Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1948 — Page 12

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THE Philadelphia convention opened today with the iso- ¥ on the defensive. The Vandenberg-Dewey-Stassen-Warren acceptance of American responsibility in world affairs has been written into the proposed platform by the resolutions subcommittee. That is an excellent start. If the full committee and the convention ratify those recommendations, the Republican Party will be in a much more responsible position than seemed possible only a few days ago. This development is all the more significant because it follows the party's last-minute recovery of the House fumble on the foreign aid appropriations bill. After the Martin-Halleck-Taber isolationists had done their worst, the Congressional Conference Committee under Chairman Styles Bridges (R. N. H.) managed to restore all but 2 per cent of the essential fund for foreign recovery. . . =» a 8 = THERE is hardly s hint of Taberism in the recommend: ed foreign affairs part of the platform. It would: . Aid other peaceful nations to preserve their freedom and rebuild their. economic strength through’ self- -help and mutual assistance. * Support, reciprocal trade agreements,

Oppose appeasement of aggression. Strengthen the United Nations by development of regional security systems, elimination of big power veto except on questions involving use of force, & and formulation i. of international law. i Emphasize the interest of the United States in a free China no less than of a democratic Europe. Strive for universal arms limitation under adequate

i safopudrds Sgtinat betraved of : 8 Make foreign commitments subject to 8 publicly and § «a "8. to. HERE Is a practiodl, constructive peace program. It i brings the threefold of economic aid, military seI curity and diplomatic initiative into focus. Ply win boe + administration to.

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QR best neighbor, Canada, is in financial trouble. She | : is euffeing trom that common alluent— shortage of ee. Hhartags. came. sbost besause. Cnsads. ays #0 ‘much more in this country than she sells to us. Last year her imports from the United States over-balanced her ex--ports by $900 million, roughly 10 times larger than Canade’ unfavorable trade balances in the late 1930s. The Canadians are stout people, Instead of wringing their hands, they faced up to the situation. They restricted their imports so that what dollars they had left would not be used to -buy non-essential American In. stead, the dollars are being used to buy the things Canada must have—steel, coal, oil—in order to grow and prosper. is» ® Se ONE of the things the Canadian government restricted was the amount of dollars a Canadian can spend for travel ” and recreation in the United States. This in face of the fact that most Canadians prefer to come to the U. 8. for their “holidays” as they call vacations. That travel restriction aroused some U. 8. hotel keepers who are urging Americans to spend their vacation -dollars in this country. But Canada’s greatest source of dollars is her tourist business. About 20 million Americans visit Canada each year, The dollars they leave there have a quick turnaround. They come back home fast, as payment for American goods. 4 If Americans should cut down on their trips to Canada, ,7 the Canadians would be forced to reduce their purchases in this country for the simple and sound reason that they didn't have the money. To urge Americans to forego vacations in Canada is manisfestly a short-sighted policy that can only damage our own prosperity--and our best customer and neighbor. “Joe Hill Wasn't That Bad THE: song, “Joe Hill,” a relic of the hobo camps of pre- : World War I days, has been placed on the subver- ~~! ‘give list in Montreal, Canada. We are opposed to such i = bans in general, and this one in particular. «Joe Hill, the man, was not among our boyhood heroes. Nor did we have any affection for the now defunct wobbliesy * who exploited Joe's execution on a murder conviction. The wobblies used to burn farmers’ barns and haystacks and put rocks in the gears of threshing machines, often apparently for no other reason than pure devilment. - But the IWW (“International Workers of the World”) were a down-to-earth lot, destructive though they were. And if nothing else they were Americans. They did not _- hide behind “front” organizations, and they were not a Mth column for a foreign power. ~~ Bo it doesn’t seem fair that “Joe Hill" should be inins ban directed against Communist literature, even : Comniles have appropriated “Joe Hill” just as tried to establish exclusive title to such words

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In that “mighty spectacle” the world, which af coutss is America, SAW Rt. We have Sian from horseback and stagecoach to airplanes in travel, how we have repaced the ald well-ump

With 8 Ngut-besnt controlled drinking foun developed doors that pop open at oUF approach, se, elo. ete.!

stops and fails to shut off automatically. know how you have to run from the living room clear to the upstairs bathroom to jiggle the little white handle on the tank! Our “century of has robbed us of

, the delectable old-time buckwheat pancake, set

the night before with compressed yeast, buckwheat flour, salt and water, and has handed us that self-rising flannel-flip so lacking in body and character. The old Rambo, Pippin, Maiden Blush, Russet and Grindstone apples, that hung in the orchards of the long ago, are gone. In their stead we have some rather good varieties, but nothing so rare as thos Si-timers!

