Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 June 1948 — Page 22

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Palestine Truce

MONTH'S truce in the Palestine war has been proclaimed by the United Nations Security Council to begin at a time to be fixed by the United Nations mediator on the spot, But this good news, unfortunately, is dampened by conflicting Arab and Jewish interpretations of the truce. proposal which both have accepted nominally, ——'Thus the curse of partisan misunderstanding—which seems always to poison everything pertaining to Palestine hangs heavy over this latest hope for a peaceful settlement, The Becurity Council conveniently has seen fit to ignore

this. It has proclaimed the truce on the ground that both

sides have accepted its proposal, for a 28-day halt in fight

“ing and a simultaneous arms embargo against both, And that they have accepted “unconditionally,” In view of the vociferous conflicting interpretations, this is stretching the meaning of “unconditional” a lot. The end result may be to compound the confusion and multiply the charges of bad faith. Nevertheless, we think the Security Council is justified in resorting to this unorthodox method. Though the logical approach was to insist on advance clarification, that probably would have sunk the truce negotistions. - ~~ Because the disputants- actually ‘have accepted the truce plan-only in principle—and since acceptance of practical details is the real test—the Security Council wisely has left this hard negotiation in the Shpabig hands of its mediator, Count Bernadotte.

"IN DOING THIS the Security Council i not tricking anybody. On the contrary, it is following the path which the Arabs and Jews have opened as the least embarrassing o nay

- This is demonstrated by the failure of either side to protest the Security Council's ruling that both had accepted “unconditionally.”

~All of this double-talk is an atfempt by moderates | ~—among-Jews and Arabs, with the.aid-of the Sbolrity Coun--

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If the extreme “interpretations” satisfy the respective at home, with becoming formal “conditions” t the truce, then real progress will have been for the first time, this

devious method works. It will work if the showdown accept the authority of the

at least is: clear, United Nations settlement, is in the- best in-

"The victor—if any—in a long Palestinian war will suffer almost as much as the vanquished; « __ 'There is no hope for Palestine unless can learn to live together and work toget mon welfare.

_ “Indispensable”

“HE Reciprocal Trade Agreement. priiéiple.” says Sel Vandenberg, “is indispensable in today’s world." He is absolutely right. He wants this principle “preserved unweakened.” And so he opposes one provision of the- bill: just passed by House Republicans to extend the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act for a single year. That is the one which would give the tariff commission and Congress power to veto agreements “negotiated by the’ ent with other countries for the lowering of barriers to international trade, Mr. Vandenberg would have preférred an extension for “three years, or st-least two: “But he" does not believe the

rabs and Jews for their com-

Tg principle is endangered by the one-year resorcerer by-other-provisions of «the House Bill: o : We respect the judgment and sincerity of this Repub-

lican statesman. If he were speaking for his party, we would have little fear for the safety of reciprocal trade and the European Recovery Program, of which it is a cornerstone. But we do not share his confidence that changing one provision of the House Bill would mean {'unweakened’ preservation of the principle he defends. { For we have seen this bill railroaded through the House, aftem secret hearings and under a gag rule, by Republican leaders who never have been for that principle. We know that they inserted the provision to which Mr. Vandenberg objects for the deliberate purpose of weakening. e know that their hope and intention is to kill the Reciprocal Trade Act next year, and to return to the old tradechoking system of log-rolled high tariffs. - And we know they have many counterparts in the Senate. | - The change Mr. Vandenberg advocates would make the bill less immediately dangerous, But enactment of the bill, even with that change, would be a first long step back toward economic isolation for America. It would be a signal that leaders of the Republican Party mean to take the other steps—to drop the indispensable principle—and the rest of the world would so understand it. The Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act should be extended, with no weakening amendments; for three fyll years.

