Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1951 — Page 20

» : Bdiapayelis but how long here 1s a questior to everyone of us. 208 daywof Sila your we huvs killed 36 oth ed ox ae A three under last 8 have been able to keep the accident last Yeara e's the trap that death has set for us. the facts we have fewer deaths and accidents rate of injury has increased from 1679 last this year. . . a skyrocketing hike of 281 persons. g those unfortunate enough ‘to be hospitalized some will probably die between now and the end of the yeat, ‘but we hope ot oe Some of t. will be cri for lif wile ! ppled e and all of them Gp 2 = =» y » ig THE question is how can the accident rate be down and the injury rate up? No one can answer that one officially but one factor is probably speed. On Capitol Ave., in front of Methodist Hospital, the city has posted a 20-mile speed area, but few pay heed to it. : That one area is indicative of the attitude of most drivers toward city-wide speed laws. Everybody's in a rush to get home, take off his shoes and relax. : But somé never get home. The city is not sitting on thi§ problem. It is now attempting to modernize its antiquated traffic system and will shortly institute radar speed control. o oe hen both ig are to ul operation we can expect : ecrease in speed and, we hope, a simi be ; pe, a similar decrease : 2 these fail, we at continue with experiments until we answer that will rid Indianapoli “ki Ne polis of the “killer

. . Dealing With the Reds : AMERICAN diplomats in Moscow who wish to drive their own cays are required to pass a driver's test which includes assembling and dis-assembling an engine and naming all the parts and their functions. Could you do that? Only one American applicant in Moscow could—and he - was a motor mechanic. The others in our Moscow embassy have been forced to employ Russian drivers, who are presumed to be spies for the Soviet Foreign Office. That obviously was the purpose of the exacting examination. —~ «As a retaliatory move, the State Department in Washington asked the commissioners of the District of Columbia to flunk all Russian diplomats when they take road tests for permits to drive in this country. The commissioners do not want to do this, and we don’t blame them. Retaliation is in order, but why resort to any subterfuge about it?

» o o SINCE only one American has been given "a permit to drive in Moscow, the Soviets should be informed that only one Russian will be privileged to drive a car in Washington. If all of our relations with the Iron Curtain countries were kept on a strict reciprocal basis, a lot of misunderstanding might be avoided. fa William Oatis, the Associated Press correspondent in Prague, was engaged in the legitimate pursuits of his business when he was arrested and imprisoned by the Czechoslovakian Communists. If it had been the fixed policy of the United States in such circumstances to suspend all business relations with an offending country, Mr. Oatis probably would not have been molested. The Czechs do a profitable business selling their goods In the American market, and this probably would have out» weighed the propaganda capital they hoped to make out of Mr. Oatis’ arrest. But under our mealy-mouthed policy, the Reds can eat their cake and have it too. How much longer are Americans going to have to put up with these indignities before our hidebound State Department makes a move?

y High Bail or Nene THE HIGH bail asked by the government, and promptly granted, is an encouraging feature of the continuing roundup of American Communist leaders. Evidently the federal courts are coming around to the

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tators and cranks, Communist Party leaders in this country are to be regarded as traitorous and inimical to the Amerfcan government as any Benedict Arnold, or any of the pro-Nazis who sold out to the enemy in World War IL In the latest drag-up of home front Reds, one man was held in $100,000 bail. Six men and two women initially were held in $75,000 bail each, later reduced to $50,000. This is in happy contrast to the average $20,000 bail set for those hauled in previously.

= ” Ld «, u ” ” ON JULY 2, four of the 11 Red leaders convicted in 1949 jumped their bail of $20,000 each, and a few weeks before that when 21 minor party functionaries were indicted in New York, four others escaped. The nominal sums picked up by Uncle Sam won't begin to pay for the nation-wide search for these fugitives, which is still on. The present series of round ups of party officers and organizers will be extended. In view of their bail*jumping _ record, it is not likely that any low bail will be set in future arrests. Aside from that, the magnitude of the offenses charged should sway federal judges. These people are accused of teaching and advocating the overthrow of the government by force and violence. Better yet, we believe, would it be for them to be held for prompt trial without bail in any amount.

TV, the Modern Magnet THE nation’s household movers say the United States + population is on the go as never in. history. Movers’ : ‘are up from 17 to 50 per cent. 1s always have been pretty mobile, especially it how account for this spurt six years after

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MOSCOW — Despite earlier objections of her Premier father, Svetlana Stalin has been reported married to Mikhail Kaganovich. A lavish twoweeks’ celebration is sald to have cost between $500,000 and $900,000.

