Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 January 1949 — Page 26

LECKROND HENRY W. MANZ Business Manager

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{Owned Ana. Maryse Sip vy indians Brinbeli geri Yih any ot FUE MRR EE Nase el 8 » copy. Telephone RI ley 55651 Oi Ashe ahd You Posie Wik Pid Yow wig ¥ > Red Waming to Japan FIRST evidence of a possible chain reaction in the Far East resulting from the Communist successes in China is reported from Tokyo. Voters there are told they should elect Communist officials so that Japan will have a government in sympathy with the anticipated Red regime in China. China's Communists will establish a government “which naturally won't deal with Japan's reactionary (proAmerican) . Yoshida cabinet,” according to the campaign speeches of Sanzo Nozaka, Tokyo's Red leader. Neutral political observers predict the Japanese Commtnist Party will more than double its previous vote in the general election Jan. 23. It is expected to send at least three times as many representatives to the lower house of the Japanese Parliament this year as it did in 1947. The Communist vote isn't expected to exceed five per cent of the total, but coalitions are being sought with other leftist elements, following the familiar “united front” tech‘nique employed in Europe. The Communist Party in Russia ‘represented much less than five per cent of the population when it staged its Successful revolution in 1917, THE REDS in Japan argue that the trend in China demontsrates that communism eventually will triumph in Asia, and voters are warned that those who oppose the “eventual winners” will suffer hereafter. This ig in line with ‘the “war crimes” trials threatened for all prominent Chinese Nationalist leaders, if the Communists take over there. “+: A Communist Japan isn’t a likely development so long as American troops are there. But that deterrent is not “present in Indo-China, Malaya, Siam and the East Indies. Most of the Communist agitation in those areas is being . conducted by Chinese, and an acceleration of that activity | is to be expected if the Red forces establish themselves in China's coastal cities, in direct sea and air contact with those countries, All Southeastern Asia is seething with unrest and discontent growing out of the economic and political disloca- ~ tions brought by the war, offering fertile soil for Moscow's fifth column. It presents a problem to our policy-makers in Washington.

Sound Economy ONE sound and courageous economy measure in Presi-

dent Truman's whopping budget is the proposal to cut back the Veterans’ Administration’ hospital-building pro-

Bét this proposal—as any. effort t6 save government money always does—has brought loud protests. They come from veterans’ organizations, from huginess. interests in | ties affected and, of course, from Congressmen whose states or districts wouldn't get hospitals they've been expecting.

Now, certainly, the country does not wish to economige at the expense of veterans’ health. It seems clear, however, that Mr, Truman's proposal does not threaten | that. He points out that a reduced program “will still make it pogsible to provide for all service-connected patients in every geographical area and to provide an even’ more liberal allowance of beds for non-service-connected patients than at Present.”

THE fact is, as the budget message explains, ex-

to meet foreseeable requirements.” So Mr. Truman wants -to cancel 24 of the hospital projects, and to reduce the planned size of 14 others, thus saving $270 million, Of that saving, $42 million would be used on the. hospitals that will be completed, since they will cost that much more than originally estimated. ’ The cut-backs proposed by the President were recommended by the Administrator of Veterans’ Affairs. We think they are wise and necessary. And we believe there is room for a great deal more sound economy in the government’s entire program of hospital and medical services, of which the veterans’ hospitals are only part. As the Hoover Commission authorities have reported, such serv-

$1,250,000,000 a year, operate without any central plan, compete with each other for scarce d rs and nurses, often duplicate facilities, and carry on with a wasteful Fr fac of system that calls urgently for Shurvugh reorgani- . zation.

Judge Hatch

as Federal judge in New Mexico is one we applaud heartily. Mr. Hatch is a man of high intelligence and devotion to duty. He made a fine record as a state judge in New Mexico before he went to the U. S. Senate; where he served with distinction for 15 years. Although a strongly partisan Democrat, Sen. Hatch always put good government above party politics. The "Hatch laws for clean elections have not accomplished all that he or we hoped, but that has not been his fault. We of the Scripps-H newspapers are proud that we had | a part in helping Sen. Hatch in his historic struggle for enactment of those measures. For seldom has a fight for a good cause been waged more fearlessly or against heavier odds. We hope another man of his stature will rise in ~{Copgress to carry on the reform Sen. Hatch started.

