Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 January 1949 — Page 26

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Lobbyists and the Legislature |

far 24 lobbyists have registered for activity in the

| before the session ends in March, This means, of course, Hy _ that these 24 persons have declared their intention to work for passage of certain bills beneficial to their backers’ interests and try to defeat measures they don’t like, Many of these lobbyists are sincere and open in their activities against some bills anid in favor of others. They provide valuable information, facts and figures, that legis-

themselves. In other words most lobbyists are handy people for the Representatives and Senators to have around. + » » » . | Ait ON the other hand, some of the more skillful lobbyists, and there are many, can throw enough smoke screens - around to make legislators forget they are there to pass. laws for the benefit of all the people and not for a few cliques with enough cash to hire lobbyists. We hope that all of the 149 legislators passing laws during the next two months will not forget that the taxpayers are shelling out $100,000 for their salaries and other expenses to pass laws for the benefit of all the people.

Brake and Accelerator | PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S ecenomic report confirms our impression that, like the rest of us, he doesnt know whether inflation or deflation is now the greater menace. He points out that some prices have turned down, but iat dangerous forces are tending to push others higher.

Besides, a sharp, uneven price fall could cause trouble as’ ~-gerious as a sharp, uneven climb, So the government -must be equipped to fight either inflation or threatened depression or even both at once: “We need to have available a i. governmental measures which can be applied as accelerator according to the need.” " ” . T | a ¥ : ; THE economic report undertakes to convince Congress ~~ that just such a range of measures would be provided by the long and sweeping “fair deal” program advocated in the earlier State of the Union message.

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Truman is given such great powers as that proAmerican people well may pray that his driving of the nation's ecohuman error of judgment—one n the wrong pedal—could land

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_. Democratic Blunder LE 2 WE praised er Rayburn and Chairman Connally re "of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee the other

~~ tinuance of bipartisan foreign policy. Maybe we were Chairman "Connally's colleagues in the Democratic ‘management have now decreed that his committee shall - | pe-apportioned 8 to.5 between majority and minority, in- , stead of the 7-0-8 ratio granted by Republican leaders in nl Sen. Vandenberg, .the outgoing Republican chairman, charges that this is a partisan act. We agree. It may “imperil the bipartisan policy, as he fears, unless the Re. publicans are less petty than the Democratic leaders have

proved to be.

Remembering, however, the statesmanship of Sen. |

“esi navtisan decisions; we hope he now. will ignore. the Democratic affront in the interest of a higher patriotism.

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lators don't have the time nor the facilities to collect for |,

day for recommitting the Democratic Congress to con- |

Vandenberg in leading the committee to unanimous bi-’|

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House Lessons: |

Sunday, Jan, 9, 1040 |

Freshmen in Congress ..

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took the freshmen over for a private with Speaker Sam Ra (D. Tex). wise old Texan gave each man a hearty handshake and congratulated Indiana voters for having the good sense tb send Democrats here this year. i Fc” .w the Leader

IN THE old New Deal days, Rep, Char ; “Halleck (R. Ind.) used all the are:

Congress and he became majorit * leader, Mr, Halleck outshone the Democrats in demanding what he' called “party discipline,” With the exception of former Rep. Charles M. La Follette of Evansville, the Hoosier Republicans usually followed Mr, Halleck's leadership In a manner which well might have been termed “rubber-stamp” but. Mr, Halleck wasn't using the term at that time. It is quite likely “he will pick it up again. Then Mr, Madden will say that “thess men were elected as Demo-~ crats and they are going'to go slong with our great leader—President Truman.” Reactions of Reps. James E. Noland, Bloomington; Winfield K. Denton, Evansville; Thur. man C, Crook, South Bend; Edward H. Kruse Jr., Ft. Wayne; John R. Walsh, Anderson, and . Andrew Jacobs, Indianapolis, to the state of the union message ‘ndicated that these Democratic freshmen from Indiana are quite likely to fulfill Mr, Madden's hopes. Mr. Jacobs, however, is an independent fel. low and ‘later may turn out to be an Indianopils

" Charley La Follette on the Denmiocratic side.

