Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 December 1948 — Page 10

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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE -HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

_PAGE 10 Friday, Dec. 31, 1948

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NEARLY everyone who drives in downtown Indianapolis has long realized that the illegal parking of vehicles is an intolerable nuisance. f It has been this way for a long while because the police “have done nothing about it. Trucks unloading in the middle of busy traffic Tans

curb—are so commonplace they don’t get even a glance from passing: motorcycle policemen. Private parking lots, which charge a high fee for parking, and then store their overflow illegally on the sidewalks, haye been doing so unmolested for months. Double parking, and even triple parking, have gone largely unnoticed by the law. So has parking in zones in which parking is forbidden during certain rush hours of traffic. All this constitutes a traffic hazard, slows and snarls the movement of all traffic, and adds heavily to traffic dangers. Most of it is a Sirect result of long-continued police laxity. ; ”

WE ARE “HAPPY, therefore, to see the police finally taking some long overdue steps to-correct it. ~~ We feel it unfortunate, from the viewpoint of safety and convenience, that the police de, apparently considers its action a war on The Times, in retaliation for pointing out the situation, rather than a matter of impartial law enforcement. Policemen busily handing out traffic tickets — many

violation—have also been busily telling motorists who get them to “blame The Times” for it—apparently under some sophomoric orders from City Hall to do so.

As we write these words we see from our window a motorcycle policeman making his third visit in two hours to " , place parking tickets on cars he seems to believe are those of Times employees and which- we. consider legally parked. This trip he also tagged one car across the street which had been parked directly in front of a “na parking” sign all morning but which he had ignored on his two previous calls. He did rot, even this time, tag a private car illegally ‘parked six feet away completely blocking the driveway into Fire Engine House 13, nor the six cars illegally parked in the alley west of the fire station, one of which completely blocked the sidewalk on the south side of West Marylafld - street. They had been there for at least six hours. : "Meanwhile there is little indication of any .serious “effort by the, police to cope with the genuine and dangerous violations of parking ordinances, which continue over most of the downtown area. In short, the parking drive so far * appears to be nothing more than an attempt to annoy the newspaper which called attention to a job the police hadn't done. =f :

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THIS IS NO solution to the o the parking Satan: as, any- ~ one adult enough to have a place in our, city. government . would be quick to appreciate. It continues to be an intolerable nuisance which drives business away from downtown Indianapolis, endangers the safety of motorists and pedestrians and creates costly and annoying delays for thousands of citizens. ~The Times does not- now seek, and never has, sought "any special privileges in parking or traffic.. We expect to be governed by the same laws that govern all other motorists, to abide by the same regulations and to ‘pay the same penalties if they are violated. We sincerely hope the police nent will enforce traffic regulations, without favor anyone, and a “lot better than it has been doing, tis We trust the city administration will soon get over its™ peevishness at us, and undertake a sincere effort to clean ki it has allowed to develop in Indian-

Until they do no amount of childish “reprisals” from City Hal will prevent us from pointing out a civic illness.

Puerto Rico’s Inauguration

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tion of Luis Munoz Marin on Sunday as people i is a significant event for the United States and forworld democracy, as weil as for that island itself. : In the 50 years since Puerto Rico was taken from Spain its governors have been appointed by Xmerican 3 Presidents. Some were capable men who devoted themselves | /+% to their duties, others were political hacks or plain misfits.

Police War on Parking ves OF Somathine:

often when there is clear space right beside them at the

“of them for legal parking in which there is no possible law |

in Tune With the Times |

Barton Rees Pogue YEAR'S END

Now that the hours are growing few Until the midnight bell, A strange reluctance holds my heart From making last farewell To this twelvemonth of days gone by— Tears fill my eyes. I wonder why? :

thas =not: all been good and gay, There have been storm and stress: But looking back, the high lights touch The points of happiness And shadows scattered here and there Accent the light, and make it fair.

But time stays not. Farewell, old year, I bid you last adieu. Whatever failures we have shared, I was at fault, not you. - A new year now, God gives to me I turn and face it reverently. ~~MABEL NEWMAN, Oakland City, ® % 9

ON NEW YEAR'S DAY

On New Year's Day I like to go And see a friend who's feeling low, To bring a word of homey cheer, Or sip a glass of plain root beer— And talk of things of long ago.

