Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 September 1948 — Page 14
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rates in Indiana, $5 a year; all other U. 8. possessions, Canada and Mexico, month, Telephone RIley 5551. ond the People Will Ping Their Uwn Wey
: come the ‘Smoke City’? ~ PIT I, once kfiown far and wide as the “smoky 7 city,” isn’t, any more. Like St. Louis, Pittsburgh has cleaned up, and relinquished the doubtful title. Is Indianapolis about to inherit it? : - Monday was a bright, sunny day in Pittsburgh . . . in Indianapolis. ‘
_ At exactly 3 p. m., Indianapolis time, photographs of downtown districts of the two cities were made, simul-
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ou saw them in Tuesday's Times editions, of course. « visible through clouds of smoke and smog. Be The encouraging thing about that comparison is that only a year or so ago Pittsburgh was worse . . . much worse. And if Pittsburgh can clean up, Indianapolis can era Le.
Say ; s » ONE THING stands out in the success stories of St. Louis, and Pittsburgh and the other cities that have licked the o k wi ¥ : They didn’t succeed until they dropped all, “half-way” and res tough abel gpk The key to
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i quipment, didn't want to § ays burned, didn't even
surprise, they found they were savrtant money . . . up to 25 per cent ouses, substantial savings in and private homes. Even for way, don’t burn soft coal in iste. Nearly every ounce of it that rolls fuel somebody bought, and never got fect loss. Still greater is the indirect
‘creates. They run to millions of
years and years while the smoke \g-range” problem, as our neighbor trying to deal with it as such for they whipped it, in a year or two.
oses the First Round best bet is disunity. She can’t win if the forces acy stick « Hence her constant
Nations for their selfish purposes, the democratic appeal to the international body will bopmerang. © Of course there is nothing new about Russia's use of _ propaganda. The difference is that for thé moment propa- ~ ganda becomes her chief weapon. The diplomatic negotiations phase of the cold war has come to an end. The | Soviet blockade of Berlin is offset by the western airlift. * The economic phase represented by the Marshall Plan for European recovery is going against Russia, and she lacks the economic strength to combat it. Until Stalin decides to burn his cold war into a shooting war, the propaganda front Jinan iow hecome: all important to him, fh : 2 In this newest propaganda phase Russia took the offen. sive by breaking her agreement with the Western Powers and publishing a misleading report on the Moscow-Berlin egotiations. She followed this with Vishinsky’s slashing peeches to the United Nations General Assembly, charging an Anglo-American plot to wage atomic war against innot Russia and proposing a phony Soviet disarmament
"” on the record of Moscow-Berlin negotiations reig Soviet treachery. They also published the joint 1 note holding Russia solely responsible for the _ blockade and consequent break, and announcing to the United Nations Security Council. A few hours ‘they followed with the Bevin gpeech to the Assembly. ‘most devastating of all official indictments to date
Jasin, the British foreign secretary said she alone be to blame if war comes. When Mr. Bevin had finished, delegates of 51 nations—
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but the Soviet bloc—showed their approval by one of
th 3 tely, Soviet propaganda has not yet captured Meanwhile In this country statements by Candidate Sad Candidate Truman, in support of the Western Powers’ decision to end the Moscow negotiations and subthe issue to the Security Council, confirmed America's tisan unity in the midst of a presidential campaign. So Stalin has lost the first battles, here and abroad, in 3 - propaganda drive to destroy the unity of the
-demonstrations in the life of the United Na-/
In Tune With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue FOUNDATIONS OF TRUTH.
“The German has no idea how much the peo-
He was canny enough, however, to know that it was impossible to tell a lie so big that no one would believe it. This idea was the foundation of his whole “new order.” His lies were no plaguing little by-passes of the truth. One would ve to borrow the terminology of Hollywood
GEORGE D, SBEER, New Castle.
LITTLE OLD LADY
Little old lady, you walk down the street With a knockety-knock of your cane, Your tiny feet patter as soft and as fleet As the pittity-pat of ‘the rain.
There's a noddety-nod of your head when you talk
And a fluttery-fiit of your eyes, A corsage of flowers is crushed at your waist, Where an odor of lavender lies. i
Little old lady, your bonnet is tied Neath your chin with a ribbon of blue, Your frock is pressed, and your dress-up dress, ressed
In a collar all lacy and new.
