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W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W, MANE : Editor : » Business Manager

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TE Curfew : NEARLY everyone will agree that very young children 2 shouldn't be prowling around town at all hours of the night. . a . Unfortunately a good many of them have been, creating a considerable problem in juvenile delinquency. Hence Mayor Feeney’s revival of the old, and long unused, curfew ordinance that requires unéscorted boys and girls under 16 fo be off the streets at 10 p. m. All his order really contemplates, apparently, is that policemen who find very young boys and girls out late at night shall take them home to their parents and suggest to their parents that it's for their own good. But where parents don't co-operate it could be a whole lot tougher than that. There are going to bé many border-line cases. Who fan tell at a glance these days whether a boy or girl is ust past 16—or not quite? And many a city 16-year-old owadays is much more sophisticated and far better prepared to take care of himself than the youth of 21 of anGther era. Even where there's no room for doubt about age many a household, properly or improperly, is likely to resent having Junior led home by a policeman if he overstays phe curfew—and the resentment is likely to blow up a considerable storm unless it's done with an extraordinary lot Af courtesy, friendliness and good judgment. The objective of the order issued by the Mayor is a good one. Whether it is reached, and whether his program works or doesn’t work, will depend almost wholly on the scretion and tact and plain common sense of the individual policeman who will have to carry it out.

A Warning From Dr. Wells

N° ONE knows more about what Germany is like, or thinks, than the man who has been there. But it reGuires a mind which can plumb the depths of the German goul to take the proper measure of the present and project it into the probable future. Dr. Herman B Wells, president of the University of fdiana, has brought back well-considered concepts of what happening in Germany. These he gleaned as educational dnd cultural advisor to Gen. Lucius Clay, American ad- - tor. : Ae 7: Dr. Wells is basically an economist. He knows what to look for, and what the Further, he has a dlear-cut opinion of what can be expected of the powerful uences at work on the politics and economics of Gerny today. =x Ln His picture of Germany is not entirely optimistic. He says the Germans are hungry. He says the Germans still hate all of their conquerors, chiefly the Soviet Union, and shat Germany still presents a threat to the peace of the world some 20 years from now.

Fo 4 £7 nn ss » = . DR. WELLS says that Germany should emerge with built, modern factories, debt free, in the next two decades. e assures us that the Germans are accumulating hard ash while they are fed by their conquerors, principally the Inited States. J He says they have little appreciation of democracy as e know it, and if an election were held today, and they .woted their honest choice, they would return to a strong, highly centralized dictatorial government. He warns that the Germans should not be left alone boat we have been able to change their way of thinking. {He also warns that Soviet propaganda lies are sinking in to ithe détriment of Uncle Sam. Some Germans believe we are dumping our food and supplies in their laps to prevent (collapse of our own economy from over-production.

he Special Session ' RESIDENT TRUMAN did both a daring and a risky thing in calling Congress into special session in the middle of the presidential campaign. n With little to lose by being bold, the President is shooting the works. : : ¢ If it boomerangs and hits him in the eye, he asked for jt—for he is playing that kind of politics. “> But for the moment Candidate Truman has put the Republican leaders in Congress on the spot by challenging them to make good on their platform pledges in advance of “the election. And the outcome of the election may well depend on how that challenge is met and countered. ¥" Mr. Truman is asking Congress to pass laws to halt fisine prices and to meet the housing crisis. Large orders, th. + On top of them, he wants appropriations for new national health and educational programs, extension of social Security coverage with increased benefits, an increase in the minimum wage, and civil rights legislation.

» ” " - Ld » JOHN Q. TAXPAYER may turn out to be the man placed in the middle by this campaign maneuver. Most of the things Mr, Truman wants will cost a lot of money - ° : And he says Congress-can do them all in 15 days, which is pure demagoguery. « The program the President has outlined might well require a year or more of deliberation. We don’t want any 45-day legislation on some of these subjects just to revive the old “tax and spend, and spend and elect” scheme for ‘Candidate Truman's partisan benefit. ~~ ° The housing situation is critical, and needs attention. . Emergency action may be in order on some of the President's other recommendations, but that can better be determined when his detailed proposals are made public.

s 8 = ® x = * BUT THE HEAT of a Washington summer, with the 2ded heat of a torrid political campaign, is not conducive

. campaigns of their own, or from broken vacations. J Healthy political rivalry between the parties is to be

this campaign is to become an open season for Seudsidered raids on the public treasury, the 'has to pick up the chéck won't like it.

