Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1949 — Page 14

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- TOY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANE BY Editor Business Manager

PAGE 14 Tuesday, Oct. 11, 1949

ETE ER RL Marion County. 5 cents & eopy for Gacy ov

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Give Light and the Peonie Will Find Their Own Wow

Show-Down at the Show-Boat? THE doings at the Show-Boat, a dubious night-spot out on

N. Keystone Ave, seem to us to have gone away

beyond the relatively minor matter of gambling joints in Marion County.

The matter of gambling joints so often does. That's

the worst thing about them. And this episode casts a shadow over the whole process of law and order around here,

Last Friday night deputy sheriffs went to the Show-

Boat, were admitted just as any other patrons are. They said they found commercial gambling going on. When they undertook to make arrests Show-Boat bouncers engaged them in pitched battle.

They did make arrests, nevertheless. Then the prosecuting attorney refused them affidavits

under which either the gambling charges or the brawling charges they want. 1 to file could be prosecuted.

Why? No question of legality is involved. No warrants are

required to make arrests when an officer sees a crime being committed. Up to this point the sheriff and his deputies were obviously in the right—and Prosecutor Dailey owed the stand which up to now we haven't heard.

people of this county an explanation of his remarkable

a 8 =» a =» ” BUT the story didn’t end there. Next night truculent deputy sheriffs were outside

the Show-Boat again, on private property without warrants for searches or arrests. They were searching automobiles (which is against the law) of people they believed were about to become customers of the Show-Boat, and generally shoving folks around. A private citizen got slugged with a blackjack by somebody — and who do you suppose -earries blackjacks?—and some folks were arrested on no legal grounds that we've been able to find out.

Time, it seems to us, for the sheriff to do a little

explaining.

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GAMBLING joints which flourish from time to time

around the county are in violation of the law, and bad, and ought to be shut down. But a collapse of law enforcement

- due to a squabble between the two major law enforcement * agencies is worse.

Refusal of a prosecutor to perform his sworn duties

and in effect to bar prosecution of gambling charges is worse, -

> ‘Brawling and gang-fights and slugging of citizens by

officers of the law is worse.

We don't see any reason why the pegple of this county

should put up with a private war between the sheriff and the prosecutor.

At least not beyond next election day.

Investments Abroad ITs JUST as well that congressional leaders have decided

to shelve until next year President Truman's “point four”

plan for American aid in improving under-developed areas of the world. ‘

The idea—it can't yet be called a program-—needs a lot

more study, Thus far it has had more ballyhoa than thought, and this has led to some unfortunate misconceptions abroad.

Many countries that want aid have the impression that

Uncle Sugar is about to pass out large amounts of money from the Federal Treasury. This must be dispelled before there can be a favorable atmosphere for investment of pri-

vate capital in such countries, if that is what Mr. Truman wants, :

' HOWEVER, it isn't clear what Mr. Truman does want.

While talking in general terms &bout encouraging private .

invéstments abroad, he styl! seems reluctant to take the gov-

. ernment out of foreign lending activities,

The projected oil-development loan to Mexico has not been abandoned. India also is negotiating for a loan. If the policy of government handouts is to go on there will be no place in the picture for private venture capital, which can't

. compete against continued exports of easy-to-get money |

from Washington.

Even if our government consents to leave the foreign |

field to private investors, a cooling-off period may be neces-

. sary before the hard facts can be brought home to prospective recipients of assistance.

Few of them offer adequate protection to American in-

i vestments. Once they understand that no money will be

forthcoming until proper guarantees are made in return it

. may become easier to do business with them on a business . basis.

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Well, That's Settled ;

baseball writers and their more rabid followers will continue to chew it over for a while. But for most of

us the 1049 World Series is history, and there's a tempta-

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. tion to feel that it ended too soon.

Now we'll have to go back to worrying and arguing about other things—the steel strike, the coal strike, Russia’s atom bomb, the Navy vs. Air Force controversy, farm

. Subsidies, high prices, Mr, Truman's troubles with Congress

and on and on through a list that is much, much too long. America's preoccupation with this struggle bétween teams of professional athletes seems pretty hard for the rest of the world to understand. It probably was no mat-

ter of cosmic importance whether the New York Yankees

or the Brooklyn Dodgers could be first to win four ball

games. ,

But, while it lasted, the Series provided a welcome

_ Interlude. We could understand what was going on without

acquiring a headache. We could get ting scared. And, now that it's over, perhaps we should ‘be grateful to the Yankees for demonstrating that at least one issue-—even if it wasn't as

excited without get-

if “burning” as a lot of the ‘be settled so rapidly and so decisively.

