Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 August 1948 — Page 10

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But he is handling this Communist oy aes in, the Pendergast way-—by ‘withholding pertinent records, by ~ pooh«pool Bi testimony, and by shouting “red herring.”

© That is the attitude of every official unwilling to explain . and defend official conduct. But it is one that ill becomes the President of the United States. Pal a 8» ¥ so» ON MARCH 18, 1048, President Truman directed the heads of the departments and agencies of the executive branch of the government to keep confidential all reports, records and files relating to the loyalty of government employees. That order is preventing congressional committees from ascertaining how Communists and alleged agents of Soviet Russia wormed their way into key positions in our government. This order goes much too far. ; We wonder how Bén. Harry Truman would have reacted to such an “iron curtain” injuction against him when ~~ he was fearlessly investigating wartime expenditures, had . a similar executive order closed vital doors to his committee.

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THE PAY-OFF

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beggar + 1 begged my infant for a kiss ? turned to

I snatched her up and stole a few! Who says erime doesn’t ESTHER KEM THMOMAS,

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The world is full of human parasites. We .néed watch out for them for they live on the

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. is now 18th St. just north of the present Herron

DOWN IN TENNESSEE— ® ns Happier Fred W. Perkins 9-—-Organized labor's ing better today for primary in

his cafeer in Was rere has time associations with the Pendergast machine in Kansas

is the first noteworthy reversal in & long trend toward state-passed union-con-trol laws, which union leaders call “anti-labor.” The union men do not claim full credit for the Democratic senatorial nomination of Rep. Estes Kefauver in Tennessee, and admit they merely reinforced other powerful support in the

p campaign. But they lay claim to havi to do with the renomination nesses district of Rep. Dayton H. Phillips, one of the few Republicans in Congress who voted against the Taft-Hartley law. And they assert they helped considerably in Democratic “friend of labor” for the governor-

Won Labor Backin LIKE MR. PHILLI posed the Taft-Hartley | tleulars compiled a voti support from the rail

s Illinos Sts), Charlie attracted the attention of Louis Reibold, the fabulous host of the Bates Indianapolis, Mr. Higgs had the running of the House. - And what's more, the approval of Mrs. Talbott menage. Not only on the inside, but Harvey Bates. Together they plotted Charlie's on the outside as well, for he accompanied the future. The 1l-gear-old kid was poured into Talbotts on all their travels. And on all those a stylish blue suit ornamented with brass but- trips, Charlie Higgs carried Mrs. Talbott’s pricetons; after which he was taught to manipulate less collection of diamonds in a chamois bag

A Mr. Kefauver oplaw and in other parng record that brought way brotherhoods as well as the political divisions of the AFL and C10. “The results show,” sald Joseph D. Keenan, director of the AFL’s League for Political Bducation, “that labor can be counted on to reward ite friends and rebuke its enemies regardless of

Up to last week the union political efforts had met with only indifferent success in pri« There were few it any clear-cut cases of Incumbent congressmen being knocked off - because of Taft-Hartley votes. “The fight of Congressman Kefauver to unseat Sen. Stewart—who suppo Hartley Act and other labor legislation—is well i said Mr, Keenan. Ot 80 well known to the public is the fight in the Republican First Tonne ure District, formerly represented by Carroll Reece. Republican reactionaries tried to kill Phillips because of his votes y law and his other sup-, 4 counties of his district possible by the vote of

The Harry Truman of those days would have raised

We do not think that Mr. Truman, the man, has

~~ Certain steps in a loyalty investigation should not be made public, or future investigations will be hampered, if not made impossible. A great deal of the information obtained must be treated in the strictest confidence, particu.

off Congressman against the Taft-Hartle port of labor. In the 1 his victory was made the Sve Jtbor Counties, " dition the nnessee governor who promoted anti-labor legislation was defeated by the labor-endorasd former Congressman Brown

.. But the conclusions of such agencies as the FBI, the Civil Service Commission and the reports made by these ~~ -agengis~~~d- others to department heads are pertinent, in * fact vital, to the present inquiry. How else can Congress judge whether these agencies are doing the job they are ~ expected to do? If that canuot be ascertained, how can - Congress make Intelligent appropriations or amend inade-

