Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 February 1948 — Page 14

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The Indianapolis Times

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor Business Manager

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Our. Trouble | in Germany

THE U. S. Army is being criticized for policy-bungling |

in Germany. We are not so sure the Army is to blame. Transfer of direct occupation control from the Army to the State Department, now set for July 1, will not solve the problem. Certainly the transfer should be made. The Ary is neither trained nor equipped for the civil government job; its proper function of policing occupied areas and of providing American land defense is a full -time duty. But the transfer has been delayed two years because the State Department was even less equipped to handle the job. The pertinent quéstion now is whether it will be any better prepared by summer. Rumors that Gen. Clay may have to be asked to stay on as U. 8S. military governor there, or that Gen. Bedell Smith may be shifted from our Moscow embassy, do not indicate an over-supply of civilians for the post.

BASICALLY both policy and personnel weaknesses result from the fact that our government in the past was not charged with responsibility for ruling foreign countries. On the personnel side, it never developed and never expected to do so. On the policy side, ties as the major world power were thrust upon it so that our Presidents, Secretaries of State, Congress For“ eign Relations Committees, and attendant policy experts have been unprepared. Under the circumstances and com-- . pared with the. records of others—say of the British and French—America has a fair batting average in making os applying foreign policy. hs, Rowever, doen not relieve America of the Hotes: sity for a much higher future batting average, particularly as regards Germany. No longer can we swing back and“forth from Morgenthau de-industrialization of Germany to creation of a self-supporting reich. We no longer can switch from appeasement of Russia in Germany to ‘defiance and back again, Washington no longer can issue contradictory and fuzzy directives, leaving field officials to improvise decisions which proper authorities at home fear to make.

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i THE PRESIDENT and Secretary of State—after bi- | - partisan consultation with congressional leaders, and in

liaison with our closest allies——must be able to formulate policy with more clarity, speed and permanence, To blame Soviet sabotage or German nonco-operation for the present QIAN Hess a futile, because we should have foreseen those. obstacles and. planned policy accordingly, More than two and a half years after the fighting stopped, the United States still has no clear German policy. There is still delay in accepting the implications of the Soviet-made division of Germany, still indecision on a new German currency, still evasion on the form and powers of an interim west German quasi-government, still disagree-

ment about the Ruhr. Yet the future of all Western |

Europe, and the Marshall Plan, bangs ou the policy answers to these questions. So even if the State Department were perfectly prepared to take over civil administration of Germany from the Army, which it can’t be, any genuine progress is unlikely until there is a firm long-term policy.

Coming Down T wasn't so long ago that we talked bravely about tele: . vision as if it were just around the corner. We didn't believe it was any nearer than a rocket trip to the moon, “which is a lot nearer reality today than it used to bé, but

« we Americans talk rather boastfully about our ability to do

the impossible. Electric lights and the telephone we took in our stride. As they became cheaper, more and more people bought ‘them. They became big industries. It happened in radio, too. Only a quarter-century ago | we were paying upward of $200 for wet battery sets. “They finally got down to léss than $10 without wet batteries or even aerials, Now comes-television,- jong talked-about with the same confidence with which we greeted its electronic grandfather, the radio set: ‘Television has been a fact for a long time, but the sets have ranged from $600 up, too much of a strain, even on a liberal installment plan, for the family budget. So-tele-vision had to mark time. But it may not mark time much longer. Soon Hoosiers may be able to buy a television set for less than $200 which in these fat-money days brings. it down to where the average family can’ afford it. fore many years we probably shall be buying sets with | ~ 10- or 12-inch screens for less than $50.

When prices come down, volume goes up. And that |

will put television well on its way.

No Thank You

N Los Angeles, where many things start, you can now buy a prepaid funeral. Enterprising funeral directors

“have an insurance scheme—a few cents a day while you live guarantees payment of all bills for embalming, ceme- | tery lot, casket, music, flowers and minister's fee when you’

die. The idea is said to be spreading across the country. Well, when it reaches us, we think we'll have enough sales réBistance to pass up the opportunity. Knowledge that we'd already paid the expenses probably wouldn't add much to our enjoyment of our funeral, and anyway there's some chance that we'll live Jong enough to see the high ~ cost of ‘dying deflated.

