Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 June 1948 — Page 12

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THE Republican platform is a good job. "Like all platforms it is a compromise. Any genuinely national party with mass support represents a variety of regional and group interests. The test is its ability to reconcile these often conflicting pressures at a higher level of national and world welfare. The platform’ adopted by the Philadelphia convention. comes nearer than most to achieving that. i 1t js best in the planks on foreign relations and security. Some of the domestic planks are less forthright and progressive. But, as the issue of peace is paramount to all others today, Republican’ policy will be judged chiefly on that basis. a at : A lot of pious peace platitudes winged with fine words will riot do. What the country wants to know—and what the world is waiting to learn—is whether the Republican Party has a courageously constructive and practicable program in international affairs. "1s the GOP going back to isolationism? The question is not. academic~the Republican bosses in the House last week almost wrecked Marshall-Vandenberg foreign aid. ® wn ; ? “« =» AT PHILADELPHIA the platform committee went all out for the ‘Vandenberg policy, already indorsed by such candidates as Govs. Dewey, Warren and Stassen. Moreover it would keep this policy bipartisan. This is the ¢omimitment:” ~~ “Within the prudent limits of our own economic welfare, we shall co-operate on a basis of self-help and mutual aid to assist other peace-loving nations to restore their economic and to preserve and perpetuate the human rights and fundamental freedoms for which we -fought two wars and upon which dependable peace must be built.” : It encourages western European unity, regional defense pacts, and collective security against aggression— all under a United Nations. The United Nations is asked to establish international law, to provide the Armed Forces contemplated by its charter, and to eliminate the big power veto in"peaceful settlements. . 8B." ” . » THE DEFENSE planks are equally strong, except in the case of unmentioned UMT, In addition to maintenance of the Armed Services at a security level, they call for effective unification in the national defense department, and sufficient manpower for the services. In the case of Communists, the platform favors “such new legislation as may be necessary to expose {reasonable activities.” “as ]

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It supports anti-lynching legislation, laws to-maintain equal work opportunities regardless of race, color or religion, and abolition of the poll tax. oy The provision fof af improved labor law is deliberately vague. The farm planks offer little new. The public power plank could be stronger, federal aid to the states for slum clearance and low-rental housing is somewhat blunted by qualification. - ie : . Besides the usual pleas for economy and blasts at bureaucracy, there isa proposal for reform of the presidential electoral machinery. The approach to high prices and inflation cotitrol is weak. : To damn this proposed platform for being less than complete, when almost 100 subjects are covered in 2400 words, would be absurd. It must be taken as a whole. As such, despite some of its equivocations on domestic affairs and on reciprocal foreign trade, its average is high. Especially on the all-important issue of American leadership to stop Communist aggression and establish peace, it is an enlightened, courageous program. The convention which accepted this platform should pick presidential and vice presidential candidates who can be trusted to apply it. ‘The candidates are more important than the platform.

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Sound Counsel : WHEN Herbert Hoover retired from the White House few in the mood of that hour would hdve predicted that 15 years later he would be regarded as one of the ablest and most respected of our elder statesmen. The man who addressed the Republican convention in Philadelphia again demonstrated why he merits that distinction. The crowd's enthusiastic reception of that speech was further évidence of the high regard he has attained. It was the first show of genuine warmth in this conventioh—and the greatest demonstration given Mr. Hoover before any convention since he left the White House. In an atmosphere of rabid partisanship a lesser man might have taken advantage of the shift in the political tides to flay the opposition party and bask in the sun of personal vindication, Instead, Herbert Hoover loo beyond men and parties. He spoke of the continuing world crisis, of the grave problems which confront the American people. : His message was. one of faith and wice counsel, reflecting pride in our past and facing the future with vision and confidence. Our problems are no greater than Americans have met in other times, he said. We can accept the responsibilities of moral leadership in the world with few labilities. In 30 years of war, “We alone have taken no people’s land: we have oppressed no race of man, we have faced all the world in friendship . . . in war and in peace we have aided those whom we believe to be right . . . at the end of wars, we have aided foe as well as ally. What other nation has such a record?” - But to save civilization, we must remain strong, Mr. Hoover cautioned. We cannot have totalitarian. economics in the hands of ‘bureaucracy, and at the same time have

