Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 December 1948 — Page 16

“er HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager -

Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1948

ARD WALTER LECKRONE,_ ~ Editor :

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“Give 1AGhE and the Peopis Will Pind Thew Vin Way,

Hoosier Generosity food train for overseas relief, leaving Indianapolis this week, is an expression of the willingness of Hoo- . giers to share their bountiful harvests with less fortunate peoples of the world. This shipment from Indiana is the first of several Hoogler food trains that will be loaded with Indiana ‘grain for relief of hifigry peoples abroad. Total- -gifts-of cash and. grain have reached $300,000, all donated by generous Hoosiers who believe that mere words of friendship are not * enough to bring understanding and harmony among peoples of the world. : These gifts from Indiana eventually will fill 200 freight - cars with food to help keep thousands of families from malnutiition and starvation in Europe dnd other war blighted + areas during the winter months. "Confidence of peoples abroad in America’s ideals of peace and security. for the world have been strengthened "immeasurably by Indiana's trainloads of overseas relief,

Indohesian War

RAVIVA of ‘the Indonesian war. is another challonge to United Nations authority’ and world peace. The Se- - curity Council cannot sidestep this latest conflict without _ serious consequences, The Dutch government is responsible for renewing the - = war, Its excuse is as follows: “On Dec. 11 The Netherlands RB informed the (UN) Good Offices Committee that to its sincere regret it had reached the conclusion that _in view of the attitude of the (Indonesian) republican government, which does not in fact recognize the truce agreement nor thé principles for a settlement which were signed on board the U, 8. 8. Renville on Jan. 17, 1048, further negotiations ‘and discussions either directly with the rei Dubie op under the apis of the commitics had become

EO ot republic not only tried to reopen negotiations but proposed arbitration as the best means of settling the three- ( lict. ‘But when it failed to accept the Dutch government's s four-point ultimatum, the Dutch started a blitz a captured the republican. capital ef officials. That was to forestall an alleged | terst/outhreak planned for jalp——

THIS bald statement of the situation, however, is not fair to the Dutch. It does not take into consideration the provocation—the long eign of terror, general disintegration and truce violations, which the repub- ~ lican t has not been able fo prevent or control. Nor does it. give the Dutch credit for: their patient efforts to set up an Indonesian federation as an equal partner with ‘Netherlands.

The LE ins should be slow to judge the rights this complicated case, justice may prove to be on the Dutch dame oFirng trying. to get justice is certainly wrong. By terminating the truce agreement and resorting | to war, they undermine the whole principle of joint responsibility for peaceful settlement. By ignoring the Security ‘and the United Natiéns conimission on the spot; the

i APART from the dasgorous effect on hus and on the United Nations of such a precedent, the results can be exceedingly injurious for The Netherlands. That govern“ment is in no position to go it alone. Like other democratic nations in the post-war world, The Netherlands is very much nthe help, the confidence and the friendly co of othérs. "She cannot have it both ways. She. cannot say an Indonesian war is her private affair and no business of her friends, and then expect. them to strengthen Jer for such a war. For the sake of The Netherlands, which has contributed ‘so much to world democracy and peace, as well as for the future of the United Nations, we hope the Hague govern--ment-now. will_co-operate with the Security Council for . restoration of “the. truce-aid for an international s settlement.

: “Labor, Marion Tobin; are" pias to-build-up-the-Labor ‘Department's importance gnd prestige. There may have been some hints as to what they have in mind in As~wgistant. Secretary John hE Gibson's speech the other day to a Wisconsin CIO meetin, EE - ar Mr. Gibson, a former’ C10 director in Michigan, named the National Labor Relations Board and the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service among several government Bnei vnich he said should be placed under the Labor it. Congress made the’ Labor Relations Board’ an independent ageney-when it was created to administer the original Wagner Act. The Mediation Service was moved out of the Labor Department, and made independent, by the Taft-Hartley Act. We believe there are compelling reasons why both these agencies should remain independent of the Labor Department. : ! ) ; ® ® = un THAT department generally is regarded-—and we think - gorrectly so—as the partisan representative in government of the great labor organizations and their particular viewpoint. Secretary Tobin clearly considers it his function to promote the interests of union members as presented by union officials. ‘But the duty of the NLRB is, and will be under whatever succeeds the Taft-Hartley Act, to administer a law that affects both employers and unions. Its efféctiveness | depends on its fairness. Its attitude should” be, as nearly