THE CIO Political Action Committes made but & spokesman sald its

The reversal in the state legislative trend lana, where a new is dominated bv the recently slected Long, brother of the famous Huey, Organized labor supported the Long ticket in primary Feb, 24, and the new regime took charge in April, The repealed law, similar in many respects to legislation in about 30 other states, outlawed certain type of unauthorized strikes, prohibited © combinations by unions and employers in re straint of trade and legalized suits against

no formal statement ‘pleased

ttee has been doing a careful ‘with the not infrequent unsuptionalism of the House Committee on univities. 80 we are sure that if the President Ferguson Committee half-way an agreement in the interest of national security which

anion, Bo haw Loulstan oo Eielature pro! ansportation of strikebreakers into nereased imum

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OUR TOWN , By ror Sry What Post Article Missed— Charlie Higgs, First Doorman

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I WOULD BE ducking a duty to my readers it or not, Charlie Higgs was the first authentic

if I failed to acquaint them with Mr. Charles doorman in Indianapolis,

Higgs 81, a fellow citizen who somehow éscaped = Mr. Higgs stayed .seven years at the Bates the notice of the Saturday Evening Post people. House, every year adding a little to his stature. “And In the course of those years, under the tutelage of Mr. Reibold, Charlie got to be as 00d a table walter as Indianapolis éver had.

Mr. Higgs, whose parents were slaves, came to Indian apolis in 1876 when he was two years old. ‘Three years later, he enjoyed tliree months of schooling (No, 8), the only formal education he evér-had. His marks were phénomenal (for a boy)-—spelling 08; read-

ndeed, Mrs. Bates pronounced him the best.

This information is recorded on two reports Went to school in Indianapolis.

signed in 1870 by his teacher, George W. Sometime around the turn of the century, Hunter, Photostatic copies of these documents Mr. Higgs elected to lead a less moving life. are tucked away in the archives of the State He returned to serving hotel meals. And in Library—possibly for future historians to that capacity he worked in hotels all over

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elbows with Phil D, Armour and Potter Palmer. not by way ot the Indianapolis Public School It was at the Brosel H (Buffalo) that

x the Mr. Higgs first met the Rockefellers. And he Is hen. he vas 8 ears ola Onaties Tim: hers to tell the world that there isn't bit of

a he : LPR bh ris ) truth in the myth that John D, Br, carried his LR ee a i a handler spending money in a pédiocked pocketbook.

of his extraordinary ability

Instead of doling out dimes, as tradition has’ Tr Fe tte, aoatiof Mr. Rockefeller, dealt with half-dollars. Hi

Art School. From its front door, one could see family finished dinner.

everything in its favor: that, Finally, Mrs. Chandler's clientele got to be #0 big that it necessitated a delivery service. Cuspidors at $75 Each

That's when Charles Higgs was first put to R. HIGGS ENDED this phase of his career work. Equipped with a little red express wagon, In a blaze of glory when, in 1912, he officiated he traveled all over town delivering parcels of a8 headwaiter of the Cafe de Champion (Chi-sweet-smelling clothes. And, for the first time cago). It was the ritzy establishment conveived in his life, Charlie got to meet important people by Jack Johnson after he had defeated Jim ‘wait any rate, important women, Jeffries. The cuspidors in the place cost $78 To enlarge his field of operations (to include apiece, ‘says Charlie. ‘As for the art gallery important men) Charlie Higgs sold newspapers connected with the institution, there was hardly .

at the old postoffice corner (Market and Penn- a picture insured for less than $10.000.

sylvania Sts). Here he met stiff eompetition After that, you wouldn't suppose anything in the shape of Bob Tyndall and Henry Dith- more could enhance Mr. Higgs’ career. You mer, two white newsboys. But Charlie was ain't heard nothing yet. When Charlie returned blessed with imagination. After he got to be to Indianapolis, Henry M. Talbott grabbed him on speaking terms with all the big shots going up and dressed him in a suit comprising a red in and out of the postoffice, Charlie moved to broadcloth waistcoat, a cutaway coat’ and apthe Bates House corer. He figured that with propriate pants to match. All the buttons were all its famous guests and travelers, it was an of solid gold. You heard me. The costume was even better spot to increase his education. designed by Poole, as fashionable a tailor as

Established on this corner (Washington and London had at the time.

the door marked “Ladies Entrance” Believe attached to a beit next to his skin.

