Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 April 1948 — Page 20

~ PAGE 20 Wednesday, “Apr. 25, 1948

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For County Commissioners | 3 (CERTAINLY the most charitable thing that can be sal R. about the operation of the County Commissioners over gre, the past few years is that it has been highly inefficient. | "Too many things the county needs and wants done ; q either don't get done at gll, or get done badly and at fanE % * The recent

: : y food scandals at Julietta—a direct re3 "| sponsibility of the commissioners—is only one of many Eo a couple of years back, High prices being paid for food | . which apparently never reached the patients at all, no check-up by the commissioners who bought it to make . missi RS EO "Thiers Welt wees Some indictments in that case, anda conviction or so for Yoo fraud so open and so flagrant that it could not be ignored. had been so lax there that the Sunnyside buying out of their hands entirely, by a special act, and Jét the hospital do its own buying. Since which time, we understand, adequate food at cost, is being provided patients there.

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a . » i : THE BUILDING of the new wing at Julietta was an |... almost incredible example of how public construction

§ ~~ spent. It took, as we recall it, six or seven years to build, it cost something more than twice what the original contracts specified—and to this day it is a mystery what became of $200,000 or $300,000 of the county's money that went into it. Td Ty ~The records of Julietta’s own now reveal

Eo All these things are the job of the county commission. as. job simply is not being done. :

“+ We recommend the nomination of Arthur W, Grayson and Georges E. —men of ability and integrity and ‘ ‘with & keen sense of what needs to be done in the com: Welcome to Our Town ‘industiies casting about for inland security during ’ the war learned something about the stability and oductivity, and its strong farm-

{zation as the great Western Electric Co., which is:but a flank of the massive Bell Telephone System, chose Indianpolis as a site for a plant in which to make telephone in-

\ . community for continuity in t homes and education, motor cars and radios, other need for higher living stanc

the plant will pour between

“SP ACTUALLY means"

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cycle and gets back into the worker's wage envelope.

dogs

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1b it the worker. .

“Price in Marion County, 5 cents & copy; de- |

Gis LADAE and the People Will Find Their Own Wap |

Almost a parallel situation existed out at Sunnyside’

~ should not be done and how public money should not be |-

that many thousands of pounds of high-priced meat for 2

«Two of the three commissioners who have built this |

: It was not surprising that such a business-wise organ:

This means much to Indianapolis, more than meets the eye. Nothing beats a stabilized industry in a stabilized : providing bread and butter, and every

The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce tells us the average industrial wage here today is $56.16. If the new Western Electric plant employs from 4000 to 5000, as announced, we can, through simple multiplication, see: that

of fresh payroll money into our community business chan. ich Tore. for every ‘wage: + -_- dollar is spent many times before’it completes the economic

HRT "Generally, here's how it works. The worker buys L bread. The grocer pays the baker. The baker pays the. eller. "Phe miller pays the farmer; the trucker, the rail. road and its own labor. ‘And they all pay the government in taxes. “It is conservatively estimated that every dollar & does. at. Jeast. $10. worth of business before it gets back 10

MODERN WAR

Old Zeke, the Stone Age giant +». Roused from slumber in his cave ©" Seized upon his mighty war club oo. Stalked into the light in rage. From the valley floor below him 5 Came a terrifying roar 3 Men were locked in deadly combat Mid the haze and fumes and gore.

Mighty man made metal monsters v “clanked thelr way about —-

From a long protruding snout.

‘High above him droned the war birds As they their lethal eggs To burst so flower-like in the valley Leaving death, destruction, dregs.

Offshore there bobbed the long boats Sailed so gently to and fro From: them hell to earth came hurtling White hot fires began to glow.