Sweet Svetlana set the wed-

ding bells to ringing And the celebration, just as you might think, Saw a fortnight filled with dancing, eating, singing; Flowing champagne — which by some strange quirk was pink.

But the whole thing fills poor Joe with apprehension, For it seems they've punctured peevish papa’s pride. In the whole wide world there's naught gets less attention Than the ideas of the father of the bride. 8 " ” WHEN ole Joe has to compromise on any issue-—brother, that's news. We might feel sorry, even for him, except we know that in the long run it's Mikhail who's on ‘the spot. Svetlana’s sveetie darned well better keep the old man happy as well as the bride. And, even if they don't know it, it was the comrades who really rustled up all those rubles. 3ut many a pretty's pater could have told the man of steel that papa always has to compromise when cutie catches a cake-cutting companion. Like when Ma and the ought-to-be-blushing bride get around to figuring out the reception list. Pop puts his foot down and says no more than an even hundred people. At Mike's Spaghetti Palace. The ladies hold out for the Ritz-Vander-gilt—and 500-odd guests. Including Mom's maiden aunt. (Who's always been a little odd.)

FINALLY the happy people (and Pop, too) sit down and go over the guest list again. Then comes the compromise. But after the 500-odd guests have departed--along with the old man’s life savings (which also went to the Ritz-Vander-gilt)—he figures he's weathered all the storms and can put a little something aside for his

old age. Yeah, Plenty. Of unpaid bills. Because shortly ‘after the

wedding Pop's owp storm and strife discovers there's nothing quite so vital as a lot of costly antiques to complete the newlyweds’ new home. (On the basis of the number of postnuptial meals the lovey-doveys have had with them, that's the first inkling the old man has had that they even have a home.) Pop doesn't complain (much) about the cost of the broken-downm what -nots and the 1898 coffee grinders. Until the day Mom pays out $962.50 for the grandfather's clock, which. Pop had thrown out three weeks before the wedding. To help make room for all the lovely presents. And they were nice.” And so useful, too! Fourteen toasters, six electric irons, and 22 iced tea sets.

HEH - HEH HEADLINES:

Baseball Commissioner Chandler With a Plaque.” When he was in the job all they ever gave him was a plague. “Prices Decline for Seventh

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MR. EDITOR: Emma Rivers Milner's choice of words in her article of Saturday, July 21 is, in my estimation, most unfortunate. However, it is very revealing of the tenor of all Indianapolis papers. She calls the separation of church and state in the U. 8. a “bogey.” The separation of church and state happens to be one of our most basic freedoms and from the point of view of enlightened people it is no bogey. Unfortunately an attitude prevails to a large extent throughout the country that everyone who is “anyone” is necessarily “Christian.” By “Christian” is usually meant, if one can believe what one hears and reads, a person who is a white Protestant. A twin attitude is the feeling that everyone is “Christian of course.” I have yet to read, although at one time she may have written about them, any of Mrs. Millner’s articles referring to any but Protestant church doings. This I don’t care about in the least. She can However, inasmuch as she seems to lean predominantly to the Protestant side of Christianity, perhaps Mrs. Milner would not consider the separation of church and state quite such a bogey. if, by chance, we were all of a sudden required to be Catholic, Jewish, Mohammedan, Buddhist, Voodoo or any one of the many other religious eects in the world. Apparently to a large group of the population freedom of religion means precisely the freedom to be a Protestant Christian.

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IF THIS attitude were merely theoretical, it would amount to little. However, when this attitude pervades our educational systems to the extent that our children are taught various and sundry beliefs and superstitions of the teacher under whom they happen to study, not as beliefs and superstitions, but as fact, and continues to the extent that the vicious and unconstitutional quota systems are employed in various state supported schools; those schools contributed to by the “untouchables” who are denied entrance; it seems about time some one took a firm stand against this insidious propaganda to which the public is submitted day after day. I am not a native Hoosier. I thought the situation was bad enough in the section of the country in which I was raised but I have encountered nothing like the one-sided reporting, suppression of opposing opinions, etc, that I have been reading for nearly two years in Indianapolis. The freedom that most Hoosiers seem to emulate is the type of “freedom” that drove Roger Williams through the wilds cf New England to settle the new colony of Rhode Island. In this day and age, there is nowhere to run. The United States is the last outpost of freedom and if a few of us wish to continue to strive toward that ideal of freedom which a handful of farsighted men embodied in the Constitution, it is about time we spoke up. Otherwise, sooner or later, we will find our freedom of such a limited nature that it is not freedom at all, but bondage. I value, above all things, the right and priv{lege to believe as I feel I must and to act in accordance with my beliefs. I ask no man to

Hoosier Forum—=‘False Thinking’

“| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it."

