Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 December 1948 — Page 10

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER > “WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager

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Ne. Smoke Screen on Smoke "glad when City Council rmembers-went-10-see-

in St. Louis and Pittsburgh—two cities which have had notable success in reducing smoke. -.... We didn't- expect our own City Council to come back and adopt, intact, the plans which have worked there. Obvionsly any smoke abatement plan has to be tailored to: fit the community where it is applied, and if we were going to copy verbatim a St. Louis or a Pittsburgh plan, there would have been no need for the councilmanic expedition to look. But we didn't expect our City Council to come home - and hold a secret star-chamber session in which they tacitly agreed not to do anything much about smoke either, We hope that is not what happened Thursday evening, although from outside—which is the only place any tax-paying, voting, citizen of Indianapolis could get for that council meeting—it sort of looks that way.

pears to us that our City Council is making two mistakes: First: That they can transact the public's business in private. . 4 2 Second: That the people of Indianapolis are not much interested in smoke abatement. : Secret meetings very seldom stay secret long, as the Jone Thursday night didn’t, and they always make people woider what there is to hide. - Srivoke, right here in Indianapolis, is a costly nuisance that hits everybody in town, and that wastes outright probably as much money every year as it costs us to run the

eed has. It affects everybody .who wears, a. shirt, or ~ washes a window, or has paint on his house, -or breathes breath of adr. : What councilmen mistake for indifference we believe is more likely hopelessness, created by a long series of ~ buck-passing city councils which over the years have quietly Be among themselves to do nothing much about smoke. If, as several councilmen say, people are not much interested in smoke abatement, we wonder where ail this “heat” about it that they mention in the next sentence, is coming from? : City Council has a direct obligation to work out the ~ very best smoke abatement program they are able to devise ~—one that is sound, sensible, practical-—and effective. One that will work Here, under our own local conditions.

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Indianapolis Times

In Tune With the Times Barton Rees. Pogue HIS FIRST VOTE

Standing in the door-way, a mother watched | “her Iad go out to cast his first vote. He swuhg |

ly down the steps and out into the street, clad in college garb, impressive-looking volumes under his arm, shoulders back, step quick and sure. The panorama of life stretched out before the mother . . . clinging soft baby-hood, first toddling steps, his first day at school, his . not. too-surelyspoken speech at Children’s Day, his over-corifident High School days. ho! so quitkly into uniform and gone, perhaps, forever. How the heart can die and still keep

came back home, back to school and out to cast his first vote. She heard herself saying, “Be sure, lad, to pull the proper lever.” Never will stie forget

the flash of his smile as he looked back at her, .

and, saying no word aldud, that smile sent back the message: “Never you fear, my mother. I learned that lesson at your knee, I learned another chapter of it in the church, and another in the day school.” And, mother dear, do you forget? I crossed the sea and:fought a

war to keep the American way of life, and I_

shall not faiter now.” 80 our great and beautiful land of the free lives on! ~BERNICE HARNESS EZRA, Lafayette. ¢ & o

MY LUCK

Four-leafed clovers grow in grass, Hiding from me as I pass. If I find one I cah know That my luck will surely grow, But a magnifying glass Never is at hand, and so Luck lives on in clover row, LILLIAN BECK, Terre Haute. ee & ¢

“THE THRONE OF- DESTINY

The faded flower, broken bough—are not— Just lost beneath the shining dust of time. Ideals are alive altho they drift Down long forgotten lanes; when twilight comes To catch the last bright gems of setting sun The, weary day drops down beyond the sea And as the world is clothed in somber night

Low winds are singing, singing thru the trees,

A canvas of the future veils the sky Tomorrow may hold scenes in other climes But there is color-magic. everywhere, The lights and shadows ever come and go SQrrows paint our every day

the faded flower; -broken-bough-—-With all the hidden treasures of the heart And sometimes—visit with the yesterdays; _ We live again the dreams that might have been We worship at the Throne of Destiny. is ~—GRACE PORTERFIELD POLK, 7 Greenwood, * *

VICTIMS OF LOVE

How many times have you told me— That you and I were thru, ‘And oh how many times have I— Quite agreed with you? :

Yet here we are, together, Just as we were before— Which proves that lovers’ quarrels Just makes our love grow more.

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Af. joys and. sorr With disappointment mingled with success.

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ESPIONAGE .