Old Zeke tried to still the tremble That engulfed his mighty frame Tried to stém the cold sweat pouring Struggled hard his nerves to tame, As he gazed in mortal terror Lost his battle to be brave Heaved away his mighty war club And fled to safety in his cave

“JAMES PHILIP SHERIDAN. * oo Tr

The New Look may be o. k. but it shore don’t eall fer a second one. a 2 "7" «CATFISH PETE. * ¢ 9 -

SELFISHNESS Oh jaundiced King, called selfishness You rule in every lifé and many souls decay You do forbid all acts of selflessness In far too many minds, you have full sway,

You are the cause of life and strife You urge us to love, to eat, be strong, Your entering wedge, the meeds of 1 You rule to excess and guide us wrong.

if not- restrained, you'll rule\.to ruin Your rule is endless, seeking full control You canker heart and soul, in too full reign To limit you should be our earnest goal

A pity we can’t confine you in your place _ To fill the needs of Nature is your roll; . “Before this world can know much peace, ~-Yowll have to. be. controlled. 2%

Too few have followed after Him, We'll have no peace, not any day While selfishness is King

1. 10 them pray? ; : Have you ever thought of the morrow; and che joys that it will bring,

the birds begin to sing? Your thoughts can bring you happiness, or they can give you sorrow; ? But, at the close of a busy day, please stop 2.38. think of tomorrow!

ats's : | A ey Re —RUTHANNE HUFF.

® & # to a survey, 24,000,000 Amer<

tired of standing, too! : - *

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

("LONDON—Britisk Open Drive on Ofi- - cial Cliches.”) Time was when the hallowed cliche Was in honored daily use, But in parliamentary speech, they Only heap it with abuse.

Government communications, Would be simple notes they find; - We've had those from many nations, ° But—the promissory kind!

Slip-up By John

authority, made a bad

ing in part: “I that they immediately return to work,”

community wage “efivelopes by

annually.

il i figure estimated for the new plant.

taxes. But with added local government income, we shoul

we have been putting off for years.

wealth and better living.

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“Mr. Martin Volunteers

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choice for a conference with the boss man of Russia.

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by 4 Chiang's Change of Heart

We don't know how this news will strike the Eis Mthusiasts, But. at least it indicates that the ranks

S80 between $11 million and $13 million poured into

Western Electric should | pc, od Stassen of Shirking Responsibilities

F produce well over $100 million in new business transactions | REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE Robert A.

All this will add to our prosperity and to our capacity “4 to provide jobs for our citizens far beyond the 4000 to 5000

Of course this will mean that we shall pay mote | be able to improve our town and to do many of the things We extend an enthusiastic Hoosier hand of welcome

to Western Electric. And we shall try to be warm and | friendly neighbors to this important new producer of |

SPEAKER JOE MARTIN, having made John L. Lewis |

Dictator Joe Stalin about settling some bigger differences. | We can understand how Mr. Martin flushed with triumph, feels ready to tackle anything. But we still think | that if tough old John L. would only be as zealous of his | country’s welfare as he is of his miners’, he'd be the logical |

¢ the Eisgnhow- | as

ot generals for president have boen broken.

error.

| =———————=——— Dangerous Political Manuger | “3A Ee pees - a u gg - ‘With the Times

wii =-MARSHALL R. HELLER $5 oF Op el Be The rising generstion will continue to Rave its faults as long as it associates with its parents. Tl OMEGA SEE RE TOMORROW -Have you ever stopped at evening, at the close. of a busy day, : * As you put the children to bed and listened

As the whole ‘world wakes to a new day, and

According fcans never go to the movies, We get darn

Spewed forth smoke, hot fire, and brimstone

and crossroads. One thing

federal funds.

S11 081280 and $13,242,880 IN WASHINGTON .... . By Peter Edson” _

Were Miners-Shocked?

WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—Everybody around here is so hot and bothered by overwhelming world events that the really important news at home géts overlooked. For instance: John L. Lewis, the great English scholar and Shakespearean | jstake in grammar the other day. He | _aent a telegram to bis local United Mine Workers leaders readdo hope you will convey {o each member my wish"

It should, of course, have read; “I do hope you will convey to each member my: wish that HE immediately return to work.” Or. 1.90. hope you will convey to ALL MEMBERS my wish that they immediately return to. work.” ‘The millers probably didn’t go back at once because they were so shocked at this grievous

he says, is a New The Senator's been for this brazen would not have had to go barnstorming J his own state appealing for votes at hamlets

contest demonstrates, and that is how little meaning political labels zeally have. Mr. Taft is aggrieved be considered a liberal he himself is made to seem a conservative. or even a reactionary. 2

are really warming up. Harold Stassen and Sen. Robert A. Taft are throwing assorted ‘crockery at each other as the campaign goes into the final week. : ~-Mr, Stassen intimates that Mr. Taft is -thearch enemy of labor. And Mr. Taft comes back with the most lurid of all charges. Mr. Stassen,

fre is rising. If it had not upstart from Minnesota,

* WASHINGTON, Apr. 28.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs :

Do Political Tags Mean Anything?

