Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 October 1948 — Page 26

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‘ country that got bees in its attic. Living with

‘bees_in your attic is worse. In-laws do have

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BUZZ, BUZZ, BUZZ . A few months ago, I had a house in the your inlaws 1s bad enough, but living ‘with

riods;of sociability, but bees are always going around with “chips on their shoulders.” ‘The method of extermination is about the ‘same.

spray them with DDT, “With the in-laws “you

Blackmail of the UN = appeal ‘to the ‘United Nations by the democratic powers begins one more baftle in thé cold war with Russia. It ends nothing, It solves nothing. The cold war will go on, in one form or another, until ‘one side breaks. That was the situation before the conflict ‘was carried to the United Nations. It is still the situation. Because the United Nations, in itself, lacks the power to enforce either a just settlement or peace. 4 ~~ Inless we remember this in the tense weeks ahead, our expectations may be unreasonable. We may be paralyzed by disillusionment at the very time we need steady nerves and a strong will. 4 While recognizing that the United Nations is too weak to settle the issue, however, the signifiance of this latest move by the United Statés, Britain and France is great. For it lifts the conflict above the realm of an American- | Russian dispute, or one between the western powers and Russia, and makes it a world issue formally and officially. |. - Hitherto the smaller nations have been able to remain neutral, in theory. They maintained the dangerous fiction t this was only a quarrel among giants, and that they

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3 . 8 » > > a n= RUSSIA has been violating a Big Four agreement. But, of more significance, Russia has been violating the United: | Nations charter and threatening the peace of the world. . "This involves all United Nations members. And it is on this basis that the three democratic powers have appealed the United rr id

on was delayed a long time for fear

ss, but because the danger of war is i TAL Ld Snreen aia Keond 58 ad o

4 : aken to the United Nations now, not because

to prevent war, than that it be engulfed by a conflict

Actually the United Nations need not be destroyed by - an withdrawal, if it comes to that. A united and e United Nations without Russia, however undesirable, is still a stronger and more useful security organization n any United Nations made helpless by Russian memSE a x - = a

~ delusion all along—and the sooner we found it out the

"Though we have not won the cold war or prevented a

2 shooting war by submitting the issue to the United Nations, we have improved our position. "As in Berlin we have

refused to retreat under Soviet coercion, now in the United | Nations we have defied the Bolshevik blackmail of threatJong. ‘This is an act of wisdom and of strength.

~ Right Man on the Job ' TAUL G. HOFFMAN, the foreign aid administrator, has : told a delegation of Southern Congressmen and tobacco growers that he will not use the European Recovery Pro- , gram to “distort” trade among nations abroad for the bene- ' it of American producers. ~The delegation complained that European countries, by buying tobacco from Greece, Turkey and Rhodesia, are cut- © ting the export market for American tobacco. It wanted

when it passed the European Recovery Act, that American products should be protected inst development of unfavorable foreign trade patterns. "Mr. Hofman flatly rejected this argument. He said that he will not attempt to prevent European countries from using their own currencies to buy tobatco and other commodities wherever they choose. He added: “Pm sorry, gentlemen, if you don’t like it, but that's wher8 I stand. I don't believe that American industry and F agriculture are entitled to a subsidy under this program. | If that was the intent of the law, then I don’t belong down

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Mr. Hoffman-is a succegsful American industrialist. He has proved his deep concern for maintaining prosperity in the United States. And by his statement to the tobacco growers and their Congressmen, we think, he has proved again that he belongs right where he i§ as administrator of the ERP. : For, as he said, “The most important thing on earth is . to keep the free nations united.” That calls both for Amerjean prosperity and European recovery. And European recovery depends largely upon increasing trade among * European nations in European products. ;

They'd Better Believe It “Premier Stalin and his associates in the Kremlin. - tly divided by hatred and fear.

American.”

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bonnet” then, brother, you have something | whose habitation in your cranial decoration is

“Who have “bees (political) in their bonnets.”

"a major election, that the number is consid- | -¥7 erable. However, for the moment, 1 can only “|

tive. 1 soon dicovered that four other persons

/ § wnid sawp Abeiz own ageke bys:

t withdraw" from the United Nations. The...

