Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1947 — Page 16

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Keep Politics Out of Our State Police

“I have the utmost confidence in our state police department, and in its administration.” —Gov. Gates. ” ” ~ X - ~ .

So have we, Governor, ~ vy It has earned that confidence by the kind of job it has been doing. On his own record, when Col. Rossow, its superintendent, says he has investigated a charge and finds it without- foundation, we're ready to believe him. So our confidence in state police administration is un- . shaken by the indictment of its four highest ranking officers, out in Crawfordsville. Unless there is some hidden evidence out there that we don't know-about—and we don’t believe there is—the charges against these four men are

‘With the Times

WAY BACK .YONDER

[In the days of “way back yonder” in the country where I grew, there are memories grown fonder for the years I'm-passing through; things I'd fain | remember better of my friendships strong and true. | But along the trail I'm passing certain visions haunt me yet; thoughts persistently harassing, thoughts that strangle me and fret. ‘It is easy to remember; would to God I might forget. : : i ~VEE. Le SP TO BOBBY AND PAUL

A pair of red birds in our tree! I wonder if they're watching me, I hardly move for fear the sight Of me would send them into flight. Do stay awhile until perha My babes awaken from their naps. ° Ah, then you'll scurry fast I'll bet One fleeting glance of you they'll get, For tho’ they try so hard to be Bo still and watch you in our tree, They tap the window glass or shade I'm not surprised you are afraid. Just when they would so quiet be Their noise is loudest, seems to me, You two had best be leaving now Tonight I'll tell my youngster how I watched you half an hour today, You didn’t want to fly away : Just sat and puffed your crimson breast,

pretty thin. ’

” ” UT by an odd coincidence, three of the four indicted officers are Democrats, In a state wholly governed by Republicans, Our state police department, obviously, is a place where our merif system is working. One of the | very few places where it is working well. That is a condition that is chiefly responsible for the high state of effi- | ciency to which this department has been brought. It is | also a situation that is extremely annoying to certain political hacks who consider all such jobs as a police captain's strictly as political plums, Their droolings at the sight of | Democrats keeping such posts solely because they do a | good job have not by any means gone unnoticed, Apparently it has never occurred to these lower-case | Machiavellis that the people of Indiana—Republicans as . well as Demtcrats—may like having a first-class, efficient, non-political state police department. That maybe a great many Hoosier citizens are not too much concerned about the party label of the men who guard their highways and catch their criminals and protect their lives and properties -—as long as their lives and properties are adequately protected. The evidence isn’t all in, yet. But our guess is, it had better be good. Already in this case there is a strong undertone of exactly the sort of thing that invoked the repudiation of the Republican organization in Marion County and in Indianapolis. Do they have to be repudiated on a state-wide basis before they'll believe it? '

For Superior Court Judge "THERE is much scrambling and jockeying, naturally, for the seat on the Marion County Superior Court left vacant by the resignation of Judge Emsley Johnson, and the possibilities mentioned run all the way from very good to very poor. It is important to the people of this countythat the man to be appointed be the very best available, It is im‘portant, also, we believe, to Gov. Gates that the man he appoints be beyond eriticism, The best qualified men in Marion County to judge the + qualifications of a Superior Court judge obviously are the lawyers who practice in the county. We'd suggest that the Marion County Bar Association choose, let's say, three men they could recommend. And that Gov. Gates then make his appointment from among those three. It would save a lot of factional dickering and dealing and wire-pulling. And it would ‘certainly simplify the task of getting a man on that bench who would keep its standards at the highest level.

Herbert J. Blatz

IT'S hard for anybody on The Times to write about the passing of Herb Blatz, or to set the words in type. You get to know a man pretty well in 40 years. A man grows pretty deeply into the heart of an organization like ours. And you come to value him for what he is, working beside him day after day and year after year. Whole generations of printers have learned their trade under his kindly guidance. A whole era of history flowed under his nimble fingers, to help make-this city one of the best-informed in the world. He was an important figure in his field.

