Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 October 1948 — Page 34

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ap w oily Growing City at present points to a continuing growth of Indianapolis and its sprawling suburban a a metropolitan district far beyond the size anyone re had planned 20 years ago. ¥ LE he population of the city alone has jumped an esti40,000 in the comparatively short period of eight years. Suburban areas have more than doubled in that time, pd are still growing with hundreds of families establishing home sites in what once were cornfields. Millions of dollars have been spent on vast industrial and business expansions in the last three years. Millions ‘more are in process of being invested in new factories moving their operations here.

AND WITH these new industries must come thousands more people, the workers necessary to man the machines and direct the maze of technological research necessary to production. Hence, the time. is here and perhaps a little late for udianapols to begin collective thought on a long-range program in many directions to keep pace with its own

critical housing shortage that has prevailed con-

fing no better. Thousands of homes have been built - and hundreds mere are in the making but the present construction pace will fall far behind population growth in the years just ahead if present indications prove correct. TRAFFIC CONGESTION is getting worse every year and can be expected to grow more complex because we know there will be hundreds more vehicles on the streets, + Growth of the city in many instances has far out local governmental functions, many of which are a dar Aptes cumbersome basis 0 fy days It may be

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and county into a S salidated metropolitan district operation to reduce costs and increase the efficiency of public service, _ The rapidly expanding suburban areas eventually may require readjustments in planning to prevent a hodge-podge Jungle of slum areas. The time to meet these problems is now before they get 80 big they can't be handled.

: Who'll poy for Indiana Roads? Pa sudden urge to double the license fees on vale _autos in Indiana amounts, almost to a campaign. Let's see how it works out. Hoosier highways are going to need a lot of money, ~ for repair, and rebuilding and new construction. It could Le come from higher gasoline taxes, or it could come from oo hight license tag fees. : If gas taxes are raised the money would be. paid by the people who use the highways most, and wear out the most ' road surface. Heavy trucks and busses and commercial haulers would pay a big share of it. If license fees on passenger cars are raised it would affect the commercial hauler very little. It would, however, throw a bigger share of the load on the ordinary family sedan which travels the highways, perhaps, only a couple of thousand miles a year.

. ~ THE GASOLINE tax is a fair tax, 80 long as it is spent {2 wholly to maintain highways. Under it the driver who uses 38 20uds pays [ob them, and pays for exactly as much as

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should reduce it to the actual cost of making and issuing the license—possibly $1 or $1.50 a year. The money to maintain Indiana roads should come entirely out of gasoline tax— which is actually a measured “by the mile” charge for using them.

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ERP Progress Is Not Enough - ADMINISTRATOR Paul G. Hoffman of the Marshall Plan is back from Europe bubbling over with optimism, He thinks the recovery program has blocked the Red advance, or at least that Greece, Italy and France were * saved from Communist dictatorship by their economic progress and new hope flowing from American aid. To cap that good news, he suggests that it probably will be possible to reduce our Marshall Plan appropriations next year

materially. a Mr. Hoffman, Ambassador-At-Large Harriman and their associates deserve great credit for this initial success, 80 do. the European officials, most of whose batting avery ages in this cooperative international effort are high. Along with the vision and hard work which have gone into it, there also has been an element of good luck—European har | vests have exceeded expecta

| BEYOND all this, Russia with her hostile propaganda EDA has provides a daily prod to every-

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_ he uses. The license tag tax is an unfair tax, a holdover from the early days of automobiles when it was the only road tax they paid. Instead of raising that license tax, we believe, Indiana !

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Balm to Halleck

WASHINGTON, Oct. 16—Dear Boss: When Gov. Dewey picked Rensselaer for his major Indiana campaign speech, obviously it was not to save the Second District for. Rep. Charley “Halleck. That district was whittled out by the Legislature to be perpetually Republican and, with the éxeeption of the Roosevelt landslide of 1932, it has heen so. Nor was the Dewey back-patting entirely based on the fact that Rep. Halleck is majority. leader of the House-—although that undoubtedly was a factor. The greatest factor, however, was Mr. Halléck’s hurt feelings. For when he delivered his Indiana-favorite-son delegation to Mr. Dewey on the first ballot at the Philadelphia convention when Dewey really needed votes--and then drew a blank instead of the vice presidency, the young Hoosier statesman felt bitterly disappointed.

