Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 October 1948 — Page 14
JARD “WALTER LECKNONE HENRY W. Editor i
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Another Truman Blunder
_ PRESIDENT Truman's proposal to send Chief Justice Vinson to see Stalin was the worst of his many blunders in‘foreign affairs. Secretary Marshall has saved him from __this incredible slap at our allies and the United Nations. It remains for the Secretary of State and John Foster Dulles, Gov. Dewey's representative on the American delegation in Paris, to persuade the nations gathered there that American policy is neither as unstable nor as weak as they assume from the Truman error. Of course the President didn't know it was loaded. His intentions are the best. He wants peace and he wants to be re-elected. So why not wow the voters with a spectacular ‘mission to Moscow headed by his friend Justice Vinson? Apparently the President had been spending so much time on his campaign train lately that he forgot certain things known to most readers of newspapers. ? He forgot that the United States had proclaimed it would not negotiate with Stalin under duress—not until the illegal Berlin blockade was lifted. He forgot that the United States had an agreement with Britain and France that none of the Big Three would act alone in the dispute with Russia.
- . ” ” ” » "HE FORGOT that the United States and its allies had * formally submitted the Berlin dispute to the UN, and that *.a Vinson mission would bypass the UN. He forgot that the atomic bomb dispute i is also in the ~ hands of the UN. He forgot that Secretary Marshall and an American delegation were in the midst of delicate negotiations in Paris, and that the Vinson mission would be taken as a declaration of no confidence in them. - He forgot that he has a bipartisan understanding with v. Dewey and Senator Vandenberg Whom he failed to ” sonmuls on the proposed Vinson on. Re Above all, he forgot that agen own costly experience at Potsdam, and the experience of President Roosevelt at Yalta and elsewhere, prove that a personal secret deal with. Stalin is a snare. This is not the first instance of Truman ivesponsibility in such matters. He tried to pull the rug from under Secretary of State Byrnes at another Paris conference at the
firm Russian policy by wisecracking that he knows and likes I at A ty tn the hres reuminiag woos of political campaigning, and thereafter, to refrain from Yocking the international boat. -
Mr. Dewey's Labor Speech
OV. D , in Pittsburgh Monday night, took a sound
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i said that the American labor movement must re-
lom of all of us.” That is true. He said that the Taft-Hartley Act is not perfect, that ‘t can be improved, and that wherever and whenever it aeeds change it will be changed if he becomes President. That will not satisfy the union leaders who want to _ axercise power without restraint by law. They demand
sed by President Truman and the Democratic platform. * But we believe most citizens, including large numbers of iol: hemshary; Will agree WiB Dr. Dewey on the points # made. His stand is a welcome contrast to the policies Democratic administrations for almost 16 years . . . “yolicies which consisted of truckling to the unjon leaders, viving them practically anything they demanded, using hem for political advantage, and, as Mr. Dewey says, ‘attempting to set labor F agains, the rest of the American Jeople.”
MR. DEWEY said, correctly, that: the Taft- “Hartley Act had produced none of the dire consequences predicted by President Truman in that “purely political” veto which a majority of the members of his own party in both houses * voted to override. He said, correctly, that many provisions Sf this law already had proved their worth, advancing the welfare “of labor and the whole of our people.” Certainly the Taft-Hartley Act is not perfect. Time {oubtless will reveal need for its revision. And Mr. Dewey . has made it clear that he would not repeat the mistakes made by Presidents Roosevelt and Truman in the cise of the ‘Wagner Act after biased administration of that one-sided law had revealed urgent need for its revision. If the Wagner Act had been changed sensibly, there probably would have been no occasion for the Taft-Hartley "Act. But Mr. Roosevelt held the Wagner Act untouchable. Time after time, he used his influence with Congress to _ block amendments of that law and to smother any other legislation opposed by the powerful union leaders. And Mr. Truman tried to veto the Taft-Hartley Act and now prom-
Hoye fof the books. Yet, the same Mr. Truman, + Tidirig" “Kitrisett without
to draft trikes oto the ray and make them work. ; We think Gov. Dewey has shown a much more enlight- _ ened understanding of labor's true best interests.
