Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 June 1948 — Page 18

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The Democratic Convention

wasn’t much t at the Indiana Democratic convention this week the delegates came up with about as strong and well-balanced a ticket for the fall elec: tony J the party could have mustered. : any Democrat can reverse the present Republican ro ach oan Testes He earned the respect of the whole state by the job he did from 1040 to 1944. And 4 his popularity has grown since He left office. There also are

iy some gtie wen, and some good Yots-getters farther down | 3! the slate. 4, On might wish the convention had adopted a platform Si etre 8 kenping with the caliber of the men i Home TB tat slatiotuss ta.bo sure, dous contain » number of

Ei good and constructive pledges. Such advances as direct N primary elections, reapportionment of legislators and re55H assessment of real estate are long overdue.

appear to be there simply for vote-catching purposes. "The state is in no position to pay a bonus to war vet | erans, and the veterans themselves would pay through the nose for any hand-outs they might get of that nature.

tration of labor disputes in public utilities has worked successfully, and so far principally to the advantage of organ. 1. “ized labor. It should not be repealed.” : The state appears to have no need for a wage-hour law, nor a “little Wagner act,” and has no power to repeal the Taft-Hartley law even if that were desirable, as the platform at least infers. The FEPC legislation offered by the platform would do infinite harm to the very people it pro-

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But there are, unfortunately, a good many planks that |

The law enacted by the last legislative session for arbi- | _

“In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue EDEN ENTERED

In the midst of spring beauties,

unstudied Hane crook of his knees; a “

A « From “the dear little woman” To her worshiping lord, Hel gets out his tool kit

“My sakes, what a mess!” =~WILLSON TILLSON, Indisnapolis. * * o

BEES OR HORSEFLIES

dianapolis Bunday afternoon, outside the Lions parade, was a bit of rural life gathering around the safety rail on the cement island at the con “fluence of Kentucky Ave, Tilinoly and Washing= ton Sts. . . . & SWarm of bees. When I first saw them a clever clown band from the Warsaw

hurrying throng, 50 feet in diameter, to a great lump on the trunk and limbs of the safety rail. grammarian

“What's them?” yward Lo _. Jensen: to-elp, asied. : a some wa And Republicans have been quick to point out ‘that the | "The Teen” aaswered in Kind not want. proposals to spend money far outweigh the proposals to | of the King's English. * feduce taxes, and Indiana ct hardly Go both at the same np Bt: your | In opinion that platform is more likely to be RT i our n a / 1 handicap than a help to a good group of candidates wl | Pree Sie iY abe 0 stand o thee own fst a4 individual horaetlies in swarms © “Pll go get one of No.1 Not Enough pu went across lo’ the cm © VAHEN David Lilienthal's name is mentioned you think there . . . small body, striped yellow and black. tomic Commission—of an administra- “A best fellow, tor. of vast engineering or scientific afte: net of a | the. Soram in ba ari cas ey - philosopher. “But they don't sting me!” protested the But that side of him is revealed in a commencement DORAN DAN Pog Fight through address at the University of Virginia. And what he had to “To ornery to get 1" said the old man say strikes us as much sense, “No,” 1 objected. “He's immune, Make a When his generation sat where the graduate of 1048 | People crotsing-the street from thé Lincoln 1 bow sits, life seemed, in those’ 20s, to be a pretty simple | [oU corner fb Tinole Si. were battling their 1. proposition, summed u In & major premise: ored boy hesitated. : A ir « =» i “Go on throught" the horsefly man advised. WEAK care of No. 1.” The idea appeared eminently ley wnt 3 sting you!" The colored boy sensible and was almost universally accepted and applied. “I think | t Would be a Christian idea iy If everybody took care of No. 1 and concentrated on that, gn Eo a i why, obviously the sum total of the successes of all the inal, 2014 have laughed at he mau, Who suid £17 No. 1's would be prosperity and happiness all around. those dobbin devilers, but I chiecked the temp7 ~~ But how did it work out? : « He may not know bees, may £3 . k ho fix © Taking care of No. 1 didn’t confine itself to the indi- | bus. whien T do not know se’ 1 do not laugh i 3 = vidual. It was adopted by groups—pressure groups. “If | when he says bees are horseflies.

