Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1948 — Page 34

‘ Telephone RI ley 5351 Give Light end the Pionle Will Pind Thew Own Way

Dangerous Traffic Ahead DVRING the next four months of hazardous, winter weather driving between 35 and 40 persons will be killed and more than 150 injured needlessly in traffic accidents in Indianapolis dnd its suburbs if motorists continue their former years.

that it will go even higher due to the increased number of cars on the streets this year. > Thus, the menace to lives and property during the coming weeks becomes one of the biggest public problems confronting everybody who uses the streets and highways and that includes the entire population.

win . - " » . . MOTORISTS who flagrantly violate the laws and orinary rules of ately will biave.t to face the consequences.

‘some: jail terms on Beaty fines, by Some of these penalties may seem harsh to those caught * fmperiling the lives of their neighbors but a jail term for these offenders must be imposed to serve as a warning that Indianapolis eannot longer tolerate a traffic death rate that ranks among the highest in the cduntry. .

Good Theme—Practice It “teamwork” as the keynote theme, the National Association of Manufacturers is holding its annual Congress of American Industry in New York City. The __ wisest remarks we've seen reported from that session were ‘by a guest speaker, Matthew Woll, vice e président of the American Federation of Labor. Mr. Woll told the industrialists that the AFL did not intend to take advantage of the election returns to force _ restrictive legislation upon. thanagement. But, he said, American workers will not be treated as “a proletariat, a class set aside for ‘Jabor and service’ under control of an alleged superior element of the populgtion.” He added: LAVA true and reliable safeguard of free enterprise, as well as the solution of our labor difficulties, is to make clear all that it is the manifest duty of all free men to advahce & common good by voluntary agreement and not by com- + pulaion of law .« had management and labor in years past . been fully aware of the importance of reaching collective in safeguarding their rights and liberties, - fewer attempts would have been made through irritating, restrictive and compulsory forms of legisiarion ATG. the rights and freedoms of both.” Pediat AT profoundly true. When management had pre- , too many employers—membérs ‘of ‘the among them-—would not recognize the virtues of teamwork. So, came the Wagner Act. Then union lar took its turn at wielding and abusing power, and got : the Taft-Hartley Act. $ And now, as ‘oné result of the clostion ‘another swing of the pendulum seems certain. And Mr. Woll, for one union leader, believes the swing should not be too extreme. We hope it will not be. For no good can come from a prolonged between labor and management,” each Sie gesiing the Support of government in restraining the side by law, both

But avoiding such a struggle. will call for more than moderation on the part of labor, It will call for genuine . willingness on the part of management to co-operate with labor. It will call, specifically, for members of the NAM to

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Burial of an v- American

SGT. KAZUO MASUDA was an American of Japanese Pr ancestry. Fighting in Italy with the much-decorated ne i424, Combat Team, -he waded -alone-into-bitter-fire-of -a~ : ‘German artillery unit, carrying. a-mortar.. From.a. suitable.

and forced it out of position.

lives of his crew, he emptied his machine gun into the Germans at a range of five yards. He was killed in this action. After his death, he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross; second highest of our military- decorations. The late Gen. Joe Stilwell, who flew to the Masuda farm home in California and presented the cross to Sgt. Masuda's. sister said at the time: “Who, after all, is a real American? The feal American is a man’ who, regardless of the color of in skin, calls it a fair exchange to lay down his life in order that American ideas may go on living. By such a test; Sgt. Masuda was a- better American than any of us here today. 4 ts

EARLY last "month Sgt. Masuda’s Body was biought back from Italy. Officials of his home-town cemetery ruled that the sergeant could not be buried in a part of the lot where “restrictive covenants” barred persons who were not ‘of Caucasian ancestry. He ¢ould be buried in an area without trees or law, but not among the “desirable plots.” It is good to know that publi¢ protest and indignation over this decision finally has induced the cemetery officials to change their minds and offer a new plot to the Masuda family, For we think the sergeant deferves a final resting place among the most respected Americans in any cemetery. And if there are others with such restrictions, let it be recalled that in the war there were no “covenants” vestriéting heroin to persons of Caucasian ry; w———————— a

Choice In Russia MOSCOW dispatch says. advertising signs are becoming ; A ‘widespread in Russia, For instance, a huge neon sign atop a Moscow hotel reads: “Buy Soviet champagne.” An- - other on a department store says: “Buy Soviet televisors, Stele refrigerators and vacuum cleaners.” We don't get

This death toll is far too high and indications now are

inslive pein.

