Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 4 January 1949 — Page 12
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Above Partisanship * GPEAKER Sam Ra UD the Hotine ob a igh note : of bipartisanship. NE 10 Yin: sloction for the fifth time as presiding officer he recognized healthy differbut appealed for unity on the major question of whether y shall remain free men: “On matters: of great national interest, national defense, the preservation of our liberty, 8 of the world that has been thrust years, I feel certain there will be little divisio aisle.” :
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that hope. In all the talk about an election mandate. for this new Congress, it will not be forgotten that on | foreign. policy there was no essential difference between the Demo“atic and Republican pledges for diplomatic, economic and military security against Russian aggression. Only Henry Wallace and his supporters challenged that policy, and their overwhelming ¢ Sefoat was the voters’ referendum. |
House, Chairman Tom Connally of the Senste hd Re-
was under Sen. Connally as chairman, and Sen. Vandenberg: who was then the ranking Republican member of the committee, that this fruitful approach to international affairs ‘was developed. The Vandenberg-Connally team functioned the same when the Republican became chairman, and it will - gontinue now that their roles are again reversed. - ~ Stalin has been counting on two things happening in . the United States to help him win the cold war, and if "necessary a shooting war. One is economic depression. The other is a party political feud to wreck our foreign and defense policies. Neither occurred under the strains of an “election year. Neither should cripple us during the sessions
Lof ‘this Congress. Clad Shon Decision -
: Toye 8. Supreme Court rules unanimously that states 2 aay Stitch SWS io forbid dosed-ahiop und ther WHioh
Sihoo 1084 the court hds upheld state and federal laws forbidding employment discrimination workers because they are union members. It now holds that the same ~ protection can be given non-union workers. The states have - power to prohibit contracts which would bind employers to discriminate against workers because they are not union members. And the exercise of that power by a state legis--lature which regards such contracts as “offensive to the public interest” i8-not. 4 Violation of rights gamnteed by the Congtiéftidn.
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dSeiston peciically upholds anti-closed shop laws of Arizona, Nebraska and North Carolina. Thirteen other
_ states have enacted similar laws. in the Taft-Hartley Act, has applied a “federal closed-shop ban to employers operating in inter: state commerce. By the same logic used in the case of state
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the probable fact that the federal closed-shop ban is conE atacosd will not Jesse, the clamor of union readers for its repeal, along with other Taft-Hartley safeguards on their use of power. question, in our opinion, is whether closed-shop are “offensive to the public interest.” We think and that they should be forbidden: . The closed an unfair and monopolistic device. It restricts the Ee t of workers to seek employment where. they please. Unions can ind of jobs they wamt by barring them from union mem-
The dosed shop can “be forbidden without depriving - that. ‘
“Government wo the People QE of the Stat ang Ue pS tutof bills prepared for introduction in the Legislature is a meas“tire to restore the direct primary method of selecting candidates for Indiana's state offices and the U. 8. Senate, The bill, drafted by Rep. Laurence D. Baker, of Kendallville, would abolish the present boss-ridden state con~.yentions in which it is possible for a few leaders in the + major parties to hand pick “their stooges as candidates for state offices. The state convention system, in effect, virtually takes control of the government away from the people and gives it to a few party bosses.
THE direct primary bill, therefore, will be regarded as a must on the legislative program of those Indiana law makers who are sincere in their democrati¢ faith in “the rights of voters. ¥ Passage of the measure will mean that candidates who run on .party tickets in the fall will be chosen by voters at the polls in the May primaries and not by political bosses, It will mean restoration of the state govern. ment to the people where it belongs.
Not So Absurd ROGER BALDWIN, director of the American Civil Liberties Union, is back from: Germany where he found our occupying forces treating the people “like kindergarten children.” “It is a little absurd,” said Mr. Baldwin, “to see young American lieutenants trying to lecture German: professors on democracy.” + Why‘absurd? The young lieutenants probably know ) about their subject than the professors, since they've
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provisions in labor contracts. The reasoning of | ~ the decision, written by Justice Black, seems to us un-
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; Barton.’ “Rees Pogue UNIVERSITIES STARTED IT
© Most colleges, at commencement time, fin out a few “free” degrees to people, whom they would like to honor for some service rendered alma mater, The degrees represent no work of an academic received such a degree as a reward for sending students to his former college, and another; who
Secsivad one for contributing a certain sum in | time of financial stress.
