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In Silent Tribute 8 THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1952 Editorials Against Evil, No Armistice NOVEMBER 11 mc -v iiwt It Is appropriate that President-elect Eisenhower and his defeated opponent, Governor Stevenson, are to open the 1952 campaign est the Crusade for Freedom in a national broadcast on Armistice Day. There is a solemn relationship between the will of the American people to remember and vindicate the sacrifices of our young men who have laid down their lives for the nation's freedom and of our will to preserve human liberty everywhere against the tyranny of Communist imperialism. The deep significance of Armistice Day remains despite the disillusionment over -an assured peace. The first World War did nt make the world safe for democracy, but, asks the Christian Science Monitor, "Can we pronounce its sacrifices futile without taking into account what the world would have been without them? And who would relish the consequences had the Axis won in 1912 Or had the Reds been allowed to seize Korea in 1950?" Armistice Day, therefore, is not only a day for profound gratitude, but one for a rededication to the fact that the struggle for freedom and peace is never ended, no more than is the struggle between good and evil. The Crusade for Freedom is one of the most effective means by which the individual American can participate in a positive movement to throw back the forces of Red imperialism which today hold millions in slavery and which menace all other peoples, including our own.

World events are proving that neither dollars nor bombs will win in the fundamental warfare of ideas. Fuller realization of this is producing fresh governmental and private endeavors to tell America's story to the world and at the same time to give hope to enslaved peoples in the knowledge that we are still on their side. The Crusade for Freedom is a voluntary effort which maintains powerful radio stations in Europe and Asia. Its broadcasts already have been effective in areas behind the Iron Curtain. In the words of Gen.

Eisenhower, it is "a weapon of truth against Russian propaganda." Those who enlist in this crusade with their financial contributions will be helping to expand a work which may, in the long pull, have more bearing in protecting our future than all the dollars and bullets we can send abroad. No more solemn incentive for a national response to the Crusade for Freedom appeal could be provided than the poignant significance of Armistice Day. WOP, OWAHI V- WE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Stevenson Supporter Accepts Defeat Gracefully and Pledges All-Out Support to Eisenhower To the Editor of Tho News: The sound and fury, the impetuous verbosity and articulate oratory, the hypocrisy of assumed virtue, the distortions, the quips, the threats and the promises of another campaign have faded. For those doubters of democracy, who confound diversity of opinion with weakness, here is living proof of the wonder of representative government. From a nation seemingly torn by dissension and indecision, we have emerged overnight into a stronger and more united America.

The result would have been the same un-oiMn ah nm. HOOSIER HOMESPUN Silly Susie A silly dope forgot to fia And rerister; now she Could rtnf vote ln.it Tuesday The silly dope was me! Sue Allen Autumn Afternoon As we drove to the lake to spend one more Sunday with the children, we noted that the cornfields so young and green last summer were yellow and withering. Ncaring out destination we saw the brown cottage on the grassy knoll, flanked on the south by the great red barn, high on a steep slope. Up there the swallows swooped in and out of their tiny apartments, uttering faint twitterings that; came to us below. A car swerved into the driveway, bringing the family from church.

Doors opened on both sides and out burst Ricky, Janice and little Nancy. Soon the latter was in her arms. Dinner over, an enchanted afternoon lay before us. The sun was pleasantly warm, the lake beguiling as always. Faintly came a rhythmic beat from the academy as the cadets marched to the beat of drums.

Harold rode with Ricky in his wagon down tho steep hill. Pat, Ricky and I went walking in tho "lane," past the quaint barn playhouse and the cottage gardens. Goldenrod and wild asters were thick on one side, zinnias and petunias in neat beds on the other. A yellow caterpillar humped its way across our path. Ricky wanted go hack nd (pick it up but I pretended not to hear.

Turning back at the end of the lane we glimpsed the. sunny lake between the cottages as we returned. A fire on the hearth felt good by that time. Soon the farewells and the long trip home to a strangely lonely house. Ruth All who failed to vote are reminded that there will be another presidential election in 1956.

Heritage Not much is mine to know about my mother, For ot her death kind strangers took my hand And led me in new ways that had not known her A little child, too young to understand. They tell me that first night I knelt at bedtime, And "Now I lay me down" they heard me say. Long years are gone, and yet this thought is precious: My own dear mother taught me how to pray. Mabel Newman, Oakland City Nature Notes As I built my cottage near Nineveh, last, summer, I watched the big sugar maple change from deep green to yellow and red. The other day a brisk wind took the last of its leaves, baring branches of a 100-year-old tree whose shade had sheltered me as I sawed timbers and ate my lunch.

