Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 January 1949 — Page 12

Indians’ 's Big Stake in Future

that “rep eatest of al timer In its efforts to keep pace with and solve the Increasingly complex problems of modern society. To meet this test, the new Governor asserted that the _Meombined devotion of all citizens” to our democratic institutions will be necessary if our way of life is to survive. Most pressing of the problems facing Indiana in the __hext few years, he said, is the “unprecedented” rise in the ost of government in its relation to the economic health of . the people who will have to pay the bills. : : "In effect, the Governor has fointed eut the big stakes Indiana has in the future of the representative form of ‘He has recognized the important role Indiana must take in proving to the rest of the world the work- : ability of demogracy under stress-and. strain,

HIS SUMMARY of the ‘problems of government comes as a timely warning to the many pressure blocs now seeking passage other citizens and a tip to the special privilege groups that unfair use of power weakens democracy at its foundation.

‘We hope Gov. Schricker’'s administration will be strong

_ unwarranted power . . . to write my record in terms of tical advantage.” his pas pecod of Integrity public ffs and his declarations against “building up any political machine,” we have every reason to believe this state administration may go a long way toward solving the prob lems that might eventually undermine our democratic institutions.

Beyond Safe Limits | prises? TRUMAN'S budget for fiscal 1950—the 12 months beginning next July—calls for record government peacetime spending of $41,858,000,000. ‘That's 40 times as much as the government ever spent ee il ars more than twice what dt spent in that war's most expensive year; nearly five times what it spent in the New Deal's peak year of war against depression; two-fifths as much as it spent in the costliest ‘year of World War II. # To balance the budget, and provide a surplus for use ‘in cutting down the public debt, Mr. Truman wants $4 ‘billion in new taxes on corporations and individuals. He also wants nearly $2 billion in new payroll taxes, to start : ‘health insurance and expand Social Security. : : ~*~ We agree with Mr. Truman that a prosperous country ‘cannot afford an unbalanced budget—that the government ‘must take in more than it spends and apply the difference toward retiring the debt. But peacetime taxes of the magnitude proposed could 0 burden the national economy that the national income would fall and higher tax rates would produce less revenue. That, ih our opiion, is a grave danger. - Sr a - A * SO, we think, “it is the urgent duty of Congress to apply the acid test to Mr. Truman's statement that his spending proposals represent a minimum level, “below which our re- . sponsibilities will not permit us to go.” We know there are many opportunities for governmental economy which can and must be grasped. : It id true, as the President points out, that past wars ; and efforts to prevent another war—or to be prepared to win it if it cannot be prevented—are responsible for more than three-fourths of the expenditures he advocates. And it is true that what Mr. Truman asks for national defense is less than what many military authorities say is _ essential.

dollar proposed for social welfare, health and security programs would account for the spending of $2.4 billion. The 18 cents of each Truman budget dollar proposed for

of $7.5 billion. are sure there is no compelling reason that they should be that large. -

beyond safe limits, and that is no way to insure social wel- ~ + fare, or security, or prosperity, or peace. _

Blind Spot in Foreign Policy PAUL G. HOFFMAN, Economic Co-Operation Administrator, has returned from a world tour convirééd that to contain Soviet power, there must be military and political aid as well as economic. Mr. Hoffman was particularly impressed by what the Sug are doing to China. When you see that, he said, “you realize what a menace this power drive is.” This businessman's conclusions with respect to overall strategy square in general with the more specific recommendations made by William C. Bullitt, in urging military and economic assistance for Nationalist China. Moreover, they are supported in principle by the Truman administra. “tion’s own plan to arm the nations of the Western Union to protect our investment in European recovery. What Mr. Bullitt is urging now was recommended long ago by Lt. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer. Gen. Douglas MacArthur Is known to have similar views.

. » a». » » r YET in the face of plehs and recommendations from all of these distinguished authorities, our State Department continues to treat the Chinese situation apart from the - general Communist menace. It persistently pushes the idea that we can do business as usual there, if the Communists sake over. This apparently on the same assumption ‘it pucsues | for years that the Chinese Reds aren't Communists an reformers,” though scarcely a day

J his inaugural address Gor nt warns |

of legislation giving them an advantage over |

enough to carry out his pledge that he has “no desire for |-

- But it is also true that six cents of each Truman budget

“all other” federal activities would account for the spending |

Those two items total $0.9 billion—which is more than -

“In Sore - will the Times:

; Barton Rees Pogue [ LISTENED TO THAT BAND

Deditated to the Noblesville Brass. Band, about which Gordon Olvey wrote in this column. Your story "bout that Old Brass Band Is true in every way, And 1, too, long to turn the clock Back to another day.

