Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1948 — Page 12

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The New ‘Progressives’ ENRY A. WALLACE'S new party, which had a handpicked presidential ticket before it was given a name"

phia convention. Following the cue of the Communist Daily Worker, original sponsor of the new-party idea, they chose the name “Progressive’—doing great violence to what has been an honored designation in American politics. The word “progressive” will how be so manhandled and misused that it will become as distorted as the term, “liberal.” Certainly, the Wallaceites can claim nothing in common with the Progressive Party founded by Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, or the other Progressive Party of “Old Bob” La Follette in 1924. s The foreign policy section of the platform is one of allE " ‘out_Russian appeasement. It urges repeal of the draft } Act—the convention having rejected a world police force for the United Nations. It repudiates the Truman doctrine against Communist expansion and would end all military and economic aid*to - “reactionary governments” in China, Greece, Turkey, the Ld Middle East and Latin America—all of the areas over which the Soviet Union presently seeks control that have established governments. But aid to Commutist-dominated states? Oh yes! The Wallaceites would abolish the Marshall Plan, substituting for it their own “United Nations plan” in which Russia . would have veto rights—but with Uncle Sam putting up all the money, of course. Russia also would be given a share “4n the control of the Ruhr industrial area of Germany. + Does the third party convention suggest that Russia make any concessions to the American viewpoint? No. Not one. : ~~ We would buy peace by an unconditional surrender, and by paying tribute to world communism. i 4 In the domestic field, “abundance” would be assured IE by public ownership of the largest banks, railroads, merchant marine, electric power and gas utilities. ° The true character of the new party was best shown by the rules governing the organization and by the conduct . of Candidate Wallace himself at his convention press conference. : . ' Representation on the party's national committee, unlike the two major parties, will be larger for heavily populated states than for smaller ones, and the committee thus selected will elect 40 additional members at large upon nomination by “functioning divisions of the party.” This means, for the most part, the left-wing labor

unions »d with the movement, ce these unions alsg are found in the centers of etn entry ‘will be placed firmly in the hands of the big-city party function. aries, This new party was brought into being by propaganda and skilled Communist organizing. It bears little resemblance to a grass-roots movement, and, in our opinion, will have little appeal to rank-and-file American voters. . But it could do great damage in this election year to E our country and to world peace, should the dictators of the %. + Kremlin be misled into believing that its sound and fury | represented a sizable American sentiment for appeasement.

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Lucky They're Accused Here > IT WILL be interesting to watch democracy at work in the case of the 12 top American Communists indicted by a New York grand jury. And to compare how they are treated with how they would have been treated had they been so accused in Russia, the country they serve. They were indicted after a 13-month grand j quiry. In Russia they would have been accused by action of Stalin or the secret police. The first six arrested in New York were paroled to their attorney because it was too late at night to raise $5000 bail set for each of them. In Russia’'they would have been thrown in prison’ without bail and probably without knowing the charges against them. ; Here they will be free on bail until brought to trial. If convicted, they again will be free until they can ask a new trial, appeal to the lower appellate courts and eventually to the Supreme Court. ; In Russia they would be on their way to Siberia or the executioner.

» n o HERE THEY will howl that they are victims of a capitalist conspiracy. They will be free to attack the government which indicted them. The Daily Worker is screaming that it's a dirty Fascist frameup to which “Truman is driven in an effort to win the election” and “to embarrass the } New People’s (Wallace) party.” In Russia they would have no chance to make any 3 statement; no paper would dare print anything they said. i Here they will have the benefit of competent lawyers ! using every benefit and technicality of law to free them. In i ’ Russia they would be tried without counsel before a tribunal, i

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or with counsel picked by the state in a trial called to find a predetermined verdict. Legal maneuvers here may last for years. Some or perhaps all may be acquitted, or a court may throw out the : indictments or set aside the verdicts. : In Russia execution or disappearance into a slave labor : camp would promptly bring an end from which there could i be no appeal or escape. ! So, regardless of what eventually happens to the accused, the handling of their case will be a fine comparative demonstration of how two rival systems work.

