Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 January 1945 — Page 16

- ROY W. HOWARD President

_ent parole system. In section five of the present House _ except the last sentence—thereby voiding the parole juris-

“gation for the board of review.

_ parole review is a step in that direction, the right direction.

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REFORM OR REACTION? N two previous. editorials we have stated our epposition to the passage of Senate Bill 76 because it is part of a pattern that would weaken the present centralized system of administering paroles through the division of corrections of the state department of public welfare and the board of parole review. That opposition also includes section five of House Bill 33. Senate Bill 76-itself, on the surface, is merely a routine “mileage grab” for the benefit of county sheriffs who are thereby" authorized to serve warrants on parole violators and to collect fees and mileage—which in Vanderburgh county, for example, would amount to as much as $75 per case—for the arrest and return of each prisoner. However the wording of the bill indicates that it is predicated upon the transfer of parole administration from the department of welfare. :

THIS PARTICULAR STEP would be accomplished |-

tion five of House Bill 33, the so-called omnibus measure which would put into effect the recommendations of the Indiana welfare investigation commission. Here ‘again the method of indirection is skillfully employed. The

through sec

bill itself makes no direct mention of abolishing the board |'

of review or the removal of parole classification from the department of public welfare. Superficially it appears harmless, but it is what it does not say that is important. Section 10 of the welfare act of 1936 set up the pres-

Bill 33, amending the 1936 act, all of this section is omitted diction of the public welfare department and the authori-

By this omission, parole administration automatically would revert to the indeterminate sentence law of 1897, the identical system described in 1931 by the Wickersham report, which concluded with these words: “We present the above paragraphs as descriptive of a very bad parole procedure.” 5 The question, then, is whether Indiana wants to return to a “very bad parole procedure” or whether it will keep the present system, which for eight years has operated successfully without any hint of a parole scandal and which has produced very few parole failures Does Indiana wish again to stand before the nation as a glaring example of backwardness? = » » .

‘By Robert Duncan

EE OSA lh i oop Sed

; REFLECTIONS— Virtuoso's Latest

ELLIOT PAUL'S typewriter is like Alec Templeton’s piano. The fingers fly, and out comes Wagner or Waller—serious or swing, according to" the operator's mood. The author of “The Life and Death of a Spanish Town,” and “The Last Time I Saw Paris” has rapped out a number for the wider audience in a double-barrelled 3 mystery, consisting of two middle- \ \ sized novels, “I'll Hate Myself in the Morning,” and “Summer in Mr, Paul December” (Random House: $2.50). The first is a Homer Evans yarn; characters and plot are completely harebrained, and Mr, Paul has a great time kidding, both, and the reader as well. Homer and his trigger-happy assistant Miriam are aboard the streamliner “City of Nuestra Senora la Feina de Los Angeles,” speeding through the badlands of Wyoming when one Isaac Momblo is discovered dead in bedroom B. A

Back Bay Blue Blood

ACCORDING TO.LAW, the train must be stopped and the nearest local coroner summoned. Latter dignitary is Mr. Heber Allbrown of Blanc Mange, 82 miles.

distant. They get him. 4 : Lancaster Primway, Boston heir, who as a child

will be remembered even above our hero Homer, Despite a great deal of nonsense, most of it clever, there is a mystery which will keep you going right up to the end, when you turn to the second story. The author takes himself and subject more seriously in “Summer in December,” Brett Rutledge, ot ‘mysterious background but guaranteed loyalty, takes on a gang of Naz saboteurs in Chile, rascals who are determined to gimmick up the nitrate fields." Spanish dancers, flamenco singers and American engineers, all fairly credible folk, join in the whirl of suspense, and everybody but the enemy winds up breathless, satisfied

and happy.

Shouldn't Happen to Any Town

PERHAPS WHAT happened to Otsego when the Tollivers moved in shouldn't happen to any selrespecting Middletown, U. S. A., but-the staid citizens should have been secretly grateful, Nothing much ever happened in Otsego, and in the days of no radios

