Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 January 1949 — Page 26

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A * LAST it seems reasonably safe to say that the cost © % of living is on its way down, slowly but steadily. ‘It reached an all-time peak last August and Sepfember—174% per cent above the average for 1935 through 1939, to the U. 8S. Labor Department's official index of prices paid by consumers. - . ~~ But since then it has, dropped a little each month, in government officials describe as the lo continuous * glide since it began to climb at the start of the national defense program nearly 10 years ago. On Dec. 15 it was down to slightly less than 7115 per cent above the 1935-39 average, and the Jan. 15 statistics, now being gathered, are expected to show a further de-

" Wholeshle prices, which move up or down faster than _ retail, also sre falling, This week the Dun & Bradstreet index of wholesale food prices was at its lowest point since Wholesale prices of other commodities are

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slipping, too.

boat w cost-of-living ‘and other prices do “continue to drop, the country will see a lot of changes, not all of them

"Labor unions, losing their strongest talking point for » general round of wage boosts, doubtless will put ing stress on demands for health, welfare and ‘as CIO unions already are doing.

the Israelis and Arabs, for which in part he is made the goat. Also he is a victim of the in-and-out Truman policy, and of a basic clash of interests in the Middle East for which there is no quick or easy solution,

, . 8 » OPPOSITION to Mr. Bevin, however, is not to be explained in terms of Palestine, alone. Winston Churchill and the Tories are making a partisan fight against this most popular of all Labor government leaders in prepara. tion for the next general election. Inside his own party some are jealous of his position. And left-wing Laborites and right-wing Tory imperialists are out to get him because he is pro-American. +. The highest compliment to Foreign Minister Bevin is that he is Stalin's pet hate—a status he has earned. More than any man he has prevented Britain and Western Europe from taking a phony neutral position between America Russia. He was’ the first high European official to understand that Soviet aggression is against all democracies, the first to welcome the Marshall Plan, the first to propose Western European union, the most active for a North Atlantic defense pact. : ' American-British co-operation is effective because it has the support of both Laborite Bevin and Conservative Churchill there, as well as joint Democratic-Republican

* should be allowed to undermine this partnership for peace, and its bipartisan basis in both countries. :

Spike It—Fast NE of the oldest rackets in organized” government is ~~ finding little ways to do two things: (1) milk money from the pockets of the taxpayers, and (2) build up a

tax-paid political machine. The bill proposing $1 semi-annual inspections of all

mystem. i. IZ the evil would stop merely at taking $2 from every . ear owner every year, it might not be bad. But there are

How pi State inspectors in any community inevitably would have a tie-up with some garage which would invite a kick- - We need no more political schemes to loot the pockets

never has quite ‘Gov. Thomas E. Dewey "| of New York for not giving him second place on the national ticket and taking Gov, Earl

DEAR BOSS . . "By Dan Kidney gel go be Cy ’ Gates Facing Quster Move Capehart, Jenner Seek His Removal From GOP Post : WASHINGTON, Jan. 20-—Dear Boss—Former Gov. Ralph Gates really will be low man on Indiana's GOP totem pole unless present plans

of the two Indiana Senators go awry. . successfully blocked Mr. Gates from

M. Berry of Lebanon, his forces now but seven out of the 22 votes on the state committee. ” Some day the state committee could meet and adopt a resolution saying that the RepubParty went to pot while Mr. Gates was governor and he should no longer represent the party on the national committee. Then either | Ralph would resign or a way be devised to give > Gates the gate.” At least that is the plan.

Jenner's Record Cited

SUCH A resolution would cite the fact that Sen. Jenner won by 165,000 in 1946, with no national ticket to help him, and two years later the state was lost to Democratic Gov, Henry F. Schricker by 149,000 although Mr. Dewey carried the state. In the interim there were the 1947 city elections—brought on by Gov. Gates skip-election law—and the Republicans lost all major cities in the state and most minor ones. Some of these towns had been under Republican rule for 40 years.

