Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 August 1949 — Page 16
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ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W, MANZ President © Editor . Business Manager
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Friday, Aug. 19, 1949
LB 8 S0DY Telephone RI ley 5551 Give Light and the People Wilk Fina Thew Un way:
What's Our Symphony Worth?
"HE $25,000 City Council is being asked to spend to help keep the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra in existence seems like a very small sum when you consider what Indianapolis gets in return. ; The nation-wide advertising Indianapolis gets from the presence here of this fine orchestra alone could not be purchased otherwise for many times $25,000. And a good many cities spend much more than that amount to advertise the things they have which make them desirable and attractive places to live, and to locate businesses.
More directly the orchestra is a definite educational |
asset to Indianapolis. Thousands of our children annually get from its school concerts their first knowledge and ap- - preciation of music, a lesson definitely as much a part of their cultural training as any other portion of the school curricula. It is true the audiences which regularly hear the paid concerts of the orchestra are a relatively small part of the population of the city. They pay, however, more than threefourths of the cost of the orchestra directly in their ticket purchases and gifts, and in 86 doing actually contribute an important part of the benefits the rest of the city derives from it. : rs The city originally appropriated $25,000 for this purpose. Last year, in the interest of economy the appropriation was cut to $10,000. We're for economy, but we don't see where the city can get more for $15,000 than by restoring this full amount to the orchestra budget. We hope City Council will see it the same way.
Good Luck . . . and Good Judgment
luckiest man in this town is Roland G. Jenkins. He is alive today only because a young man who had. the training, the strength, the presence of mind and the courage to save him happened to be on the spot when his car plunged into 10 feet of water in Fall Creek Wednesday afternoon. 1 David Simons, who made this heroic rescue, is becomingly modest about it. He says he got ready for such emergencies ag a summer-time swimming pool guard, and that he “didn’t do anything so wonderful.” - : We rather think he did, though.
the strength and skill to pull out an unconscious man pinned
in a wrecked auto under 10 feet of water, to say nothing
of the quick thinking and the cool nerve that led him to try. There probably isn't one chance in 10,000 that such a man might be passing just when such an emergency arose.
‘That the driver was down there at all in that automobile at the bottom of Fall Creek is something else again. Witnesses of the accident say he hit the rear of another car,
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going inthe same direction he was going so hard he.caromed. |-
off it, over the curb, across a couple of feet of level ground and down the creek bank, his car turning end over end as it went. Estimates of the speed at which he was traveling before the accident vary, but it is obvious he wasn't just idling along. Cars rarely go out of control like that at 10 miles an hour. IT As a result the life of the driver was narrowly saved, the life of a fine young man was risked, an automobile became a mass of junk, and a dozen Indianapolis policemen, and rescue workers toiled for hours over the near-tragedy. Too bad there couldn't have been that same brand of good judgment and clear thinking behind the steering wheel a minute before—so there needn't have been any accident. *
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MacArthur's ‘White Paper’
IY DECLINING an invitation to come home and give Congress his views on the China.situation, Gen. Douglas MacArthur remarked pointedly that his ideas concerning Pacific policy were “fully on file with the Department of the
" Army.”
The general's views are known to conflict with those of the State Department, so his unwillingness to be involved In.a public controversy with the administration is under-
_-standable. * But his previous recommendations can speak for
themselves, and he is willing to stand on that record.
The joint chiefs of staff should be called upon to produce and comment on the MacArthur file, for vital questions of national security are involved. :
In.a cable to the House Foreign Affairs Committee almost a year and a half ago, Gen. MacArthur disposed of
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1054-page-white paper in two paragraphs.- He said: “The international aspect of the Chinese problem, unfortunately, has become somewhat beclouded by demands for internal reform. Desirable as such reform may be, its importance is but secondary to the issue of civil strife now engulfing the land, and these two issues are as impossible ‘of synchronization as it would be to alter the structural design of a house while the same was being consumed by flame. ‘The maintenance of China's integrity against destructive forces which threaten her engulfment is of infinitely more concern. For with the firm maintenance of such integrity, reform will gradually take place in the evolutionary processes of China's future. “The Chinese problem is part of a global situation which” should be considered in its entirety. Fragmentary decisions in disconnected sectors of the world will Lot bring an integrated solution . . . it would be utterly fallacious to
underrate either China's needs or her importance. For if |
we embark upon a general policy to bulwark-the frontiers of freedom against the assaults of political despotism, one major frontier is no less important than another, and a de-
~ cisive breach of any will inevitably engulf all.”
