Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 November 1949 — Page 22

"A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER Le HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W_ MANZ . Editor

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. Beneath Our Dignity —— [HE STATE DEPARTMENT has asked the Czechoslovak government to recall two of its minor diplomatic representatives to this country, stating their presence here is objectionable. : : ; No reason-was given for this finding. None was required. The -action-was.in retaliation for the recent ouster of two American diplomats from Prague, It js a case of tit for tat. RRL oT ap This exchange of unpleasantfies impresses ug as be*_neath the dignity of a great nation such as ours. Czechoslovakia is under a Moscow-type dictatorship. Any loyal . American citizen is objectionable to that regime, just as any - of its representatives are objectionable to us.

» - “ THE Gusti and Slovaks are intelligent, industrious, friendly people Many of them have relatives in this country. So they know America as it is, and not as Communist propagandists picture it. Under ordinary circum"stances, relations between their country and ours would be ~ most eordial. : : Why should we traffic in petty reprisals with the gangster government now in control of Czechoslovakia? Withdrawal of diplomatic recognition, and severance of all relations until accepted standards of international .conduct “are observed, would be much more effective than this policy of spitting and sputtering. SE All the Soviet satellite states need us far more than we . need them. "There is no sound reason why we should submit “to further indignities. Our diplomats behind the Iron Curtain are being pushed around, and such services as they can render under the circumstances aren't worth the lus§ of face we are suffering by putting up with such nonsense. ~~ We cannot expect to command the respect of gangsters “while we let dictate the terms under which we can do business with them. = . ~ Fair Play A High Schools | : SUSPENSION of Jeffersonville High School’ from the Indiana High School Athlétic Associatioh may seem harsh treatment to the many patrons of the southern Indiana school. : Far IN But if the IF . ‘is to continue to maintain -any kind of high standards in fair play and sportsmanship among - high schools of Indiana in amateur athletics, the suspension seems the only effective way to insure wholesome competiIt means that Jeffersonville will be banned from com- - petition in all state high school basketball schedules and the state tournament-—a pretty high price to pay for ing

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join Jeffersonville’s team. Fe © The suspension must serve as a warning to other schools, ~~ that thé popular Hoosier sport of basketball cannot be als lowed to sink tothe levels of unfair competition that in- . volves the luring of the best players from one school to another. A ied ) : If this practice were permitted to continue, the schools with the championship teams would be those whose ad- - vantages and “inducements” to players were the most attractive, a procedure that would result in certain ruin for fair play basketball among Indiana high schools.

Will Rogers Said It (CONGRESSMAN RANKIN of Mississippi, chairman of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee, predicts happily that the next session of Congress will pass.a World War Hbonus bill. : ™ “Idon't see how it can be stopped,” he says. ++ the bill, estimate its

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st at $20 billion to $25 billion. .

~ Hon dollars. And deficit spending already in the cards seems certain to increase it by $5 billion to $7 billion in the coming

Under . such circumstances, a majority of Congress’ ~---gurely cannot share Mr. Rankin's lack of any sense of fiscal "7 ‘Yesponsibility. “So’the next session probably will not pass this gigantic bonus bill, : NC 4 : Ml cindy ou. Ng wns BUT THE: Rankins will continue. to-urge something like it. U thé veterans exercise voluntary restraint—un=_ less they are careful not to ask for benefits the country ob_Viously cannot afford—their political force may impel some future Congress to pay such a bonus with borrowed money, Back in 1926, when the national debt was almost $20 billion, wise Will Rogers said this: “Now, here is what I can't savvy. of us, in fact all of us, will work, and save, and stint all our lives, for. what? Why, to leave something to our children. When we die we want everything we have left clear and » unencumbered. We will break our necks to leave them without a single debt. . . . Now that is what we will do as Individuals, but, when it comes collectively, why. it looks like we will break our neck to see how much we can leave them

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- “New Navy Chief j To Adm. Forrest Sherman, the new chief of naval operations, our salutations and best wishes. He is taking on ~ a tough job. We hope Navy officers and enlisted men will give him undivided loyalty, and that he will restore the Navy esprit. : ; From what we have heard of Adm. Sherman, he really believes in unification, His valor could hardly be questioned in light of the difficult assignment he has undertaken with eyes wide open—the job of rebuilding the morale of the Navy and making it an eager participant ina unified defense team, immediately following the firing of Adm. Denfeld for voicing the honest views of the Naval Officers Corps. mental, and if he does not make the grade, we hope the 8 will be placed where it belongs—with Secretary of

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‘Deals’ Hinted

~ Goal of Conquest Points Toward Eastern Areas ~~ .