Consolation Prize...

QUITE: a bit has een made of Harold Stassen's’ boldness

in challenging Sen. Taft in his home state, by entering | | United Nations, which created it, saddled if with a herculean task |

J- Republican popularity contest in Ohio's May primaries. + Well, Ohio, is tied with Virginia for the honor of send-

i ing the most native sons to the White House. Maybe Mr. |

figures he can get enough delegates there to quali-

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"WHEN Mayor Al Feeney gets deep Into his trafic improvemént program he will find a few obstacles almost impossible to overcome. Se is the sweet young thing who purrs into the glowering face of the traffic officer until « he just can’t find it in his heart to give her a sticker. oa gt -K. B,

MUSIC'S THERAPY Music, medicine for the soul, Outpourings of emotional men, Lay upon this weary heart, Breathe sweet melodies again.

Listen to the delicate lace Of Chopin's capricious valse, It lures my soul aloft the space; Buch riches are not false.

PAY Mim with S04 40 dead Who closes tight his Though, one ia rich, yet he 1s poor If he declines to

Fill your gullets, if you may, Do not starve the soul away, It with music must be fed Or remain like corpses, dead.

Music, medicine for the soul, ngs of emotional men, Lay upon this weary heart, Breathe sweet melodies again.

Py ALICE M. SOHEPYLER.

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A VARIATION

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FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“HOLLYWOOD—COandid Snaps of Bender Dry Up Many Alcoholics.”) .

In the land of picture rushes, . Things seem somewhat in reverse, Aa. they. take. these: of -lushes, . Aimed to cure the drinking .curse.

We are loath to issue strictures, But we must confess, we think That with fewer “B” type pictures, Man would have less cause to drink.

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‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Phillips Simms _

'No Palestine Solution

~ Eccles faction thatthe

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . -

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—More than ever in a political year, this capital takes on the atmosphere of an overcrowded hen house full of broody hens, each one scrambling for a place on the topmost roost, At times it seems to be no more than a contest for personal prestige and glory. Some of the reports on the demotion of Marriner 8. Eccles from chairman to vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board made it sound like that kind of contest. But, if nothing else, the vast amount-of comment devoted tp it would make plain that this is far more important, as indeed it is. Now that the. smoke has cleared away, it is possible to see what this means, (1) —in relation to the battle against inflation and (2)—In relation to Mr. Truman's own position in Washington and in the country. But first a little background is

necessary. Most of the bankers and the big insurance-

company executives were opposed to Mr. Eccles’ plan to curb bank credit and to his cheap money policy. The bankers wanted to let the price of government bonds drop and bring up the rate of interest on private le For some time this contest had been going on, with the public more or less unaware of it or what it meant. Within the Truman Administration, Mr, Eccles had won out. Both in his message on the state of the Union and in his January economic report, the President supported Mr. Eccles. In the latter he said specifically:

‘Eccles Put Over His Viewpoint

“IN VIEW of their central relation to the control of inflation, current proposals for credit control, especially those which have been presented by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System for the increase of bank reserve requirements, should be given close study by the Congress, and legislation should be enacted of a sufficiently comprehensive character to make available all the powers that may be needed.” - Since Mr. Eccles had put over his viewpoint, the only thing to do was to get rid of Mr. Eccles himself. Or, at any rate, it is the belief of the

demotion plan with the idéa that such a humiliation would compel Mr. Eccles to resign. Mr. Eccles’ friends give two bankers credit for promoting this plan—W. Randolph Burgess, vice chairman of the National City Bank in New

By Marquis Childs

How Mr. Eccles Won and Lost

Treasury John Snyder was their ally.

~ President -was sold the

‘they become disaffected and disillusioned, so do

Side Glances—By Galbraith

York and Edward E. Brown, chairman of the First National Bank of Chicago. They add the name of George L. Harrison, former governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and president of the New York Life Insurance Co. In spite of denials from both sides, Mr. Eccles’ friends continue 0 “believe that Secretary of

‘Mark Twain used to tell a story about how kind-hearted his mother was. He said that when she had to drawn a litter of unwanted kittens, she always warmed their water. That was the way President Truman approached he Eccles demotion.

