Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 December 1948 — Page 28
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Yuletide Racketeering
HE meanest of all racketeering is that which takes advantage of the spirit of Yuletide giving to swindle unsuspecting victims under the disguise of charity or fast whapgaing in-gifts. : - «Yet, Christmas chiselers are at it again on n Indianapolis streets working their old tricks as bold as ever, according to a survey made by the Better Business Bureau. The one sure way to stop these rackets is to reduce the number of their “customers” to the point where their schemes will no longer be profitable. And reducing the number of customers can be accomplished by the public's refusal to donate funds to any unlicensed charitable organization or to purchase from unidentified peddlers any merchandise on a pay-in-advance-of-delivery basis. Racketeéring can never flourish without victims gullible enough to fall for shady schemes.
An Opporlunity
WE ‘HOPE that many readers will eontribute to Gen. Clay's fund for German children, established recently by CARE—the Co-operative for American Remittances to _ Europe. Its purpose is to provide gift parcels for thousands of youngsters whose Christmas otherwise would be bleak. Punishment for the Nazi war-makers is right and necessary, The German people’ must be made to understand that never again can they dare to bring war and suffering
German children is no part of the lesson we seek to impress on their elders. We need and want those children, as they grow older, to be our peaceful friends. . Gen. Lucius Clay, our commander in Western Germany, says this fund is an opportunity to “exemplify to German youth that spirit of charity, good will and under- - which characterizes the Christnias season in the United States.” It is, indeed. You can help to make the most of that opportunity by mailing, promptly, your $10 0] Gen. Clay's fund. Address it to "CARE, ashington, D. C."
4 UN Assembly Takes a Holiday
~ DER pressure of American and other holiday-minded delegations the United Nations General Assembly has voted to recess next Saturday until Apr. 1. This was over . the objection of Britain, France and a large minority which ~ wanted to stay on and finish the long agenda. At first blush it may seem an outrage to lay aside dangerously unsettled international problems so delegates _ and staff may hasten home for Christmas. That was the holier-than-thou attitude of some Western European dele--who could have slipped off home from Paris for a week-end even. if the Assembly had not voted a
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te, after nearly three months of exceedingly heavy work with many night sessions and extra committee meet-
down physically and mentally.” That is not an exaggerated excuse. Our 1 two ranking ~ delegates, Secretary of State Marshall and Warren Austin, returned to this country-ill. Many of the foreign delegates show bad cases of nerves. The cool judgment and steady
Assembly: notoriously thing in the last fortnight. It would have been more intelligent to reconvene in “New York on Feb. 1, as proposed by the Steering Committee, but the 8 Test until April will Juprove Semmpers at least.
AN 82-year-old New Yorker named Frederick N. Goldsmith has been ordered to stop selling a stock-market . tip service. The judge who issued the order held that Mr. * Goldsmith erred in failing to tell his clients that he acquired much of tha inside information he sold them by studying comic strips in the newspapers. .,.._TNow_ we are not prepared to argue that comic strips are the surest possible guide to success in stock-market speculation. But we note that at least one satisfied customer testified to making a $150,000 profit by following ~ Mr. Goldsmith's advice. And we can't help wondering whether the Goldsmith system really was less reliable than those of the learned { ‘economists who get their information by studying statistics, - charts, graphs, indices, weighted averages and other things insomprenensible to the average citizen. % fe r » » . ,OUR trouble with the economists is that even when we understand them, which is seldom, they don't agree, and that they don’t confine their prognostications to anything ‘as simple as the behavior of the stock market. The same basic facts are available to them all, but, the ..conclusions they draw from those facts too often are a long way apart. - Many economists tell us that the end of post-war prosperity is nowhere in sight. Many others warn that the ~~ boom is about to bust. Take, in fact, almost any one of the fateful problems facing this country today, and you can find eminent economists on both sides of it. Or on all sides of it, if it has more than two. Frankly, the economists have us confused. And we that they have almost everybody else confused; themselves. We're not sure that a wider application we the Goldsmith system would be better, but it might be worth trying. Maybe President Truman ought to call _ Mr. Goldsmith to Washington, supply him ‘with plenty of pec ips and yt bm cls of advan the vers
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THE MILE OF DIMES.
Laid side by side the bright dimes gleam In rain or snow upon the walk, They stretch like silver ribbons where __The Yuletide shoppers pause to talk.
“The goal is one long mile of dimes," The clothe-a-child-fund sponsors say, “To brighten lives of tiny tots —— With warmth for Christmas day.”
