Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 10 December 1948 — Page 26

ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ President Editor - x Business Manager

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Mexico, daily, $1.10 a month, Sunday, 5¢ a copy. Telephone RI ley 5551 Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

ANOTHER of many “crack downs" on Indianapolis’ multi-" * million dollar gambling industry has been started by the Police Department with some earmarks of thoroughness without regard for favorites. It was launched after a story in The Times disclosed that a new lottery ticket syndicate was being formed totake over this phase of the industry on a big scale. The sudden flurry of raiding apparently was Mayor Feeney's answer to reports that new gambling organizations were expecting some'*“favors” from the administration,

”. » ” . ”. » » NOBODY expects that gambling will be eliminated entirely from a city the size of Indianapolis, but it must be reduced to the point where organized syndicates cannot flourish to dangerous, big business proportions. We hope Mayor Feeney's cleanup this week will not be merely a temporary set-back for the gaming business, ‘but a permanent drive every week of the year to keep down the threat of lawless elements. It’s a big problem but it can be sdlved with a vigorous and consistent application of law enforcement the year around-—not just a one-week campaign.

A Symbol of Engine Power : AMONG the many unsung heroes behind the scenes of Indianapolis’ most colorful sporting event—the 500-

race car mechanics in America, who died here yesterday. His life was the symbol of an era in automotive mechanics that saw 'the gasoline engine rise from an awkward,

speed machines of the century. In the words of his close associate, Wilbur Shaw, Speedway president and three-time winner of the 500miler, Cotton Henning was the only man in the country who

- ould. really keep "em running.

dency. but a personality that added color to a famous sports classic,

This Is No Red Herring

PRESIDENT TRUMAN during the campaign and again yesterday tried to dismiss the Communist spy. investigation as a Red herring. We thought he was wrong. After the developments of the past week there's not much doubt that he was, \ The public has the House ‘Committee on Un-Amé Activities to thank for persisting until it turned up microfilms of official documents which former Under Sebre. tary of State Welles and Assistant ‘Secretary of State testify were top secret. ‘There may be a question as to the propriety of the committee's action in publicizing this matter while it is before a federal grand jury. But the more serious question is why the Depi t of Justice has done so little without

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" shine in the Amerasia case, and its record in this one seems to us much less than satisfactory. »

: a 8 . ; > SUSPICION grows that the administration is more in-

than on getting all the facts and punishing all the guilty. Perhaps that suspicion is unfair. But it will not be disposed of unless the administration acts with more initiative and vigor. The stolen documents are described officially as so secret that even now, 10 years after they or copies of them presumably were transmitted to Moscow, their contents ied with 1 ring our national se

Mr. Truman has a direct responsibility tor seeing that all persons connected with these serious leaks are brought to justice, and for making certain that fully adequate steps have been taken to prevent similar thefts from government offices. His responsibility is all the greater because, on misleading advice, he tried to laugh off the ‘whole idea Hat] = Red ¥pleés Were sperating SuccessTully Tn this country. We think the President ought to speak out promptly. —on-this “matter, And he aught to act.

Don’t Rob the BRP

‘DO riot believe money Congress appropriated to aid European recovery should be used to subsidize the American ocean shipping industry, o or any other American . ~ industry: bho ence AB 5 ii ~ Congress did order that half the Leomoliien sent to Europe under the Marshall Plan shéuld go in American ships, “as far as is practical,” and to the extent that pining ships are “available at market prices.” But Paul G. Hoffman, economic recovery administrator, says American ships for carrying bulk cargoes are not * available “at market prices.” He says the rates charged by foreign-ownéd ships are much lower—that, for instance, it costs $4.50 a ton more to send coal to France in an American vessel than it does in a foreign vessel. So Mr. Hoffman has announced that after Jan. 1 he no ‘longer will require half the Marshall Plan bulk cargoes to . be carried in American ships. ‘er : . » » “TO THIS, the U. S. Maritifte Commission objects vigorously, It contends that diversion of more cargoes to foreign ships would amount to “selling out our merchant marine” and would reduce America to “a second-rate mari«time power.” Certainly we don’t want that to happen. But in this controversy we're on Mr. Hoffman's side. As he says, the difference in cost between using American ships and foreign ships would be a subsidy to American . shipping, paid by. reducing the number of dollars available : «tor aid to Europe. == There may be sound reasons for subsidizing American shipping; If so, let Congress do it openly and honestly, Sppropriating money for that specific purpose. Don't do a the European Recovery Program, thereby reducing that program's effectiveness and its chances for aiping. to ajntain peace. "» “

