Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 November 1943 — Page 14

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= Breakers which ‘Sherley Uhl describes is not surprising. ~The debate. over punishment vs, persuasion as a cure for _ adolescent criminals is an old one, and both sides can point to many a success of their own, and many a failure of the ~ opposing theory. Nevertheless, that is an impressive record on file in Safety Board President Remy’s office of children whose criminal careers already are long and lurid, and who show no prospects of reform—children on whom persuasion has { failed ‘and punishment has never been tried. A very large proportion of the juvenile crime which today plagues this city is committed by a relatively small number of very

young boys—most of them already well known to police < men, most of them with dossiers that extend back: to the time when they were only’ eight or nine years old, They’ “are not petty offenses these baby bandits have confessed. - Burglaries probably lead the list. Auto thefts are numerous. Some of them have been guilty of 10 or 20 or 30 ; Meta: for which an adult would be sentenced to prison.

: MR. REMY'S complaint that there is. no penalty for | = juvenile crime is largely. supported by this record. Most | of these youngsters have suffered no punishment at all, beyond the inconvenience of being. brought into- ‘police | - custody every three or four mont®& ‘and confessing to

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gent out of office. The council's réport said the in- ’

surance company was delinquent in paying $68,000

in insurance claims and that the company said the| main reason was that after the old man’s kid got his |

dough there. wasn’t enough left to ake care of all the widows and orphans.

But, after a time, through the operation of that |

type of ‘scalesmodel Tammany politics: Which Justice Felix Frankfurter would justify as familiar union practice, the old ‘gent got back into office 4nd the racket resumed with the result that when the war

program came on and people were shooed into the |

union by the tens of thousands; young Franklin's income swelled to lend-lease dimensions.

Well, friends, Kaiser has about a quarter of a mil-

[ Hon menibers-of ‘this union on his payrolls, ail covered || ~~

by contracts signed long before most of them ever | had any idea of building ships and Miss Meyers, speaking for the C. I. O: ship builders, says this 1s a’

a | dizty outrage snd wants. the government -to--hold || regular labor board elections and let the ‘people them- |

new batch of crimes. He contends that there should be selves decide whether they want to stay in Franklin's

punishment. Juvenile court authorities, not just recently but for | a number of years past, have undertaken to reform these | _ Shiliren by placing them on probation, try ing to correct | “their home conditions, trying to give them a new and | better outlook on life. No doubt this method has been ! successful in many, many cases. Those are the cases | which don’t come back into the police files. The only cases | that come back are the failures; cours ~—No one, and certainly not Mr. "Roy We the | same drastic kind of punishment. for a 14-year-old boy that | would be given an adult guilty of the same offense. Yet, | there is much solid ground for his position that there shotild be some form of punishment, especially for repeated | _ offenses. ‘The whole history of crime and its treatment indicate that certainty of punishment, rather than severity of unighment, _is the greatest deterrent to Jawlesshess.

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Sa repercussion from the latest coal strike, both public | and industry members of the war labor hoard are out | with statements that point to congressional amendment of | labor legislation now-on the books. Such amendment has long been overdue. | Labor once was weak and now is strong. Strong in | quite the same dangerous way as Wall street once was | when it rode the driver's seat. Hence, such comment as this from the public group of WLB: “The whole question of the responsibility of unions for | - anti-social acts and of the capacity of government to pre- | “vent such acts” must be brought “into the forefront of consideration.” =. Whenever any- group gets too powerful, that's where | the lawmakers should step in. The executive (or govern-ment-by-man) department in the persons of the President, Secretary Ickes and WLB tried to handle the coal strike situation and took a licking from John L. Lewis. - Deep down in our scheme of things—deepest down— is that ours should be a government by law, not by men. ~ "The dangerous trouble, of which the WLB now com- | plains, is the outgrowth of trying to put men first, law : second. The situation will get worse, not better, unless ~ congress acts, and quickly—not in anger as in ‘the case of the Smith-Connally law, but in calm, considered judgment | of what $0 obviously needs to be corrected for the long haul.

