Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 August 1949 — Page 14

won't be put that bluntly, But that’s what it will mean.

§: ing the results promised to the British people. So, facing

Empire raw materials for our stockpiles.

The death of the author of “Gane With the Wind” lends

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A : a Sunpuign. In yur about to start. It eign Minister Ernest Bevin are scheduled to open talks in Washington Sept. 6 with the top men in our Treasury and These meetings will call for much American patience and tact. They should be carried on without rancor and recriminations, without anger or emotion. Both sides should chow themselves willing to face up to facts. And the Ameri-

can side should be less gullible, less soft of heart and head, |

than in the past. frie : ) Americans will fare better if they realize, before the negotiations start, the unpleasant truth that, despite our vast aid to Britain, we are being blamed for her troubles.

. 5» yd y =» WHATEVER we do now won't alter that. We can't buy good will with dollars, and attempting it may not even help the British people. So we'd better be practical and protect our own interests. : Internal British politics have much to do with the situation. England's government is up to its neck in troubles. Its policies are only one of the factors in the crisis, but its lavish spending and elaborate experiments aren't produc-

a general election soon, it needs an alibi for failure, And

* Uncle Sam is the goat. ; recently official Britain was blaming her woes on U8 and high prices. Now it's U. 8. deflation and

prices. And it's American tariffs—although Britain is

i We don’t want to butt in on u ngress and the American public would only play into Bl ne Beth a : on what the i : N

~~ But'we can recognise that we are dealing with a spend-

thefacts, All recent British proposals have aimed, not at curing her basic ills, but at delaying their consequences, = : forthcoming proposals may be cloaked in fanéy | terms — underwriting the pound, raising gold prices, easing

is would be a test of its willingness to face

guaranteed buying of raw materials, etc. But they'll all amount to this: England wants more of our money, for a longer time, than we had planned.

- | a J . " 1 ! “WHY give her another dollar?” many Americans may | ask. That is a natural, but dangerous, attitude. :

In the first place, it concerns us gravely that Britain's recovery is now running in reverse. Her financial troubles imperil the whole European situation. In the second place, we have a virtual commitment— moral, though not legal—to continue Marshall aid until 1952. Should we stop that help sooner, or cut it sharply, Britain would accuse us of bad faith, and we would hurt our reputation in all Europe. The British Socialist government certainly would collapse, and place the entire blame on us. ~ We would gain tremendous ill will, and relieve the Socialists -of blame for what their own policies have caused. "So, in Britain's case, we probably must send some good ‘dollars after bad. And we should co-operate in all sound and reasonable ways—such, perhaps, as the buying of more

But we can stand pat on not increasing Marshall aid and on neither making nor implying any promise to extend it beyond 1952. -.-.

~ . . . . - WE, TOO, have grave financial troubles. We; too, are spending wildly, Our Treasury owes over a quarter of a | trillion dollars and is running in the red. We already have provided other countries with many billions which we shall never get back. or ; We have a duty to keep America solvent and safe. Our financial collapse would shake the whole world. We cannot ridk that to bail out Britain. Some day she has to stand on her own feet. Now is the time for her to start demonstrating an earnest determination to do just that.

Tragic Lesson .

28-year-old taxi driver who ran down author Mar ~~ paret Mitchell and inflicted fatal injuries ought to be an object lesson for traffic authorities everywhere. According to reports from Atlanta, where the accident the driver was drunk when his car struck Miss and knocked her down. When she was hit, his vehicle was over the center line of the street. as hs : develops that this man had a record of 23 previous traffic violations. There is no report on how serious

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'goyernment to alter those policies which are aggravating thin present

these infractions were: But more than a store of them should have been enough to deprive this driver not only | ~of his taxi license but of a regular drivers’ permit, if Georgia | requires one. . : | .. He has no business behind the wheel of an automobile.

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See Wider Split With Truman ¢ WASHINGTON, Aug. 30—Third-party cries from the deep Bouth, growing out of the spanking given the by the Democratic Natiopal Committee, were given scant weight today by some of the South’s top leaders here, There are some protests against the National Committee's action in giving the Heaveho to Southern brethren who bolted the party iast year, But it's miid stuff compared io ihe

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From Sen. John Sparkman (D. Ala.) comes law governing operation of the al college could be reformed to permit a real two-party system to operate in the South. Under the present system of lumping all a state's electoral votes in the total of the party getting a plurality in a presidential election, Republicans in the South know jt is almost useless to vote, If the electoral vote were counted proportion to the popular vote—a constitutional change favored by Mr. Sparkman, Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge (R. Mass.) and others—this

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IF the two-party system did apply in the South, - conservatives could go into the Republican Party if they wished. Such conservatives have not really been represented by the dominant Northern progressive faction of the party for years. This is demonstrated frequently by’ the GOP-Southern conservative coal against the administration Democrats in Congress. Ben. Sparkman believes any serious revoit, growing out of the recent chastisement of the Dixiecrats, can be avoided, Sens. Allen Ellender (D. La.) and Russell Long (D. La.) lean to the view ‘that peace can be maintained. Sen. Walter F. George (D. Ga.) considered “very unusual” that the National Committee would purge members who had been elected their states, and thought it would “force people against whom action was taken to bring about a realignment in those

Resentment’ SPESSARD L. HOLLAND (D. Fla.) thought be “some resentment” againit displacing the states’ Fighters

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én, Ellender sald he couldn't see any major ¥‘ move blossoming from the action the Dixiecrats, but that advocacy of extremes in civil rights legislation might cause Houbla, Buch. 2 course, he said, could bring not merely states against the regular Democratic Party in 1952, but all 11 Southern states. But he agreed some compromises could wipe out all such danger. 5

THE REVIVER

The summer storm approaches, gowned in

gray, \ The, temperature dips down tooling the earth. ™, ¢

The wind begins to prune the lireless By bending the trees in zestful play. :

Flowers lift their heat-dropped faces in speechless mirth, Wy iy Aj the birds rush their evening roundeY.

Behold this panorama of unpriced gems, And now the promised rain makes its descent,

Nature chants in unorthodox hymns While a rain drenched world registers content,

Theis are the treasured fragments of a ay " That make bearable the sham that rules * the earth,

Summer dtorm, the magnificent display That cleanses the senses and reveals true worth, i . «Vivian Wooten Plerson 0 ' N i FOSTER'S FOLLIES (“NEW YORK Theft of hot beer jails 4.) The night was hot; the beer was hot; ' The boys were hot and tired. 4 The trail was hot; cops on the spot, Soon had the plot deep-mired. ‘a

The story's odd; too often told;

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.. Noblesville Road (now Central Ave.).

‘|. site of Camp Morton,

The world each day grows crueler. The quid gold Is still not cold, 4 But they are—in the cooler!

OUR TOWN . +4 By ii Scherrer | First State Fair Here in 1852

THE FIRST Indiana State Fair was staged in Military Park in 1852. It revealed a deficit of $320.21. The receipts, including those taken in at the gate (at 20 cents per head), amounted to $4651.56. The disbursements, including the prize premiums, reached the . staggering figure of $4971.77. ~ : The premiums alone Webb of Marion County walked away with both the first and second prizes for the best display of homemade jams and jellies. Miss Cummins of Madison car- : ried off the $1 prize (and blue ribbon) for the fanciest lamp mat. . Mrs. E. C. Sharpe won a set of silver teaspoons for the best white quilt, and Mrs, E. Kitchen, also of Indianapolis, took second prize for the best patch quilt. There were exhibits of tombstones, artificial teeth, displays of daguerreotypes, staves cut by machinery, spinning wheels and a shower bath which the judgés’ pronounced “ingeniously constructed and adapted to family use.” The judges weren't as enthusiastic about the sewing machines on They were of the Howe, Singer and Wilson patterns, costing anywhere from $40 to $60 apiece. Overpriced, said the judges.

Side-Show Freaks ,

THE first state fair also embraced a ‘sideshow which included a 42-pound fully developed man advertised as the “Living Skeleton”; a “Circassian Lady” (also fully developed); a 408-pound-heavy woman redundantly labeled “TheFat Lady"; Hindu juggler and a tattooed saillor who had evéry kind of insignia engraved on his body, including a swastika. : Despite its deficit, the first Indiana State

- Fair wag.such a success that it made the other

towns jealous, with the result that Lafayette got it the next year. This time Horace Greeley was the billed headliner. However, the Circassian Lady held her own. Mr. Greeley, on that occasion, made a speech on “What the Sister Arts Teach as to Farming.” The Circassian

Lady didn't have to open‘her mouth to attract " attention,

In 1854, the state fair was held in Madison. Then Indianapolis got it again and kept it for four years, after which it went to New Albany. After that, everybody was willing to let Indianapolis have the state fair for keeps. At any rate, in 1860, the State Board of Agriculture acquired 38 acres north of the city known as Otis Grove. It now goes by the name of Morton Place. Almost immediately 30 acres were sold to the rafiroads; which still left more than enough to stage a state fair.

The new fairgrounds was bounded on the

south by Exposition Ave. (now 19th St.) and on the east by what was then known as the A cowpath which later developed into Delaware St.

|. bounded it on the west. The entrance to the " place was just about where Alabama St. now

runs into 19th St. To find it, nothing mere was necessary than to follow one's nose; which is to say that the so-called State Ditch fed straight to the gate. *

Delayed by Civil War

HOWEVER, it wasn't until 12 years later that a state fair was staged on this ground. The delay was caused by the Civil War and, more specifically, by the fact that the gredter part of what was known as Otis Grove was the During this period, the state. fair people returned to Military Park. In 1872, things took a turn for the better. That was the year Indianapolis, along with the

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A LOOK AT THE IRISH ... By E. T. Leach

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(EDITOR'S NOTE: These are soine scattered items from | the notes of E. T. Leech, who spent a month In the British Isles to study economic and political conditions for The Times and

other Scripps-Howard newspapers.)

LONDON, Aug 30-It's only two hours by air from London er Lingus ¢which is the Irish Afr Lines). But it's like going from England to America, so far as food is con-

to Dublin, on the

cerned.

Ireland, whatever its past experience, now can laugh at England. For Ireland has plenty of food, while the British: diet is eat, one or two eggs a

scanty and monotonous, with almost plete absencesof pork.

. After landing in Dublin at noon, I was puzzling over the French on an Irish bill-of-fare. The waiter, ‘discovering he was . serving an American, helped out. “How would you like some ham . and eggs?" he asked. Oh, boy! After two weeks in ing fish, bolled potatoes and such things as grilled tomatoes, no

words ever sounded better.

That night he came up with a big steak and French-fried potatoes. Ham, eggs and steak are collectors’ items in England. |

Irish stores display cakes, cindy and plenty chandise as silk hose, silk “Kh

other things you don't see in England.

Sending Food Packages

of the fool’ fares display signs urging customers to heir friends in England and Northern’ Ireland (still British and therefore on short’ rations). :

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Cee : Rs ur RE , Ireland Big Contrast To Rationed England ages sent froni Trdland but paid for by British citizens would be confiscated. England not only has scanty, rationed food, but makes it tough on British citizens who might find ways to get food sent in from.abroad, Only voluntary gifts are approved.

Many Americans working in England get regular food shipments from home. #

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{ i i i Ireland has carefully avoided the Socialist program of England. She probably is safe against being lured Into it, on the ! nting nothing English, = Two hours also will take you from London to Edinburgh | a hut el Nay happy About the present situation. ) ) \ 0 ch are well week, and sausages that win a world's record for almost cqQm- it were not for ans hay Te sey Sould Ye 1 They have the most exportable commodity in all Britain in their whisky—which is very scarce and expensive all “over_the British Isles; even where they make it. Scotch wools are n great dsmang ands sell readily on the dollar markets, any eel y are a Jot more for cared too much sbout, than England is doing for Joi Sngiang ; Be Jsinessman Also, there is deep suspicion of the concentration of power in London. The nationalized Industries are run from London; the multitude of plans and controls, Which smother business under a mountain of rules and forms, also center there. Scotland wants more autonomy. playing to that desire by promising it in their platform.

____THE SCOTCH are hustling to develop néw industries. The | Scottish council, organised through joint co-operation of chams |’ bers of commerce, business firms and

rest of the country, experienced what was then as “exposition fever.” The disease moved a group of local capitalists, backed by $100,000, to collaborate with the fair people. Together they built a vast two-story brick structure on the south side of Otis Grove. At the same time, the cross lane leading to the building was christened Exposition Ave. The “Exposition” (for that was its official title) lasted 30 days, from Sept, 10 to Oct. 10, and was such a huge success that it had to be. repeated in 1874, '75 and '76. On those occasions, Prof. Samuel A, King always turned up with his ‘balloon and ran off daily ascensions. He took up passengers for $2 a head, and brought em back free gratis. It would surprise you to learn the number of people living in Indianapolis today who owe their existence to nothing more than the fact that daredevils with the necessary wherewithal ($4) took their girls ballooning in the Exposition days of the Seven-

ties. One-Week Basis ’ WHEN the full impact of the panic of the Seventies was felt in the Exposi-. tion returned to the status of state fairs on a one-week basis. It was a struggle to recapture its one-time glory and made all the more difficult because of the behavior of a discontented group of young bloods. This group, dissatisfied with the horse racing facilities at the state fair, organized thé Southern Park Driving Association and acquired property for that purpose. . After a couple of race meets in competition with the state fair, they gave it up as a hopeless job and unloaded their property onto the city. And that's how we got what is now known as Garfield Park. After that the state fair people moved to 38th St. and, judging from all the hullabaloo this week, that's where they still are.

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THE businessman oven though the Labor Party's official platform bookiet has & whole chapter devoted to “Encouragement for Enterprise.” They know there is a deep split in the Labor Paty over the question of taking over more industries: cleant : out.of management jobs, and in general making lite tougher for

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Mr. ex-Hoosier, let me tell find ou your life's journey just what you looking for, whether in Rome, Timbuctoo Indianapolis. I hope Mr. ex-Hoosier ig a bachelor for. alas, he might find dust under the carpet, webs around the eaves, soot chimney and ashes in She grate. *

Finds Courthouse Clean By Another Taxpayer . In answer to the Taxpayer who is so afraid of getting soiled while entering or leaving the Marion. County Court House to pay taxes, would like to*say that I have been employed in said Court House for three years and have

Urges Caution on Arms By W. H. Richards, 310 N. Delaware St. Uncle Sam should be extremely cautious in

countries of Europe. has 6 million men under arms. could easily send a half miilion to each of those countries simultaneously, capturing their arms and munitions, then turn around and kill American men with guns made in the U. 8. << It is a pity that leaders ever got us mixed up in the quarrels of Europe but profiteers saw profits to be gained and the American people could do nothing to prevent the killing of a million of our best and noblest young men,

What Others Say

IF America is to be run by the ‘people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think, Nor should our minds work like a sundial which , records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some princi ples of government and morals, if we would preserve the right and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.—Former President Herbert Hoover, . 3

* & o : : I'LL never retire. In 1936 I said I'd retire and now I'm ashamed I said that. —Screen sete

WHAT we've got to get is the of Russia for the combined strength of the Allies, —Former U. 8. Chief of Staff George OC, Marshall. ! * oo

* THE most lucrative sources of the funds being diverted from the Treasury to unauthore

| ized purposes are the substantial payments made

by private enterprises for the privilege of doing business on government property.—Comptroller General Lindsay C. Warren. ai Fac de . WE hope and work for an age of peace and plenty, when the unmeasured riches and genius ‘of Europe will make her again the fountain of world inspiration. —Winston Chukehill, speaking on the newly organized Council or Europe. * 4 9 WE are twin brothers. Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, speaking on United States-Cana~ dian relations. *

of industrial research, in an effort to develop new uses for Scotch products. ‘ . One of the projects includes experiments in producing and using fiber from Scotland's famous natural product, heather which was just starting to bloom. It is figured that heather might be used in paper, textiles or similar products. The North of Scotland hydroelectric board is developing a series of dams and generating plants. It will give Scotland

more r than any other part of the British Isles. .

under the general nationalized power industry, a degree of autonomy has been secured in developing it. But there is not ensoah local control in anything to satisfy the Scotch. A planned state means that every must center at the heart of the system, which"is London Scotch, alwiays

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