-you can look a long way to the East. Conquest of the East has long been the goal of both the Prussian and the Russian; -and-the suspicion is. growing here that the two totalitarian forces may be secretly uniting ‘for domination of the great Eurasian heartland. vr, It is, as yet, only Sanjecture, But the, possi- - bilities inherent in tHe union of Russian resources, including Russian manpower, and German efMclency and technology, each with its own

and. tatal Al and-total 48. Ap palling.

bid ta the German people on the basis of unlimited nationalism. Nazis in the Eastern zone not only have been given full rights but have been put into positions of power in the new government. created by the Russians. One example is Georg Dertinger, foreign minister in the new setup, who helped to bulld fascism in

Propaganda Appeals ** IN the recent past the Soviet Union formed the free Germany committée around Field Mar- ~ shal Von Paulus and. other high. officers captured at Stalingrad. They were used for propaganda appeals to the German people during the war and rumor has linked them to the formation 6f a new German army in the Eastern zone. But lack of this is emrlier history of collaboration between the Boviet Union and Germany. After World War I it was Junker officers who helped 10" direct the formation of the Russian army. it It was always the concept of one of the most powerful figures in the revival of German might ~—Gen. Von Seeckt--that collaboration with the Russians was essential. As Von Seeckt argued on every possible occasion, such collaboration was necessary, shove all, for the development of the great Industrial complex in China. Von Beeckt was largely responsible for sending a

hausen, to help train Chiang Kail-shek's army. " "Give me 100,000 German civil servants and 100,000 officers and men and I will show how to organize China,” Von Seeckt often said. -

Signs of New Deal , : TODAY there are signs that new collaboration may be developing. S8ome leaders in the free Germany committee have “come back -to—lead extremist parties in Western Germany. A con~~spicuous example is Gen. Vincenz Mueller, head of the Nazi-like National Democratic Union. Others are sald to have gone to China where alorig with Russian observers they are attached to headquarters of Communist military leaders. According to one source, Von Paulus himself is in Pelping, although another report has it that

ity in Russia because he did not fulfill the expectations of Soviet léaders. i Back of all this speculation is the soli fact that the owners and managers of German Industry want to find an outlet for their products and their skills in eastern Europe and Asia. These are the same owners and managers whe helped to build up Hitler, They are believed to be the source of continuing feelers for’ understanding with the new East German

Opposing Agreement

INCIDENTALLY, major forces. opposing

and the trade union leaders. These men who - are truly democratic and anti-Communist could

regime master-minded by Moscow, It is easy, of course, to read too much theory ome in is wtoday, - The Prussian CMRF class Mg World War II has only ona object in life, and that is to fight. It is natural, therefore, that they should seek an out-

is going on.

Ing or even to a working agreement between the Soviet bosses and the Prussian military class is the fact that a large slice of Eastern Germany wernt to Poland arid another slice was an‘nexed by the Boviet Union. : : For Moscow to try to reverse that partition would be to create a:dozen-Titos in Eastérn Europe. And even in a temporary partnership it would be difficult or impossible to suppress the German nationalistic desire for-the return of kuch cities as Breslau and Stettin, >

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Some lingering... late roses And scattered here and there ‘Are vivid zennias... marigolds / ~ And dahlias tall and fair. ~ Zl

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EUROPE... By Marquis Childs ~~~

‘BERLIN, Nov.:3—From this farthest outpost.

In the immediate present is Premier Stalin's

military mission, headed by Gen. Von Falken-

he has been relegated to comparative obscur--

state, which is the creature of the Soviet Union.

such an agreemefit are the Social Democrats

never come to terms with an utterly subservient

let for their evil talents in China where a war |

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“TODAY'S encyclical is dedicated to the discovery that Indianapolis fell in love with the operas of Gilbert & Sullivan long before it had a chance to see and hear the real thing.

