Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 January 1948 — Page 16
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NEW year statements by Secretary of Labor Sctiwelleir bach, President Green of the AFL and President Mur- = ray of .the CIO agree that inflation is the most pressing national problem. All urge Congress to give President Truman power to! ~” control prices. None, however, mentions power to control — Mr. Truman has asked for both powers. His mesage‘to the recent special session said: “If the government imposes price ceilings covering a specific area of production, it should in all fairness have the authority, in that same area, to prevent wage increases which will make it impossible to maintain the price ceilings.” . In other words, the two powers must go together, be- " chuse one without the other would be unfair and couldn't work. Experience has given this country plenty of reason to know how right Mr. Truman is about that. ~~ Secretary Schwellenbach says “the best “solution” t to inflation would be emergency authority for the President “to exert controls where prices continue to rise and goods remain scarce and in short supply despite every effort to increase their production.” «But attempting to hold prices down, while leaving wage "costs free to rise, would be no solution. It would, inevitably, - discourage efforts hod increase production.
“to defeat inflation by crying for the government to ‘control somebody else. We are inclined to believe that only one form of control can stop inflation without grave risk of disastrous deflation. That is self-control—by business and. industry, by labor,
Electric, has just set a good ‘example by Yopuntarily: Yeducing the prices of many of its products. It is true that other big corporations, a year ago, tried to set similar good examples, and could not maintain their lower prices in the face of rising costs. But the whole country is now far more aware of the danger. There ought to be more widespread to forego temporary present san in order to achieve permanent future advantages. x “And certainly labor's leaders know that government controls would have to be coupled with wage controls, or prove a failure,
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A NEWS, story the other day predicted ‘that President 3 Truman would let the Republicans choose their presi- £ dential candidate before picking his running mate on the _Democratie ticket. . The stery might have added that Mr. Truman would also waif until the chosen Republican selected his running mate, with the help of political advisers, : “Phere is-hothing new or startling -in-this piece-of news;
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that is. : change, but the ritual remains unaltered. . i ~The naming of a candidate for vice president climaxes
ried through as an anti-climax to the usually exciting business of selecting-the top man on the ticket. Not only do the
“vention delegates are virtually voiceless in the matter. ‘This does not mean that capable men have not been -chosen by this method. - It does not mean that they are. incapable of ‘being elected ‘in their own right. Theodore Roosevelt managed to be, and so did Calvin Coolidge. Mr, Truman may make it three. But however able an elected ~.President’s successor. may-be,.the. manner. of selecting him . is a contradiction of democratic government . Of the 26 men who have been chosen President by popular election, seven have died in office. - One would think
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. NO INDIVIDUAL or. group, in our pinion is. helping |.
* by agriculture, by consumers. One big corporation, General
Instead of demanding that government undertake the'|
It is concerned with a traditional rite of American politics performed. every four years. ‘The. participants |
“Hhis Fite, but Tt gots scant attention at the time: It 1s hur{——
“people have nothing to say about this choice; even the con ~
: that this is a high enough percentage to persuade politicians © that their candidate is mortal. Yet the possible occupant of |
sometimes by an individual, And, as a rule, the reasons for the choice have Hite to do with presidential qualifications. |
i THE CHOICE for vice president Tins Hot come from | rg the same section of the country as the party choice for | President. If he comes from the same general neighborhood as the opposition's presidential’ candidate, that is | supposed to be so much the better, It is all right for him | to be wealthy, if he didn’t get his wealth in a politically embarrassing manner. He is supposed to be well liked in his | home state, and to wield some political influence. Usually | a governor, a Congressman ora successful businessman will fill the bill. All this reasoning may he sound, but it seems to be
PE voters. For the voter must take the politicians’ choice for dn vice president. And we feel confident in saying that the number of votes-influenced one way or the other by this second-place choice is considerably smaller than. the number. +: ; of votes the Prohibition Party's candidate for President will “! poll next Nevember. 3 : Such indifference makes it seem that the voters are as "| muchto blame as the politicians in this mattei> But, under |
They are offered a candidate for a high-soundifig fob-where clerk with a knowledge of parliamentary procedure. The |
carefully soft-pedaled by both parties.
