Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 15 December 1948 — Page 16
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Enforcement—Not More Laws
en lol pecRRL- Weeks. about. the .proposed passage | of mo L gtrictive laws on the liquor and heer business. in the state.
the next session of the legislature convening in January. ‘This activity for more restrictive law on liquor is sponsored by groups working toward complete prohibition through local option on a county _hasis. Local option provisions already in the state liquor law give property owners _ the right to outlaw a tavern in their neighborhood by a majority vote. eventually would reach county-wide proportions and then,
state-wide prohibition. .~
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WE TRIED prohibition once and the lie were speak—easies, bath-tub gin, rum running organizations that rivaled big business in profits and a general decline in public respect for law and order: The state of Kansas, one of the last ——strongholds of ‘prohibition, finally voted at the polls last Nov. 2 for a program of legal liquor sales in order to end “wholesale bootlegging with its accompanying lawlessness. _ The solution of liquor evils in Indiana is better, enforce‘ment of the laws we already have rather than passage of —more restrictive legislation that won't be enforced. Laws ) that not enforced are worse ‘than no laws at” allo
. JEPCE Alex Clark of Pe tn Court 4 struck a responsive note this week when he criticized “licensing without investigation” of a dog kennel in which police found u dogs housed in and around a “filth-littered” shack. ~The Judge will find many to applaud his’ views. Dog owners never excuse cruelty to alimaly thal are at the Hercy of Irresponsible humans We agree with Judge Clark in ‘his defense of ES but we would. like to go, further. We would like to consider “people who by force of circumstance are made to live in substandard homes and institutions: ‘We believe there are plenty of bot" privately and publicly operated homes and institutions-which take advantage of their inmates.
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Barton Rees. Pogue | FOOD FOR CHRISTMAS DIET
In this day and age of free enterprise, anil i keen competition, the nearness of Christmas and Banta Claus is brought to our attention some six or eight weeks before December the 25th,
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| - East bearing gifts. The recipients of the Wise ._Men's gifts was a very young baby boy--far { too young to fully understand and appreciate
= what it was all about: “However, according to
the traditions of our Christian era, that young baby boy was the first to be honored by a visit | from Santa Claus—-maybe better to say Santa
HERE has been considerable talk around Indiana in | Clauses. In those days Santa had no sled, reinre re- | deer and jingle, jingle bells—maybe he did have ori mere OBE White. beard--0f. that. I. cannot. say. In...
stead of a sleigh and reindeer, Santa used a "desert ship” the camel, Today, thousands of Santa Clauses come out of the East, West,
a super-streamlined convertible, The road Santa Claus traveled over one thousand nine hundred and forty-eight years ago is a torn and rough one today. In our frenzied rush to maRe our C hristinas trees grow a little taller than last year's, we should pause now and then to recall the words and teachings of Him, Who was first visited by Santa Claus. How much good-will toward mankind and peace on earth do we find in the world today? . ~BERTRAND L’LESREP, Indianapolis Hs *
ANN'S. LITTLE DOG
A little dog so black and slick Has a bark that’s sharp and quick,
When wanting something he begs By standing up on his two hind Jegs.
He does so many cunning tricks. Like Paying ‘dead dog” and chasing
He h helps his master on the farm, Driving the cows . . . keeping them from harm.
And for his mistress, he tries so hard To keep the chickens out of the yard,
Only one more in the family « «2 you've guessed? That Ann's the one .
