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JFOR upward of 10 years, The Times has urged one city government after another to install parking meters in Indianapolis streets. . The idea is 20 years past any experimental stage. Parking meters are in successful use in nearly every big city in this country, and in hundreds of small towns and villages. Offhand, we don't know of any community that has ever been willing to be without meters, once it has had | them. They are manufactured, in various types and models, by a number of different firms, and, of course, there is keen competition in their sale. Older types are operated by inserting a coin and winding a crank to put them into operation. More modern types are operated by just inserting the coin—no cranks, no winding. a ” ” WHEN our city government decided to put in a small number for a trial period test, it seemed, and still seems, like a wise plan. They chose, for reasons we do not know, to try an older type, crank-operated model. Immediately it was discovered that these meters could be “stopped” by manipulating the crank, and by several other means, so that a motorist “in the know” could park indefinitely in front of one which still appeared to be registering legal parking. That, of course, would defeat the whole plirpose of having parking meters. The same discovery had been made in other cities where similar types had been tried. We have never heard of any method of “stopping” or cheating the modern, coin-operated models. They are, of course, much easier and more convenient to operate than the kind that have to be cranked.

. . » ss 8 THE company which made these meters insists, naturally, that it is “impossible” to trick them. Yet it has been

dons, not just once but many times, right on the streets of

We believe it is up to this manufacturer, if he hopes to sell Indianapolis a big consignment of parking meters, to demonstrate that his meters can't be cheated and are the best for us to have. j We believe it is up to responsible city officials who quite properly asked for a “test” of these meters to treat it as a test and co-operate in a sincere effort to see that Indianapolis gets the best and most modern model. To this end, we suggest that the city immediately install some more parking meters, of various types, models and makes, let the public test them in actual day-by-day use— and then decide what kind to install permanently. The city can’t lose by this, The public can’t lose. And no manufacturer who has confidence in his product can very well object to it. i atl

A Lesson in Diplomacy “THE United States—thanks to some of the pigmy minds in our State Department—is in a most embarrassing position on the charges China has raised against Russia in the United Nations General Assembly. China has accused -the Soviets of violating the treaty of friendship signed by the two governments in 1945. In that treaty, Russia pledged its sole economic, political and military support to the Chinese Nationalists. Our government pressured China into making this agreement, against the better judgment of its own leaders, to carry out concessions to Stalin at Yalta by President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. Through this treaty, Russia got a naval base at Port Arthur, use of the commercial port of Dairen, and a half interest in the Manchurian Railways. China got nothing in return but Russia's promise of support, and Russia did not keep that promise.

. ” = a - AMERICA ought to be in there backing China to the hilt, as a matter of good faith. We pushed the Chinese into this deal, then walked out and left them when it kicked back in their faces. However, we are trying to evade the issue. Worse than that, Soviet Minister Vishinsky is using the State Department's white paper to show that the Chinese Nationalists are unworthy of support. This document will not bear careful scrutiny in many particulars, but it is right down Mr. Vishinsky's alley because, as he says, it is full of charges of futility and corruption against the Chinese Nationalists. That many of these charges are untrue is, of course, of even less concern to the Soviet spokesman than it was to the document’s authors. Our position in this situation is the more uncomfortable because the Chinese are shipporting their cause with such tact and dignity. When the white paper had served Mr. Vishinsky’s purpose, he went on to allege—untruthfully, we regret to say— that the United States had connived with the Chinese to bring the charges against Russia before the United Nations General Assembly. The fact is that our State Department, seeking to save itself embarrassment, urged them not to bring the charges. But China's delegate, Mr. Tsiang, was too much the gentleman to mention that in his reply.

os . . . ” ” HE WAS content to state that his country’s action was by its own choice and decision. Moreover, he added, he would not reply in the same language used by Mr. Vishinsky, since, were he to do so, “my fellow countrymen might adjudge me unworthy of the cultural traditions of China.” - Then, ignoring all of the reflections cast by the white paper against his nation's integrity, China's spokesman paid warm tribute to America’s friendship. “United States soldiers were always friendly and help--“ful After they finished their task, they returned home with-

longing to China.” By contrast, Dr. Tsiang continued, the Soviet army,

Industrial equipment, then gave its full and direct support to the Communist insurrection. And he added, “Instead of China's rights in Dairen, the Soviet Union pre-

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Red China Dies

Independent News Services Are Forced to Shut Down

CANTON, Oct. 1—Chinese Communist au-

British-owned North-Ching Daily Shanghai may be forbidden to close.