Yet he was always modest and retiring, himself. In |

times of stress and tension, such as come to all newspapers,

he was calni’and cheerful, In times when speed was vital |

he was coolly efficient. Characteristically, one of his last re-

quests was that his picture should not be published in the |

newspapers,

Perhaps we ought to write about him as the skillad | craftsman, the able ‘executive, the good citizen — and he |

was all of those. But somehow all that seems to matter at The Times just now is that we have lost a friend.

Inter-American Security HE inter-American defense pact has heen submitted to the Senate by the President. There is no doubt of ratification by a large vote. That is all the more reason for the

speedy action requested by Sen. Vandenberg. In such mat- |

ters it is not only what is done, but how, that eounts. Our security stake in this mutual defense agreement is too obvious for argument. It provides that armed attack against one is an attack against all. Though the major danger points at the moment are in the Far East, the Middle East and Europe, Russia is also busy in Latin America. Her wrecking technique of pene-

trating unions and pulling political strikes in Chile and | other Latin-American countries is similar to her methods |

in France and Italy,

a.m ? . S long as Russia considers the United States her chief opponent, and American strength the main barrier to

Soviet expansion, Stalin never will neglect the Latin-Amer- |

ican opportunity. ' For the same strategic reasons that Hit-

ler tried to bore through our back door, Stalin's stealthy

agents will continue to operate there. So the treaty now before the Senate is vastly important ~—not as a piece of paper but as a sincere expression of hemfsphere solidarity agains¥ threats of aggression.

| the holidays is no lull-of-buy.

The golden sunshine did the rest, It gave you courage, strength anew Enough to last the long night through. Tomorrow we will meet again, . My babes will ask me where you've been.

~~MARCELLA HIBNER. ® % 4 The song of the merchants as we lead up to

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DOG BITES MAN

Dog bites man! A couple of lines expresses, But man bites dog Often stops the presses!

Dog bites man! Gets buried among the fillers, But the dbg that bit the man Gets buried under the willers! —CLAUDE BRADDICK.

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EXCELSIOR When I was a child I read Elsie Dinsmore. But now I am grown up, And I read all the best-sellers. -—~MYRA AHLER. & <

DREAMER

Marriage rates continue heavy, despite the high cost of living. “It's as easy fo support two as one,” the young man fondly tells himself. He is a liar, a double-dyed, pernicious, consummate self-deceiver. But it is his business and who are we to spoil his young life by exploding the dream? : ANON.

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a decade.

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FOSTER'S FOLLIES

Neighbor Davis went out fishing, Told his wife with straightest face: “For your company I'll be wishing, But for women' that's no place.” But this lady wasn't sappy, | She got several bass of note, A full limit haul of crappie— And poor Mr. Davis’ goat! * & | We advise against late Christmas shopping. How's about a good old counter attack right now? 9% &

OBSERVATION

How pleasant to philosophize On the spiritual value of fasting— At the close of a hearty repast.

~—MYRA AHLER. °

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OUR TOWN . .

We Celebrate Pearl Harbor Day: 3 :

It was called “The Balloon

And T could go on and on telling you about the first American balloon song, too, which turned up sorfietime around 1870. Hundred” and predicted by way of word and pictures on its cover that by that dase everybody would be traveling in “Steam Balloons.”

It was called “Nineteen

It left everybody up the details of the performance, but

that's a way poets and musicians have.

| Into the Air, Men 80 MUCH FOR balloon music. Now, let's get hot. The earliest American airplane song—and, indeed, anywhere in the world—was “The Air Ship Waltz, for piano and organ, cated to the Married Ladies Musicale, Greensburg,

composed by Isaac Doles and dedi-

Isaac Doles came to Indianapolis by way of Greensburg, his birthplace, which sheds some light on how the married ladies of Decatur County got mixed

When he thought up “The Air Ship Waltz” Mr.

* THE DIME STORE

I remember the day When they would say Ten cents please, That's all you pay.

Doles was living in Indianapolis at 23¢ W. Michigan St, on the other side of the alley now known as Roanoke. As nearly as I can figure out, he had only four years’ practice composing songs before he tackled the air ship. Its initial flight was as successful as

" that of the Wright brothers.

