Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 November 1948 — Page 10
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Still No Policy in Asia | QECRETARY of State Marshall's first press conference since his return from Paris was devoted largely to problems of the Ruhr—familiar ground to those who have fol: lowed developments in Europe since the war. The overwhelming story of the day—China—was given only: casual treatment. Mr. Marshall discussed the Chinese situation only in general terms, leaving the American attitude toward that situation as confused as before. We must consider, he suggested, the legislation that « may be required, the availability of military materiel, the involvements of the United States that might result in China. All that we know, but where do we go from there? gi. . "8. WE ACCEPTED involvements in Greece, Turkey and Italy, and saved those situations. Italy was an enemy of " America in the war, Turkey a neutral. Should we be less considerate of China, an ally? While we have drifted, all Manchuria has been lost to the Communists. Manchuria—the “garden of China,” the major source of Japan's food supply and raw materials. Manchuria—equal in ares to Germany, France, Italy and Greece combined. Surely that is of momentous concern to us if we are serious about halting Communist aggression. Surely we cannot afford to embrace a new form of isolationism by concentrating on efforts to save Europe while the Red tide engulfs all Asia. ; Congress has shown its concern by sending its own investigators. to China. Some of our best informed military leaders have expressed their alarm at developments there. rio. s 8 8 ADM. COOKE, former commander of our naval forces in the western Pacific, warned recently that control of the western Pacific-East Asia area—control predominantly Japanese for decades until it passed to the United States after a “bloody march” in World War II—now is passing to Soviet Russia. : "Time and Tide of London predicts that the military successes of the Communists in Manchuria, if not arrested, may cost the western powers the’whole of the Far East, “with incalculable consequences to the economy of Europe.” We appeal to President Truman and Secretary Marshall for the same sort of leadership in dealing with the problem of China which they have given in dealing with the problems of Greece, Turkey and Italy. Asia, like Europe, is in the same world in which America must live..
Incomplete and Unsatisfactory \HIS being a season for journalistic introspection, we turn for a change from politics to poker; to what we consider a glaring example of incomplete reporting. Jesse Jones, it seems, lost a $4000 pot by backing a straight against four fours. The fact came out in a lawsuit involving a $6,000,000 oil matter and the collateral question of whether the 74-year-old Houston multimillionaire and former head of the RFC would be strong enough to appear as a witness. Federal Judge Samuel H. Kaufman ruled that anyone whose heart could stand the shock of that $4000 poker experience was hardy enough to listen to
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s 8 @ ¢ * = BUT that by no means is the whole story. In the interest of completeness in a pseudo, though not exact, science—as we have learned and Jesse is learning —we ask: Were they playing draw or stud? Was anything wild? If draw, how many cards did Jesse take and how many did his opponent take? If stud, what card was buried in each contesting hand? If wild, what cards were wild? Newspapers will never arrive at the perfection for which we are sure they all strive so long as such pertinent facts as those are omitted. And that goes not only for the great American game of poker but also for the great American game of politics. : Pollsters, magazines, columnists please copy.
and broadcasters
France and the Ruhr THE French have a strong and legitimate case, it seems to us, in the current discussions on the future of the Ruhr. They are asking, after the painful experience of three German invasions within a century, that ownership of the mines and industries be settled after a peace treaty is agreed to, and that international control of the region be made permanent. No one can argue about the importance of the Ruhr industries in European recovery. But certainly production, not ownership, is the paramount consideration now. And just as certainly the eventual ownership should not be trustingly handed over to a German government or German private interests in the foreseeable future. As for the arguments that the Germans will produce more with a voice of their own in the Ruhr management, a hard-boiled answer might be that there are ways to keep up production without coddling them.