Contrast the calm, penetrating logic of this reasoning
with the State Department's fumbling 1054-page alibi on
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YUGOSLAVIA... By Marquis Childs Help for Tito Significant Move Granting of Steel Mill License
Indicates Change in Policy WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—After a long backstage controversy a decision finally has been reached to grant a license to Yugoslavia to buy a steel mill in the United States. This
is highly significant, for it means the affirma. .|
tion of a positive policy to extend help to Marshal Tito so that he will maintain his independence in the face of ever-mounting threats from Soviet Russia. This is a deliberate and calculated policy taken In the interest of world peace. It is not that anyone in responsible position has developed any illusions about Tito. He is just what he | always his been—a Communist with an indomitable and ruthless conviction that communism is the only way of life. But as the ever-louder thunder out of Moscow makes obvious, Tito’s break with the Cominform. is irreconcilable. The breach between Tito and his one-time mentor, Stalin, cannot be healed. The real significance lies in the rift in the satellite bloc. The example is of overwhelming importance. If Tito can do it, then so can others, That explains the increasingly savage tone of the Moscow denunciations that now include the charge of “enemy” and “traitor.” ¥ If Tito can maintain his independence then there is a clear demonstration for all to see that ’ even in Eastern Europe the effort of Moscow to keep nation states in complete subjection in the interests of Russian aggression will not necessarily succeed. This is the hope for peace implicit in Tito's national communism,
Exiles Here Reason Differently YUGOSLAV exiles in this country-—there are several layers out of the past—impatiently brush this reasoning aside. Whether it is national communism or Russian communism, they say, it is all the same. While they rarely express the hope openly, they cherish the dream
that the past out of which they came will be
" restored by conquering armies from the West spearheaded by the United States. While that past, judged by any objective standard, might be infinitely preferable to the dictatorship of the present,<there is the question of whether it could be restored. Even with the unlimited treasure and the rivers of blood poured out in the last war, the broken pieces of the past might not be forced together in the old mold which was often repressive and feudal. In the backstage debate over the steel blooming mill, Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson cited his adamant opposition in the years leading up to World War II to shipments of steel and oll destined for Japan. Mr. Johnson was then assistant secretary of war and often In sharp opposition to his then chief, Secretary of War Harry Woodring. “I was against sending a pound of steel or a quart of oll to Japan,” Mr. Johnson said vehemently, “Because I was convinced that they were preparing to make war on the United States.”
But those favoring the policy of letting Tito have at least a minimum of help in this country pointed out a major difference -bgtween the two situations. The oil and steel that went to Japan were part of “business as usual.” The steel mill for Yugoslavia is a “calculated risk” ‘taken in the interests of peace. : : In the license finally approved, the original request of the Yugoslav government has been scaled down. In. the first instance it was for approximately $3 million,
Seen as a Token Asset : THEREFORE, it is more in the nature of a -foken-than a -major-asset. It is, of course, to be paid for by the Tito government through the shipment to this country of minerals from Yugoslavia, some of which are inf scarce supply and _essential to the nation’s stockpile, At the same time an economic survey group from the Intérnational Bank is in Belgrade on
that an amount up to $50 million eventually may be approved. While that is undoubtedly too high, there appears » strong possibility of one of the types of production-guaranteed loans that the bank has made with such conspicuous success in other partsof the world, ' = Moscow has just recalled Ambassador Anatoli Lavrentiev from Belgrade, at the same time denying that this presages a break in diplo-
. matic relations. Neverthless, the reports persists
that Russia intends to make the break and the satellites will follow suit. Then Tito will bé cut off from even formal relations with the great power on his border and his only chance to build the independence of his country will lie with the West,
FOSTER'S FOLLIES
(“HELLERTOWN, Pa.—Cave wedding 100 feet underground.”)