\ They are getting few, these I know, . Now just a handful I hold dear; Seems like ohne less ‘most ev'ry year— On.New Year's Day. \

Can't always be glum or sad—so, I'll light some lamps and let them glow, Straighten my tie, then dry a tear; Find some new friends from far or near, And help each one make good cheer flow— On New Year's Day. ~—GEORGE 8. -BILLEMAN Anderson: eo &

WELCOME HAPPY NEW YEAR

Welcome, baby bright-eyes! Welcome, brand-new year, For bringing us your lusty cries And smiling, dimpled cheer!

Welcome! Hear the bells a-ringing— Chimes peal loud—and long— Welcome to the happy singing Of every merry-song!

We laugh a lot—and yell aloud— We whistle—and blow the horn-— And all because we're very proud A brand-new year is born! ~=MILDRED O. YOUNG, Indianapolis. ov

THE IMPORTANCE OF A NAME

The name my parents gave me Is. quite hard to remember, But nevertheless I got it One bleak day in December.

They named me for the nurse who b t me Into this world of woe; The real name is Rowena Joan, But I'm known better as “Ro Jon”

Then someone had to alter that, Just why I'll never know; I don’t think “Ro” is hard to shy, But now they call me “Jo.”

So that just goes to show you What can happen to a name, For when my parents named me, They named me all in vain. =“RO JO,” Indianapolis. ¢ o &

TEDDY

The great Collie lay there on the top of the sea wall facing the west, winking and blinking “his luminous brown eyes in the glare of the summer heat. He was tense, waiting a 1 to duty, nose cuddled by his capable paws. = focused his sight on a group of women’ and | children bathers, there near the

current of the swiftly moving tide. Suddenly he stiffened. He flew thro the space between himself and the wom ver their heads. As he made that leap a ‘woman sitting there raised her arm, and, with the stick she held, gave him a fierce stroke, that made him cry out in pain, but he did not pause in his aim. : It took three ‘quick dives before he wrested from that surging tide the child he sought in his humane aspiration. Scornful was the look he turned on the face of the woman who hit him. But like the valorous knight he laid the child at the woman's feet, She screamed. She did not know that her child had fallen into the water. But remorse of hers was even greater for she could not get near the hero. He shied away whenever she came toward him.

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STORM IN CONGRESS

Rebels Rise in B

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31--While the steam-

|_roller of regularity may finally flatten out the

rebels among both Democrats and Republicans in the new Congress, that will not happen without a struggle. The shrieks of pain and rage will be heard well beyond the borders of this conservative and tradition-bound capital. Both within the new Democratic majority and the Republican minority the yeast of ‘rebellion is working. Able and articulate men and-women are determined that the old order shall not prevail. . ° Thus far, the Republican rebels have made more noise than the dissenters on the Demo“cratic side. The blast by Sen. John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky blaming the reactionary Republican leadership of the 80th Congress for the Nov. 2 defeat expressed what many others have longed to say, Because he himself was defeated, Sen. Cooper felt free to speak out. Speaking in Cincinnati before the Association of American Law Schools, that perennial rebel, Sen. Wayne Morse of Oregon, went all out for democratizing the rules of Congress, including doing away with the congressional sacred cow—the seniority system: By that seniority system members, regardless of their ability, can ride the escalator to key committee chair< manships. a

- Public Aroused

SEN. MORSE quickly added that he was

well aware that the odds against bringing about —any of these

to one, But it is also true, as he pointed a that the public is becoming more and more aroused by the antediluvian procedures that keep Congress back in’'the mud of the horse: and-buggy days. ‘A national committee fo strength Congress, representing almo! every ie of opinion from Winthrop Aldrich of the Chase National Bank to James Carey of the CIO, is calling for basic changes. The Democratic rebels have made considerably less noise, perhaps because they are in.the ajority and, therefore, must accept responsility. They are, however, just as determined to try fo abolish the traffic obstructions that get in the way of democratic action. Here, of course, a delicate bit of business comes in. On the opening day before Congress

has adopted its rules, almost anything can parliamentary procedure...