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RUSSIAN woman writer thinks that several desserts by

the fact that Russians still call such tidbits as eclairs, melbas, timbales, glaces, etc., by their foreign names. iE That isn't the worst blow to your nationalistic pride either, sister. In the imperialistic United States, the fanciest and most admired Russian delicacy is called by a French fiamedvhich derives from an Ifalian word that in turn is from Turkish. Caviar, that is.

/ or a platform, remedied those deficiencies at’its Philadel-

tes, JJ. 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico,

any other name would taste much sweeter. She resents |

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Barton Rees Pogue

IN A CHINESE GARDEN

(An American lady, walking in a Chinese garden, observed a tablet set in the wall, on which was an inscription, written in Chinese. 8he asked her guide to translate it. The translation is revealed in tha following sonnet.) Imagination paints a scene of dreams, With vistas of far places to be viewed, And leisure to enjoy, until, it seems, They will not wait the year to be pursued. Procrastination, image of deceit, ; Advises that the present is a knave, While disillusionment, too late to weep, Reminds one he has been a witless slave. How many thought they had no time to play, Who prematurely rest within the grave! Nor are they missed—for long—nor do they lay Their heads upon the wealth they died to save. “Enjoy yourself,” before Fate breaks the link, Because, “it may be later than you think.” . CASPER BUTLER, Kokomo, Ind. .% % ©

TIMES CHANGE?

It is funny how times change. It used to, be when mamma and her daughter, and half a dozen other members of her family blossomed out in dresses and shirts of the same material, that was a sure sign that pop had finally got

| into town to buy supplies, and had brought

mamma a bolt of cloth. Now it is the height of fashion ...these mother and daughter dresses, and sonny’s matching shirts. —MRS. SHUSH, Hemlock.

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WHY NOT

If I could only equal What I think you ought to be, I'd be so nearly perfect That it wouldn't seem like me. And if you could only equal How you think I ought to do, You'd be so free from error That it wouldn't seem like you. So why not just forget it, Since there’s no one up to par, And get along together Let our faults be what they are?

~THURMAN D, GEISE, Connersville.

U.S. AFFAIRS—

Them as Has Gits

By E. T. Leech THERE'S an old saying that “them as has gits.” For 16 years this country has been trying to change it. Politicians have done all sorts of tinkering with business in‘ order to reduce the size of the big and increase the size of the little. Yet, strangely enough, the big have been getting bigger. One of the chief reasons seems to be that the planning has back-fired. Instead of helping the small business man, it has hampered him. Little business has had a tough time, and the failures of small business enterprises are now increasing. Also, a lot of*small businesses have sold out to larger competitors. This . is exactly contrary to what was planned. For the politicians love little busi- , mo much as they love farmers Jlabor unfons. They have created committees and conducted investigations and passed laws and secured court decisions for the express purpose of helping small business. ' But the legislation has added a lot of complexities and headaches to the conduct of business. . It has become so intricate that a business man needs accountants and lawyers and labor experts just to keep up with the regulations and forms and rulings with which he must cope. Big business has them, little business can't afford them, .

Litle Business Chief Sufferers

NOW A NEW milestone in the fight to chip away some of the bigness from large corporations has just been passed. And again it looks as if little business may be the chief sufferer. For many years the Government has been fighting the so-called “basing point” system used by certain great industries—such as steel and cement. This was a system under which the steel companies, for example, charged the same price to every customer within an area surrounding a certain “basing point,” regardless of his distance from the producing plant. In effect, the steel companies averaged out the freight charges and included them as part of their prices. In a steel centér such as Pitsburgh, for example, a manufacturer of stoves or sprinkling cans might be next door to the mill from which he bought steel. Yet he paid the same price as some customer a few hundred miles distant. This system, according to the political the ories, gave the big Pittsburgh steel mill an advantage over some small mill located nearer to the customers in some other area. They envisioned a lot of small steel mills selling their products to neighboring plants throughout the country. That, it was felt, would help small business. So the Government won a court case against the cement industry—which also used the bas-ing-point system. So do a number of other industries such as tobacco, toothpaste, glucose, book paper and tile. This cement: decision seemed to set the pace for all industries which sold at a flat price, including freight. In theory it paved the way for a lot of small steel mills, cigaret factories, paper makers, etc.,