_ Smart Commie is PEN GOLD; head of the New York-fur and leather union, is a refreshing change from the dozens of suspected Communists who have hidden behind the Constitution when ‘congressional committees haye questioned their political affiliations. Mr. Gold came right out and said he'd been a Commie for 25 years. or Gold used the Constitution smartly. Since it still
main strong and free, as “a powerful bulwark for the free-
Joking less than repeal of the Taft-Hartley Act, as prom- |
_ time of the Wallace incident. This summer he distorted our |
og HS vay position toward iabor-and- the Taft-Hartley..
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With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue FALL'S HURDLE
The time is here! Do Fou think I dare to hope? 1 sit around sad and droopy; but reassure you that I have lost no. chosen friend in death. It's only time to take from their hiding the family woolens. I dread to look, and put the awful hour from me daily. I ponder over last year's horrors. When summer's stored-away sécrets come to light I found moths had had an epicurean feast and a mouse had liberally tasted the fur I so admired on my coat. Oh my, how odd that we afforded the food that added the extra pounds that made some garments refusé to meet in various places. It seemed the only things that fitted were hats, as nothing had qualified to give us the swell head sufficiently to outgrow these. My mind keeps pondering over these problems, and I'm willing to make a wager that all will not be well with the family woolens, ~JOSEPHINE BUCK, Westfield. ¢ ¢ ¢
LITTLE MOTHER
Three little babies washed and fed, Three little darlings tucked in bed; Dumb little eyelids closed all day, There's no boisterous laughter, no rompish play.
There's no little tea party promptly at two, - And no more pretending like little girls do; The baby carriage- has been standing for hours, The garden is full of unpicked flowers.
All of her toys must wonder, too, Just why she seems to be untrue, But she's a lady now, you know; she isn't really cruel; It's just that her career comes first . . little mother's gone to school. ~MEREDITH RODERICK HASKETT; Indpls. ¢ oe
DAYBREAK
There's something so keen in the morning air And so sweet in the sunshine, too; . It gets right down to the heart of things And peeks in the soul of you.
..our
Conceit and utter selfishness—
They quickly fade away,
For there's something which seems to shame |
them In the breaking of the day.
--MILDRED E. KOLLER, Coal City. * . 0.
PA'S PHILOSOPHY
My Pa ust-a tell me, “If you fail to make a hit .not.one little
~Faint-no-use.a cryin’,
bit, .. For life is all a struggle, from beginnin' to - the end, And tears can't ever help you, if you fan, my friend.
Now what's the use of whinin' if you do not make the grade, A eoward Ses a thousand deaths because he's
But. an a Nude to do or die, is just the thing
you need -_ To keep your vag: bloomin’, it you don't you 80 to seed.
Now if you fail a hundred times TT "What's the use o' eryin'? ooo =t
For no greater glory is for man, . Than that he died a-tryin’. s
LOU RYAN, Indianapolis. . * Oo 9.
7 ETERNITY
Who can say what the butterfly thinks,
As he flits from flower to flower?
What does he care, _though nh his ite 8 short span
Be a season, a ay or an hour’ Every day's an eternity to this airy little rover As he wakes from repose in the heart of a
rose; To sip the dew from the clover, ~—JEAN AMBERSLEY SHATTAN, Indpls.. ® ©& &
COMPENSATIONS
Life is full of compensations for many things unacceptable or unattainable, For every cloudy morning, there is a moonlight night; For every disappointment, there is an unexs pected happiness; For all the tears that fall, there are many merry smiles. There is always a rose to every thorn and for every saddened hour there's one when the heart is light. For each woe that is experienced, there is gay fun to be found somewhere.
‘There is no need for hopelessness. as powers
beyond us make up for all our losses and disappointments. MARIETTA KEM, ‘New Castle.
“history” of’ “Indianapolis:
Blood, Sweat. and Tears
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OUR TOWN . .