-happen.under ordinary.

. By Marquis Childs oth Parties

The Democratic majority in the House will hold its caucus tomorrow. If the rebels, who want to abolish the veto of the rules committee

and make sure that all committee posts do not |

go to Southerners, have their way, then next Monday the leadership would be in for a Kilkenny fight that could have serious consequences in the new Congress.

A Stormy Assignment

REPUBLICANS would in® almost certainty join the Democratic rebels. The new speaker,

Sam Rayburn, would find himself repudiated at ’

the beginning of what is certain in any event to be a stormy assignment._ For this reason Mr. Rayburn is likely to carry the day even with those who are conviriced that reforms are necessary. What the moderates hope is that, in return, Mr. Rayburn will agree to back minimum changes once he has asserted his leadership. The rock-bottom minimum the reformers expect is the abolition of the veto power of the Rules Committee. That veto—has been used again and again to block legislation approved by other committees that have cafefully studieq it.

The veto exercised by the little group of dictators comprising the Rules Committee could be ended by a fairly simple change. The absolute power to block and obstruct would be

amended to provide that if the committee failed’

to report out within a pefiod.of 10 or 15 days legislation already approved by another committee, then a majority vote of the House would bring the legislation to. the floor.

Behind Truman Program =

INEVITABLY, personalities play a part. The new chairman of the Rules Committee will be Rep. Adolph Sabath of Illinois, who will be 83 years old next year. Rép. Sabath, a New Dealer, is expected to co-operate in the Truman gh 3 t § next in line is Rep. Eugene Cox of Georgia. Rep. Cox is a die-hard tory whose blocking tactics as chairman would make the Republican regime seem like a carnival of liberalism. As leader of the House group that carried out the reorganization of Congress, Rep. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma fought for abolishing the tyranny of the Rules Committee. He and other moderates may be able this time to add that reform to the good Deginning they. made.

Hoosier

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, 1

will defend to the death your right fo say if.

|. Keep letters 200 words or less on any subject with which you are familiar. Some letters used will be. edited Mit content will be preserved, fir bere the People Speak in Freedom.

‘Free Trial Rights Denied’ By Ronald F. Faucett, 954 Wright St.

The bungling, inept, groundless accusations flung so promiscuously by such a self-exalted

+-body-as-the es Committee have dropped the good names of good Amer-

icans down into the mud- with little thought for either the truth or the facts. The committee defied the inalienable right of Americans for a free and unbiased trial and ruled that those men were guilty “before the facts were estab lished. The Un-American Committee failed to produce even one shred of concrete evidence which’ was not already a well-known fact to the FBI ‘and the Justice Department. | The Un-American Activities Committee could haw done a great service for America had it, (Ens Committes) investigated the affairs of such un-American groups as the KKK and the fol. lowers of Gerald L. K. Smith , , . and the followers of William Dudley Pelley . . . and other-siich organizations which were known for their participation in such un-American active ities as lynching, Fl oting, printing of many sube versive ] + dctually threatening the safety of ante nation. i This is undoubtely communistic activity in America. There is undoubtedly a great need for action by the FBI and the Justice Depart ment. The American people have far more confidence in the FBI and the Justice Departe ment than they have in such. blundering anti constitutional committees. They have more faith in the American court and its guaranteed procedure than they have in the unsupported word of such men as W. Chambers dnd Louis Budens and others who have been proven, by their own actions, as men of weak character,

“Their fluctuation between their communistic

activity and their Americanism shows that they .

have little or no sense of values. As long as the Un-American Activities Come

mittee relies on the testimony of such charace

ters as these, .let that committee either die or be shelved until that time when a true value of ‘testimony can be determined or until that time when men of integrity and unbiased opin-

fons can control the committee.

‘Cast My Lot With Optimists’

By H.S.D. : At year’s end, living becomes just a bit

richer, a bit more enjoyable, as folks every-

where trade heartfelt wishes for Christmas merriness and New Year's happiness. “During the ast eight sons the shape of world affairs did little to promote good cheer if men. Despite that fact, Christmas trees will occupy a prominent spot in millions upon millions of homes; carolers will fill clear and starry nights from joyous Christmas music; postmen will stagger under the weight of mail pouches filled with

friendly messages for the yuletide period. The

reason is simple, of course: “The spirit of Christmas will not die.”

