Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 December 1947 — Page 16
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Wive Light and the People Will Find Thew Uwn Way
Panama Slaps Uncle Sam
HIS is a good time for Washington officialdom to show | patience in dealing ‘with the-Panama dispute over air Not only because of the Christmas season, cause our cane) Zone neighbors are
bases. but be-
e, somewhat hysterical at
the moment. We can best préve our friendship by not shout- |
ing’ rpcriminations, And friendship is the only basis on which this regrettable quarrel can be kept within bounds. United States citizens find it hard to understand the unanimity of the Assembly's vote rejecting the agreement leasing 14 defense bases to us. European and Asiatic
crises have crowded out the news of Panamanian events |
leading up to this slap at Uncle-8am. Even cur people closest to that situation had hoped the vocal and provocative op-
position would be reduced to a minority by more responsible |
elements there.
The legal dispute in itself is not enough te explain the bitter hatred aroused. Under the 1942 defense agreement we were to retain these wartime bases until one year after signThg of the peace treaty with Japan, [The Panamanian opponents insist that this meant one yfar after surrender and that we should have retuined all the bases— we wish to lease only 14 of 184->in 1946. Our legitimate need of the 14 bases for defense of the canal and of Panama—for the two cannot,be separated strategically—is as clear as the 1942 treaty. “ ~ » . ~ " THEN WHAT is all the trouble about? On the excited streets of Panama we are charged with imperialistic designs. In the more formal language of the Assembly's motion against ratification: “The agreement is not inspired by the principle of juridical equality of the contracting states, nor does it subject itself to the normal practices of International law and the spirit of inter-American defense”
If this suspicion of Yankee policy is as unfounded as
we helieve it to be, our government should be able to con-
vince responsible Panamanians. After all, our good neighbor | ‘record in recent years throughout Latin America and our
generous treatment of Panama in particular is the best evidence of our friendship. Of course nothing will convince those who are trying to blackmail us, or who are deliberately playing Russia's game. There are such groups. But we should not play into their hands by getting tough until it is clear that they actually have gained control of the republic. If patient persuasion fails, and the present campaign “hysteria does not pass with the May elections in Panama, there are several obvious ways in which the United States can protect itself against unfair treatment. Panama is far more dependent on us than the other way around. But just because we are so strong, and our means of retaliation so overwhelming, we should refrain at this time from the
threats of economic sanctions, of building a substitute and
better Nicaraguan canal, or of using force to maintain our treaty rights. In the meantime we can and should go on guarding the
canal, while resuming negotiations in a spirit of calm and
confident friendliness.
Snatched From the Grave
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THE first depression gag, as we reniember, was about Cities Service. It went this way:
street, “What are-you so sad about?” asked the friend.
“The doctor tells me I've got diabetes at 25," was the |
reply. i I've got Cities Service at 68.” While all stocks went into a tailspin, Cities Service became a symbol of the Wall Street crash, largely because it had been so widely peddled to the general public. It dropped from 68 to around 1. With pleasure, therefore, we note that Cities
“That's nothing.
will be $1.50 a share, which is around 50 cents more in earnings than a share was worth at the lowest point. Besides, a snug backlog of accumulated working capital is indicated, as well as $500 million investment since 1930 in oil
and gas properties and construction, which investment is |
now paying off.
WHE :N Cities Service was gasping what seemed to be its last, it was W. Alton Jones, now president of the company, who plied the pulmotor. Rigor mortis was foiled. In the 15 years since then, the recuperation has been accomplished, under the direction of Mr. Jones, who by the way, served as chairnfan of government oil transportation in. he War Fuel Administration. Among other accomplishments, the Big and Little Inch pipelines were his babies. We read and hear a lot nowadays about the duties of labor and management, and such. Without good manBut when you get such management as that provided by W, Alton Jones in reviving the near corpse of Cities Service and in the wartime job he did for the nation, we say, to put it mildly, that he's entitled to a salute,
Forest Primeval
MEMBERS of the United Nations secretariat were cofifronted the other day with this question, posted on a bulletin board at Lake Success: “How long since you were last in a forest?” The question was put by the Atherican Youth Hostels, as an invitation to hikes and travels.