And so each year again we see THe sve line grow dime by dime, " Knowing well The Times will clothe ’ Many a child at Christmas time.
And many feet pass in a day And many hearts are light, they know The dimes they laid upon the street _ Helped keep a Christmas light aglow. © —OPAL McGUIRE; Dupont. * % 9%
TT FIRST SNOW
1 knew it would be white; I Knew It would be soft and still; “I knew it would lie mounded here Upon my window-sill , . .-* And yet, imaginatively, I'm not prepared at all For worlds white-silhouetted by The winter's first snow-fall!
Excited snow-flakes tranquilize Themselves heneath my feet The way I walk transforms itself Into a magic street Where earth and sky and in-between Become an artist's hall, Whose shifting canvases portray The winter's first-snow-fall!
~ESTHER KEM THOMAS, Columbuys. | Eee
OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD
Now oné would be a lawyer, and thereby seek renown While another is a barber—perhaps the best in town-— Some would paint great pictures—with skill and beauty rare— And melodies are made by those, who would help to soothe dull care, Others may follow nature—and garner from the field. Of. vocations. there. are.many. which both fame and profit yield, But a truth we must this day admit— Perhaps all people know it— We have no claim on gain and fame . . We try to be a Poet. ~WILLIAM ERVIN WICKLIFF, New Castle. IS
ASLEEP
On the face of a babe There is no care w. As it Hes asleep
In the cradle; there's a
“No worry of tomorow, No schemes, no sorfow, “On the face of a babe As it sleeps.
~DELORES BRUNER, Indianapolis. > 0
NANCY'S SURPRISE (Seven Years Old)
na + « « listened closely From the kitchen | . . could it be Breakfast being made . . . exactly As she did it for the three!
Just a hint . . . of plates and silve( Being placed . . . so quietly. Goodness gracious! Coffee perking! Then a call . . . “Oh, come and see!
“Mama .,., Daddy . .. Breakfasts ready, Wash your faces . . . little dears; . that toast is finished, : Please don’t wait . .. to wash your ears!” ~ANNA E. Y G, Indianapolis, eT»
* “CHRISTMAS SHOPPING
My Christmas shopping starfs in May, To avoid confusion and delay, ~ But what disturbs me, even more—
1 finish up the day before.
‘1 feel elated when I say, “My Christmas shopping’s done, hurrah!” And then; there's always. one more gift, "The day before the twenty-fifth.
~—CLALA MARTIN, Tudianapolls :
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NATIONAL DEFENSE .
. By Marquis Childs
Unity Plan of Armed Services Fails to End Intense Rivalry
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9—The harsh facts are catching up with the convenient myth that the armed services have been unified. Propaganda cannot cover up the truth, which is that rivalry between the services is almost more acute than it was before passage of.the National Military Establishment bill. 5 The official] damper put on by the White “House may-keep the current ffjuabble over the budget behind closed doors. But it ‘has not put an end to the dispute. The civilian and military heads qf ‘the three services continued to press their separate claims. Within the bureau of the budget, which must send final figures to Congress, they are complaining that no one in the Pentagon building seems to be even close to resolving the quarrel. The only answer is to hint that the total must go above the $15 billion ceiling, so that each service will get everything it asks for.
Serious Obstacles ‘8 edd ALL THIS is “pointed ‘up by the report of the committee on the National Security Organization of the Hoover Commission to reorganize the government. Chairman of that committee is Ferdinand Eberstadt who was fréquently mentioned as Secretary of National Defense in the event Gov. Dewey had been elected President. Mr, Eberstadt and the majority of the committee recognize an “improvement” under the but they also recognize the serious obstacles in the way of any real unification with the present top-heavy setup. Army,
- Navy and Air each has a separate secretary,
an undersecretary and two assistant secretaries, while the Secretary of National Defense, supposedly top a has no assistants and no
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The at Committee also recognizes the
weakness in the joint chiefs of staff, where each-
service chief has the veto power and there is no over-all military chief. Timidly and tentatively,
«Mr; Eberstadt-and the committee propose. that.
the Secretary of Defense be given a principal military assistant and that a top military man
_ Yer in the Pentagon.
also be named to represent the seretnty on the joint chiefs of staff. As representative of the secretary, he would act as umpire in referring
. disputes to his boss, but he would not have
power to-end those disputes.