A Forgotten Suggestion

THE Ford Motor Co: asked its workers to take a pay-cut, and the workers’ union countered with an offér to with. draw its wage demands if-Ford would take the lead in a national rollback of prices. All of which reminds us of the sensible and apparently forgotten suggestion of AFL Presi‘dent Green,’ few months ago, that labor give more work for more pay. { ution still ‘seems the best anti- inflation ‘weapon, short of controls. “A 44-hour work: week would cause no Jumpatable to the hardship of continuing high

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Price in Marion County, § fents a copy; de- | y +-eight years been trying so hard to get it? Mall rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other |

ever want the job.

themselves, On. top of the usual round of lunch: | 7 4% eons, dinners, receptions and clam bakes which

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or its agent, to Interpret the conditions and |

A United Nations truce,

Mr. Green seems to be a voice that cried once in ° % and, getting no response, has kept silent

Want To Be President—Why?|

Candidates Aren't Sure

Why They're Running

By PETER EDSON, Nea Service Staff Writer. WASHINGTON, June 4—On a recent “Meet the Press” interview, presidential candidate Thomas E. Dewey was asked why he wanted to he President, American Mercury Editor Lawrence Spivak, whe asked the question, pointed ‘out that it usually took years off. a man’s life.. Why, therefore, had Gov. Dewey for

In measured words spoken with such emphasis there could be no doubi of their sincerity, Dewey answered, "I haven't the slightest idea.” If any of the other half-dozen active as

congressional, agency receptions, rate other. receptions and dinners.

begins in late Novembernand runs to Lent, It includes ry the Cabinet, the

Judiciary, the Pres of the Senate, the Speaker of the House two for the diplomatic corpi. Then there are judicial, diplomatic,

Army-Navy, press and federal

isiting foreign dignitaries - At some of these functions the President

~~ must-shake hands with over 2000 people in one evening,

THE PRESIDENT has no private life. The White House has 60 rooms on four floors. But

two of these floors have the big rooms in which

state occasions are held, and through which sightseers may iraipse on certain days of the week. The President's living quarters are the 11 parlor and m suités on the second floor, The President and his family are virtual

prisoners here. They are constantly guarded by

the Secret Service. n »

‘Any Resemblance ls Purely Coincidental’

‘ants for this job were asked the same questis ". tr

their answers would have to be pretty much the same. .

* ¢ FOR THE RECORD, these candidates and the dozen others who secretly hope that the political lightning will strike them might try to hand you the line that it was the call of duty— the highest honor the nation had to hestow. Or the need to save the country from a grasping and dishonest opposition, Deep down inside, they all know that's the bunk. Merriman Smith, who covers the ‘White House and the President for United Press, has Just written a book about this man-killing job. He calls it "A President Is Many Men." In good reportorial style, Smitty points out why the President has to he all things to all people. The book goes beyond that, however, detailed explanations of why nobody shou

HOYT

THE $75,000 SALARY. plus $30.000 a 1a Har fh

travel and entertainment expenses, sound nice— but mean little. It costs more than that to run the place. This despite tite White House staff of B00 the government furnishes free... . Will Hays called’ election to the presidency a sentence of death, Smitty figures that the average President, elected at age 54, dies at 68. The average man of b4 can expect to live till he is 73. So the job takes ov years off his life. No farmer works as long hours as the President, Office workers would scream at the hours of a presidential secretary. “From 7 a. m. till midnight, except when they work late,” TW

“THE PRESIDENT must be all smiles when he feels like the wrath of God. He must see delegations whom he doesn't. want to see—including Indians who change to their feathered headdress in the wash rooms. All of them know more about running the job than the President, and tell him soy He gets from 1000 to 3000 letters a day, hauled in three truckloads, He has to sign his name from 200 to 600 times a day. to mail, SOmmissions. private relief bills and laws passed by Congress. He gets gifts by the hundred, including fish, fowl-and bow ties. Better than a haby a day is named after . him, and the parents tell him about it, expegting some kind of ALRROwisigment in return, >.

