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1 to THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1945 Editorials HOOSIER HOMESPUN SEPTEMBER With viands rich the table spread For her who ccmes with velvet who wish to ear shorts may continue to do so, at least until cold weather drives them into something more suitable. There is a tread, And for each eolden hour a gem simple remedy for all who are embarrassed and insulted whenever they see feminine shorts on the streets or in the stores. Simply look the other way. There's no law compelling any person to look at something unpleasant. Joyce To deck her gorgeous diadem'.

Anna Sohn PEREGRINATIONS Keats might have been writing of this particular September when he penned. "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulnessl" Most gardeners can testify to mellow fruitful-ness when tomatoes and beans must be picked daily, cucumbers mature overnight, and nature's production is far ahead of a family's capacity. An interesting story concerns the gift of a peck of tomatoes that traveled around a city block, and in due time arrived TO A CEDAR Green matriarch on yonder hill, Her feet sunk deep in reddish clay. Was left to stand there all alone To wait the need of some far day When mountain men with saw and ax Will break net long years' patient rest. again at the home of the original And Cltv men vvill make of hef donor.

Nobody had the heart to Milady's hopeful dower chest. Pfc. Gene Wierbach, Ft. Sill REGISTERED MAIL refuse the gift; nobody could bear to see it wasted, so the tomatoes passed surreptitiously from back door to side entrance untii they Perhaps it is true that the tirely accidental. The repercussion cf the spilling of the President, so the story goes, was action by congress to appropriate funds for improving the National Road The Van Buren Elm was almost destroyed by a tornado in 1923.

This spring the tree failed to put out leaves. It was declared completely dead and state highway authorities notified officials of the Western Yearly Meeting, on whose ground it stood, that it would have to come down. For generations the tree had been a living witness to a bit of typical Hoosier lore Now only the legend remains That will go on into time as part of the saga of our pioneer days. Minimum Divorce Fees While the Indianapolis Bar Association has not attempted to place a ceiling on divorce fees to be charged by its members, it has adopted an advisory schedule of minimum charges. Thus a lawyer is expected to collect at least $75 for obtaining an uncontested divorce.

The scale of minimum prices goes up as complications arise. Lawyers are to collect more if there are preliminary hearings, the custody of children to be determined and allowances obtained. Alimony and property settlements take a lawyer into the higher brackets. He should have at least $150 for such a case, the Bar Association believes, plus 5 per cent, of the value of the property involved or the alimony granted. During 1944 a total of 4.810 divorce cases were filed in Marion county, compared with 4.355 in 1943.

This years divorce record may send the total even higher. Divorces have become a type of legal action that will mean more than 5360,000 for the lawyers at the lowest rate, with possibilities that the take will be double that. And while $150 may loom large to some litigants as the price of freedom, there are occasional Marion county divorce trials where the lawyers collect $1,000 or more. stooo once more at ineir own gar- postman alwavs rings twice, but den gate. The fellow who brought he onlv stops once if he has rfg.

them up regarded them ruefully jstered mail. The letter or parcel and threw them into the chili ket- is returned to the main postoffice, tie with the rest of his last-minute or one tne substations, and excess. Every season seems to there it remains until called for. have scents pertinent to itself Tne postman might bring it again alone; now the flower fragrances the next day and find somebody have been replaced by the aromas t0 sign the rcceipt. but it seems of vinegar, horseradish, spice and tnat thc rules forbid that Anv.

tomatoes bubbling in their own hnriv whn isn't at homo whon Our Japanese Problem Gen. Douglas MacArthur. supreme Allied commander in Japan, admittedly is in a delicate position, at least until sufficient troops have been landed to enforce his orders He has made it clear that he intends to work through the existing framework of government to carry out the Potsdam mandate to stamp out militarism and bring democracy to the Japanese people. This may prove difficult. Any one accustomed to thinking in terms of the American system of government might suppose that this could be accomplished by holding popular elections.