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Barton Rees Pogue ESSENCE OF ROMANCE

In her sparkling adolescence She possessed the effervescence Of champagne and jewels " and twinkling stars at night; Scorning modern incandescence, She used nature's phosphorescence To beguile and win her man by pale moonlight!

Now, a state of idle-escence Has replaced the effervescence : Which, continued, might have charmed the kitchen sink, And the night-time phosphorescence Has been dimmed by incandescence As she reads, and dribbles crumbs in bed—I think! . ~ESTHER REM THOMAS, Columbus. ®

SLEEP MYTHS

Here are a few popular beliefs about sleep that have been proven untrue by experimental tests.

Healthy sleepers do not toss around while

they sleep. They do. The muscular arrangement of the body demands change of position frequently. Healthy sleepers average 35 shifts per night. . Napoleon and Edison got along on three or four hours sleep. They did not. They were both inveterate cat-nappers. They could sleep anywhere at any time, and in the course of the day, slept about as much as the normal person. Sleeping on the left side strains the heart. It does nothing of the.sort. Sleep on any side you please. A nap after lunch is a lazy habit. It is not. It is a ‘good idea. Among college students, those who slept an hour after lunch got higher grades than when they spent the hour studying. A hot drink induces sleep. It does not. It induces restlessness because of the pressure caused by the liquid in the stomach. What is your score on those five items? You cannot beat mine. I believed every one of these false ideas, so my “ignorance-scorg’ was perfect,

~—GEORGE D. GREER, New Castle. ¢ %

VEGETABLE GARDEN

Is there anything more beautiful Than summer food in rows? Could any sound be sweeter Than the clink of garden hoes?

From the little rookie radish, And the sergeant in the chard, To the captain in the corn, They parade beyond the yard.

But it’s never, “Column left!” Nor ever, “Column right!” They're always marching straight ahead, Morning, noon and night.

They have an enemy to face, A foe that's flerce and hot, But they march, unswervingly, Into the steaming pot! —BARTON REES POGUE, Upland.

WORLD AFFAIRS— ! Patriarchal Row

By James Daniel WASHINGTON, July 19—A first-class row has broken out between the Patriarch Alexei of Moscow and Archbishop Damaskinos of Athens, The two prelates disagree over the strife in Greece. Patriarch Alexel, who made his peace with the Soviets during the war and since has tried to lure various orthodox communities back into the Russian Church, recently dispatched a letter to Archbishop Damaskinos, : In churchly language he protested “distressing events’ occurring in Greece . . . dreadful crimes . . . countless executions of hostages” and other acts of the Greek government—‘before which,” said Patriarch Alexei, “the conscience of the Orthodox Russian Church cannot remain indifferent.” It concluded by directing the Greek church to tondenm these acts of the Greek government.

Radio Broadcasts Reply | THE ATHENS radio broadcast the Greek archbishop'’s reply. It began: 3 “Your sorrow about the bloodshed in Greece, which has lasted so long, is justified. Yet from your letter it becomes obvious that the extent and significance of the occurances are entirely unknown to you. : “The bitter truth found no way to break the high walls surrounding you so that it nw reach your Christian soul.”