~~ farmers looked out for théir own interests, if labor and industrial management did the same, if physicians and lawyers and bankers and bond salesmen and ship- ; __ builders and merchants each looked out for No. 1, then ne “all the No. 1's would be looked out for.” ~~ 1 i The same for international relations. Just plain com“mon sense. America first. Germany first, Britain first. France first. Ttaly first. Russia first. Each looking out for Ne. 1

per. But we also had a rash of high tariffs and trade bar. riers and economic brawls and in the end a devastating a “world depression and the worst war in all History, the: total = _.__of all this self-reliance credo being that, to quote Mr. Liliena Y thal, “the devil not only took the hindmost but the fore-

success, which seemed so sensible, wasn’t and isn't, enough. Mr: Lilienthal commends the idea of citizenship respon“sibility==of taking care not only-of No. 1;-but-of each per« Cah son playing an active part in public affairs in the interest dn of a better and more orderly world and, to be.completely Rid practical, in terms of enlightened selfishness—in the uti mate interest of every No. 1. * He sums it this way: “Be an active, living part of your times. Do a good job and attain success in your chosen field; yes, definitely. “Be self-reliant, yes. But self-sufficient, self centered, EY self-loving—no, not that. i “Become an active part of your time—this I propose as i the best, though clearly a most difficult, alternative to the 4 idea of each man withdrawing into the shell of self-pre-i occupation, of concern solely about his own success.”

i Real Job for Vice President

WHEN the platforms are being drafted at the national : conventions, both parties should give attention to the ’ * matter of vesting real responsibilitfés in the office of Vice, President. Then it will be easier to induce men of presiden- ' i. tial caliber to accept second-place nominations, Under the present system, the Vice President presides over the Senate, votes only in case of a tie, and normally takes no other part in the government. It is not a position . to challenge the capacity of any but the most modest and retiring of men. Yet at any moment death may summon the President to assume the burdens of chief executive the nation. It has been suggested that he be ‘made head of the Sabinet, and thus become an executive Vice.

‘and Vice President camoperate ax Ea ye team wheén

So we drew the Kellogg Pact, outlawing War—On- pa

The guy that A laughs last always has the best chuckle!... re re FUQOSIER- OBSERVER,

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OUR HERITAGE *

Land of Fresdom ours! Ours as a Dery age!

The wisdom of our ‘fathers planned. it so. By grace divine, envisioned they

. The rich, the poor, the scum of lowest caste And highest cultured ranks __Of varied tongues and creeds With LIBERTY for all.

And then ; Within America’s great meiting pot, There Was Jartotmed what seemed a miracle. A free; new race

A race whose proud possession, FREEDOM, Now is ours OURS AS A HERITAGE!

ANNA HOSEA, Indianapolis.

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

SOR. 1940 BY NEA SEVICK. WE. TW N00 UB aT. or,

"Wis ‘were: hoping that, this being a presidential year. Lasior wo would take an interest in politics—~but he's still wild about art!"

"The most interesting thing to watch in In- |

a ns " By = an oi

OUR TOWN = By Anton §

Modi A

So cjesica--. oil on the

Pacific Coast did I learn of Helena Modjeska's

complete ‘identification with Southern California. She was the famous actress whose “Lady

opinion in Warsaw which Tey « called “Kraj" (The Country). Most of the young writers and artists who- to rally the forces of a de-

who, 34 years later, cashed 4n big with his bestseller “Quo Vadis?" One winter ‘evening ir 1875 when the group” had gathered at Chlapowski's home, somebody

mentioned the forthcoming Centeépnial Exposi“tion in Philadelphia.

t then and there plans were launched to establish a Polish utopia in

‘ America. And so rapidly did the plans mature

that, the very next spring (1876), Sienkiewicz and Jules Synpiewski (an educational enthusiast) sailed for California by way of Panama. Some months later Synplewski returned with a report so glowing. that, ever since that day, California Chambers of Commerce have been hard put to find the necessary adjectives to compete with his.

All But One Return to Europe

IN JULY, 1876, the Polish colonists sailed for California: Synpiewski, “wife and two children; L. Paprocki, an artist; and,-of course, the Modjeska family, including the: husband

a Shost Story

house in the lovely Santa Ana Canyon designed for her by Stanford White. She named the place “Arden.” Adjoining the big estate today is a ‘tiny cluster of recently built houses which California maps designate “Modjeska.”