. By Anton Scherrer
Detail of City’ s History ‘Linked
To Whiff of European Perfume
MORE memorabilia set down for the use of whatever hardy creature may one day have the necessary nerve to attempt the writing of a
detail. Item one: On a Sunday morning during. his salad days in Paris (circa 1894), Brandt Steele happened to be in the Madeleine seated next to Cleo de Merode, rated the most beautiful woman of the century. At any rate, the king of Belgium thought so. " During the services, Cleo’s rosary fell to the floor and in bending over to recover it, the : 24-year-old Indianapolis boy caught a full whiff of her perfume. It was the scent of bergamot,
emt eee
r. Steele.” , Item two: Up until 1898, it was considered sacrilegious in Indianapolis .to send anything but white flowers to a funeral. Item three: “Tom,” the old firedog that used to hang around. Headquarters durin the
first days of the 20th Century was really a.
female. Which goes to show how much firemen know about the facts of life. She was called the Fire Terrier because one of her an.gesters was of that breed. The other half of
“her could be traced to a Bull" @og. When a--
piece of paper was lit and thrown" upon the floor, Tom immediately jumped into the fire and put it out. Her other tricks included jumping a rope, catching a ball and playing hide and seek with Cuba, a cat that also had its home at Headquarters.
Bis “urprise to Firemen
ONE day during the administration of Chief Coots, Tom gave birth to a bushel ‘basket full of puppies. (You bet, it surprised the firemen). And every time after that blessed event when Tom was obliged to follow the men to a fire,
Cuba watched over the puppies and mothered
them like an old hen. ... Item four: Fifty years ago only three establishments in the whole United States forbade dining room waiters to wear mustaches. They were the Blue Ribbon Club of Chicago and the Bates House and Hotel English in Indianapolis. Item five: “Old Frank,” one of the grandest horses our Fire Department ever had, died of a broken heart. He was a jet black beauty and served nine years. Every new horse entering the department was trained by the side of Old
with--some--regard.for. ....
Frank. The school ferms were always amazingly short as the teacher had a way of getting his ideas across. _One day the authorities in command (known as commissioners “at the time) got a notion that Frank was too old for the job and sold him to.a peddler. He was consigned to the street. to travel alongside ordinary nags. Indeed, he had to pull, of all things, a wagon loaded with vegetables. He began to lose weight, to say nothing of spirit, and one day—exactly a week after he left the Fire Department—he dropped in his harness never to rise again.
First Piano Here in 1831
ITEM six: The first piano seen around here was the one in the wagon load which brought James Blake and his bride, Elizabeth Spoule of
Baltimore, to Indianapolis in 1831. Legend has
it that it was this piano that Inspired the best poem Dan Paine ever wrote. ‘It was 12 stanzas long and was supposed to portray the lovely Mrs. Blake sitting at the keyboard:
“She sat at the old piano, Her fingers thin and pale Ran over the yellow keyboard The chords of a minor scale.”
"Item seven: When Adelina Patti brought
the pitiful-remains- of -a-once.glorious. voice. 10...
Tomlinson Hall in-1904, she ended her concert with “The Last Farewell,” a ballad expressly composed for her by Charles K. Harris, whose “After the Ball” identified the 1893 Chicago World's Fair. 4 oy PR n ' A ~-‘entific Balloon Ascension ITEM eight: Once upon a time—it must be all of 40 years ago—Capt. G. L. Bumbaugh in‘vited Dr. Goethe.Linke and Russe Irvin to be his guests in a balloon ascension. That afternoon they reached a height of 7200 feet, almost a mile and a half. The trip was memorable because of the scientific data brought down by Dr. Link. . When the balloon was up 2300 feet, Dr. Link took the party's pulse and discovered that every man’s heart beat at the rate of 100 per minute —even Capt. Bumbaugh's, which was proof positive that it wasn’t a matter of emotional excitement. At 7200 feet, the pulses jumped to 120 beats p. m. Forty years ago when the world was in a
- perfect state of equilibrium, the normal pulse
heat of Indianapolis people was 72 p. m. at White River level.