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Poetic Justice UR Thanksgiving Day was gladdened by a little news story from Stafford, England, about Eric A. Wildman, - who is a manufacturer of canes and the president of the British National Society for the Retention of Corporal Punishment in Schools. | 0 - | Mr. Wildman journeyed from London to deliver-a lec-
Stafford. He took along a bundle lof 20 canes with which to illustrate the benefits of corporal punishment. But hardly had he launched into his remarks when the pupils seized and held him on the floor while a boy gave him seven es with one of his own canes. Whereupon the indignant president of the BNSFTROCPIS lodged a. complaint at the local police station and huffed back to London to see
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LAVERNE BROWN. PRICE, Plymouth.
FIRESIDE PHILOSOPHY
About the most important thing that an individual can learn is the fact of his unimportance. . . . Beauty is only skin deep, while usefulness is beyond measure. . . . You may think an owl is stupid, but he’s wise enough to keep still so that you can’t prove it. . . ."What a man doesn’t know won't make his head ache —what a wife doesn’t know-won't either. . . . No man can afford to gamble if he can't afford to lose. . , . One place that never grows old— Home. . . , Gratitude—The first debt we owe and usually the last one we pay. . . . In the “Golden Chain of Friendship” some links are only plated. . . . The fellow who is unwilling to work is usually unwilling to be honest. . . . Ole Asa Button says “Ef ya didn’t do it yisterday when ya ort to ya ain't apt fo do it tomorry.” . .. “Know yourself, but don’t tell a soul what you know.”
THURMAN D. GEISE, Connersville. > & o
LIFE
Life is a sojourning, Filled with yearning Living and learning . . . Life ir fleet Short and sweet Filled with living, Loving and giving— Faithful endeavor Courage forever, Life is a sojourning, Until an adjourning . . . And a glorious returning!
MILDRED C. YOUNG, Indianapolis. , op
LEAVES IN NOVEMBER A drift of gold upon the grass, Wind swept, rain lashed . . . So still they lle— Reflections of a lovely dream From Summer's 8ky.
Beating upon the window pane, ’ Tumultuous . . . il... Rain sheet falls— Echo of a Summer's day Now faintly calls.
Golden and red . . . your day is done, Glory now past . .. To Sodden earth Committed, you shall fade In Winter's blast!
RUTH RICKLEFS. Crawfordsville. *. 0.9
BEAUTIFUL WORDS
Faith and hope and charity, Pity, love and mercy, joy, . Happiness and clarity, Adoration, praise, employ, Heaven, prayer, peace, divine, Humble, contrite, pride, aspire, Flower, hearthstone, clinging, wine, Vista, archive, singing, lyre. Linger, silence, rapture, choosing— These are words that merit using. — CASPER BUTLER, Kokomo. * % o
Lined pon the-.wintry sky The trees, forgetting glories doffed, 8till hold their topmost branches high Like smoke-grey feathers preened aloff. LEONA BOLT MARTIN, Kokomo.