It has been predicted that, a new diet will be elected within the next few months, although the subject was ignored by Premier Higashi-Kuni in his address to the diet on September 5. The diet, however, is a peculiar institution, quite unlike the representative assemblies of western governments. Under the constitution of 1889 a ministry does not need the support of the diet to remain in office, and a political party that wins an election does not necessarily take over the government as a result. Thus, the moderate Min-seito party won the elections of 1930 and 1934 for the lower house, by 273 to 174. but the militaristic Seiyukai party took over the government.

Although practically all males are eligible to vote by secret ballot for the house of representatives this semblance of democracy is completely nullified by the house of peers which wields co-equal powers with the lower house. The upper chamber includes 11 the jidult male members of the imperial family, princes and marquises who have reached the age of 30, 125 members named by the crnperor for life, 150 members of the nobility elected for seven-year terms by the clans, 66 seven-year members elected by districts by the 100 or 200 persons who pay the highest taxes and four members of the Imperial Academy of Sciences Japan, thus, is ruled by what Sumner Welles calls an "oligarchy of aristocrats. Before there can be any real democracy, the whole framework and spirit of the nation must be changed. It may be expedient, at present, for the Allies to govern through the emperor and existing authorities, but eventually this basic issue must be faced if there is to be freedom in the Orient and peace in the world. I rosy juices.

These will be replaced I by the pungencies of chrysanthe-' mums and wood fires and i the undefinable tingle of frost asainst the nose. One of the most beloved and familiar perfumes has istered mail arrives must get out and run it down. L. C. A.

QUEER IDEA One of my friends has the queerest ideas. "You know," he said. been missing tnis year, that ot the, -there are times when ym driving old ham bone, knee deep in Ken- that I see some fool pedestrian at I tucky Wonders, an onion or two. a an interspetinn He lnnks both wav FROM NOW ON smidgin of garlic and a celery and then steps into the street, intending to cross. Some of these days I've a big notion to slam on my brakes and stop just let him stalk for company.

Sugar is a scentless thing, and yet, combined I with fruit and heat, it clamors 1 against the olfactory nerves. One go on across the street simply for i can not imagine a winter without the heck of it R. B. N. apple pie warm through the house at least once a week.

THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE The editoi welcomes letters especially brief expressions ct opinions on general sibiects. Please give the name and address of the sender. Trie name will be used unless the writer specifically requests otherwise. If the return of unused letters is desired please send a stamped, addressed envelope MOST OF THEM Penny Wise How many neighbors, prone to moan, "I haven't a minute to call my FEMININE SHORTS Volunteers by States To Editor of The about the brass hats, who can think of all the reasons why the boys who are in must stay in11 smite thee on the right cheek, turn to him the other also. "And if any man will sue thee at the law.

and take away thy coat. We have seen several protests own." in the papers about women who Are constantly heard on the tele-wear shorts in public. Some of I phone? Facetia these sights are attractive andj some are not. depending more on! Indiana motorists wish the the woman than the shorts. We Hoosier roads had a system of have just had a war to maintain turnouts, for use while fixing personal liberty, so I imagine those blowouts.

T. S. In all of the proposed solutions Let them try living on a soldier's for the problem of manpower for pay. Let the ones who escaped liet him have thy cloak also, the armies of occupation, the au- the last war and this war do the "And whosoever shall compel to thorities are not giving the volun- mopping up. K0 a mje.

KO with him twain. Give teer system and fullest test. Our fellows who have been in j0 him that asketh thee, and from It is possible for a man to vol- this war for a year, regardless of him that would borrow of thee unteer at this time for the regular the point system, have done their turn not thou away Army ana sucn enlistments snouia uui. "Ye have heard that it hath heen AS I SEE IT By Herbert R. Hil Atomic Age Navy be encouraged.