; Other organizations have now taken up the practices, and the results are hilarious but usually silly, perhaps. no sillier than the solemn procedure indulged in at commence. ments. 4 A group of citizens in a southern state rewarded the unmarried mother of five splendid sons, who served in the war, with the “honorary title of Mrs.” A governor invested an Indian chief with . dubious distinction of “honorary membership, in the white race.” Leave it to the soldiers to produce the perfect reductio ad absurdum. It happened at Camp Bowie in Texas: A faithful old. mule was duly, and with great ceremony, elevated to the rank of “horse.”
~~GEORGE D. GREE New Castle. *
WINTER MEALS
The cardinals teed outside my-door, They like my meals and come for more. In shining coats of flaming red +. They seek my restaurant for bread. I should make the slightest sound re off to safest trees around,
Half a million people xy I know in Indiana, From Rising Sun to Gary, X Richmond to Urbana, And like them all so dearly
1 wouldn't cull out any . . . . =
If I knew all the Hoosiers I wouldn't know too many!
And then I stop to wonder: There ain't no way o’ tellin’, Bince I have never known one, Would I like a felon? There's “Grafter Jack” and “Jippy.” “Midnight Mike,” the robber, And “cons” would “take” me quicker Than a bass would sink a bobber,
But some do say, “No matter How wicked and how. cruel, $7 Under any mortal's rubbish ~~ There shines a little jewel Of tenderness and goodness . . . It may be hard to reach it, But you'll find it if you're kindly...” Persistently they preach it.
So I'll not stop to ponder, But with philosophic Nason I'll love the good In peop! Though they Et to oe and treason; “In the light of that bright wisdom ‘ I do not cull out any... If I knew all the Hoosiers I wouldn't know too many!
oa oo REES POGUE, Upland;
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“AFTERGLOW
"Against the sky, the walnut all,
Its lacy branches, fanwise spread, * Stands etched upon an afterglow .- Of golden streamers, tipped with red. —ZINA T. SARVER, Crawfordsville. ® ¢ »
A BOY'S POCKETS
His pockets are full of everything, A broken knifé and a lot of string, Some nails, screws and a piece of wire, With odds and ends he seems to require To make complete the wealth and joy Found In the pockets of évery boy.
He knows his stock, yet keeps no books And at his treasure seldom looks; : At his finger tips he has on hand To meet in trade the supply and demand, * Gathered material placed in alloy— It fills the pockets of every boy.
Boys of the past and boys of today 1 find are much In the very same way; Pocketless trousers would be unkind,
... With no place to carry the things they find,
Life would, I'm sure lose most of its joy, With pants like that on every. boy, ~OTTIS SHIRK, Muncie.
SOVIET PROGRAM. ..By william Philp Simms. Reds Turn to Asia
WASHINGTON,. Jan. 4—The real East-West battleground in 19490 will be not Europe, but in Asia, one of Europe's best-
posted diplomats told me,
He had just returned from the Middle and Near ‘Bast and the Orient where he had exceptional facilities for gathering in-
formation.
The Kremlin, according to the diplomat; realizes that for the moment Soviet expansion in Europe has gone about as far as it can without war. And the Soviet Union is not yet ready for the
supreme challenge.
Asia; onthe other hand, is ripe for the Red-advance. For every hard-won inch in western Europe, Asia now offers an
easy mile.
This, in his judgment, is what makes events in Indonesia, and other Asiatic areas of such vital importance to both sides in the East-West struggle.
Indo-China, Burma
Drive tot Suez
CHINA is already tottering. Korea's outlook is extremely dark. Indo-China is as good as lost to France. In Moscow, plans are under way to drive a wedge through the Middle East to Suez the Kaiser and Hitler dreamed of an in to Baghdad. Moscow. plans to
and the Persian Gulf, all-German route from EF make it all-Red.
If, in addition, Moscow can control Indonesia, all Asia—and with it half the population of the. globe—will be closed in behind
the iron curtain.
Indonesia stretches in a crescent almost 4000 miles long from the Indian Ocean to the Solomons far out in the South Pacific. In the ‘hands of a ruthless power like Russia, control of Indonesia virtually would isolate Australia and New Zealand. Approach would have to be from the general direction of Antarctica; and the Philippines as well as Japan would be In great jeopardy If war comes between East and West—and Stalin preaches the Lenin doctrine that communism and free enterprise can’t live together in the same world—victory or defeat might depend on
southern Asia. Moscow Objectives a
IF China should go Communist, long-range bombers
EVEN based in southern Asia could cut the Soviet A foothold in Indonesia,
force her into any war on Russia's side.
