Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 November 1947 — Page 14
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For Improved Race Relations THE TIMES is proud to congratulate H. B. Snyder, editor of the Gary Post-Tribune, on his becoming the first recipient of the Emblem Club award for promotion of better racial relations in Indiana. The Emblem Club presented the award to Mr. Snyder vesierday at the Senate Avenue WMCA, of which the club 18 a sponsored activity, Mr. Snyder and his newspaper have done much to promote unity and tolerance in Gary, melting pot of the state, and it is encouraging to all who work for better community relations to know that the Negroes make this formal recognition of. his efforts. Throughout Indianapolis and Indiana, many men -and
women are earnestly working toward the goal of universal appreciation of the dignity of men and the right of every in-
dividual to his self-respect. Such meetings as that held Sunday do much to promote the understanding that is the key to folerance.
The Army’ $ Occupation Job “I"HE administration has abandoned its plan to transfer administration of the occupied areas of Eyrope and Asia from the Army to the State Department. Under the | circumstances this is a “lesser of evils” decision. In making the announcement, the State Department gave administrative problems as the sole reason. It denied that the troubled world situation - was partly responsible, This is the sort of double-talk which diplomats so often resort to—without fooling anybody, It is true that lack of State Department organizatfon for the job has long prevented President Truman from carrying out his early promise, to Gen. Marshall as chief
of staff and Gen. Eisenhower as European commander, to turn over the governing task to civilians, The Army would |
have limited itself to policing. They wanted this done for the good reason that the Army is not trained or equipped to do-a civil job; it must neglect its defense role when it is carrying other responsibilities, As Secretary Byrnes pointed out, and as Secretary Marshall now reluctantly admits, the State Department is not fully equipped to perform its own growing diplomatic responsibility-—much less take over the administrative jobs in Gerniany, Austria, Japan and Korea.
THE obvi fous solution was to create a Hew agency under the State Department for the purpose, recruiting per- | sonnel from the ranks of American ex-governors, ex- mayors | and other experienced civil administrators. The Army has to do this to a large extent anyway. rr This desirable switchover is now prevented by dangerous international conditions. Russia directly and indirectly is trying to sabotage American occupation in all zones, even to the point of Soviet officers in Germany stirring up the population against American authorities and policies, This has created a security problem, at least po- | tentially, which overshadows normal administrative con- | siderations, ~_ «After the brilliant military governor records of Gens. McArthur, MeNarney,Clark-and- Clay, certainly it -isxegrettable that the Army cannot now unload its civil responsibilities abroad and concentrate on purely military _ affairs. But the sad truth is that we are.not in a period of peace—it is only an armistice in which democratic victory | is delaved by the aggressions of a former ally, and in which | contintied military control of occupied areas is essential to security, The Russians have hoped..and the Germans and Japs | have feared, that the United States would withdraw its troops prematurely. Washington never had any such plan. But the administration's latest decision will be, and should | he, interpreted abroad as renewed determination to see this thing through —whatever it takes.
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‘Including China’ EVERAL times recently we have reminded the administration that its short-sighted efforts to evade the issue of Chinese relief may boomerang against the Marshall Plan it is trying to protect. It should have been obvious to President Truman and Secretary of State Marshall that there will be congressional demands for a positive policy before Red aggression completes the ruin of our Chinese ally; Significantly, Chairman Vandenberg of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in his pre-session statement this week was unwilling to consider the needs of Western Eu- | rope alone. Though a staunch supporter of the Marshall idea of American help for European selfihelp, provided there is “sound administration and adequate co-operation,” the Senator at this late date does not want to treat the world problem piecemeal. + “We must know the total bill, including China,” he said. That certainly is an intelligent request, whether viewed from the standpoint of an interdependent Europe and Far East or of America's not inexhaustible resources.