Old Wounds Not Healed

NEITHER working with Mr, Dewey during the special session of Congress nor his national campaign speaking assignments had healed Mr, Halleck's wounds, Maybe they are better now, The only Indianian of real prominence in the national Republican picture, Charley had a right to demand respect for his hard-won political laurels. Because his Dewey support thrust him into the limelight, he has been taking quite a beating. When he looked like a serious contender for the vice presidency, some of the Eastern Seaboard newspapers lashed out at him. They Jabeled him a “Midwest isolationist.” Quite the contrary is true, He was the one member of the Indiana delegation who has not been isolationist. He did much to put through the anti isolationist programs in the House ever since the war, His pre-war record was about the same as Sen. Vandenberg's. Thus Mr. Halleck's hurt feelings had some justification in fact. Since Philadelphia, he has played no such prominent part in the Dewey campaign as he did when he traveled with the late Wendell L. Willkie, In addition, he has daily been pointed to by columnists and rial writers as a member of thé unholy y-which, “main “the wn" Cy “Phe frio ndméa are Martin-Halleck-Taber. Meaning, of course, Speaker Martin and Chairman Taber of the House Appropriations Committee.

Snapping at His Heels

PRESIDENT TRUMAN himself has led the wolf pack of 80th Congress critics who have been snapping at Mr. Halleck's heels. His attacks have been so unmeasured at times that even The Nation, left-wing liberal weekly, had this to say: “We doubt that a President of the United States helps his cause by referring to the Martin-Halleck-Taber cabal as ‘predatory ani- . mals’ by slyly raising the question of Mr. ~Pewey's-war- By

— depicting his ents as willing servants of men who would ‘tear the country apart’ to satisfy the greed of ‘gluttons of privilege’, and “blood-suckers with offices in Wall Street’.”

“against the Truman attacks on the 80th Congress than the majority leader of the House. In one of his few radio network assignments in this campaign, Charley lauded the Congress in an address at Mt. Vernon, Ill, Wednesday night. “No s has been more diligent in its labors, more faithful in its commitments, more thorough in its deliberations, and more courageous in Its undertakings than this 80th Conwn gress” he shouted. yr

OUR Sen. Yo is “pointing with pride” to the congressional record of July 28. That was during the special session of Congress when he offered a Senate resolution wanting the Berlin crisis submitted to the United Nations Security Council. Sen. Vandenberg, acting president of the Senate, was in the chair. He announced that, if hobody else objected to Mr, Jenner's resolution, he would do so. | So Sen. Lodge did and it

discarded. . No around to doing-what he suggested, the Junior senator from Indiana Shik les, ; *

nounced for President Truman this week, he called Mr, Dewey “the candidate in sneakers.” When the New York governor first sought the presidency against FDR, Mr. Ickes, then secretary of interior, wryly commented that Mr. Dewey had “tossed his diaper into the ring.” Asked if he didn’t think dressing Mr. Dewey in sneakers was an indication that he, at least, had outgrown the diaper stage, Mr. Ickes didn’t even smile. Maybe he only Taugns at his own jokes, &

MRS. WEN DELL. L. Wilk, widow of the late Indiana-born presidential candidate, came out against re-election of Red-line leftist Rep. Vito Marcantonio in New York City this week. But that didn’t change the voting odds on a vietory for Vito. He wins, despite pre-election predictions of defeat, with the same regularity that . Rep. John Rankin does down in Mississippi. The pair are friendly enemies. They represent the two extremes of thinking In the House of Repre-

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OSTRICH TRAITS . . . By E. T. Leech

From Life's Ugly

the facts reveal.

it incurs their anger. to ignore ugly facts.

menace of communism.