We shall see. _

Given Publicity BEING a woman may be somewhat of a - handicap in politics at times, but when it comes to getting your picture in the papers it is quite

n, the only” freshman Republican from Indiana has had her picture in at leant one of the four Washington papers almost ily, ; She was one of the seven out of nine women in Congress who attended a luncheon given by Rep. Edith Nourse. Rogers (R, Mass.) and they were all in the pictures, : Mrs. Harden also was given the full treatment by Mary Van Rensseluer Thayer in her column in the Washington Post. Here is a Thayer sample~— “Cecil Hardin is short, brunet, pretty. She center-parts her hair, dimples in a smile, show. ing toothpaste advertising teeth. joint session she wore a black suit, frilled sheer blouse, her Persian-banded jacket enlivened with a red rose worn in-a tiny lapel vase. -

‘Grandma Is Favorite Role

“MRS. HARDEN wears nice high heels, filmy stockings Her favorite role is that of © A column of this and men in politics can feel compensated, without their pictures in the papers. py Toney E. Flack, publisher of the Messenger, a West Side weekly in Indianapolis, came down here to watch Mr, Jacobs take the oath and was “host tothe Indiana Democrats at a luncheon ~~ Among those present was Judge John W, Kern of the U. 8, Tax Court, son of the late Sen\ Kern and himself one-time Mayor of Indianapolis, Mr, Kern's 12-year term on the court expires in 1950. He expects to be reappointed.

Barbs— ANY time that a day seems to drag you can & make up your mind that you haven't enough to do. .

“that now is the time to sés America - . » “DO Your Christmas “shopping Early” 1s what brings out the great mob of women who Avent. the slightest idea yet what they want

“dozen exercises are all arrands. ; » " oA IF every nose stuck into other people’s busi-

‘looking race?

Britain and France. It could easily wreck the

taxpayers.

+ , Another Comrade on the Spot x THE British magazine News Review has put the finger on Secret Police Chief Lavrenti P. Beria-as one of the men President Truman had in mind when he sald certain

with us. _' In addition to being head of the political police, Mr. Betia is a member of the Politburo and a deputy premier ‘of the Soviet Union. om Crediting its report on Mr. Beria’s new tole as peace-

that according to the same informants, the Soviet police chief is in “secret alliance” with Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia, who has been denounced by the Cominform. ~~ There must be somebody in Paris who wants to see Comrade Beria exiled to the Siberian salt mines.

IVs Little Enough to Ask

T the New Year only one Paris newspaper devoted an

others carried a total of slightly more than a column on it.

but apparently it is not entirely the fault of the press.

Soviet leaders were anxious to come to an understanding |

maker to “Paris sources,” the British magazine also says

#% editorial to a progress report on European aid. Three The rest, and they are many, had nothing. That is bad,

~The Buropean Council for the Marshall Plan has worked In almost fotal secrecy, Except for American publications

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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

City Linked to Old Arctic Lore

- FIFTY-ONE years ago, come tomorrow, the temperature hovered around .zero. On that ‘morning, Sgt. Julius R. Frederick left his home (104 Middle Drive, Woodruff Place) and walked all the way to the Bates House without wearing an overcoat to protect him from the frigid blasts of an Indianapolis wintér. Arriving there (with his vest unbuttoned), he asked to ses Dr. Fridtjof Nansen, a citizen of _: Norway. ? y Noting that it was only 9 o'clock, the hotel clerk ventured the opinion that 8gt. ' Frederick would have to wait at least another hour to see Dr. Nansen. The doctor, he went on to explain, hasn't gone to bed until 10 o'clock and needed 12 hours sleep to put him in the proper frame of mind te recelve unannounced visitors. b * The hotel clerk proved to be right, for it wasn't until 10;30 that morning when the two

men sat down together to have a long heart: -

to-heart talk. It was the most natural thing in the world that Sgt. Frederick should want to look up Dr, Nansen. Both men, each in his own way, had tried to find the North Pole. Dr. Nansen got within 200 of it—Ilatitude 86 degrees, 14 minutes, to be exact. As for Sgt. Frederick, -he had reached latitude 83-24. :

