Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 July 1948 — Page 12

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The Philadelphia Boomerang

THE opening of the Democratic convention of 1948 is barren of dramatics in the usual sense. But it is full of drama in another. It is the drama that always can be found } in contrasts. To get the complete effect, one must project himself back four years—or eight, or 12, or 16. Then, the Democrats were certain; radiant over what looked like victory; belligerent; cocky. Now they reek confusion; they are all thumbs; defeatists; every man for himself; try anything once; desperate; groping; groggy; punch-drunk and slap-happy. They don't like each other and they're not high on themselves. The strongest figure in their party turns out to be none other than Harry Truman, from under whom so many tried to pull the rug—and to whom now so many are now beginning to kowtow. Mr. Truman is their ony hope. They ran out on their leader. Now they run back, explaining, explaining, explaining, when no explanation can explain. : It isn't their leader who's to blame. It is, instead, we think, the over-long habit of New Deal coat-tail riding to which they had become so comfortably accustomed through 16 years—not just one term, not two, not three terms, but, count ’em, four.

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Good Start on Smoke Abatement

THERE 1S still much to be done before Indianapolis skies are rid of the costly, wasteful nuisance of smoke. But, as Louis Armstrong's story pointed up in Saturday’s Times, the first real start on smoke elimination has : been made. The map in the office of Robert L. Wolf, city } combustion engineer, shows 706 spots that used to smog up the atmosphere but don't any longer. His records show 1000 industrial concerns that have undertaken to eliminate, or greatly reduce, smoke. Railroads are cooperating, and hope to.replace many smoking locomotives ge! + with Diesel engines soon. 5 & ©. The net result is a saving of many thousands of. dolA lars a year — it probably runs into the millions, actually h —for Indianapolis. Chimneys that emit smoke are wasting costly fuel, endangering health, running up cleaning bills to astronggical figures for the whole ¢ity. St. Louis had achieved a notable record in smoke elimination’ before the war, with methods vastly more drastic than those employed here. Indianapolis, in spite of war-imposed difficulties, has made a fine start in that same direction. A long, determined, steady campaign can eventually bring We are happy to note that Mgyor Feeney, on Saturday, scotched some rumors that have been getting around of drastic changes in the department, including, perhaps, a new engineer. We agree with the Mayor that we “have a cembustion engineer’'—and, from the results he has produced so far, it would seem to us a pretty good one.

Going Our Way?

MEMBERS. CF Meridian Street Methodist Church are enthusiastic, and rightly so, this week, about William J.—better known as “Curly”’—Ash. The congregation needed some help on its drive for funds to build its new church, which was pretty obviously no job for an amateur. After careful consideration its building fund committee undertook to employ Mr. Ash, who has directed some very successful campaigns around here. Mr. Ash wouldn't be employed — or at least not for pay. He viewed the whole project, instead, as something 2 that ought to be done for the good of the Meridian Street a congregation, the welfare of all churches and the benefit ? of the whole community. On that basis he offered to help, ; : without pay, pitched in vigorously to get it done. The tl drive ended last week, with nearly $600,000 pledged and : t the new church building assured, a result for which his effH forts are largely credited. : The interesting angle to the whole affair, to us, is that Mr. Ash isn't a member of the Meridian Street congregation at all, or even of the Methodist Church. Mr. Ash, a “+ Roman Catholic, belongs to St. Joan of Arc Church. We have long held the high opinion of Curly Ash which the Methodists who worked Sth him and under his skillful direction in this campaign now share with us. And congratulations are due the Meridian Street church not only for successful completion of this great enterprise, but also for one of the finest examples of co-operation, without { regard to denominational differences, that this community : has seen.

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i | Nothing to Worry About | ‘THE government wound up the fiscal year with a record & budget surplus of well over $8,000,000,000. But our | officials are taking manful steps to cope with this unprece- [! dented profit. : For one thing, civilian employees are still being added to the government payroll at-an average rate of 500 a day, 1 as they have been for the past six months. The 1948 tax | cut will reduce fiscal 1949 revenues by several billions, and LE Rep. Knutson promises he'll try to put through even bigger pile 31. reductions. So it appears that the country can just look at the surplus, admire it, and forget it. Like Halley's Comet, it is unlikly that it will be around again for some time.