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A few weeks later, again acting alone to save the

DEAR BOSS ... Coy Dan Kidney Truman Shows His ‘New Look’

Calls Dewey Greatest Asset for Victory

one of the 225 “Wrong Wilhurs” who attended

ference here and wiil add to the general testi mony that the man really does haye a “new 100 His “Off-the-cuff” answers to the rapid-fire “qiiestions were worthy.of.the late F. D.R. When

win, such Mr. Barkley, Mr. Brannon, Mr, McGrath an ther Democrats, I thought of ‘what one of e top-flight Scripps-Howard aditors had en regarding the. election . results

Boiled down, the editor had sald, the great est factor in. Mr. Pruman’s. favor was Gov. Thomas E. Dewey of New York and the kind of supercilious campaign he had conducted. So I .asked-the question “What about your opponent, Mr, President” That turned out to be the $64 question, Presi. dent Truman smiled as though he had "been waiting for it. The answer, of course, was blared over all the radios and got Page 1 bill~ ing in the newspapers. ‘He said that Mr, Dewey was the greatest asset that he had. The “best to-date” in Truman press conferences broke up

“Thank you, Mr. President.”

Prayer of Voltaire

EN ROUTE back to my office, which takes me through Lafayette Park opposite the White House on the Pennsylvania Ave, side, I pondered .about a prayer attributed to another French man—Voltaire. It goes like this— “My prayer to God is a very short one. “Oh nemies ridiculous!’ -God has

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own. Among the most pleased to have President Truman pin the donkey's tail on Mr. Dewey will be such conservatives as Majority Leader Charles A. Hallgék. Our Charley uften said during "the campaign that the way to conduct it was to be militant about the 80th Congress. He would take the stump whenever he was asked to do so and brag about such “accomplisiiments” as the Taft:Hartley law, tax cuts and the like. Because President Truman really “ rode into office on the coattails of the senatorial and congressional candidates, most observers think that had Mr. Dewey taken the Halleck tactic he would have done worse than he did. On the other hand, Charley can point to the fact that Indiana went for Mr. Dewey, slightly, and Gov: Earl Warren, who euchsed Halleck out of second place on the Dewey ticket, failed to carry California.

Didn't Want Dixiecrat Votes

HAVING WON California, Mr. Truman ence to state that he didn't want the Dixiecrat votes in the electoral college. He added that he won without the Solid South and New York -and he wanted the record to stand that way. Earlier on the same day, Thursday, I had attended press conference. It was held in the offices of those now prosperous New Dealers, Thurman Arnold, Paul Porter and Abe Fortas. It is a sumptuous suite in the new Ring Building just off Connecticut Avenue. All part‘ners are reported to be making fortunes now in the practice-of law here. I just bring*in this aside to point up the fact that while so-called “old dealers” admit the “itch to get rich,” the New Dealers seem to contract the same disease

-L-whenever the opportunity to expose themselves

is. offered.

‘Stole the Rooster’

BUT TO get back to the second press conference. It was conducted by Gov. James E. (Big Jim) Folsom of Alabama. He came here to file an action in the Supreme Court to force Alabama. electors to vote for Mr. Truman and Mr. Barkley and prevent them from voting for Mr. Thurmond and Mr. Wright—the Dixiecrats. Stretching his long frame, six feet seven _ inches, behind a desk in a swivel chair, the drawling Alabamian, who since his marriage has relinquished the title “Kissing Jim,” explained it this way— “Those States Righters-got into our chickencoop and stole. the rooster. We are up here “to try and get him back.” The rooster, of course, is the Democratic - emblem under which the Dixiecrats were elected in Alabama. No way was provided to vote

only state in the Union where such was the

“x was against Truman B. C.,” Gov. Folsom grinned. “That means before civil rights. But

When 1 saw the Democrats were going to carry the Senate; I said to myself that man Truman

~ [ts a-cinch to win:

Wants Record Kept Straight

“ANYWAY I want the record kept straight. In Alabama we. vote the Democratic ticket straight and that goes all the way from constable to the Presidency. We don't want to mess up ‘that record with any states righters

; “get help from the Supreme Court.” The court. can decide its. own jurisdiction in “the matter of course. If they are as Democratic as Sen. Homer E. Capehart. said during

‘the Alabama electors can vote for the Dixiecrats and be damned. With Justice Douglas riding out West in a Buffalo Bill hat to address the CIO convention, anything might happen here.

