Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1949 — Page 20

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Angus Ward Is Free L 4 THE release of Angus Ward from his Manchurian prison * was a victory for American public opinion. The State Department had been sitting on its hands until - this outrageous treatment of an American diplomat was * * brought to the attention of the people by The Times and ~ other Scripps-Howard newspapers. That got results. The roar of American indignation was heard around the * ‘world, even behind the Iron Curtain, even in the Kremlin. - Britain was on the point of recognizing the Chinese * Communists until Foreign Minister Bevin discovered that the Americans were angry and up in arms. Because of this, he . said, action would have to be postponed. :

. » . : THE pressure was too much for the Reds, and Angus + Ward was released. Now that the State Department has had a demonstra- * tion of the respect the United States can command when its citizens assert themselves, it should act, and act now, to demand the release of all Americans who are held behind the Iron Curtain. There are 147 American officials and dependents in Communist China alone who desire to come home, and who are - held there against their will. There are at least two in Red Korea, : Profiting by the sorry spectacle it made of itself in the + Angus Ward Lik our government henceforth should uphold 7 the rights of Americans everywhere and have no traffic of + any kind with any government which does not treat our citi-

4 IT 18 not mere coincidence that a prominent American "businessman has just been jailed on spy charges in Commu- * nist Hungacy. In fact, American citizens are being insulted, assaulted and generally mistreated wherever they come in contact with Communist regimes and the State Department * has been letting the Reds get away with it. $0 We are only asking for more trouble when we submit i + to these outrages. i "Angus Ward was in the prisoner's dock at Mukden but it

» od Day comes again, And, again, there are with a kind of brite lgie: “What have

It was given by Abraham Lincoln 86 years ago. - Then, as now, * trust the present and fear the future could find them in abun- : dince. North and South were locked in mortal combat. Thou‘sands of homes Were desolated by the loss of husbands, fa“thers, sons and brothers in battle. Doubt was widespread that the torn and bleeding union ever could be restored. "YET President Liricoln, proclaiming the first national day of Thanksgiving “in the midst of a Civil War of un- _ equaled magnitude and severity,” said this in 1863: “Needful diversions of wealth and strength from the "fields of peaceful industry to the national defense have not arrested the plow, the shuttle, or the ship; the ax has enlarged the borders of our settlements, and the mines, as well of iron and coal as of the precious metals, have yielded even "more abundantly than heretofore. has steadily increased notwithstanding the ‘waste that has been made in the camp, the siege and the _ ‘battlefield, and the country, rejoicing in the consciousness « of augmented strength and vigor, is permitted to expect continuance of years with a large increase of freedom.

: r . “NO human counsel hath devised, nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the most high God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one - heart and one voice by the whole American people.” Abraham Lincoln's faith still lives among us. For that and many other mercies we can be thankful,

Jobless Pay Frauds : THE State's prosecution of five men who filed unemployment compensation claims while gainfully employed is a long overdue action against widespread attempts to chisel benefits from the government. There have been too mihy instances of attemots to raid illegally the unemployment compensation fund as well "as other frauds in Social Security benefits, These agencies were established at great cost to serve in emergencies to keep the unemployed out of the bread lines and to aid elderly persons no longer able to make their own living.

AND when a few unscrupulous chiselers try to take advantage of this costly public service it is time for a severe " erackdown with some stiff prison sentences, : Conviction of these defendants will serve as a timely .. - warning that such attempts at fraud and deception to get public welfare money will not be tolerated,

‘A Welcome Break e are times whien Britain's sober “austerity” seems more n anyone, including the British, can

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, home of the British Parliament, i bobby's hat they perched atop way of saying “nuts” to the hallowed halls below. the

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Americans who sought reasons to dis-

Law Fees S Bill in Congress Would

Help Collect Huge Damages

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24— The name of Jacob M. (Jack) Arvey—Democratic boss of Chicago

war damage claims now pending against the U. 8, government. It is a $50 million to $80 illon suit in which Jack's LaSalle St. law of Arvey, Hodes and Mantyband s

fo collect a fee of up to 10 per cent. Ber'ss

million to $6 million, ‘ That ain’t all. Pending before the 81st Congress next year will be a bill introduced by Chicago Congressman- Barratt O'Hara—one of the Arvey stalwarts. If it is passed, the O'Hara bill would permit the collection of equivalent or possibly greater sums by the Arvey firm and its clients, In case the courts decide against

The clients in this case are 800-odd of the 1360 civilian’ employees of Navy contractors working on Wake, Guam and in the Philippine Islands when the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor.

About 60 were killed by the Japs or died In

Saptivity. The rest were interned for the dura-

In 1942 Congress passed special legislation for their relief. Under this law they have already been paid a total of $10,503,000. The range of claims $12,000 apiece, with the average for all 1300 or their survivors at $8000. But a steady presSule has been applied on Congress to collect still more.

