Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 September 1948 — Page 14

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p SPSt 4nd Tespent, it will ada about 310 mil. of J to the community’s annual volume. another reason, too, why industrialists will like plant here. It will draw and create skilled labor. y usually goes where there are people who know make it run. third, and perhaps most important, and this applies s, this socially-minded industry will add much to growing ihdustrial appreciation 6f employees as human beings. - 7 . , nN Electric has found it profitable to let emjemselves through their hobbies and side associations in the plant. They eno work together to play together as well. uncommon tc see a department head ing or riding horseback with the people on a “Jim,” “Jack” or “Bill” basis. ‘of this friendly employer attitude al‘but we are glad to have more, in the extent to which Western Electric has

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Plan aid is going to Britain in larger quan* han elsewhere. The use she is making of it is indicated Stafford Cripps’ report to Commons Thursday that first half of this year she has cut her adverse trade e 55 per cent. This has been achieved by self-denial and stricter rationing even than in wartime, plus production for exports. Britain is not out of ~her annual trade deficit still exceeds one bil- : .

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Dr. E. Ainger Powell go NJ O one has ever measured the true value of ‘a downtown =" church, or the man who heads it. We ‘see men and women stepping in quickly off the street for a few moments of prayer on a busy day. We see the church packed during Lent, and at Christmas. But it is in between these holy seasons that rectors such as Dr. E. Ainger Powell, who died Thursday, do their real work. : "They listen to trouble. Men and women confide to their “ rectors. They present themselves at their worst. They un. burden their minds and hearts. And the rector, as did Dr. Powell, gives them counsel with compassion. He under- - stands them, imparts to them spiritpal courage and sends -afresh on their way. g < 8o it's almost impossible to measure the number of «troubled lives Dr. Powell has smoothed out for a new start. Just as it is impossible to measure the range of his warm 0 Dr. Powell it was what he believed in, his life work, "And we are thankful that he has left with us some 17 years - of devotion to the tired and harried minds and restless _ souls of our community, That is ours to keep, although the Dr. Powell we knew has gone forever.

A CANADIAN official warns his countrymen against en‘tering into correspondence with “pen pals” in Europe, ally behind the Iron Curtain, who might turn out to He says that some requests from these “pen pals”

bee lived, asking for pictures of Canadian harbors in return for pictures of “our beautiful s warning might seem an almost amusing

‘under the bed for enemy agents. But e Japs who roamed this country with

1A Din is tied up tonite, the ripples

In Tune - With the Times

~ Barton Rees Pogue

in his teens did beat this “game” by six dollars. That sum today would hardly be worth mentioning, but in 1902 six dollars would buy a good suit of colthes, ’ before the above date, He had written verse ‘as far back ag he could remember. The lyric was about his late mother. He lived with his two sisters, father and mother in a log cabin on Big Blue River near Noah. Don't bother to look this place up on a map because it belongs to history. It took nine large round dollars for the “shark” to put music to this lyric. Its title was “The Log Cabin on Ole Big Blue.” The father was a hard working farmer. By reason of the {liness and death of his helpmate he was considerably in debt. While he knew nothing of poetry, he was touched by the septi- | ment of the words for he, too, loved dearly the late mother of his children. So he sold some of the corn at 25 cents per bushel, a few hens at 30 cents apiece, a pig to a neighbor for $2 and a turkey gobbler, he no longer needed, to a country doctor, and thus the money was When the youngster got the song back, he took it to the church organist in her home After she had played and sung it for him, he realized he had no “hit” like “In the Good Ole Summertime.” There were not many magazines that came

to the farm hemes in those days. However, there was one, the Farm and Fireside, and each month it published a new song on the middle pages. So this boy mailed the song to that agazine. Guess what! You're- right, they accepted and mailed him a check for $15.

==GEOBGE A. BILLMAN, Anderson.

