Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 May 1944 — Page 10

Give Light end the People Will Fins Their Own. Way WE RECOMMEND: : ONE of the largest fields of primary candidates in Marion county history awaits the decision of the voters at the polls tomorrow. Only a few of these candidates can possibly be personally known to any large proportion of the voters. Yet, it seems to us, it is more than ordinarily important this year, that the best possible candidates be

chosen by “the two political parties. 1

For the aid of the voters we have carefully weighed

and checked the records, the reputations, the political asso- |,

ciates, and the aims and pledges of these aspirants to office, without regard to factional disputes within parties where such exist, in an effort to determine those individuals who seem particularly well qualified for the position each seeks. The choice has not been an easy one, and the listing below is by no means intended to imply condemnation of candidates whose names are not in it. In some contests there appears to be no wholly satisfactory candidate. In others there are aspirants who in another year might be . the best in thei? field, but who this year are overshadowed by a rival whose qualifications are outstanding. - ¥ . : » . » : FOR THE Democratic nomination for congress Rep. Louis Ludlow is without opposition, in fitting tribute to his long service and great personal popularity. Republicans, more confident than they have been in several elections of sending their own nominee to Washington, have nine candidates, of whom three appear to be of sufficient stature to merit serious consideration. Of those we believe Judge Stark has the greatest claim to support. _ The hotly contested race for Republican nomination for prosecutor is between two men of high personal standard and many superior qualities. We have indorsed Sherwood Blue for this post in past elections, and our opinion of him remains high. ‘Nevertheless our vote this year goes to Judge John Niblack, a man whose record clearly indicates that he will stand on his own feet and accept no * dictation from any bosses, factions or cliques. On the Democratic side Judge Bradshaw seems to be the better choice. .

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WE RECOMMEND the defeat of the two incumbent county: commissioners, William Bosson Jr. and Ray D. Mendenhall. Both acquiesced in the award of a county contract to a grand jury foreman who was then engaged in an official investigation of the conduct of their office, and neither has offered any plausible explanation ofthe remarkable expenditures of public money in the Julietta construction job, at least a part of it during their administration. We offer no indorsement in the Republican contest for sheriff. Among the Democratic aspirants Lewis Johnson is the most promising of a large but not especially brilliant field. More than 100 candidates seek the 24 possible nominations for the state house of representatives, and there are 23 candidates for the 10 possible nominations for the state senate. Many of them are political novices, making their first bid for public office. Many remain, even at the close of the campaign, almost unknown to the county at large. We have undertaken, so far as is possible, to indorse those. individuals who not only possess personal integrity and ability but who also are most truly representative of the “widely varied interests within the county. Here, then, for your consideration, is a list of the candidates whom we feel most merit the support of the voters of Marion county tomorrow. We recommend their nomination:

REPUBLICAN OFFICE

CONGRESS (11th District)

DEMOCRATIC

Judson L. Stark (No Contest) ) CIRCUIT COURT JUDGE ! Harry O. Chamberlin Earl R. Cox PROSECUTING ATTORNEY John L. Niblack Wilfred Bradshaw a STATE SENATOR John W. Atherton rt Lee Brokenburr G. Moffett

Roger G. Wolcott,

Arthur J. Sullivan Robert E. Kirby Forrest W, Litilejolm } Raymond F, Murray JOINT STATE SENATOR Arcada 8. Balz (No Contest) STATE REPRESENTATIVES $Katharine W. Atkins L. Gray Burdin Harry W. Claffey Charles T. Ehlers Cora Balch Eppert Wilbur H. Grant

Gearge H, Amt Edward C. Burkert Eugene W. Dorn J. Wallace Hall Keith L, Johns Alvie D. Killian Harry T. Latham Jr. Clyde P. Miller Chalmer Schlosser Earl B. Teckemeyer David M. Silver Margaret L. Wyalt Lloyd V. South JOINT STATE REPRESENTATIVE Kenneth F. Blackwell (No Contest) : COUNTY TREASURER . (No Contest) Henry Mueller : ; y COUNTY SHERIFF (No Indorsement) :

_ (No Contest) Paul R. Brown

Lewis Johnson COUNTY CORONER : : John W, Webb COUNTY SURVEYOR

® COUNTY COMMISSIONER (Second District)