Hope Dies Hard

: JDESPITE Gen. Eisenhower's reiteration of his determinaa tion not to be a candidate, there are undoubtedly some Ty stop-Truman” hopefuls who won't accept the fact until the - general goes on the air and croons that old favorite “They

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Barton Rees Pogue GRANDMA'S 'NEW LOOK’

The other day, on an Indianapolis-bound { bus, my chair companion held a notebook in firm grasp, and, as we jogged along, the young lady worked on sketches of a mid-summer frock. She was quite expert at featuring details of the latest faghion. My curiosity won over my } manners, and I asked ff she were a dress

type dress that my the city—only of course, mother won't permit her to wear it without hemline alterations. “You see,” she addéd apologetically, “grandmother wants a real long skirt. Imagine grandmother in the NEW look.” We both laughed, which proves no one understands anything. DOROTHY ANN, Anderson. * ¢ ¢

HAPPY EXAMPLE

The sun came down On a damp little spot warmed it

Of motionless dirt Into a pansy ' Grew.

The pansies smiled Into a pool And shook their Laughing heads, When strangers saw them They went home

And planted Pansy beds. OLIVE BODE BROWN, Fountain City. ¢ oo 9

CHARACTER READINGS

How many paper towels does a man need to use, in a public washroom? He needs a sufficient number to express his character, which number may be less than enough or more than enough to dry his hands. Using no towel at all (drying hands on his own handkerchief) expresses inferiority. To the onlooker the use of one towel conveys timidity; two towels, temerity;’ three towels, rapacity; four towels, pomposity; , five towels, asininity! . ~HOOSIER OBSERVER.

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AWAY

I heard a mourning dove, Near my window, sing of love; There was sadness in the note, And it sounded so remote: “Oh, who's gone away? Gone—away?”

Again I heard it plain, When it moved on down the lane, And I thought of those away, As I had for many a day: “Oh, who's gone away? Gone?”

I caught the secret of its song Over which I'd pondered long. It brought so near and dear The ones that are not here: “I know who's away, Away." . & ~—MAY ADAMS ARBUCKLE, | Elizabethtown.

ONE MAN'S OPINION— Our Freedom—

Of Being Foolish

By Edward T. Leech ; ONE OF THE most neglected glories of democracy is the right to make an ass of yourself, if you choose—in your own individual way. So long as your silliness doesn’t bother or injure others. This privilege of being foolish according to the dictates of conscience is a precious American possession. No official forces us to do it. Nor does government tell us when and how to be silly. E . But the privilege isn’t properly appreciated. This has lately been made very evident by the volume of sarcastic and even bitter criticism of the horseplay which goes on in national political conventions. $16, That criticism, incidentally, isn't new. But television, radio and newsreels have given a much wider look at national conventions than ever before was possible. Which led ta a great deal more criticism than formerly. Granting that national political conventions actually are pretty silly—still, it's good clean fun. It's purely American. And we needn't be ashamed of it. But many writers of articles and letters for what Phil Murray calls “the public prints” express such shame. Left-wing papers in particular—such as the Daily Worker—have pictured the conventions as downright disgraceful and disgusting.

Colonists Play Hard, Too

AND A LADY reader, for example, writes me that we have come a long way since the serious days of the Founding Fathers. “A spectacle like the Republican convention,” she says, “makes us wonder if we are proud to be Americans.” Deploring the “circus atmosphere and pagan approach” to a very serious business, she pointed out that convention delegates would far better get down on their knees and pray for guidance in their endeavors. “Can our international neighbors think we are ip earnest with tactics of this kind?” she asks. Man has always approached his most serious civic problems in a silly manner. And the spectacle of an American political convention is nothing as compared with some of the goingson in other countries. . ; Nor was the age of the Founding Fathers different. The Colonists danced around “freedom poles” wearing “liberty caps” and engaged in horseplay, accompanied by a per capita consumption of rum which would put a modern political convention to shame. America was settled, and made free, by a people who not only worked hard, but also played hard.