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PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . . . By John Loveland
Sawdust and Sawbones
John E. Loveland, traveling salesman, has also turned Hoosier columnist. His stories from around the state will appear Monday, Wednesday and Friday in The Times.
DO YOU remember the piles of sawdust you used to wade through in the butcher shop at home when mother sent you for a couple
pounds of steak? Or later on when you were a
litile older (no, not you, girls) can you recall the sawdust on the barroom floor? Now.that we've refreshed your memory, we'll go on with the story. There was a world of sawdust put into huruse a few days ago at Reynolds in White ounty, and it didn't go into any butcher shop, or on any barroom floor either, The occasion was the county 4-H fair locat-' ed at the fairgrounds grove on the northeast edge of town, When we arrived there was every evidence that a “ rownder” rain had fallen the day before. Although the sun was shining, walking underfoot was on the squishy side. 1f you wanted to lean up ag a tractor and swap lies with Carl Seidholtz of Monticello, you'd better hold onto the tire lugs in order to catch yourself should . your feet slip suddenly, : : To soak up the puddles and quagmires left by the torrents, the fair board had spread load fter load ‘of sawdust through the t
“ways se that by owatehing = tent to sit down to talk to Kenny Williams of Brookston ‘it was possible to avoid the mud. Kenny wanted to know how “Doc” Cleven‘ger, an old schoolmate, was getting along with his practice of medicine at Kirklin, and I was
—reminded of the time when Doc first moved. .~
there and had to share a party line with a half dozen or so others.
Unwelcome Doctor's Assistant ONE NEIGHBOR who unblushingly- made it a point to listen in on all calls, especially the doctor's, was most perturbed on one oceasion when he prescribed for a certain patient who had called him. In fact said neighbor was so distressed that as soon as the conversation was over, she rang Dr. Clevenger to inform him that his diagnosis was faulty and that he had prescribed. incorrectly. Doe, fairly short and of pleasant manner, was so astounded he couldn't even ask her
h rugged cave men left our scene, A million years before, "- { It seems the ladies still are keen | To even up the score. t
Perhaps they call it Hellertown pr | * Because 'if some sweet dame } Can get a single feller down, He'll never be the same!
IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson
Gold Price Troubles
WASHINGTON, Aug. 19—Foreign pressure to get the United | States to-increase the price of gold is making no headway. The whole idea is generally regarded here as the wackiest thing since British Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin popped off at a trades union meeting a couple of years ago, suggesting that the United
States redistribute the gold in Ft. Knox, free.
The theory behind the gold price drive is briefly this: The United States now buys all newly-mined gold offered at $35 a fine ounce. In the 12-year period, 1937 through 1948; the U. 8. bought $12,500,000,000 worth of gold. Total world production in this period. |. outside of Russia, was $12.800,000,000. The U. 8. now holds two- | thirds of all the world's gold—$24,600,000,000 out of $37 billion
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Three-fourths of all the world gold is now produced in British dominionsprincipally ‘South Africa. They sell their gold to the ~ U. 8. for dollars. This gives them the money to’ buy manufactured " 'gobds in the United States. 8o in the long run, U. 8. purchase of gold helps other American export .business; although the U. 8. government ends up burying the god at Ft. Knox, Ky.
South African Pressure
MOST OF the pressure for increasing U.S. gold prices comes from South Africa. For the last 15 years, South Africa has been selling the U. 8. from $400 million to $500 million worth of- gold... a year. But even South Africa has been running short of dollars.
So her finance minister, Dr. Nicholas C. Havenga,
ing the capitals of Europe, trying to win converts to his scheme
to have the U. 8. increase the price of gold,
One of the principal arguments used is that there has been no Increase in the price of gold since 1934. -Since then the price of
nearly everything else hds advanced. Therefore it price of gold is out of line with other prices.
