Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 August 1949 — Page 26

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JIDIANAPOLIS today is welcoming for the last time the = almost depleted ranks of the Grand Army of the Repub-

lie in its final encampment before passing into history.

In this nce Indisnapolis also becomes a part of Blue was held here in 1866 and for 80 odd years the city .has been a gathering place on many occasions for ve of the nation's greatest civil strife. on But this week marks the end of the active phase of the Civil War’s aftermaths and at 6:30 p. m. Wednesday the city will pause for one hour while church bells ring in tribute to the GAR's twilight parade, sounding taps for the Boys in Blue as an organization.

c=» » en» SIX of the 16 surviving Civil War veterans planned to be here if still alive and well although all are nearing the century mark or beyond. . It is significant that for 30 years now a younger and much bigger organization, the American has been gradually replacing the GAR in the veterans’ limelight of America’s armed struggles. And added to the boys of 1918 are the still younger boys and girls of World War II, a continuoug reminder of war and its cruel devastations for nearly a century. It is a grim reminder that unless the peoples of the world can establish more harmony in their political and economical philosophies there may be future conflicts to add new chapters to American tragedies, a phase of which

.-the GAR is handing over to history in Indianapolis today.

Again Chiang Fights Alone. M: VW. RANKIN, a Baptist missionary just returned to this country after 25 years in China, is surprised at the unjust criticism he has heard of Chiang Kai-shek “by men who know very little about the man or his program for China.” A po In his opinion, Chiang is the only man who could have led China out of the present calamity, “had he been given

~ the right kind of support.”

The same high estimates of Chiang have been made by returning Catholic missionaries, with intimate knowledge of Warm tribute has been paid to him and his |

Chiang Kai-shek stood alone agiinst the Japanese forces from 1937 to 1941. His was the only country in Asia leader in Asia to take the field against communism. He is the only national leader actively fighting communism on He refused to deal with the Japs and he has refused to compromise with communism. He may be leading a lost cause, but he is fighting the Communists with the same stoical determination he exhibited in the long war against Japan when the odds were just as strongly against him. When future historians measure Chiang’s contribution to the epochal struggle now dividing the world their verdict may be more kindly to him than to his detractors.

Emperor Spinks |

D* LYCURGUS SPINKS of Montgomery, Ala., has proclaimed himself “imperial emperor” of & reorganized Ku Klux Klan and summoned all former members to his ‘banner: Initiation fee, $10; annual dues, $6. His title is new. Heretofore, heads of the hooded mob have been called “Imperial Wizards.” That was all right for Dr. Hiram Evans and for Dr. Jim Colescott, the Miami veterinarian. “Emperor,” however, seems a more fitting handle for a man with a name like Lycurgus Spinks, But “Imperial Emperor” is a trifle thick. It's like referring to a “royal king.” First thing we know, Imperial Emperor Spinks will be replacing the kleagles and kligrapps with ducal dukes and monarchial monarchs. *

It has even heen suggested that the name of the Ku |

Klux Klan, itself, might well be changed since’ the old one ‘automatically arouses a certain amount of hostility. Apt alliteration’s artful aid should enable the new imperial emperor to carry out this reform and at the same time further to glorify, if that be possible, his own ringing cognomen. How about Spinks’ sneaking spooks? Or Spinks’ sappy suckers? ;

It Was About Time

THE Library of Congress; nudged into action by a congressional committee, has abandoned the policy of awarding prizes for art, music and literature. The decision is wise, if belated. As Sen. Green of Rhode Island, the committee chairman, observes, it was bad policy for the govern. ment, through the library, to be giving prizes and awards, “particularly In matters of taste.” £5, The Library's. $1000 “Bollingen Prize” for the best poetry published by an American in 1948 weit to Ezra Pound for his “Pisan Cantos,” written while he was in an American military prison in Italy, Mr. Pound, who broadcast for Mussolini during the war, is now in a mental hospital in Washington. : He is, plainly, either a traitor or a lunatic. And, if it's possible for a lunatic to be a traitor, the gibberish presented a8 poetry in the “Pisan Cantos" is more than enough to conviet him on both counts. Why a Library of Congress jury

maw fit to honor Ezra with a prize is beyond our understand- |

ing, but it's comforting to think that the change of policy” id prevent future similar outrages in matters of taste, a I em eb nab ne Lm

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Strange Silence THAT the Southerners are scared was

Capitol Hill after the ceremonies down

their Dixiecrat pals being given the gate, When Dixiecrat Leander H. Perez of New Orleans, big ofl man and political boss of his own rich parishes of St. Bernard and Plazquemines, held a press conference p Boyle even the purge com-. mitteemen from Louisiana,

whole question and answer period left thre reporters wondering about the plight of a man in the deep Bouth who would like to be a Republican but still is tied down by the MasonDixon line.

