Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 October 1948 — Page 16

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Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1948

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Navy Day S ARY of Defense Forrestal has noted the occasion "of Navy Day to congratulate the men and women. of that service on their contributions to the “building of a team of land, sea and air forces for the security of the United States and the maintenance of peace.” We take it that this is both a commendation and an admonition. Teamwork and team spirit are essential if the three services, Army, Navy and Ajr Force, are to be welded into a harmonious, effective defense organization. Some progress has been made in that direction. But preparations for national defense are being retarded by the continuing dispute among the heads of the three services over their - respective roles and missions. ~~ Since the three services now are under a single estab- ~ lishment, we think a better relationship would result from dispensing with such occasions as Army Day, Navy Jay and: Air Forcs-Rax and ohserxing. one. nations) defense. TTT Our Navy'is orld’s best. All of us are proud of .. that fact. It must be maintaified at high efficiency—no

Hominy corn and yella squashes Big ol' mugs o' sparklin’ cider . . .

Yella leaves an’ red an' brown ones,

Punkin’ pies and big red apples . . .

Wee birds peckin’ at th’ fodder, Alyin' food again’ th’ winter .

October seems an after thought, quite chill

Fine silken webs that gentle south winds spill

The pungent air still lingers,

Unspent in creature sound and wings half mute,

Oh, lingers long, the spicy perfumed air Now, the nostalgic smoke is scented fare

" In harvest fields and orchards done of rain, To breathe the drying, dying ember flame!

“In Tune = With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue AIN'T OCTOBER NICE?

Make you ask for helpin's twice, Gee, folks, ain't October/nice? -

The smell o' cinnamon an’ spice, Gee, folks, ain't October nice?

An' here an’ there some little mice

Gee, folks, ain't October nice?

~—SUE ALLEN, Indianapolis, o oN

OCTOBER

With nortivern winds and gorgeous rosy skies;

And bind like silver skeins, where stubble dries,

Like the flute, Mellifluent against a clamorous eve;

Our plaintive murmurs lighten, as we grieve.

Across the open prairie and the wood!

That rises where time's miracles have stood

—8, B. TOKOPF, Indianapolis. ® oo o

HOME HILLS IN AUTUMN

McCormick's Creek and Turkey Run, And Clifty's famous falls, . And the hills of Old Brown County, On yes “IVE Eden“ theny all. SUA AS RA CAR NS 2 NE RAR ap They gorgeous in Octobe Their beauty always thrills, But for sheer transcendent beauty,

for disagreement there. But in celebrating Navy Day | Give me the Balhinch hills, - ) ¥ no oak. 1 {16 HR $eiviL 1x Tebruati pt ————— A, ARNO next year in honor of our defense estab Jshment as a whole

Stalin Vefoes a Settlement | USSIA has now carried her outlawry in the Berlin blockade one step further by defying the United Nations. Her veto of the Security Council's compromise resolution for a peaceful settlement is complete self-condemnation in the eyes of the world.

gion that everything would be all right if the Western Powers would appease Stalin take a long look at this latest failure in conciliation. The Western Powers, after months of futile, direct negotiations with Moscow, charged Russia before the Security Council with threatening the peace. in violation of the UN charter. Then the six neutral members of the Council worked out a face-saver for Stalin.

THAT Tesolution did not censure ‘Russia. "It did not even mention the blockade by name—because Stalin denies there is one. It ordered the immediate lifting of all trans. port barrirs on both sides, in language implying that the Western counter-blockade was as blameworthy as the provocation. It provided that the Soviet mark be the sole currency for Berlin under four-power control, and that the Council of Foreign Ministers confer on all outstanding German issues. All this was offered to Stalin despite his aggression and - despite his refusal to admit UN jurisdiction. In the interest of peace, the United States, Britain and France agreed to accept this pro-Russian compromise drafted by the neutrals. Then, further to mollify Moscow, they consented to postponing the vote for several days.. Now the reward of all this appeasement and patience is another Soviet kick in the teeth.

