Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1948 — Page 20

D118 KRONE _WENRY W, MANZ

na J Legion to urge payment of a to those who served in World War II seems an unfortunate one. : ¢ will be many arguments, pro and con, over this ore the voters record their wishes at the November But the most cogent of all is that payment of this would work serious injurygto the State of Indiana the people of the state as a whole, without doing a comn of good to those who would benefit by it. like everybody else, in today’s high price spiral,

they veteran quite naturally finds the prospect of a cash a amare But ut what would it be worth to him? Ti ated about 41 out of every 100 men in rans, now at their most active and : consequently heavy tax-payers. At

immediately $151.29 in special added would have shrunk to $216.71 by the

a the shrinkage he’d take. The spending millions in Indiana wouldn't produce a pound of ‘bushel of corn or a single new house, or anything that could be used. But it would be spent for such

the a4 » it would just add $142 millions to . Sots Tm ton Bariot. Aud the veteran back another big chunk of his bonus in the ything he

‘have been handicapped in running ttorney General Tom C. Clark, on e President, has refused them access

tray the confidence of informants, stop e information, and injure the reputations

things should be avoided, to be sure. And an experienced prosectitor, insists his comrish to disclose investigative methods or not open the files to him? Information it is not used. If pertinent facts reflecting + of any person have been suppressed by

¢ or neglect, Congress and the public have

defense of the administration's “iron cur : policy, Mr. Clark has implied that congressional spy hearings already have “damaged” Justice Department proceedings against Communists. Tut, tut, Mr. Clark. ‘How much time do you need to make a case? You've had a year, And Sen. Ferguson says he didn't begin his in‘vestigation until Justice Department officials assured the ‘committee that nothing it proposed doing would interfere. ~ with or impair the work of the prosecution. Why the about-face now? 2 Why tan’t there be a bipartisan approach to this problem? The people want the facts, not more hearsay. It should be possible to work out a procedure under which no one would be wrongfully accused and at the same time turn the spotlight on those who have been guilty of dis loyalty of negligence. If a solution is sought in that spirit, it can be found. The present stalemate is a confession of governmental impoteney. rh

. Southwest Indiana’s Boom

'HE enterprising Bloomington Herald set out to take "the industrial pulse of Southwestern Indiana, sending “letters to 17 Chambers of Commerce asking how their ~ towns were getting along industrially. r , ~~ While we hardly expect any Chamber of Commerce to . ‘give its own community the worst of it in such survey, we ‘were agreeably surprised that in the last eight years, nearly “new jobs had been created and more than 3 million square feet of factory space had been built. .. Columbus, Ind., won top rating with the best industrial - ~ expansion, adding 25 industries employing more than 1200 persons and using more than 238,000 square feet of fac-

ington reported its share of new industries such 88 bottling plants, a new newspaper and radio station. But the biggest employer, as we should expect, is still Indiana University, which employes nearly 1300 more than in 1940. Connersville was third on the list with a total industrial gion, of 576,000 square feet and 2300 added workers. was fourth with 420,000 square feet of manuspace and 1400 more jobs. : ; e are justly.proud of the industrial gains being anapolis and the cities to the north, we take in the knowledge that fertile farm lands orn quadrant of the state are growing

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industries almost as well as their crops of the soil.

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With the Times Barton Rees Pogue LET IT RAIN .

When you'd frown because it's raining— Just refrain. You will find this plan the better In the main. Though it worries you a bit You can never make it quit,

Bo, straighten up, snap out of it— Let it rain.

Then. when it rains, don't get do blue Just Jet it rain! (I always do!) ~—MARY LARKIN COOK, Anderson.

LET 'EM HELP Me an’ Effie up an’ went ter thet thar Berlin Express show {other night.

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dern good thing we're perspirin’ arselves to death to pacify an’ feed an’ clothe thuh whole world an’ git some o' ar democracy aworkin' over thar to leaven things up so’s they kin take keer o' therselves. My pint is this: Ef ever'body over thar did more perspirin’ than comspirin’ we'd all git

som’eres, : % ~JAKE, Columbuys. ® 4 ¢

STEPPING STONES

"Each little hurt that life gives you

Each disappointment you bear Adds for you one stepping stone Of marble , , , rich and rare.

When you've finished . . , quite , . , the pathway Looking backward you will see N

it's just your walk of life . , , chil Pond as your life should be. go a

~~ANNA E, YOUNG, Indianapolis. ¢ *

~~ HILL REPORTS

“Pop” Powell avers that a good politician

nowadays is not a baby-kisser nor a hand-'

shaker, but one who knows how to get along decently with his neighbors and is content to’ stay off the public payroll.