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PRICES . . . By Eorl Richert

Public Revolt On Farm Plan?

Cost May Run So High : People Will Junk Program

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11-—Is it possible for the government to spend 0 much money keeping farmers prosperous that the rest of the population will rise up in wrath and force Con--gress to junk the farm price support program? That's the nub of the argument between advocates of the flexible support program sc “ down prices and those favoring continuation of rigid 90 per cent of parity supports for basic crops. Advocates of the flexible support system contend this not only can, but will happen if Congress renews the wartime-enacted 90 per cent supports on a permanent basis. ‘They say such huge expenditures will result that the taxpayers and consumers won't stand for it. Holding such views are Sen. Clinton P.- Anderson (D, N. M.), former Secretary of Agriculture; Senate Majority Leader Scott Lucas (D. Ill.) ; Senator George Aiken (R. Vt.), ranking minority member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, and Allan B. Kline, president of the American Farm Bureau.

Public Resentment

THEY contend they are friends of the farmer and want to keep a farm price support program on the lawbooks—which won't happen, they predict, if costs get so great that public resentment results, Advocates of government-maintained high and rigid price supports contend this line of reasoning is just so much poppycock. “I have never been impressed,” sald Ben. Richard Russell (D. Ga.), leader of the high price bloc, “with the argument that if the Senate should undertake to give a small share to the farmer, the rest of the nation would rise up and strike him down.” He said no statements about the rest of the country rising up in wrath were made when Congress voted a 75-cent minimum wage for labor and various subsidy bills, The high price bloc argues that prosperous farmers mean prosperity for the rest of the country—that we can't go to a $300 billion annual income as a nation (President Truman's goal) without maintaining top prices for farm products

Price Floors -

IN reality, only a matter of degree is Involved. On wheat, for example, the Anderson flexible bill would provide a current price floor of $1.84 a bushel under wheat—10 cents below the present support price. Sen. Aiken says that the cost of production of a bushel of wheat is $1.34. Thus, the Anderson bill would guarantee the wheat farmer much more than a price floor. It would glve him a guarantee of cost of production plus a profit. But many wheat state Senators want an even higher price floor. “Let us remember,” Sen, Aiken warned .the Benate, “that when we are legislating for agriculture we are legislating for less than 20 per cent of the population of the country.

Political Power

“SPEAKING as a farmer, we have at the present time political power far out of proportion to our numbers. But we can reach so far and reach for so much that we will lose that which we already have.” Both Sens. Aiken and Anderson estimate that continuation of 90 per cent supports on the basic crops will cost the government $2 billion’ a year more than would adoption of their 75-t0-90 per cent sliding scale. Also, that the Commodity Credit Corp. would need an additional $5 billion, in addition to its present $4% blllion-~to maintain 90 per cent prices for the next three yeats. The government now has about $3 billion tied up in its farm price propping program,

didn’t.

“Edyrn.”

THE CITY SLEEPS

The city sleeps— 80 softly sleeping we hear no sighs, Peacefully sleeping with shuttered eyes, The while she sleeps the time goes on Until the dawn-—- . The city sleeps.

Anyway,

No sound of life or living thing, No human voice, no birds that sing— The crashing noise all day that rose Is silent now, in sweet repose— The city sleeps.

boy's talent. Around each little home, each nest, y

Night's soft, cool blanket closely pressed Stars twinkle faintly in the skies As if they too, would close their eyes— Riley,” The city sleeps. No howling winds that rage and roar: Like some lost soul outside your door. God speed the day when wars will cease And to the world will come sweet peace. Tonight, the city sleeps, —MARY B. WHIT, 854 N. Sherman Dr.

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HIGH FINANCE . . . By Charles Lucey

Big Loan to Kaiser?