Red Spy Probe Getting Jittery

WASHINGTON, Deca 11-—Even though the ouse Sp American. Activities Committee ve do tary evidence of I DR the a vans to behave with nervous excitability, In the fice of material that, if substantiated, calls for the most solemn and careful procedure, the old habit of headline hunting prevails. Favored reporters have their private leaks

make themselves champions of individuals and the particular thesis of individual committee members. At a press conference in Washington, Rep. Richard M. Nixon of California, who made a spectacular and highly publicized flight to Washington from Panama, reads a4 deposition given in a civil suit, contrary to the rules of the court in which the suit was proceeding. In that deposition Whittaker Chambers accused Alger Hiss of passing out secret documents that were in turn given to a Russian agent. Then Rep. Nixon makes a highly Jubliciued -

We doubt if the people of Indianapolis are going to be ~~ satisfied with anything less. And ‘we're'pretty sure they're not going to, bs satis fied with hush-hush sessions behind closed doors that wind TP with a desition’to do uothing at all

50 Years, 140 Friends ; Pugsl and officers of the Fletcher Trust Co. ere in the Athletic Club this week to tell Lawrence | Er ghia apprécia i service. The fact that Mr. Wiles was Siessnted a. sirl sigtod

names on paper. Itiwas the close-knit spirit of 2. team which has been playing its daily game in - Mr. Wiles told those who had come to honor that ‘there is nothing more precious in ‘gathering years than the - steadfastness of a friend.’ And for this reason the occasi must have given him deep and lasting satisfaction, for the .- room was filled with friends. : It is difficult to measure, as Evans Woollen Jr. and William Schiltges said, the contributions of such a man to | =the people arot i, 86 his on and to his com- {| - munity. We add our congratulations to Lawrence A. Wiles and "our commendation to the Fletcher Trust Co. for producing 2 A fellow townsman of such high order. :

‘Aid’ to China

Ts adage that “figures don’t lie but liars ‘can s gure” _comes to mind when we read some of the pumped-up statistics on American assistance to China, which tend to prejudice the case against Chiang: Kai-shek's government. UNRRA- relief igi “in the: purported: | total of “American” economic assistance in China's case. ~~ But not when similar totals are charged against Greece, ~ Italy, Poland or Yugoslavia. Even so, China was on the short end of UNRRA's distribution. The UNRRA contribution to China's 450 million people was about $530 million. Poland, population 24 million; got $481 million; Yugoslavia, population 15 million, more than $420 million. * China was invaded two years before Poland, and four years before Yugoslavia. And China kept on fighting to the end of the war. : Furthermore, UNRRA's contribution to China was di- _ vided between the Nationalists and the Communists. In Yugoslavia,’ everything was distributed through the Tito, Communists.

egg gg gg d— FROM VJ-Day, when the Chinese Communists renewed their war against the National government, to November this year, China received no arms of any kind from the United States. We did deliver some junk ammunition to the Nationalists last March, but only part of it was serviceable. And Smgre appropriated $125 million for military aid to China in April but that program has been sabotaged by bureaueratic hostility, indifference and red tape. We have supplied Greece, Turkey and various LatinAmerican countries cartridges at 10 cents on the dollar, or $4.30 per thousand. We have asked the Chinese to pay what we term “replacement value,” or $105 per thousand—about 24 times as much. . Putting it another way, one “dollar of Turkish aid funds _ provided about 232 cartridges, while one dollar of China ~ ald funds will buy about nine and a half cartridges. ‘are not pointed out in the press releases ha” the military establishid " is listed.

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I know I am unhappy—~ ‘When we play “stay yp apart I guess you must be too--You claim I'm in your heart.

It is a shame two people, Who seem to care so much Should ever have an angry word, Or ever “get out of touch.”

; =~VIRGINIA JFUTIER, Andiania pons.

Eo THE: “HOUSE IN-WAITING

The quiet house is waiting, patiently, ; No murmur magka the passing of the day: The sun peers through the window-—questioning-Then—disappointed—travels on his way.

..The shairs—expectant-—sit with outstretched The clock Ee oidia quiet Nands across his face:

~The mirror smiles serenely from the wall As though remembering a quick embrace,

“A -travel-folder, dropped ypon the floor

careless haste, yawns openly and wide: nge-blossom withers, fragrantly;

And dows whisper, ‘Such a pretty bride!"

EE BROWN, ERIE, Plymouth, .... xiii

EXPECTANCY

My heart’s abdut to bust with joy— My head is in a whirl— Just hopin’ it will be a boy~— ‘Or else a little girl.

