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School Board Election LONG with a Mayor and nine members of the City Council, the voters of Indianapolis also will elect seven members of the Board of School Commissioners next Tuesday. v : The candidates for the School Board supported by the Citizens School Committee are Olma (Mrs. Louis J.) Bruck, leader in civic and PTA circles; J. Dwight Peterson, investment banker who has devoted much of his time to community projects; H. Nathan Swaim, former judge of the state Supreme Court; Carl F. Brandt, local contractor; Emil V. Schaad, printer; Raymond F. Brandes, druggist, and Leon C. Thompson, manfacturer. This group represents all sections of the city and is a well-balanced ticket, The Citizens School Committee has done an excellent job in persuading these men and one woman to become

candidates. Four of them are Republicans, three are Democrats. : However, y affiliation is unimportant on the non-

partisan school ‘board, jubt as it is in the selection of a Mayor and a City Council which will work with him, The important objective is to obtain the best-qualified public servants, ' The committee's ticket, we believe, accomplishes that purpose,

Better Rules Needed WE believe that the Communist Party in the United States is an arm and agent of Soviet Russia. We believe it is a conspiracy against the American people and a potential fifth column against their national security, . So, we think, the poeple are entitled to know what is being done by members of the Communist Party, and by persons who knowingly or ignorantly play that party's game. & A committee of Congress—the House Committee on Un-American Activities—is now attempting to expose the activities of Communists and party-liners in the motion picture industry. It is proper, we think, that this effort should be made. And it need not—and should not—involve any violation of the civil liberties guaranteed to individuals by the Bill of Rights. The right to advocate unpopular and unorthodox political doctrines does not carry with it a license to operate behind a mask of secrecy. Yet congressional investigations can violate the rights of citizens. And often they have done that when the inquires were into business practices—at which times most of the people now screaming about the alleged unfairness of the present inquiry into practices of Communists and fellow travelers were strangely silent. Eric Johnston, however, is no sympathizer with communism, He is a businessman, now president of Motion Picture Association of America. What he has just said about the procedure of congressional investigating committees, bears immediately on the current movie inquiry, but it seems to us sound in all cases. He says that the broad power of Congress to investigate is essential, but that there are inherent evils in the existing procedure of investigating committees. Under it, “too often, individuals and institutions have been condemned without a hearing or a chance to speak in self-defense; slandered and libeled by hostile witnesses not subject to cross-examination and immune from subsequent suit or prosecution. Legal counsel cannot be heard except at the committee's pleasure. , . , The committee can accept or reJect explanatory statements for the record.” Mr. Johnston recognizes that a congressional investigation is a fact-finding inquiry, not a trial. He does not suggest that investigating committees adopt the procedure of the courts. But, he adds, in practice, a committee now can become’ prosecutor, judge and jury, with the individual a helpless defendant. And, he suggests, “the time has come for Congress to overhaul its procedure in committee investigations, to clarify and make secure the rights of individ. ual citizens.” We agree. Wise reforms along that line would make the investigating power of Congress both fairer and more

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Mikolajczyk E are glad Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, leader of the Polish Peasant Party, has escaped from Poland—if he has. The Warsaw government says he has fled and that it

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. Donald D. Hoover

THE COST OF 'HIGH LIVING' Now that the American people are seriously

of “plain living and high thinking.” A glance at Wordsworth’s Michael will reveal the spiritual beauty of the simple life in a shep~

with “plain, even turn to the Athens of the

provides us with an ideal of civilized life which the world since Pericles has perhaps never reached and surely never excelled, Consideration and practice of the Wordsworth- | , ‘lan and the Greek pattern may surprise us by revealing that what concerns us Is not the high cost of living but the cost of high living snd the of partisan and provincial thinking. ~JOHN 8. HARRISON. * 9»

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4 Only a couple of months now until you'll be glad Ohristmas is over. * 4 Anger-impairs eyesight, say scientists. Is that why we get so mad we can't see straight?