fact that the Indianapolis Light Infantry, a group of martially-minded young. men, produced a pirated ver- _ sion of “Pinafore,” at English's on the three nights of Jan. 13-15, 1881—a whole year before the Emma Abbott Opera Co. turned up “with its professional presentation of “Patience.” ‘On the occasion of the pioneer amateur production, -all. the parts were played by men including the fluctuating voices of Pink Hall, Jud Colgan, Bert Eddy and O. W. Williams. The soldiers acquitted themselves with such

repeat. Just before the date set for the encore, Soldier Williams contracted a bad case of quinsy—of such alarming proportions, indeed, that for a while it looked as if the repeat performance would haye to be cancelled. At the last moment, however, .a prepaid telegram

Chicago to play the part of “Josephine.”

the hitherto unknown fact that, maybe, Gilbert & Sullivan knew their business when they utilized the two sexes to play the parts of their operas. With the result that when the Light Infantry’ produced “The Pirates of Penzance” (Dec. 8-10, 1882), the soldiers thought enough of Indianapolis’ giris to let them act, too.

Amateur Opera : : LARGELY because of the Light Infantry's productions (together with the light opera furore ‘sweeping the country at the time), Prdf., Ora Pearson organized the Indianapolis. Opera Co. This amateur outfit lasted several years in the course of which it combed not only everything G. & 8. had composed up-to that time, but also ..thé whole field of light opera. When it finally disbafided, it counted among.its assets possibly two dozen voices capable of singing solo parts. They were gradually absorbed by other organi-

_¥ zations, notably the Lyra, a stylish musical

group under the leadership of Alexandér Ernestinoff at the time. } “= On March 5-68, 1885, the Lyra produced “The

the title role. ‘The “three little maids” were done by Jessie Meek, Louise Weegman and Lulu Burt (later known professionally as Helen

PUBLIC INFORMATION «+. By Douglas Larsen umanizing Records | WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—Uncle Sam is trying to put a little human interest in his statistical reports. But the question arises interest exists in the world.

* As far as the man-in-the-street goes, A free home-freezing

Bertram), In private life. Mr. Mueller was a

SIDE GLANCES Ha tet d v He tE

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

Early History of City’s Operas

In support of which there is the established

success that the buying public demanded a

brought Mrs. Wade (Ada Somers) down from 7

Mrs. Wade's superb performance revealed -

“MiKado” at Englsh’s. Herman Mueller -played-

sculptural mason employed on the state house, then in the course of construction. The somewhat under-scaled statues surmounting the Washington street entrance are his work. As for the three ‘little maids, they were as sweet a bunch of girls as Indianapolis ever turned out: .The Lyra's performance of “The Mikado” served as a criterion and was still remembered as the perfect Gilbert & Sullivan performance when 10 years later (orn July 3, 1895) the professional Edward Temple Co. pitched its tent in the lovely grove known as “Wildwood” at the southeast corner of Illinois St. and Fall Creek (diagonally across from the present St. Vincent's Hospital. It was the property of Lyman 8. Ayres who, up until that time, had used the place to tether the Ayres’ family cow.

Open Air Theater

AS NEARLY as I recall; a high board toned

surrounded Wildwood. Graveled paths crossing rustic bridges (the ground was undulating) led to the auditorium which was an opening in the trees. Over it a huge canvas was spread, just in case it rained. The sides were left open to admit the summer breeze. Not unlike the arrangement of air-tight theaters, the shape. of Wildwood's auditorium was defined by boxes

serve the lemonade drinkers. The customers in the pit (the 25-cent seats) had to get along as best they vould with peanuts and red pop ‘peddléd by bey vendors, most of whom are pointed out today as the business. tycoons of Indianapolis. : The Temple Co. opened its engagement with a performance of “The Mikado.” The tion approached that of the Lyra, a distinction that enabled the professional company to spend the’ entire summer in Indianapolis, Everybody patronized the place at least once a week and had ‘a grand time—everybody, that is to say, except a certain preacher whose name I could mention if I wanted to. However, I pride myself. on having reached the, station in life known _ as the “years of discretion.”

Unidentified Preacher

WHEN Wildwood finished its first week of “The Mikado,” this unidentified preacher picked

the text: “A certain young man went down to}

Jericho and fell among thieves” (Luke XXX:10).

