Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1948 — Page 16
as long ee p with support prices.” “support” today are potatoes st oversupply of both. More for yy to buy. But the price federal government buys all in order to hold prices up. p below the price the govern- , of course. : thir 1h to meat, if it drops very far, Som vhs Fn material out of which 8 pro also, is going to be in a huge } from now. In fact we heard Toy that the United States Department of Agri is out urging the farmer to cut down on wheat and Text year, because we've already got. more than we prices won't stay up unless they raise less. Pretty ) She same Hing if trus of aearly every item that goss average table. . =» . THIS IS the same government, by the wey; “that called s back .into special session and demanded that it rationing and price fixing because the price of foods too high, And, for that matter, it was the same Conthat had just finished, a couple of months before, reg the subsidies to keep prices up on corn and meat and for another two years, and the same President who
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=5 Red Probes
By Charles T. Lucey
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—This 1s offered as
ist agent Elizabeth T. Bentley, has helped confuse the customers. But all parties concerned deny there was any race to be first to rip the hide off the leftists, ng down the Commies is the full-time business of the House Un-American Activities Committee. This is the old Dies Committee, once Beaded by ex-Rep. Martin Dies of Texas, which has been a center of controversy for years. Re-so-called liberals and leftists in the House, often aided by a sizable body of Dem-
- This comm commities plaiim to call many. of those ho have been named in this way by Miss Bent. ley. This means a sideshow probably running . for many days.
Amazed at Job Changing Ease SEN. FERGUSON'S committee got into the what let ting inquiry re alleged ey as an of export licenses, William W. Rem‘named by Miss Bentley as one of her government contacts, was chairman of the commerce department’s export license committee. to committee questioned both Miss Bentley Remington privately, was amazed at Sh Remington's ease in moving from one govanother—even sensitive” jobs handling of secret and con-
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information, ‘In running their hearings, Sen. n and committee ‘chief counsel, have
and Bduoation Commit« study of Raine infiltration ~ into
local of the 0 il Drug Employees Union, | the committee the Communist Party had
i unjons has been 2 dull pared are ae avis, head of ‘& New| of
The House Committee, running investigation No. 4, 1s considering how far goin to Dr. Studebaker's that the Administration had
of communism” in the schools. It could be Sxplostve if substance is found for the ace
Voice From Indiana—
ire of '76’
: By PAUL R. LEACH WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—~Whenever I get to worrying about what political off-oxen- with wild ideas of government spending, regimentation of the people into grooved robots, and spoon-fed propaganda might do to this coun I remember what an Indiana farmer told me. y And I feel better about the good sense of the
American people. '
It was in the early ’30s. Henry Wallace the same Henry Wallace who is presidential candidate of the left-wing Progressive Party— was directing the killing of little pigs. The theory of that, with Henry as Secretary of Agriculture doing the deciding, was double barrelled. .
What Experts Said THERE DASN'T enough feed, the expertd said, to fatten all the little pigs rumbling around the nation’s feed lots. Shortening supply of pigs would lenghthen prices for the farmers. + In driving across the corn-hog country trying to find out what the farmers themselves
— were thinking I found this old fellow down near
Indianapolis. “I'm not interested,” he said. “I’ve got silage, fodder and corn enough to feed my stock up to a decent market weight. With so many people in this country unable to buy hog meal at any price, I'd rather sell two hogs at §5 a .hundred than one hog at $10.”
‘Spirit of '76’ AND THEN he asked me a question. “They tell me those people down in Washington are trying to do away with our Constitution and run things to sult themselves with a lot of new ideas. What about it? “Well,” I hedged, “What do you think about ny “They can't do it,” he said. And when ‘he said “it “he looked life the’ white-haired feller with-the bloody bandage on ES forehead In that old picture “The Spirit of » 6. »
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The trombone player seems to be the only fellow who can get any place just letting things
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* * * The one best way to win an argument with a woman is—just Haten, ; & “About the only use left for a nickel is to trade two for a dime To an buy something.
Age is what makes a man’s nice build go to
"Nothing 1s Haipossible Sxoept some people.
