Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1948 — Page 10

‘he Indianapolis Times OY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE EENRY W. MANZ PAGE ‘10. Saturday, Mar. 20, 1048

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Give Light ana the People Will Find Their Own Woy

Hail to the '48 Champs

JNDIANAPOLIS is host today to the four finalists in the 37th annual Indiana High School Athletic Association basketball tourney and the thousands of loyal followers of the doughty quartet. Not since 1945 has the Hoosier capital had a contender in the “Big Four,” and our city never has ruled as a champion. Some say it is too big, that it does not generate the enthusiasm of the smaller communities. But all of the four are from bigger Indiana cities this year, so this would tend to disprove the theory that the best in basketball is from the crossroads town and the barnyard shooters. Actually, basketball is as democratic as America itself. All of the 779 teams entered in the tourney had their chance. Fortune favored the four here today and will continue to smile on one more through tonight. Whether it be Evansville Central, Muncie Central, Lafayette Jefferson or Anderson—all hail the 1048 champ. And may an Indianapolis team win it in 1949,

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Blessed Are the Givers

WHEN the spiritual refreshment of Easter dawns, we feel the urge to do something for others. The problem of what to do is not difficult. Everywhere there is need, ranging from a pleasant word to the srice of a life-saving operation. Many persons make extra gifts to their churches. thers send flowers or pay a call to the sick. And others— aany others—help the crippled by buying Easter Seals. Easter Seals are only six years old in Indianapolis. jut in that brief time our charitable citizens have estabshed the Crossroads Rehabilitation Center with its vocaonal training, and its every other help, from recreation , serious work, for the crippled of the community. Let there be no doubt as to what to give this Easter .ason. Give to the churches, of course, but don’t forget ie crippled children who are trying to adjust themselves. If you have not received Easter Seals in the mail, one the Marion County Society for the Crippled, Inc, 01 N. New Jersey St. (TAlbot 2482) and you will be ailed as many seals as you wish for as much as you

ant to give.

sw—Even for Wallace [ENRY WALLACE has a genius for being wrong, but even he ‘has rarely managed to stoop so low as in arging American Ambassador Steinhardt with provok- + the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia. Mr. Wallace peddled this Commie line though Ambasfor Steinhardt was not in that country when the Soviet sch began. The non-Communist members walked out the Cabinet two days before the American envoy rened to Prague Feb. 19 from a three-month trip to the ited States. : When the State Department and thé ambassador pointout his fantastic inaccuracy, Mr. Wallace lacked the de1ey to apologize. Instead, he fell back on the lame exse that Mr. Steinhardt on Feb, 20 spoke favorably of the Warshall Plan. That, of course, is a crime in the Bolshevik sk, though the Czech Cabinet including the Communists oroved the Marshall Plan until Stalin ordered a reversal.

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Swooning the smoke-grey cobwebs out of the Looser S ths grasp OF 4 Jone leaf’s clinging And: hiring it up In the air with an anMarch—with his snows and his squalls and his N But March is a welcome month, for soon comes The robis again in the maple tres fashions

Cunningly lacing it tight with bits of old string Holding it fast, though blustering winds from

Shake it in fury—then ceases to bully and For March, coming in like a lon, goes out

earth With threadings of love—stretching from sea Ribbons of honor, And held by each nation’s friendly and welcoming Weathering the worth of the storms that nature And know the full promise of wonderful,

MAN AND OTHER FAUNA

stinctive fear of man. I wouldn't know about that. But anyone who has the patience—or perhaps the indolence—to sit motionless in : their haunts will learn that the smaller ones have no such fear. motion. Motionless, he is an curiosity, nearer, until presen are swarming about him. By ey

ope um which I was sitting until only inches away. Looking up, he gave some half-sudible grunts and hisses, which comprise his language, turned, and unhurriedly retraced his steps. Another time, a small furred thing was tentatively climbing my coat-tail. Startied, I moved, whereupon he instantly leaped,

away.

hard time coming back. ® ©

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WINDS OF MARCH blustering winds of March are raging

guished cry.

sleet— othing about him ever is dainty or sweet!