dential hopefuls would have to enter. The idea is worth | | And it would, be even better if the second- place |
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the White House is chosen privately by a ‘small group, or |
directed at state political organizations rather thin at the Name-Calling ‘Gets First
i+ the circumstances, the lack of inter@st can be understood. | projects—has already bee
fact that this candidate might some’ day be ‘President is | | Pra
Hr | ask for again include: 1 has been suggested that there should be pr efer-. crease of minimuin wage rates, creation of a Permanehy Fair Employ~
* ential primaries in all states once in four years which presi. |
y were required to do the same. The results might Anti-Poll Tax “but at least the deal of -popular gov- | d be more of a Fatmity. . rr
prairie chicken for a turkey, His- sight deceives him because there he is familiar, whereby he may make compari. | - son and judge of size. It is that way with your troubles. Pick out one and keep Jou 8 mind riveted on the thing; it will overshadow and engulf the “universe. Set it out where it. belongs and judge it by others’ sorrows; 1% quickly assumies ita proper size and relative van —
““ "The trumpets lowered—cigcled in—
I" WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson Menu for Congress: ‘Plenty of Leftovers —
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TROUBLES A traveler on*the plains sometimes mistakes. & is nothing at hand with which
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ts dim and flickered out; Te i through the window shied, _ 'Wavered there a bit—faded out~ - As if by witchery applied, A wig} but noiseless wind blew high The lacy curtains ‘ove my head; 1 shivered—quaked—to think that I Might hold communion with the amd.
The wind had "gorfe—the phantom came.
Whispering ‘out an old familiar name;
AX name that I had long forgot, Living in the record of the. past, Antu as if by evil wrought The apparition vanished fast.” Trumpets raised, circled. ‘round the room;
“My hair went high and higher still, Catching a voice from out the tomb— Ghastly and sad—then all was still,
‘Old Israfel was ushered in and Made to play his instrument—
Finding their tables in content. L'ENVOT Years have passed, yet I still assume, That 1 can feel that ley lip and"hand,
Ph. n) 1ATHAS GREGORY.
MY BROWNIE DOG AND 1
He often went out hunting . In field and wood near by, - Sometimes we'd trek together. ——My-Brownie-Dog--and 1.
* His coat was. brown and glossy ‘He had a trustful eye, : We romped and played together My Brownie dog and I. We never crossed a highway ;
A ‘Police Dog" And feelings: “This crooked town has me up My. Brownie dog ang 1. “right now there's a bit of ancient -Irvington lore sitendg. Why Sis very Swiniig 1 suited G3 But . . . once he went alone that needs immediate attention. It concerns three 8° "ere 28¢ “HCH myself coming back.” And then . . . a car whizzed by ut vesds Iimadiate I Rags was lying under: the hose wagon as if And then my Pal, my Buddy. Pifty years ago, Rags was the smartest fire dog she were oblivious to everything going on around Came home to me . . . to die! in Indianapolis and as much & her at the time, Soon as she caught the drift of Now we do not walk together . fixture of the Irvington engine the policeman’s lament, however, she. perked up, _He has lovelier fields to roam House ‘sa: ita bell tower. Mores barked, and started licking the freshly polished But I wonder ... does he miss me, over, she was the pet of the East boots of Mr. Hett: At once the firemen realized
LIGHT AGAIN
Black Hate put shrouds on many: things, Such shrouds as hide the sun;
Then Understanding, coming by, family tree
“Should jeopardy arise, To strike, to victimize myself With some ignoble Fate, -
Oh! Heart of hearts, 8o tolerant, so kind, Mine to thine hath grown a part; Nor other my I find, To know, to understand myself, "Cept, 'tis my Lover's heart. DR. H. IATHILE GREGORY,
(“New - York—Post-Christmas 25-Inch Snow Cripples City and East’).
Songs of much white Christmas dreaming Must -have-cast some. sort of spell: Whirling snowflakes, winds a-screaming, Brought a storm that rang the ‘bell.
Though &_day behind the singing; Many people in the East, " Feel the dream that came a-winging; Was a mild nightmare at least!
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WASHINGTON, Jan, 2—As if the 1948 Congress wouldn't “have enough to do in fixing up the Marshall Plan by April 1,-a whole mess of 1047 leftovers will have to be handled. Issues which the last Congress didn't settle -are more numeroys than those they did. At the end of the last regular session,
Leader Charlie Halleck of majority party had done. A few days later ‘Executive Director Gael .