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and almost no automobiles there wasn't a great deal to. do or talk about, The Widow Tolliver and her | daughters Florabelle and Annabelle (twins), and Amy. changed all that. It wasn’t long before their fame had spread to Elmira, Binghamton, and even Wilkes-Barre. Otsegoans found time between gasps | over their antics to take a certain strange pride in their fabulous Tollivers. Mateel Howe Farnum tells the saga of “The Tollivers” (Dodd, Mead: $2.50) through the observations, both first and second hand, of Louise Olmstead, boarding-school-aged daughter of Judge Olmstead, who inadvertently helped touch off the explosion that made Otsego Tolliver-conscious. When young. Hubert Tolliver shot himself, ingratiating sister Army prevailed upon the judge to arrange for a fancy church funeral, with the mayor included among the pallbearers. ” ! The Tollivers, gambling on Hubert's insurance money, moved into a big house across the street from the mansion occupied by Loulse’s wealthy cousin Sam Forbes and his cousin Nelson Forbes. It was apparent to Otsego that Mrs. Tolliver was intent on marrying off her ravishing daughters—two of them anyway —and the town awaited developments with" bated breath. They were not long in coming. Otsego was in turn outraged, charmed, bowled over, and speech-

WE DO NOT BELIEVE that the present system is perfect. It could be improved by establishing a full-time paid authority to handle parole administration and the social rehabilitation of paroled offenders. The board of

Section five of House Bill’ 83, on the other hand, is. a step backward to a system where, instead of a single. centralized parole administration, the state would have five gets of parole officers—in itself a wasteful procedure— with little likelihood of uniform standards. Under this plan, furthermore, the trustees of the state penal institutions would have to act cursorily on paroles. We should probably have overworked boards handling, as in the example cited by the Wickersham report, as many as 95 applications in four hours, spending an average of two and one-half minutes per case to-decide whether a potentially dangerous criminal is fit to receive his freedom. If we are going to change the parole system, Jet's improve it. Let's not return to a plan that was tried and

STEVE EARLY, TROUBLESHOOTER

OMETIME next month, the President's secretary, Stephen T. Early, will goto Paris to try to help straight- | en out. the press relations of the supreme headquarters, | allied expeditionary force. He will go at the invitation of |

Brig. Gen. Frank A. Allen, chief of S, H. A. E. F. public | relations. Steve's visit is coming none too soon. Gen. Allen is | in hot water with the working press on the European front because of overlong withholding of news of the German | counter-offensive, and because some correspondents sent out “scoops” while others were permitted to send nothing. And | in the whole war coverage, our government has been ore) strict in censorship of American correspondents than allied’ governments have been in respect to. their newsmen. Steve can set things right if anybody can. He's an old news hand. He believes in the right of the people to get information, whether favorable or unfavorable, through the independent channels of a free press. In this New Deal, and in this war, we have too much feeding of “pap” to the public. But no one ever caught Steve handling a sirup. spoon.” He believes in dishing it out as it is, and he has had too much experience as a working reporter to make the mistake of playing favorites.

RIGHT, GOVERNOR HE poll tax must go,” Governor Arnall of Georgia has told his state legislature, adding that if the lawmakers defeat a bill to abolish it he will suspend its collection. As to the governor's power to/do that we are not in- ; formed. But certainly he showed political courage in ~ demanding outright repeal of the poll tax by a legislature which had just refused even to exempt war veterans from it. “And certainly his demand is right. We hope many other leaders in the eight southern poll tax states will be

| go along with Russia,

| Realists Doubt That Stalin Will Go Along

less at the goings-on of the Tollivers, too numerous and involved to be even touched on in this space. The novel is top-notch reading, effortlessly hilarious.

WORLD AFFAIRS Dark Outlook By William Philip Simms

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26. —

dumps for any rotten thing they !apolis. for “good old down-to-earth | might find just so they can live | hospitality.

1 wholly disagree with whqt you say,

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

he Hoosier Forum

but will

“WHY WON'T YOU FOOLS WAKE UP? By Mrs. Jan 8. Lucas, Indianapolis I am pretty darn sick of all the gripe about rationing and all the so-called hardships you people are suffering. You gripers don't know what hardship and suffering are. You gripe for tires and gas. - You are allowed so much mileage each month and still you gripe. The people in Europe are WALKING wherever they go and are glad they are still strong enough to do so. Many of them aren't as strong. You gripe because you don't have enough points for thick steaks every night. You can consider yourself wealthy in that respect. Don’t you ever bother to read the newspapers. There are stories in print always to show you how the other home. I have traveled the length people in the world are STARV-|and breadth of the United States, ING. Little children no more than|and I -have yet to find any place babies picking = through garbage | that would even approach Indian-

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a little longer. I noticed fellows come into In_Why won't you fools wake up?! dianapolis about two and a half You are very fortunate but you|years ago from their “big city” on won't be for long if you don't|the East Coast and with sort of a wake up. {chip on their shoulders and a sneer It's a wonder our soldiers don’t|at anything that you could have to

By Mrs. J. §., Indianapolis

answer Mrs. Going to Ride When I Please.”

