Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 November 1948 — Page 10
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The New ‘‘Peace-or-War" Army HE reorganization of the Army on a ‘“peace-or-war” "basis, prepared for any emergency, impresses us as a “sound, realistic move, 1 : - A municipal fire department does not undergo a whole- - pale transformation from its standby status when a major “fire breaks out. There isn't time:for that. It moves into action, calling out available reserves, if that becomes neces- . sary, as it goes along. But the basic organization remains unchanged. : ~~ We never could understand why our Army did not operate the same way. Now it intends to do so." The new « organizational plan, effective Nov, 15, is designed to elimi- | nate any need for “sudden change in the event of an emergency.”
. . . . » . * UNDER the new setup announced by Secretary Royall, the Army reverts to its wartime organization. But some lost motion and overlapping authority are eliminated by a better grouping of functions and responsibilities. The chief of staff becomes a chief field commander, with details of his . office under active direction of a vice chief. Two deputy chiefs are created, one in charge of administration, the other for plans and operations. Purchasing, transportation and thé technical services will be headed by a general staff director, under the supervision of one of the civilian assistants to the secretary of ~_the Army. “»_ There is nothing revolutionary about this program, but it should result in a more efficient, faster moving organization, within a framework broad enough for ready expansion.
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Red Gains and Losses in France
WITH France the key to Western European recovery | and security, Stalin is concentrating on sabotage there. The Red-led coal strike, now starting its second month, is a good measure of both Stalin's weakness and his strength. “\ The Red plan was to use the sufferings of labor in the midst of inflation to tie up industry and end moderate government in France, Stalin has not succeeded in full, but he seems to have accomplished enough to justify the effort from his point of view. en The general strike, of which the coal stoppage was to | be forerunner, did not come off. Some dock workers and Reds in other scattered industries have gone out, but the railways and most basic industries continued at work. . . » » . . POLITICALLY the result is likewise far short of that intended. The coalition centrist cabinet has turned firmer ~ in the emergency, sending troops to occupy many mines. Though the cabinet’s life continues to be precarious, it has convinced the non-Communist populace that this is essentially a political or revolutionary strike. So non-Communist miners are returning to the pits, and the Reds are said to be losing some of their party members. Nevertheless, Stalin's strike already has done great damage to French economic recovery and consequently to West European progress general. I is ‘not only a matter of loging five million tons coal production in one month, or even the direct destruction of mining machinery and flooding of pits. All French industry will suffer from future fuel shortage or dislocation. .! TE < » - . » ” » AMERICAN taxpayers will have to pay more to get Marshall Plan results this year and next. And it will be much harder for the moderate French government to lick the inflation problem. In this sense Stalin wins even when he loses. : But the saving factor for democracy is that Stalin by these desperate tactics increases the public’s hatred and fear of Communist dictatorship.
The Submarine Menace
THE huge submarine fleet Russia is building with the aid of German plans and technicians has given anti-sub-marine warfare the highest priority in our Navy, according to Rear Adm. Charles B. Momsen. Which is as it should be. - The submarine presents a problem for which we have vet to find an adequate answer. This was demonstrated in both World Wars. Russia is understood to have 250 to 300 modern submarines, and many more on production lines. Hitler came dangerously close to winning the “battle of the Atlantic” with a fleet which probably never numbered more than 50. German U-boats bottled up our Gulf ports the first year of the war and did terrific damage to our shipping on the high seas. Our overwhelming advantage in industrial capacity would be lost in another war if we could not deliver the goods when and where they were needed. Airlifts eould supply only a fraction of our needs, great as has been the progress in that field under pressure of the Berlin situation. If the Navy will center its attention upon such problems as the threat of underseas attack, with which it is best equipped to deal, it can make a great contribution to national security.
Sign of Normalcy
E NOTE with pleasure that some manufacturers of men's clothing are now using a new compound on suits which they guarantee unconditionally will make them mothproof. Besides the obvious, or anti-moth, reason for gladness, we also rejoice in the implied assurance that the whole clothing situation is looking up. : The wartime suit shortage and the high prices that ac- _ companied the return of abundance have kept a lot of * masculine wardrobes at an austerity level. So it is good to know that the American male is apparently getting back to the point where he can rest a few suits in the closet long enough to survive the menace of the leisurely moth.
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In Tune With the Times
Barton Rees Pogue TO AN ANTIQUE BROOCH"
Ah, lovely cameo, of cream and pink, 'Tis hard to dream of you as something old. FOE 2a» Young, wntid m + amy of
Has fair expressions, born to make one think About sweet romance, at adventure’'s brink, - Of life and joy and thrills a hundred fold. How many warm-pulsed kisses, grown too cold For the full cup that only youth may drink, Have met, above your head's fine cultured mold? Its sculptured coiffure, very deftly rolled To grace soft bossoms, where hearts rise and sink. : Your gold pin, was the small connecting link— Between a rose and kerchief, so I'm told, A lover's token, you were glad to hold Securely, cameo of eream and pink. ~~BARBARA GREENFIELD GRIFFITH, Indianapolis. a :
LITTLE NEW DRESS
I wonder . . . mused the new blue dress And the matching ribbon . .. there Waiting all that Sunday night When do we start... and where?