These regular How must our boys feel about said. Thou shalt love thy neighbor. Army enlistments are for three the folks at home? Is it necessary and hate thine enemy. years ana tne man is assignee i mji uov.s lo "But I sav untn von T.nvp vnur and the man is assigned for some of the boys to do all of i I i 1 I hn -ill Ihn ti rv a r. it all time? it place of the fighting the No, witnoui regara 10 nis enemies, bless them that curse you.

do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you and persecute you." LILLIAN WALLACE Indianapolis The harvest season has begun in international affairs as well as i on the world's frantically-coaxed farms. For the food famine is no greater than the necessity for re-' adjustments which must be made i quickly if new violences do not i beset many countries. Thus, while origin. No fault can be found with isn't. Home means a great deal this system for the "long range" to our boys whether they spent it and "over all" recreation of our facing the enemy or trying to keep regular Army.

the enemy out of our country. I However, the nation is faced say let thc others show us the with the immediate problem of kind of soldier they can be in i charges, would amount to about 5 per or $150,000,000 annually. And Britain's prewar exports to the United States were only $150,000,000. No nation, unless bereft of all independence of action, would dare to divert its entire export income only to servicing a loan. It would place the debtor's creating occupational armies ana lo-" ii-r i-muv who is already war weary from the foreign ministers of the Bigj -1 i i relieving the fighting veterans of our victorious forces.

fighting our battles. NORA MEREDITH Indianapolis Five gather in London to try to thread their way through the maze, "edltor make him a vassal of of post-Potsdam developments, the! hw more fortunate neighbor. QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS I.nnr Ancrln. Amorioan frorl r. 1,11 nil many yivyjOKa 10 a role in foreign affairs as possible.

conferences in Washington between our economic experts. 1 Also, the Labor party received its I landslide in the July election part-j ly because of the extensive do-! mestic reforms it promised. The The British arc offering to aban-j don their controlled trading within the sterling bloc the British com-: monwealths and pendant states such as the Arab nations and Ar- I suggest the following plan: Direct and authorize each state in the Union to proceed to enlist and organize (within the state) "occupational troops" with a table of organization similar to the present military police battalions. Make the raising of these forces a state function and encourage the formation of platoons, companies and battalions in each township, county, city and town. Stress the fact that the volunteers would serve with the men from their own community and under officers from their own stale.

THOMAS A. HENDRICKS: A SHORT SKETCH Attlee government, fully aware of its predicament, is not going to To the Editor of The News: I As a taxpayer I wonder hether the war really is over, and if it is. 1 would like to squawk about keeping men in the Army who have familes. as 1 have a son and son-in-law in the service and the government must send allotment checks for two women and five children, and that seems to me a very good price to pay for only two men to help police the world. If we must have policemen why not continue to draft young men nnrmil finncnririil ivn AmArian in.

The American people are with congress on the proposal to build and maintain the most powerful navy in the world. That is the goal set up by Chairman Walsh and Chairman Vinson, of the senate and house naval affairs committees, in their resolutions, which arc identical, to the two houses. Today the Navy has 1,308 major combat vessels afloat, under construction or authorized. The recommendations of the naval affairs committees call for a total of 1,079 in the peacetime Navy. This is the Navy department's estimate of the postwar demand.

The proposal, of course, includes enough aircraft and auxiliary vessels to support this great fleet. If this plan is carried out, the United States will have a navy about four times as strong as its prewar navy. It will make this country the greatest naval and air power in the history of the world. A hint of what may happen when the committees hold their hearings is indicated in the statement of the chairmen that they will make a study of "the changes which it would be necessary to make in the structure and organization of the Navy due to the probable emergence of new weapons of war employing the principles used in constructing the robot and atomic bombs." Congress is not likely to waver from its determination to provide the country with the strongest navy in the world, but it may have a hard time making up its mind about differences of opinion among high-ranking Navy officers. Already there have been hints that Navy leaders are not in agreement as to how far they should go in shaping the new Navy to the atomic age.