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GOOD LIVING

Good Living is accomplished by service to humanity. By development of opportunity for others, the advancement of Good Will, understanding and peace through a world fellowship, It is often true that we cannot understand the reason for the way we seem to live and wonder how we can best serve. I once read that the ones who suffer in spirit and flesh are the ones, after they have come through

and found the spirit of good within, are the

ones who can take up the broken threads of pain and despair, tie them together, and use them as strings on the cross to make an instru- ; ~ment ‘where -they- play music, -and explain to - others the real way of living and the _best way to help humanity. They are the ones Who are able to create hope from despair and defeat, Some accomplish this end by material service— by painting beautiful pictures, by playing beautiful music or by writing. I cannot paint beautiful pictures or play sweet music, though

T#njoy It, but T do have Triends in books whose |g"

society is agreeable to me. . It is easy to find them for I keep them near in my bookcase. I use them when I will and dismiss them when I please, Some of my books tell of the past, some reveal the secrets of nature, some drive away my cares and others carry my spirits high. Some books are written by ‘hose who live so close to the spirit within, and take me, as it were, to Heaven itself. So I do think my books are my best friends and I should like to be a writer of good books to be of help to others. This verse of mine expresses oy thoughts. me write of the world, of the things of men Some write of things which might have ol. I should like to write of the beauty I see, The love of life for you and me. To write and write again To place courage in the heart of men.

~JESSIE WILKINSON, Noblesville * ¢ ¢

THE CHRISTMAS TREE'S MESSAGE

When from the wood and meadow Our feathered friends have fled, And barren trees stand shivering, Gaunt skeletons of the dead,

When the North Wind's icy fingers

And all the woodland flowers His frigid breath has killed,

Ah, then it's I, and I alone, “THAT Stands THe wintery brow,” “For then my coat of green is made More beautiful by the snow,

Being constant through all seasons I'm the living symbol of The thought expressed on Christmas Of. God's unchanging love... ... -— ~a=TOWARD M( MOYER, Indianapolis,

OUR "BABY

Now here is our baby, and she is so small; She is chubby and plump and the: joy of us all, Bhe has lovely blankets, and dresses so thin, ‘But her pants are the kind that are held by a

She has Py of socks, shawls, and booties galore, 80 many nice gifts, can she need any more? She smiles and is happy with no time to fref And takes lovely naps in her white bassinet.

She placidly sleeps in her bed all night long; She crows and she laughs and. sings us a song. Her cheeks are like roses; now what do you think? Does She ver wear “make-up?” No, just baby “pi i"

Same } homes have no babies, no dear girls and ye, No dollies, 1 no playthings, no laughing, no noise,

Without our dear baby so sweet, happy, t0o,...

~ Now tell. me what- would all our family do? —MINNIE WaLLE NOBLITT, Columbus. : ®* ¢

DECEMBER

December has a bleakness all its own; The fields of wheat sleep underneath the snow, Old Winter's scarf of damonds has been blown Across thé naked forest—and below “The eaves the ice has formed a crystal mould. — The winter skies are grimy and smoky gray— - Hang low; before the sunset turns to gold The snow-flakes: cover one more chilling day.

In contrast, blazing logs give sparkling cheer As families unite at eventide And big red apples grace the table—near

-..xhe candles on the marble mantle-side.

All worries of -the day have taken fi

, Wn; embers glow upon.-the.- Sn night, =

~GRACE P, POLK, Greenwood —

WEST COAST DANGER +++ By Jim G. Lucas

Red Threat to U.

TPR IMINGTON Deer 1 HCl falls tos the Se fe our West Coast and Pacific sea Janes will be’ Yaiterabie to Russia’s growing-Snorkel submarine fleets: k —-Russia's principal Asiatic submarine base today is Viadivos—|—= tok, where hundreds of German scientists and technicians have The Soviets are known to | have 150-odd submarines there, some built on the spot, others | having gone around Cape Horn. A few have been sent from

been ‘sent since the end of the war.

Baltic and. White Sea ports through the Arctic.