CASA a 2 TY that job and atte

aggression. ~Nations--would have been a snare and |

Oh, she was a child . . . a chfld of the moon,

« Hoffman to do something about that. It argued that

3 WE often wondeg how much accurate information about ¥¥ American politics and the American people reaches

Doubless they hear much from sources in this country ~ abolit some of the things that are being said in.our election | cam which might lead) them to believe that i are fighting something like a civil war between

may be what they want to believe. But we wonder whether they have been told what Gov. Dewey said this

3 v “Nothing will divide our country and nothing like a sis will so unite us. We can take our political argunts pretty seriously. But what some people in the world ‘to under: is that we have such a thing as ip; such a thing as closing. ranks immediately lo is n¢ when there is a big job to be

spray them with hints of “get thee

rmanerit, because ‘dll thie time this little bee ke ps buzzing, “You can't be defeated,” and you like it and let him stay. As far as I know there is no record as to thé number of people

But I am of the ‘opinion, with the approach of

speak "of one. * In 1908, when I was only 24; and after I had completed a term of teaching district school, I awoke one morn and there the “political bee” was buzzing in “my nightcap with incessant fervor. 1 dressed, went to the county seat and anneunced my candidacy for state Representa-

were on friendly relations with this political apis. P The only claims I could make on fitness for this important office were, first, I was born and then lived on a farm and should have some of the attributes of an honest, rugged farmer, secondly, that by being a schoolteacher I had enough education to disport myself in somewhat proper fashion and, last, and probably most important, 1 had played baseball all over the county and knew quite a few of, the - “kids” who. were now voters, After two terms in the Legislature and a taste of. city life 1 stayed there with a civil service job. Later, by . working ‘nights and

‘going 10 school days, 1.graduated from law Se school. Again ThEY VIeeus Hie insect-began

buzzing, after a long period of dormancy, so I went back to my home county and ran for prosecutor. That was a mistake—never gO back. The boys who had played baseball with me had gone forward. - They had also gotten ideas about the “big cities” and had vamoosed to Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and other: industrial centers, leaving me “high and “dry” on election.day. So I quit the law. ; Just the other day & friend of mine said, why don’t you run’ for Congress and right away that Tittle pest set up a yibration that nearly .unloosened my collar button. Like & flash, 1 put my thumb, insulated by common serié’ right on him, pushing him right back re he belongs by saying: y : ; ea y; 1 cals FOE X00, a ey in ‘jams’ and always running for office. For ‘me 1 want less work, less ‘jams’ and more relaxation, and you don't get it by being a * Congressman—1I think!” Buzz, buzz, buzz! «GEORGE BILLMAN, Anderson. wipe Ae

MOON MADNESS

Oh, she was a child . . . a child of the moon, And moon madness was her undoing; She sifted the beams through her golden hair . ,. She ‘danced on her toes, with never a care— Oh, she was a child , . . so fair... so

fair . . . And right, for the new moon's wooing.

ON SHE had -geehtid ro -a-child.of. the moon, Of grace and rhythm and beauty; But moon madness bothered: her not at all . For she wis a worldly child withal .". . And she heeded not the cold moon's call... But the call of love and duty... ow

And her daughter . . . a child of the earth; And each one cherished a song in her heart... ; . Moon madness . . . earth madness .. . a world apart , . , Strange songs . . . yet ever a counterpart ... Since the moon and the world had birth!

—RUTH RICKLEFS, Crawfordsville. * © &

REMEMBERING

Remembering I must admit Now makes me seem a heartless chit. For you, my youthful paragon, + Ard headed for oblivion. I hope I'm not a hypocrite.

I'm .sure our love was exquisite; You may have been my favorite. Regardless now I think it fun Remembering. ©

How very strange! I must omit » Your name. I cannot think of it. © As detalls fade why should I shun . The- thought of you though love is done? . It boosts morale. I shall not quit Remembering. :

~ALMA C. MAHAN, Terre Haute.

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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

"WHEN THE pneumatic bicycle tire appearance, it not only changed the behavior of mankind, but also the landscape of Indianapolis. . Up untik that time, the principal loafing place was the southeast corner of Washington and Meridian Sts. where the ° Joyful Oil Man had his stand selling a patent medicine “good for man and beast.” The inflated tire moved the loafing place to 116 N. Pennsylvania St. the business addréss of the H. F, Hearsey Cycle Co. The reason it moved was because Harry Hearsey had the vision to install a foot pump for blowing

up _tires—the first in Indianapolis. "fo make It handy -for-— everybody, Mr. ..