TWO things ‘remain to be done by the UN. The Security Council should vote its condemnation of Soviet violation of the charter—otherwise its inaction will be a standing invitation to future aggression. Then the General Assembly, in which Russia has no veto power, should take over the case. Although the assembly has no powers of enforcement, it can establish the facts and make recommendations which ‘have the weight of moral law. The graver the danger of a military clash in Berlin, the more important that the World Assembly name the aggressor.

Too. Bad ZEAL in behalf of an apparently hopeless cause may be admirable. But President Truman's zeal for his cause is leading him to say, in these closing days of the campaign, some things we are sure he soon will wish had been left unsaid. : In Chicago, Mr, Truman charged that “powerful reactionary forces,” of the same type that raised Hitler, Mussolini and Tojo to power, are “working through the Republican Party.” Mentioning no names, he said these “powerful forces” fall into three groups: ONE: “The men who want to see inflation continue . unchecked.” TWO: “The men who are striving to concentrate great « geonomic power in their own hands.” THREE: “The men who are stirring up racial and religious prejudice against some of our fellow Americans.” Few if any men who want to see inflation continue unchecked could be found outside the insane asylums. Men who strive to concentrate great economic power in their own hands can be found among supporters of all political

~ We hope the few Americans who still cherish the itlus—

Old Sughr” hurries by, And The oak trees, bronze and purple, Smile at the azure sky. -

Where the red and gold of maples And crimson sumac leaves “" Join hands with dull brown hick'ries in The Goblin Autumn weaves.

‘Tis there I lose the burden of A thousand nameless ills, While my soul drinks in the beauty That clothes the Balhinch hills. —BINA T. SARVER. ® 4 o

AUTUMNAL PAGEANT

The forest trees held dress parade, © A pageant colorful to see; ‘Twas on a grassy country hill, With no admission fee, The dogwood took her stand out front, With leafage brilliant red; f The sugar maple’s flaming orange A bright crown glowed, the arms outspread. There clumps of sprawling sumac knelt, In richest crimson quaint and low; While standing off in dashing yellow, The tulip-poplars formed their row. hese gallant trees were proud and gay. Their boughs were nodding with surmises: But all the judges to this day Gould not decide on prizes.

—ATHA A. PINNICK, Bloomington. eo &

WARM FALL

The yellow leaves drop here and there Although the days are warm and fair. The flowers are scarce, the grass is dry, Although some days are lke July. The vivid colors show it's fall, But summer hovers over all. And often now the nights are chill Although the skies are pleasant still Yet shorter grow the days. It's clear, Despite the warmth, October's here!

~VIRGINIA KIDWELL, Indianapolis. * ¢ o

GOLD OASIS

This is the gold oasis of the year. Beneath blue-lustre, dreamy skies, "Tis now we pause and hold a wordless breath, Hold childlike wonder in our eyes.

One burnished leaf upon the bough, and just One gold-red berry on the vine, One aster glowing with a starry light Can bring a quiver to the spine;

But to have such a world of laden wealth In gold cascades from hills on every hand. And valleys turned to shining seas is more

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Than¢veins and arteries can stand. —ROSE MYRA PHILLIPS, Attica.

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WASHINGTON, Oct

get little or nothing. ent prospects for the two-party

even in Mississippl.”

Change in “bout 25 Years

parties. So, unfortunately, can men who stir up racial and religious prejudice. ; ~~ But the plain implication of Mr. Truman's Chicago charges—that Gov. Dewey and the Republican Party are the tools of evil influences which would bring dictatorship to America—is dangerous demagogic hokum, unworthy of any President of the United States. ~~ We have expressed our opinion that, as President, Mr, Truman has tried sincerely to do his best. We regret to see him, as candidate, stooping to do his worst. And, because we know that innately he is an honest 7 to whom such demagogery is completely out of character, we are confident that Mr. Truman will regret it.