In addition, Russia has submarine bases at Nikolaevsk at the mouth of the Amur, in the Komandorski Islands and at Pee. . -Aropovolosk on Kamchata peninsula: Despite its size, the Vladivostok base has limited value, It can be reached only through well-defined channels, Our subma-

rine experts say it would be easy to mine approaches to Viadivostok and keep Russia's Pacific submarine fleets under control, Those which could get out might not be able to return. In anti submarine warfare, experience has shown that locating the tar-

get is 80 per cent of the battle,

Choice of 49 Ports

WITH all of China under Communists, however, Soviet submariners would have their choice of 49 Chinese port cities with

unhampered access to the Pacific.

The Soviets probably would prefer to build at Tsingtao, now the base of Rear Adm. Oscar Badger's western Pacific fleet. For the moment, at léast, Adm. Badger has orders to stay at Tsingtao and take steps necessary to insure his staying. But If the Nationalists lose the war Adm. Badger would have to neAnd Navy men here believe Russia would pressure the Chinese Communists to force Adm.

gotiate with the Reds or get out. Badger's withdrawal,

Amoy also would serve the Soviets well. So would Shanghai, Tientsin, or Kowloon, If Communist domination is complete it may force the British out of Hong Kong and give the Soviets the

naval yards there.

“In event of ‘war; Russian submarines operating out of Chi nese ports could paralyze shipping and eut our supply lines to Japan and the Pacific islands. They could interfere with shipping between Hawaii and the West Coast. They could blockade

American troops in the Philippines,

Grave Military Threat

" THE RUSSIAN submarine menace is

~the. battleship Missouri, 500 miles from its target.

Russia captured the bulk of Nazi Germany's submarine pens, technicians, They have Approximately 300 under-

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“fa Massachusetts boy. And he might Rave

one of gravest military threats. The Navy recently decommissioned several capital ships and assigned their crews to anti-submarine . warfare. Navy men admit the answer isn't in sight, In recent war games off Newfoundland, eight mew 'Snorkel-equipped submarines theoretically sank a 100-ship invasion fleet, including

OUR TOWN

THE ONLY comfort I get out.of the demolition of Hotel English is the reassuring satisfaction that it now leaves the old ‘Federal

Building as the most Hkely Place to look - for “AUtHERtd Boss u

The old Federal Building, at the southeast corner of Market and Pennsylvania Sts. is now peopled by the personnel of the American National Bank. As for the ghosts, they

more specifically, that part of the structure where the ancient courtroom used to be. Identified thus far are the ghosts of Samuel J. Tilden, Daniel’ W. Voorhees, Thomas A. Henfiricks, Richard W. Thompson and Benjamin Harrison who, in their day, fought some of the biggest legal battles in the cheerless, barn-like room--a room you wouldn't recognize today because of the stylish way the bank people have

it fixed up to accommodate their Arugt. depart-

ment. The old Federal Building is an architectural product-—and a very nice one, too-—of the James Buchanan administration. Ground was broken In 1857. Four years later, the building was dedicated. There is probably no other edifice in Indianapolis that shows its age less. Mind you, it's almost 90 years old now.

First Judge in Building

AMONG President Lincoln's first appoint--

ments was that of Caleb B. Smith as Judge for the District of Indiana. Previously, Mr. Smith oad been appointed Secretary of the Interior in Lincoln’s cabinet. Two years later, however, he resigned to accept the Indianapolis post. He was

“the first Judge-to rove into the new building.

"The galaxy of legal lights that followed included Judge Walter Q. Gresham whe later, in 1883, became President Arthur's PostmasterGeneral and still later (1893) Grover Cleveland's Secretary of State. It was in the. little courtroom of our old

Federal Building that. Pete McCartney, the

slickest counterfeiter of his day, was brought before Judge Gresham: When he got wind of the crook’s reputation, Judge Gresham ordered

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HIGHWAYS Play Havoc With Cross-Coun-try Trucks — hews item. Business of getting

Niet to be a traffic cop. ol | Side Glances

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-loaded rifles.

“Are you sure it's only the mumps, doctor? So many things this year the experts have been wrong about!"

. By Anton Scherrer

Ghosts Still Haunt Building

~The meadow brook his stitted, |

that he be kept in a hotel guarded every minute by a battalion of U, 8. marshals armed with Said he didn’t trust the little old Marion County jail at Market and Alabama Sts.