, impartial and judicial, - And the Mediation and Conciliation Service has the duty p samploSers ‘and Suions ¢ to settle controversies and, strikes and locke Be be director, Cyrus doing a fine job, - believes his agency will con-

8 h bias. In our opinion, he is

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Sunday | 8 oateusions. Canada sna |

~and | the bitter debate, the United States has. tried a . the effort, it seems to me, has been too to tu too timid,

~Here's to a worker, to-Barton Rees Pogue, |

“Therefore: when. weighing. our,

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In Tune With the Times

Barton Rees Pogue 'A RECIPE FOR HAPPINESS

IL think so much of the cruel unhappiness in

the lives of so'gmany, unhappiness with roots like a cancer that literally eat the very life away. Such unhappiness is caused, to a great extent, because of no interest in life except one's self, or unhappiness because the only interest one has had in living has been a husband, wife or child now gone from earth, Unhappiness fed by selfishness! The pity of it, when one thinks

of all the good those people might do. Hands |

holding only -a moist handkerchief while little children. are pushed about because no one has

time for them. Mouths twisted by imagination

of unsolved pain while hospitals beg for some-

one to read to a patient. If all selfish vnhappi-’ ‘hess could be transformed .ntg doing good, what |

a magnificent change the world would know. ~“ALICE,” Indianapolis. 0 ¢

rhe LIBRARIAN

She Rurries with--her spring ‘work: Inventory, cataloging) ” . In the year's first three months so There will be no matters clogging ' The spring months, when the summer work (Reading contests. new-books buying) . Must be done so autumn work (Book Week displays and classifying) Can be done ere winter work (Student research, reference) .-Bégihs. Yet surely every year She finds it makes no difference; ~~ All seasons’ work is going on At all times; yet the public sees, Behind the desk, a smiling face, Calm, self-controlled, eager to please. «HAZEL 1. DANNECKER, New Castle. . o 2

‘NOW “-Perchance you'd like the flowers That on your bier will lay, Or at least a pan af them ? Scattered ROW. along your way.

Then why not go out and gather For your friend ... a nice bouquet, + Maybe nec would rather . . . also Haye flowers before he's laid away!

~ANNA E..XOUNG, Indianapolis. . a RX

SOLACE = Have you “ever felt, after a day's wear and tear, A feeling akin to despair? Has something caused your feelings to ferment? Then clasp your hands Tor a moment, Press your warm palms gently together, Feel burdens become light as a feather, Thoughts become calm and meditative, Excitement allayéd as by a sedative. - Whether in mournful lamentation, Regret of petty irritation, Press your troublés in the palm of your hand—

~A shore of trials become as a grain of sand.

MILDRED C. YOUNG, Indianapolis. : Hy D

, ~~ DEAR DIARY

Dear Diary, record book of days °

Upon your empty page I gaze And wonder what that future day will bring to

win 1 pring happiness or grief, Will it bring want or sweet relief,

Will its skies. be blue or gray, I can but wait

To record that which will take place, I can but " walt and see. N

—FRIEDA J HERTKAN, Seymour. 10 BARTON REES POGUE

Who strives hard to keep his column in vogue: Each one who composes poems or prose Has tasteful talent, inspired, he knows. ..-While much that Pogue reads is good on its’ face, He has to consider both merit and space. One thing that's essential in prose or hymes: Does X have the tang for In Tune With the imes?

8 print--another big

80 pens won't think they're hushed with a

muzzle, Barton Rees Pogue, ET Don't judge him Houdini or consumate rogue! LUIS B. WRENS, Indianapolis, Td :

THE ED. "TAKES A BOW"

Seqing that you came to defend the editor, not to praise him; I thank you, Mr. Wrens; and “take a bow.” About 99.44% of the contributors

s\bderstand me, my whiny and my problems. |

BEHIND HEADLINES ...By: Marquis

Bitter Debate Rages

WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The redlity behind the black

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OUR TOWN .