This Cat Comes Out Winner

IN A painful face-to-face interview he be- |

seeched him to stay on. What is more, he signed a letter putting his plea in writing and indorsing the Eccles proposals for credit and banking. This cat is not drowned. He conies out as the winner all" the way around. That is the im~ portant thing to remember in the contest over inflation policy. ’ First, Mr. Eccles will have a majority of “the Federal Reserve Board of Governors with him. Second, he has the Administration indorsement once again for his policies. And, third, he has gained new support in Congress and with the public for his stand: Since the Republican Congress seems determined to do nothing, this may not seem important. But at the very least it keeps a clear-cut viewpoint before the public. There is also the fact that Thomas B. McCabe, Mr. Eccles’ successor as chairman, will be a newcomer to the board, and he is primarily an industrialist rather than a banker. As to Mr. Truman's personal fortunes, the effect may not be so immediately evident. Here in Washington he is condemned for what seems to have been almost deliberate bungling. Out in the country the meaning of the Eccles episode is probably not so apparent.

But Demcorats in the Senate were offended by |

the action. They resent it for a variety of reasons, not the least important being that it was sprung on them with no notice at all. Majority Leader. Alben. Ba .first_heard of it from Sen. Robert A. Taft, the Republican Senate leader. - These are the men who will have to help win re-election for Mr. Truman if he is to win. As

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War ray. aged world does not prosper oo war Indeed there is a surplus however scarce it may But the fact remains international trade and prosperity can. upon constructive production, and must be the basis of all commerce. must be removed where uction demands it and the “favored nation preference” system with all its 80 produc.

tive of retaliatory measures which all adds up “suney WEL Koulttani aug what met The implementation of the so-called Mar. shall Plan, while by no means a regional com. mercial pact, is based upon reconstruction international commerce upon which civilized society lives. This will soon extend in Self-pESa¥IVation to the entire world’ seeking new markets

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The competition of nations must hencetorty be based -upon the welfare of the populations and whoever heard of such a thing before the atom bomb or rocket bombs? To WHALA ue

‘| war has eventually Drought humanity?

‘the strange totaltarians te prosperity as Co-operation is the cy, gentlemen.

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Get Better Sirens By Paul E. Grifiith, City. We all regret the unfortunate accident that took the life of one of our firemen doing his duty. But I am one of many people who are not ready to die or be killed by deliberately wrecking an emergency car. I want to question the Mayor's attitude of the wreck. In the

public is to pay for such accidents let me tell

my side.

One week ago on West Morris St, west without any warning that we could an emergency car passed us and many

that a very few cases ever happened because of an oncoming car. 1 wonder if you or anybody has took the trouble to notice that while driving a car the windows clesed on 50 per cent of streets that you can approach a street within 25 feet many times before you can hear a siren. I know because I tried it. I notice many of our police sirens are not very efficient. I have also seen them at least a dozen times almost hit other drivers who did not know they were near because I was onthe spot and did not see them either. I'm speaking as a driver on the street everyday for almost 20 years. If you think I'm wrong ask others. . I think a little investigating should be done before another drive st the public in general is started. I wish it was possible to call attention to many other c problems but this is not the time or the way . Maybe someday they will get to them themselves.

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Political Stooges By W. 8. Warren, City. I saw. a cartoon in a certain newspaper where it said “Calling All Crackpots” and Henry Wallace was leading the I don't think that would hardly do, for if he got the backing of all the crackpots he would very surely be elected. Well, all of them are not crackpots. . sowie, I believe, are political stooges who have no thoughts of- their own. They just say what

party hopes go glimmering.

they are told to say by their bosses.

