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PAGE 8 Saturday, Nov. 1, 1947 . -. _ ROY W. HOWARD yA LECKRONE HENRY Ww. MANZ |

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Our Fair City Lira Political Machines

THE function of a political party organization 2 is to try to | elect good candidates to office, Properly, it hag no other. : When it begins-to give orders to officials it has helped elect and through: them to run the government, it is wind | beyond any legitimate party activity, a threat to good g ernment and to American democracy. ’ ; That's what we mean, ugually,"when we say political a man or a little group of men in control of | who make themselves a sort of secret | to dictate policies, to tell legislators to tell judges how to decide their cases, t arrest. io tell policemen Who to arrest . . . or no A ° A rir machine perhaps id give good, economical, efficient government . but it wouldn't be American government, And it would’ t be the kind of government vor even if it was good | . . that we want in Indianapolis. That's | the Biggest issue in Tuesday’ s election. i

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« machine. party oFganization guper- .government, what laws to. pass,

n n HE Denocrats have no semblance of ‘a party machine T here right now. They haven't had many members in public office around here lately who could take machine | orders if they wanted. The party, locally, for the time being at least, lacks a “hoss.”’ : The Republicans, on the other hand, do have a powerfull political -machine, created by skillful organizing and come election victories. It once had complefe control of our county government. It has béen slipping, lately, though. Republican voters, generally, don't like machine rule, either. At the 1946 primaries, they administered a crushing rebuke to the machine by defeating some of its candi: dates and nominating anti- machine men. In advance “of the 1947 primaries they were strong enough to force the nomination of a candidate for mayor who owed fio allegiance

to the machine. The Republican machine, however, quietly put forward its own hand-picked slate of candidates for city council. Six stalwart machine men -. . . five.of whom had to resign as machine ward chairmen to run for the office. Some of them are able men in their own right. But they are not running “for council in their own right. 1f we elect them to office | we are not, actually, electing six men . .. but one man, or | perhaps two; whose names are not even on the ballots, 3 If we elect them we'll have a “bossed” city councjl ‘eed which will pass the ordinances it is or red to pass . . . which will try to whip the new mayor, #ioever he is, into | line with machine objectives. Some. of those laws may be :

with our own . . . but that can't produce good government. | » » » . - » | THE only sure way to keep the boss system out of ig saddle in Indianapolis is to vote Tuesday for the six Democratic nominees for council, regardless of which

candidate you choose for mayor.

‘Treasures for Pleasure’ ODAY is “Out-of-Doors” Day for Marion County Girl Scouts. This evening hundreds of ‘the green-clad youngsters will come trudging home, faces flushed with - health and happiness, from this fini] observance of Girl Scout Week.

helps support the organization—are members of one of the major character-building agencies of any community. © They are taught that service to community is important, and their slogan this year is “Girl Scouts United by Ideals — Friendship Builds a Better World.” “Scouts in America are expanding their interest and learning in a practical. way of what aid to thers means: They are packing “Treasures for Pleasure” boxes to be gént to foreign scout troops for distribution in less fortunate parts of the world. These boxes include toys and hooks as well as food and clothing. The local Scouts will pack these boxes right up to Christmas Day. Their needs include yarn-toys, cloth or stocking dolls, clothes pin families, wooden dolls, cars, trains, puzzles, jumping ropes, games, whistles, belts, lapel gadgets the whole list of things little girls like. ” How about looking in that closet or attic for your contribution—of yesterday's “treasures” that now are unused hut might make some other little girl happy in her war-torn home. The telephone number of the Girl Scout headquar-. ters ig Lincoln 8393. :

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HODE ISLAND'S Sen. J. Howard McGrath may or may fiot prove to be a successful chairman of the Demo-

pelicy action, following his selection, displayed paiziotionm

and good sense. He persuaded the committee to tear up a resolution

“placing partisan: politics -above love of country” and “sac-

the wealthy few at the top.” MN ~~ He did this in.the interest of hatignal unity. The proposed resolution he felt, was “too bitter at this time.”

