Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 February 1949 — Page 26

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HENRY Ww. 4 Manages

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this week ond is half-way

(“for the free From then its accomplishatt does with the more than 400 it. Ps ppraisal of this mass of pro-

service this general assembly could She people of Indiana would be to 9-50, and then adjourn and go

unpassed.

a fairer deal for hard-up cities, better 2 “school administration, and a handful of others. Those are constructive’ ‘proposals that ought to be adopted. But not one of them meets any emergency in Indiana, and the loss of any, or all; from this session would be no calamity to + the people of the state, On the other side of the ledger their possible value is far outweighed by the scores of bills that covér the whole range of bad legislation from vicious to just foolish . . . ang or all of which might conceivably be passed. % . 8» . » . 3 “ THERE are the usual , . . it seems to us maybe more than the usual . . . batches of “grab” bills, designed only to further ‘the selfish interests of individuals or tiny pres- | sure groups. : i An out-of-town coal mine owner wants to block Ine : dianapolis’ attempt to clean up smoke and soot, contending that a little old-fashioned coal! smoke—which he doesn't ~ have to breathe—never hurt anybody. A few local politicos want to hi some elections around 0, hey fe their | chances will be better next time. - A little handful ks 1 o wreck Indianapolis model slum clearance program for reasons they have never yet made clear, although some of their backers contend loudly—and untruthfully—that i the “interests” are making a profit out of it. Any number of political job-holders would like to have their pay raised. Owners at hig trucks, Which a already tear up lots of Indiana

the lid taken off their size up the -roads still faster, - more toward maintaining’

there are the scores of “there ought to be a law” ones that deal with foxes and groundhogs and d time Most of these are important 8 in a very few communities, some of useful purpose, but to the state of no consequence.

® = . 0 of proposals is attributed, in some Some of these pro-.. one of them will do anypful for labor, organized

wi es of any workers who happen to be out on strike, another would the utilities arbitration law which Indiana unions have repeatedly used in the past two years

“to win for their members millions of dollars in fair pay Increases, save for their members millions of dollars in ~ labor dispute losses. Most of them are full of hidden Viokers," a . » » » »

ON THE whole it is a sorry picture that confronts the assembly in its last 30 days of existence. : Issues of major importance to the state, and to the -+. welfare-of the-people-of the state, have been largely ignored. | “Nothing much is even proposed about our antiquated, underovercrowded state prisons and hospjtals. Nothing is proposed about re-apportioniment of legislative thip as required by the state constitution so that _ Hoosler citivens will get a fair vote no matter where they live. Legislation that would open the way for cities to modernize their intfeient, costly, duplicated governments has been kissed off. About the best the people of Indiana can hope for is that most of the bills now periding, will not be passed. wo Pye tate will “lose very little if -not-a- single one of these is enacted. It can lose a great deal if some of them are. : »

Truth, Even Colored; Will Out

FRESHMAN Congressman George H. Christopher, dairyfarming Democrat from Missouri, made his first speech In the House the other day. It was a rousing attack on margarine, but unfortunately Mr. Christopher's tongue slipped as he wound up. Said he: “I and my neighbors are entitled to the protection of the yellow color that God gave to oleo.” “It is reported that.he sat down in an embarrassed silence. Mr. Christopher need not have been too greatly _embarrassed. True, he and his neighbors are entitled to yellow margarine but, under the present onerous’ ‘fedéral laws, God knows housewives are tired of having ¥ to put the

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He Can Really | Pick 'Em

ge WE DON'T know about the other 11 members President ‘Truman appointed to the assay tommission to. go to

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‘standards. Buf hé certainly picked one he named Mrs. George Mesta. She is the most ‘and so much of that stuff

her fingers that she should be able to | fineness with all the adeptness of a Braille.

