Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 May 1951 — Page 14

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‘And Now, 11,000 More THIS is the first Memorial Day since the Korean War began.

A year ago, at ceremonies throughout the nation, orators paying homage to those who had died for our country spoke almost confidently of a future that might be

spared the curse of war. Nearly five years had passed since VJ-Day. They had been troubled and uneasy years. But the Memorial Day speakers, and those who heard them, dared to hope that the United Nations would grow in effectiveness, that the humanitarian efforts overseas inspired by America’s good will would succeed in their purpose, and that a world with such great reason to abhor war would learn to live in peace. Then—Iless than a month after those brave words were spoken—came the sudden, stunning Red invasion of South Korea, and the swift decision that America must take the

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SINCE then, 11,000 more Americans have met death in battle. Call it police action, or call it full-fledged war, they have died for their country and for the honorable peace we all so earnestly desire. Today we honor them and mourn for them with grief that is all the more poignant because other brave Americans must continue to fight. That is a sad thought. Yet seven major wars in 175 years have taught America that freedom is bought dearly with the lives of patriots. The graves of nearly a million dead in those wars—and the fact of our continued liberty— bear witness to that. Today, as we decorate the graves of those who have worn our country’s uniform, we can best prove the sincerity of our gratitude by praying for the wisdom and courage to keep the faith and achieve the peace for which they died.

Bargain Rates for Speeders

HY much does it cost, if you get caught speeding? On the record, not very much. In the first 15 days of May, just past, Judge Alex Clark found 499 drivers guilty of speeding and reckless driving in his court. The average fine was $10.15. This included the “costs,” which were $6.75. So the penalty, beyond court costs, for those speeders was $3.40 each. Judge Joseph M. Howard was tougher. He didn’t have so many cases, since it wasn’t his turn on traffic at the time, and there were only 30 convictions. The average fine, including “costs” of course, in his court was $10.61. Actually “costs” plus $3.86. ~~ That was all. The record shows no guilty driver who served as much as a single hour in jail, although, in justice to the judges, it shows that very few sentences were suspended. 3 . # " s = = WHAT were these people doing, who got off with this delicate wrist-tapping in our city courts? Well, all but a handful of them were driving through Indianapolis streets at speeds of 40 to 60 miles an hour. The highest legal limit is 30 miles an hour. Only a tiny handful were found guilty of driving 39 miles an hour, and apparently nobody came into court at all if he was doing less than 39 when caught. Not much of a penalty for wantonly placing in danger the lives of others. Hardly enough punishment to keep anybody from doing it again—or even to warn others against it. There doesn’t even appear to be any record kept of second offenders, or habitual reckless drivers.

Indianapolis has the worst traffic death record in the United States, right now.

- » " » » » IT SEEMS plain to us that there is a direct relation between those two sets of statistics.

Speeding and reckless driving is not going to be curbed materially until our courts work up enough courage to hand out some penalties for those who are guilty. We don't believe the traffic death rate in Indianapolis is going to drop much until reckless driving is curbed. We believe it can be stopped, and stopped quickly, if our city courts will begin to send a few reckless drivers to jail for a few days.

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Theatrical Revival?

N NEW YORK CITY the new theatrical season is gener-

ally regarded as starting June 1. Lovers of entertainment the nation over may be pleased to know that the first attraction is already booked. On that very date, Jacob Malik of Russia takes his place for a month's run as chairman of the United Nations Security Council.

Inevitably, this will stir some interest. Will he come in smiling or frowning? Will he castigate the “Wall Street imperialists” in mild terms or severe? The “critics,” from foreign offices far and wide, will be watching closely for the first sign of a crinkle around his mouth. But when he starts to talk a few may wearily reflect: “Isn't this like

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The Long Wait

WHAT A day for the 500-Mile Race. Pack the family in the car, take a lunch and a few cans of beer ., . this is the day we've been waiting so long for.

The kid that died in the Korean mud-hole has been waiting a long time too. He was waiting for the statesmen of the world to make a decision and throw everything they had into the fight . . . the fight for freedom? The decision never came for him. Instead he was hacked across the back of the neck with a piece of flying shrapnel . . . and now it doesn’t matter if the decision ever comes or not.