-THE SOCIAL responsibilities. are a job in.

the President must attend at all times for political purposes, there is a formal season. It

In Tune With the Times

THE STORM A ‘stbrin was gathering in the West. “The eerie tning played Along the blac thunder clouds.

And my soul was sore afraid.

An ominous stillness filled the air, No leaf or grasssblade stirred. “The only sounds—the cricket's chirp, The uneasy twittering of the birds. .

Then in the twinkling of an eye The storm had claimed its toll. With the roar of a fast express It rushed upon the land.

“With awe I viewed the fearsome sight Of the havoc it had wrought. “And as 1 looked there came to me A true and solemn thought.

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With one vast stroke, an unseen hand Had leveled to the ground What man’s plainstaking labor. Had took him years to found.

As the mighty strength” of Gibraltar Compares to the lowly clod, 80 does the punny strength of man

Compare od the stre of God. J rT LINDSEY. | »

» * A Texas woman dropped her Flaws in the ~water.and 10. minutes later reeled. them her fish line—coming under the head of speetacles to hpolg!

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Do you know that she's Mymg: “To these

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His Sad Story of ‘Old 377"

By Robert J, Rasmussen; City . ... It is aboyt time Harry Reid, president of — Indianapolis Railways, be requested to ride ti,

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‘supe ol dayw:

my heart clings.”

When _she's nervous and cross, Sir, or you Shrug

it aside— Or try love and sympathy for tears she can’t hide? It's quite a large order and, Bir, it's for life. But remember. she's earning that title of Wife. ~~MARIAN N, WISE. ¢.® *

Eighty per cent of tornadoes occur between

noon and p- m, excluding campaign speeches. ' ee & e HOMELESS

Home is where the heart is, That 1 surely know; My heart has always been with you Because I love you so.

And now, that you have gone away, Oh what am I to do? Just keep on living best I know "Till I've gone home to you. ~~MARY JONA SHAW. * © Often. » milliner's prize creation Is » feather in her hat. CTE Ea

FOSTER'S. FOLLIES

: (“WASHIN GTON-Truman may take trip through South.”)

It takes more than mere rebellion, Our brave President to faze, While he's certainly no hellion, He's, a man of daring ways.

: \ Though the situations tryin’, Truman has a yen

Harold Stassen dispute any such estimates.

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Hoosier's Case of Asthma Gave Pasadena Its Start Back in 70's

THUS FAR I haven't made much headway tia the that the town of ught up right here in Indianapolis.

However, a number of exhibits have been introduced to the thesis—for one thing; Rancho San Pasqual, a vast esdate of 14,000 acres in the environs of what is now Los In the Seventies,

Cal, was

1 to John 8. Griffin ( ibit 2), a retired doctor who had come west as part

American army .of inyasion inte California. “The doctor, you'll. recall, had appointed Ben-

jamin 8. Eaton superintendent of his ranch (Exhibit 8); Apparently; Dr. Griffin had taken a

shine to Mr. Eaton, a Harvard graduate .(of all things) who, in 1850, had crossed the plains in an ox cart to try his luck in California. In spite of a bad start (looking Tor gold in Sacramento), Mr. Eaton's luck was of a kind to writé home shout. Fs Fact is, he ended up as judge : les. County.

-of--the-Superier-Cour

-Ange And in support of the general belief that Mr Eaton's luck was largely of his own making, I again cite the fact that the two men had an ! the substance of which was. that: 8 i the superintendent could find u buyer for the fabulous PA or indeed any part of it, .his Initiative wouldn't go unnoticed on the art of the

All of which sets the stage for the memorable meeting I promised to tell you about a

RAZA

Fortunately, ee Eaton has enriched pos- ;

~terity with a written account of .that meeting.