his nest,

the west sham—

like a lamb! were it possible to lattice this sorrowful

to the land, measured for service and worth

hand— can bring blossoming spring! RUTH M. COFFIN,

1801 N. Emerson Ave. ® 9% o

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I am concerned the housing situation main as it is now.” Did you ever hear statement as silly, selfish, or thoughtless ag that? Evidently she, as well as many o already have forgotten Dec. 7, 1841, and the many months that followed when -several of those “little tenants” fought. Some were wounded and many died to protect this coun try and to keep the Germans and Japanese from stepping in and taking over; yes, even

does, I'd sell out.

which draws them nearer and

Once on a moonlit night a half-grown leisurely along a log on

WASHINGTON, Mar. 20 — Henry Wallace is pretty well known in this country. Among his following he is a hero with overtones of martyrdom. For most Americans he is something between a well-meaning visionary and a dangerous crackpot. But his recent press conference in New York surprised even those who have watched him at close range through the years. In this interview he suggested that the American ambassador in Czechoslovakia, Laurence A. Steinhardt, had tried to bring about a rightist assault on the coalition government in Prague. This plot, Mr. Wallace plainly intimated, justified the Communists in seizing power and savagely repressing every kind of dissent and protest. Anything further from the truth would be hard to imagine. Mr, Steinhardt left Czechoslovakia Nov. 24, 1047, and was in the United States until shortly before he returned to Prague Feb. 19, 19048. The Communists started their grab tor power Feb, 17. Quite apart, however, from this matter of dates is the fact that Mr. Steinhardt was so little aware of what was happening in Czechoslovakia. Even on the boat returning to Europe a few days before the crisis, he said that the Communists would never be able to take power by force because the roots of democracy were too deep in Czechoslovakia. This is a sad commentary on the Czech crisis— that our own government was so poorly informed on what was happening beneath the surface. The concept of the well-meaning Steinhardt engineering a coup is so absurd that his official denial in Prague was superfluous. Mr. Wallace’s strange behavior might be put down to the prompting of the Communists and fellow-travelers at his elbow, and therefore might be ignored if it were not for the real harm that he does abroad. Another example of this mischief has just come to hand.

in midair to land in a thicket yards ~By CLAUDE BRODDICK. * +

APPENDECTOMY

There are so many subjects Touched upon in conversation, We may start out on our bunions End up on... no sugar ration!

The party dress that Mary has Or the color of Sue's eyes, ; Any...Maybe now we mention Kate With a view...to criticize!

Or the neighbors’ cats who alwa ick The stillest hour...at night ne To sit ensconsed upon our steps And howl... with deep delight!

The boy next door who always runs Across our well kept lawn, The Kelly twins ...who never fail To awaken us...at dawn!

But honest now...if I were you I would so happy be— I'd give a party and proclaim My... Appendectomy! —ANNA E. YOUNG. . e 4 People who don’t pay as they go have a

MY BIRTHDAY THOUGHT

Orchids to my Mother, Cigars to my Dad,

NATIONAL AFFAIRS _ . . By Marquis Childs Is Wallace a Visionary or.Crackpot?

Now I believe in a fair return on an investment, and even though some landlords aren't actually getting enough, others I know are getting over twice as much as the property is worth—with a few, if any, repairs. If some of the landlords like Margaret feel they are being cheated on rent, why don’t they sell out while real éstate is high? I don’t think people who look down their noses at others because they are more unfortunate and belong to that large class of “those little tenants” have any business renting property to honest, decent, hardworking people anyway. ® 4

“The British press,” Miss Lee wrote, “is featuring today a statement by Henry Wallace to the effect that ‘capitalift American pressure has compelled the labor government of Britain indefinitely to postpone the nationalization of steel.” “This is a lie. Where does Mr. Wallace zet that sort of story? I am taking time off to write this note from the Committee (of Parliament) dealing with the nationalization of gas. After coal, gas and electricity, comes steel.