Sullivan of the Democratic National Committee put out his version of
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A ‘Police Dog’ Walks a Beat
remarkable when one considers that Rags didn't have a pedigree to wag about. Indeed, it's probably the only time in the history of Irvington -that people out Shes wade & fu over anybody. who didn's have &
Nor did ‘Rags have anything in the way of looks, Curled up under the hose wagon, she might easily have been mistaken for a wornqut mat.. That's all
FOR SOME reason, Rags had a predilection for blue clothes and brass ‘buttons, . During the first few years of her stay at the engine house, she held her emotions in-check—on a leash, as it were—and confined her attentions to firemen, As time went on, however, she enlarged the field of her activities and began flirting with policemen, too.. The first to be favored was Patrolman Cox, who had the day beat in Irvington, When he took over
together. . There never was anything prettier around “here. Daily the two Went on their walk until finally the dog knew the beat as well as the policeman. When Mr. Sullivan grew tired of his job and
His name was John M. Hett, a stranger to Irving ton's labyrinthine system of lanes and undulating
{1 T going “to do~ out “Were,” Hott gsked the men at the.engine house, Then in a voice cracking with emotion, he gave way to his inner
|Side Glances—By Galbraith
House “Republican Floor Indiana put out a big brag on all the |
the same thing. Nobody caught it then, but Sullivan's ghost writer |
must have had a bit of pixie in him, for when the two statements are compared line by line today, things like these pop up: Halleck—The Republican Party has delivered.
Sultivan—The Republican Party has delivered-—to big business. | Halleck —We have demonstrated that ours is a united party with
a sound, forward-looking program. Sullivan—It has demonstrated that it is a united party, sound-asleep, rearward-looking program. Halleck—The ‘era of 4 rubber-stamp,
ended. . : Sdillivan—The era of ‘a statesmanlike, public-spirited Congress has
spendthrift Congress has
nded. Halleck—This is a Congress that considers economy to be a virtue. " Sullivan—This is a Congress which considers fake economy to be a political virtue,
Priority ( THERE WERE a lot more of these deadly parallels that: ‘weren't noticed at the time. They're worth citing now, however, as an indication of what to expect out of the next Congress—a lot of bickering and bad-name-calling. It will get worse as election gets closer, wre The sad fact 18 that a lot of things which the last Congress did will have to Be done. over. Rent controls, price and allocation contrels-of some sort Probably head the list. inflation bill passed fn the December. special: session represents the final word on this subject is extremely doubtful. vl. Many ecofromies claimed by the Republicans will “have: to-be_re-vised by deficiency appropriations, One--for Interior's Reclamation
Republicans have already introduced another tax reduction pill.
routine duties could be filled by. any intelligent government | Another vetoed measure, which will probably be rehashed, is the bill
to create a Federal Science Foundation. ’ Measures which Congress has consistently refused to pass, though sidént Truman has asked for them repeatedly and will probably Provision for universal military training, in-
ment Practices Commission, in President Truman-and Senate Republican Leader Taft both want along-range housing program, aid to educafion” wnd' “health, and revised sacial security, But” their ideas are poles apart, tv
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new policeman sent to watch over Irvington. “ “Follow the dog,” advised the firemen, y
~ An Apt Teacher . ... and Pupil RAGS RAN up the street a block, turned off, zig-zagged a couple of blocks farther, and waited. And when Patrolman Hett caught up, he discovered the dog lying in the grass right under the first call box of his beat. " “Pretty smart dog,” reflected Mr, Hett na the turned his He snapped “bo shut ‘when he
lying gnder the nex box. And so on od around thé beat which at that time included most ot the territory sou south of Washington St, Rags continued to act as a guide for the next two days, never missing a single.ca)l box. On the fourth day, however, Patrolman Hett had the sure
in front, Quite the contrary. This time she followed him, closely at his heels, 8he had it figured out that by this time the policeman ought to know the location of all the call boxes on his beat with-
Patrolman Hett was made a police sergeant—largely because of his splendid record: in Irvington. At any rate, that's the general notion the East Enders transmitted to posterity at the time. ~~ Well; -a8—I-said—in—the— beginning, duty before anything else with me. Today I want to take history to task for its slovenly way of accounting for Mr. Hett's
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Nicaragua:
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eollection o of Poll tax taxes, as a voting requirement in federal elections,
‘jammed with unfinished business, The. Marshall Plan gets priority.