Re~-mber, They Don't Have to

AS FOR circus stunts and horseplay in other countries, the newsreels brought us some very telling glimpses in the days when kicler was giving the Germans “strength through joy.” It was a regulated and carefully planned horseplay in which you either saluted and marched and shouted and laughed at the right time and in the prescribed form or risked ending up in a concentration tamp. : That is the variety of horseplay which goes on in Russia today. : If you think it's silly to see a lot of Republicans and Democrats whooping it up at a national convention, just remember that they don't have to be there or do it. They have the right to cheer the candidate they prefer and boo anyone they don't like, They will be able to“go to the polls and vote for a selection of candidates—maybe not the ones they prefer, but at least a variety.

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OUR TOWN . 3 . By Anton Scherrer ‘Clare Boothe Luce’s Humor— It's Due to a Perfect Set of Teeth’

DETERMINED to keep informed about the outstanding personalities of this grim political year. I dropped in to see Theophilious, the Hatvara om bartender who permits me to call

“The same?” asks Tiff. “The same,” says I. With the deliberation called for by a work of art, Tiff proceeds to compound a masterpiece; thus giving me cient time to think up an appropriate gambit with which to open the conversation. : “Tiff,” says I, “what do you think of this Luce woman's latest remark?” “Loose woman,” asks Tiff, acting kinda shocked. “Tiff, your puns are those of a Yale man,” says I sternly. “Heaven forbid. Deus avertat!” says Tiff reaching for his Phi Beta Kappa key. “Well, what about it?” says I, tickled that Tiff is in the groove again. , Pulling himself together, Tiff says: “To my way of thinking, Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce’s remark, in the course of which she urged the

. Democrats to nominate Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

for Vice President, is a delectable example of feminine humor. Indeed, the more I think about it, the more I am inclined fo lift it into the category of comic relief.” “Comic relief,” says I incredulously. “At a time and place like this.” . . “Precisely,” says Tiff, and continues: “The comic spirit is essentially feminine and irresponsible. And, because of its volatile nature, has

" the incredible faculty of turning up anywhere

at any -time. " It comes when the Democrats least expect it, and flees when the Republicans go in pursuit of it. It yawns at Bob Hope's jokes and laughs out loud in church. Why, then, shouldn't it show its face at a time and place as grim as a political convention?”

‘Malice in Feminine Humor’

“GRANTED,” says I, “but don't you suspect Mrs. Luce’'s remark packs the punch of something more formidable than feminine humor?” “Meaning malice, perhaps,” says Tiff slyly. “Tiff, you're clicking on all cylinders,” says I. “Thank you, says Tiff. : “Proceed,” says I. Says Tiff: “Of course, Mrs, Luce's remark reveals malice, if for no better reason than the aforementioned fact that it is a delectable example of feminine humor.” . “Gosh,” says I, “does all feminine humor betray malice?” . “Not only that,” says Tiff, “but it reveals al

degrees of malice — derision, spite, resentment -

or, maybe, nothing more alarming than a mere grudge. It all depends on the relative beauty of the teeth with which the female humorist is equipped.” “This I must hear,” says I. “It amounts to this,” says Tiff. “The derision theory grows out of a masculine belief, based on

bitter experience, that feminine humor is a spiritualized manifestation of the cruel snarl or. ‘showing of the teeth’ with which animals express their feelings of superiority or hostility, as the case may be. Ergo, the lcvelier the set of teeth, the more malicious the humor.”