“How many young men do you suppose,” he .

asked his congregation, “started to go to the devil last week by going ta Wildwood? Those who went there were simply making of themselves .stool-pigeons for the devil” . =. °° And suddenly overnight, Indianapolis realized that it had a Gilbertian situation on its hands as

good as anything imported from England-—éven -

if it wasn't yet set.to music. :

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will defend to the death Jour right fo say i" *Answer to Chiropractor’s Critics’

1 and tients of Dr. Harry W, We, friends tor at Clarks Hill, Tippe-

lovely o trees, next-door to our Public School.

get dark, but we, his friends and patients, know he is blind and turn the lights on for him when they are needed. The room is not fancy but S | ae To 3 0 Fa 5 LJ Clark's office the only place this is being done? It is teue voices can be heard from one room

.| to another, not because the walls are thin, but

because the door is left open with a screen in front ‘of it. Is there anything to conceal while ‘taking an adjustment? . It is true Dr. Clark often sings whjle working “over a patient. Dr. Clark is happy when he is serving the public, It-is- not-true that Dr. Clark claims to be better than other chiropractors.

other chiropractors are doing the same. Do you think Dr. Clark would have the prace tice he has for over 30 years if he was not get ting results? “No sick person will continue goingto any doctor or recommend that doctor to his. friends unless they are getting results or have been cured. . ; : We are not living in Russia, so why shouldn't _we residents of Indiana have a choice of how

need every kind of doctor to keep our people in a condition a healthy nation should be. No one organization should be over another, as the

wrongly accused? Would you like to see the chiropractors over the Medical Board? Wa wouldn't. They. are two separate means of serving the public health. Every person, justly

Hill Christian Church. rebuilding fund of the Frapkfort Woodside Christian Church that had been destroyed by

to fool the public? These are just a few of the good things a happy, hard-working, honest, blind chiropractor does with his money. He is

the street corner begging. There are plenty of places that need cleaning up in our state. -

What Others Say

AFTER all, you can’t build a locomotive in a cottage.—Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru of India, referring to India’s “cottage industry.” > > % ¢ IF ALL the national welfare measures proposed were adopted, the people would wind up working one day out of three for the govern< ment.—Sen. Robert A. Taft (R. 0.). * ¢ & THE Department of Defense is exerting every effort to perfect . . . industrial mobilization plans and measures in the light of our experience during World War II to meet any emergencies of contemporary international devélopments.—Secretary of Defenses Louls Johnson.

* & 9 AMERICAN (atomic) supremacy is predictable up to 20 years if we work hard.—Enarico Ferml, nuclear physicist. : ® % o I COULDN'T believe they would send me to jail—Iva d’Aquino (Tokyo(Rose), after being sentenced to 10 years in prison. - ‘ ® GPO

THE college which produces intelligent elite Is contributing neither to democratic processes nor to wholesome living.—Dr. John L. Knight, president of Baldwin-Wallace in ¢ ¢

“- . EVERYBODY doesn't want a degree from Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. If everybody bes came a professional man we would be in a terrible fix.—Gen. Harry H. Vaughan, presidential military aide. : * oH : SOME impression has gone out that this Cone gress (the 81st) has not done very much, but when you add it up it is a rather impressive

* o . I'VE grown up. I used to think books were only good for door stops. Then I read one and found it habit forming. \ « —Screen actress Ava Gardnes . eo THE best sign now that Europe has recov ered to an extent and is continuing to recover

fussing about rates of exchange instead of wo rying about whether they will eat. : : —Secretary of the Treasury John W. Snyder, ia Rm

trol with the help of Russian influence, but ill feeling. already is developing in rural areas as the real ndture of communism becomes clear. —Premier Shigeru Yoshida of Japan

MORE AUTOMOBILES . . . By Bruce Biossat

Future of Traffic

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3—This is the greatest production Yeas in hee history of the aatothobile industry. months the motor makers. have turned out 5,350,000 cars ‘and-trucks, smashing the 20-year record established in booming

By Mrs. O. L. Johnson and 82 other Clarks Hill, > Ind. residents. = :

4s a graduate of the Palmer Hctol of-Chiropractics. He lives ina.