Back through the years And across the land / - When I—a little tot— Stood and listened to that Band.

I can see the dear Old Judge .

And proceeded to direct. There was nothing so impressive In any childhood day As when I stood and listened * To that dear Old Brass Band play.

And when the Master calls me, When I have entered there,’ I hope that I may see those boys, Each fellow in his chair; TX hope that they will have A grandstand of gold’ When they start once more to play With that Band within the fold.

~ELLEN FOX, Indianapolis. * oo

MY RENDEZVOUS

My garden of thoughts in my rendezvous, My beautiful garden of dreams, With never-withering flowers, And cool; refreshing streams. Its cherished trees in grandeur stand, Each knoll and every glade with verdure teems; Its birds ever sing, its sun always shines, Stars twinkle, and the silvery moon beams.

Oft to my trysting place I steal “To ponder my beloved schemes, And the poetic muses meet me there— Inspiring and upholding me, it seems. Then deep in reverie, as I commune, I care not what the gay world deems— While I tarry in my garden of thoughts, My rendezvous of dreams.

~MARY HAGLER LeMASTERS, Franklin. ® °

FAME

It is not won by idleness, No smooth road leads to fame. A rocky road, but little paved You must travel to your aim. When you have reached it be not vain, Lead weary wanderers to the light Lest you fall back and lose the fame, See light of day enthralled by night. If fame you've won and lost again, If now it 1s a setting sun, 'Twould better been that you had died, Or had you never glory won. . ==FRIEDA HEREKAMP, Seymour. & 9

MODERN WATCH DOG

An old Irish Setter, In tucker and bib, Sat moodily watching A child in a crib,

“The very cats titter At mein this sweater And say I'm a SITTER Instead of a SETTER!”

—~WILLIAM H. CHITWOOD, Indianapolis. * oo

YESTERDAYS

It seems as folks grow older Their memories take a fling Back to the days of childhood . When youth meant éverything— Those days folks went a visitin” And stayed a week or more; If extra company happened in 3 We kids slept on the floor— I'd. give a lot to live again Those happy yester days When folks did a heap of livin’ In the good old fashioned ways.

~—FLORENOE HINCHMAN. North Vernon.

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OUR TOWN .

THOSE of you who have strung along with

{ me thus far know, without my laboring the

point, that Indianapolis is a place where any and everything can happen—and usually does. Even so, there may be some of you equipped with nerves not yet sufficiently conditioned -to take today's piece. In that case, it behooves me to sound a. note of warning — namely, that what is

only for those prepared to stretch their credulity to the ‘ultimate limit of its elasticity. Which is to say, until it shows signs of cracking. This then is the fantastic (but authentic) — story of an experience suffered by Dr. James 8. Athon, a cool, calm and collected physician who, back in the rich romantic days ran the . Hospital for the Insane out on W. Washington St.—an institution which, probably because of the gradual and ever-increasing vagueness permeating the world, now carries the indefinite and rather loose title of “Central Hospital.”

Patient Scared Citizens

IT WAS during the early part of 1855 when the legislature was in session, that two members of that body representing the southwestern area of the state, called on Dr. Athon and de-

. manded to._know why he had discharged a

Perry County patient (hereinafter to be known as Alexander, for reasons of my own). The complainants said they had received a number of letters (all sent by constituents of theirs), the general drift of which was that Alexander had been seen roaming at large in the neighborhood of his old home; moreover, that the sight of him had scared citizens out of their wits—to such a degree, indeed, that they demanded his immediate return to the institution. - . "Athon couldn't believe his ears. So far as he knew, Alexander was still cooped up in the asylum ‘and, what's more, hadn't been allowed to leave the place since he had been

tor's word at its face value, thanked him, and departed with the smug satisfaction of having done their duty. “ The very next day, Dr. Athon received a let“ter “from ‘the patient's who;

“guardian ‘among other things, wanted to know the con-

. By Anton Scherrer

The Mystery of a ‘Flying Spirit’

| brought there. The legislators accepted the doc- .

dition of Alexander's mind when ‘he was dis-_ charged from the hospital. In his reply, the doctor assured the guardian that his charge was still confined. Indeed, on this occasion, Dr. Athen went even further by way of an ex cathedra opinion, the general import of which was that, from the looks of things, Alexander's stay In, Inatanapols would be an indeterminate one.