WASHINGTON, Dec, 4—Dear Boss-—I was.

in a roar of laughter and the customary adieu— |

didn’t fail at that high-powered press confer-

for “President Truman ‘and Alabama was the -

I also was the first Thdian to “bite the dust.”

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a debate this week, maybe they will rule that

- President Truman's first post-election press con- |

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‘Intuitions’ of Samuel Gompers Part of Indianapolis’ History

MORE memorabilia set down for the use of

him (or her) who may one day have the neces-

sary nerve to attempt the ‘writing of an unabridged history of Indianapolis. ° Item one: The frequency with which Samuel Gompers’ name .turns up nowadays—just last week again when Mr. Truman's Secretary of Labor, Maurice Tobin, mentioned it—recalls the historic fact that the one-time powerful leader of the American Federation of Labor lived in in 1896-97. He had his office at 29); E. Market St., his home within easy walking distance at 271 E, Ohio St. —Oldtimers remember him as a short; squat; Some gentleman of English birth with soft Hebraic eyes and an orator’s mouth designed to roll resounding phrases. His mincing _ Bait, often mistaken for affectation, was the re“sult of having been born with exceedingly small feet. His speech was gentle in casual.conversat¥ori, sharp with debate. Mr. Gompers was 46 years old at the time. They were years packed with pain and purpose, the poignant details of which appeared in his autobiography, “Seventy Years,” written toward the end of his life. In this book he had a lot to. say about his “intuitions.” What he meant, apparently, was a God-given gift of measuring all the theories he had come across (Marx, Engels, Lassalle, Laurrell and J. P. McDonnell) and turning them: in his own. mind to learn whether or not they would work in his adopted country. More often than not, his “intuitions” dismissed -them with the result that, for the most part; he steered. an even -eourse.. 8 “charted channels,

The ‘Gompers' Hunch’

THE AMAZING and rather curious thing _about Mr. Gompers' stay in Indianapolis was the fact that nobody suspected him of having “intuitions.” Everybody around here called his | sift “Gompers’ hunch.” ~ Jem two: The revived interest in Thomas “Walfe's ‘first book, “Look Homeward, Angel” ton "the ‘part of the Saturday Review of Literature, anyway) brings up the memory of Miss wn who turned up somewhere around page 4 Miss Browh was a “heavily built woman” who hailed from Indianapolis. “She was not ~ugly,”. said Mr. Wolfe, “her face was simply permeated with implacable dullness of the Midwesterner.” Mr. Wolfe starts some of his biggest flights

—9n-lesa--At any rate, with such a start it is not _unreasonable to suppose that anything can hapAnveoived-

pen,-It does. Miss Brown gets. with a chap. named Eugene and, in the course of her affair. she sptils her past, the roots of which, apparently, were planted.in Indianapolis. Listen:

“The great shadow of his hunger bent over

-her; he rushed out of himself, devouring her

with questions.” Finally;~he got around to our library. Miss Brown said we had a nice one but, to save her life, she couldn't tell him the size of it. Whereupon, Eugene started brooding. He wondered whether the Indianapolis library® could have as many as 100,000 books. Upon further brooding; he dismissed the preposterous idea that it could have anything like 500,000. Miss Brown agreed and, so far as anybody knows, Eugene never did learn the number of books in the Indianapolis library. ¥ Well, to keep the history of Indianapolis clean and free of libel, I'm here to say that when “Look Homeward, Angel” appeared in prinf, the Indianapoiis library embraced exactly 598,031 volumes including the 80. copies of ° ‘Gong « With the Wind.” .