Pray for Rain : N the long run, the weather man may have more to say
about foreign relief and domestic prices than the President and Congress combined,
General Weather fought on our side through the war
and for two vears after, giving us one bumper wheat crop affer another. This year's harvest was a record, at record prices, with the result that some “dust bowl” farmers, who a decade ago were on WPA, now boast bank deposits running into the hundreds of thousands of dollars. But the present outlook for next year’s crop is not so
It's all right for the people of Europe and the taxpayers and consumers of this country to keep their eyes on Washington, to see what the President and Congress are going | to do about domestic prices and foreign food shipments. But | meanwhile they'd better pray for rain on America's great |
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"WHH. GREEKISH WINE" “Ill heat his blood with Greekish wine tonight!” proclaimed Achilles; but, in* another context, the same words might rightfully have - been _ spoken, net by a warrior but by a man of peace, “that first and greatest of all the tellers of tall i tales, Herodotus of Halicarnassus. His very name, 1 with its cadenced, mouth-filling syllables, seems | meant and infenstionally contrived to be remem- | |
bered, & very proper name for one who read his “History” aloud for a living . out of it, too! i Herodotus was the first “Inquiring reporter.” | "He traveled all over the world of his day, the | world of Greece and Persia after Marathon but before the time of the great Alexander, he talked -.| lo everyone, he remembered everything, and what | He didn't remember (I suspect) he invented for the | occasion, The result is his “History,” the tale of the rise of Persig and its collision with and rebuff by the embattled democracies of Greece; but
. and did very well
Herodotus clothed the dry skeleton of facts with a flesh and blood of fascinating legend, myth and narrative, breathed such life into it as to give it a fable and, by his pecullar genius for picturesque | claim on our attention even after all these enturies é That is an understatement. He rot only claims our attention, he demands it; and his legends and ° | his tales are woven into the very fabric of our in- | . tellectual heritage. “Great Books” course? . . | Why yes. You ought to come over sometime and find out how much you have forgotten. / ==FRANCIS H. INSLEY. * &
THE SHADES
Shall their great arms pulse no more With the miracle of Spring? 8hall their ancient fastnesses No more with bird calls ring?
Shall they never wear again | Their regal robes of snow, Or almost burst their hearts with splendor In the autumn's flery show?
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Shall they proudly bow no more Before the savage gale; Or offer, in the summer's heat A dark and watered vale?
» Here echoed ‘oft the red man's tread, The pioneers, and guides’, And ‘here a nation’s builders Rolled by in mighty tides,
Oh, shall these trees, this heritage That saw a nation rise from birth, Be witness to our folly now, And curse us, as they crash to earth? ~MARY MARGARET KRICHBAUM. * ¢ 9 Let dther people get the best of you and keep the worst for yourself, * 4 ¢
THE MOON
Pale white crescent in the sky Lamp of light dangling high, Sending forth your shining light, Guiding strangers through the night You through curtained windows peep To kiss the sleeping child's’ cheek, And drop your light where lovers meet, A diamond from within the deep, = Then winding down the silver lake
drama,
E. Renner his initials
Indianapolis.
more,
pulse.
OUR TOWN. Dr, Renner Helped the Lepers
| “THE FACT that the November number of the Reader's Digest ‘includes a-reprint of Later—Father Damien's Leper: Colony,” Pyle's prized pre-war pie : the identity of an Indianapolis physician and thé part -he played in that harrowing
German-born-and-bred J. -G. (the significance of has came to America in the late 60's. After acquiring his doctor's degree (medicine’ at the University of Louisville, he settled in He was as handsome as men come, he fairly oozed personality with a nice bedside manner, business. In no time at all, he had the town beating a path to his door. Indeed, local legend has it that any number of ladies contracted sudden fevers just for the experience of having Dr. Renner take their
«By... Anton. Schetzer.. - TI
70's when news of Father Damien's death reached Dr. Renner. It was no secret. Everybody else, too, who had a habit of reading the newspapers knew about it. And again it had the whole world wondering. With this difference, however: This time it took the shape of conjecture and had everybody wondering who in the world would make the supreme sacrifice and offer'to take Father Damien's place. That's when Dr. Renner of Indianapolis spoke up. Against the advice of his best friends he closed his shop, packed his baggage and sailed for Molokai, Arriving there, he discovered somewhat to his amazement that Father Damien hadn't died at all. Indeed, the saintly priest was as lively as a cricket. Instead of coming home immediately, as his Indianapolis clientele ‘had hoped, Dr. Renner stayed a year or more in Molokai working among the lepers.