Paderewski Bought a Ranch

IT WAS at “Arden,” shortly before ee death, that Madame

" California. One day when the hot springs, up to his neck in mud, the versatile physician talked him into buying. an. enormously big piece of property which, believe it or not, Was called Rancho San Ignacio. Immediately after acquiring the ranch, Paderewski planted 250 acres to almonds, pears -. and walnuts. Today Rancho has some 12,000 almond trees, one of the most magnificent groves of its kind in California. ; Two days after I returned from the little “town of Modjeska I stumbled onto Paderewski’'s ghost. At any rate, that evening's paper carHed a sensational paragraph to the effect that a lawyer over in Poland had turned up with a long-lost brother of Paderewski, a relative no= body had ever heard of before. The rest of the story follows a pattern which, . apparently, governs lawyers the world over. Sure, the Polish lawyer had filed a claim in a California court which, if successful, will hand the fabulous almond orchard ‘over to Paderewski's long-lost brother. ‘When I left the West the ills of the court were still grinding. I'll let you know how it comes out.

‘Pettiest” Politics ':

and the [all given quick promotions.

Friday, Harry noon quietly-—when out received word Pear! Harbor

1961, Mr. Roosevelt held a meeting of bis net-=and the nest day the Stats Deparitust by Shem aA Wiinstum. Pe Japanese code had been broken. And 48 oss later, FDR and Harry e8 Wil ‘as Mr. Hull, Mr, Knox and Mr, that war was imminent. At least & few hours afore the atiack thay knew the place would be The disaster might have been notified Short and Kimmel

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Ba given were was merely a whitewash the officers who did the

Foster Parents, take i | Br 1a Pauline :

Adopted . always wanted chil: * dren. Foster parents are did enough to know

what they are doing—natural parents may not

be. Foster ts also are prepared to sacrifice personal pleasures for the sake of having a baby in the house. . And surely the man who works to support some other man's and who loves it ‘as if it were his own is a public benefactor: In a time when parents draw so much publie criticism, it's a pleasure to give foster parents the chance to:1ake & bor.” * J

Says Toys May ‘Kick Back’ By Edward A, City.

The custom, by some parents, of placing da gun into - and thus

him into a 8 postinfantile habit of wre a trigger,” and ordering his play - pals to “stick 'em up!” can easily prove to be a kick-back that may later tely help

TCRTAPOWSKTY, "thé great MoajesRa nerselr, and her 15-year-old son, Ralph (by her first husband, Modrzejewski, whose name Helena had streamlined for the benefit of her Audiences). _..Bubsequently; when he grew up and became a famous bridge engineer, Ralph operated under the name of Modjeski. As for the other member of the party--Madame Modjeska's- maid, Anusia. ~history has denied her & surname, an omission which no sewed], be welcgmed with joy by the boys in the composing room. Probably ‘because most educated Poles of --that-period-spoke-several Continental

1anguages besides their own; the ‘colonists settled in Ana-

heim, the California seat of a German com-

munity. After Investing $15,000 in the project, |

“of two years, the finally tired" of their dream, quarreled es themselves and, in 1878, decided to return to Europe—that is to say..all except Madame Modjeska. She had the guts to see it through IC NER YOU SD UF tink ALE wane -3hing- -she expected of —her-audiences:—to0,- In Cahe spent the next 36 years or

of her death-—with the result that the entire landscape extending from San Francisco to San Diego is dotted with houses-in which she lived. "Finally, she got just what: she wanted—a

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WASHINGTON, June 17 In the frantic final rush of Congress 80 much patient effort is being swept aside. The furibus drive td get away has brushed down hopes and plans and aspirations as

sticks before a- flood. What gives added drama to this needless cyclone is that the effort and the plans are in’ no small part those of

the three most conspicuous | contenders for the Republican | presidential nomination. Ald to education, housing, health these programs he has worked | for long and hard. { "no | SEN. TAFT comes as near | to being a responsible cone servative as our political system produces. Believing that government must provide a | minimum of intervention to Linsure nst slum conditions and to help provide equality of opportunity, Mr. Taft is far from being a be damned” tory. | This being the case—and he |

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over again-—it is the more difficult to understand the para«

dox of his position. ' Here /is

way.