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Some May ‘Git’ More

FOLLOWING the pattern fixed in the cement case. the United States Steel Corp. aban-* doned the old price system. It announced that it would comply with the law by fixing FOB prices—that is, by setting flat prices at the mills and letting the customers pay the freight. Other steel companies are following its lead. But they aren't happy about it. And neither are small business men who must buy steel. For one thing, it isn’t feasible to build a lot of little steel plants to serve all parts of the country. It has to be made on a mass basis or the cost soars out of sight. For another thing, U. 8S. Steel has plants well scattered over the United States—Pittsburgh, Chicago, Birmingham, Utah, California, Ohio, Massachusetts, New" Jersey and some other points. But the smaller steel companies have fewer plants much more concentrated. Therefore Big Steel will be able to sell in

many places at lower rates than can its com- |!

petitors. % But the small steel user may have only one

plant, located in some town far from a steel | Now, he will pay more for steel than

mill. competitors located closer to a mill His only out is for somebody to build a steel plant in his neighborhood. Or, more likely, for him to move his plant closer to a mill. This is going to dislocate business and civic conditions in a lot of cities and states. Nobody knows yet who will suffer most, But at first -glance it seems that small steel companies and little steel buyers will take the biggest rap. Them as has may git more.

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OUR TOWN . .

BECAUSE of last week's heat (99 per cent humidity) I didn't get around to see Theophilius, the Harvard-bred bartender who permits me to call him Tiff. I managed to keep in touch, however. Daily, my fast fleet of carrier pigeons returned with messages of Tiff’s pontifical behavior behind the bar. Today's humidity permits me to report only those heavenborne messages dealing with world events of a disturbing nature, I hope they haven't lost too much in transcription.

When asked to give his opinion of President Truman's speech of acceptance and especially of the peroration ordering Congress back to work, Tiff replied: “The President will be lucky to escape the fate of Procrustes.” “Never heard of him. What baseball club did he manage,” says a bewildered barfly. Diagnosing the blind spot immediately, Tiff says: “Procrustes suffered a punishment even more terrible than that handed Durocher, Chapman or Mel Ott.” “Do tell,” says the barfly, skeptical that such a thing is possible. . “Thank you,” says Tiff and proceeds to develop his thesis: “Procrustes, surnamed Polypemon of Damastes, possessed a bed upon which he forced his guests to sleep. If they were too tall to fit it, he had their legs chopped off. And, if they were too short, he had their bodies stretched to fit the bed.”

What Happened to Procrustes?

SAYS THE BARFLY: “But if his guests knew what was in store for them, why the hsll did they accept his invitations?” “Because Procrustes was so powerful that nobody could refuse his invitation and get away with it,” says Tiff. “By the Lord Harry, it's the identical case of what's scheduled for Turnip Day,” says the barfly amazed at his ready wit. “Precisely,” says Tiff triumphantly. “Well, what happened to Procrustes or whatever the guy's name was?” asks the barfly. “Just what you'd expect of the Greeks who had a flair for logical rewards and punishments,” says Tiff fondling his Phi Beta Kappa key dangling from his working clothes. “The suspense is killing me,” says the barfly. Says Tiff with unbelievable abruptness: “A character in the person of Theseus came along and carved up Procrustes so successfully that, finally, his whittled-down body was of a size to fit the bed of his own making.” “Goody,” says the barfly who, apparently, was swallowed up by the crowd before his name and politics could be ascertained. On another dripping day, Tiff was asked