Monument in Crown Hill AFTER THIS experience, Dr. Renner returned to Indianapolis, dusted off his shingle and started practicing again. It was hardly worth while, for a shortly thereafter he heard about the yellow fever
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let alone physicians. What's which, together was good for his
., You watch until the birds awake | ~ALICE M. SCHEFFLER | ¢ 4 9
WEALTH We are-all rich beyond our fondest dreams Tho' some people do not appreciate this wealth, it seems. Can't they see the diamonds in the snow?
It, was sometimé in the middle 70's when news of” Father Damien's death reached Indianapolis. Father Damien, in case you youngsters have to be told, was a Belgian-born-and-bred hoy whose real
name was Joseph de Veuster. In 1858 when he was ;
18, he joined a religious order. Five yéars. later, he went to the Pacific islands, taking the place of his
brother (also a priest) who had been picked for the
plague raging in Memphis, Tenn. He arrived in Memphis in August 1878. Immediately, he peeled his coat and went to work. A month latér he was dead, a victim of the plague. His monument in Crown Hill carries the inscription: “A yictim in the cause of humanity.” Even more impressive are the lines that follow:
hurch as-a tribute to his Christian heroism.”
“Erected vy his fellow-members.of the Second Presbyterian
Can't they hear the symphony that Fall winds blow? Can't they see white sapphires in the dew, 5 The wealth of color in a rainbow hue, The portrait beauty of a simple tree? That the most precious of life's Wealth is Free! —BETTE
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RAIN
A rain drop upon a window sill, A little heart became so still. a Mother said, “No outdoors play today. Off with your shoes, in the house you'll stay. Put on your slippers and be still.” For there's rain drops on the window sill “ «EARL J. STAU DACHER. |
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WASHINGTON, Nov.
| questionnaire sent by this column to its 700 daily newspaper client
editors and 800 members of Congress, top government officials and Washington representatives of labor and business groups. All of these issues will be considered by ‘the coming special and regular. sessions of Congress.
On the basis of a 40 per cent return, it is found that there is
general agreement on only two questions
ONE: Only 9 to 13 per cent believe that the U. 8. should stop
{further aid to Europe.
TWO: On the e question of Europe's ability to repay Marshall Plan
(Editor's Note: This is the » second of “four dispatches, analyzing results of Peter Edson's poll of government officials, business leaders and Newspaper editors.) - 2
advances, only a to 45 per cent believe iy outright Fant. in- n-aid should be given, with no repayment called for. On all other questions, the opinions of the différent groups varied from sero to 100 per cent. Every one of the government officials
mission, but couldn't go because of illness.
Dr. Renner Speaks Up WHILE STOPPING at Honolulu, Father Damien got his first glimpse of the pathétic plight of lepers. At that very moment, Molokai Island by" the Hawaiian government. volunteered to take spiritual charge of the colony. He ended up running the colony and managed by the labor of his own hands Hawaiian governmént to improve the water supply, and the diet of job had how it was possible for any white man to live in such sordid surroundings, cut off from all human
as I was saying,
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The gracious tribute on the part of the Second Presbyterian people takes on added significance today when compared with . the . strange behavior of a New York Presbyterian preacher who deemed it his duty, at the time to rush into print with a scathing denunciation, of Father Damien and his work.- The imputations so enraged Rbbert Louis Stevenson that he took time off to write “An Open Letter to the Rev. Dr. Hyde,” possibly the greatest piece of invective in the entire field of modern literature. Certainly it remains the classic example of literature to serve those who feel imipéliéd to give somebody a piece of his mind without losing his head. I guess I ought to add, too, that Father Damien didn't die until 1889—135 years after all the Indian-,
they were being deported to He _
and by appeal to the
the Tepers. His the whole world wondering
| Women and Politics
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Hoosier Forum “1 do not agree with & word het you say; but | 1 ‘wil defend fo the death. your right to sy 1"
There is a lot of discussion the relative intelligence of’ I would dislike very much to think most. intelligent women in intelligent than a lot of the men who are in headlines at Washington,
It seems to be a generally accepted
publicly put who knows how much Harry com= _ sults her. What would happen if a judge on the bench should keep his wife beside him to advise him in his decisions? What would happen if jurors should keep their spouses near to help them make up their minds in rendering their decisions?
| On the contrary, the jurors are advised by the
judges not to discuss case even with their wives and frequently are segregated to Preven such proceedings. What I am trying to say is this: If we ame to have a strictly democratic form. of govern ment in this country, let's get away from the “traditions of the elders” ‘and elect women ifie stead of men where the women show they are more intelligent than the male of the species. But it is up to the individual woman and no claim sex as her chief qualification.
