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MONDAY, Jl'LV THE INDIA.NArOI.IS STAR FAGF, lft Let's Get One Of Whole Familv Together K'estbrook Pegler Says: The Indianapolis Star Where The Spirit Of Tht Lord It, There Ulrly o'lin Tht Ird.i-a rvU Jurr 1 lr 1 Tt In' mit) fcni? A Herbert in Nomination Taclics Arc Outmoded Bv The TV INDIANAPOLIS NEWSPAPERS, INC jnt Street Indianapolis 8. Intl. Kl'GKNK Pvblmher MiMnrn tm isocurin rc--t it or oi or.f,i mil ppr ins tn-rr "Lrf the kvnw the Jnctx and th country vill be xm rd." Ahraham Lincoln. STEADY ADLAI 1 The Hoosier Farm IT ife Says: Our Cornfields Know Two Deep Coolnesses Corn is a pleasant thing to contemplate on these panting July davs. For now the corn stands tall and strong and darkly green in the prime of its growth.

By day it sparkles as its blades move gently in the air. By night it whispers, and grows taller, heavier, older. The cornfield reaches into two coolnesses. The Jirst was last April when the farmer turned the moist brown furrows, robins sang their earliest songs and the timid, tender leaves were fearful of th iinwarmed wind. Now the farmer remembers that be was glad to put on another coat the day he planted this field.

The corn reaches forward into another coolness, autumn, when the bleached and ragged corn blades whip in the narrow November wind and the torn, brown husks, relieved of their heavy yellow ears, hang like empty fingers. This year Indiana corn generally has surpassed its ambitious ideal of "kneehigh by the-Fourth of July." Long ago. and seemingly without effort it passed that goal, and now reaches higher than the fingertips of the most up-stretched hand can reach, and it is still growing. The hardening stalks have a shiny, composed strength. The tassels send out a sweet perfume into the cooling air of evening.

From a distance the green top of a field of hybrid coi shows a hrushlike uniformity, with a strata of brown going levelly across. Already in many fields, the long, heavy cars lean away from the stalk at the angle of a hitch-hiker's thumb. A few more weeks and they will turn downward, hard and ripe and ready to be snatched off by the voracious mechanical picker hurrying across the cold field. Now, peering down the shady corridors between the corn rows, one sees the late-sprouted cockle burr and Jimson, and the wild sweet potato lifting its long rmlkwhite cups without fear. For these weeds came on after the corn was laid by and will yet have time to make seed for troubling the field another summer.

But the cornstalks are untroubled by those squatters at their feet, sharing their food and drink. Now the cornstalks are more concerned with their uprightness in the late summer winds and are preparing themselves against this final test. From near the first points of the stalks, new root-shaped growths have come out, about the time the corn was knee high. A careless observer would assume these to be roots, exposed by summer's heavy rains carrying off the crumble-like top soil. A more observant farmer notices that the ends do not actually reach into the ground, and he has a guilty feeling, thinking perhaps at the final cultivation he put the cultivator shovels toa close to the stalks and severed the side roots.

Rut the studiouslv observant farmer notes that no cultivator marks come that near, that the upper roots are not connected to the ground even between the stalks in a row. And he knows, therefore, that these are tentative brace roots, to lengthened and anchored in the ground if, in the ripening wisdom of the cornstalk, it decides it needs additional bracing. The farmer rejoices in the intelligence of his corn. Now the sound of whispering cornblades is the cool sound of strength and confidence. Corn is traditionally a kyrnbol of farming, the core and essence of the farm's shelter against winter's cold and hunger'.

Seeing the strong stalk prepared for the cold finality of autumn and hearing its whispered untroubled music, a farmer is comforted in July, thankful for the goodness of the year. The barns will he full, whispers the coin, the stock will be fat and content through the deepening winter. A coolness formed of goodness and strength rises comfortingly from tht ripening cornfield into the July air. MRS. R.F.D.