Honor the war dead, the dead of all wars. Close up the stores, have a few minutes of silence in honor of their memory, blow taps and raise the flag . . . but first, let's have a picnic. I know a swell little spot by the river where it's cool . . It's mever cool in war. Even in sub-zero weather men sweat with fear. War is a dirty business, a job that must be done if Americans want to be free . . . but that doesn’t make dying any easier. .It doesn't cut the fever of a festering leg wound. It doesn’t stop the gnawing in your stomach when you hear men scream with pain. It's just a job to do . . . a dirty job that somebody has to do .. . if we want to be free men. By golly, George, this is going to be one great day for me. I've done a lot of work already this week. This is a break. I'm going home, take off my shoes. fix a nice, cool drink and not move a muscle all day. There is no rest in war , . . except for the

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dead. Even when you get a break, a chance to get some sleep, there is no rest. You close your eyes and everything is dark until the figures start coming in on you in a burst of light . . . figures of the guys you saw mowed down by a Chink machine gun . . . figures of the kid that went out of his head during a Chink charge and blew his brains out . . . figures of your mother and dad saying, “Good luck, Son. Take care of yourself. We'll be waiting.” There is no rest in war. You eat it, sleep it and live it. It's with you all the time. Like blood . . . sticky and warm . , . You can’t wipe it off. . Hurry up, let's get going. it's getting late. I don't want to miss this day. It'll be dark before we get moving.

Over in Korea there are no days . .. no nights. Just one long period of time punctuated with flying bullets, artillery shells and bombs. It doesn’t matter if it's day or night when you bury a man. You can mark his

grave with a stick, hang his helmet and dog tags on it in the night as well as the day. It doesn’t matter if it's day or might when you bump over a mountain road in an ambulance , . . your arm torn off . . . your chest

caved in. It only matters if you are breathing .

and then sometimes that doesn't matter either. You can wait, because you know there's nothing to do but wait. Oh, boy, am I tired. It's been a long day and my feet hurt. I'm going to bed early tonight. A working man can't afford to take too much time off, you know. Gotta be sharp and on your toes. Only way to get ahead. How do you get ahead in Korea, Joe?

PA RTY LINE .

. By Frederick C. Woltman

Reds Don’t Have Too Much Luck - Trying to Use Singer's Name

NEW YORK, May 30—Ever since she arrived here several months ago, the Communists have been trying desperately to latch on to Josephine Baker, internationally famous, Americanborn Negro singer from Paris. Finally their efforts were, in part, rewarded.

The Commies succeeded in muscling in on Josephine Baker . Day, the biggest celebration Harlem has staged since the triumphs of Joe Louis. “Their performance,” according to Ear! Brown, New York City Councilman from Harlem,

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Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Namely, John Henry Hammond, cochairman, and Lindsay H. White, New York NAACP president and a uniformed lieutenant in the city's Fire Department. Among the celebrities to appear were Mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri, Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, trusteeship director for the United Nations, and M. Roger Seydaux. French Consul. But the Commies were allowed to help finance the affair. And. consequently, put in some solid propaganda licks among the Negroes for half-a-dozen top Red fronts. In the motorcade that toured Harlem were official cars of powerful District 65, Distributive, Processing and Office Workers Union, forced out of CIO for its Communist allegiances. No other union was present. Another auto advertised a Paul Robeson concert under the auspices of the Communist Party's Harlem Trade Union Council. Commies swarmed to the “Night of Stars” celebration at Golden Gate Ballroom. They hardly could have been barred. But it was the Josephine Baker Day testimonial journal that told the story. Apart from the commercial advertisements, most of the tes-

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timontal ads read as if they were lifted from the Communist Party's Daily Worker. With perhaps one exception, no outstanding anti- Communist Negro group paid for an ad. There were full-page ads from the American Peace Crusade, U. 8. wing of the Comintern’s phony “peace” offensive: a committee to defend its predecessor, the Peace Information center, now under federal indictment; a front for the Civil Rights Congress, the CP's legal defense arm. District 65 had twe full-page ads. There were smaller ads from the International Workers Order. Harlem Civil Rights Congress, Committee for the Negro in the Arts and the Commie-sponsored Robeson concert—all of them Commie fronts. The national NAACP is overwhelmingly antiCommunist; and alertly against any dealings with the Commies. What happened was by no design of, the New York Branch sponsor of Josephine Baker Day, said Mr. Hammond, the co-chairman. “It was horrible,” he added. “The ads in the journal loused us up. We're so distressed about it we don't know what to do. I assure you it will never happen again.” Meanwhile, Miss Baker herself slapped down another Commie effort to capitalize on her name. The Committee for the Negro in the Arts, which bought a half-page in the journal, announced through the Daily Worker that it will pay her a special tribute tomorrow; and the award, in her absence, will be accepted by a personal representative. Miss Baker announced she will not accept the award. od UNITED STATES SEN. Edwin Johnson (D. Colo.) finds himself traveling with some mighty interesting fellows since May 17, when he introduced a resolution calling for an end of the Korean War by June 25. He's now top headline news in the Daily Worker. And the Commies are clambering all over the Senator's bandwagon. Through their devious “peace” fronts, they're organizing pressure campaigns on individual Senators and the White House in behalf of the resolution. The American Peace Crusade, which thinks like the Soviet Foreign Office, has given Sen. Johnson its solemn blessing.

