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Friday, Nov. 5, 1948

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Give Light and the Peopie Will Find Ther Own Woy

Foreign Reaction OREIGN reaction to President Truman's re-election is as interesting as it is important. To both friends and enemies of America abroad it means a strong policy based on a fresh and clear popular mandate. The democracies like that prospect; totalitarians of Communist and Fascist

' gtates hate it.

Democratic countries are right in assuming that our election assures continuance of the pro-United Nations policy, the Truman doctrine and the Marshall Plan, which are so popular in Western Europe. But their fears that these policies might have been modified by a Dewey administration were unfounded.

THE bipartisan nature of these policies is proved, not only by the Dewey and Republican platform declarations, but also by the joint responsibility of such Republicans as Sen. Vandenburg and UN Delegate Austin. Our election was the worst blow to Stalin and his stooges. : 2 Stalin and Henry Wallace turned our election into a referendum on .the Democratic-Republican bipartisan foreign policy. They got slightly more than one million out of 45 million votes. That should be conclusive enough to impress even the Kremlin that no Red stooge party has the faintest chance here. Doubtless, however, Stalin will keep trying. : The Chinese are depressed because of past Truman neglect and Dewey hopes. Perhaps the President now will apply the Truman doctrine to China, where Red penetration threatens the very life of our ally and possibly a Pacific war involving the United States.

In Charity’s Name WE protested recently against spending the $119,350 left in the treasury of the defunct United Nations Relief and‘ Rehabilitation Administration on a 1500-page book about UNRRA'’s history. That much money, we pointed out, would buy supplemental meals for 12,000 hungry European children for a whole year. ° Unfortunately, the money has passed out of American control into international hands, so even our Congress can’t do anything about it now. : But if, in the future, American money must be spent by international organizations, Congress can and should do one thing. In each appropriation it should stipulate that not one penny shall be used for self-glorification of the job holders who dispense the funds. Money voted for relief or charity should be spent only for relief or charity. The UNRRA funds was intended to feed the hungry, buy medicine for the sick, aid revival of war-wrecked industries—not to be spent by the fund's well-paid custodians on a book about themselves. Since, apparently, nothing can prevent the publication of that 1500-page history, we suggest an appropriate foreword: “Dedicated to the 12,000 hungry children who were deprived of food in order to make this volume possible.”

Salute To a Rare Bird (CONGRESSMEN who admit they are wrong are about as scarce as the whooping crane. So we should like to call special attention to such a phenomenon, in case any reader missed it. Rep. Harold Knutson of Minnesota has owned up that he was wrong in voting against the Marshall Plan, which he thought would be another UNRRA. (He didn’t like UNRRA.) He says now that in view of the Plan’s record he would vote to extend it and give it the money it needs. We are not so optimistic as to think that this modest candor will sweep the 81st Congress. But we still want to salute one member who is brave enough to shed his congressional infallibility as well as his congressional immunity once he finds himself away from Capitol Hill.

Exit, Laughing “ GQCIENTISTS say that the earth's envelope of atmosphere contains a good bit of nitrous oxide, or laughing gas, in its upper reaches. Its function, they believe, may be to keep the temperature of the lower atmosphere fairly uniform. Since science is progressing as the international situation deteriorates, there may be time to use the one in a constructive way before the other proves our undoing. Perhaps we can yet transport Russia's rulers to the reaches where the laughing gas is found. There, hopefully, their fears and bitterness would be dissolved in hilarity, and the temperature of their heated words and emotions reduced to a soothing 98.6 degrees.

Death and Taxes HIS may be no matter for unserious comment, but we can’t help being intrigued by a story about a condemned murderey awaiting execution at Sing Sing Prison. He had readily confessed his crime. But when som®one asked him about his personal finances, he replied, “I refuse to answer that question. It might incriminate me. I mean my income tax.” A lot of us have felt, come mid-March, that the income tax was a fate worse than death. But here, it would seem, is proof positive. :

Custody = [@ kis busy Government at Washington has filed a Federal _ Court suit againgt 29 accordions, charging that they entered the United States illegally last December. The ‘Government wants the accordions committed to its permanent custody, and we see no objection to that. It would

“also be 0. K. by us if the Government would take posses-

sion of a few accordion players, especially the one in our neighborhood who seems to think that midnight is the

In Tune - With the Times

Barton Rees. Pogue

PLAN FOR COPING WITH A GRUMBLER ;

Next time, when I have listened to A tirade of complaints and grief, And I know that my suffering friend From nagging thoughts has found relief,

I'll loosen up and start to talk, - And when she sidles toward the door, I'll step right past and block her way And talk as much as she—or more!

I'll enumerate all current aches, My operations and my pains, I'll stoop to minimize my debts And greatly magnify my gains.