A pair of folded trousers... lay . Quite calm, a piece away Beside a sport shirt, blue and tan Just waiting for . . . the day!
The lacy dress and ribbon : Were oh! so very new They felt so quivery . .. inside And knew not what to do!
They'd never been to school . . . you see So they could not sleep a wink Just hung there . . . starry-eyed all night And tried and tried... to think!
But next year they will both be wise And calm , ., and dignified, Just like the trousers and the shirt That lay there side by side!
~ANNA E. YOUNG, Indianapolis. * ¢ *
SACRED WORDS
Love, patriotism, friendship, these are words that send a rhythm through our being. Patriotism is LOVE FOR COUNTRY! grandeur of other days! But it should be assor ciated with today, tomorrow and eyery day. PATRIOTISM-—a word associated with the It is God-given that we have a country so full of opportunities, so full of recognition for work, so ready to try new experiences, so gloriously FREE that we are whatever we want to be. The right to be free was here when we came and is ours until we die. But isn’t there a way we may be grateful? Yes—we may be so patriotically strong that | we will keep rightly informed at all times so that no man, evil or good, may ever take our COUNTRY away from us either by word or action,
—OLIVE BODE BROWN, Fountain City. *
‘MY KITCHEN
My kitchen used to be So spotless and so neat, And I on cooking spree Made fancy things to eat.
Now it is the center Of our heart and hearth, All gather there who enter For food and fun and mirth,
In a corner are some toys And fingerprints of varied size, One can feel the love and joys Of its manifold disguise.
With love I now create Condiments of useful living, Recipes I can’t articulate, I can share, by giving. ~~MARY HELEN ADAMS, Indianapolis.
* + 0 CHILD TROUBLES
The little golden head was bent and the blue eyes filled with tears; * Her dolly, Sally’s, head was broke and she'd + had her most four years. Sally had shared her troubles and she had the loveliest hair ; And now her dolly’s head was broke; it wasn't really faire . Of course she had her doggie and the kitty cat named ‘‘Mast,” But when she tried to dress them up they ran away so fast! And then the little golden head came up in quick surprise; 8he had, oh! such a brilliant thought; she quickly dried her eyes. She'd fix her dolly’s head with tape and make her good as new ‘Cause no new doll could take her place, 'cause dolls like her were few.
~MILDRED E. KOLLER, Coal City.
Election Results
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NATIONAL AFFAIRS . . . By Marquis Childs
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Police Once Wore Alarm Clocks
KNOW far too many policemen for my own good, but every once in a while I run across one who does me a good turn--like the one IT met the other day who spilled the hitherto suppressed secret that the cops of Indianapolis didn't start pressing their pants until 1898, So much for their pants. Now let's examine the several items that used to identify the accessories of a cop's ensemble. Sixty years ago when the cBps wore dress suits, the purple-stitched belt that held up their pants included a kind of scabbard just big enough to accommodate a 24-inch-long stick of a rather mean-looking diameter. ~ :
The weapon was a formidable affair made of walnut wood. It was ornamented with blue and green tassels, a color scheme which, no doubt, moved the newspapers of the time to label it a “riot stick.” So far as I can remember, however, the cops never called it that. In their parlance, it-wasgpalways a ‘‘club.”
A Mystery at Night NOR CAN I recall ever having seen ‘a cop with his club tucked away in the scabbard pro-
vided for that purpose. He always .carried it under his arm—at any rate, during the daytime. What he did with it at night remained a mystery, for the reason that our hausehold was governed by a curfew law of Fathers own invention.
Well, after all these 60 years I'm now in a position to reveal what the cops did with their clubs at night. The oldtimer I met the other day betrayed everything. He must remain anonymous because of the confidential nature of our talk. His identity, if exposed, might invalidate his police pension, he said. - According to my circumspect informant, the old-time cop was often seized with-an urge to sit down and rest when he was supposed to be on duty, especially at night. Whenever this happened, he placed the club across his knees, holding fast to it with both hands. After which he allowed nature to take its course with the result that when he went to sleep, the hands relaxed releasing the club. If everything worked all right; the heavy weapon fell squarely on Bia toes reminding him that he was still on uty.
Side Glances—By Galbraith
In Helmets to Take Short Naps
There were good reasons why the old-time cop had to do some night napping while on duty, said my informant. For one thing, he was supposed to work 12 hours. And on top of this, there was the Police Court.