“| —WALTER NEWTON REED; Indisnnpolis--

trip.to New York. There, six hours after readng the deposition containing the accusation against Hiss, he announces, “We're here to find out who gave this information to Chambers.”

Atmosphere of Suspicion THE END result is to create an atmosphere of hyste suspicion, doubt and uncertainty. What should be weighed and considered with the utmost: , since it involves the

seriousness “most abhorrent breach of trust and faith, is -

__thus cheapened and degraded, : Contributing to the a ia of 3 publicity man’s dream Is “the ‘apparent rivalry between

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POLICE in Pomeroy, O., are seeking rebbers who. use the threat of a hypodermic needle on

intended victims. No shots have been heard. * >

AN Illinois tot of 11 months has 16 teeth. Not much chance of the little fellow biting off ‘more than he can chew. * ¢@

THE older an auto the more it needs the.

most important accessory—a nice bahk balance. * > ¢ SLIKTEST reports "birds and animals have youn shot than hunters. *

THE person with a an will feel a lot bet-

| ter if he'll take another -look.

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seriously. interfered with the grand jury. law and by custom grand jury. p

are held in secrecy so that withesses may full

protection and, therefore,” feel res to testify °

without fear of reprisal. So many questions remain “The microfilms of secret State rg nau and ee documents have presumably been in existence for 10 years or longer.

abouts? In the hearings last summer the committee seems to have accepted ever: g that Chambers ‘said as fact, without independent investigation. Presumably Chambers had the documents and the films in his possession all the time and chose to disclose them only after he

was pressed for evidence in Hiss’ $75,000 slan-

der suit. x - Stooping to Espionage THERE 1s, of course, important question. It is why Chambers, by his own confession, and others who may be implicated beyond doubt, should have betrayed their country by, stooping lo a. mean and Helous espionage. No gloss of misplaced idealism ¢ ever can > put over the contemptible work of the spy, the stooge, the saboteur. Only the completely materialistic end-justifies-the-means philosophy of Marxist-Stalinist communism can approve such methods. That philosophy is alien to all that is

== best-and-truest-in-the-American- tradition.

‘Why should these films ~-have gone undiscovered until Chambers, in his own good time, chese to diselose their where:

a larger and far more

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Hoosier Forum "1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | wil defend to the death your right to say ih."

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ject with which you are familiar. Some letters . ‘Burial F used will be edited but content will be pre In Crow served, for here the People Speak in Freedom. Servicds . fo (Cotton) Hen; ‘4-H Clubs for City Children’ ear mechanics By Charles L. Blume, 2442 Coyner Ave. to be held at The rural and small town school lads and- Shirley Broth lassies are encouraged in their ‘school work Burial was tc and wholesome outside interests by the won- Hin, ! derful work of the 4-H clubs. & In failing } They are given opportunities, prizes and : scholarships because of their achievements, and. year, he died 1 that is good. y get to exhibit work in Veterans Hosp “county tals” oy " “tHe State Fatr, “and that es ~pailt -1s also good. elude Wilbur Now while The Indianapolis Times is doing president; Kar things, why not team up with the Parent- ing, Gene 8 Teachers Association and start an Indianapolis Jackson and School Fair where students or the whole Shy .- Honorary . p school system-eould exhibit thelr work and hob- be Anton Hul bies in competition by classes? Ribbons for the Speedway; first, second and third prizes be given on each vice president exhibit with grand Miss of cash awards, Per- Lou Moore, Pe haps businessmen of Indianapolis would give Meyer, R scholarships. George Conno 4-H club work has Kept juvenile delinquency A. A. Herring down, and a parallel to it will do the same for R. G. McCrar Indianapolis. ‘ Wintergust, F ” ¢ Seth Klein. - ‘More Pleasant Things’ Mrs. Lottie By E. R. M, City. |, Mrs. Lottie At: Christthas Time we should forget the ployee of Indi smog, the chuckholes, the traffic jams and Co. 24 years, d some of the other ‘“gripes” we are harping on home, 720 E. 80. constantly and talk about a few pleasant southern Indi: things. who was 49, Ii For example, Wednesday (Dec. 15) the sing- most of her li ers and musicians will begin to give their free She was em

concerts on the. Monument steps.- They will i sing and play the beloved old Christmas Bymis | pone compan and carols all day long until Christmas. death and. wa

