Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 23 December 1948 — Page 12
VARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager
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Give L4ght and the People. Will Find Their. (ten Way
County Planning ATORTION of the new master plan for zoning all suburareas of Marion County, which became effective “this oily is a long-overdue step toward more orderly de- ; Yelopment of our rapidly i: a’ suburbs which have been. sprawling. haphazardly into cornfields for the last several years without effective planning and control, have become a threat to the health and economic conditions of future communities. Under this new master zoning plan, which replaces .the ineffective and limited ordinance used since’ 1941, the. _ Marion County Plan Commission will have an over-all yard- ~ stick to guide suburban development on every parcel of land hd) ounty.
THIS, we Delieve, is a necessary v pilic arvice for the benefit of all citizens to prevent depreciation of property into a jungle of slums through a conflict of industrial and residential developments in the future. Violations of this ordinance for orderly development of | and Sconomieally sound suburban communities carry SRR nariine:
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7 NThere can be no excuse now for lax supervision and napection of future building developments.
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or increases in state a The Tax Foundation: with headquiarters in New York, has now summarized the reo sults. Among the purposes for which expenditures’ and bond issues were proposed were veterans’ bonuses, old-age and other public assistance, school construction and operation, roads and bridges and ‘erection and maintenance of state buildings. : : of 16 proposed bond — 12 were approved. Of 19 c Is for increased spending, 13.were approved. : But of 0) proposed tax increases, 1% were dateted.
"THE TAX ’ FOUNDATION comments that bond issues, - | “4h burdens of which appear to be furthest removed from te taxpayer,” * were~fairly easy to pass. It adds: in state services or benefits which do not specific tax levies for financing, and the cost of which ay therefore misconstrue as already provided, also ative success. However, measures which specirly Wha not. associated with a definite
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may now be made and sold in ! Canada without tax. This is a result of a recent Ca__nadian Supreme Court ruling which invalidated the obsolete law prohibiting the possession, manufacture and sale , Of margarine in the Dominion. ~The Canadian law ‘was enacted in--1886,-which-coin-asl} with the date of our own country’s original
nd following. World War I, when Canadian consumers—as do many consumers in the United States now-—found butter prices too high in comparison with a desirable, substitute.
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. SNOOPIN'
It was hid in the closet, Ernie discovered it. It was well covered over, Ernie uncovered it.
Was anyone coming? io He stood still a minute; Oh, ‘my, he was anxious To know what was in it!
He had asked for a sled, " For a knife and a gun, And he wanted a train, And a watch that would run.
Ernie slipped out the package, Turned it up, what he'd found; . He squeezed it, he rolled it, He shook it around.
He then said to himself As he shoved the package Fardack on the shelf,
Oh, I wonder if folks Know how a boy feels ¢ When he finds things all wrapped In scotch tape and seals? ~SADIE CAMPBELL MOORE, Hillsboro. ¢ © MY PRAYER Each Christmas Eve, a halo seems to frame Your image in our heart The choirs sing soft earols, Their sweet refrain a counterpart Of your beloved name. Help us to hold kind thoughts; so we possess’ The smile that Mary were} ARE SRT weed As-our Jesus did with care, Like in Nazareth, for well we know . That Brotherhood was builded there.
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. DOLL CLOTHES
” Because the dollies do need alothos ‘They all are naked . . . see? : And Naney's children number trieive wr And Anne's; . . oh! sakes alive! > Thére's Jerry, Margie, Sue and Bess And Billy Boy . .. that's five! Two grown up dolls . , . would you Pelieve ' Both .,.need a party frock! And Christmas only hours away Slow down there . , . Mr. Clock! Poor Grandpa wades up to his chin In ribbons, lace and such, : He says he's glad that he can cook For Grandma can't do much But cut and fit. . , and baste and sew (He's learned to sweep and dust) But: I believe the man does know That . . . Doll Clothes , ., are a MUST! —~ANNA E. YQUNG, Indianapolis. * o_O
PORTRAIT OF NATIVITY
The Star's prophetic eminence . Falls brightly on the snow; Inside the Baby's cry is heard As Mary wh low, “The wind 1s harsh and cold, my Lamb, The world is like that, too, That's why God thought it wise to send A Yittle “One like You. .- That's why old Bethlehem tonight 8 Is full of God-made small, .... For it's the only way that L193 Can know of God a n : | OLIVE BODE BROWN, Bian City. * > »
LIVELY AT CHRISTMAS TIME
I'm all pepped up at Christmas time, For the fun and joy of 1t all —Does something to this heart of mine Like it did when T was small,”
1 gee no reason why that I Should think those young days through, And find myself a-stéppin’ high
There's something "bout this time of year One catches from the air, == Wireh fills old bloéd with life and cheer .. While youthful joys we share.
