Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 July 1948 — Page 18

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Third Parties Come and Go HIRD parties are by no means a rarity in presidential election years. Unless a new party can become the first or second party after one or two campaigns it usually falls apart, so wedded are most Americans to the two-party system. When the Federalists disintegrated, the Whigs took their place as the opposition party to the Jacksonian Demorats, who had succeeded the Jeffersonian “Republicans.” The present-day Republicans began as a third party in 1856, and four years later became the first party, when. they nominated and elected Abraham Lincoln. Yet many _ Republicans consider themselves the political descendants i of Alexander Hamilton, the brain-truster of the Federalists, Fan and Thomas Jefferson is one of the patron saints of the latBlo ter-day Democrats. We haven't had a third party of any real stamina since £4 the 1860. The “Bull Moose” Progressives made a spectacular splash in the political puddle of 1912. But by 1916 little was left of them except their name. Teddy Roosevelt rejoined the Republicans.

» » » ” " » - BOB LA FOLLETTE, the elder, revived the party and the name in 1924, when many liberals held that the major £ party candidates, Calvin Coolidge and John W. Davis, were i “too much alike.” But the electorate wasn't in the mood { for experimentation that year and by 1928 the La FolEo lette movement had passed out of the picture. Father Pi ah Coughlin and the Townsendites, ballyhooyed by Gerald L. {kh K. Smith, launched a third party again in 1936. But it : | was ignored in the onward sweep of FDR's New Deal. Our Constitution is built upon a system of checks and

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£1 balances, The two-party system, though a later develop- {| i ment, fits so well into our plan of government it has become H

a part of it, : One party is a check upon the other. Each party has its own checks and balances within its respective frame-

left and center, and its racial groups. When a particular group is not satisfied with its treatment in one party, it can cross over to the other and find welcome, That encourages a middle way, and that is wh our two parties have remained 22 mucH alike. ; Sometimes that is used as a criticism of the two-party system, but in fact that is its strength. ; ~The one time the system broke down—over the slavery issue—the result was bloody, disastrous civil war. We do not want to drift that far apart again.

Weaker French ‘Government CE again France has managed to form a mid -

the-road coalition. That is good news to most Fréfich-"] f and their democritic allies, But the Marie tabinet ig further to the right, and less representative, than the Schuman centrist coalition which it replaces. Therefore its chances of survival are not good. ; * In that sense the French curse of political instability, which so often has weakened the Western Allies, is still with us. wo é It is not that the French Communists are in position to capture power directly from the new cabinet, which they are trying to unseat. But they do hope that its collapse would be followed by advent of the extreme rightist, Gen. De Gaulle, producing a class war from which the Reds would profit, : : ) There can be no moderate government, under the present division of parties, without a coalition of the MRP (Catholic) Party, the Radical Socialist (Conservative) Party, and the Socialists. Each has eight seats in the Marie cabinet. The Socialists hold the balance of power. Because they insist on democracy and have made possible the recent moderate coalitions, they are hated above all others by the Reds. But it was the Socialists whose withdrawal toppled the Schuman coalition and whose restrained support leaves the Marie cabinet less than secure. Credit is due the Socialists for leading French support | of the Marshall Plan and French co-operation with the democratic powers against Soviet aggression. Nevertheless they will defeat these policies if they block unpopular but essential deflation measures, which probably will be the test of the new cabinet. : The Communists cannot be curbed by shouting against them while voting with them to weaken “lemocratic government—as De Gaulle does. Unless the Socialists put patriotism and democracy above everything else, there is grave danger of a semi-dictatorship of the right and chaos. That would be Stalin's big opportunity in Europe. A lot depends on France's sticking to democracy.

In the Right Direction EFENSE Secretary James V. Forrestal has acted to reduce serious friction within the military establishment by giving Maj. Gen. Milton B. Persons the job of settling disputes among the Army, Navy and Air Force— before their recommendations for legislation are presented to Congress. By this means Mr. Forrestal apparently hopes to put Lg, an end to the rival Army, Navy and Air Force lobbies on Capitol Hill. . : The Persons selection is a good one and will fill a real needs—if the heads of the three services give the general their whole-hearted support. Our whole defense program has been confused and delayed by inter-service controversies. As Gen, Persons well said, only when those responsible for national security, “quit thinking as Army, Navy and Air Force men, and start thinking as representatives of the department of national defense, can we expect unification to work.” : And unification must work if adequate preparations * are to be made to protect the nation from foreign attack. It should not be necessary to resort to further legislative

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Barton Rees Pogue MUSIC

I listen with supreme delight To Crosby's lilting tunes ‘And clap my hands with all my might When Frank Sinatra croons, And shed a sympathetic tear When an admirer swoons.