Hearsey planted the new-fangled contraption near the street just inside his bicycle store which also included & “riding academy.” For a long time it was. called the “town pump.” Mr.

‘Hearsey's sensitive ear, which enabled. him to ‘recognize opportunity’s knock, put the Joyful

Ofl- Man out of business.

Pumps Lured the Bicycle Trade THE NEXT PUBLIC tire pump was that. of

Frank Keegan, the druggist at Illinois and 22d Sts. The Keegan drug store caught the trade

of bicyclists on the way to Crown Hill and

those ambitious enough to keep going until they reached the Canal towpath, possibly the most picturesque bicycle run in the environs of Indianapolis, ‘ The towpath led to Fairview Park, present

« site of Butler University. “At that time there

was already a street car leading to it. Indeed, the park was owned by the streetcar people who used it as a bait to lure nickels out of ithe pockets (of thgse who wanted to escape the humid heat of summer nights. Only those transported ‘by streetcar were privileged to escape the heat. ! r In 1895, to the surprise of everybody, the streetcar company allowed bicycles to enter their park. Immediately, Fairview turned into a trysting place especially for those bicyclists who couldn’t win their girls by riding up and down North Meridian St. ih Just why the streetcar people opened their k to a competitor remains a trade secret, with little possibility of anybody ever solving it.

_ As for me, I gave up a long time ago trying to

figure out the streetcar people.

EERIE, UNREAL . . . By Marquis Childs

over the ruins of Berlin.

Could President Have Waited?

still have been available.

and, at first, it was understood that he would about the world situation. After a little

record.

of way to run a railroad.”

Says Things Which Need Saying

fate.

the issues as he sees them. }

sistently refers to it, has at times an jAlice in Wonderland” quality. | It is the mixture of earthly courtho politics with world-shaking ~ issues that gives the performance an eerie, unreal quality, { Nothing illustrated this better than the sudden and unexpected visit to the train of Ambassador Walter Bedell Smith. Mr. Smith ° came by way of Moscow, Berlin and Paris where he has been di- ’ rectly involved in the long and savage wrangle with the Russians

THE PRESIDENT may have felt that it was essential to have an immediate, first-hand report from his ambassador to Moscow. It is hard to understand, however, why he could not have waited a| few days until his return to' Washington when Mr, Smith would

It was what happened after the conference between the President and his ambassador in the last car that made the whole thing seem out of focus. Mr. Smith was escorted to the iss car talk off the record

pressure porters, however, he agreed that his remarks would be on the

80 fh a noisy, crowded car, with half those present unable to'hear, one of the principals in the critical Berlin negotiations talked | about the danger of war and the perilous state of relations bétween East and West. Such offhand remarks, even though they were transmitted with complete accuracy, could obviously add to the peril. This, as one of the reporters remarked later, is “A hell

SEEN FROM Mr. Truman's viewpoint, however, it was a different 160k. The President is indignant at those who. take the attitude that in the light of Gov. Dewey's sizable and seemingly “unbeatable lead he should fold his hands and resign himself to his

| hitting ' in the Unitéd States. He spoke some truths Ion headed. undsrscoring and he spoke hem wi more earnest hess and thay he: Cumamartly SIMS to

from the re-

. GOPR. 1945 BY NEA SERVICE, NG. T. M. REY. & PAT. OFY.,

= He Never Took i Lesson in His Life 3

Pneumatic Bicycle Tire Changed

made its

business trip to England.

Chain Co, : -

. Pears’ Soap and a Bicycle, Too ON THE EVE of his departure, Mr. Johnson’ called on Harry Hearsey ‘and asked: whether there was anything he would like to have from. England—in .addition to a box of Pears’ soap wihiich, apparently; —had- been eoming--to--him-

without the asking.

“An English bike,” said Mr. Hearsey rubbfhg his hands—not in anticipation of the box of soap, you can bet your sweet life, but of the

bicycle.