In view of the vetoes, boycotts and other troubles that
oe “these United Nations workers must contend with, in addi-
sion fontaine of Just a aay work, it might pili dl " y a8 ging to get out the woods?"
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Service is to resume common dividends as of Dec, 19. . The payment |
With the Times
| BEQUEATH YOU | I'd like\fo leave a fortune, for you to spend, My Son, ‘ © ; But still I'd rather leave you the warmth of promise yo won, ; ' | And 1 should like to leave yoy the glory and the | fame, That all success can offer, the merit of the game, But it would be much better if, when your goal 1s won, You can look within your heart and see your JOD— { well done, | And of the most importance, I'd like to leave to you, The beauty of a sunset that fills your heart to view, The tranquil peace of twilight,” the softened dark of night, The glory uf the dawning, of morning's early light, The heart to feel pity, for other souls in need And never to forget, son, a troubled friend to heed A life that's filled with laughter, with just a hing of tears, I'd like to leave the knowledge I've garnered through the years, But with your life before you, give Except my fervent prayer, Bon, that you shall really live. , —MARION N. WISE. @.
ITEMS FROM THE CROSSRC | GRAPEVINE
there's little I can
Uncle Smelly Didvis felt shore he cud find her by goin! to where she wuz séen last an’ pertendin’ like he wuz a cow. Now evr'budy's huntin’ Smelly. The store is havin’ .& big special this week on Alrly Mornin’ Cawfee. One pound goes free with each horse collar bought, Constable Fogg broke up a dog fight front- o’ the store Sattiday night. “Thet's what you call gnin’ to the dogs,” cracked Willie S8huggs. Willie's allus a card, ~CATFISH PETE.
| AUNT SAIRY'S SOLILOQUY Jest settin' an’ a rockin’
Whin I hain't much else to do, Thinkin’ uv the happy days Thet cum to me.,an’ you. How yisterday wuz Easter Now Christmas time is here An’ allus whin I thinks o" thet Hit brings a happy tear. Seems lak uv all the days This one’s the most complete, We love to fetch our gifts An’ set 'em at His feet. Oh! “Cancha hear thim angels’ A singin’ , , . Silent Night! Don't hit grip ya with the feelin’ Thet . . . everything's all right! Oh! “Cancha see thet Baby As He sleeps so peacefully, { Thet blessed Baby Jesus Who came fer you an' me! —ANNA E."YOUNG.
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THE CATHEDRAL
There stood a great cathedral; The earth was white with snow, And from the stained-glass windows There shone an amber glow,
Within, the choir was singing: Witltout, the.church bells rang; And as 1 stood there listening, My heart, responding, sang.
The snow was falling faster, For He was close this night; And soon the great cathedral Became engulfed in white. —ALICE M. SCHEFFLER. oO $d
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
(“NEW YORK-Psychologist' Calls on Women to Make This Gayest of Holidays.”) Pop needs lots of cheer this Yuletide, So says<Miss Virginia Frese, Greens and maize (and Scotch and bromide?)™ He'll have happy days with these,
But there is one color lustrous, We hope Santa overlooks: : wu Too much red makes Daddy blustrous When he totes the year-end books!