I paid four dollars cheerfully To hear McCo sing; And counted it a treat to see A famous fiddler swing His magic bow and hear the tones That made the rafters ring.

And in the spring I love to hear A redbird’s cheerful call, And robbins chirping, far and near, But sweetest sound of all— The sound that thrills me—is the clear Stentorian cry, “Play Ball.” -E. B. H. © 9

: SILENCE

Have you ever been in a group where someone was speaking in such a way as to offend some or all of the persons present? Did you actually feel the silence that greeted the remark or the story? What rebuke can better register scorn than sheer silence? Have you been in*an audience where the people shuffled and rustied, and made the little unconscious noises that an audience makes when bored? On the other hand have you

if the hall were empty? Such silence is the perfect tribute to the speaker. . Have you tried to sympathize with one in grief, and could find no word that seemed You could do no more than grip the hand in fellow-feeling. Such silence is the perfect expression of heart: felt sympathy. Have you ever been stilled into silent contemplation of the stars, or the sea, or the maIf so, it means that the

Silence has a language all its own; it says

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. FRIENDLINESS

That friendly young fellow With a smile on his face, Is on the “right track,” And he’s “going some place.”

Who likes a long face That can’t “crack a stile?” The fellow who's friendly Is really in style.

If you've a smile on the inside, And you have, without doubt, ‘We hope it's contagious And you let it “break out.” MARY R. WHITE, Indianapolis.

FOREIGN TRADE—

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, July 30—The Marshall Plan ° can and may fail for lack of a smoothly working machine to keep it going after 1952 when American aid to Europe is scheduled to stop. Its success or failure depends upon the measure of economic co-operation Europe itself can maintain after 1852, The $17 billion or $18 billion which the United States intends to spend on it in the meantime is intended to start the wheels tarnat such a rate that Europe will be able to them going. ; Already, however, some of the signs are disquieting. European recovery revolves around inter-European trade. Yet, despite all the pump-priming the United, States has done and is doing, the stream seems. to be drying up. ! The principal reason is lack of a stable convertible currency. Edouard Herriot, former premier of France, now president of the French assembly, once

d: . “The ‘world can't do business with a rubber yardstick.”

ver was trying to get President-elect Roosevelt to join him in backing a world recovery conference, Then, as now, Eurpean currencies were skidding dizzily all over the place.

Incist in Uniform Currency

“MONEY is the yardstick of international trade,” M. Herriot went on to observe. “It’s the only measure importers and exporters have to-go by. Thus when a ‘yard’ is three feet one day, two feet the next and six feet the next, trading stops.” Many French economists now are insisting more and more on the need for a uniform currency for western Europe—not only to implement the Marshall Plan but to maintain recovery after American aid comes to an end. The system of separate clearing agreements between two countries in use since the end of the war, writes Gerville-Reache in the French weekly, “Une Semaine Dans Le Monde,” has exhausted its possibilities. European nations have now granted each other approximately $1% billion worth of credits. And that it about their limit. Indebtedness of debtor nations is increasing, two-way transactions are blocked—and all excesses of imports over exports must be paid for in gold or convertible currency. And these are increasingly difficult to come by.

Endl- “upply of Dollars?

IN 1938, trade among European countries accounted for 30 per cent of world trade. Today it is only 18 per cent. Germany's position, of course, is partially responsible for the slump. But this only emphasizes the need to include Western Germany economically with Western Europe. The United States is helping with its dollars. But there simply are not enough dollars to go round and there will be less, rather than more, after 1952. Gerville-Reache, therefore, supports the uniform currency plan for Western Europe. He thinks Great Britain and France might undeMake the task of setting up a bank of issue. He suggests that it should be a private

of gold privately subscribed and divided into bearer securities. Its currency, he says, should be able to circulate throughout the territories included in the customs union—and should constitute a new and separate item on the international exchange market. The. only even half-way valid substitute would seem to be an endless supply of U, 8. dollars. And there is no likelihood of that.