Association Formed

FIRST an association of “Workers of Wake. Guam and Cavite” was formed. Its president is Mrs, Mary Ward of Palm Springs, Cal, wife of one of the beneficiaries. This organization helped. put through Congress the “War Claims Act of 1948." It gpens the waynfor more benefit

payments in the immediate future, possibly still

more later on. But the big effort is through the Chicago law suit. This case got into the Arvey law office through Kal Waller of Hammond, Ind. During the war he was a lieutenant commander in Navy's Bureau of Yards and Docks, in WashSOD Ong Of in Jobb aA So. Keep in smach with families of the 1300 employees of Navy contractors in the Pacific. After their release by the Japs and after Waller's discharge, 800 of the survivors were banded together to collect further damages.

the iaw firm of Arvey, Hodes and Mantyband.

_Filed in 1947

THE sult was filed in 1947, against eight

‘Arvey well, was recently appointed ¢hairman of the War Ciaims Commission by (President Truman.

$50,000 Per Worker

THE suit of the 800 first asks that they be paid their full contract wage rate from the time they left the U. 8. in 1941 until their return

“ifm 1945. The suit then asks civil wrongs dam-

ages of $50,000 per worker, on the

that the Navy should have known that war

was coming and ‘should have provided safety for all these naval contractors’ employees.

In a recent letter sent on Arvey, Hodes and .

Mantyband stationery. to at least one client.

in the Wake Island.case, a recommendation

wis given “that yon do not execute a release under the War Claims Act, because you ‘wil be seriously jeopardizing your rights.” The letter was signed by Kal Waller and Louis M. Mantyband. It sald claimants might receive little more than $1000 each under: the present War Claims Act, This is of course far less than they are seeking through their law suit, and far less than they would get if the O'Hara Bill were to become law,

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TIS SAID

If the war—which cost plenty--was fought on the present or lower tax rate why should there be higher taxes to fight the battle of peace? . 4 B. C.~Indlanapolis.

NEWS NOTEBOOK . . . By Douglas Larsen

Behind the Scenes

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24-A sampling of opinion among midshipmen of the Naval Academy at Annapoils reveals that they share little of the bitterness against unification held by their

superior officers in the Pentagon,

Most of them think that the feud is just too high-level for servicemen of their lowly rank to get excited about. One result

of the economy caused by unification does bother them, however, The free bus which used to be provided for the golfers to take them to the course from school has been stopped. To get to the links now, they've got to use the local bus line and pay a fare, As one second-year man puts it: “First they take away the giant carrier. Now they've taken away the bus to the golf course, I wonder what is coming next?” ~ ” » EVER since the new federal rent control law was put on ‘the books this year Tighe Woods, the rent control direc. tor, has avoided the press very carefully, refusing to outline top policy on decontrol. Mean: while screams are going up all lem. over the country that the new » law should be called the “fedWoods

leaving only 390 areas still protected, under the new law. » - .

HOWARD HUGHES, mil lonaire manufacturer

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Job so far,

paid has been from $5000 to

' Lincoln ' got around to it,

4 par with his famous flying boat that caused a congressional investigation, It is a giant, troop-carrying, Jet<propelled helicopter for the So far most details of it are top secret. Air Force has only given him money to build one. If it flies and does the job the Air Force hopes it can, he'll get a fat production contract fresh them. Only fact on it known is that it will be pow-

proved successful on one small How it will work on a big helicopter is the pro

A RUFFET dinner held before the premiere of the new wr . movie “Battleground” attract. ‘ ; A ed all the big brass in Wash ington. Secretary of Navy Francis Matthews and his wife

CONTRARY to general opinion, neither the Pligrims nor the New Deal (as the Democrats “would have us believe) had any thing to do with putting turkey on the Thanksgiving bill of fare. It was the work of Sarah Josepha Hale, a 39-year-old widow with five : : little children to support. As early as 1826, almost 40 years before President

Mrs. Hale nursed a notion that we should have a national holiday labeled “We have 18 few holidays,” she lamen > apparently unmindful of the obvious fact that what she had in mind would increase a woman s burden even more. The very next year, in 1827, Mrs.. Hale elaborated her thesis, got to thé heart of the problem, and delivered the turkey to the Thanksgiving table. t was the year she published “Northwood,” an extraordinary novel not only because it was the first American literary treatment of slavery, but also because it was the first to describe her idea of an orthodox Thanksgiving dinner “set forth in the parlor, being the best room and ornamentéd with the best furniture.” On that historic occasion, Mrs. Hale said by way of her book: “The turkey took precedence sending forth the rich odor of its savory dressing.” = Eight years later when she was editor of the Boston Ladies’ Magazine, Mrs. Hale's attitude toward “periodical seasons of rejoicing” became even more significantly social. That was the year (1835) when she said: “They bring out and together, as it were, the best sympathies in our natures.” Thus proving that Mrs. Hale Baa the r jdea right from the starfsnamely, tha! I hanksgiving should be a day of feasting and boasting and not of fasting and’penitence as some sour souls would have us believe. ;

