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Voice in the Wilderness—Ours
'VE waited in vain all through this presidential cam- : paign for some candidate to come out against one of the great evils of our time—the laws Washington bureaucrats turn out on their mimeograph machines without benefit of Congress. he Every whistle stop has been deluged with words about other issues, but not a voice has been raised against the attempt of the kill-joys to ban radio give-away programs by bureaucratic regulation. Such being the case, we are forced to resort’ to the citizen's right of petition and do it ourself. Why should anybody object to the giving away of such things as automobiles, washing machines, deep-freeze units and tickets to Broadway shows, especially with prices - what they are? The reasons cited thus far make no sense to us.
. =» = =» FOR example, it is claimed that “Stop the Music” has depressed the Hooper ratings of Charlie McCarthy and Tred Allen. “Bo What? Are we: tobe compelled By Bureaus. eratic edict to Tisten to Fed” After when we'd -rather-win a- _ free television set by identifying tune of “Silver Threads = Kn GHG Rw, crooner than to collect a thousand bucks or so for naming the 16th President of the United States? The stern-visaged autocrats on the Federal Radio Commission seem to think it's wrong to require that a winner of an award must have been tuned in on that particular : program. Why? You can't grab a free baseball unless you're in the ball park when a batter hits a pop foul. We dislike censorship of any kind. But, if we must have it, let's have it the old-fashioned way, under laws passed by our elected representatives in Congress. We do not want bureaucrats, who got their own jobs on a guess-and-reward basis, telling us that we can't do some guessing or collect possible awards.
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Can't Egg Them On
THIS will not be good news to women, but it seems that men are really better at the art, or science, of reducing. At least they're more business-like about it—they simply go to a doctor and follow his advice. Overweight women, on the other hand, are always looking for some magic way to melt off 15 pounds in a week or thereabouts. That's what a woman nutritionist said at a meeting
“of the American Dietetic Association-in-Beston last. week. .,
She added that the only sure way to reduce was to avoid ~ whipped cream, pastries, candy bars and gravy. Doctors
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DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney
Lyons Seen Tops a3
On Dewey's List | Closer to Throne Than Any Other Hoosier
SINCE today. is Sunday, 1 should like to begin with a text from the Bible. It is from | Matthew, the twenty-first chapter and the fortysecond verse, saying: “The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner.” Trusting that your piety will not be offended, I now want to apply that text to the Dewey campaign in Indiana. Getting right to the peint of this application, I predict that Robert W. Lyons will be closer to the throne if Gov, Thomas E. Dewey of New York is elected President than will any other Hoosler, | While some may take issue with that prediction, theré can be no question about Bob |
Lyons being “the stone the builders rejected” so far as Indiana GOP politics is concerned.
F. {in Dewey Pie YOU RECALL how Gov. Ralph Gates made him national committeeman and then engi- | neéred his oustér a few weeks later when the | “heat” was on regarding Mr. Lyons’ old Ku | Klux Klan connections. Mr. Lyons has a fine home here. but spends most of his time in New York, Washington or with his three sons and numerous grandchildren down in Florida. He has the entire floor of one
of the best office buildings in the national capi- ,
| tal for his law offices there. And he vehemently | declares that he isn't looking for any political appointment. Any job that the government might offer would mean mere peanuts in comparison with Mr. Lyons’ annual income at this point and the only thing such rich men get out of taking them is the power or prestige.
That doesn't mean that Mr. Lyons will not |
have his hand in the Dewey pie, however. He | already is credited with setting Sen. William E. Jenner in as head of the national Republican speakers bureau. This gave Mr. Jenner a legiti-
seDALE LXLUSE. 10 be out. at of the the sate during x most | A eC tito - joes [roses koyons-alac rR Jashington DREDE »
the defeated -Jenner-for-Governor backers and his long-time friend, Elmer (Little. Doc) Sherpweadorge X
and the Republican National Committee. Both he and Sen. Jenner and their staffs have swank offices on Connecticut Ave, just off Dupont Circle
ters. So with his close connections in the Dewey camp, Mr. Lyons is handling things rather well already at least from his own standpoint.
