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“that the alternative was to’ get ready for world war IIL This is strong talk. But it is from the man in the |
- in ‘Congress at long last are coming to understand this.
~~ Debate will turn on application of what Secretary
~The specific figure requested for the 15-month period
meet the requirements of the problem or don’t undertake
“fief and cut the constructive rehabilitation items for European self-help would be waste, not economy..
WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager
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Secretary Marshall Testifies
ECRETARY MARSHALL in his Senate testimony for ’. the European Recovery Plan yesterday described the world situation as “critical in the extreme.” THe said our national safety and our way of life were in the balance—
$5 a year; all other states, and Mexico, $1.10 a Telephone Rl ley 5561,
best position to know the facts, a man not given $0 exaggeration and above political partisanship. It needed to be said. : - A majority of Americans and of their representatives
But there is controversy in Congress over ways and means.” The administration's specific proposals must be subjected to analysis and majority decision to obtain maximum efficiency in the perfected plan and to assure maximum public support. i;
Marshall called the three principles of American aid: “It must be adequate. It must be prompt. It must be effectively applied.” i : beginning in April is $6,800,000,000. This is the pooled judgment of the administration's ‘experts after pruning foreign estimates. Congress should check the figure carefully, We doubt, however, that it can be reduced drastically without. defeating the purpose. : bom We agree with the secretary—"ejther “undertake to
it at all.” To put a few more billions into humanitarian ress ® . 5 THE LONGER we wait the more it will cost, .and the
less good we shall get for our money. After six months of investigation by many committees, including on-the-spot
paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of |
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ITEMS FROM THE CROSSROAD GRAPEVINE ~
Uncle Jimmie Poster's old white cow got loose in the graveyard Sattiday-night an' when Rabbit Thomas passin’ by saw sumpthin’ white movin’
fast thet he run clean to Switzer's Corner he got hisself stopt. — Sliver Sylvester -hez took tg smokin’ seegars since his name wuz read over one uv them radio stations in the city, "Reb Slade hed his hair cut twief this past month. Guess there must be sum truth ‘bout his tryin’ to beat Dog-nabit McGee's time with the Widder Larson. ’
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. GOD KEEP WATCH
My friend, if I could wish for you, You would own all the world's gold. i 1 could wish, all excitement Of “precious dreams you'd unfold. I'd wish for laughs and happiness That would be forever new. ? Yet more than these my prayer is this May God keep watch over you,
I would hope for your attainment Of all the things you plan. They would measure a thousand fold, me Through-ail of ‘a long life's span. That ‘Fortune's smile would shine for you Good luck! And all happy days! ¢ And may God or your keeper here To watch aver you always.
For you could lose the gold you seek, And keen excitement would fall. Tears would follow the laughter, too, For that is life after all 80'in the warmth of friendship’s glow With a love that's proven true I find that my best wish is this, May God keep watch over you!
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‘Rent Control Issue Vital’ By Mrs. Alice W. Johnson, 1402 Roache St As we return to work, following the brie hoy. day respite, the new year strptches before yy shrouded mow in’ mystery and it'is with some misgivings that we ponder what time. will disclose, for this is a hectic era. i strikes and un
all important news. in tha strings, but none are as vital fare as the rent control issue. living’ facilities within their means or result. Representatives of various unions and veterang organizations, in the Indianapolis area, met in the World War Memorial to defend themselves againg a drastic rent increase of 25 per cent or complete abalition of present controls. . Either would send some prices-soaring. Without exception the vete erans were opposed to the rent increase on the grounds that it would impose additional hard. ship on the working ] pressed to meet spiraling cost of living. Complete control would, they contend, prove disastrous. One landlord, himself a.veteran, volune teered that he could see no Necessity for rent ine |. creases. True property taxes have climbed, buf the landlord is not compelled to make repairs How true! The lone member of the opposition, attempts ing to uphold the rights of the landlords seek. ing an increase, was met with disfavor and boog from the assembly. : = = ; It would seem the veterans had proved thes point and won the issue, but we await the outs comp with. abated breath—the veterans have been let down before. ne
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_ By Arthur §. Mellinger, City
© =MARION N; WISE. * + 0
SECURITY
I always-wanted to stay close to shore; -.... He always longed for the feel of the sea; I still can hear the water's slow murmuring * The day that my love sald farewell to me,
Often now in my safe little cottage I think of my love and where he may be. Oh if the choice were only again mine. I'd sail with him gladly over the sea. -~DOROTHY LYON. . ® -
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"OBSERVATION :
European surveys by Congressmen, the administration's April 1 deadline is not unreasonable. Ey ‘No matter. how much is appropriated-and how soon, it must be spent effectively. The administration wants the
~~ State Department to handle it, and a congressional group
wants an independent agency.