Firshto Collect Orchids rit

ITEM THREE: Ernest Morris was the first Indiarfjpolis man to collect orchids in their native haRNitat. In 1375 when he was'18 yes old and just out of high school, Ernest with two other boys started in a boat down ‘White River, thence by the Wabash and thé Mississippi in the direction of New Orleans. They were on their way to see South America. When the boat capsized in the Mississippi, the two other boys said they had enough’ and returned to Indianapolis. They arrived without a bit of luggage. Ernest, however, kept right on and after a number of employments fh the South, went to New York from which place ‘he ‘sailed for Para, Brazil All in all, he made niné voyages to South America and got to see just about everything

“there was to be seen at the. time. Indeed, he “saw” things ‘no other ‘man had ever-seen.. He

went up the Orinoco, the Amazon, the Madeira and other rivers including the Tapajos, the great stream of Brazil which flows to the north into the Amazon. His wife, Kate Perry Morris, accompanied him “on-one-of-his-trips.- >

Brought Thousands of Bugs

WITH EVERY Seip he made, Mr. Morris: brought “pack thousands of bugs, ‘insects and

plants including orchids the like of which had .

never been seen around here. The orchids paid for his expedition. He sold them to Jay Gould, Erastus Corning and other wealthy men who, because of the financial frenzy in railroad speculation at the time, had oodles of money to spend, .

Among the orchids MF. “MOFHE brought back os

was a white one with a purple dot on its lip. Up to that time nobody had seen anything like it. To this unknown variety he gave the name Catalaya Ties i to honor Mr, Corning: §"pililich, Ta Cor him $500 jap the single flower. And from that day on, Jay Gould never spoke to Erastus Corn--ing. What business the two had thereafter was done by way | of an Intermediary.

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Keep letters 200 words or less on“any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be preserved, for here the People Speak in, Fieedom.

‘Ready to Be Guinea Pig"

By E. 8, Barber, City

I might have e¥pécted the MD's would d pick up the gauntlet Iso carelessly threw 2, but re cannot see that they have proved their case. freely admit medicdl science has mide v vdst strides in late years, but has it not been done by the -radicals—the researchers, who in spite © of skeptics in their ranks have persisted in in search-

“ing for new truths?

I may be wrong in thinking the average ‘MD is not quick to benefit by new methods, but this is my experience: Since Hygela printed an article about penicillin mist for sinusitis, I hdve contacted four doctors without getting a definite answer as to its acceptance by Indianapoils physicians or probable cost. Same results at a prominent hospital where I was told I must have a letter from a doctor. (Was it “red tape” MK. 8.7 “think” myself free from chronic sinusitis?) . Now, Dr. W. D. R., if you believe all you say, T am ready to serve as the guinea pig, and if I get no benefit myself, shall rejoice in hoping I may have helped other sufferers from this smog«ity disease. You will notice I am riot afraid to give my

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Opposes ‘Military Aid’ By" Charles. A. Hubbard, Martinsville, Ind.

The poll takers were right. . Mr. Dewey was Zan | his last Swing aj around. ——

Ninety per cent of American voters a Mr. Dewey declared he would send military and economic aid to “our good Chinese friends— good friends for 100 years.” Ninety per cent of American voters did not approve—and, of course, Mr. Dewey lost. More than a majority of American voters do not favor military or economic aid to Western Europe (except food). A non-political poll should be made on—“Do you favor American military and economic aid -to Western Europe at the expense of the American taxpayery” eB .

‘Busses Too Crowded’

| ‘By West Sider, S, 8S, O

If the English bus line is any worse than the West Indianapolis line, I'd sure like to see The busses are so crowded around 5 and

you can hardly get off them. The motorman has. shut the door twice on me as I was getting off «

at Oliver and Division. They depend on the

passengers to tell them what's goihg on. I.

certainly think something should be done before someone is hurt. And it isn’t always the driver's fault, I have to pay 10c.and ride all the way to

"town standing up, going to work and coming

home, ® 5 0

‘Sales. Tax for Bonus’ By W. C. Frye. I see,.aceording to a Times report, that political parties clash on sales tax to pay bonus. I quote, “As far as Republicans are concerned, the -sales tax was still in the running today as & possiblé means of financing the veterans’

b6nus.”