Russian ‘Inventions’ J rewriting scientific history for Soviet youths, the Russians claim the first airplane wasn't invented by the . Wright Brothers, but by one A. ¥. Mozhaisky, back in 1882: ‘Their Academy of Sciences also is compiling “evidence” JETS Suk ats vad Le Sr, sain engine, artificial gas, the electric light and

¢, what would all this prove? Only that the ne i 4

DAR BOSS... By Dan Kidney +f Hoosiers Ready For Gala Days

Inaugural Will Be Real ‘Surprise’ Party WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Dear Boss: As you know, while a host of Hoosier Democrats are coming here for the great inaugural next Thursday, for many of thém it will be a real “surprise” party. Having been in Indiana for* the closing weeks of the 1948 campaign, I know first hand that the great bulk of the Indiana Democrats were as surprised as I was that President Truman was re-elected. They thought that Gov. Thomas E. Dewey would win, just like all the polls showed. So some of the visitors are apt to be syperenthusiastic when they sit on Capitol Hill be-

fore the greatest inauguration platform ever |

built there. They can chuckle quietly to themselves when they see Harry Truman taking the oath of office from Chief Justice Vinson of the U. 8. Supreme Court, secure in the knowledge that this setting was voted at great cost by the Republican 80th Congress under the delusion that the GOP was going to take over the executive branch of the government.

Voters Changed Plans

FORMER. Sen, C. Wayland (Curly) Brooks

{R. 111.) headed the committee in charge of the .

expensive and expansive layout, Then the voters from his state decided that he had better stay in Chicago, Instead they sent that Chicago University professor and Marine Corps hero, Paul Douglas here. He is a liberal Demo~ crat and so is the 81st Congress. Gov. and Mrs. Henry F, Schricker are ex-

pected to arrive early and stay late. They are

to be honor guests at the Indiana State Society inaugural ball at the Shoreham Hotel on Tuesday night. The list-of sponsors for this event include —most prominent Hoosiers here, except the Republican Senators and Congressmen, Rep, Charles A. Halleck's critical daily statements seem to indicate they are just not going to ac: cept the results of Nov. 2 at this time. "Freshman Republican Rep. Cecil Harden, Covington, isn’t following that pattern, however. She says she expects to attend the inauguration and be thrilled as this is the first presidential: inauguration at which she will have been present. A grandmother now, she evidently has made up her mind not to wait for the GOP to pick a winner before she enjoys it, despite the fact that she long has been the Republican National Committeewoman from Indiana.

| City Will Be Jommed

A FOUR-DAY holiday (Thursday, Friday, « Saturday and Sunday) has been voted for gov er t-workers here—really. only two -extra days since they are on a five ‘day week. So with those thousands and, the additional thousands from all the states this city is to be jampacked. It will be dressed in its best, however, and the decorations—including the welcome mat-—are -already being put into place. Purdue University Glee Club is coming for the full treatment and will be the state's principal contribution to the entertainment for the occasion. They will begin on Tuesday night by singing at the Truman-Barkley dinner and after that at the Indiana State Society ball.

Bigwig Democrats, including those from Indiana, will be at the dinner. The glee club will be presented by George Jessel, who is master of ceremonies. And will appear on the same program with -Lucy Monroe, Lum and Abner and other headlinets, Marvin Myers has been here all week making arrangements for them to take part

| in the festivities, which include both a gala.

event at the armory in addition to a great inaugural ball there.” Arthur J. (Dutch) Bergman, one-time Notre Dame football star and ‘professional coach, is running the armory now. He also is a sponsor of the Indiana ball

| Big Glee Club Prog

ON OS ig IS on the Purdue Glee Club will sing for extension service employees of the Agriculture Department and for the Women's Division of the Democratic National Committee. Friday morning in the Labor Department auditorium Secretary of Labor Tobin, Atty. Gen. Tom Clark, Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, Rep. Helen Douglas (D. Cal), and FSA Admin{strator Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing will be special

guests, The club will be dinner guests of the admiral and sing at the Bethesda, Md. Naval Hospital Friday night. They are to be greeted upon —arrival here by Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey, new president of the Indiana State Society, and REA Administrator Claude Wickard, head of the Purdue Club of Washington. Rep. Ralph Harvey (R. Ind.), the only Purdue man in Congress, also will give them a welcome upon arrival. So that puts another Republican in the inaugural picture whether he wants to be there or not, -

Barbs— ¥ WHEN some mechanics try to find out <what's the matter with your car, you find out what's wrong with the mechanic. . * © AN OHIO girl married a policeman who arrested her for speeding. ‘Maybe the merry, chase isn't over, ‘ * & ¢ "THE heat is always on after a shakedown of f the a ol f furnace.

