Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 January 1948 — Page 12
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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President : Br ; "PAGE 12 Monday, Jan. 19, 1948 :
paper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of Price in Marion County, § cents a copy; delivered by carrier, 25c a week. Mail rates in Indiana. $5 a year; all other states, |- U. S. possessions, Canada and Mexico, $1.10 a month. * Telephone Rl ley 5501, : " Give LAUM and the People Will Pina Thew wn Woy | - The Great Grain Snoop GQPEAKIN G in New York, Secretary of Agriculture Anderson complains that “The Great Grain Snoop now going on in Washington” is making it more difficult for the government to employ first-class men. - Z ge: - “The Great Grain Snoop” is what Mr. Anderson calls the current search by a Senate committee for government | insiders who have profited recently in commodity market speculation. : : : Many first-class men have speculated in grain and other commodities. Such speculation being a legal activity —and, some authorities contend, one that serves a useful purpose. And many such men doubtless would rather not take government jobs, if taking them must mean either stop speculating or be pilloried by a Senate committee. But Mr. Anderson's complaint raises a question: Who brought on this “Great Grain Snoop”? To which the answer is: Mr. Anderson's boss, President Truman, brought it on by trying to pin the blame for high food prices on commodity speculators. Suppose Mr. Truman hadn't said so much about the “greed” of "gamblers in grain” and other commodities Who, according to repeated statements from him, were profiting in human misery and kicking the dost of living about like a football. In that case it's a 10-fo-1 het—oops, there we go speculating! —it's safe to say “the Republicans never would have started the hunt for
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a rh A Moll AR NS 80 FAR the the Senate committee hasn't proved that anybody in the government gambled with loaded dice. Considering what has come out, however, we can understand ‘Mr. Anderson’s distaste for “The Great Grain Snoop.” First there was Edwin W. Pauley, President Truman's
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that he got rid of his commodity holdings at great loss when he learned that Mr. Truman disapproved. of spec- § lation, later had to admit making a $982,000 profit. Then there was Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham, the President's personal doctor. He said he didn’t know what speculation was or what commodities were; that he never under‘stood what his broker was doing; that he lost his socks by _ getting out of the market when he learned what Mr. Tru- * ‘man thought of speculators. But later he had to acknowjedge a $6165 profit. 4 HT . =» "en AND THERE'S Democratic Sen. Elmer. Thomas of Oklahoma, in Congress for 25 years, a good many of them . as chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee which has | {© a powerful influence on the government's farm price poli- | cies. His constant theme has been that the government.
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_prices higher and ever higher: Hé now concedes that he "and Mrs. Thomas have speculated in commodities for many - years, always on the “long” gide—the side that made money when prices went up—and he sees nothing improper | - in that. . : aa ey ; Bit for Mr. Truman, as we've said, the Republicans probably wouldn't have started “The Great Grai Snoop.” However, we can't see Secretary Anderson's plaintive objection inducing them to stop it now. ;
Ruhr Reds—And Others
THE food crisis in Western Germany cannot be cured by
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izing on hunger, as they always do, but they are not the simpler. ce - ; Stalin's plot to wreck the Marshall Recovery Plan | through Ruhr strikes was well known long before discovery of the “Protocol M” document in Berlin and the current
however, less than 10 per cent of the West Germans are Communists or Red sympathizer—the masses there, including the many who have fled from the Soviet zone, fear . and hate the Russians. That, plus the fact that British. American military control is capable, makes Communist sabotage a less serious problem in Western Germany at | “the moment than in France or Italy. RT
r - o. » ." . WHILE lawless Reds will be dealt with promptly, that will not increase available food. Until industrial workers get more food, especially the miners and transport men, the situation will get worse. Sporadic strikes, and the less spectacular but more devasting slow-downs, will increase | with the winter. ] » The blame for this situation involves thé British-Amer- . - lcans and Germans. It cannot be corrected without co- | operation. The German farmer, who is living well, must be made to share his product with the hungry cities. If he does, the | city worker will get the 1550-calory ration due. But Ger- | man officials and public will not press down on hoarding | farmers so long as they think the large American dole will | be increased. German self-help must begin to take the | place of self-pity and whining disregard of suffering in | neighboring lands looted by German aggressors. :
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1 Net Profit : SEE where a lad of 23, accused of marrying eight v women in five years, had 19 cents to his name when the police finally caught up with him. ©. With this year's prices and any year's wives what they are, any man who has even 19 cents after eight wives have gone through his pockets is no mere bigamist. He's
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"No Speculation Here
; NVHATEVER the outcome of the inquiry into Brig. Gen.