WASHINGTON; Oct. 11--That man war Jioguetion “miracle maker”—is back again, @ rapped his big knuckles on the doors of the Reconst tion Finance Corp. the other day and a an of a $34 million loan. ® y TINS Buy with 8 PORN That's not much for Henry Kaiser. For \ years he has pulling off deals in tens of millions with about 4s much oa et as a couple of trappers swapping a few old pelts. This time. he

needs help in his Kaiser-Frazer auto manufacturin talk in the auto industr BD Sipoha,

Henry has hauled Jay. He has bought a lot of war plants at f ¢ government to build. But he's the man also who performed magic during the war when the nation desperately needed ships and steel and airplanes and other things.

Private Capital

THE Kaiser people have denied that any too-large share of their past financing has been b the ver they've raised millions privately, y SyYemment, . They ay The Kaisers always have thought they got a raw deal in their loan for the big Fontana, Cal, steel plant—they're nailed down to repay dollar for dollar whereas they say U. 8. Steel Corp. got the government-built steel plant at Geneva, Utah, for a fraction of its cost. Today, Henry Kaiser is building cars in the big Willow Run plant at Ypsilanti, Mich., where Henry Ford made bombers dur-

ing the war, That plant cost the government almost $44 million. Henry Kaiser got it for $15,123,000. In one deal, the Kaiser interests Administration—for $36 million—indu the government more than $90 million. operated by the Aluminum Co. of America at Spokane, govern-ment-built at a cost of $24,329,000; at Baton Rouge, built at a cost of $19,982,000, and at Trentwood, Mich, built at a cost of S47 niltion. Of course, buyers for this type of plant don't grow on bushes.

Less Than Cost

Al KAISER bought fe Newark, O. plant operated by the uminum Co. cost the government $10,589, it for $4,500,000. ” $19,533,000 and he bought A plant operated by Olin Industries, Inc, at Tacoma, which cost the government $6,172,000, went to Kaiser for $3 million. Government-built plants operated by ‘the Columbia Steel Corp. at Tomon, ran, Jad ro Sumbia, Utah, were sold by the War nistration aiser le for $1,150,000. cost $12,923,000. " poh Tiie0in, The Kaiser has leased the government-bullt plant operated by the Republic Steel Corp. at Cleveland. It cost $17,428,000. When Kalser and Joseph Fraser put in together in autos,

ar less than they cost

got from the War Assets strial facilities which cost These included the plants

Kaiser's West Coast steel plant came from RFC. Mr. Kaiser has paid some $10 to $12 millions in interest at four per cent on million,

During the war RFC loaned $28 million to one of the Kaiser companies, Permanente Metal Corp, to build a magnesium plant.

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this debt and has managed to whittle the principal down to $96

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OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

Riley Concealed His Identity oe

ONE MORE piece about James Whitcomb Riley, this time to bring to light the fact that he was the durndest feller to fool people. at least 13 years--from 1870 to 1883—he used fancy pseudonyms to hide his identity. Riley's first pen name of which there is any record was “Edyrn.” something that came to him by way of a dream. It Edyrn was a character in Tennyson's Idylls of the King.” Apparently, Riley liked the sound of the name well enough to appropriate it as his own, with the result that when it came time to publish “A Backward Look” in the Greenfield Commercial on Aug. 7, 1870, everybody wracked his brains to figure out the identity of the author So far as anybody knows, it was Riley's first poem to appear in print. Subsequently several more poems appeared over the same signature. alias was good for two years. time people began to catch on, Either that, or Riley was tired of his assumed name, too, he thought it time to fool people some more. in 1872, he chucked the romantic pseudonym in favor of Jay Whit. hurry, he abbreviated it to read J. Whit, sort of fooling lasted six or seven years.

Fooling the Readers BY THIS time, the situation was complicated still more by the occasional appearance of poems by J. W. Riley—sometimes right along with those of Jay Whit. irritated Benjamin S. Parker no end. Parker was one of Riley's best friends and one of the very first to recognize and appreciate the Finally, in 1879, Mr. Parker's exasperation took the shape of a critical article oven in the Mercury. “We wish softly, but firmly, to suggest to said Mr. Parker, which the public is beginning to understand by which he seeks to give himself notoriety, must now be abandoned. He has the elements of the true poet in him. He has been very successful in illuminating them and has made an excellent Now he must depend upon the merits of what he produces to sustain and increase the reputation already achieved. Tricks and sub-

turn his back upon them.” For

Sounds like lished a poem labeled “Hope.”

and tongued with flame.”