" 8» s a =» BECAUSE LABOR was once weak and capital strong, ~ all out of proportion, the Clayton act was passed. It gave - to labor a distinct special privilege, justified at the time, if any special privilege from lawmakers is ever justified. £ exempted labor from penalties applied to others. In a later year, because labor was still being denied in many places the right of collective bargaining, the Wagner act was passed. Designed for symmetry of relationship be-

in capital and labor, it turned out to beé jig -handied in | of labor.

The two laws, working together, built up labor into the | 4¢ kind of preferred and poisonous power position that | Business had held before the SEC and the other Ory measures.

it is human nature that power. once possessed. “Them n as has it uses it.” ‘have recently seen the very heart of our war while the coal strike was on. And that 8 of men is now turning to the makers of bor’s position and power. act and the Wagner act need Tenovating ‘war and the ) peace.

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Franklins Are Sitting Pretty TO COMPLICATE matters, congress put a rider

iin an appropriation act stipulating that where a €on«-1

{tract bad been in force three months or more the labor relations board must 16t It stand so’ the Pranks | lins are sitting very pretty indeed and moreover the | local unions in the big centers are gathering in dues and initiation fees by the million with the prospect that when the war program closes down the member.

then will have a pérfect legal ‘right {o-cut-up- the: Toot and simply vote themselves millionaires, Out in ‘Portland a local unioneer named Tommy i Ray. a Chicago fellow, got so dough-heavy that he built an elaborate ‘union headquarters which the C. I. O. crowd calls the marble palace to which the rank and file is not cordially ifivited except for the purpose of paying fees, dues, fines and so forth; but the Kansas City mob took offense at did and recently tried to kick him out but. Talled.

Marble Palace. for Ray, Pals.

THE MARBLE palace is practically a private club for Ray and his pals. ‘Now Kaiser has been cited by the president's committee on fair employment practice because he discriminates against ‘Negroes in matters of upgrading and promotion and he is guilty, biit it isn’t his fault. ie has to comply with his contract with the union nd the union's constitution excludes Negroes from | full membership, but of course they have to pay fees and dues just the same,

That is about all for now so will close hopliig you are the same.

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By Ruth Millett

MAYBE BASIC English is . what the world as 2 whole needs, But what we need right here in. America today is a “basic business English” that can be taught to all- employees who, in the course of their day's work. deal with the public. Such a. course should place importance ‘on LOOKING pleasant. For actually the expression on a speaker's face is a large paft of what he says. And it's surprising—considering that it doesn’t lighten thelr work: in any way—how many employees go around with expressions that are about as cordial as a “Do Not Disturb” sign.

Magic in ‘Please’

THEN THE magic charm of “please,” “I'm sorry” and “thank you very much” should be stressed. It might not even be amiss for the teacher of a “basic business English” course to admit that for those who deal with the buying public, gracious manners are

| about as important as efficiency.

Another point that should be made clear is that the customer is a guest, not an, intruder, and an employee's words and manner should take that into account. a Most ‘of the rudeness that one runs into today obviously is a reflection of ignorance. For when it is so easy to be pleasant and courteous, and when | by being so, one’s working day is so much smoother,

only-the ignorant would allow thémselves to be sour- |}

faced and discourteous,

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ne a “RETURNS ARE IN— |1T°S TIME TO THINK”.