* +o ‘Too Many White Collar Workers’
By H. C, L. Victim We hear a lot about the need for increasing production. Most of the arguments center around the necessity for stepping up the output of the industrial worker. And while recognizing the possibilities that lie in this direction, there is another source of manpower, which is at -present being wasted, that could be tapped for use in this crisis.
is - cluttering up, and feeding off Sur industry without. seemingly giving anything in retum, Those boys with the hyphenated jobs, the assistants to the assistants, and the like. While recognizing the need for enough administrative personnel to
efficiently manage a business, industry is becoming
| top’heavy with an element whose chief duties seem
to consist of sitting around looking wise and
| drawing their paycheck.
It appears to me that our production effort would be aided immeasurably if these fellows were taken from behind these desks and given jobs wheré they could produce something tangible.
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‘Too o Much Space for Busses’ By Dissatisfied’ Citizen Since when have we taxpayers been paying taxes to the Indianapolis Street Railway Co. This company has put up “No Parking” signs from 90 to 100 feet from the corner, thus prohibiting parking for three residences from the corner, so the bus, driver can park close to the curb to load and unload passengers. ; 3 I drove a bus for a while. and if I were the Railway Co. and had a driver that couldn't pull up to the curb in 50 feet I would discharge him. How much longer is the Indisnapolis Street Railway Co. going to tell us how much we must pay to ride and where we ean park-our odrs? What say people, do they get away with it or
not? We've had an elecion since I wrote this.
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Those Transfer Slips - By E. 8. Barber, City The. drift of white transfer slips on the floor of thé streetcars is a sad commentary on the peoplé’s faith in the Street Railway Co. In view of the paper shortage would it not be patriotie on the part of the company to cease wasting it and save the expense of printing the millions of slips? Or to be thrifty—apply the money on their ‘high-priced lawyers’ fees? In the meantime, what are our well-paid public service officials doing for us? If they knew what a drain the fares are on moderate pocket-books they might possibly
SU oer HE SRGeNE Of White colTr Tel tak
it was sometime in the
Officials Favor Extending Rent Controls
10-Wide differences in opinion on 20 | leading foreign and domestic. issues are shown in the answers to a
expiration date of Feb. 29, 1948. Not one of the Senators replying
| would admit opposition to the President's plan that something be done
| down without reducing wages. Sixty per cent of the Senators apparently hold the same |
controls.
about high prices at the coming special session . This special session is opposed, however, by 60 per cent of the Senators, Congressmen and the Washington representatives of business and labor organizations. and government. officials,
All Groups Against Price Controls
NOT ONE group showed a majority in favor of a return to price Forty-eight per cent of the government officials answered
apolis newspapers had pronounced him dead.
| per cent of the Congressmén, 82 per
do something.
By Peter Edson
cent of the business
| representatives, 60 per cent of the Senators and—surprisingly enough— | 52 per cent ofthe top officials of the Truman administration.
It is approved by 65 per cent of the editors
Editors are likewise the most enthusiastic over prospects of tax reduction, 72 per cefit saying they want it next session. At the other extreme, only 48 per cent of the government officials favor it.
| Congressmen—who will decide the question—favor reduction.
| communism. Congressional minds are more cautious.
that some limited form of price control would.be necessary to control
inflation, which was the most favorable showing. A majority of government officials think prices can be brought “They voted 74 per cent in support of this belief.
| view, but only 39 per cent of the Congressmen.