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By Edgar N. Browning, 837 Wright 56 I note your front page write up on conditions of our dirty city and wish to call attention to the a

Ave. at present the worst I have ever in 61 years of my life. Age at present 7 the 11th day of October 1947

And also’a taxpayer of this eity but the South Side of town, 837 seen tH city grow from babyhood size and at present driving for Red 00

old Union Station with its 4 big doors at each end and have driven horse drawn drays besides of late, trucks and at present over 11 years for Red Cab Co. of this city. ® +

‘Elect Feeney—Clean City’

By E. L. H,, Indianapolis

They cut out my eyes And my nose. That's the way the life Of a pumpkin goes. ~EARL J. STAUDACHER. * ¢ o

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer Liveryman Turned Saloon Keeper

I would like to voice my opinion on your article, “Our Fair City.” I believe it is a splendid article. It shows what our city needs. Our garbage collection is about 30 years behind time. We have no system on street cleaning. I have never seen our streets as dirty as they were up (par) to pre-

Real Hoosiers won't put off what they should put over. Donate to the Community Fund. * + o HALLOWEEN Halloween will soon be here, The very best time of all the year, When ghosts and goblins come to call And imps and angels one and all. Dressed fit to kill, from head to toe. Know who we are? Guess! Sure, you know, Finally, you hear a faint little giggle And try your best their names to inveigle. They soap your windows and your car As suspiciously you wonder who they are, And throw a handful of pebbles and corn Right on the porch, to be seen next mérn, Then scampering gayly down the street Still gloating over that generous treat, And hop! that Halloween soon will come So they again, have so much fun. ’ —OPAL LOGAN McGEE. * ¢ ¢ “Political Pots Boiling"—headline, ing up an awful sfew.

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To per But this is not my heart's desire Or work,

The meat is" sizzling in the pan, Romantic? Eve ’ elting for my man,

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Drama They say 'tis all woman needs This domestic ease, . : Thus perf homey deeds Find creative release, Men and sometimes women shout Enon life year nough for life in and out? I doubt it!

=YIvMN WOOTEN PIERSON. The day of the spinning wheel is past but the

THE C. B. CONES BUILDING at 18 N. Senate Ave, recently bought by the Wm. H. Block people, is hallowed historic ground. For one thing, it was the site of the Atlantic Beer Garden, a cultural institution which, because of the inexorable law of evolution, turned into the famous and unforgetable Zoo. For want of documentary proof to support me, I'll yenture the guess that the Atlantic Beer Garden was about two years old when Charlie Gilmore bought the place. It was a pretty little garden full of cherry trees and twittering birds where for the the asking and the wherewithal to pay, one could drink and dine al fresco. Moreover, it enjoyed an enviable location opposite the old State House, then in the process of demolition to make room for the one we now have, It was a valid excuse for members of the male persuasion to leave home immediately after supper in the pretense of reporting on the wreckers’ progress when, as a matter of fact, what they really wanted to see was a beer garden in operation, : Notwithstanding it's favorable location, however, Charlie's purchase of the Atlantic Beer Garden had everybody baffled. Nobody could figure it out, because up to that day Charlie had spent all his time running the Checkerboard Livery Stable,

Collecting Customers WHAT THE PEOPLE DIDN'T KNOW at the time was the rather important fact that Charlie had spent his whole life hauling men from one saloon to another, in the course of which he couldn't help picking up a potential clientele to start his new venture.

the time didn't permit people to perceive the fact that Indianapolis supported a number of so-called “concert saloons” when Charlie bought the Atlantic Beer Garden. “ Be that as it may, the concert saloons in opera“tion at the time included Capt. O'Leary's place on the Levee where the Three Sisters now do business; Beswick's at Missouri and Washington Sts.; Pat

gals still listen to the old winning spiel.

Haley's just east of Beswicks; the Red Light Saloon

the luck to lease the space between the ground floor

Moreover, the lack of historical perspective at

election. I am a veteran of World War II and I believe to get something accomplished is to elect Al Feeney, Mayor. I believe Mr. Feeney is a man of action. Instead of words. Elect Feeney and clean up the city of Indianapolis. * + 9

Tribute to a Music Teacher By West Side Parent

Etta Scherf, the music director at George Washington High School, has gone. Miss Scherf was truly a remarkable artist who displayed a rare genius for getting beautiful music from girls and boys. The ability to discover hidden musical talent was a talent most unique with her. Whenever she found a girl or boy with unusual ability, she would spend unlimited hours in the most meticulous training, and she would elevate that young person to a place of highest esteem among his associates. Miss Scherf's contacts with her pupils were very personal, and-her greatest pleasure and pride was the success of those young people whom she ‘had taught. The happiest times of Miss Scherf's life were the hours when she was giving a show with her young people. Work, time, nor expense meant noting; but her associates knew that, regardless of all obstacles, the young people under her direction would make & fine showing. : For many years the George Washington High 3 School community will remember Miss Scherf's musical programs and the spectacular work of her beautifully dressed Colonial Chorus. Indianapolis will long remember her Ohristmas Carolers in their snowy white costumes, as they sang the Christmas story in the department stores, hotels, City Hall and the State House of Indiana. Somewhere in the great beyond are many young spirits and many old spirits made young at the River Jordan. Perhaps our world never gave some of them a chance to sing, and they need a new director, With these young spirits may the rare genius of Ett® Scherf discover much hidden musical talent. May this teacher, who dreamed that her retirement would be spent giving beautiful musical programs, direct with a hedvenly chorus before the great God of creation.

