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Our Fair City . . . The Election Issues

"THERE ISN'T very much dispute about what has te be done in Indianapolis. The public demand for an over-all civic face-lifting , . . for improvement in virtually everything our city ‘government does . , . is all but overwhelming. And, with election only four days away, our two candidates for mayor have spoken fully, and it seems to us frankly, on all the genuine local issues, have made their | pledges and built their platforms without anything we can identify as political double-talk. .. Right now they are in substantial agreement on ghat has to be done . . . differing, here and there on how they propose to do it, but differing only in relatively minor detail. That leaves the voter who is honestly trying to make up his own mind how to vote pretty well up against the question: “Which of them is going to be able to do better the job both propose to do?” LI Ba 0»

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paign in these last few hectic days, of course. There already have been some . . . such as “communism” (by some Republicans) and “boss control” (by some Democrats). They're worth a little , . .‘miybe not very much +» » analysis, We don't believe Bill Wemmer would, or could, be a boss-ridden party hack in any office . .. any more than we believe Al Feeney would be a rallying point for the minions of Moscow, To anyone who knows these two men the idea is absurd. There is a potent Republican machine in this county. Mr. Wemmet was not its choice for mayor, but it accepted him and has given him its support in the campaign. It has madg, and some of Mr, Wemmer’s ardent supporters have made, efforts to tie him completely to that machine, and to claim for #t in advance the credit for the votes he will get next Tuesday. It will get him some votes. It will also cost him some votes. The Republican machine is in reasonably bad odor with many voters here, including many Republican voters, In fact, if Mr, Feeney is elected it almost certainly will be done by the votes of Republicans who have crossed the party line, often in rebellion against this very party machine. We do not believe the support of the county machine binds Mr. Wemmer to machine control if he is elected, and we do not believe he personally considers that it does. The important thing about the Republican machine is its slate for city council. Five of its six nominees have been party ward chairmen, integral parts of the machine itself. There is reason to believe, and we doubt if it would be denied, that election of these six men to council means complete control of city council by the Republican county machine. Council is the city’s legislature. It holds the, munieipal purse strings. It makes the city’s laws. Can Mr. Wemmer, if elected mayor with this handiap, still keep the city’s government out of machine sontrol ? One way to insure that he ean, if you plan to vote for Mr. Wemmer, is to vote also for the six Democratic nominees for city council. They are able, sincere . . . and above

all, un-bossed individuals, NG : "= =» 4 ” =» THE LAST-MINUTE pleas of shme national political figures against “Communist” support for Mr. Feeney is very much less to the point, Theres a Communist menace in this eountry , . . we are well a of it. On the national scene a good many of its sympathizers have, indeed, plied themselves with the Democratic Party. That's steictly a matter of national, and not loeal, politics. It just simply isn't an issue in this city election. We can well understand the interests of political leaders on a‘larger stage in the state-wide or the nation-wide effect of a Democratic victory in an important industrial city such as Indianapolis. We can even understand the horse-trading we hear is going on for control of delegates from Indiana to national party conventions. Those things me-n very little to the ordinary taxpaying, voting citizen of Indianapolis.

What we want, here in Indianapolis, is good oity govsrmment—right here in Indianapolis.

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OPPORTUNITY AND ALOYSIUS

HIGGINS

FOOTSORE, at strife with herself, Opportunity

and sourly remembered the palaver,

the wire-pulling she'd been to to make possible the rap on the scaling portal of the Aloysius B. Higgins. For it had not been easy. “Where's your horse-sense? This ain’t a place for a married man. Lookit the sap the dames've made of B—." But in the end she had had her way.

How for time she asked why, oh, why had

she, hand upraised, paused to obscure the homely

the dirty glass door.”

The Higginses were at lunch, gathered about

covered board which, with its

bread and beans, streaked oleo and syrup, was by no means a groaning board. The viands, though, Opportunity scarcely saw. was the amazing cheer of the little group. of work , . . all those mouths to feed , .