It is true Dr. Clark’s adjusting room does :

He knows he is doing good work; getting results, and feels’

we wish to take care of our own bodies? We

Medical Board is over the chiropractors. Would —— they give any chiropractor a fair trial if he is

® or wrongly accused, should be given a jury trial, ¥ Dr, Clark is a heavy donor to the Clarks He contributed to the *%

fire. Does this sound like a man who is trying

not asking the state for money or standing ona

score.—White House Secretary Charles G. Ross.

and .progress is that European nations are now THE Chinese Communists have gained —

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“unit with each wage-and-Hour. report; for instance, probably

wouldn't be inducement enough to get him to read it through, . let alone inspire him.to try to figure dut what it means. To those “unfamiliar with the bureaucratic method of presenting Agures; sparrow tracks in the snow make mbre sense. Usually the qualifications in ‘the report take up more space than the figures, NN, . ™ But in spité of the lethal effect of federal digit juggling practically all of American Industry and life now are tuned to Uncle Sam's numbers... Businessmen and farmers are constantly poking criticism at the government for plaguing them with | questionnaires and forms to be filled out for statistical pur--. poses. Actually, the farmers and businessmen have been mostly responsible for the government gathering more facts and figures.

- Peg on Salaries

THE stock market is dffécted as current employment figures are released. The salaries of hundreds of thousands of workers are pegged directly on the Department of Labog's cost-of-living index.. On long-range productoin contracts the gov-

5 ernment's wage-fate figures play an important part.

From government statistical” reports a businessman can figure out just exactly how he is doing in relation to his com-

petitors. Most big retail sales campaigns are planned with one "|

eye on such things as local prosperity and n shifts, as “TOPOTed bY “Untle= Sam: = PErmmers pias Jofuiatio the Department of Agriculture production reports. Big kick of the persons who have to make it their business to interpret government statistics is the lack of uniformity in them. That's the new appeal they're now trying to add, plus _ Some simplification. A special office has béen set up in the Bureau of the Budget to. do the job. The idea is to get standard terminology and classifications which will be adopted by all the agencies, ! » . .

Medning of Reports .. WHEN a farmer gets a report on the number of horses fn’ the U. 8, the term “horses” means one thing. When the owner of a glue factory gets a report from the’ Department of Commerce on the number of horses there are, “horses” means anpther thing. That type of thing is what they're trying to elimi-

een : Probably the most important change being worked out is in the costvof-living index. The index has been computed on What was ‘a fair cross-section of the expenses ‘of the average ° family in the yusrs 1934-1036. Buying habits have changed

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"I'd get along fine at this. school Jf it wasn't for the prots trying to show us up by asking questions in class!”

since then. The price of rayon hose for women used to be an

important indicator, for example, Now the price of nylon hose is more important, SE 4 Most . important itém which has changed in & family’s expenses is rent. It has been held down by controls while everything else has risen. In computing the rent factor. in the index,

a basic adjustment is ob . It is estimated that it will take thfee years to modernize the index. It will cost more than $1 miifjon. "The whole govJ Job probably won't be accom-

ernment statistical plished before 10

advances in traffic volume.

The new peak was achieved despite numerous work stope pages. A shutdown forced by the current. strikes could not

spoil the record, although some experts predict the factories

will lose easily a month's output thro 4 i oe sa tp rough depletion of their The best guess now is that final 1949 production figures will range close to 5800000 units.” And this huge outpouring must somehow be accommodated by already congested high ways and parking facilities throughout the country. ; What curve production will follow in the years- ahead no one oan el) for sure, of course. But Sumner Slichter, veteran economist, forecasts in the current Atlantic Monthl 1980 there will be two cars for every family in ety States. That would put the automobile population somewhere above 80 million, as compared with the present 41 million.

Burden on Roads

EVEN if only half this gain is realized; it will place bure :

dens upon the nation’s road network that w ’ traffic difficulties look like child's play. i maj iodays As Fortune Magazine points out in. its November issue, the improvements made in our highway system since the war ended have put it back about Where It was in 1933 terms of general condition. and adequacy. We still have the 1983-1949 lag to make up before we start keeping pace 'with current

Either the nation must be prepared to face a stiff addition to its general tax bill or it must accept broader use of toll highways to get the required expansion. : :

Toll Roads Opposed

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GOVERNMENT officials frown on toll roads as wasteful,

But state to the pressing Tolls seem easier to impose than new general

after state .is turning to them for the answer traffic puzzle, levies, : The outlook. is no brighter when it comes to parking facill« ties, Cars by the thousands converge very day on the downe town areas of giant centers like New York, Chicago and los Angeles. The flow in and out resembles the Sunday crawl that has long plagued holiday drivers. -- . > A few cities have developed big " partial solutions. But unless huge new facilities are "In many places, and more business

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