Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 October 1950 — Page 26

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Faith . . . In a Time of Trouble

PPARENTLY no one consciously planned it this way . .. “dA put today is likely to produce in Indianapolis a truly great demonstration of the faith of a whole city. : The Roman Catholic churches of the diocese have joined for a tremendous rally on the steps of the War Memorial. Its theme will be family prayer . .. it's slogan “the family that prays together stays together.” It is by no means limited to Catholics. Everyone is welcome. Many thousands are expected. The Protestant churches of the city have joined, too, for a gigantic rally this evening in Cadle Tabernacle vied with every indication that this huge auditorium will be more than filled. This is net limited to Protestants, either. Every-

body is invited. » » » WE HAVE no idea whether Indianapolis is more, or less, religious than other large cities. It does seem, though, that there has been a vast quiet revival of religion here in the months just past ...asif a troubled people had turned to a Higher Power for comfort and assurance and strength. The coincidence of these two great rallies today is per-

; . - t. haps a natural culmination of that movemen : These are times of trouble, and doubt, and confusion

and fear. \ . Today we see a city turning to prayer to solve the prob-

Jems human minds have found too great.

No Place for Politics

FE; OF the things needed to increase postal efficiency 0°” . et i of the Post Office department litics. aki gh go Real of “progress has been made in that direction. Appointments of first, second’ and third class postmasters are no longer.as brazenly partisan as they were until 1932. And President Truman set a fine precedent when he appointed Bostmaster General Donaldson, who had worked his way up through the service, instead of putting a professional politician at the head of the department. .»- But. a large majority of the more than 22,000 postmasters:throughout the country still are, in fact, politically selected. They are chosen, it's true, from lists approved by the U. S. Civil Service Commission. ‘But they must be nominated by. the President and confirmed by the Senate, and this system usually gives out the jobs as rewards for services to the party in power. 8. : .- THE Hoover Commission recommended changing the system so that postmasters would be appointed by the Postmaster General, subject to genuine merit standards and, whenever possible, by promotions from the ranks. This would open the way for capable postal employees to advance in a real career service. : Mr. Truman is for the proposed change. So is Mr. Donaldson. And Chairman Mitchell of the Civil Service Commission has just urged the nation’s postmasters, meeting at St. Louis, to give it their support. : Congress, however, and especially the Senate, has been cold toward the idea. Yet the advantages of the present system to members of Congress are certainly dubious. Each time a Senator or Représentative gets one of his political friends named to a postmaster's job he is likely to make several enemies among disappointed candidates for the place. : : The taxpaying public, after all, has a tremendous interest in postal efficiency. There should be strong public ‘demand for approval of this reform by the next Congress.

A Weapon for Peace | USTRALIA'S delegation ‘to the United Nations is distinguished for straight thinking and plain talking. Her ahle Foreign Minister; P. C. Spender, has maintained that reputation in his observations on the latest proposal for outlawing the atomic bomb. . ; : ; The Soviet resolution, now before the United Nations General Assembly, would. classify use of A-bombs as the greatest crime against humanity and brand gs a war criminal a governnient first using them. Mr. Spender said: “The most heinous crime against humanity is the erime of aggression. If-a nation defies the charter to which we are solemnly pledged, and itself resorts to armed aggressioni~can it be realistically argued that there should be an absolute prohibition against a nation which is the victim of aggression using the bomb as a defensive measure, If the circumstances render it necessary, in order to survive as a free people?” Lx » » » ; ” n . THAT is the case in a nutshell. : We don’t expect the police to confine themselves to slingshots or bows and arrows when armed bandits are at large in the community. Russia is not asking the United Nations to forbid use of tanks, for she has more tanks than any other country. The Soviet rulers want the use of the atomic bomb forbidden because they know that the United States has more and better bombs than they have. . . «Moreover, if they did not have evil designs upon other mations, including our own, the bombs in our possession - would be no threat to them or to anyone.