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WASHINGTON, July 28— This week in the House a Republican-sponsored attempt to force Secretary of State Dean Acheson out of office was defeated. Vote was 171 to 81. The attempt was made In

- tary of State's policies objected to this way of trying to force his ouster ‘and refused to support the move. Rep. John Phillips (R. Cal.) ‘sponsored the amendment. He had backing from Republican floor leader Joseph Martin of Massachusetts and other GOP leaders. Democratic floor leader John McCormack of ‘3 Massachusetts led the defense 5 of Mr. Acheson’s record. Mr. Phillips had sought to amend the appropriations bill for the State, Justice and Commerce Departments. The bill, which appropriates $1 billion, was passed after the Phillips proposal was turned down,

Red Probe

DIRK VAN STRUIK, professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, refused to say before the UnAmerican Activities Committee whether he was a Communist. He had been identified earlier by Herbert Philbrick, former

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believe as I do. However, I expect no man to deny me the privilege of thinking for myself as long as I do not encroach upon the rights and privileges of others.

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UNLESS a child is “fortunate” enough to be born white, Aryan, Protestant and stupid enough to never question the beliefs of his elders, he is constantly. discriminated against. He must have the signature of his pastor in order to enter most colleges. If he is unfortunate enough to have not a pastor but a rabbi, priest or ascribes to no formalized religious sect, he comes under some “quota” system or other. All this and much, much more is the direct result of the kind of thinking as represented by Mrs. Milner in her “bogey” article. If it were only Mrs. Milner it would not matter in the least; but she is representative of a group of so--called conservatives who, if allowed to continue in their present pattern unchecked, will take our freedom away from us before the Communists get around to it.

—Shirley G. Harris, 6232 Nimitz Drive.

‘Heads in the Sand’ MR. EDITOR:

80, some didn't like Sen. Blair Moody. Well, some always wish to keep their heads in the sand, and with those kind of heads that is the best place for them. Just remember that Mr. Moody spent 18 years in Washington as a reporter and is fully aware of the dangers which confront us today. Modern progress has made our neighbor nations much, much closer than in the past, and before that time other nations were always fighting with one another, and why should we assume we can escape their fighting when progress has brought them so close to us? Why assume Italy and Spain won't go Communist because they are Catholic nations? So was France Catholic and is today Communist. I do not mean that the Catholic Church is sympathetic with communism. It is not. But, after all, it can't control the actions of all its members, I am a Catholic myself and I know it is folly to assume any country will not become communistic because of its religious convictions no matter what they may be.

—Inez Strickland, Morningside Drive.

BE TRUTHFUL

BE NOT receiving in your ways . . . In thought or in your speech . .. be only straight and aboveboard . .. I humbly beseech . .. be to the point in what you say . . . don’t beat around the bush . .. by sidestepping the gospel truth . . . with lies that need a push . . . say what you think . .. think what you say . . . just let fate take its course... so that it never can be said . . . you were a falsehood’s source . . . because the whirlpool of deceit . . . most always has a way ... of swallowing those who make it whirl , . . by what they do or say. —By Ben Burroughs

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INVESTIGATORS for the General Accounting Office told a committee that schools taking part in the veterans training program had been overpaid at least $200 million in the past five years. :

St. Lawrence Seawa

THE Public Works Committee voted to pigeonhole the St. Lawrence Seaway project, a proposal which has been befora Congress for the past 20 years.

Both Houses

A JOINT conference committee recommended a controls bill which would permit some manufacturers’ price rollbacks, The commit- ; tee, however,

to change the stand taken by both houses against future beef price rollbacks and a livestock quota system. The Senate quickly accepted the conference committee report. Sen. Everett Dirksen (R. Ill.) cast the only vote against it. The House still must act on the report. Sen. John Sparkman (D. Ala.) said the bill could be “lived with.” He pre~ dicted President Truman would

sign it.

Economy The House insisted on its reduction in the number of public housing units to be started this year. It refused to accept a conference committee report . which * would "have raised the number of units from 5000 to 50,000. The ‘House also stuck to its plan to permit replacement of only onefourth of employees who leave the government service. The Senate had voted a softer personnel reduction plan.

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The Senate, passed an agriculture appropriations bill $34 million higher than the House had voted.. Efforts to reduce allowances for soil conservation payments were defeated.