. By Anton Scherrer

Private ios Room Given Ladies

SOMEHOW it tickles this department to be able to report that Indianapolis had the first store in the entire West to be oquipped with a private room to accommodate those ladies

whose Victorian modesty wouldn't permit the

fitting and buying of shoes té6" take place in public. Whieh is to say that'it was an archic tectural treatment designed fo =~ save women from the leering side glances of males easily moved by strong emotions. ~The merchant first to appraise the delicate nervous system of women was David > Chase, a general storekeeper who: came to Indianapolis in 1861 by way of Williamsburg, a little town in Johnson County near the northern border line of Brown County. It now goes by the name of Nineveh. Soon as he arrived here, he started the biggest shoe store

in the city. One part of .t was separated from

the rest and dedicated to the ladies. You

couldn't mistake it because of the turkey red

carpet on-the floor. Four years ‘ater, Mr. Chase made a place in the store for his son——in the men's depart-. merit, of course. By this {ime the boy was about 16 years old. After several months apprenticeship, the father took him by the ear and said: “Son, you have spoiled enough wrapping

paper around here. Put on your hat. I'm song

to take you up to Hays.

Takan to Art Studie

....ON.ihe way. upto. Hays." the Jather eX. cen plained rather regrétfully how disappointed he

was not to have made a businessman of his son; moreover, that he didn't have much hope But. that he was willing to give the kid another chance.

Indeed, the thought of wasting so much wrapping paper still rankled the storekeeper when father and son arrived at the ‘door of

Mr. Hays’ studio which at that time fed the third floor of the old Talbott Block, the building . immediately’ south of the structure

now inhabited by the American Bank people. . #-had-oome-10--

“My. Hays; a poriTait painter;

Childs ~~ Side Glances -

Indianapolis shoe

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Indianapolis in 1858. Shortly thereafter he formed a partnership with a photographer (daguerreotyper) under the firm name of Hays & Runnion. For his painted portraits, Mr. Hays got $75, and $25 more if the client insisted on showing his hands,

‘The new pupil was put to®work copying A year lat®r, Mr. Hays advised him |

pictures, to go to New York and profit by the teachers

such a good account of himself that he was’ considered promising enough to profit still more by the teachers in Munich. Aiter six years in Germany, he returned to New York. By this

.—4sime it was 1873. Twenty years later he was ~the ‘most applauded painter in America. i

In brief, that is the amazing story of

. William M. Chase, the boy who got his start

by using up all his father's wrapping paper in order that he might sketch any and everything that popped into his head.

At Height of Career

IN 1908 or thereabout—it was just about’ * 40 years ago as I remember—William M. Chase, | ‘then at the height of his career, visited Indian- . apolis. —pecasion; Capt, Wallace Foster called on him

For the last time, I believe. On that

and showed him a mounted crayon portrait. Mr. Chase recognized it immediately and

‘recalled that Capt. Foster conducted a haber- .

dashery (men’s furnishings store to you) in the Talbott Block atthe time Mr. Hays ran his studio. He remembered, too, that one day he begged Capt. Foster to pose for him. “Foster gave him two the result that the finished product turned out so well that Cap offered him $5 for it, provided he would deliver the picture mounted on cardboard. Mr. Chase said it was the first

money he ever sarned--outside his father’ s shoe |

store, of course. I bring up the subject at this time in order to anticipate the surprise that will’ go. up all over the country. when next year—on the occasion of ‘the centennial of the artist's birth it will be learned that William M. Chase was a Hoosier-born boy who first gave evidence of his genius Iu § in his father’s S Mcylishily.appointed

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Seeing as how-it is getting.

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Hoosier Forum

——————————————. nn do not agree with & word thahyeu say but | will defend fo the death your right to say i"

Keep letters 200 words br less on ay subs ject with which you are familiar, Some letters ‘used will be edited but content will be pre-

"served, for here t the People Speak in Prasdom,

‘Tops in Suered Songs’ By Nell T. Sugrue, 422 N. State Ave. In reply ‘to Mr: Geo. W. Holmes’ comment Wednesday evening in your Hoosier Forum, Tee garding Christmas music; I take exception to his using the word “we” instead of “I” in criticizing Bing Crosby, a “crooner,” in singing sacred. songs. In my opinion as well as a great number of others, Bing Crosby is tops in anything he sings, sacred or otherwise. I would like to ask this man who he thinks would be more suitable to sing sacred hymns than Bing Crosby, for, as everyone knows, his life as a star and at home exemplifies one of highest character and Amer jcan manhood.

Too bad there -are-not mere Bing. Crosbys ;

“In §ong and ‘good-clean-entertainment.

