Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 November 1947 — Page 10

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Public Library Helps

SERIES of public forums on world and domestic affairs is being held by the Indianapolis Public Library as an-

other of its many contributions to the community,

Subjects of the forums, arranged hy_ Librarian Marian

* McFadden and Public Relations Director Wilbur I. range from aid to Europe to universal military training. The forums are part of a campaign to stimulate thinkIng on the vital questions before the country. The library, in addition to this phase of its educational program, encourages greater reading and discussion on such topics as the United Nations, atomic energy, and relations with Russia. Sspecial exhibits, changed to fit in with the trend of world developments, are maintained at the Central Library and its 21 branches. Miss McFadden aptly observes that “our part in world affairs is influenced by public opinion, and it is most important that more people learn the facts about the serious problems which we face,” The degree to which the citizens of Indianapolis take advantage of these services of its libraries is a good criterion of their interest in current events.

Bad Timing

HE chief of Army information, Maj Eddy, has charged that a “sinister

Gen, Manton 8. campaign’ is on

to “poison” the public mind against the American military |

profession.

“There is a rising wave of attacks against the military in general and the porps of officers in particular,” he asserted in a speech in Washington this week,

‘This isn’t a good time to make such a charge without being specific, as Gen. Eddy was not. source of the “attacks.” lieve he realized how many people might conclude that he was hitting at the current Senate investigation of the wartime activities of Maj. Gen, Bennett E. Meyers. Of course the purpose of that inquiry is not to discredit the American military profession, That profession is, as Gen. Eddy says, one of our “most stalwart guardians of freedom.’ The public mind is not going to be poisoned | against it by any disclosure that A few among the many thousands of men who have heen members of the corps of officers were unworthy of trust.

But the public mind could be dangerously poisoned by suspicion that leaders of the military profession think it desirable to ignore or conceal wrong-doing by their associates: tion, we think, is the strong indication that other highplaced Air Force officers could and should have found out what Bennett Meyers was up fb, but preferred not to be too curious.

Certainly there are those in this country—the Communists, Tor instance—who want te destroy public confidehce in our military defenders. The way to combat their

Nagley,

He didn’t identify the | In fairness to him, we do not be- |

The most damaging aspect of the current investiga- It kept me warm without a doubt,

efforts is not to shield men who disgrace the uniform, but |

to make certain that they are exposed and punished.

Police State?

OME what may, our columnist, Mrs never to lose that amazing talent for getting things all balled up and she was in rare form, we thought, the other day when she got down to a discussion of President Tru-

{ Roosevelt, seems

man’s proposal for another whirl at a planned economy |

along: New Deal lines.

Sen: Robert A. President's program

has said that our nation into

Taft, she wrote,

means turning a

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“police state,” but apparently she feels there are worse |

things than that. Anyway, after careful weighing of both | sides she reaches the conclusion that the way to strengthen our system of free, enterprise and prove the American way is the right way is to abandon it for a vear or so and “show ! that we really know how to manage our economy,” as she puts it. : But just to set the record straight, it was President Truman, not Sen. Taft, who made that crack about this’ being the mark of a “police state” . before he changed ! his mind and asked Congress to do it, of course;

The Expanding Record”

UGUSTUS GIEGENGACK, public printer of the United

States, includes in his annual report some statistics | on the recent growth of that fascinating publication, the Congressional Record. | For the first session of the 79th Congress, in 1045,

the Record averaged 85 pages an issue, pages for the 79th’s second session. The first session of the 80th Congress, which began last January, established an even higher score— perhaps because the Republicans, who had newly come into control of the House and Senate, made so many speeches about economy,

w Mr. Giegengack's figures should dispose-of complaints, if any, about the insufficient quantity of congressional

oratory. As to quality of same, the public printer, being a discreet man, sayeth not.