sacrificed anything in this

we please.” For that matter, how

downtown realize that the vast number of people who work from 7 in the morning until 5:30 at night must]

-cessities of life, and they provided a time for them to|

throw down their guns and quit.|offer; however, when their time

United nations envoys here, by and large, are none too optimistic | over the outcome of the political" items on the agenda of the impending parley between the Big | Three. | Militarily the prospects could hardly be brighter. The European situation is such that the Big | Three may find it possible to make sensational decisions. But the |

closer Germany comes to the | of Soviet-Btitish-American diplomacy. Russia knows exactly what she wants, both politically and territorially. And in Europe she has come pretty near getting it. But what she wants collides, | head-on, with American ideals as set forth in the | Atlantic*charter, at Dumbarton Oaks, and in the proposals of Senator Vandenberg. And there are indica~tions that, when it comes time to vote, Britain will

evitable knockout, the more difficult becomes the Job

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT is reported ready to present concrete suggestions for the settlement of the Polish and other ticklish disputes. He is expected to offer Prime Minister Churchill and Marshal Stalin a world security plan something like Senator ¥andenberg's. Few realists here, however, believe Marshal Stalin will commit himself to free elections in Poland, Yugoslavia and other countries liberated by the Red armies. Nor do they regard it as likely that he will submit frontier and similar problems for discussion at the peace table On the contrary, Moscow has already gone to considerable pains to set up totalitarian regimes-of- the familiar Communist pattern in such areas. Moreover, she has taken prompt and drastic action to discourage any opposition—even on the part of the recognized governments-in-exile,. recognized, | that is, by the United States and Great Britain, It is admitted that the President has some excel- | lent cards to pidy when he sits down with the mar- | shal and the prime minister. But, it-is feared, he | has no aces. One of his best cards is the one dealt | him by Senator Vandenberg. That will enable him | to convince the Soviet and British that while the | American people are overwhelmingly for collective | peace, and while the senate stands ready to ratify, the United States would almost certainly go isolationist ff the Naz dictatorship is supplanted by a similar tyranny under some other name.

Russia Expected. to Fight Japan

UNFORTUNATELY, the Red marshal is not expected to be decisively impressed by such an argument. upon which he has already done an immense amount of work. With a string of buffer’ states along his southern border from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and with much of Europe and Asia directly within his

encouraged to make the same demand. A great majority of the American people, we believe,

3 agree that “the poll tax must go.” That is why, as Gov-

‘ernor Arnall observes, there is such strong pressure on ‘congress to outlaw it by federal action. We can sympathize ‘with southerners who contend that thé federal government undemocratic poll tax we have no sympathy. It nywhere in this country, and wherever it

voting qualifications to.the states, but |

sphere of influence, he is reported to feel more secure than if he had to depend upon a world organization tomposed of nations some of which, at least, he instinctly distrusts. ; «¥ For reasons not unconnected with the above, Russia is expected to enter the war against Japan, at a time of her own choosing, after the defeat of Germany,” Her European flank satisfactorily protected, she will need to bulwark herself in Asia, She waits

| a say in the disposal of Manchuria, Port Arthur, the

Chinese Eastern and South Manchuria. railways, Sinkiang, Inner Mongolia and Korea, She wants, In

I wonder they don’t get disgusted|cagme to leave, without, exception, and say “What the hell are we] (Hey left with a trace of moisture| fighting dnd dying ‘in mud and|in their eyes, and a lump in thelr slush, in ice and snow, when those throats. Now, if that isn't a tribfools at home are griping about | Ute} to your “Hoosier Hospitality,” hardships. They don't know the lll eat all the pavement around the

first thing about hardships.” { circle. "an We all, at one time or another, “CITY GENUINELY have been invited into homes in the 3 city for some holiday dinner, and NICE TO SOLDIERS : . "|the genuine regard for a soldier's By 1st Set. Robert J. O'Kane, Somewhere | comfort and feelings displayed = there would melt the heart of the While perusing the notes from |hardest character, in this world. native sons in the service in your|That was very unusual, too, as the péper, I was tempted to send this{ appearance o a idler = the little note to you, i glace of Indianapolis was by Do that it y Just in hopes) .one just something novel, Fort a would somehow be brought|Harrison having been there for to the attention of the residents of | years. : Indianapolis at large. This is, by no means, a sentiI am not a resident of Indianap-|mental drool hy one soldier who olis, my home being Somerville, likes to see his name in print, as Mass., but, in my reading of those|l have talked this over with the columns here in China, I have no- |six others in this unit who were also ticed that there is never a note formerly stationed at Stout Pleld,

from a non-resident, and in my mind that is rather a shameful situation, as yours is ‘a city beyond compare in the line of being genuinely nice to soldiers away from

and we have generally arrived at the conclusion that some sort of a “Thank You” note was in order for. the wonderful treatment we re|ceived at your city, thus this letter.