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IN THE world's present state, America’s atomic bombs

are like guns carried by pdlicemen. They are holding law-

less elements at bay. For the same reason that criminals would like to see all policé departmpnts disarmed, Russia Would like to see A-bombs outlawed. i Our stockpile of bombs probably is one big reason why Russia did not intervene openly in Korea when our forces

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THE confusion Hugh O'Donnell so graphically describes above is pretty real around Indiana right now.

It usually is, just before election.

But a week from next Tuesday, when the tumult and the shouting dies, the man in the voting booth will be boss. . We doubt if he is fooled very much. It won't matter, especially, that morning, whether Alex Campbell ever was a Republican or Homer Capehart used to be a Democrat, or what Brownson or Jacobs said about Jacobs or Brownson. All that is the superficial persiflage of good old-fash-ioned Hoosier political campaigning, which around here is pretty generally viewed as a good show and appraised on its artistic merits . . . but isn’t what decides elections, ¢ Underneath the campaign tinsel there is a good solid body of serious issues, foreign and domestic, upon which the voter in the voting booth will decide, “4 n ee THEY are not easy-to separate. . - Things that seem like purely ‘domestic issues may vitally affect our foreign policy. And foreign policy may be the difference between peace and war, which is close to the lives of every man, woman and child in this country. Foreign policy has just one aim . orably and securely, . ; If it doesn’t do that, it has'failed. The foreign policies of the United States today have been developing and unfolding for 10 years or more. Things that happen in far places now are at least partly the result of decisions made years ago . . . perhaps at Teheran or Yalta or Potsdam, And decisions made now may aiso be producing far-reaching results years later.

. « to keep us at peace, hon-

In Europe our policies have caused us to spend $20 billions to

strengthen our allies there . , . but those allies have not yet become strong enough to do their share in their own defense. In Asia we surrendered to communism 400 million people of

NIGHTMARE . . . By Frederick C. Othman

Political Crow Isn't

Exactly Chicken

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28—You don’t catch me announcing who's going to win next month's election: I still wake up some- . times in the middle of the hight in a cold sweat over my last effort. as a political prognosticator. I mean the time I said farewell to President Truman.

Next morning I was confronted with a genuine dead crow the man said he expected me § . to eat while he took my photograph. Gad. This time I don't know anything. I've got a strong stomach, but not that strong.

and even then, he said, his photographer was on the way. The latter turned out to be a friend of mine, feeling triumphant. Nobody else in the nation’s capital, he said, unwrapping a bulgy bundle, could have found at 5 a. m. a real crow for eating purposés. Not only that, he said, holding up this ‘scrawny fowl by one of its blue: feet, he'd dressed it ready for cooking and why didn’t IT get out my pot? The feathers he'd brought along in another package for even the ladies with the crys- _ artistic purposes. These he tal balls are laying low. You dumped on the kitchen table, can't blame 'em for that. v' 4. 8. a Guy Gabrielson, who gets SO TI boiled that crow and paid by the Republicans for filled the house with an aroma being dan optimist, says: his all its own, while the camerafellows probably will gain Man recorded the process on control of hoth Houses of Con- . film. When the dish was done, gress, «His alter ego on the _ the linoleum floor was littered other ‘side says the Democrats With flash bulbs. , I dipped my will gain more power than STOW gut of the pan with a ever, You need not pay at- ong fork. tention to either of these gentlemen. Their sunny joy-

Jo. ” ” : WHAT I'm leading up to is the interesting fact that none of the prophets are sticking out their necks over what's going to happen.o Nov. T. Maybe you've noticed the absence of

a Republican or Democratic Congress. The political writers begin every second sentence with “on the other hand” and

rapher, “now eat it.” He sat down expectantly © with his camera aimed in my direction. I lifted up this crow and bared my teeth and he took a barrage of pictures. He still looked interested. He said why didn’t I eat? He had orders to get a picture of me eating crow and this he intended to do. . “And keep your eyes open,” he ordered. The rest of this fate I leave to your imaginaon.