Little old lady, good memories walk With you down the lanes of your prime, “And ‘the to k of your cane turns ¢ The fanciful pages of time. i =OPAL MoauIRs, Dupont.
WRENS’ WRINKLES
We hear a lot about making the world safe for democracy. How about democracy safe for the country now enjoying it? .. . If we're supposed to count to ten when angry
then after the Washington and foreign news, should we k right on counting? . . . You don’t hear ig about giving until it
hurts; it's now a of Ssting until something gives. . . . With two eyes and two ears and with muscles that can, if used, keep the mouth shut, it 1s impossible to learn a lot without making unnecessary noise. . . . A vegetarian shed tears when he found out too late that there were meat
garden. 5 ~LUIS B. WRENS, Indianapolis. * oo - WAITING You are a little late tonight. and I wait patiently—
can. 1 read a bit and sew a bit J And tune an show on radio, .
That your motor sounds along the drive . She'll come alive; ! wag and she will dash To meet you at the kitchen door, As oft she's done before. Ah! Even now she hears the welcome sound. Your car‘ door slams, your foot falls on the ground, And you are here. My dear, my dear! : How long it seems, but now all safe Within my arms!
~MYRL G. NEW, Pendleton. ¢ + 0
A FRIENDLY NEIGHBORHOOD
When the Lord wus pickin: bisssin's
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1 the Mayflower Or you got a peddygree. :
When you git heart-breakin’ trouble, They hain’t got so much to say, In a quiet sorta way. : ' When the Lord wus pickin’ blessin's For us common fellers’ geod,
I "low He knowed the best one wuz A friendly neighborhood.
~LAVERNE BROWN PRICE, Plymouth,
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been more depleted than they have been d age today.
Problem Isn't So Simple
price of beef is also under the support p
Because of the increased supply
Pork Should Be More Plentiful
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CORN PLENTIFUL . . . By Douglas Larsen
Lower Meat Prices ‘Due Late Néxt Year
WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—Defenders of the government's ° controversial price support program point to today's fantastic meat prices as their best argument for support. ; Beef is higher than any other basic U. 8. food. But there is no direct price support program on cattle. And further than that, they claim, if it hadn’t been for the support program before the war we would have had practically no meat for civilian consumption during the war, and much less than we have today. l based on the fact that a price support program results in great quantities of corn being stored over the years. The corn that fed the cattle during the war was corn raised before the war. Without that corn, herds would have
uring the past couple of years, and we would probably be feeling a worse meat short-
THE WHOLE problem isn't as simple as that, however. First, corn which is an important food for cattle, is under the price support program. And second, pork which is an important meat that has always served as a counterbalance against the
Thus it is obvious that the government's price support pro. gram has contributed to high beef prices to some degree. Even the experts can't agree on how much. Increased demand for beef \ "is probably the single most important factor affecting its price. \ The record corn crop expected this year won't bring the price of beef down directly until about November or December of 1950. / of corn, at a favorable relation. oi ship to the price of beef, there will undoubtedly be more cattle pl bred this year, But this increased supply of meat will not hit the / : market to affect the price for a couple of years. .
PORK, however, will come into the pleture before that. The ; big corn crop should put more pork on the market by next fall. The Department of Agriculture's pig goal for 1949 calls for 60, 000,000 pigs, an increase of 17 per cent of this year’s crop. The current price of hogs is about $27.10 per hundred pounds. This would have to fall to $16.20 per hundred before the government would step in to peg it according to current parity prices. This year's record harvest in corn, then, could make pork prices come down considerably before being artificially halted. In turn,
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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer
How Those 1st Columbia Bicycles
Happened to Come to Town
AND ANOTHER unforgettable memory is of the days when the Columbia was the highest priced bicycle on the market ($150). Fred M. Ayres was the first around here to own one, Fred G. Darlington followed suit. A family tradition handed down has it that once upon a time (circa 1885), Ayres and
Darlington were riding their Columbias along Fall Creek.
when, all of a sudden, a little black kitten approached him from the left. What happened next was Mr. Darlington’s privilege to report. * He said the. kitten jumped with the apparent intention of clearing the space between the two bicycles. Instead it got picked up by the spokes of Mr. Ayres’ rear wheel. It was the ‘fastest metry ginfound he ever saw; ‘sald ‘Mrp
After a dozen revolutions or .so, the centrifugal force of Mr. Ayres’ wheel tossed the cat to the side of the road, a distance of 20 feet or more. The kitten was none the worse for its experience, nor was Mr, Ayres’ bicycle?