It isn’t that I mind listening . To someone else complain and whins; It's just that others air their pains But start to leave if I air mine!

~NORA ASHMAN, Indianapolis. ®* % 9

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Though the willows have not turned yet Both the oaks and maples flare With a red and yellow glory In the blue and silver air.

There are scarlet, russet, crimson, There are all the shades between— There are gold and bronze and saffron, And reluctant bits of green.

Oh, my wilding heart rejoices Without reason, without rhyme— Except that it's October, And Indian Summer time.

—MABEL NEWMAN, Oakland City. “ bc.

ON WITH THE SHOW

The “Iron Curtain’s” fallen, And Stalin is stallin’. Why don't we go on with the show? The stage is all ready To give it a steady Performance, in spite of old Joe.

The other Globe Players Should scorn such delayers And give “Peace” a world-wide review. If I was director "I'd tell this objector To either come in or—go to!

~—WILLIAM H. CHITWOOD, Indianapolis. > 4

I'LL KEEP THE SONG

This may be wrong, but I think it's so,— You'll not be tarrying long. For summer is going and I think you'll go, But please won't you leave me your song.

The song you sang when spring was here, And greenness on everything. I'll keep the song, it will bring you near, Come summey come winter, come spring. —DAISY MOORE BYNUM, Lyons. ¢ 2° o

A MOTHER'S WORKSHOP

A mother’s workshop is, I know, A place where pies and cookies grow; i Where children sit upon ‘a stool To lick the pan, when home from school; * Where often, when the evening lights Are lit before we say good-hights, A dish of candy cools awhile, As eager children flash a smile; Then as they eat their sweets it seems This workshop is a place of dreams. —OPAL McGUIRE, Lyons. > >

A TREE ho

A lovely tree that crowns a hill Close to the azure sky, Bends down its head and speaks to me Fach time I pass it by.

It whispers to me, “Man is weak,” It scoffs at all my skill, I'm sure it Knows that only God Makes trees to crown a hill. —~MARY LOCKE JOHNSTON, Winchester. ® * 2 5

THINK WISELY TODAY

There is a promise covering every need of mortal mind. It i= not always put up in the package we like but the supply is sufficient for all who are not too mentally and physically lazy to take and use. —LILLIAN BECK, Terre Haute. > SO

LIMERICKLY SPEAKING

Qur neighbors and friends to impress We dress and we spend to excess, ; While they to impress US, Out-spend and out-dress us, And thus our fool selves we distress! ~—HAZEL LIL. DANNECKER, New Castle.

landscape. of the mob scene.

on the results of the polls.

Campaigning Did It a little of both.

every issue.

he stood on any issue. ing position. It won a victory over itself.

take either one of them back.

CAMPAIGN TACTICS . . . By Peter Edson’ Political ‘Tip’ Seen In Truman’s Victory

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—If all the red faces of all the | political prophets could be brought together in-one place today, it would rival the gaudiest sunset ever seen, and burn up the There is no use trying to decide whose face is the reddest, but the political poll-takers could easily be picked out

All the prophets—including this one—based their predictions And the polls were wrong. Apparently the only three people in the country who believed that the Democrats had any chance to do what they did were President Truman, his vice presidential candidate, Alben W. Barkley, and their campaign manager, Sen. J. Howard McGrath. Never were so many people so wrong.

AS for whether Mr. Truman won or Mr. Dewey lost, it's Mr. Truman and Mr. Barkley produced the upset by courage, tireless campaigning, speaking frankly on When President Truman boldly faced up to his civil rights program in his speech in New York at the close of the campaign, his batting average went to 1000. Mr. Dewey apparently lost his “sure thing” victory by pussy-footing, procrastinating and never letting the voters know precisely where

The Democratic Party comes out of the election in an amazIt defeated the Dixiecrats and it defeated the Wallaceites. In other words, the Democratic Party is purged of its two extremist factions—the States’ Righters and the extreme left-wingers, and it doesn’t have to

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OUR TOWN . .

. By Anton Scherrer

Roller Skating Craze in 80's Put Saloon Out of Business

TO MY way of thinking, nobody around here has any legitimate right to qualify as an oldtimer unless his memory reaches back to the days of the Atlantic Beer Garden, the predecessor of the Zoo. And the more he remembers of the two places the higher his rating in my estimation. From what I can learn (not being able to qualify under my own definition), it was two years after the Atlantic Beer Garden opened for business when Charlie Gilmore made up his mind to buy the place. It was a pretty little garden full of cherry trees and twittering birds where for the asking (and the price) .one could drink and dine al fresco. Moreover, it enjoyed an enviable location right in the heart of town on Mississippi St., opposite the Statehouse. Indeed, it was the exact site where up until a few years ago the Cones overall people practiced their profession. Everybody batted an eye when they heard what Charlie was up to. They couldn't figure it out, for up to that day Charlie had spent his whole time running the Checkerboard Livery Stable. And, of course, that didn't qualify him (or anybody else) to run an institution as human as a beer garden.