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the party! Did you get your allowsnce?”

In 1803 when the Chicago World's Fair enlarged everybody's vision, Charlie Higgs got the wanderlust and took to railroading. Which is to say that for a number of years, he was the best tablé waiter on the de luxe trains, It not only brought him in touch with still more “fait” to “middling.” He was tardy on only prominent people, but it énabled him to pick three occasions representing a total loss of 40 up a vocabulary and manner of speaking so minutes. And he was punished only three rich in content and pleasing inflections that times. | you'd never suspect that, once upon & time, he

: civilized America covering an area bounded on And for fear of a false deduction on the part the east by the Grand Union (Saratoga Springs)

: and on the west by the Palmer House (Chi of Oe wie hardy Suclare tat cago). At the Paimer House, Mr. Higgs rubbed

uniform and standard tip was 50 cents. for every person in his party, a sunf which pyramided Tinker Road (the present 16th St.) . into & mighty $2 when the whole Rockeféller

A Chance to Meet Important People

However, Mr. Rockefeller’s son (John D. Jr.) ) had a differént system. When he até a meal TO MAKE ENDS MEET, Mrs. Chandler alone, he tossed the walter $5 and told him to took in wash She enjoyed an enviable repu- keep the change. John D. Sr. learned of this tation not only use of her workmanship, but prodigal practice ond day whén a Brozel House also because of the location of her washtubs. cab driver, after receiving only a §0-cent tip, At that time, says Mr. Higgs, the fastidious asked him why he didn’t hand out tips the Jadies of the North Side entertained a notion size of his son's. - “It’s like this,” sald John D. that a lsundry situated in the country with Sr, “that boy's father is a millionaire, and its clean fresh air and moving breezes had mire wasn't.” Charlie has millions of ‘em like

Officiating as - the best dressed butler in |

“PEOPLE WHO feel secure,” ; says Mrs. Roosevelt, “don't (A get into a frengy over Reds.” ‘ But who feels secure these

ays! t's easy to see the dangers in following overzealous

ups who call anything they Sistice ‘un-American; —

gogues wear many disguises. Yet - even this sobering thought does not relieve the fears of liberty-loving Americans as they face the realization that their country is in-

. - ” PROBABLY MANY of the 1 scares are propaganda. But Mrs. Roosevelt should not for- | | get that Government propa-

| | ganda first moved the American people to believe in the

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: dangerous place to walk. It { | may be that such a time has |

il Burely the issues are clear {1 cut. Is it to be democracy or

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us? : : ee Pension? We : yet we have no say as to what should paid to an old man past 70 who worked hard in his - days, and sickness got him down. . : Can he and his wife survive on a measly mite of $17 per month? Could -any of men of the “Wonderful 80th” do it? they vote themselves a nicé fat wary and pensions? : a Why not give us old and needy folks some’ consideration in this old U. 8. A, , Send and lend less over there and the government let or ine poiaite and eggs, et the r le em cheaper. so teh miitions and billions to loan out the past, and not even get interest on the same,. wonder why they did and do it? And I “wonder”- - why they don't help us? Say, folks, I'm getting a beliyfull of these: old line parties with their promises and lies. Why not throw a scare into them? T them you are for Henry Wallace and are. going to. vote for him—why not? I believe Henry will, do more for the laborers and the old and needy.,}’ And I “wonder” if a clean sweep in the House would be befter to get rid of a lot o grafters and crooks. Maybe get in a new set for better or worse? Can’t be much worse. Now “80th,” do unto others as you have been well done by—and take the taxes off (axle . grease) oleomargarine for us poor folks so we can have a cheaper spread. ih I'm a youngster in my 79's and hope to see this in The Times.

