Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1948 — Page 14

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Stalin's Stake in Berlin

RUSSIAN blockade of allied L Germans in West Berlin is close to an act of war. Amer. oF {ean and British authorities say they will not be driven out + | of the German capital short of war. 1" hough the Russians have let a few food barges © | Fihrough their barsier, they obviously are determined to run | | the allies out of Berlin if posible. Thee 4. As Berlin is the heart of Germany, Germany is the 15 heart of Burope. Stalin evidently figurés that, if we retreat {1 | from Berlin to avoid a clash, we shall retreat from all _ Burope for the same purpose. “86 mich more thes “face” is involved. 1f that were all; the western doubtless would have been out of oo Berlin long before this. But it is a question of keeping faith, © | and thereby holding allies which we shall otherwise lose. SL Sines V.I0 Day the gravest weakness of democratic . Hurope has been the fear, almost the obsession, that the United States would walk out as it did after World War I _ That prevented the democratic groups of France and Italy —4and much mote the liberal minority in Germany-from sticking their necks out. : 1f America were to withdraw, Stalin would take over and purge all those who had shown their democratic symspathies when the Yanks were there.

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¥ - o " » . ONLY RE Y have nh pin 8 Byropoans ash partially persuaded by the Marsh ’ resoluHo of fupport for regional defenss pacts, and the Amerjean pledge to contitiue military occupation of Germany until peace is assured, that we intend to stay. Now, if we run from Berlin, that hard-won and precarious confidence in the solidarity of the West under Amerjoan leadership will be lost beyond recovery. This, as well as the military advance of the aggressor, is what Winston Churchill in mind when he called the . Berlin crisis a potential Munich. _ Appeasement of the aggressor during and after the ~Mutiich eliallenge by Hitler was justified on the ground that .it bought time. Later events showed the falsity of that : ft a8 the aggressor greatly strengthened his strategle and undermined the allies, he was able to use. the extra time for faster military preparation than the © Postponement of the showdown thus played into the

“~f4r greater than Russia’s—not in Berlin, or even perhaps it Western Europe in a military sense—but certainly on a Moscow's boast that it has atomic weapons is probably a bluff today, though that may be a fact in & year or so... counted on to knock us out have not occurred—there is no economic jon and the presidential campaign has not divided us on foreign and defense policies. : : “nomic restoration of Western Europe, and with Britain and . the European democracies setting up a West German state. "Meanwhile, Russia has aggressor’s indigestion. © Her fifth columnists have lost in France and Italy for “the moment at least, She has been able to hold Czechoslovakia only by a ruthlessness which is a warning to all Europe. Her Polish dupes distrust her flirtation with the : And her strongest military outpost, Yugoslavia, is so ““far out on its own imperialist line that the Kremlin's Cominform has read Marshal Tito out of the family. “But the probability that Stalin is leading from weak--<ness rather than from strength does not make the situation “any less critical. . On the contrary, the cornered rat is the most dan- _ gerous.

+>J A Program for Our City : THOSE who have their doubts about the vision of the 4 ; younger generation and its capacity to cope with com- % “munity problems should have heard Carl R. Dortch’s speech i+’ yesterday before the Rotary Club. § | 3 Mr. Dortch, young as businessmen go, is a figure man. a "He knows governmental accounting, and how to make the Fa ‘books balance. 1 He put Indianapolis under his accounting microscope and told Rotarians that the financial plight of the city is - far from hopeless. He came up with reasonable suggestions as to what we ought to do about our governmental pocket- »: book. : 7 He said most cities could be more efficient. They would 4 .save money. He said they ought to be accountable for their if “purchasing and their bookkeeping. Most businesses are, if + they keep going, and cities ought to do likewise. 3 He believes personnel should not be swept in and out ..with every change of party in power, but trained personnel “ should be kept on the job. . He would overhaul the township system of goverx- ‘» ment and annex suburban communities. He is in favor of equitable tax assessment and the strict enforcement of + traffic stickers with parking meters as a side source of income. et iol A 514 He favors .the state getting out of the property tax _, field and redistributing the cigaret tax on a per-capita basis. He even contended that we could afford to issue a “ few bonds for needed capital improvements, and if neces- » sary, put a “top layer” on the gross income tax for cities. ‘We grant that carrying out his suggestions is much ore di Ahan putting them into words. But we have > mayors should weigh carefully his

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for me, A gladness I can never quite explain,

In Tune . With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue OLD JUNE

A néw-look ruffied petticoat,

With life in present tenses When man and mate co-operate To “rear” the consequences!

