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Dr. N. M. Beatty IN EVERY community there are those who give and those _* who receive. And those who give, always too few in . number, and all too frequently, sacrifice years of their lives | by packing too much usefulness into their brief life’spans. "The voluntary burdens they carry feel light because of the spirit in which they are carried, but the human body, as perfect as it is, wears under the strain. We lose them too . young. le So it was with the 46-year-old Dr. N. M. Beatty, dermatologist, who has led the movement for mental health in {ndiana, to a point beyond the capacity of the human heart to bear it. ! : ne . . ” .

. DR. BEATTY, president of the Indiana Council ‘for "Mental Health, led the struggle for the -LaRue Carter. Mental Screening Hospital in the TU Medical Center. He also led the wartime drive against venereal disease which led to the establishment of the Indianapolis Public Health . Center. He fought organized prostitution and carried the L banner for the city’s Grade A milk ordinance. Few, if any, can carry on this multitude of civic improvements, in addition to a flourishing medical practice, without cutting short his years of community usefulness. We in Indianapolis and Indiana owe much to Dr. Beatty. “And while it is too late to show him our appreciation, we can build a permanent memorial to his efforts by following “the precepts of his lofty ideals and guarding zealously his achievements,

Berliners Defy Stalin : RESULTS of the Berlin municipal election show why * Stalin ordered his Communist stooges to boycott it. “Two years ago they polled only 19 per cent of the total, | despite intimidation efforts. This time more than 86 per cent of the eligible voters in the Western occupied areas cast ballots in defiance of the Red boycott. Allowing for other causes of non-voting, the Reds if they had participated certainly would have mustered less than 10 per cent. " What Stalif did not anticipate was defiance in his state of eastern Berlin. With the Red army in occu- : puppets completing control of that the jt seemed improbable that any signumber living under his dictatorship would dare s him. But they did. ; Sa G2 CRS in the Soviet sector struck the power plants. inst Stalin's sabotage of the municipal elec-

¢reation of a rump Berlin government.

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plants. Now they are doing a bit of s. They are deserting the Soviet.plan a the free Western sectors.

zone outside the city to keep the plants going. But he cannot disguise from the city or from Germans generally, or from the rest of the world, this double-barreled referendum ‘which has exploded in his face. Wit

“ didiculous. And that is hard for any dictator to take. The - fact that their daring is largely a demonstration of gratitude for the American-British airlift of food and fuel, which “daily jumps the Russian blockade of western Berlin, makes _ Stalih look even sillier. ;

that About China? == == AN OFFICIAL pronouncement on the American position | *™ toward China should be forthcoming within the next PF Our government must decide whether to take some | positive action to halt the spread of commuifiism in China, * or to continue the present policy of drift, and let matters ° “When the decision Is made, the publié ¥tould" Be tukerr — into full confidence, so there will be no further doubt. about the American position. Sa Tre = 7 Wellington Koo, the Chinese ambassador, has asked “President Truman for a declaration of United States support for Chiang Kai-shek in his fight against the Commu-

and inspire Nationalist morale. Ee ye nl Wei WE BELIEVE the Chinese government should be given "such an expression of support and confidence. But if there ‘are reasons of which we are not aware why that should not |" be done, our’ position toward the Chinese Communists should be clarified, in any event, If our government does not intend to recognize a Red government in Manchuria and North China, it should say go, thus ending any speculation that ‘our officials may be flirting with the Communists again. _. In view of our present commitments elsewhere in the world, and our own defense needs, ‘there are definite limits "to what we could afford to spend in China. But it should ' be within our means to save part of China, if at this late date we cannot save all of it.

s . ~ » » » » ! "IF WE need outposts in the Mediterranean, we need them in'continental Asia, too, and they should be worth as much tous. RE President Truman has announced that Gen. Douglas MacArthur will not be sent to China. But according to a | reputed high source in Tokyo, Gen. MacArthur regards the J ese assignment as an attractive one, and has even formulated his own tactical plans to ease the Nationalists’ tary situation.’ fu ey __A course of action recommended last year by Gen. X. C. syer, wartime commander of the China theater, was suppressed by the State Department. These two eminent tary men certainly understand the Asiatic situation as

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- .THE QUALITY OF HUMOR

Will Rogers once remarked that many a man’ had got the reputation of being a humorist who merely couldn't spell. : And I, myself, have noticed that the harder a fellow tries tu be funny, the unfunnier he becomes. My own reputation in that direction is entirely unpremeditated. Likely as not it will leave my listeners in stitches, and me in a state of bewilderment. On the other hand, my attempts at wit are always greeted with stony silence and wooden faces that would do credit to any totem pole.