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms
Our Policy in China
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WASHINGTON, Dec to China as ordered by straw in the wind revealing the tragic
China policy. The so-called “Christian General” conveyed the impression that, far from
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in a statement to the press following Party line, he was following the doctrine lald down by Washington. Nanking's collaboration with the Chinese Communists as the price of American aid. Gen. Feng has something there, if nowhere else. to China last year, Gen. Marshall, now Secretary of State, plugged He called for a coalition which would include He even went
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The Way to Handle a Hangover
THE MOODY reflections about to follow are the result of too much eating and drinking yesterday. The first scientifically-compounded sedative designed to calm the tortured state of mind known as a hangover was the Morning Bracer, a medicinal mixture that turned up in Indianapolis in the late Eighties. It may have been the “invention of Herbert W. Green. At any rate, it was‘the accepted cure in the early Nineties when that sympathetic gentleman presided over the, Denison House Bar, Mr. Green's prescription was exact’ and free of empiricism. Which is to say that it was based on rationalism, a system of philosophy that dismisses spiritual revelation in favor of reason. In support of which I cite the-historical fact that Mr. Green left instructions so precise that they leave nothing to the imagination. As far back as 1894, for instance, Mr. Green commanded his bartenders to drop ‘a tablespoonful of bromo-seltzer into an 8-ounce-tall glass, to be followed immediately with a Jigger of either Holland or Old Tom gin. After which the glass was filled to the brim with ordinaiy syphon water,
One Dose Usually Enough
THE MORNING BRACER as conceived by Mr. Green, worked most effectively when lapped up in one gulp. Unless it was an aggravated hangover, one dose usually did the trick. Mr. Green's Morning Bracer might have enjoyed a longer reign had not David Koontz, another gifted Denison House bartender, submitted his sedative in the shape of a Celerine Cocktail. IT remember nothing of its constituent parts nor of the technique involved, except the fundamental fact that it was built on a base of Apium graveolens (celery to you bot bs). How= ever, I recall the legend of. its Indianapolis origin. One day just around the turn of the century, an English physician stopped at the Denison House with his daughter and her husband. The children were°on their wedding trip. It's none of your business why the old man accompanied his daughter on her honeymoon.
All that concerns us Yodey is my _Siscovery ’
that during their stay in Indianapolis, the newly married pair repeatedly slipped away which, of course; left the father with a’lot of time on his hands. Well, that's how it happened that the old doctor spent most of his time at the Denison House bar. During one of these sessions, for want of something better to do, he ‘showed Mr. Koontz how to build a Celerine Cocktail. And the evening before the party left Indianapolis, the old doctor graciously granted Dave permission to make and serve the combination whenever the occasion called for it around here. While all this was going on at the Denison, Frank Calefan—as brilliant a bartender as Billy Tron ever had—startled the town with his sedative, a concoction built on a base of absinthe. It was known as the Readjuster. No fooling,
How a Work of Art Is Born
MR. CALEFAN'S Readjuster turned up just after Mat Henning, an Evansville politician, dropped into the Denison one night and called for a bottle of bourbon, a lemon, some sugar, ice and seltzer water. Phil McGuire, the bartender stationed at that end of the counter at that eventful moment, watched Mr. Henning compound his drink. Quick to realize that he was sitting in on the birth of a work of art, Phil christened it the Henning Punch. It went over big for several years, especially around Christmas time. The singular timing of Mr. Calefan’s Readjuster leaves me no alternative but to believe that it was a specific designed to assuage the grief inherent in a Henning Punch which, of course, puts it into a class all by itself when compared with the general cures invented by Messrs. Green and Koontz. The reason today's piece isn't of the length called for by my contract may be attributed to two alarming discoveries. ONE: That modern bartenders no longer are equipped with the necessary knowledge to handle medical cases, and TWO: That, even were they so equipped, this divided world couldn't give them the essential things to work with. In this case, the only way to handle a hangover is to sleep it off—possibly the slowest of all cures. Certainly the least exciting. Goodnight!
Side Glances—By Galbraith .
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"I do not.agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your rio to say it."