Four Trains a Day

SECTIONS of the Friendship Train, arriving at the harbor of New York, seem likely to total at least 250 carloads of food, given by. Americans for relief of hunger in Europe. Asia freely offéred expression of sympathy and gobdwill, this is impressive. As a measure of the assistance the people of Europe need it is much less so. American food- | ~ stuffs shipped to Europe in the last year, sstimating the | entire quantity in terms of wheat, have av eraged upward of 1000 carloads “daily—the equivalent of four trains as | long as the FFGGAEP Tearny sack tay, TE

That rose to 106

109 pages per average Record issue— |

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IT'S WORTH TRYING

MRAFFIC ENGINEERS and police officials all over the country are frantically searching for | # solution to our ever-growing accident problem. It seems to me that we are taking. the wrong approach. There is a perfettly sound ‘solution | which has nothing to do with engineering. It re-

Mall rates in Indiana, 85 a year; all other states; | quires no widening of highways, no improvement $110 a» Telephone RI ley 8851 |

in automotive design. No laws need he passed to | put it into effect, We already have such a-glut of laws that no motorist can know or remember | them. | It's a safe statement that eighty per cent of our accidents are caused by just plain bad manners. Good manners on the highway and the street cover a wide field, It isn't courteous to roar down to road at ninety miles an hour; neither is it courteous to drive at twenty, when the rest of the traffic wants to drive at forty or fifty. Watch the out-bound traffic in the evening. Cars at cross streets sit five, ten, fifteen minutes walting a chance to cross main thoroughfares Does anyone pause while the other driver crosses? Don't be naive! The Indianapolis custom is to speed up, get bumper to bumper, and hold that line! “Let him sit there—I'm In a hurry to get home." What do you do with the minute or two you “save” by such bad manners? Blasting a horn at my heels doesn’t impress me with your importance. It just sells me the idea that your people must have been pretty trashy to have let you grow up so {ll mannered as that You have no divine right to the middle of the rgad. Move over and share the earth! Sure, I know, You pay taxes. 80 does every other driver. Plenty of them. That thing they gave you wasn't a deed to the universe—just a licens® plate-—that's all Courtesy is the oil which enables us not overly bright human beings to move about without schatcHing each other too much

BOB HOLLINGSWORTH. “¢ ¢ 9

WE WIN BY FAITH

We win by faith, not by a strident soul But inwardly by that something that bids hold on ’ Despite turmoil, environment, race or creed, That voice of God within the soul urges on to noble deed,

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We win by faith, though small it may be Yet upward reaches to eternity And grasps hold af the God that brought it forth. To lift up. help and Fedeem those like ‘you and me

We win by faith, the will to do Though dark despair abound, we cary through For peace and joy, the better things That carry through on heavenly wing

We win by faith, friend, do not forget Nor let the Devil and his imps upset But pressing on by that faith that brings us joy We reach the goal, all Hell cannet destroy. ~-GARFIELD HIGHT, Zon AE

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DEAR BOSS By Denlel

M. Kidney

‘Should Louis Ludlow Retire?’

WASHINGTON, Nov. 22—Back in 1044 1 was

"covering the campaign in Indiana when called back

here to go with President Roosevelt on his fourth term campaign train. I had been at Dan Tobin's teamsters meeting at the Statler when FDR made his famous talk in defense of Falla. He was in fine fettle then. But from that time,

until I boarded the train, I had scarcely seen the President. Throughout the trip I confess that I was shocked at his appearance.

At Hyde Park on election night, 1 felt he wouldnot reach the peace table, which was the primary”

reason given for the fourth term. As you know, he did. not. I ventured the prediction that he would net in a talk to the Indianapolis Advertising Club just two

low's continued ill health) be considering a possible successor. As you know, he wag elected to his 10th consectitive term in 1946 while in the hospital and never was able to get back to his seat. Many months after the election he returned to his home here where he has enjoyed the careful attentions of his ‘wife and family. But he doesn’s come to his office. 80 the vast mass of business from the largest and most important district in the state is carried on there by Mrs, Esther Pillon, who has been: his secretary throughout these 20 years.

