Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1948 — Page 12

The dAndianapolis Times

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor Business Manager

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The President's Message President Truman announced the special session call, at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia, he said he would lay out a program Coggress could complete in 15 days. . The agenda he presented yesterday included many {tems which Democratic Congresses failed to attend to in 15 years in power. For instance, the civil rights measures—nine in all— to which the President devoted only a single generalized paragraph in his long address yesterday. Another example, a broadening and general revision of social security, something both parties long have promised and on which neither has delivered. The sheer actuarial magnitude of that job precludes the possibility that the two legislative houses with their separate committees could complete the work in the few weeks of a special session.

Some of the President's recommendations, however, 4 can be acted upon in brief order.

A The housing and aid-to-education bills—both sponsored by Republican Sen. Taft—have been passed by the Senate and considered by House committees, and require only a vote in the House chamber. Enough testimony and evidence already have been gathered to guide Congress in -enagting a fairer displaced persons law. @. ® 8 Bn yn 2 ‘ 5 KNOWING he had loaded Congress too heavily, the President warned he wanted primary attention given to housing and inflation. As noted above, the housing legislation he wants could be handled quickly, . But the “inflation control” he asks for, because of its great importance to the country, deserves careful scrutiny and analysis, . What the President said about'the ravages of inflation, present and prospective, was an understatement. Like fh a malignant disease, the wage-price spiral is eating away the people's substance and living standards, undermining the nation’s economic health. Like any other malignancy, it cannot be cured painlessly. 3 But what the President prescribes is nothing more : than a sugar-coated pill. His “eight-point” prpgram would pretend to do sorgeshing, but not do it, Inflation cannot be ‘halted without sacrifices from everybody—but the President's election-year panacea is + slyly designed not to sacrifice a single vote. He wants a new excess profits tax. (Corporations don't vote.) To the extent the revenue was used to retire debt, and not spent for other purposes, that would help. There are other taxes which could produce more revenue. . & =» ” . =» HE WANTS consumer credit controls restored. He asks that the Federal Reserve Board be given greater authority to restrict bank credits. Okay, but it isn't j exercising the authority it already has. He wants to curb commodity speculation. would be done—not much good, either. He wants power to allocate and fix prices of “scarce commodities,” To prevent those commodities from becom- ¥ ing even more scarce, the government would also have to, $f freeze prices and ration all other things that could be produced from the same materials and labor. He asks for some vague kind of “standby authority” to ration “a few products In short supply,” but timidly hastens to say the authority “might not have to be used at all.” Lastly, and gingerly, he deals with wages. He favors raising wages but not increasing prices. ‘‘Non-inflationary wage increases” can continue to be gained by “free collegtive bargaining.” But he thinks the government should have power to “limit wage adjustments” in what he envisions as those rare instances where higher wages would break the price ceiling, except, of course, where the higher wages were essential “to remedy hardship, to correct inequities,” ete.. . - » ” » » IN SHORT, the President doesn’t ask for wage freezing. Nor does he ask for freezing of farm prices. Unfortunately it happens to be true that there is no way to get higher wages for workers and higher prices for farmers, and at the same time lower costs for the things workers and farmers buy. Just as there is no way to cut dpwn the inflationary money supply without cutting down government spending. The President has failed to present a real infiationcontrol program. » The sad thing for the country is that there seems to be little prospect that the Republican Congress will have the courage or vision to do that, either.

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5 DMINISTRATOR Paul Hoffman at the Paris conferKi ence is reminding Marshall Plan governments of some of the facts of life. : If they don’t keep their part of the bargain, .the flow of dollars from America eventually will be shut off. The warning is needed. $ To say that Mr. Hoffman is getting tough with them ' 8 would miss the point. On the contrary, he is most sympa- i thetic. He is merely being fair to all concerned. He is pointing out, while there is yet time, that the Marshall Plan in letter and spirit is a program of self-help. Unless they can make the dollars multiply in their own economy, lubricating their stalled machinery for much bigger production and wider trade, the whole thing will be EE a flop. \ : This requires courage, initiative, and skill too often lacking in the past. 3-1] Above all, it means vaulting national barriers, which ~ cramp the minds and impoverish the business life of sepa- ~ rate countries, to achieve a European economy. ~~ Just as the individual 48 states of our American Union could not survive, much less prosper, if cut off from each- , 89 European Recovery depends on rapid development

IN WASHINGTON—

In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue AT THE LAKE

Gray sky; Soft leaden clouds;

A pearly mistiness Gives unity and soft outline x To all, b Gray-green Transparent waves Roll sluggishly to shore; The earth moves slowly, dreamily, Along.