‘Our Heriluge Is Our Song -
By Tom M. McGuire, 1126 Eugene St. Mr. Campbell, who has long been a power of
the Comptom Commission and the value of UMT,
?|' well I have always felt that’ the Legion has
been wrong many times because the rank and file accepted without question the stand made by
their directors and commanders. You admit the lady is right in just one statement—the world looks to America for leadership, Now you would qualify that statement with the word strong. Your next statement is rather broad and your final eonclusion that UMT is necessary shows how narrow is a one track mind. You must have been asleep when you failed to notice the opposition to UMT by some of our best teachers, statesmen and ‘military men. The best reason against it so far is economic. A well paid, adequate and well provisioned Army and Navy such as now authorized and maintained by the United States furnishes the strongest leadership we can hope to attain. Any money appropriated for UMT would rob the regular establishment of men, equipment and supplies. Even now the head of the Air Forces tells us in unmistakable words that- he handicapped by ‘a dire lack of up-to-date ships and no doubt lack of fuel if he had the planes would keep them grounded and pilots would lapse into insompelents for lack of houts in the air, This is the record of the Air Corps when congressional niggardliness failed our country after the first world war. Numbers do not ‘make for true strength. But a voluntary military that can vision a professional career equal to any in civilian . life will be our sinews and strength. A political UMT officered by a reserve officer command would only be equal to a bunch of rookies in case of war and it is véry possible they would be inferior to _new recruits. Now Mr. Campbell be a good fellow and admit that in about two cases out of every three that a close, sincere and open-minded study has been made regarding the necessity of universal military training the final conclusion of the American people has been no UMT. Our strength has been and will always be our heritage of freedom from forced regimentation of any kind whatsoever. The leadership the world needs and seeks today is the strength of character our freedom has
developed. Ss.
‘Protecting the Weak’
By A. P. B. The function of government is to protect the weak from the encroachment of the strong. Now we see that as representative government gradually yields ground to the bureau and commission that the size and expense increases, while
its efficiency decreases. As it grows in size and expense, it also grows in power, but instead of using that power to protect thie weak, it begins to do the opposite— oppress the weak; and thus government itself becomes in time the chief violator of the very function it was founded to perform. This could be likened unto an FBI man using | the secrets learned in his profession to perfect a technique of his own ‘in crime. Pharoah’s bondage of ancient Israel brought forth from Moses, directed by God, first the appeal and later the demand—“Let My people go.” Our own "government, until] recent years, has been almost theocratic in its solicitude for the welfare of its citizens, but in 1933, in the guise of a “do-gooder” and undoubtedly with a good deal of sincerity too, a new administration began to abrogate the powers vested in its own chosen | representatives, as well as in the judicial branch. | This was done by instituting bureaus and coms, missions, which were given unconstitutional powers by one man—the Chief Executive. Congress practically abdicated the legislative throne, and soon we had, not a government of, by and for the people, but a government of, by and for a political party dominated by a dictator, We need now another leader who, like Moses, is meek enough to recognize his own personal limitations, and yet is strong enough to be able | vo say to this modern Pharoah of misrule, which still lays unbreakable burdens upon -us—‘Let my | people go i
[NATIONAL AFFAIRS... By. Earl Richert Eggs Come First, Farmers Decide
WASHINGTON, Dec. 26—The final chapter of the poultryless
will be written. some ‘time after Jan. 1 when the
Agriculture Department announces the number of laying hens on U.S. farms at the start of 1948. This will show, according to informed sources, that the poultry | industry came nowhere close to fulfilling its pledge to trim laying flocks to 400 million birds by Jan. 1 in order to get the government | to drop. poultryless Thursdays. To go back, here was the situation: | Chicken prices dropped sharply when poultryless Thursdays were in effect and Agriculture Départment officials promptly announced that they planned no price-support program. Poultrymen protested.
Expected Heavy Grain Saving
FINALLY, after a series of meetings, a deal was worked out in
Hoosier Forum
the American Legion, takes Mrs. Louis Schrag tp. task because he conéiders her misinformed as to’
shut off shipments of ammunition greatly needed for American equipment of the 39 U. S.-trained Chinese divisions organized in wartime,
Insisted on Keeping Army GEN. MARSHALL'S efforts proved a failure. Through no fault of his, the coalition didn't come.off. Every time the Nationalists advanced a step to meet the ‘Reds’ demands, the communists retreated a step—even after they had indicated acceptance. The chief reason for this failure—aside from the Communists’ universal habit of saying no to everything proposed by others—had to do with China's Red Army. The Communists insisted on retaining their own army. They wanted a government within a government, backed by armed force. ~ Post-war history has proved that no government can accept any such conditions and live. Wherever the Communists have gained such power they have taken over the government and run it themselves.