d of his job as White House physician. 'e gather that, as far as President Truman is con-
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There's sumpthin’ kinda odd like Bowin' to 4 high an’ mighty man
But his heart is allus open
You only have to go out on slippery roads to realize what a great turnover the American auto industry is having.
Among great pieces of fiction found in every language is the one about having a little extra work to do at the office.
Fortune tellers and columnists too, “Try
"Their good advice folks often disdain.
- Let's “go and “have ‘our fortunes toid; “= parhaps 11 marry or find gold;
are hid THE RANCHER'S DAUGHTER
Now Lucy Lee was a ranchers daughter,
And this is exactly how it wad done. Lucy took from the oven some hot gingerbread. Ooty said, “There's a woman, I sure will her And that’s what he -did, that courtin’ man Coty, And took her from the land of cactus and coyote, And brought her back from the wide open spaces,
Ton many auto drivers refuse to wake up even after they're pinched.
should do everything possible to make farm commodity |
cussing Communists. Of course the Reds are capital- | ('w
“cause of it. If they were, the problem would be much |"
NATIONAL AFFAIRS , .. By Pal
How Many Strings On Marshall Plan?
on dollars for European recovery,
‘Wallace H. Graham's commodity dealings, he is as-°
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‘But what call success, His good will to possess, Passin’ up the average feller Thet is workin’ by their side, Who is never too hard hearted His small portion to divide.
ieee mm tet Hp don’t make a lot of money Nor his name ain't much in print,
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But the man thet's high an’ mighty Who owns stocks an’ bonds galore, When he gives away a dollar . Knows he'll make back plenty more.
80 in addin’ up the figgers, : It ain't very hard to guess Which feller is a-wearin'— The real mantle of success. : ~CATFISH PETE. ee *
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WISTFUL THOUGHT Oh, for the life of a hoodlum, Now that Feeney's here; The city must shelter and foodlum, And it's warm in jailyI hear. CLAUDE BRADDICK.
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ADVICE, PLEASE
advise folks what to do;
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1s the cry of many a twosome gay, But hearing, they laugh as they turn away.
The columnists repeatedly speak Golden advice to those who seek; ‘ But somehow the counsel is never heeded 1 wonder why for advice they pleaded.
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EVER SINCE JOHN GUNTHER declared this
~~ good Democratic friend and appointee as special assistant . —JOSEPHINE BUCK? ‘to the Secretary of the Army. Mr. Paule ‘having claimed e 0 @o | town of ours to be the dirtiest of any “Inside the a shop in Indianapolis was ¥ ] A statistics professors says women's memories U. S.A.” I've had an urge to do a piece in support a mere boy of 16 at the time. that the citizens of Indianapolis were Strangely enough, however,
of the t among the first in the Middle West—and, maybe, in _the _entire country—to practice cleanliness by way of bathtubs. ‘The first professional plumber to turn up around here was J. C. Dunn. (The significance of his initials has escaped me.) He arrived in 1852 to work in the Bates House, then in the process ’ of construction. EE At that time he was in the ; employ of Thomas Borrowman, a boss plumber located in Cincinnati, who had the contract for equipping the first luxury hotel of Indianapolis with the necessary pipes and fittings to enable guests to bathe in tubs designed for that purpose. The water which supplied the tubs was delivered by storage tanks mysteriously Mfidden in the attic; for this, my children, was at least 10 years before “Indianapolis had anything resembling a water system. Cincinnati, in case you youngsters have to be told, was the cradle of plumbers. Not only because it was there that Adam Thompson invented the bathtub, but also because of its concomitant, the storage tank—possibly the ‘first sensible and, cer tainly, the most original application of Isaac Newton's law of gravitation. Adam Thompson kept his invention a secret until the night of a Christmas party in 1842. On that occasion heé displayed for the first time the bathtub he had installed in his Cincinnati home. When Mr.
superior to men's. Except, perhaps, when it to age. :
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Coty Jones went out there and caught her. On be her he wu, The cryptic observation is that Mr. Dunn's skill gave
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good old Indiana, the best of all places. ~MILDRED C. YOUNG. e ©
opened a plumbing shop east of the present Odd years later,
and commissioned him to
® 4 4 sheet lead. The fact was
NEW YEAR PRAYER .
Help us dear Lord to find anew A word to speak . . . a bit to do. Grant may we seek and prove to be Greater in all humility.
Help us somehow a place to fill «And pledge obedience to Thy will. God grant us eyes of Truth to see Lest we but block a path to Thee. f —ANNA.E. YOUNG.
room. After that came the
made every foot of pipe
ashinglen—U, 8. to Sell ‘American Idea’ by Air Delivery of American Papers Abroad.” Who dfeams up these crazy Capers To deplete the public: hoard «oye Like this plan to fly our papers And our magazines abroad.
~ wildered editors—the papers denounced the newfangled contraption as a luxury out of keeping with the democratic spirit of the times: - aa Slbsequenitly, the frightened City ‘Council’ af Cincinnati passed a resolution making it a crime, punishe able by a fantastic fine, if anybody was caught What's it matter folks can't read ‘em, : sleeping .in a bathtub... Fo : “In some far off, distant land? ) " In spite of the bathtub’s discouraging beginning, This is one-year when they'll need ‘em-— Mr, Dunn's work created a. sensation around here. ' “F-pytt18, it Almost stoped “the progress ~of “the Bates
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until the day of his death have been over 80 years the very last, the sign-on 938 N. Illinois St. carried
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How Bathtubs Came to {own
House, Among those who urged Mr. Dunn to open william Baldwin Fletcher,
that fascinated the youngster... It was Dr. Dunn's ability to handle sheet lead, the never been seen around here. Tn his effort to persuade Mr. Dunn to stay in the 16-year-old boy pointed out that | the new hospital on W. Washington St. should be enough to keep Mr. Dunn busy the rest of his life. now explained by the fact | the Fletcher boy the idea _ of using sheet lead -for the floors of hospitals for
First Tub to Banker Robson
IN 1853—a year after his arrival here—Dr. Dunn
in 1883, Mr. Fletcher<-now a full-grown 48-year-old physician—walked into Mr. Dunn's shop
had “just been appointed superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane. i The first residence. ini Indianapolis to be equipped | with a bathtub (by Mr. Dunn, of course) was that: of william Robson, a banker living on N. Pennsylvania St. The next to brag was Architect Edwin May who turned his home inside out-to accommodate a bath-
and Louis Hasselman.. For all these jobs, Mr. Dunn
so ambitious that it cost $2385, the equivalent of a Balkan king's ransom at the time.
from Washington St, down Kentucky Ave. Which, = use your imagination; is ample proof -that the “Bates House bathtubs instatted by Mr Dunn Sr. were. peing used-:no matter what Mr. Gunther may. thik: _ As for Mr. Dunn Jr. he kept the old shop going -
pioneer-plumber -of Indianapolis.
| Hoosier Forum "I do vot agree with 8 word that you say, but | will defend fo the desth, your right fo say i."
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Public Skinned for 14 Years By W. H. Richards,’ Box 291, “City” "In The Times of Jan. 10, under the head of “Washington Calling” we read the" following: move into market and buy eggs to put In storage. 1t they do, this may cut down of eggs government has to buy to keep up " Why does the government have to buy eggs keep up prices? Who can be benefitted by this use of public money, yours _and mine, except the big business interests?” : This is a brazen acknowledgment that our coun. try is governed by the President and Congress, who are interested only in larger profits for the multi. millionaires, who are the actual rulers. If those eggs are bought, it will be with our money, and they should be owned by those whose money paid for them, not to make it possible for prices to be kept at ® level unreachable by the millions who are having a hard time to keep their ribs from caving -in-on account. of the high cost. of everything essential to 8 life comfort. I have a clipping from another paper which - gives a report of the profits after taxes made by 50 corporations showing the per cent of increase profits in 1947 over those of 1946. The increase ranges from William Wrigley Jr., 250 per cent, to General Cable Corp., 246.9 per cent. For 14 years the public has been skinned by destruction. of corn, hogs. wheat, cotton, wool and fruits for which the people have been suffering want that prices may be raised for the profit of these money-mad profiteers whom we have had no better sense than to vote into power over and over. Millions are dissatisfied with such doings, but instead of voting for a system of collective ownership of the big industries to be operated for use of those who need the products and whose labor produces all wealth, they, vote against what they really want. : Sorhe say no matter how much profit the big corporations make, the government can tax it away from them, A foolish idea. It is true they are highly taxed, but don’t forget that the taxes they pay are considered a part of their cost and are passed on the consumer with a profit added. It | ail tals on the millions who toil for such meager - wages: as the corporations grudgingly: pay: om “K“yoté for eithef Democrat or Republican ‘cans didates is a vote for continuance of the same system of greed and oppression. 2 As for the Wallace ticket and the Marshall Plan, both have only the object of upholding the capitalist system and are against what the average voter really wants. ”
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It's Either Wallace or War
By R. Blickenstaff, 309 Covington St, Crawfordsville, Ind. Regardless of The Times’ effort to degrade Mr. Prisbie’s letter to the Hoosier Forum, I am all for Mr. Prisbie, Mr. Wallace and the third party, and am happy there are people liké Mr. Frisbie, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Hendricks and Mr. Haggerty who can see through this Wall Street propaganda even though the administration seems to have complete control over the press and radio. We gent aid to Greece, then they threw machinery and men’s shoes on their dumps and went to war wtih so-called Communists, which 1 believe were just a bunch of poor people who couldn't make a living. Now we see Mr. Truman is send ing Marines to the Mediterranean, Wall Street now wants more money out of the working man's pocket to send to Europe for more wars. Why make the rich man richer and kill off the poor man? 1 believe if Mr. Truman and his gang fail to get a war started before the next election, Mr. Wallace will win beyond a doubt, If the majority of American people are still swallowing this Communist baloney, theré’s no hope. 3 . Many people feel the same way, but. are afraid to say so for fear of being branded a Communist. I believe communisméexists only in the minds of the American people, put there by bigwigs to force the people to play ball with them. Sounds like a fake ideology to me. As far as I'm concerned, it's either Mr, Wallace or war, and i | -enough people have enough brains; there need not
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lay some floors made of that Dr. W. B. Fletcher |
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himself, installation was
; oo % biel) Thompson unveiled “his invention four of his guests Six years after opening his shop (1859), Mr. Dunn =m 7 wom defy hor. Isbin. aie Be. gapped..| muedintely polo thelr clothes and jumped in. became the father of a baby hoy. He was christened | D8 WEE oC, og : her while she slept. Mén get bolder and “bolder! C ime to Sleep ina Bathtub Willis Samuel. When he was 14 years old, the boy ” ; bith 5 r > @ - ef was put to work in his father’s shop, to_ learn the | ° ‘Congratulations Mr. Feeney’ x : NEXT DAY, Mr. Thompson's invention received plumbing trade. By that time Indianapolis had | ; ’ y Y ‘ FOSTER'S FOLLIES =e Ta two-column write-up in the Cincinnati®papers. enough bathtubs to..call for a sewage system. It By E. L. H. | “And on the following day—such is the habit "of be- started with a main sewer, eight - foot in diameter, 1 believe that Mayor Al Feeney should be con ‘ gratulated on his backing of our pew Chief of -
Police, Edward D. Rouls. On his stand against -Hoodlums- arid the payoff- racket ‘for protection: ete, | 1-believe with -God's-help-and- the: fair citizens of ‘Indianapolis Mayor Feeney and Chief Rouls will to the best of their ability perform the duties of their respective offices. Again I say congratulations Mr, Mayor, Mr. Rouls.. Keep up the good work! Keep politics out [ot our city administration and police department.
a few years ago. He must old at the time. Up until the window of the shop at | the name of his father, the
[Side Glances—By Galbraith
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—How many strings America should hold | and how strongly it should pull them to influence “foreign governments, is the most impoMant Marshall Plan question before Congress.” : o | | This is being sharply emphasized in hearings by the House and Senate Foreign Policy committees. : The hearings probably will continue through February, before any | bills are written for recommendation to both houses. Pwo major bills are under consideration, One is that prepared by the State Department and introduced { by Charles A. Eaton (R. N. J), House committee chairman. The other was prepared by a special House committee which investigated personally last year in Europe, It's Sponsor is Christian ‘A. Herter
(R. Mass). |
Vandenberg Not Sponsoring Any Bill , | SENATE PRESIDENT Arthur H vandenberg (R. Mich), chair« | man of the Senate committee, is not directly sponsoring any bill | But he is diligent in conducting his hearings to bring out all evidence for or against the administration plans that have been proposed. On the sidelines are special bills and bills yet to comie in the’ forma of amendments which would spell out drastic’ controls over use of the dollars, even to the extent of telling foreign governmeyits what they must do to obtain them. This has profoundly disturbed Secretary of State Marshall and Lewis W. Douglas, ambassador to Great Britain. | To such suggestions as that of Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R. | Mass) that Marshall Plan dollars should be the lever for directing a United. States of Europe, Mr. Marshall makes, this reply: a by
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IN WASHINGTON ... By Polar Edson ‘Why Housing Shortage | Gets Worse and Worse
| WASHINGTON, Jan. 19-=America’s housing shortage now appears “to be Just as bad as it was two years ago, according to Census Bureay’ surveys and government housing agency estimates. If anything; the | situation is perhaps a little worse than on V-J Day. In October, 1945, a survey showed 1,200,000 families were. living doubled up. The number is believed to be just as high today. In December, 1946, a survey showed 2,900,000 families in need of housing. The number is put at 3 million today. In 1946, only 437,000 new permanent houses: were completed. An estimated 860,000 were completed in 1947. But even this isp't as good ‘as the record of 20 years ago. In 1925, new housing ‘units completed numbered 937,000. The need is put at 1,250,000 units a year for the next! 10 years. These are the highlights of the situation as’ New York Congress man Ralph A. Gamble's Joint Committee on Housing opens a final 10 days of investigation hearings, prior to writing a report on what's wrong. ? ’ ' .
Materials Shortages Almost Licked
IT 18 NOW POSSIBLE to get a house built in four to five months which was normal before the war. Materials shortages are pretty well licked, save for nails, sewer pipe, plumbers’ supplies and othe | ‘metal products. : . | Goal"of the Veterais' Emergency Housing Program, which Wis | abandoned in one year, was to increase the housing supply by 2.700.000 units in two years. This figure was to include new permanent housing: conversions, temporary housing, trailers and 800,000 prefabricated 2 | units. What has been ‘delivered int the past two years is 1,900, 7 units—1500,000 of them permanent construction. :
“The sovereignty of those countries must not be disturbed the United States psychologically or legally.”
Constant Warnings From Diplomatic Side THAT EXPRESSION, sovereignty of mations, and the touchiness of all countries about their ~from outside influence, come up constantly in warnings from the diplomatic side.
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| Treasury, Defense, Commerce and Agriculture and the
H. Ball (R. Minn) to the effect that, “¥f they don't want our dollars ’ : { Bank head.
on dur terms they don't have to take them.” X On this question of administration the Eaton Bill proposes: An econtmic. co-operation. administration headed by a $20000 a.
yéar adminjétrator and $17,500 deputy appointed by. the President. | council; he would manage the whole business.
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1-19 _| Poor Materials and Faulty Construction was okay |, THE POOR MATERIALS and faulty construction going into much far?" {of the post-war housing may yet develop a major national sandal
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