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state of Arkansas gave a parole to this man it e been because its authorities believed he would liberty, a blameless life. i Bo far as the record shows he has led, since then, a Is it worth sending two policemen a thousand miles to _ force him to live it in Arkansas? Or is thére some other, eper, reason behind all this? ~The Governor of Indiana is not compelled to honor a request for extradition unless he sees fit to do so. He could . rescind one, even if he'd already signed it, if he found he John Ware, we say let him stay in Indiana . . . free. :

"THE home builders of Marion County are going to show their handiwork next month. There's a name for the show; it will be National Homes Week. That ties in the

they are going to open up hundreds of houses, both new and

idea pretty well, but what is important is the fact that

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| InTune ‘With the Times

~ Barton Rees Pogue

of The world would be a more delightful place, Where each one with the other could keep pace.

~-MARY BACON, Indianapolis.

Uncle Sam Sells—

Arms Cheap

By Jim G. Lucas

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—The United States |= 1s helping support four military establishments

throughout the n to its own— and may take on more.

fense give priorities in the following order to our foreign military-aid programs: ONE: Latin America.

of National Defense will ask the next Congress for permission to join as full members.

Transferring Surpluses

THE ARMY and State Departments have wanted to standardize arms with Iatin America since the end of the war. Congress, however, has held back. As a result, the Army has set up an interim plan, It involves transfer of “surplus” arms to -American Armies

specifications, “For instance, we recently sold Ecuador 21

In March, we sold Argentina $4.4 million worth of shells, machine guns, gun mounts, height finders and aiming circles. Argentina paid only $248,604. In 1047, we sold Brazil enough carbines, automatic rifles, bayonets, armored cars, half tracks, range finders, guns, machine guns, rockets, mortars, pistols and howitzers to equip a division, It cost us $3 million. Brazil paid slightly more than $250,000. Similarly we have sold “surpluses” to Chile, Colombia, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, Utuguay, Venezuela, Canada and the Philippines. ;

$159 Million to Greece

80 FAR this year we have given Greece $159 million in military supplies, Of that $58.2 million was for food, clothing and other supplies, $34.3 million for munitions and ordnance, including 8330 vehicles and 68 million rounds of

Turkey received $88.2 million in military aid from this country in the last 12 months. We "recently assigned that country’ four submarines, eight mine sweepers, one net layer, a tanker and a repair ship. X China is receiving surplus materials from the office of foreign liquidation for her 81% group air force, and will spend $125 million in this country for new military supplies. Last year, Iran bought $20 million worth of surplus war goods in this country. Under terms of a new agreement signed in July, she will spend $10 million mote this year.

VIEWS ON THE NEWS

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY President Truman will be “at sea” while preparing his campaign speeches. His opponents may ask “Is that trip necessary?” : * © & Maybe a sea-change will help the President “tell the difference between a Red hearing and a Red herring.

* & oO. High ‘are proving the value of our other for them. 3 .

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Falling butter prices may win back some old (consumers who still remember the taste. > @

If Perryopolis, Pa., doesn't know what to do with all those millions willed to the town, they

the know-how, No * * @ Soviet citizens seem to be developing a new a)

“form of ‘he t sick when ordered home. y oe ; :

The Departments of State and National De-

to arrange its transfer. It was made | tin-American

might import some ex-Philadelphia officials

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer Clever Tom Johnson Got His Start With Indianapolis Streetcar Lines

ANOTHER POINT future historians will ponder is the phenomenal 15-year-long period identified by the old transfer car. One day in 1876, a youngster by the name of Tom L. Johnson came all the way from Louisville to talk William H. English into using a streetcar fare box which he had invented. - At that time, Mr. English was the majority stockholder of the Indianapolis streetcar system, a euphemism for one big headache. You'll die when you hear what happened to Tom. Instead of persuading Mr. English to use his invention, doggone if the slick capitalist didn’t unload the whole Indianapolis streetcar system on Tom Johnson. Mr. English was criticized unmercifully for taking advantage of a 21-year-old youngster. Tom's streetcar deal set him back $30,000. Which is to say that he had only $20,000 cash (the profits of his-invention up to that time) 12. nei the 00.000 dupandsd by Mr. English. [J] on n operating in. Kentucky) staked him to the difference. ky

