Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 March 1948 — Page 10

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tion of American help. This fiva-power treaty among our fellow democracies is such self-help in action.

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

Cars That Are No More

THERE was an antique auto show in New York last week,

In Tune

Never known for riches, tho’ Sports often boast your game, People there are cultured, Often come to tame.

matic ties.

Reaping all the pleasures Towns can ever claim; I, an errant native,

commercial contacts and the removal of diplo-

Also there are the anti-Communist processes already well under way in Europe through a unification of the 16 nations that will benefit under the Marshall Plan. They are assembling in Paris next week and, with the assurance of financial help from the United States, they can be pressed with all speed

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“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but |

morals.

These attempts to keep international relations

free from threats have failed,

the Communist doctrines. Czechoslovakia by force.

possible to excuse Russia's expansionism on the ground that its neighbors are willingly accepting Russia has taken

By every move of the past six months and by ° every broadcast from Moscow, the Soviets have

Take everything Richard Lewis said with a grain of salt but he couldn't have made up the menu posted on the kitchen wall and that menu was inadequate even for the lowest living standards. : aE , The commissioners harping on “grand jury reports” remind me of a raid on a gambling joint an hour after a phone call to the boss warns him to “cover up; it's a raid.”

It is no longer

g w® « ® PAGE 10 Monday, Mar. 15, 1948 With the Times wil defend fo the death your right fe say B® A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER I EEE — : Own ‘P FOR L Write what you think on any subject or ELIZA . Owned and published daily (except" ) GLORY Al public issue plainly and clearly, Effective By P : by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co. 214 W. Lines T write may ner win fame, letters are brief. We do net return lefters THE Ns. Maryland St. Postal Zone 9. All cannot win first prize, choosing be Member of United Press, Scripps - Howard Jats is etisf Just {NG Saine $53 SN QuqibUos Ar So Ming and a care : - If words are true and wise. rite what you will—for here the people Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit speak. Bureau of Circulations. ih Perhaps your halting style ey one for Dr. Price tnMation County, 5 cents a copy; de- Will not loud plaudits win, : : hart—she : livered by carrier, 25¢ a week. s Yet efforts are worth while Juliefta—Public Views the two. Mail rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other If honest yours have been. The public rose in high indignation with But “easy’ Rages. U. 8 als and zien, To try outdo some other's song sharp concern over conditions at Julietta, our Pe R Give Light end the People Will Pind Their Own Woy Po reg pou’ home, a8 exposed bY Richard Lewis, Times oh and ene ; No kinship with Divine. ; ia her two jobs The w t E Alli : Excerpts from letters follow: a wife and | | es urocpean ance 1 would rather write a single line . being chief p . With truth and love replete M. D. I. (name signed to letter): Yow Mental Hyg! THE five-power 50-year west European treaty of unity Than pages full of phrases fine articles on Julietta are neither exaggerated nor Veterans drafted by the Brussels Conference is almost a miracle Yet filled with vile deceit. silly. To this Mr. Boston would, agres if he zhe 72 reg BY a LE verse of song or story NE have a friend there. I viait the place. The a oh : : n verse or song or story, . on, Eight short days of negotiation achieved more peace- Those who brighten dreary days inmates tell me they are treated anything but Rhinehart— time agreement on economic, social, cultural and mili Bainbrid; c, , an tary May each one have their glory. pleasantly and in many instances downright 0 Baiutld consolidation of Western Europe than has ever existed— #0: M. AZERITAGE. Andersen, Tus, brutally. a orn or than seemed possible in our lifetime. The only objection dad will have to They seldom have anything half-way decent be willing to This remarkable achievement is something for which | spring cleanup will be beating rugs, washing to eat. One of them told me (which bears out tone, of we must thank Stalin, its unwilling parent. Nothing less | Widows tidying up the cellar and burning a ao ophuat Nave breed Dr. Rhine . rubbish. and molasses on Sunday evenings,” and they . than a life-or-death choice could have forced the five na- eo @ never see butter. garest a tions to overcome so quickly the habits, prejudices and TEMPERAMENTAL MARCH Ye January Lo ogitions oN Sblorabie, pe in psycholog: rivalries of centuries of nationalism. Soviet aggression and | welcome, Old March, with sunshine and warm m bugs 't believe her Master's penetration