Jura co-operation between Mayor and City. Council. : To og mighty slices agitators who resort to ve > Boe fr iff. Sel} pearls, Running this city’s affairs. is no simple matter. The From the things we have to eat, promise of wing or putting teeth in price and of bl income and expenditures of the municipality each year are rent control. : Poll . If Labor balks on bullding homes, . This promise puts property and business’in a around $14,000,000, Payroll is $9,000,000, , . some 3500 And phones no longer ring; céndition of fear or uncertainty for the very nature “The bride jobs are involved, The assessed valuation of the property And lawyers would the statutes comb of this peculiar system of planned economy, of versity and | which is directly affected by the management of the city To make Petrillo sing. fixing rents and Prices by the mode of choice or Phi Sorority. is more than $554,000,000 antagonism and create a vast variety of problems uate of Ind 0 NE IN AT If legislators quit thelr game and hardship, for it is exceedingly difficult to Phi 3

» ~ » ANY indications point to the conclusion that the council and mayoralty election may be decided on pretty much of a non-partisan basis. If this is true, then much of the weight and the credit of that decision will redound to the independent voters, those who elected Democrats Joseph O. Hoffmann to the Juvenile Court bench and Louis Ludlow to Congress in the face of a Republican landslide last year. Whether the administration during the next four years is Republican or Democratic makes little actual difference. The point at issue is which of the candidates for mayor and councilmen can give Indianapolis the best government. The Times is presenting factual background information on all candidates to help the voters select the men whose qualifications appear nearest to those of these important jobs on the public payroll. It will continue to do so until the field has been covered thoroughly. One of the indications of the manner in which voters may cross party lines or exercise past independence is seen in the number of responses in The Times poll by Republieans who say they would vote for the Democratic candidate _ for Mayor if the election were held today. Another is the + [fact that. more than 20 per cent of those who returned the postcards indicated no pafty preference when they indicated the mayoralty candidate for whom they would vote. We emphasize that this straw vote is offered only as a public service feature. I$ is by no means to be interpreted

To hold investigations; And Senators are seeking fame In frenzied castigations,

If these contentious shifts induced Inflation’s threat to buyers; Pray tell me, What one thing produced This awful crop of Liars? -G. 8, H. ® ¢ ’

TALES APTER-DINNER SPEAKERS will grab them up, and yarn tellers will adapt them to other scenes and characters, but anecdotes dug up by Cleveland Amory for “The Proper Bostonians” will go on and on, and they should, because there are some fine tales in the lot. For example, there's the one Author Amory hangs on a famous poet; in the new hook just published by E. P. Dutton, Here ‘tis: It was Oliver Wendell Holmes, the elder who gave Boston newspapermen their beloved short word for their town when he declared that firmly planted in the minds of all true Bostonians is the

However difficult it is to defend .this hub thesis from a purely scientific viewpoint, there are Bostonians only too glad to try it, and one Boston lady not long ago made a stirring attempt. At a meeting of the New England Poetry Society’ _ the talk had turned to sea shells, and the chairman of the meeting had taken the {rouble to

in the same direction. was interesting, but no more so than a fact of Nature she had learned in the horticultural line. “Do you know,” she said with quiet pride, “that

as a Times prediction of who will win the Mayor's race. But | is does show, among those who sent in their cards, a con- | tinuation of a trend of independence among the voters.

NDIANAPOLIS can't grow unless it has an aggressive Mayor . . . and a City Council which works with him effectively, It's about time our city emerged from the status described by the comment that “our town may not be the only county seat in Indiana, but by golly, it’s the biggest.” Come on, Indianapolis, Let's Grow!

Truman Reports Emergency RESIDENT TRUMAN'S statement to the public on his reasons for calling Congress into special session Nov. 17 was concise and clear. He spelled out the twin problems of high prices in this country and of emergency aid abroad. Although employment and wages are at an all-time high, farmers flourishing and business and earnings booming, with production of domestic goods the largest in our history, this prosperity is menaced by the dangers of inflation. Since the middle of last year the cost of living has risen 23 per cent, and is still climbing. : As the President pointed out: “Millions of families of low or moderate income are already victims of inflation. These families aré using up savings. They are mortgaging their future by going into debt. They are doing without things they should have. . . . When so many people are not sharing fairly in prosperity, the road is being paved for a recession or a depression.” Certainly such a situation is sufficient reason for Congress to get on the job quickly. On the foreign side, the President explained that the worst crops in a generation in Western Europe, and an acute fuel shortage resulting from last year's severe winter and war dislocations, created a crisis. Inflated American prices have further reduced the purchasing power of foreign countries dependent on our supplies. France must have $357 million to carry her over until April 1, and Italy $285 million. Additional funds are required for our occupation areas of Germany, Japan and Korea.