A night in June, a low-swung moon--The old and new combine In beautiful confusion of Man's choice and love's design And yet, had we thé right to say How love in June commences

ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Columbo.

THE VALUE OF A GIFT

I'm convinced! The simple thi of life are the sweetest! r ngs \

I visited a neighbor today, down the road, and hastily plucked a wild rose, fully blooming amid the roadside weeds. When presented the $iiple bloom t6 her, I saw a sweet, tender sills of appreciation adorn her face. She said it was lovely and tenderly placed it in water to see the buds open. How could any high-priced gift bring more enjoyment than this tiny wild rose brought to a woman by my hasty act. We are too prone to mark gifts with price tags. The real gold is that of spirit-blessing, of tender regard for the gift. The smile and tender caressing of a wild rose brought anew the lesson of a simple gift's worth. May all of us take heed!

«JOSEPHINE BUCK, Westfield. h oo

THE ONLOOKER

Another Me lives in my head And watches all I do... She wonders when I'm being nice If I am really true!

Bhe narrows smiling eyes at me And quirks a puzsiéed brow... As if Bhe queries “Could it be “That you are acting now?”

It's truly disconcerting To voice a platitude, While Bhe asks, “Is that what you think? “Or what you THINK you should?”

This other Me is most unkind ~ With all Her doubt of me.., She never will allow me to Be good complacently! «MABEL NEWMAN Oakland City.

BRIEF ABSENCE

Sometimes, when only for a little while, 1 needs must quit my home, I go away : With a vague sadness—even though I smile 10 those I leave, I am not gay; decayse of its great worth, But more becauss its friendly walls unite Us each to each more closely, and the earth To me, without it, would hold small delight.

And when at nightfall I return again, And glimpse the homes lights waiting there

Swells in my breast, for with new sight I see That home and loved ones only grow more

dear More Step cherished with each passing year, MAR ARET E BRUNER, New Oastle.

BROWN BROWSINGS

Getting along with your fellowmen and meriting friends are about the best assets a man can have, plus, of course, the ability to serve them meekly. Too many’ of our polis ticlans are prone to try to hoodwink their fellowmen into voting for them, but a fool and Nis promises are always unmasked— eventually, if not now. * * Then, too, it's a fine accomplishment to be able to live with yourself. How many times has a smooth rascal looked into the mirror while shaving and mentally blushed. To be able to go to bed at night with a clear conscience is worth more than a hypocrite's wealth, ~THE BROWN COUNTY SAGE.

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At Old Outdoor

RIGHT NOW, when the whole world is hysterical, is as good a time as any to tell you that some 40 years Indianapolis not only tolerated, but actually countenanced, an outdoor forum where anybody with a message could shoot off his mouth to his heart's content. It worked because the policeman on the beat had both ears stuffed with cotton. The forum operated on the corner of Washington St and. Kentucky Ave, possibly the least likely place in Indianapolis today to look for heresy. And the best time of the week to watch the performance was §

established orthodox churches. Compared with the church, the forum was the better place to learn what was ailing this sick world. And what was even more to the point — to learn how to cure this sick world.

On rainléss summer Sundays, it often took from two o'clock in the afternoon until 11 at night to diagnose and prescribe for the patient. Indeed, on those occasions everything under the sun from agnosticism 4»? Darwinism to socialism and Henry George, hciuding even the cult of Fabianism which Geo! Bernard Shaw was preaching in London at the time. 1 still remember some of the headliners. Big jolly “Mother Waller” always wore a White pancake hat and a white flowing garment which sometimes looked like a bathrobe and sometimes like a classic toga. It all depended on the mood I was in.

Something Wrong With Bible

MOTHER WALLER always came to the corner leading a group of colored men and women who served as her chorus. Boon as she had the crowd gathered around her, she started singing: :

“Oh, we has a Baptist church, Oh Lawd, we has a Methodist church, Oh yes, other creeds and records; But when we search the Bible—ah Through and through— There is no church but de church of God.”