It is assumed, however, that they will not fail to make the most of strong popular support for the best Navy that they can put together. Readers, Redkey-Please give a sentina if they car. get from us a terts to brake its of Thomas A. Hendricks, large loan to run at least three to of sorjaI reforms. Downing Street Thomas Andrews Hendricks was fiv'e years.

This interim financing i can give us the alternative born near Zanesville, Septem- is necessary to Britain's economic I hat Gen De GaOlle did- If you ber 7. 1819 In 1822 his father stability now that London has Americans are not willing to share settled in Indiana, where the son ceased to be the worlds credit' an unrierwritinz of the oeace as The physical standards should vvas educated at South Hanover capital and that lend-lease has! on rlirl rf ho U'ar thon ua will who would like to see the world Orchids for the Indians Although a gallant stretch drive fell just short of winning the American Association baseball pennant for the Indians, Indianapolis baseball fans have every reason to be proud of their hustling, well-balanced club. Picked by the preseason experts to finish well down in the second division, the Indians proved to be the surprise of the league. After the first week, they never were lowver than third in the standings and throughout most of the season they battled nip-and-tuck with a strong Milwaukee club for the league leadership. Since the Indians were second in the final figures, two-and-one-half games below Milwaukee, they enter the play-offs for the league championship against the fourth place St.

Paul club while Milwaukee squares off in another four out of seven series against the third ranking Louisville Colonels. As the series opens under the lights tonight, the Indians have a score to settle, for it was the loss of a five-game series to the Saints on the last road trip that cost the Tribe its chance lor the pennant. It has not been easy to provide first-class baseball, under the difficult conditions of wartime, but the Bush-McKinney ownership and Manager Bill Burwell have done just that at Victory Field and the fans are grateful. Since the team has won ten of its last eleven games, it enters the playoffs riding the crest, and with an excellent chance to go through to the league finals. Win or lose, however, it has been a good season.

Out of the Way A good deal of the optimism of business and. industrial leaders about a quick change to a peace economy and several years of prosperity springs from relief over the hacking away of restrictions under which business has operated during the war. But more experienced men are reminding themselves that a lot of war restrictions were in effect before the war. They were New Deal rules and regulations which were intended to make Washington the business as well as the political capital of the country. The brakes were jammed on the full power of American competitive enterprise when, in 1936 and 1937.

the administration discovered that what it had planned did not work. So as congress reconvenes it is cheering to hear that the President and many members of both parties are ready to transfer the heavy foot from the brake pedal to the accelerator Thev seem to kn ow that thev arc responsible for a lot of the drags on American industry, ingenuity and initiative. It is time to oust the government pay rollers from business huddles. And the ousting is the duty and responsibility of congress. There must be federal regulation of business in the interest of all the people.

But when it is carried so far that business must wait several years to get a decision on what it can do and what it can not do. it is not regulation-It is strangulation. The President has set a good pace in cast be revised downward, and made with all expenses paid, and send College, and became a lawyer. He ended. Gen De Gsulle.

seek-j turn to Russia, for the Soviets too flexible. The enlistment period these men home to re-establish was an active member of the state assistance, has been followed have gold in plenty awaiting only should be eighteen months. their homes and get acquainted constitutional convention of 1850, to tne Potomac by a delegation the mining. with the kids. So again 1 ask.

and a member of congress from neaaea ora eynes ana Lord the Indianapolis district from 1851! Halifax- 'Such is the firmly-khiti New World Banker is the war over: SAM WALKER Certainly the United States has to 1855. Mr.Hendricks was Demo- iaui1 Ul Kuveinmem mat cratic United States senator from gentlemen are assigned to! Indianapolis plead even for a Socialist chancel- ample gold and resources now to I feel that many men would be vitally interested in serving for eighteen months in the Irvington platoon of an Indianapolis company in an Indiana battalion. HOWARD H. BATES Indianapolis Time for the Others 1863 to 1869. was chosen Governor lor of the exchequer!) enable it to play its new role of of Indiana for four years in 1872.

a child4 and Vice-President of the United To the Editor of The News: i I am the mother of world banker. We dare not make the mistake once made by Lon- 'At a Rate We Can Pay" The British argue that twenty- don, when czarist Russia was seven months before Pearl Harbor forced to turn to Paris for loans. To the Editor of The News: they were dissipating their dollar If ue are wk to extend the credits (and wouldn't it be less States with Grover Cleveland in 1884. He- had second place with Samuel J. Tilden on the Democratic national ticket in 1876.