on W. Washington St., and Jake Crone’s, opposite the Court House—perhaps the most developed institution of the let. . Well, the first thing Charlie did after he bought the Atlantic Beer Garden was to inclose it with a tight fence made of sheets of corrugated- iron, after which he installed a stage and called the place the Zoo. To start off the Zoo, Charlie hired Fred Felton and Jim Turner, two stranded actors, who had helped maké Jake Crone’s place a suceess. These men provided the entertainment for several seasons with the paradoxical result that the size of the stage had to be decreased from time to time to provide room for the customers who fought their way to get in. On the other hand, the length of the bar had to be increased every few months. Finally, Charlie's business go to be so big that he had to expand. Around the sheets of corrugated iron he built a brick®wall strong enough to support several stories. On the top floor, he installed what it now known as a roof garden, the first of its kind around here.

Bikes and Skates IN THE COURSE OF TIME, Charlie even had

saloon and the roof garden to two young men who, also sensing a trend, opened a bicycle riding academy where they taught people to mount and stay on high wheels. History has identified the two men as Harry Hearsey and Charlie F. Smith. Then, one day, without warning of any kind, Charlie Gilmore went broke. If my memory serves me, it happened almost immediately after Charlie gave Paul Dresser, an obscure Terre Haute kid, his first chance to appear as a concert saloon singer. Paul, however, didn't have anything to do with Charlie's financial failure. Charlie went broke because of the skating rink craze in 1885-86. Everybody spent everything they had to buy roller skates; leaving nothing for the Zoo. Charlie wasn’t the only one to suffer. At one time, right at the peak ot the craze, it was so bad around here that even Capt. English had to ring down the curtain of his theater because the box office didn’t show more than $7

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WOLVERHAMPTON, Oct. 20—One of the stately halls of England, on the edge of Wolverhampton, has a new tenant. The tenant is the National Coal Board, represented in this division by Sir Ben Smith, who came up from the ranks of the trade-union movement to play an important part in the councils of the Labor government.

What has happened to Himley ‘Hall 18 symbolic of the changes taking place in England in a difficult period of transition. This handsome Georgian house, with its stables, its paddock and meadows, the lake, the farm and the gentle hedgerows, was formerly the home of the Earl of Dudley. The present Earl was one of the close friends of the Duke of Windsor in the gay days long before the then Prince of Wales dreamed that he would go into exile. When Sir Ben Smith was appointed chairman of the West Midland division of the National Coal Board, his first task was to find a building for office space. That is one of the scarcest commodities in austerity England. He decided finally to buy Himley Hall for $180,000. The big house would provide plenty of room for offices. The farm could be worked and the produce sold as before. And as further justification for the

purchase, Sir Ben

day be worked to provide a return at least equal to the total purchase

pointed to the fact that the coal deposits beneath the fields could some |

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is investigating how he got through the tight border con- | trol. His family and friends in London also think he is on | this side of the iron curtain. But in the past there have | been many “disappearances” of anti-Communist leaders from Poland and other satellite countries, who never were seen again,

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If Mikolajczyk is out of Poland, it means he has given up the task of opposing the police state from the inside. The | record shows that in the long run the choice in such a case is between a dead martyr to democracy, and an absent lead- | er who lives to fight another day. There are not enough | democratic leaders of Eastern Europe left to sacrifice more | of them to the persecution, torture, f rame-ups, phony trials and other form of murder by which the Yugoslav, Romanian, Bulgarian and Polish dictatorships—not to mention their Kremlin boss—dispose of major political opponents. Americans and Britons especially should hope that Mikolajezyk is safely out of Poland because their govern. ments were influential in persuading him to go back there. Under the Yalta agreement with Stalin, the minority Red regime which had seized power was to be followed by an interim coalition including the lawful gdvernment-in-exile in London, pending a prompt free election. * Despite present conditions in that country, we share Mikolajezyk's faith in the Polish people. They are the chief victims, But, if their history means anything, they will not always remain vassals of an alien ideology and a foreign

people, to stay in office it would not have to depend on

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persecution of peasant leaders, police ter- |