* ¢ oO ‘Loss of Hot Air’ By B. B. I see that some Frenchmen blew up a

Commie radio tower in Berlin, Now this is a sinful’ waste of good dynamite,

coal is kind of scarce, they have cut off*a heck of a good supply of hot air just for spite. These Frenchmen may be kinda dumb about

. wasting things that are free but you have to

give them credit for taking arms’ against a

“sea of troubles” anyway. “ : 9 “Too Young fo for Dates’ By Josephine

How rigiculous a 3% for our courts to be so filled with delinquent youth. How foolish to keep ‘talking about wayward young girls when pare ents will not do what they should. No gir! 14 years old is mature enough to be having “dates.” They are emotionally unstable and.ignorant as to how to conduct themselves. Why do mothers allow stich dates? Again, “dating” has become a social fad. Girls and boys are considering it a way to entertainment, Originally a date was a consideration of a girl for a future. If she appeared reasonable; she was chosen. If not, she was discarded for another choice. I don’t believe

‘ dates as practiced today are healthy for young

people. It makes temptation by constant pres-

sure on emotions by first one, then*another,

Most end up by not knowing what kind of per

of the National Academy.” Here the boy gave |"

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son they wish to marry, if at all I am net an old fogey. Young people like me immensely. They will ‘admit the truth if you'll face them. nt PO

‘The Best Liquor law’ By G. Barret Moxley, Kiefer-Stewart Co., City. Congratulations to The Times for its editoe

rial on “Enforcement — Not More Laws.”

You are “right as rain Jt would be difficult to improve our law which is rated by those who know, the best liquor law im the United States. Primarily, it was outlined and checked by Dr. James M. Doran, for more than 10 years Prohibition: Commissioner at Washington, who knew every angle of the liquor business. He was convinced the last six years he was in the service that prohibition could never be made practical, and with the approach of repeal, Sevan s head of Distiied Spirits Institution, set sce ideals control liquor. and Practices! wn The Times is ener. this subject. . 8 ally

What Others Say

YOU just have to talk to people returnin from Dyes hare (Germany) to hear how we = aking the Russians look like Boothe Luce, ouess Clare necticut, praising Berlin airlift operations. oN & I THINK the President is going to get about what he asks for (from Dw Toe members I've spoken to have A new respect

for Mr. Truman.—Rep. J. Percy Priest (D) of

Tennessee. >. & SHE Taft-Hartley law is a pestilence and

a —-. (It) should. be repealed.—John L.

COA

STRICTLY TRUMAN sas BY Charles I: Lucey

‘New Deal’ Changed

‘WASHINGTON, Dec. 21—The old New Dealers who carried

cold over there and

“right as gold” on

former Congresswoman from Cone.

Ts’ fonistup world.— Bradley, mic. sclétitist:.... 5 David » air dn

headlines is so hard for us herein the United States to conjure up. It is Christmas here in America. Across the expanse of -« SNOW-Ccoyered Jawn. the. fro treess are masked in spow. Java is

"a long way off. Jogjakarta is an impossible name, _ White ‘men are at war with brown men in the steaming

“Indonesia republic for Western: two ttle islands of white peoples in a vast.-sea of gelor. The guns of the Ditch have silenced a debate that has been going on since the end of World War II. They may have ended . for a long time the hope of a ‘peaceful conclusion of that debate. From across the far Pacific. you can hear those voices. The

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and trade that existed before the war,

Voice of Future . :

* THE native speaks with quiet intensity. He is convinced that his is the voice of the future, of freedom and. independence.

you say Indonesia, you have no picture of what we are faced with, The Malay is indolent. He does not create, The native: Of course not. We have been giver no opportinity. We have been held in subjection under the Dutch system of colonial exploitation, and a very efficient system ‘it was. The Dutchman: Yes, but the Chinese who came to Indonesia have prospered. Americans do not seem to appreciate that we offered the republic of Indonesia independence in a federation ‘with The Netherlands. We have been extraordinarily patient in the face of anarchy and chesos. The native: You expect us to move overnight, in a moment of time, fromi*colonial serfdom-—it was almost that—to orderly government. And this after we have suffered the terrors of invasion and occupation by the Japanese.