& Don’t Discount Wallace

Margaret's property. If I felt the way she

oe foot” murder tr Pollard went into a cess. From 2 ho spectator ap a trial has progresse where the Hancock room is packed d rosecution rested the defense took © there was standing the gallery. Particular source was Harry Adan robber now doing the state reformato be the star witnes has steadfastly refu Adams is believed the only eve witness ing of Leland Mille arthritic cripple, a home two years ag Refused 1 Twice so far in | presentation of evi has refused to tell grounds he might himself. The first fused the prosecutio turned to the refor: Yesterday, after tify for the de vas kept in the c ppeared the prose:

Brim to hear the ren

defense testimony ve rise to spe dams might yet mind and turn st gainst Pollard. During yesterda Wanda Gl eighbor of Polls Mr. and Mrs. Hom Indianapolis, gave

and public understanding was given by this government that steel would be nationalized by this Parliament, which means, in terms of parliamen-

“At the last trade-union conference, a definite

tary procedure, that a beginning will have to be made next session. 5 “This Wallace statemént shocks me. Maybe he has been misquoted, but if not, what can be made of a man of reputedly high moral character deliberately bearing false witness?”

Purpose Behind Wallace's Words

THIS LAST is a question a great many people are beginning to ask. The motive of the Wallace statement in the British press is obvious enough. It was to try to persuade the rank and file of the Labor Party, especially the left wing, that the U. 8. was dictating British internal policy. By this. means they would be brought to reject the Marshall Plan. But British Laborites are not quite so gullible. On Mr. Wallace's tour of Britain, when he praised England's social democracy and forgot the denunciations of British imperialism that he had used on audiences in America, he made few converts. When Jennie Lee came to this country last November, she addressed a series of “meetings arranged by ADA in a dozen cities. ADA is the liberal-labor organization opposed to Wallace and his third-party adventure. Mr. Wallace professes to be the apostle of

It's my birthday.

The honors go to parents Who gave life to us to live;

Mr. Wallace's Latest Maneuver JENNIE LEE of the British Labor Party,

peace. That is the chief basis of his appeal for votes. Yet, by providing the Communists with justification for such power grabs as the one that occurred in Prague, he is probably contributing

By E. F. Maddox, City. President Truman . should look closely at some of his left-wing advisers and consider well the possibility that he may have a pro. Henry Wallace fifth column in his inner circle maneuvering to ‘split the Democrat Party and throw a strong left-wing following to Wallace. Also Mr. Truman and the Republicans had better take this pro-Communist Wallace-Taylor movement a little more seriously. It's a danger. ous, secret, subtle, subversive and seditious Red revolutionary attempt to muscle in to power by any and all means and is the vehicle for flooding one nation with pro-Communist propaganda. World-wide communism is behind Wal lace and Taylor as well as the financial back ing of the Soviet Union and all Reds. The states should refuse to place any foreign-backed political party on the ballot. Wake up America! ® & ©

Out of the Kitchen, Ladies By Ivan C. Clearwater, City. ; On page 20 of Times Tuesday, Feb. 24, 1 noticed photograph of two women members of the “Country Women of the World” taken at ‘the Murat Theater, the occasiom apparently being a meeting of the Indiana Farm Bureau. The reading matter under the photograph stated that the president of the CWW *“ women to get out of the kitchen and take an interest in international affairs.” Personally, I think this a very good idea. The men have made a “sorry mess” of inter- - national affairs all through the history of

wife of Aneurin Bevan, minister of health, and herself a member of Parliament for many years, is one of the left-wingers whom Mr. Wallace hoped

And the cost is quite apparent They give all they have to give.

Thanks, Mother, for my living. Thanks, Dad, for cost to you. I hope I keep the giving, And prove my love that's due. ~JOSEPHINE BUCK.

of Europe a year ago. A recent letter from Miss Lee to the office of Americans for Democratic Action here in Washington tells of Mr. Wallace's latest maneuver. .

to win when he went on his barnstorming tour ’

mankind, so why not give the women a chance to untangle the present complicated state of affairs? On the other hand let the men take their place in the kitchen for after all it is & well-known fact that men are better cooks than women, if, and when they choosg to follow that

as much as any single individual toward making war with Russia inevitable. is The charitable assumption is that Mr. Walla is blinded, either by his own emotions of ambition and revenge or by the Communist delusion. But to follow him, even in a vote of protest, one must

It is not news that Red is usually white to Mr. Wallace 1 white is black. Even so, we never expected any Amern to alibi the Soviet rape and murder of Czech democ-