‘Only One Genius’

“The

Greenfield.”

Indeed, the Tennyson Perhaps by that

Maybe,

When in a This

This sort of “fooling Mr.

Haroun and Old E. Z. Mark. New Signature

“that certain tricks Poet.”

as unpredictable as Riley,

in Philadelphia.

By Galbraith

"I've saved almost ens

ugh to get married, but my girl won. a beauty contest last summer and | have to wait till her

popularity wears off even fo get a date!"

That loan has been repaid. Another Kaiser compan y borrowed $1 million to buy a Fleetwi Aircraft pi « back in Uncle 8am’s jeans pi Yam Del P22 These are pretty big figures. But thére's another figure—what Mr, Kaiser contends his operations, a, he were well-run, saved the t in wartime, In 1946, Mr. Kaiser estimated that “compared with costs of items produced by other companies,” his en: engaged in war production Saved the government $463 million. ‘ hese were listed as only “partial savings" Mr. Kaiser pointed out the speed of Kaiser operations saved more than onethird the time required on the average by other builders in whipping out 819 Liberty ships. rh

Mr. Kaiser said then that “Kaiser enterprises were never and

terfuge will serve him no longer and he must

After such a public spanking, you'd think Riley would have mended his ways. tain extent he did. He dropped the pen name of Jay Whit and adopted that of John C. Walker. On Sept. 21, 1879, the Saturday Herald pubIt was the fourstanza emotionally steeped affair with the unforgettable line: “My fate is fanged with frost

WHEN Myron Reed, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, ran across that poem, he publicly announced: “There is only one genius who could write that line, and he was born in

Myron Reed's shrewd conjecture didn't embarrass Riley in the least. . He went right on using the pen name of John C. Walker. Indeed, it wasn’t until 1882 that he dropped it. he turned up as “Ben F. Johnson of Boone” and | again everybody was fooled. fooled until 1883, the year “The Old Swimmin’ Hole” and “’Leven More Poems” was published. Then, but not until then, did people know for sure that Benj. Johnson and James Whitcomb Riley were one and the same poet. Riley's poems appeared under his real name. Up until the very last, however, Riley tried to fool people. When he couldn't sign his poems with pseudonyms any more, he resorted to other | tricks. To throw people off the track, he signed his letters with all sorts of fancy names, such as Marigold, for instance, and Brother Whittleford, Uncle Sidney, Troubled Tom, the Bad

INDEED, on one occasion at the very height of his career when he was obliged to answer Edward Bok's regbest for a poem for the Ladies’ Home Journal, the Hoosier poet signed his letter: “James Hoosier Riley, the Whitcomb

The fact that Riley had to wait ‘more than a week for a confirmation of his letter led some people around here to suspect that the delay was occasioned because of Mr. Bok’s failure to & appreciate Hoosier fooling when handled by one Bounds reasonable when one reflects that Mr. Bok was brought up

shy ; £ 8 Hoosier Forum “1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | wil defend fo the death your right to sey R.°

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St. and Keystone Ave. a young expectant mother was knocked down and dragged down the street for several feet by a teen-ager drive ing a jalopy. The corner on which the victim was standing was a well-lighted one, yet, . youth said he failed to see her there. Fortunately she was not seriously injured. Here is just one example of what is happening all over the state. ® & o

’ ‘Tax on Working Wives By Lloyd Hale, Connersville, Ind. Four years after a peak wartime employment, our country is faced with an ever-increasing une employment roll, the threat of a depression, and - even hunger in a land of overabundance. Are we looking at the unemployment probe lem in a true light, or aré we failing to recoge nize a small condition that, to a large degre¢ by its elimination, could equalize the distribution of employment, apd thus greatly eliminate an unemployment problem at this time. the war years, by the lure of high wages, and patriotism, a huge army of working wives was inducted into our industrial plants, Four years after the end of the war, to a large extent, they are still on industry's payrolls at the expense of bread-winners in other families, By seniority rights they are displacing, in many instances, neighbors and friends, men or women, who are the sole income-earners in their families. Remembering that thebe working wives were recruited in a war production race for national defense, does our country have the right to ask * them to “please go home” and give their jobs to someone else? In answer, I would cite another recruited force of some 16 million persons—the Armed Forces. If a country has the right to ask or demand the supreme sacrifice from its youth, which it does if it is to exist, then it surely has the right to ask or demand of any group of its people a sacrifice or concession, if the interests of the country can be served by that sacrifice. Yes, our country has the right to ask the war-recruited working wives to ‘please go home” and not only to ask but to demand it. The only method which the country has to eliminate this situation and to create a more even distribution of employment is by income