Over-all Chief of Staff TWO dissenters on the Eberstadt Committee are much more forthright and courageous, and it happens that the two dissenters know far more. about. the military establishment through direct experience than any other committee member. One is John J. McCloy, who served as Assistant Secretary of War to Henry L. Stimson throughoyt World War II. Mr. McCloy proposes a chief of staff for the joint chiefs, who would have final authority to resolve. major service differences. He points out that the same arguments now being used
against such a No. 1 chief were used when the:
Army was reorganized and three separate chiefs of infantry, artillery and cavalry were merged into one. But the really “vigorous dissenter is ‘Robert P. Patterson, who was Undersecretary to Mr. Stimson and. Secretary of War prior td unifica-
“tion. Bluntly, Mr. Patterson says that the pres | ‘ent setup may have created more’ divisiveness
than unity. It has certainly not brought about the economies that are possible, he adds.
Top-Heavy System WITH the forthrightness that characterized his wartime service, Mr, Patterson recommends that the' top-heavy system of three separate secretaries, undersecretaries and assistants be abolished. the Secretary of Defense, who would have two undersecretaries and oné or more ‘assistants. The, latter would not be special Pleaders for Army, Navy and Air Force. + It is hard to see how the present setup can ‘continue, A recent magazine article by Mr. Forrestal suggesting that all-—or nearly all-— was sweetness and light has caused wry laugh~Congress veturns in less than a month with signs that an accounting will be demanded.
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be alumi of the Enforcement Committed’ of the Indianapolis Safety Council, I heartily commend the increased activity of the police and the sterner attitude of the i Our sgraceful-reeosd- of traffic deaths and is largely due to the lukewarm A have had for the past 10 years. Jail sentences for the more murderous offenses are in line with effective procedures in some of our safer cities, Regarding the use of the stop watch and white Sines to supplement motorcycle pacing. of cars, the stop watch method has been indorsed by safety experts, including those of President's Highway Safety Conference. ~ No law-abiding’ motorist can object~to the presence of a traffic officer where he travels. As- forthe. chronie violator who insists on remaining a potential killer, it should hardly be necessary to notify him in advance just what streets are being patrolled. The white lines are certainly in plain view and every motorist knows what they are for. To accomplish anything, the present activity
“must not be just a spurt, but must continue for
weeks and months. We need traffic crash abate ment ‘as well as smoke abatement and the former can be secured with much less expense and inconvenience.- ®* © 9
‘Check on Utility Meters’
By Gladys Ruddick, 5801 E. 21st St. For many years I have wondered why no one in authority has checked the meters put out by the - public utilities—namely, gas, water and electricity. A complaint from a consumer involving a meter check is usually expensive and in some cases prohibitively so. The public has trusted the utilities a long time in this matter, If a plan could be worked out lawfully, with-
|. out too great an overhead, whereby the meters
of the entire state could be checked, it might be the means of raising revenue for the veterans’ bonus. Vets, preferably combat, could be employed. Perchance, should a meter be inaccurate, it seems fair that the utility should pay a reasonable fee; if okay, the consumer. -The request
sumer’s part, possibly paid for in advance with refund if the utility is found liable. Anyway, here is my suggestion and rm sticking to it till it is proven. practical or other. wise.. > 4 9
‘The Curels Forgiveness’ By Hiram Lackey, 589 Main St., Martinsville Last June Argentine’s UN representative, Senor Brumulgia, electrified the world by dramatically telling us that we would begin to be successful in our fight against communism when we became as much interested in the ‘causes of communism as we are concerned about the consequences of communism. While our conscience gnawed and our cheeks burned with the fire of the insult, we talked about better housing, just wages, civil rights, .etc. - The folly of the attitude of the Communist ts clear and has been pointed out forcefully many. times. However, something more than logic is needed in dealing with hate, compounded as it has beed through the years, resulting in our rabid Communists. We don’t have to give up anything excepting what is low and unworthy in us. The cure is simply Christian repentance, confession and forgiveness. If we don’t have this honesty, we are not too much etter than the Coraline themselves,
What Others Say—
To say that the Chinese situation is hope‘less is to say that Asia is. hopeless, that the future of the free nations. of the world is hopeless.—Dr. T. F. Tsiang, China’s chief delegate to the United Nations. LP
We are going . to reverse our stand ae :
being “against” things to being “for” them. Our phrase “we are unalterably opposed to” is out.—
Earl Basing, managing director, National Asm I
turers. — —
* I'm sure -the President will forgive venial sins, as opposed to mortal sins. . . . Mortal sin is one which kills the soul.—Sen. J. Howard Me-Grath-(D;) of Rhode Island, Democratic nation- - al chairman.
: | Electoral a Be Abolished
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“Three aspects of the recent elections show the need for re“First, the fact that the absolute unit rule system meant a switch of 100,000 votes in five states would have elected Gov. Thomas E. Dewey even though President Tru-
form,” Sen. Lodge said.
man retained‘a popular vote lead.