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‘ Oh. heart, strive not for the highest prise. 2 pe-tall would hurt toe much; : Contented be if but to behold The greater stars you fain would touch
IT 18 too “early to forecast the full "effect yp; the Canadian court's action. No margarine is now being. made in the Dominion proper and the court held that the Taw i p-JpoHs must continue,
The Canadian Parliament meets early next Jour. “The t indi will try to do oo
a ATED. is expected, . Similarly in this country legislative faress a Yor repeal of our anti-margarine laws are set to renew their Congress fight., They should be heartened by the common. sense vietory in Canada and able to gain passage of a re . i SO “Hythe “PRIDCTAtIc Party's platiorm, | early in the new session.
Hail! Mrs. Boettcher ; ~ ‘THERE is hope for a civilization which includes people like Mrs. Herbert Boettcher of Waterloo, Iowa. Six weeks ago Mrs, Boettcher won $2000 in household GC equipment by correctly answering a telephone question for . a radio quiz show. This week she was called Again by the same show but turned down her chance to’ win another $1000. “Give someone else a Christmas present, ” said Mrs. Boettcher, Mrs. Boettcher, we salute you. Merry Christmas.
Free Wigs ALD-HEADED Britons are getting free wigs through their National Health Service. Free, but austere. Or _ as one wig-maker puts it, according to a London report to the Wall Street Journal, strictly of the “utility” type, with “no frills or faney bits.” Ultimately, the British government is expected to sup- _ ply about 100,000 wigs and touness a vear to some 75,000 lems subject of King Gemge 9 oon of $4) each will get two—the extra, presumably, for Suny wear—and they'll be entitled to have one wig cleaned d every two months at government expense.
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for Indonesia, but as aid for the Netherlands. States. principally hand tools and hardware.
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WASHINGTON, Dec. 23—A nasty situation Bu
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Before the war, the Dutch ruled the Netherlan and colonization. It is a rich archipelago than the United States In the southwest Java, part of Borneo, the Celebes und A MR SR NRE Po aps drove the Dutch out. Dutch government—itself exiled in England—promised self- } he . with equal status in a postwar
When the war was over, British-Indian and Dutch troops, using in part American lend-lease arms, were used to suppress a native Indonesian Republic government that.-had sprung up as an
NEGOTIATIONS broke down between the Dfitch and this as the Republic calls itself. Civil war broke out. The United Nations Security Council in November, 1947, set up a Good Offices Committee of the United States, AusThis committee negotiated the Renville truce agreement in January, 1048. The Dutch government then blockaded the Republican areas, preventing the native government from trading or obtaining any , supplies from the outside ‘world except by smuggling. : Now here is where the Marshall Plan enters the picture: There is no American aid program for Indonesia, There is, however, a $270,000,000 first-year aid program for the Netherlands proper, as an important part ®f the European recovery program. In order to hasten recovery of the Netherlands economy, an additional $84,000,000 of Marshall Plan money has been earmarked for spending’ in Indonesia. Mind you, this is not as ald
Of this $84,000,000, $17,000,000 has-been allocated for food— principally rice, wheat flour and dairy products from the United Thirty-one million dollars has been allocated for the purchase of textiles in Japan. The other $36,000,000 has been allocated for farm machinery, mining machinery and sundries—
ALL THIS aid, however, is going only into the areas controlled by the Ditch government. Because of the blockade which the Dutch maintain over the Indonesian Republic areas, not one people in the native gov-
meisnns IB 4. part of the. ent unfairness of the situation, Goods supplied to, the Dutch for use in Indonesia undgr the Marshall Plan are sold to private industry for Dutch gui money into the so-called counterpart fund. But nonk of coun
fund'is to be spent for rehabilitation In Indonesia.
UN-AMERICAN ACTIVITIES .
Fight Looms on Spy Probe Setup
ign! =. Dec. 23--One thing about
the House Un-American Activities Committee « | is certain.