and why 1 spend my time listenting to them yammer on thé radio is beyond me. One of 'em obviously is cockeyed. - ~ = = * WHAT pains me is I can’t decide which one. My only consolation is that hy making this honest . confession, I escape having to boil another crow on Mrs. Os electric stove. And I might as well tell that whole, horrid story: g : The: day Mr. Truman was being elected .I wrote what I thought was a fine, sentimental piéce, saying goedby to him and predicting that he'd probably be happier back, in Independence, Mo. That night

"FOOTBALL"

TO ME the game of football is . . . the greatest test of all «+» to prove the real ability . . . of those who heed sport's call h

when the returns were coming --. it is a game where in, I went to bed. But I got and speed... go hand in hand to worrying. Couldn't sleep, With brains... and those who

play it best of all . . . are sure to make the gains . . , the spills and thrills that it provides . . . I'm sure cannot be beat . . . for when a play is taking place . . . it's hard to

Turned on. the radio. Discovever a newspaper story was wrong, mine was ft. " - - S01 out another to Mr, T. and the readers and announcing that even then I was eating figurative crow. I crawled back into bed, but I

y large part . .. of what it takes to make this game . , , 80 dear to each one's

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EDITOR'S NOTES . + « By Walter Lockrore Hard-Faced Issues Underlie Hoo

“All right,” said the-photog-

China without a struggle . . . and then fought a bitter conflict to save from communism 15 million people of Korea. . Clearly our foreign policy has not kept us at peace .. . or in security. We are at war now. We are in danger of more and bigger war. The question before the voters will not be on the ballots . . . but it is simply enough this: Whether our foreign policies have, or have not, been the best ‘ we could have devised . . . whether a different course might, or might not, have “rought us nearer to secure peace, ;

un » ~ = ~ DOMESTIC affairs, too, revolve around one big issue that is made up of many smaller ones. . For years our government has moved steadily toward more and more responsibility for the daily life and welfare of every ‘American . , . and toward greater and greater control over what he does and what he earns and how he lives. : The voters next week will decide whether we go two years farther in the direction of the super-state. Today about -one-fourth of: the wages of every worker are

‘Hoosier Forum

“I do not agree with a word that say, but | will defend fo the death your right to say td y :

‘Antidote for Some Evils’

By C.D. C., Terre Haute ; ; WHENEVER 1 consider the number of criticisms that are published against me in the Forum I often wonder how many they receive that are not published. Well, for the benefit of Clarence Love of Marshall, I was criticized just as much in 1928 when I was fighting against the election of Herbert Hoover. I realized then that the anti-trust laws were not being enforced and we were heading for disaster. Neither were they enforced when F.D.R. was President. It is my own belief that we are in far more danger of dis,aster today than at any time in history because we have both big business and big labor scratching each other on the back aud for every scratch we get another price raise and more inflation.

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Naturally, Mr. Love, I believe that anti-trust laws shold be enforced and, furthermore, I think the Taft-Hartley law should be enforced and strengthened to shear more power from the big labor bosses. ] Mr. Marshall says he would like me to suggest an antidote for some of these evils. The first thing we need to do is to put our own house in order and wipe the slate clean of the ones responsible for the mess we are in. =

» » " f » » 5 THE NEXT thing we need to do is to disfranchise everyone on the government payroll, for the payroll vote has been the deciding factor in every election since 1939. The next thing to do is to take relief out of politics, And one thing most of all we have got to learn that we can't feed and police the world. g

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Voter Shows Determination By Mrs. Frank Metzger, 38937 College Ave. i 1 AM asking you to cast your ballot for a good Christian gentleman, James P. Scott. . ON I never saw him but a few times, but he did us a fine favor ° that proved to me he is a Christian man.