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ple can lead only to the conclu- 1}.

since our Charley Halleck popped up

4 night. Sen: Douglas -is president

| DEARBOSS ... By Bei Kida

| Halleck Works -

For Co meback “Whipping Bo Soom fo 8 New ue —-

‘ble Vice President candidite oh ticket at the Philadelphia convention, been taking quits a beating: trom the press, radio, large segments of the public generally and some of his own GOP colleagues. But don't ever doubt the ability of this little "(in stature) big man from Rensselaer to ‘back Hoosier politicians nave hung up quite a record for resiliency and the. Second Congressman is adding to his almost daily, His days o ing Republican boy” séem about ended. He is Pl go for his party on the House floor Democrats plenty. of .dam This week he taunted fof not’passing an OPA-type price control bill, instead of adopting the materials allocations plan which the much criticised 80th Congress cooked up. Charley was majority leader of that Congress and he still is proud of its record,

Carrying Out Mandate

NOBODY can challenge the “act that there was plenty of party discipline and the Republicans passed exactly what they wanted. This,

| says Charley, was merely carrying out the man-

date which they received from the voters when put Into power in the 1946 election In 1948 the voters switched to the Democrats and the debate began within the GOP as to whether Halleck et al had not misread the signs of the times or maybe messed up the mandate—if any, Charley remained uncontrite. He still main. tains that the Taft-Hartly 'aw, tax cuts and similar measures passed when he was leader should have been defended on the stump and then the Republicans would have won. He never intends to stop defending them, Maybe it is this spunk which has won, or is winning, him back into the good graces of his colleagues. When he. went to the Republican National Committee meeting at Omaha last

- week and expounded his old time GOP gospel, anyone |

he got ‘the greatest applause of attending.

Named to Policy Committee

UPON HIB return he was elected to be one of the Midwest representatives on the Republican Policy Committee in the House. There are only 21 members and they will function as did the Steering Committee when the party was in power, Other Midwest representatives on the committee are Reps. Thomas A. Jenkins and Mrs. Frances P. Bolton, both from Ohio. States included in the voting for these three were Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Michigan, . | “Even his old enemy Rep. Clarence J. Brown (R. 0.) has been warming up a bit toward Rep. Halleck lately. It was Charley's “sticking his neck out” that lent itself to the axing that has been done on him. He frankly tried for the Vice Presi« hot and up until that time had been quite favorably treated by the eastern seaboard

him an “isolationist” and all the other labels which they like to hang on Republicans from the midlands and which many of them merit, truth, however, was that Mr. Halleck supported the whole bipartisan foreign ald program and at times was the only gentleman from Indiana voting to do so.

Gave Both Barrels

THE DEWEY-WARREN managers didn’t give him many hot assignments during their disastrous campaign. When they did put him on a nationwide radio network with a speech at Mt. Vernon, Ill, Charley gave the Truman campaign both barrels and praised ing the 80th Congress had done. He still thinks that was the way to win. There is no mathematical formula to prove him wrong—except

en plied up =u far larger total ne than President Truman,

went down to defeat, it was well remembered that it had been Mr. Halleck who tossed the

Indiana delegates to him on the first ballot at

Philadelphia. Behind that lay his record of in nomination in 1940, The same radio commentators who ar “praising Mr. Willkie and Mr. ‘Dewey as gressives, kept right on condemning Mr. Hallock

¢ in by the solo flight man from Missouri, were citing “Martin, Halleck and Taber”

Back inBusiness

he is getting in business and at the same old stand, it's safé>to add, He ‘was made the ranking minority ‘mémber of the House Small Business Committee wh he created: in 1941, His offices still are in the tol itself. That he may get more. bu was indicated when he debated freshman Sen. Douglas (D. Ils) in a radio forum on taxa the other of American Economic Association, being a pro r of econamics-at the University of Chicago. He had 1! : facts and figures on the

then Charley wasn't entirely licked. I was told that he looked best in television. The professor kept his eyes glued to his notes.

over Germany is to be settled peaceably.

facture pro West abandons its purely defensive stand.

applicable to Germany.

of Nations, Meantime the tained order,

Why Not Governing Board?

or were removed for cause,

AAA Sa arg

French and American: zones,

just inside The Netherlands,

selves might be allowed to choose their

autonomy and other freedoms in ber, in Paris.

"the Baar Torniula, might bé

They launched a broadside at once, calling | 2nY ground. Now that I have

hat Democrats replacing Républican Bnators ‘

At any rate when Gov, Thomas BE. Dewey placing the name of the late Wendell L. Willkie

for being a reactionary. After Gov, Dewey was.

. trio “which caused Dewey's defeat. |

MR. Pp stood this heat. And now ba

but Charley had the stump speech oratery. “ven

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms

New Plan for Peace?