What arrested her “Out . “dinned ad been the instigation, (There was

more—“A perfect wizard with a banjo and any old thing in the way of song.” Perhaps, she half

, if Nate--but another Caruso!”). just know it? she thought, gazing, isgiving at Aloysius B., family cares

had taken their toll, but there was that about

eyes, the wavy bleached straw hair

and reddish lips betokening the possible emergence

the truly D-order. Mrs, Aloysius, forever any charm Mrs, A-, may . With the coming of each small

Higgins she had steadily broadened in body, flat-

thinned in thatch. But not, thank

God, for the little circle about her! It was some-

d how supremely she was still its

heart and soul, especially when the thought fol lowed that one’s own act was capable of shattering that bond. For suppose—suppose Aloysius B, ghould prove as Infirm as he appeared? What price abundance then? Oh, darn ‘Nate, anyway! Trembling, almost in panic, Opportunity turned and scurried streetward. »

~HELEN DESCHAMP, * ¢

QUR DEBT .

For those who died At home and far across the roiling sea, To stem the seething tide Of mad humanity, We lay a flower or drop a tear Upon a soldier's sunken, grass-grown bier,

A noble cause Demands a willing, noble saorifice; A hero does not pause To render up the price.

stand in debt today,

With only tears and fading flowers to pay.

They went to God Upon a wave of glory, all unseen; Their dust, beneath the sod,

patriotism keen. ease our toil and play, flower or tear beside the way. -=STAN MOORE. * ¢

AUTOBIOGRAPHY

For what I wished to be, I weeps For what I am, I smile; And thus with pity or with pride My willing mind beguile,

-~DOROTHY LYON. ¢ ¢

(“PAR'S, Oct. 26-—Red Paper Attacks Donald Duck, Superman.”) If a patient man you're baiting, Mind his final, frightful wrath;

past all arbitrating,

It may mean your epitaph.

We take Commie gibes pernicious, But toe far they'll strefoh their luok. Now a Paris paper, vicious, Picks on poor old Donald Duck.

~BEN FOSTER.

Hollywood Probe Has Gone Com

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—The House Committee on Un-American Activities has fumbled the ball again, in its Hollywood investigation,

ed indefinitely yesterday.

Film Writer John Howard Lawson should have been allowed to speak his piece, Instead, he was silented by Committee Chairman J. Parnell Thomas. He was denied the witness stand in his own defense. He will be cited for contempt of Congress at the coming session. - Seven other writers and two directors were similarly cited, the Iatest being yesterday. This is probably just what Lawsom and his pals wanted. It makes them heroes. If they are given fines or jail sentences, they become martyrs to the cause of freedom of speech and the preserva-

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OUR TOWN ... By Anton

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Tinshop Thrived on Traveling

JOSEPH OC. GARDNER'S death last Sunday recalled an unforgettable hour I spent with him some 10 years ago. Except for that memorable occasion, I_wouldn't be in a position today to tell you about the grandmothers of some pretty prominent people around here—the grandmothers of Mrs. Russell Ryan, Mrs. John Rauch, Mrs, Dan Glossbrenner and of Kurt and Alex Vonnegut, for instance, just to give you an idea of their importance. Years ago, sald Mr. Gardner, when Charles Mayer, Clemens Vonnegut, Willlam Haueisen, Henry Schnull, Robert Kipp and the heads of other German families had a habit of visiting the Old Country, it was a foregone concluslon that, upon their retum to Indianapolis, their respective wives’ baggage would always include some new-fangled kitchen utensil with which to startle the Hoosier natives. And, like as not, too, a pocketful of recipes unheard of around here,

Gets Tricky Coffee Pot

ONCE UPON A TIME—it must have been way back in the 80's, said Mr. Gardner, who was in an expansive reminiscent mood that afternoon—Mrs.

