Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 January 1946 — Page 10

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headquarters of the department of Indiana, Foreign Wars.

lia chapters. of the American Veterans comfocuses attention on this new organization of world which held its first state convention at

: the national home of the Amerjean Legion, largest organization of world war I, and leaders in A.V, C. plan to invite the parent national organization

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A, V. C. will select its permanent name and adopt a . constitution and by-laws at the Iowa meeting. Despite the fact it bears no formal name, it is not entirely a new organ‘ization. For three years, veterans in various parts of the world have been corresponding in an attempt to co- ~ ordinate the urge of men in the armed forces for a better

world and greater international understanding. ‘of such men as Harold E. Stassen and

Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., in the organization is an indica-

tion of its appeal. The number of new chapters likewise indicates the determination of this war's veterans to win the peace for the world, as well as the war,

. = =» » # » THE A.V, C. stands firmly for private enterprise in which business, labor, agriculture and government work hand-in-hand, for our active participation in the United Nations Organization, and for establishment of an international veterans council for furtherance of world peace and justice. Of course, it has the usual platform of other far-seeing organizations, but those three planks will give the public a clear picture of its motivating reasons for being. The level-headed approach taken to veterans’ problems by A. V. C. is reflected in its action on the mass demonstrations by G. I's throughout the world against the demobilization program. National headquarters of A. V. C. sent cablegrams and radiograms to its overseas chapters from Tokyo to Paris, notifying them a conference had beep held with Gen. Eisenhower and that he had agreed with the Honolulu A. V. C. chapter's decision that further demonstrations would serve no practical purpose. - .

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"Sheriff Petit Helps Lawyers, No Unsolved County Murders"

By William A. Boyce Jr., Indianapolis

In your last Saturday's edition of The Tifnes, just below the letter of Mrs. Anne Boswell, you request that someone give you information of any “good done by the sheriff's office under the administration of Otto Petit”; so here it is. o Since the very beginning of Capt. Petit’s regime, he and each of his deputies have co-operated with the Indianapolis bar to the fullest ‘extent. Many times an attorney, in seeking quick service of civil summons upon a defendant, to secure prompt justice to sonfe distressed wife or mother, has to call upon the sheriff to serve the same late at night or otherwise than during the regular hours of the civil deputies. I have personal

knowledge of many acts of such co-operation. Then, again, when a deputy is unable to find a defendant at the

belief that veterans must act as responsible citizens and |eddress given, he will call the

pointed to constructive nature of criticisms we received from overseas chapters. Gen. Eisenhower lauded this approach and developed at length his conviction that if men and women who had been in uniform returned home regarding the country’s interest as paramount, they would be the greatest force for good the nation had even known.” A. V. Cs basic approach to public problems is that of the welfare of the public, not the veteran alone. That is all to the good.

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plaintiff's attorney immediately, which permits a re-check for quick correction of the service before the time expires, thus saving the time of the attorney and of the court. Then, again, every record book in the sheriff's office is open to inspection at any time by any citizen who may be looking for some recs ord of service of civil papers. Then, again, due to the splendid unity and lack of dissension among the sheriff's deputies, they have by continued and constructive efforts almost eliminated juvenile delin-

ONE of the major topics of conversation among the [quency in the county environs.

leaders of the Indiana State Bar Association at its mid-winter meeting here last Friday and Saturday was the ~ importance of freedom of the bench from. politics,

* An attorney has many opportunities to visit the county jail on business and to observe its condition; I can say, truthfully, that the

There was considerable discussion of an article in a [Unt Jail today, and for all of

recent issue of the Indiana Law Journal in which L. L. Bomberger, of Hammond, veteran attorney and former

Sheriff's Petits tenure, has been kept exceptionally clean, orderly, and the most courteous service had

president of the association, made the statement that [Pe §IVen the public at all times.

“Indiana political leaders as well as thinking lawyers should be willing to accept the concept that the judicial branch _ of the government is independent of politics. The judge sits in judgment, not in party councils.” The general feeling at the meeting was that a judge should be free of any part in a political administration, that he should be jealous of the integrity of the judicial ermine. Unfortunately, that has not always been true in our state politics, . . One familiar with the brilliant records of .some of our Hoosier jurists recalls that Judge A. B. Anderson, when judge of the federal court here, refused the pressure of the President of the United States who sought to interfere in an important case . . . and wonders if the same independence of legal thought is desired by the politicians as is hoped for by the leaders of the bar.