While walking the other afternooh I met an

arguaintance whom I hadn't seen for some time. Glancing at my get-up, which, to say the least, was noncommittal, he wanted to know how "waa doing. “Oh, all right, I guess,” I replied. “I've had dinner, and it's not time for supper yet.” He laughed. He thought 1 was joking! ° . Another instance that comes to mind has to do with those roving reporters” who go about asking stodgy questions and receiving equally stodgy/ replies. Not so, however, the Kokomo houséwife who, when asked if she believed marriages were made in heaven, replied: “No marriages are made in heaven. Plenty of women are there, of course, and some men, but no man that any woman would have.” The reporter laughed, whereas the womag had merely favored him with a rare insight into feminine psgchology ; x . — CLAUDE BRADDICK, Indianapolis. ® ¢ o

WINTER

Wiiiter time's a=comin’ on; Days are gettin’ dreary Coal pile's started goin’ down, Makes a feller weary.

School kids skippin’ past the house, All wrapped in fur and fuzz, "Not a thing to weary them, - Wouldn't say so if they wus,

Recollect a few years back When you were just a boy? Never thought the time 'd come When winter-'d lose its joy, -

~ CHET BARRIGER, Indianapolis. . &

REMEMBER AND FORGET

(Based on a motto in an old tapestry, “Write injuries in dust, but kindnesses in marble.”)

Write your injuries in dust; they'll lightly pass away, . But your kindnesses in marble, carve them for ; alway. : Wise sentiment expressed in tapestry of old, And richly, quaintly, woven in threads of red and gold. Ey : Wounds and sorrows in our 1ves must sirely” often be; Forgive; forget; ne'er cherish them in memory. Write them in-dust that swiftly they may all: be blown away, : But ev'ry kindly deed received, clasp it to your . heart alway. = . .

When life seems shadowed, dark, and seems no - When griefs, not understood, appear, your path Ssh t

When Justice even may indeed seem senseless, dead, i Hold fast the words sublime in threads of gold and red, : «MINNIE WALLS NosLirr, Columbus. i < yo

THE LITTLE APRON

She lifted. her little apron To hold each twinkling star That he shook from the tree of heaven To catch in each lacy bar. sre

The apron became all a-glitter, A star in each lacy seam, Gems of faith and beauty Beyond her fondest dreams,

~—MILDRED C. YOUNG, Indianapolis. SE

THE BIRDS

If —Where-nature -is beautiful, lonely and wide; “No nest wonld-1 build ina ; -oity, But deep. in some woodland forever abide. Alas! T am only a town-dwelling' human, Just loving each bird, bright or drab be its

gown; ' I feed them in winter; they cheer me in summer; How thankful I am that they do come to town! :

neither buggies nor bicycles.

|: Indeed, it was in the nature of a feudal system;

‘|. stand, grape arbors, hitching posts, bicycle racks

I were a bird, I would stay in the country |

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P., OUR CHINESE POLICY eh ;

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Hoosier Forum ; . 1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | "will defend to the death your right te say i" ject with which you are familiar. Some letters

used will be edited but content will be pre served, for here the People Speak in Freedom,

‘Use Christian Principles’ ~~ By Isham Benton of Civie Conscious Christian Citizens. :

The world, the nation and our community are suffering from the ravages of moral weake nesses, The hates and prejudices of our vare jous peoples threaten the very security of this. planet. In the fight against bigotry and hatred, we are certain that no other force in the nation has it within its power to influence the outcome of this struggle so much as our religious leaders and Institutions.” Organizations throughout the city have sought to destroy the overwhelming forces of evil exhibited in class hatred, racial and religious prejudices, without soliciting the aid of that source which is the very foundation of moral and ethieal development, the church. In innumerable instances they have by-passed the church and mémbers of the clergy in their search for instruments of relief from oft-times insufferable conditions, failing to recognize the immense potential strength embodied in those organizations and institutions which are steeped | in traditions emphasizing the golden rule and | the brotherhood of man. { It is with the realization of this neglect on the part of ‘previous civic betterment organiza. i tions fresh in our minds, that we have composed this letter. We are asking that you utilize the vast knowledge and experience at your command to aid in this fight for a Christian community free of race hate and intolerance. We * humbly beg that you take the opportunity that is yours to inform and explain the relationship