The People Speak The Star ea letters ermreet- Religious Training In Schools Indorsed Bv A Former Teacher Cl II(Wi i -Thev got away with i hi vear. but in if the United States has net rotted otf into some ptesently inconceivable thins, the ptneess of picking nominees for President surely will be revised if only for reasons of showmanship. The farcical natute of the ronentton sstrm. so long belabored bv bleeding hearts of the fourth estate without response, suddenly achieved full recognition pet' television in the double-header of Not the silly quality, however, but the tedious Jong-w iridedness, the gaseous hom-hast of the orator and Ihe imposition nn pi i hi if patience were the important, defects recognized by practical men as the democratic ersion of an outworn American deprav ity came to a finish. Hundreds of political bacteria squirming in this corruption had insisted on the polling of their delegations for no reason but a hope that their meaningless faces would be shown for a few seconds on the television.

Time and again, alter the chairman of a delegation had brayed the vote Irom the floor, some vague figure rose to demand a roll-call on the ground that he suspected foul play. And almost as often, after the clerk bad moaned the names and the weary tellers had totted up the votes and fractions of votes, the total tallied exactly with the original version of the chairman. Ao Confidence In Anyone There was less of this in the Republican show than in the Democratic and the reason may he that there was firmer discipline in the hopefuls of the Hungry F-irty while the Democrats had no confidence in or respect for anyone. Truman had run his arm around Alben Raikley, his old accomplice in many a dark deed, and wound up with his fingers dug into the poor fellow's rustling wattles. Then he bad given Adlai Stevenson a hearty back-handed indorsement delivered by a walk-on figure named Gavin, which might as well have been delivered bv a Western Union boy.

He had neatly cut the liver out of Aveiell Harriman, confirming a common suspicion that it was white, with his snarling observation that only a Wall Street man could be dumb enough to think a Wall Street man could get elected. And, a few months ago, he and Jimmy Byrnes, a stagey old deep-South county-seat statesman with a honeysuckle accent and a knife in his boot, had got into a ribald gut-letting in a cheap magazine, called each other "liar." Oratory is, of course, the most insincere form of expression ever invented. The tremolos and burbles, the nickers and bellows all are affectations which in private conversation would get. a man committed. The distaff version is, if anything, worse, and the grisliest note of all was struck when one big female bawled a demand for respectful attention and then boasted that she had been widowed in one war and bereft of her son by the next.

Roll-Culh Tiretome The chair tried repeatedly, as the chair has done for many years, to restrain the vanity of microbes in these temptations, but ihey still snuck in their recitations. Now it will have to be done, perhaps by a rule giving the clerk sole authority to sound off. There are many other portions of the process that can be trimmed avsay. Debates and roll-calls on resolutions and the reading of platforms, which are invariably thrown away the day after election at the latest, are a tempting field for the producer. If television Kve the nation a Rhastly impression of its political system, it nevertheless performed one pleasant adjustment.

The little fire in an aisle almost at the feet of Governor Byrnes on Thursday night was a terribly dangerous emergency in hich the burly young firemen in white shirts and blue dress caps of the Chicago Fire Prevention Bureau were caught in the act with glorious effect, Safely Police Everywhere The Blackstone lobby was hushed with a strange tension. Truman had brought 12 Secret Service men from Washington and the local regular detail were thrown into the assignment along ith-many Chicago detectives. Someone plainly was scared stiff for the plain, beloved snarling little Man of the People or the men responsible for his safety, or both. The scene was a forthright display of muscle and firepower with big pistols exposed in ammunition belts on the hips of heavyweight cops, and 1he flycops conspicuous in their elephantine stealth. The cost of the plane that brought Truman here, the rent of the entire floor of the most expensive hotel in town, and the pay and expenses of the Secret Service all were routine charges against the taxes of the Common Man.