His Money-Making Rumored TWO YEARS LATER, in 1878, it got noised around here that Tom was liquidating his debt at the rate of $6000 a year, to say nothing of

meeting the obligations of a $200,000 mortgage

with which Mr. English had burdened him. The suspicion that Tom might be making money moved a group of men, some from

outside the city, to find fault with everything -

connected with the Johnson streetcar system. They complained about the slow service and cited the fare box as the cause of it. They kicked about Tom's reluctance to extend the lines and, finally, they hit upon the sorest spot of all—the unbearable inconveniénce of standing in all kinds of weather while waitin to transfer from one car to another. - Everything could be remedied, they said, by relieving Tom of his burden. Indeed, they petitioned the Council to turn the franchise over to them, in neturn for which the kickers promised to produce “a system of railways centering at the Circle with a waiting room and general office at that point.” Tom met the challenge of a ‘waiting room by anchoring a streetcar—first a dinky and later a size 46—in the middle of Washington St. about 50 feet east of Illinois. The tracks ran to both sides of the transfer car, thus enabling a passenger (by way of a platform) to get out of a car and into the improvised waiting room without getting wet. All that remained after that was to wait in the transfer car until the car you wanted came along, and in that case, too, it was possible to enter the car going your way without getting wet, The sale of umbrellas reached an all-time low during that period. 4 The exits and entrances of the transfer car were controlled by four doors, two on each side. The doors, I remember, were worked by overhead levers which, in tufn, were operated

by officials - dressed in fancy uniforms who announced the names of the cars as they passed by. The announcers were picked for their penetrating voices. Unless equipped with the proper diaphragm and larynx, they couldn't possibly cut the atmosphere inside the transfer car. Sometimes the announcer’s call got mixed up with that of the parrot in front of Harry Newgarden’s millinery shop in the Occidentai Hotel (the present Strauss corner). The graphical location made it possible for the parrot not only to pick up all the gossip peddied inside the transfer car, but the announcers’ calls as ‘well. .

The Parrot Called Cars I DON'T KNOW whether it was deliberate on the part of the parrot or not, but every so often the parrot’s call didn’t agree with that of the announcer. And, invariably, in that case, we kids intent on going to the bdseball park at Tennessee and Seventh Sts. (now Capitol and'® 16th) found ourselves on a Jentneky Ave. car bound for Greenlawn Ceme-

The transfer car was in operation only a short time when Pro Bono Publico wrote a nasty letter to the newspapers reminding everybody of a city ordinance prohibiting any vehicle stamling in the streets without a horse car or mule hitched to it. That's why when I was a kid, even the peanut vendors had to keep moving or be arrested. The drastic law, -as pointed out by Pro Bono Publico, didn’t faze Tom Johnson a bit. He hitched a mule to the stationary transfer car and let it stand until it was time to be relieved by another mule, thus fulfilling not only the letter but the spirit of the law, After which, P. B. P. didn’t have any way to turn, but to jump into the river. Well, that was the start of Tom Johnson's unbelievable career as a traction magnate. He stayed in Indianapolis until 1885 when he went to Cleveland to pick up a little suburban line nobody else wanted. He ended up by owning the whole Cleveland system. Eventually, he expanded his interests to include the streetcar systems of St. Louis, Brooklyn and Detroit. In 1888 he sold the Indianapolis system for $780,000. William H. English was still living at the time. .

GAR Got Rid of It ‘

HOWEVER, the transfer car lasted until 1893. That was the year of the big GAR encampment. When it came time to discuss the stupendous parade scheduled for the occasion, the soldiers demanded an unobstructed path in which to move. If Indianapolis wasn't prepared to give them what they wanted, they'd take their parade to a town without a transfer car, they said. > The removal of the transfer car left an enormous mudhole in the middle of Washington St., with the result that the veterans had to march to either side of it. Of course the city never got around to filling the hole before the day of the parade.

Fire Patrol By Marquis Childs | (Third of. a Series) i :

McCALL, Idaho — William James, America’s great philosopher, wrote about the need of mankind to find a moral equivalent for war. He was speaking of the need to find, in time of peace, some great unifying force that would release all of man's energies for creative good as they are released in war for destruction.

Something approaching that

the technique of out of planes to put out fires before they can spread.

The men of the forest serv- . lce—the full-time personnel is only about 2500are dedicated to the concept of a permanent growth of the forest or what remaing of it. They are at war with the cut-and-get out loggar Who leaves nothing be-

Side Glances—By Galbraith

othactr "One thing about eating outdeors—with a crowd like this - we'll have to watch our manners closer than in the house!”