“Charles Mayer Sr. returned with a tricky German

coffee pot that just about set this town on its head. It was a contraption with a reservoir around the pot into which hot water could be poured, thus obviating the necessity for constantly running to the stove to keep the coffee palatable,

The imported coffee pot was a god-send; so much 80, indeed, that when the rest of the women around here saw it, they rushed pell mell to Gardner's tinshop to have the thing duplicated. At this point, I remember, Mr. Gardner took time off to explain that he was an apprentice in his father's tinshop at the time; moreover, that he was equipped with & set of eyes so good that nothing escaped him.

In support of which Mr. Gardner recalled the time Mrs. Clemens Vonnegut Sr. brought” back a German tool with which to fry fish. Up until that time, it was considered a trick—practically impossible of execution—to fry a fish and get it out of the pan without breaking. Mrs. Vonnegut's tool solved everything because of a tray inside the utensil upon which the fish was laid; with the result that, when it came time to remove the finished product from the

tion of American civil liberties, tion as unconstitutional and courts. That would make the If Lawson had been and answer the questions

We want our garbage collected. We want our tax money spent wisely and economically. | We want our police force te be the best police force there is anywhere. We want our sewers modernized and our playgrounds | open, and our traffic knots untied. We want a mayor, and a oity council, Who are going to | do those things for our city. £ on | Next Tuesday let's pick the ones we believe can do them-—and settle the national issues, pro and con, when we have a national election.

Re-Affirmation of Faith

PROTESTANT churches of Indianapolis will hold their first city-wide “Reformation Sunday” observance Sun- | day at 8 p. m. in the First Baptist Chureh. One of the nation's lay religious leaders, Wilbur La Roe Jr, moderator of the Presbyterian church in the USA, will be the speaker. Mr. La Roe is a Washington, D. C., attorney who has been active in interdenominational and race | relations affairs. | Purpose of the celebration is a reaffirmation. of the Protestant faith and inspiration of co-operation in meeting the chaos and suffering which prevails in the world today. All of us would do well to reaffirm our faith, not only ith religion, but in the principles which have made America

so strong that it is today the one democratic leader to whom |

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be publicly pilloried and smeared,”

Side Glances—By Galbraith

te disappointed in school—two months of the first | gmde end he con't read dhe newspaped”

established procedures,

{ cross-examine,

what ald we might offer.

Congress had never seen Europe.

Euproe is watching,

decent trial of American citizens, wi

| object that witnesses are not represented by counsel and cannot’ But these hearings are not trials. The congressional investigation lies some place between a grand Jury probe and a common law proceeding in a court of equity. The purpose is to establish truth, Witnesses and records may be subpoenaed by congressional committees, and statements before them are | made under oath. Federal courts have upheld congressional com-

That 1s just one remarkable phase of what Winston Churchill calls the most admirable gesture ever made by one country toward | its neighbors. Not many years ago probably 90 per cent of a given

These trips were not joyrides. For the most part Buropean travel nowadays is uncertain and uncomfortable. But Congress will meet | mext month to eonsider interim aid to Europe and the Marshall plan, No other nation in history ever undertook anything even proximating the Marshall plan and no other group of law-makers ever went to so much pains to prepare themselves for the job,

almost feverishly, wh | Samples of opinion indicate (1) that emergency without undue delay and (2) that the Marshall least in some form. But billions certainly will not be . out regard to where it goes or to what use it is to be | The voice of the Middle West is often the voice of

stove, the only thing left to do was to remove the tray and the fish was ready to be served—as intact as the day it was pulled out of the water. The Gardner tinshop did a right smart business, too, duplicat-

ing Mrs. Vonnegut’s discovery, but it was nothing |

compared with Mrs. Mayer's coffee pot.