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It's nice to be tall, when in a crowd. and the -President or other notable is to be .seen—but not 80 good if one is a lawbreaker . for a dog lover—don't get a dachshund ff you are stiff in the knees . . .’I always notice that lawbreakers, not wishing to be seen, wear inconspicuous clothing . . . nor do they aim to do
anyiiing to draw ‘unfavorable attention to ———the--child-who treats the home
-MINNIE BOURGOYNE-RODEFER, Liberty
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In ‘the long ago Wise Men came out of the
North and South; some of | them wise, and some of them unwise-—all bear- | ing gifts, including everything from a-yo-yo to |
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. FREE SERVICE
WASHINGTON, Nov. }5—Some years ago a group of Pennsylvania legislators jokingly organized “The Society for Giving Everything to Everybody.” It ought to be revived, and on a national scale, True, we “already have a vast number of organizations, But none of the others of
as .does this one. Moreover, this one society could cover the objectives of a large part of the others. “This country—indeed, the whole world—is being swept by an epidemic of the “gimmes.” Nearly everybody wants to be given something at the expense of somebody else. And Uncle Sam has become the universal Santa Claus. ’
THIS applies ‘to baby homies and institutions: and hose "for the aged and poor. There have been many stories published in this newspaper to show that these unfortunates sometimes get little better care than animals. = 50s wile the Judge is at it, we. hope that at the first” DDO it nt people who fall on the ie ‘hands of those who | —eithe » hired to run homes for the unfortunate or_who : operate them for a profit. - We like dogs, and we want them well taken care of. But we like people better and we are a little more interésted in the kind of homes and institutions in which they are ~~ forced by circumstance to spend their days. = -
The UN Has Not Failed - : WE-DG-nok share the widespread disappointment over re e record of the United Nations General Assembly, : HR i recessed until April. It all depends, of course, on what was expected. If the Assembly had any chance Whatever of solving the major
But. it never had that Shgce. Utler the charter the | Assembly can function only as a forum and occasionally as a fact-finding body. It can recommend but not enforce. Decisive action is reserved for the Security Council which; awevers is shackled by the-veto power. Such is the inherent weakness of ‘the’ United Nations. “the price Stalin extracted. for joining a world.
beginning and u underscored by events of the past three 3 years. -
” ” : errr “IT'S dnveal and unfair-to judge’ the- Assembly. on-the basis of powers not possessed. The record of this session has been one of constant Soviet obstruction, which" the Assembly cannot prevent. But surely that is a matter «neither for. surprise nor. at, The pertinent questions are whether ‘the “Assembly | ictioned well a8 a forum: and whether the net result was: gain or loss. The answer is that on every major test the - “Soviet wreckers were isolated-—this was true. onthe atomic. | issue, on armaments, on memberships, on Korea, on the Balkans, and many others. The division is not Russia versus the United; States but Russia versus the world. And that clarification is all-important. To the extent that moral force and world opinion can preserve peace or restrain dggression, the limited United Nations Assembly is functioning. To discount such moral force is as absurd as to exaggerate it. survive the Soviet challenge, must seek security in’ both sor] force and physical preparedness, .
It Puzzles One : ;
ing Americans was retold this week in the House of Commons. Amid discussion whether cruising London taxicabs were required by law. to stop when hailed, one member - inquired: “Is the minister not aware of repeated complaints that unless one has the appearance of being an American, the taxicab will not stop for one?” ' Over here, one wonders whether the “joke” is on the British for being less affluent than visiting Americang, or on; the Americans for being outlandishly easy marks for the crafty British taxi driver. One can’t. always tell about English jokes. Fo tyr,
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Real Spudework \ scientists are reported to have discovered a deposit : > “millions” of dinosaur skeletons, and also to have unearthed in the Crimea the remains of a city of the early
The free world, to |
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folks the. "worst us ally inherits the most . some folks should ya ashamed to pray for. heip, but they are usually the ones who ask for the most . ._. when one hears a highly complimen-~-tary sermon abeut some rascal who has passed - on, we wonder if the Bible zreans what it says— “no liar shall enter the kingdom of heaven” . . . too many folks know exactly the duties |_of the other feller but what & time they have making him see and do them! .. . don't wear diamonds if you owe everybody. «AUNT PITIPAT, Anderson
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EF EVERLASTING PEACE
When Selfishness, that curse of ages past, Has disappeared from out the heart of man, __ When love of others and the Golden Rule Have proved themselves to be the better plan,
‘When nation trades with nation trustfully, 17 And every form of greed
When hate, suspicion, prejudice have fled, : The world pi then know everlasting peace.
Youth will be done with parting with his home Teo die beneath an alien country’s skies; No wife or child will mourn his-non-return, No mother question where her darling lies. * 0, Everlasting Peace! How sweet the thought! Utopia cannot then be far away,
{ness shall cease, |
“Destroyed Other Nations
| for food; shelter and entertainment.
ernment can somehow provide aid and security for its people, no matter what the cest and how far in debt it already is. more government provides; the more is expected ~ of it... One. of the penalties of government. " assistancesis now, and always has been, a wider
“ spread lowering of the Sense of personal respon-
sibility.