ment in the nation. Where that truth has not been recognized, totalitarian " have “provided the ladders upon which the Com-

states, U. 8. ns, - with such thoroughness that to this day I think a $1.10 a month. Telephone RIley 5551. | of him as perfect. Although he’ died when I° mons Give Light and the People Will Find Thew Ows Way was 7, he is still and will always be—my hero. i : : ~~ When I was 9 an interest in music was Sid : 3 slowly aroused, and I discovered another hero A Good Platform in the person of Fabien Sevitzky,

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Barton Rees Pogue HERO WORSHIP

Here worship 5 a thing, a very strange thing. One never knows When it is going to “bite” or when it’ will choose to leave

him alone, if ever. . i My first hero was my grandfather, Tolbert Lively, who thro his kindness and love succeeded

in blinding me fo his

I heard someone coming up the having anything bétter to do, I glanced in that direction to see who it was. His back was to me so I thinking. “Another one ‘of those college boys, yery dull and uninteresting . . . not worth a second glance.” (Don’t forget, I was only 11.) However, as the “college boy” reached the top of the steps and turned in my direction 1 gave the second glance, The shock of recognition caused me to sit bolt upright with eyes abulge. - It was Dr. ¢ Sevitzky! He smiled, said, “How do you do?” in very careful English, and continued down the hall. The incident was over, but my shattered nerves told me I wouldn't forget. Today at 18 I am supposedly past the hero worshiping stage. Yet, when I obtained Moses Smith's’ biography. of Koussevitzky, uncle of our own maestro, my first act was to check the index to see where Dr. Sevitzky came in: There was a footnote on page three and several other pages, starting with 236, were listed. : Well, I certainly wasn't going to start in the middle of the book. No; sir, I determined to read all the way through to those pages and read them in order. . 3 I read 20, 30, 40, 50 pages with almost disinterest: and then skipped to the. “dessert” on page 236. Why? Hero worship is a strange

thing. —FLORENCE HENDERSON, Indianapolis. so & y

A Michigan thief arrested for stealing twenty-four bathing suits won't need even one for ninety days. ; &

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How do city people know That summer is coming? They have no clover blossoms Where bees are y : How do-city people tell That summer is going? They have no fields of clover : Made sweet by mowing. ~—JUNE WINONA SNYDER, Indianapolis.

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THE BEE-PLANE

A golden bee-plane came to land one day Where frugal clover hid ambrosial honeydew; The pilot filled his ship of no man’s crew, Then with rich, dainjy cargo flew away. Out-of his wealth he gave firm waxen disks terproof great planes emgaged in war. g—though ill and weak—he offered for 9THé ‘building of health lost in battle risks. Each bee does daty—just as you and I : Should do—in times of conflict or of peace

Intent of hearts should be to glorify The God whose essence finds supreme release {n deeds that breed goodwill for all mankind. ' ELSIE PEARL OLIVER, Greenwood. ;

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WILD ROSE QUERY

A wild rose bloomed by the wayside, It was poised and of lovely hue, My heart grew light as I picked that rose, Tor I thought, my love, of you.

Quiescence came to my soul through the rose, So much of your love there I read;

The morning I found it dead? —~MEREDITH R. HASKETT. PS '® PROGRESS

Pushing a barrow in early life Gave me such an excellent start That I can have a wife and fam'ly

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‘And more should man do with will and mind.

How could you guess why my poor heart ached

And almost push a groc'ry cart. —F. P. M,; Indianapolis.