He is said to prefer his own arrangements:

Side Glances —By Galbraith

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GOP. 1948 BY NEA SERVICE, ING. 7. M, AEG. U & PAT. OP, :

short, to. strengthen her position in China and

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| that keep my ways.—Proverbs

“HOW MANY DO AS WE PLEASE?” We “war workers” would like to Nash's ‘article, “I'm 1 don’t believe Mrs. Nash has war, for if she had she would realize thut very few of us are doing “what

many of us really “do as we piease” unless, we infringe on the rights and privileges of others? : Our transportation facilivies are, inadequate, as everyone knows, and |

it seems to me that every pa-| triotic citizen should say to himself, |

“I'll help the situation as much | as 1 can by riding the busses and

streetcars when the working people

do not have to use them.” Monday night shopping is a pa-| triotic gesture on the part of our| stores, because they

have some time to shop for the ne-| that unless!

shop after working hours, they]

would be obliged to take time off

from vital war work. Mrs. Nash speaks -of the monotony of being a housewife.” I was a housewife and am the mother

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of six children. My husband's death

has forced me out to work for them, | so I believe I know both sides of the matter. I can't imagine any mother thinking her life monotonous. I found ime to do P.-T. A. work, go to book reviews, luncheons, political . affairs and still keep my | family well fed, clean and healthy. I found my life very exciting and interesting. There is nothing inter- | esting or exciting about precision or | office work. . It is the same dull routine over and over. Any woman who drags her work out nine hours every day, either gossips too long on the telephone, is a poor manager or just plain lazy. I don't think-she-is-a-good-wife-either, for

she is a martyr and complains about working nine long hours every day. Children don’t appreciate a mother who doesn’t take part in their -school work, who just cemplains all the time about her housework. Certainly a woman can find more exciting things to do ‘than shop on Monday night to relieve the monotony of housework. When the department stores €xtended shopping hours to war workers, I am sure they thought the rest of their customers would be courteous enough not to infringe on the rights of their fellow men. My children need shoes and clothes just as well as Mrs. Nash's children, she has all week to shop while I hdve two hours. I don’t believe Mrs. Nash can honestly look herself in the face and call herself a “patriotic citizen,” a “good neighbor” or a good wife. 9 sn y “HERE 1S A GOOD CHANCE" By A Pointer, Indianapolis Judging from pictures I have seen of Elliott's dog, “Blaze,” it would take about a quarter of beef a week to satisfy his appetite. After all the uproar raised by his traveling with an “A” priority it would be just like some of those snooty Republicans out in Hollywood to keep their eye on the OPA to see that no additional red points were 1ssued for his upkeep. Here is a good chance for Mrs. Ever Present Finnegan to organize a committee of The Faithful to accept donations of red points to help feed the pampered pup and to upset the plans of the - aries.

DAILY THOUGHTS Now therefore hearken unto me, 0 ye children; fof blessed are they

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POLITICAL SCENE—

Soon Sor

By Peter Edson

é WASHINGTON, Jan. 36.-—You might as well know the full story on the 1000 club payoff, and how its 291 mémbers bowed themselves out of the political ploture in a big blowout at Washington's new Statler hote, marking the windup of the fourth term inaugura~ tion lack-of-ceremonies, proximately 276 out of the 291 paid up members of the 1000 - club came to Washington for the | inauguration, and “though they had collected only about.a third of the million dollars the club founders had hoped to get, they found they still had some $3400 in the treasury. ad When party leaders suggested the money be turned | into the Democratic national committee to keep the f|

“party machine running till 1948, the club leaders said

nothing doing. They had been told that they were going to throw a lot of weight around, and by golly they were going to make a splurge if they had to pay for it themselves, om

The Check Was $6155

SO THE 291-member 1000 club decided to give themselves a banquet and to see what & real 1000 club would look like if they had one, they decided to invite every celebrity and near celebrity they could, rope, - tie or otherwise lay hands on, to the number of 1000, No tickets would be sold, the food would be free, and they would build up a Jot of good will.’ By actual count, there were 1111 tickets put out, The breas% of guinea hen dinner cost $5 a plate, ow jesis; plus $378 for the presidential banquet room and $175 for the congressional banquet room adjoine ing. Sum total, $6155, . The programs were the size of a news magazine,

| though not so thick, At that, these menu “cards®

Were 16 pages plus a four-page bristle-board cover. Printed in blue and gold (the club colors?) and bound by a redywhite-and-blue cord, they must have cost at least half a buck apiece and that line, “This book was printed in compliance with wartime regulations on paper conservation,” was conspicuously absent,