1, too, Beem floating with The waves and clouds that glide With pensive quietness and peace, To rest. HAZEL 1 DANNECHER, New Castle. *

"TELLING THE BEES"

In John Greenleaf Whittier's poem, “Telling the Bees” the poet speaks of the friendliness of bees with “Mary,” who constantly attended them, . I recall how my mother used to handle the bees with impunity in the several hives she

owned. : It would seem as though they must

have loved her, they were so gentle and harmless when she found it necessary to go among them. Mother was good at settling swarms of bees, too, and she always recognized the ‘Queen.” Sometimes we would go on the hunt eof wild honey which the bees would deposit in hollow trees. Occasionally mother would place some sweet orris or brown sugar in. an open space near the water's edge of the creek which ran through the farm, then we would watch whigh way the bees would fly after sipping of the sweet. Almost always we would find their tree with delicious honey in their honeycombs. This wild honey, if procured before it is too old and dark, excells in richness of flavor. . And I shall never forget the fields of buckwheat, beautiful when in full bloom, which

father planted each year for food for the bees.

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® A BOY GOES FISHING Sonny went a-fishing, “+ On a sunny day, and fine, d nose and sunbrown toes, e¢ Toting & pole and line. He caught two tiny fish,’ Before the close of day, His story was, just like his Pa's, * ‘The big ones got away.” LAURA THELMA COMSTOCK, McCordsville.

ANGELS SPEA \ ‘ K (Did you ever ltken a thunderstorm voloe of angels?) Ed rel Yo te The sky was dark. We hastened to our door While rumble of the thunder overhead Seemed like a circus lion's caged-up roar. 1 shuddered, then, protectingly you said Those treasured gentle words I loved to hear, “The angels speak to you tonight, my dear.” —EMMA JANE CRAIG.

Wallace Snare

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, July 28—Anyone required to sum up, in one sentence, the Henry Wallace Progressive party convention could only throw up his hands in despair and say it was the darndest thing that ever happened. , There hasn't been anything like it in American politics since 1936, when the Townsendites and Coughlinites met in Cleveland to express their forlorn hopes. Thé Wallace convention beat all that, with camp-meeting revival singing by Brooklyn hillbillies. y There never was a political convention in which the program was so stagc-managed, the candidate so hand-picked, the platform so dictated by special interests. In summary, the poor, underprivileged Americans who usually take something of a beating in climbing up the ladder, may have been sold a bill of goods by the left-wing elements of the new party and it may be that they are merely being used to promote what the American Communists are .nost interested in—the Russian foreign policy line.

Being Taken for er Ride PROOF of this shows up in the Progressive party platform. The first section of this platform deals with “peace.” It calls for an end to American preparedness, abolition of the Marshall Plan, a complete surrender tu the foreign policy objectives of Soviet Russia. The few old-time liberals like Rex Tugwell, Scott Buchanan of St. John's, Frederick L. Schuman of Williams and others who tried to write a more balanced foreign policy plank were beaten down in the platform committee of 74 by superior numbers of extreme left-wingers. As for the domestic policy planks dealing with “freedom” and “abundance,” they merely promise everything to everybody and never mind the cost. It is just another political document not worth the paper it is written on. ’ It is a delusion and a snare in which the poor misguided followers of Henry Wallace are being taken for a ride by promises which can never be fulfilled this side of Paradise.

U.S. AFFAIRS —-

GOP Strategy

By Marquis Childs

WASHINGTON, July 28-—-The strategy of Republican leaders in the special session of Congress called by President Truman is now fairly clear. They are confident that final result will be to show the Democratic party hopelessly divided and bankrupt in the face of the Republican challenge. . Certainly, they will work both in public and behind the scenes toward that objective. They feel that they will have invaluable assistance from their chief ally—the rebellious southern Democrats, In fact, without the southerners the GOP might be in for an embarrassing time. 3

* > & CIVIL-RIGHTS legislation is expected to precipate a southern filibuster. This can be choked off by a two-thirds vote of the Senate. But, according to present intentions, that will not be done until the Senate and the country are sick to death of the flood of southern oratory. This may mean three or four weeks. In any event, at least the first week or 10 days will be lost in the preliminaries of organization. When patience has been worn. down, ‘the Republican majority, with the aid of some northern Democrats, will vote cloture and pass one of the less radical civil-rights measures. This would take the session into September. epublican leaders would then declare that mocratic obstructionists had made it plain at any hope for constructive legislation from the “rump session” was futile and, therefore, nothing remained but to adjourn.