Secretary Marshall now knows his Communists far better than he did when he scolded the Nanking government. At London, Paris,
collaborate with Russia, and he hasn't reached first base. For the State Department to continue to follow a policy calling for Nationalist-Communist collaboration in China not only would be at odds with every lesson of the past two years, but a violation of our moral obligations into the bargain,
Privileged Position for Russia
TO PLACATE RUSSIA during the war, President Roosevelt gave the Soviets a privileged position in Manchuria and elsewhere at the expense of China, © When Nanking hesitated to sign -the Chinese Russian treaty legalizing the concessions, Washington brought pressure to bear, And Nanking agreed. In that treaty, Russia agreed to give her exclusive support to Nanking. There was no proviso making collaboration with the Communists a condition. Having insisted on this treaty, ‘the United States morally is as much bound to deal exclusively with the duly recognized Nanking regime as is Russia. Jolley in CRNA TO fous thas 13 Burope plainly. ls to {ote
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"Dad bought mother a fyr coat for Christmas—imagine 3nybody being satisfied with a cheesy present like that?"
So They Say
AS LONG as the gals must work and of necessity remain | husbandless, we must either remove restrictions and handicaps in employment opportunities or legalize polygamy ~Miss Vivien' Kellems, | Westport Coun, Usduttriaiin.
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- » . IP RUSSIA eins control “of France and Italy, you can just | as well pack up and build a fence around this country.—Rep. Sol Bloom (D) of New York. a we #:. 8 # THE AMERICAN people and the British people are not given to fanatical devotion to any one doctrine—except the doctrine of liberty. --Secretary of State Marshall ” ” » ” » ” BOTH MANAGEMENT and labor have more to gain by collective co-operation than by collective bargaining —-Alvin E. Dodd, president, American Management Association. A ~ » n ” ~ CONTROL OF birth rate is more Imphal ‘than atomic bomb conjrol- if a future war is to be averted . ; ye Ropilation produces
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early November whereby the government would drop poultryless Thursdays and guarantee to buy all hens offered at fixed minimum prices and the industry voluntarily would send 40 million more hens to market than in normal culling operations, That would cut total flocks to 400 million hens. The extra heavy culling was supposed to save an additional 30 million bushels of grain by next September. With the government price floor in effect, hen prices steadied immediately and have been above support levels since. The government has not had to buy any hens at the fixed prices. ' Egg prices also went upward in November and many farmers apparently decided to keep their hens, even with high grain prices, | since they could get nearly a nickel apiece for their eggs. In fact, during November when the extra heavy culling was supposed to start, such operations were less than normal. In mid-Decem-ber poultry experts estimated there were still 445 million hens on farms.
Promotion Falling Down MANY TYPES of promotion are being carried out by poultry- | industry leaders to encourag 53, Slling to save grain. But they seem to | be having no particular eff Typical of the difficulties encountered was this incident in Iowa: A farmer brought in two crates of hens, saying he could not afford to feed them. The produce merchant, who deals in eggs as well as chickens, got out his pencil and showed the farmer that he could make more money by feeding the hens and selling eggs than by selling the hens. The farmer took the hens back home, Retention of a larger-than-expected number of hens on U, 8S. farms makes certain that the government will have to support, egg prices during the flush laying season of the next few months, The Agriculture Department could use the price support law. in retaliation against the poultrymen. It is required by law only to support egg prices at 90 per cent of parity on an annual basis. It could let egg prices drop well below 80 per cent of parity for a . month or two during the flush laying season, thus forcing farmers to sell hens and cut down on grain usage. But this might be bad politics . in an digction, year and no agriculture Oficial will hist that this will Oommented one agricultige official about the outcome of the entirs seg 10 15 Yay acne ut bo he se of 8 mand
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