Clash of England's Present and Storied Past

price. A considerable part of the Dudley wealth had come from nearby coal mines, which were taken over by the state under nationalization, as were all of Britain's 1400 mines. But the fact that Sir Ben and the coal board should be occupying Himley Hall has produced almost as much criticism as anything that the board has done in the 10 months it has existed. The conservative press is deeply affronted by the idea. The attacks sound very much like the kind of abuse poured on the New Deal in the first Roosevelt administration. | '

Many Traditions Jarred ; \CONSERVATISM—above all, traditionalism—has deeper roots hére than in America. A controversy has developed because the coal board, in another division, proposes to dig up the coal under the beautiful hills of Lyme Hall, which was turned over by its owners to the national trust as a museum and public park. Now, as much of the press would have it, the coal board proposes to desecrate this beauty. This is the kind of resistance which any change inevitably meets when it comes up against England's richly storied past: Sir Ben, who has broad autonomous power as a divisional chairman, is working hard to push moderni®ation of the coal pits’ in his area. Many pits have been operated by methods long since abandoned in the United States. { I visited a small mine producing about 700 ‘tons of coal a day. On the surface at the pit-head, 30 men were employed in conveying the small cars full of coal that came up from the mine. The manager, who had inspected mines in America, shid that with modern techniques a similar mine near Pittsburgh produced .5000 tons a day and that only three men were employed on the surface. Modernization was going forward, although necessarily on a modest scale since that pit would be abandoned in two or three years as exhausted. Much of the machinery on the surface bore the date 1882. Output per man-shift in Britain's ‘mines today is slightly more

By Marquis Childs

than one ton. The comparable figure for the United States is about five tons, But, as the visitor is repeatedly told, the comparison is not a fair one since conditions in the two countries are so different. Britain has few of the broad, straight seams of coal that have made mechanization and high production in America possible. The presence of water below the surface creates obstacles that are exceptional in the U. 8. Then, too, the inherent conservatism of the miners and the mine owners has worked against change. i The present goal in the new battle for Britain is two tons per man-shift. Output.is rising, but slowly. The confing of Christmas, with an incentive to earn money, is considered likely to increase it. This matter of incentives under socialization is always eropping up. The mine managers have formed a& union since the mines were nationalized, to make sure that they get fair pay. Sir Ben Smith says that in all probability managerial pay throughout the industry will be equalized. . 4 Sir Ben's own appointment caused an uproar on this same issue. The Tory press charged the government with finding convenient jobs within the coal board for over-age politicians. Sir Ben, who was in Washington for two years during the war as British cabinet representative for supply, was later a failure a minister of food, although his friends insist that circumstances bg¥ond his control made it an impossible job. He is 68 years old. .

Evolution of Socialism

. THE LABOR GOVERNMENT in London, insofar as I have been able to discover, had nothing to do with Sir Ben's selection as one of the eight divisional chiefs under the coal board. He was the choice of Lord Hyndley, who is chairman of the National Coal Board, with powers quite independent of the government. This is all part of the curious and difficult experiment in evolutionary socialism in a democracy. Whether or not it will work, only time will tell.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . .

Poles Get Bitter Lesson

WASHINGTON, Oct, 20—As this is written, the mystery of the disappearance from Warsaw of Stanislaw Mikolajesyk, former premier

of Poland and leader of the once-powerful Peasant Party had not :

been cleared. : The Warsaw government was hinting that the famous opposition

leader had “escaped” with the connivance of “a foreign power.” The

| State Department claims to have no information whatever regarding

his whereabouts. In London a friend of the former premier said Mikolajczyk had

'| made good his escape and was “safe outside of Poland,” but this had | not been confirmed. .

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‘When seen at his home in Warsaw about a month ago by a visiting member ‘of the House Affairs Committee, the Polish Russian

that he intended to leave the country. On the contrary, he seemed resigned to his fate which those about him felt would be death if not imprisonment if , Fl ; -

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Poland after the war. “I wish to prove to the world,” he said, “that, granted plenty of good will, co-operation with Stalin is possible.”

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ground. _ Today, therefore; Polish circles in the United States observe that dead or alive, and wherever he may be, Mikolajczyk has proved his case, but proved it in the negative. The West can not do business

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