Occasionally he has made public appearances. He

‘even attended the funeral at Connersville of his

Republican cousin, the late Rep. Raymond 8. Springer. And he gets out to big-wig Democratic meetings ‘orice in a while. Yet the fact remains that he 4s unlikely to function as a full-time congressman at the special

Hoosier Forum

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‘Negroes Detest Watts Crime’ ~-By The Baptist Ministers Alliance of Indianapolis and Vieinity

Much space in the public press and long, deliberate conferences of various civic and religious groups have contributed valuable yet startling solu-

tions for our present crime wave in the eity. It ..

is common knowledge to every citizen of the Indianapolis area that law and order have been seriously undermined. This is a fact that un-

doubtedly will challenge the best minds. af this

community for an intelligent and uncompromising approach to crime prevention as well as to crime solution, We. have just witnessed the commission and solution of a very reprehensible and deplorable homicide in our eity. The fact that the victim was a prominent white person of this community should not breed such rash thinking that her death would cause more sorrow or concern than that of a similar case from other sections; nor

that a Negro: murderer is worse than a white :

murderer. The Negro ministry; and their laymen of this city, detest most vigorously the commission of crimes by Negroes or white and we wish to go on record indorsing and congratulating our police’ department for its cool and effigient procedure in solving the Burney murder case through the confession of Robert A. Watts. We hold no brief for this type of citizen and respectfully urge that immediate steps be taken by our law enforcement officials to effec legal and preventive reforms to. discourage and lessen activity of such perverts as Robert A. Watis and other criminals of the future.

Editor's Note — The above communication was

signed by Rev. Judge I. Saunders, nrosident of the al" ne, Rev. C. I. Dailey, Rev. F, R. Dillard, . Rev. H. T. Toliver, Rev. J. F. Johnson aad Kev.

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Radar for Yugoslavs By J. 8. Lucas, 4855 Plainfield Ave.

This relates to the recent Times editorial which disclosed that a principal part of appropriation to Yugsolavia, upon investigation, consisted of radar equipment. As pointed out, radar can only be assigned as a modern war implement of offensive-dgfensive usage and is hardly compatable with the picture of starving Europe as we hear of daily. Considering the hostility of Russian-patrolled countries and recalling the incident of American aviators being shot down over Yugoslavia, according to an accurate accounting, it is certainly amazing that such a lethargy. exists in this country as to allow this criminal misappropriation of socalled charity to s d unchallenged: Damage irreparable—like the scrap metal we sent to Japan before Pearl Harbor. . Or can it simply be éxplained that when the President called on Congress td give Russiansatellite Yugoslavia relief baskets that the shipping clerk, having run out of food supplies, merely finished out with radar. And if our shipping clerk is a Commie, | erhaps the next shipment may promise a few atomic bombs with directions for using. Our sincere thanks to the editor for this timely editorial. ¢ <* ¢

Save the Shades

SATURDAY

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fire while he pla at his home Noy covered 48 per cen kin for the graf the legs of 12 do tion performed af yesterday.