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

ANOTHER point future historians will ponder is the impdrtant part played by Indianapolis beer gardens in supplementing the Public School System of 60 years ago. For example, my intimate knowledge of the behavior and habits of monkeys can be traced not to 2 School 6 as might reasonably be supposed, but to the magnificent grove of forest trees known as Kissel's Beer Garden. Kissel's Garden was started in 1885 when I was still in. short pants. It embraced the four acres.located at the south- A east corner of what was then ; \ 18th St. and the Boulevard, Today it is identifled as the northern part of the property bélonging to St. Vincent's Hospital. Most of Mr. Kissel's customers arrived on “wheels, for the reason that the Boulevard (now Capitol Ave.) was the smoothest bicycle road to reach the towpath alorig the Capal, As for those who traveled in buggies, there wasn’t. a better way of getting to Crown Hill." When the Illinois St. “electric. railroad” got started with “trains” running every five minutes, M¥, Kissel also enjoyed the trade” of those who owned

a8 complicated, too.

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establishment of its kind ‘this town ever had, DOT smiled.

at least to the extent that it was a self-con-institution which could keep going without any help from the outside. - - By the time I was in long pants, it had its own steam pump which lifted the water from a deep-driven well to a high tower-like reservoir covered with vines, the roots of which had been brought from the Chicago Columbian Exposition. Its bwn dynamo accounted for .the electric lights. Moreover, it was equipped with a band and an enormous ice house of a capacity to last refused to talk. Mr. Kissel all summer, The building dominating all the rest was a big two-story structure with a double-deck porch such as still exist in Southern cities. It housed the restaurant and bar, and planted as it was right at the corner of the two streets, it caught all the wheel trade. To my knowledge, Mr. Kis-

bear.

sel never employed less than two bartenders. 8 As 16r the monkey house, it was a little square building about 15 by 15 feet, the sides of which were screened with -heavy wire netting. Above the screens were awnings, the like of which I had never seen. They could be let down all the way thus protecting Mr. Kissel's collec tion of half a dozen monkeys, not only from the

sid STO mremins

Jungclaus.” Mayor Taggart replied

| Best Zoology Lore Provided At Beer Gardens 60 Years Ago

years ago we never had a summer but what it rained at least once a week. As a rule, it poured every Saturday, the only day we kids had to ourselves, Except for this phenomenon, I might know even more about monkeys than I do today.

First-Hand Knowledge LARGELY because of Mr. Kissel's enterprise, othér beer gardens copied his idea with the result that a kid lucky enough to get around could pick up more first-hand knowledge of zoology than the schools were prepared to give. Indeed, Mr. Kissel's monkey house prepared us to appreciate the big black bear that came to indianapolis by way of a Skat tournament held in Milwaukee in which Willlam P. Jungclaus ~{ Fred's father) participated. .And.in case. you. youngsters have to be told, Skat is a German card game as old as the Nibelungenlied, and just

Well, as I was saying, Fred's father was part’ of the noisy delegation that went to Milwaukee that year, The reason it was noisy has. its historical origin in the fact that one of the features of Skat is the unrestrained enthusiasm of its players. From which you might deduce that Fred's father was as merry as the rest. Not so. ‘When he left Indianapolis; Mr. Jungeclaus was as melancholy as Shakespeare's Dane and hardly said a word all the time he was away KISSEL'S Garden was the most completa from home. Indeed, one day he neither spoke

His .colleagues agreed that such behavior merited some kind of reward. And so a committee was appointed to buy a prize. In their search for something suitable, the committee ran across an Italian organ grinder leading a dancing bear. Unanimously, they decided that Mr. Jungclaus ‘ deserved td have. a bear for company.

~ Zoo Started With Bear THE BEAR was led to the tournament hall, thence onto the stage, and there presented to the “Silent Hoosier.” Even then, Mr. Jungclaus Instead, he transmitted the state of his emotions by way of a card upon which he had scribbled his thanks. After that, of course, there wasn’t anything to do but leave Mr. Jungclaus afone with his thoughts and his

Accompanied by the bear, Mr. Jungclaus went in search of a WesternUnion office - ~gent-the following message-to-Mayor Taggart: .