We certainly roughed it for three months but the small cottage is almost done now and we have moved in. Every day there is something new to see and at night the stars seem low enough to pluck. Often I get up before dawn to renew my acquaintance with the Milky Way. Arthur S. Mellinger When you are doing 75 mph on a two-lane road, and the approaching motorist is doing the same, better leave 6 or 8 inches clearance.

A Song Let us make a little sqng Out ot tears and laughter. Out of every tiny wrong, Let us make a little song Like a bell's clear gong. Cry, it we must, and after, Let us make a little song Out of tears and laughter. Shirley Sheffler Moore Hunter's Moon Many persons who associate late harvest with corn husking have a tendency 1o assign wrong dates for the harvest moon. Actually the harvest moon is one that is full nearest the autumnal equinox and this year the full harvest moon was October 3.

The next full moon and that was the one recently observed is the hunter's moon. Presumably this expression goes back to 'coon hunting on moonlight nights, but that's mere conjecture on mv part. W.D. Can't Eat 'Em Now Some still play up sorghum molasses, As my forefathers did; Guess I had too many of them When I was a kid. George S.

Billman, Rushville The higher cost, of lumber may explain why planked steaks now cost more. T.S.E. His Legacy Is a Nation Revered by his people, Dr. Chaim Weiz-mann was the modern-day Moses who, more than any other single individual, inspired and carried through the creation of the Republic of Israel as the Jewish homeland. One of the great scientists of his time, the Russian-born statesman devoted his mature years also to the fulfillment of a boyhood dream that of bringing oppressed Jews together and to freedom in the ancient land of their biblical forefathers.

Dr. Welzmann will go down in history as a prophet who pioneered in the colonization and economic and political development of modern Palestine. He expressed the Zionist attitude in his inspiring book, "Trial and Error," by writing: "After the war all that we asked for 6imply was the opportunity to save, by our own efforts, the remnant of our people. This was the sum total of our hopes. Every objective study of the immediate and long-range problem of European Jewry pointed to one solution mass evacuation, as fast as the economic absorption would permit, into Palestine." This objective, now accomplished to a great degree, has filled a great humanitarian purpose as well as that of relieving other nations of an economic relief burden which otherwise would have been severe.

As president of Israel, Dr. Weizmann wielded little actual power, but his moral and spiritual leadership was so great that his death is little less than a major tragedy to Israel as it struggles forward on its rock-strewn path. fess to be lawyers and they certainly are well aware that, in giving that deposition, Adlai Stevenson was doing only what any decent, self-respecting American citizen, answerable to his conscience, would do. They not only smeared Stevenson, but they Demeaned their own profession. I doubt that many lawyers regard any of the three with any great respect.

I voted for Eisenhower, and am more than glad that his election was of such landslide proportions that no one politician or group of politicians can claim credit for the victory. He is in an enviable position and will, I feel sure, restore tho dignity and prestige of the presidency which has been sadly battered these past few years. M.D. Indianapolis 50 Years Ago IN THE NEWS Tuesday, November 11, 1903 EFFORTS OK Dr. Harvey W.

Wiley, chief of the Federal Bureau of Chemistry, to feed adulterated foods to a "poison squad" and note the effects, were being delayed due to the failure of the Civil Service Commission to find a qualified cook. Dr. Wiley, a Iloosicr, was conducting a national crusade for pure foods. Robert J. Traccwcll, comptroller of the Treasury, announced that the Panama Canal appropriation of $-10 million would not lapse, even if the United States government failed to enter into a canal treaty with Colombia.

An official estimate said Indiana's 1902 corn crop would reach 175,886,900 bushels. Tiiis promised to bo the state's greatest corn yield and was 88,103,000 bushels more than the harvest of 1901. A committee from the Indianapolis Commercial Club, negotiating for the purchase of private property to enable the construction of a proposed Fall Creek boulevard, abandoned the task. Members of the committee said there was no hope for completion of the project. 25 YEARS AGO Friday, November 11, 1927 PROTESTS FROM former Kaiser Wilhelm, from his exile in Doorn, went for naught when he was impersonated in a Berlin Communist theater.