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Then the governor used three convention candidates to stop Sen. Jenner's bold plan to get the gubernatorial nomination in 1948. He finally backed his Speaker of the House—Hobart Creighton—who went down to defeat, despite Mr, Jenner's hurrying home to help him during the last week of the campaign. Sen. Jenner had been, giving full time to being head of the GOP National Speakers Bureau here. He is ready to testify to the truth of what closely re-elected Republican National Chairman Hugh Scott Jr sald at Omaha—that many of those the howling now were perfectly satisfied with the Dewey “high-plane” campaign at the time it was under way. He supported Rep. Cecil Harden, Republican national com- , in voting for Scott while Mr, against him,

Warren of California instead. But the big-boom backer of Mr. Gates for nal chairman was Rep. Clarence Brown of Ohio and Mr, Halleck has no more bitter foé in the House. In addition, there was the off-again-on-again relationship with Mr, Gates down the years. A report was published in ashington Post that Sen. Robert A. Taft who lost the tial nomination

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FINES of 30 speeders in a southern town will be turned over to the March of Dimes. That's coming through in . pinch. 3 * <

SCHOOL kids in an Ohio town are collecting rags in a library book drive, Dad better keep his eye on that ot sult. ANOTHER way of saying “sugar daddy”— plain sap. ‘ ® ¢ ¢ - THE NATION'S hens produce 1000 eggs per second. Nice goal for our radio comedians to shoot at,

FULL EMPLOYMENT... By Earl Richert Loans for Business

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20—Sen, John Sparkman (D. Ala.) is | receiving a “ ingly favorable”. reaction from businefsmen | to his proposed $15 billion government loan fund for industrial | development. “Businessmen come into my office and tell me how they now could use loans from such a fund to get industries going and provide employment in under-developed areas,” he sald today. | “I was surprised, I thought they were going to raise cain with me.”

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The Alabama duced Jan, 10 had been misrepresented by some cri “In the first place, it is not a the steel business,” he sald. “Loans

would have to have something like would be the safest way of warding off a depression.

Full Employment Plan THE BILL is titled “the full employment act of 1950” and its stated purpose is “to insure the maintenance of full employment.” . Finance Corp. would have wide billion

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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer Lace The Love of Christopher Harrison

THIS IS a love story attempted by one who knows woefully little of the ways of women ‘and not much more of the ways of men. Christopher Harrison, three-headed commission picked by the legisiature of 1821 to put the newly conceived town of Indianapolis on the map (and the only one to show up on the appointed day) was born in Maryland in 1775. What's more, he came of a family rich enough to give him a fancy education. In addition to having a s with Latin, French and Spanish, he also had command of the language of love, an accomplishment Wiiliam Patterson wasn't aware of when he employed Chris as his confidential clerk. . As for William Patterson, he was a Balti‘more merchant and a lineal descendant of “Old Mortality,” the eccentric tombstone mason immortalized by Sir Walter Scott. possible exception of the Carroll family, Mr, Pattérson was the richest man in Maryland at In addition to his tangible wealth, he also possessed an intangible asset in the shape of a beautiful and spirited daughter, Elizabeth, nicknamed “Betsy.” - Quite in the nature of things, the clerk 4’ eventually met the boss’ daughter, Everybody said it was a match made in Heaven, and nobody was more certain of it than Betsy's father. This departure from the rule governing such parental behavior is, in this case, accounted for Patterson had it all fixed to

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: Back from his business trip, Christopher Harrison walked into a drama the like of which America had never seen. Jerome Bona-parte-—~Napoleon’'s 18-year-old kid brother (“Le petit mauvais suject”)~had turned up in Baltimore. He came with his whole entourage, or what was left of it after his disastrous expedi~ ‘tion to the West Indies. Because of her exalted position in Baltimore ‘society, the 18-year-old Betsy Patterson Was one of the first girls to meet Lt. Bonaparte. They met at the September races, on the very afternoon Mr. Harrison's horse “Hamlet” came in first in the four mile—a trivial detall, per-

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Said Betsy: wife of a Bonaparte for one hour than the wife of any other mai for a lifetime.” The marriage took place on Christmas Eve, 1803. Napoleon hit the ¢elling when news of the morganatic marriage reached him. Indeed, he declared the whole business null and void, to

with what cruejty Cupid sometimes works, Moreover, on that day Betsy wore a buffcolored silk dress and a hat decorated with long, pink ostrich plumes, a combination suf ficient to slay any man including even a Bonaparte. To make absolutely sure, however, Betsy contrived to get her long, gold chain caught in the buttons of Jerome's uniform. To this day, myopi¢ historians refer to that afternoon as a simon-pure example of “love at first sight.” In a courtship so tempestuous that it rocked the foundations of a wobbly world, Betsy handed down a nifty which has since become a

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which Betsy and Jerome whatever, : Less than two. years later (in 1805) when Christopher Harrison learned that Betsy had produced a son (christened Jerome Napoleon to soften up the mad brother), he sold all his holdings and slaves and ‘headed for the West. It took him three years to reach the Midland wilderness, and to this day nobody knows w! he didn’t make better time, :

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a houseboat, Christopher spied the Knobs on the Indiana side. They appealed to him and