“THe two contestants Ala)_primary in Ohio

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Taft Sticks by Public Housing : THE SENATE has passed the Taft-Ellenger-Wagner housing bill. Mr. Taft can rightly claim: 1 credit for its passage. It was his persistence and his parliamentary resourcefulness that. put “it through—in spite of all thé obstacles set in its

Mr, Stassen should “that, by contrast,

ambitious young man from Minnesota.

‘As adopted by the Senate, the heart of the measure is the provision for slum clearance with

The government will

Taft has accused his rival, Harold E. Stassen, of shirking respon- |

for the presidency.

Mr. Taft

d | gress to do something about his 10-point anti-inflation program,

the Joint Committee on the Economic Report, of which Mr. Taft is chairman, hasn't been able to get together on a program.

| The President's Economic Report went to Congress in Janu-

ond report Apr, 1.

never been able to get the committee together

Feb. 15. It got a delay till Mar, 1, then Mar. \ The committee staff has drafted a report but Mr. Taft has

ary. ‘The President's Council of Economic Advisers made a secThe Taft committee was supposed to report

15, then Apr. 15.

to consider it. The

staff is now peddling the report around to individual members,

trying to get approval by May 1.

Hey, What About Keyholes?

THE SUPREME COU | unless they have a search warrant.

| this way.

rights.

| committee room. , .

T has decided to hear a case on whetlver it's legal for cops to peek over a transom to get evidence, : Two Washington men were . behave, says he is now ready and willing to talk to | convicted of running a numbers racket on evidence obtained in Their lawyer has appealed to Supreme Court on the grounds that peeking over a transom violates Constitutional

Chairman John Taber and the House Appropriations subcommittee are peeved at the State Department. wouldn't let State Department experts, who had done all the preliminary work on the Marshall Plan estimates, come int their . These experts had to sit outside. while the

In fact, they

committee met to consider European aid program appropriations.

. + .«When. Economic Co-operation Administrator Paul Hoffman .| and hi new staff couldn't answer questions asked by the

Con-

| gressmen, notes were sent to the State Department boys. Their

give the answers. General, Electric

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of “in the economic Jig-saw puzzle. ah

different big business. views, which economists can't fit

Wahid

0 pee Sl a A Tea - “ ; 4 of .

Co. the first Big company to jump on ‘the price-cutting wagon, has now announced that-its profits for the |

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sibilities by refusing to be a candidate for the U. 8. Senate and | helping ‘share .the burden of work in Washington. _ thought Mr. Stassen shouldn't spend so much time campaigning But when Mr. Taft's own pet housing bill was before the Senate, Taft was campaigning in Ohio. i Also, while President Truman keep hammering away at Con-

abt 1 replies were written out and sent back in so Mr. Hoffman could JATCHES from China say that’ Generalissimo | : 7 Chiang Kai-shek, who took himself firmly and definite- | ly out of the running a couple of weeks ago, was elected | first quarter of 1948 aré 42 pet cent higher than for the same . ] ; of Tast year: .. U. 8, Steel does an about-face and cuts prices. . But American Telephone & Telegraph says it will have to k: for increased rates: while at the same, time giving assurances » there will bé no cut in its regular $9 dividend.

| $160,000,000 over a period of five years to help . build 500,000 low rental units, ; 1n spite’ of screams of socialism and communism from the building and real-estate lobbies, -Mr. Taft has stuck by the public-housing provision. He has stuck by it with the stubbornness of a man who has the courage to be right once he has made up his mind.

