Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1948 — Page 12
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ever attacked by Russia the = the Canadian Atlantic and northi . ® » best news to in the past fow days is the tangi-
int-defense efforts. ‘Chairman Lilienthal of the U. 8. 5 i ¢ Energy Commission says the two governments, together with Britain, are expanding their common efforts tomic research. That apparently involves exchange “of raw materials as well as information. so Last week's conference between U. 8. Defense Secre“tary Forrestal and Canadian Defense Minister Claxton is rR sigh of the times. Presumably they discussed closer “liaison, the role of Canadian industry in the American re: armament program, radar protective, the degree of U, S.Canadian participation in the West European defense union, Bo similar subjects, % nL our. juagment the increasing security ep-operation r two countries should be virtually without limits.
Bu | Jhnervs Jal. _ of V-J Day, the formal ending of World War II three years ve ‘The Observance has been sponsored by the Pacific {War Memorial, Tne.
This group Was organized by veterans of the Pacific ir who wished to honor their comrades by something e They are planning a series of field stations _ the Pacific area for scientific study of this -known region, and they hope eventually ta be able er fellowships to young scientists. Seema as sensible and lauditble as it is ambi.
lidays, such 2 Armistice Day and o make their solemn purpose cheap
that the one memorable and
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| candidates to promise to abolish
Most states already have a Me-
inner tube. Till you have lighted an evening fire, and created a wholly enveloping fog, you will never know how you may raise yourself in the estimate of your neighbors. From position No. 46,
And do not retire the fire with a bucket of water when you retire. Cough and sneeze all the night, and glory in the antiphonal response you hear from the homes that surround you.
HOOSIER OBSERVER. 0 J RAIN MUSICALE Whar the 80nd of the raindrop mu roof, of the raindrop music fills the
notes to chill and cleanse the Young to sleep tn their
cribs below, Soft tattoo-style lullaby 0 ‘sweetly, aglow. HACE,
LILLIAN Culver. * + ¢ TO A SONNET. Down stony steeps I watched her graceful feet Dance lightly in a sudden A r
phoered het the choicest words I knew, to her in phrase liquid, low— But oh, my nthe it would not do— And: through years that Passeq 3 loved
I pray sometime to bald her in my arms. Jrusp away the days that guard her
GEORGE 8. BILLMAN, Anderson. * & @
A GARDEN
How dftiult to DOA & garden's grace Confining it within a fence of in: You first must feel the charm of such a place, And watch the keen enjoyment of the birds
les and Ju must sit relaxed at evening's cool nd feast your senses on. such things as
The brilliant hues of zinnias, hollyhocks, Delphiniums , roses fair, And , which ch adorn the garden walks, le phiox and lilies scent the summer air, In such a scene, you need no poet's art, For all its charm lies written in your heart.
«MINA MORRIS SCOTT, Columbus.
An Editorial
GOP Fell Down On Its Promise
By Parker La Moore
THE REPUBLICANS promised that if they won control of Congress in the 1946 election they weuld reduce the federal payroll by between 500,000 and a million employees. They won the election but falle® to deliver on their promise. In fact they actually increased the number of persons on the federal payroll from 2,114,860 to estimated peaks of 2,250,0000, according to the Dunn Survey. Republican responsibility for the size of the payroll commenced June 30, 1947. The. following table complied by the Dunn Survey tells the story in figures for key states:
June June 30,1947 30, 1948 New YOrK .ivsevesass»s+181,700 182,600 Pennsylvania .....40++.110,400. 110,000 California . i voavsees 195, 197,300 ORIO vase vasrnsrsvnnces 8, 78,400 TIHNOIS vvesvnnsiasees 102,500 97,000 Missourt «iissvvienvinee 49.700 50,700 Massachusetts ....«svs 48,600 55,200 New Jersey .....seeveve 38,800 40,000 Michigan® svicivvavsseee 33,800 34,300
Totals for nine states:...836,000 845,500 The failure of the Republican Congress to reduce the federal payroll is due to one of two reasons, in the opinion of those making the survey. + ¢ @
ONE: The political power of bureaucracy now Suboidinates the «constitutional power of to appropriate funds. ‘0: The leadership of the Republican Party has been unwilling to have the federal pa;
yyroll reduced. These critics reject the first reason, and express the view that sincere efforts of indjvidual Republicans to cut the payroll were “thwarted by their own Jejdership® While holding no brief for the Republican conclusion
leadership, we cannot accept without certain reservations. We do not discount the power of bureaucracy as much as the authors of the Dunn Survey appear to do. But excluding the factor, it is much, much easier to promise sweeping, generalized economies than it is to put them into practice in specific cases. It is an old political custom for useless But seldom, if ever, do
boards and bureaus.”
that are so useless they can be abolished without doing injury to the public service. Possibly the commission headed by Herbert Hoover, now studying plans for the reorganization of the executive departments of the government, will bring out a report that can be made the basis for genuine economies in gov-
ernmental operations.