Backed Dewey 3 Times HIS friendship ‘with the New York Governor and his support of Mr. Dewey's long-standing presidential aspirations. have spread over the | three times that Mr. Dewey has tried for the | White House. | support of him has never wavered. That it has been appreciated was shown when he received pérsonal assurances from-the New York governor that his ouster as national committeeman didn’t change their relationship. . Mr. Lyons is credited with taking both Sen. Jenner and Sen. Homer E. Capehart to visit the Dewey family at the executive mansion in Albany, long before Majority Leader Halleck tossed him the Hoosier delegation at the Philadelphia convention this year. So it looks from here as though Mr. Lyons,
who has been dubbed “the mystery man ef Indi-.|.
ana politics’ will really “become the head of the corner” so far as bigshot Hoosiers-in-politics are concerned when and if Dewey becomes President. Lo & vl pole : SINCE this started with a biblical text, rm .continue with another politico-religious subject
* give men reducing diets, but bettér than that, she said, they, which was brought to my attention since com.
_. give “encquragement.” Maybe husbands ought to encour-
age their reducing wives, too—it's cheap-—but a risky meal-"
time business if the wife gets a little too determined to forego meat, eggs, butter and milk.
A Decision We Regret
THE U. 8. Supreme Court has decided, 6 to 3, that Henry Wallace's Progressive Party can't have a place on Illi- ‘ nois ballots in the Nov. 2 election. The court refused to hold unconstitutional an Illinois law which requires that nominating petitions, to be legal, must include at least 200 names from each of at least 50 of the state's 102 counties. Petitions filed by the Wallace party fell short of that requirement. As to the rightness of the Supreme Court's ruling. there can be differing views. In fact, the dissenting opinion of Justices Douglas, Black and Murphy seems to us pretty persuasive. But we have other grounds for regretting that the court's majority held as it did. We regret it because we should like to see the Wallace party on the ballots of every state. Then there could be no post-election alibis for the smallness of the Wallace vote. Then the returns would make clear, beyond debate, what we believe to be the fact—that only a small minority of the voters in any state are willing to be misled by Henry Wallace and his Communist supporters.
Scientists on the Loose
HERE are many atomic scientists who are not fuzzyminded on political and military subjects: But it does seem thatstoo many of them who talk or write for publication on such matters are that way. : Latest to support that conclusion is a Briton, Prof. P. M. 8. Blackett of the University of Manchester, author"
| ing here. That is the widespread distribution |g of a letter signed by Bishop Fred I. Lennis of “Evangelical United Brethren Church which | to the “moral integrity” of Hobart Creighton, the Republican candidate for Gov- | ernor. { Dated Oct. 14 at the Bishop's residence, 800 | Middle Drive, Woodruff Place, Indianapolis, the | letter said in part: “Dear Friend: “I take pleasure in giving my personal indorsement to the mbdral integrity of Hobart Creighton. My judgment of his dependability is based upon his lifetime record in both private and public life.”
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>» @ 9 IN a lighter vein, I came across a gopd story about the way Jim Frenzel greeted President Truman at the Indianapolis Athletic Club during the Democrat candidate's visit here , Mr. Frenzel, who lives at the club. started | for an elevator. He was shooed back by secret | service men. “I live here, you can’t do that to me,” he told them, Just then he was rescued from this dilemma by former Gov. Henry F. Schricker, who took him over and introduced him to President Truman. . Grinning broadly, Mr. Frenzel looked the President up and down and then declared. “I wouldn't have known you. You look so | damn much better than your pictures.” { President Truman laughed out loud. DAN KIDNEY.
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RED STRATEGY ces By Hal O Flaherty
New Russian Move In Cold War Ready
A NEW move in the cold war is ready.