In the course of that same summer, the custom authorities over in the Federal Building

Hoosier Fo ! y ————————————————————— wh “| do not agres with a word: thet you say, but r «ill defend to the death your right fo say i.™ —— :

Indianapolis, it appears, was one of th American cities to see a real-for-sure pneumatic tire. . Legend has it that, very early in the Nineties, A. D. Johnson was about to make a At that time, Mr. Johnson was associated with a group of men, leds by Lucius Wainwright, who very early sensed the potential profits inherent in a series of links without which a bicycle couldn't” possibly move. Eventually, their business developed into what is now known as the Diamond

most of the city's RR WR

rum

‘which you are familiar. Some letters

"used will be edited but content will be pre

served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

‘Sex Attacks By Housewife ? : 3 = y Another Indianapolis woman has been ‘dis- ~~: Lracetully attacked on our streets. And s6 far no one ha ‘the police do not even have a clue. Sh It seems to me that all that Js ever done” ° ahd the SATety Tor “women and girl. on Our. streets is feeble talking. :

as been arrested. “Insofar ‘as I know,

When Mayor Feeney went into office 1 re

call that he said he would stop thé attacks on women and make the streets safe for women,’ But it hasn'} turned out that way. Far from it, I suspect the records will show that as many women are attacked every month this year

as there were last year when Mr, Feeney wasn't

‘Mayor. ;

~The Police Department is in a corner over these assaults. Now they. are saying they do

“not have enough policemen: If they don't have

enough, why don’t they get enough?‘And we women’ don’t want to listen to the plea that the city cannot afford enough police-

men to make it safe. If they use the ones Wé¢

have to better advantage, the town will be safer. And if the taxes will not pay. the bill

for’ more protection, then let's take up a cole

lection. A lot of us women would give a few dollars just to know we could walk down our streets at night with security, I think husbands wotlld chip in, too,

If something constructive isn’t done about °

the brutal attacks on women soon, the town will get a bad name and people won't want to live here. , .® ®

Why Not Boost?

By North Sider : _1.have. been reading your Hoosier Forum

| regularly and I think-some of the contfibutors

rely. too.much. of. their time and your

te pend enti space COM PIETY “SboUt HHEEs they cen. de

little about. ev) ; It is my considered opinion that we ought

to look for the brighter side of our town. Why

not commend a few people for their contributions to their community instead of knocking so consistently? | This city is moving ahead ‘by leaps and bounds. It is growing so fast in industry and population that few of us realize that we may in not so many years reach a million population. : . - For some -reason’ industry likes Indian-

~apols:~-Our-- workers --are--steady..and.. well... ._____ QR

behaved. ‘As far as I have been able to learn:

there are few “red hots” in our labor ranks and. : ‘ workers are loyal. to thelr ude Wd ce nr

MeN) ee Let's have a good word now ami then fo Indianapolis, We can stand it, and I think {if we all lifted our conversational and actiyity sights a little, we'd grow even faster. Let's appreciate what we have. Cee @

That Chicago Trip oe

By Taxpayer . I see where Mayor Feeney ran off to Chicago

so he wouldn't have to sign 3500 gas bonds.

It seemed that putting his name to this many bonds, one at.a time, was too much work for our chief municipal executive. - - Instead we lose his services for a day and probably paid his fare to Chicago and back to

. save him from wearing out his writing fingers.

.- Why doesn’t he sign these at home in the

evening, or in his office after hours, if it takes

too much time? Most of us have to get our work done in the best way we can with the tools at hand. And we can’t run off for a day in Chicago just to make it a little easier. ’ '

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(then at Pennsylvania and Market Sts.) com- From the News—

manded “Mr. Hearsey to appear and settle for a crate from England. When. unpacked, it dis- » closed an up-to-date English w , with Dunlop tires. wi Investigation revealed that the tires were the result of an experiment on the part of Dr. Dunlop, an Irish veterinary surgeon and day-

dreamer.

A Lulu of a Dream in 1889

IN “1889, the Doc had a lulu.of a dream. On that occasion, he took a section of rubber garden hose and applied it to his son's bicycle. Seems- the Dunlop. kid had worn his original | drop propaganda leaflets.—James Roosevelt,

tires thin.

heel equipped

army, now living in England. - ® S90

son of the late President.