. By Anton Scherrer By the Lord Harry, Here's A Classic About ‘Turnip Day’

what he thought of Mayor Al Feeney's, determination to dust ‘off the old curfew law and put it into effect again. : « “It won't work,” says Tiff with devastating finality. - “And why not,” asks the barfly with the small beer. “Because of the resourcefulness of Indianapolis kids,” says Tiff. : “The dirty little brats,” says the barfly with the bulbous nose.

. The Choir Boys of St. Paul's

“LET ME TELL you a story,” says Tiff, “Back in the 90's when Col. Hoagland talked Mayor Tom Taggart into adopting a curfew law, a singular event of historical import took place. One evening when the choir boys of St. Paul's Church were returning home from practice, every one of those kids, was picked up by the police.” : “For violating the curfew law,” asks the Small Beer, hardly believing his ears. “Precisely,” says Tiff, and continues: “It was a terrible mess and there's no telling what might have hapuened had not somebody conrected with St. Paul's come forth with the suggestion that the boys wear dispensation badges on choir practice nights.” “A slick idea,” says the Bulbous Nose. “So it appeared to Mayor Taggart, too,” says Tiff kinda down-hearted.

“Don't tell me anybody ever got ahead of ;

Tom Taggart,” says the small Beer, fearful that an Indianapolis tradition was about to crack. “Don’t anticipate the pay-off,” says Tiff impatiently and continues: “The police granted St. Paul's request, only to discover that they had to do the same thing for the Boys’ Brigade, the Christian Endeavor Society, the Epworth League and, believe it or not, the Y. W. C, A, too.”

“Fair enough,” says the Bulbous Nose. “Not only fair,” says Tiff, “but like a gift from heaven—the very loophole the kids of Indianapolis had been waiting for. They joined every organization in sight with the result that some kids had seven different badges—one for every night—enough to thumb their noses not only at the curfew law, but at Mayor Taggart, too. * “Tiff, you're spoofing us,” says the Small Beer. “Gentlemen,” says Tiff, “you are looking at the most ardent boy member of the Christian Endeavor Society during Mayor Taggart's administration.” Perhaps I have space for just one more pigeon-carried message: Asked whether the New Look grew out of the confusion in which the world finds itself today, Tiff said: “I think not. If that were the case, the New Look wouldn't find expression in women hiding their legs, but rather in men hiding their faces.”

ITALY BIDS FOR . . Tourists By ERNIE HILL + 7 ROME, Italy, July 26— 3 There's at least one optimistic L organization in Italy today

and that's the Automobile Club. | "Italy's highways —which

were well bombed and blown up by both sides during the war—are virtually back to prewar normal. So the club sees touring again assuming an important place in the country’s economy. “Engineers have been rehabilitating: old” roads instead of building new ones,” the club reports. “Large road crews are now manicuring the country’s highways and byways.” “In fact,” it observes, “3700 more vehicles are using the

highways today than did so before the war—though most of them are still put-put motorcycles.”

» F » | HOWEVER, there's one big | drawback to auto travel here —the high cost of gasoline. Gas is usually about 40 cents a gallon but ranges up to 98 | cents in some remote sections of the country.« One American tourist recently gave off in a lengthy statement to the effect that it “to” travel

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"Yes, the girls did buy a lot of cosmetics, but wouldn't you rather pay a

few bills like*that than have two frowsy old maids on your hands?"