The new Congress will see a bitter and probably prolonged struggle over the form the committee is to take, with a Democratic majority in control of the House.The discovery of the secret document and
, the indictment of Alger Hiss put a different
light on the work of the committee. The tactics of the committee are all that critics have said —bumbling, crude, sensational, ing, often working grave injustice on innocent persons. But the overwhelming fact is that secret documents have been taken from the govern-
ment. files and the transmittal of thése docu- -
‘ments to a foreign power could have worked great harm to this country. If it had not been -for-the-- of. by the Hiss libel suit against Whittaker Chantbers, the document would not have come to - light,
Sins of Commitiee
-IN-THIS column there have been frequent criticisms of the methods of the committee, The method of. the committee has been contrasted with the procedure of the Royal Commission in Canada where thoroughly and effectively, with. out any publicity whatever, -a Communist
Seplunage ring was exposed and the guilty 0 , puiniaived. — Rep. Richard Nixon, of California, a Re-
publican and perhaps the most conscientious member of the committee, is well aware of this contrast, as he is also aware of the sins of
the method of the Royal Commission was
of the House group. But he points out that the method of the Royal Commission was Possible only under Canada’ 8 wartime espionage
in secret. Perhaps even more important, wit-
nesses could not escape testifying by pleading that in 0 “doing they might incriminate them- \ aa view. It would “seem to--en
‘In Tecent months a number of witnesses
--pefore the -House. Committee have used. this
provision of the law to aveid answering questions. In this way they escaped citation for contempt of Congress,
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HDOPR. 1948 BY NEA GERVIOR, WC. T. M. REG. ¥. 8. PAT. OFF.
"We'd better wake your father now and let. him put the finish ing touches on the tree—otherwise he'll tell us we've decorated it lopsided!"
. By Marquis Childs
Mr. Nixon believes that government employees, or former government. employees,
~-ghould not be allowed to use this loophole when
the questions asked directly concern their government work and status, In other words, government servants would have a special responsibility to respond in connectipn with their work in government.
Escape Testimony AMONG the changes in procedure that Mr. Nixon will suggest is one that would modify
the right of witnesses to escape testimony on the ground of seif-incrimination. Whether that
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one can be done under the Constitutional guar-— antee against self-incrimination is one ‘thing. Whether enough Democrats would join the Republican minority to put it over is quite an-
other matter.
On the Democratic side, Rep. Chet Holifield, * has drafted a lengthy amendment to the rule of the House under Many of
alse of California,
which the committee now operates. the provisions are intended to correct flagrant abuses of procedure, Thus majority vote would be required to compel witnesses to testify at’ a secret hearing or to produce documents. This would end the absurd and dangerous business of individual committee members going off on their own in-
_ dividual expeditions, as Rep. John McDowell of Pennsylvania, a lame duck Republican, now is
doing mn New York.
Right to Answer UNDER the amendment proposed by Mr.
Holifield, one of ‘the leaders of the liberal wing
of his party in the House, witnesses would have the right to reply to charges made against them. and even to submit questions to be asked of those. who had testified against them. All witnesses would “be advised of their Consti-
“tational right against self-ineriminationt
This last runs directly counter to Mr. Nixon's witnesses to use a constitutional right to balk the com-
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By Galbraith | LACORLAW . .. By Fred W. Perkins i
'Middle-Road Policy
WASHINGTON, Dec. 23-—-A small group of Repubilionh _,Benators . Who frequently oppose their party on important issues Tikal to] FEVISion of The national labor: ie
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It is all being earmarked to aid Tecovery in ‘the Netherlands
1 The official position of ECA-—~the Economic Co-operation dnifnistration handling the Marshall Pian—is that under the . law it cannot assist the Indonesian Republic—only the Duteh colonies, ECA is said to be interested in seeing the Dutch and the Indonesians settle their differences, but only because this would hasten recovery in the Netherlands. “It is largely because of this $354,000,000 worth of Marshall - + Plan aid that the Dutch government is able to finance its army val forces of 130,000 men, at a cost of $39,000,000 a year; d the Indonesian Republic in check. .
What all this inevitably suggests is | a legislative body is not under any con-.| dition equipped or constituted to expose the | eriminal activities of nies and saboteurs,
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The certain members of this group at present are Sens, Irving M. Ives (R. N.Y.) and Wayne Morse (R. Ore.). They may be joined by Sens. George D. Aiken (R. Vt.), Charles W. | Tobey (R. NH.) and others. : The Ives-Morse team stands midway between tk SENT RDRON WRU form and the opposing group which would go to 4he other ex-treme-—ditch it and restore the old Wagner act. The new division in both branches of Congréss—Tatt-Hartley
labor law-—makes the outlook promising for the middie-of- the- -
Not Pleasing to Labor
ON THE fmportant “closed shop” issue Bens, Morse and Ives hold views not pleasing to ofginized labor. They believe in. providing security for unions but also in protecting the right ot non-unionists to get a job. They oppose a closed shop in combi. nation with a “closed union.” The Taft-Hartley law prohibits the closed shop but legalizes the “union shop.” Under the closed shop an applicant must held a union card before an employer can hire him. Under the union shop this restriction cannot be enforced, but the new employe must join the union within 30 days after he is hired and must maintain his membership. “The Taft- -Hartley law contains far more good than vil” Ben. Ives sald. “The good parts should be salvaged. Up to the present, labor has not been. damaged by this law and in some respects it has been helpe The main di effort was made to “sell it to the public: Asked If he Meant the election campaign, hm replied yes.