| | | | Berlin blockade before the United Nations. |
Communist officials,
This changeover will be heralded with the customary double“talk of Boviet generosity in providing the Germans with a “free,
across the street from GOP national headquar-’
In defeat or victory, Mr. Lyons’
It will be Russia's counter move to the West in bringing the
The Russians seem to be setting the stage In Eastern Germany for a dramatic withdrawal in which they will remove the military forces and hand over control of their German zone to
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Zig-Zag Club of High Wheelers Marked Era of Civilization Here
MY EARLIEST recollection of wheels—not counting minor masterpieces like the velocipede and tricycle—goes back to 1888, or maybe even earlier. . At that time, a bearded bicyclist dressed in knickerbockers, a tweed-belted jacket and a jaunty checkered cap invaded the South Side by way of a “high wheel.” His name has escaped nie, but I remember that he was a rent collector for the Alex Metzger agency. The “high wheel” was an extraordinary invention of British origin which sometimes traveled under its imported name of “ordinary,” probably the alltime prize example of Anglican understatement, ~The machine comprised two wheels of different size and temperament. The front wheel
had a diameter of:semething like 60 inches; the .rear whéel, the one that gave the machine ifs
speed. The little wheel was. a steerer, of no more consquence than the coxswain of a college crew.
Had.Marks of a Miracle
THE TWO wheels were held together by “a
forthright frame known by the even more forthright name of “backbone.” There were no chains. Put together thus adroitly with the motive power applied direct, the “high wheel” was (and still remains) the perfection of grace and simplicity in bicycle construction. Appraised
aesthetically, it was as clean and chaste as a
fugue or a quadratic equation. Indeed, there were people who believed that God had a hand in its invention, for it had all the marks of a miracie. Notwithstanding its celestial origin, however, the “high wheel” had some defects not the least of which was the danger of spills (colloquially known as “headers.” This was due to the fact that the rider sat way up in the stratosphere, near the source of the vehicle's inspiration. The great air resistance, once the machine got going, wasn’t so good either. And then, too, there was the difficulty of mounting, to say nothing of the even greater difficulty of dis-
mounting. All of which explains the singular’
technique practiced by Mr. Metzger's rent collector. He made it a rule, I recall, to approach his clients from the rear—that is to say from the alley side—where the fences were never less
_than five feet high. Sure, it gave him something
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substantial to reach for when getting on and off his wheel.
Sport of Only Foolhardy Men THE TRICK of riding was so hazardous, indeed, that bicycling by way of high wheels was the sport of only a_few foolhardy men. As a matter of fact, Y lived all of two years secure in the belief that Mr. Metzger's rent collector was the only man in Indianapolis who owned and operated a high wheel. I learned better when some years later 1 was allowed to explore bailiwicks other than my own. Immediately my horizons widened, and to my amazement I discovered that Indianapolis
,had enough high wheel riders to support a club
of their own. The Zig Zag Club, originally a group of high wheel riders, was organized in 1890—three whole years before the opening of the Chicago Worlds ‘Fair, an historical event which myopic historians generally accept.as.the beginning of modern civilization. That's. how little professional historians know about us. So far as Indianapolis is concerned, modern ¢ivilization started with the Zig Zag Club. Its membership comprised two classes; 1 remember-—those who rode wheels of the type operated by way of “Stars” (nicknamed “boneshakers’). The Star was the sort of thing that happens when human beings don't know. enough to let well. enough alone. It was a reversed high wheel with the little wheel in front. You youngsters have no idea how the mere :rearrangement of the two wheels increased the perverse-
. ness of inanimate things.
A Wheel Conceived in Madness
OBVIOUSLY conceived in madness, the newfangled trick bicycle was a thing to challenge the imagination of the human male. At any rate; the fancy of such daredevils as Gene Minor, Carl Koerner, Ellis Hunter, Fred Hinsdale and Bert McNeeley who were among the very few in Indianapolis to master and subdue the Star, a wheel with a whimsical determination of its own. After the invention of the Star, the only thing left to do to keep the population of Indianapolis more or less intact was to start all over again and build a safer wheél—one designed for use in this world, leaving the “boneshaker” for those in a hurry to reach Heaven. " The result was: a bicycle with the transparent name of “Safety,” about which I'll tell you more (God willing) the next time we have our rendezvous.