Full Quota of Saloons

WHAT most people weren't aware of was the historic fact that Charlie had dedicated his whole life to hauling a select clientele from one concert saloon to the next, in the course of which he couldn't help picking up something of use in his new venture, At that tfine, Indianapolis had its full quota of so-called ‘Concert saloons.” The most frequented comprised Beswick’'s in the vicinity of Missouri and Washington Sts.; Pat Haley's just east of Beswick’'s; the Red Light Sample Room on West Washington; Jack Crone’s establishment opposite the Courthouse and Capt. Leary’s on the Levee, now identified as the site of the Three Sisters Store on N, Illinois St. All these places had as part of their equipment a little stage where they put on variety shows in much the same way that night clubs operate today. : The first thing Charlie Gilmore did after acquiring the Atlantic ‘Beer Garden was to inclose the place with sheets of corrugated iron. After which he installed a small stage.

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refurbished place was rechristened, too, and received the name of Zoo. It gots its new label because of the collection of monkeys, parrots and foxes brought over from the Checkerboard Livery Stable. To run the Zoo, Charlie hired Fred Felton and Jim Turner who had turned up in Indianapolis as stranded actors. They were picked up by Jake Crone and helped to make his place a huge success,

Biggest Beer Business in City FELTON and Turner operated the Zoo several seasons in the course of which the stage had to _be enlarged every year. The bar got to be bigger and bigger with every year, too. Finally when Dell Whittaker was installed as head bartender, Charlie enjoyed the biggest retail beer business in Indianapolis. Charlie's tremendous business finally called for expansion. He built brick walls around the sheets of corrugated iron and kept going until he had a three-story structure. On the top floor he installed what he called a “Palm Room,” possible the first architectural contribution to what, decades later, became known as “roof gardens” around here, The space between the concert saloon on the ground floor and the Palm Room on top was leased to Harry Hearsey and Charlie F. Smith, two enterprising youngsters who conceived the idea of using the room for a “riding academy.” It was here that. Indianapolis kids

received their first lessons in subduing and,

mastering the bicycle known as the “high

wheel.” Skating Hurt Business

THEN . one. day, like a thunderbolt out of a clear sky, Charlie Gilmore went broke. He

was cleaned out right after he gave Paul Dress-

er his start as a concert saloon singer at the Zoo. : However, Paul Dresser didn’t have anything to do with Charlie Gilmore's financial failure. Charlie went broke because of the skating rink craze in the late Eighties. Everybody spent everything he had to go roller skating, leaving nothing for the Zoo. Charlie wasn’t the only one to suffer. Indeed, at one time right at the peak of the craze, it was so bad around here that Capt. English had to ring down the curtain of his theater because the box office didn’t show more than $7 in its till.

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‘Injustices Flourish’

By Harry Salzman We Americans give a great deal of lip-serve ice to the ideals which are embodied democratic ideology. We claim the title of a Christian nation and point to ourselves with ill. concealed egotism as the model by which all other countries should pattern their governe ments. We are all too often complacently oblive ious to the injustices which flourish under our very eyes. I witnessed an example of those injustices which are peculiar to, and a result of our apathy and belief or rather lack of belief in the principles we would give to the world. I witnessed respectable, decent citizens being refused the ordinary but fundamental right of being served in a drug store, I watched silente ly, the ruses and subterfuges developed to prevent the integration of those°principles in the life of this city. I observed the reluctance to enforce the law, Perhaps democracy and Christianity do not mean the things I have always interpreted them to mean. Perhaps liberty and freedom do not carry with them the inseparable responsibility of insuring those rights to others. Perhaps the American people do not yet realize the repercussions of their cherished prejudices on the people of the world. & &

* ‘A Primary for Independents’ By W. H. Edwards, Gosport, Ind. ' The Times’ editorial of Sunday, Oct. 31, was all right as far as it went. We should have a direct primary for the many voters who don’t give a heck about party names nor party platforms, and want a primary where they can vote for whichever man they hope is best fitted for the job without having to choose either a Democrat or a Republican ballot, I notice, too, that The Times keeps making the mistake df calling the Democrat Party “Democratic.” There are are many Republicans who are genuinely Democratic as there are in the Democrat Party, and there are an abundance of Democrats among the political independents. The correct way to spell Democratic is with a small “4.” 4 o

‘Rents Will Be Raised’