+ This we would expect as pure unadulterated ‘Republican policy. John Doe, who gets 406 an hour, on which ‘to support his wife and kids, or his dad who can't work any longer has retired on an old-age pension of $23.32 a month, must pay the same tax on a loaf of bread, if he can buy one, as the biggest banker in town, or Sén. John Van Ness, Republican floor, leader. Since Democrats will not go along with this piling up on the unfortunate man, we stand a good chance of having the whole hing vetoed by our Republican Senate.

‘What Others. Say—-

If the word “Negro” could be kept out of the press and off the air for 10 years, we would make great progress down here, which would meet the approval of the rest of the nation.— Gov. Millard F. Caldwell of Florida, calling on newspaper publishers to fight racial and -religlous prejudice, . Ch Sven re

I'm through giving them hell. all Work together.— Préfidun Truman. “> *

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shooting war late ih the summer, but they decided against it and have resumed their cold

pasts Aisiph. A. Bule Ji, former As-

“The farmer's ‘best “friend is “the well- paid working man who turns out a full measure of non-farm products and buys a big volume of agricultural products.-—Albert S. Goss, master of the National Grange. ~ = SJR Sa

Id don't Know if it's so great w five to be 100, but I feel it's a great accomplishment to be Amelia Marie Propper- “of--New York; on her “TOOTH “Dirthita * &

I've always believed that if T could get across.

a cracker barrel from Joe Stalin we could talk peace.—Gov. James E. Folsom of Alabama.

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] 4—This may be a little on the deep dish side, for people who want to peer into the future as far as If you're mildly curious, read -on about how ECOSOC—the United Nations Economic and Social Council—is fixing to call a World Scientific Conference on Conservation and Utilization of Natural Resources.

and there will be much high-domed talk, The main drift will be that man is a wasteful animal who is squandering his God-given riches, and if he isn't careful, he may wake up some morning ' abdut 3000 or 5000 A. D. to find there isn't enough for everybody

That's over-simplitication, of course. It isn’t as bad as that. The real point is to determine How much population’ the world can support, animal, vegetable and mineral resources being what they are, and to make what's here last as long as possible,

WHEN. TOP. scientists, public administrators and economists get together they will argue out their confl cling concepts of the

the one side will be the worriers about population growth. ay poin{ with alarm to the fact that the 2,500,000,000 people now on earth are increasing in numbers by about 50,000 “Where does that lead to?” they may ask. One of their answers is that there must be birth control, or economic family planning, or national population policies to keep the number of people from becoming larger than their means of

The other side of this argument comes from scientists who

LOOKS AT FUTURE . . . By Peter Edson

How Many People Can World Suppor?

and the number of people it can support is beyond calculation. When the top soil is all used up, they say, man will raise his food by hydroponics, letting the roots grow in chemical solutions. When the forests are all gone, houses will be built of stone; metal or plastic synthetics.

When the iron ore is all gone, aluminum

. and magnesium will be used as substitutes. When the petrol

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is all gone, synthetic gas will be made from coal. is all gone, atomic energy will supply power and heat.

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Many Books On Subject

THERE'S A LOT of fascinating reading on this general Dr. Warren 8. Thompson of the Scripps Foundation for Research on Population has just written a new book, “Plenty of People.” It goes into all phases of world population trends since 1800. Mr. Thompson looks ahead to a U, 8. population of 165,000,000 in 1975-85, then gradual decline.

He makes other

studies for other countries.

William Vogt's Plundered Planet,” and Walter Dorwin Teague’s “Land of Plenty” cover natural resources questions. in challenging fashion. a When the scientists go into their huddle next summer, they will break down their subject into half a dozen fields, each of which will be a forum for experts. One will be on forest protection and management, Another will be on water control, irrigation, power and valley developA third: will cover land resources—soil conservation, Increasing productivity, grass lands and livestock breeding. A fifth will consider fuels and a sixth mineral resources. . The idea for this coming conference is not new. It was first suggested by Gifford Pinchot to President Theodore Roosevelt. He called a world conference.

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President . Taft, succeeding him,

In 1946, President Truman was induced to call such a con-

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