A new species of mosquito has been discovered by a scientist. And we don’t want to hear
the next town always seems
‘Heads. : Win—Tails, You Lose’
OUR TOWN
WHAT WITH THE havoc wrought by house wreckers ‘recently, it's kind of comforting to know that the old mansion at 1121 N, Pennsylvania St. is still intact. Even more consoling is the discovery that
the LaRue restaurant people keep the place in such a nice condition thateit augurs well for the future. Most people around here who have any appreciation for the past refer to the landmark as the old Clune house. However, that doesn’t reach the roots. The house was built by Albert Elliott Fletcher, the youngest of Calvin Fletcher's. 12 children (two girls). “Three of the Fletcher boys, including Albert E., were assocfated with their father in the Pletcher & Sharpe Bank. The Mr. Sharpe connected with the concern was Thomas H., father of 11 n, one of whom was Eliza L. She had more to do with making No. 1121 an architectural success than anybody else. Which, if you know the ways of wives, is the equivalent of saying that she was Albert E. Fletcher's
spouse, + To build their house, the Fletchers employed James Curzan, an architect who came to Indianapolis by way of Derbyshire, England, in 1851. Soon he located here he received the commission to plan the Union Railway Station— the first one, of course. Later in 1864, he designed the Second Presbyterian Church, the edifice in which the Rev, Jean 8. Milner operates today. In 1873, he got around to the Fletcher house. :
To thig day, nobody knows why Mr. Fletcher picked panic year of ’73 to build his big hoyse. And I guess it's really none of my business to pry into his private affairs. However, one can't help wondering why Mr. Fletcher spent so much money to house his family when everything, at the time, pointed to the end of the world.
The Show Place of Indianapolis
WHEN FINISHED, No. 1121 was the show place of Indianapolis; Mr, Curzan had been given carte blanche to spend money as he pleased, and he made the most of it, He imported black and white marblés and paved the corridors with them. The walls of the 14-foot-high rooms were panelled with rare woods and "a carved stairway ran from the basement to the ball room on the third floor. The kitchen was equipped with the first copper sink brought to Indianapolis, The next owner was Louis Hollweg. However he didn't move his family into the house for reasons I am about to reveal. Seems: that Mr, Hollweg was walking down Pennsylvania 8t. one day back in the 80's when a crowd in the front yard of No. 1121 attracted his attention, He joined the group to see what all the excitement was about. It wis an auction. That
Russian situation may clear up!”
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LaRue People Are Taking Good Care of a Colorful.Landmark
same moment, he noticed a friend waving to him. Mr, Hollweg acknowledged the saluté with a nod of his head. There was a crash of the hammer. “Sold to Mr. Hollweg for $24,000.” He was stuck with the Fletcher house, Well, that same evening in what is.still remembered as an historic exhibition of sangfroid, Mr. Hollweg 1014 family of their new home. Next morning, bi t and early, Mrs. Hollweg went over to have a look at it. She returned with a devastating minority report, the general substance of which was that, if Mr. Hollweg expected her to run the place, he'd have to engage at least three more servants. One girl would have all she could do working every day
of the week just dusting down the woodwork,
sald Mrs. H. >
Didn't Have a Stepladder
MOREOVER, THERE was the matter of stepladders. - The Hollweg menage, she an-
"nounced, didn’t have ‘a single ladder to reach
the 14-foot-high ceilings. That settled it. The Hollwegs spent the rest of their days in their old home at 953 N. Meridian St. “In 1886, Michael Clune acquired No. 1121. He was a talented Irishman (County Clare) who accompanied his father to America in 1848, the year of the great famine in Ireland. They settled in Hendricks County and sometime around 1850, young Michael .turned up in Indianapolis and started manufacturing ‘upholstered furniture. At the time of the Chicago fire (1871) he
was going big. Big enough, indeed, to send 16
railroad cars full of mattresses to alleviate the suffering in Cook County—all in one day, mind you. When Mr. Clune bought the old Fletcher house, he made two big changes. And like as not, in this case, too, the distaff side of the family had a hand in it. Anyway, all the carpets were ripped up and replaced with hardAnd on this occasion, too, the house was wired for electric lights. It was an operation fraught with no end of trouble. I might as well tell the whole story, for it shows the kind of stuff Mr. Clune was made of.
Imported Crew of Cabinet Makers
WHEN IT CAME time to wire the house, Mr. Clune insisted that it be done without mutilating the magnificent woodwork. Nobody around here would tackle such a delicate operation. He went to Chicago for help. Same story. Finally, a firm in New York said they'd chance it, provided Mr. Clune would pay the bill to bring a crew of cabinet makers from Italy to plug up the holes made by the electricians. O. K. said Mr, Clune, When the Italians got done, the naked eye couldn't detect a single patch in the panelled walls. It pleased Mr. Clune as much as the day he sent the trainload of mattresses to Chicago. - I never did learn how Mrs. Clune solved the servant problem, or what she did in the way of ladders to reach the 14-foot-high ceilings.
FACTS OF LIFE—
Gullible
- By MRS. WALTER FERGUSON THE NEWS-REEL pictures of the Progressive Party convention at Philadelphia show a lot of youngsters howling * their heads off Tor Henry wWallace. The speeches they were listening to make ridiculous reading.
extolled Mr, Roosevelt, They out all the hoary ge about the down-trod den farmer, Yet a short jaunt throygh the agricultural area from which their candidate comes will show that the man in blue jeans is rolling in wealth, He has a couple of cars in his garage, plenty of chickens
plane hangar on his acres."