" “Got a bear stop don’t Want it stop do you?—

“immediately: “Yep stop send it stop we will park it—Tom.” And that, my children, waa the start of the Riverside Zoo, which for a while looked as if #t

between the practical application of Christian principles in everyday contacts with our fellow men and the necessity for emphasis on civil rights and other legal machinery devised to insure our Christian democracy.. ® © o

‘Could Lose Freedom, Too’ By W. A. Collins, City. To all luke-warm Americans: On Friday, Dec. the 3d, the water supply was shut off about five hours. Did you miss that water? Through no-fault of the company or citizens a main broke. The old adage still holds good, “We never miss the water until the well goes dry.” : } Remember, luke-warm Americans, would-be Communists and radieals; in every country that ~ has been conquered the water supply was shut off first, then the lights and heat. We are no different from other countries in our indiffere ence. to what happens. Keep a free press, free radio, a free America. We have the best system of government in the world. Men have fought and died to keep it free. Keep that 61d Red, White and Bhie flying in the breeze mo that every country will know we are loyal Americans who won't stand Don't be caught napping. Remember water {= essential but freedom is priceless, American T~freedom,

i ee ‘Better Care of Children’

By a Hoosier Citizen, Shelbyville, Ind. _ There is a lof of attention paid to passing laws against dogs running loose and the damage they do. : Why not pass the same law for children, laws that will force people to care for their children, not just give them food and shelter, then turn them loose on the streets to destroy other people's property?

What Others Say—

SO LONG as a majority of our people seek to give less for a dollar, they will get less for a dollar, and if they are going to be led astray by the philosophy that they can get something’ for nothing . . . there is no hope for the redemip-

tion of America.—Sen. Albert W. Hawkes (R) of New Jersey. A Ae -

*f "WAS elected by the poor old hard-bitten boys in the swamps and cotton patches. They believed what I told *em—that if you take care and | of the little man at the bottom of the heap, the

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“himself.—Sen.-elect Fussell B. Long (D) of A FOB

—1 HOPE tifat among those principles. that will be instilled into him (England's new prince) will be the truth that the sovereign is never so great as when his people are free.—Winston

‘Changes Expected | In Truman’s Cabinet

WASHINGTON, Nov, 7--Every President in recent years . has ‘had his troubles with the press, and the man who will occupy } Ue VOT eV TBAT Sr THe NEXT POUT ap 083 15 Hiv exseption. Bm: yh 4 neath President Truman's smiling jocularity with the reporters who confront him at his press conference is real ‘resentment of the treatment accorded him during the campaign and before. It is not 'urilike the resentment which President Roosevelt

occasionally voiced in jibes at the working press,

of President Truman's statement that there would be no changes

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He has sometimes been amused, but more often annoyed at the attempts of columnists and others to remake his Cabinet. The President felt it was a good opportunity to teach these-eager

volunteer helpers » lesson. : Major Shifts in Personnel ©

RIOR to the inauguration on Jan. 20, there will be no changes of any importance. But after that date the way is open for some major shifts in top personnel. The Presiden{ will have

had the satisfaction of putting the columnists in

In his press conference he was careful to point out that he had taken a similar stand when he first moved into the White House in 1945. Then, too, the dager press was ready with myriad all rumors about im4.

suggestions and the President squelched pending change. |

Not long aftérward, however, when the speculation had sub-

sided, a whole series of changes occurred, At

the President; most of the New Dealers inherited from the : Roosevelt Cabinet stepped out, some with good grace, others | fuming at being Separated from the prestige of high office,

Atty. Gen. Francis Biddle, Secretary of the

genthau, Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins, all went out. _1.. little later Harold L. Ickes made the most spectacular exit after

tis violent quarrel with the President.

Postmaster General Robert E, Hannegan left and so’ did his protege, Gael Sullivan, who was executive director of the DemoVirtually the only survivor out of

cratic National Committee. the Rooseveltian past is James Forrestal, who Secretary of the Navy in May, 1944.