Forced Out

THE American-owned Shanghai Post and Mercury, once the mouthpiece jcan businessmen who thought they could do business with the Communists, was forced out immediately after the Red occupation. The venerable North-China, once an organ of similar sentiment among the British community, asked permission early this month to close down. : It was the North-China’s editor, Peyton Griffin, whom the Communists forced to apologize on page one for spreading a “rumor” that the Chinese Nationalists had mined the mouth of the Yangtze. The North-China cleared itself of “imperialist rumor mongering” but couldn't make a go of it in the business office. No Shanghai business, especially if foreignowned and substantial, can close without official sppivval. 1438 Hay go UBIVugH the Moo of a

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No Independent News

THE United Press and the Associated Press, in turn, had folded the incoming phase of their operations following the April Yangtze and the May occupation of Shanghai. Apart from shortwave radio broadcasts, privately tuned, Shanghal now gets no independent foreign news. There is still no discernible censorship of outgoing dispatches from and Nanking. But there has been remarkably little news that could offend the Communists. - On difficult themes they have seldom more than echoed material cleared for them by previous publication in Communist organs, especially the New China News Agency, the “Tass” of Red China. They have been forbidden to travel except between Shanghai and Nanking; 80 far as is known.

Censorship, if any, on outgoing dispatches

have to answer for his “mistakes” after they have been published. It's a persuasive form of censorship.

LAMENTABLE CHANGE

Oh, the daily drudgeries of living Have made a shrill shrew of you! You are neither loving nor forgiving As you were when love was new,

The chain of poverty can slowly kill Unless backs are strong, footsteps sure, With patience added, and a steady will, Only these can help to endure;

The losing of your dream ships on life's sea. If I had known you were so frail I would not have asked you to share with me This hellish curved and rock-strewn trail.

How sweet you were, what charms my arms embraced! That lovely hair stroked by my lips, Its gold and shining wonder now erased, Surely, I gave you poisoned sips.

For your eyes, too, have lost that eager gleam. Oh, Love, forgive; it is my shame : That I took you and spoiled your hopeful dream. A shrew? Oh curse the loathsome name!

VIVIAN WOOTEN PIERSON: Greenfield, Ind.

FOSTER'S FOLLIES

(“London—8cotland Yard chief's car stolen from police station”) Although this crook is still at large, And Scotland Yard's aroused Perhaps they'll find in some garage The car securely housed. The thief, mayhap, has learned the truth From Conan Doyle's great tomes, Sir Conan proved the Yard, forsooth,

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TRAGIC IDLENESS . . . By Fred Perkins Retirement Evils

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—The old man’s voice on the telephone quavered and almost broke as he told his son: “Jim, I feel that I'm going to die pretty soon. I just called

you up to tell you before it happens.”

“Why, pop, how you talk!” the son replied. “Of course you're not going to die for a good many years. What's the matter—

feeling poorly or something?”

“No, Jim, I don't guess a doctor would call me sick. But I sure do feel poorly—no pep, not interested in anything, nothing to do. It's been getting worse ever since I stopped working.” t “Well, pop, you hold everything till I get down there in a couple of days. I've been planning to pay you a visit anyway.

See you Thursday.”

Through Work

JIM IS a wealthy Oklahoma oil man. He was the son of a poor farmer who worked hard from his boyhood until he was 60. About that time Jim gave his father a nice home in the little town near his old farm and told him he was through work for

good—he had earned the right to retire, ;

Two years went by and then came the long-distance talk. On. the way to his father's home Jim figured out what was

wrong, and devised his plan. “Pop,” ‘he to! I'm in trouble an

I'm likely to go bust.

“The big trouble,” the son continued “is in those 20 farms I'm supposed to own. I haven't told you before but there's a mortgagg on every one of them. They're losing lots of money for , me because of no-account tenants. I'm too busy with my oil business to give attention to them.

Take Charge

“NOW, Pop, you've got to help me. charge of those farms, and travel aroun me. You're going to be general manager an bang. Will you do it for me?” “Yes, Jim, I'll try.”

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the older man, “I came to see you because I want you to help me. I'm not as rich as people think I am. I've made a lot of money, yes, but I owe a lot, too. The banks are right on my heels and if I don’t look out

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NATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Marquis Childs

Farm Plan Headache to GOP

WASHINGTON, Oct. 1—As Democrats appraise the result of their conference in San Francisco on electric power and irrigation, the Republicans are taking stock of the results of their Sioux City farm conference. The Democrats profess to be optimistic; the Republicans are something less than hopeful. The latter complain, and with considerable reason, about how difficult it is to talk against a “giveaway” program like the Brannan plan. The Sioux City meeting tended to become a down-with-Brannan session. As the Republicans

themselves realize, that kind of negativeness is

not calculated to win fervent support. James G. Patton, head of the Farmers Union, the only farm organization to support the Brannan plan, turned up and provided some carefully planted support for the Fair Deal farm program. Even though one or two Farmers Union state leaders took the opposite line, the result was to make the meeting sound like a debate with forces divided on the basic issue.