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Keep letters 200 words or less on any : ject with which you are familiar. Some letters ‘Require used will be edited but content will be pre- On FH. served, for here the People Speak in Freedom, Voterans iy : } hE Dec. 15 will ‘In Delerise of Landlords’ © - = a hr By Hallam, 2178 N. Meridian 8. o>. purchase wit} It’s an unpopular attitude to take is, The requir
but I'd like to say 4 little in deferise of the to proposed
landlords. It seems that people just: naturally to Veterans i | get to hate anyone who comes around: to solace to give an : money from them every month. Sure, I W able’ value be what you're going to say: What about all the: gins. They ar crooked landlords? But what about all the hone" veterans the est landlords? The ones you never hear aba chae are of There’s a lot of falk about the “rich” land- Actually lords who made the money during the war and. which to e are still making it. But are they? Haven't they ments. Howe had to send their children through school just. quirements lke anyone else? And do they get a withhold its price discount for food, clothing, coal, ie praisal of labor costs? Yet they are the only ones whose which inforr incomes are still controlled by the government. vance of the Price controls—in fairness to everyongz— homies may should be put on everything or nothing. Othgr under GI loa wise, you don’t stop inflation; you just put one Standa group of people out of business, gi Wg on, scales justice can never balafice Pld if people take some off the other side, and put - LL treble the amount on fheir own. It's poor mathe- construction matics. What's more, it’s poor democracy. *~: manship, inst ¢ @ am - home equip:
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‘Let's Find Veteran a Home’ By Mrs. Helen Bishop, 1845 Tallman I was reading in The Sunday Times about * the tent eviction of Marvin Wert. What kind of a country is this if a man can't live peacefully in a tent when he cannot get any house - to rent? —— Public officials ought to hang their heads *
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MOVIES AT HOME . . . By Marquis Childs
Public Has Chance to Shape Future of Television Programs
They persisted and last May a set was in-
WASHINGTON, Nov. 27—We have a new television set at our house. Whether it is just another complex toy or the revolution in entertainment and communication that many proclaim it to be, we haven't yet been able to decide. No one can doubt the potentialities. They are breath-taking. But then, so were the potentialities of radio and too often they seem to
stalled in their home, the first
studio audiences cued to respond to the umteenth repetition of a joke that wasn't very good the first time it was used. Much of what comes over television today is radio with sight added. That is, to be sure, pretty startling. The news reels for example, sometimes show inthe evening news events that happened the same day. For the most part, however, the kind of imagination required to take advantage of this amazing new technology has not yet been forthcoming. Or it may be more accurate to say that the viewer (we need a whole new vocabulary) sees little evidence of it. : Yet I am inclined to believe that the revolution is already in progress. Here is a small bit of documentation pointing in that direction.
Get Program 100 Miles Away
THE OTHER day I met a pair of television fans. Their experience I would guess, is typical of what is happening to thousands of people and what will happen in the next two to four years to millions. This husband and wife live in a Pennsylvania town of about 50,000 which is 100 miles from Philadelphia. There is no television station in the town. : Last spring Mr. and Mrs. Jones became convinced, from the experience of a tavern keeper: in their town, that they could get television from a distance of 100 miles. They went to Philadelphia to buy a set and there they were told not to waste their money, since the receiving range was at the outside 25 to 30 miles,
BESIDES the good channel, channels,
air miles away. mentators they see and hear were personal friends. to the movies twice. - Normal
.21 times against two times. What is more, the Joneses
does not hold them.
Selling Like Hot Cakes
Ang like hot cakes in theig town.
horseless carriage, it seems to
in our way of life.
in the town. On one channel the image comes through as clearly and as distinctly as it does in Philadelphia, Mr, and Mrs. Jones having made careful comparisons on visits to the city. They, too, had thought it might be just a novelty of which they would soon grow tired. But seven months have gone by and they are just as eager to get into the living room after supper as they were the first week,
Cut Movie Attendance
of ‘varying distinctness and clarity on two other Now and then they have successfully picked up Baltimore, ‘which is nearly 200
They talk about the performers and com-
And here comes the revolution. In the seven months they have had their set, they have gone
vision era was about three times a month, or
very much interest in the radio programs that used to be their favorites. Sound without sight
WORD of the success of their experiment has got around. Today television sets are sell-
Both on the technical and the program side, television is a squawling infant. But like the
and it promises to work undreamed-of changes
We, the public, have it within our power to shape this instrument for good or evil if we will only voice our likes and dislikes and voice them vehemently. Mere passive acceptance of whatever comes along is certainly not enough.
in shame for not trying to find him and vis’ ferences. family a home. Leave him alone and let's Administra every one in Indianapolis try to find him aad handled by his family a home. He has done plenty .for : guaranty div his country and this is the dirty deal hells G. Wilkinson. getting now. There are plenty of houses ye Some time can rent if people would turn them loose for operation it: a soldier. . wd builders a I am sending him some money so let's.all praisal of pitch in and help. I own just my own home: based upon t or I would give him a home for small ren, cations. ® & Deficler ‘ d . VA said = Need Homes for Aged wr . ak
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au OF advance he: What this town needs is not a “good five- .
plans and sp
cent cigar” but more homes for the aged. It prescribed m is heartbreaking to see and hear the old pedfile requirements. applying for admission to one of the very few tion which 1 homes and to see. their reaction when standards w
told the waiting list is so long that jt will take
VA only afte five or six years to get in. .