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3 ; aR bed Hoosier Forum Ee p— “1 do not agree with a word thet you say, but | will defend to the duth your right to say it."
Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in Freedom.
Why Pay for Airport?’
"By Ken Estridge, 1328 W. 33d St.
Could you tell me why the public has to pay for the upkeep ‘of Weir Cook Airport? at benefits do they receive from doing #0? The only ones I know who benefit are the air transport companies. “The city ded $250,000 (which was pro vided by the taxpayers) for Weir Cook Airport's improvements. Is anything provided by the city for the train or bus stations downtown? When we buy a ticket for a plane trip from here to California, New York or any place, we pay for our tickets like anybody else does. What becomes of ihe money for the fare? Does the city derive any of it? There is a federal grant of $250,000 also which is coming from the taxpayers. How much is coming fromthe air transport companies for improvements on the air field? Just why should the big air transport companies benefit from the taxpayers when other private business does not?
(Editor's Note: The airport presently is selfsustaining financially except for the recent $250,000 bond issue. In 1946 the field began to show a profit. That year it netted $33,000 over expenses.” In 1947 it made a profit of $48712. Thus far, this year it has made a profit of $25,000. This money is obtained through landing fees, office and shop rent and electrical current charges from the four airlines using the field and from landing fees, hangar rent and a percentage of gasoline sales on non-scheduled aircraft. There is no tax levy for the airport in the city tax rate. The surplus at the airport does not revert to city general fund. Instead it is scheduled for use in further building up the airport—350 per cent for needed facilities and: 50 per cent for' additional revenue producing facilities. Airport officials, however, say the profits are not enough yet to pay off the bond issue. But by building up the facilities, officials claim the port should eventually gross $250,000 annually with a net profit of $100,000 at which time large projects could be financed ‘by revenue bonds.) - . ed 1" "s Going On in Europe?’ By “Bull Mooser.” After giving billions to Europe for relief—
asked to give billions for rearmament of Europe. Isn't it about time for us to demand to be let in on what Mr, Vandenberg and the inter: national experts are planning to do to Europe —and do to us? Why? is the question I want to ask—and I feel I have a right to an answer, I have as much right to know what's going on abroad as I do what is going on in my own little precinct, If I don’t have that right, then there is something seriously wrong with our handling of foreign affairs. ". What secret agreements and commitments pledged
ments have been made without my knowledge and consent and why? I am not objecting to our foreign policy. It may be the wise course to pursue. What I am objecting to is.the fact that I have no representation in drafting.that policy or enforcing it —that I don’t even know what our policy is. The point is that from here on out I want {0 be an international expert myself. As a
“citizen “of 4° dsiideracy 1 want my Tepresentation
in foreign affairs. I demand my right to know the facts and a chance to vote on the foreign policies that lead to war or peace. My forefathers refused to pay taxes without representation. It is time that all Americans~awake and refuse to bear this enormous burden of taxation unless we, the public and cannon fodder, have some representation in the carrying on of foreign Jfmalrs. ’ ® o
Logic on Loyalty Inquiries By E. S. Baker
Although an admirer of Marquis Childs, 1 must question his logic in his column in regard to loyalty inquiries. In the first place, is a Louisiana man the one to talk of clean politics? Secondly, why should an innocent man refuse to answer a pertinent question? Is it not like a guest at a party where a jewel has been stolen refusing to be searched? Would not the innocent be glad to be cleared of suspicion?
NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs Supreme Court Again In Political Shadow |
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—It was Mr. Dooley, the gorgeously irreverent character ‘created by Finley Peter Dunne, who remarked that the Supreme Court followed the election returns like ordinary mortals. Presumably the court can ‘also follow the public opinion polls, which this year show so clearly how the
wind is blowing.
That would in itself be enough to explain the dismay among certain members of the court over President Truman's proposal to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow to. talk with Stalin.” No matter how sincere the President may have been in his belief that such a move would help the chances for peace, it would
plainly have had major political overtones.