Skillfully Organized

IN CONTRAST, the San Francisco conference was skillfully organized, the sessions were almost always filled to overflowing, panel speakers discussed power dams and reclamation projects of immediate concern to the Western states. And, above all, of course, the weight of a government in power in an era of govern: ment spending was in evidence. The farm issue promises to become increasingly important as the consumer goes on paying high prices for food and the government goes on buying “surplus” commodities from the farmer and holding them off the market. That is where the Brannan plan has the edge

. In appeal. It would give the average citizen the

benefit of lower prices. Its weakness, politically and economically, is that no one can tell what it will cost the government. Merely to push up the minimum parity level

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*from 60 per cent to 75 per cent in order to appease farmers nervous about prices is not enough. Since the end of the war the government has paid out $487 million for corn and $609 million for 4 million bales of cotton that is held off the market. The loss on the purchase of eggs has been $38 million. The consumer in the city pays 70 to 90 cents a dozen for eggs. Perhaps the biggest hitch over advancement of the Brannan plan is right inside the Democratic camp. Sen. Clinton Anderson, who stepped out as Secretary of Agriculture in the Truman Cabinet to defeat Patrick J. Hurley for the Senate in New Mexico, has come up with his own farm program. Promoting it assiduously, he is now confident it will be adopted.

Changed Viewpoint

THERE {is more than a suspicion that Mr. Anderson may look with a jealous eye on the fame of his successor, Secretary Brannan. At any rate, he has in a remarkably short time changed his point of view as between executive and legislative branches of the government. Several Senators were surprised when Mr. Anderson approached them about the bill proposing substantial pgy ingreases for officials in the departments. These followed for the most part the recommendations of the Hoover Commission. But Mr. Anderson felt that the bureaucrats didn’t deserve any pay increases or at least not such big raises. This is all the more surprising because last year when he was on the other side of the fence, Mr. Anderson in several statements and speeches pleaded eloquently for the government servant. Before the Economic Club in New York he said: “Reckless accusations can help make government become what its worst critics claim it is. Continual sniping and carping, combined with rigid low limits on salaries of top-grade people, discourage even the tough-hided public servant. He might continue to take one or the other of the handicaps because he takes pride in public service. But the combination of unrealistic criticism and low pay for heavy re-

IT I8 said that more people get hurt in golf than in any other sport. Yet caddies keep right on whistling. *® &

A VIRGINIA man picked a chicken in 40 seconds. Some men do better at a bathing beach. ®» & 9 THESE are the days when your life in the country agrees heartily with your relatives from the city. *

® ¢ IF YOU don’t “love thy neighbor”—just hitch up your home and leave. .

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ponsibility becomes too much to take.”

Forceful Campaigner

AS HE proved in New Mexico last year, Mr. Anderson is a forceful campaigner. But if the administration continues to take a stand on the Brannan plan, as now seems certain, Mr. Anderson will not be in a very strong position to hit the trail in next year's congressional elections. But a political year can bring about some As the Republicans are sadly aware, the Brannan plan has a glittering attractiveness. It seems on the surface to resolve that most . foolish of paradoxes—high prices.in the midst of overflowing abundance.

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‘Faced With Naked Truth’

By Carl Wurst Within the last few days the American people have learned the difference between just plain suspicious, and being faced with the

naked truth. : What did if matter to most Americans that

- there was a possibility that Russia might some

day discover the secret to the atom bomb? Or

~was-shaping-itself for World War III hardly before the scars of World War II had begun to heal?

How many Americans have stopped to think :

twice over the fact that Communists are holding important positions in our government and in our labor unions?

Is this not America? Haven't we just won .

two wars in less than 30 years? What have we to worry about over a few Commies infiltrating key positions? It was wonderful, wasn't it, to live in this country and feel that way? How comfortable to feel so secure. How easy to push such things aside and worry about them some other day. Our democratic way of life has seemed to dull our senses in respect to danger to our country from other sources. Why? Because a democracy gives you that security, and in that lies a danger more potent than any Communist in this country. : I believe we are knowing and feeling fear for the first time in our existence. What seemed like pure nonsense before is a reality now. We can be bombed and we can be destroyed as all others have been. What can we do? Our only course, it seems, is to turn to God, because God created the world. And if man has outdone himself to the point of destroying him. self and the world, then only the Being who created it can stop it from being destroyed. And Communists will die just like the rest of us if Russia drops an atom bomb-—certainly they haven't been laboring under the illusion that they would be Spare by some miracle.