CHICKENS used to die with the “gaps” and nothing more . . . now they may contract a dozen high-sounding and deadly diseases. Here, as in so many other phases of Hving, our progress is made in the development of new cures for new diseases. Before our “century of progress,” highway men did not have have to go along painting yellow lines down the middle of the roads to indicate “no passing” zones ., . . humans didn't travel that rapidly! The automobile, a great forward stride in our “century of progress,” has so complicated life that our rushing around has to be controlled by more and more stop lights, Less and less grows the possibility of speedily reaching your destination. Where you once whirled along at “sixty or seventy” the roadside signs now say “Speed Limit—30 Miles,” The advent of each new gadget lays open the possibility of new inroads on father's pay. Some member of the family saw “it” and “just has to have it!” little boys are now wearing caps with dmills built-in! What we want, what we thing we must have, all a result of the developments that have come in our “century of progress,” have set father several years behind the bill collector! ; ®* & ¢ * BUT ONE of the greatest reverses of our “century of progress” has come 3 the gastronomic field | .

What an age we're living in! . on hat A day this 13 for fears! : century of progress, Agr Bo eT YE amie aan Hat] Any Sev wavy To maks out stomaghs ache,

Biscuit and ‘cake and ginger-bread, Even turkey dressing with sage, Have all dragged into the slough .

mechanistic age. Why, ‘husbands could take the blindfold- test At a table that fairly Jags.

And without error pick the food

That comes is boxes and bags!

| hav used to say the blushing bride

. Who Knew not how to mic need - With a White House Cooking Book, But heavens! Now she don’t need that! Why, any Sapping daughter t up & meal for thirty-two a cup of city water!

on, for the days when 3 Pancakes were set In a jar the night bet And 'long about midnight th they'd seethe and runt Down on the kitchen floor; 2 But we live in a self-rising generation; : s hum-— . won’t have fingers and legs afterwhile, ust an eye and a good strong thumb!

Fudge-making once wis. a lover's delight! Many a

. or's Can date his “fall” Pond the cup he held “tried”;

In which the syrup was But now they crack a cellophane bag— 7 Before Cupid can bat an eye They add four spoons of boiling water And set it out to dry!

What an age we're living in! What pernicious times we've struck! A “eity-chicken” {s steer-on-a-stick, And some lamb can be a duck. Oh, the women once took pride in their skill At making our stomachs ache, But now they open a colored box, “Add water, mix and bake!” .

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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OUR TOWN .

SOON AS I RETURNED from my long vacation in the West, I discovered half of the female population of Indianapolis gloating over the fractional part. The elation; on the one hand, and the dejection (on the other) was finally cleared up when I learned that only one-half of all'the women around here had completed their. spring housecleaning.

The technique of spring housecleaning hasn't changed much in the course of the last 60 years. Indeed, it has Ea ht Hk of pring 0 it the only tradition to come

ting everything , beginning, as a rule, with my favorite sitting room just as it did when I waa a little boy. By slow and fitful stages, ‘it thén moves upstairs and lands in the bedrooms. which. all the: closets throughout the entire house turn up. For some reason, the clothes closets were never considered a component part of a’ room when I was a boy. They aren't to this day,

* with the result that spring housecleaning starts

all over after everybody thinks it's done.

‘Just One Vicious Cycle’

I STILL recall how, one year, the cleaning out of a remotely situated closet brought forth a sponge cake, designed for the previous Fourth of July celebration, which mother had carefully hidden so that we kids couldn't get at it ahead of time. And on another occasion, fathers embroidered suspenders came to light. They had been laboriously knitted by his mother-in-law (my grandmother) and placed under the Christmas tree of the past year. Father didn’t llke them from the start. To please mother, however, he consented to wear them when he left the house on New Year's Day. When he returned that evening

FOREIGN AFFAIRS— France's Fears

By WILLIAM PHILIP SIMMS WASHINGTON, June 21 — Association of the United States with western European degements, under the United Nations, is now believed likely after the November elec-tions-—if not before, The French assembly’s conditional ratification of the six-power accord on Western Germany, with hardly a vote to spare, is purely provisional. France is stifl far from satisfied with the accord but went along with it for the time being because (1) she did not ‘wish' to split the allied bloc or (2) overthrow the govern. ment of Premier Robert Schumdn at a critical time like this, France wants to know what, if anything, is to stop Russia on the Rhine.

the last few weeks.