~~ * ‘This controversy should be compromised. We. agree;
with Mr. Marshall that “there cannot be two secretaries of state.” Under oux Constitution neither Congress nor any independent agency can take from the President his power to conduct American foréign affairs. Nevertheless, the already overloaded State Department is a policy agency rather than an operating body. It lacks time, experience, per and organization to handle the biggest peacetime business project in history. This is a job for a separate agency under a top-flight administrator with broad powers on the operational level and subject to the Secretary of State only. at the policy
level. Whenever there is any doubt about which level is
which, the decision should be made by the President in executing the law of Congress.
Revised ‘and Improved
“HE Vandenberg-Truman agreement to drop the $17. A billion over-all figure from thé four-year Marshall Plan should speed the legislation, despite Sen. Taft's doubts. It removes several legitimate objections: Sen. Van-
~~ denberg pointed out that one Congress cannot bind another iii OTAP
ropriations. Though this is well known in the United States, it is not understood abivad. An authorization for-a specific amount in future years would be misinterpreted as a virtual appropriation. Tred
might turn.out much less or much more, depending on such | : d
‘unpredictable factors as future European crop weather an future American price levels. | : bot.
The essential thing is that the plan be projected on a
constructive self-help; long-term-basis, and that Congress |
express this intention so that European nations can plan ahead accordingly. ‘the long-term aspects is sufficient. That is provided by the
“revised bill, which authorizes the four-year project buf specifies a definite figure of $6.8 billion only for the initial *
15-months period. : In our judgment this does not weaken the measure. It
forces a close review of past accomplishments and a fresh |
estimate of needs each succeeding year. But that is desirable and would occur in any case,
Did We Underplay Ruble’s Bust?
FRANK RISING, manager of the Automotive & Aviation Parts Manufacturers, Inc., in his “Memo to Manage ment,” says: “In all of our struggles to control inflation by rationing,
price rules and subsidies, we always were a few jumps be- |
hind Russia. There, the state could go all the way, and did.
“It is strange that we should pay so little attention
to the crackup of the Russian currency, the repudiation
When people are cheerful about their troubles I admire the heroic touch. - But when they are cheerful about my troubles— That's too much. " «~sMYRA AHLER. ® o°¢ If you feel upon viewing the starry skies, like 8 tiny speck of dust, here's a wrinkle: The stars, _you ‘may surmise, though surpassing you in size, cannot wonder. what you are, or bid you twinkle! . . + =-CLAUDE BRADDICK. he . 0% oo IF | WERE THE MAN—
If we were as faultless as we think we are If we did . . . what. we think we do,
If we were the great men we think we are . And did such noble deeds too— °° : Yes. if 1 were-the man I think I am, If-Idid ... what I think I do, Wouldn't this Earth be a Heavenly place For I'd be more considerate . . . of you! ,~ANNA E. YOUNG. > ¢
FOSTER'S FOLLIES -
_ ("BUCHAREST — Commies Likely to Delay Michael”) Good King Mike who gave his throne up For the lady of his heart, . Feared he'd find his progress slown up At the royal exile's start.
my pork-barrel.
But to interfere with Cupid Never has been known to pay; Seems the Commies deemed it stupid, . ‘Cause ‘Mike's long since on his way.
flow. . . “There
IN WASHINGTON «oo By Peter Edson Moreover, the $17 billion fiure was a sheer ress. 1+ (GQVE@rNMENt J obs
A moral commitment by Congress on |
of the ruble, the forded wash-out of savings. After a day | or 80 the news item dropped out of our papers and people |
just don’t seem to be interested.
to a really controlled economy.” Mr. Rising has something. "The Soviet regime is hop-
ing, and if they were praying people they would be praying |
for our collapse. If we should have a slight recession, they
«would amplify it by thelr propaganda loud speakers into a
ruinous depression. :
+ But it's the Soviet system that has had the collapse.