Years of study and tho upon. -thou- : sands of dollars have gone into preparation Dish ot Bast of those vocalists and musicians. And they will Bis Ei — ur out their talents for us all absolutely free. Hs: broth LAR ue The lighting and decorations on the Monu- Harlingen ™ mept and in the stores are something to be Miss Rose Wis about, too. The programs of clubs, the Services at bv Mar vis Childs 8 in the churches and the carolers who in Flanner & y 4 tthe ‘city, all should ‘afotise our’ grat: GS wo ¢ @ * Crown Hill Much Excitement Floyd W. Be swe and the .De ent of Justice. | my Josephine WL D ap- e ixon his nferen 2p : I . : vital ond ar to the Just cs Department att hat ¢ the Yeader. i pi home, “committee to hold special a ee cf ne an will be buried ings in New York as a kind of adjunct to the Cemetery, Jai grand-jury inquiry that has been reopened. services at 1: 4 One of the leading newsreel companies asked J riauner & e department when the earings were to be ‘ held so they. could set up heir cameras. The ut we Should nat be ‘Born in Jai e reporters idea seems to have been that as witnesses came I truly wanted as a gift) nell, who was out of the grand jury room they would go be- cided to eliminate gifts en his life in In fore the committee and the Klieg iights. a wholesome meal, music abd the Bible read- istered pharm Grand jury procedure under our system of - 4 = was employed Ww is most carefully guarded and the commit- : k th \ store at N tee's proposal, as it was understood at the De- I think ¢ le Durty nd ex ment Jr doing He was a g partment of Justice, caused something like con- birthday. There is too much of’ nona Techni sternation. . That is why -the committee mem- buy Mary, and what did for Oh pharmacy - dej _bers were met in New York by John F. X. | = : you get Jater became MeGoey, United rE Attorney fof the South-’ Le - dianapolis, Col ern District of New York, who is directing the | p. Fand Ty equley, ont inrdcse Needed" Fl 1a gurviy ol Property Owner f daughter, Mrs Secret Proceedings We property owners and landlords should Sughter ir: — A STORMY session followed. But finally | know what it costs te operate our rooms ah George R. Da the committee seems: to -have been dissuaded | apartments and a sister, | from going ahead in a manner that might have I think asking for as little as a 15 per cent nell, Long Bet Lon

increase is a small amount considering the high cost of everything. They want to take the cigaret tax off when that's the only way other people have to help our city unless they own property.I surely feel sorry for veterans who have families, and some came home disabled. But I am suré€ some make big money when they “pay "$400 or more ‘bn income tax and only pay $9 a week for an apartment. Some are making almost 32 au hour 4nd fuy such Nite rents -

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Views On the News oh 4

By DAN KIDNEY g ; Nothing is’ more. symbolie-of -the- holiday season. than .a Christmas card from: a loan shark. = = > 9 1

Headlines—“Japanese "Are Puzied By preme Court Decision.” They're becom: Americanized. - 2 ; * ¢ ¢ Ringling’s circus seats are being VOFD go tor. the Truman. {inaugural—but no elephants; Asi sisson Po WL ® 2

Electrical workers in ‘the Red section of Ber lin have committed the greatest Soviet sin—

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they went on strike. EVERY * ¢ s The House Un-American Committee - didn’t DOLL

really need that Maryland jack-o- lantern to help them throw weird light on a subject.

WORRIED POPULATION... By Clyde Famsworth | Side Glances

Flee From Shanghai

SHANGHAI, Dec. 11—Fear ebbs and flows ‘through this

“threatened: city like the. “tides hat rise and fall long E20 i le

“Whangpoo River banks,

Perhaps a half million persons including a few Hod foreigners have struck out for distant parts, or are packing todo so, but their places have been more than filled by newcomers Most of Shanghai's. five million population, however, have shrugged off the war, so far,

who regard Shanghai as a refuge.

and gone about their business.

The flight of rich Chinese and many foreigners has created a seller's market in luggage and packing crates and a buyers’ market in almost everything else including luxury apartments. Even the dead are participating in the evacuation. heavy coffins sealed with clay and corded around with straw ropes are a common sight on the docks and jetties. Awaiting transportation presumably to a safer spot, they’ lie there dusty from pious storage through the years In Shanghai's coffin

repositories.

Many Unburied Dead

SHANGHAI probably has more unburied dead than ‘any other city in the world—owing to Chinese preference to rest. finally in the grave plots of their ancestors. Some of the departing déad have been waiting for their final. “homeward

trip ever since the war with Japan.