Tie Sutare of. Indonesia. ne shastyed: is now in the balance. Washington
She is about where China was when
was insisting that the Nationalists take the Chinese Communists. into the gov prove Erte, : and” a big percentage of her leaders are/not
‘nature. - We know one man, who -
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1s no longer with us. How-
ore, according to my In. among Moscow's ‘must’ objectives, Control of Indonesia would help Russia keep India neutral or even
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OUR TOWN
. By Anton Scherrer
Fox Dens May Show Up on Circle
NC MY DISAPPOINTMENT will be irreconcil«
able if the house-wreckers, charged with the demolition of Hotel English, fail to find some of the old fox dens in the Circle.
stone mason, went the shaft of the Sol Sailors’ Monument. Mr, V
ornehm, who to build the
State
ever, his unimpeachable testimony remains. Indeed, I shall always cherish the memory of a hot summer day some 10 years ago when he took -the trouble to hunt me up and set me straight on a detail of authentic history. It was on that memorable morning that I learned about the fox dens in the Circle. Nobody knew for sure just where the fox dens were located, said Mr. Vornehm. However, he led me to believe that it was somewhere on the northwest quadrant of the Circle, The suspected location, together with the fact that a competent stone mason ‘isn’t given to rhapsodizing as a Jule, warrants today’s .hope that it won't be lo the wreckers uncover aature. ’
- Prowling on Circle -
THE FOXES stayed in their dens most of the day, said Mr. Vornehm. Toward evening
however, they always came out of their holes -
and went prowling around the whole periphery of the Circle. Mr. Vornehm said he never could make up his mind why the foxes went prowling at night. Certainly, it wasn't because they were hungry. He was sure of that. - In support of which he cited the behavior of Sandy Smith, the Scotch foreman on the job, who always made it his business to feed the foxes every evening immediately after the stop-work whistle blew, According to the old mason's tale, Sandy
| lived on the southeast quadrant of the Circle
in the hotel run by Mrs. Maria anybody who remembers Old Indianapolis (said Mr. V.) knows that no fox had #ny busihess looking for more food after tasting the delectable kind cooked by Mrs. Rhodius. One day, without warning of any kind, the _foxes left the Circlé never to return. It just ‘about broke Sandy's heart. Indeed, the way Mr. Vornehm told the story; it required the ve... ofall. the masons working
on the Monument to orevent Sanday from tak-
ing the first boat bound for Scotland. * Nor will it be long now until the alliga-
Side Glances’
«And if everything shapes up ———make-their-appearance at ath Yetors $
...Anto._the
tors come out of “their holes in the White River basin of West Indianapolis. Right here 1 guess'I ought to explain that my sudden enthusiasm for Indianapolis wild life has its roots in last year’s “damphool” behavior of human beings which made me so sore that,
this year, I made up my mind to put what money |
I have on animals as the better of the two bets. : This year, like as not, the alligators will’ hi seen anywhere between the Washington 8 bridge and the sprawling delta of Pleasant a right, they will
the first crocus blooms in Irvington. Which is to say that the Westenders will be dancing around the Maypole while the Irvingtonians are still down -on their knees welcoming spring.
Origin of Alligators THE ALLIGATORS of West Indianapolis
. may be traced to George Merritt who, 30 years
ago when I was a little boy, ran the big woolen mill out oh Washington St. near the bridge. It was the biggest business ‘of its kind around here and made so much money that it permitted him to live in a palatial home on W. New York St., opposite Military Park. In-
8 SBE SUL. a Deiter place. to huuse them. Merritt put the alligators into the Big Pond of Military Park. It was called the Big Pond to differentiate it from the smaller body of water in the same park. With the forthrightness of “speech - practiced in. Indianapolis at the time, the smaller body of water was called the Little Pond. A trickling ribbon-like stream connected the two bodies of water. What's more, another trickling stream led from the Little Pond to the Canal which was only a short distance away.
Escaped From Pond
CATCH ON? Sure, one day the alligators in the Big Pond developed the necessary initiative (probably because of their transplantation intd a northern climate) to want to see more of this world. They escaped by way of the first trickling stream into the Little Pond and from there (by way of the second little stream) into the Canal. The rapid current of the Canal swept them around the big curve at Geisendorff St, past the old reservoir at Washington St. straight the bosom of White River, where, from that day to this, the alligators (and their descendants) have made their home—to the eternal annoyance of the citizens of Irvington.