~gupport for-President Truman's program in the coming special session of Congress. In that he was splendidly right. It may be too mjich to hope for a national political campaign without éxcesses of partisan bitterness. and. Republicans must blister each other with reckless charges and vitriolic phrases, there will be time enough for | __+~-that next year. For what he has done to prevent the Democratic committee from plunging into the campaign | tao soon, the American people should be gratelul to Mr. | McGrath. 5

gmart-aleckryof° the Republican chairman, Carroll Reece, who outdid himself when he thought up the brilliant idea of elling Chairman ‘McGrath “a ‘millionaire Rhode Island

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| "Twas Halloween night.

| Bureka was tired of the boiling calidron ] | And of gadding about in the light of the moon;

| Bo Bates mended her one simple gown,

|- Blew smoke in her face,

| Bhe often rides high, over. forest and dell. ~

i Bureka will never again try.$e. roam.

“good laws, some of those objectives might ‘even coincide | [

|: Of life when it is done.

Girl Scouts—and remember that the Community Fund |:

cratic Nafional Committee. But at least his first major

which would have charged the Republican Congress with |

yificing the welfare of the people in favor of pandering to |

It was ‘‘no way to get co-operation” and insure bipartisan

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His action is in refreshing contrast to the clay

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LAST NIGHT— 100 MUCH EVEN FOR A WITCH

{ “The cold wind blew the leaves, | And the hobgoblins shivered with oold in their sleeves. | broomsticks were polished; thers were spooks | in the sky. > As each witch and sorcerer mounted on n high. | But did I say each? There was one who did not. She was bnly one hundred—not more than a tot!. | Merdhame was Eureka, her character kind. 4 And for weeks. now & pian turned about in her mind. ; \

Cared hardly at all for the friendship of bats, And, worse than this fact, was allergic to eats, A vine-covered cottage appealed to her heart, And a broomstick might well be exchanged for a cart

Polished her shoes and set off for the town. Just five minutes’ later she stopped for a snack, | (Being nfeatiess and, ‘eggless ‘day, she had hardtmck), And then, to add to the rest of her troubles, She found herself covered with red plastic bubbles, To escape all this madress, she hailed & subway, Breathed a sigh of relief, “At last I'm O. K/ But they jostled and squeezed her, and stepped on her .feet, Made her nice disposition a greal deal less sweet, How Eureka did cough! Till finally they let our poor heroine off, 8he-took to her heels and ran like a flagh Away from “Blo-Bubble” and Pord-OChrysler erash, From Beanshooters, Dentyne, and idol of screen, House shoffage, and new Bendix washing machine, 80 now, tn her home by the old cemetery Lives Fureka—delighted, contented; and merry. r

WHO needs a Ford, when a broom/ does as well? Not a “modern convenience” is found in her home,

Remember Eureka and how hard she tried It was YOU who made her take the opposite side. And now, I hope you know, as 1 do, Though spooks may be frightening, we scare THEM too! ~—MILDRED MASTERS. ¥/0 \ Bupene's wife ‘says that he is away trom home so much that she wants to propose that¥ ‘he be an exhibit on the Freedom train.. ® 4 ¢

WHAT HALLOWEEN MEANS

HALLOWEEN, the eve of Oct. 31, means hallowed or holy: evening, and is so called because it is the vigil or eve of All Baints’ Day. Halloween was first instituted in the Seventh . Century to commemorate all the lesser saints who | could not have a feast especially set apart for them, as well as all holy men and martyrs whose records had not survived, In many- countries Halloween traditionally is devoted to merrymaking with playful ceremonies and charms to discover future husbands and wives. ‘In. Indiana, it was just a pushover for a ‘donnicker.’ —DUTCH.

*» 4 #4 “i A survey shows it costs $10,000 to rear a child to the age of I8: Can you name a better In-

The Fall" of the year's like the fall of our lives. When we're beginning tg grow oid, 3 Each leaf of our book of life can be A beautiful reg or gold. 2 Oh yes, ‘there’ ‘be green ones tumble down Mistakes of our younger days. But the ones that stay on are the ones that count i” And win our Saviour’s praise.

80 let's see how beautiful we can make our tree +

vestment? | * + o : Work must have been invented by someone Blue Boake: But they fit in. too nervous to sit still. | Blue Book is liso ee | FALL i

direct.

Will it be as grand as the forest's giants? Or bare and withered too soon? # N MARY B. JARRED. * & A Minnesofa physician says men ‘may be short: er in the next 100 years. That must mean completely broke. :

®* @ @- Every picture tells a Nyman some we've | seen at the movies, |

IN WASHINGTON . .

You and Your Civil Rights

WASHINGTON, Nov, related things now need to be brought together for a closer look in proper perspective. First is the Preedom Train, now touring the country, pulling up on sidings to let the people. have A look at the Declaration of Independence, the Consti“tlition, the Bill of Rights and other sacred documents which guarantee Americans their liberties. Second is the House Committee on Un-American Activities, which just adjourned it probe to determine the extent of Communist thought inflitration in Hollywood and the moving picture industry.