+ Of the 15,000 worried foreigners whose ranks are being reduced by the evacuation ships the most worried are the 8000 Their number includes many newcomers from North China and tlie northwestern province of Sinkiang. The White Russians are emigres or children of emigres from the Communist revolution who have resisted the inducements Soviet Russia has held out for their return and acceptance of Soviet Among them is a group of about 1000 who once took Soviet passports but who have now surrendered’ them to

White Russians here.

citizenship.

return to a stateless condition.

Surprisingly, newspaper announcements — paid notices — of relinquishment of Soviet citizenship seem to have increased with This may be lastminute gambles on the part of the White Rusiians to win entry to other countries, particularly South America. Quota restrictions have allowed only a trickle into the United States.

the rise of the military threat to Shanghal.

Ready for the Worst

CERTAIN leaders of the White Russians and pataps others who have reason to fear a Communist “settlement 6f accounts” are reported to have equipped themselves with small bottles of

cyanide for suicide’if worst comes to worst.

Sr des the stateless White Russians there are between: 3000 other Europeans without a country who find the These ‘include hundreds of Jews who » ‘Shoose between remaining - Shanghal :

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JSOPR. 1908 BY NEA SERVICE. WC. T. M. MEG. U. & PAT. oF,

"I've tried desperately to get some kind of car for the wife for Christmas—I always get my feet wet walking to the train!"

to face unknown consequences or to be evacuated to Palestine, Jewish agencies that have been supporting them have, let it be ‘known that the Shanghai Jews declining the offer. of free transportation to Palestine can have no guarantee of future help. Most of these people, registered under the Austrian quota for immigration to the U. 8., are afraid to stay and unwilling to go. They feel if they go they’ 11 lose all chance to enter the U, 8. % 80, from little Moscow in the former French concession to Hongkew area, foreigners are worried—but least bf all the thousand or so remaining Ameridin civilians. If things get tee rough, they can always ge home,

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‘Pioneer Spirit’

CERTAIN. similar to the Carolinas. 1 Americans who come to Japan will be urged to “come with the ie Dionsey spirit,” for conditions are not as they are in the

However, the Army has tried to make things as comfgrtable and convenient as possible for its civilian employees, and you will find many opportunitiés and: situations that are afe favorable here than in the States.

is available to you, to be a “good sport, the Army needs you. If you, ant then don't come.” The booklets, according to Information, travel inf and describe both If Europe, Japan, the Marianas, Okinawa and the Philippi.

CHANCE TO TRAVEL . . . By Roger Stuart or rs © WASHINGTON, Dec. 1i—In its efforts to recruit civilians -OXYGE for overseas jobs, the Army is playing up the opportunities for i¥hy Svsipmen “travel, education, music, languages, ‘sports and other recreation. fH A The overseas branch now has more than 35,000 American ....402 N.~civillans working in Europe, Asia, Alaska and various islands Shon: of the Atlantic and Pacific, and is constantly looking for more. Ranma. Several néw illustrated booklets, describing living eonditions . - In various parts of the world, as well as detailing rates of pay, : You Save | allowances and other valuable information for prospective appli-- MEN'S SUIT cants soon will be issued, according to Charles C. Furman, chief $18.76 of the recruitment section. : ¥ ROBERT Cor. Senate Many AMtractions . —il Lo THOSE looking for jobs in Germasy will be told that Berlin Blueprints is noted for its fine opera, excellent theaters and exhibitions of Photopaints painting, sculpture and other fine arts, But they'll be warned that Americans in Berlin are isolated EE from the other Americans in Germany; that they cannot go to the British or U. 8, Zone without special travel orders written Indianapolis B in English and Russian, and that recreation travel in the. Rus- & Litho sian Zone, outside the metropolitan area, is not permitted. . I —— As for Japan, the report on living and working conditions pes LEON T for Americans there will point out that those who go to work for the Army are subject to military law rather than the oea) 235 Mass. | civil courts. : It'll make it clear that, though working conditions generally NEW §' are good, one will be expected to obey strict regulations—that } you can’t, for instance, enter into nrivate rental agreements with" OPEN EVERY DJ foreign nationals or Japanese. And bartering American-made Exoepting Fridi goods, you'll be told, also bee

prohibited.

areas of Japan, the book will relate, have climates

of living is far lower here than at the present 8. If you are willing to-make the best of what " then the Departmént ot

. Furman, will cover general and’ working ‘conditions in “Alaska,

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