It's getting so &'feller gannot get a good five-cent cigar for less then’ STtoon cents, Milty

Mathis asserts. ~-OLD MORT, Gnawbone, *.®

FINDS WINGS IN PAIN

I looked for peace and I found it Out there in the woods one day; The hills reached upward in silence Quietly the valleys lay.

If I could have stayed there always v I might have sheared unpleasant. things m ve unpleasant I would have if I could. oh For the body must find comfort + To ease itselt of strain; 4 But too much ease will sag it z ‘And the:soul finds wings in pain. «DAISY MOORE BYNUM, Lyons, *

+ + PETUNIAS shui huae

ues, and purest white, nd delight, ES buble forms we find, 8 the vining kind. xes, and in beds ad nod their comely heads. From early summer until nipped by frost No precious time by them is ever lost. They thrive and bloom, through sunshine and ~through showers, These loved and ornate, inspirational flowers.

~MARY HAGLER LeMASTERS, - $ + 9» )

SUMMER ROMANCE

Pansies now are growing, Colors now are bright; Purples, yellows, glowing In the sun's bright light.

Butterflies are hov'ring Showing gentle grace O'ér the pansies, bending, Kiss each upturned face. ~ETTA KNOLL KUTCHBAOK, North Vernon. * +

~ FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“WASHINGTON Congress Votes Itself $171,000 for Mileage.”) After all those miles they traveled, After all we had to pay, Very little they unraveled Of the problems of the day.

As we think the matter over, Now that all is done and said, Every legislative rover Simply “shoulda stayed in bed.”

THIS

1S A RED HERRING!

GUARDING LAST FRONTIER Pioneer Days of

By Marquis Childs

West Are Gone

But Spirit Still Runs Strong

McCALL, Ida. Aug. 19—Riding along a narrow trail on Sheepeater Ridge, we could look off across mountains and valleys for perhaps 70 miles and see not a single sign of human habitation, For the city-dweller, it was a remarkable éxperience—the yast emptiness of the wil. derness country preserved in the Payette National Forest, You could imagine something of what the men and women must have felt who first trekked” across the t West. Out of sight and out of sound are noisy instruments of our so-called civilization, Not a telephone. Not a radio. Not a sight or a sound of that dubious invention— the internal combustion engine, We chartered a plane that flew us into a pocket-handkerchief lafiding field—a mountain meadow-~tucked away in valley alongside the Big Creek Ranger Siation in Payette Forest. Then a truck took us along a crude road for a few miles. At the end of the road were the horses and the pack mules, Within 10 minutes we were “away from it all,” in what is, in a sense, unexplored ~ountry, On the map we carried was & warning not to count on its accuracy, since it was based on inaccurate estimates.

Cook Who Knew How

OF COURSE, we were tenderfeet. Because we could hire a good guide and packer, thoroughly familiar with the trails thet thread in and out of the mountains and valleys, and a camp cook skilled in the ways of the country, we were in safe hands. But even so we coyld get a feeling of what wilderness America was like—its majesty, its grandeur and the sense of hope und promise for the future that thrilled those who first®aw this country. And we could have some understanding of the vital importance of guarding what remains of the treasure of the West, That treasure, far more precious than the billions in gold and silver taken out of western mines, is in the wooded slopes of the mountains, in the ldsh grass of the high mountain meadows, in the streams that run clear as glass down to the lowlands. It is in the trout that live in the streams and in the herds of elk and deer that roam the dark forest of pine and spruce. In those elements are the guarantee of permanence for the thousands of irrigated farms and the new industries in this developing region. If they are destroyed, then the base of life is destroyed. Pessimists such as Bernard Devoto have said that the West can become a desert in a century if further inroads are permitted in

ton correspondent, is exploring the great new empire >f the West. He is analyzing firsthand the relationship between this vast new development and the rest of the country, and observing just how politics In this election year will fit into the picture, Second of a series.

the heartland that supplies life-giving water to valley plain. Even the tenderfoot can see what it would mean if sheep and caitle in greater numbers

-were permitted to graze in the national forests

of the West. The granitic soils at 7000 and 8000 feet are as porous as sugar. The sharp hooves of sheep would push. that soil into the creeks and the creeks would be slowed and the high slopes would be eroded away.

‘Forest Service on Guard

THAT WOULD BE the beginning of the end.