In theory, if the United States raised the price of gold from $35 to say $56 or $70 a fine ounce, it would give South Africa and
Great Britain more dollars with which to buy
America. Also, it would increase the value of Britain's dwindling gold reserve. This would presumably énable the British to stave off disaster a little bit longer, strengthening hope for improved
conditions, some day, somehow,
Slick Financial Trick - ‘
J THESE ARE.what might be called the short-term advantages of having the United States increase the price of gold. It is a slick financial trick to help the British out of ‘another bad hole. But anyone who takes a long-range view of the situation can see in it . only a business that might do the rest of the world great harm, of ‘gold was raised artificially, it would ‘be in. Th would be stuck with this high price roll only ed tates
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Net effect of a rise in gold prices would be another git io: What the whole gold price drive seems to ; ‘a stall | known « future commercial ‘ihe La States i the BH The U, 8. now buys about $700 or # counter-movement against the demand (hg® tha Brice rv a os Le An ure om ¢ : Sl pl gold fron: Br} h dominions every year. Doubling value the pound sterling. They. would no doubt 'gke to some It is understood that naval planes will be available to iy § ' ' price would dou amount. It would be a plain -subsidy. way to shove the bill for that on the American taxpayer, too, Americans out if commercial transportation is inadequate. :
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where she nad served her interneship. He since has a private line so that if you call him about the wart on Mabel's knee, there'll be no danger of the neighbors having her leg amputated via the grapevine for dinner. Sitting there, seeing what the weather had done for the White County 4-Hers, I was reminded of a- trick the weather had done for
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" Warren North, a farmer living a mile or two
south of Brookston. Warren farms a whopping big acreage even for that country which lies flat and stretches for miles toward the west and is especially conducive to big farms. They tell me he has done an excellent job of building up his land, now has a fine home, and has added to what I thought was pretty good size when I visited him once during the war. At that time, labor with the know-how to opperate power farming equipment was scarce and under. the sponsorship of a government agency, Purdue was offering two weeks’ courses to draft exempt workers from the hilllier south part of the state. These courses included handling tractors and any other machinery which happened to be in the agricultural engineering department at the time.
Listen, the Wind
I CALLED on Warren in the early spring before the land had lost its “dead-beaten” look. Snow had left drifts along the hedgerows as a reminder that it would be back before the robins. Lanes and feed-lots “were sliding with a four-buckle boot-type of mud, and Warren was back across a field scooping corn for his steers. Above the whistling of the wind he told of
his experiences with the short-term help he had -
tried to hire from the ranks at the school. At
insurance demanded it, and he couldn't use
. the barn as -Mr. North did. Nopé, he wouldn't
work on a farm whose ténant house didn’t have nothin’ but an old barn to put his 1934 Chevyy in. : ) No. 2 was horrified that said tenant house didn’t have hot and cold running water at all times, and there wasn't even a modern furnace in the place. .
. No. 3 looked more promising. He didn’t
have a family so he'd just room on the place."
He even started to work. The newcomer worked side by side with Warren and the other hands who were local boys and had been there for some time. The afternoon of the second day he straightened up and asked the others: “Does this go!’ blankety wind blow like this all the time up heah?” “Heck no. That's why we're working today. This is mild, but when {it gets so we can't even lean into it without going backward, we have to hit for shelter.” “That's all for me, Ah'm- goin’ back to them good old hills.” = oe And he did. } Yes, Warren was disgusted, but he didn’t belleve he'd try any more imported assistance.
son de aay these “super-duper -snoopers- would... or
way what you call a “welfare state,” Soialinn a” a other Mr. House y e ve alre oh all, for a few non-Christians who call themselves Americans. (To be an American you have to be a Christian seven days a ) Was not the depression socialism for a few? Through legalized laws the select foreclosed on thousands during the depression. Were not these legalized laws that robbed people Tight among abundance a blasphemy against God. and all of Christ's teachings? I can visualize Mr. Schneider in a small community, with a river flowing through it with milk and honey. He gets a monopoly on this mink ahd honey, then rather than let. the starving people have any, he deliberately destroys it. All of a sudden Mr. Schneider passes on to some beyond. The river of milk and honey is left behind. The people learn what was wrong. They put a new transporfation .gystem in order, whereby food can be distributed so that no one is able to ape man’s greed again.