COUNTY COMMISSIONER (Third District)

Earle L. Johnson

Josephine Wade

Samuel C. Walker

(No Contest)

going so far as to describe it as Hitler's way), has been imposed on many government war works. * The right of contract has been whittled down to

ably millions of them, have left behind them *at

agents of their own choice and have been compelled accept agents whom they do not trust and who ex and betray them. And Mr. Avery, having “gone Munich” once, discovered, on the expiration of limited treaty, signed under protest, that he was

‘May Yet Become a Great Popular Cry'

AT THIS point he rebelled and forced the government to call the army to throw him out of his own office. Mr. Avery's indignant cry of “You can't do this to me” as he wriggled in the arms of two young soldiers whose rights he was defending as well as his own may have ed querulous and funny. But it may yet become a great popular cry and a challenge to a relentless movement which has never yielded an inch of its encroachments on the constitutional and human rights and the property rights of the citizen, In the course of their “trips to Munich,” the people have submitted to compulsory taxation out of their wages to create political campaign funds to continue in power over their lives men who have not hesitated to provoke insurrection against local and state governments. - Many of them today are paying money into Sidney Hillmdn's C. I. O. campaign fund knowing of Hillman's close political collaboration with the Communists, but realizing that if they refuse to pay they must forfeit their jobs. These, too, when they realize that their government put these conditions on them, Jay cry “You can’t do this to me” and make it stic

'Avery Net a Rebel Against Government’

UNFORTUNATELY, FOR the popular understanding, Mr. Avery is a rich executive of a rich corporation and the workers in his employ are mostly in the lower brackets. This gives the case the appearance of a soulless corporation grinding the toilers, although that is no issue in this rebellion and has not been discussed at all. The fact is, however, that the corporation is no more soulless than the C. I. O. and certainly has not as much power. It cannot tax its . stockholders arbitrarily, it must account strictly to them for their money and it is forbidden to make political contributions. Mr. Avery is not a rebel against the government here, He is a rebel against the evil thing that the American nation is fighting abroad, the thing which President Roosevelt, himself, called “Hitler's way.”

We The People

By Ruth Millett *

IN MEMPHIS, Tenn., the teenage canteens established by the city’s high school boys and girls were faced with a problem— whether or not to admit groups of servicemen stationed near the city. The young service men thought those of their number who weren't too old to meet the canteens’ age limit ought to be admitted. The question was left up to the high school kids themselves, They . voted against opening their doors to servicemen. At first their decisiom may sound selfish and inhospitable. But the kids probably know what they are doing.

Planned for' Neighborhood Groups

AS THEY point out, there are organizations that provide entertainmeri€Yor service men, But the high school kids were left out in the cold, until they set up their own canteens. They feel that if their centers are opened to boys in uniform the boys who are still in high school will just drop out. And they say the canteens are-too small to accommodate more than the groups of neighborhood school kids for which they were planned. *. That first reason is important. No boy still wearing corduroys and a sweater—even if’ the sweater has a high school letter on it—is going to be able to compete for a girl's attention against the glamour | of a uniform. So naturally the high school boys would stop hanging around the canteens if they found themselves outclassed. And that is just what shouldn't happen, The season for the canteens was to keep high schol kids out of joints and off the street. more than that, high school teachers report that boys still in school today tend to be restless, are inclined to feel that they are wasting their time sitting in class rooms when they would like to be in uniform. Why add to that restlessness by putting them in a situation where they are in direct competition with service men?

To The Point—

MICHIGAN POLICE picked up a man who claimed he was the devil, Moral: Don't believe all your wife tells you. “ ;

es . : THE GREATEST danger in guessing that you can make it at a railroad crossing not t0'have any more guesses coming. * * . HITLER HAS just celebrated another birthday. No man’ hag ever done‘s better job of wasting 55 years. 5 : ee 2 en 4 * * * IN SOUTH CARQLINA police found bootleg booze pas is a cemetery. A perfectly good place to ve | : z