Blamed for Pessimistic News world, newspaper editors had a tough time,

on read H fic ROBd and how real was the danger.

Refused to See Facts

exposed build it by giving it too much attention.

All these examples are past

For r three years now an uncertain

People Want to Hide

WASHINGTON, Oct. 18--Most of us have some ostrich blood. We hide our heads from things we fear and try to ignore what we

Like an old-time despot, who killed messengers when they brought bad news, we sometimes turn our anger against those who tell us unpleasant facts rather than against conditions which

A newspaper constantly is up against this mental quirk. If it is persistent in reporting what people fear or don’t want to face, It forever is bumping into those who want

Right now the papers are widely accused of “warmongering” because they have printed so much about the world’s conflicts, the danger of war, the necessity of keeping strong, and the

80 some sincere people fall for the malicious assumption that | to talk about the danger of war is to want war,

vue WHEN Hitler was on the make, proclaiming fantastic doctrina, persecuting Jews and waging a war of nerves against the | They were constantly accused of printing too much about Hitler. readers, in particular, felt they should not report some of the itler: was doing and saying. Many people just refused to news... Tie, Proved now true were the facts When there is a crime wave or a Tot of ugly sex cases, papers

are blamed for printing too much about crime. seem to think the best way to combat crime is to ignore it,

WHEN the Ku Klux Klan was rising to power, papers which its misdeeds and objectives were charged with helping to

such news. Yet now we know that this publicity, which forced federal action through the FBI, was what ended that era.

‘matter of a world in danger of war because of the Communist

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: By Anton Sharer

Lament for Past Found in Most Of Modern Life and Literature

LAMENT for the past.. Another thing that might reward study is the present practice of finding relief in nostalgia. The lament for the past permeates every

—phase of modern life and, indeed, all. modern.

literature, It started some 15 years ago with the publication of Dr. Canby’s “The Age of Confidence” and Mary Ellen Chase's lovely novel “Mary Peters.” In the meantime it has picked up momentum, with the result that just the other day our own Ben Riker submitted his charming “Pony Express Town.” It is not without significance that these books parallel a long, sad period of economic sickness and of blood thinned by carbon monoxide.

Chances are that ‘nothing WAIT ‘ever give: or

blood more substance. On the other hand, it may just be possible that some day the world will straighten itself out again-—even to the extent of, maybe, anticipating a future. In that case, the writing of backward-glancing books will come to a sudden end. At present, however, point and counterpoint. . Indeed; the very way the sculptured chiidren take their places on the pedestal—their poise and pause, the sense of gathering force, the

on a triumphant note — recalls the throb of measured rhythm. Even the circular form of the fountain approximating, as it does, the shape and symmetry of a scherzo—or, if you will, a Maypole dance or a merry-go-round—contributes to the imagery of music. Moreover, there is the tinkling sound of running water (on summer days; at any rate), something Mr, Pater never thought of--never having had the luck to live in Indianapolis.

Death Comes to the Bird

W. H. AUDEN, who now shares the top rung of British poetry with T. 8. Eliot, dismissed Shelley the other “day as a poet he wholly detested. Tt appears that Mr. Auden was brought up in the same kind-of school I was. When it came time to read the “Ode to a Skylark,” my teacher (peace to her ashes) ‘approached the subject with the zeal of a fanatic. She parsed every sentence, accounted. for every mark of punctuation, ripped every line and phrase apart until, finally, the bird was plucked of all its

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feathers. It was a horrible sight. And when I asked her why she went to so much trouble to impress me with the poem’s perfection, there is nothing to worry about. It should be of some comfort to Mr. Riker, inasm is urging’ him to get another book on the | market, : The sifting of memories on the part of so many authors (including Mr. Riker) discloses the startling fact that America no longer harbors the breed of fathers it used to have, Time was (circa 1890) when fathers ruled the roost

‘with an authority not unlike that of Jove on

high, making everybody dance to their slightest whim. Underneath it all. however, beat hearts as soft and pliable as butter (so it says in the books).