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SOMEWHAT BEHIND in my reading, it wasn't until last night that I tackled the latest edition (July, 1948) of the Indianapolis Telephone Directory. i This book is a social phenomenon. It is the sort of thing that could only have happened in times like otrs when the whole world is in a state of confusion. Indeed, it is my considered opinfon that with the publication of this book, the confusion of the world is now complete. In support of which I submit. the appalling discovery that the new directory also has a New Look. No fooling. To recognize the Herron Art Institute, it now behooves one to look under the letter J, where one will find it catalogued as the John Héfron Art Inst. The same thing holds good for the Hancock Mutual Life Ins. Co. Seems that Mr. Hancock’s first name was also John. And heaven help you when you go jn search of the Murray Dance Studio's telephone num. ber. You can’t possibly find it unless you know that Mr. Murray's first name is Arthur. (Look up A—not M, as you once did in a less confused world.) However, it doesn’t do you a bit of good to know that Mr. Jordan's given name was Arthur. When you go to look for the telephone number of the Arthur Jordan Conservatory of Music—under A, of course, as in the case of the Murray dance people—you won't find it, not if you hunt 100 years. It appears, as it always did. under the letter J. Which may mean one of two things: (1) that the author didn't know Mr. Jordan's first name (too impossible to believe); or (2) that the author's conscience got the better of his enthusiasms as the writing of the book progressed (improbable, but still possible).

Dy-Per Ser. Inc. Still Busy WHATEVER the reason, the new telephone directory is no book to place in the hands of those who lead sheltered lives. The temptation to write an unfavorable review of this book is great, but fortunately it is offset by the impulse to be enthusiastic about its author's enthusiasms. It is still the exciting story it always was, notwithstanding the depressing fact that Indianapolis now has enough sick people to necessitate 181 columns of telephone numbers to handle the business of doctors, dentists and chiropractors around here. It represents an increase of something like six columns since the world became so confused. You can skip these chapters without losing the

thread of the story. \ The juice of the book lies in the behavior of our fellow villagers and the intricate interweaving of their healthy activities. These are de-

OUR TOWN . . . on Anton Scherrer {Book Review: Our Mr. Scherrer Analyzes New Phone Directory

picted with a tapestry-like munificence of detail, It is good to know, for instance, that the Dy-Per Ser. Inc. (CH. 2125) is still in business, and. that Blacksmith Denny Lee (HI. 1384) is still officiating as a horse-shoer—even if the chestnut tree is missing. - The book's biggest defect lies in its plot— more specifically. in the development of several characters which the enthusiastic author introduces and never mentions again. Mr. Smithe is

a case in point. ‘ I first ran across Mr. Smithe’s name in the chapter devoted to the Saga of the Smithe Famfly beginning on page 347. The opening sentence reads: “Smithe—Also Schmid, Schmidt, Smitt, Schmitz, Smith,”

A Perfect Nonentity—No Ghost

BROTHER, you can save yourself the trouble of looking for him. There isn’t any Mr. Smithe. I've searched everywhere fog him, even

‘in the paste that holds the book together. Mr.

Smithe is a perfect nonentity without even the substance of a ghost. On the other hand, Indianapolis has two persons named Smyth and three named Smythe, all of whom have telephones. Why they didn't

* get into the Saga of the Smithe Family strikes

me as mighty mysterious. Indeed, I think it ought to be cleared up. If it isn’t, I'll go or believing that the telephone people take sides in family squabbles. My only other criticism of the book concerns a matter of taste, or rather the lack of it. I refer to the author’s shabby treatment of the author’s scrupulously nice handling of widows and divorcees. Widows and divorcees, for instance, get the benefit of a “Mrs.” in front of their names in the Indianapolis Telephone Directory. An unmarried woman gets nothing. To be sure, there is a legend around here that an unmarried woman may have a “Miss” in front of her name if she is willing to renounce her given name, a price no woman in her right senses can afford to pay. The last person to ask the telephone people about this deliberate discrimination learned that a “Miss” with a given name, a surname, a street address and a telephone number takes up too much room--like as not as much as two lines. Shucks! IT know a lot of widows—in the telephone book, I mean—who get a “Mrs.” a given name, a surname, a street address and a telephone number, and it takes up all of two lines. So there! ’ If you like a moody book with which to start the second phase of summer, the Indian-

apolis Telephone Directory (edition July, 1948) is your dish.

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| BLESSINGS OF . . .

Research

By MRS. W. FERGUSON After 12 years of experimentation on dogs, Columbia University believes it has a drug

which may check the disease known to laymen as “hardening of the arteries.” It now kills one out of every three persons. Diabetes, once considered beyond successful treatment, was checked by the discovery of insulin. Dr. Banting of Canada worked for years with dogs, finally to prove that he had a drug that could add years to the life expectancy of diabetics. ” ” »” MANY people violently oppose the use of animals in experimental laboratories. Although we should be tolerant of their views, most of us are willing to ‘give thanks for the benefits humanity has derived in this way. This list of diseases made less deadly by such experimentation is long. Smallpox, puerperal fever, typhoid, malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia. Intestinal ailments, which we now cure by a change of diet or a serum, used to kill thousands of infants in their second summer. ; Oldsters can also remember ‘when diphtheria swept over a community. :