For All States Rights

MR. PEREZ is a Democratic prosecutor in the two parishes, where he is a petty dictator, He is for all States Rights he can handle. That was the one point he made clear. Next to Frank M. McHale, Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, work as chairman of the Credentials Committee

plest Hoosier the being cut off was Oscar R. (Jack) Ewing. As Federal Security Administrator “Jack”

plan's approval by former President Hoover, who headed the uation Committee. n

Hate Ewing's PI

THE DOCTORS, with their well; financed ~American Medical Association lobby, took considerable credit for the plan's defeat. They hate Mr. Ewing's éspousal of compulsory health insurance as much as the Dixiecrats do his fighting for Negro rights. Something of the “new climate” brought on by the purge was reflected on this very subject at the National Committee meeting. When Dr, R. B. Robins, Arkansas national committeeman, took the floor to denounce the Truman

is the AMA label for it, he was cried down by puged from the record.

used in the McHale report giving the Dixiecrats the pitch. It's the kind of word that well might be used to frighten Congressmen.

'PRELUDE TO TOMORROW

Great blows, echoing and re-soundi ng! “Little boy” with hammer, pounding. Deafening clamor, fills the room 2 While he’s pounding—Boom! Boom! Boom!

Tired, we are from so much noise. But we never tire of little boys. Hammer blows an ache may start Of the head, but not the heart.

Now, his work is only play... Yet predictive of another day, He'll take the winding path of life Where there's fibise, din and strife

“Little boy” . . . Of half-past four. What has lite, for you, in store? Make his building . . , your first plan * For all too soon, he'll be a man,

«MARY R. WHITE, 854 N., Sherman Dr.

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and since the Marshall Plan .

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England is 0 become a permanent eharge on the

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GTON, Aug. 27—Dear Boss: Al

¥. Byrd recently demonstrated “his Fe siiia gaint ts best efforts that the Trumanites ‘make to prevent it. - But the administration forces intend to try. Purge Up to : AT HIS first press conference after being

to do is to accept to America by President Truman in his 1948 campaign and spelled out in platform, then they wil be welcomed back to the fold to help carry these accomocrafic campaign will be based on the contention that the coalition and not the administration is to

shown by the strange silence which shrouded

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health program as “socialized medicine,” which - a dozen others present and ‘his remarks ex- .

from the rolls” was. the phrase.

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FAILURE IN ENGLAND . . . By E. T. Leech _

‘U. S. Billions Failing To Purchase Recovery For Great Britain

. LONDON, Aug. 27--Uncle Sam ‘is chief sponsor of the World's Greatest Amateur Hour. - It's t6o bad American taxpayers, who help foot the bill, can't get the program. It would amaze them to learn what happens to their money. * After a month's close observation of the British scene, it is impossible to escape the conviction that the billions we have poured into England largely have been frittered away. Not wholly wasted—for they have bought some nice things for the “British people,“as well as some that are proving to. be expensive

But they have not bought recovery--the article for which We spent them. In fact, British economy is slipping so badly that it threatens the whole Marshall Plan. Thé reason is that Britain has got the lion's share of American ald—both before

We picked her to be the leader of European recovery the leader is stumbling and threatening to fall fiat, while there | are Indications that some others: who have received far less

PERHAPS that is the answer. Great Britain has had so much outside aid that she has come to rely on it. Others have. had to-do more for themselves... Above all, they Had to be more

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. . . By Anton Scherrer

Weeds Big Business Here in 1829

IN A WORLD where the edges of reality are as fuzzy as they are today, especially with regard to the geographical subdivisions of the Orient, it's kind of comforting to know that, once upon a time, Indianapolis enjoyed business relations with a country ° then called China. Indeed, except for those relations, the development of Indianapolis might have been delayed for goodness knows how many years— maybe, even to the point of depriving posterity altogether of a story involv.