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

R. L. Stevenson’s

Hoosier Wife

Was the Boss, Smoked Cigarets

IT REMAINED for a confirmed bachelor, In the person of William George Sullivan, to set me straight on the number of children borne by Mrs. Samuel Osbourne (the Indianapolis girl who eventually married Robert Louis Stevenson). It turns out there were four—one more than I had credited her with. The blow left me hanging on the ropes. Mr. Sullivan, it appears, got his information by way of Scribner's American edition of an English book written by George E. Brown, a wellknown -British chemist (not an ordinary apothecary, mind you, but one who dabbles in : analytical chemistry). So far as Mr. Sullivan knows, it is his only non-technical work. And knowing Mr. Sullivan for the bibliophile that he js, I'll take his word for it. ” The story's complete title is “A BOOK OF L. 8,: Works, Travels, Friends and Commentators,” a label which when you think it through, isn’t much of an invitation to go in search of Mr. Stevenson's stepchildren. But then you don’t know Mr. Sullivan. His inteltecin ‘curiousity reaches back to Yale (Class ). Well, not to keep you dangling any longer, it was in this book that Mr. Sullivan dug up a clause of Mrs. Stevenson's last will and testament. And, if you'll promise to hold on to your seat, I'll quote the whole of it: “To Katherine Durham Osbourne (a daughter) of incredible ferocity, who lived on my bounty for many years, at the same time pursuing me with malicious slander, I leave five dollars.”

‘A Critic on the Hearth’

WITH THE reticence inherent in most Englishmen—not all, mind you, but most—Mr, Brown hasn't another word to say about Katherine. Nor does he mention the place where Katherine's mother was born. Which is to say that nowhere in the entire book is there any mention of Indianapolis, an amission Which might easily prejudice readers like myself. : However, Mr. Brown sheds so much light on--Mr. Stevenson's make-up that I, for one, forgive him everything. Who but a Britishborn ‘chemist with the analytical powers of Mr. Brown could have thought up the happy

phrase “a critic on the hearth” to describe Mrs. Stevenson's constant watching over her husband for fear he might slip something into his writing not to her liking? J Even more significant is Mr. Brown's inclusion of Stevenson’s own characterization of his wife. It's part of a letter addressed to J. M. Barrie pressing him to visit the Stevensons in Somoa. “She runs the show,” says Stevenson adoringly. “Infinitely little, extraordinary wig of grey curls, handsome waxen face like Napoleon’s, insane black eyes, boy’s hands, tiny bare feet, a cigaret, wild blue native dress, usually spotted with garden mold. Hellish energy; relieved by fortnights of entire hibernation. Doctors everybody, will doctor you, cannot be doctored herself. The living partisan.”

Story of the Prissy Teacher

THE SPECTACLE of Mrs. Stevenson smoking a cigaret (hinted at in the letter) recalis

. an early short story written by John Stein-

beck... It tickled. me no end when, years ago, Ireadit.. = _ ly : The tale, if I remember torrectly, has to do with a prim and prissy San Francisco school teacher who, one day way back in 1880, is seized with the crazy notion of spending her spring vacations in Monterey. The perilous trip to reach the little coast town at that time provides Mr. Steinbeck with the necessary material to parade his literary power. Well, finally, she reaches Monterey and, snooping around the picturesque old town, she comes across a high garden wall, the gate of which stands open. Peering through the opening to the patio beyond, she sees a youngish foreign-looking man in earnest conversation with a woman at least 10 years his senior. The woman is smoking a cigaret and Mr, Steinbeck makes the most of it, you bet, ‘when he depicts the horror of the schoolmarm as

~ she looks in on the sinful scene.

