Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 8 December 1948 — Page 18

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Home of the Future MuION BROCK, president of the National" Association : of Home Builders, pulled the veil from the house of the future when he spoke before the ninth annual meeting of the Marion County Residential Builders. While the builders of the country will produce nearly a million dwelling units this year, Mr. Brock said, builders will have to change their technique after the turn of the

The larger homes are not in such strong demand as a year ago. But there is a great untapped demand for the economy house, the basementless, one or two bedroom. Swelling whieh has been stripped down 20 living essentials.

MR. BROCK very wisely pointed out "that there still are millions of families doubled up, and living in apartments. These are the new crop of home buyers. They will ____péquire no more space in a single home than they require in an apartment which usually is a small living room, kitchen, bedroom and bath. In addition, they also get a “lawn, ground they can call their own, an] take roots as citizens, developing pride of homé ownership and, being taxpayers, they acquire a stronger interest in government affairs. “ There is a vast market for such homes in Indianapolis. There ard thousands of families here who want to get into homes of their own. And they ask little more thah they

WE . ARE aidto 1 aware that the builders have a wary eye on the government's prop “public housing program. And we hope they" beat the government to the job. We would much rather see thousands of small homes built in ~ this area by private enterprise, at prices buyers can pay, than to see the vital subject of housing turned over Rimoat | exclusively. to government bureacracy. « We would like to see local builders get ‘under way. ro . such a program. Indianapolis can be the first city to show the government we can do it ourselves. =

Before Pearl Harbor—and- After ON Nov. 26, 1941, Secretary of State Cordell Hull handed Japanese Ambassador-Nomura a note proposing, as part of a basis for peace in the Pacific, an agreement that— “The government of the United States and the govern- - ment of Japan will not support—militarily, politically, ecoa a EE Ee ae an government of the Republic of China, with capital temporarily at Chungking.” | ~~ Seven years.ago, Japan replied to that proposal by, the sneak attack on Pearl Harbor. The Chinese National government to which Mr. Hull's note referred was the one headed by President Chiang Kai-

2 THE NOTE was & formal reiteration of American re: fusal to recognize the pu state of Manchukuo, which the Japs had set up in . Our stand was in accord | with the historic “open door” policy in China, first proclaimed by Secretary of State John Hay in 1000 when ~ pzarist Russia was moving troops into Manchuria with ap-

4 . i strongholds - as Hong Kong, ag deg and took | control of most of the East and South Pacific areas. Then, st enormous cost in lives and treasure, America liberated those areas one by one, The bloody island-to-island push aeross” the Pacific ended, after nearly four years of war,

But y of the fruits of that ‘hard-won victory have been lost. A Chinese fifth column has made Manchuria ___A puppet state of Soviet. Russia. Most of North China is under Red control, and Communist armies are moving into

the. Yangtaa Valley. ai

he AND RUSSIA, using the 3 same technique, for which = “we have found no adequate answer, is moving to subjugate other vital areas which were released from Japanese bondBurma, Indo-China, Malaya, Indonesia. Even

Sperating: Where czarist Russia and imperial Japan failed; Russiais succeedi

Remember Pearl, Harbor GRE ” —— Yes. But don't forget that Russia's drive for control of the Far Fast, if it continues to succeed, eventually will threaten America with dangers and costs far greater than those Pearl Harbor forced upon us.

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Western a ft) Telegraph Co. announces that it has FE wen the Washington law firm of Arnold, Fortas and Porter to represent it in dealing with government agencies and congressional committees. This thriving firm's members were prominent and in- ~ fluential in the New Deal not long ago. Thurman Arnold was assistant Attorney General under President Roosevelt, who later made him a federal judge. Abe Fortis ‘was Under Secretary of the Interior. Paul Porter was special counsel of the Department, head of ‘the Office - of Price Administration, publicity director of the Demo“cratic National Committee ini the 1044 campaign, and then a of the Federal Communications Commission. It would be rash to assume that Messrs. Arnold, Fortas and Porter won't be paid, and well paid, for dealing with i Sovernmentagencics and congressional committees on behalf of Western Union. And President Truman told his press conference this week he was against paid lobbyists. Maybe New Dealers who become paid lobbyists are in . Anyway, plenty of them besides Messrs. Porter a are Ji in that oecupa:

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1° In Tune - With the Times

EDITOR'S NOTE. " Contributions for special days or seasons should be in my hands two weeks prior to publication date. -Several fall, Armistice Day and Thanksgiving. offerings were too late to be used. Christmas contributions should reach me not later than Dec. 15. mb R. P. “4 0 A

THE PASSING OF AUTUMN

Down the road, as the crossing, they met— Old Man Winter, bold, strong, aggressive, And Autumn, worn weary and ready to drop,

“You're now fo take over,” said Autumn, “I've folded my tent, closed my books.”