«= Let's tax families out of the labor market. By a revision of the present income tax law, one member of the married couple could claim all the legal dependents at the normal exemption and rate of tax while the other member could claim no dependents, not even one's self, since it would already be claimed by the other member of the family, and this second salary would be taxable at a very high rate—at least 50 per cent or perhaps 75 per cent, or whatever Is necessary to make it unprofitable for the sece ond member of the married couple to work, Thus, industry would soon be cleared of ems ployees who could stay at home and, in so doing, pass their jobs on to more needy. persons,

What Others Say

WE have made it perfectly clear that there should be international control of atomic energy. Great progress will be made if Soviet Russia will agree to international inspection. — British. Prime Minister Clement Attlee. They stayed > e @ WE have been prepared to repel attack for some time and we have provided ample funds for what is needed.—~Chairman Clarence Cannon, House Appropriations Committee. After that, ¢ ¢ o 80 great and pressing has the world’s need for the United Nations become that if it were nonexistent today, we would find ourselves compelled to create it.~= UN Assembly President Carlos P. Romulo. vo o WOMEN are not misled by political slogans, Women look beneath the labels to see the facts, —President Truman. del THE world today presents many perplexing and tragic factors. The most distressing aspect Is that we seem to be caught in a web of our

own weaving. — Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill, New York.

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> bb WHAT is needed is a hard-headed realization of the fact that we have to raise the world's standard of living if we are to preserve out own. ~Rep. Wale J. Judd (R), Minnesota. LS THE U. 8. is not to blame for the present state of affairs and neither is Britain. Don't let us blame each other. Let us Join forces to solve them.—British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin,

WNATIONAL POLITICS . . . By Marquis Childs

Campaigns for 1950

WASHINGTON, Oct. 11—Although this is a year with no congressional election, the race for 1950 has begun so early that in many states it is already past the warmup stage.

This means, of course, that those Senators who come up in 1950 and all the members of the House are more and more uneasy as the session of Congress drags on. If they permit themselves Jo be tied down here, the opposition back home can get the upper and. ’ ; One of the most interesting situations is in New where the redoubtable Sen. Charles W. Tobey 18 up for re-elece tion. By his forthrightness and his insistence in digging into messy situations, Mr. Tobey has offended powerful interests. One of the powerful interests Mr. Tobey seems to have offended is his own New Hampshire colleague, Sen. Styles Bridges, Thus far, the only suggested opposition to Mr. Tobey in the Ree publican primary is Wesley Powell, Sen. Bridges’ administrative

assistant. Asked about his intentions, Mr. Powell replies withe “No comment.” Py :

Miners’ Trust Fund

SEN. BRIDGES suspects Sen. Tobey of being respon the line of inquiry in a Senate investigation rr he 202 the fact Mr. Bridges is being paid $35,000 a year to serve hg trustee for the United Mine Workers’ pension fund. As a matter of fact, Mr. Tobey had nothing to do with it.

The busy Sen. Bridges, who has more irons in more fires than almost any other Senator, is reportéd to be preparing a speech in which he will defend not only his own position but the way in which the John L. Lewis trust ‘fund has been administered. One thing Sen. Tobey has hammered away o past two years is the Reconstruction Finance gd jhe t to light some unsavory deais showing that political ine fluence seems to be increasingly a factor in the RFC’s loan policy,

Pattern Set

THIS has begun to worry influential and alert mem the administration who are .aware of how timid and hers :

RFC's board of directors. The pattern set before the war in the

Baltimore & Ohio Railroad loan has too often been followed.

That is for a group inside the RFC to push through approval of the loan application and then, the

once it is approved, to turn up on the company’s pay roll at salaries three four times what they had been paid by-RFC, pk ic The B. & O. case was the most extraordinary thus with a number of RFC insiders gcrambling into B. Py et posi« tions. At rpeent Senate hearings Into the RFC, a witness testified that B. & O. bonds held by the government agency could not be-sold “except at a loss of from $12 to $35 million.” , But there have been similar instances

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