threaten death to these democraci The pri rain EO ans ther Ne es. e price ’ but one of the inmates picked one off while received her of survival is uni ainst the common me : You come to open lemon colored buds of the talking to me. They tell me they can hardly university in ty ag nace forsythia; sleep because of them. One inmate told me of y = So the purpose of the new treaty, which is to be signed | To Ty with tints of flame the bright picking thes ort al ight Joug aba throwiag SHE AM ay ae . em a bucket of water bes ho Wednesday, is Sstensive, ” is not Talat lo mit ml And open cradled leaves of lilac bush again. - Last summer they had no cold water to Be " Ye , 8 y Jmpo . But soon more snow will fall, and drifting to drink. About that time the newspapers were kesfs Der 2: at of Red fifth columns and Soviet penetration no the ground : telling about the iced-water drinking fountain conducting 2 less than security against open aggression. Also it at- | Softer than lamb's wool, light on bush and for Sage 2 ihe court house lawn. 3 the bei tt } is tree, n e clothes they wear—mismated shoes, I : iS integ, tion, to re Social And dance and swing about like snow fairies . : > ragged sweaters—and this from a nation which poTmicnl pe health and business stability in place of the chaos and mis- free mere a. mrs 3 is clothing Europe. et, etm ery which breed communism. THI comes a tyrant ly wind, and roughly | FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By Hal O'Flaherty Miss Joan E. Werner: Why It is that & re- no. discrimi But these noble purposes cannot be fulfilled by the ef Whitls them round, . ° ° porter of The Indian lis TH ust be th Be : . , , * APois thes WN “However, otf Bain, Begin, To Nears on. | © rpg os. or wos | [tally Key Point in Soviet Sweep | mis wiiscsioriniont | wit s ! . ons om great has been the destruction of war | who stamps a tiny foot, aad tosses curly head, THE GRIM PROTEST of Jan Masaryk, ment of a determination to oppose further Moves | gre allowed to exist. riers a 80 rapid their Satissontation since the war, that now | And has a Pik tantrum” and stormy tears | cgechoslovakia's martyred foreign minister, driven of this nature is forthcoming immediately, the Mr, Botton war bien gueled au SAVING Bo Although combined strengths i suffi- ’ to suicide by the enslavement of his people, may viets will accept it as another great chance to ¥ : : ll-time of Even in uni 2.9 ese five nations is not But soon repents with sunny laughter mild. provoke a y of policy by the Western give Italy the next working over from within. feels conditions which are said to exist at Juli« I P cient, on they are not strong enough to gen- | —MARTHA C. BISHOP. Powers. The Italian voters will go to the polls on April Sia afe false, and the stories printed are silly. week at IU, erate their own economic recovery, much less to match eo & o : The United States has officially condemned 18. Time presses. Within the few weeks remain- e is so sure, 1 suggest, as one of the people ing on his | Russia's military might. : Russia's bare-faced drive to rule by the tortuous ing, Russia will put a horde of underground work- | Who is paying a small part of his salary, that hart believes 8 8 * It ‘would be a lot eadler to face the music |, .1) 040 of boring from within, ers into Italy unless Moscow is made to under- | he do a little investigating on his own. As a does not fee : Their step toward economic unity was inspired by the Thee. 44¥S it ihe orchestras would stick to A further rebuke should be administered and stand that it will bring retaliation. ! public servant, he should be the first to make ental compa * promise of M all Plan aid. without wirich their e original melody, a warning issued that the conscience of the west- fore the Italian election, Russia should see | Sure such things are stopped. » arshall Plan aid, out whic. recovery * 9° ern world finally has been aroused; that further the strength flowing back into Europe's arteries A Housewife { oll ‘to. Tobtonys “I THIN] effort will fail. Their defense alliance assumes the active LOGANSPORT encroachments upon small nations will not 'be through. the Marshall Plan transfusions. e (mame sign tter): I more of my d 8 * : . could understand such conditions existing in ° than do mc military co-operation of the United States, the only power toletmisd, ; , R Guilty of Fo = ’ y po Lifted right from Heaven Weapons to back up such a statement of policy NYSSIG LUI ty or rorce Europe, but in a Christian country with high mothers hav stronger than Russia. ; % Suis a vallev's lap, are available and they Deed, not necessarily be SINCE 1945, the western nations have treated | standards of living, education and publie ‘managing & i racious e city those of out-and-out war. ere are economic Russia. with tolerance and an attempt at fair , America wisely has made European self-help a condi- Added to the map. weapons involving the withdrawal of trade and dealing under traditional codes of ethics and health, 1 cak't understand if, M y Day-