“I do riot agree with a woud, Fhat you say, but |

roof with unfortunate, economically ) families who should live in nonprofit public or private. 2 ? Chicago, Cincinnati and other leading cities have private nonprofit, low-rent housing which admittedly cannot be duplicated at current costs. Of 600 leading cities, Indianapolis is the only one without a local housing authority and some sort of public housing for low-income families to replace the ted holes available to the lowest paid tenth of our population, Two years ago, the Republican rejected this measure, so today we have broken families and homeless babies left on the county’s doorstep. 7 City funds are used to buy up and clear land for factories. It would seem sounder from the taxpayer's standpoint to use some of our dollars to build simple housing for the homeless, and let factory owners buy: Shas own land.

> Don't Forget "32 By an Iwo Jima Survivor, Bloomington. I believe the recent letter in Hoosier Forum, signed “79-er,” holds secret explanation of why the Congress. so often is uninfluenced by the desires of the majority. Politicians say many are too ungrateful. g This “79-er” evidently receives an old pension. Yet he attacks both major parties, of which, and only one of which gave him old age pension. Is he going to party which gave him this old age ? he grateful? Evidently not, for he asks support for Wallace and the new pag which has not proved it will ever keep any promise.

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ful for what is done fo them, the wouldn’t even run a candidste-for President. They'd know if every who is better off now than when the las”

ticket, Gov. Dewey would carry only the two states that Alfred Landon did in 1936, But politicians know people forget. They forget the bank failures of '32; forget the 15 cents an hour wage of that day; they forget their hunger. Why, most of ‘em forget Wallace plowed up the corn and butchered pigs to make living higher. I forget just how plentiful and cheap Fulton Lewis Jr. and other radio announcers promised us things would get in a year after OPA went

out. » n . - ¢ * * A Good Word By John Connor, 108 E. Maia St., Mooresville, Ind. .

I was recently discharged from the Veterans’ Hospital on Cold Springs Road. I have nothing but deep appreciation in my heart for all the kindness and care given me while a patient there. The hospital personnel give unstinted care to all their patients. I want to thank Dr. Madston and Mackel and all the nurses and attendants for their kind. ness and consideration. . oda The great work of so many organizations like the VFW, American Legion, Red Cross, Grey Ladies, Masonic Order and many others who ungrudgingly give. this money, time and effort to the welfare of patients makes me, one who is foreign born, truly glad he is an American,

Western Powers—

Closing Ranks

By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Aug. 20—A subtle yet highly important change has come over United States foreign policy, particularly as it cone cerns Russia. : Up to about 18 months ago it was our policy, whenever Russia pounded the table and barked, to let the Soviets have their way. From then until approximately 60 days ago our policy was-te “get tough,” regardless of what oshers might do. Today it is one of firmness toward the Soviet Union and closer collaboration with Britain, France and Western Europe. Until recently, Washington, London and Paris tended to follow different roads—sometimes parallel, sémetimes not. But now, whatever the outcome of the current Big Four talks in Moscow, the thrie Western Powers will continue to act in concert, At the outbreak of World War I, when American war correspondents begged Britain .and Frange for accreditation they were told: “This is our war. It's none of your business.” Then when World War II broke the theme was: “This is your war as much as it is ours. Why don’t you hurry Jp and come in?”

Who's Being Dragged In? CORRESPONDENTS in Europe today are being told that the United States and Russia are preparing to fight a war of their own, using Western Europe for a battlefield. Western Europe, some Europeans would have you believe, is about to be dragged into a conflict which doesn't concern them. Belatedly, it would appear, Uncle Sam has awakened to the fact that he ‘cannot save the rest of the world unless the rest of the world wants t0 be saved. There is good reason to believe, therefore, that it is now U, 8. policy to have all the cards laid, face up, on the table. . Also the stakes, Until recently, the United States risked being

“neutral.” As matters now stand, we may or may not be alone. But whichever it is, we now stand to know, in advance, what to expect.

Closer Co-operation

THE CLOSE co-operation among the three great Western Powers is clearly indicated today in Moscow. U. 8. Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith is keeping in closest touch with Britain's special envoy, Frank Roberts, and Ambassador Yves Chataigneau of France. Together they call on Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. Not so long ago each went about the business separately. Britain, it is believed, is playing the part of “honest broker” among the Four. If the United States is inclined to be tough, France timid and Russia bellicose, is said to be the formula-seeker. : : There i§ reason to believe that the U. 8. already has, or soon will have, a pretty good understanding with Western Europe regarding the extent to which mutual defense against Russian aggression can go. This; it is pointed out, is imperative to both sides. Upon it depends the nature and extent of U. 8. aid, mil-

itary as well as economic, both to Europe and to East

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caught, by surprise, far out on the limb, facing + |» war with Russia, alone, with. all the others

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