And Winter replied, “I'm fully.alerted, My. big advertising’s all on the press. But tell me, dear Autumn, I pray, Do you call your reign a success?”

Autumn smiled, “Yes, I do. Ripe Summer I packed away deep in the freezer, I painted the hillsides and vales; -

Cleaned house with a vacuum cléaner And left on the trees not a sign of old leaves.

And on my agenda were parties— Two big parties, you know, The first well supplied with fun and false faces; The second with turkey and old-fashioned graces.

So you see what I did: Stored food, painted pictures, cleaned house And had two lovely parties, I call it success.”

Then Winter (his big Christmas project now

on i Began to tell Autumn-—but Autumn was gone. ~ANN HOSEA, Indianapolis * 9 &

LOVE AFFAIR

“To. Grandma's house I'll go”. ,. .~ Threatens our little glutton, ” ““She'tt-let-me-sat-and-sat-and.6ak. Until I ‘pop a hutton’.” Lo”

“Grandma aiways got cookies, " Chides our little” man, “She says, ‘growing boys need 100d, “Now just-eat all you can.’

= Wike Grandma holds the key "To our Jimmy's heart, ~~ Despite the difference in age She's his tfue sweetheart.

+ ==MARY HELEN ADAMS, Indianapolis * : a

WHAT NOW?

In the fateful Autumn of 1941 the huge resources of the United States lay dormant. -Idle plants loomed on every horizon. The discour~ aged citizens reflected industry's apathy. - They sought just enough to sustain life and were for

- Came Pear] Harbor andthe war. Industry yawned, stretched and slowly but surely began to function. Faster and faster spur the wheel of fate . . . faster and faster spun the wheels of industry , . . keeping pace. Now the acceleration has become so great it threatens to destroy itself by its own momentum. LABOR, MANAGEMENT, WHAT NOW?

—LOUISE MAE HOGAN, Indisnapslis pd P aot

~ BEWITCHED

When I am with the one I love I strive to be serene, But, darling, when you come around I'm positively green With fear. My fingers turn to thumbs, -My words do not behave themselves, They're prompted by the fairy folk, The gnomes and roguish elves, I twist and turn like a teen-age child, I blush and burn and alk too wild. Love is the cause of my display, J And it hits you too... . You act the same wayl™

—DOROTHY Ha BARRE, Indianapolis

DECEMBER EVENING -

Lights glow upon a rain-wet street, And homeward bound are many weary feet. Carillonic chimes waft sweet notes through the air, - I place your slippers near yout easy chair, Your dog waits by the dogf with anxious eyes While, dusk, . Jka. 2. Aakt fray cu curtain, Salis 3

| Economic BA \TTLE .

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 8—Americans like to think that the government belongs to them-— not to any particular class or group. That's

changing At: After the 1946 election a good many business leaders seemed to feel that Congress belonged to them. They played their cards so badly that only iwo years later they are back in the political doghouse. Now some union leaders are adopMng’ the same attitude—and probably will arrive at the -same end. In a time of victory they seem completely to forget what happened to them only two years ago. Just as business leaders

thereafter. People of all kinds contributed to the results

to hear it now, you'd think the union leaders did the job single-handedly, and that the President and Congress belong to them. -

ble “mandate.” The vote was small, and slight changes ina tew states would have altered the result. Some of the states where unions are strongest—such as New. York, Pennsylvania, " New Jersey and Michigan—went Republican.

Special Interest Lobby

YET, ever since-the election, union chieftains and labor conventions have been drawing up fancy bills which they expect to present for prompt payment. The charge that a great ~—special-interest lobby descended on Washington He the At 6 elections gave control of Congress Republicans was repeatedly made, widely an and well justified

~ campaign.

Now an even bigger special-interest lobby to be heading toward the capital. The

what happened two years ago is striking.

big union executives act and feel pretty much alike. This probably is natural—because they both are well paid; they both live well; they move in important company; they are far

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Draft oo incnr For Study Planned

WASHINGTON, Dec. 8— Uncle Sam is working: out plas for..}. promising Jone men to 80 to tollege and earn draft deferment

. By ET. Leech Groups Dominating Congress Land In Political Doghouse

-one -reason why they step in every so often’ and assert their control of the government by © "awful blunders, Actually, most businessmen had’

. of a few industries, which set the pace.’

also forgot what happened to them in 1933 and

of the recent election—especially farmers. But,

As a matter of fact, there was no undebata- . tion. Certain industries have played right into.