Enhanced Value of Bike
THE EPISODE not only enhanced the repu-
' tation of the Columbia, but endowed the high-
priced wheel with a magical power not unlike that of a charm, z By this time, perhaps, you've wondered how the Columbia, a Boston bicycle, ned to be sold in Indianapolis. I can explain only because of a story told me by Lee Burns
. who got the facts straight from the lips of Will
Irwin, the Columbus, Ind., capitalist who died a few years ago. Mr. Irwin, a prize example of a kid brought up in the Eighties, also had hi
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in a roundabout way, he learned that a bicycle dealer's gross profit amounted to 100 per cent. Will G. Irwin was not a banker's son for nothing. Quick as a flash, he realized that he could have a Columbia for $75 if he could sell it to himself. Accordingly, he addressed a letter, written on his father’s bank stationery, to Col. Abner Pope, the manufacturer of the Columbia bicycle. In the course of his letter, Will
Side Glances—By Galbraith
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"The boss isn't as much of an ogre as he pretends—you ought to hear how polite he is on the phone to his wife!"
stop the long-term decline in the size of lamb herds. Only when the general meat picture improves with the expected increase in pork next year can a drop in lamb prices be expected. Probably the most significant aspect of the absence of a price support program on cattle is thift it makes the
| There is a support program under wool. But it hasn’t tended to
enumerated, his qualifications for handling a bicycle agency in Columbus, Ind. In no time at all, he had a reply. Col. Pope offered him not only the agency for the town of Columbus, but for the whole state of Indiana. Will, a mere kid at the time, accepted the offer and enclosed $75, his life’s savings, to get the first wheel with which to do business. And if you've kept up with me, you'll realize that the dizzy transaction also represented his first sale—to himself. The denouement is even more exciting. While waiting for the bicycle to arrive, Will told his father of the whole transaction expecting, of course, to be applauded for his shrewdness. Instead, he got a lecture in the course of which his father denounced the whole deal as reprehensible, unethical and downright immoral.
Father Made Him Sell Agency
TO ATONE for his crime, Will had to do two things right away, said his father. He had to give up the agency and he had to earn another $756 which, when added to what he had already paid, would represent the legitimate retail price everybody else had to pay to get a Columbia bicycle. When it came time to dispose of the agency, Will's father suggested that it be given ‘to Charlie Smith who ran a little bicycle repair shop down the street. And so it came to pass that Charlie Smith, and not Will Irwin, sold
the first Columbia in the state of Indiana. Sure,’
Will Irwin was Charlie Smith's first éustomer. Charlie Smith sold one more Columbia in Bartholomew County and then looked for greener pasturess He landed in Indianapolis and hitched up with Harry Hearsey. Opened First ‘Riding Acad’ my’ THE TWO OPENED the first bicycle store and “riding academy” in Indianapolis. It was right in the heart of town opposite the State House where, up to a few years ago, the«Cones overall people did husiness. Unlike Will Irwin, Charlie Smith stayed with the bicycle business—long enough, indeed, to tie up with a group of meh who shared a common vision. Together they made millions of dollars manufacturing the Waverley, an Indianapolismade wheel which was so good that it enjoyed an international reputation. It even sold in Boston, the home of the Columbia. Will Irwin made his mililons, too, but not by way of bicycles. There's a divinity —and sometimes nothing more than an irate parent—that shapes our ends.
four years. )
Hoosier Forum "I do ree with a word thet you say, bat | il defend 30 th dasth your right fo say
ject with which you.are familiar. Some letters
. Have we forgotten the years? I know many of us
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trition? 1 had two fortunate neighbors who had jobs. One made 10c an hour, another worked on a nearby farm Sof Zoe a day. We would have all been to do same. ad oot ote. bank accoun ts, hor and nearly lost our sanity. When we limit of human endurance, lin D. Roosevelt was elected and overnight hope came into human put on safe footing, CCC camps took boys were undernourished, I talked to many of who told me the camp food was the first meals they had had in months. Men were work through the WPA and our President had
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It is my earnest hope not Sr We must not let it happen We cannot elect the Republican Party. W cannot elect a party who can allow our children to suffer from hunger as they so unconcernedly did before. Let's not let it happen again. ¢ ¢
Irreconcilable? By Frank D. Slocum. \ In the cold war between Western civilization and Soviet Russia, we are an irre.