Only Four Hours a Day in Bed THOSE were the days when the Police Court operated only in the mornings with the result that if a cop had any business in court, he had to be there no matter whether he had worked all night or not. More often than not, a first~ rate policeman making a lot of arrests (and appearances in court) spent only four hours of his day in bed. Which, of course, had to be augmented at the risk of being caught. To hear the old-timer tell it, it was the most reasonable policeman’s alibi I ever heard. The so-called “riot stick” was done away with in 1905, just about the same time the policemen's dress suits went out of style, For some reason, however, nothing was done about the hours of the Police Court. Which, of course, made a new problem of staying awake at nights, : The regulation mace, an 8-inch-long leather affair which replaced the 24-inch-long walnut club, was good enough in its way, but it didn’t have the length or weight to keep the cops awake at night. That's when the police of Indianapolis invested in alarm clocks. Honest. The alarm clocks, set to give a policeman a 10-minute nap, were kept hidden in their big helmets along with writs, subpenas and the perquisites of the profession—like cigars and apples, for instance, picked up on the way.
4, . Sponges Worn.in Helmets INDEED, the old-fashioned helmets worn by policemen were so big that they had enough room to hold a sizable damp sponge in summer, possibly the first contribution to modern air conditioning. Sam Perrott, Chief of Police in Mayor Bell's administration, did away with the wearing of helmets and introduced caps. It didn’t prove the catastrophe everybody predicted, for by that time the cops didn’t have such long hours any more. ‘Moreover; by that time the Police Court sat in session all day which made it easier for cops to stay awake at nights. ° However, the secreting of the perquisites of the profession remained a problem. And so far as I know, it hasn't yet been solved.
Hoosier Forum
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‘Prohibition Party Platform’ By Elbert D. Jones, 1305 N. Alabama St. How many persons know that not so very far (in the English Hotel, as a ‘matter of fact) trom the Republican headquarters on Monument Circle in Indianapolis there exists the . apolis headquarters of another party, the Prohibition Party, whose principles, in many respects, are in sharp contrast to her neighbor's? Since neither the complete nor even a partial text of the Prohibition Party's platform has been published in any of the Indianapolis newspapers, to my knowledge, I think that the pube
“lisHing of this very brief condensation of the
legislative goals, either supported in their plat. form or approved by their candidates, is only fair. . National legislative proposals include measures to secure international good will and trust by cleansing the European Recovery Plan of its sword-rattling features, by changing atomie energy from a weapon of fear to a power of happiness, by ceasing an encouragement of the current world armament race, and by repealing. the war and slavery engendering selective service acts; measures, also, to eliminate racial discrimination, provide public housing, encourage economic co-operatives, and return our monetary system to a more sound and constitutional basis. The Prohibition Farty, unlike the two major parties, refuses to accept support from both the liquor interests’ and conscription-minded militarists, and in addition, refuses to solicit or accept the support of Communists, in order to reserve their entire support, as stated in the party’s platform preamble, for the “will of God and the principles of the Prince of Peace.” el A Te
‘No Remedy for lls’ By Ray Hinchman We have Republican candidates saying the only way to cure inflation is to increase production. The trouble with them is they never have the remedy to cure anything. Their cureall medicine is to hold up for the Taft-Hartley labor act and hold up for Congressmen who are for higher prices. More production? Yes, we had more production after World War I, and we also had a depression under a Republican administration. More production is fine, but we must have more than this to cure inflation and prevent another depression. Dewey can talk of going forward with strength, but he cannot tell us just how he will lead us forward and he will not point out the real causes that are sapping and taking our strength away from us. These Republicans realize that there is more to curing inflation than just more production, but they must not put their fingers on these obstructions in our ‘economy. If they did, they would be stepping on people’s toes that are very elose to them, and naturally on their own. Inflation will cause the price of goods to go above the majority's buying power. We have a dispute going on between management and labor that cannot be cured by a one-sided labor relations act. We have strong-voiced Dewey saying that the Democrat Party is falling apart at the seams. The Democrat Party is strong enough to keep Dewey out of the White House because its heart is true to the American people as a whole. This is more than can be said of the Republican Party. ¢ ¢
‘No Short Cut in Music’ By Alice M. Scheffler, 1085 Churchman Ave. A famous orchestra leader is indorsing a short-cut method of playing the piano which is now sweeping the country. It is shameful that a man of his reputation would purposely delude millions of innocent people (to benefit his own pocket) into thinking there is a short-cut to being a gaod musician. If a talented child were exposed to such a method it would certainly be a fatal mistake. I have been a student of music for 11 years. Although I have much to learn, I know there is no short-cut to playing the piano-—any more
‘than there is a short-cut to becoming a physi.
cian or skilled worker.