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On Heavier-Than-Air Music

THE FIRST American sohg to have an airplane for its subject originated in Indianapolis as far back as 1891. Orville and Wilbur Wright didn't make their successful flight until a dozen years later (Dec. 17, To reconcile the two conflicting facts leads to only one deduction — namely, that Hoosier poets and musicians anticipate inventors by at least It's been suspected often enough, but here at long last is final proof of it. I am limiting today's piece to heavier-than-air music. If I were ! in a mood to enlarge the subject, you could depend on my telling you that the very earliest song came from London sometime around 1792.

Waltz” and its commercial success that Mr. Doles continued composing for the next 36 years. He had a lot to show for it. For example, he composed “The Knights of Pythias March” and the “Odd Fellows Grand March.” Both were used in Masonic ceremonies all over the nation. Even the Canadians accepted them in preference to martial music imported from the Mother Country. : He also wrote a. number of children’s songs and many popular airs of the ballad type. His last performance in that category was a nostalgic affair labeled “Indianapolis,” into which he poured everything he had. Mr. Doles’ greatest hit, however, was “My Sweetheart of Long Ago” which was composed sometime around the turn of the century—at a time when everybody was supposed to be riding in steam balloons.

Plugging Song Hits “MY SWEETHEART of Long Ago,” which was free of any emotional allusions to Greensburg, Ind., was played by bands all over the country and was so popular in its day that it was on the program eight times in succession in one series of concerts. Thus proving that the practice of plugging song hits originated long before the radio made its appearance. Mr, Doles composed all his music for piano and organ apparently unmindful of the fact that the parlor organ was fast going the way of the buffalo. Even at the time of his death, Mr. Doles’ estate revealed two parlor organs of a vintage that baffled his; executors, : * Mr. Doles didn’t compose any airplane songs after his first success, but that didn't discourage his competitors. In 1903, Anna Held sang “We Two in An Aeroplane,” and the very next year Blanche Ring came across with “Come Josephine in My Flying Machine” After that there was a lull lasting almost 20 years. Then, all of a sudden, everybody with music in his soul produced Lindbergh songs—that is to say, everybody except Isaac Doles. Charles Lindbergh arrived in Paris on May 21, 1927, exactly 20 days after Mr. Doles’ death which explains why Indianapolis didn’t contribute anything musical to the first trans-Atlantic

{ Hoosier Forum!

*1 do not agree with a word het you say, but | will defend to the death your right fo say I."

Has U. S. Blundered Again? By L. A, Beem, City hn an bd will the partition of Palestine, whic labeled largely an American product, prove 10: be as inept and as dangerous as our adoption of a “second front” through France? History, I believe, will surely point to that strategy as the greatest of all strategical blunders in the history of this country. This was the

political military signifi Shaw . Churchill,

danger clearly and, it is safe out the danger to this government at the time

fastly holding out for this second front in France. As a consequence we have accomplished except to have exchanged Germany for Russia. Now, we come up with the partition of Palestine with extremely dubious moral and legal sanction. Assuming it will take troops to enforce the decision, we are at once confronted with the cer~ tainty of Russian troops participating in the occupation. The implications are obvious. It does not take great imagination to understand the great alacrity with which Russia accepts the decision. The British determination to have no part in the enforcement of the decision points up the long-range vision and foresight of the British in foreign relations. ¢ & ¢

Against South Side Incinerator By A Times Reader : Just a few things why we are not for erection of an incinerator on the South Side or anywhere in the residential district of our city. I now live and own my home in the neighborhood where the City Sanitation Dept. is on Sanders St. The trucks come in and out of here to be washed and parked. Some days in hot weather we can hardly stand the odor, day or night. The men working here and the trucks make so much noise no one cquld sleep. And there'are men that work nights you know. Our streets are in such a bad condition, with the big trucks using them day and night, it is better for us to use the alley. This is a nice section of the city, very nice homes. Why do we have to have this eye-sore in our neighborhood? Why don’t they put all of this out far enough not to interfere with anyone? The people in this neighborhood have tried for years to get them to move it. But no luck, This is why I am all for not having it anywhere in the city. > 9

Film on Capone Opposed By H. Karl Volland, 723 Lafayette Ave., Columbus.