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By E. T. Leach

GRADUATES have poured from our high schools and colleges

They have been told a lot about ‘what graduation means in It is, of course, one of the big events to

But have you considered what it means to the country? It makes this month the most important of the year. nation has a period quite like it. American high schools graduated around a million and _ & quarter young men and women this year, and nearly 200,000 are completing work in colleges and universities.

Regardless of what we older people think or do, these young people will supply the answers to all we're arguing and worrying about. They, plus graduates of the last few years and the next few to come, will determine America’s fate in one of its most

Because they are the better educated group, most of the leadership for labor, for management, for teaching, for the professions and for government will come from their ranks. Twenty years or so from now they will hold most of the influential jobs— because of education and ability. That is, they will hold them if nothing happens to upset the system under which they were able to go to schools of their choice and seek careers to their Hkixg. These graduates have heard a lot about their inheritance, their privileges, their opportunities and duties. But less stress seems to be placed on one simple thing which is the biggest of all—the fact that they that they have been frée to pick their schools and will be free to seek their own jobs. Nobody will tell them what they have to do. They will be at liberty to succeed, or to fail—to work,

. = » = s » THAT, at first glance, doesn't seem such & big right. —— As a matter of fact, it is the biggest. All our other rights only contribute to this one—which is the privilege to live one's It is comparatively new in the world. It has never. existed on much of the globe's surface, and is disappearing in many places where for a time it was attained. For thousands of years young people were om into classes and bred into jobs, Their opportunities were limited to those of

By Anton Scherrer Spring Housecleaning Hasn't Changed Much in 60 Years

(like as not from the Maennerchor), he broke the news that he had lost the gift-suspenders and that he had fo use his hands all the way home to hold up his pants. What's more, he took off his vest to prove his predicament. It was the day the suspender turned up that father declared: “Life is just one vicious cycle ih Jone damn housecleaning following another.” Come to think of it, though, the cleaning of the clothes closets wasn't the end of spring housecleaning. It also included the annual debauch of wall papering, painting and whitewashing. If ‘you are old enough to remember the Joyful Oil man on the southeast corner of Washington and Meridian Sts., you'll probably recall the Negro whitewash men stationed on the opposite corner where Wasson's store now stands. For some reason, that was their hangout to pick up customers. When business was slack, it was nothing out of the ordinary to find half-dozen Negroes, every one equipped with brush and bucket to tackle a job at a moment's notice. Because of mother's long-range program which extended far into the future, she usually got Lindsay Husband (the best of the lot) to whitewash our summer kitchen. Indeed, I can remember only one occasipn when she had the hard Juck to get the Negro who enjoyed the nickname of “Theory.” Wouldn't work—see? After seeing mother through, goodness knows, how many spring housecleanings, Mr. Husband finally died. The calamity wrecked our housecleaning plans for years to come. Indeed, for years to come.

happening either before or after Mr. Husband’s death.

‘Punishment From Heaven’

I REMEMBER quite vividly, too, that father always insisted that his'sons take a hand in spring housecleaning--probably on the theory that boys couldn't be started early enough to learn the seamy side of life, a ‘Philosophy which I positively know he entertained. Anyway, it was our job to paint the bricks walls surrounding our home, including the much broader-path under the grape arbor. For this purpose, father dug into his own pocket to provide the pigment. It was always the reddest on the market. That job done, it was our business: to keep the grass from growning in the sandy joints between the bricks, and ornery chores that cut down our summer vacations by at least 30 per eent. To make the most of our summer vacations, we kids one spring thought up the slick idea of mixing a lot of salt with the first coat of paint. It kept the grass down all right but all that summer our brickwalks suffered a disease not unlike the measles except that, in this case, the rash was of an ash-white color. That summer we kids had to repaint the walks every week until after Labor Day. Father said it served us right for trying to get out of work, Years later when the jncident had attained the stature of an historic event, father always referred to it as: the punishment sent from Heaven.”

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can’t remember all “those 38 Figs. Life's too full ih work we must do with the sizable family all .

Why can’t people be normal—not too irre. ,

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Housing She Shortage Isn't New

fe : x. a housing short. age? To hear us talk days you might think it's a brand-new problem, yet it is as

old as America. who built the country lived in cluttered places. Men, women and chil.