‘No Fraud or Trickery ~~ TOWARD the end of the legislature came an |

other letter containing a circumstantial account of Alexander’s visit to his old home on Feb. 27, 1885, a reading of which left no reason whatever to suspect fraud or trickery. The writer named the distillery and other places where he had been seen, the people with whom he had talked, and the strange and. quaint things he had said and done.

Weil, that moved Dr. Athon to push the Investigation still further. Alexander was questioned regarding -his Perry County visit—sure, Tight in his own room out on W. Washingon At first Alexander was a bit cagey, but finally came across with the startling information that it had been three weeks to the day since he last visited his Perry County home. On being told that he had not been absent from the hospital since his admission, he indignantly disputed the statement saying: “I tell you I did go. My spirit flew down there quick and left this suit of ciothes and the rest of me. to fool you people with.” Then wi:h considerable bravado, he went on to tell about the distillery down there, the peo“ple he met and the things they said, all of which in essential particulars, dovetailed with

the statements contained in the guardian's let-

ter to Dr. Athon.

Trip Described . ALEXANDER even described his trip back “to Indianapolis. “I did not see anybody on the road,” he said. “I was so high up, above the pigeons. They cheered me on—ha! ha! ha! I beat ‘em home. The whisky made my “head swim and I ran against a bolt of lightning which singed my whiskers—colored ‘em red.” Dr. Athon gave Alexander a searching look, then turned dizzy. The unmistakable yellow ochre beard worn by Alexander when he entered the hospital was now « rich titian red.

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By Stephen §. Wise, President, American Jewish :

"|" justice your country inspired and defended.

Last week there was returned to you, as representative of the British government in this country, the manuscript of the Magua Charta of 1225 which your Josnte td our own Library of ears ago. Free men throughout the world, and Tillions still struggling to be free, are the eternal debtors of your forefathers who (centuries

us to view this document. : hope, however, _ that when the ' Magna Charta. reaches the shores of your country, it will not immediately be consigned to #ts vault in the British Museum. For, I deeply regret to say, there are members of your government who need to be reminded anew of the which the Magna Charta’ established. need to be reminded that-by order of your - ernment, thousands of Jews are 1 ‘tained on the Island of CYnras whe

a Eel Dysscieacs and whether they can permit the interned Jews on Cyprus to continue under imprisonment for a

‘judgment of mankind; through the parchment on which Magna Charta is inscribed rests once again in Britain, its contents and spirit will have abandoned, and have been 4bandoned by,

your land. ® oA

‘What Is Economic Force?’ By Oharles Ginsberg There is no doubt that the Taft-Hartley Law ‘There is no question about its

will be repealed. satllabos nature. . Truman did not veto the Taft-Hartley

tions have proven. In his ‘State of the Union message he makes himself quite clear, stating, “The use of economic force to decide issues arising out of the interpretation of existing contracts should be prevented.” And what does this mean? What is the economic force - of labor? And what is the economic force of capital? There will be more labor laws, perhaps with more teeth, that will receive the blessings of

his “labor leutenants.”

What Others Say—

THE conditions of ctability, both economic

returning to Europe.-——Gen. Lucius D. Clay, U. 8. military governor in “Gorman, * ® WE starve oie for oxygen. We must “have more deep breathing and fill our blood with oxygen. And lots of exercise, and plenty v of food for breakfast. What you eat for dinner, I eat for breakfast. I drink only pure water.

Harlem.” ® & o I CANNOT help feeling that we are reaching a point in this country where this type of witch-hunting (the Laurence Duggan case) must come to an end.—Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt, * © IF CHINA should be taken by the Communists I don’t think any Asiatic, country could stand. Korea Would fall and communism will spread southward into French Indo-China, Indonesia, Burma, and then into India and Cey- : Som—=Dr. singdu-. Slate China's obiet dale

gate to the UN.

Allies in Conflict

—Russia is the biggest problem

WORLD AFFAIRS . .. By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—A conference of tremendous im- | portance to the United States will take place this week in London. the new Secretary of State, |

Side Glances

the entire cost of the government only 10 years ago. We

We believe Mr. Truman's s budget would push spending

Communists themselves do not pro- .