By Frederick C. Othman

What's With Color TV—=?

WASHINGTON May 30—Here I was at long last about to buy a television set so I could keep up with the wrestling matches, when the Supreme Court gave me pause. If I wait a little longer, the bloodied noses of the athletes will show up crimson. Guess I'll wait. You've read on the front pages about the high court giving the nod to Columbia Broadcasting | System's tinted TV. As I understand it this corporation can start broadcasting rainbows now at its pleasure. All it needs are some customers fR with the right kind it of machinery in their living rooms to reproduce sliced ham in all its glorious pinkness, That is not an attempted wiseerack. The last demonstration I saw of colored television —this was by the radio corporation’s rival system—included a blonde in a green blouse slicing a ham studded with chunks of yellow pineapple. This was a scene so beautiful that I shall not forget it. The TV people with whom I've talked are a little indefinite about when I'll get blue-eyed cowboys and brown-orbed horses in my parlor. They talk about wartime shortages and Munitions Board rulings on stuff like cobalt, My guess is that it won't be long. CBS had this color system working in the laboratory more than 10

HOOSIER FORUM-‘An Idealistic Vision’

‘Dunkirk’ MR. EDITOR: I just read William H. Stoneman’s article “Dunkirk Now Is Shocking” ...and as a French citizen, I have been slightly "shocked myself by what seems to be misunderstanding. It could not be partiality. Having known the war in the surroundings of Dunkirk, heard the bombs that wrecked it, and lived there under German occupation for two long years, I have my own opinion about what happened and what might have influenced people's feelings. I am entirely ignorant of any headquarters secrets and could not say for sure which operation won or lost the last war (and who could?). But I am well acquainted with the average citizen of Northern France and his patriotism, perverted or not. Let me assure you that, whatever their feeling may be, injured vanity has no part in it. Why should it have? Why should their vanity be injured because of the success of an English retreat, when resisting French troops helped in making it possible? The English did not win the war, the USA did. > B® MR. STONEMAN speaks of the old strain of resentment against the people in England. Dur-

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ing two years of German occupation I have continually heard the Northern French rooting for England and its success, asserting their friendship when it was pretty dangerous to do so. But once the war was over, the dead numbered, the losses counted, maybe those people found time to remember.

There was at a time bitter criticism in French newspapers against that English army, glorified by Mr. Stoneman. England did not send over the number and quality promised. It appeared then that it was rather an army of dubious instruction, used not to fight the war at the border, but mostly to guard the French shores, protecting England. “» &

REMEMBERING the retreat and all the horrors they witnessed, still bearing the weight of war, maybe those people think now that Dunkirk was a bitter price to pay for escape of an army whose use or help they have not felt. I agree with Stoneman. It would be a fine thing for everybody concerned if Dunkirk could be rebuilt 4s a fine, modern city by the joint efforts of the French and the British. But there is a catch to that idealistic vision. Great Britain's financial operations are never

ARGENTINA

U.S. Kills

WASHINGTON, May 30— First feelers for U. 8. government loans to electric power companies doing business in the Argentine have been turned down cold. This is the latest and perhaps the most hopeful development’in the tangled tale of high finance between the two governments, It is recognition of the fact that, since the closing of the great Buenos Aires liberal newspaper, ‘La Prensa,” any further extension of credit to Peron's government would meet strong opposition from Americans.

U. 8. Export - Import Bank, which is a government corporation, has now disbursed over $79 million of the $1235 million loan to bail the Peron government out of its financial embarrassment of a year ago. This was not a direct loan to the Argentine government. Technically the loan was made to a combination of Argentine banks. But the credit was guaranteed by the Argentine government.

Actually, none of this money is going directly to the Argen-

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of philanthropic order. So France will have to rebuild unaided. The French Government already drained of funds by war budgets, an IndoChinese conflict, and general reconstruction programs, will have to combine its efforts with the private citizen whose income does not even cover the bare essentials to rebuild the town. And this, however shocking, may take a long, long time. —Henriette Phillips, City

‘Whiskey Ann’ MR. EDITOR:

1 want to thank you for the article about Whiskey Ann that appeared recently in Tpe Indianapolis Times. I was so glad to have this article printed as I believe it will serve as a help to young girls against the life of sin. I thought it was wonderfully written and I appreciated it so much. I did some slum missionary work for many, years and I have fallen women very much on my heart. May God bless Miss Mikels for writing the article. —Alma Ware Crosby, Beaumont, Tex.