Voters Work By Co

put on by the Veteran Motor Car Club of America. Thrill at just your name. toward a political and economic unity unequaled in shown their deep fear of the effects of the Mar-Ninety-six ancient cars, dating back to 1907 or beyond =-MEREDITH RODERICK HASKETT, nistory. | Yo " hall Plan. oo The iy WOR ry Marshall E. Heller: Oh, Grandmother So- BY Xiras : ! 1502 Ruth Drive. : speed to consolidate neighboring states into the | Clety, what makes your eyes so big: NEW XO! were displayed. on at tt at Red Pressure Unites Opponents soviet orbit. It is Finland today. It will be ‘I'll bet with eyes so big and bright, you Thlsogey 1 Some races uran ots of folks are already turning a gar- THIS MEETING in Paris will provide an op- Italy tomorrow. \ adelphia. Ii of these relics won famous and end C8 | den over in their minds. And that's where portunity for a dramatic move ky the game P A forceful statement of policy based upon the SoA ues Woh good you coud do, especially Anna Lord tests in their time. Quite a few, queer as they'd look in| it wil end. power politics. : réalities of Europe's position is one way to head Jar across the 3 brine. But if you fall the Nationa 1048 traffic, can still travel under their own power. They * & Rusein's success In Gachoulavakis Jd. 1 oft another Wer, The warning is svergue, Even to Ming, the Julietta situation, it's because it's so Voters, and h 1 cruel pressure on little Finland wo offse e success of the plans for uniting the 16 western 3 : Carey Thon must have been pretty wonderful machines when they FOSTER'S FOLLIES in large measure by a rapid development of a nations is endangered without a statement of the Shame on you, Granny, for what you have Mawr Colle were new. 3 (LATROBE, Pa.—Quadruplets Doing Well.”) | unified Western Europe. repugnance of free peoples over the invasion of | DBO! done. Thanks to The Times for its re- It is signi We were intrigued by the fact that so many of those’ There's no greater satisfaction Russia temporarily may gain two reluctant Czechoslovakia and the intimidation of Finland. ports on Julietta. the award Bu y Could be granted anyone; satellites but the Western Powers will have con- ° Some place in the extended game of power Bob R. Koschnick, Hotel Lincoln: out this par antique cars—the Locomobile, the Mercedes, the Thomas, Or at least that's our reaction solidated 16 nations. politics, one side or the other will arrive at : : 0 # As 3 this year. the Orient, the Franklin, the Maxwell, the Rambler, the To three daughters and a son. Consolidating Western Europe, however, will “checkmate.” That point should be reached by | Salesman I travel through 33 cities and 24 since Mrs. ’ ’ not be enough to thwart Russia unless the western Winning the move in Italy. Then Russia will either | States ...I have found nothing more unjustifi- Catt concei Pope-Hartford and a lot more—vanished from the market That the quads are still progressing, leaders, the United States and Britain put into admit defeat finally and go along with the western | able than the conditions at Julietta. women, hav long ago. So we looked up some automobile history, which Brings us joy which nothing mars; words now, the revulsion against the methods Powers under the United Nations or start the war. I certainly hope this condition is corrected should educ Just one problem has us guessing: used to enslave Czechoslovakia. The present juncture requires, more than any- | by those responsible’ if not by those in direct use it intell surprised us, as it may you. Did this mean fourfold cigars? Unless this protest is made and a clear state- thing else, a clarifying statement of policy. charge. has been tr; Since 1890, according to the records, 816 different quality of o or ' d Zenship, at | makes of passenger cars have been produced in the United |SUPPQSE IT IS 1950— , |IN WASHINGTON . . By Peter Edson gn SB States. Each was backed by the hopes and money of invent- | " " » ° ors, promoters and investors who thought they saw a | in hina S Shoes 7%-Cent Nickel Urged EN chance to achieve success and wealth ! fzenship so . : : ~ country and How many of those 816 makes, do you suppose, are IT IS 1950 ; B t It Ww 't G b today. still being produced today? Only 25. rian Red Ay decipips alaska, Canada, and the east coast | Horo In Chins, William H, Newton reported China's civil war U on et ar Mh og v 2 0 e Unite es as far sou as savannan. . . y e Oo All the 791 others are gone, along with the hopes and The Independent People’s Republic of New York has just | from beth. Nationalist, Say Commies, stean Hed nw tom WASHINGTON, Mar. 15—Any plans for putting out a 7%- mestic and : Yooh hl Wut into Plauly ® DUE help B00 Stan eations yrionded Siplomatis sesogaition 18 the Independent People's Re- | oyiending military ald to China's legal government. In the | Pont Dicks or a Shon dime aren't going to get any place if Shrug wi se em. ey couldn't survive, oug ey play ‘ following—call it a satire or a fantasy—Mr. Newton draws an « ®, Treasury an int have anything to say about it. Such ’ i : ‘ Asi A pincer movement is developing which will cut off the Great n . » highest to t an essential part, in the fiérce competition from which the | Lakes oi and isolate the Ohio Valley, | if-it-were-on-the-other-foot parallel, to give his impression of the | ideas have been advanced before. Latest advocate is Edward integrity.