‘ait for Television

ANT to buy a television set? A lot of people do. But if you have the itch, you'll do well to save your money 1 wait awhile. You may even get an improved set. * ey're making them better every day. The real reason is that while television sets have been d in Indianapolis there are no television programs far \m to receive. There might be a glimmer on the screen » and then but radio engineers will assure you that’ there no dependable television reception in Indianapolis and re probably won't be until the programs are announced ‘he newspapers. On the best authority, that will be anyere from four to six months to two years. The television industry doesn’t want people to buy sets wy can't use. It disappoints the customer and sours the | blic on television. The industry wants to sell sets, all| ht, but it wants the sets to work when installed. And | lay you can't get much, if anything, on a television screen Indianapolis.

1sy Evolution | LL DENAZIFICATION units in the Russian zone of | Germany have been abolished because, according to 2 military governor, Marshal Sokolovsky, the zone has en cleared of active Fascists and militarists. All are urned, however, that if they have anything in common th the “imitators of the Hitler regime” (the United ates and Britain) they “will not escape justice.” The western zones haven't done nearly as well as the -gsians in rooting out the remnants of nazism. But our rmer ally has made it easier for its Germans to reform r pursuing a policy so like Hitler's that both the Kremlin \d the former Nazis must have trouble in telling the two sart. To Hitler's former followers, observing the fate of sechoslovakia and surrounded by secret police, Russian Jemocracy’ must seem just like old times.

pring Again : A7ELL, the country seems to have survived one of the "severest winters in recent years with few ill effects, ad the recent discomforts will soon be forgotten. Already ) bitter blizzards and February's mild recession in dity market are little more than memories.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

It Would Be Hard to Tell WheretoDraw Redline

of the Western European bloc are pressing the United States to tell

Side Glances—By

WASHINGTON, Mar. 20—Britain, France and other members

them where Rusia will be told to stop or fight. Thus far, according to indications, Washington has shied away from drawing the line. But now that Britain, France, The Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg have signed a mutualdefense pact and left it open for other signatories, the U. 8. may be less reluctant to take a stand. After the Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia and Memel were seized, Britain and France told Hitler to halt. When he marched into Poland, they declared war. Now Western Europe wants to know what deadline the United States will specify. Norway may be next on the list, after Finland: Would we fight to keep that country from being sucked in behind the Iron Curtain?

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German Communists Expect Coup

WOULD WE fight if Russia's fifth column took over Trieste? Or Italy? Or France? Or the Low Countries? Or Austria? Or Greece? Or if the Soviet army moved into Turkey? Rumors keep coming out of Berlin that German Communists seem to be expecting some sort of Soviet coup in that area, per“haps this spring or summer. Russia is known to have organized a powerful German army under Von Paulus, Nazi “hero” of Stalingrad who lent himself to the Kremlin after his capture. It is also reliably reported that Russia is feeding these Germans on the idea that if and when they drive out the Americans, British and French, a strong and independent” United Germany will be set up.

Will We Finally Have to Shoot?

WOULD THE United States start shooting if that happened?

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also be blind and deaf and dumb. : profession. PEARS! . | . . Galbraith IDEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney Music prow . worthy | Halleck | Belated | N alleck Issues belare 128 N. Py . A Comment on Message === WASHINGTON, Mar. 20—Dear Boss: Being a believer in . | “critical loyalty,” I want to point out a long-standing technique OF MOTH HOL of our craft here which sometimes results in rather blatant OR WORN superficialities. When the President delivers a message to Congress in person, LEON TAILO there is a rush from the nress galleries to the Senate .and House: 235 Mass, Ave. floors, reporters demanding comment. om) The more partisan members, both Democrat and Republican, often prepare comment in advance, praising.the President if he is JORD AN a member of their party, condemning him if he isn't. Such come ment is without merit. Since in these decades of crises, presiden- CABINE tial messages often deal with such matters of deep concern 88 Trediata Deliver war and peace, life and death, plenty or poverty, more thought UILT-IN ( should be given to responsible reaction in Congress. See Our Larg . 33 W. Wash Should Have Known in Advance : I WAS impressed this week by Majority Leader Charles A OXYGEN Halleck's comment on the President's message. : ~o As Republican leader in the House, he should have been Equipment Os apprised of the President's plan to ask for a draft, as well as HAA Universal Military Training, before the message was read. © he obtained a copy only a short time before delivery, as did the 2 N. Cap press and members of the House and Senate. President Truman du Phone ~3367

has been criticized for this. . When the news services asked Rep, Halleck for comment, bo was unwilling to give an “off-the-cuff” opinion. As a result, he was