» rn . MERICA cannot afford to wait until domestic inflation leads to depression or until chaos leaves Western Europe an easy victim of totalitarian aggression, the President concluded. He called on the people to conserve and save, especially food, and promised to present remedial measures for the twin emergencies to Congress for action. So far so good. We wish, however, the President had gone. a step further and taken the people into his confidence as to the kind of measures he has ready for Congress. That is what the public is interested in. The people have firsthand knowledge of high prices. And in recent weeks they have been told a lot about the crisis abroad. It would have improved the people's morale, and pre- _ pared the way for more informed public opinion and intelli gent congressional debate, if Mr. Truman had brought his plans into h.open, at least in general outline.

Adm. Blandy’s Visit - | JXDIAN APOLIS entertained one of the war's most distinguished heroes today as the principal figure in the annual Navy Day celebration. ‘ ‘ : Adm. W. H. P, Blandy, commander of the Atlantic fleet, . was here to address the Navy Day-American Legion luncheon. Yesterday he reviewed a regatta on White River, near the Naval Armory. Indiana is proud of the U. S. Navy, and of the part her sons have played in its history. Adm. Blandy and his fellow . ~ railors always will be welcome guests of the community.

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all lilies that grow north of Boston point south, and all lilies south of Boston point north?” Every community has its favorite globe-trotter, and before you know it, this one about a Bostonian will be re-adapted for local use, far from the Bay State: ; Recently Hooper Hooper was interviewed by a reporter whose curiosity had been aroused by the cotillion Jeader's claim of having crossed the ocean 79 times. The newspaper man felt that here at last the businesslike Boston socialite had been caught. “You say 79?" he thecked. “Yes, 70." “But Mr. Hooper, that would have made you on the other side.” ‘ : “The cotillion leader cleared his throat. “It would,” he replied thoughtfully, “had I not been born in Paris. GREENHOUSE,

* & & It couldn't be, or could it, that the pilot of the big AirLiner that flew upside down over El Paso, has been flying some of the “Brains” in Washington, who don't seem to know which end is up. —WALT CRESS, * oo There's only one person more pessimistic than a football coach. Another football coach, * © 9 It's the little worm's fault that the nuts now being gathered aren't what they're cracked up to be.

idea that Boston is the “hub of the solar system.” |

demonstrate that the spirals in all shells went | To the Boston lady this |

SOMEHOW IT SOOTHES ME to close my eyes

| South’ Side did all the heavy

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and reflect that whatever remains of my character may be traced to the fact that the dray drivers were the backbone of the South Side. Sixty years ago when I was an impressionable little bow the dray drivers,of the

hauling for the big wholesale houses. which. at. that time were owned by merchants of the caliber of Charlie Mayer, Louis Holweg and Henry Severin, to men

During that whole period, I can't recall that the dray drivers : ever took off time to take a vacatfon. Nor did they ever stop work on #ccount of rain or snow. Indeed, I still remember to what lengths they went to combat the emotional fits of nature. When the heat got to be so intense that everybddy else surrendered, the dray drivers pursued the even tenor of their way— the only difference being that, in such cases, they provided their horses with enormous be-ribboned straw hats, which, etimes, were so fancy that it Jed me to believe that they were contributions on the part of the dray drivers’ wives. :

Excellent on Mudholes AS A RULE, the dray drivers had their stables back of their homes. And I distinctly recall that they always made it their business to give the horses their suppers before they went to see about their own. For looks, the horses couldn't compare with those in the stable of Mr, Schmidt's brewery. But, even so, they had their good points. At any rate, it always struck me that the dray horses knew a lot more about side-stepping the mud holes in our streets ‘at the time.

I never got to know the dray drivers as well as

I should have liked. To make up for it, though, I

got to know their kids. They went to School 6 where they cut quite a figure, if for no other reason than the fact that most of them lived in brick houses. T6 their everlasting credit, however, let it be said that never to my knowledge did they try to impress the rest of us with their fathers’ affluence. Indeed their

« By Anton Scherrer

Dray Horses Had Their Good Points

as that of kids reared in frame houses. In one respect, however, the dray drivers’ kids had a method of raising hell all their own which manifested itself in the liberties they took with the English language. They peppered their speech with

to this day (south af Merrill St). out of. the ordinafy, for instance, for a dray driver's kid to say: “I'll be ready to play with you when the

work is all done” whigh, to the initiated, meant that -

he would be prepared to play with us when he had completed his chores. " 2 ; The language of the dray drivers’ kids took this form because they had been brought up to speak German at home. When it came time to speak Eng-

- lish in school, they: couldn't help thinking in Ger--man,

One of the most romantic customs, I remember, was the one practised by a prosperous dray driver who lived away town on Union St. The brick house in which he lived was surrounded by a white picket fence provided with a gate of like color, a detail essential to the story. The dray driver's fence wasn’t a bit prettier than the one surrounding our home on the same street, but it attracted more attention because of the fact that his pickets inclosed two lovely daughters—one 14 years old; the other approaching 18. Well, one day, we kids were dumfounded to note that the dray driver hed peinted his gate a lovely cerulean blue. Upon investigation, it turned out that it was the dray driver's way of ‘announcing that he had a marriageable daughter inside,

Announcing . . .