EXPERTS SAY 3 circle cannot be squared. some |]

THE TREASURY regorted $19.247,050.969 in clr |;

..defend to the death your right to say it.—Voltaire,

“A PATRIOTIC GIFT TO THE MAILMAN" By “1 Want te Help.” Indianapolis The call for more post office lhelpers and little response brings to mind this fact. Is it really necessary to. overload the mails with

rule we see. these same people weekly? To those out of the state, in the service, the sick and parents,

| ship Will' shrink down to just a few hundred whe |lt's still fine, but hundreds of tons > Js NO of cards would be spared the malls.

if we eliminated nearby friends and neighbors for the duration. « We don’t mean to offend nor say we don’t ‘appreciate receiving ards, but as. a patriotic Christmas gift to the mailman, let's say “Merry Christmas” ~youally for 1943,

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By Osear Houston, Ellettsville Since the returns from this fall's elections are “in, our Republican friends feel confident that they have

the 1944 election in the bag." If they are correct, we can't ex-

the New Deal. They have condemned that to death; it will be an administration of Republican ideas. Free industry and let industry take care of the workers. Get government out of all business and turn it over to private industry. First, repeal the Wagner ‘act or emasculate it with améhdments till it is void, and turn labor disputes back to the courts; labor knows what that would mean. Second, relieve industry of job and old-age retirement taxes. Third, relieve industry of other taxes by shifting them onto the

tax.Fourth, the securities act aad] by the New Deal to prevent Wall street sharks from peddling their worthless securities and stocks to the public, will they repeal hat?) They ~ permitted it under ' their administration. To get government out of busi-| worse ness and turn it over to private in-i

accounts could be turned over to a big insurance company and let the worker pay the whole cost if he

_ {wanted to continue his insurance,

That would free industry of more taxes, big corporate interests will

“WHAT'S THE difference between the girl of 1923 §

Christmas cards when as a general|

pect any carryover of any part of

backs of the masses through a sales

dustry, 60,000,000 workers’ security|

(Times readers are invited fo express their views in these columns, religious controversies excluded. Because ‘of “the volume received, letters should be limited to 250 words: Letters must. be signed. Opinions set forth here are ‘those’ of the writers, ; “and. “publication in ng way implies agreement with those: opinions by The Times. ~The . Times assumes no responsi. bility for the return of manu. scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

[make a bid to take over the rural’

electric lines, and I predict they will succeed, If just kicking the New Deal out was all that is involved in the next election ‘that wouldn't be serious. But to turn government over to a party that threatens to destroy the things that have been accomplished for the masses—it's time to think, o » » “MORE HOME WORK {IS NECESSARY” By Estella R. Dodson, Bloomington This is our war. All of us. Everybody. Let no one imagine he can disregard it merely by saying, “The | war: doesn’t bother me.” We are all in It and on the profit side of the

task, Yu hey iu Nave Wie duilp of

plea up , but it-could be worse if “makeup were poor. This war,’ while it has the hand-to-hand slugging phase, is "much

more s¢ientific than preceding wars, |

More home work is necessary. More war material plants must produce.

Even the day laborer (if one can be,

Ltound) cotpiutes Ha share Jf he

Side Glances—By Galbraith

city, town or village, I the boundary lines of each- county}

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releases a man who will join the armed forces. "Please tell 4-F not to be downhearted. He is, no doubt, doing his share at the job he holds, just as well as if he were right out in front.

7 od - s “COMMON SENSE PLAN OF POSTAL RATES" By H. 8S. B.. Indianapolis _ * . I.notice in the papers that. action

has. been taken to increase outepftown mailto a 4-cent postal

and means committe¢ or the powers that be at Washington a schedule as follows: ’ “Instead of a local rate for each would make

; a 1-cent rate for goodsized - postal - cards mailed. within the county, a 2-cent rate for cards mailed outside the county throughout the state or U.S, a 2-cent rate’ for sealed letters within the county

state, the state lines as boundaries; a 4-cent rate anywhere in the U.S. and Alaska, a 5-cent rate outside

|the county, U. 8. for the western

hemisphere; a 6-cent postal rate for letters mailed to the eastern hemisphere. : These rates would be a common sense plan and help to bring in a large additional revenue. : » # . “THINKING OF VETERANS WHO COME HOME”

By A Sister, Indianapolis I'm thinking of these ex-sailors end soldiers who come home—why, with this war chest money, they can’t build a home . .. Some of

{these ex-servicemen are not going .|to have parents or wives when they

come home and no place for them to go. Why can’t & home be set up or some recreation center, a fund

{for them to eat and sleep and some

money ,. , :? There is a lot of foolish money around in banks on somie folks’ reserve that could do good and we can't: take it with us’ when we die.