And the journey was made entirely in the political interest of the Democratic Party and by no conceivable twist a legitimate presidential duty in the public interest. A The Day Ft gins: Faithful Fido Looms Korea As A Campaign Issue Speaking at. the Democratic national convention. Senator Paul Douglas of Illinois enunciated the Raw Deal campaign line in regard to the Korean War. The Achesonians know Korea will be a major campaign Issue, perhaps the foremost campaign issue.

They are acutely aware that. America'! three costliest foreign wars have occurred during the three Democratic political administrations of the 20th century. They are scared silly of the ''war party" label. Senator Douglas presented the accepted administration version of the entry into the Korean War that failure to enter it would hae encouraged the Kremlin to start other peripheral wars and perhaps even a Reneral war, that failure to enter it would have doomed the United Nations and the principle of collective punishment of aggression, that failure to enter it would have been a betrayal of a gallant little republic which this nation helped 'o create. We have no serious quarrel with that view.

We applauded President Truman's decision to intervene in Korea at the time it was made, although we objected then to his failure to consult Congress before making the decision and we ohjpct now to the pat assumption that this or that would have happened had the United States stayed out of Korea. But Senator Douglas, and all Democrats, are much more hard put when they have to try to explain the insane conduct of the Korean War the decision not to win when victory was within grasp, the abusive dismissal of Gen. MacArthur, the failure to enlist the aid of such Allies as Nationalist China, the refusal to demand a greater contribution by other United Nations members, the historical absurdity known as the "truce talks," an idiotic business which has been in progress for more than a year while the enemy has been permitted to build up formidable forces. The Trumanites also are up against it when they try to explain away the logical course of errors, and worse, which led right up to the Korean War the tragic postwar concessions to the Kremlin in an effort to buy the friendship of a beast, the black betrayal of the Chinese Nationalists and the inevitable conquest of China by the Red enemy which followed the withdrawal of American troops from South Korea and the subsequent refusal to arm the South Koreans on the specious ground that they might attack the North Koreans, Secretary Acheson's invitation to the Reds to attack when he failed to include Korea in our Pacific defense line. Douglas tried to make the Republicans share the hlame for this course of events by saying that Gen.

Eisenhower as chief of staff, Gen. MacArthur as supreme Far Eastern commander and John Foster Dulles, as a State Department agent had agreed in 1949 that Korea was not of great strategic Importance to the United States. But Douglas missed the point. Even the Achesonians don't contend that the decision to enter the Korean War was based on any overwhelming geographical importance of the Korean peninsula. Having already given Russia the Kurile Islands, a grim threat In Alaska and the Aleutians, they could hardly base their defense on that issue! Elsenhower, MacArthur and Dulles share rone of the blame for the Korean debacle.

The Truman administration and the political party which gave it birth are stuck with that mess and no amount of campaign double-talk will free them from it. The Rest Is Up To You The main purpose of The Star's fly-blitz campaign in Indianapolis is to help protect the health of the people of this community and to dramatize the means by which ilies can be controlled and exterminated. This is a job which we have done once every year in every ection of the city. But we cannot do it every day, every week during the fly breeding season. That is your job.

If all citizens will clean and spray their garbage and trash cans and use the deadly sprays that have boen devised to kill these pests, we can virtually rid Indianapolis of the germ carrying pests that swarm around the refuse. Only by continued co-operation from citizens in all parts of the city can the final goal of the rampaign be reached, a flyless, and therefore a healthier and safer city for all of us. An Oscar For Adlai? Adlai E. Stevenson's middle name is Ewing. Wi doubt that there is a close blood relationship between Mr.

Stevenson and Oscar Ewing, Indiana's favorite son of a gun. But there is a close political relationship, very close indeed. Both are ardent New Dealers, both ere proposed for their party's nomination, both hold to the same political ideas that have been expressed in the that he is not self-sufficient, that he is powerless to create any of the wonders of nature which he admires, the sooner will that man endeavor to live a better life of love and service in honor of the Supreme Power regardless of the name by which that Supreme Power is designated. "A haze on the far horizon, The infinite, tender sky, The ripe, rich tint of the cornfields, And the wild geese sailing high; And all over upland and lowland The charm of the goldenrod -Some of us call it autumn, And others call it. God." SAYDE MAYS.