The sinner was, of course, Mrs. Samuel Osbourne; the man beside her, Robert Louis Stevenson. And like as not (if T may be allowed a guess) this was the historic moment the two were planning the date of their impending marriage. ’ The two exhibits submitted by Messrs, Brown and Steinbeck ought to be enough to put an end to the twaddle peddled by slovenly -amateur historians that Indianapolis girls didn’t start smoking cigarets until after the turn of the century. :

1 do not agree with a word that you ay, bu

-now-for us? — : Slay. = This all is definite proef why we should have another political party-for the Demo. eratic and Republican parties go down the ling

er. . ; At present we: have no choice of govern. ment. ‘ . : The New Deal gave us a Communist social security law; the Republicans made us into a military nation. What kind of funny legisiation do you thing Wallace and his pals could dream up? 2. 0 ®

D: kes Gas Co. Setup By T. M. McGuire, 11268 Eugene St. The Mayor should be thanked and encour aged for the stand he has taken with the Cit. izens Gas Co. : Our gas company in theory is a co-opera. tive corporatien, owned by the gas users of Iadianapolis. In practice, however, it is an un. regulated monopoly. : Most gas users, like -myself, are working people. We do not approve of $35 a day for strikebreakers used a few months ago to prevent recognition of organized labor. Neither do we look kindly on a $30,000 a year salary for a man to run the plant and high salaries for several other officials whom we believe arp paid too much. The flat increase of $4 a ton on the price of coke a year ago was very arbitrary. They have flouted the anti-pollution ordi nance of our city, and are telling us, the gas consumer and actual owners of the gas com: pany, it is none of our business: 1 I, for one, say nof one siggle dollar of ths taxpayers’ money to back bonds of this Cit izens Gas Co. * 9

| Show Cousin Si the City By T.E. L. Showing cousin the town. Got in my car, strapped cousin Si down, rode along merrily for about 50 feet, bang went a tire, not so bad though, chuckhole only 7 inches deep. Got her fixed, strapped in Si, breezed along when Si said you just chuckhole No. 15, but as I looked at him No. 18 got me railroad

told Si going to get for it. . ¥ Stopped at the park, bought two soft drinks (20 cents), ‘said they would be 'a nickel soon Got started again, started to’ rain. Went through water hole, made it OK. Started through another, 8i said hold it I ¢an't swim. Now 8i hold on, I said, we are going to get it. fixed soon. ‘Next stop at the i store. Bought a comic book, a good clean one. I said Jers, go howe 8i, get in, ope he says getting tired of h “soon.” Think I'll walk. ne SuFiee . ¢ ¢ @

Praises Schricker's Record By Bill Holmes, 120 Walnut St., Shelbyville Last Tue the ' Democrat: genvention named their ca te for Governor. They, I believe, acted in the interest of the entire population of the state of Indiana when they chose Henry F. Schricker. His record is one of the most outstanding of elected office holders in the history of this state. In 1940 when elected Governor (being the only Democrat élected on the state ticket) he

serving in that office, that a Governor of one party and a legislature of another party cat work in accord to the interest of the. people. I believe if voters of this state will return this fine example of a man to the office of Governor in so doing they will have well per formed thé duty of electing a Governor who will serve to the best interest of all people in this

great state of Indiana.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Yank Dollar So Good It's Costing Us Plenty |

REGARDLESS of who is nominated at Philadelphia or

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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U.S. AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

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Travels Fast as News

PHILADELPHIA, June 23—In all the welter of speculation

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proved that bearing in mind the obligations of |

personal liberty for the people and representative govern-

whether the President is a Republican or a Democrat, the next administration will’ give the European Recovery Program a going-over. ; i Both platforms are certain to pledge the parties to U. 8. . ‘help for other peace-l6ving nations—and to carry out the mutuals ald and self-help fedfures of the Marshall Plan. But unless the, nations receiving this aid live up to their -end of the bargains, Congress is certain to ask whether the expenditure of further billions is wogthwhile. Already there exists a growing misunderstanding between. |, the United States and the Marshall Plan countries with regard to the conditions under which aid is supposed to be given.