"We Il have to take his'radio away from himehe vows too many symptoms at school time!"
is before the Senate. Senate ‘and House Foreign ‘Affairs: Committee Galeridars are
Behind it is an unratified commercial treaty with China, which may be eomplisiiag by a full- dress investigation Joasing toa new Chinese
The st. “Lawrence. seaway treaty with Canada, hanging fire a an 1 issue for over.10 years, will be revived again. Authority to operate and ‘expand State riment’s ‘Voice .0f America i§ pending.” Inter national oll.and aviation policies are pending. United Nations labor, health and trade policies are pending... And, since the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act expires at the end of 1948, /it will have to be renewed, amended or allowed to die. “With both Republican nd Denocati national conventions com= Te evil eo Y mach o i Sur = men es % m on politics plenty to fp. Just in their business.
Jee of his life. On that day Rags didn’t run out.
= unto Ahe_night run, Rags transferred her allegiance to out any help from her. Rags was tickled pink when |. FOSTER’ S + FOLLIES Patrolman’ Sullivan. It was one of the sights of Patrolman Hett turned in a perfect score. Indianapolis at the time to see Rags and Sullivan Which leaves me only to add that 10 years later’
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: yr : ‘Thanks For Helping Children’ By Henry M. Graham, Family Service Association _ As staff members of a community-financed so-
funds contributed to newspapers include many of the same who are aided hy public and private social agencies throughout the years because of limitation in public relief funds and Community Fund allotments, Budgets for families as planned by social agencies include only the barest necesa private ine come for any length of time no surplus for Christ
mas spending. It is for this reason that social agencies welcome ini
the community's spirit of giving, promoted by
newspaper publicity, which makes it possible for ’_needy children of the city to be clothed, fed, and
remembered with toys at Christmas, With the addition of this special aid at Christmas time ‘not only are children made happy, but many parents -burdened—with—heavy-responsibilities-and feelings. of failure are able to take increased hope snd encouragement for-the future... __. We believe that it. is only 88 and more of
“us work together on such enterprises as our coms"
munity Christmas that we will build & strong and safe .city for all inhabitants.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS ..... By William Philip Simms J Move for a Second -Canal-Guains-Strength-
WASHINGTON, Jan. 2--When the Panamanian Republic’ turned down the United States request for a 20-year lease on air bases from which to defend the canal, it started something that may not be stopped. That something is 8 Dew move for a’ second canal scross
Experience already has shown that the existing canal is inadequate to accommodate modern warships—especially the great carriers upon which the national defense so largely depends. Existing vessels literally scrape the sides of the locks. This fact has given rise to plans for building a new set “of locks at either end of the canal or converting it into a sea-lével canal. Strangely, a sea-level canal without locks is out of the question— whether at Panama or across Nicaragua. The mean sea level on the Pacific side is some nine inches higher than on the Atlantic side, What is worse, the mean tidal range on the Pacific side-is-12.5 feet whereas on the Atlantic side it is only one. foot. therefore, there is a six-foot difference between the two sides.
Tidal Locks Would Be Necessary THIS MEANS that, without“Iocks, a sea-level canal would be 8 veritable mill-race—a roaring, tumbling torrent as the waters of one ocean spilled into the other. the erosion and ships might*not get through. ‘Tidal locks, therefore, would have to be puilt. But these would be as vulnerable as the present locks.” For if hostile planes ever got over the canal, they could put. tidal-locks out ‘of commission a$ easily The chief defense of any canal, at Panama or across Nicaragua, sea-level or not, lies in keeping the enemy at a distance. It is this fact which lends importance to Panama's refusal to grant the needed air bases. It is said that the “world situation” today does not warrant such a lease. The implication is that if a war were imminent, Panama would act differently. She might let us have the
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The canal banks could not withstand
The folly: of this “position, however, is obvious. If and when the next ‘war comes, it probably will burst upon: the world with great suddenness. And air bases capable of handling large numbers of huge planes cannot be improvised overnight. situation” became so critical that the United States suddenly started feverishly to throw up such defenses, an enemy would .be tempted to .| advance its sero hour, thus forestalling U, 8. preparations.
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BACK IN 1901 the Isthmian Canal Commission, after exhaustive
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