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& ‘Can’t Deceive Real Progressives’ _ By Frank D. Slocum. : I The object of the Wallace-fronted, Commu; nist-backed new party is not the winning of the; coming election but capture of the American® . progressive movement. Though I lay no claim's to clairvoyance, I predict this attempt will fail; . There is nothing more American than fits, progressive movement, which the Progressive partied of 1912 and 1924 were developments.i But it is not from this movement, that thers Progressive Party of 1948 stems. . it The object of the American progressi movement has always been the correction of! abuses of American principles, to which prima: ciples no Americans have been..more devoted: than grass-root American progressives. The § object of present progressive-coated Commu." nists is not correction, but exploitation of these" abuses in the interest of a movement, whose, first objective is suppression of liberties and . rights, based on American principles. { The name progressive will not deceive real

American progressives, y WORST CONGRESS? ~~‘ ° . Haunting Facts - By Peter Edson ah

WASHINGTON, Aug. 9—If President Tru.” man had any previous doubts about which was' the worst Congress, they should all -be gone by, now. : 2 ¥ For the brush-off which the Republican lead- ! ership gave to his anti-inflation proposals was really of hurricane proportions. It swept everything he laid on the table right into the waste. baskets. : . If the congressmen think they van go’ Home {’ leaving clean desks and clear conscitneés bed= hind them, they may be headed for unpleasant surprises. The facts and figures which admjnistration leaders finally got together for entation to Congress may rise like ghosts out

- of the scrapheaps into which they were swept;

to haunt the homing congressmen in the months and years ahead. In summary, Congress, was warned that a business crash is inevitable’ unless something is done to avert it. ve Sen. Robert A. Taft's joint committee ons the economic report, which is supposed to bei: interested in such matters, did not even cond:s. sider them. Last spring this committee “in+® vestigated" But did nothing about $5-a-ton ‘steel price increases. The more recent $9-a-ton in-~ greases have been completely ignored. oe President Truman pointed out in his press; conference statement that Senate and Housat . Agriculture Committees never even met to see if there was anything they might do to increase food supplies or cut down prices to the cons. sumer, House Ways and Means and Senate Finance

« Committees, which handle tax matters, did not

meet to congider President Truman's sugges. tions for the return of excess corporations profits taxes.

Shun Testimony Fe Ad THE HOUSE BANKING and Cut Com-%27 mittee went through the motion of hol fot hearings on the proposed anti-inflation bill. Buti. this committee under Chairman Jesse Wolcott of Michigan refused to receive testimony > Secretary of Agriculture Brannan, Secretary oh Commerce Sawyer, Secretary of Interior x Mr. Wolcott, completely dominating his som mittee, went ahead in his own way to in his own version of & ‘¢redit-control bill. It ma do some good over the long haul. But don’t ex pect to take a copy home, hand it to your wife™and expect that she will ever buy with it any more groceries for any less money. On the other side of the Capitol, Chairman Charles W. Tobey's Senate Banking and Cury, rency Committee turned in the only prais worthy record of the special Congress, not only on inflation, but in Sen. Tobey's effort to saves the Taft-Ellender-Wagner housing bill. _- From Mr. Brannan the Tobey committee heard that-further increases in 00d prices particularly meat prices which have already more than doubled in the last two years—are due this year. The time to have started holding He wrices in line was six months ago, he said. From Secretary Bawyer the committees heard that the problem confronting the country was of the utmost seriousness. It cannot be met by increased production, which is already at éapacity levels. What is needed, said Mr, Bawyer, is limited control to hold abnormal factors of de mand in check, apd priorities to channel scarce. goods to essential production. be

A Lot of Scare Stuff?

FROM MR. KEYSERLING the committee heard that inflation is now working hardship on millions of families. Industrial prices are being pushed to such heights that goods can«

_ not be disposed of. There is dangér of an eco-

nomic explosion. To those congressmen and others who main. tain that this is just a lot of scare stuff, the. best answer was given by Secretary of Agri culture Brannan, who cited what had happened to potatoes. Y 3 In November, 1946, of Agriculture Clinton Anderson wrote Co that under the then-existing price-support law. 20 million bushels of potatoes would be grown for which there would be no market. Mr. Anderson asked that the law be changed so that the governs ment wouldn't have to buy them up and destroy them. = : GC Congress paid no attention, took no action’ The result was that in 1948 and 1047 the potito price-support program cost the varhments - 3$130.000,00. It may cost another $20,000,000"

year, a. avin ot oF Hie epee a congressional refusal to listen to experts.

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