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

Anybody Could Shoot Off Mouth

a day : people were supposed td be in

‘Forum’ Here

After which the chorus would swing in with:

“here's something wrong about de Bible 1 believe, : There's something wrong about de Bible Oh, I' know.” In the many times I listened to Mother wallet's complaint, I never learned what was wrong with the Bible. On other siibjects, however, she was more specific. What she had to say about indianapolis saloons, for instance, was aplenty. Augustus Grassow was another headliner. He was a vegetarian and to enhance his lean hungry look, he woré hig hair down to his shoulders. His picturesquenéss was achieved without effort of labor on his part; ih which respect his art was perhaps of & higher order than that of Mother Waller. However, Mr. Grassow was too nervous to suit me. He had a distracting habit of walking up and down thé curb and sometimes got so far away from me that I lost the thread of his thought. Mr. Grassow, I remember, had it all figured out that 2872 A. D. was the date of the millennium.

Inherited $500 and Retired

“UNCLE” DAY was the best of the Social{sts to appear in the outdoor fortim. Indeed, he was so good that he lasted the better part of free years. He was a full-bearded earnest Englishman who never resorted to makeup of any kind to. win his audierces. The only thing to set him apart from other men was the fact that he never wore a necktie. Uncle Day always started his speech in a kind of whisper — a trade-trick, I was told — after which he worked up to a ¢limax. When the southwest wind was right, the peroration of his speech could be heard as far as Market St. It was by way of one of his climaxes that I first heard the name of Karl Marx who, from what I could gather at the time, was determined to redistribute the wealth of the world and thus get rid of the wicked rich. A couple of years after he left Indianapolis, some Marco Polo returned with the news that Uncle Day had become the beneficiary of 100 pounds of sterling (the equivalent of $500 at the time). Seems that a well-to-do relative of his in England had died. The windfall enabled Uncle Day to retire, with the result that from

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ur Sota , hg Boing Why Hold an Election By Harry J. Gasper, 908 BE. 11th St. Folks, you have just recently fead, seen ang heard the Republican three-ring circus in Pr Adelphia. They wound up thelr act with a ice

package window dressing. to sort of front for the boys who really control the party and Congress. : Can't you just hear the groans from the Republican and press if the Democratis ek his running mate?

inad . The sax: that stood for 8 r the few. same party at has controlled Congress for the past two years, while prices have gone y out of line with wages. And low cost housing is fienexistent. And remember, this Dewey is the same little boy that had a ood spanking four years

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What's ‘Conscientious Objector’?

A great many sayings of the past have been understood. Sayings of the present ars mise understood, and no doubt there will be sayings of tomorrow that will be the same. There are thousands of people, like myseif, who do not understand the saying of being a “conscientious objector.” ° We know there are all kinds of doctrines and 2eligious factions in the continental United The most common expreasion and a very weak definition is, that man doesn't believe ig fighting. E Jia AB a peace-loving nition and a citizen enjoying the four fresdomi; handed down by aur forefathers, Who pioheered thé vast territory which grew- into this mighty Yankee homeland, we are willing to admit we ¢annot undenand the phrase “consefentious:Bbjettor.” X Perhaps there is some: individual, well enough informed, that will enlighten all of us who do not underming That! this is all about.

Wants More Pay as Nurse By Eliza M,, Oity i Many plé don't want to pay a practical nurse a living wage. , Ihave had a lot of calls but people here only want to pay a nurse $20 to $35 per week. People don’t say to the doctor, I can't pay you only 86 many dollars. But who really does the hard work day and night if needs be? Why the nurse. 2 Should #he be paid a living Wage or should she atruggle along on nothing? If het children get sick does anyone work for her for & féw dollars. ‘ I had & man ask me how much I charged for 20-hour duty. I told him $10. He said he could get nurses for $25 per week. | That's only 50 cénts an hout. : Some people think A practical nurse also should be a hoiise keeper. They expect us 10 work hour after hour to Help their loved ones regain health. It's too much to expect us to do all the house work, cooking and dishwashing « + . all this for four or five dollars per day. We can’t live on those wages and support children any bettér than you can.

that day on he never again preached socialism.

Can you see why it is hard to get a nurse?

IN WASHINGTON. . . By Peter Edson

this country may need most is a new timetable.

admit it.

The

80 that's when they had to be held this year.

more exactly the popular vote.

T.odge Jr, of Massachusetts, wh

Hayes in 1876 and Benjamin Harrison in 1888.

‘us well finacially.

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Revise Timetable?