It Was Long, Dusty Drive INTHE COURSE of it, he said: “One-day; happening into a real estate office in Los Angeles, I was introduced to a slender, pale, roundshouldered man with a stovepipe hat and other characteristics that proclaimed him a ‘tenderfool.” He told mig that he Was one of & pioneer committee of four that had been in search of a tract of land to establish a colony of ‘Hoosiers. ~ 1 invited him to go home with me. It was a long. dusty drive. The San Pasqual Rancho, | which nad been pastured very closely with pels showed not a vestige of green.” However, a different scene greeted their eyes when the two arrived at Fair Oaks, the name of Mr, Eaton's home which at that time occupied a sightly tract on Rancho San Pasqual. The report continues: “Broad live oaks, surrounding the little cottage, afforded grateful shade, and in front a vineyard of 60,000 vines presented a sea of verdure. On either side of the house were groves of orange, lemon and: lime trees. “The following morning my prospect looked two. inches taller and upon my asking him how he rested, he straightened up, and striking himseif heroically upon the breast replied ‘Glorious ly! Do you know, sir, that last night is the first night in three years that 1 have remained in ° bed all night?’ “ ‘Why so?” I inquired. ‘Don’t you go to bed and Sleep. nights like a good Christian?’

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u. s. AFFAIRS—

Mr. Taft's Guess

By CHARLES T. LUCEY

WASHINGTON, June 4-—Republican presidential candidates’ standings are subject to all kinds of claims and counter-claims today. But here's what Sei. Robert A. Taft's supporters say they believe the first Philadelphia ballot”

will look like: Taft, 308; Dewey, 281; Stassenr, 149. . The forces of Gov.. Thomas E. Dewey ak x. Dewey's strategists are convinced he will lead at the start—that his Oregon victory is still

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“‘Yes, I go to bed all right,

The Deal Turned Out All Right .

MR. EATON'S “prospect” was none other than Daniel M. Bery who, with three others in 1873, had left his Indianapolis home (31 Cherry: $t.) to look for a suitable site ypon which to establish the California Colony of Indiana, a group of disgruntled citizens back in Indian apolis who were so fed up with the blizzard in the winter of 1872-3 that they organized them-

selves to do something about it, -

Mr. Berry lost no time in getting in touch with the original members of the Indiana ColThey interested other Easterners living in Los Angeles and a careful inspection of Rancho San Pasqual

ony who had found their way west,

was made.

Since the Indiana Colony, as such, had disintegrated, those interested in the new land organized under a similar plan, but a new name. As the San Gabriel Orange Grove Association, they purchased from Dr. Griffin 4000 acres of the extreme northwest section of Rancho San

~Pasqual at. $6. per acre.

“The deal turnad out all right" Tor Doth Dr. Griffin and Mr. Eaton, for, it you'll recall, the doctor had acquired the property at 50 cents gn-acre: : This time the colonists elected Mr. Eaton as their president and Mr. Berry, secretary. The

“inoerparators numbered. 26 men.

SAO Hoosiers as John H. Baker, Calvin Fletcher II and, Dr. Thomas B. Elliott at whose Indianapolis home (extreme west end Michigan St.) the California Colony of Indiana was organized in the winter of 1872-3—as a matter of fact when the historical blizzard of that year was at its

worst. And that,

Ppsagena got its start.

but by mid. night T am obliged to get up and sit in a chair until morning, for I can't breathe lying down.’ “This circumstance has led me to remark sometimes,” continued Mr. Eaton, ‘that a case of asthma determined the location of the Indi- + ana colony.” ’

my’ children, is the true story -- 80 help me God—of how the lovely town of

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Central:Keystone Bus No, 377 that leaves the Circle at 4:41 p. m. __ - 1 board the bus at that time on the Cirely five. evenings a week. On the evening of May 27, when that same bus, No. 377, pulled up fy front of the Circle Theater T got on as usual To

my surprise the operator had a crow bar prying “TU around” the transmission “trying to Jo. the the bl :

in gear. After some few “took off” and I wondered how many sy the operator was going to have to take up the. flogy board before we reached my stop. On the evening before, May 26, another op, erator cavtioned. everyone to “hold on” sip the bus had a “grabby clutch.” That man de. serves a medal ang a ralse in anyone else who drives No. 377, On that same. evening, an empty bus from the garage, followed us clear out at least + to where I got off —that a only a few blocky from the end of the line, Since busses are really crowded at that time of day, why can’t bigger and better busses he put on? Take some of the North Meridian busses and divide up with other lines. Working people are just a little bit fed with this jerking, Slound~and for a dime, too,