ing Nicholas McCarty and

James Blake, a tale verging on fantasy acutely

sharp. Jimmy Blake was a York County (Pennsylvania) boy who, at the age of 19, enlisted in ‘the War of 1812. Three years later, after the declaration of peace, he resumed his trade of wagoner and drove a six-horse team between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. In 1818, he started on horseback to have a look a and actually reached St. Louis. 4he following spring to complete arrangements for a final removal to

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suspicion that the ornery weed had emotional qualities unlike those of ‘any other plant. For one thing, ft had a

whimsical determination of its own, compared '

with which the behavior of the dandelion was that of a neophyte. Anyway, the harder the natives tried to remove the ornery weed to prepare the fields for the planting of corn, the more the ornery weed was determined that they shouldn't, The past has since been identified as ginseng. : It is not known for sure whether or not Mr. Blake had inside information.concerning the virtues of ginseng when he came to Indianapolis, If he did, he kept it a secret until 1823 the year Nick McCarty blew into town. © In-the meantime, Jimmy Blake pursued his trade of wagoner. This time his route ran between Indianapolis and Philadelphia. It provided Mr. Blake with the wherewithal to. live and it brought luxuries to Indianapolis which otherwise it couldn't have had. % It is a matter of record,.for instance,

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when Indianapolis was a town of less than 1000 inhabitants, Mr. Blake's hauls in a single year amounted to 76 kegs of tobacco, 200 barrels of flour, 100 kegs of gunpowder, 1400 pounds of yarn and 213 barrels of whisky.

Whisky Consumption

THIS, with the 71 barrels of whisky distilled in Indianapolis that year, amounted to

" 8946 gallons. It figures out something around

nine gallons per capita; or, what is more to the point, approximately 35 gallons per aduit male per annum. It's a handy thing to know the next

capacity of modern man. The trouble with Mr. Blake's business was, &f course, (if you haven't already guessed it), that he had little, if anything to haul out of Indianapolis to Phitadelphia—thus setting the stage for the entrance of Mr, McCarty. Nicholas a West Virginian by birth, was the first merchant around here to do business in a big way; the first, too, to espouse the doctrine of capitalism. He had his store at the southwest corner of Washington and Pennsylvania Sts, them known as “McCarty’s Corner.” Eventually, he had branches in La Porte, Greenfield, , Cumberland and Waverly. Indeed, he may have had more; for Mr. McCarty's business had the property of popping up in the most unbelievable places in much the same way that Robert Hall stores do today, 3 . Apparently Mr. Blake sensed Mr. Carty's business ability. Otherwise he wouldn't have gone to him with a proposition to haul ginseng into Philadelphia. ‘ ¥ Like as not on that memorable day, Mr. Blake told Mr. Carty that he had watched the thriving trade between Philadelphia and China, a good part of which consisted of shipping American ginseng, the roots of which were highly prized by the Orientals not only because of their medicingl properties, but also because of certain occult virtues,

Trade for Ornery Weed

MR. McCARTY had the necessary imagination to catch on. Forthwith, he advertised that he would trade anything in his store, for what until then, was considered an ornery weed. In less time than it takes to tell, everybody

just like finding gold. Even those who found it difficult to stoop, cashed in big, for just about that time somebody here invented a special tool called the “sang-hoe.” Thus proving again, if further proof is necessary, that a crisis always produces a leader-—at any rate, it always did until a couple of years ago. The extent of Blake and McCarty's trade with China may be judged by the fact that when it was going good (circa 1829) it required 16 six-team Conestagd wagons to haul the stuff to Philadelphia, Of course, like all attractive bubbles; this one, too, had to burst. That was the day the pioneers discovered -that Indianapolis was rid of the ornery weed.

"James Blake. , . Wagoner.

(Note: This is a column of editorial opinion. The writer, who went to Britain for the Scripps-Howard Newspapers, has written a series of news reports on his findings. But this article Is one of opinion, rather than straight reporting:) )

cautious if past experience properly used.

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of this money.