Gardner's tinshop enjoyed its greatest period of

prosperity, however, when Mrs. Robert Hollingsworth’s grandmother (Mrs. William. Haueisen Sr.) returned from a trip abroad with a recipe for Himmel's Torte. It called for a special pan which Mrs. Haueisen also had the foresight to bring along. It was a round pan, about 12 inches in diameter and 5 inches in depth with a flaring round tube in the center.— It was ingeniously constructed that the side and tube could be removed from the bottom without violating the expensive contents of the cake. Mr. Gardner opined that, because of the elimination of worry at the last moment, the trick added years to the lives of Indianapolis women. Well, Mrs. Haueisen's successful Himmel's Torte went over so big that every woman baker around ° here beat a path to Gardner's tinshop to have the pan duplicated. Indeed, they did a landoffice business. Occasionally, of course, the demand for pans showed signs of letting up, but every time this happened something occurred to revive interest. The first revival took place when, the very next year, Mrs. Robert Kipp returned from a trip abroad with a recipe for Mandel Torte. It was right up Gardner's alley because it called for the same kind of cake pan.

Demand Falls Off

THE SECOND BIG REVIVAL occurred when Mrs. Henry Schnull returned from Germany and disclosed a recipe for Jaeger Torte. And, again, it started all the wheels in Gardner's tinshop. A decade ago when Mr. Gardner made me the repository of all this information, he reflected that it's been years since there’s been a call for Torte bans around here. The last one he could recall was the pan ordered in 1913 by Mrs. Emma Vonnegut, a daughter of the lady who, way back in the 80's brought the recipe for Jaeger Torte to Indianapolis. When he got that order, Mr. Gardner said he had high Ropes of a cake renaissance. n t event; he said he was all ed—not only because he still had all the old gn ey but also all the original recipes for the old mony. mental cakes. I can hardly wait to learn whether they are still part and parcel of the personal prop-

erty left by Mr. Gardner,

pletely Haywire

Their counsel may appeal the citacarry the case through the federal committee look even worse, permitted to read his Prepared statement

put to him in his own way, his test would have reacted against him and to the ¥ aersy

what he had to say was a fabric of abuse,

Hearing Is Absolutely Legal

‘FOR A WEEK, this comittee has conducted ah illegal and in-

hom the committee has selected to

Lawson's statement read, * American public, it has a shorter name: : Xe

has truckloads of filth heaped upon him.” - The idea that the Thomas Committee has no legal right to make this investigation is a lot of nonsense. Congressional hearings are by law and by custom. ‘To take away from - | Congress its right to probe any situation it chooses would be to end one of the healthiest practices in American government, Lawyers not familiar with the

special jurisdiction.

committee's credit, For

dirt. I feel like a man who And so forth,

congressional hearing procedure

to combat.

to see

assistance to Western elvilization.” There is reason to believe this may represent : what Congress will do. of Congressional sentiment. Like Mr. Lan Congress likely 4 aid will be given Host that the United States take good ca a wi plan will pass, at economy or its own national defense by reckless dumped with- “Our foreign policy,” he concluded, “must be directed toward put. establishment of a political and economic balance in the world. America. And that end, he said, we should support Britain and Prance-<if ; than that co-operate; supply food and goods to Western Europe x

mittees in numerous instances,

active minority of an influence out of There is plenty of popular support just now for putting the Communist minority out of : or suppression, but by exposing it for what it is.

Reds’ Main Ojective Is Aiding Russia

WHILE AMERICAN COMMUNISTS make a great to-do about wanting to better the condition of the underprivileged people in the U. 8, that is not their main purpose in life, The Communists have no program for improving life; their number one objective is to further the foreign policy of Soviet Ri . If it were otherwise, why should the Communists be so reluctant to admit their party membership? There is no law which makes it a crime. to belong to the Communist should there be such a many other responsible citizens have said that outlawing the Communists would merely drive them underground and make them harder

way possible,” he told a Kansas audience same time, they have to carry they are capable of carrying.”

Hoosier Forum "Ido not agree with a word that you say, but | vill defend fo the death your right fo say

“Joneses Are Getti ng Me Down’

By A Good Mother, City : ' Yes, what the kids don't get, the butcher and grocer do, in this battle of keeping up appearances, I'm not asking for sympathy, remember I wanted to be a good mother. What I want to know is why do the Jones do so much and save so much and why do our children expect us to keep up with them? Why, if you your children to school as far as

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80, keep them clean, well fed, provide a nice home,

welcome their friends, give them. lowance, isn't this enough? No!