The play was Tolstoy's "Rasputin," and a new part had been interpolated to enable further humiliation of the former German Emperor. Frederick Landis, of Logansport, said in an Armistice Day address in Indianapolis that the United States continued to owe a great debt to soldiers who crawled through the mud of France to save democracy. 'The observance, sponsored by Indianapolis American Legion posts, was held in Keith's Theater. Col. Charles Lindbergh wrote his impressions of aviation, following his lone flight across the Atlantic and subsequent flights in this country.

He said aviation's greatest menace was improper training schools that turned out inexperienced pilots. 10 YEARS AGO Wednesday, November 11, 1913 ALL OF FRENCH North Africa, including Morocco, capitulated to the American expedition this morning. United States and British forces were chiving at top speed toward German positions in Tunisia. "An attack will be made in due course across the Channel or the North Sea," Prime Minister Winston Churchill informed the House of Commons. "All this," he added, "is proceeding, but it takes time." Operations began at the huge new Allison division of the General Motors plant No.

6 on South Tibbs. Ground for the factory, which had double the floor space of the Allison units in Speedway, was broken only four months ago. left up to "we, the people." We should vote on the question, and the balloting should not be secret. Those voting for war should have the first chance to do the fighting. I am as good an American as any one.

I have been in the Army, and I wasn't drafted. I am willing to fight and die for my country. But I don't believe in hara-kiri or committing suicide for a lost cause. I say, bring our boys home and I don't have any close relatives involved. If the Reds want to come over here and fight us, let them come.

Let's all fight them and stop sending our boys to a foreign land to be slaughtered just to protect our ornery hides. Indianapolis HERBERT AMOS Challenge to Sober Thought To the Editor of The Ncwi: I just want you to know that I think your Page 1 editorial, "For the Better Future," is one of which you well can be proud. I am a Democrat. I would have been proud to see Stevenson have the opportunity to restore our party to its once proud position. I didn't think he could command enough support from either his party or the nation to do it had he been elected.

The editorial you published has the sincerity of an invocation. It is a challenge to sober thought and determined action in the best interests of the nation by the people of both parties. Publication of this editorial, I bclicv was a valuable public service. Indianapolis READER Rubbing It in a Bit To the Fdltor of The News: During the recent campaign we noticed a letter in your column from a Norman Travis, who stated that he would be in uniform and fighting the Russians on November 5 if Gen. Eisenhower was elected.

We are wondering if you would have one of your foreign correspondents interview Pvt. Travis to see how his new-uniform fits and how conditions are on the Russian front. TWO VETS Indianapolis Approved Election Coverage To the Editor of The New: I wish to congratulate you on The News' coverage of the conventions and campaign. Tho articles by Messrs. Alsop, Ttlcy, Ziegner and liner were impartial, accurate and complete.

I wish to congratulate you also on your forbearance toward your Shclby-v alio correspondents. Their letters, like Harry Truman's speeches, undoubtedly won votes for Gen. Eisenhower. A few more speeches hy Truman and a few more letters from Shelbyville might very well have made the vote unanimous. LYNN I.

PRITTT Indianapolis Philip Murray regardless of the victor. Our strength does not rely upon the personality of any particular individual. There were millions, including myself, who favored Governor Stevenson, but yet we harbor no self-compunctious misgivings. We accept the defeat gracefully, receptive to the wishes of the majority. Gen.

Ike will receive the wholehearted cooperation of all Americans. We have implicit faith in his leadership. For this country has yet to realise its fullest ambitions. The American dream is still in its infancy. The future holds new miracles for us, and the chant, "I like Ike," is no longer merely an identification of political affiliation, but an anthem to the hope for greater tomorrows.

KENNETH COLTON Indianapolis The Power of Prayer To the tdltor or The News: It was the people's prayers beseeching the Lord to end that long 20 years' stretch of arbitrary, un-American and unconstitutional Democratic dictatorship that won this election. God answers prayer. 2 Chronicles, 4:14, "If My people which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land." DAISYDEAN DEEDS Indianapolis The Pity of It All To (he r.dilnr of The Nrwt: The campaign is ended, a fact for which probably the entire nation is deeply grateful. The pity of it all is that two such reputable men of unquestionable integrity as Eisenhower and Stevenson were subjected to the abuse and revolting accusations hurled at. them by the Trumans, McCarthys and Jenners.