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“HAVE ACCIDENTS BEEN AVOIDED?” By Times Reader, Indianapolis Referring to a recent ordinance with reference to pedestrians waiting for the green light and crossing only ai street crossings, I am wondering how many accidents have been avoided by reason of this or-

be continued. I happen to be one of those fellows whose business keeps Rim walking in the downtown district, crossing ang recrossing streets many times every day. A few extra seconds at a street corner occasionally causes me to miss a street car or pus; and, in addition, perhaps 15 or 20 minutes are lost per day plus the aggravation of waiting and

waiting, - - I would like to hear comments from other readers on this subject as an abandonment of the ordinance would be very much to my liking. » » ” “LET'S KEEP THIS COUNTRY FREE”

By Mrs. M. E. Massey, Indianapolis. As an American, I wish to express, my views on a government organized “of the people, by the people and for the people.” When any government organization comes along and tells a private businessman, “You HAVE to organize this and that in your factory or we will come in and throw you out bodily,” that government is no longer the

| government organized by our- fore-

fathers. That type of government represents the same things you mothers and fathers and wives are sending our boys overseas to suppress. The German gestapo moved into private businesses over there and carried men away: ARE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE GOING TO PERMIT THE SAME THINGS TO HAPPEN TO A FREE LAND ‘WHILE THE MEN ARE OVER THERE FIGHTING FOR QUR NEIGHBORS? It is about time, some of you people who call yourselves Americans, to see that this country is kept free. Or if this idea is too much trouble, then call our boys home and save their lives, because if you can’t keep our own house straight you have no business being next door trying to clean up your neighbor's house. There was a time when disputes were settled by LEGAL measures— that was back ih the good old American days when we had a free supreme court—the court that was the pride of all. Mr. Sewell Avery was carried out of a firm that has no connection with the war effort— WHY? Mr. Biddle had no more right to be sitting behind that desk when Mr. Avery got to work than I have. Talk about the old days of Al Capone—what's the difference? I,am sure that the fighting men

dinance. . If it’ has been of value from that standpoint, then it should

(Times readers are invited to express their views in these columns, religious con- * troversies excluded. Because of the volume received, let- © ters should be limited to 250 words. Letters must be signed. Opinions set forth here are those of the writers, and publication in no way implies agreement with those opinions by The Times. The Times assumes no responsie bility for the return of manu- - scripts and cannot enter correspondence regarding them.)

back inthe U, 8. A. is g threat ened by politicians and some AB! organizations? Now any of you readers who calls me un-American or an alarmist can save your breath and the printer's ink. Come on, let's keep this country “of the people, by the people, and for the people”—and FREE. LJ » w “ACTION IS RADICAL UN-AMERICANISM” ir Fa eh, 421 N. Emerson a Griffin, 3444 N. Pennsylvania st.

the Hon. Louis Ludlow and the Hon. Raymond Springer, representatives in congress: “We feel that action taken against Montgomery Ward is radical unAmericanism and that J any private enterprise is subject to confiscation under our present government management. We expect you to take vigorous and immediate action to have any laws existing permitting such action repealed. We are not under Nazi domination yet but seem to be well under way to the equivalent, eo “Please issue a statement fo the press giving your: position in this matter.” a ” » . “INFRINGEMENT OF - CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS” By C. C. Lydick, managing director, Coal Trade Association of Indians, $00 Beasleg bidg., Terre Haute. For your information, the following night letter has been sent to all Indiana congressmen; “The Coal Trade Association of

over 90 per cent of the 25 milli tons of coal mined annually in the state, by the unanimous vote of all those present at a meeting held

April 28 at Indianapolis, deplores

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Side Glances—By Galbraith

Indiana, whose members jproduge,

and protests the recent demonstra tion of oficial jawlessness in the current Montgomery Ward case. We trust that you, as a member of

rights of the citizens of this country by unlawful search and seizure and deprivation of property rights without due process of law, the very rights for which our sons are engaged in a war to maintain”

her life and her people, The great Russian nation with her imniense natural resources realizes her own difficulties in repaying the financial

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In Washington

By Peter Edson

the policies of the American Federation of Labog may be, the Communist brain trusters in the C. I. Os and their brothers in intellectual pansyism on the

“That's no trick at all for these boys for they * have been trained in a school of mental prestidigita- ’ tion which can denounce the war one day as a sordid imperialistic struggle and embrace the cause of the united nations next day as a holy crusade for freedom, O. Communists

Daily Worker find no difficulty in distorting and mise - them.

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