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“Why, Tl be dead by that time” they dy, establishing or “By that time I won't have the admissi The requi tee: I'll have lived it up.” Here is a good place cahle to st for some of our millionaires to put the money one to four they make off the public. a An individ So ». & oul 3 a home for I ‘Time to Investigate’ ul regard the By Henry M. Pierson, 2218 S. Harlan St. “=: house meets
I read that General Motors has revoked a Washington dealers’ franchise for taking $50! they get images | tip
the GI Bill ti dwelling pur cost does not
8. . It is time they investigated the auto dealers able value” a
in Indianapolis.
I tried to buy a new car. I didn't have a or trade-in and was told that if I had no late model Oil Incon . to trade in, then I can’t buy a car. on _ LOS ANGI I see red every time I have gone In to be —Superior as though they | insulted by salesmen and dealers when I mergly tripled its ne
How much longer of $14,917,47 of .common year ended ported today. $4,866,897 or the precedin; tion- and ot} from $35,650
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: ask about buying a car. must we put up with it?
for the pre-tele- Views on the News . . = i
By DAN KIDNEY
Higher Education Dept.—Segregation 'was upheld for the University of Oklahoma on the day a Negro was elected football captain Tat Yale. : i eo o . | Thanksgiving is the final lull before the § family launches its all-out pre-Christmas attack = | on Dad’s charge accounts. : iL > + oO es Whether the Army,” Navy or Marines wen the war seems to depend on which magaiffie you read. a8 o> & - Russians at UN call Uncle 8am a “mille tarist” but no American has to join the Arily to eat good. ! ..
no longer have
be here to stay
> o> » - Newspaper experts are now predicting there will be no war. They should stop scaring people.
48 BASS
Parley Expected
currency puzzle,
Security Council first tackled the problem.
reached an apparent solution.
Still Lingering Hope
adjourns two weeks hence. can be settled there is little optimism. sia from the beginning, and it still is. whether the Kremlin wants a settlement.
come to an agreement.
to settle any of the outstanding problems. ° More to Gain From Unrest
sifies universal unrest as nothing else could.
in Russia’s global ¢old war against the West.
be Berlin. Russia is already promising all of these.
the place from which to carry on this Russia. might lift the blockade as
ference.
WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms
Berlin Showdown
PARIS, Nov. 27—Insiders now expect the Security Council to meet next week in a final effort to lift the Berlin blockade. Financial and economic experts from Belgium, Argentina and other “neutral” countries still are working with Acting Council President Bramuglia in an effort to solve the Berlin
The solution is admittedly vastly more difficult now than it was a month ago. Russia has imposed new regulations vir- | tually dividing Berlin into watertight compartments since the | i
In addition to lifting of the blockade, the United States, | Britain and France will insist these new restrictions be removed or drastically modified, or that the whole Berlin situation revert to the status quo of Aug. 30 when the Big Four in Moscow
ARGENTINA loses the Council presidency next Wednesday. Mr. Bramuglia will be succeeded by a Belgian. As Belgium is even more directly concerned about the Berlin peril to world peace and security, she is expected not to let settlement efforts lag as long as a shred of hope remains. the Council can and will be kept on the job after the Assembly
Although there is still a lingering hope the Berlin dispute? It has been up to RusEverything depends on It merely has to say the word. The three Western powers are only too willing to
But there is deep concern in United Nations circles, born of three years’ observation of Soviet behavior at all kinds of international gatherings, that the Kremlin does not really want
A WIDESPREAD conviction here is that the 13 dictators of Red Square believe they have more to gain from world confusion and unrest than from peace and recovery. And the present clash between the East and West produces and inten-
Even if Mr. Bramuglia's efforts are successful, and the blockade is lifted and the Berlin currency tangle unraveled, some observers here believe it will prove merely a local truce