Truman's anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic charge against Eisenhower was wholly unforgivable and was, I believe, as much resented by right-thinking Jewish and Catholic Americans as by any other individual or group. On the other hand, the tactics used by Nixon, McCarthy and Jenner to smear Governor Stevenson because of his Hiss deposition were equally rcprc- Noise Nuisance To tho tditor of The Nrwi: What has become of the officials who were supposed to suppress the noises and correct the weight of trucks on public highways? Erom the noise that they make, one would suppose they must be laboring under overweight. At any rate, if an official would station himself at Rilter or Riley at Washington, he could pick up plenty of "game." The noise is so great that audible conversation is impossible. In the early days of automohiling, horses were frightened on the road by auto disturbances. This condition was corrected and the cars were made almost noiseless.

Why can't something he done with trucks? E.AR. Indianapolis More Than a Mandate To the Id. tor of Iht Srn: In your editorial, "Tho Tresident-Elect and Korea," you say that Ike has a mandate from the people to make a new approach to the Korean problem. It is more than that. It is a mandate for positive action.

The people have violent ly'shown that they disapprove of the stalemate and useless slaughter there. They want all-out war or gel out and bring our hoys home. We will pay an awful price regardless of the method that is chosen. The results of cither act ion are going to be so terrible that the President and Congress should not le called upon to make the final decision. It should be It is a measure of the stature of Philip Murray that even those who had been his antagonists in bitter labor -management struggles recognized his essential character and integrity.

It means something when Benjamin Fairless, the president of United States Steel can say of the president of the United Steel Workers and the CIO, that "the nation has lost a great citizen as well as a great labor leader." It means, not only that Phil Murray was a man of personal honor, but also that the surface controversies of American life never cut too deeply into the common purpose to serve the nation. As long as that spirit survives, America will weather its economic and social storms. And Philip Murray, who fought for his own with intensity and conviction, nevertheless helped to preserve that spirit. He helped to preserve, too, the opportunity for the humble to rise to leadership and a good life an opportunity symbolized by his own career as well as those of many of the leaders of management with whom he bargained. It was his recognition of the necessity for preserving American freedom of opportunity, as well as his deep religious feeling, that made him a foe of the leveling and degrading philosophy of Communism.

It is due to Philip Murray, and to other men of good will in the ranks of both labor and industry, that, in America economic differences are settled at the conference table and not at the barricades. INTERNATIONAL SCENE: Election's End Brings a Deluge of Problems Indiana Victory THE INDIANA Supreme Court has handed down a decision which represents an important victory tor newspapers. The court vocrsed a Lake County criminal judge who ordered a county prosecutor jailed for contempt during a primary election campaign because an article in the Hammond Times quoted the prosecutor's criticism of the judge. They are members of different political parties. The State Supreme Court ruled: "Judges in Indiana are elected and every eitien may fully and ireely discuss the fitness nr unfitness of all candidates for office.

To hold otherwise would be a restriction of freedom of speech and of the press: It is essential to our form of government that the record of a candidate lor plfice he submitted to scrutiny and unlimited discussion, subject only to Ihe law of libel." Small time judges who heliew their office is sacrosaiK ami their conduct above criticism appear to a dime a dozen in this country. Many of them have fried lo cite newspapers and newspapermen for contempt lor violating that behel. This decision will protect newspapermen in Indiana and may be helpful as a precedent, in some ot in stales. Cditor and Publiiher Why Not Carry On? OFF THE RECORD By Ed Rccd By Clifton Utky JOK THE LAST three months we have been behaving as though nothing important should or could happen anywhere else in the world while we have been hatting each other over the head in our quadrennial election campaign. With one exception, our free world Allies hav not bothered us about world problems, partly because they didn't want to raise foreign issues that might become a football in our campaign and partly because they realized that with a new administration certain whichever way Ihe election went, the expiring Truman administration could not riv' any real answer to important world affairs questions even if Ihry were asked.

THE ON EXCEPTION to the free ot Id's "Shhhh, rion't-d i b-the-Americans" rule was attempted by Franco, which tried to raise the offshore aid issue, fliid is undoubtedly sorry it did, for it got roundly slapped down for its pains. Of course, Ihe free world has not, stood still simply because we, its lender, have been unable to have a foreign pot-icy during our campaign, The same problems have continued, and the only difference has been thnt some of them goi worse becaune we were not able to give sensible answers to questions that would normally have been asked. Now that the election Is over we must expect the deluge of foreiKii problems to brum to descend on us oijain. Though not the most upcctncular, the most important foreign problem the new administration is to have to face is the related foreign aid Amei i. can tarilfs problem, WE AIM-: very tired of continuing to extend large amounts of aid to the free world and, what is less apparent here, the lice world is getting extremely tired of going on a pt 1114 that, aid.