Dean Acheson, will face, and he'll have: to work primarily with the British and French foreign offices If he is to solve it. § And Britain and France differ so widely on so many issues that continuation of their differences may gms not only their own but the prosperity, political unity and military security of the entire West as well, Therefore, tomorrow and Thursday French Foreign Minister

_ Robert Schuman will journey to London for a talk with British

Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin to try to iron out their differences, British and French long-term plans for European economic recovery don't jibe. They don’t see eye to eye on how to contain an expanding Russia. They differ on where the main line of defense is to be in the event of Soviet aggression; whether it is to be the Rhine, the Pyrenes or North Africa and’the Middle East,

Conflict on Issues

BRITAIN hesitates to antagonize the Arabs. France wishes to recognize Israel and admit her to the United Nations. France favors turning Libya back to Italy. Britain would like to control Libya — or at least Tripolitania and Cirenalca—under a United Nations mandate. France wishes to internationalize the Ruhr permanently, thus preventing Germany from staging a comeback as a war-making power. Britain prefers to “socialize” the Ruhr under a democratic Germany much as she is socializing her own industries, To provide Western Europeans with something positive as an offset for the Communist bloc, or union, the French urge immediate establishment of an European consultative parliament.

more modest start. The British-French role in the Western union and the Atlantic pact is also expected to come up. at the Schuman-Beyin conference,

U. S. Has Big Stake

IN ALL these things the American people have a vital stake. In a sense the issue may be, first of all, largely the business of the French and the British, but any solution -or lack of solution will greatly help or hurt this country, ~Britain and France are the key nations of the 19 areas receiving Marshall Plan rw As matters now stand, according to an interim report just completed, the Marshall Plan countries will continue to be annually, some $3 billion in the red upon the plan's completion in 1052, Unless, that is, their long-term programs are better co-ordinated and made more realistic, And the outcome now depends first of all upon Britain and France. Western Europe, of course, is looking to the United States to foot most ofthe bill and play the No. 1 role'in defending the Suti-Communiet West.and implementing the Atlantic pact,

But unless Britain and France can come teas nomically, politically and militarily, all the money and the United States puts into the common program will Te

POusIEg Water Jato 3 sieve. of Mr. Acheson, therefore, is one of the

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PATRONAGE . . . By Charles T. Lucey For Democrats Only

— WASHINGTON, Jan. 11—The -days-are gone when.

Repuba Democratic administration could climb on the

federal payroll with almost as much ease as Democrats.

The word is out that President Truman won the eléction, after all, and that it's about ime the rewards went to members

No better example is the woid just handed down from the t..that the Bessidash4 is to be a source of jobs for That alone 18 big enough to employ about 150,000 person#™ during a congressional election year. Census enumerators are paid on the basis of the number of persons counted. In 1940

a reasonably diligent enumerator made about $6 a day, but

1950 census, a whopping job of counting deserving Democrats.

hit the census business, too, and the jobs should

be worth about $10 a day now. The word from the White House is that the Democratic National Committee is to have a good deal to say as to how the enumérators are to be recruited, and that local Democratic bosses will be enabled to remember the faltnrl in apportioning

Democrats Preferred 4 ENUMERATORS must be thoroughly qualified, of course. Qualifications established, it's Democrats preferred.

The principle holds on the $10-a-day census jobs and it also holds on the top

jobs. As a symbol of a nation united in wartime

in—that is the Democratic viewpoint. = The “practical” Democratic politicians, both h Washington and out through the country, long have been irked by appointments poing to Republicans whep, as they believed, qualified 1.1 were available. At'times a Democratic state chairman or national commit-

y i ‘ appointment without his ever family ever had trouble with their. eyes! having been consulted. The injury has been most provocative embarrassing the appointee was a Republican.

Closer to White House

'. THE Democratic National Committee, under the direction of National Chairman J. Howard McGrath, has established much appointments with the White House than formerly. To the politicians it is simply this: If party organielections they must be

be held together between

¢ 0 : raps SNDON has 8 law prohibiting standing in streetcars during a In § sane of the census, Shuts hag bees cr nd that if ¢ hours, ¥e Smthing 33% Sqn, 0, prabifig sitting. | ‘ehumen hor sod Rigna prevail Big AS duis snough The man 1a. the world 1s the’ tallow. you might be , in some states to help. . LT f if it didn ake $0 Touch, energy, J Probably the politicians wouldn't worry much about this, .. rx CHE roto ve 4 ab of fi rons captain in most areas come up fast with a v

pd because he favored labor, as his past ac-

and political, which make for a long peace, are

—Hubert Fauntleroy Jullan, “Black Eagle of

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