An All-Time Record

SGT. FREDERICK had turned the trick almost 15 years prior to the memorable meeting

| of the two Arctic explorers at the Bates House.

It was the all-time record until Dr. Nansen snatched it away from him in 1895, > I haven't the least idea whit the two men talked about when they got together. Chances are, though, that somewhere in the conversation Sgt. Frederick found the proper opening to apprise’ Dr, Nansen of his participation in the Greely expedition which set out to explore the Polar region as early as 1881, Moreover, that he had been & member of the detailed party, led by Lt, Lockwood, which achieved the farthest point north on that occasion and, Indeed, up until the time Dr, Nansen startled the world with his performance, ?

Strangely enough, Col. Greely ‘wasn't with

the detailed party which hit latitude 83 degrees, 24 minutes. He remained in charge of headquarters stationed at Ft. Conger on Grinnell Land west of Greenland, Indeed, it was his

hard luck to get no farther north tham latitude

81 degrees, 44 minutes which, for irony, can't be matched by anything in more temperate zones. :

ness were snipped off, woulgn'y we be a funny“WORLD AFFAIRS: . . By William Philip Simms Tragedy of Europe

WASHINGTON. Jan. 8—The tragedy of Western Kirope® today is the lack of Snduetanding and co-operation between |!

European Recovery Program and nullify the multi-billion-dollar sacrifice by American

Greeley, only seven returned intact, Sgt. Julius

This is not to say British-French relations are stratmed; |“:

| or that Europe's two great democracies are no longer friends. |728°3

But they just don't seem able to pull together.

[It could prove fatal to both. It might well be’ the horseshoe tween Russia and

| nail for want of which the present.battle the democracies: could be lost to the West. |

What makes it all the more alarming is that it is nothing new. Britain and France have been going their separate ways sinoe the end of World War I and the death of the old entente

cordiale.

No Lesson Learned

“World War II or the present world upheaval.

the channel. : Again and again, during the fateful period world wars, she sounded out

THUS Hitler got his start. Otherwise, he never would have dared occupy the Rhineland in 1036, scrap the Treaty of Ver.sailles and rearm Germany. And there would not have been

between the two

Today there is the same lack of teamwork. JERP, Western Union, the Atlantic Pact and all

Yet the lesson has gone unlearned. At least Britain has |= learned nothing from it. ¥or France, all along, has been more responsive to the idea of renewed ties than her neighbor across

moves to chieck

Of the 25 men who started out with Col.

R Frederick of Indianapolis lived to tell the -tale, ;

As for Dr. Nansen, he told his story at the Grand Opera House that night. His audience was packed with the intelligentsia of Indianapolis, including the Literary Club which turned up in a body led by its president, Dr, Alembert

Brayton. It was the first time in history that

the Indianapolis Literary Club permitted any thing to interfere with its Monday night meetings. It never happened again. And from the looks of things today, it never will

- Search for Drifting Ship

IN THE course of his lecture, Dr, Nansen said his Polar trip was inspired by the fact

that for a period of three years (in the late

Eighties), a number of articles belonging to the “Jeannette,” an- Arctic expedition vessel lost in 1881, had drifted from Bering Strait across

the Polar region to Greenland, And the more he thought about it, the more firmly he became convinced that a boat entering the Polar ice

in the neighborhood of the New Siberian Islands |

might reasonably be drifted by a current over the Pole and, eventually, come out on the eas side of Greenland. iy ‘ Dr. Nansen picked the year 1893 to substantiate his hunch. He sailed on board the “Fram,” constructed for the pur

59 minutes—just about the point reached by Sgt. Frederick a decade earlier—Dr. Nansen left the boat and with a single companion, Lt.