I DON'T WANT TO TAX your credulity on top of all your other obligations today, but the fact remains—so help me God—that the blue-painted gate worked as well in Indianapolis as it did in Germany. In less than two months, the girl had a presentable beau. Ten months later, she got married; after which the dray driver painted his gate a pearly white again, The gate remained white the next four years. Then, one day it was painted blue again. This time it worked even better. daughter started on her honeymoon. (Niagara Falls.)

administer controls of this character, One must be for one system or the other. We must resort to the courts and not the polls, and to save free enterprise and the American system of business our courts must give shelter for every person is entitled to a remedy in law without delay. We must admit that under free enterprise there will always be some individuals activated solely by greed and that some will not conduct

propensity for raising hell was just as pronounced

IN WASHINGTON . .. . By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—If Congressman J. Parnell Thomas’ House Committee on un-American Activities can produce one live Communist out of Hollywood, its case wil have beén made. Such a disclosure would encourage the committee to report out the Sheppard or Rankin bills making it unlawful for any American to belong to the Communist Party. Number one whipping boy and likeliest candidate for this honor in the current three-dimensional, technicolor and sound-track investi~ | gation of Communist infiltration in the moving picture industry is apparently going to be one John Howard Lawson, a writer,

Scene ‘Stealing’—Red Style

THIS 18 MR. LAWSON'S SECOND APPEARANCE before the House un-American Committee. : In the fall of 1944 he testified under oath that he was not a member of the Communist Party. That record will have to stand unless the committee can now prove that he was or is a card-carrying and dues-paying member. If it can be proved, he runs the risk of a charge of having perjured himself in previous testimony. Jack L. Warner identified Mr, Lawson as one of the 14 writers whose contracts had been allowed to lapse because of their “unAmerican ideas.” i ‘ Director 8am Wood, in reply to a query Committee Counsel Robert. Stripling, “Is there any doubt in your mind that Mr, Lawson is a Communist?” replied, “If there is, I haven't any mind.” Actor Adolphe Menjou testified, “I have heard he was a Communist leader.” Esquire Magazine's film critic, John Charles Mofit, told the committee it had been testified Mr. Lawson was sent to Los Angeles by a former Communist secretary to help organize the party work there. Mr. Moffitt further identified Mr, Lawson as first president of the Screen Writers’ Guild, a speaker at the California Labor School, an indorser of the Harry Bridges defense movement, an officer of the

with the “respectable” Democratic Party.

, further the class struggle. If they were nothing more than extras on a country club lawn, they should appear decadent and be snobs. If in a tenement scene, they should look downtrodden and oppressed. Howard Rushmore, former film critic for the New York Daily * Worker, called Mr, Lawson Hollywood's “Red Commissar." The John Howard Lawson on whom all this is being hung is a 52-year-old New York playwright. He was graduated from Williams College in 1014. For two years he was a cable editor for Reuter's British News Service. In World War I he was a volunteer ambulance driver in France and Italy. Then he was a foreign correspondent,

‘Better Luck in Hollywood

FROM 1923 TO' 1937 HE WROTE NINE PLAYS, all produced on Broadway. The worst, “The Pure in Heart,” was about a girl who ran away to New York and fell in love with a murderer.

His most successful play, 1925 and 81 in 1938. It was about “industrial slavery” in West Virginia with all the characters protesting against life in America, The class consciousness yi v ol

The Hunt for Communists in Hollywood

Hollywood Committee of the Arts, Sciences and Professions and member | of the Hollywood Democratic Committee—the last in no way connected

In 1041, Mr. Moffitt said Mr, Lawson lectured before a Hollywood | School for Acting. He told the young actors it was their duty to |

" ran 96 performances in |

theme runs through all of Mr. Lawson's

plays. In “International”—27 performances in 1928-—some mean old oil men start an uprising which spreads all over the world. In “The Marching Song,—61 performances in 1937—Pete Russell, the hero, is an evicted laborer who goes to live in an empty factory. He is offered his job back if he will betray the strike leader, but he won't. In the end the strike leader is shot down. In Hollywood, however, Mr. Lawson has done better. His “Action in the North Atlantic,’ whipped up in jig time for the Maritime Commission to tell the story of Liberty ships against the submarines, was one of the best pictures of the war. But as the “hero” Liberty ship of the picture carried Lend-Lease supplies to Murmansk, it will now probably be considered subversive and used against the author, no matter what his defense.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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Molotov will demand a full $10 billion in reparations from Germany, with a_share of the Ruhr coal. This wrecked the Moscow meeting last March, and it will be renewed again next month with