What Others Say—
Democracy is never secure when security is based on secrecy. When secrecy is identified with security, troublesome fact or tormenting failure is labeled top secret and the people are denied information.—Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam of New York. ee © 9
Mr. (John L.) Lewis talked so loud and bellowed so much it was not necessary (for the Justice Department to tap his telephone wires). —~Attorney General rk, replying to charges of wire-tapping by MF. Lewis. :
SPY SYSTEM... By Frederick Woltman Report Reds Have U.S. Inventions
NEW YORK, Nov. 2—The Soviet Union for more than 20
and Jan, 20, coming at a time of world turmoil and uncertainty, has a great many people worried. Unless all the pollsters and prophets are confounded, an administration repudiated by the people will hold power for nearly three months. : Moreover, even if through some unprecedented political miracle President Truman should be re-elected, a major adjustment would be necessary. During the battering, bruising weeks of the campaign, a widening split has grown yp between the President and the men who execute administration foreign policy. It began with the unhappy proposal to send Chief Justice Vinson to Moscow to talk to Stalin. It has been widened by the President's stand in favor of giving the state of Israel boundaries greatly in excess of the Bernadotte plan indorsed by Secretary of State Marshall.
Marshall May Resign
THE TRUTH is that the President and the men immediately around him have come to look on the State Department as a kind of Trojan horse. Their attitude, ironically enough, is something like that of Henry Wallace, who considers the department to be an arm of Wall Street. To certain of his good friends, Mr. Marshall has indicated that he intended to resign, regardless of the outcome. bf the election. That was before he left for Paris and the United Nations session. What has happened since would be likely to confirm his intention. : Mr. Marshall indicated that he hoped to see Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett step into the No. 1 position. Mr. Lovett has been acting secretary during long periods when Mr. Marshall has been out of the country. It is most unlikely, however, that Mr. Lovett would be moved up, since he is regarded with suspicion by the White House. ; .
Dulles Could Be Considered
MR. MARSHALL might well time his resignation to coincide withthe end of his duties in Paris in connection with the UN. President Truman would then have the opportunity to bridge the gap in policy by naming John Foster Dulles, Gov. Dewey's chief adviser on foreign affairs, as Secretary of State, Whether the President would do this, or whether Mr. Dulles would accept, is a question. Mr. Dewey has made it very clear that he himself intends to remain aloof from Washington in the transition period, shunning what he fears would be responsibility without power.
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concern over what may or may not happen in between adminisDifficult decisions are being taken with the realization
In another depariment-—national defense—there is also great |
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that they. may later be reversed, or they are being held in the if, as and when file. : Secretary of Defense James Forrestal is being told that he must-stay on in a new administration for at least the first months to insure continuity, Mr. Forrestal replies that new brains and new imagination are needed to solve the big problems ahead. He has his own formula for avoiding a break that would make it difficult for an incoming administration to pick up the threads of fearmament, budget, unification. Mr. Forrestal hopes | that after the'election Mr. Dewey will designate the thres men | who are to be Secretaries of Army, Air and Navy. :
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years has been rifling American inventions and production methods vital to our national security, the monthly magazine Plain Talk charged in its November issue. The author of the article, J. Anthony Marcus, names Ame torg, the Soviet trading corporation, as “the center of the Soviet economic spy system in America.” Mr. Marcus is a former commercial counsellor to Amtorg, was adviser on Russian affairs for the United States and represented many American firms in Russia. He is now presis dent of the Institute of Foreign Trade.
Visiting Soviet Engineers
SWARMS of “buying commissions” and visiting Soviet ene gineers have inspected American plants, says the writer “Through various Communist front organizations, and es clally through the Communist-led labor unions of the CIO, valuable contacts have been maintained in shops and factories, laboratories, drafting boards and photostatic estblishments,
Countless tons of priceless blueprints and drawings have been -
streaming in the direction of Soviet Russia.” This Soviet economic espionage, according to Mr. Marcus, stems from the aim of Russia's rulers to “catch up with and outdistance the capitalistic countries.” Although patent laws and trade mark conventions guard against infringements where private enterprise functions, he states, the picture changed with the advent of Boviet state monopoly capitalism.
Learning About Machine
MR. MARCUS tells of visiting a firm in Hamilton, O., which was constructing a huge machine for boring 18 to 22-inch howit= zers. Several Soviet engineers were hovering around, learning how to duplicate the machine in their own plant, he says, and getting technical information about other government projects, (In Washington the War Department said it intended to ine vestigate why Soviet engineers had been permitted to watfh operation of the machine. A spokesman said the project was secret and he would give out no details of it.) . The administrator and chief engineer of the Soviet glass trust spent three and a half months visiting American plants, Their report shows they took back more than 7000 shop drawings of the latest machinery and mechanisms for glass manufacture, Mr. Marcus says. = “Incredible as it may sound,” he continues, a good portion
- of the economic espionage here “has been subsidized by
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