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OUR TOWN.
I GUESS IT must have been more than 40 years ago when Prince Pu Lun and his entourage turned up in Indianapolis. At any rate, it was back in the blissful period when everybody still accepted the permanency of temporal institutions. The Prince, I recall, arrived at the Union Station and got a salute of 21 guns delivered by Battery A, the noisiest outfit this town ever had. I'm sure it was that many because I still remember the ticklish job Ihe reception committee had to determine the exact number of shots a Chinese potentate rated. The finally adopted Mayor Holtzman’s
United States. - It was supposed to show in what high esteem we held the Chinese royal family. However, it worked just the other way. Some Republicans, for instance, were mean enough to capitalize the issue and insinuate that the Mayor's idea was just another veiled attempt to voice the Democrat's low opinion of William H. Ian who, at that time, resided in the White ouse.
‘Ate Peanuts, Drank Red Pops
TO SAVE MY LIFE, Ican't recall the nature of Prince Pu Lun's business in Indianapolis. Whatever it was, it took him three days to.complete the Job. In the course of that time, the committee (led by William Fortune) did just about everything-—short of turning handsprings —to make the Prince's visit as pleasant as possible. The Prince was the beneficiary of a parade, a banquet and two public receptions—one at the State House; the other at the Propylaeum: And one afternoon when the committee had been led to believe that the Prince wanted to be alone with his own thoughts, Mr. Fortune pulled & fast one and lured the distinguished visitor out to a lot on the northwest corher of Capitol and 16th St. where the two ate peanuts, drank red pop, and watched Gentry’'s dog &nd pony show.
A Peek at Mrs. Sewall’s School
THE PRINCE even got to see the inside of Mrs. May Wright Sewall’s Girls’ Classical School, a privilege denied Indianapolis males. I don’t know what pull His Highness exercised to accomplish this, but I have a hunch that it was because of a close connection with the Wong Kal Kah family who, at that time, made Indianapolis their Occidental home. At any rate, there is this much to support my speculation: When Madame Wong Kai Kah (wife of the Chinese Commissioner to 8t. Louis World's Fair) set up housekeeping in Indianapolis, she aerived with 186 trunks containing 400 dresses worth anywhere from $500 to $700 apiece. It required 20 moving vans to haul the
By Anton Scherrer
Prince Pu Lun Got a 21-Gun Salute And Two Receptions 40 Years Ago
wardrobe from the Union Station to 1520 Broadway, I remember.
Well, nobody can make me believe that any one woman can wear that many dresses; the corollary of which is, of course, t there must have been mre one woman in the Wong menage. Possibly a daughter, And in that case, doesn’t it stand to reason that a girl equipped with such a wealth of clothes should have been a student in the stylish Girls’ Classical School? Moreover, isn't it the most plausible thing in the world that a’ young bachelor Prince, with the greater part of his life still before him, should have expressed a desire to see the miracle wrought by Mrs. Sewall? Of a strictly private nature, too, were the 11 o'clock breakfast tendered by Alfred F. Potts and the distinguished dinner staged by Mrs.
Sewall. On the occasion of the dinner, the ice : tream was servéd in the shape of lies and red roses (the Chinese colors). touch-
ing tribute made such a hit with the Prince that he asked for a second helping.
Mr. Potts Didn't Do So Well
THE POTTS family didn't have the same luck, At their elaborate breakfast, the Prince
declined to take anything more than one cup of
tea, notwithstanding the fact that Mr. Potts was as persuasive a lawyer as Indianapolis ever had. The banquet at the Claypool, however, was the big event of Prince Pu Lun's visit. The most complicated, too—for the reason that Madame Schumann-Heink’s concert was scheduled for the same evening. The committee was determined that the Prince should attend both events, with the result that the concert had to be delayed until the arrival of the royal party. At 10 o'clock that night, the restless audience at English’s suddenly saw the theater burst into a blaze of light transmitted by the double border of electric bulbs over the stage. It was accompanied by the buzz of significant sounds that
usually precede events of historical importance.