327 Northern Ave. Income Tax Called Socialist Weapon To tht Editor of The Stor: I believe I am the pioneer in suggesting a limit he set by Congress on the amount of income which can be taken from any American citizen. I also think I am the first to suggest that the Federal income tax is the legal weapon by which we are being taxed and forced into socialism. The Star has agreed editorially that: "Taxation, lis thet weapon of socialism." And so it is. Some years ago I had an article in a local paper bead-lined: "Tax Is The Weapon Of Socialists." I quote from that article: "I have suggested that the only recourse for the citizens of the United States to save ourselves from being taxed into socialism, by the income tax method, would be for Congress to set a limit on the amount of any person could be deprived of his personal income in any year." Congress passes the laws, and Congress must save us from legalized robbery by taxation, or we are doomed to Socialist totalitarian slavery.

No, this constitutional amendment to limit personal income taxes to 25 per cent in peace time is not "the millionaires' amendment." as Frank Edwards, the voice of the American Federation of Labor, so lustily proclaims. It is the American patriotic amendment, to save our great, free Republic of free men from Red Socialist slavery! Congress and the Supreme Court, in its late decision on the seizure of the steel industry, have been our only bulwark against the determined drive of the Marxists against our constitutional liberties! And Congress is the continual objective of Frank Edwards' derogatory propaganda! Well, I have a book which asserts that To the Editor of Tht Sror: 1 wish to congratulate William P. Thorn of Drexel, Pennsylvania, on his answer to L. A. Jackson of Vernon, Indiana, relative to religious education in the public schools.

Before retiring last, year as a public school leacher, I had ample opportunity during many years of service to ponder the need of religious training in the schools. First of all, many parents have little or no interest in attending any church and they permit their children to grow up in a like manner. Therefore the only time that such children are exposed to spiritual teachings is during the religious training classes at school. I am not in favor of teaching rtenominationalism in the schools, but definitely I am in favor of teaching right living based upon the Golden Rule. Most of the strife and animosity existing in the world today could be traced back to a disregard of the spirit of the Golden Rule on the part of some individual, race and nation.

Long before religious training was established in the public schools, I always included during the story hour Bible stories as illustrated our duty to treat, others as we wish to be treated. Also included were Bible stories showing the need of believing in and relying upon a Supreme Power to deliver us out of our troubles. The sooner mortal man realizes TWO WORDS A DAY By 1.. E. CHARLES SVELTE.

Adjective. This is a French word meaning slim or slender, as from the Latin ex and vellere, meaning to pull or stretch out. It is generally used in connection with a woman's figure, indicating that it is slender and graceful, willowy and lithe. Svelte rhymes with "melt." RATIFICATION. Noun.

The Latin a plus facere combine to make a word that means settled or made acceptable. Ratification is the action of confirming or making valid a compact or promise or legal procedure. It is the formal sanction or approval of legislative or other official business. It is not used for private or personal desires or affairs. It confirms what has been done with authority.

In rat-i-fi-ka-shun The fourth syllahle is long and accented, the first a is as in "am," each i as in "it." inq rr.adrr' optMtotM on tubject of general public interrt if thn are brief and written on one of the paper. A'ama and arfrfraaa of the writer mutt be given but wll be withheld if deeired. Wo attenfroH is paid to anonymout communication or thoe with initial! only. the American Federation was organized by the Socialists and it is my opinion that the Socialists art still in control. The vital job for Congress is to pass laws to revoke the charter and deny Federal recognition to any organization controlled and dominated by Socialists or Communists.

Let. us liberate our patriotic American union men from Red Socialist dictators. E. F. MADDOX.