Dangerous Uncertainty
+ BECOND, a shift of only a few thousand votes in two or " three key states ‘wotild have deadlocked the decision and created
dangerous uncertainty.
“Third, the Alabama complication, where voters could not vote for President Truman because his electors were not on the
ballot, This created an undemocratic situation.
“three -conditions could ‘occur-under-my proposed Condiutionat
amendment.”
Mr. Kefauver pointed out that a shift of only 30,000 votes in Ohio and Illinois would have thrown the election into the House.
He said that “almost everyone” is for the change and that he believes it has a good chance of congressipnal approval. House by Rep. Ed
Sen. Lodge's bill, co-sponsored in the Gossett (D. Tex.) would:
Abolish the electoral college as such but retain the electoral vote as now apportioned among the states. Each state's electoral vote would be counted in proportion to the popular vote, however, instead of going-as a block to the popular-vote winner, | candidate carrying Ohlo in a three-to-two ratio would not get all "of its 25 electoral votes, but would get 15 of them. The loser
would get 10,
End—Potential Danger
ELIMINATE a ‘source of potential danger stemming from the possibility that a candidate receiving a mitoHpy | ot the popular vote*could receive a majority of the electoral vo Would tend to diminish the present practice of atop
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TY Tee. 9—Aggressive “Reto bY both Demo --erats- and ‘Republicans. to. abolish. the outworn electoral college method of choosing a Present Is assured in the new Session of Congress. “A : "Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge - (R. Mass.) announced he would reintroduce his electoral reform proposal early next year, Elect Estes Kefauver (D. Tenn.); who as a House member has plugged for the same reform, said He hoped to work with Mr. Lodge in getting action. ~ Numerous. other important congressional - figures -are- x= . pected to join them, spurred by the fact that change of com-. paratively few votes in the November election would have precipitated hazards never. forseen when the electoral provision was
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And, finally, still preserve to the small states the two-vote credit they get for their Senators in the electoral apportionment. This js an advantage they would lose if the electoral vote were -abolisted entirely and Presidents elected by direct popular vote. It 1s a protection which miist be provided if the proposed Constitutional amendment is to stand a chance of passage in 36 Begessary
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ah three-months session has been unable %o bring about any settlement on any of them. ' The “neutral”. nations of the Security Council proposed a resolution call taneous resumption of negotiations on a unified currency for the city. The Soviets vetoed the resolution. The United Nations condemned aid to the Communist guerrillas in Greece by three nations of the Soviet bloc—Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania. The aid goes on. The United Nations sent a commission to supervise free elections in Korea.
Dark Shadow of Conflict
THE COMMISSION was barred from Soviet-controHed ,.orth Korea. Today the Soviets insist before the United Nations that their North Korea puppet government be recognized : “legal” "government of the Korean ‘people's republic.” Over almost every subject discussed in every committee of the United Nations hangs the dark shadow of the East-West
for lifting the Berlin blockade and simul-
as the
The - agenda has ‘been loaded with {tem ard tem, mostly. : of propaganda value to one side or the other. When the sessions began there were 60 items to be discussed. By this week the number had increased to 100. In the last session of the United Nations there, ‘were approxi‘mately 280 committee meetings and sessions, This time there “were more than 460 and less was accomplished. If that trend contifues man y delegates’ fear it will mean the end of the United Nations asa yo force. .
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“ WORLD PEACE": By William H: Newton === Grave Fears Arise Over UN Failures
PARIS, Dec. 9—As the third “General Assembly “of the “United Nations draws to a close hers there dre grave fears that uniess-a- new basis oan be Tound for its deliberations the organ“ization is headed for disaster. In this session, the most disappoiniing and fruitless since the birth of the organization, {wo maine facts.stand out: ONE: The moral force of World ‘opinion 1s not enough to stop the expansion of Soviét control.
TWO: The United Nations is in danger of talking itself to
The record of this. session How coming to a clove shows that ~~ a majority vote of ‘the other nations has no significance fo members of the Soviet bloc. Every decision of the United Nations with which they did not agree has been directly flouted oy the - Soviets or their satellites.
No Settlement on 3 Points
THE UNITED NATIONS is being used by the Soviets solely as a world-wide sounding board for Communist propaganda, and the lengthy propaganda speeches themselves serve to delay or prevent constructive action, When the session opened in September, the dispute between the East and West, over Berlin, Greece and Korea represented Sree of the principal pressure points which might explode into.
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