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Seen as Deadline Nears WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—There is increasing anxiety in United Nations circles Test the Palestine situation get completely out-of hand at the time of change-over from British mandate to Jewish and Arab rule, With a bare 100 days to go before the British pull out and “leave the United Nations Palestine Commission on the spot to supervise the shift, uncertainty over the outcome is growing rather than decreasing as had been hoped. Last Thursday, the Commission—which {is still at Lake Success instead of in ‘Palestine learning the ropes—decided to | begin at once to establish, train and equip a legal militia for the new Jewish state, On Friday, however, Sir Alexander Cadogan, head of the British United Nations Delegation, dashed the ComThe British, he said, could not allow such a thing until they pulled out. At the same time it was announced that the famous TransJordan Frontier Force which has helped to maintain a degree of order along the frontiers of Palestine, Trans-Jordan, Syria and Lebanon is to be disbanded. ‘This force-~composed mainly of Arabs, but partly of Jews, is a highly efficient British unit,

apparently will leave a vacuum In its place.

UN. Notoriously Without Power

ALREADY a war Is in progress in Palestine—a “War of Partition” between Jews and Arabs, More than 1000 people have been killed on both sides since the United Nations voted partition last November. More are dying daily, despite everything the mandatory power can do to. prevent it. Unless the United Nations can find ‘a way, in the few remaining weeks, to maintain order and enforce its decision, blood may well flow from one end of . the country to the other. 2 The United Nations, of course, is still notoriously without power to enforce its edicts. The only police force it has to date is barely large enough to poaintain order in and around its headquarters at Lake Success.’

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Just how the Commission will carry on with its job, once it arrives in Palestine, today is as much of a mystery as ever. The.

| but neglected to provide it with the necessary tools.

¢. Days of’ Exfreme Danger

THE COMMISBION is charged with Palestine adnilnistration from the time when Britain drops her mandate until the inde. pendent Arab and Jewish States come into existence. take place two months after the Biitah evacuation. ’

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British-officered and led by an Australian, Col. J. W. Hackett—

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days cannot fail to be a period of intense danger not only to Palestine but to the pegce. The United Nations Commission is made up.of one representative each from five slovakia, Denmark, Panama and the Philippines. It can’scarcely ~ be called prejudiced. Yet its first major decision was to vote unanimously for a legal Jewish militia, Whether partition was the “best solution for the Palestine problem is no longer at issue. It was settled by an overwhelming majority which included the United States, the Soviet Union and Only Cuba and Greece, aside from the: Moslem

“neutral”

| As members of the Dated Nations, ‘the Arab countries are This is: to, | Those 60

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Help Schools Abroad

WASHINGTON, Feb. 3—When the Polish motorship Batory ‘cleared New York harbor recently, it carried, among other cargo of pencils, notebooks, school lies, books and clothing. It was bound for the Co-Operative High School o Warsaw, Poland. It was collected at the Long Branch, N. J. School at the suggestion ot the. biology and chemistry instructor. «Miss ‘Gertrude Mae Abbitt. . First Miss Abbitt persuaded her fel-low-teachers to “adopt” the faculty of the Warsaw high. Then the Long Branch Student Council decided to “adopt” Warsaw High. Collection hoxes were put in.each assembly room. It wasn't long before they had five crates of school supplies. Shi was handled free by the Polish consulate in New York. If the first Shipment goes through all right, Long Branch will repeat in rch “It has done a lot of good here,” Miss Abbitt writes to Robert Stanforth, deputy director of the Commission for International Education Reconstruction, here in Washington. “I feel that if every school knew they could work through agencies for shipment, a lot of schools would help definite schools.”

| What the Schools Abroad Really Need

WHAT HAS happened in Long Branch may not be the most’ thrilling news in the world, but it ia typical of what bas bo going on in hundreds of U. 8. communities for over two , with very little recognition. All these separate donations have never been rounded up into the big national story which they really + Nearly $150 million worth of school aid has been furn

Ake "Nearly $150 willion worth OF 4cbol ald hing Be The job of

rebuilding the old world’s war-torn school system is just be-

ginning. The $150 million worth of aid furnished so far scratches the surface of real need, says Harold E. Snyder, director.

The need, according to UNESCO—the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization—is as great as 47,000 black52,000,000 pleces of chalk, 200,000,000 pencils, $3,000,000

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