¥ Johansen, traveled on ice by way of sledges,

dogs and kayaks. Thus on Apr. 8, 1895, he reached lat. 86-14, the farthest north point touched by human feet up to that time-—a performance which automatically (and immediate.

the Indianapolis Literary Club. Refused Professor Post .

DURING Dr. Nansen’s stay in Indianapolis, it also leaked out that, once upon a time, he was offered a job in Indiana University. That was back in 1885 when President David Starr Jordan invited him to be the professor of zoology. He

almost accepted, he said. The only reason he didn’t was because of Bloomington's location.

It wasn’t near. enough to the North Pole, which

doesn’t necessarily mean that it wasn’t frigid

enough.

The only other thing I know about Dr. Nansen is the historic fact that he picked up a cold |

in Indianapolis.- In the three years he

in the Arctic, he never experienced a cold--not even a sniffie. He attributed it to the microbes And from that day to this, nobody has bothered to learn more

in the air around here. about the origin of an Indianapolis cold.

a the wikis - Contrary to . agers. of public establishments in this city, majority of citizens have adjusted ves

prestige of this city that practices represent. * 4 ¢

‘Falling for Red Bait’

these intolerable

By Edward ¥. Maddox, City.

The strategy of the Reds, both Socialists and Communists, is to agitate and propagandize public ‘opinion into accepting and demanding socialistic legislative reforms dnd creating such * public pressure for these socialistic measures that the Democrats or Republicans, or both parties, will adopt the Red ideas as their own @n order to win votes. And the suckers bite! We .are in the stage, now, when both the

. Democrats and Republicans are, falling for the :

Red bait. The labor unions also fall for the Communist intrigue. Wake up, Americans! The Socialist-Communist line is, of course, to legislate and tax the capitalist system of private ° ownership of property out of existence. So we have a continuous radical attack on the profit motive. : : var “The Reds are riding high today. The President and Congress had better reconsider some of their rash promises of the campaign. : ® ¢ oO ‘Be Kind of Heart’ - : By J.-E. Werner . : . _. Some day there will be love and peace for all A sizong love and a strong pass that 208s cau ea It will be the coming of a new age, and pray God that it be day and this ape.

ment on nationalization of Great Britain's steel industry) was interesting because it's something we probably will have to consider in our, own country in five years, 1 deplore it, but we might as well face the fact that the trend is in that direction.—Rep. Katherine St. George (R), of New York. > ..

© OUR main objective is to show any ‘potential enemy that we are not lying down and that the nations of Western Europe are going to act together against any aggression.—Air Chief Marshal Sir James Robb, commander-in-chief of the Western Europe Alr Force. Yl WE contend that the political representatives and institutions of Israel can speak for its own citizens only and can in no way speak

- for or represent us, who are Americans of

Jewish faith.—Lessing J. Rosenwald, president of the American Council for Judaism. * oo 9° THE ‘smaller nations of the world want strength in the hands of = nation that, they believe, does not now have instincts and that is capable of exercising self-control. ~John Foster

TAFT-HARTLEY, REPEAL . . . By Fred W. Perkins |

Labor Fears Delay

WASHINGTON, Jan. 8—Union leaders are beginning ta suspect they're getting the run-around in repeal of the Taft:

But Congress {sn’t going to do it that way, according to the chairmen of the two committees having enactment of an entirely new labor BY | before Taft-Hartley in

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request for and above-ne No change, asking high foreign-policy Repeal of agreements program for out crippling Ratificatio trade organi Enactmen military co-¢ duced in 194 by 80th Cony Extension « program, an European rec Program fc haps military Liberalizati sons law, Senate rat for new orgal states, agree« a

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