Little imagination is required to visualize the chief Justice returning from his mission, stepping from his plane and telling a waiting world that Stalin will eo-operate for peace. While the resemblance to Neville Chamberlain's return from his visit to Hitler with “peace in our time” would occur to the thoughtful, en counted on to eapture the waning
Casts ie Shaddw of Doubt
THE would once again become the focus of a politdeeply aE saan to some of the brethren axtras:
struggle... on the Supreme Toate } who believe tha “eurrioular--aeti weakens. .the.
tice of the Supreme Court should be.”
He quoted from a letter written by Morrison R. Waite, chief justice from 1874 to 1888. Waite was being actively promoted for the presidency of the United States by friends and admirers, . including his own nephew. To his nephew he wrote:
‘Keep Above Suspicion’
“IN MY judgment, my. predecessor detracted from his name by permitting himself to think he wanted the presidency. Whether. true or not, it was sald that he permitted his ambitions in that . direction to influence his judicial opinions. 1 am not one of those who believe he did so consciously, but one who occupies this position should keep himself above suspicion. There can't be a doubt that in these days of political-judicial questions it is dangerous to have a judge who thinks beyond the judicial in his personal
ambitions.”
Mr. Frankfurter went on to say that “believing profoundly Chief Justice Waite
that Ihetgeneral attitude thus fapresend by
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vity. uw shadow of doubt on the disinterestedness of the court. In an address curiously overlooked, that point of view was vigorously expressed last June by Justice Felix Frankfurter, Speaking on the eve of the political conventions, Justice Frankfurter at a banquet of the American Law Institute cited high authority to buttress his own view of “how circumspect a.jus-
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Side Glances—By Galbraith
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he was thereby “foreclosed” from discussing subjects of immediate political interest, FDR took Justice Owen J. Rober head of the commission that investigated the Pearl Harbor disPresident Truman persuaded Justice Robert H. Jackson to serve as prosecutor for the United States at the Nuernberg trials. Jackson was absent from the court for more than a year, Many have felt a dangerous toncept of the court was growing up, making:it as a kind of house of lords with its members avallable at any time for special assignments of a delicate and supposedly non-political nature. The Vinson proposal fitted into that,
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still a Fighting Chance
TIME is running out fast for helping the Nationalists. “There's still a fighting chance of saving North C American expert who is in close touch with the cen ral government on the military situation. Taiyuan, Peiping and Tientsin. successful counteroffensive.” Taiyuan is the center of the narrowed domain of Shansi Province, whose strong man, Gen, Yen Hsi-shan, {8 now under renewed Communist attack, with the issue in doubt owing to Taiyuan's isolated position. Pelping or Tientsin is probably in the offing. The central government's foothold in Manchuria already has been written off by most foreign observers. North China go “under, until China is cut in two along the line of the Yangtze River— assuming that Chiang's government h well Songs to regroup and Loss of Tsinan, capital of Shantung prayed oma int tt actual hi hadow ps as a even if never ly. will 8! every subsequent military tee
CRISIS IN ORIENT . . . By Clyde Farnsworth Red Victory in China Seen if U. S. Stays Out
SHANGHAI Oct. sources in China say nothing short of all-out American mtilitary assistance can now avert a great Communist victory in this
13—8ome of the best-informed foreign
Such needed assistance is defined as follows: Immediate assignment to Chiang Kai-shek of two qualified American officers as chiefs of staff for air and ground
TWO: Subsequent loan of American logistical and tactical advisers and assistants to be assigned to Chinese ground and air forces down to battalion levels.
These eventually might total
, THREE: . Allocation of perhaps 3000 tons of carefully selected arms, ammunition and supplies as an’ Initial tnvestment th every Chinese division that's
to be kept in battle with the Com-
‘FOUR? Comparable resequipment and supply of Chinese air.
informed outline of what would have to be done. No one expects the present Washington administration to undertake such a proAnd SN it the Republicans win and are so inclined
\ This approach to a solution of the China crisis is merely an
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