,..on-the. site of the present Courthouse Square. CTUUIn thE ¢olirse of the tral it. was Yeveared ‘that in _the-summier of 1876, before the Grand

Army of the Republic (G. A. R.) was heard of around here, a reunion of Civil War veterans was staged in Indianapolis.

Passed $20 Bogus Bills - in

"DURING “the ‘week of that encampment;

hundreds of veterans were imposed upon by acvépting $20 bogus bills atitheir face value. The money was so cleverly manufactured as to render detection almost.impossible.~ Indeed, with all the resources at its command, the Government couldn't even run down the “shovers,” an early American euphemism to describe the

"members of the gang who actually passed the money and thus distinguish them. from those

responsible. for its manufacture. It remained for old John Shafer, a Wayne County constable, to turn the trick. One evening in the Pennsylvania R. R. station at Richmond, Mr. Shafer noticed a ¢lerical-looking:

- gentleman eating his supper in the depot restau-

rant. When he got up to pay his bill, he tendered a $20 greenback. Forthwith, Mr. Shafer handcuffed the man. He was -“easonably sure he had the guilty party, for that very afternoon he had seen the same man exchange a crisp $20 bill for something he had bought at a drug store. Seventy years ago, the sight of a $20-bill in Richmond wasn’t as common as it is today—and, least of all, a crisp bill. When the handcuffed man realized the fix he was in, he said: “Mr. Officer, you do not look

like .a wealthy man. Suppose. you turn your - Head and TI'#Ip vou $1800, évery cent of which~-

is good money.”

Legend of Ghost

THANK GOODNESS, however, Mr. Shafer was™ made of sterner stuff; and apparently, 1nage Gresham, too, with the result that Pete

McCartney got “the limit of thé Taw. And ever

since that day there has been a local legend

“that Pete McCartney's ghost can be seen peep-

ing fromthe second-story windows of the old Federal Building—but only on such occasions when Indianapolis is visited by an epidemic of $20 bogus bills, ; I'd completely forgotten the hallowed old legend until last night when, at 12:10 a. m,, a hysterical voice over the telephone roused me out 6f bed with the newsworthy item that a

leering and clerfeany dressed _ ghost ‘hdd ‘made its Appearance at the

window. of: the American National Bank building.

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Hoosier Forum

" do not agres with a word that you say, buf | will defend to the death your right fo say i"

" ject with which you are familiar, Ss Tals used will be edited but ‘content will be pre. served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.

‘Seek Rental Increase’ By E. A. Wrentmore, President, A RH 0 U,

The many landlords who have not received a substantial raise in rents since 1941 and are suffering hardship ‘on account of inflated taxes and cost of upkeep will be glad to know that a movement is on foot to grant a general increase in this district. However, ‘it involves the cooperation of the property owners. Pe The Rant fie ne Advisory Board have ree ceived from Washington a number of blanks, which, when properly filled. out ‘by owners of rental property, will show the’ decrease of net income in each case, between the years 1941 and 1048. These blanks are simple and easy to fill out. When they are returned. to the rental office an average in the per cent of decrease reported in the several papers is worked out, and a general increase granted to the landlords. ™ application of this plan. at Galesburg, I, cently resulted in an increase of 18 per cent. At least 5000 of these blanks will be dis-. rental district. have been handed over to the American Home Owners’ Union and will be distributed at the next meeting of the organization at 320 N. Pennsylvania tang,

“ill Will Toward Men’

By L. A. Jackson, Box 483, Vernon, Ind. "The. president of the Federal Council of

Churches of Christ in America says the reason religion has not saved the world is that the church has missed the basic problems of life, These problems, he says, lie in men’s relations with each other. I think the church could have done more to bring about proper human relations had there been in the world only one theology. Different theological beliefs result in prejudice, and prejudice generates ill will. So today, instead of “Peace on earth, good will toward .men,” we have war on earth and ill will toward men. However, the church would have failed any way, for we have only recently learned how to make people good. The grea majority of people do not yet know. I know of only one church whose members are making a conscious effort to train their children by the scientific method. All voluntary conduct is’ motivated by re-

SWATHS and punistimertts: <The difference ~bes wv

tween a good person and a bad one is that the rewards and punishments of the good one come’ - from his own consciencé# while those of the bad one from other sources. Our task, therefore, is to ‘develop a highly sensitive conscience in thd “child. This requires a knowledge orgiid training based upon: child psychology.-

Most parents and teachers do not realize

the importance of such knowledge. A recent survey showed that the home has more influence in determining the character of the ine dividual than all other influénces combined. I predict that before many decades have passed, every person who ‘applies for a teacher’s license or a marriage license will be required to pass a test in child training. ¢ ¢ 9

‘Lobbying Is an Insult’ By Dale B. Dunwiddie, Anderson, Ind. My definition of a lobbyist is one who feels that an elected official is not capable of thinking or even attempting to think and from some vainglorious whim feels that his ideas must pass through the elected official and then on to the public. It is not only disgusting but an insult to the elected public official.