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nding a magnificent view of the water, he got off to inspect the country. The place he picked adjoins the present site of Hanover College, ~~ Here he established himself as a hermit. A shelf of books, a gun, a fiddle and a kennel of dogs were his only companions. Except for an occasional Indian buck, he refused to see anybody—least of all, women. He lived in a oneroom cabin sheltered by a noble old tree. On 1808,” a date which is generally accepted as Ter-. ritory of Indiana.

every one of had pal Nobody knows what become of tI Upon re-entering this wicked world, pher Harrison learned in a roundabotit way that Jerome Bonaparte had been compelled to marry Catherine Sophie, Princes of Wurtemberg. What's more, that Napoleon had made him King of Westphalia. As for Betsy Patterson, she was now an abandoned wife in Baltimore. A . 4 Not much is known of Christopher Harri. son’s stay in Indianapolis except that frequently

paying no attention to visitors and declining to enter into conversation with anyone.

Four Traps of Treachery IT IS possible—indeed, quite probable—that Mr. Harrison was in one of his gloomier moods the day he approved Alexander Ralston’s plan of Indianapolis incorporating thé four diagonal avenues—the four traps which for treachery and trickery can't be matched anywhere this side of hell. Except for this one lapse, Chris - topher Harrison did a swell job. Only once during his stay in Indiana did Christopher Harrison say anything that might be construed as having something to do with his courtship of Betsy Paterson and the jilt she handed him. In Salem, to which town he returned after completing his work in Indianapolis; a Quaker came to see him seeking salvation. On that occasion, Mr. Harrison sald: "God is love, and love never loses anything; it is infinitely forgiving,” and observa tion which moved Maurice Thompson to suggest that “maybe the man was thinking of his own love, by the light of which his whole life was spent.” ; Well—"maybe.” Constituted as I am, however (without the fine fiber historians are made of), I'll go on believing that Betsy Patterson handed Christopher Harrison a raw deal,

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‘Lien Law Not a Penalty’ By Judge John L. Niblack, Superior Court 1. The truth is that the so called “lien law” does not penalize old age “pensioners.” This matter has been abused by a lot of selfappointed saviors of old folks who receive old age assistance. Most of these leaders and lobbyists are in it for a good living for themsselves and for political gain. They do not speak vast majority of old folks, and could election even if it were close.

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and shooters at all times, I have yet to find anyone who knows the contentg of a new conservation bill we hear so much about, Why isn't the guy who pays the freight, the $1.50 hunter, kept advised on what is about to be crammed down his throat? the majority won't like what the

proposes. . , Why not publish the contents of this bill in advance? Lopsided effort is largely responsible for qur lousy hunting conditions, Too much effort is spent on one end of the program at expense of others, Let's do something about in the field after all the counts meetings and conférences are over. : X-have yet to find anyone who has ever a game warden. I know I. never have. e? Three times this fall I personally saw whole covies of quail killed by so-called sportsmen pump and automatic shotguns, Not one bird was left. : Game is too scarce to permit such outrageous conduct any longer, The Federal government had to prohibit the use of any gun holding more than three shells and that's just exactly what Indiana should do at once. The govern. ment did it to preserve duck. Every fall the fields of Indiana are full of sportsmen, so-called. These persons are far more dangerous and present a far more dangerous problem either in or out of the field than any other one condition we have to face. The Indiana trespassing law is obsolete and should be rewritten to take care of the hunter who has no respect for the farmer's right of SAIn Tord. ChOVHE ot Srery thing In Se. toe , ng at eve in 8 ine cluding the farmer's stock. g ag It's time we had some laws corrécting these rotten condition,

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WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

Two-Way ‘War Guilt’

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with the first: "0 p and alliance.” Russia and Nationalist, China to respect each other's sovereignty and terri joint operation of the railways in Manchuria, a free port open to ‘all the world. to render equipment

resources, Now, 41 months later, Russia has broken every one of these

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are trying to catch Chiang and his chief aids. Promises Not Kept

HE IS not respecting Natiofialist China's terr sovereignty. Through prog Bort ur churia and all north China politically just as he ‘annexed , Czechoslovakia, Hungary and other small neighbors, Dairen has Sinkiang (Chinese Turkestan) is being Btalin has not rendered Nationalist China moral or assistance. On the contrary, has backed tionists to the hilt. k Yet Chiang is the same Chiang with whom Stalin and Moles tov arranged the treaty of 1945. Nor has the Chinese situation |" altered fundamentally since the treaty was signed agt The only difference is that Stalin, Molotov and the other 12 ‘men in the Kremlin have decided that now is tha.tims to

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