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QUITE THE NICEST THING to come my way this week was the full-page advertisement captioned: “Block’s Salutes the World-Renowned Adrian Fashions Showing.” The ad clears up why Mr. M. 8. Block, Mr. Paul Mode and Miss Leone Jones haven't been seen around here lately. Seems all three have been “in attendance at the opening in the gorgeous Adrian salon in ° Beverly Hills, Cal.” 2 Except for the asymetrical treatment of its left side, the ad has a distinct architectural character leading one to: believe that it is built on a sound foundation. At any rate, it includes the upper segments of seven chaste classic Ionic columns, six of which have been used to introduce the half-dozen “excerpts from Mr. Block’s letter written immediately following the showing.” From this wealth of material I have picked a single sentence to point up today’s piece. Speaking of Mr. Adrian’s unmatched genius, Mr. Block observes: “The eclat and beauty of his fall fashions made me deeply cognizant of his contribution in making the American woman the most soignee in the world.” : I just love this style of writing when handled with Mr. Block's savoir faire. less aplomb would have botched up the whole thing by using coarse ugly Anglo-Saxon words to convey his subtle message—like as not the banal phrase “brilliant success” in place of the recherche word ‘“eclat,”” and the even more hackneyed “best dressed” instead of the ravissant “soignee.”” Mr. Block practices no such gaucherie with the result that he. has delivered a tour de force and, maybe, even a fait accompli.

QUIT FIGHTING — _

Toughest Job

By Jim G. Lucas

WASHINGTON, July 30—A soft-spoken Alabaman has drawn one of the toughest jobs in Washington—to see that the Army, Navy and Air Force quit fighting évery time they go before Congress. Maj. Gen. Wilton B. (Jerry) Persons didn't ask fo it. But for the past several months he's +been telling Defense Secretary James V. Forrestal such a job had to be set up. Last week Mr. Forrestal made the job—and gave it to Jerry Persons. “I know I can make it work if they'll give me time,” Gen. Persons says. “But if they expect me to start showing results tomorrow or hand them a smooth-running railroad next week they're going to be, disappointed.” * That means, he says, there'll be no national defense legislative presentation during the special session. He expects to do “exactly nothing” during this one. By next January, when a new Congress convenes, he expects to have an organization in running order.

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THE SKILL with which Mr, Block handles foreign words should be brought to the attention of the linquistic—lazy enfants terribles now inw And the sooner the better. ' As matters stand today, there isn’t a Chinaman’s chance of improving our esprit de corps

charge of foreign affairs learn to make themselves understood or, at any rate, not misunderstood. N'est ce pas? Vidla! So far as I have been able to determine, only one thing stands in the way of establishing a bond of international friendship. language composed of too many forthright words. What we need is a vocabulary" of more insouciance—words with which we can play, even to the point of fooling people, It is something pretty worthwhile, for instance, to have words of such an accommodating character that we can call a batch of ordinary pancakes “crepes suzette”; or a gooseHver pis “pate de fois gras.”

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kL . Wrapped in Hard, Cruel, Words OF THE TWO THODS, the ifirst is Pac “tically impossible of achievement., It would be expecting too much of our pbliticians to speak two. languages—Ilet alone, more. Which, of course, Jeaves ‘one no alternative but to adopt Mr. Block’s method. Even that can’t be done without first effecting a reconciliation. And that brings me to the asymetrical left side of the full-page ad and the painful news that it isn't en rapport with Mr. Block’s bouyant observations. This side of the page incorporates not only a picture of Mr. Adrian’s handsome facade and the unaccounted-for (seventh) Ionic column— but also a 430-word treatment of Mr. Adrian’s philosophy—a second reading of which will reveal its raison d'etre. I won't dwell on Mr. Adrian's philosophy except to say that you can read it all the way through and not find a single foreign word lurking in its text. What's more, the whole thing is wrapped in the hard cruel words which only the American language is capable of delivering. I don’t know why this should be 80, but it worries me no end. >} i Is it possible that Mr. Adrian is nothing more than what the Anglo-Saxons used to call a dressmaker, and not the ‘sophisticated couturier Mr. Block thinks he is? No doubt Mr. Adrian’ can ‘be made to see the error of his way. When he learns to dress up his philosophy in words as soft and soothing as those of Mr. Block, the world will be in such ’ a nice shape that we can proclaim it tres bon or, God knows, maybe even comme il faut. ' Adieu jusqu ‘au revoir! /