Celebrities Were Scarce -

THAT WASN'T the only thing conspicuously absent about this program. A whole raft of the

| “Distinguished Guests” whose names and stations | were printed in the program were also conspicuously

absent. Nine columns of membership list revealed

only about a dozen names of national prominence.

Mrs. Rtfosevelt was there and Gen. and Mrs, Mar-

| shall. The new vice president was there and on his very first day and njght in office got broken in on _ his long four years of being a distinguished guest and

maker of brief remarks at banquets. Henry Wallace for a change had his first night off and how he must have enjoyed it. But~tiie honopable justices of the supreme court stayed away en masse, the navy was represented by the méfe commandant of the coast guard and Secretary of Agriculture Claude Wickard, bless his Hoosler heart, ‘was the only cabinet member so loyal or so innocent that he didn’t join those who stayed away,

Jessel, but No Sinatra

GEORGE JESSEL presided as master of cere= monies and said he enjoyed the glinner because he

had been to the White House for lunch and never had so few chickens got mixed up with so much celery. Mrs. Roosevelt topped that one later by saying she was glad to kngw there had béen any chicken at all in that salad because by the time she and Mrs. Tru man sat down for a bite after the thousands of invited plate luncheon guests had left. she couldn't find any= thing but celery. Frank Sinatra was another celebrity who was supposed to be there but wasn't. Weather—not dogs— Kept him from flying in but it was no ioss because the 372d infantry glee club sang war songs and the StarSpangled Banner much better than Prankie could ever have done. If somebody had started a swoon at that $1000 guinea-hen-in=ghe-rough atmosphere, there is no telling what might have happened. 4] There sitll remains the little matter of finances. If the 1000 club had only $3400 surplus to begin with and this affair cost approximately double that, some-

| where, somehow, somebody must have dugtdown

foot the difference. Sic transit gloria 1000 club and requiescat in pace 291 suckers.

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IN WASHINGTON—

Mr. Gallagher

By Earl Richert

WASHINGTON, Jan. 26.—Ever since the election, political con= versations throughout the nation usually have included some snickering remarks about the “street sweeper” congressman from Min« nesota. : The subject, Rep. Willlam J. Gallagher (D. Minn), knows this and doesn’t like it one bit. He points out that the congressional roster includes léwyers, | bankers, newspapermen, veteri= narians and members of many other professions and he cannot see why such a hulla over: the election of a common laborer.

Doesn't Care for His Publicity

HE IS PARTICULARLY exasperated about some of the publicity he has received. “One young man came in here,” he said, “and then wrote a story about me being stoop shouldered and | having gnarled hands, . “Well, I'll bet I can Rep. Gallagher will be 70 in he has never been sick a day. + Another newspaperman wrote a story quoting him as using the word “ain't.” “1 admit,” he sald, “that I have associated with ordinary people of my life and many of them use that word. But I'm dn old proof reader and I don't be+ lieve youll hear me using that word.” . (He was a proof reader and editorial writer on the National Single Taxer magazine in Minneapolis, back in 1895. “His goals as a congressman are to. get something done about “the patent situation” and old-age pensions. He wants patents to be made available im« mediately to everyone, with a system of royalties for the inventor. This will stop cartels and monopolies, he says. And he favors & universal old-age pension of $60 a month to everyone over 60.

Congress Is Just as He Expected REP, GALLAGHER is Dot one of those congress» men greatly interested in the proposed congressional

salary increase to $25,000 a year. His economic status has taken a great jump as

it is. After working 15 years as a laborer in the engl« neering department of the city of Minneapolis (he didn’t sweep streets with a broom) he retired two years ago on & civil service pension of $25.48 a month, He had a little income on the side and worked some

to supplement his pension. © ; : is just as he expected it—slow

baloo should be raised

lick hell out of him.” May and he says

‘Congress, he says, get I fusion

as elected,” he said, “because of admiratipn of in my- district for President Roosevelt, the ‘of the tic and Farmer-Labor parties activity of the labor groups. And, of course,

i “Did you get that catty remark she made about my new ¢ ~~ waithill | get home-—will | tell her in my di

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