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‘Public May Be Gullible' By H. W. Daache, 3818 S. Olney St. Your recent editorial, “Utopia on the Rocks,” and the first of a series of articles by, Mr. Leech, captioned with the label, giving the false impression that they are writing about socialism and its failure in a limited monarchy, government, England, are asininity personified, 3 grant you that the American reading pub
He js pretty gullible, but, at that, I don't bes
lieve it is so much so as to fall for that series of articles which are plain misrepresentation. England is blessed with a bunch of leeches from viscounts to King with large landed estates that are bleeding the English people beyond that of any nation in the world, ine cluding the dictators in Spain, Greece, Argenw tina, etc., and you expect to blame it on socialism. ¢ : You might at that. The American public . may be more gullible that I have ranked it. Continue the articles, by all means, as I want to grant all your prerogatives, free speech, free press, etc. as I expect to exercise mine.
Editor's Note: British government reports last year 70 persons, including viscounts and and kings, had total incomes from all sources after taxes of as much as $24,000. Total _met Incomes of all these “leeches,” confiscated and divided equally among British taxpayers would add about Eight Cents a year to the income ‘of each. * 4 4
Too Many Substitutes’
keep their snoots out of foodstuffs. The way they try to improve the taste, color and texture
with a substitute here and a substitute there
is a disgrace to the American family, Little wonder we are undernourished, duped and
I was uptown the other day and after shopping decided to have lunch. I saw what looked to be a delicious piece of lemon pie, the kind of which I am especially fond. I ordered a plece of same and proceeded to partake of the delicacy with gusto, for I was nearly famished, and gimminywhiz!—I tried to cut it with
"a fork and the meringue wouldn't cut but drew
back like leather. Determined to eat what I had bought, I left the meringue and .cut into the ple. The frst bite was enough to aggravate a saint. It tasted like water with a little coloring and thickening added; the meringue to wit: Consolidated seafoam. I suppose these lemon pie substitutes were created to save the producer money and give the consumer a rollicking bellyache. Where ars
“our pure food and drug acts gone, down the
river? Half of these eating places should be put out of business for who knows, they may be
| serving cat for chicken!
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"If you'd tet me stay and play pinochle with your father, I'd soon have enough to buy a kitchen stove anyway!"
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There is no reason why the U. 8. should buy more gold, or pay wh *
Any increase in-the price of gold would mean that more gold would be produced. Many marginal gold miges are now shut down, Thor and production costs are too high, at the present price. Raising the price would reopen theses mines and force the United States to buy still more gold. -
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Change in Procedure
.. CANTON, Aug. 19—The United States decision to close up eonstilar shop in Canton ahead of any Chinese Communist oc= cupation of the city is a departure from procedure previously followed in other cities lost by.the Chinese Nationalist forces. Successively at Mukden, Tientsin, Peiping, Shanghal and Hankow, the U. 8. consulates remained open as the, Reds took over. And in Nanking, formerly the Nationalist capita’ the United States for several months maintained her chief mission, Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart, in order to make with the incoming Red regife. Meanwhile, it was learned that the Nationalist government soon will issue its own white paper on its relations - with the United States and its fight with international communism. This was hintéd in the statement of acting Foreign Minister George K. C. Yeh, saying the s tions” to many of the views put forth in
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No Protection Granted - .
MUCH OF the documentation for the government's full res ply, to be issued in book form, is or was in Formosa, presume ably in Chiang Kal-shek's personal files. 4 } Minister Counselor Lewis Clark who heads the U, 8. embassy section that came here from Nanking, had no comment today on the decision here to close down the consulate, (In Washington, a State Department spokesman sald the | decision was made because Chinese Communist authorities have | falled to protect U. 8. diplomats.) . " i Closing the consulate and evacuation of personnel | mean the withdrawal of other official American agencies such as the information service, and also a remnant Co-operdtion Administration. Official American personnel in Canton number about 70. That figuré Includes a handful of embassy employees headed by Mr. Clark who presumably would follow the Nationalist government to one or more of three prospective “temporary capitals"—Chungking, Taipeh on the island of Formosa, and Kiungshan on Hainan Island.
Transportation Available
THE REMAINING 10 ministeries of the Nationalist .government are likely to split up among those three cities. The Nationalist government hasn't yet advised the United States or any other nations represented in Canton of its future plans but has announced that facilitiés for their tion on any move by the government would be. available, *
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