* Russians had to turn in their money, and-many got only
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—Piriag of James M. Landis as Chairman
for the top administrative Jobsuso, AE Brn President Truman and his Cabinet, officers are forever talking about how much_ trouble they have in finding competent help. What they want are $25,000- or $50,000-a-year men for $10,000.
Every once in a while; the President does persuade Some thor-
oughly competent. young citizen to take one of these tough but thank- | less jobs. Some of them are government career boys, like-Secretary of -|
Interior Krug and: Atomic Energy Commission Chairman Lilienthal. ishment. ; Mr. Landis was something of a government career man himself. ‘He had been-Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
time, then U, 8. economics chief in the Middle East. :
to fake some money. Mr. Landis threw himself into the new job with characteristic energy.
Rumors Batted Around
HIS TERM was dué to expire Dec. 31. Shortly before, he had been
assured by the White House that he would be reappointed. Then, wtihout any direct word to him and without any official explanation |
of whys or wherefores, it was announced he would not be reappointed.
he didn't give the big airlines everything they wanted. Because he
+ tried to ‘keep the airlines free from domination by railroad and steamship interests. Because he put too much stress on the need for air | | safety. Because he got in the road of certain ambitions to have CAB
and the Civil Aeronautics Authority brought more directly under Department. of Commerce supervision. Because he was too much-of & New Dealer. . All these reasons may be wrong. But each of them creates enough
i et : . | pressure te block the desire of an earnest piblic servant to do an "Yet in the dews from Russia we can see what happens |
impartial job,
of the Civil Aeronautics Board peints up one of the chief problems } of running a government, This:is the difficulty of getting good -men |
They grow up In the business, know the rackets and can take the pun-—
During the war he was head of the Office of Civilian Defense for a | He went back to being Dean of Harvard Law School after the war, |
A year and a half ago, President Truman persuaded him to come back: | to Washington to be Chairman of CAB, after Welch Pogue resigned |
Washington is full of rumors as wo why this happened. Because |
The question which this ifféfdent raises is how the Truman—or any. other—administration can expect tosget first-class executives if
it kicks around the good men it does get? This is the setond time in recent months that the President has fired an official on short notice and for causes not stated. The previous
| incident was the case of Ray C. Wakefield of the Federal Cominuni-
one ruble for 10. Yet, in the goodiess of our hearts and the mildness of our dispositions, we of the free world have |
spoken of this with such restraint that many of our people | i think the Russians have had a slight headache when the thing actually Was a major operation.
What the Russian official one if it had been us!
fiars would have done with
| jean delegation, to the International Telecommunicatien
cations Commission. Like Mr, Landis, when Mr, Wakefi2ld's term of office expired, the President simply did not reappoint him.” Instead the job went-to Congressman Robert F. Jones of ‘Oho, ;
Evidence of Another Raw Deal
AS EVIDENCE of the fact that the Truman administration gave |
Mr. Wakefield a raw deal, it needs only to be pointed ott that he has Just been appointed U.S. representative, and chairman of
| assembling at Gerjeva in mid-January for ap Dy | of allocating world radio frequen r'™ : : | This business of, shoes Raub wet ® of some appointee has gotten trouble before. By washing
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May rag
OUR TOWN . 5 . By = = A Strange Man in a Strange City
THE BIG IDEA BACK of today’s piece is to pro- things dipped into that forever glow with celestial vide my clientele with some without which it wouldn't emotional report submitted by Henry Ward Beecher in 1877—just 30 years-after he left Indianapolis to .-accept the pastorate of Plymouth - Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. ; On that occasion, Mr. Beecher
“I went to” Indianapolis In the fall of 1839. . . preached my first real sermon; here for the first time, I strove against death in behalf of & child, and was defeated; here 1 built a house and painted it with here. I had my first garden; here I joined the editorial fraternity and edited the Farmer and Gardener: here I had my first full taste of chills and fevers; here for the first and last time I waded to church ankle-deep in mud snd preached with pantaloons tucked into my boot-tops. All is. changed now.