® "n = J + BUT MAYBE we should not laugh too long at such nonsense. It's not funny after all. The sight of thousands of college kids heiling Wallace, furnishes the soil in which dictatorships grow. - Now that we know what communism is and what its objectives are, isn’t it time we taught the political facts of life to college students? We can’t shrug off their gullibility < much longer,
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Hour after hour the orators
in the pot and often an: air.
Hoosier For um but. HT
in November, anyone Dn patra 0 think ¢
whose very ot the people. e good of the people needs ne This is truly an awful indictment—but witness the record. - dee Much prattie will offend the air-waves, abost party responsibility, between now and electiof
By Marjorie J. Bryant, City
The hottest pepper in the political pot hb :
America today is civil rights. Under the fuge of states rights, the South is determin to offset what it terms a “mixture of the races ™ :
their age old promises of equal rights. The Negro looks at both sides, and where in the past he would have been afraid of this open hostility of the South, where he would hawe been influenced by these glib promises’ of thé North, today he can laugh at or pity both sided. Freedom is one of the greatest and strongest History has well-proven it toolish to suppose that one can demand fred» dom for himself in one breath and deny it to
none at all; that even when none have freedom it 1s only temporarily impaired and waits like a flickering light to be picked up and tended and put to work again. Thus, thesd
has yet been able to conf.
many years, pletely stop the progress of this great force and
no interception has been very effective save war or slavery,’ - § 10 o FOREIGN AFFAIRS — “ ; ® 5 a Stalin Strategy - By Jim. G. Lucas ~~
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6—Western. military
strategists who seek to figure out in ad the nature of a war with Rossa may ve 14 noring a decisive factor—the personality ot Premier Stalin. LTR That fear is expressed. by Lt. Col. William R. Kintner, a West Point graduate’ how sly ing geopolitics at George Washington sity, in the August issue of the Magne Co Gasette.
“Although few serious: military students west of the iron curtain think of Stalin as a militray man, within the Soviet Union the is little official question that the is one of the great military geniuses of pion » Col. Kintner wrote. on neglect in the west of Stalin's military prowess may be a more serious error than excessive praise (by the Communists), Whether or not Stalin is a genius in military affairs wil be judged by history, but because of his posis tion as the undisputed ruler of the USSR, tlm fact the Soviet press portrays him as a mod: ern Napoleon is a matter of great significance” Col. Kintner quotes Foreign Minister - Molotov and War Minister Bulganin in praise of Stalin as a strategist. Their remarks, he said leave little for Soviet generals and marshals but the role of men who gladly follow an I» spired leader. Hitler assumed the same role in Nazi Gem many before and during World War II, He points out. Cn
Cites Break With Trotsky
STALIN'S BREAK with Leon Trotsky, Col; Kintner sald, was as much military as political} Stalin was a fleld officer in the Communi army. Trotsky, the first war minister, outshone him. As a result, Stalin became scornful’ of Trotsky's military. theories. . “Stalin’s writings on military afairs are not voluminous, but an acute of mils
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“Stalin’s most influential work,’ studded with military phraseology. It reveald that he fréquently applied military principles io the solution of political problems.” Before World War II, he says, Stalin lieved in an offensive military policy. That how ‘he first met the German : WI it failed, he gradually became an advocate of defense in depth—falling back and letting th¢ enemy be swallowed up by the Russian mass.’
Shed Some Light for Me | IN FEBRUARY, 1947, a Col. Professor zin-—official Soviet’ military historian—wrote Stalin through the Russian publication, Bolshe« vik. Col. Professor Razin asked Stalin to “shed some light for me” on apparent differences bef tween Stalin and Lenin. Stalin's reply set forth what Col. Rintnes says .3 “tantamount to an official expositio of Soviet principles of war.” Stalin said Leni could not be taken seriously since he was no a military student. He disputed Lenin’s suppo of the offensive military theories of the Gern von Clausewits; and expressed himself in fi ‘of strategic defense. 1 Col. Kintner-found these points in the Stall ist military doctrine—"“s fixed, absolut ne” - ONE: Glorification of Stestegis defense the prewar Soviet doctrine of attack. TWO: Defamation to base miliary §
“The Great Patriotic. War” (World War m. THREE: provincial nationalis in military ;
FOUR: Soviet acceptance of the. offensive as the safest strategic concept, som thing which may explain the consolidation of Soviet power in. eastern and China since the end of the Col. Stalin rejects “all thought which does not arise from Russian perience in the Great Patriotic War.” Most m itary men, he said’ base their ideas on study of war down through the ages.” As for the futiire, he suggests: “Perhaps Stalin and the Politburo
that the acquisition of new land masses Soviet frontiers will guarantee Soviet secur by mak the success of wel
1-organized fense in depth, jollowen by a qounteroft a foregone Sncusio
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