As a holiday season looms ahead, although

we’ all know that this resilient old world of ours .

is still troubled; nonetheless I'l like to cast my lot with the legion of optimists who feel that the future holds more golden opportunities than ever before. - : & 9%

Yearns for Good Music

By J. E. K. How long will it take before some Tadio station manager wakes up to the fact that many listeners are yearning for good music? There isn’t a single spot on the band’ all day long that isn't mooing with moronic music. I've worn my fingers to the bone twisting the dial. From now on, I collect phonograph records until radio wakes up to its. responsibilities.

What Others Say—

"ONE can’ 1’ put it down as a basic proposition —

that a Christianity which is merely anti-com-munism is no real Christianity at all, just as Protestantism which is merely anti-Catholicism 1s no real religion at all. —Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of the Union Theolog= ical Seminary. ob

WE ought to have Christmas once a month, «Superior Court Judge Joseph Sabath of Chicago; noting that the Yule season helps ‘mend marital rifts. 7 ¢ o_o : I'M filing everything in pumpkins these days go I can locate it. ; A ~Attorney General Clark, commenting on Com- : _munist spy investigntions.

"RADIO PROGRAMS . . . By ee

New Peril-of Living —

“WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 — As if the average American

Side Glances

By Galbraith

NAZI WAR PLANTS ...By Marshall MeNell

‘German Lobby in U. S.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 31—Industrialists of western Germany

-nine holiday seas

“the first governor of Puerto Rico to be elected by its |

didn’t live under ‘enough tensions, trying to keep pace with inflation, foreign wars and such, it comes to mind that modern radio has added a new peril to the complications of everyday living. We speak of the institution of radio give:away programs, Nowadays, every American—-every one with a telephone, .that is—lives in the constant jeopardy that he may be" radio-give-away program, be offered fabulous fortune for answering a few questions, and-find himself unprepared. = There is aiso-the added peril that he may actually be able to recite for fame and fortune and yet be pre-emptorily barred from doing so because of being disconnected by some distant telephone operator. This is the unkindest cut-off of all, and has in recent weeks led to some hard feeling against telephone and broadcasting companies.

Value on Education

Not until 1946, when President Truman appointed Jesus | T. Pinero, was a Puerto Rican chosen for the position. Mr. Truman and the 80th Congress wisely provided | that the island should elect its own governor, by popular vote. Last November Munoz Marin was elected overwhelmingly, with more than three-fourths of the qualified voters | _ casting their ballots, thus receiving a clearer mandate ' than Mr. Truman, or, indeed, any American President in modern times has obtained, 1

” ” ” ” » o PUERTO RICO, overpopulated as it is, faces grave economic problems even in these prosperous times. Be- _ yond desiring greater autonomy, its leaders themselves' * have not agreed upon what the island's future political status should bd—statehood, independence, or continued “existence as a territory. But for the present Px Rico is a part of the United States and its people are American’ citizens. It is hae hotable that, whatever their feelings toward the United ates, Puerto Ricans have so obsorbed the principles of - democacy that communism has made little ypenday

pd, permitting Puerto Ricans to éléet their own goverthe United States has taken an important step toir) Santying out a goal of the ‘United Nations cgrmnieh

NOW this shaky give-away precipice on which Americans exist is not entirely bad. For one thing, it puts a new and more immediate value on education for our, young. There was a time when Junior couldn't quite see the percentage in piling up stores of information, such as: “All Gaul is divided into three parts . , .” (or was'during Caesar's time), wormed laboriously , from the Latin pony. Now, thanks to radio's incentive, all this has been changed. Junior has but to twirl the dial at random any eveaing to hear b-Johns and Janes aking in electric washers, trips to Beruta, life-time supplies of breakfast food, dog food and ball-point pens, to be convinced of the value, here and now, of adequate and readily available knowledge. : One angufshed housewife's m that she. just doesn’t know who was the last President before Willlam Howard Taft to wear a beard is proof positive that one should commit to' memory not only the names and birthplaces and dates of all Presidents, but also their facial appearances, middle names, outstanding peculiarities such as warts or harelips, and any other data that might conceivably pop into the fertile brains of those geniuses who devise the quizzes,