Finds Record Fairly Good

THIRD 18 the loyalty investigation of all govern-" ment, employees now being conducted by the FBI, Fourth'd4s a 178-page Blue leased by the President's Committee on Civil Rights; chairmaned by Charles E. Wilson of General Electric. The Freedom Train and the Un-American Activities Committee are not mentioned in the Civil Rights

“to discover wherein, and to what extent, we are presently failing to live up to . .. heritage of freedom and equality for all men, sometimes called ‘the ‘American Way’ of life” In general, the Blue Book finds that “Americans worship as they choose. Our press is freer from governmental restraints than any the world has ever seen, Our citizens are no; right to speak without feat, \to assemble for unlimited public discussion.” But the President's committee points out that the_most immediate threat to these freedoms is inIt comes from two groups who refuse to accept democracy Communists and native Fascists. “The same zeal must be shown in defending our democracy against one group as against the other,” says the President's committee. But their Report on Civil Liberties opposes, without qualification, any at- ‘ tempts to put speciapiimiiations on these people who speak and assemble: “The principle of disclosure,” says the Blue Book, “is the appropriste Way to deal with those who would subvert dur democracy by revolution or by encouragf ing disunty and destroying the civil rights of some

‘And They Call It the City ‘of Brotherly Love |

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More About Those Joneses By # Good Mother, Ony Whed T-was married, I wanted to be. a mother, the sooner the better, and I wanted eight children Im grateful it's only four). I Was going to be the best mother in the world, Jove my family ‘so dearly, do so much “for. them, make them so happy. we were all going to be gay forever and ever.. In return, they were going to love daddy and me, that's all’ I wanted in return. Now .the most 1 get, “Mom's & good kid” and Daddy a “Joe boy,” we are being praised, I believe. A slap on the back with one hand while they hold the other out to have the ‘palm crossed. With n little cold cash, that is. Wait, remember I'm talking about keeping up with the Jones and, too, 1 want you to know we own our home, have for 20 years, not anythi.z; like the Jones have but nice and comfy and 1 love it. We have a real nice bank account, runs to five figures, won't long though if we keep hearing about the doings of the Jones. What is really -driving me mad, teen-agers. sub-deb clubs, color harmony, money— how. did it all get started? By a bunch of yapping hucksters that are swaying the teen-age mob and getting rich, very rich, doing it %hile the Moms and Dads wre seeing everything go, ewen that | lump for the time they can no longer make it | and the children couldn't possibly help. Dear no, I personally know of a case where this Mom and Dad slaved and gave all to keep up with the Jones. He was going to get the best education; clothes, etc. Then when they needed help—well the | drawing $600 per month, yet never even said, «t “Here, Dad, is a nickle 'for>a bag of tobacco.” “| I want our kids to have a good education. It | isn't the actual cost of schooling; that is priceless. I want that regardless. of cost. It's what they expect with it. The following is an example | of “what I'm talking about. This conocerms one { child, all of her clothes cleaned for school, : 7 cleaner bill $20, also $35 for new clothes. This

By Peter Eon

1—Four apparently un--- groups. defeat ourselves.” American Activities fits in. and - present “danger,” calléd -it, the

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A Rallying Point

display in the Freedom Train.

force wartime controls over /a large sector of British life. Since the | amount of food, shelter and clothing is limited, the government feels | compelled to ration it in pw a8 way that each person receives his or | her fair share. This calls for an exteribive organization and a great deal of bookkeeping. * The. housewife must deal with a complicated system of ration points and free points. Behind shuttered windows, lights burn late in neighborhood shops as we shopkeeper struggles to balance his ration accounts.

Situation Hampets Planning IN SOME RESPECTS this system seems to have worked very well. | Families in the lower-income brackets feel they are getting just as good a deal as the rich. .In fact, you can hear many people say that they are better off than they were before the war, with children getting free orange juice and free cod-liver oil.

balance of exports and imports and against the awesome deficit of |

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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A047 BY MER SERVICE, WC. TW. RRO. U, & PAT, OPEN

"You won't really. 8 prociste the beauty of autumn fill + you're my sgo—anioying the last ‘act of the show and hoping : r it runs on a o little’ longer!” ii Lu

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But now that the government has come _- against the un- | °°

| people fliter into black or gray-market activities.