‘Why Mrs. R. Can't Be Funny

“IN WHAT condition are Mrs. Luce’s teeth,” says I determined to penetrate the innérmost recesses of Tiff's mind. “Did you ever see a picture of wasn’t smiling?” says Tiff. “Come to think of it, I never have,” says I “Thank you,” says Tiff ceremoniously. “But, Tiff,” says I, “if all smiling women possess this deadly brand of humor, why didn’t Mrs. Roosevelt have a snappier comeback? Remember what she said when apprised of Mrs. Luce’s remark?” “I do,” says Tiff. “Mrs. Roosevelt ‘merely said: ‘No, I will accept no political office’.” “Well, that has no kick to it, at all,” says I. “In Mrs. Roosevelt's case, it behooves ane to look beyond the teeth,” says Tiff. “Beyond the teeth,” says I, taking the words right out of Tiff’s mouth. - “Precisely,” says Tiff. “Mrs. Roosevelt suffers from a congenital defect, the nature of which is so serious that it precludes any possibility of Her ever being funny.” “You mean she hasn't any teeth at all,” says I expectantly as if sitting in on the birth of a great discovery. “Don’t be stupid,” says Tiff with devastating finality. ‘Mrs. Roosevelt can’t ever be funny because she was born to be a columnist.” “Thence, by extension,” says I hopefully, “all female columnists lack a sense of humor.” “Non sequitur,” says Tiff. “The paradoxical truth is that, compared with male columnists, females are the funnier of the two.” By this time the bitter olive loomed up big in my glass. “The same?” asks Tiff. “The same,” says I.

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Views on News

By Daniel M. Kidney

- WHEN DEWEY is President he may decide that Congress needs a licking worse than Truman. . * * ® x Another nice thing about a free country is that the captive miners can walk out of the captive mines. » » L Starving Berliners is just so much hgmework for the Stalinists. » » * 7 Henry Wallace should learn from Tito that if you want to waltz with the Russian bear you have to keep in step. :

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Alaska

By STEPHEN TRUMBULL FT. NELSON, B. .C, July 12-—The expected jam-pack rush of tourists up this Alaska highway isn't materializing— at least not yet. There are some venturesome motorists from south of the Canadian border, to be sure—but nothing to indicate the 20,000 to 50,000-car trek predicted. This is the first year of unrestricted travel on the $139 million strip of gravel pushed through in the war years.

= = - BUT RIGHT at this moment, at 9 p. m., there are just eight American tourist cars drawn up for the night at the 40-room Ft. Nelson Hotel—most popular stopping place for tourists on their first night out. Ft. Nelson is 300 miles from Dawson Creek, starting point for the highway-—and it's a long way to another good ho-

tel. Travelers returning south say the extra gasoline cans and camping gear they were urged to carry have been entirely unnecessary. There now are ample filling stations. The price of gasoline climbs with every mile. Back in Edmonton hightest was 40 cents the imperial gallon. Here it costs 59.7, and

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

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‘Hoosier Forum

"I do nof agree with a word that you say, but} | will defend fo the death your right fo say n* | —— Li rl Urges Draft of Young Women By a Mother ’ i Young men are repeatedly having their ogy. | cation impaired, careers in and lveg ° broken up when called into the armed forces On the other hand, young women continyg with their educations, their ‘careers. (better 5. reers made possible by shortages of manpower) and their same way of life, 3 This is unfair. Because of the shortage of nurses, young women between the ages of 33 and 26 should be drafted forSoffice, statistics and administrative work. : ; They could also be trained for factory pp. duction of essential preparedness materialg paid the same salary that young men receivy in the armed forces. Praises lke’s ‘Clearing of Air’ By North Side Voter ve It is good to see that Gen. Eisenhower hag cleared the air again on the subject of his avai. ability for the presidential nomination. With all due respect for the general's cap. abilities, and the fact that he, no doubt, woulq make an excellent President, he has shown great wisdom in making his decision. The world is looking to the United States for peace. No matter how Americans would consider Gen. Eisenhower, our foreign friends would know that he was the greatest military leader of the war—under his supervision the most strategic battles of all time were won, We could not expect non-Americans to un. derstand the tremendous enthusiasm which the nomination of Gen. Eisenhower probably would have engendered. They could think of him only as a warrior. ‘ * & o