Started in 1846

IN 1848 when she was 58 years old and editor of Godey's Lady's Magazine, Mrs, Hale began a definite and alarmingly determined campaign to last 17 years for the nationalization of a feast to be called Thanksgiving. Year after year she importuned the governors to join In establishing the last Thursday in November as a general turkey festival. By 1852 she was able to announce that 29 governors ha seen the light and shared her view, t

Indiana got into the picture as early as 18d.

when Governor David Wallace (Lew's father) issued a proclamation fixing Thursday, Nov, 28, as a day of Thanksgiving. It was the first such order issued by an Indiana governor on his own initiative. To be sure, on a previous occasion the

" fegislature had authorized Jonathan Jennings

(our first governor) to allocate the second Friday in April, 1822, as a day of Thanksgiving. When it came time for him to issue the prociamation, Governor Jennings remarked signewhat apologetically—-at any rate rather guakedly— that he had been moved to do so because of “a

that is

: core. 1040 JY MEA SERVE WV. MEG. 8. PUT. OFF. oA “| think we ought to set aside at least one week to settle for ~ once and for all the squabble batween the Army and Navy!"

OUR TOWN . . . By Anton Scherrer

First Thanksgiving Here in 1839

large and respectable position of the religious community.” There is reason to believe that nobody paid any attention to either of the two proclamations. At any rate, Pioneer Calvin Fletcher—as meticulous a chronicler as this town ever had—made, no mention of them in his diary. A year after the first Wallace proclamation, however, Mr. Fletcher confided to his diary under date of Nov. 19, 1840: “Cold day Thanksgiving — In the morn went with Mrs. Julia Hand after clothing for the

‘poor—We rec'd liberal donations—Our dist. all

south of Wash. St. of Meridian — After going over about 1; the dist. we suspended the operations and went to hear Thanksgiving sermon at M. E. C. Mr. Good preached good sermon—Gen'l Hanner called and paid me for the 46 hogs which weighed 13982 ahd came to $410.46.” Mrs. Hale was 75 years old when, in 1863, she persuaded Abraham Lincoln to issue the first proclamation to celebrate Thanksgiving on a national basis—plenty old enough, you'd think, for her to retire and rest on her accumulated laurels. But there was more work to do, and nobody to do it for her. The truth was that she hadn't yet finished her Thanksgiving bill of fare.

Fancy Fish Course :

FOR THE next 15 years, Mrs. Hale used the columns of her paper (still Godey’s Lady's Magazine) to tell the women of America what to serve with Thanksgiving turkey. And among the thin®s she recommended were “Soodje,” a fancy fish course, and “Lafayette ducks with snowballs,” an artful dish compounded of boiled rice, raisins and “coffee A sugar.” High on the list of recommended side dishes, too, was ham baked in maple sirup. To meet her specifications, the ham had to be soaked in cider at least three weeks. Subsequently, it was stuffed with sweet potatoes. Of pumpkin pie, Mrs. Hale said it was “an indispensable part of a good Thanksgiving dinner.” Not a word, though, about dousing it with whipped cream. And let that be a warning to you modern cooks who yet have to learn to let wellenough alone, or Mrs. Hale died in 1879 at the age of 91. She ran Godey’s Lady's Magazine almost to the day of her death. Besjdes putting the turkey and fixin's on the Thanksgiving bill of fare, she also found time to think up a way of raising funds to build the Bunker Hill Monument. Moreover, she composed the poem, “Mary Had a Little Lamb,” a performance big enough in itself to establish a lasting reputation.

Two Thanksgivings ;

SHE ‘WAS a grand old lady and it would

~have-tickled her no end to learn that 60 years

after her death, America had the vision and imagination to celebrate two Thanksgivings in 19039--just 10 years ago this month. One was for the Republicans who had the fortitude to celebrate it on the traditional Thursday--this in spite of the fact that they didn't have much to be thankful for at the time, The other one was designed for the Democrats who that year, as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal, celebrated Thanksgiving a week ahead of time and, in—their-intoxicated-state of exuberance, called it “Franksgiving.” Remember? ‘

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Even if a Canadian destroyer hadn't been nearby to pick up the survivors, the life boat would have made it to shore. “The sole .purpose of Air Rescue Service,” its 5000 men . are advised, “is to save lives.” r . IT MAKES no difference whether tho lives are military or civilian, American or foreign. Once a plane is down, Alr Rescue crews take to the air. Records are kept of how long it takes to get aloft after an alert,