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Here's your red flannel . underwear! months before FDR died. session coming up or at the regular one in 1948. Grabbing a 22-c | When bits of red . . . from under white Now 1 ay relating this because I have a troubled His sole Democratic colleague from the state, Rep. | By Arthur §. Mellinger, R. R. 17, Indianapolis ’ Sutside Sol ee Peeped out sometimes . . . I died outright! conscience about the matter ‘of whether it isn't up Ray Madden of Gary, administered the House oath | * At home . . . and when I went somewhera to a reporter te-say whether or not he thinks 4 man to ™r. Ludlow at Lr P| Last Sunday I made a special trip to the. think he hit the : | Twore:..red flannel underwear! ean ‘serve in public office, if he believes that he is too : Shades to look over this proposed park. I came ! sick to do so. Grand Old Man of Hoosier Group away convinced that we should quickly buy it. i LE But I would gladly . . . gone without s HIS RECORD OF SERVICE to the 10th district There are thousands of beautiful native trees | . | But , . . dear me . . . NOW I. do not care Unable to Function Now has been great indeed. | scattered over the picturesque countryside. There | Bea uty Ir take «vu rad flannel underwear! MUCH AS HE MAY like the man and admire his No other congressman handled so much mail for | is a mile of moss-covered stone-walled JSavines | Call for | ~ANNA E. YOUNG. integrity (as I admired the integrity of the late Sen. constituents and there was never any distinction | that are second to none in Indiana, The otitlook: Lg ternational ¢ & & Carter Glass of Virginia, but couldn't agree that he raised as to party affiliations. over Sugar Creek. The flowing springs. The ernatanal should run for a term he was never able’ to serve by He was and is the grand old man of the Indiana nearness of nature to the visitor. The hotel is. YOX POP sitting in the Senate at all) it may sometimes be delegation. a very nice building, with a fine lobby and dining I —__-. I dod't ke to complain needful to speak out on such subjects as a candidate's But his continued absence does raise the question room. Other buildings are in good shape. As BUSI And don't like to let up health. of whether or not it wouldn't be better for Mr. Ludlow |= we are pouring countless millions down the BuroRegister that as Number One All of this is prelude to expressing the possibility to retire on his congressional pension and let some pean rat-hole a few hundred thousand for our- | m————————— In the Mayor's set-up that both Democrats and Republicans in Indianapolis other, younger man take over the reins. selves won't be amiss. - We will need some quiet: -F.PM. should (because of the well-beloved Rep. Louts Lud- DAN. KIDNEY. places in the war years that lie ahead af us. RE-WE : ; of MOTH H ° . " . - ¢ . or WOS J LEON TAI Truman Warned U. S. Output Risks Overheating By Wallace R. Devel | TT WASHINGTON, D. C Nov, 22--The gigantic engine of American Therefore, America must be extremely careful how it goes about | | rent high levels of production and, deed, are not relatively as large . ——————— production is laboring and pounding under a forced draft. | Adopting and carrying out a new foreign aid program, the experts as before the war.” . mins PE AF It is being strained almost to capacity. Pepe. a : ith ’ America's foreign aid programs » date have not prevesijed the MUS A . . ' merica is not care the engine of U. 8. production could | U. 8. from achieving a higher standard of living than before the war, Any attempt to make this engine work any harder will cost much | break or even explode, and then everybody would suffer appalling | according to the experts. : More per unit produced. damage. “For example, per capita consumption of meat has risen from 125 Trustworth Such an attempt could also overheat and otherwise damage the ! “There is no slack in the American ecohomy,” the President's 19- pounds a year in the pre-war period to an estimated 155 pounds for engine. man Committee of Private Citizens reported. | 1047 : : 2 i i8 N. The picture of the national economy was drawn by three official | “Most of the industries and occupations-of our economy are funec- | There are shortages. of only a relatively small number of items, % | reports written by as many committees of experts. tioning at unusually high rates, and the strain upon our facilities and | the experts’ reports agree. There's plenty of most things, they say. = a Mr. Truman asked them to find out what effpct a big new foreign . 4rain on our resources are generally manifest,” says the ‘Committee on | Even these shortages are only temporary, according to the experts. aid program would have on America. | National Resources and Foreign Aid. One reason for this is that the things that are short in this eoun- | | The experts found out that even the biggest program that any “Our production (is) at levels that, in many instances, are near- | try are the same things the rest of the world wants and needs. : SAVE responsible official here has seriously proposed could provide only a, Ing the capacity of our facilities.” “The demands tn both cases (foreign and domestic) takes place at $ small fraction of the things Europe needs. Furope itself must do most The American people's own demand for goods is what's keeping | the same strategic spots in the American market,” says the Council of HOP of the job of getting back on its feet U. 8. production at working full capacity lodd. | of Economic Advisers, od BISHOP-K The experts further. found out that even ‘the biggest possible “Domestic demand has been the principal cause of the upward | . . . 2a ' 3nd Floor! | ‘foreign aid program would take only a small fraction of total U. 8... pressure. says-the President's Council of Eeonomic-Advisers: | Europe mn Need of Help—Quick 1 . production. $ . : : N situation; is so desperate that But the experts also discovered that taking even this small fraction ' Foreign Aid to Diminish Bk hers OTHER aa. THE “up.” ” - would cost a lot and would strain the national economy because Amer- FOREIGN AID HAS TAKEN ONLY a very small part of U. S. Europe has to have help quick or-it will be beyond helping, the PERSONA ica is already working just about as hard as it can, making things for | output. | administration is convinced. : LOANS Mo itself. | “The aid we have given represents only a small fraction of our These are the factors that will combine to put grievous strains on ‘ Mo Moreover, the yngs Europe needs are the same things the -U.-8.-| total production,” the Private Citizens’ Committee declares. the U. 8. economy if there is-a big new foreign aid program. : Personal Le heeds. . “The amount of exports financed with government aid has ranged | These are the factors that have caused shortages and in less than : Peoples 4 | 3 between 2 and 3 per cent of our gross national product, and will be | a year have driven the cost of food up 40 per cent. Clothing and 3 130 E ’ Side Gl ancasBv "Ga albr aith less in future, and our general financial capacity to support such a | household furnishings up 18 per cent, and the general cost of living . Member Federal | Y program cannot be questioned,” the Council of Economic Advisers says. | index up 23 per cent. 3 o—— “Our foreign aid exports in general are a small proportion of our There is only one way to prevent these strains from doing terrible WHILE 1 | domestic production or requirements and their drain upon our re- damage to the U. 8. and everybody else, all the President's experts | sources relatively minor,” says the Comnrittee on National Resources have now reported: — : POP-UP and Foreign Aid. | America must adopt tight and elaborate ‘controls of the national $ { “In most instances, exports are not a large claimant for the cur- | economy. : ’ a. w o feo = : Meridian | ; » . ¥ 1712 N. Reds Prey on Misfits By Marquis Childs | [Jl Lox =a WASHINGTON, Nov. 23—Seven months ago, in New York, a The government employees listed by the woman informant as JORDA federal grand jury investigation was begun into a purported spy | participating in the ring were for the most part left-wingers. They : CAB! Hring in Washington. | may have beén card-holding members of the Communist Party. : ——— Be | This long-drawn-out investigation—with the leaks, rumors and Here is a disturbing phenomenon. No matter what the grand jury | BUILT-I! | speculation accompanying it—has contributed immeasurably to the | reports, some people will be convinced that, where there was that . | See Our | current atmosphare of suspicion and distrust. | much smoke there was bound to be some fire. 1 333 W. W: The grand jury will shortly make public a report. According to | The parallel with the Cgfiadian spy ring immediately comes +