Hut jt is now reasonably clear that, to maintain the free world alliance and adequate world rie-lense against Russia, American aid on an extremely large scaie will ljivc to be continued indelimtely, unless the tree world is given a much greater chanre to cam American doll.ns than we have been willing to yive it in the postwar period. Pill bluntly, this means that, unless the new administration is will-ins to cut Units di astically, and by drastically 1 iivim inlinitely more than anv thing that lias been done under the reciprocal trade policy, we arc going to have to continue making massive gitts to the free world iiuleimitely, or see the free world alliance break down. Cutting larills drastically is one of the most difficult, litmus for any American administration to do, because special interests, which can ami do bring enormous political pressures on emigres', are bound to be hurt by the cuts, while the emeriti miriest is- served. Kul the general interest is seldom irprcsentrd lie loir Congnss by pic-sine groups 11 ft vocal those 1 epi sentiitg special interests, In the citcunislanrrs, despite nil our grumbling about gifts to loreign iih-tions, we might find it ntMcr to ton-untie such cuts indelmiicly and main- tain our present tariffs, even though such action sacrificed the general American interest for the sake of appetising certain special groups. Hut we are likely to discover that the option in this matter does not lie wholly with us.

The new administration is likely to discover that the free world, and particularly Europe, is just, about, as tired of receiving American gilts as we are of handing out largesse. We may say that makes no difference, for Europe, which might rather balance its payments by selling us more and getting less in gifts, cannot he the chooser in such matters. THIS MAY NOT he wholly cnirrcl. The new administration is very likely to discover, if it insists on maintaining American high tariffs -which help prevent the free world from paying its own way- that in Rritain and free Europe we will be confronted by a rising demand to have dune with American gifts, Would this be possible for Europe? It would he perfectly possible, though 1 think very unwise, Hut nations that become desperate are not alw ays wise. We are already confronted by rising wave of rteviinlsm in Britain and netive-Mory neutralism in France.

It does not require too much stretch of the imagination to see nurli groups arguing "America Is incorrigible. She will not let us pay our way by selling tn her. We rnnttot rontinue Indefinitely the humiliation of accepting her handouts, sn the only way out Is to rut defense expenditures' radically 1 which will relieve the pressure on our balance of payments) and make such trade arrangements as we can with Russia and the vest, of the Iron Curtain count ies." 1 think Europe would he unwise tn take any such action, hut we are going to have to remember there is a certain pride in Europe which may mean that Europe iil not be illing to go on inking American handouts indefinitely, even if we are willing 1n give Hieni indefinitely, simply because it. is politically easier for us tn give handouts than to face Jail, that, as the world's great creditor nation, we have got to accept vastly increased imports if vr are to pi event the collapse of Western defense, TIIK M.W AOMINISTItATlON is also going In have to lace the question of world distribution of raw materials, which will be raised very shortly hy Britain, The world cannot stand constant and drastic fluctuation in vital raw materials prices. Consequently, If we are going to maintain in the tree world a solvency that, is essential to maintenance or an effective free world alliance, it will he necessary for the new administration to accept long-term purchase contracts for a number of materials vital to our Allies, even though such cont 1 acts will mean Hint we pay nvernge prices somewhat higher than we would have to pay lor purchases 1" a wide open market.

Tnis Is one of the prices the new administration will have to pay for the ecommlc health of 1he free world, without which the free world defense alliance will not survive. After 18 months of exhaustive investigation, the Metropolitan Area Study Commission created by the 1951 General Assembly has completed its assigned work. A huge amount of facts and figures on local government has been assembled and deposited with the Legislative Bureau for future use. The commission has written a report based on its findings and has filed it with the Governor and the 1953 General Assembly. But undoubtedly each member of the commission has acquired priceless information and understanding of local government which remains unwritten.

The commission members, perhaps, know better than any other group of individuals the complex nature and problems of Marion County's governmental units. We believe the members of i he commission could perform high public service if they continued as an unofficial committee to carry on their investigation. Improvement of local government should be a never-ending operation. The commission members could serve their community well by functioning as a civic watchdog committee to follow the progress of their recommendations for legislative and constitutional changes as well as to consider other suggestions which may be made from time to time. "i have .1 corrdrtion 10 make the f-ORCOT to eat his vitey-bitcys tins mornmg.".