“more ble and didn't have a chance: California—as a matter of fact, until the day.

though they had been match-

Sen. Robert A. Taft-—one of

| has demonstrated it over and :

the knowledged leader of the ‘Rdpublican majority in the ‘Senate Yoweriem to get his

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By Peter Edson

. WASHINGTON, June 17-—Not the least of the black marks to be charged against the record of the 80th Congress are failures to take final action on admission of Hawaii and Alaska as 49th and 50th states. Ainderlying reasons. in. both cases appear to be perfectly trivial—the playing of the most peaty kind of politics. : xe - Behind Senate rejection of the Housé-hasstd v statehood bill was a desire on the 5 _—. of Sén Hugh Butlers PUbiie Langs Subcommittee on Insular Affairs to take another junket to the Pacific paradise. The Hawaiians. have already been honored «by somé 30 con- | gressional Investigating SOmmRises fn: this century. The. Alaskan statehood case is considerably differenit. President Truman last month sent Congress as message asking that Alaska “be admitted to statehood: ° - too late Togoet lost in the ends

Dr. Ernest Gruening, tarritorial governor of Alaska since 1939, and E. L. Bartlett, Alaskan delegate to Congress in the last four years, have’ been urging statehood continuously since the end of the war.

Taft, Senate Leader, | Powerless to Get Way’

U.S. AFFAIRS .

TAKE AID to education as an example. The bill that

passed the Senate under Mr. Taft's careful shepherding provides $30 million a year to try to equalize the unbalance of educational opportunity, particularly in favor of the lowincome states. It has wide popular backing. - Yet the little band of’ Republicans who rule the House - have bottled it up. And what . makes this even harder to understand is the. fact that Mr. .. Taft's campaign manager, Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio, is'a member of the little band on the rules committee that dic-* tates to the House.

Mr. Brown has already gone

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Philadelphia ‘where, from Will hardly accept it, nor will Taft headquarfers, he is pro- the independent voter. claiming the inty of his * x» mats Homination, . FOR ALL his honesty and

THE Shtiontas of “this tionship has raised ‘suspicions Fo Adan Lh clin \ fight . that Taft has

. So Ins as the record shows,

, Mr, had never oTnisd Senate, over the ‘his voice for oF She measures those who $3.300,000.000

§ 0 Mr, Tatts i

ane Message was

to swell an ever-growing list of Juvenile mug gers and toy-pistol bandits. - Certainly, parents—especially young parents —have a definite responsibility in seeing that their hopefuls are supplied with toys that have about them no taint of future possible excursions on the road of crime. v @ LF

Britain Takes Most ot Refugees :

By ‘Clifford T.

IH EON HECtTON WIth thé Immigration — now" before Congress, it may interest some of your readers to learn that from the time of the rise of Hitier until now, Great Britain has taken in more refugees, than all the other countries of - the world combined. The following are the figures: For the whole period, 80,000, in the years ‘before the war, from Germany, Austria, Czecho“nlovakis; 70,000, ‘the war (mostty now - repatriated)

Since July 1, 1947—Great iaiiitic Belgium 17,678; France 16,528; Canada 13.887; United States 13,504; Argentina 6600; Palestine 5824; Australia 3636; Netherlands 3166; Brazil

. By Marquis Childs

AN EASY alibi for Mr. Taft the presidential of Speaker Joseph W. Martin of Massachusetts. being said on Capitol Hill that Martin block education and health:

First, because he wanted to show his independence to Mr.

Second, because he wanted to demonstrate his opposition to measures considered “socialby the wealthy backers who would like to put Martin over on the convention, ’ But that alibi is almost too ant Republicans, including those governors who party must look °' forward and not backward,

his integrity, Mr. Taft often behaves with a kind of arbitrariness that has the look of = old-fashioned politics, Thus he moved to cut a _ billion * dollars out

! recovery authoriza be (tion, when it was before the

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able committees, Such a move naturally pleased ' Col. Robert R. Me Cormick, -of the Chicago © Tribune, who is for Mr, Taft ambition . "on ’

IT 18 on foreign policy that Mr. Taft is weakest. In his sympathetic appraisal in Harper's Magaine, Richard H Rovere made the following

point: It was hard to imagine Mr. Taft supplying the world ihe kind of warmhearted, resolute leadership so essential in the present struggle between East and West. On the other hand, the Sen: © ator from Ohio. knows more about government than prob ably any man who has oftu pied the White House since Woodrow Wilson. . ’ " » . BLUNT often to the point of seeming rudeness and in* difference, Mr, Taft never in duiges in the kind of smooth® talk that has won popular support... for H Stassen.

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