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. If we fall back upon hysteria and repression as wr weapons against totalitarians, we will

Now this is, where the House Committee on Un- | Out.of a threat “of clear as ingle Justice ‘Holmes House Un-American Activities Com-

mittee has moved in to stop the Communists from bringing about “the evils that Congress has a right

“A state of near-hystéria now threatens to inhibit the freedom of genuine democrats,” the President's “Irresponsible opportunists who make it a practice to attack every person or group ‘Communists’ _threeby aided their supposed ‘enemies.’ ” The Blue Book recognizes the need for the government to have in its employ only persons of recognized Because Communists and other subversives conceal their affiliations until they have done serious damage, it is necessary to have the loyalty of all federal employees checked by security police agencies. “Yet our whole civil liberties history provides us with a clear warning against the possible misuse of loyalty checks to inhibit freedom of opinion and expression,” says the Blue Book in another section. “An employee whose loyalty is questioned is not “Charged with a crime:—But loss of job and! inability to obtain another one is a severe punishment to im- | Accordingly, provision should be made for such traditional safeguards as the right to a bill of accusations, the right to subpena witnesses and documents where security considerations.permit, the right to be represented by counsel, the right to a stenographic report of proceédings, the right to a written decision and the right of appeal.”

THE HISTORIC ‘DOCUMENTS which guarantee all these rights to American citizens are now on

To.-rally the American people to support and strengthen their civil rights, the President's committee recommends a long-term campaign of public education. A visit to the Freedom Train should offer the . best possivle first lesson to such a course in Mberty. x

| lasted just two weeks. Oh, yes also she had | $1850 for a class ring. After hearing her tear ¥ » it no longer and had to see what was ailing her. She was crying she just had to have some new | clothes and a larger allowance. Three-fifty per week wasn’t enough. I might add this choice bit. She is a senior now in high school. She had to have it to drive to school, leave it in the parking lot all day and goodness knows what it would endure after school. Of course her father could do without a car; he only needs it every day. I've let down skirts and heard arguments for new ones. Honestly, I think the young girls look gawky in them. At the present time we have a dance coming up and the bitter topic of a-new "formal. We only have six in the closet, each worn once or twice. Oh, no! Can't wear any of those. Do you know what that means to’ me? As much as $25 in cash for material, three days to a week for make (in my spare time), the afternoon before the dance, lay all their things out, press the formal help them dress, help with the hair-do. They leave at 9 p. m. fresh and beautiful and I fall in bed, grateful for the dark and coming sleep. Looking at the formal the morning after the night before has ‘got to be a . game with me. This time I tél] myself it won't be torn or-dirty but I'm never fooled. It always

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* * ‘Mayor Needs Experience’ By Mrs, Walter Haggerty, R. R. §, City

What in the name of divine providence gave the Republican leaders the idea that Mr. Wemmer, a private citizen, would make a good public servant. The first thing an employer asks when hiring an employee is: “Have you had any previous experience?” Let me ask any of you one question. If

you needed an operation, would you prefer an experienced surgeon? Some one to practice on you? , It would be suicide to elect an inexperienced public servant now to operate a city in so serious condition as Indianapolis. Let us elect an experienced “man of action” who is not afraid to

city back to health. Al Feeney's experience, honesty and accomplish~ ments is enough to prove he is the man‘ we need,

Mixed Free, Controlled Economy Baffles British

LONDON, Nov. 1— England's Labor government. coritinues '9 en- | dollars, the end has come to

to what the Tory press calls “a fools, purgatory” The government is trying to take the essential steps to meet the facts of life with the necessary realism.

The real question for the Labor.cabinet is: whether it is possible

| to plan for a society that is half controlled and half uncontrolled. The

proportion might be more _nearly three- fourths controlled and onefourth free,

How Much Control? THE MORE CONSCIENTIOUS CABINET MINISTERS, and particularly the earnest and intensely hard-working Sir Stafford Cripps, are deeply troubled. They believe in the experiment now going forward here in "social democracy,” to use Sir Stafford's own phrase. At the same time, howgver, they recognize {t may not work in an economy half free and half controlled. Does this mean, then, that the government must go the. whole way on controls? An important step, for example, would be the c direction of labor. Under the present law, a man out of employment who § goes to a