«them. 50. well expresses. the spirit of ‘the times ernment, owes over
This epideniic grows out of a belief that gov-
Moreover, the
- paying the cost,
..By E.T. Leech
‘Gimme’ Epidemic Sweeps World
subject to the same limitations as the individual and the family, and it pays the same penalties for misdeeds and bad management. The difference is that the state is se complex, and has the strength to, engage in’ so many different schemes to support itself, that it can Keep its head above water much longer than can the individual. Lake, for example debt. The U. 8. gov250° billion “dollars “more than $6000 for every American family, The lesser government-—-cities, counties, school districts, states and other political Subdivisions— owe around $20 billions.
Greater Benefits
ALL OF them are under terrific pressure to provide more services and greater benefits. All
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—-are-having-to-boost—taxesborrow—-money-and-
figure other schemes to get funds to pour out to a never-satisfied public. The popular idea in the United States right now is that these funds can be obtained from the rich and the corporation—so that the majority of people can have the benefits without And the popular feeling in the world at large is that America can provide
“THE RESULT is that a people's individual stamina and seif-determination go down right
up. It is a parallel development which has destroyed other nations. . Jt enabled a "few thousand barparians to overthrow the mighty Roman Empire—at one time the strongest state the world had ever seen. ~The Romans came to depend on {he state ‘They got so lazy they wouldn't even grind their free
They destroyed their own economy and strength. In their eagerness for free security at state expense, they became so instenre they lost everything. The basic error which causes ponpls to be-
is, of course, one of the oldest and strongest of all, human desires—the hope of something for
at a“time when their public expenses are going
wheat, and the state had to grind it Tor them. ~
lieve they can be secure at government expense
the Tunds—and the rest—of the world doesn't om smoke-
worry how the Americans get them.
- . | rt ci # ig Hoosier Forum -®| do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defond fo the death your right to tay i"
ject with which you are familiar. Some letters
served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.
‘Too Many Taverns’ By A Property Owner,
torium on the granting of permits for new taverns—and “liquor stores. There. are .already more than 1100 licensed places where liquor and beer can he purchased, about one for every .- two or three blocks in most sections of Indianapolis. "If taverns get any thicker in the residential districts our homes aré going to dépreciate in value because a tavern in the same block with
| sance from the patrons late at night. I'm in fave f or, of keeping the taverns and liquor stores in
residential areas, i I'm supporting the recent action of the Liquor Board in turning down some applica tions for new permits in neighborhoods where there are already enough taverns. > SB
‘Comfort for Prisoners’ By Resident, City. ot Just noticed in the papers where the new
jail] Well, it is about time. Since the best type of our citizenry are guests there, things should he done to make" the Jlace homey and comfy. After all, killers, ‘robbers, these brutes that attack and molest women, should be wors | thy of utmost consideration, May 1 offer a suggestion? By all means, clean up and. fix these beds. Order some new innerspring mattresses, nice soft: downy featherbeds, the best percale sheets and mono- |. grammed pillow cases, and lots of eiderdown | quilts. Then, each night at nine, let the sheriff _make the rounds and personally tuck in each guest. He might, also, take a moment to heal their prayers, in the absence of mama, . Evidently, the new sheriff is more interested
than in catching criminals. ood
‘Scngs Played to Death’ By George W. Holmes, 922 N. Tuxedo St. Now that the Christmas season is in full swing and we will all be‘ hearing again the lovely Christmas music, may I voice a plea ‘that we don’t hear too much of Bing Crosby singing “White Christmas” and “Silent Night, Holy Night”? To me it sounds too out of place to hear -a “crooner” singing a sacred song.
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shelved. They have been: played to death Also, T wonder why nearly all orchestras and carolers usually conclude their Christmas programs with “Silent Night.” Although this is a beautiful song, there is another song, as good or even better for orchestra or group singing. I refer to that grand Christmas hymn, “0! Holy Night.”