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OUR TOWN . .

I ALWAYS counted myself a lucky kid when father picked Pennsylvania St. to take me up town. Luckier still when he let me linger in front of the big windows of the Brush Electric Co. located, as I remember, on the west side of the street in the block north of Pogues Run. For sheer mystery, there ‘was nothing around here to equal—Ilet alone, surpass—the : sight revealed by the big windows of the Brush Electric Co. It disclosed a white-washed square room as neat as a pin and just big enough to accom-+ modate three or four modest-looking machines. Up to that time most of the machines in Indianapolis were so horriby bigand noisy that nobody in his right senses could have classified them as anything but monsters. The Brush machines emitted a pleasant sound not unlike that of a purring cat. Outside of that, however, there wasn’t a sign of any kind to show what they were good for. And I am sure I never would have guessed their purpose had not fathei®taken the time one day to say that the “Brush machines made the light with ‘which some of the streets of Indianapolis were illumi-

believed it even then.

Invented in 1876 : FATHER treated the subject rather exhaustively that day, I remember. He said the Indianapolis lighting system was an invention on the part of Charles Francis Brush, a Cleveland scientist who thought it ‘up in 1876. I distinctly recall, too, that father thought rather well of the invention, for I remember his saying that it wouldn't surprise him if electric arclighting was the coming thing—to. the extent that, maybe, it would even be used in homes. On that occasion, father alse said the Brush plant got started in Indianapolis sometime inf the early Eighties, and that fhe first electric light was erected in. the center of the Circle where the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument now stands. It was placed on top of a 150-foot-high wood tower built expressly for that purpose. . To enable a man to replace the burnt-oyt car-

size of a dumbwaiter which balanced at exactly 150 pounds; with the result that only men in the pink of condition and stripped” of every Sunce of superfluous flesh could qualify for the After the first light was installed, four more towers were bullt at the start of the four

had no elevators, necessitating the employment J boys who had something of the monkey in em. Father sald it was a grand idea to light Indianapolis by way of tall towers, but that it

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Be ts Howrey (14 street evel which made sense even wasn't as monumental a treatment.

Beture Shay Svatind that point, however, the

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

| Rev. _Myron Reed then pastor of the First

. By Anton Scherrer

History of City’ 's Bright Lights

-.of all good Christians to attend services, even

- pipes extending about six feet in the air, They ° were vents. ‘The pipes led down to the main gas

. ‘which we pitched them to the top of the vents,

: illumination. nated. If father hadn't said it, I wouldn’ t have

"Swing was a fear that a vacuum would be

° bons, they built a little elevator just about the

° pass toward the Gulf of Mexico over places where Toledo and Indianapolis are now dancing |

diagonal avenues. They were 85 feet high and

Presbyterian Church) delivered a sermon in the course of which he said that it was: the duty

if they had to arm themselves against footpads. And, sure enough, when it came time to have the next prayer meeting, a half-dozen prominent citizens went to church carrying double-barrel shotguns on their shoulders. Good as it was, though, electric arc lighting never had the spectacular quality of natural gas, a subject I am qualified to talk about, having lived through that entire period.

Street Lighting Tricks

SIXTY years ago when I was a kid, every block in town was equipped with two four-inch

line and were supposed to catch and carry ‘off

ber how we kids set newspapers on fire, after

It set the whole surrounding atmosphere ablaze, producing a light the like of which has never been matched by any other kind of street

Come to think of it, we natural-gas kids were lucky to live when we did. We didn’t have any coal to shovel and there wasn't any wood to carry. All we had to do was to turn a key. The gas for a cook stove, I remember, cost $50° a year; for a furnace $20, no matter how much one used. Then, if ever, was the abundant life. At that, we had some kickers. The Rev. David Swing, for one, got terribly worked up about it and delivered a sermon in the course of which he said: “Marriages should increase under this cheapness of warmth in-thé parlor and under, the pot, but while this broad grin of complacency is occupying all these numberless faces, what does good Mother Earth think of all this business of- meddling with her internal affairs?” The warmth that was eating the Rev. David

created, when all the natural gas was removed from inside the earth. “If Indiana and this general region should sink a little,” “the lakes would rush into the homes of all those jolly gas users; the St. Lawrence would

in such high glee.

great music given by a thoroughly orchestra under the

_ the magic wand. Presto! cash for the bonus. You know, the same way

To ‘should Indianapolis be deprived of - competent. the direction of a’

Symphony leave Indianapolis and Indiana to seek apioy: mert elsewhere because of the failure of Indianapolis to patronize these sym

phony diana afford to make such a great sacrifice?