Next Sad Period of Sickness

COMPARED with which, the best Indian-

“mpolis-ean exhibit today i8-a-bresd-of fathers +:

who profess to be pals to their kids. Tt's going to prove sorry literary material when America has its next-sad period of economic sickness— if we ever get out of -this one. Walter Pater, in his most oracular mood, once wrote an admirable essay to the curious text that all art aspires to the condition of music. 1 never enter University Park, to loiter in the sun-flecked shadows of its fountain and

Agurines-of fan; but what I recall. Mr. Pater's

prophetic words. The wild abandon of the carefree children dancing -on the water's rim is like a tune straight from the pipes of Pan and, certainly, not unlike a melody ornamented with her eyes lit up like those of a crusader. She said she did it because it was good for me,

Making You Like It THE technique practiced by my old schoolteacher still persists. Indeed, it has enlarged its field of operations to include not only teachers, but also professional critics, doctors,

‘nurses and every writer of modern advertising.

It proceeds on ‘the theory that I (and everybody else) can be persuaded to like something just because somebody in authority tells me it is good for me. It doesn’t work. The present low estate of such classics as Shelley, spinach and sulfur 'n molasses is a case in point. Filtering the doom-dust of the past week, the precipitate revealed the ghastly news that Publishers Pellegrini & Cudahy are now prepared to deliver the Deathbed Edition of “The Complete Poetry and Prose of Walt Whitman.

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ous nations have revealed openly that they are active agents of .& ruthless foreign power—that communism is not a political idea or party but a criminal conspiracy. Yet, despite all the evidence, many people still seek to close their eyes to the danger. They are sick and tired of reading stories about crises, conflicts and Communists, j Well, we're sick and tired of printing them.

brink of a fresh disaster. Millions people, saved from one | papers. But the ugly facts are there—and as in the past you | £in of votes tyranny, have lost their freedom to another. Fighting has gone a rr rant Ae. thera To do so Is to invite | Democratic og 18 any Places. Persecutions, executions, ensla t and Setrustion. a 4 Job of print. a terrorism been widespread. once again, newspapers have the unpleassn . 's finger has been in of this, stirring up trouble, | ing many stories people don’t want to Pead or think about, and ‘ernment good will, Communist parties ta’ the var: #0 draw much criticism. : »

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*l do not agree with a word that you say, butt’ will defend to the death 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 t the e People Speak in Freedom.

‘Nothing Immoral i in ral in Nudism’

By A Nudist, Indianapolis I think it is a disgrace the way they are persecuting folks who want to sun bathe in Monroe County. A bunch of narrow-minded officials -down there have taken it on themselves to tell American citizens they can't sit around” in the nude in the sun. Has Monroe County seceded from the Union? There is nothing immoral about -appearing in the flesh as the Lord made us. If there was something wrong, we wouldn't have been made that way . . . we would have been born with clothes on. Anybody who thinks there is somes thing indecent about the human body ought to have his head examined. I am in favor of nude sun bathing in the public parks. Of course, there ought to be a screen for those who object to it and don't want to see it. But it is a popular and healthful recreation and if our City Park Department was broad minded it would take it up,

Why don't the Monroe County officials take |

off their clothes sometime and join the boys and girls? Then they could see for themselves, ¢ > o

An Answer on ‘New Look’

By Nelda Gooding This is in answer to “H. W” about the “new look.” Where, oh where have you been this past summer—undoubtedly “in the woods,” so come out of it. If you had been “out of the woods" you would have seen as late as the last days of September women and girls going about In shorts and “bras.” My letter is not silly. What I contend is this: women who. go about almost undressed incite evil thoughts in moronic men. I'll cite a true example of what I mean. A young man ats tacked a child in our neighborhood. When questioned, he admitted that he had looked upon

‘an immodestly attired woman a block or so AWAY.