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All Sides of Question By a ian W. Pierson, 313 N. Wood, Greenfield I enjoy the column “Radjo in Review” by John Crosby. I liked very much his hard hitting article “ ‘I' and ‘While’ in the Election Battle.” It is certainly a truth that people like to think their radio commentators are unbiased, How can there be a wise and just selection of officers ever, if we *do not listen to all sides of the questions at hand? If there are to be three major parties or six, the only way for the best selection ‘of public office holders to be made is to put all the facts, figures and so forth before the voters. If we do this we need have no fears of. other isms creeping into our. government, and we will see that great ideal practiced truly “a government of the people, by the people, and for the people.” The newspapers and the radio could be the nieans of spreading this ideal. If they could report facts without coloring them too much with their own private opinions. I say, with John Crosby, if Fulton Lewis Jr. is convinced of Mr. Dewey's suitability for the White House that is perfectly all right, but as a man reporting the news fit is his duty to cover all sides of the news unbiasedly. If all reports are made honestly and without prejudice let us have: enough faith in the American people's intelligence to believe that the man mos} fitted for the White House will get there. *
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Freedom of the Press By Mrs. Walter Haggerty, City Those who make a living “preventing” the freedom of the press should be locked up, Didn't we just fight a war for the four freedoms and wasn't one of them freedom of .the press? In -the name of freedom, for a half dozen, tot Speak outs BE CT RV
. In the Forum every. day an editorial » Soe 20 PE Dewey! ‘or 20 re or Nn V articles have been why MeL not ‘be elected. I not only think those who make a living. “preventing” the freedom of the press should be locked up, but they should be sent to Russia and let them practice on each other. >
Seeking the Truth
By Josephine Buck, RR 1, Westfield, Ind. I wonder what the voice of God would be in this present world condition. No one seems to know. Are we praying for light to shine forth instead of just binding to a church doce trine? Why do we imagine we can choose one way and another a different? Who fis fully right? . Would we back out of what we now profess P ax a religion if we found we had not the truth? Then we really are sincere. Let's get together, not compromising, but seeking the truth. I want to learn. LE J
Not Cruel for Dogs
By W. H. Edwards, Gosport, Ind. It is true that dogs are good friends of humans. It is also ‘true that many other animals are friends of ours, because they serve us in many ways.. Chickens are among our best friends, yet are not allowed to create a nuisance to their owner’s neighbors. The question of whether dogs shall be allowed to run.at large is not confined alone to Indianapolis; right here in the town of Gosport
dogs dre allowed ‘by their ‘owners to run over
gardens, 1, like most humans, am fond of dogs—when they are kept from becoming destructive to, other people’s property. It is no more cruel for dogs to be confined on their owner's premises than for other domestic animals to be kept from becoming a general nuisance. > & 9
Time to Do Something
By R. Smith, 1402 N, Alabama St. The Times has stated that it was an independent paper time after time and has proven it time after time, We are now facing another opportunity for The Times to do something for the people. On Dec. 18, 1947. in another Indianapolis paper. and I quote, “The Public Service Commission met in a secret session during the after. noon following a morning conference between I. E. Yoder, PSC chairman, and Ralph E, Gates.” The above paragraph followed the announce ment that an order giving the Indianapolis Railways a straight 10-cent cash fare would be ready for issuance and as the readers of the paper will agree this order went through. We are now faced with this same sttuation again and the people who have to ride this equipment of a so-called public service transportation service have no ‘friends in the Publis Service Commission. Let's have an administration “in office who will do something for the public of the City of _Indianapolis and the State of Indiana.
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Southern Editors See Dewey Victory
WASHINGTON, Oct. -23—A poll of 150 daily
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and border states reveals that their editors overs whelmingly concede the election to Republican Thom as the next President. The average prediction made by Dixie editors bold to guess on what the electoral college vote will he is: Dewey 343,
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of “Military and Political Consequences of Atomic Energy." The professor's thesis is that the United States started ' nists backed up by a police army of 400,000, men. the cold war with Russia by using the atom bomb against = E any will be provided win 3 Rew constitution iy, Ae. : + 1 ritten by oscow agents an nten 0 ofl e work now Japan; to forestall -a- Soviet -occupation of J apan.. Which being. done on a new constitution for Western Germany by the completely overlooks the calendar of events and the then | convention meeting in Frankfurt.
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Truman 150, Thurmond 38, Wallace 0. This prediction is contrary to the announced editorial policies of the papers Elen Editors answering a detailed political questionnaire prepared by this writer showed 42 per cent of ithe papers were supporting President Harry 8. Truman.
