Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1948 — Page 18

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'E SCRIPRS «~ M ~ The Economic Report PRESIDENT Truman's economic report, just sent to i* Congress, is full of important facts and illuminating

figures. It's a book that will repay close reading by |

{But the fly-in-that beautiful ointment is_inflation— ‘high and rising prices. And Mr, Truman plainly fears that ‘almost any day now the fly may get big enough to gobble up the ointment. | Business, labor, agriculture and government must act ‘to stop inflation, the President says. For, if allowed to run its course, it will break sooner or later with destructive | | force. And he argues that the economic powers he wants now to use against inflation are far milder than those the | ‘government would have to use against a new depression. | eo. Te sn | { THE REPORT renews Mr. Truman's plea to Congress | ‘for prompt and full enactment of the 10-point “anti‘inflation. program” he sought from the recent “special “441d price and wage controls and to strengthen rent-eontrols. | © It puts in another plug for his tax-cut plan—$40 less | tax for each taxpayer and each 000 more tax on corporation profits—and it prove that this scheme really would be a great help in fightIt appeals again to business to hold prices down and ‘to labor to be reasonable about wage increases. And, for ‘the longer range, it repeats the Truman ‘proposals for more {federal aid to education, health, housing, social security, 4 etc, ete. enumerated in the state-of-the-union message. i Quite a bit of politics has got mixed with the economics in this teport. But we can’t doubt the earnestness of the « President's desire to see inflation halted, and we don’t sore agree with the National Association of Manufacturers, which has wired us that the report is “conclusive proof” of | the administration’s hope to “impose a planned’ economy upon the people of this nation.” : 1 Mr. Truman, we are sure, has ho conscious desire to ‘do anything of the sort. That, however, doesn’t alter what | “we believe to be the fact that.the powers he seeks could" ‘carry the country dangerously far toward a planned

TE PR jeconomy. 3 ———1®" Furthermore, we think- i ‘powers against inflation’s symptoms rather than its causes; * ‘and that attempts to control or suppress the symptoms “would tend only to conceal the causes and to make their | ! ultimate damage more, rather than less, serious. :

attempts to |

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There is, in our opinion, a more positive, “safe and

many price-boosting “pression and war, by -which “{ linflgtion with one hand ithe other. But that is not the way Mr. Truman seems to \ ‘advocate.

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‘fully and weH in many ways. i = His trenchant pen made ' .i News and Observer, a powerful force for good in the life and politics of North Carolina, his native state. Appointed "Secretary of the Navy by Woodrow | that office with distinction through World War L

“Timer chief Ambassador to Mexico.

| these, and in each

' that was the end he wou

proud to have produced so fine a citizen,

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. Start Now | ‘ EN. GEORGE C. KENNEY

points up the imperative need for adequate stockpiles.

: guns and intricate mechanisms. If we ignore the challenge and rely on t . ‘with which we won the last war, we are courtin

1 » be y » FT { next year, next monht, or even tomorrow-=it 18. now.

1 into planes, ships and guns.

The time for stockpiling also is right now.

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| With the Times

Improving the highways simply mieans. going front ruts to tax.

¢ eo 0 5 ITEMS FROM A CROSSROAD.

Congressmen and citizens. oT : Lutie Hodges with his tuba, an’ Lonnie Mason Its description of the American economy in early 1948 with his slip-horn air practicin’ a duet jes in case is, from one aspect, glowing: Full employment; last year's | DrLre AN 0 Jay TE domme. lo iproduction volume 7 per cent above 1946, 76 per cent above | gettin’ a sun san in Poids. Szamua og op 1935-39; high wages; high business profits; high farm | siris wore bathin’ suits in-my day incomes; high power; high demand for goods | * Tne BS outed the Wun 10 lan sToC ry and services; high hopes for the future. Ruf lev fnger vals Eversince Gertie Muychow wuz n'

a bun on.

dependent, and $3,200,000- | through which others see your character.

won't _burn your letters.

he is propo to use these |. Re Ec proposing Another time 1 went through this ordeal With stormy, wild rebellion now I fee) Only & paralyzing, numb despair For age has smothered fires that once were Now like an animal that's hurt T moan ‘And only ask that-1 be let

successful way to stop inflation: Suspend or reverse those " policies, inherited from times of de-| the government is feeding | while attempting to- fight it with won

= + J)EATH has ended the long career of Josephus Daniels, | oT AT, great American editor who served his country faith”

Wilson ‘in 1918, he held |

Years | | later a young man whom Mr. Daniels had brought into | | federal service as assistant secretary of the navy—a “younger man-named-Franklin D.- Roosevelt—made his fot-

+ Journalist, - cabinet “member, diplomat, politician, | ' churchman, author; lecturer—Josephus Daniels was all of i field he was useful and successful. At 85 | | he_was able to work daily at his editorial desk until a few | + days before his death, and, next to falling in the harness, | Id have chosen. The coungry he ! loved, and to which he always gave his best, well may be

, commander of our Strategic ‘Air Force, lays it” on the line in. telling us the weapons of World War II already are obsolete. And he

We cannot afford to wait for the weapons of war. For , a war may not wait for us. New airplanes that approach | "the speed of sound make it necessary for us to build new -

he weapons ’

& disaster.

Gen, Kenney warns that the time for planning is not

But plans are wortl little to us unless we have the raw "| nfaterials to take them out of blueprints and convert them

| (LEN. MacARTHUR sent a message of greeting to the

of “In the labyrinth of destiny’s pattern, there can be no greater satisfaction than such as comes from the confidence reflected in the selection by one's neighbors for public servmore challenging responsibility than lies in the ful-

Politica 5, studying nce 4 | be? 18, lying that sentence conclude that a : ” the enc Jom i

THE TROLLEY MAN Ollie, by golly, drives a trolley. At his work he’s always Jolly— SE Ls = Safety is his job forever— From this rule he does not

sever.

Though he likes each lovely dollie, Ny He must keep watch o'er the trolley, Better to be late than never—

1s the slogan of the clever. -A. M. 8 ® ¢ ¢

GRAPEVINE

the gals hev all bin parin’ ~CATFISH PETE. ¢ © © Hamburger is high—and not anly from getting

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Now if I'd write a poem 1 expect that I'd go wild fore I found s name I'd like

Your difficulties are frequently the spectacles

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THE THINGS | LOVE

You may say I'm too sentimental You may say it of me, if you choose, While I.sing of the rosy-red firelight, : In my heart glows those same rosy hues.

There is something about the firélight— Something I can't explain, ' That goes deep down in the heart of me, Like the sound of the pattering rain.

There's too, the moon and the moonlight, The theme of story and song— ~~ There's something too, about moonlight, Ask the lovers if you think I am wrong. _ l

‘But I'm thinking of something more humble, | 1 love it, I wonder, do you? The “Old Home” with the base-burner glowing, And the rosy-red light shining through. : : ~MARY R. WHITE. Sil . One objection to some old flames is that they

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alone. : : ~VIRGINIA LEE. . > o> * FOSTER'S FOLLIES (*“WASHINGTON—New Half-Dollar in Use | Franklin. and Liberty Bell Replace ‘Liberty | and Eagle.) . -—-A-brand new half-dollar nifty, Soon the light of day will see, Featuring Ben Franklin thrifty, And the Bell of Liberty,

Could -this mean: that--freedom’s . daughter Pelt she'd lost a little face, With ‘the eagle screaming “Quarter!”

pick two good

AL tfetons hesslong

his HWE. the Raleigh IN WASHINGTON ........ . By Peter Edson

Top GOP Lawmakers Woo Building Unions

—ton-right now top executives | lican congressional leaders, notably Speaker (Mass.), Majority. Floor Leader Cliarlie Ralph-A. Gamble (N..¥.), of the Joint Committee Chairman Fred A. co-author of the Taft-Hartley law. The Washington real estate lobby the realtors, home builders, materials manufact inclined to make something sinister out of this match. According to the lobby, the Republicans have gone sweet AFL to offset the bad political, counteract the effects of the AFL politica | Actually, it ign't that deep. The romance began %hen Chairman

Jeck (Ind.),

recess last summer. There had been considerable union featherbedding, jurisdictional dispu racial discrimination. The unions wanted to offset "it: Gamble figured that, since his committee's built, the way to do it was to win the unions’ co-operation,

beating them over the head.

Mixup Almost Ruined Gamble's Hopes

tes, make-work policies

There was some confusion.

| out of his land lathers’ | ored workers. Chicago

against the use of. power tools. ‘Things like that. When Rep. Gamble got back to W gpecial session last month, he reported hig progress to who was impressed. Said he'd like to have some of the AFL

around to lunch-to talk things over. partment.

Capitol. Present were Mr. Gray and h and Republican leaders.

Gray Sets Up Labor Subcommittee THINGS from good to better so fast that finally Mr.

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the Circle House. Except for the fact that both restaurants were good, they had only one thing in common. That was the number of men customers in both places. Only once in a great while did a woman show up. The absence ®{ women customers worried me a

WASHINGTON, Jan, 16—Most unbelievable love story in Washing-{s-the blossoming of a summer-type romance between of the AFL building trade unions and certain Repub~ { the House Joe Martin Chairman on Housing, and ‘Hartley Jr (N. J.), of the House Labor Committee, |

—made. up of representatives of | urers -and dealers—is

effects of Taft-Hartley law passage and | and educational league.