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—Informed diplomats are convinced |

that a pew, approach must be found if the East-West impasse |

They are equally certain that Moscow will continue to manu- |# nda. out.of the situation unless and. until the |

In other words, they think the time has come for the West— under American leadership inasmuch as Uncle Sam is Moscow's | chief whipping-boy—to make a positive proposal. { “Saar formula,” for example, has been suggested as basically |!

| After World War I, the Versailles Treaty placed the Saar | —a T76-square-mile territory adjoining the old French-German border—under a governing commission responsible to the League

This commission ruled the Saar for 15 years. Then a strictly supervised plebiscite was held to determine the Saar’'s future. people retained their local. assemblies, religious liberties, language, etc., while local police and gendarmes, plus a corps of British, French and Belgian railway gudrds. in.

THE commission had five members: A Frenchman, a Saarlander, a Dane, a Belgian and a Canadian, Appointed annually to one-year terms they could serve longer unless they resigned

On the whole, the plan worked pretty well, election under neutral Supervision, the area voted to return to

Why not, tis "shked, wot up a ‘similar United Nations gov. erning hoard in Berlin? In place of Allied occupation, neutral forces (Bwedes, Swiss, etc) might take over the Boviet, British,

As the Red army would merely retire behind the Soviet border and there await developments, the American, British and | ° ' French armies might do the same: That is, withdraw to quarters. . a , Francs and Luxembourg. | & At the end of the stipulated period, the German people them own form of government within the framework lald down by the Big Four. Pending the plebiscite, the gt hiants would enjoy 10ca) line with the human rights declaration passed by the United Nations assembly last Decem-

THE United Nations’ governing commission, still following Shnpated of say n members: One

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[Looks Like the. Picnic Mey Be Called Off.

OUR TOWN .

EVER since this column appeared in print, T've employed a dubious literary method of indirect allusion known to the trade as “hinting.” For the most part, it was inspired by a suspicion that, maybe, men of this generation aren't as progressive as they think they are. . The technique never served me well. At any rate, I never gained

more facts at my cemmand, however, doggone if I don't believe I've been on’ the right track all along. Consider for a moment the

forehandedness and vision of an’ Indianapolis

attorney who practiced his profession a century and more ago. He has been dead all of 88 years now, but, for some reason, he appears to be

--anachronistically alive today.

Drafted University Charter BACK in 1850 when he was 40 years old, Ovid Butler nursed a notion that Indianapolis was far enough along to have a university. He drafted the charter, planned its’ curriculum, provided a large portion of its general endowment. fund and, on top of everything else, donated 25 acres of sugars, beeches and walnuts the. . border “of ‘the city-—as ptty a grove of trees as could be found anywhere around here. It was part of the farm which embraced his residence, “Forest. Home.” The old house and, indeed, some of the trees are still standing on the northwest corner of 13th

‘Stand Park Ave, (originally known as Buck-

eye Lane). The property is now the home of

Mrs, John M: Shaw,

To give shape to his dream, Mr. Butler engaged the services of William Tinsley, an architect who had just arrived in Indianapolis by way of Clonmel, Ireland. One of his first jobs around here was the one Mr. Butler commissioned him to do. It turned out to be a handsome and authentic piece of Tudor architecture, as nice in its collegiate way as Christ Church was an expression of ecclesiastical Gothic, Take my word for it, both structures were designed by William Tinsley notwithstanding the alarming fact that two Indianapolis hewspapers, with singular regularity, deprive him of the author ship of the church on the Circle. The site of the newly-concelved university

boundary of which was what is now College Ave. and 13th Bt. No doubt you youngsters have lived your whole lives without knowing that, once upon a time, the “College” in College Ave, was a connotation for Northwestern Chris.

FURAN (How Butler) Unversity. ~~ ="

Even more amazing than the collegiate moot of its architecture was the system of education thought up by My. Mr. Butler for the « conduct of the

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And in a fair

. By Anton on Scherrer

Origin of University Traced

school. The most startling and, certainly, the most progressive feature of the system, as distinguished from “all other - universities at the time, was the fact that it was designed to be a coeducational institution. I repeat: More than 90 years ago, right here in Indianapolis, Mr, tler set up a. university admitting women Fon ‘the same. conditions in the same classes d examinations as those laid down for men, a thing unheard of in America at the time,