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alley. 8. Keep your own leave. : 9. Wash floor with soap and wax once a week if necessary. 10. Don’t take out any furniture. . Don’t bring any furniture in. . Don’t use electric fan. . Don’t wash or iron. : . Don’t visit in other tenants rooms. . No visitor allowed to eat here. . No visitor allowed to stay all night. . No visitor allowed to use lights, water or gas here. 18. Don't use over 40-watt bulb. 19. Don’t use only one light on af time. 20. Don’t take any ‘draperies down, clean once a week with damp cloth. 21. Leave hall light on at night only or when upstairs tenant leaves for awhile.” . 22. Don’t tear this paper down. - 23. Landlord may inspect rooms at any time. 24. Keep brooms and mops in bathroom so each can use them. 25. If anything, is broken tenant has to pay for same. 26. Toilet paper agreement between tenants, 27. Downstairs tenant must let -gas and water meter man in. 28. Rent on day it is due. 29. No A I would like to have this printed as to show how some people will know they are not so bad off in places they have.

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A Sticker-Payer’s Lament By A Reader - After reviewing The Times account of the detention of the speeding lady from Linden and the subsequent scolding given Patrolman Harvey Badgley for remarks, I, too, think the patrolman should be reprimanded. : Next time, Patrolman Badgley, you will know. better than to risk your life chasing a ' haughty female through Indianapolis when she is merely observing a 70 mph speed impulse. For even though such hurricane hazard on wheels races you with a public safety and police-be-damned attitude you might again find t you have captured a lady who flouts you. with a dare-to-arrest-me scorn. And wi you get her before the bench in the interests of a deserving public justice what happens? Well—it seems you did not have the proper prima facie, expo facto hocus-pocus rigamarole and the lady goes free. You charged her with reckless driving instead of speeding. But you could not prove that she was driving recklessly. You see, patrolman, it is not reckless driving when a lady of repute hits 70 mph across town. Something stinks here, but you dare not say so—just be complacent as the lady mentally thumbs her nose and walks out with a smug air. In contrast I was quickly relieved of $11 at traffic court for a speeding infraction. I was doing 40 mph at the city limits. I did not race the arresting officer nor bet him that I was not guilty. Such is justice and equality to us sticker paying motorists of Indianapolis. ¢ & &

‘Widow Is an Ugly Word’ By Mrs. G. D. R,, City “The average wife faces five to eight years of widowhood.” Let that statement sink in, sisters, because mortality figures don’t lie. Yes, widow is an ugly word. ‘Every woman who has lost her husband remembers her feeling when she first heard it applied to her. How carelessly people use it in front of those who are recently bereaved. Something seems to curl up inside you and die when you realize that you are no longer a wife. Modern women who know they are likely to be left alone, should think seriously about old-age problems before they are old. Women’s organizations ought to try to solve some of them. They involve many things— economics, sociology, housing, unemployment, recreation, psychology, medical care, and ways of keeping an interest in what goes on around us.

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FREE LAND— :

It Looks Rosy...

By Stephen Trumbull

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, July 26—Free land— the magic words that have extended many ane other frontier—is a potent pulling card in this territory that hopes to be the 49th mémber of the United States. Count the inquiries’ received here daily in the office of Fred Weiler, district land manager. Link these with the statement of George. er, territorial commissioner of agriculture, that Alaska can furnish homesteads for 200,000 families. It looks rosy—until you go deeper. Mr, Weiler and Mr. Gasser, along with every other responsible official here, sincerely wish that all potential homesteaders would go deeper Too few do. That's why the district welfare board up here and the American Red Cross have such purse and soul trying problems. Letters filled with words of caution go to avery writer of an inquiry concerning this free and. ‘ The days of heavily subsidized homestead ing, like the widely publicized Mantanuska Val ley project, are over. Today’s pioneer is pretty much on his own. It boils itself down to an often quoted line— “many are called but few are chosen.”

Need at Least $5000 Reserve

“I DON'T believe any family should try it without a cash reserve of at least $5000,” Mr. Gasser said. “This isn't the prairie land in which our forefathers found they had merely to set the plow: This is land that costs $30 to $50 an acre—often more—to clear, “And there are hardships impossible for anyone who has not made an on-the-scene inspec:

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