About Scientists? Service is reported to have sent a draft plan, e President in which educational deferments are ) medical, dental, osteopathic and veterinary stuno quarrel with that. But with modern life ditions what they are, wouldn't it be well for to provide for the training of a new ntists, as well as a new genera

25 years or another generation.

POLL IN DIXIE . . . By Peter Edson Two-Party System Forecast in South

27—Best thing to come out of this year's political upheaval in the 15 Southern states from Maryland to Texas would he the emergence of a genuine two-party sysiem. Most Southerners will admit openly that one-party domination has held back progress in Dixie in many ways. And in an era | of Republican domination in Washington, the Bouth is apt to

To get a line on what Southerners are thinking about pres- | system, 150 dail editors in the Bouth were asked this question in an poll on political trends: “How long will it be before there is a genuine two-party political system in the South?” “It's here now in some states!” answered the Charlottesville, | (Va.) Dally Progress, adding, “Another generation should ses it, |

. +, “Four to eight years says the Union (8, C.) Times. This idea is held by a large number of Southern editors.

GOP CAMPAIGN . . . By Republicans Skip Big Issue on’ Southern Democrats in Senate

WASHINGTON, Oct. 27—The gentle plea for unity sounds very strange against the background of the urgent Republican necessity of

—this final week of the campaign. That necessity

is to win a majority in the Senate in order to organize the upper chamber. The Republicans could make a powerful argument which would appeal to the independent voter. They could point out that with a Democratic majority, key committee positions would be held by aging and reactionary southern Democrats. These tired Bourbons could be expected to oppose all the promise that candidate seems to hold out. But that argument is not being made. Or. at any rate, it is not being made by anyone with sufficient voice to carry it to the nation Instead, the appeal for unity falls on the voters ears with all the vigorous impact of a feather falling on velvet.

One and the Same STRANGE as this may seem at first blush, the reason is not hard to find. It lies in the fact that Republican orators are going through the South proclaiming that the southern Democrat and the Republican are one and the same, brothers in the bond in purpose and performance. “Today the world has changed. The Truman party favors a complete control in Washington. The Republican Party believes in freedom, and its position is not substantially different irom that of most southern Democrats.” If that is what the Republicans really believe, then no independent voter will get very ‘excited about saving the Senate for the Grand Old Party. To have the Democrats organize the Senate, with southerners in key posts, should be just dandy from the Republican point of view. On the basis of the Taft formula, they would undoubtedly welcome Sen. Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee as chairman of .the appropriations committee. Mr. McKellar is 79 years -old. As

the Willing hand-matden of Boss Crump of

Memphis, he has generally been on the side of reaction. *

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pomic bondage to the North,

. New York. But Mr. Wagner has been absent

* aged the Dewey campaign.

| Side Gl ances—By Galbraith

Chairman of the finance committee would be Walter F. George of Georgia, who is 70 years old. George is a scholar and a gentleman in the tradition of another day. But repeatedly he has served powerful private interests that have sought to keep the South in convenient eco-

actless in Conduct

CHAIRMAN of foreign relations wou'd be Tom Connally of Texas, who is 71 years old. It is an understatement to say that he is too often tactless and high-handed in his conduct on the committee, needlessly irritating those on.whom a sound, bipartisan policy depends. On the banking and currency committee, the ranking Democrat is Sen. Robert F. Wagner of

from the Senate because of illness for many months, and he was in the headlines recently when his family reported to the police that he

had disappeared from. his home. Presumably he

would not be able to act as chairman. The next Democrat in line i= Sen. Burnet R. Maybank of South Carolina. South Carolina. the home of Gov. Strom Thurmond, is one of the three or four states which will go to the Dixiecrats on Nov. 2. . Not a Southerner, but in the same age bracket is Sen. Pat McCarran of Nevada, At 72, he would be chairman of the judiciary committee. Mr. McCarran's views could hardly be described as forward-looking. Forty-six-year-old Thomas E. Dewey, who promises the clean sweep of a new broom, knows how to go to town on this if he were of a mind to. He could show-how these Southerners get set on the escalator of seniority and stay there until it carries them up to key positions in which they can block and obstruct what does not please them. But the odds are against Candidate Dewey hitting hard on this issue. It might offend Southern voters and cost a few electoral votes thereby scaling down the electoral landslide so