Can't Stand on Own Feet WHICH might be all right, and a god investment, ifn are no signs England ' proaching the point where she can stand on : play the leading position in Europe which she claims, and which > We have sccorded her. At least, not drastic

‘bought recovery. But there

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American taxpayers, she eventually must stand on her own feet. It's not our business what kind of internal government . England has—so long as we aren't asked to support it. But, as In the case of an individual or a bank making a loan, we have a right to consider what is being done with our money. And who is going to spend it. And at least to grow justifies doubts whether it will be

Since thé war, England has had between six and seven billion dollars of American help. She gets around a billion = year in Marshall Plan ald: We might as well not kid ourselves, as we did after the first World Wa

Tr. We'll never get back a penny

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that is past history. . I thought of all this, however, when I read how Judson Haggerty tells us the housing bill is in keeping with the Spirit of '76, although I sincerely doubt it. History records tha people sometimes lived In half-faced camps, which indicates there was more or less of a Housing shortage. It also indicates that some people were too lazy and shiftless to cut enough logs to build an extra side to their house just as there are people teday who are too lazy and shiftless to nail up boards, clean up their yards, use some soap and water and elbow grease and make the best kind of a home they can out of what they already have. Eats The Holy Bible states quite plainly that “The poor ye shall have with you always even unto the end of the world” which indicates

never cure by passing laws. However

for raw material, insurance, profits, etc. In large cities through various laws, labor has almost a complete monopoly in the build. Mr. Haggerty, of coutse, lays the housing shortage on the real estate lobby. Actually the real estate lobby is something like a midget compared to the labor lobby as a giant. The bureaucrais are still running the hous ing industry and no one wants to invest his money to go in competition with the govern ment; neither does he want to invest it whers orders have to be taken from incompetent political parasites who are taxeaters and have no

" conception of the Tngamuntas of business.

‘What a Conscience’ By Harry Clay, Brightwood Congressman Andy Jacobs has turned down an appointment on a committee of the Indian apolis Bar Association which is working for an increase in judicial salaries. What a man! What a conscience! His heart beats so much for the common man that he is opposed to giving an increase to a few judges and adding it to the poor man’s tax burden. But it just doesn’t make sense. Is Andy's protest just political grandstand play? Well, it doesn’t take much scratching under the surface to find out. Why didn't he protest when Roosevelt was

killing pigs, destroying food crops and cotton,

doing other shameful acts that cost the people billions and piled the greatest debt in the history of the world on our backs? Why doesn’t Andy join Sen. Byrd, a “real Democrat,” in his fight against Truman, who is trying to outspend Roosevelt and is adding thousands of tax-eaters to the federal payroll? : Pegler said that when Andy was the attorney for the carpenters’ union he charged $80,000 for handling just one law case. But big-hearted Andy ssid that Pegler was wrong, that it was

only $60,000. Yes, Andy can shed crocodile -

“tears for the poor workers.

What Others Say

PARENTS must accept the major respone sibility for the soaring rate of a aoa Spo accidents among drivers under 25 years of age, which’ totaled 7500 killed and 275,000 injured in 1947 James 8. Kemper, chalrman,” Lumber man's Mutual Casualty Company.

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THE economy is generally sound. It is ale most impossible to have a depression ‘with one condition—if people get scared, particularly if businessmen get scared, anything can happen. ~Secretary of Commerce Charles Sawyer,

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{F labor is the hands and manageme head of Hawaii's economic life, Agen} Ane transportation is the jugular vein. If that is cut, botlr hands and bead are sure to perish. =Gov. Ingram Stalnback of the Territory of Hawall, * 9 o

THE: world knows that this nation will *

always continue to seek a formula for settling international @isputes without fighting, but never again with our eyes closed, never again through a policy of self-inflicted Weakness... Alr Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington,

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THE penal policy of the Soviet Union is a progressive one, It is a corrective -labor type. Its aim is not only punishment, but re-educa~ tion, so prisoners will be able to return to society of Narksth ed, A. Arutiunian, Soviet delegate e . =

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It wants to do everything for everybody in England. In order to do so, it wants to run everybody's affairs. The form constantly promises how much it will give, will help the housewife to do her buying, businessmen to run their plants, science to solve its problems, and all other Phases of life, It even has an artistic section to plan: entertainments and 8 anaiging A Jush Festival of Britain for next year, w . done by an all-wise government. trouble is that this ’ The baste and is arrainging a lush Festival of Britain for next year, It means well—sure. It undeniably has done a lot of good for many people. It has bought the family far more things than income. justified: And now the bills are flooding in from all sides,

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