What Others Sov z

-. THERE have been many reasons advanced for our losing the last election. But I think we “(Republicans) lost Principally bécause we railed to excite the imagination of the American people—Philip H. H. Willkie, son of the late Wendell H. Willkie. Te @ AMERICAN private enterprise does not have

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to apologize for its remarkable record of hous- }

Ing “since the end of the war. Earl managing director, National Association of Manufacturers: —— Sin ® 4 9

ALL over the world, nations are erying for peace; and I believe this tank will help tp insure that peace.—Mrs. George S. Patton Jr., famed general's widow, dedicating new tank named for him.

*» & 9 LABOR 1§ ‘not Mterestéd in dollars, but Wm power Walter: “Toeuthée, ~ president,

purchasing: United Auto Workers—CI0.

By Galbraith ECONOMIC QUESTIONS . . . By Earl Richert

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men on anti-submarine duty. America’s

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sea craft, many of them late models. submarines at the start of World War II, and with only those came close to winning the war of the Atlantic. At the peak of the German submarine threat, we were forced to put two million

One high-ranking Navy officer says there was an even chance in the spring of 1943 that we would lose the submarine ‘HadWve lost, he said, we would also have Jost” World

sources say all of Russia's naval effort is on fast, Snorkel-equipped submarines which can cruise at 20 to 24 knots and stay down for months. Possession of Chinese ports, they say, Ould Five her an epportualty to uae. Wiss Sets ‘oa 3

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| Profits Too High?

er WASHINGTON, Dec. 10-—Just- ig -Are-corporation: prof. “too high, and how can we tell? ; Two noted Harvard professors lectured for seversl house. before a congressional committee on the question, threw out a | number of -yardsticks and then debunked most of them. One of them, Economics Prof, Seymour E: Harris, was wil to go out on the limb, hewever, and say:-“My considered Judge ment is that profits are too high.” The other, Sumner H. Slichter, declined -a-specific answer. “He devoted most of his time to charges that corporations were overstating their profits by billions because of old-fashioned accounting systems, Prof, Slichter said corporations this year would report profits of $20 to $21 billion and pay taxes on that amount. But actually, he“said, their real profits amount to only $16 billion because the companies are counting the cost of replacing inventories, plant and equipment as profits, amount these companies actually have to pay dividends, increase wages, reduce prices or expand their plant.

Profits Lead Rise

PROF. HARRIS, the author of 21 economics books, in his answer stressed the fact that from 1939 to 1947, corporation profits had gone up four and a third times while prices rose only two-thirds and national income by one and three-fifths. He said that frequently overlooked was the large gains in non-incorporated businesses, including the professions. Business and professional incomes are up from $6.8 billion (In 1939 to a current annual rate of $26 billion. Corporation profits, before taxes, have gone up from $6.5 billion in 1939 to a current annual rate of $29.5 billion, ’ All profits, including professional income, took about 23. per cent of the national income in 1929 as compared with 26 per cent

The $16 billion will represent the

“Qur system would stand a much better chance of survival if .the incomes of business and professional groups, going to a relatively small part of the population, did not reach more than one quarter of the total income, before taxes,” he said.

Favors Higher Taxes

RRIS favored higher a on business income 0 clear-cut answer can be given to the guestion

of whether profits are too high.” He said he would like to see the incréased tax based to some extent on excess profits and that even In the present situation there is 3 case for extension of government controls. Prof. Slichter said he preferred to wait and see how big next year's federal budget Would _be_before making any mendations. He said the answer to the question a profits are "inadequate” or “excessive” depends upon how fast the come munity wishes industry, to’ expand. “If profits are causing industry to expand faster than the community likes, they are excessive,” he said. bring about as rapid an expansion of productive capacity as the community woulda like td have, profits are inadequate.”

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