The Dunlop Kid pronounced his. father’s in- eo o

vention o. k., an opinion not generally shared in Indianapolis. One group of critics, more articulate than the rest, denounced the fat foreign tire as ugly and uncouth; the cynical corollary

of which was, of course, that a thing so lacking * @

in beauty could never be a permanent contribu-

tion to mankind. . Apparently, the battle

unpacked Al Johnson's gift.

Side Glances—By Galbraith Truman Mixes Local GE Politics, World Issues .; (APOARD TRUMAX TRAIN, oct. 1 Against te bckgund @

of functionalism versus traditionalism, over which people still spend so many bitter words, is nothing new. So |i far as Indianapolis is concerned, it started way back in the Nineties—on the day Harry Hearsey tics.—Margaret Truman, daughter of the Presi-

scenes of Capt, George

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"Yes, I'm broke! There's plenty of guys eating in" here right now who owe me money, but how can I'collect it with a broken arm?"

: That is asking too much of human nature. He means to go prepared text. ; wr on to the end making the most vigorous campaign possible on ‘These quadrennial contests that occur under our palitical syses t) ! Yoitin g © |tem are full of hazard in times of crisis like the present. Ri The President's speech at Oklahoma City was a clear, hard-|in memory is the Rooseyelt-Willkie campaign of 1940 when both ting: Ration of the slouded and ugly businets of solultisth candidates made such futile promises at a moment when half the that have world had fallen ‘away. The rules of this political game have

laid down in a simpler and safer past. the reading of a those rules and playing hard.

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DON'T ASK us .e By Douglas Larsen White House Loses Track of Truman Talks

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—Off the cuff of a Washington reporter: When President Truman is out of town campaigning, the White House staff apparently doesn’t have too much interest in {their boss’ whereabouts or activities on the road, When some{body from one of the campaign committees called the White | House to check whether Mr. Truman was going to speak that {night and to. find out exactly where he would be for the next couple of days, nobody there could supply the answer, The new motion picture put out by the Navy, called “Secret Land,!’ a film account of Adm. Byrd's 1946-47 Antarctica expedition, recently had vanfexclusive private showing here. It shows ufek, a member of the expédition, falling into the frigid water several times and being fished out just in the nick of time. When the lights went up after the finish one of [the guests remarked in a loud voice: “They should change the title to ‘The Dunking of Dufek.’"”

‘Cabinet Feud Brewing

IN ADDITION to all of his other woes the President récently had to put his foot down several times on a feud brewing in his cabinet between the new Secretary of Agriculture, Charles F. Brannan, and the Secretary of Interior, Julius “Krug. Mr. Brannan has discovered that Mr. Krug had urged Mr. Truman not to give Mr. Brannan the job when his name was being men=

toned as a possibility. .

agreement, too.

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They Said It

A third world war is being prepared. Pioneers in these preparations are the 14 members *and -altérnates of the (Soviet) Politburo.—Lt. . Col. Gregory Tokayev, deserter from the Red

The only way to inform the Russian people properly is to organize a gigantic fleet of American airplanes, fly them over Russia and

Mr. Truman has become a modern Tincoln —all in three short months—an amazingly great transformation in an amazingly short space of time.—Henry A. Wallace. - *

It is obvious by now that inflation will not gure itself. Something must bé done without further delay.—AFL President William Green. ® 9

I don’t want my singing mixed up with poli-

It was a matter of considerable relief to Secretary of Defense James Forrestal when the President excused him from making any campaign speeches. Mr. Forrestal is snowed under with problems of the unification and he doesn’t particularly like polit-. [fecal campaigning. The decision to keep him off the stump based on the belief that the operation of America’s defense these days 18 too close to foreign policy and would violate bi-partisan agreement to keep that issue out of the campaign. The President is campaigning under a han speaking support from his cabinet goes: Mr, Krug is shying away from the battleground. The Postmaster General, usually the political cornerstone of the cabinet, is Jessé Donaldson, a career federal employee with little speaking experience and less stomach for it. One of the ablest men In the cabinet, George C. Marshall, is excluded from the fray becguse of the foreign policy

. The most unhappy federal employees these days are the budget officers of the various agencies. They spend a whole year of gruelling work preparing estimates which will be submitted . Mr, Truman is playing by|to Congress. They realize that. if there should be a ‘change of = administration their year's work will be shot to pleces, ~~

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