* MY DREAM HOUSE

ts evening song in a

‘The river still flows on tonite, between its

er, moon sheds its mellow light

‘around ’ And my thots are anchored also, on the Wabash © far away. : so

. =WILLIAM ERVIN WICKLIFF, (Fae New Castle. * + 0

"AFTER THE TWILIGHT

Sometimes when day is done and shadows, dim,

"And, ere such reverence could but calm the soul, Sweet satisfaction fills the empty heart.

«MARVIN TREOTORE JOLLY, Seymour.

SHINING HOUR « "Twas a hallowed moment, A' lovely shining hour, The dreams I'd cradled in my heart . Burst in full-blown flower As two hearts were joined together With words so soft of tone— The words “from this day forward, And you became my own.

| ==BETTY P. HOWE, New Castle.

NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs

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Inflation Hits the Army's Budget;

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18 — Housewives struggling to keep the family budget within the family income in spite of sky-high prices will sympathize with the budgetary problems of a man with. a whale of a housekeeping problem.

Gen. Omar N, Bradley, chief of staff, is work- 5

ing on the budget for the Army for the next fiscal year, and he is finding out what inflation means. The Army dollar will go only about onethird as far as it went in 1939 and 1940 when that earlier draft law went into effect. Measured in terms of actual cost of the infinite number of things an army must use, the figures are

. Before World War II it cost 41 cents a day for a soldier's ration. . Today the cost 18 $1.

Costs $245 to Clothe Soldier

THE ARMY could buy a soldier's outer clothing in 1039 for $84. Today the same clothing——uniform, blouse, shoes, .and so on—

luctance of large suppliers to bid on Army ders, They were eager for Army orders in the thirties when millions were unemployed and unable even with low prices to buy the

‘of America’s mass-production industry.

Inductions Run Up Bill

ANYONE with a knowledge of sifhple

. arithmetic can see how these prices complicate

Gen, Bradley's problem. As the draft begin bo 0 IO 10,000 : ¥ tiplying 10,000 by $245, you get $2,450,000 as the cost of outer clothing for tere) fookies. ; i t, of course, is just the beginning. Each new soldier must be fed; he must be given military equipment and trained within the period of 21 months for which he has been inducted. So gen. Bradley and his staff are sitting up late an arpening their pencils. The deadline for submitting budget figures 1s Oct. 15. While the high cost of shoes and shirts is a serious obstacle in the way of building up the national defenses, it is in some respects, so far

DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney

fssues isn’t netting him any independent votes.

Liquor Stand Hurts Creighton

re-election of Rep. Ray Madden there, he said.

eighth and eleventh.

Denny Slated to Win

is the best bet of the three, he said.

home town of Linton.

‘should stay home and cultivate it.

Only Dewey Landslide Can Defeat Schricker

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—Dear Boss—A longtime scout for the Republican National Committee returned here this week with a report in Indiana which indicates that a Dewey landslide will be necessary to defeat former Democratic Gov. Henry Bchricker and elect a Republican successor to Gov. Ralph Gates. He said that Hobart Creighton, speaker of the Indiana House of Representatives and the man who beat Sen. William E. Jenner out of the GOP gubernatorial nomination, is no great shakes on the hustings and his talking national and not state

IN ADDITION, he added the strong stand Mr. Creighton took for no change in the state liquor laws hasn't made a hit with his dry following. They had counted on him. He also reported that a Dewey landslide will be necessary to keep the Hoosier Democrats from winning more than the Lake County seat in Congress. The Republicans concede the

In addition to the four districts in which the Democrats have a fair to good chance to win were listed as the seventh,

THAT FORMER Mayor George Denny of Indianapolis may defeat his Democratic opponent, Andrew Jacobs, in the eleventh

But Rep. Gerald W. Landis is in trouble in the seventh. His young opponent was defeated by such a slim margin last time that he has devoted the interim to campaigning and may win. Mr. Landis, however, is optimistic and thinks his chances of being chairman of the House Labor Committee in the next Congress may give him a leg-up with the miners around his

_ Mr. Landis often refers to himself as a miner, really is a better peach-grower. He his one of the finest peach orchards in Indiana, and the Democrats are saying that he

The Eighth District seat, which is hotly contested, is that

Side Glances—By

COP, 1908 BY NEA SERVICE WC. T. M. REC. U. 8. PAT, OFF.