To the directors who have not yet come
please, let us hear this song more. : >a °
| ‘Let's Fight Smoke’ By A Reader | Indianapolis are getting some help in their fight to rid thé city of smoke. The Times’ editorial —W | action from the City Council on one of our worst
In either case, it's a desire fo get something 1 civic problems.
for POLhIE: The tragedy is..that .it..can’t. happen. isn’t possible” Nobody gets anything for nothing. Everybody shares in the debt. Everybody pays part of the taxeés. All of us carry some part of the load.
Must Realize Facts
THE ONLY cure forthe “gimmes" is for f
more. people to- realize those facts. For one thing, there aren't enough rich people—and the ability to get rich has been so sharply’ cut--to enable the government to finance itself al the expense of the rich. Only
" the other day it was pointed out that President
Truman gets to keep after taxes only about $45,000 out of his $75,000 yearly salary. Well, the same thing happens to any other man making $75,000—and it happens harder to those
It seems now that city officials are really
It planning to get something done toward an ordi-
nance that eventually may reduce thewmsmoke peril from Indianapolis after long delays on this important problem, | Let's follow up behind this program ‘and | keep the fight going until the menace of air { pollution is eliminated. Other citigs have effective and successful smoke abatement programs. . { and there’s no reason’ why. Indianapolis can't do the same. thing. .
What Others Say—
AN expert . . . tells me Hollywood is one of the leading centers for fine art in the world, | but the film stars aren't responsible. —Actor | Vincent Price.
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I'm in favor of declaring a sort of mora-
“your-home is bound-to cause some public nule--«
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sheyiff is going to make improvements at the -
in makfhg things comfortable for “criminals or
Anyway. I think those two, records should, be.
| _pleted their Christmas carol programs, 1 say,
Tt is gratifying to know that the citizens of”
1-in getting some
reigns, On that long Norse for, distant, happy day.
--MILDRED Mu SGRAVE SHARTLE, Danville ®
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he. and kindness | nothing. at somebody else's expense, The trouble is that this never actually hapFor a state is just a large number of
individuals and families.
In the end, it is or finance our spending.
who make more than that amount. if government {ook eVEryTRIng the §o-calred™ MIgHt "even TTT have to tarry “the plane ina} rich own and earn, it wouldn't pay off our debts
Obviously, | - I INTEND to continue my round-the-world
wheelbarrow.—Mrs. Richard Morrow-Tait, Brit- | ish aviatrix. :
PLIGHT OF ASIA cer By Clyde Farneworth
‘Odds Against China
SHANGHAT, Dec. 15=The Chinese Nationalists are wonder
cause is still a good bet against communism. They recognize the odds are not likely for Washington to fayer~them.go long. as the Communist threat to Nanking and
_broken or, indefinitely delayeltl and the situation stabilizad north of the Yangtze? That is the question that plagues them. - All their hopeful reading between the lines of Amemnican reaction to China's plight ho answer. The Nationalists, however, cling to the hope
identified a as Red Line—
THEY DON'T hope to overcome the most adverse section of American opinion—for by and large “that opposition is “long entrenched in the belief that nothing good can come out of Nanking. That's the Communist pitch to begin with and was being worked to the limit long before the ‘Natignalist crisis became acute. What they do hope to overcome is a widespread. feeling in: the United States that however desirable it might have been to help China against international communism, it's now too late to try, and the U, 8. therefore should choose the lesser of two
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The Will to Fight
1F-A-stalematefshould develop, the issue of American aid to - . Chiang would become even more pointed and perhaps be resolved
evils and abandon China. The Nationalists insist it should never be too late for the United States to assist a friendly government against communism, but they are realistic enough to concede the United States: would rather fold up in China than bet on a clearly losing hand. The Nationalists’ task is to prove that they are not beyond self-help and that by helping themselves they may win outside In a small measure they are succeeding on the first point. At any rate they have confounded those pessimisits who a month ago were counling Nanking's days on their fingers. They are winning an “optimistic” following among foreign observers who are not so sure now the Communists will reach the Yangtze in‘force or gain a crossing.