Indianapolis. i Grass Roots Vote For America First To trS drtor of The Siar; Ike has sent out a plea for all grass roots Americans to carry the ball. May I as a grass noots American ask Ike to elucidate on his "The Shining Promise of Tomorrow?" This is no hour for glittering generalities and vacuous grins, when civilization has its back against the wall, in deadly combat with Red-atheistic slavery, while Uncle Sam become the Atlas of 3932 holding up the whole wtrld on his shoulders. The basic issue seems to he internationalism versus nationalism. Not long ago a speaker over the radio said: "Patriotism is synonymous with isolationism and is utterly selfish and Irreligious.

"The dictionary says: "Patriotism is a love of one's country." An old maxim says: "To thine own self be true, and it follows, as the day the night, thou then canst be false to no man." The Red flag symbolizes internationalism. The Star-Spangled Banner symbolizes our nation and was conceived by God-honoring men. The lines of demarcation are clear and sharp and must not be obscured by glittering generalities. JOHN C. CROWE.

Los Angeles, Cal. Calls HST Worst To tht Editor of Tht Star: I see in the papers H. S. T. has to approve of our candidates.

Talk about freedom and dictators! I think we have one right, here. If they elect his choice it will be the same as Truman. Surely the people will think twice before they vote. I'm near-ing 80 years old. I have seen many Presidents elected but H.

S. T. is the poorest excuse of any I've seen. I've been a Democrat all my life, but the Democrats have had it long enough. We need a change, at least.

Ike is honest. Few men would give up a nice pension the way he did. I think he will be for our men overseas and for our people. I guess a lo of people think the same as I do. Indianapolis.

C. B. L. Aliens Not To Blame To the- editor of Tht Star: I think that it is most unfair for the landlords to expect too much responiibility from moit of the tenants who Ire displaced persons. In most cases they could not bt other than Irresponsible, not necessarily through intent, but through lack of ability to speak our language, our language.

MARION T. WOODEN. Harrodsburg. Publicity Hound Dreic Pearson Says: Radar Pick-Ups Hint Flying Saucer Real Washington Merry-Go-Round WASHINGTON While the politicians nave been watching the none-too-mysterious conventions, some other people, including the Air Force, have been watching a mysterious rash of flying saucers. Furthermore, the Air Force, long skeptical about flying saucers, has now made some official and important admissions, ADMISSION No.

1 is 'that they have now detected something that looks like flying saucers on radar at th same time that people have claimed they saw flying saucers. In other words, flying saucers are not just cloud freaks or hallucinations. If so they could not be detected on a radar screen. ADMISSION NO. 2 is that flying saucers could possibly be space ships from another planet.

The reason for this admission is that it will soon be possible for us to build a space ship to visit, the moon if we are willing to spend the money for research and construction. Our current research into atomic power and supersonic speeds already has progressed so far that it is definitely known such a ship can be built, but the big expense would come from creating atmosphere inside the ship to support human life while traveling from one planet to the other. Therefore if we are this close to interplanetary travel. Air Force officers admit that, a more advanced civilization could he keeping this planet under surveillance through flying saucers. ADMISSION NO.

3 lthas not been an-nounced, but scientific observation posts have been set up in New Mexico, where we are testing guided missiles, to track flying saucers also A number of flying saucers have been seen in the Southwest, and since trained specialists are already on the job in that area with the latest scientific gadgets, the Air Force has ordered them to watch for flying saucers and track them scientifically. In addition, the Air Force has instructed its 24-hour air observers to watch not only for enemy planes but flying saucers. Furthermore it has set up special cameras on its radar screens to keep a pictorial record of flying saucers or any other strange objects flitting across the screens. Finally. Wright Field, at Dayton, 0 the center of all Air Force research, has been instructed to chart all flying saucer pattern, find out whether their light behavior is similar, and what characteristics they seem to have in common.