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x Ry I ; Ea old and can’t walk scarcely, but if the Lord is willing, I am going to vote for Mr. Scott and I am asking the good Lord that you all will do the same, :

»... ’ SA : % IN A campaign year the Democrats wanted to build a platform and they Mr. Metzger's tools.” When they brought them back the saw was missing. Jimmy. said néw you boys will have to get Frank another saw, so they got the saw, 80 please vote for a man who is everybody's friend. :

“Smodth Political Tricks’

By W. H. Edwards, Gosport : i ELECTION time is drawing near. And this is to be probably the most critical election ever held. Each side is -

ig In 1944, Marion County led the way in depriving hundreds ‘of legal voters from casting ballots. Other counties tried the same thing since, with only partial success. i 473 ' Because of the -of the coming election it is imperative that every effort should be made to prevent the use of a

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sier Political Tinsel And Noise

taken by his federal government in taxes, and spent on what his government considers his “welfare,” : Proposals pending now would greatly increase that. The plan to pay farmers a high price, for food and then give the food to everybody for low prices is one of them. The plan to pay everybody's doctor bill out of taxes and compel doctors to work for the government and treat our ailments at public... which ‘s our . . . expense-is another. The proposals for federal aid to public schools . . . which many sincere citizens believe inevitably means federal control of all education is ‘still another, There are many more. There are enough, in fact, to make this

country over completely into a socialist totalitarian state if all

were adopted and carried out. : SECs. v gs 8 =

IF the question whether or not to turn America into a so. cialist nation appeared baldly on a voting ballot there is little doubt about the result. : 3

Americans would vote overwhelmingly against anything of

the kind.

* The proposals, though, advocate only one step at a time .., always a step designed to give somebody something for nothing, or nmhing that is, except a little of his freedom. Just a little at a time. i

Not even the smaller issues will be on the ballots next week as such. :

But on every ballot, in every state and in every congressional district, will be the names of candidates for election in whose hands will lie the decisions on every one of those issues . . . many of them right now awaiting only congressional action. Every voter has a right to expect . . from those who seek to ‘represent him, some clear ciit answers ++ + and no evasions . . . on all those issues. To a large degree, in spite of the confusion ‘of the six-ring circus that is Hoosier politics in ‘campaign time, voters do seem to he getting the answers. A week from Tuesday . .. confusion or not . . . ’ some answers of their own. : Ther! lave

FOSTER FOLLIES . . .

It Takes an old Nose

To Really Know

ee Da ational Dimking Association (donuts, that is) will siden andidates . Mari Wilsoh, and Bobby Benson, Jimmy Durante, Marie You: can say a lot for Benson, Whose achievements aren't’ ‘scanty, And we'd hate to try dispensin® With the charm of old Durante,

resulting from the Korean situation. But the dials were completely jammed for four days soon after. Yep, the boys were checking on World Series results. It's hightime someone in the Defense Department tried to find out ‘what the score is.

But we need no referendum, Sweet Marie is far from

shoddy. s x =» With this slogan she should FOLKS are still talking send 'em— about those great money pitch“Every doughnut should ers the Yanks used in the late have Jody! Phil-lamented set-to.

But none of those lads could work in the same league with George Washington, who came -. up with the revolutionary idea of tossing that dollar across the Rappahannock, back in 'T6 series. :

DURANTE claims that Benson (who is now crowding 13 years of age) is out of his class. Could be. Someoné has to move into the next grade. Besides, no one could outshadow the Schnozz in a mere 12 years.

“Jimmy would be a handy One around sometimes, but

they say. George was a real fast man with a buck that day, . George had a lot on the ball. .-At Trenton he dug-out those Hessians in a hurry and spiked all ‘their plans for a Merry Christmas. The Hessions had been “batting around” all day. But they were using something a lot stronger than Ballantine

Dunieers had a picnic. Wouldn't even need the stake and horseshoes. Plenty of doughnuts and Durante would make afine set-up for ring toss. But we can’t escape the feeling that, if elected, Marie could show the Association a thing or two, * : Sop

0 nn ; blasts. Th FELLOW out in Seattle lost Everybody was “out” in no control of his car when a short time at all. : :

circuit set his pants afire. He was ticketed for reckless driving. -Then he got hot-headed.

~ ~ n KNOXVILLE police have been cracking down to enforce the five-minute parking -Jimit at the main post office. That may speed the mails some. Deliveries all over the country

known party giver, columnist and woman - about - the-world,

this year at election time, When she tried to register, she

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faster service and fewer wrong numbers, better information and less yack sty-yak ay = HAD it not been for Alex Bell, : J (Or was it Don Afnech€?) i We'd have some quiet for HI

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