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this public-housing provision in the Senate was eH Joseph RR: ~McCarthy-of Wisconsin: Mr. McCarthy is Mr. Stassen’s chief senatorial supporter. He campaigned for him in Wisconsin and Nebraska. Mr. Stassen cannot, of course, be held account- _ able for the things his friends sdy and do. He himself has urged that the federal government use a’ billion dollars a year “for a major largescale construction effort.”

Stassen Judged on Foreign Affairs

education Mr. Taft has fought for the minimum ‘of federal aid which he believes essential to raise -

_the lowest-income families to a Wecent standard.

servatives in the Senate and the Tory band in the house that has held the fort against any constructive’ legislation.

‘.proval of Sen. Arthur H. Vandenberg and the

. Mr. Taft was against the provision, saying he

“\

Interestingly enough, the chief opponent of

NOT ONLY on housing but on health and

He has fought Mr. McCarthy and other con-

This gives point'to’ Mr. Taft's accusation that Mr. Stassen deliberately stayed out of the Senate in order to run for President and thereby avoided the day-to-day struggle .to shape Republican policy. a ad : Primarily it is on foreign policy that Mr. Stassen is judged a liberal, and Mr. Taft a conservative. . Repeatedly Mr. Stassen has spoken his apuropean recovery program. Mr. Taft tried to reduce the recovery appropriation by a billion dollars— line operation. ; Even here, however, the labels will not stay put. Mr Stasren advocated a provision denying ‘any recov funds to countries that proposed further natidbnalization or socialization. : “Such a provision would have been regarded in Europe as an attempt to dictate internal policy.

y And if it had been included, most nations would |

have been unable io co-operate in the program

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‘which would have made it a futile bread-

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4 Provide instructors and permanent caretakers to the end that all armory drill will be in instruction. : . 5. Increase field training for the Guard and Reserves to 21 days yearly. i in, ‘6. Members of senior ROTC units could be drafted and assigned to the ROTC. 7. Latitude for draftees in the selection of branch or unit if geographically. possible. : 8. Stagger drill nights and schedules .to

1. Objections to the massing young men in

“3 Many of the draftees would voluntarily enlist and furnish the officer and NCO leaders. _ 4, Young men could continue schooling or work with little interference. . 5. Plan would provide Reserve components fully manned and much better trained. The new men could be taken at stated times permitting the planning of training of training” basis.

our civilian components &t a minimum of expense and disturbahes ry vinan routine.

{3 Motes Chilionged oe

By M. C. Schwartz, 2321 E. Michigan St, City .

80 Floyd Mattice, Indianapolis attorney who asked for -acquittal of a Jap general thinks that “the bombing of Japanese cities was more than the rape of Nanking.” (The Times, Apr. 8.) :

I was in the Navy Hospital Corps, 1 saw these gentle Japs deliberately try to destroy a hospital ship, which coifld never have been

en ; -T helped to bury 15 nurses who were killed on that ship—along with great numbers of al ready wounded boys. iE 1 saw poor helpless people deliberately tortured and killed by these Japs Mr. Mattice Teels so sorry for. a * 1 saw a 12-year-old boy, get his abdomen ripped open by a fleeing Jap. The boy was unarmed and only trying to find shelter from the withering fire from both sides yet this Jap took time to rip him open. | Thank God. the boy lived. oF

horribly, just so Mr. Mattice could have a free

| country in which to live when he once more

takes up his practice here in Indianapolis. Mr. Mattice, have you forgotten Pearl Har-

Guam? rt ; ¢ 4 0 Financing a Wor By F. P. :

Roosevelt was the for financing the war with bonds.

bond for political

war bond. It works something like You loan the government

taxes and.add it on to the $75 and give you back the $100 you have alreadv paid them. Quite a clever idea that FDR had, Jud. i Lincoln; who was something of a lesser light from Jud's viewpoint financed the Civil War with greenbacks.

believed it to be unworkable.

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Standards.

Glances—By Galbraith

T.W. MG. 0. & PAT

be making all kinds of money, but my parents fixed that— | have to sit with my own brother and sister!"