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in the - recent .

similarity between what is happening now and” The fact is that big business executives and"

removed from the average workers, and they > Doth Nike to clean u the at the Pn expense. i high profits’ and "and" hurt worst” when “either: Tasitiony » QP good dividends, a, this enables them to 4

get ahead. Union heads want similar results for their members, Looking back to the period after the 1946 congressional elections, it is easy to see that what is loosely called “business” made some

no part in the job; it was done by the heads

After the Republicans, with some Democratic help and under business prodding, removed a lot of price and other controls, there was a wonderful opportunity for the big industries to. do a great job both for themselves and the American people.

Opens Way to Inflation ___ BUT, after only a slight lag, prices shot up. Last year’s corpqration statements showed that some companies—especially the biggest ones— had made enormous profits. All this, of course, is an open invitation for another round of wage increases, higher taxes, lavish pension demands, and more infla-

the hands of the union bosses, who-are now moving in for the kill, But the big union leaders seem determined to go just as far in pressing their advantage as the .big business leaders did. They are making demands which would give them gomplete; uncontrolled power to run .the. nation’s economy. On. the- one hand, they want to wipe out lled “rich,” and on the other hand, mdke them pay the full bill for this whole program. E

The Great Middle Class

- THE RESULT, if all this is attempted, will “be labor turmoil, lost production and still highe?’ - prices. : And, if a new lobby does this to the people, the eventual reaction will be the same as it was to what the old lobby did. “Between the business giants and the union giants are great masses of people who pay for the mistakes ‘on both sides. These people are nejther very rich nor very poor; very conservative nor very radical. They are the great -middle -class who pay their taxes and their bills, struggle to provide their own security—

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By Galbraith

Russia Is Possible

PARIS, Dec. 5—A world peace conference—with Russia possible but without hey if Bgeaguary-—has now become a possibility for next year. "Not a single informed observer here; so far as can be learned, any longer entertains the slightest belief in a Soviet desire. for.

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“| do not agree with & word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

served, for here the People Speak in Fryedom.

‘Law on Personal Rights’ : _By G. Don Sullivan, President, Notre Pame, ba , .Club of Indianapolis: There is a growing sitituls 1a ‘toward personal rights gerous, Many college profgesors teach that

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usion one day and another next week. Son Univers ity of Notre Dame believes that e pezsofial rights gual te and’ federal Constitutions are absolutely unchangeable. It holds, furthermore, that’the “only attitude toward law which can provide a permanent safeguard for eur constitutional rights isthe -attitude that. those..rights. are founded on unchangeable privileges. The principles constitute the natural law, Briefly defined, the natural law is the law of God recognized by human reason. Notre Dame for the second time is sponsoring the Natural Law Institute this week at the College of Law on the campus. Top-ranking jurists, ju , lawyers, educators and philosophers will participate. Vital issues concerning the personal rights of ‘every American will be discussed at the Institute. In the absence of some explanation, the aver. age man may evince little or no interest in these discussions of the natural law. Even in the legal profession many practitioners have not had time to study the meaning of natural law or its immense rtance to every man, woman and child in the world. As a matter of fact, the natural law is the foundation of our whole American system. of justice. - All controversies about the future peace of the world revolve around the persisting legal claim of the inviolability of the Individual - human being. The Notre Dame discussions deserve the close attention of all Americans who cherish their great Hom.

% ‘Boxing Mild Sport’ By Jerry N. Williamson, 2507 E. 88th St. In a recent issue of The Times, I observed the news that a 16-year-old boy had suffered a broken neck in a high schbol football game. Had the lad been killed in the squared circle, the fight ring, amateur or professional, this announcement would have swelled from the

minute mention in the corner of the sports page . to a headline, again declaring that boxing is

cruel, vicious, and entirely wrong and should be eliminated. I'm certainly not for the elimination of football, but simply for the toning down of persecution of boxing. Boxing, by comparison, is mild. Think of the deaths and injuries sustained in

the Speedway here, of the broken arms and legs

in football, of the strained wrists and ankles of hockey, and even the more minor injuries in baseball. Then hold your tongue and remember that sport is competition and the will to win causes hurts, including boxing. For your information, I have no professional connection at all with boxing, and am merely

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‘Give Driver the Limit’

By a “Southsider” ‘ I want to make Keown 3 my sentiments in the case of the hit and run driver who killed. officer

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Kelly. I would like to say if the Prosecutor's

office reduces the charges against this driver someone is lacking in law and order. He is certainly guilty of reckless killing and I don’t blame the Police Department for being angry.

I hope the judges will see the right sidg of ~

this case and inflict the severest penalty under

the law. Let's not let these criminais-go loose.

What Others Say—

EDUCATION for -American citizenship in

our troubled world requires that every student be taught to feel his. personal responsibility for the strength and defense of the culture which has nourished it.—Dr. Lewis W. Jones, president, University of Arkansas. ¢ o 9 WITH the exception of widely scattered and remote rural areas containing some small towns, television stands a good chance not of supple menting radio broadcasting as we know it today, but of replacing it.—James D. Shouse, president, Crosley Broadcasting Corp. » Sd bP

THE THREAT of war is one of the ways

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for enlistment.

Board-—whose job is to see that both civilian and military manpower needs are-satisfied—asked Selective Service for a better educational Aton system. James O'Brien, the board's manpower director, warned there was danger we would interfere with —and perhaps halt permanently—the studies of young scientists and engineers needed for the long-range security program. , Maj. Gen, Lewis Hershey, Selective Service director, agreed. With a limited peacetime draft, Gen, Hershey said, it -would.be

. possible to get enough men without interfering with the education

of those who might be more valuable as specialists than as foot soldiers.

‘Out’ for Draft Dodgers

BLANKET deferment for all students, as such, is not the answer, Selective Service ruled. That ow gp offer’ too tempting an “out” for draft dodgers able to finance a fdur-year college course. Gen. Hershey's assistant, Col. Lewis F. Kosch, says a

. student is entitled to no special consideration until it can be

shown the graduate will make good. Gen. Hershey first sought professional advice. He named

. five scientific cominittees headed by Dr. M. H, Trytten of the

National Research Council. The committees set out first to-learn how many physicists, social scientists and engineers, must be graduated each year. With that information, they worked out classification standards so that enpugh students will be graduated annually to satisfy

“the national need, and those graduates will be our best men.

Their report is to be given to Gen. Hershey by next Friday. It will involve: An educational classification test for dratlage boys who want to enter college. A promise of continued deferment if they stay in the top brackets of their class, - |

Standard Tests

CLASSIFICATION probably will “pe based on the standard intelligence test une by the Army, which requires a grade of 70 The highest possible score average is 100. Prospective college freshmen who want deferment probably will Be required to show a grade of 110—required of men entering officer candidate classes. To qualify for a second year of educational deferment,

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students must be listed in the top half of their freshman classes.

In their sophomore year, they must be in the top two thirds; in’ their r yéar, the top three-fourths. “4 "Brien says the plan probably will come In for some

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criticism.” For one thing, he says, it can be charged. it diseriminates in favor of the more intelligent. Similarly, it discriminates

against the boy who is just as bright as his neighbor but is unable

to finance a college education. Neither Mr. O'Brien nor Col. Kosch believes there is any justice in the complaint such a plan leaves the armed forces its choice of castoffs. They point 6ut the proposed classification standards do not defer a man simply because he is intel

Hgent— but only if he plans to apply that Intelligence to the benefit of

national security. : “From a practical standpoint; m Mr. O'Brien says, “there are men whose contribution in civilian life is too valuable to be Jpmoted We've got to have them. And if we have them when Bm must pe ape we train and sdijipte hem as we

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a peace settlement. “Yet, ‘as a member of one of the Big Five

: delegations told me, the world can't wait forever on Russia. x Russia. would be,

{Undesirable as a- peace conference without. #* is remarked that it is beginning to loom-as the only alternative to growing world unrest in view of the continuing deadlock. The briefly noted Mexican resolution of Oct. 2 has blazed the trail for such a ‘conference. Wholly innocuous as it stands, it seemed to amuse Russia to vote in favor of it, along with the rest ~—thus fof once making it unhnimous. :

Proceed Without Russia

THE RESOLUTION pointed out that inasmuch as the big powers had got nowhere after three years’ effort they should try again but with the smaller nations sifting in with them at the peace table. Should the United States, Britain, France and China ‘propose a conference, they would have the overwhelming backing of the entire membership of the United Nations with the probable exception of the Soviet bloc. Should Russia boycott the conference, it could proceed with out her. The Paris conference went right along after Italy took a walk in 1919, and—after a change of government at t Rome— she came back. Should Russia refuse to recognize the treaties framed at such a conference—which doubtless she would-it would have no bear-

ing on their validity with the rest of the world. The United °

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GERMANY now appears to be split, regardless, for an inde terminate time. Any European conference would have to take It is believed, however, that Western Germany may be regarded as the real Germany pending any inclusion of Germany. This is hardly the ideal solution. ‘But nobody here any longer expects the ideal solution. Nobody believes Russia would agree —whether at the Big Four foreign ministers’ meeting, at an European peace table or anywhere else—to any solution which did hot convert Germany into another Poland. . — Russia doubtless would fight any such peace conferénce pro- . But that merely is in keep three years. She might walk ou the United Nations. she has never beer a real member of that organization anyway, In many respects this has been a disastrous UN. session for Soviet Union. Andrei Vishinsky's vituperation and other In the bank of international eonfl-

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