First Coed University

AND I'm not going to be bluffed by champions of Oberlin. To be sure, Oberlin got around to coeducation before we did, but bear in mind that Oberlin, at that time, had the status of a

college and not of a university embracing the

faculties of theology, philosophy, law and medicine. Nor am I unmindful of the historic fact that Earlham and other “Friends’ Boarding Schools” had departments for both sexes. However, they were essentially distinet in faculfies and teaching. I repeat (this time pursifig my lips to accommodate a shout): Northwestern Christian, the foundation of Butler University, was the first such institution to open its doors to coeducation in America. . Some years later, Mr, Butler went even further and startled the natives, to say nothing

«of tive nation; by inviting a lady toteach. When

a daughter of his died, Mr. Butler endowed a chair of English History and Literature which still operates under the original name of the Demia Butler Chair, The first to be installed in the new post was Catherine Mérrill, a young lady somewhere around 35 years old at the time. And with it went the full-fledged title of Professor,

Born in Corydon "CATHERINE MERRILL was born in 1824 in Corydon - (our first capital). ‘Her father, Samuel Merrill, was state senator at the time, When he brought the funds of the state to Indianapolis, Mother Merrill held the nine-months-old baby Catherine in her arms as the wagon jolted over the hills and through the dense forests to the new capitol. Here the child grew to womanhood, exercising an influence that future historians will do well to ponder when it comes -time to itnerpret the culture of early Indianapolis. indeed, it wouldn't surprise me itn that her influence extends to this day. I know for a fact that it reached to the turn of the century, for I distinctly recall that the best teachers I ever had (of the caliber of Violet Demree, Beatrice Foy, Anna Griffith and the like) not only profited by Catherine Merrill's precepts but “eXercised all the patience théy had to hand them down to posterity by way of us kids in Manual Training High School. Sure, I went to High School. I guess you never suspected it.

| LABOR BILLS . . . By Fred W. Perkins

Testimony Refused

Keep letters 200 words or less on aay sub-

Proposes ( Canned Goods Tax

The veterans fought for us all. Thay proe tected everyone's home, so everyone should pay his share, AS prices. on canned good fluctuates from day to day, why not put a 1-cent tax on every thing packed in cans—food, tobacco, beer, etc, regardless of size? [Everyone eats, so everyone would pay, and it wouldn't be a hardship on anyone, The average family uses about 10 cans of food a week. This would be 10 cents

and wouldn't be missed. This should incréase

the can sales because it would be for a good cause. I would be willing: to pay a penny for every can I have on hand. Let's hear from others on this idea. . ® ¢ o

Landlord Answers Letter By A Landlord. I am answering a letter about rént control. I am a landlord. We landlords are hot #ich bad people. We just have a lot of worries these days. A tenant has only one worry and that is paying the rent each week or month. We have to worry about paying $100 on a house we bought and paid a big price for, We have to worry about buying coal that is $16 a ton. (It used to be $8 a ton.) And if we call in a plumber to fix a sink, it costs five times more than it used to. I had my furnace repaired last year and it cost more to have it repaired than it cost me to buy a new furnace back in 1942. That is not saying anything about improving our property for that is out of the question, The materials it takes cost 10 times more than in 1942. They

- are wanting to raise our utilities and taxes. If

hose wl Keates hams. 4 ean

that brought this hero back to his home and - ity where he had spent his young life bgfore entering the service of his country. As I looked at the flag-draped casket and the heartbroken parents, I thought: “What price ™ 5 This was only one in many thousands all ove . the nation who have come home fo. a final 1" resting place. ; afer : 7 Now let me say to anyone who would like to see another war so he could profit by such, I wish it could be possible for &nyone that might have t in mind to attend some of these soldiers’ last rites, I feel sure then they would start thinking of better ways to mend our differences both at bong and abroad.

we have a room papered it costs $20. It used .

to cost $5. I say if we have controls; let us have controls on everything. ® *

‘Killing Must Be Stopped’ By W. H. Richards, 310 N. Delaware.

The killing of three or more persons in Indiana traffic every day must be stopped. It is simply that speed maniacs going nowhere in a hurry to get there are permitted to rush on until they crash, killing some and making others cripples for life, A car out of control only means that the fool at the wheel has not kept it in control. It is up to our state legislature to pass a law setting a speed limit in cities of 25 m.p.h. and on highways, 40 m.p.h. Have the whole code of traffic laws printed and supplied to all filling stations to be given to all who ask for them. Make a penalty for violating any of these laws a fine of $100 and

"SIX “months th Jail ‘obligatory on conviction:

With all traffic slowed down to this uniform rate, there would be no increase of congestion. A second should bring double this penalty and a third should prohibit the driver from ever again driving a car in the state,

A motorist need only start a little earlier to

reach his destination on time. Bettér to spend

danger his own life as well as others.