After, this allusion to Patriarch Alexei's”

status #8 a puppet of the Kremlin, Archbishop Damaskinos went on: “The truth is that in Greece a small but dynamically organized minority, having revolted against the Greek state, aims at prevailing by means of crude and inflexible violence. In its endeavor this minority is given entire assistance by the governments of neighboring countries.” : :

Describe Red Atrocities THE ARCHBISHOP then described atrocities committed by the Communist rebels, farm families preyed upon, 500,000 nersons made homeless, churches set afire and profaned, priests slain and other acts unequalled “since the dark days of the Sultan's domination.” “Before this ferocity,” Archbishop Damaskinos continued, “the gréat majority of the Greek people gathered around ‘the legal state and fought steadily for their homes and altars. Yet tHis minority’s ability in propaganda, by distorting facts to obscure the truth, has created in some people outside Greece thé impression that a civil war is being fought. “If raids against peaceful and defenseless peasants can be called civil war, then and only then can we say there is civil war in Greece.” The archbisuop concluded by citing efforts made by his church to reconcile the Greek factions. These efforts persistently and contemptuously were ignored by the rebels, he said, “since their leaders belong to the fanatic partisans of materialism, to the persecutors of the Christian religion—those whom you knew well long ago, and whom we too are getting to know.”

AERIAL ‘BOOM’ . . .

In Yucatan

By Jack Kofoed

MERIDA, Yucatan, July 19—Before the airplane was invented, Yucatan was like Berlin Hemmed in by the Russians. Bracketed fore and aft by jungle and sea, Yucatan was so isolated that when revolutions flared in other states, the Yucatanians did not find out about the bloody doings until they were over. Now, planes come in from Miami, New Orleans, Havana and South America. They bring everybody from businessmen and guys taking pictures for National Geographic to school teachers on a holiday.

L- These people have dollars to for |

= exchange pesos, which the people of Merida don't mind at all. : They don’t seem to sit up nights figuring how to gyp the visitors, however, down here in Yucatan. Prices are reasonable. 0" The weather is sunny and hot, but with a steady breeze. :

Because it is a hub for air traffic, Merid due for fattening growth. a

THEOPHILIUS, the tender who permits me to call him Tiff, addressed the Ever Alert Civic Club last night— it being Sunday when he could get off. His subject was “Nudity, Considered Historically; or Why Women of This Day .and Age Invite Insults.” The meeting was an improvised affair, hurriedly called together by President Minnie Proboscis, who has achieved considerable fame recently because of her readiness to help the police in any emergency. In her introduc- . tory remarks, Miss Proboscis said: “I give you a speaker whose great age and experience qualifies him to diagnose the shameful situation con- * fronting us today.” A. demonstration followed. : Except for a nervous habit of toying with his Phi Beta Kappa key, Tiff showed no visible signs of emotion when he approached -the lectern to begin his extemporaneous speech. “Fellow crusaders,” he began. “The period I picked to live in will go down in history not as the Machine Age, as innotent children have been led to believe, but as the period of marking the gradual and progressive revelation of the human form divine. “For the first 20 years of my life there was a general belief, subscribed to by everybody in Indianapolis, that complete coverage is an outward manifestation of an inner rectitude; the reasonable corollary of which is, of course, that a woman looks her best when dressed from head to foot.” (Cheers.)

‘Oh, That Rainy-Day Skirt’ “THE FIRST deviation from this blissful state of affairs occurred around the turn of the century when a misguided member of our City Council introduced a resolution to lift women’s skirts off the level of the sidewalk. He said the skirts kicked up so much dust that’ some- + thing had to be done to keep them from trailing in the streets.” (Cries of “shame on him.”) “I don't seem to remember whether the resolution was passed or pigeon-holed. However, I have a vivid recollection, because of the agitation stirred up at the time, the merits

and advantages of Mrs. John Candee Dean's ‘rainy-day skirt’ were again discussed. “Mrs. Dean, a modern-minded realist (so said her handful of champions), invented the ‘rainy-day skirt’ as early as 1893, but never got anywhere with it. It called for a garment ending three inches below the knee, or ‘16 inches above the ground in Mrs. Dean's case. It was a measurement so perilously close to ‘the margin of immorality that it couldn’t

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OUR TOWN « » « By Anton oi ‘I Support Your Noble Crusade— Make Women Mysterious Again’

possibly be entertained by the women of the time. Thank God for the breed of women Indianapolis had back in those days.” (Shouts of Amen.) Bo “However, the devil was at work. The naked eye couldn't observe it at the time, but now that I look back I know it to be a fact. Otherwise it wouldn't be ‘possible to explain why in the short space of 10 years (in 1910) the skirt shrunk four inches or 'to the top of a lady's shoe. : “That same year the automobile selfstarter was invented. The devil had a hand (Cries of Hear! Hear!) “With electric self-starters and the help of evil forces, the automobile people suddenly woke up to the fact that their market could be appreciably increased by persuading women to drive without having husbands along to crank the cars by hand, as was the honest practice up to that time. . . >

And Now—the Midriff

“WOMEN took to driving without their husbands only to discover that their skirts were still too long to manipulate the pedals. From that moment on, skirts began to shrink—at such a sinful rate, indeed, that finally the knee plus ultra stage was reached”. (Cries of Shame.) : “Strangely enough—for a reason which I still have to fathom—the revelation of the human form divine worked from the head down, too. This phase started with the so-called shirtwaist, in which connection it may not be amiss to note that it appeared almost simultaneously with the City Council's mandate to shorten skirts. I shall leave it to you to guess its sinister origin. A word to the wise is sufficient. Verbum sat sapienti, (suppressed laughter). “In the beginning, the shirtwaist looked harmless enough. Its coverage was so complete that nobody could ask for more. Finally, however, some vicious male conceived the fiendish idea of puncturing the garment with a lot of little holes confined for the most part to a woman’s chest and arms. The invention was called the ‘peek-a-boo’ waist and lived up to its hellish name.” (Cries of Shame, the vpice of Miss Proboscis leading all the rest.) “The two forces—one working from the ground up and the other from the head down— have now met in what is technically known as a woman's midriff, leaving nothing more to the imagination. “To persuade women to dress up again, and be the mysterious creatures they once were, is your immediate problem. It can't be done without the consent of men. To that end, may I be the first of my sex to support your noble crusade? I thank you.” (Loud and continued applause.)

GONE BUT NOT . ..

Forgotten

By LEIGH WHITE TEHRAN, Iran, July 19— The American Army's Persian Gulf Command evacuated Iran three years ago. But its influence seems destined to last indefinitely. Street vendors in Tehran are still well-stocked with commodities left behind by the American Army—tooth paste, shaving cream, shoe polish, combs, soap, contraceptives, flash lights and air mail envelopes orinted in English.

” ” ” AMERICAN cigarets are on sale in makeshift stands on almost every street corner. The stale war-time variety. packed in gray paper without cellophane, are openly displayed for sale at 30 cents a pack, Post-war American cigarets, smuggled in, are hidden under piles of other merchandise. You can buy them for 50 cents a pack.

” ¥ = IRANIANS, as a result of | the war, have become so accustomed to chewing gum and eating chocolate bars that local factories are now. manufacturing ‘ passable imitations of both Wrigley and Hershey praducts. The new local chewing gum fs known as “Wriggler's,” the new local chocolate bars as

“Hepshey’s.”

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

7-19

"You can say this isn'ta man’s world Hill you are blue in the face, but you don't see television in here, do you?"

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Shrine, I was a member of Gen. Aultman’s com. mittee to meet him at Galion, O., and escort hin,

lis. On the train he entertained us with recolle. tions of a visit here in 1923, when, accompanieg by the French Gen. Gouraud, he attended a yy. “union of the Rainbow Division. After the formal”

chatting with old comrades, when up reeled = ex-doughboy, considerably under the influence, “He stopped in front of us,” said Gen. Pers). ing, “slapped me heartily on the shoulder ang said, ‘Black Jack, introduce me to this — ——'— Frog friend of yours!” What could do but comply?” :