Sixteen per cent are’ supporting Mr. Dewey and another 168 “percent: are” supporting Gov. J. Strom Thurmond. the States’
Rights Party candidate. But 26 t, it is e . ONduy2s, 045, the war had progressed to th ‘Supreme Law" of Land “ar supporting no eandiaate atx, "NTE fae) ennve & uy the war had pr ogressed to e point | "THE FACT that there will be one Conimunist police sed So be: of where we had demanded Japan's unconditional surrender, | guard every 42 Germans should be sufficient proof it po the lack of Confu uthern Picture which has hi
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after subjecting Tokyo to 1000 plane attacks and direct themselves will be the first to recognize the new “supréme law".
bombardment by the American and British fleets. We were
of their land as the Communist substitute for real freedom. picture agency which distribiites this column. Th tual Reds, wi prepared to invade the wapanese mainland any time we | _ aly propagandists San be expreiod ney the release of iin and below the states of Maryland. Virginia Kentucky sian bo " an stand g a Rk. i in’ i ? go can procla e : , . ' ; ' ky, Ll saw fit. Russia hadn't yet entered the war against Japan. | move as a final freeltig of the beaten enemy in the East while the and Oklahoma’ represent about 30 per cent of the more than 500 from Commi The first atom bomb was-dro on Hiroshima Aug. 8. | Allies continue to maiptain their occupation forces and the mili- dally newspapers of general circulation in this area. Statisticians . declared AH tary controls. consider this * le” bi h with foreign " sample” en ts ‘e Russia dec war two days after that—and only two No real freedom has been granted to any of the enemy na- of political conditions S-ENCUFL th ive an accurate pleture Fesuit of Lid days before Japan formally sued for peace. tions in the East of Europe. Those that have signed the peace ; : : . treaties, such as Finland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania, still One question on how. the editors belfeved individual states Russians Russia did not have a fleet capable of mounting & SUC | are under Soviet rule and will remain so. would go in the coming election revealed surprising trends. STATE T cessful invasion of Japan, even had that been otherwise Ap ugees Tro Jabind the ron curtain, moving into the From 12 to 24 editors believed that Gov. Dewey had a chance ping estima ®. In increas - practicable, But the facts were that we had the Japs out | , 0 pressure by rind Ba Ta are ngug Jews of “It's the power company, Roscoe! They say if you don't pay the lo carry eight Southern states—Florida, Kentucky, Maryland,’ When 10 hj on their feet almost as soon as the Russians wére relieved |, surrounding the breaking up of big estates and the parceling bill- they're going fo turn off the electric blanket!" . Missouri, North Carolina, -Okiahoma, Tennessee and Virginia. a ret { i A : He d—— From 28 to 47 editors believed that Gov. Thurmond would carry was first rea of the fear that the Germans might occupy Moscow. of land to small farmers has been lifted. The land is to be five states—Alabama. = Arkan Loulal air when | oh ; } | | collectivized. ; Against the complete Communist state on the East, the South C m ' sas, Louisiana, Mississippi and ME or Ju ©. Bo it couldnt have been the bomb on Hiroshima that | U.S: M United States must immediately erect a government in Western I AIOHLY Of eLiOFE. Ow frre induced the Soviets to start their cold war against us. If = 7 ust Set Up Regime Germany based upon free enterprise, equality of opportunity "1% T%8 majority of editors. however, predicted that bar- : ! " P A ng legal complications, President Truman would carry all of By noon n | THESE moves provide the West with reasons to hasten the and justice under laws freely accepted—not imposed by police d d © they ever dreamed of occupying Japan, they never told | setting up of a constitutional government in Western Germany, rule. the BOUHAi 45 border atutes nd + lavas. an vould Misys Ne pre ’ | man / Anyone about it and certainly not the Japs. Their Sfoat | oils A the Worth ot the son aysiu working on The system i suited ering 0 wir. "At Ton should ventually ar Bouth's electoral votes, to Thurmond's 38. ge two days. ’ [] [J LL ' \’ . . yg pp ; forthat. ng the issues before the United N oe .____ of the civilised West. NEXT! Future of the States’ Rights Party. fan
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