It happened in the uplands of Spain and in |

China, and we know that the end is desert, abject poverty and blank hopelessness. ' Guardian of the high heartland of the West is the Forest Service of the Department of Agricultire. In administering the national forests, the Forest Service has one of the stiffest and most exacting jobs in government. It covers a vast physical area and it collides with some of the hottest politics in this region. The constant enemy is fire and an enemy harder to combat and equally threatening is the insect pest. On the ride from Fish Creek to the Chamberlain Ranger Station, we went through miles of lodge pole pine felled by the timber beetle. It looked as though a tornado had swept past.

Trails Must Be Kept Open THIS COMPLICATES the task of keeping the trails open and it adds enormously to the fire hazard. Westerners sometimes feel jtisa

Josing battle and that the cattle and sheep

might as well be turned in to get the good out of the grass. The pioneer spirit is strong even though pioneering days are gone and with them 85 per cent of the.virgin timber that once was part of

Jdaho's “limitless” wealth. The pioneer resents

restraints. own way. But there is growing up here in the West a body of opinion that recognizes the vital necessity of guarding the keartland. It is strong among sportsmen; farmers, and many ranchers, too, and, of course, among conservationists who have taken part in the fight to save the heritage of the empire of the West.

He wants to fight it through in his

In Washington

WASHIN in President appropriations, is this:

“The public debt was reduced by $6 billion in (the fiscal year ending June 30) 1948," he says. Then he adds: “Present estimates indicate that no further reduction in the public debt will be pos-

sible in 1949.”

It's the last sentence that needs some worrying about. The national debt is now $252 billion. That is a reduction of $26 billion from-the peak of $278 billion, December, 1845. But, if here are to be no further reductions next year, there should be

a full realization of just what that implies,

+ The public debt in 1919 was $25 billion—just 10 per cent of the present indebtedness. The debt was reduced to just under $16 billion in 1930, but had risen to $19 billion by 1933, when Franklin D. Roosevelt took office as President. The debt rose to $37 billion at the end of F, D. R.'s first term and to $47 billion by

the end of his second term in 1940.

No One Bothers About Burden

. WHEN THE debt limit was raised to $65 billion in 1041 and to $1256 billion in 1942, it was looked on as terrible. But the handling of a debt twice this latter figure is now so good that ‘nobody bothers about the burden of it. Logically, there should be five times as much yelling from the financial community over today's debt as there was in 1940 over a debt of less than $50

billion.

The time to reduce the national debt js when business is booming and it is possible to collect high taxes. This has been Truman and Treasury policy since the end of the war. If now that policy is to be changed, and the country is to go back to deficit financing, with government expenses greater than tax collections and nothing set aside for payment on the national debt, it will be difficult to get back into the debt-paying habit.

Prospect of Another War

LET A LITTLE depression hit this country, and that $252 | b'llion debt may easily become unmanageable. The interest alone

is over $5 billion a year.

There is bound to be much political jawing on who is to blame for the present conditions. The President puts the blame largely on the Republicans for cutting taxes last year, which re-

| By Peter Edson Business Boom Is Best

To Reduce Public Debt

ON, Aug. 19 (NEA)—Most significant statement ruman’s budget review, covering 80th Congress

Side Glances—By Galbraith |

COPR. 1908 BY NEA SERVICE. We. TM. REC. U. 8. PAT. OFF. "Oliver, you're behaving just like a child!"

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————————————————————————— i 1-do net agres with a word that you say, but |

will defend to the desth you right to say i." For the Weak o oseph W. Director Committee for a P rncr Negro. Inc, 2534 Paris Ave. +1t is unfortunate that so many young men

and young women apparently have no sense of shame, ;

to be ashamed to say a thing about their fathers. They ought to be ashamed to take a dri of Her anywhere. because it denotes a sign of weakness. Social customs compel them to take the so-called “social” glass. They do not have the moral courage to say “No.” Young men think they are men when stay out till the wee hours of the morning lolling around the street corners, beer taverns, smoking: cursing, getting drunk and using language that is offensive to men, let alone women. Yet a great number of these young men and young women come from reputable parents. A sober young man or young woman is a better young man or young woman, a better citizen, a better son or daughter, a better father or mother, a better husband or wife than a drunkard. A sober person is happier.