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‘What About Old Deal?’ :

By D. D,, City. The Republicans are always talking about the New Deal, let's see what the 01d Deal was,

from 1921 to 1933. Closed banks, bank failures, they called. them. Did that money fall through the floor or where did it go? We did not have those bank failures under Woodrow Wilson and it only took Franklin Roosevelt just two days to Stop em. People «lost their bank ' savings, - their hem they farms and their jobs. They walked the streets not knowing which way to turn and it they did find a job they received $1.00 per day. And then under the New Deal, bank fails ures stopped, men got jobs, 5% interest loans for people to buy homes, rural electrification, collective bargaining, old age pensions, I wonder how many of the aged that rec fved that benefit are grateful to Franklin Roosevelt. We * never had any old age pension until Mr, Roosevelt and his helpers put that through. Just what are you going to vote for Nov. 2. The Old Deal or the New Deal? The 80th Congress ended price control and what do you have to pay now for your groceries . and coal and clothing. Which is it the old or

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. , ‘Fig Leaves for Aprons ‘By John B. Dux, 2367 Stuart 8t., City. Would vou please print this reply to an

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| ‘A Taste of Americanism’

By Jimmy Alred, 3157 N. Gale St. After reading the article written by Harry - Clay of Brightwood, I wish to take issue with him on his stand. He speaks of the solid South _and it being the backbone of the Democratic Party and he states ‘nowhere has segregation and restriction been enforced as strictly as it

has down there.” . 1 would like to ask him a few. questions. First, is he still asleep to the fact that the Democratic Party this day is not the Democratic Party of the Civil War days? Restrictions of the Negro race are fast fading above all he can do whether he likes it or not. Henry Wallace and President Truman are the only » two men who champion the cause of the very . ones that vou and your kind trod. I live in Brightwood. I have had a very good taste of Americanism out here. More power to Mr. Truman and Mr. Wallace. .

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‘I Don't Agree’ By M. E. Clark, Noblesville, Ind. . In your editorial of Monday, Oct. 18th, you gave your reason “Why We Choose Dewey as Leader.” That is certainly your privilege. I am giving my reason for not agreeing with you. First of all Mr. Dewey has not had ex« perience as Senator or President. Mr. Dewey in my mind is impulsive and not an outstanding statesman. . I think Mr. Dewey will try to appease the National Manufacturers Association. On fore eign affairs, he would show his egotism and display his complex on big problems and get us in worse than we are now. I saw three or four weeks ago your choice was Mr. Dewey, long before Mr. Truman decided to send Mr. Vinson to Moscow. Which you still hold was a mis-

confidently expected by the men who have man-

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distortions.”

REDS IN LABOR... By William H. Newton

Faked Vote Seen In French Strike

LENS, Oct. 27--By a faked workers’ election the Communist’ Party has struck the entire French coal industry. ' The purpose of the strike, so far as the Communists are concerned, is to wreck the European recovery program and with it French plans for a European defensive alliance against Russia The strike has been going on for more than three weeks and is being directed by the Communist-controlled CGT or General . Confederation of Labor. Here in Lens in Northern France there are picket lines at’ pit heads and the workers are in complete control of the mines. . At Pit No. 2, a hard-faced young miner shoved his way through the crowd as soon as I approached.

take, be that as it may, we won't know about that unless it is tried later. '

to Talk

“WE won't talk to American journalists,” he screamed. “Americans are reactionaries,

American newspapers only print’

Other miners stood stolidly behind him. One or two looked uneasily away. ° I went to the main offices of the Communist-led union and asked to see the men who were running the strike.