+The. innocent. child had "highs to . Hr ndressed nh girl did’ Wave oA HE po Ia ee with you that molesters do not care whether the woman is 8 or 80, but according to a very recent book on human behavior the shocking increase in crimes against women is their immodest dress, this being given as the No. 1 reason for the increase, You don't beeve in “throwing oil on the fire.” Well, this applies here, * & 0 r

‘Gates No Credit to Party’ By E. Bowman, 2831 Station St. Gov. Gates’ criticism of ex-Gov. Henry -Schricker-is-so.chicken-feathery it listens like small town ory State Police and few pickets had a street fight due to police getting a little too rough. Strikers resented an overzealous policeman who chased a striker a couple of blocks and got a rap over the eye from the striker. Gov. Schricker upon investigation found ithe evidence to the effect that strikers were acting in self-defense and that such evidence had been withheld at the trial, paroled the strikers who had received sentences of 60 days. When the records of the two men as Gover. nor are compared, it looks like “kettle trying to call the pot black,” when kettle had been daneing the black bottom quite often. While Gov, Gates was out. attending of five or six. course suppers, the old, infirm and unfortunate

in our charitable institutions were receiving

concentration camp treatment from the persons appointed by Gov. Gates. Staff writers for our local papers and newscasters on our broadcast. ing stations made the exposure of the condi. tions. But he was too busy posing and smiling for staff photographers; back slapping, and politicking to be bothered about the welfare of

to his party nor the state of Indiana. , * + 0

Farmers Should Pay for Roads By John Connor, Mooresville, Ind. . For the privilege of driving my automobile on our highways, I buy license plates, pay a stiff tax on gasoline, oll, tires and property. Besides I am obliged to pay a tidy sum for insurance, All of which I do not object, I realize our highways must be constructed and maintained. I do object, however, to another class of our citizens who use my highway tax free. I am referring to our farmers who use farm tractors and four-wheeled trailers to haul thetr $2.50 grain to elevators and other produce from their farms to market, without license tags, lights, markers of any kind and in a good many cases without even a driver's license, If you have ever tried to pass one of these 50-foot-long outfits traveling at a snail's pace on a busy highway you will see what I mean,

OFF-RECORD POLITICS . . . By Noble Reed

‘Deals’ Involve

Trading Candidates

“ A PART of the Marion County election campaign is appar ently going “underground” with maneuvers in both parties tor bi-partisan hookups in trading of candidates. The “deals” behind the scenes are part of the factional struggles within each party to control certain public offices by saerificing other candidates to the opposition party. It's an old election trick used especially ‘when the balloting results appear to be close and with indications as they are this year that voters will do more “scratch” voting than usual. It is working like this: A powerful faction in Republican Party decides that its chances for control of the whole party machinery the next two years will hinge on one or two county offices,

“Trade-Off on Candidates

THIS faction then maneuvers to throw all its organization support for these candidates and “trade off” its support to the Democrats for other offices. The trade, of course, would involve - an _off-the-record deal with a Democratic faction to back the . “chosen GOP candidates. - In this trade, the factions in both parties could win thetr objectives if the voters followed their program. And a large enough bloc of “machine voters” could throw the results on the “traded” pattern. ifthe margin between. he pact: line. voting. 18... wey

It is known that some of these “deals” have been offered in the last two weeks and that the campaigning of some candidates .in both parties has been geared to get the suppor of machine voters in the opposition party. . 2

Part of Bi-Partisan Deal

IF A Republican worker tells you in the next two weeks that . he “wouldn't mind seeing a certain Democrat elected” you will know it is part of a bi-partisan “deal” to trade candidates. And the same process will be working on the ‘other side 1f a Democratic worker or his “agent” approaches you with a reminder that a vote for a certain Republican “wouldn't make us

The candidate-trading trick,’ however, 18 not effective if one party or the other wins by overwhelming majorities. If the mare DARE most popular Republican and the leading didate is more than 10,000 these bi | “deals” are lost and nobody ever hears about them afterward.

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