“The ‘Mother-in-Law Problem By Claudia, City can brides are trained to resent sug.

gestions from mothers-in-law. “Yet who kn the man better than his mother? . Why a it

Jetamantal quirks, or his preferences and bits?

It isn't. Only modern propaganda has made

Sarma to me the man whoue wife has sense enough to go to his mother for certain kinds of advice is a Jucky fellow, There has always been a mother-in-law problem. But not until recent years have brides been publicly encouraged to suspect and fear the “mothers of their husbands. We are told constantly that we must learn to get along with people. Well, why not start the training where it could do us most good— inside the dona

By Bud Kaesel

ing’ for more money so they could money ail over the country to help _ bettors trained doctors to the veterans in the hospital— which I am 100 per cent in favor of doing. But I know why these veterans don't get any more doctors, They would if they would take the thousands of dollars they are

foolish project. I would like to see the money go to the handicapped veteran and disabled veterans se they could get a start in life, WORLD AFFAIRS—

Press Freedom

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS

WASHINGTON, Juné 4—Once again-—this time in France—a bitter struggle over freedom of the press is under way. And Americans who hold that a free press is the foundation of all the freedoms are watching it with interest. Approximately 350 owners of French news. papers—all of them absolved by the courts from any taint of collaboration during the German occupation—have banded together and asked

a ruling. They charge the government with “abuse of power.” The French sifuation presents an excellent example of what can happen when even a demoeratic government undertakes to control news ~ machinery. One thing leads to another. After the liberation the government closed down 809 press enterprises, A later decree provided that owners who were acquitted of collaboration would be restored to their full rights. ” THE RESTORATION ® etree provoked 8 terrific uproar. * Many underground “news. papers” had sprung up during the occupation. Some of these had moved into the plants of suspended publications. Having established something like squatters’ rights, they did not want to vacate. . In 1045, Gaston Defferre, a Socialist deputn

for confiscation of all press enterprises found . Builty of collaboration. The rest would also be taken over by the state, but the owners would be compensated at 1040 values. ' Tn 1040, five million francs were worth about $125,000; at Present, about one-tenth as much.)

Passed largely: Socialist vote, the measure has become famous as “the ifaw of May 11,” its promulgation date. It ‘set up.a state authority--the Societe Nation~ ale des Enterprises de Presse (SNEP)—to take over all press, press association and: associated businesses and lease or sell them “to existing

4. and future” eplerprises.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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* assembly said the law was “sheer robbery"; that - it meant the “domination of Justice by politics.” On the other hand, Socialist | |

Deputy Charles Lussy observed that “even if the tribunals acquitted them (the newspaper owners), In pyr eyes they are still guilty.” By last spring. some 350 owners had been cleared by the courts. prived of their property: “Le Temps,” for example, an outstanding French newspaper, was wholly absolved. Yet its Paris property Is now occupied by a dally Salle "la Monde.”

“PARIS-SOIR.” according to a Lynns court, was taken over by the Germans against iis owners” will.

Nevertheless, two

France's “Humanite™ and “Ce Soir," are now using its plant, SNEP now admmisters or otherwise has a finger on the entire country's news mar chinery—including 165 build: ings 20 in Paris and 145 in the provinces), 286 printing installations and 482 news papers (88 of them in Paris alone). The absolved owners charf® that the 1940 valuation amounts to nine-tenths conf cation,

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