Burden on Mankind

THUS, as each new burden on mankind has its compensa tions, so has this peril of the radio give-away. So far the system has broken very few people completely. And think of all

lations, or at least provided with some. new aluminumware. And, in the realm of intangibles, tifiik of the hope, the extra

American dream” of getting ahead. Let us brace ourselves, then, tragic possibility that we may not knowing, we may even yet be th by a chance Juling uf of

r the worst—for either the now when quizzed, or that,

a plug in a remote telephone switchboard. And strong in the Mnowledge that som our call may SoBe ang § remain con'nected—face the future with fortitude, {

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the persons it has either made rich beyond their wildest calcu-.

and immeasurable haope, which the give-away adds to “the

COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, IC. 7. M. AEG. U. & PAT, OFF:

"We'll have our New Year's fun in the morning when we wake Pop up at geven o'clock!"

Barbs—

THE motorist who is set on beating the car ahead of him

to ‘the curve usually gets his Ties. ” - ” - » .

WOMEN are wearing skirts longer—and if prices stay up there, they” 1 wearing them longer than they expect. n

” ” ¢ ” ” ” RACKETHERS bombed a beauty shop in an Arizona town. They have their own ideas as to how to lift Faces, . 0» » IT always pays to be in good standing, ~~ vi Jdge, Likely | because you re Sung pretty.

MANY 8 a Han Swe his success to a cool, “evil hetd—the one’ that's on his wife's shoulders. a «wh

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are trying .to lobby among U. 8. Senators to save thelr plants from dismantling. They are sending letters and pamphlets dnd contending in words, “new. bldw against sound reasoning.” Also, that itis “plckpogket= “ing U. 8. taxpayers.” The program was undertaken by the "Allies to prevent Gerit. industrial war potential. - The

| many. from. regaining. its, v clamor against dismantling some that to continue it will mean more u. 8. expendi~

+ tures under the Marshall Plan. =x Some industrialists of former Nazi Germany now are using those arguments

The latest “letter- head” lobby effoit comes from Toussaint & Hess of Dusseldorf, which says it manufactured hydraulic jacks for coal mining and hydraulic tippers for transport.

‘Dismantling Error’

ITS PAMPHLET, airmailed to a leading Senator, slyly says

the management * ‘cannot presume its plant was ordered dis. mantled because of “competitipn.” It attributes the “dismantling error’ to inability of the ol clals of the oecupying armies to understand the German language. Here's how the pamphlet states it in somewhat awkward English: “As we cannot presume that competition was the cause to register our firm for dismantling, we are to make the incident plain as a linguistic misunderstanding. In such an intricate process as the scheming -of, a dismantling roll for a whole Sountry blynders of the kind may slightly slip in.” , . “Why are we fighting for the maintenance of prodiiction?” the pamphlet asks, and then gives this answer: “To be sure—we like to live and work; even the simpleton of our gang knows furthermore that the product of his hands, in addition to earning" his living, is Andispensable for reconstruction.”

Other Plants Dismantled

THE PAMPHLET concedes all other plants of this kind have been dismantled, adding that it is the sole remaining producer of these hydraulic jacks. The Toussaint & Hess management says their company is on the list as makers of “hoists” and that the error is they have never made hoists.

ky The pamphlet makes this appeal:

“We take the liberty to apply for your kind assistance to induce a stop of dismantling of the sole and only plant in western Germany manufactueing hydraulic jacks.. You will give a new chance and new hopé to German workers'in the very plight of this critical moment. You will help to stabilize econbmy, maintain and increase hauling in the Ruhr and you will also help put into practice ERP and relieve U. 8. taxpayers.” The appeal includes the following which may be the Germanic equivalent of a singing commercial: “Increase hauling in tne Ruhr... “Is your policy, we guess. “Good advice . . . to be quite sure . , , "w » | ” Pon't dismantle TQussaint & Hess. oh)

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