I was going to stop here but IT must tell you about never

welcoming their friends. Maybe witnessed a sub-deb meeting. As box

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argument as a tavern, juke and all. They never listen but have to have it going full blast, record player or radio. It's finally over, they haven't agreed entirely but they are going to do something, have at least three or four parties im the next month anyway. ,Then it happens, didn't you know, time for food, don't get up out of your chair in the attie or garage, The house isn't on fire or there isn'§ going to be a lynching, just the squires arriving, Does one squire club come over? No, at least three or four. Are they hungry? Are you kidding? Didn't you fill the wash tub with potato chips, roll in a barrel or cake, a big one at that, and isn't your arm aching from stirring that dishpan’ of potato salad. While you clean it up you can think of a nice

sounding apology to give the questioning neighe bors'in the morning. ’ Just one more thing to add although I could add a million. Slumber parties, rightly named slumber-less parties. I'm still speaking of girls. They all start off with the above-stated pere formance, then the girls go to bed. To bed?

yes, after half of them have bathed, some pressed '-

their clothes for the next day, all pin curled thelr hair. Then they talk and smoke. really expect ta sleep, did you? every a. m. “The Jones” if only I could find ask them to slow down for awhile, not #pend se much and do so much, médybe myself a

of other folks like me would be satisfled with just

a good night's sleep and not get so tired, so Ted up to wish the sleep might he everlasting. to be a good mother above everything else bué the Jones are getting me down, * oo

What War Means By R. Blickenstaff, 309 Covington St, Crawfordee ville.

It seems to me there is a lot of loose talk going around about starting another war. Also it seems the people who are talking up this war are a lot of ignorant, narrow minded people who spent the last war here at home or were far from the battle lines. I am in favor of giving these boys with the big mouths the privilege of fighting the next war. War to some people doesn't mean a lot of talk”over radios and in newspapers. To means trying to eat a can of cold with a lot of black, dead, stinking, rotting human bodies lying close. War to some people means walking side by side with a man one day and watch the ants, and other insects crawl in and out of his eye sockets the next. ot War to some pecple means picking up a humas who has been dead for several days and feel she rotting, stinking flesh give under his clothes whem you try to pick him up. : . Or war is going out on the front and trying eo find enough body, arms, legs so you can a stretcher and send it back for burial. War to some people is talking to a minute and watching a sloppy mess run bullet hole in his head the next, 3 War to other people is a lot of loose how tough we are but when it comes to ing, they let somebody else do that. We are now paying our congressmen $15,000 per year or about $288.60 per week every week Wa the year. I suggest we cut eongressmen’s salaries in the next session. Be it special or otherwise fvom $15,000 to $9000 which will give them $178 per weeks every week in the year. I also suggest we put congress on the air so we will not only khow what they do but how they get it done. If they cen’ do this they can work in a factory at $40 per, ¢ & ¢

‘Common People Cry for Relief’ By Henry L. Lewis, 3420 E. 10th St. After almost 82 years spent in the Land of the Free, I have come to the conclusion that there is something wrong with Ameries. Many politicians can't make .a living so they go into politics. That's the reason we are in such an awful mess. In politics I am an independent and that's what we all ought to be. America first, Burope second. We hold the bag for the world and are taxed to death. We common people are crying for relief and # is in vain,

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By Peter Edson

recognizing and so establishing their

The Un-American Activities Committee did very well for itself In the first week of Its hearings. It built up the case that there Was an Communists in Hollywoéd who were exercising

all proportion to their numbers,

business—for silencing it, nos by censorship

law. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and

The Thomas Committee may recommend passage of an antl-Oom-munist law when it gets through with the Hollywood hearings, ¥ it does, it will further convict itself of wanting to of Rights which guarantees American freedom,

{ Congressmen Have Facts

WASHINGTON, Oct. 31—Of the 96 senators and 435 members of the House of Representatives more than 200, more than one-third, went to Europe this summer to investigate conditions and

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