mighty American automobile industry has grown. Those old cars at the New York show testified to a truth too often forgotten. Our so-called profit system actually is a system of profit and loss. Its hazards and casualties are many. But under that system people willing to risk teil and money on ideas and products have made America great. It will be a sad day for this country if ever public or private policy kills the take-a-chance spirit typified by the automobile industry's venturesome pioneers.

Low-Ceiling Labor Policy

HE Air Line Pilots Association is a union made up of

Chinese newspapers are giving full coverage to the “civil war” in America, “It is apparent,” writes Wong Fin Wu, of the Nanking Daily Call, “that the uprising in America is an agrarian reform movement, brought about by the government's mistreatment of the peasant class.”

‘Deep Love for Ordinary Worker’

CHING LEE, of the Chungking Times, gets through the fighting lines and obtains an exclusive interview with William Z. Foster, the new People’s Governor of Pennsylvania. Mr. Lee discovers great “spiritual qualities” in Mr. Foster's face. “It is evident,” he writes, “that this man is motivated solely by his deep love of the ordinary worker and farmer.” Gov. Foster, he adds, “is no more a Communist than Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, or Calvin C. Coolidge.” There is some demand for military aid to the United States in the Legislative Yuan, but it is quickly smothered. China's Foreign Minister, Ling Fu, says in a ringing speech that “we will not send one penny in military aid to America until the

well-educated, well-paid men whose intelligence, we |

would guess, is above average. But judging from a recent

statement by its president, that intelligence has not been

incorporated into union policy. The statement, by David L. Behncke, is this: “I am beginning to believe it will probably be necessary in the

future to have at least one strike a year to let the air lines |

know the pilots mean business.” The business of striking for striking’'s sake is discredited and outmoded. And what would it accomplish? Win friends among airline officials and delayed, inconvenienced passengers? ¥ : Imagine the public reaction if a corporation head announced: “We'll have to have at least one lockout a year to show the unions we mean business!”

Changes, Not Chiding, Needed THE House Un-American Activities Committee has received both $200,000 and a bitter tongue-lashing from several Representatives who voted for the appropriation. This is not as contradictory as it appears to be. ‘Rvidently the House decided rightly that communism {the committee pays no attention to klanism) is a menace that should be investigated, and that it needs more money for more investigation than before. But it glso registered strong disapproval of the sorry job that the Thomas group ‘has done. S : ” ‘e don't think a tongue-lashing is enough. The comeither needs a new membership of greater intelliless hunger for publicity, or else a new set of lly defining and limiting its actions,

government abolishes the poll tax in Georgia and gets rid of the political bosses in Jersey City, Memphis and other cities.

Mr. Truman Must Clean House

Mr. Truman must get rid of Forrestal, Marshall, Anderson, Snyder, Tom Clark | and Harriman.” } Defense Minister Lu Ying Fu firmly rejects ‘demands to increase allocations from China's surplus millitary stocks to America. ‘““This is ridiculous” Mr. Lu said. “We have already sent them 3147 used ricshaws, 1400 battle axes and some surplus cannon from the Russo-Japanese war, to say nothing of 213 first class Piper Cub fighting planes.”

{ “EVEN THEN,” Mr. Ling continues, “the reactionary cliques | ' within the present national government must go.

unreality of some of the arguments made against helping China.