® © ¢ A Better Way By Marjorie J. Bryant. : Friday night, Aug. 13, I heard a commentator over an Indianapolis radio station state, in words to this effect, that “America is so great a nation, people should be glad just to be lucky enough to live here.” That “these people who criticize America are being insulting” for this reason; and that “if these people think there is a better place to live, they ought to go there.” What this commentator failed to acknowledge is the fact that even as a great person may be ill, a great nation is not necessarily com-* pletely healthy. You cannot cure either disease by ignoring it. America's greatest asset is that her people can criticize her faults. If and when freedomloving Americans stop criticizing or become complacent about the shortcomings of this nation, then they may as well pack up and move to that other country. People who criticize America today, like those who criticized before them, know that there is no better way to live anyplace.

s+ 0 A Butcher Speaks

By Paul Herman.

the petticoat army, certainly has the right idea on how to straighten out the meat situation. She advises everyone to ask Congress for price controls on meat. I'm all for it. The prices will be really low. -Of course, there won't be any meat for sale but who cares about that as Tong as the prices arg low. The black market will persist. I'm a butcher. I'm sure I'll still have a job. The counters will be empty, no meat to cut, nothing to do. But there's one thing to spoil this Utopia. Some of these very women doing the griping will come in and say, “You dirty so ard so, why isn’t there any meat.” I've been called a liar and everything else the book, and some things not in the book, by these very women, Keep up the good work Mrs. Perk. T want to see you standing in line waiting for.the stores to open and when they do open, lo and behold, for some strange unknown reason, there's no meat.

Rackets By O'Hagen, 147 E. Ohio St. Open, letter to J. O. Bradley of Noblesville: So you want to know what is the matter with the 80th Congress? 5 It's a racket. Everything's a racket these days. There isn’t a man in for. My grandfather told me when the right man comes along to vote for him, and haven't seen the right man yet, Democratic or Republican. And things aren’t right at home, either. The other night at the ball park, we all got on a bus and the bus driver said he didn’t have any transfers. When we all got down town we all had to pay another 10-cent fare ride from town to home. Why shoyld a bus driver come from town to the ball park neglect to bring transfers? And when I say racket I don’t exclude the meat racket, the used car racket, the insurance racket, and the biggest racket of them all is

taxes. ®* & ¢

Thank You, Henry By Don Julian,

Since the last election a group of fanaticminded, easily persuaded, banner-waving, poor misguided souls have banded together under the paternal care of Henry A. Wallace. Armed with promises of peace and prosperity these happy harbingers of tidings from the Kremlin have gone forth into- the world describing with glorious adjectives the Utopia that would be established under a Wallace regime.

Thanks to an intelligent population these pathetic politicians “have not made the people of the United States dissatisfied with their gov ernment but instead have made true Americans

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duced revenues and so made further debt reduction impossible, The Republicans criticize the President for wanting to spend | still more money on such new projects as universal military training, public housing and aid to education. the President for not cutting expenditures so as to leave more money for debt reduction. Both are probably right.

They also blame

What the Voter Knows— : How Many Have Read The Party Platforms?

_ ONLY SEVEN per cent of American voters have read the { Republican Party platform, 21 per cent have read part of it, and 72 per cent have not read any of it, according to a survey. Housing and high prices are of major concern to “nearly every American family,” according to President Truman. Certainly that would hold true of high prices, anyway. | Yet less than half of the people who had read all or part | of the Republican platform did not recall what had been said {| about housing. Exactly half of them did not know what the | platform had said about prices.

Will Candidates Try?

WHAT DOES this spell, anyway? “That a majority of our voters are ignorant, ill-informed and indifferent?

We do not

i In a question submitted to Massachusetts’ voters, its polltakers asked: “How much effort do you think is made by party candidates to carry out the platform promises made after they are elected—a great deal of effort, some effort, or only a little

These were the results: A great degl, 12 per cent: some, 40 per cent; only a little, 39 per cent. - Five per cent made qualified replies, four per cent had no opinion on the ‘subject. In brief, it would appear that John Q. Voter has concluded . that party platforms are a lot of political hokum, hence doesn't bother to read them. And who can blame him? We know from long observation that neither of the major parties pays much attention to a platform, after it is adopted.

Not a Major Factor

NOT ONLY is it usually forgotten by election day, but it | isn't usually a major factor in a campaign, unless the platform is highlighted by some simple, red-hot issue like prohibition. | Platforms should be simplified and made meaningful or they - should be discarded as an outmoded political institution. Misuse - { and distrust have made them a waste of good ink and paper that |

could better be utilized in some other way,

Indeed, a lot of our present day political machinery, ineluding the national conventions at which platforms are adopted,

needs to be modernized, if public interest is to be maintained in it.

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