I read with a great deal of interest your editorial on the proposed film version of Al

| Capone's life. Mr. Johnson and you are right— .

no version of such picture should be. made. As

a former City Judge. and Mayor of Columbus,

Ind, I know from experiences, with juveniles particularly, what the version and showing of such a picture would mean. It would greatly increase

| delinquency among our young people and also | have its bad effect on older ones.

| that Christ our Lord and

We have had and still have criminals in our country. Why increase the number? A version of Capone's life shown on the screen would surely increase the number. * Let us edjucate our youth in the better things In life—things of a wholesome nature. The things Saviour, whose birthday we are about to observe again, taught us to do.

{ I wish for you and Mr. Johnson every success

in your efforts to suppress the version or filming of the life of Al Capone and others of like kind if such are in the making. ® ¢

Poem With Horse Sense By L. W. Heagy

May I add the term philosopher to that versatile poet Barton Rees Pogue? His four-verse poem

sense, pathos, sunshine and a general uplift to anyone who will understandingly read it. ' Cut it out of the Nov. 29 Times, pin it up where

—EARL J. STAUDACHER.

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WORLD AFFAIRS.. . . By William Philip Simms

Reds Stall for Ti Reds Stall tor lime, | WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—The United States, Great Britain and | France soon may be forced to call for a showdown with Russia at the London conference of Big Four foreign ministers. It is now all too evident that Moscow is stalling for time in the hope that hunger and chaos in Europe and Asia, and a depression in the United States, will give world communism the chance it is seeking.

Neither Britain, the U., S. nor France wants to force matters at London. But it is going on three years since the war, and all Moscow

has done whether at.Washington, San Francisco, Néw York, Lake ||

Success, London or Paris has been to stall while its fifth columns | systematically wrecked world recovery

U. S. Aid Prevented World Collapse

THE CONVICTION therefore is growing that the other three | countries soon will have to abandon the, futile attempt to co-operate with Russia and proceed to organize the best possible peace without her. : It would be a grave step. But, many believe, it would be far | graver to permit things to continue as they are.

world collapse before new. | enraged against the United States. While the Soviet foreign minister stalls at London, the United Na-

| tions makes public the latest #ood and agricultural figures for Europe. |

| They are anything but cheerful.

The average wheat acreage during the five pre-war years was 75 | milljon acres. Last year's amounted to 65 million. This year's sowings |

were down to only 57 million acres. Unfortunately that is not the worst of #. European production

| figures make an even more dismal showing. The 1034-38 average was 423 million metric tons of wheat. Last year it amounted to almost |

| 33 million tons. This year's estimate calls for less than 26 million tons. Rye production this year will be little better than half the pre-

But for American | ald, Soviet obstructionism might well have brought about general | That is one reason why the Kremlin is so |

Indeed, it was largely because of “The Air Ship

airplane flight.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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war average, or approximately 10 million metric tons as against a bet- |

J ter than 19-million-ton average for 1934-38.

Bagley production has dropped from 144 million to 11.7 million

tons; oats from 22.9 to 16.9; maize from 17.3 to ¥ 3 and potatoes from |

1342 to 98 million tons. .

Time Is Necessary for Reds LAST WINTER'S FREEZE and last summer's excessive heat and drought are partly to blame, along with lack of fertilizer, labor dif- | ficulties, insufficent food and tools for workers, and so on. Thus the food situation in Europe will be worse this winter than | it was right after or even during the war years. Europe's Communists know this, especially in the key countries of France and Italy, and | they are maneuvering accordingly. If Moscow's fifth columns can keep the people in turmoil for another year, sabotage interim aid from America; kill or cripple the | Marshall Plan; prevent adequate food and fuel distribution by strikes,

is stalling to gain time. . Communist newspapers in France and Italy are already whoop-

ing it up hysterically promising early “victory.” Victory over whom? |

etc; Moscow may yet gain its ends. But time is necessary and Moscow

"They ought to make

homework more attractive—I'm writing essays and limaricks in ¥hraersoap contests and might ; “win thousands of dollars!”