The Shanghai Express puts it even more strongly. “Every penny of Chinesé aid to America must be carefully supervised to see that it gets into the hands of the people,” says a loud editorial. “We have had experience before this, with the Kelly-Nash machine, and the Pendergast machine, and the Hague outfit in Jersey.” Dr. J. Leighton Fing, the Chinese Ambassador to the United States, is touring from city to city, making speeches. “If you expect any help from us, America must turn to the middle way,” says Dr. Fing. “You must turn to the teachers, the educators, the great philosophers, and men of learning.” “America: has a great future,” says Dr. Fing. “But the government must reform. Civil rights must be restored. Something must be done for the Navajo Indians.”

’ That week, the Pacific Northwest is occupied by the Communists, and the transcontinental railway cut in seven places.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

IRON CURTAIN--I don't want the admirals and generals to be a-feudin’, a-fightin’ and a-fussin’ in public, but I do want them free to express their opinion.—Sen. Edwin Johnson (D. Colo.), complaining that Secretary of Defense Forrestal is tryi ing to “gag” the armed forces. | ¢ oo I DO not believe we are headed toward any depression. . .. We've got all the elements of continued prosperity and produc- | tion here.—Secretary of the Treasury Snyder. ¢ * THESE ruinous taxes . . . have been deliberately set upon our backs as part of a plot of the Communists to take us over. —Miss Vivien Kellems, industrialist, launching a campaign te repeal federal income tax laws. _ * ¢ 9

THE biggest break in the stock market already has occurred. |

, Commodity prices have reached their leveling-off period.—Robert | | Boylan, chairman, New York Stock Exchange board of governors.

: * THE whole chance for world peace and the future of the United Nations rests with success of the Palestine partition plan. | —Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt. ; ® O

THE Japanese people have tasted freedom under the AmerJeli SGneRpL 4nd Shey WII S30L NTIRGLY SSUTS $0 ie Shackuss of tarian government economy. ~Gen. Dough Arth un, U. 8. Army dian a

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Mehren of Beverly Hills, Cal, who is a soft-drink company presi dent. Mr. Mehren got to worrying one day about how the nickel was now worth only 3 cents and the dime worth only 6. He was having his troubles trying to compete with other makers of nickel and dime drinks and, figuratively, keep his head above water. So

and gave an interview to the papers about it. Some place in the publicity buildup, a plan was advanced to have the present nickels and dimes arbitrarily declared worth 2% cents more than face value. This was to save minting new coins, The thought was that this revaluation would increase their purchasing power. But somebody didn’t think this one through. Actually, such a revaluation would be inflationary. Every maker of a reduced-size, 3-cent candy bar selling for a nickel, for instance, would immediately raise the price to 71 cents, without increasing the size. Ditto for the nickel-size cigars now selling for

he's always had wonderful ideas for making a lot of money, fool”

a dime. They'd immediately be priced two for a quarter.

Would Cost More Than It's Worth

ANYWAY, an Omaha brewer, Arthur Storrs, saw some of this publicity. He wrote to Nebraska Republican Sen. Kenneth Wherry about it. Wherry, as chairman of the Senate Small Busi-

| ness Committee, forwarded the suggestion to Treasury, Treasury

is now drafting a reply taking a dim view of the whole matter. Putting out a new coin would cost the country more than it would be worth. There have been 2-, 3-'and 20-cent pleces at vari ous times. Any new coin, particularly with a fractional value, would make it necessary to scrap all existing cash registers, for one thing. All slot machines, change-making machines, vending machines, turnstiles and adding machines would also have fo be changed. What happens to letters which citizens write their Congressmen or send directly to government agencies isn’t always as simple as in the case of the two letters about the 714-¢ent nickels. Ordinarily Congressmen can forward a request from a constituent to the proper government department and get high priority attention.

One Latter Handled 35 Times

BUT the federal government has become such a big and sprawling thing that reference, checking, filing and cross-filing become a tremendous red-tape undertaking. Befors the war, one -efficiency expert figured it cost the government over $100 to an. swer a letter, if you counted in all the time of people who had to

be consulted to give the right reply. Here's one recent case =m

show why: : Congressman Carl Steffan of Nebraska recently asked House Appropriations Committee's chief investigator Robert BE. Lee to trace a letter through the State Department. Mr. Lee picked one

at random. It was a letter from a steamship agency, inclosing

check for §100 for air passage of one individual from Bucharest _ Before the fils was élosed been routed twice through three buildings and was handled 38

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he wrote the Treasury about the need for 7%- and 1215-cent pieces

and the letter answered, it had

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