He died in Indianapolis November 25, 1885. MUST WITNESS REMAIN AT CRASH SCENE? reserves and dollar securities in I whose father is in service. With the closing of the child care center I think it's time to get i all fathers that are in service home. With the wage earner gone, the mother is left to be father and mother. This 4sn't right nor fair, when there are plenty of childless men who have been deferred besides reaping a harvest while be- expensive to give the world real order to stand off the common; security than anothei we foe.

They gave us a tremendous) can find almost every nation, in-war boom with eluding even Russia, willing- to The draft must continue. If we must maintain an Army it should be done with men who have not spent enough time in the war for their nerves to be war weary. Our boys who have been in this war game for a year, having spent buy from us and thus help solve Then they shared patents and their! i our own reconversion employment Why not let them Reader. City Is a person who is physical resources with us after! headaches. In anv event, we must 1 ht i Ai'firCfllC 3TD 111 ctifipH in mg deterred.

take a turn at serving some time at the scene at a highway accident, lend-lease came into being. Sohe banker if not exporter. For in the armed torces. but not involved in it, required to now, tne Briusn implore, please; jf wc ioan money now to assist So. mothers of children whose remain until authorities arrive to consider all that when we ask for: World recovery, wc will stand a fathers are in service should unite in There is no specific $3,000,000,000 in the next three fajr chance to get it back later in demanding action in this matter, law requiring a mere itness of an years, and please for our common wju, interest.

In the war years They should stick together so thev auto accident to remain until after economic future give us a rate welWe have been eivine awav our wanting to be out of it all. There is no such thing as an essential war worker now, so we should let some of them do their bit for their country. Then. too. we have boys who have dodged the draft all during wartime, with all kinds of alibis.

They should be able to 3how us how brave they are now that there is no danger of them losing any skin. How neither police arrive. If one is riding in can pay. it possible, tne Briusn wealth, and garnering can get some place. MRS.

F. E. B. Indianapolis an automobile when there is an ac- would like the first three years of principal nor interest, cident causing injury, his running the loan to be non-interest bear- yc can not both lend and sell away might tend to an inference ing. at equal levels if we ever expect that he was in some way respon- William Clayton, United States i a return on our loan.

We must be sible. The law is against any one assistant secretary of state for eco-j willing to buy from our debtors, who is responsible for an accident nomic affairs, wouldn't offer the if such larger borrowers as Britain Reply to Mosaic Law To the Editor of The News: There's a Peace On Indianapolis residents may have been surprised and a trifle dismayed at what they read in recent food advertisements. However, they may as well realize that these were truthful announcements and that something for which they have yearned these many months has come to pass. Beef is back. No longer does the harried housewife view a market in which bologna is the headliner, with some other cold lunch meat playing a supporting role.

Instead she unfolds her News and reads that sirloin steak, "extra fancy, savory, tender," is here again. Coupled with it are porterhouse steak, rib roasts, short ribs. Grade A shoulder roasts. Grade A chuck roasts, veal cutlets, roasts and chops, leg of lamb and other items that have been so scarce. Pork, of course, is still playing hard to get.

But the armed forces are taking fewer dressed hogs and before many months even ham, chops, tenderloins and other choice cuts will be available. Day by day. a vegetarian has more temptation to resist. I would like to answer a recent failing to -comply in the matter of British a better rate than per letter in Voice of the People. The giving his name and other infor-i cent, when he was in London re-writer savs we made mistakes in mation to authorities investigating, cently.