This was started only- two months ago and no similar patterns have yet been reported, except for the peculiar fact that more flying saucers have been observed around United States atomic centers and around Wright Field than any place else. This could be because observers irom another planet were interested in our atomic and air development, though the Air Force thinks it's more likely to be because the population around these bases ii more sensitive to something strange in the skies. The Air Force has tracked down thousand of fantastic reports from that of George Koehler of Denver, who reported blond beard-less three-foot men from Venui, to the movlet taken by Nick Mariana of Great Talli, Mont. The beardless men turned out to be a hoax, and the movies turned out to be pictures of tw high-flying jet fighters. So, while the Air Force is doing everything possible to solve the mystery, it still Has lt collective fingers crossed.

Laff-A-Dav We yield to no man in our admiration for the dog that is, if he keeps bis big feet to himself, doesn't climb into our lap without being invited, and doesn't stick his nose into Ihe gravy, but. just the same we think there are times when he's overrated. As proof of this, we call your attention to pooch at Spring City. Mo This dog has been in the news for days, because he's been holding a one-dog vigil over a abandoned mine shaft. Nothing could pry him loose, not even people who called him "Nice doggie!" Troffered snacks were snapped up, but had no permanent result.

The whole countryside was in an uproar. Reporters kept the wires hot. "Pooch still there at the mine shaft?" "Yep, he's still there," etc. Photographers arrived, and gaping throngs came and stood around and peered into the mine shaft. Rumors were rife, imaginations went hay-w-ire.

The dog master was lying at the bottom of the shaft with a broken leg. or had tumbled to his doom, and Faithful Fido was awaiting his rescue. An automobile plus a trailer filled with kiddies, furniture and kitchen utensils had gone over the edge, so it was reported. Another fiction that gained wide circulation was that fleeing hank robbers, with The aw in hot pursuit, had tossed a few hundred thousand dollars over the edge of the shaft as incriminating evidence, meaning to come back after it when things had cooled down a little. Feeling became so intense, all because of the dog, that, at tremendous expense, the shaft was pumped out 15 million gallons of water, as it turned out quite a sizable damp spot -but when the workmen climbed out after working for a week they'd found nothing hut the bottom of the mine shaft, a lot of water, and one little bone, on which the dog who had started all this wasn't even interested, No lost traveler, no mess or corpses in a trailer, no lost treasure- no nothing, and the bystanders were justifiably disappointed.

So. from now on, we read no more faithful dog stories, though a good Shaggy Dog story is another matter. If a dog choose to spend his time snooping around a big hole with nothing in it, an empty schoolhouse, or even a mossy tomb, that's his business. We think we've got this Spring City. dog identified, though he's the original publicity hound we've all heard about, and he'll bob up some place else pretty soon, waiting for the photographers to show up M.E.B, 4a ft Roosevelt-Truman "Deals." Indiana Republicans and others fought and won a long struggle against Federal Security Administrator Oscar Ewing when he ithhtld $20,000,000 of Indiana's welfare funds to punish this state for opening welfare files to public inspection.

Those same anti-Oscar Hoo-iers who oppose the two "Deals" and their taxation, corruption, Communism and confusion ran now transform their opposition from Oscar Ewing to Adlai Ewing with considerable enthusiasm. Assault On Property Rights The purpose of the anti-trust laws is subverted by the action of the Department of Justice in bringing auit against motion picture producers, alleging conspiracy in restraint of trade because of their refusal to make 16 mm film prints available to television stations, taverns, operators of coin machines, and other purveyors of mechanical entertainment. The suit makes a distinction which simply does not exist between IS mm film and the 35 mm film shown In the nation's theaters, which are completely dependent on these producers for their survival in business. The only difference is in the size of a celluloid strip the product in each case is the same. If the Department of Justice's arbitrary position is upheld, the producers will be required literally to destroy their regular customer by servicing competitors who give the same shows way free.

They will be forced to jeopardize their own investments by accepting a less profitable market. The producers, distributors and exhibitors of motion pictures have grown up together as component parts of a single, integrated industry. The anti-trust laws were amply served by recent "divorce" proceedings which separated their functions and control. No monopoly situation exists to prevent other film users from developing their own source of supply. This anti-trust suit is a thocking assault wt property rights.

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