- concilable conflict between two conceptions of
peace. A to Soviet ymins Soneen peace is the. imposition peoples oe standardized way. of life, and that way is the Communist Party. This is peace -at the price of liberty, and the diversity of national cultures, that is born of liberty. Peace, as Western civilization conceives it, ‘demands the suppression of no pepole’s li Ys but the devotion of diverse fruits of that lib. erty, as represented in diverse national cul.
tures, as American, French, English, etc, to the enrichment of all peoples, the impoverish ,
ment of none. : . According to Western civilization . conception peace is life, and life more abundant, for each people: According to Soviet Russian conception, peace is: absolute power by rulers of one nation over the lives and liberties of all peoples,.a power that does hot enrich the life of any people, but impoverishes the life of all, Including the people of the nation, ruled by the world power seeking gruop.
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Love, Not Hate Sgt. Jim O'Bryan : . Too many have the viewpoint that we sol. digrs are murderers and taught primarily to kill, We are taught to love. We are taught to love freedom, democracy, the four freedoms, in total, our entire way of life. So much that we are willing to fight and even die for those inalienable rights of man.” The first’ law of mankind is self-preservation, which extends to home; cities: and. mostly nations. Those who take up arms against terrore ism, aggression and tyranny are not murderers, Do you know your American history? Can you call George Washington or our present day rational leader a murderer?
From Our. Quotebook
Soviet leaders are realists. They are not likely to go to war unless they believe they must fight for survival—Former Secretary of State James ¥. Byrnes. * & o Elections are not won by pious hopes. Elections are won only by hard work and getting out the vote.—Assistant Secretary of Labor John W. Gibson. : * >
Current research will eventually produce a rubber tire which will last the life of the automobile.—Dr, Waldo L. Semon, director of pio. neering research, B. F, Zrotuch Co. } °*
No fair-minded, thoughtful union member in America would exchange the year 1848 under the (Taft-Hartley) law for the year 1946 withe out the law.—Harold E. Stassen.
TELL BOTH SIDES . . . By Marquis Childs a
Public Wants Radio
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To Express Opinion WASHINGTON, Sept. 20—Public opinion has come down like a ton of bricks on an extraordinary document recently released by a Special House Committee investigating the Federal Come munications Commission. The general condemnation heaped on the committee's report is a healthy recognition of what seems to be a calculated attempt to block the channels cf communication against any veiwpoint even slightly unpopular. | The committee, of which Rep. Forest A. Harness of Indiana | is chairman, uses as a basis for attacking the Communications {| Commission two recent rulings. One, known as the Port Huron decision, reaffirms what is clearly stated in the communications act—that radio broadcast ing stations do not have the right to censor political talks. The second—the Scott decision—reaffirms another basic principle, which is that where fundamental controversies are ine volved radio stations must accord time to the side that is ate tacked to reply.
The Argument of the Atheist
THE DECISION, rendered in response to the demand of a professed Atheist for revocation of the licenses of stations that denied him time, makes it perfectly clear that his argument is not to be arbitrarily interpreted and that the controversy must be one of genuine public interest. In short, there was no attempt to say that Atheists should be given equal time to answer all religious broadcasts. The committee report is a strange document. One unidentified witness is quoted as criticizing the Scott decision because of its inexpert, irrelevant and wordy discussion of atheism and religion, in most respects, is valid. But the witness, one learns from reading the testimony, is -- Dr. Robert Calhoun of the Yale Divinity School. The committees report carefully does not quote that part. of Dr: mony in which he says he would not deny the right of Atheists
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or Marxists to argue their point of view.
Defends Diversity of View DR. CALHOUN makes many important points. But one struck me as particuarly important. x “Actually, diversity of view is one of the most familiar and, in a way, one of the most exciting aspects of our American
That is a truth that goes back deep in the American tradie
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beef, all other factors Sematning equal, * There also isn’t much hope for lamb prices co help the: rather dismal meat picture for the next
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extremely sensitive to changes in demand.
. If nobody had ever dreamed up the parity price 1 down to | the price support program, a pound of hamburger today probably months. | still would be giving the housewife a big headache.
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Hon and xe should not let nervous, fearful, neurotic men divert us from it. . Dr. Calhoun speaks of the danger of “a kind of monolithie developing in this country, which would squeeze out even - feebly dissenting opinion. i :
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