Senate DEFENSE Secretary George Marshall warned against deep cuts in the $8.5 billion foreign aid bill. He said Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower’s timetable for the Atlantic Pact army would be wrecked if the full amount is not made available.

Taxes

J. CARTER FORT, vice

president of the Association of : American Railroads, opposed the proposed increase—from 47 to 52 per cent—in corporation income taxes. He told the Finance Committee such a tax hike, already approved by the House, might prevent purchase by railroads of new equipment needed for the defense program.

Internal Security

. FREDERICK VANDERBILT FIELD, wealthy Comsmunist sympathizer, testified before the internal security committee, that he had been invited to apply for an Air Force commission during World War II. He said the appointment was blocked after investigation. Field admitted that he had worked without pay for four Communist China companies, but he said he quit his work after the Chinese Reds intervened in the Korean War.

President Noe wis PRESIDENT TRUMAN urged “full speed ahead” on the defense program despite prospects for peace in Korea. He warned that an increase in size of our Armed Forces might be necessary. The pres= ent goal is 3,500,000 men. The President made his statements in submitting the midyear report of his Council of Economic Advisers. The report said defense expenditures would reach an annual rate of $65 billion by June, 1952.

DEAR BOSS . . . By Dan Kidney

McHale Predicts GOP Ticket—Demos Mum

WASHINGTON, July 28—Frank M. McHale, Democratic national committeeman from Indiana, declined to predict who vill be his party's nominees next year, but he had no such hesitancy regarding the oppesition.

He thinks the Republican ticket will be Sen. William E. Jenner for Governor «and George Craig for U. 8. Senator. As he was hurrying home to attend the American Legion convention in Indianapolis, someone suggested that maybe this was just a method of paying tribute to the former national Legion commander. Mr. McHale used to be a big Legion politician himself when Paul V. McNutt was made national commander. Mr. McNutt later became Governor of Indiana, high commissioner of

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the Philippines, federal security

administrator and war manpower commissioner. He might have made the presidency, if the late F. D. R. didn’t turn him down for Henry A. Wallace as vice president on the third term ticket. Mr. Craig often has been referred to as “the Republican Paul McNutt.” With Sen. Jenner back working on his new farm and also attending the Legion convention, no comment could be obtained from him here on this complimentary nomination by the most durable Democrat in Indiana politics. Moving from Brazil fo Indianapolis has removed a geographical handicap for Mr. Craig, some Republicans on Capitol Hill pointed out. One of them discounted the Craig candidacy, however, claiming

it was mostly being talked up by Elmer “Doc” Sherwood, In~ dianapolis publicity man. 2 = 8 ALTHOUGH Rep. Ralph Harvey, New Castle is in a re ceptive mood for the Senate, a bold new plan is being discussed heres which leaves him out. It also leaves out Mr. Craig. Under this plan the GOP Senatorial nominee would be the long-time dean of all Hoosiers in Congress—Rep. Charles A. Halleck, Rensselaer. Taking Mr. Halleck’s Second District congressional seat would be Indiana’s Secretary of State Leland Smith, Logansport. Sen. Jenner would take the gubernatorial nomination, which he admittedly always has want« ed more than any other political prize. Backers of the plan point out that Mr. Smith has the most patronage to use in building an organization. The Secretary of State controls all the automobile license bureaus, which always have been fat plums for county chairmen. Mr. McHale pooh-poohed the current talk here that the Democrats will be as unpopular in 1952 as they were in 1950 and it will be difficult to draft a strong ticket. 5 u 2 “WE HAVE plenty of candidates already,” he said, withe out naming them. He declined to take credit for the election last week of Jack Mankin, Lebanon, as the new president of the Young Democrats. But he was quite familiar with the blue sheets that were sent broadcast to try and stop the election of Mr. Mankin. They were initiated “MH™ and under the heading *“Attention Fellow Young Democrats” was this text— “We Young Democrats here in Indiana do believe in the principles for .which our forefathers founded this great country of ours. We believe that our Democrat Party should come before any individual or personality. “We who believe in these principles urge the election of Young Democrats that do not owe anything to our senior di« vision. ” n ” ‘ “OUR newly elected Indiana Young Democrat president must not be owned lock, stock and barrel, by Frank McHale, our national committeeman and firm believer in President Truman.. We have been sold down the river in past recent campaigns. Don't let it happen again. Mankin is backed by McHale. Let's beat him and his crowd.” “Putting President Truman in there with me didn’t hurt a bit,” Mr. McHale laughed. “I got some extra copies and sent one to the President and also to Bill Boyle, the Democratic national chairman. They will be glad to learn Mankin won in

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