on the narrow basis of whether he personally shall be sustained in his leadership, In the opinion of most observers, the military contest for the, approach to the Yangtze valley will ‘be decided by Nationalist "generalship ultimatély and by the will to fight. Derections such as that which robbed the Nationalists of Tsinan could strip them of Nanking. The possibility of defection ig the trjcKiest unknown quantity in the present equation of battle. Defection usually is compounded one-third of avarice and two-thirds of defeat and despair. On that unpredictability largely depends the current battle. The Nationalists probably are superior in firepower and certainly in two weapons which the Communists lack—planes and tanks. And if the battle should reach a decision on the Yangtze crossing, a third one-sided weapon, the Nationalists’ young navy, could be brought to bear. The lower/Yangtze is broad and deep. On their side the Communists haye been well commanded. Holding the initiative, they have massed superior numbers in localized areas ‘chosen for attéck. But they are at'the end of a
stocked ith Japanese arms Sumenusssd Ap the ~ : ; \
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Shanghai persists, but what iI the” Communist” -drive-should--be |.
Side Glances
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COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE. INC. 7. M. REG. U. 8. PAT. OFF.
"If we'd borrow enough for a new car, we might not be able to
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get the car right away, but then I'd have: enough
for a new coat!"
By the time you think up a new costume for a mask ball, you might as well go as:a nervous wreck. . HO A couple in Ohio were pinched for battling on their 15th wedding anniversary. Wedded blitz! ‘ LEE I “An Indiana insurance man says seven hours sleep is suficient, Oh, do ‘they sleep? eS MH
"Right after election is when a_Iot “of good intentions are
carried out—on stretchers. : ¢ & @ . It's easy to get credit for being good and sash for being good at what you do. ; EL as
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sudden activity now?
| has been decisive.
Dewey for Senate?
“WASHINGTON, Dec. 15=Gov. Thomas E. Dewey tbe Ré= publican candidate for the U. S. Senate from New York in 1950— that's what Democrats here are predicting. jov. Dewey's friends don't doubt there will be much pressure on-him- to run-but they say his present disposition would be ~ to decline. They believe he-will-leave public life to return to law
practice. That's the way it looks, they say, “as of now.” But the Democrats take a look at what Gov, Dewey has been doing in recent days at Albany and assert that everything points, )
i _to a Dewey Senate candidacy. =
TREY cite Stel hexditnes as these-within a 10-day period:
“Dewey-to go ahead on 15 hospital Joba at $80 million cost. .
“Funds to cut slums backed by Dewey, ” 5 Dewey’ sets "business parley Dee! 20 to get views on Hines: insurance.”
Flc of Candidacy?
THESE Democrats are convinced that for Mr. Dewey to undertake such a forward-looking program as this is to run up a flag for a political candidacy. Otherwise, they say, why this
Mr. Dewey's friends have answers. ‘They say he is interested in being a governor who will go out of office with a constructive record and that this is reason enough for adding these new projects to what he has done at Albany already. The Dewey program, they add, is quite in line with the progressive ideas he laid down during his presidential campaign. Mr. Dewey is the best vote-getter the Republicans have seen in recent years, although his New York margin over President Truman in November was a relatively narrow 61,000. Party leaders will be certain to try to get this strength at the head of their ticket two years. from now. The Senate seat in question has been held for 22 years by Robert F. Wagner, absent from Washington due to illness much of the last two years. Whether Sen. Wagner might resign has been a matter of interest recently both in his own party and with the Republicans. By seniority, he normally would return to the - chairmanship of the Senate Banking and’ Currency Committee,
now that the Democrats are back in power.
Appoint Successor
IF MR. WAGNER resigns between now and May, Gov. Dewey would appoint a successor to serve to the epd of 1949, with an election in November to choose a man -to sérve the rest-of the Wagner term ending in January, 1951. If he should resign after May, GavixDewey would appoint for the remainder of the Wagner term~—byt under terms of a new law which might be challenged. The Democrat mentioned most frequently to succeed Mr. Wagner is Mayor William O'Dwyer of New York. He is credited with a good record as mayor, was the district attorney: who smashed the Murder, Inc, ring in Brooklyn earlier, and served the Army. with distinction. during Wotld War II. He has been .. an effective vote-getter and.has not hesitated to battle Tammany. Gov. Dewey's post-election approach to New York problems He remarked that the state had tp have new buildings for mental hospitals “and we've got to find the money somewhere.” He and GOP leaders have agreed on a $300 million slum-clearance and public-housing hond issue. He has shown Interest in new medi cal gollege facilities and in a sickness disability surance pro, :
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