Harding, Belmont and perhaps Tibbs. The four avenues that converge upon the cone gested downtown district shoula ‘have no trol. leys or streetcars on them but had better be given over entirely to passenger automobiles, overland freight lines, and cross-country bus service—the better to speed them through our city and thereby relieve trafic congestion. Express lines should he déveloped without de lay, not only to such outlying districts as Speed way City, Broad Ripple and Mars Hill, but also many shorter express lines. For instance, at’ certain hours some trolleys could load at three, downtown points and then go straight through: without a stop to the 800 block, or to the 1600! lock. is The pay as you leave method has been found! to speed up transit schedules and has been used. in large citles for years. It would especially’ speed up the schedules here during the evening’ rush hour, i Transit rates here will probably have to be! resolved eventually by the zone system. When a town becomes a metropolis there probably is no other workable method. We can't let the Street Railways go on raising fares (to make up for their inefficient, smalltown operating methods, their two-high management salaries, and their wasteful system of costly loops in the cone gested downtown district). It could be estab. lished that a b5-cent zone would up to the 800 block in any direction; a 10-cent Zone up to about 3000 in any direction; and a 15-cent zone beyond that. It would be simple to change over to this Zone system by having passengers pay when they leave the car on outbound trips and pay when they enter the car on inbound trips. or the ills of our transportation system, a big dose of streamlining and Roderoias tion is urgently recommended. * ¢ ¢

. . Property Relation of Man’ By Charles Ginsberg, 2201 N, Keystone Ave. Confucius once said: ‘ “There is the love of knowing without the love of learning: The beclouding here leads to dissipation of the mind.” ; i There are many people who pose as authors ities on socialism “without the love of learning.” Any petty reform of capitalism is branded as socialism. Socialism can only be had by a revolution, never by reforming capitalism. To understand socialism one must study the works of Marx, Engels, Lewis H. Morgan and Daniel DeLeon. Not understanding the works of these men, “. . . leads to dissipation of the mind.” England has her political state under a limited monarchy, a political parliament and a capitalist economy. Regardless of what they call it, it is not socialism. Fredrick Engels, co-worker of Marx, in “So cialism, Utopian and Scientific,” says: “But the transformation, either ‘into joint stock companies and trusts, or into state-owner-ship does not do away with the nae ture of the productive forces. . . . And the modern state, again, is only the organisation that bourgeois society takes in order to support the external conditions of the capitalist mode of production against the encroachments, as well of the workers as of individual capitalists, The mbdern state, no matter what its form, is essentially a capitalist machine, the state of the capitalists, the ideal personification of the total national capital.” “.,. The workers remain wage-workers—proletarians. The capitalist relation is not done away with.” The theory of socialism is a form of society in which the implements of production and dis tribution and the land on which’ they are used will be owned collectively, and administered through a socialist infustrial union by the workers. The workers will elect their own managers and supervisory forces in the industries. They will also elect representatives from their industrial unions to an all industrial congress, whose duties will be to co-ordinate and direct production for use, instead of for profits as under the capitalist political state, The. political state is not organized and is unfit to direct production. Its’ function is to maintain order in a class-divided society. Bocialism, accordingly, is the direct antithesis of capitalism, both in its historical conception and its economics. It will be a fundamental change in the property relation of man. 2 Lewis H., Morgan, one of the best author. ities on ethnology. says: “A mere property career is not the final destiny of mankind, if progress is to the law of the future as it has oeen in the past.” :

TRAVELERS’ AID . .. By James Daniel = Air Rescue Service

WASHINGTON, Nov. 24—Along with all his other ventures in international benevolence the American taxpayer is supporting a world-wide system for rescuing air travelers in distress. It's called the Air Rescue Service and it's part of the military air transport service, the world-wide airline maintained by the Army, Navy and Air Force. What the St. Bernard monks are to Alpine travelers, Rescue Service is on a global basis to anybody who flies. It was Air Rescue which got the message that A B-29 wad lost and running low.on fuel near Bermuda last Week. The rescua service or ganized the air search, which involved 160 planes of its own and other services. A rescue service plane sighted the two life rafts supporting 18 survivors and dropped a 30-foot life boat with medicine, food, clothing, sails and two gaso-

Air woods, wandering missionaries in the Philippines and a Brazilian army officer who vanished into the Amazonian jun. gle.

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stationed at Bahrein flew a doctor into Saudi Arabia to treat one of Ibn Saud’'s royal

have died of pneumonia. They found the U. 8. air attache at

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Air Rescue Service located the plane that cracked up in the Azores, killing boxer Mare cel Cerdan and all others aboard. Part of the service's work is never published. For in. stance, transoceanic commer

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