“They are

“A THOUSAND years,” says the Amarillo (Tex.) GlobeNews. “Never!” says the Middlesboro (Ky.) News. An average of all replies indicates this political revolution will come in about

Dewey is given an outside chanee to carry one or two Bouth-

too busy to talk to journalists,” a young woman said sharply. A young man followed us to the door. “If you want to know why we strike go ask the miners,” he shouted. I went to the head office 'of the Force Ouvrier. “This is a branch of the miners’ union which broke away from the main

ern states this election. But a majority of ‘the Southern editprs publicanism.

run as a one-party proposition. It won't be enough for discontented Democrats to leave that party and become Republicans. “Both parties must realign themselves into conservative snd radical groups, plainly marked as such,” says the Lubbock (Tex.) Avalanéhe-jousns). “There can never be a two-party system as long as the name ‘Republican’ is used,” says the Abilene (Tex.) Rr and ey “In the Bouth, ‘Republican’ means soup kitchens, closed banks, and bonus mafchers,” adds the Amarillo (Tex.) Globe-News. As the Batesville (Ark.) Guard puts it, “The GOP is still a carpet.

Puts Responsibility on GOP

IN ANOTHER expression of opinion putting responsibilit on the Republicans, the Hickory (N. C.) Record observes that there won't be a two-party system until “Northern reformer: confine their evangelistic work to their own civil and social problems.” Raleigh (N. C.) News and Observer thinks adoption of the Gossett-Lodge amendment, for reform- of the electoral college, will do more to build up the two-party system than anything now

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t. ‘ i 1- i . “Political reform will come as the South gains from industrial reform,” in the : Sl . \

of the Duncan (Okla.) Light.

apparently do not believe that will prove the South ripe for Re. |

Most editors do not seem to believe that realignment can be |

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| all France. SOR. 1990 BY MEA SERVICE, INE. 7, IL REO. U. 8. PAT. OF, ‘Balloting "She's too ambitious—always wants to lead the class! Looks A THIN, |

like George is stuck to carry home a truckload of books every night!”

_ against Truman than it is an indorssment of Dewey. But it at

strikers, Georgia sentiment, encouraged by recent Republican state meetings in Atlanta, shows the two-party system may not be far off there. “From all indications, a strong Republican Party is in the making,” says the Macon News. “By 1052 we will have a real two-party. J declare the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger and the Gainesville (Ga.) Dally Times. "AS a test on how acceptable the two-party system would really be, the 150 Southern editors polled for this column were asked: “Do you think the. election of Dewey would be better for the country than the.election of Truman?” . Fifty-five per cent of the editors replying to this question sald they thought it would. This may be more of a protest

least wa that the South is a lot more willing tg accept Republoanion today than it has been-for 20 years. ne

long years in the coal like an office worker.

you in favor of higher food pri “Well, there are about 100,000 eligible to vole here and after

the final count they

in January because Communists dominated the

And there T learned how Communists- had pulled off this strike which if it continues for three more weeks will paralyze

Was Tricked’

serious-looking young man was sitting at a table.

With him were an older man whose rough hands bespoke his. pits, and a heavy-set man who looked’

They were preparing a pamphlet for the

“All the unions agreed to have a two-hour warning strike Oct. 1,” the young man said. Prices go up and our wages remain the same “A few days sponsored a vote on a real strike.” “But the balloting was tricked. They sent young men and boys around on bicycles asking everyone to vote. Some voted eight or 10 times. ballot. They ‘counted the votes, 80 no one knows what the real count was. They could have put 2000 strike ballots in the boxes and no one would have known it. : . . “The ‘men with the ballot boxes asked questions like, ‘Are

“Certainly things are not right. after the two-hour warning strike the CGT

Even young girls voted. There was no secret

ces? Then vote to strike. 58,000 wanted to strike.”

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