By Mrs. B. M. Deck, 24 8. Rural st. I am writing this in answer to Claude Roberts’ little speech of “Smoke in Heaven,” which apthe Friday (Nov. 12) edi-

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record of answering all calls of the house.

Others who responded to the roll, but didn't h the speech, were Reps. Noble J. Johnson and BE Wilson, Republicans. Most of the other Republican had left the city, since this was on Saturday and it & ynusual for the house to have sessions. Some hadi been gone all week; because they had received a not from Rep. Leslie C. Arends (R. Ill), minority whip that no important legislation would be taken up. Absent were Reps. Halleck, Grant, Gillie, Harne and LaFollette, Republicans, and Madden, Democra The Arends note indicates that the house G. O. P.

+1 lendership 1s not backing the plan ‘of Landis et

keep the hiouse in session whether there is any h to do or not. Legislation must come through the committees ! Bhigas they Sfs YEAdY to YePurt thers is’ litle in 4

“1 ut waste time With such meetinigs. Urged Immediate Action

IN HIS speech Mr. Landis urged immediate actic through discharge petitions, on bills to raise the pric of oll, and provide for OPA court appeals. Mostly,

‘however, it was a-tirade against the administrations

- Here aré some samples: “In my opinion there are too many glamour be on-the federal payroll. The taxpayers cannot affor

any more glamour at these prices. We are all les

that when the bureaucrats spend, we pay. “If our boys in the armed services and the civ population are to be adequately fed this winter, th American people must demand that some sensible food policies be adopted by ‘the administration, “We must insist that the New Deal philosophy of scarcity be abandoned. Men must be placed In charge. of our food program who know. somethin about such problems.”

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In Washington

By Peter Edson

WASHINGTON, Nov. 17. ce! > Administrator Chester Bowles has a new parable on the evils of subsidies, and ‘it’s on a par with the presidents parable on the evils of - taking “just alittle cocaine” td enjoy the plesaures of - just 8 Hi : inflation.” = The Bowles homil goes something like this: _- “When you say you don't lik subsidies, it's a good bit like say ing you don't like iodine, Bu when it comes to a choice of u fodine (subsidies) or having an infected arm (infla tion) you'll take the iodine” The guv'ment made a slight underestimate in th number -of - checks the treasury will -have to this year, Originally, the treasury figured it would have to fill out only 198 million checks—yes, check not dollars—in shoveling the dough out of the til To print up this many checks, the bureau of engraving got an appropriation of more than a half millio dollars, but ‘because it was such a largé order “the government printers were able to get an extra 57 mil lion checks, bringing the total up 255 million. check: for the same money. But even this won't be enough Consequently, the bureau has had to ask congress x another $252,000 to print another 101 million che

Road Builders' Battle

* HAROLD CHIN, the Chinese-American pilot fo! the Pan American-Chinese national ‘airways, now fly

ing supplies over the Himalaya mountains from

to China, hes brought to. the United States an a mos incredible story on the speed with which the new Lid: toad is now being built to comiect the two countrie

by-passing the old Jap-held Burma road. - All

for road building in this part of the world are b broken, and a lot of the credit is: given a J labor foreman whom the Americans call “Muddy Me.

American engineers are working on the India of the road while the Japs, are at work on the ¢ end. ‘he Americans have sean shoves, ruck, ul

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: dozers and all the modern earth

-moving = Across the mountains, o thelr end of the road, Japs use native coolie ‘labor, carrying baskets of di

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