We are entering another round of death and destruction, another economic collapse, as we join hands and march together Jip the pathway to the formation of a one-world government,

. ‘which is the only assurance we can ever have

for a lasting guarantee of world peace and security for everyone. Peace will not come through the strong arm and tough: talk of the military, o 43 long 4s the strings of governments of nations word nipulated from the back offices of big-time poll ticlans and their fellow po mongers,

Peace will not come through charters and =

ire willing people of the world live and let live, side by side, on equal basis. BE EE SE

‘Oust Pressure Groups’ By George Wilfong, Willow Branch, Ind. Why not let the farm co-ops pay the bonus?

Oh, heck, that won't work. I forgot, they make ~

no profit. Well, let me think again. I get it let Hans and his magic “co-operators” wave Up comes the ready

they wave the magic stick and up come grain elevators, lumber yards, petroleum refineries, establishments, and ‘a thousand other things. No profit, just magic. « Oh, yes, I forgot to mention that co-opera-tive farms should be in the making by now, Shhh, quiet, don’t menton it, comrade. I know that these fine patriotic truthfuls, who so diligently worked at attending co-op meetings and tried to be so important during the war, will not mind using their magic once more, and that magic is not doubling the gross income tax on the already tax-ridden businessman. We productive farmers believe all should a

" taxed equally to pay the bonus. Let me

right now that we do not want special pri fleges as advocated a minority co-op. | Now, my good friend, don't get excited. Yes. I am a veteran, also a dirt farmer, and have a small business. Yours for the ousting of pressure groups. * &

‘We Want Smoke Ordinance’

By a Housewife

We, the cifizens of ‘Indianapolis, “wait a:

tough smoke ordinance! We want an ordinance that is enforced, without politics. Does the City Council doubt it? Let the members ask their wives what the wives think of this dirt. Ask any housewife, any mere chant, any professional man, any office worker, it they like it, They are united on this one thing, there is nothing debatable about the question of smoke—pass the ordinance and enforce it: We are as much in favor and consider it as much a necessity to have a tough ‘ordi hance, as we are in favor of a police force. You know those who are not in favor-of a police force—-42d We Ktiow those Who! do not Zaver a smoke ordinance. Sure, it will cost more, put not as much as soap, paint, cleaning: cost. It will cost us, ‘but not what it costs us to try and keep clean!

Bigger thie house, the better the Hemt. And the cin dough ordinance, tough on everyoe INFLATION . . . By Earl Richert

ns > Can Indiandpolis and In-

More U. S. Aid Seen

WASHINGTON, Jan, 15-—-Those who believe the four-year, $18 billion Marshall Plan will, of itself, put Europe on its feet

PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S appointment of Carl A. Hatch |

| are in for a bitter awakening. The experts who last year said it would do that, today are | saying it won't. Instead, they say the United States faces further enormous sacrifices to prevent European collapse. The situation, observes the authoritative London Economist, Swill still inevitably require deep drafts on American generosity and breadth of mind.” It admits that “America was solemnly assured that four years would be enough,” but the experts were wrong. The British weekly concedes that further dollar grants may not prove feasible, Even so, the United States ‘won't be able to wash its hands of the matter. Four years hence, as well as now, it will have to contrive to go on if only for its own sake.

No Sign of Eastern Help

EUROPE still will not be self-supporting. At least, not without eastern Europe-~which means the Soviet bloc-—and there isn't the faintest sign of help from that direction, Raw materials and food especially will be needed, and without Europeans are wondering where these will come from.

Credit Lid to Stay

WASHINGTON, Jan. 15—Despite pleas of some yw Reserve Board is by. the

restrictions, relmposed last Sept. 20, for the subsequent slump in all the commodities involved except a few makes of new automobiles ‘and television sets,

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