Became Lost in Cottage Hunt “IN SEARCHING for my obscure little 10-foot cottage I got lost. So changed was everything that 1 groped over familiar territory like a blind man ins strange city, It is the aboriginal forest fields lying right across from my house; without coal, without railroads, without a storie big enough throw at a cat. Jt was a joyful day and a precious "gift when Calvin Filetcier allowed me to take from the fragments of stone used to make the foundations for .the State Bank & piece large enough to put in
“The old academy where I preached for a few months is gone, but the church into which the congregation soon entered still is standing on the Governor’s Circle. No one can look upon that building as I do. A father goes back to his first house, thoughit be but a cabin where his children were born, with feelings which can never be transferred to any other place. As F looked long and yearningly upon that homely building, the old time came back again. I stood in the crowded. lecture room on the night when the current religious feeling’ first was beginning to
is no color like heart color. The homeliest
penetrating footnotes
hues. The hymns that we sang in be possible to appreciate an
but fly back and forth between the plumed as And now
by the fact that during his absence
more than 50,000. . Here 1
ignated as 433 E. Market St.
my own ‘hands;
keepers.”
in that humble basement have never lost a feather, | .
er was any bird-of-paradise.” ¢ the penetrating footnotes: ONE: Mr. Beecher’s pop-eyed surprise is explained
grown from a town of a measly 4000 people to one of
TWO: The house Mr. Beecher built and painted with his own hands ‘was located on a site now des-
+. THREE: Mr: Beecher’s garden which he cites with apparent pride produced the first head of cauliflower . 5 in Indianapolis. And, like as not, the ubiquitous cream sauce served with it today was first thought up by Mrs, H. W. Beecher, author of “Talks With Young House-
‘State Bank’ Still Standing
w= «| 'facturers. right here in our own Hoosier Capital, I am mere proud than ever I live in “No Mean City,” (as St. Paul expr it, referring to his home town). Anyone who has .not a good word
sorrow or in Joy his domicile.
Look over our John Herron Art Institute. There are many galleries of the most beautiful paintings frr-the world. They hang there .for you to see, They don’t charge you admission. Many folks think that art is too “highbrow” for them. If you will just visit this place, I am sure the personnel will disabuse your mind about being “highbrow.” I am the most “common duck” in the world and have always been treated the best by folks around this art center. know what to do, drop up to Pennsylvania and 16th Sts. and look around. This is your property, folks will enjoy this
soul and heaven,
Indianapolis: had
so use it. I hope many more cultural center in 1948. The charming lady at the door will be expecting you. And Mr. Peat will give you a friendly hand. shake. We will be expecting you. . ® & o
" do not agree with a word that "ry, | : will defend fo the death your right to.say #2 :
“Having seen the wonderful exhibit of our manus
for his own home town is lacking something. Even - ‘the hare, chased by his enemies, will come back te
80 next time you don't
FOUR: THE “STATE BANK" from which Mr,
_ Beecher got the stone for his pork-barrgl is still
standing. It's the weather-worn structure (formerly housing a burlesque show) back of the huge CocaCola sign at the point of Kentucky Ave. and Illinois st. } FIVE: The site of the “old academy,” where Mr,
‘G. 0. P. Once a Third Party”
By J. C. W., City. The 1948 elections promise to give all independ. ent and progressive voters a chance to vote on
“a real issue. ‘The candidacy of Henry Wallace for
no longer my Indianapolis, with fringing the town, with pastureg by a little tombstone-like memorial corner of University Park.
Dresses (Copies from Movieland); (Ladies Hats, $199 up),
Co. (Tricks, Jokes &, Souvenirs); and Wheeler's Lunch Room No. 1. SEVEN: “The night when the
ballad, “Peeler the Goat.”
Beecher “preached for a few months” is now marked
SIX: The site of the chifrch “into which the con gregation soon entered” ‘is now identified on the Circle side by establishments known as Hollywood: | ganda of reactionaries in opposing a liberal third
and Monument Liquors (Package Goods). And on the Market St. side by a continuation of Monument Liguors: The Acme Novelty Tavel's (Jewelry),
feeling was beginnirig to flow” no doubt refers to the memorable night in 1839 when Mary Harman—the first fruit of Mr. Beecher’s evangelical labors—was admitted to the Second Presbyterian Church. EIGHT: The “hymns that we “sang” included “Come, Humble Sinner,” the air of which was a melancholy minor adapted from the grand old Irish
President. gives a choice to those who are opposed in the southwest | to g third world war and present inflationary conditions- which will lead to 8 devastating de
pression. = : Some timid liberals are falling prey to props Sibyl De Luxe | party. They seem to forget or;they don't know that the Republican party at time was 8 i . The G, O. P. was launched in 1884, lost its first election in 1856, and went on to victory in. 1860 by electing Lincoln. The - defeat of the Whig and Democratic Parties if 1860 was a defeat for. the slaveholders and reac tionaries of that period. ) . > The two old parties have once again deserted the people. The only answer is for the common man to. establish his own party—a party will represent the best interest of the“ Henry Wallace's declaration to- run. for Pein
current religious
is a heroic, patriotic and historic action welcome by many,
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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of years ago, the President left that faithful wartime public servant
"| could say plenty, but | made a New Year resolution not to criticize faults in other women, particularly egotism!"