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the latest information, no individuals will be indicted. The jury will, ¥

however, report at length on what led up to the inquiry and what

was disclosed -by it. If that happens, it- will be a healthy thing. It

will help to clear the air. ; The investigation originated two and a half years ago when a

woman informant approached the FBI with sensational reports of ~

; ® spy ring in which she said she had played a part. She gave -the

FBI the names of a dozen or more persons in government who, she

said, had furnished documents that were passed on to Soviet agents

She, herself, according to the story, had delivered documents and, later in the war years, microfiimed copies of documents to Russian agents in Néw York. She described a basement room in a Washington residence in which she said the documents were microfilmed. . The informant was a woman of education whose circumstantial

story called for the most careful investigation, The FBI, in. the line submitted

of duty, made that investigation. On the basis of information to him, Atty. Gen. Tom Clark decided to present the case to a federal grand jury, If bg had not done so, he would have been open to the charge that he had suppressed the information. It is political turn that this charge Hoe have What is hard to understand is why vears. to complete the inquiry when

to mind. Many of the individuals implicated in Canada were, in effect, the dupes of two or three clever and calculating agents acting on direct orders from Moscow. They were a pathetic species, suffering from personal frustration, a fanatical and perverted idealism and, in some instances at least; a childish love of power and intrigue. They were, in short, one of the by-products of a far-from-perfect democracy. We have in the United States the same kind of misfits,

tragically misguided idealists and just plain intriguers. They are push: for the brutalized religion of Marxist communism. It to resdlve all their doubts. At the same time it gives

. them g chance to feel Wanted and important. This is the theme that

the personal narratives told before the royal

commission that investigated the Canadian espionage ring.

With minor exceptions, what they obtained through their spying in Canada was the kind of document that could have been obtained