No Orderly Government

THE Dutchman: The fact refmains that your so-called government cahnot control the irregulars and the guerrillas whose threats and depredations prevent any order in the. territory. We have waited many months®through long drawn-out’ negotiations for some indication that the republic could establish an orderly government,

The Netherlands before the war. Our tolk our sweat, our resources supplied nearly half of the wealth of Holland and made it possible for you tp maintain a high standard of living. {The Dutchman: To Wrong. The contribution of the Indies to our ‘economy was at the most 15 per cent. In Borneo, the Celebes and, in fact, twothirds of Indonesia, the people 4re; willing to accept. federation. You threaten their peace as well as ‘the peace of the rworld. ‘ So the guns roar and the bombs begin to fall. During all to. intérvens. But

withogt constructive and positive purpose. This is the more

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jungle. That is. the significance of the Dutch attack on the |. -Europe-and North-America—the-

The Dutchman: You do not understand in America. When |

The native: Your federation is merely a device whereby you | can continue the kind af colonial exploitation that enriched |

begin with, your figures are quite Ee

Dutchman is the efficiefit manager and exploiter of Indonesia's | "SN eh A of, processing ue

OPR. 1008 BY MEA SERVICE. OKC. 1. M. ABR. U. 8 PAT, OF, - " Dad | is reading a book about how to quit worrying—now’s the | time to hit him for some extra Christmas money!"

background, of having’ worked with the Filipinos toward their independence. Our policy has been to restore Holland to strength and prosperity in Europe while preventing the kind of war which has now broken out. Perhaps that was an impossible goal. And in spite of our good intentions, we may end with the ill will of both sides in this momentous struggle.

Barbs

When traveling through a one-way street, there's only ‘one way to do it—or get a ticket. * *

Ob. for the §ood old days when houses with high rents had

the hod for Franklin Roosevelt are -as gone as yesteryear's Snows, as far-as-the “Truman Npw Deal™ is concerned.

today. Zhe hey 1s that, save perhags for an exception- here an: 8, yl not bs Da ~The varsity: will be ‘alm stric Truman-picked. Bi »

- ~The Ben Cohens. and Tom Corcora 8, endarsons and Harold Ickeses and Thurman oom fhe Inou = new and in some cases profitable pastures. Mr, Henderson is leaving the prelidency of Americans for Democratic Adgion in... which he. drew beets active politically 1h" 51d New Deal ¢auses. But mostly these men have been out ‘of public affairs, \

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INSIDE the government, among those w old New Dealers, are only a on] such wo oud be Counted : Atomic Energy Commission chairman, Undersecretary of Interior Oscar Chapman; Thomas Blaisdell, assistaht Secretary of Commerce-—and the list stops quickly. Secretary of Labor Maurice Tobin and Secretary of £ulture Charles F, Brannan weren't in Washington in New Deal days, but they're cut from the same philosophic pattern. And there aren't many more. . 3 ese Slose 1° Presasnt Truman see two reasons for be . lieving there w no significant return 0 figures shone under President Roosevelt. 9 the, Whe First, Mr. Truman, instead of regarding the ention as a mandate to get rolling with a minor new revolution, sees it instead as a vote of confidence in what he has been doing a ong.

Issues Not Personalities

SECOND, furtherance of the program Mr, Truman stands for is a matter of programs and issues, fot personalities. Why turn to men who long have been out of government, they ask. None of this, Mr. Truman's friends say, forecloses the possibility that such a mn as Paul Porter, former OPA admin istrator and once Federal Communications Commission chair man, ‘may be called on to perform special missions in days ahead. Mr, Pdrter did ome such chore in an early and impo study. of the Greek crisis. More recently he appeared Seta

controls, But missions such as this presumably would be’ infrequent. Of the one-time New Dealers who pitched hardest for the President in the, nt , probably Undersecretary of Interior Chapman has beéén ost active recently, / If Secretary of Interior Julius Krug ‘leaves the Cabinet, Mr, Chapman would seem fo have a first lien on that job, Judge Samuel Rosenman, long Mr. Roosevelt's No. 1 speech-

people as 1d "Moley, Charley West, Abs Fortas, Francis ‘Biddle, W ins Tn

_ that vacant look. ww: * v v ¥ gi ; BE gv 420 yn hg hyd 2 4 1 hs . \ r

0. Poupias, Henry Wallace and two n around here. :

dozen more such werd calling the

—The searcher for names were in the “headt that ines in early. ROSSVET aays finds almost none at top policy-making levels

Congrless as spokesman of the administration view on.economic :-

s writer, puts his ‘hand in now and then. But. it's a long time since |

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