hanging ungracefully from a limb. It's because of this kind of treatment that most smart young executives simply won't take government jobs. The result is that these jobs often go to three types of individual Incompetent hacks, who | hang onto their jobs by doing nothin that will offend anybody; Army | and Navy officers, who will go where they're sent and do what they're told, eMciently though often unimaginatively; and rich men, who can | afford to live off their income, Sy With a few notable exceptions, a strong case can be made that
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IF YOU PLAN to be in ‘busin 28 years from now it would be | wise to mvestiga® the Mom's possibilities today —Robert M. Hutchins, | flor, Pniversity ‘of Chicago. | . « : : il. ; . n_.8 : THESE DAYS A stateman has to be an. optimist—or go mad. | ~—Count Sforza, Italian foreign minister. . a LN x.» = ks rade = JH THE UNITED STATES wants a real (German) government and . -» 1: Sie Re,
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"rash of Prench strikes, Maurice Thorez, French Iwas Sifimoned to Moscow. There, it-is- said; he was instructed in the
munists, it was observed, .was to “feel out” the French | just where it was strong and where it was weak;. and to- | the army and the police behaved. The Communists were | their strength as much as possible while holding 65 per: cent of their
"WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms
Time a Vital Factor In France and Italy
WASHINGTON, Jan. 9—Inside information from France sod
Italy is that the Communists in those countries are arming, and plas
to strike simultaneous blows probably no later than midsummer. It ‘would be reasonable to assume that President Truman had such information for 4n his message to Congress he called for promph support of the ERP on the grounds that it is both “vital and “de
+ cisive.”
According to the same sources, the recent Communist setbacks in France and Italy were more apparent than real. Just’ prior to the Communist leader,
Kremlin's. desired tactics. He was told-=the Writer is informed==pot to-go -all-out-in the effort to overthrow the Prench republic. He was not to employ more than 35 .per cent of his forces. If the government fell as & result of the partial push, all well and good, but he was not to press mate ters. The time for a showdown, regardless of cost, Was not yet at hand, ’
‘Feeling Out’ French Resistance THE CHIEF PURPOSE of the social unrest created by the Com: regime; to seé learn how to conces}
effectives in reserve.
Thus, it would seem; what happened was not so much 8 genunie
trial of strength as a sort of dress-rehearsal for the real thing wheb
Moscow gives the signal. Meanwhile, according to the same report, French and Italian Communists are reorganizing their maquis, “or secret armies. rightists, moderate and other non-Communists who fought 80 vale
| lantly in the underground during the war, however, have been elim- | inated. :
The Red maquis, already well armed, continue to receive additional equipment from the direction of Yugoslavia. Doubtless, howe ever, other members of the newly formed Comintern—alias Comin. form—are contributing their share. Almost nightly, it is said, planes from behind. the iron curtain cross Italy into France and parachute. their cargoes of weapons just as allied planes used to do during the Nazi occupation, : :
Mid-Winter May Be Showdown Time POLITICALLY, perhaps the best time for a Communist sho® down in France and Italy would be mid-winter when the massed would be coldest, hungriest and most’ discouraged. - Militarily, how" ever, the middle or late summer would be better. “This matter of timing, it is. observed, is most important. Sooner or later, American aid will take effect. Also, if Moscow Is to_ back the Prench Reds, it is important that northern Ttaly should be fairly secure in the hands of the Communists. The most direct communics® tions between Yugoslavia anid France are by way of Milan & TuribWhether or not the above size-up-is entirely accurs only time can tell—every scrap of information -reaching ‘Washington . dicates that, 1948 will be decisive for Burope—probably the first &% months: Fain i Wi : = Time, therefore, 1s a vital factor in Anything we may do to held Time, no less than the amount of money Congress decides to appr priate, is bound to gos long way toward deciding the “world peact 5 ; aL ats Tim BNL i Siim i Sgt ENS ; gi . a i
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