“By Galbraith
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t . , GOPR. 1945 BY NEA SERVICE, INC. T. M. RED. UW. 8. PAT. OFF,
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We are held responsible-for supporting whom we defeated only three years ago. We have to do the same for those who were our allies. It has become clear that the
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Li ones id: about grade. crowing accidents, and at times railroads have been “blamed for “for -not protecting public road crossings. ro. eit a locomotive enginesr works ing In and out of Indianapolis and I am in a PONtion fo ste Seis of the mistakes the au auto. mobile-driving public bile-driving Public malts. ware ink that HY SO along on my trips from day to day and ses the great disregard for the law, also the disregard for warning. signals of all kinds. They drive as If the signals were put up for the other fel.
when they are
carrying passengers : plosives or gasoline; Also car drivers who not
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screwballs and ae It shows how by 1938 there had 3 money spent by the New Deal than in al since “Washington was President, and
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, have always used by building up machine. One interesting thing was the military commitment he made to help Churchill long before he the mothers of America not to send their sons to fight on foreign soil. Probably one of the most unique and least known things is that Mr. Roosevelt was slowly dying when he was elected President the fourth time. A heart specialist was kept at his side constantly and had been for several months, However, the New Dealers felt no other Democrat could win the election. My own disappointment in the book was that it failed to reveal the Pearl Harbor fiasco ale though it has-been oo he He other books.
How to Avoid Worry By Br. John S. Bonnell, The teaching of the Bible on the subject of worry may be summed up in three principles: First, live one day at a time. Leave the past and. the future in. the hands of God. Do the best you can today. Forget’ past failures, Cheerfully fulfill weakened and distracted by worry. Second, cultivate , ulness to others, is induced by self-centeredness. The worst worriers are people who feel that the world should devote itself to making them happy. Happy people are all the helpful people. Third, center your life in God. When a man’s life is garrisoned by faith in God, he becomes undefeatable. Mis fortune cannot break the spirit of those who daily draw upon spiritual resources available in Prayer : =e *
%* Could Happen Here’
By W. W. Wilson
: I am not a teacher nor a preacher, and make no for the future of America and the rest of the troubled Site ward, but It might be well to say that the aims of totalitarianism are.again on the march, . What has happened to Jerusalem and what has happened to other ‘nations in recent years can happen to our great America.
WORLD CHANGES...By E. T. Leech
U. = S. WASHINGTON, Jan. 4—Anhother year of tension ended; ane other year of crisis-ahead. Won’t--the -world- ever return to
is on the ‘Spot’
+The answer is that it won't, for to ‘return ‘means going backward. And what we considered ago is gone forever. But somehow and someday it will surely arrive once more at a period of stability which will come to be considered ‘“normal.™ We of this new year 1049 will never regard it that way, because it will be so different from what we have associated with that word, i Ours is a generation living in a period of have been through a dozen years of big events, ent upheavals and great suffering. The whole world is obviously tension and change.
Americans Worried
| IT ISN'T a cheerful outlook as we enter 1049. Despite record | employment, the highest wages and profits ever made, most | Americans are worried and uncertain. There isn't even much comfort in realizing that our position is incomparably better than that of any other country. For one thing, everybody else realizes the same thing. All the rest of the world is either jealous of apd hostile toward Amerita's material good fortune; or calmly assiifmes- that. MNP have a duty to share it more widely. This puts us squarely on
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can be almost as heavy as the cost of defeat.. It there is real danger that even so strong a country
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obody can say yet; it may take rs to And before things get better they may many vio 3p find out.
Stalin Control ‘Widens THERE are
oxer a fourth of the world's tion and land, cook for the family sant door!" The Kremlin rules 300 million people in Russia. and Borers It is swarming over the richest part of the country where 450 Communists any more than were President Benes and the Czechs. mil 135 CHiN ve, Plowing vi ns aroufid 400 millions in India evi Bong Tv are Ait dy ited Strtajhly not an itustion. ~~ * e ted to keep the islands in chaos as But we shouldn't forget that the world has repeatedly faced they have done In thepast.. = = ; such ’ situations. "expanding Repeatedly faced All the Dutch want, he declared, is to carry out Queen Wil IS a and or a sandin Ro oul System Joviked helmina’s 1942 plan to transform what was her empire into # | them. But .al mewn
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