By a Renter I am one of perhaps a million in the whole country who signed a least, voluntarily (?) submitting to an increase of 15 per cent in rent under an implied threat that otherwise my rent might be increased or that I might be evicted to make room for another tenant who would be willing to pay more. The lease will expire Dec. 31, 1948. Unless something is done to freeze rents at the now exorbitant rate, some landlords will raise them as much as 100 per cent. J The next Congress will not meet until some time in January so unless there is some com=pulsion, rents will soar to the skies. What about it renters? > oo

‘Defends Laws of Decency’

By Charles H. Gallion, 1046S. Sheffield Ave. In answer to “A Nudist,” Indianapolis, who has takep upon herself or himself to defend the nudists. of Monroe Co., I would like to say that a glaring ignorance of the great moral law is apparent or is plainly disregarded by those who parade themselves improperly clothed in public. After Adam’s and Eve's transition from their state of innocency, “They sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron,” and after ward, “unto Adam also and to his wife did .the Lord God make coats of skins, and clothed them.” Decadent nations of today attest to the fact

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City's Smoke Screen By Paul McArtor, 1934 Boyd Ave.

I see in the paper that Mr. Wolf, our com bustion engineer, is going to “crack down” on

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apartment house owners for “laying down a

smoke screen.” Why doesn’t he “crack down” on the Indie anapolis Power & Light Co.? At 7145 a. m. the morning of Oct. 27 the cloud of smoke from one of their stacks spread itself over the city like a blanket. Anyone could see it by just looking up. Such a condition is worth looking into. > > 9

‘We Want Direct Primary’ By Mrs. J. D. D. - I liked The Times’ editorial “Let the People Vote.” This was one of the best editorials I had read for a long time. We in Indiana want a direct primary and we are tired of voting for the lesser of two evils, Isn’t there more that your paper could do to promote this?

NATIONAL DEFENSE . . . By Jim G. Lucas T Top U.S. Scientists Will Aid Air Force

WASHINGTON, Nov. 5—The Air Force is taking on top.scientists in the nation as full-time partners to meet the 8efense needs of the country, Heretofore, civilian scientists—to contribute to national defense—have had to work for the government. They complained that military-bureaucratic controls hampered their work; contending that scientists can deliver only if they are put on their own. Now, instead of working for Uncle Sam, they'll be given a chance to work with him. The; Air Force will announce soon that an independent; nonprofit’ research organization—known as the Rand Corp.—has been established at Santa Monica, Cal. Its name is a contraction of research and development. Its object is to “conduct a new type of scientific research and analysis,” :

In Civilian Framework THERE has been a Project Rand since 1946, It was set up by the Air Force rnd the Douglas Aircraft Co. as an experiment. Af that time, the Air Force said it had “possible eventual independence in mind.” Later, top executives of the Boeing Air craft Co., Northrop Aircraft, Inc, and North American Aviation, Inc., came in as co-partners. The compelling idea behind Project Rand, the Air Force said, was “the necessity for conducting (seientific) work in a civilian framework . . . as a result of World War II experience.” “The success of the experiment, the progress of its work, the broadening of its scope and the need for an independent approach led to formation of the new (Rand) corporation on an entirely autonomous and non-profit basis,” the Air Force re-

<Rand Corp. will be. governed by a board of directors chosen from science and industry. Its staff will include mathematicians,

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UNDER A sweeping GOP victory, the third and fourth parties might have claimed a share of the corpse of the DemoThey can't do that now. And if the Democratic Party leadership wants to finish the job, it can com* pletely liquidate these minority groups which stabbed it in the

In the rash of political post-mortems that will now break out, there will probably be many far-fetched claims and apThere will probably be many reactionary charges that it was “the New Deal radicals and Communists” that put the That's one the average citizen

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that the leadership of the AFL, the CIO and the railway brotherhoods all repudiated their Communist elements, and the Com- 4 mies themselves supported Mr. Wallace. What gave Mr. Truman his strength was apparently his effective chastisement of the 80th Congress. thing the voters could understand. ' As for the Democrats having a “mandate” to carry out any extreme program, that is pure poppycock, as such talk always is. The result of the race was too close for that. The majority and minority parties are too near the same size, as shown by the popular vote totals, for any sweeping reforms.

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How It Will Work.

TECHNICALLY, Rand can do business with anyone. Air Force orders, however, will keep it so busy it will have little time to spare. Later, the Army and Navy may come in. Meanwhile, if Rand discovers. military-scientific facts of value to those services, the Air Force has promised to pass them on. It will work this way: v The Air Force will sign a contract—as a starter, $15 to $20 million—with the Rand Corp. It will authorize Rand’s staff to apply their scientific and technical know-how to military prob1éms. Air Force orders will be couched in thé broadest terms. for study of specifi¢ problems, but as'a rule it will simply ack scientists to keep up with the latest military-scientific developments on a 24-hour-a-day basis.

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