Then just as suddenly, everybody saw Mr. Fortune escorting the Prince and his entourage down the left aisle to the two’ boxes nearest the stage. Nearest Madame Schumann-Heink, too, for she had taken her position on the stage when the royal family arrived.
«A Double Dragon for Mr. Fortune
THE FIRST scheduled number on the program was “Der Lenz ist da” (Meyer Helmund). Madame. Schumann-Heink gave her'accompanist the wink to start. :Instead of beginning her song with the prescribed words, she changed the first line to read “Der Prinz ist da!” She gave it everything her lungs were capable of; and, with all the medals and decorations on her bosom, it was the most moving sight I ever saw. Six months after the Prince returned to the Orient, the Emperor of China decorated Mr, Fortune with the Order of the Double Dragon. As for Madame Schumann-Heink, she was lifted into the realm of the Peacock Feather.
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It (the $100 a month miners’ pension) is just enough to keep the miners from charity in ; Just enough to give them a little dignity, to allow them to hold their heads up. — Justice T. Alan Goldsborough, U. 8. District Court, Washington, D. C
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mittee to determine standards of loyalty for American citizens. These men are using the political techniques of Hitler, Mussolini, - Goering, Tito and Franco: — Henry A. Wallace, Progressive Party presidential candidate. n ” =
There “can be no tyrant, there can be no dictator, in | America if the people in the communities control their ale¢tions. — Gov. J. Strom Thur mond of South Carolina, States Rights Party candi
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In the House as overwhelming Republican majority that did away with price controls and cut the taxes of might income ie Jaciups. honest and sensible voters are
“Hoov , th water to make it go further? ; 4 ¢ A "Cledner “Town
~ One tale of our city is that it was dirty and somehow breathed the spirit of uncleanliness
from its very pores.
It it was true, we've done something about it. . Even the pall of smoke and impure gases which once seemed hopeless are being Sime nated, and even the resident of squalid downtown slums seem anxious to move. Let's not forget the foot police and the trash collectors who have cleaned up both moral and physical dirt. We're on the right track. Keep going. Here's a toast to our home town of the future.
FEW SECRETS We're Apple Pie For Russ Agents
By Jim G. Lucas
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—The Central Intelligence Agency risks “total war and total destruction” by failing to keep our military planners up to date on the industrial war potential of other nations, a semi-official Navy
. publication charges.
The indictment was made in an article
| written for Naval Institute Proceedings. by Lt.
Robert A. Rowe, an Instructor in the Counter Intelligence Corps. It followed a warning to American businessmen by Army Intelligence that Russian agents are pumping them for seemingly unifaportant—but vitally strategic— facts about their operations. * Blank pages on the economic side of our intelligence work sheets contrast with detailed information collected about us by other countries, Lt. Rowe said. We have few industrial secrets. Foreigners have “access to all the records and facts concerning our industrial production.” Moreover, the cost of getting it is small. - As a result, Lt. Rowe sald even the smallest nations are able to collect statistics on our economic war potential.
Facts Easy to Get
WE DON'T need cloak-and-dagger men to get what we want, he says. Most nations are willing to supply it. In fact, he says we already have “enormous amounts of data that need only interpreting and evaluating” In other words, we probably have the ‘facts if we knew what to make of them. Most nations are ready to boast about their industrial accomplishments, Lt. Rowe said. few-—notably Russia—don’t always lay it on the line. But he says that shouldn't stop us. He suggests “a planned program. be initiated” to get such concealed informa The National Security Aer of 1947 did not direct the Central Intelligence Agency, which it created, to check on foreign war potentials. As a result, Lt. Rowe said, the agency concentrates on military and geographic intelligence, without Hye to estimate the industrial power behind i
Law Covers ‘All Security’
THE AGENCY declined to comment on Lt. Rowe's statements but other military sources said the law requires the agency to furnish intelligence on “all matters affecting. national security.” Lt. Rowe said strategic iligease must collect, and analyze, evaluate and disseminate
4 Information on “political motives and economic
war potential of all nations in order to anticipate hostile moves, prevent surprise attacks and initiate necessary counter measures. He urged the law be changed to require the Central Intelligence Xgency to “collect, #nalyze and evaluate the Industrial location and number of factories,
expansion programs of all nations of the world.
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