Rightly or wrongly, the widespread opinion is that somewhere along the line—depending on circumstances—we would have no alternative save ignominious surrender the effect of which, in the long run, would be worse and costlier than war. Because, in the end, it would not save us from war but only postpone it. Complicating the picture is the fact that Russia herself may seek to stay out of any actual fighting. Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania are puppet states, pure and simple. As such, Russia regards them as entirely expendable. Thus Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania—or any one of them —might trump up a war with Greece and plant a Communist regime at Athens. Yugoslavia could be used-to take over Italy. A “people's republic” could be set up in the Soviet Zone of Germany and Von Paulus’ army—back2d by the Poles and the Czechs— might be used to drive the British, Americans and French into | the North Sea. If Italy goes Communist she and the Yugoslavs might join hands with Moscow's fifth column in France to seize power at Paris. . Russia's army would not necessarily need to come out in the open unless her expendables had been used up. This has been Soviet policy from the beginning. Ever since the Bolshevist revolution in 1947, Russia has sought to make others fight her battles for her. ; For Washington to lay a finger on the map, therefore, and say “thus far and no farther” is not easy.

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LITTLE QUOTES From Big People

I expect to arrive at some place and talk about one thing when the group is talking about another. That is going to happen to me. I am certain.—-Secretary of State Marshall, stating world confusion may lead him to make wrong speech. LE

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quoted as having declined comment. NER As soon as possible he did prepare a thoughtful statement EN'S SUITS & lhcb y, (aided by his own and the party's brain-trusters). But the “techs 8) 8 5 . niques” were against him. His comment largely was lost in the p $21 shuffie. rg CASE CL . ~ & es orn. toe BY eA secs, me T. M.ED 0.8 PAT. OPP 2:22] Promised ERP by Apr. 1 "ores np . gt lan % I'l qo with you steady only on condition that h MR. HALLECK promised to see the European Recovery P : 90 Wh yO ea Oo won't fit in mow charytr T. | passed by Apr.1. That is extremely important. It was To. l. ip Y y y: the President’s three-point program. Mr, Halleck also i IAMOND see a Selective Service law enacted, but not Universal Military *WE BUY

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and after the war. Good business management will lower ‘prices when conditions “Had our strength, position and power been properly used at Watch and circumstances justify it.—T. J. Wood, vice president, Proctor | Teheran, Quebec, Yalta and Potsdam, I do not think Mr. Trumad Prompt gg would have found it necessary to make this . ‘ an eS 2 “The administration moves from crisis to crisis, from O% FREE ES We must get it quite firmly in our minds that if we pursue | emergency to another. These emergencies would not occur if the ALINSON the will-o'-the-wisp of increasing personal incomes when we | administration were competent. : of ET) 1 haven't got and can’t get the goods to match the income, we “The President belatedly looks into national defense. Fi Monun are courting disaster in a very real way.—Sir Stafford Cripps, | months. cangtessiond) committees have been prodding the arm . services to unite. * ’ “The Congressional Aviation Policy Board Mar. 1 pointed out a EO J I know communities where (Communists) are prominently | that the armed forces were in disagreement on a unified, over-a% » WU, publicly to pin that label on them. | defense plan. 4 ob’ “Secretary of Defense Forrestal has grappled with the prov” MACK lem and I am hopeful that his conference with top-ranking ¥ : NIST Loyalty to America is something that cannot be imposed | tary and naval officers at Key West, Florida, last week, I» by laws prohibiting a list of specified acts. It comes from within, | sulted in agreement. . ! the a W, Sou and sprints from a sense of decency.—J. Edgar Hoover, Director, “The Republican party, having a majority, now as in \