Cabinet Is Own Creation’

THIS TIME, of course, the situation is different. Loyalty, which is one of the President's most deeply engrained traits, enters in. - Particularly is this true when, his bosom companions of long standing ‘let him understand that they aré &taying on out 'of heartfelt duty and at a great sacrifice of their personal interests, They may beliéve if thémselves, but the plain truth-is that; in m have never had'it so good. Separa- |’

man’s family. is of his own creation,

the GI phrase, most of the

tion from public office would mean the dimmest obscurity. Another reason why the President decided to move slowly ng line of candidates eyeing expected ouse has beer bombarded with propa-

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t Secretary of War Louis Johnson, who is reé-

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their place,

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Treasury MorA: con. 1008 BY « Hill'you get to that part of the conversation where the fellow told you to shut up!”

‘Battlefront’ Seen

"Go right ahead with your little chat, girls! I'll hang on here

was appointed: | Secretary of Defense. .

: sought by at least three willing helpers. Mr. Tru-

tions,

peer over his shoulder.

|. deal of pounding from the. press: That was true all during i days-of the Péndergast machine, when Mr. Truman was §

the press did not present the issues of the campaign as President voiced them jn his s too much emphasis was p side of, the Truman crusade,

riends of.

"ported to the campaigning intensively for Mr. Forrestal's job as

The top post in the Commerce Department is another being Both in public and in private, they have been pressing their claims and their qualificaWhen this furor has subsided, the President will be able ‘to make his own selections” without a sense of having someone

During his cafieer in politics the President has taken a great

the ide-

swiped by the investigation into corruption even though no | amount of investigation could ever pu‘ any of the blame on him. The President and the men around him feel strongly that

the

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— PARIS. Dec. T—The United Nations delegates are getting. increasingly alarmed over the mounting tension between the East and ‘West. gulag loomed so large at this session has been merely a local skirmish, on & battlefront which extends around-the world.

7 . . The members privately are wondering how long before the organization ‘Berlin

will be forced to recognize if is not the “ problem” but the whole “Russian question” that will -have to be tackled, ed : . Probably within the next 12 months the United ‘Nations may F-have-to-deat-with-Russia-as an aggressor.on. pore. than one front or throw up the job it was cut but to do.

Deadly Political Pressure VENTS in Berlin, the Balkans, Greece, China, Korea, FE Italy and elsewhere were instigated by Moscow.. The . independence of other countries is systematically being snuffed out. And under Moscow's own definition, aggression is not necessarily armed invasion of one country by another. It is only too clear—as Russia herself has demonstrated again and again— that political or economic pressure can be just as deadly. Or the use of. fifth columns as in Czechoslovakia or armed guerrillas as : reece. In Oe cslovaki, it is remarked, is just as completely dominated today by Stalin as she éver was by Hitler. The fact that Hitler used armed invasion and Stalin political invasion matters nothing to the Czechs. : : The wave of political strikes in France proved a visible object lesson to the UN delegates. Strike leaders openly avowed their: aim was-to overthrow the government and wreck the Buropean Récovery Program. The government charged the IGvemeit. wh

political and offered evidence of its Cominform origin. T movément failed did not lessen its meaning.

Dangerous Ambitions WHAT adds to anxiety here is realization that the Berlin dispute conceals far more dangerous ambitions on the part of Russia. It is increasingly clear her real aim is, and has been all along, to control all of Germany—not merely the capital. She 1s determined to make Germany into another and bigger Poland with her stooges running thingsg in Berlin. Thus the blockade discussions, whether in Berlin, Moscow or Paris, have been phony from the outset insofar as Moscow is con~ cerned. ' If they resulted in getting the three Western powers out of the capital, well and good. If not, there were other tricks up the Krémlin's sleeve. =¥ ’ Few delegates therefore believe the latest formula of Dr. Juan Bramuglia for settling the Berlin question has more than a ghost of a chance. Even while paying lip-service to the efforts of the “neutrals” toward a settlement, the Russians have been acting to make a settlement possible, For they want—and for their purposes must have—unending, unrelieved world unrest. / Further coups are expected on the part of Russia. Reluctantly, many here see Russia waging another war for world

be rised if she did that soon, I % wy * - | . '

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—MILDRED SHARTLE, Crawfordsville. sun, but also from inclement weather. Sixty might amount to something. Churchill. “| WHITE ‘HOUSE ... By Marquis Childs ~~ | "RUSSIAN AIMS... By William Philip Simms ==

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