That, witTi funding and SCRAPS the past but now tha. we know our can not pay us high rates of interest, at least they can give us trade concessions and the benefit of their political alliance. We hold both atomic bombs and unprecedented mortgages. Have we the good sense to handle them without producing a OFF THE RECORD By Ed Reed Although it is the oldest eont nent geologically. Australia was the last to be occupied by wnite men.

Of the first 2,000,000 men ex enemies we snouia use me oiu Mosiac law, which says "An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth." That law was usel in World War I and in World War II. and what was accomplished by it? In using amined under selective service. of that law we do not value human 41.000 were rejected because THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS Published daily except Sunday by The Indianapolis News Publishing Company life: the cream ot the nations are sent off to be slaughtered like hogs and for what? Why not try Christ's way of life? In St. Matt. V.

38-45. we read: "Ye have heard that it hath been ear defects. Aluminum can be rolled into foil so thin that ten layers are needed to equal the thickness of a newspaper page. Periwigs, first mentioned in ing off as many of the war restrictions as orderly reconversion permits. But he must go to congress for further liberation of job-making opportunities.

Fortunately for what seems to be his purpose, and what certainly is the immediate principal need of industry, the political situation is favorable. Congressmen will not forget that they must face the judgment of the people next year. If 400,000 Germans are tried for war crimes it may be impractical to have all of them in the court room at the same time. The News Building 30-32 W. Washington St.

Indianapolis 6, Indiana Telephone: Riley 7441 said. An eve for an eye. and a England in the sixteenth century tooth for a'tooth: are still worn in court by English "But I say unto you. That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall Complete contents copvrlthted by The News. 1945 POETRY CORNER The Indianapolis Indians didn't win the American Association pennant, but they are entitled to for effort.

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Qum. a province in Persia, is a stronghold of the Shiah faith and has many tombs of saints and pious persons, including the shrine of Fatima. Rutin, a new rare drug found in tobacco, is effective in treating a condition called capillary fragility, which is associated with high blood pressure. Sir Alexander Fleming. British discoverer of penicillin, has dedicated his discovery to the welfare of the public and has asked that it The Van Buren Elm At a place by the National Road out at Plainfield the other day citizens were observed about a heap of dead tree limbs.

These people were collecting them as souvenirs. Workmen had left the pile after felling the Van Buren Elm. a grand old forest monarch that had been a famous Indiana landmark for 102 years. It had been condemned as a menace to traffic in the National Road, in the development and improvement of which it had played an important role more than a century ago. It often was called "the tree that spilled a President." The incident for which it was famous occurred June 3.

1843. when President Martin Van Buren was upset from a stagecoach into a mudhole at its roots. Whispers were heard that the affair was not en Apparently some of the Japs are to rule themselves, if they obey the rules made by General MacArthur. MAIL SUBSCRIPTION RATES THE UNSEEN BRIDGE There is a bridge, whereof the span Is rooted in the heart of man, And reaches, without pile or rod. Unto the Great White Throne of God.

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Indiana One week 20 One month 50 Three months 1.50 Six months 2.50 One year 5.00 1040 Postwar planning might also give a thought to what should be done about spurned lovers. If there isn't a coal shortage after all. Secretary Ickes won't be able to say "I told you so." Rates In other tones and foreisn are available upon application. not be patented. its traffic is in human sighs.

The Empress Catherine received Fervently wafted to the skies; CP REED i I a Russian peasant woman in 1757 Tis one the pathway from Despair who had fifty-seven children, all And it is called the Bridge ot living four sets of quadruplets. Prayer, seven sets of triplets, ten twins. Gilbert Thomas MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED FRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively n-titied to use for repubUcatton all newa eredited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and local news published hereto. I "Sometimes Oswald goes far with hii good deeds!" Wonaer what happened to Brenner Pass. fVflSftM Mmsmmmmtm.

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