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EXPERT'S BELIEVE—

Strikes Out

By FRED W. PERKINS

WASHINGTON, July 30— Experts here are guessing that a wave of strikes due in mid-August has been headed off or postponed by the so-: called “Goldsborough formula.” This was the compromise reached two weeks ago by Judge T. Alan Goldsborough between the United Mine Workers, who didn’t want to work in the steel companies’ coal mines without a new contract containing a union shop clause, and the steel companies themselves. - ” t VARIOUS variations on the closed shop, of which the union shop was one, supposed- . ly were outlawed by the TaftHartley bill. But between its enactment July 22 a year ago and the following Aug. 23, unions and employers were given a grace period to ‘sign one-year con-

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4 Why China Changes Slowly By Ernest T. Nash, Woodland, Cal. An Englishman recently returned after a lifetime in China, I find Americans everywhere obsessed with the notion that American democratic standards alone will rid China of her L Re how is it that the finest exemplars of democracy in Western Europe are crying

" for American aid against the Red peril?

An eminent American, the late Wendell Willkie, returning from China, said this: “We must not expect Chinese ideas of personal lib erty and democratic government to be exactly like ours. Just as the Chinese concept of democracy differs from ours in certain respects, so does the pattern which life imposes on the Chinese leaders. . : The Kuomintang, the party which rules China, includes in its plans for the growth of self-government in a a tutelary stage during which the people are being educated into new habits of living and thinking designed to

"make them good citizens of a complete democ-

racy, with electoral right, at a later time.” % The Chinese government, totally unlike Fascist or totalitarian governments, imposes too little. and not too much government on the strongly individualist Chinese people. ’ We must be patient with, and aid, a people who are all too slowly transferring their loyalties from themselves to their nation. : _ Better the slow process, than the regimentation of their loyalties on the Russian or the former Japanese pattern, > .

Scanty Clothing Draws Fire: By Mrs. B. L. B,, City - : Please publish all of this letter as it is very

‘ important to me and many, many others.

“The City Council should put a ban on peo~ “ple; old and young running around just as near naked as the law will allow. Many persons put little children out in the sun and keep them, half naked all day in the hot sun. Then at night put them in air conditioned homes, or under a fan. What keeps their blood from clotting in their veins? ;

TRENDS ABROAD—

° ® U. S. Gaining By Marquis Childs WASHINGTON, July 30—What this country has gained during the past 10 days may not at first be evident. But it is nevertheless a very real gain. y To understand how important it is, one need only contrast the attitudes of two weeks ago as reflected in the headlines and the present attitude. The change in the temperature is striking. Two weeks ago we were getting inspired stories out of Berlin and Frankfurt of the most sensational and alarmist nature. : Plans were being considered to force an armored train through the blockade, There would be a showdown. The sources of these inspired reports were never identified. Presumably they came from military policy: makers in Berlin whose patience had been worn down’ to the vanishing point in the long contest with Soviet stubobrnness and hostility. “They also may have been inspired by certain trigger-happy generals in. the air forces who sometimes talk altogether too freely about preventive wars.

The Gain Is on Our Side

NOW THE CLIMATE has changed. A meet: ing of top diplomats has been held in London to study a new approach to Moscow. Charles E. Bohlen, counsellor, represented our State De partment at that meeting. Reports from London make it plain that long and serious consideration was given to mapping . out negotiations that would: exhaust every possibility for peaceful settlement. ~The gain is°on the side of our moral positiod before the world. While the trigger-happy and the irresponsible seem hardly aware of it, that position has & value at least equal to the mightiest modert armament. Provocative talk from the United States Was a priceless gift to the Soviet Union. i It gave the Russians a tremendous advan tage in the contest for western Europe. For the uneasy peoples who stand petweed the two Gollaths—the U. 8. A. and the U. 8.5. —stch talk could seem only to be the peril folly that in reality it was.

Pressure Was Visible

THE TREMORS that ran through Paris The Hague, Brussels and even London visible in spite of the deliberate restraint imposed. . : Pressure from these sources may Well DAYS had something to do with the developm! of the past 10 days. nit © Whatever the actuality of thar ruthlesshese in power politics behind scapca, ibe Rus are intensely conscious of their positiob ad the world. While the propaganda of simple assertion goes a certain distance, it cannot wholly igoot . events. It would be of the first importance Jo dnt “Russians to have some substance beh cry that America was to blame if & should come. Now with the path opened for new negobl by responsible policy-matT and res! i

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