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An etiquet book for men warns against giving a taxi driver a nickel tip. That's not etiquet—it’s self-defense.

Scientists figure that the chemical contents of the human body, at! {current prices, are worth about $31. tempted

to sell. sv 0

| was feeding shoved a spoon into it. to talk.

: em. i ‘ ® » | When a pedestrian trusts a motorist and a motorist trusts a people: .

pedestrian, that's two careless # ‘as =» |

An Oklahoma man explained a black eye by saying that a baby he

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you can see and read it every time you have a case

I | “All Day Today” is jampacked with good horse of blues and the world is all upset,

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

Reds Mask a Fast One

{In ‘Blue Book’ on U. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—How the Russians in 1046 compiled a three-volume, 5000-page “Catalog of American Engineering and In dustry,” which today looks like an index to strategic bombing and sabotage targets in the United States, is a little-known story. But it is particularly appropriate now, because ‘of all the pressure

| in Congress to stop exports and to have the Department of Commerce

report on U. 8. firms that have sold goods to Russia in the past.

Compiling this. Russian catalog on American industry is unquestionably one of the smartest jobs of .in nce gathering ever put over. If the U. 8. Air Force had had comparable information on Germany, the task of the strategic bombers would have been much simpler. The Russians now have complete information on the U. 8. cataloged for ready reference when needed.

On its face, the Russian catalog looks as innocent as a SearsRoebuck job, only for a different line of merchandise. Where to buy steam shovels, turret lathes, mining machinery, rolling mills, petroleum refineries, food processing machinery—any and every kind of industrial equipment, ‘How to build a school, a house, a sewage system, an auto plant, railroad shops, assembly lines for the mass production of airplanes, : »

Book Gives Army the Creeps

STRICTLY SPFAKING, there are no military secrets in these three big, fat, slick paper volumes, each weighing over five pounds. All the information they contain could be duplicated in a good set of textbooks for a technical school and in countless trade publications. But they give military intelligence men the creeps. The job of compiling this vast work on American industry was done by Amtorg Trading Corp. This is the Soviet purchasing agent in the U. 8. for all goods going from “America to Russian government,” which ‘gives the outfit its name. Am began to compile an annual “Catalog of American Engi-, neering Industry” in 1039. The idea was to make a report on American technology, man methods, and machine and architectural designing.

The first half-dozen volumes seem to have been routine affairs. - the a big “pur

But, at the end of the war, while Russians still chasing mission” stiff in this country ordering up plies, they apparently decided to do a super-colossal

Bear in mind what the political situation was at was still an ally. Everyone was counting on a ahead. There was talk of a one billion or even a three loan to Russia for reconstruction.

Hurts to Be Made a Sucker .

NATURALLY, every American manufacturer wanted a piece Russian business. Amtorg approached all the American with which it had done business. They were solicited to take fullads in the back of the catalog. Six hundred and eighty-five o

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House Predicts WASHINGT Chairman Je Mich.) of the mittee today ¢ anti-inflation compulsory wi —which he s upon at this s) He sald his of legislation moment to He said the) thinking and | mént with Sel The three | ONE: Such

piration date, that is neces: eign needs ag omy.” 2 THREE: In per cent the currency issue Banks and fr the gold reser serve Banks 1 deposits of co Mr. Wolcott at a press o riner S. Eccl Federal Rese committee ths the advanced Mr. Eccles s tive action is severe will be tion.”

Doubled Urged to

Rep. Franc posed that pe emptions be higher living will result f program. The Ameri recommended proval of a 1 property tax |

, posal a husk

divide their | poses. This 1 of reducing t Mr, Case | to boost tax for single pe married coup tions are $50

Economy

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The $590 n was thrown o the House minded mem for a fight tc Members of Committee inc up a stout ba tic cut. But tl tions they mig of up to $50 r bloc showed § Rep. Sol B ranking mino committee, sal pending bill w with no mon votes. Other felt he was Both the Si are authorizas provides that Finance Corp $150 million t Neither the acted yet on actual money

Question Of Retire

A House ar tee set out retired office health and Jobs along wi ability” pensi H. Elston (R posed to send cers with dis: quire into the the present The inquiry

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