Only I sometimes wonder 1d-timers, There was no Jovernment aid. They simply got through on their own—and look at the ey nation they created.

® ¢ Teach Marriage Responsibilities

By Mrs. A, L. G, City

1 often hear people argue that high school

children are ignorant about sex. Yet tfie truth is most of them know a good deal more about it than their elders. And they don't get their information from behind the barn either. Today's adolescent is exposed constantly to good factual material, and profits by it. Isn't it time then to ease up a li on the subject, and educate young people assume the ordinary responsibilities of Man is a moral animal. His spirit is a important as his body. He cannot live happily unless he gives his morgl being the chance to grow and develop. That's why it's time we talked less about sensual things and more about spirituality to our children. : > ¢

They Trusted Washington By M. W. H,, Logans My taxi driver says that our first President had far too much respect, both for himself and his high office, to use the public funds to pay for a mud-slinging, no-holds-barred campaign by claiming it was “nonpolitical.” He says the people of this country trusted George Washington because they knew that, when he spoke to them, he told the truth. Americans, he thinks, have not changed much. They still want as their President a man whose words they know they can believe, * o ©

Warns Against Easier Divorce By Mrs. A. E. T., City.

Every day it is being made easier to get a divorce, which, of course, is

America seems to have lost her vision, and 3

we all know the sad consequences to a nation that loses its vision.

IN WASHINGTON—

Different Look

By PETER EDSON WASHINGTON, June 21—The 81st Congress that convenes in Washington next January will very definitely have a different look! Thirty. three senators have to be elected in November. Sen. Overton of Louisiana died.

Seven veterans are . resigning: Capper of

Kansas, Hawkes of New Jersey, White of Maine, Moore of Oklahoma, Bushfield of South Dakota, Hatch of New Mexico and Pappy O’Daniel of Texas. Four Republicans face tough battles for re-eléction: Ball of Minnesota, Brooks of Illinois, Cooper of Kentucky, Revercomb of West Virginia. . Two Democrats are in the same boat: Johnson of Colorado and Tom Stewart of Tennessee. Sen. Umstead of North.Caroling has already been defeated in state primary. All 435 of the Congressmen must stand for re-election. Four important Republican committee chairmen have announced that they may not run for re-election. but may change their minds: Knutson of Minnesota, Andrews of New York, Dirksen of Illinois, Hartley of New Jersey. “Nearly 100 House seats were won in the 1946 election by a margin of less than 5 per cent. A change of that much the other way this November would mean many new faces, Present division is 245 Republican, 185 Dem-

- ocrat, two American Labor, three vacancies.

Record Crop of Graduates—What it Means

their parents’ class.. Only rarely could an exceptional individual overleap some of the barriers. We are only a few centuries’ away from feudalism—which was the perfection of this class system.. Under it the farmer's boy was born to the farm, the cobbler’s boy to the last and the butcher's boy to the block—no matter how good they might be. And the aristocrat’s boy was born to luxury and privilege, no matter how bad he might be. , This plan resulted in the limited development of some skills which were carried on from generation to generatiofi:sjust as the prolonged breeding of a strain of horses to tHe track, or of cows to the dairy, results in better racers and milkBut also it resulted in millions of square pegs in round Y:'ss—workers who hated their jobs, saw in them only drudgery and had no incentive or desire to improve them: It meant millions of ignorant people schooled just enough to equip. them for tasks to which the Jecident of birth had destined Shen,

cers.

MANKIND began to make marked progress only as those

goes on.

bartiers were broken. ‘That is, when people began to get the right to live their own lives. country, but steadily they have been kicked down—and the job

All the barriers aren’t gone in this

This change was very slow, except in America. Here it was

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speeded up because the new world was populated largely by exiles from the restraints of the old. Peopla who rebelled, against being “fenced in” by clags, rule and ‘custom struck out on their own in a wilderness. Everybody knows, at least vaguely, what resulted. This cousyy in a century made more progress than all the rest of the world had made in thousands of years. So, today, the rest of the world looks toward

Yet, strangely enough, in the rest of the world theresis a vast return to feudalism under new forms and catch phrases. Man, again, is turned into a cog in a vast machine—this _ run by the state. That's a brief description of modern communism and socialism. Also of what Hitler and Mussolini devised. Also of what - feudalism was. a aa: dictatorships. : Basically they were and are all alike.

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