Gamble asked the building

trades to have some of their union leaders testify at the 30 local hearings his committee held in various cities during the congressional

bad publicity about building trades

And Rep. job was to get more housing | instead of

WHEN REP. GAMBLE'S committee got into Chicago early in November, he found that Congressman Ralph Gwinn (R. N. Y.), heading a labor racketeering investigation subcommittee, had arrived the day before and issued a blast against Windy City building trades labor, Reps. Gwinn and Gamble both live in Westchester County, N. Y. . Their congressional districts ad join. Both have the first name of Ralph. The union men thought they had been double-crossed. Identities were finally straightened out, however, and the building trades leaders came to Rep. Gamble's hearings to tell what nice guys they were and that all sald against them. wasn't so. There was the same mixup with Rep. Gwinn in New York. But hearings, Rep. Gamble thinks he began to get results. Clevewere persuaded to drop their discrimination against col~ glaziers quit taking window panes out of mill- | assembled frames so they could get paid for putting the-glass back in | again, at the building site. New York unions dropped their bans |

ashington at the start of, the Speaker ‘Martin |

Rep. Gamble relayed the invitas tion to Richard J, Gray, president of the AFL Building Trades

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I HAVE NO WAY of knowing for sure, but I

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share of bachelors when I was a little boy. Otherwise it wouldn't be possible to explain the number of good restaurants at a time when everybody knocked off work at noon to eat his din-

Come to think of it, I really have no business taking your precious time to talk about the ‘old restaurants ‘of Indianapolis.

around here some 60 years ago. 1 know pitifully little about Indeed, I wouldn't know ] it not for the fact that once in a great, while mother - left town- to: visit relatives, leaving father in the embarrassing position of seeing to it that’we kids got enough food to keep us going. The responsibility didn’t worry. least. He solved what looked like an insurmountable us uptown to. eat. And that’s how the little I do about the Circle House, a German eating place run by Mrs. Marie, Rhodius, and Sherman's Restaurant, run by a little bearded man who, I guess, was Mr. Sherman. Anyway, Mr. Sherman: catered to Hoosier tastes..

» Father Knew Where to Eat IT ALWAYS STRUCK ME as quite remarkable | that father who, so far as I ever knew, never had any experience in dining out, should ven more remarkable

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of hungry men. He said they Yepresented a breed who elected to go their own way without the help of women. And when I pressed the question to learn: why they didn’t have wives, he said there was no accounting for tastes. The finality ‘with which father issued this explanation precluded any possibility of pursuing the subject further. - a The two restaurants stick in my memory because of Mr. Sherman's strawberry shortcake and Mrs.

had more than its

variety—none of your modern sponge-cake profanities—and was baked in pans, I measuring —at least two by three feet. It wasa And, no doubt, Mr. Sherman thought so too, for he always made it a practice to display one in his show window which, at that time, occupied a site on 8. Meridian St. (north of Pearl), where the Ayres people now do business. Mr. Sherman's spectacular display also recalls the most forgotten fact that the west pavement was the most frequented side of that street during the berry season.

They Weren't Mrs. Rhodius’ Noodles

AS FOR MRS. RHODIUS' fabulous noodles, they too were in a class by themselves. And that brings me to the point of today’s piece—namely, my recent discovery that Mrs. Rhodius didn't have anything to ‘do with the noodles. that made her famous. They were the work of Katherina Pfluegel who presided over the Circle House kitchen at the time. Mrs. Pflueger added another and new dimension

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the little I do were

father in the

osophies. The subject of rent controls crept into

Rihiodius’ noodles. The shortcake was of the ple-crust | -

magnificent sight. |-

City - A chanced” to be conversing “I Till of “Strange phils mil

imagination. | Pat, 1 don’t get the hang of this taxing ims you refer to—just what do you mean? | Well, says Pat, for elucidation, take this lean to I pay $35 per month for. Its original cost, perNaps, approximated an investment of $2000 and it mellowed through the 75 years of its existence the attention of an artisan. So,

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After a few minutes reflection,

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I says, Pat,

of its contributors who speak up for Henry Wal. lace, I want to offer myself to be branded. I ine tend to vote for Henry Wallace and world peice, My second choice, Which is no choice In this case, would be Robert Taft. 1 have been plugging for Mr. Taft through the Hoosier Forum for the several months and he Would be my first. choice if he had courage enough to stand up for