"They made the highest bid: for the house! How can | tell the | out. real estate man we won't sell because you don't like the man's wife?"

Buying Dollar Shrinks Two-Thirds

2 as the chief of staff of the Army is concerned, a minor problem. The Army must compete for funds with the other two services—-Afr Force and Navy. ’ The competition with the Air Force is particularly tough. As Gen. Bradley knows very well, air power has been oversold to the Amerdean public. It is sensational, spectacular, showy. Ardent propagandists have helped to spread the convenient myth that a few men in a few planes with a few bombs can end a war in a few days.

They Know It Takes Men

BOTH THE Army and the Navy are deeply skeptical of these claims. Army men, such as Gen. Bradley, have not forgotten that it took five to six million American GI's on the.continent of Europe to defeat Nazi Germany. But the inflated myth of super-triumphant air power is a convenient “out” in public and con-

A ceiling of $15 billion has been mentioned

: to cover the needs of all three services for the

next fiscal year. This could have political connotations in & campaign year and certainly it would be subject to revision by a new administration. : The $15 billion figure compares with $13. 928,204,248 in base appropriations for the national military establishment for the fiscal year 1949. The Army got $4,257,784,701, the Navy $4,744,204,251, and the Air Force $4,826,216,206.

No Illusions About Struggle

SINCE CONGRESS has approved a 70-group Air Force, the demand of the air arm will be

even more insistent this time. No one has yet got down even to a tentative allocation of the $15 billion. The three branches are now .perfecting their claims. Gen. Bradley, who has served less than a half year of his four-year tenure as chief of staff, has no illusions about the struggle ahead. As of Aug. 1, the strength of the Army was 579,000. On Sept. 5 it was an estimated 612,000 and in June of 1049 the total will be, according to present estimates, 900,000. That is a big jump in peacetime. It means hard, incessant, slugging work for the modest, soft-spoken man whose courage, integrity and capacity have made him. chief of staff. It is

a little like the hard, slugging effort of Bradley’'s foot soldiers in Furope in 1044 and '45.

Galbraith

the idea.

the on

But he

: in it.

that ‘hit forthrightness may prove a handicap. He got into a first rate row with the Republican organization in his home county. And at the close of the special session of Congress. He got into a similar scrap with Sen. Jenner, who was sore about his own defeat and the part Vandenburg County played

The argument occurred at a luncheon for the Indiana

bureau of the

Too little attention has been given to. the economy of war-torn nations as a basis for peace and too much “to the victor belongs the spoils,” the seed of recusting wars.

¢ Of all phases of the peace treaties, Russian .

control of African territory has the least foundation, indeed it would be a real promotion of war. The most desired—the imperative necessity of past war policies Must be treaties for which the war was fought—peace.

Communist Victim

By George 8. Saleeby The sad, tragic death of Dr. Eduard Benes fills me with thoughts and feelings which I earnestly wish to express. = This great leader of our time, a man of noble. character who fought tirelessly for. free democratel ideals, was destroyed by hts communistic despotism that President Roosevelt and his advisers helped unleash upon the peoples of Eastern Europe through the appeasement of the Kremlin. ‘

As far back as 1943, and continuing through

out the conflict, there were innumerable indica-~ tions here and there that Soviét Russia was not co-operating like a faithful ally.. American ‘correspondents and military men were forbidden to see our lend-lease equipment in ‘action.’ We refused air bases in Europe and Siberia. The “Reds even confiscated some of our B-29s and had the audacious gall to shoot one of them down which was on a mercy mission. “Yet, ‘with this contemporaneous record in ledge of the tyranny of Russia's past leadership before him, Mr. Roosevelt gambled with the notion that Stalin would be “tractable and co-operating,” to quote

Benes and Masaryk and a host of others paid the price. America is paying it, te, In mors. ways Qn ont :