By Peter Edson

years ago. It now is perfected and ready to startle the populace. The firm also has bought a medium-large factory in which to make such sets and is ready to license their manufacture by rival makers, most of whom have been grumpy about the whole idea. The general feeling among the set producers was that the RCA system was best because it was all electronic. Their dirtiest cracks they reserved for CBS’ spinning disc. This used to whirl pie-shaped pieces of red, blue and green plastic in front of the screen and, because of a defect in human eyesight, produce full color movies. The critics claimed that the disc wouldn't work on screens larger than 12 inches unless a housewife was willing to devote half her living room to the apparatus. Such sneers mean little today. CBS now has a transparent drum, which encloses the whole tube and which makes possible color sets of any size, no larger than the present black-and-whites. I also hear that the scientists are working on a tiny color device which fits inside the picture tube itself, but this I have been unable to confirm. Everybody in the business seems to have a different idea about how much color TV will cost. An average of their guesses would seem

to be about $100 extra on a large-screen set. As for converting present sets to color, that is not

impossible, but to an amateur electrician like me it sounds expensive and complicated.

Richer Color

MY OWN opinion is that the Supreme Court made the right decision. That's simply because CBS color to me looks much richer and realer than RCA's brand. I discovered that the spinning color sheets before the tube had a tendency of blotting out some of the light and keeping it from burning my eyes. It also seemed to me that many of the streaks and dots and blurs on gray television disappeared when seen in color.

The bitter battle between the two broadcasting companies and the millions of dollars involved make another story, probably for the financial section. My only interest is that the deed is done. When the wrestlers turn into a tangle or arms and legs, I'll soon be able to tell ‘em apart by the shade of their trunks. I mean I am a prospect. Send a salesman around any time, CBS, and I'll buy.

REMEMBER THESE

" A SANDY beach . .. a rock-bound shore... where broken bodies lay . . . for freedom of this land of ours ... our youth had made their pay « + « & million aching hearts that weep . . , with hope and longing toe . . . that war clouds would dissolve and leave . . . the world with peace anew . .. a mother’s prayer... for her dear boy « « +» the aftermath, the lame . . . a lifetime of

real misery . .. for those that war did maim... remember these, my friends, and pray . .. they never come again , , . for wars bring naught but broken hearts . . . and endless, dreary pain. —By Ben Burroughs.

Off New Feelers for Peron Loan

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8 - . - ‘GOOD old Uncle Sam came along with a loan to save their

. shirts. Just how many of these

creditors there will be is still not known. They divide roughly into three classes: First are 10 big banks, mostly in New York. They were paid off in January for a total of nearly $32 million. Biggest beneficiaries were National City Bank of New York and First National Bank of Boston, which got $6 million apiece. Chase National of New York got a total of $8 million, but through five different accounts.

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America, New York branch, got approximately $6 million in two accounts. Agency of the Royal Bank of Canada got $2.5 million, Central Hanover Banh and Trust got $2 million. Others tapered down to Public National Bank and Trust Co.'s mere $130,000. Second class of creditor which will be paid off by the Expor{~ Import Bank includes some 2000 bills for collection. Banks will again be principal beneficiaries here. Finally there are an unknown number of open accounts of U. 8. firms that shipped goods to the Argentine

and .never got paid for them. There are some big items in this category, including $5 million due International General Electric, and $4 million due Ford Motors. Many of these accounts are small.

- » » WHETHER all of the $125 million will be required to pay off these long overdue accounts is still unknown. Argentine officials believe it won't all be needed. They have made a few passes at having any balances left over used as additional credit to buy tractors and such things. But Ex-Im Bank officials haven't committed themselves on that one, not being too happy about this deal, even in its present form. The surprising development is, however, that in spite of the fact that American banks and exporters came close to getting burnt on their Argentine deals, many are going right ahead and extending new lines of credit to the Argentine. The philosophy seems to be that if the U. 8. government bailed them out once, it would do so again. Loans to the private power companies still operating in the Argentine are a different matter. The Argentine constitution provides for expropriation of blic utilities. The for-

merly British-owned Argentine railway system has thus been taken over by Peron’s government. So has the formerly American-owned International Telephone & Telegraph system,

Ld ~ ” EVENTUALLY it is believed the power companies financed by foreign capital will be similarly taken over. Principal reason this hasn't been done before is that the Argentine government doesn't have the money. The power systems are obviously in need of expansion and modernization. They could use good capital loans for this development. Hence the approach

to U. 8. government lending

agencies to see if they wouldn't be interested in saving their interest, too. Since the Peron government is not a member of the International Bank, the Argentine

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