‘Discontent Brings Comfort

By E. S. Barber, City. | .

to her noodles with the result that it made all others taste like abstractions. It's pretty much of a lost art

Some modern writer has'W

today. But, if by any chance; there's anybody left in Indianapolis ‘Who knows how to make -“geschnitate nudeln” a la the old Circle House, it's dollars to goughnuts that it follows in essential particulars the recipe handed down by Mrs. Pflueger. ; I am now, working on the possibility—indeed, the probability—of righting another wrong. ‘This time it concerns the idéntity of the unknown woman, hidden

pick the right that he should as different as Sherman's and

_greaf deal, I remember; so much s0, indeed, that on strawberry shortcakes for which Mr. Sherman got.all the. credit, I71 let You Know how. it comesout.:"y

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testants.are the Party.

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'| so enjoy working with my wonderful new stove—I| just put the dinner in and don't have to come near it again till it's : time to eat!’

boys

de-

Lunch was served in’ the Speaker's private. dining rooni in .the all a dozen of his henchmen

the Gamble committee. No sooner said than done. On-the committee are Harry Bates of the bricklayers, Mike Crow of the painters, .C. J. Haggerty of the California Federation, Joe Keenan of the Chicago

Federation and Howard MeSpedon of the New York Building Trades .Council. Rep. Gamble threw a dinner for them all to celebrate, :

Announcement ‘of the committee was made from Rep. Gamble's office & week before Christmas. Rep. Gamble said he was willing to announce it, but-Mr. Gray said no, he'd better announce it. If a Con~ gressman made the announcement, people might get suspicious of political motives being behind it: pr .

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“away in a kitchen, who "made" the extraordinary.

WORLD AFFAIRS By Parker a Moore Church Fighting Reds In Grassroots Italy

16—The issue in Italy is between the United States iS | and Soviet Russia at the top diplomatic and political levels. Bub down at the Grassroots where the field tgpops are engaged, the conv

BUT AS PARTISAN feeling Intensifies munist issue as election time approaches—elections are schedul April—few éheers can be expected for American aid from the Palmiro” Togliatt!, the able and wily leader of the Italian Com munists, has recognized the dual nature of the opposition signs by openly linking the United States and the [Tas the twin targets for his attacks. church in a Catholic nation indicates the struggle in this country. 3 .

Some Elements Straddle the Fence - BUT HERE, as in France, there are political elemen to straddle the fence in this cold war Tir France, the leader of this school talks of & third force between American capitalism ) munism. Here, the 79-year-old one-time i premier Nitti is urging formation of a national bloc

feader.” the benefits for whith

you are so smi one crusading for improvements. 1 suppose you would call the Revolutionary fore fathe pers”;” Washington, Lincoln, Garrison, Thofnas Paine, Clara Barton, many, niany others Aho “the long hard pathway trod,” and instead of uianking them for bringing sbout at the cost of their. own comfort, yourself. = Un Hy

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Roman Catholic Church and the Italian Communist

Informed people in Rome and. other large Italian cities know the -source of their relief and are duly appreciative of American aid. But in the smaller towns and villages it- may. be another matter. | Three thousand of the 7000 local governments are under Commu® fist control or under direction of officials who follow the Moscow par ty | line. But most of the relief and welfare activities in | activities under‘Vatican direction. Instances have which Communist municipal officials have told the American aid that the food had been sent to them by Stalin. ! Some Communist: officials are known properly to ‘the source of the assistance they have received. And | Catholic’ hospital,” the medical to praise the value of contributions received from the U. 8. Opening the dodr to the medical supply room, he ‘pointed to the well-stocked shelves and exclaimed, “All American.” Donning his white hospital | When He picked up hf

Italy are Catholie

been reported in yecipients of

at a small-town

superintendent went to: great lengths

“This came from America.”

rubber gloves he said, “These are American.”

From Communist Side of Street on the pro and anti-Co?* od 10 oon the street. to’ his

This bold offensive

have

petween the East and the W

of thought is Leon Blum, .

Well, that's the way things are now and that's all there is to the | and the Christian Democrats. ; story. Except that Chairman Hartley is now so clubby with of while timid statesmen seek peace compromise And Shory. Except. tha Csirman Hartley i Hon emsieras, on. pod uk while timid iter sigisricl LLY UL oiding. aio Warr ment to the Taft-Hartley law, to protect craft unions in somie of their factions slong pro and anti-Communist The latest sHULC tablished practipes. Lf: SH iY i lot with unists is: composed, it 18 FS Chairman Gamble 1s arranging to have bulldisig trades union . policy but who object ©

“Backing Wallace and World Peacs |

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