Let Other Parties Talk By N. O. : : Eleanor Roosevelt's “My has always been a controversat column: It's either liked or despised—no middle ground. Some people feel she never would have been given a chance to air her views if she were not the wife of a President. .Now thdt her husband is no. the head of the govern-

ment, they Teagon! Wy fier thoughts are any more g than those of any other woman... 2

Others think she’s just the ticket. . As for me, 1 can take her or: leave her. Preferably the latter. But I would suggest that as long as Mrs. Roosevelt persists in using her column as an ‘outlet for the Democratic Party, the press employ mouthpieces for: the Republican and Progresaive Paitin as wall Sr

Spy Hearings

By Don J. Bope ; After hearing the Teformed Communist Chambers state in his own wo on the radio program, “Meet the Press; Friday night, Aug. 27, that he had no legal proof that the accused Hiss ever committed an act of treason against the United States, one wondets what all of the hullabaloo of recent weeks has beefi about. After learning by listening to: the -aforementioned reformed Communists’ own words that he had divulged nothing to the Congressional Investigating Committee that hé had not reported to the FBI as far back as 1939 ‘and that this information contained nothing that would stand up as legal proof in any court of justice that the accused Hiss did commit .an act of treason, one wonders why the waste of

of Rep. Edward A. Mitchell of Evansville. There also his op: Jonent is a reporter, Winfield Denton, a Democratic state Leg-

Mr. Mitchell, who is one of the most popular first-term

eres in the Thirties? They were funny, too, | ti

Congressmen and & World War II veteran, is so outspoken

Republicans given by Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck, who later criticized Mr, Mitchell for his belligerency. One’ report was that Jenner-Mitchell argument almost reached the point of fisticuffs. If it had, Sen. Jenner would have suffered. For Mr. Mitchell is a former prizefighter

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taxpayer's money in such useless investigations,

VERY, VERY SECRET . .. By Douglas Larsen ; Plum of Hoover Study May Fall in Dewey Lap

WASHINGTON, Sept. 18—Just what's cooking ingide the super-secret Hoover Commission is the source of great speculation these days. The job of the commission is to make a report at the end of this year on how the executive branch of the government can be reorganized to operate more efficiently. There have been several of these commissions assigned to do the same job but they never accomplished much. Former President Herbert Hoaver, who heads this commission, created one himself for the same purpose when he was in the White House and so did Franklin Roosevelt. _ But this one looks like it might really do a gbod job, for several reasons. Most important, Congress had a hand in its organization and appointed eight of the 12 members. bankroll of $1,938,000 was provided to hire plenty of competent help to insure a good job. There is bi-partisan support behind

A fat

Men Who Know Their Business

MEMBERS include former U. 8. Civil Bervice Commissioner Arthur 8, Flemming, Dr. James K. Pollock, professor of political science at the University of Michigan, former Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson, Secretary of Défense James Forrestal, Sen. Alken of, Vermont and others of equal caliber. The irony of the thing will be if what started out as President Truman's pet idea ends up becoming the basis of Gov, Dewey's reorganization of the government. If Gov. Dewey wins it. will certainly be a boon to. him to have a carefully worked out reorganization plan delivered on a silver platter, Streamlining the government is already one of his campaign promises.

Hoover Studying White House :

ALTHOUGH THE Hapver OR | probably more secret than that of the Atomic Energy Commission, a few bits of reliable information on its plans have leaked It is well known that Mr. Hoover himself is making the study on how to improve the offices of the White House. Being ly former U. 8. President. still alive and a competent authority on the principles of management, he is well gualified to.nandle this ed of the report, 1 a 0 pretty well-founded report is that a special Depart‘ment of Administration will be suggested. It will be a sort of “housekeeping” agesicy and will probably also include the present

Commission has kept its work

A rumor goes even further to. suggest

that the head of it, if it is created, will be Gov. Warren, if the Republicans win ? . a : A bureau to rin the bureaus isn’t so silly when you look at . he Juvitl- function proposition American government has become

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