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‘Voluntary Plan Won't Work’

By Ben Cohen, Chairman, Communist Party of Marion County As a lifelong resident of Indianapolis, I was shocked to read in Donna Mikels’ story in The Times the fact' that Indianapolis ranks 58th in job opportunities and democracy for Negro cit. izens and members of other “minority” groups, And that four cities in the South were mors “democratic” in this respect than our city. It is a well-known fact that most of Indianapolis’ large employers and factories refuse to hire Negro workers, or if they do, it is for the lowest paying jobs. In view of these stubborn facts, The Times article building up a “new” voluntary plan for the solution of this problem is an insult to the intelligence of democratic Indianapolis citizens, This voluntary plan is beating a dead horse and is simply a scheme to blunt the fight for full democracy. The Negro people, for instance, have been in the United States for 300 years and since that time there has been little improvement In their status. For if you take away a man’s right to make a living, what is there left for him? Donna Mikels’ article is absolutely wrong when she states that many employers feel that discrimination costs them money. The fact of the matter is that big business profits from discrimination by not only underpaying the Negro worker but also using this as a club to force down the wages of the white worker. The South is a first-rate example, The statement of an Indianapolis businessman that the Communist Party does not want to see anti-discrimination laws passed is just plain stupid. The Communist Party from its beginning has fought for democratic legislation and will continue to do so. And we always are happy and proud that sometimes the people gain a victory and that our efforts were partly responsible for it. We believe and will continue te fight for laws with teeth in. them that will protect the rights of all minorities.

What Others Say

RUSSIA has violated and continues to violate not only the principles and essentials of socialist international law, but also those of positive bourgeois international law.—Yugoslav Deputy Foreign Minister Ales Bebler, : * * NO matter what our co-operative disposition or our self-interest, there are definite limits to the American resources which we can safely

invest in foreign aid.—Sen. Arthur Vandenberg (R. Mich.). > & o

TO make the left stop increasing, you must throw some weight against the right.—Foreign Correspondent George Weller's prescription for defeating communism and rebuilding Greece. * ¢ IV She Alken (farm price support) law has any friends, I don’t know them.—Rep. Eugene E. Cox (D. Ga.) ?

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AVIATION... By Max B. Cook

Speedup in Air Due

CLEVELAND, O., Oct. 1—Announcement of Russia’s atom explosion may speed up U. 8. development of jet-powered transe port aircraft for use not only by the Military Air Transport Service but also the major airlines. This nation is far behind the British in jet transport development. At least six experimental jet transports are being tested now and some will be flying within two or three years. Canada has one which has been successfully test-lown ~Aand is expected to go into production soon. We have none. Despite the lesson learned in World War II, when the hure riedly organized Air Transport Command, using equipment taken from the major airlines, saved the day, this nation’s Jet development had been aimed entirely at fighter and bomber production.

All Possible Speed

MATS; an efficient world-encircling military airline, has proved that it can give a fine account of itself in any emergency such as the Berlin airlift. But all of the MATS aircraft are powered with reciprocating engines and thus are out of the high speed category. ‘Sudden war would demand all possible speed in supplying far-flung bases with men, munitions and equipment. The fastest air transports now available range in speed from 160 miles per hour to about 350, fully loaded. Our fastest jet bombers, capable also of carrying ‘tons of weight in bomb loads and armament, range in speed from 500 to around 600 miles per hour. Jet transports, is is said, could almost egual the bombers’ speed. Range would be less than that of present-day aircraft but on innumerable vital flights the extra number of trips possible would greatly increase the amount of supplies flown from point

Among the several top-flight aviation engineers now urging immediate development of jet transports is Wellwood E. Beall,

vice president in charge of enginee and sales for the Boeing Airplane Co. of Seattle. Hine 2

- Foremost Expert

MR. BEALL is one of the nation’s foremost experts on bomb= ers and transport aircraft. His fame began with the B-17 Flying Fortress and he is given credit for development of the B-29, the B-50 and the new fast Boeing XB-47 Stratojet bomber. Just prior to the Russian announcement, Mr. Beall said & fleet of jet transports could effectively serve up to 90 per cent of avilable domestic airline

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