Hoping for Too Much
THE NEW YORKER agrees with Sen. Morse that organized labor is hoping for too much when it asks repeal of the Taft. Hartley' law, restoration of the Wagner act and then a ston of amendments to the Wagner act. Both hold that the program, including amendments, must be Worked out in advance of any wsetion by Congress. + Sens/ Ives and Morse have worked ‘together before on the labor subject. Both are regarded as specialists in labor law, Ben. Ives has declined to sign a F mission to’ the present Congress by the.
fcan majorit the congressional Joint committee on’ Jahorknagemen | He said he disapproved of the 3 she. Tanore because it rom. 7
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: ~ 8 is ALD Hoosier Foru —————————————— “I do net agree with a word thai voy, bet ™ ox deter ve he death our TA Fo sey Ee Tw ject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be edited but content will be pres served, for here the People Speak in Freedom.
‘Freedom Is at Stake’ By FB Frantz, 750 Ketcham St, a Under our: Constitution no special favors or special privileges shall be conferred by Con gress on private individuals, Our basic. eivil... rights: and remedies are not to be bargained away by legislative action, We as individuals ‘may assume these Constitutional private rights beyond the acts of Congress for our protection of private freedom. It is immaterial as to what form of protection we May choose or find in our Cdhstitution, The essential meaning and the “purpose is the same: Intended protection
“I AgaThEt Torreiture of private rights “on legise —§F-biggest
lative judgment. Whether this «relates to due * process or the due course of law, both are intended for individual protection and were guaranteed to the people forever under which the private rights of the individual are inviolate and must remain as our imperishable ideals of justice, We as citizens should depend ‘upon our own. efforts for this sécurity. To preserve this rightful heritage of our children no law passed by Congress will be more strange and “to our “freedom, - more shbeking to our ideals of private rights
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erty to private individuals. For a court to ups hold this legislative judgment for law is ta’ mean our freedom is at stake, Under this des cision courts wili enforce this judgment to the injury of our most herineg heritage, our . Constitution. * © 9
By - Io " City. ‘ 3 My neighbor tried to hoard flowers wd * failed, of course, From the. early spring until frost this year, --all.of.us. 2: And dun. the street have watched
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Weddings" took place, ‘graduations, “and other ~ festive events. One or two ifi"the ‘block went to the hospital for surgery and others were fis for a time at home. But none of these events prompted our talented gardener to share her wealth of blooms. Today, as I passed there, dead and blackened chrysanthemums, killed by the frost, hung | limply from their stalks, The appreciation and love. of-her neighbors would be a lovélier token at Christmas time, than those wrecks of once beautiful flowers. - = . gd ese tien
‘Read During Lunch Hour’ By E. R. M,, City. ~~ Lunch hour is a good time to read while you, eat. — But what are you going to do with the .person who comes into the cafeteria, looks at empty seats at the long tables for unescorted - people and chooses to sit at your table for two? Of course, the indictment of selfishness can be brought against a person like me who does. - _ not wish to” be chutes as a table compani 2 by a talkative stran But I don't get a 1 ~ of time to read an i Is relaxing to pull out my paper or magazine at lunch fime— = But with a strange person taking up more g than her share of room and making irrelevant i
remarks into the bargain, what chance is there to read and really relax?
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What Others Say :
WE CANNOT claim that we are a complete democracy so long as there are any among us ° who may be dompelled to fight for that demog- ~ racy, but who may be denied the opportunity to participate in it when it has been preserved. - Vice President-elect Alben W. Barkley. . re ® ¢ © 90 _IT SEEMS to me that the time has come id the cold war when it must he made abundantly’ clear that, if a hot war begins, the free nations will be prepared, ‘equipped and ready to go.—. Canadian Anibassador Hume Wrong. ry ; tT ae ow a or The greatest danger 1 see Tor (the Amerisi © ' can zitizen) threatens from: within and -not from without. It “isthe danger that throughapathy or weakness of -intention-he-may fall tof. exercise with virility his heritage of democratic freedom, and thus let go by default the eo; structive power history has Flaged in his | we —President Truman.
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