replying thinks rent KS rent controls should be extended beyond the present |
Side Glances—By Galbraith
natn
DOPR, 1947 BY NEA SERVICE NC. TM REG ¥. & PAT OFF pr Sure, I'm against long skirts—if | were a woman nobody d tell 2 eo how to dion"
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| too tough. They answered 88 per cent this way, as compared to 84
China Becomes Political Issue
10—Secretary Marshall has become ex- |
On the likelihood of a business recession In 1948, the business
| leaders seem more fearful than any other group, 60 per cent answering:
that they saw danger ahead. Forty-seven per cent of the editors, 48 per cent of the government officials and 50 per cent of the Senators are similarly concerned, but only 24 per cent of the congressmen show alarm over the possibility of a depression. Greatest confidence in ‘voluntary rationing is shown by federal
"government officials, but only 52 per cent of them think the program
| will accomplish the desired result of helping feed Europe. - Other | 19 per cent of the government officials and 22 per cent of the
| congressmen share that view. And not one Senator answered that he
groups ‘think it will fail. Editors lead ‘the parade in believing the Taft-Hartley bill is not
WASHINGTON, Nov.
Sixty-nine per cent of the editors think that aid to European countries should be made conditional on their taking steps to block While admitting the desirability of this step, many wrote in after their anwsers, “How do you do this?” or “It can’t be done.” Members of Congress and government officials seem more reluctant to write off the UN than other groups. Only 10 per cent of the
| senators, 26 per cent of the congressmen and 30 per cent of the
tremely sensitive on the subject of Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer's report |
on China. In his last press conference the secretary shut “off all questions
| on the subject in ‘what one writer described as his best “five-star
| military manner.”
The secretary likened the Wedemeyer report to &
| - private talk with the Presideent.
But the Republicans do not intend to lett go at that. - Gov.
| Thomas E. Dewey pushed the Chinese issue into the 1948 presidential
campaign in his recent foreign-affairs speech. In China, Mr. Dewey said, “the people are not only hungry but their economy is prostraté and they are ufider heavy military attack from the very forces inté whose hands they were betrayed at Yalta.”
| Yet while a great program is betng prepared to help Europe, “nothing
‘is yet proposed concerning China,”
he said.
Charges Chiang Won't Deal With Reds
AND WHY. ave we left China out of the picture? Because Chiang Kai-shek ref: to make a deal with the Communists, Mr. Dewey charged. He said “fn the Orient, we have seeh our own government turn against our wartime Chinese allies and order them, under pain of losing American support, to accept into their SoVerent the very Communists who seek to destroy it.” Gov. Dewey was speaking from the rasond, * John Carter Vincent, then .in charge of Chinese affairs for the State Department, told a New York audience in November, 1946, we could not consider China
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a good credit risk so long as Chiang Kai-shek continued to fight the |
Chinese Communists,
This speech was matie while Secretary Marshall, béfore his ap- | pointment to his present position, was in China urging establishment of i
a coplition government which would include substantial
fis
government: officials favor trying to set up a new world organization now. On the other hand, 41 per cent of the editors and 45 per cent of the business leaders approve this step.
Congress Out of Step on UMT
THE CONGRESS is, apparently, far more opposed to universal military training than any other group. Only 39 per. cent of the lawmakers favor UMT. Government officials are 70 per cent for it, editors 78 per cent and business groups 81 per cent. Twenty-eight per cent of the editors and 27 per cent of the business groups think the world is headed for another war.
thought a third>world war was inevitable. -
By Parker La Moore
representation. Following the failure of his mission, Mr. Marshall issued a ‘“plague-on-both-your-houses” statement. which tended te support Mr. Vincent's position. In it he expressed greai dissatisfaction with the existing government of China, President Roosevelt made the deal at Yalta, to which’ Gev, Dewey. referred: the-Soviet-Union-extraterritorial concessions w Manchuria and paved the way for Soviet assistance to the Chinese Communists. . But Secretary Marshall is in a vulnerable position, too, if it is true—as some believe—that the Wedemeyer report has been suppressed because it was favorable to Chiang Kai-shek.
Wedemeyer Isn't Talking GEN. WEDEMEYER isn't talking, so it cannot be stated with certainty what the report contains. But the general's opinion of Chieig is a matter of record. In a speech Oct. 10, 1948, ‘the wartime commander of the Ohina theater said:
“Por eight arduous years the Chinese fought bravely to eliminate
totalitarianism in the Far East. The generalissimo, with the same
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