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Is Hitler Alive? 4 Lin By F. E. Hardesty, 109 N. 4th Ave., Beech Grove, After the articles on “Is Hitler Alive

reading ‘| or Dead,” it leaves the question in one’s ming

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‘We Must Work Together’

By An American, City Both extremists absolutely reject possibility the Russians can be wrong yesterday and right

changed Russian. position on peacemaking since the bitter days of Byrnes mission and they are: " 1. Hunger and misery, Russia was sure would make this continent a happy hunting ground for propaganda. It was only a time before Europe fell in her lap; hence her stubborn refusal to engage in give and take negotiations. 2. Depression in U. 8. A. she thought would hasten U. 8. withdrawal from Europe and leave small nations without economic aid or military support; hence again her. willingness to wait it out on her own. 3. In both these premises she. was wrong. Similarly the U. 8. fooled Soviet strategy 100 per cent.” Instead we in America are having the greatest prosperity in history and every indication is that it will last for several years. Since Russians are realists the line has now changed to take these realities into account. What we Americans must do is to work together and work as we never have to be sure our economy can stay that way. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be righted by full employment including states rights issue. Thanks to our bumper crops, may God continue to bless America and all with plenty so right

“may prevail over wrong regardless of propa-

Jud Haggerty doesn’t like the Taft-Hartley law and he doesn’t like the attitude The Times and other newspapers are taking in thinking the election is all over except the shouting. As far as I am concerned I don’t care which one of the Siamese twins is elected although all my bets will be placed on the Republi Te However, the Taft-Hartley law i over Mr. Truman's veto and it took a t irds majority of both houses to do it. "And practically all the Democrats in the House voted for the law and more than enough in the Senate to pass it and there were a few Republicans who voted against it. Looks like a case of the pot calling the kettle black. But after all the people must have been pretty well fed up with having things cleared with Sidney or both Republicans and Democrats would have been afraid to vote for the TaftHartley law especially if it is as bad as Jud thinks it is. © @

Approves Recall of Congress E. M. K,, City. Members of Congress are paid a yearly sal ary. What right have they to expect a year's pay for five and one-half months’ of poor work. The housewives know that all but the rich are being priced out of the food market becausg the 80th Congress failed to do its duty. Are 65 per cent of the people to go hungry because Congress did not de its duty? Are deserving veterans to remain homeless? Now a howl goes up because a brave statesfan calls Congress back to relieve the sorrowful predicament of the- people. ’ Abraham Lincoln in his second inaugural declared he would do his duty “with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right.” Now our President sees that the distressing condition that exists needs to be relieved. Had the 80th Congress performed 'its duty it would have had to be called back. °

«9% ‘Too Many Jaywalkers’ By F.O.R. A FS We are indeed proud to. learn that Indianapolis is starting to become (big town): The new traffic signaling system which is abaut to be installed to speed traffic. The possibility of little or no parking on Washington St., in the downtown zone area. What a change this should make in compari son to the present system. : Another noticeable thing is jaywalking in the downtown area. ‘Why not cross at intersections and observe traffic regulations?

Let us all abide by all traffic rules and regulations.

FOREIGN MARKETS—

Wheat Surplus?

By Earl Richert

WASHINGTON, July 28— Agriculture experts foresee mountains of surplus wheat piling up in the U.S. within the next few years unless we maintain our foreign markets—or force farmers .o reduce acreage. The easiest thing to do, they think, is to keep our foreign markets, That's why, President Truman is urging that the Senate ratify the international wheat agree

session.

Would Minimize Quotas THE WHEAT agreement is a flve-year plan under which 33 wheat-importing countries guarantee to take certain amounts ot wheat anni ally from three exporting nations, the U.S. Canada and Australia. The U.S. under ths plan, would be com" mitted to deliver 185 millions bushels annually to the importing countries. And those countries would be under obligation to take their allotted amounts. f The 185 million, plus what is expected to be sent to the occupied zones, would enable the U. 8. to send at least 300 million bushels over: seas annually for the next five years. “This situation,” said Dr. Oscar Zaglits, Ag riculture Department economist, “would min mize the need for having marketing quotas 0 restrict wheat production.” The U.S. now is consuming domestically about .750 million bushels annually. But i current crop, the second largest on record, totals 1.2 billion bushels.

Opposed by Millers THE MARSHALL PLAN nations are €X pected to take much of the surplus during the year just ahead — but after that the outlook : doubtful if European crops continue good, & Dr. Zaglits. The U. 8. cannot force the Mars Plan countries to use dollars for wheat. . The wheat agreement is supported by th fous major farm organizations, but is oppoS y millers and n traders. : Opposition wel chiefly on the ground that it would give the government more cO7 over the industry. W. R. Ogg, head of Division of the American

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