If it is necessary to leave his family and live in another neighborhood, he is given a living allowance. But he cannot be ordered to take a particular job. Nor can women be compelled to go into essential industry, as they were in wartime. That is the gap in the control system. Through that gap many This gap cannot be closed. It would be political suicide to try to impose such_controls, The grave danger is that more and more of the economy will slip out from under present halfway controls. What this can mean and how to prevent it is a sufject that is receiving ‘ever more serious consideratipn. Liberal economists, who

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recognize the need to keep at least a minimum of controls in the present period of scarcity. argue cogently that the government should put more confidence in the price system and the law of supply and demand. “The true choice,” F. L. Paish of the University of London wrote recently, “is not between pi&n and no plan, but. between planning through the price system and planning against it.” Paishrdenounced=the kind of controls that make for “conflicting incentives.” Under ‘such conflicts, respect for law and government breaks down. The end, Paish warned, is “frustration, poverty and perhaps disaster.” A similar warning came from W. Manning Dacey, economic adviser to Lioyd's Bank, speaking on the BBC, a government corporation. Dacey_ pointed to the serious inflation in England—an inflation not in the pound that goes to buy rationed necessities but in the pound spent on unrationed commodities. The pound spent on: these commodities is worth only a little more than a third of the pre-war pound: The pound spent on food will still buy about four- fifths of what it bought

~pefore 1939;

Popular Support Uncertain

/THE GOVERNMENT'S NEWEST austerity measures, and those yet to come, will inevitably hit hard, especially on the low- and mjddleincome groups. Conscientious Sir Stafford Cripps is afraid that persons living on old-age pensions and those on the lowest salaries will harmed. Adjustments, complicated and difficult, will have to he made for extreme hardship cases. That is, of course, the great difficulty in & controlled or partially controlled economy. Britain's Labor planners are not ready to admit defeat in this experiment in “social democracy.” -Whethér they will continue to have a. majority of the country with them is something else again.

France Must Make Decisions By Wiliam phils Simms

WASHINGTON, Nov. 1—Premier Paul Ramadier’s slender ma- | jority of 20-with 18 “ abstentions—in Thursday night's 300-t0-280 vote of confidence failed to lessen the gravity of the French politi cal, social and economie crisis, °

France today is divided into “twh “hostile Po <the Oommunists and the non-Communists, And Premier Ramadier has been caught between the two,

Can't Wait Until May

IT IS ALSO A FACT THAT the National Assembly no longer represents the will of France's 46 million people, hence another national

, election soon will be necessary.

Such an election cannot be held until next May. Bix months of bitter winter—as critical a period as France ever had to fate .-must elapse beforehand, unless the non- -Oommunist parties can com. . bine to amend the law for pn earlier election. Premier Ramadier warned the assembly that without unity-— and a vote of. confidence-~there would be a major split into! De Gaullist and Communis{ camps and civil war might resuit.

Unfortunately, unity within the assembly alone can't cure France's:

troubles. That is to say. unity in the sense of just enough votes to allow the government to scrape by in a vote of confidence. What

3 feeded is a clear mandate to face the difficult problems ahead.

Prestige ‘of Premier Ramadier, Foreign Minister Bidault and

| others “of the present governmeht is i To in “this country. ' They:

have faced past crises with rire ability and d. courage, - Bui, it 1

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feared, the crisis/ahead will be of such nature that no government can hope to ‘sufpount it unless ‘it has the backing of the French people, not just a precarious papér majority in an unrepresentative assembly, France has reached a point where new and far-reaching decisions cannot be postponed much longer. The recent municipal elec tions revealed that a brand new party had sprung up in France. Gen. Charles de Gaulle's “Rally of the French ‘People” polled nearly 40 per cent of the total vote, Second cdme the Communists with approximately 30 per oent.

Unity Is Vital YET GAULLISTS NOR COMMUNISTS are represented in the government as presently ognstituted. The Communists ean hardly be admitted now for past and future reasons. They threw so many obstacles in the way that the government could not function. As for the ‘future, France stands in immediate need of Toreign aid such as can only Be had through the Marshall plan; and the Communists, in. obedience to Moscow, are fighting the plas tooth and nafl. Gen. De Gaiille may not be popular abroad. But the elections showed & French trend im his direction thet amounted to a landslide and their choice is their own ‘business. v

Prench unity is vital if she is to be saved from disaster. But as France has clearly demonstrated that she does not intend to unite under the hammer and sickle, ‘the only unity still possible to her is

in unity against foreign aggression and for national recovery.

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She expected the family car this year, ahem.

is one or ‘the other or both. Darn those Joneses! °

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