. ’ LITTLE QUOTES From Big People If they required such overtime, day in and day out &ll the year ‘round, from the prime minister, the lord chief justice or the | the astronomer royal, they would be certified for a mental hos- | pital. . It would kill me in a week.—George Bernard Shaw, British playwright, on homework for school children. + © If I am one of the weakest links in the nation's atomic security this is gratifying information, because I'm absolutely reliable | | and therefore wé have nothing to worry about. relax.—Dr. ‘Edward U., Condon, director, National Bureau of

recipients,

The nation can

| Interest.

vy : | Not that Congress has any intention of interfering in The Hendce of % ‘third world war roils foward us with every | effects of ATUL It the pot bolls of American dollars concelV Act of Russ : AR on

This, of course, took no political hokum, neither did it create any political jobs.

FOREIGN AFFAIRS. . By William Philip Simms It's Up to Europe—If ili Wants More Dollars § 3

WASHINGTON, Apr. 28—Congress mostly: laid" politics aside

to speed ‘enactment of- the. $5.3 billion program for. European recovery—which is more than can be said for some .of the

Asa result, according to informed observers on both sides of the Atlantic, unless there is a change in this respec Text year's ERP appropriations may encounter tough sledding. There are stories government policies are discouraging private initiative. And from the offices of inexperienced bureaucrats. i Also, that restrictive trade practices, featherbedding, {ax systems, capital levies, political controls over the flow of newinvestments, and so on, may combine to slow down recovery faster than U. 8. dollars can speed it up. ;

British Coal vs. U. S. Taxpayers

THIS YEAR, American taxpayers. will pay for and send more than $200 million worth of coal to Europe... Yet British coal miners are not delivering all they might, as a result of prot duction practices which arbitrarily restrict output. Similar situ ations exist elsewhere in Europe. In France the need is for a more widely based government. Last Sunday, former Finance Minister Rene Plevin publicly pleaded for wiping out party lines to facilitate the democratie organization of Europe “under the Marshall Plan.” 1 Premier Robert Schuman, it is widely agreed, has something of a political. miracle during the However, his majority in the assembly is barely held on to power. v f Edin greater freedom of his cabinet representatives of the newest and largest group in the country: The Rally of the French People, Ted bY Gen. De Gaulle. That is what M. Plevin suggested, apparently without much success. : :

| Dollar Flood Could Dry Up

ON MAY 10—to cite another. case of political intrigue—a8 important conference will be held at The Hague to promote United States of Europe. This week, tries passed resolutions favoring the same thing. Yet the Pari meeting voted: 4 » cause—although it did not say so openly—it would be pre over by Winston Churchill, : probably the oldest and staunchest advocate of European union: These are just some of the signs which members of '. here regard as straws in the wind. * They will watch Europ? politiéal pot during the next 12 months with more than the sus!

from Britain, for example, that

performed past 12 months so slim that he has

action, he needs to take into single

in Paris, Socialists from 13 Marshall Plan cout against participating in The Hague meeting UG Britain's wartime

and threatens to spoil

be imperialist aggression and Communist violence | could dry up. ; S | ‘and intrigue. Winston Chufehill. i iia "What Congress expects from ERP expefiditures is the 1 big busines can’t find a way to keep little business going, | by an active and de. An government ¢ to take a hand.—Sea. Homer ‘and until? (1) Marshall Plan nations ' (R) of , and (2), They te freely.

. Here are three |, maybe the

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schedules on & “phase

‘ - ‘e : x The ‘plan will vitalize and make effective.

anything -but--a-ship-of -merey.-

1 saw hundreds of good American boys die

Adoption of .a plan is imperative, The fol- | lowing 1s emda 4. Draft men from 18 to 25 (non-veterans) into the d dnd the Army, Navy and . in their own localities for two "iy 2. Institute a program of armory drills and compel a ce. ;

bor? Have you forgotten Corregidor? Wake?

Jud Haggerty believes the late Franklin | greatest American that ever = lived and that he should be given full credit

The war bond, of course, was a defense i] ; until | we were wangled into war and ow 8 = $75. They. keep. the money 10 years. In the meantime they take $25 out of your- wages in the form of |

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