WASHINGTON, June 30—-Compounded confusion of the last two weeks’ rush in Congress, followed immediately by the Republican Convention in Philadelphia, pring out the fact that what

The one which the U. B. has been running on has been revised only once in recent years. That was when Inauguration Day was changed from Mar. 4 to Jan. 20, for Roosevelt's second term, The idea of that change was to cut down the time lapse between election and inauguration of a new administration from four months to two. The railroad had made it possible for a newly elected official to get to Washington in less than four months, but it took the government 150 years to wake up and

Before the wars, Congress had so little to do that it could easily wind up its business in time to adjourn and go home before the conventions. Forty years ago, Congress adjourned May 30. Twenty years ago, Congress adjourned May 29.

THIS YEAR Congress wound up on June 20 only by working overtime on overtime. The amount of work it did was really remarkable. Even #0, it had to hurry through a lot of business without careful consideration and it left a lot of matters undone. I Legislative Reorganization Act of two years ago set July 30 as adjournment date, If Congress had had another month to work in, it could have done a better job. But nominating conventions have traditionally been held in late June and early July, |*

This schedule may have been all right before the days of’ the telegraph, radio, the airplane and television: When the courmtry was strictly on a mud-road schedule, it was necessary to have four months between nominating convention and election. That gave the candidates time to tour the country by horse and buggy if necessary to let the voters hear their golden voices and see how handsome they were. With todays faster media of travel and communication, the voters don't need that much time to make up their minds. And no particular point is served by keeping the country stirred up for 10 months of every fourth year, just to play politics, Conventions in cooler September, with elections in November or later, would do the trick just as well. The country doesn't =close down in early winter as it did before the automobile.

form adopted at Philadelpria is the one calling’ for revision of procedure for election of President and Vice President to reflect

This is another of the good ideas from Sen. Henry Cabot was chairman of the Resolutions Comittee that drafted the Philadelphia platform. Three times in U. 8. history this system has resulted in election of a President who did not receive & majority of the popular vote. They were John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford B.

* On top of this, the whole primary election system and the

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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3 COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. 7. M. REQ. U. 8. PAT. Orn:

“Mom waits till we start to play ball to tell us to mow the lawn! Are you going to let your own daughter order us

PERHAPS the most hopeful piaak-in the Republican plat- around like that?

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convegtion procedure.

random methods of selecting delegates to national nominating conventions could stand a going over. Less than half the 1094 delegates at the Philadelphia GOP convention were elected by the people. appointed by the bosses, it was only natural that they acted

That's why so many students of government believe there is merit in the idea of direct primary election of candidates for the presidency; doing away with the whole cumbersome and outmoded : - other Communist Shoreny .

The other half being

~. Little by little, however, Tito un od using Moscow's propaganda machine to make the people believe ovitch was & traitor working with the axis. _At the same time he was careful to promise “full democratit rights, the inyiolability of private property,” and all “every possible opportunity for individual initiative in in dustry and economic enterprise.” of Tito's promises were almost exactly the same as those the great Croat leader Raditch, the Bulgarian Stamboulin and others, who merely wished to give the poor an eq It was only after he had gathered all the power into his ) hands that he made himself dictator “under Moscow's wing. . = It was not that Tito had fooled the informed. - On the cob trary, these knew him for a Communist, trained in Mosco™

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Break in Red Front

WASHINGTON, June 30-—The purging of Marshal Tito, Red dictator of Yugoslavia, is widely regarded here as the most ig nificant break in the world Communist front since the war. Whatever happens to him will mark a milestone of history behind the iron curtain. Tito has returned to Belgrade, but reports say he has again defied the Kremlin by permitting his Communist Barty to propose a Yugoslav-Bulgarian-Albanian federation. The federation pro posal seemed to be directed against Russia. However, the Yugo slav proposal carefully calls for full co-operation with the Soviet Union. A Prague Communist newspaper says Tito 8 trying to oust the Soviets from world leadership of communism, = ¢ &

ACCUSED of thinking for himself, the Communist communis que published at Prague charges Tito with party crime after party crime, including Trotskyism, and calls on the Yugoslav faithful to bring him to see “the error of his ways.” Tito’s chief “error” apparently has been to doubt that thé West was a greater menace than the Soviets. It is rumo that he doesn’t believe even the Marshall Plan is wholly bad . Yugoslavia never has been & “natural” for communism. I 18 a poor country—but the vast majority of the population ¥ composed of Serbs. Mostly small farmers who have to grub for a living. But they are proud, individualistic, freedom-loving and democratic. Traditionally they have always made it tough for those who would enslave them. : During the war they stood firm against Hitler in favor of the allies. Tito's communism is not what won & considerable proportion of Yugoslavs over’ to his banner. He appeared as $ “liberator” from the Niwl yoke.

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