What Russia really wants most of all, it is said, is another Big Four foreign ministers meeting on a German-Austrian peace. Every German, whether in the Soviet or the western zones, wants an end of foreign occupation. Every German wants a unitied country under its own government whose capital would Without, of course, saying that such a Germany would be just another Soviet vassal like Poland and others
A meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers is precisely Pp the price for
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Quotebook
Under permanent military conscription he (the boy of 18) .. .. will learn to look lightly on the very forces in society which build the home, the church, the school, the decent community— Pearl Buck, author. * °* ®
I think —e’'ve got to take care of America first and let other countries look out for themselves until we do take care of Amer{ca.—Rep. R. F. Rich (R.) of Pennsylvania. ob
; The greatest single necessity in the world is for America to make up its mind where it stands so that the other free peoples on earth know where to rally.—Bernard M. Baruch. : > * @oon American soldiers will be called pon to follow th American dollar.—Sen. James P. Kem (R) of Missouri.
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LABOR FRONT . . . By William Jacobs =, Reds’ Power in CIO: ~ Hits New Low Mark
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 27—If nothing else comes out of this 10th annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organiza tions it has established a refreshing atmosphere on the issue of communism.’ = The air has been cleared on this issue by the actions of the delegates and the forthright statements of Pregident Philip Murray. , There was no doubt in the minds of any of the delegates who re-elected Mr. Murray as to just where he—and their organise zation—stands on the issue. The anti-Communist platform on which the CIO stands today is the outcome of a long struggle that has been going on within the organization for many years. No one denies that the CIO has suffered by Communist infil tration and domination of certain of its unions. But today no one can say the Reds have not been finally repudiated.
Anti-Red Fight in 1946
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- THE LONG road to the cleaning up of the shaded se, of the organization began shortly after the war. The antiCommunist position bégan to crystalize at the 1946 convention in Atlantic City. But at that time, with the mass production U ¥ T ! L unions which are the CIO facing battles to extend high-level wartime pay into the peace years, it was expedient to present a LEON : united front and preserve harmony within the CIO family. A bi-partisan committee, made up of representatives of 235 Mass, the right and left wing factions of the CIQ, at that time drafted ; a statement of the CIO's position on communism. Althoughit —— rejected efforts of any oufside organization to meddle in €IO. OXYG affairs, many of the right-wing leaders called it too mild, This Equipm
A year later, at the Boston convention, Mr, Murray gave more definite direction to this movement when he denounced Communists in strong language. The anti-Communist feeling has been running high this year. Mr. Murray led the bitter attacks on the left-wingers, slapping them down every time they raised their voices. yr —
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Purge Weak Unions : =
THE PROBLEM has been to purge weak unions of left-wing leaders while at the same time salvaging the rank and file
membership, ~ Cae Mr. first demanded the resignations of two presiddBits of international unions whom he accused of failing to organize the unorganized in their fields. They are James H. Durkin of the United Office and Professional Workers and Abram :Flaxepmof’: the United Public Workers. 3 3 Po Td Mr. Durkin was told his union was suffering froma “dry 1%t": and that it was “disintegrating.” Mr. Flaxer was reminded that he asked Mr. Murray's permission to relinquish jurisdiction quer: employees of the federal government “because he could spot organize them. ey LEIRT * 3 No one knows just what the ex ¥
e executive board will do al this situation, but it goes without saying that men like'Mr. -and Mr. Flaxer will be out of jobs soon. : ‘Whatever happens, ‘it's safe to say that Communist fortunes ‘w in the CIO are at their lowest ebb in years.
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