Criticism and Grumbling

THE United States regards the ERP as being what its name implied—a recovery program—not another UNRRA or vast international soup kitchen. It expects the end result of the Marshall Plan to be a Europe that can stand on its own feet. Europe, on the other hand, is beginning to complain about thé “conditions.” Even in England—where maximum understanding of American intent is to be expected—there is criticism and grumbling. Moscow has been doing its utmost to wreck. the. Marshall Plan calling it “American Dollar Imperialism” which enslaves those it helps. : Now certain circles in Britain and Western Europe are * playing into the hands of the Kremlin at least by inferring similar motives. 3 American taxpayers have advanced billions of dollars to bolster up the English pound. Yet British critics are saying that the U. 8. objective is to make the dollar supreme,

. COPR. 1948 BY WEA SERVICE. WR. 7. M. REC. ¥. &. PAT. OFF.

"So what if your uncle has got the biggest wart in fown on. his nose? I'll bet you never saw my grandfather with his teeth out!"

{ | and rumeor, one thing is true of this convention. 3 Never before has the news of any event been so extensively and lovingly spread to a waiting world as the events in the {- drama occur. = In addition to the familiar techniques—press, radio, news | * reels— is the new one of television. This complicated new tech" | nology, with the hundreds of specialists required for its opera: tion, adds another dimension in reporting. The television lights burn fiercely in the steamy hall. : : ! On either side of the auditorium are elevated platforms 0B which batteries of newsreel cameramen grind away. The awkward-looking television recorders are spotted high up. about the galleries.

. Best-‘Covered’ Convention

; 4 PRESS and radio have been dealt with most generously bY |" the GOP committe on arrangements. Of the 13,106 seats in thé “hall, more than 2000 are given over to men and women writing and broadcasting. They stretch out in serried ranks on either : side of the platform and the runway that gives onto it. “ty Back of the platform in glass-inclosed cages are the broad: : sasting © BootEs of all he major networks. . Here . — rt schnicians, sweating like ey slaves, pour millio words ‘into ‘the ether. Salley Saves, your Never at any convention beforé have there been so many correspondents. of foreign newspapers and press associations. _ By cable and wireless telephone more millions of words are going ou: to every corner of the globe. ; 2

‘Have We Overdone Technology? ..

BACK OF the men and women. who put the words paper o* into a microphone is an army of technicians.

down 08 tening to an anxious politico work his way through

. They Lack Dollars—Can’t Buy Ei THE DOLLAR, of course, is pretty nearly that. This is so, not because the U. 8. has willed ‘it, but because of world conditions. : In fact, it Is costly to this country to have it so. That is why the U. 8. must give away billions of dollars worth. Qf. supplies instead of selling them. hud ; Not only Europe can't buy American products for lack of dollars—but all Latin America, the Far East and the rest of. the world are in the same boat. Among other things, the United States is seeking to establish an acceptable rate of exchange with the universally sought

currencies.

There ,are some

es have boarded theship of state.”

dollar. Because the British pound is artifically pegged at ap-

proximately $4, but can be bought on the world market at prices as low as $2, Britain faces a serious sterling® crisis. : Far from seeking to “capture the sterling ‘area; the U. 8, is trying to help stabilize the pound as well as other foreign

It knows only too well that further chaos in this field may wreck the thing it hopes to do—bring about world a REE : in the United States who have been sayw ing that Europe intends to leave Uncle Sam holding the bag. But these have been in the minority. Bide However, much can happen between the Philadelphia convention and Jan. 20 when a new administration and a new Congregs take over and begin to review the ERP. Si A

mediocre speech, wilting in the glare of light beating down him, you can’t help but wonder if we hayen't overdone this ness of technology. : With all these fantastic new devices for magnifying tb human voice {o infinity, there is the dark suspicion that no 0% has anything much to say. ; The instruments of the new’technology are so demanding so insistent, that they get in the way of the kind of express

The men who met in that constitutional assembly - television, even the telegraph. =. 2 . Yét their words echoed around the globe. Perhaps there's a moral in this for us today. 2 and costly apparatus tha ‘ransmits the slightest whisper:

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