What Others Say—

THE world situation is all fouled up. It always has been. It always will be. 1 see no n for change. . .. What we call progress merely increases our ability to do the same good “and evil to one another as previous generations have done.—Will Durant, philosopher and historian.

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POLITICS and business are inseparably

connected, and .the kind of politics determines the kind of economic conditions under which we live.—~Vice President Barkley. * + ¢ -

MY review (of business for 1949) shows me

there is no need to worry about the outlook.— Thomas J. Watson, president, International Business Machines Corp. ® ¢ =o LIKE our horses; our freshmen femmes are both fast and beautiful.l-Dick Cohen, student editor, University of Louisville.

handle currency, transport,

er and other problems of administrae outside interference as possible,

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5—Congressional committees trying to speed up two important and controversial subjects-—a new general labor law and broadening of the Wage-Hour Act—are run-

| nYng.into unexpected trouble. wi Fiundreds--of - requests for time to testify have been turned ~ .-

down. They came from both business and union organizations as well as employing companies and individuals. But still the Senate Labor Committee majority holds to its intention of ending its Taft-Hartley hearings next Thursday. The House Labor Committee has yielded to the extent of going into next week with its wage-hour hearings. * Many of the applicants have been told by both committees that, though they cannot present testimony In person, they can file statements, Senate committee records show the following applicants among those who. falled to get hearing time:

Association, Associated Industries of Cleveland, U. 8. Rubber Co,,

American Retail Federation, Council for Economic Development,

Engineers Joint Council. of New York, American Paper & Pulp °

Association, Detroit Board of Commerce, National Association of Motor Bus Operators, Employers Association of North Jersey, American Mining Congress, National Association for Advance ment of Colored People, American Federation of Teachers (AFL), Associated Master Barbers, Botany Mills, New York State Labor Relations Board and the Alr Line Pilots Association,

Want fo Testify for Provision

ANOTHER organization told to file a brief was the Associa:

tion of Professional Engineering Personnel of Camden, N.J, Sen.

Robert A. Taft (R.0.) sald he Kuow of 50 other professional SrSanisations That ramed to testify jor the Taft-Hartley provin ng ‘essional employees from being grou in bargaining units with er workers. pel Sen, Wayne Morse (R. Ore.), one of a subcommittee named to “screen” the withesses, protested that the Selection had been

Complaints are that briefs do not get as much attention as

presentations. However, Arthur J, Goldberg, general counsel

oral BE the CIO, Waa given time to testity. S14. 4g Sled & trief- aud SPpeRdis Iotaling mare than 67,000 words.

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Bons Gain | Week

Taft Expe Vote in H

WASHING hearings ends w Taft is in t tee, even thoug But his chances are improving. He may win: If he keeps si If he plays bs If he comes t shals southern De Republican a House. Bat if it be new labor law of Taft-Hartley t ers may ask President to veto it. As of today, ft looks ay if Senate’s bill will

fnjunctions again¥t big emergency strikes. Curbs on jurisdiction strikes and secondary boycotts stricter House asked. Non-Communis' to employers as and to an added

ployees of unions. - -

Free Speech BARS AGAINS both union and “Free speech” Retaining “unt tice” provisions f Independent st: Mediation and C ce. Continued req pancial reports Restrictions on Continued exe ployers from - unions of foreme: This adds up cent of Taft-Har Though Taft wi these provisions Continued ban Assignment o powers to its ges . 1

Purge Bene:

COMMUNIST of Benes is unde slovakia. Gen. Heliodo! chief- of gener Benes, has bee death for “oppo 1940 and 1942. sonal emissary o of top leaders ance against Ge Ironically, he | for having opp time Soviets had ship with Hitle overrun Czecho were alive today convicted and e

— Vishinsky’'s & Carlsbad this w supposed to haw from “nervous b ally was to iron rels - within C: Party, particula dolf Slansky, Si and Minister Pr Zapotocky. -

Cabinet Re: HERE'S LAT spring reshuffiin inet:

Army Secreta

Sec. Royall

Undersecretary. take diplomatic Interior Secr replaced by Unc Chapman. ECA Admin to resign. Louis Johnso In Truman cam sistant Secreta: