Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 31 August 1949 — Page 16

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~* "Sound and prosperous relgtions among nations must : ‘as the President said, upon the exchange of goods and on a business basis. The United States is not, and afford to be, a charitable institution. The Times supported the post-war British loan. We the Marshall Plan and the European Recovery which evolved from it. We believe this country bas a moral obligation to follow through with that program umtil 1052, a¥ it is expected to do. At-the same time it must be recognized that these well-intended measures have not produced the results hoped-for and expected. ’ . =» . 0» . THE LOAN to Britain proved no more than a stopgap selief measure. : The Recovery Plan has some notable ac- : to its credit. But attainment of its basic - Objectives, the rehabilitation of Europe's war-shattered . , is not in sight. beneficiaries of our assistance have been unable to their national interests in behalf of the common Probably it was assuming too much to think that would or could. Economic unification may not be poswithout political unification. _% Wishful thinking wis at fault on another count. The economic life of the world was more badly disrupted than anyone had realized. Too much wealth had been destroyed or consumed by war to be quickly replaced by the resources at the command of any government or any feasible combi- * nation of governments. yr " ~~ Now that we understand the problem better we know there are no short cuts to a sound world economy. The structure must be rebuilt on firm foundations, from the ground up. ‘That will not be an easy or painless tack. . . » * 8 »

ONE OF THE difficulties we face as Mr. Truman said,

Public Building Problem Unsolved THE City Council's refusal to approve the Safety Board's program for making some move toward a new structure for Police Headquarters indicates another long delay in plans to solve Indianapolis’ public building problems. The Safety Board's request for $10,000 to finance preliminary plans for a new Police Station may not be the. proper action. to take at this time, but we believe some definite plan ought to be started at once on a public building : It has been apparent that Marion County and the City of Indianapolis will have to have new buildings. "The Courthouse has been condemned for more than 10 years as dangerous and far inadequate to house government agencies. Expansion of police activities and personnel ._ during the last few years has caused serious congestion at * the present antequated structure erected in 1897. : . - . . » > ~~ MARION COUNTY already is spending many thou- - sands of dollars every year for rental of outside space. This "money should be going into a new public building that local governments will have to erect eventually. one : +. Prelimifary plans were started several years ago for “" an eight-story combination City-County government buildng on the site of the present. Courthouse but this program became stymied by failure of the two branches of govern. ment to collaborate effectively on the project.

The longer the building program is delayed the ‘more |

costly local government services will become through rentals

Sentiment on Margayrine rr there was still any question ‘abiut what the Senate would do if given a chance to vote on repeal of the federal margarine taxes, it has been answered. A roll-call vote of 45 to 31 rejected an amendment to the military appro-. * priation bill forbidding use of margarine as a table spread in "the Army and Air Force. : : - It was a major defeat for the pro-dairy forces who for br have been legislating bans agains a perfectly good * * butter substitute in-the ‘Armed Forces. This, incidentally, been. costing the taxpayers an estimated $10 million Senate Majority Leader Lucas repeatedly has said he will “try” to bring up the margarine-tax repeal bill for ' * Senate consideration before the session ends. We think he

ought to try a little harder. After the House's overwhelm- | ing repeal vote last April, approval of a repealer by the |

Senate Finance Committee, and then Monday's action, senti‘ment seems | clear that the people and their legislators wat titue Glam ary tae en ved, i

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Russia \ Nation of Mercy of Stalin

VIENNA, Aug. 31-—Austrian politicians in the midst of an election campaign are pandering to popular demands for a treaty and foreign military withdrawal at any price. Appease-

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Big Fifth Column EVERY one of the thousands of Soviet officials dnd employees of these two large industries Will be Red agents, spies, secret police, or troops without ‘uniforms, This fifth column can operate from protected positions in the heart of Vienna, and through the main indus trial area of East Austria. ’ ; In addition to the present Soviet Army of Occupation, numbering 45,000, there is also an armed factory guard of the Soviets. This “Werkschutz” has about 14,000 trained men of which an estimated 4000 are on active duty. Even If it is disbanded by the treaty, it will remain a secret Austrian auxiliary for the Russian fifth column. : But so far there is no specific ban in the draft treaty against open armed factory guards. * The: indifference of Vienna officials on this matter is one of the strangest

Russia from using armed factory guards

Bitter Memories

UNDER the draft treaty Austria is allowed a total armed force of 58,000.

want used Bocialists to establish a dictatorship. Those bitter memories will force a compromise on the new army-—something between the Socialists’ demand for a weak militia that can not be used against them and the People's Party plan for an old type army under conservative officers. It will not be an effective defense force even under treaty size limits.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

“North Raymond, Me—Indian vanishes—in a swamp”) 1 — Heap big Indian brave know woodcraft, Always savvy what todo, - ~" Can shoot rapids on a good raft, And can row a boat. Can you?

But last night brave go out stalking _ Heap big deer in early frost. - And this morning .squaw start squawking; Heap big Indian brave got lost! ® & o

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If tomorrow never comes, then you should Hve today; but what fun is there in putting off till today what should be done today. : «=B. C., Indianapolis

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PEDDLER'S PASSAGE . . . By John Loveland Views En Route to Coatesville

.A YEAR and a half ago, if you had asked me a good way to get to Coatesville on the

‘Sunday after Easter, I would have told you that

the best way to get there was to go home and wait a fews days. : That was the day that the traffic gummed up all roads to Hendricks County and that streams of cars laden with the curious and compassionate lined up clear to the High School Road waiting to creep slowly to view the tornado ravaged areas. :

John E. Loveland, traveling salesman, has niso turned Hoosier columnist. His stories from around the state will appear Monday, Wednesday and Friday in The Times.

This week it was different. Instead of the surge of a new. spring in the air and the promises of coming warmer weather the afternoon seemed to be laden with a certain copper quality which spoke of nothing but approaching harvests and fall

For me, the best way to Coatesville was to + herd of jerseys, for I saw them there in the

drive to Danville, detouring around the carnival in the streets, on to the west edge of town. Turning south over the New York Central bridge it was good to poke along on the lookout for signs of the catasthrophe of last year.

Points Toward Hadley

THE NEXT improved road to the right pointed toward Hadley. Incidentally it sometimes seems to me that there are a lot of things

and people in Hendricks County that bear the

name of Hadley. ; Two year's growth of foliage have done wonders for the landscape. Only at intervals was it possiblé to see traces where the clutching, snatching, brutal winds had scathed the countrysidé, Corn in the fields had grown high to shut off the view. Then suddenly you note

that in the next field the upper leaves on the

soybeans nave begun to turn yellow, and if that isn't a sign that the crop beginning to ripen for September or October harvest, I'll have to go back to school. Yes, the sight of maturing deans also took away thoughts of a nearly forgotten windstorm. % The town of Hadley with its new buildings and undisposed of rubble was more of ‘a reminder of its session with the furies, but with the insolence of youth, and a typical Hoosler disdain for troubles past, some one had completed clearing away- the ruin of a-store building, leaving only the floor and a back wall intact. 3 1 doubt if anywhere else in the country would

anyone have seized the opporsanTly that these Hadley youngsters had taken. Shades of the Wonder Fives and the State Pair Cow Barn. There in the. middle of this barfen floor, they had errectéd a post and hung a Backboard with basket. You may not like the rest ot She route I picked, especially if you just washe@ your car, and if'You have forgotten that there still are a lot of very interesting .gravel roads in our state, Teg

~ Awaiting Frost

THEY'RE bumpy sometimes, but they take you out where the ears of. corn are beginning

to bend down to await the coming of frost in

a few weeks. This road was chosen because I wanted to see the new barn that “Red” Hadley had built to replace the old red one gone with the wind. His new milk house is in a little different location from the yellow tile one in which he had crouched while the roof sped off to

- visit on the other side of the tracks.

It seems, too, that he has rebuilt his fine

pasture north of the house hugging the shade, chewing their cuds. ‘ _ Two or three miles further along the road hits a black top again and just as you expect to go into Amo, Incorporated, we'll turn right again for the remaining few miles over the dipping and rising ride to Highway 75; and then into Coatesville. Last Easter there were a lot of pictures and a report on how the town had rebuilt, and you learned that it had acquired a good shape again, and that business was still carried on, and a lot of other things had happened. Hap Powell's there with his furniture and undertaking establishment and everything looking brand spanking new. : \

No Gasoline

ONE THING I did miss in the old town, though. It used to be a ritual with me to drive

up in front of Art Biehl's place and get a tank-

ful of gasoline, but no more. Although his ultra modern functional new implement and hardware store may look like some of the big city super-duper-one-stop-serv-ice-complete-and-wash-your-windows-sir service

stations, you can buy about everything useful

there but gasoline. It was a pleasure to.see Art, his brother, Bill, and the other boys again, and I believe that if you calied me to ask for a good way to Coatesville, I'd tell you that any way is a good way, because it’s a good town and you'll like the people there. ? :

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What Others Say

WORLD government is remote and ideal—it captivates the imagination by its claim to end all wars and remove the threat of the atom bomb. It captivates the reason by its simplicity —one law to be enforced all over the one world. But it is ndt rational or possible at this time.— Edward J. Meeman, editor ‘of the Memphis Press-Scimitar. >

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THE owner of these plants would get 30 years in a federal prison in the United States.— Court Justice William O. Douglas, In Iran, where tiny children labor for 18 cents a day. . + & o ; A SPLENDID storehouse of ‘integrity and freedom has been bequeathed to 3 by our forefathers. In this day of confusion, of peril to liberty, our high duty is to see that this store- |

house is not robbed of its contents.—Former .; |

President Herbert Hoover * © ¢ :

THE fat man is easiest to live with be- : cause he forgives readily. He is the least likely ! to want a divorce. . . . He is a tender and, faithful lover. , . . He's easier to persuade to do the dishes, the vacuuming and get up in; the night to look after the baby.—Dr. James * ¥. Bender, director of the National Institute | for Human Relations. ® * + : THE government (Chiang Kal-shek's) .. .| had sunk into corruption, into a scramble for ® place and power, and into reliance on the United States to win the war for them. . . . Its leaders had proved incapable of meeting the crisis confronting them, its troops had lost the , will to fight, and its government had lost popular support.—Secretary of State Dean Acheson. |

PLANNED STATE... By E. T. Leech

Express of London: :

A Glasgow woman needed a new knob for the front of her

“(EDITOR'S NOTE: Here are some odds and ends, left over from the notes of E. T. Leech, who spent a month in the British Isles for The Times and other Scripps-Howard News-

‘ SIDE GLANCES

British Way of Life = | #7 I:

LONDON, Aug. 31—A note on doing business in a nationalized and completely planned state, as reported in The Daily

By Galbraith Tes

today.

PEARL HARBOR . . . By Parker La Moore

Warning From China

WASHINGTON, Aug. 31—Chiang Kai-shek warfed the: United States and Britain before Pear! Harbor that his intelli-’ gence agents had obtained information that Japan was preparing . to attack their possessions in the Pacific, it was revealed here)

The warning was conveyed to the State Department by Dr.

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and the waste and inefficiency of operations in condemned |

papers). b gas heater. Gas being a state industry, she went to the showroom of the Gas Board, The salesman said he'd have to send a fan out to survey the matter. He called, made his examination, and next day sent a man out with the proper forms, to be filled in duplicate, “-. Two" days later a van arrived with a tiny parcel. The woman opened it, took out the knob and screwed it on the heater. The next day the installtion man of the Gas Board called to | *do that job for her, - ! o weeks later she got the bill—one shilling, two pence {about 24 cents), ?

Time Out for Tea :

AN AMERICAN friend working in London lives in a suburban home damaged when German bombers dropped tireir load in an effort to escape. Only temporary repairs have been made, but the time came for the war damage claims adjusters to make an inspection. . 2 Two men spent two days measuring rooms, estimating materials, etc. They arrived about 10 a. m. quit for two hours at noon, took tea at 4 o'clock, and finished tea just in time to inspect for a few minutes before quitting. My friend.sald he once had more extensive changes miade in an American house by a contractor who spent one morning getting the details.

Extra Pint of Milk

GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, who is 93, had to get a doc-. tor's prescription before his ration board would allot him an extra pint of milk a week. This gives him a half-piat daily, exclusively for himself, - As regards other rations: : wo The bacon allowance has just been raised from two to three | ounces a week. The regular cheese allowance is two ounces a | week. | | ‘Weeliy tations of butter, margarine and cooking fats have | jus’ oeen ralSed from nine to 10 ounces a week, ire The weekly meat ration is 22 cents’ worth for ndults, with children under 5° patting sligntly over 10 cents’ worth, Meat | prices, however. are considerably below the U. 8. level as they | are ‘subsidized by the government. es i The weekly sugar ration has just been cut from 10 to 8 ounces a week. ax ry i The sweets (candy) ration, abandoned recently, has been restored. THe allowance is four ounces a week--if obtainable.

COPR. 1948 BY NEA SERVIOL, WO. T. 4. REO. W. B. PAT. OFF. "Here's a fellow who hasn't bought a dime's worth from us in twenty years—first time | called on him | accidentally Ts beat him one stroke in 18 holes!"

A rumor of cholocate bars for sale is enough to cause a long

qugue to form.

Infants and invalids can get a priority order for three eggs | & week, Other persons get their share of avallable eggs about

two egRs a week at present.

Enough gasoline to drive any type of car or motorcycle 90 miles a month is the basic ration, The currency allowance to Rritish for travel outside England is $200 a year for adults and $140 for children under 15. Only five pounds ($20) can be taken out at time of departure. . Tourists cannot bring more than five pounds into England, and all British or foréign currenty must be declared and entered on the passport. RI a

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Hu Shih, then Chinese ambassador to the U, 8, and to the British : Foreign office by Dr. Wellington Koo, then his country's repre’ sentative in London, according to the American China Policy: Association. . : Dr, Koo is now the Chinese ambassador to. the United States, and Dr. Hu Shih is living in retirement in New York. y No mention is made in the State Department's white paper" of this intelligence report, the association's statement points out. The warning was sent to both governments weeks before Pear! Harbor, it said.

Omissions and Errors ro THE association's statement listed 32 alleged omissions and errors in the white paper which purported to be a review of Chinese-American relations. It charged that American policy toward China since 1045 hadrbeen based upon a secret report made by Henry Wallace, after his visit to China the previous

© The State-DéPurtment has explained that Lt. Gen. A. OC. Wedemeyer's report recommending ald to China in 1947 was suppressed because Tis recommendation of a United Nations’ trusteeship for Manchuria would be resented by the Chinese, _ = ' On the contrary, the Palicy Association declares, Gen, Wede~ meyer reported as early as 1945 that Chiang Kai-shek agreed with the suggestion. In any event, it was pointed out, the Man< churian recommendation had been published before the Wede< meyer report was made to the State Department, ~ 1 ALTHOUGH Maj. Gen. Claire Chennault commanded ‘our . air forces in China throughout the war, his name lan't mentioned ! in the white paper, the association noted. Yet much a with

devoted to the views of other military men less “Corruption in China is charged throughout the white paper in general terms, but without documentation or specification and . wi t stating particular instances,” said the statement: 8 “That corruptio

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