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‘Doesn't Anyone Love Children’ By Mrs. Gladys Hines, 1039 W. Morris St. Perhaps you can help ‘me. I have been everywhere else. The only, answer I have received is, “I'm sorry, Mrs. Hines, there; nothing we can do.” Like many Other people we are without | a home. Unlike most, we have been ‘evicted twice. A year ago the house'we had lived in six years was sold, We had to move. There was rowhere to go, so we had to break up housekeeping and put our children out to board, My father bought a farm west of Martins. ville and offered his home for" sale here in town. When he moved he told me I could move in there until it was sold. We were fortunate to get to stay eight months. We looked for a place all that time and could find nothing we could rent. We cannot buy. a then that home was sold and we had to move again. I have four children. My oldest daughter, 13, is with her grandparents in Martinsville on the farm. We have been able to see her ‘once in almost two months. We could go to Martinsville by bus but they live nine miles out in the country. There is no transportation out there. We have no car. The next child is with her grandmother up here. The next is with an aunt that no longer wants to keep her. The youngest, a boy, is with an aunt. So you see we are all widely separated. : My husband and I have a room where we can't even have one child with us. We have done all we know how to do. I am writing to you as a last step hoping perhaps you have some suggestions, Is there no way to have a home in which to rear children any more? Doesn't anyone love them at all? What is going to become of the younger generation? In such a cruel world what chance does a child have? : db

Urges State Minimum Wage By Ronald F. Faucett, 834 Wright St. In a recent editorial, commenting on the Democratic platform adopted at the Indiana State Democrat Convention, The Times said, “The plank calling for 2 state minimum-wage law . . . which is not a necessity at this time.” I would like to take issue with this inference. When the federal government set a wage mini. mum for industry dealing in interstate commerce, it created a dual-system of labor stan. dards. This dual system has worked a definite hardship on those who are not employed in interstate commerce. : I had thought perhaps the situation would eventually equalize itself, but as yet this has not happened. Indiana needs a definite wage-minimum law, As long as there are girls employed in some stores for as little as 18 cents per hour and on up to 50 cents, there should be a mimimum-wage law. These girls, and a great many men, are entitled to protection the same as others who must work to survive. ’ Some clerks, white collar workers, and other young workers who have just come out of school are working for wages as low as $18 to $28 per week, These workers are the ones who suffer most because they cannot begin to have the things necessary for a good standard of living. There are privately owned stores which hire boys for as little as 50 cents per evening. These boys are often less than 14 years old and work as late as 11 or 12 o'clock, True, such condi tions are not allowed by the child labor laws, but it is equally -as true that such conditions do exist. Since The Times is the only liberal-minded paper in Indianapolis, I have been a subscriber for many years. It is gratifying lo find at least one paper not hide-bound and as behind the - times as a horse-and-buggy.

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IN WASHINGTON—

Draft Doctors?

By Jim G. Lucas

WASHINGTON, July 19—The Army, Navy * and Air Force may ask the forthcoming special session of Congress for a doctors’ draft. # It all depends on Congress’ temper. x appears no administration-backed proposal a chance, the request won't be made. , But if Congress seems amenable, the Joctore draft may become the military's principal » jective for the session. It is receiving serio consideration in Defense Secretary James Forrestal's office. Any drive for a medical draft is certain oase more to arouse strong opposition from the American Medical Association. The AMA was successful in knocking out such an amendment in the latest draft act. It contends the nation has not fully recovered from the World War II drain on trained medical personnel and a peacetime draft would set back still further.

4C0 Doctors Short Now

FEAR of the AMA’s displeasure causes many military doctors to approach tne problem ye luctantly. A high-ranking Army doctor a. he hesitated to discuss it at all “becaues we 8 worried about our relations with the AMA. However, Army, Navy and Air Force no manding officers say there is no alternative draftees are to be given adequate medical care, And they're unwilling to assume Fesponsl’ " bility for the health and welfare of thoysancs of young men called into service unless they given the doctors to do the job. 4000 The Army and Air Force today are: t doctors short. Once the draft starts, tha shortage will be more serious. Within a year they will need 5000 to 6000 more doctors.

Navy Will Be Short, Too

THE NAVY is in somewhat better shape It has 2500 doctors today; needs 3000. But bf July 1, 1949, the Navy predicts it will nee 3848 doctors and will have only 1840. IS losing the last class of war-trained doctors

year. The provision which AMA opposition forced sut of the draft act would have allowed th Army, Navy and Air Force 4 doctors being graduated this year and next. ‘ They received part of their schooling 2 government expense and were spared military service in World War II because they were training for medical commissions, They would be used only so long as they

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