Britain, France on U. S. Side

THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN the March and November meetIn March, Molotov --

ings is largely one of surrounding atmosphere. was riding high. It looked as if he could create so much trouble that the Western powers would have to give Russia the treasure it demandFrance toward

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Britain and the United States.

their business affairs honestly. But for the good A double of all individuals, we must recognize that it is Miss. Donns much better to permit natural law to effect the real remedy-not. some vague, indefinite and Joseph An uncertain system of controls supported by a ' Rev. Emst meddlesome group of agitators. vows at 8 | . * oo John's Eval 4 ‘ X : ._" 9’ Church. Cheap Advertising The maid By James Cooper, 2229 Station St. tha Price, ar Just a little reminder, I have been reading your Mrs. Antho front-page news about Brightwood and their clean Betty Guy. up campaign and I have been taking your paper was the fio every week for about 29 years and I have never tendants wo known you to put on such a campaign at this time. Thomas A Just at election time it looks to me like a cheap man, and advertisement for the Democrat Party. You don’t Anthony Sc go ahead and tell the people that the stuff you The brid are putting in the paper has been going on for white satin It was nothing | Years and the Democrats were in power for 12 = 4 fitted bodice ‘years and they didn't do anything about what ing into a "you so nicely slam the Republican Party for. It Jength veil has been in just five years and four .years ‘of and she car that they couldn't ‘even get labor at any cost and . After a re every time they go over the top in a bloody war the bride's the Democrats are always in power and don't stop Thomas E. | to think that when the Democrats were in power St., the cou] the little" man that picked up our ashes got only ~ Smokies, 1 35 cewrts per hour now they get 85 to $1.00 per after Saturd hour and-tell me who is paying this but the tax- ton Bt. payers and if you raise the taxes they holler and The bride if you don't fix this or that they holler so What and Mrs. Jo can a madi do except the best in his power and ders St.’ their is such a few people around here know that the said men you had to put stuff. in the Group ] paper is a Democrat. If The Times paper want _ ’ F Jur to do what is just on both sides of the party, or just come dat to my home. I will be home every Plans for morning and I will give you some real facts about high school Brightwood and if you don't want to put some art exhibit real good honest news on the front page just Indiana Re forget the whole thing from a yer and a ot Notions | subscriber in your paper at his time, Bios usiness me Massachusetts, Ave. Gutters bustress ne By A Citizen of Bi twood tending we: I just read of what the Brightwood people want P-TA repre to be done. I have been up to the highway office Ellis, Block about a dozen times trying to get them to come and Samuel out on Massachusetts Ave. and open up the gutters Sponsored between the Belt R. R. and Emerson Ave. The azine, the | water now runs on the highway because the gut- Ne Block's au ter is closed at Gladstone Ave. They have filled : part of the the gutter with ashes so they can drive over it. If Last year o that was opened we would not have to have a ceived fron swamp in front of our house. All they give me is —i— —we will send a man out there. But no man Camp ] comes. But if we fail to. pay our taxes they are Six months later, the second | right on us. Receiving is good but giving out is To Hon slow. ' e Cam tion will h WORLD AFFAIRS . . . associate , : 4 : Fire Girls, . . : from 3:30 Molotov Not Riding ov 51 y - general : which is to Crest of Wave Now "e chairman, | By HAL O'FLAHERTY 2 ’ v Earl Knipts WILL BE A CHANGED WORLD that will confron Russia's Toren Minister Molotov when he emerges from the Kremlin next Card P month to attend the four-power conference in London. The Won The last time he was allowed out was for his brief visit to Paris anapolis He to consult upon the Marshall proposal for mutual assistance between sor its ann the European group of nations. What he saw at Paris sent him scur- p. m. Thi rying back to Moscow to sound the alarm. He reported that the United Room of th States was about to take over all of Western Europe, Mrs. A. W. | Since that appearance by Molotov, his country’s foreign relations club, is cha have deteriorated to a point where they might easily Income diets. in charge. . The picture presented by the United Nations is t of a religious pro- 5000000 ctr with a heretic on the sidewalk shouting insults and scoffing ) at the fervor of the marchers. : 3 Beginning with Iran, Molotov has lost virtually every encounter 3 | with the Western world. It is true that he has consolidated Russia's 4 war gains and has united many valuable strips of territory to the b Select Soviet domain, but those were victories made possible by sharp deal- Silver ings during hostilities. They represent the price paid by the West yh ri for Russia's promise to fight Japan. . ¢ Ing In the post-war era, every international meeting has begun with $ tern } a selfish plea by Molotov for more reparations, more security, more - every prestige for his country. It will be the same when the representatives © more of Russia, Britain, Prance and the United States meet fi London. it.

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