Governments in the Red By E. E. N,, Beech Grove It will be interesting to see what happens to that surplus of $38,500,000,000 which Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder announced for the end of the 1948 fiscal year. If a family were $2500 in debt and had the opportunity to save $85, immediately that amount would go toward liquidating their debt, It would be a matter of honor to the family, But governments seem to be different. They can go on, endlessly in the red, and still maintain their respectability. , The Republicans will take credit for this surplus. However, the way in which they use it will be more influential with the voters. Even if we should be able to retire our debt at this same rate every year, it would take us 30 years—which is nothing to brag about. ¥ ¢.¢

‘Let's Have Some Privacy’ . By Josephine Buck, R. R. 1, Westfield . The suicide of Carole Landis brings to us again the horror of the loudness of investiga. on. : ? Why people persist in deep digging into the personal life of the person is a mystery to me. It appears that the thing the law should stand for is only as to whether it was suicide or murder, and not why it was performed. Do we have to have a why? And, by the way, clean your minds up, if you are so narrow minded as to persist in be. leving movie ‘stars are unwholesome,. as a group. They are only Sua Americans. p

Urges McNutt as President - | By C. H. K., City 4 I think about the best bet for the Democrats at their convention would be to nominate none other than our own state's former Gov. Paul V. McNutt for President. He's been. “around”

* the last few years and should really know what

kind of shape the world isin. As for a running mate, how about Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt?

IN PHILADELPHIA— : It's ‘Hard Times’ | For ‘Union Boys’

By Peter Edson

PHILADELPHIA, July 12—If ary doubts remain about times having changed, a look at the role of the labor unions in major party political conventions here in Philadelphia should remove the uncertainty. At ‘the Chicago conventions in 1944, union leaders threw their weight around considerably. Even the Republican convention welcomed such labor leaders as cared to show up and represent the toilers who were producing the weapons to win the war. ; So the GOP platform of 1944 condemned arbitrary wage freezing by government agencies, the emasculation of the Department of Labor and the perversion of the Wagner Act by the wicked New Dealers. At gihe Democratic convention four years ago, Phil Murray and the late Sidney Hillman of CIO-Political Action Committee held ‘court in the penthouse of a loop hotel. > They took their first beatings in 12 years at that convention. Their political fortunes have been going down ever since.

The Movement Lost Its Oomph

WITH THE DEATH of Mr. Hillman, the CIO-PAC mantle of leadership fell on Jack Kroll, but the movenient just hasn’t had any oomph. The Citizens’ PAC changed its name to PCA—Progressive Citizens of America, and branched off to back Mr. Wallace, taking the en wiig unions along. : assage of the Taft-Hartle the debacle. . y.4ct mpl Phil Murray did a whale of a job in ting the ‘Taft-Hartley ban on political an by union newspapers, winning a ‘Supreme Court decision that this section of the law is unconstitutional. The more conservative CIO leadership under Mr. Murray has also dome wonders in subjugating the Communists within their ranks. The record of the first 10 months under the Taft-Hartley law seems to indicate that labor unions are having no trouble in getting wage increases, in spite of injunctios and other curbs. Nevertheless, repeal of the T-H law and defeat of all Republican or Democratic con gressmen who voted for it are still the primary political goals of the labor unions.

Labor Leaders Are Brushed Off

AT THE Philadelphia conventions, both CIO and AFL spokesmen have appeared before the resolutions = committees, drafting the party platforms. Usually the glad hand is extended to the labor “boys,” but this year they have been given a pretty hasty brushoff.: Van A. Bittner of the steelworkers, speaking for the CIO, recalled to the Republicans theif platform promises of 1944.and charged the GOP with breach of its labor planks. William Green spoke for the AFL at length and as usual before both conventions. He for a long bill of particulars including repes! of the T-H law, curbs on inflation, aid to educs tion, housing, more social security. Mr. Green got such rough treatment from the Republicans that when he returned 10 Washington, his first act was to beat it over ¥0 the White House to see Mr. Truman and s&Y he would never support Mr. Dewey. : James B. Carey of CIO talked to the Demo" cratic convention. He asked for Truman's Ut Rights program and Roosevelt's old Bill of Economic Rights. : All these were pretty futile performance but

The cocky Republicans feel that they don't the labor vote. The Democrats need it. are so divided between conservative and If elements that they can’t seem to get it

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