RUSSIA VERSUS BRITAIN

One of the chief attainments of Sheriff Petit has been his selection of experienced and hard working criminal investigators, who are on duty or call 24 hours per day with their activities directed to solving crimes of violence committed in Marion county outside the city limits; due to their effective efforts and loyal support given them by Sheriff Petit, there is not now one unsolved - murder case in Sheriff Petit's jurisdiction since he took office. Ag » ~ . “I AGREE BILLINGS FOOD BAD; MILK, EGGS HARD TO GET” By Pvt. D. G. Robillard, Billings General Hospital

While reading your Times Forum 1 ran across an item on the food here at Billings General hospital.

I have been a patient. at this hospital for only three months so I

IV]OSCOW seems determined to discredit Britain and to (22ven' much room to talk, in view

wreck the UNO as an effective brake on big power aggression, But, if British and UNO statesmen keep their <heads, this crisis can be used .to strengthen the world organization, : Russia's demand that UNO investigate and end British military occupation of Greece and Indonesia as a violation of the charter is, of course, a retaliation for Iran’s demands for UNO action against Russian aggression. Actually the cases are entirely different. British troops are in Greece with the consent of the Greek government, and in Indonesia with consent of the Dutch government and the allied high command. We have believed from the beginning that Britain was unwise in holding the bag alone in Greece and Indonesia, that she was inviting precisely the kind of Russian blow she has now received. But between the British mistake of taking a police job which should have been shared with others, and Russia's violation ot Lramian sovereignty, the difference is that of day and Now Britain can strengthen her position at home and abroad, and make a great contribution to the UNO, by accepting the Russian challenge. . Instead of bowing to and making a deal as Moscow expects her to do, ain should welcome an open UNO investigation of her 8 in Greece and Indonesia. Then she should insist similar probe of Russia's role, not only in Iran, but 0 astern Europe and the Baltic. ; hs a precedent for one big power bringin the UNO bar. Now the world re iingios nethin, more than a screen for big power Orship. Britain, by co-operating with a : of herself, Sn divine the moral leadfoward democratic world AE Fa .

of so many patients being confined here for a year or 18 months, but I would like to verify Cpl. Killips’ view on this situation. I am one of many ambulatory patients, 1. e., not bed ridden, and can and do go to the P. X. and buy coffee and sandwiches instead of partaking in the poor food that is fed three times daily. The authorities have cut out nourishments which did consist of eggnogs, fruit juices and egg sandwiches that did ald in supplementing a hardy edible diet, In one orthopedic ward it took a major’s order to get nine quarts of milk so we could have enough for the evening meals. Are chickens so hard pressed that we can't get eggs for evening sandwiches? As for the D. B.'s working in the mess halls (one place appropriately named) I wouldn't contradict authorities, but check with civilian personnel, check with ward boys and ambulatory patients who have access to kitchen for purposes of getting food carts. I for one have seen D. B.s doing it, and I don't mean K. P, » » LJ “IF G. L'S MARRY GERMANS SHOULD STAY OVER THERE” By Just a Reader, Franklin Three G. 1’s ask the President to lift the un-American non-fraterni-zation policy so they could marry German girls—that is the last straw. It was not long ago a picture was released showing how the Germans did our poor boys whom they had captured—burned alive, buried alive, tortured in all kinds of ways. These G. Is surely don’t know what they are doing, They must be out of their minds. If there is a time when our G. L's are permitted to marry Germans I hope there is also a permit issued that they will have to stay in Germany and do as Germany says, I believe that will be punishment enough,

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“SPEND NEXT SEVERAL DAYS IN LINE PAYING TAXES, BILLS” By Mrs. Cc. Indianapolis Last ‘week I went to get my driver's’ license and was told I needed my husbands poll tax receipt. Of course I didn’t have it with me. I have never been asked for it before. After all, we are dif-

ferent persons. I ride the Speedway bus and had to take my littie boy with me. As he’s been shoved ang tramped on before, he refuses to walk; I had to carry him (he weighs only 34 pounds), Now I've been told that wives don’t need the tax receipt and I'm sure that is right, but either way I've already worn myself out and taken up a half day for nothing. Anyene that has to take small children to town knows what a job it is and that you can’t go just any day. So I don’t know when I'l make it back after my license, as the next three or four pretty days will be spent in the federal tax line, the state tax line and taking care of the utilities. But when I do get there, unless I cool off considerably, that woman sitting there passing out false statements is sure in for an earful. ‘

why isn’t it announced. That would keep some of us off the crowded busses.

Editor's Note: She dees need the tax receipt. ' » » » “INDIANAPOLIS IS GOOD PLACE TO LIVE, I LIKE IT” By T. E. Owen, Indianapolis I simply cannot resist the desire to answer the letter by Mrs. Sam Walker published in the Jan. 22 issue of my favorite paper, The Indianapolis Times. First of all, I seriously question whether or not said Mrs. Walker witnessed any such scenes as she described. It is true the city has an ash collection system that requires the home owners to put their ashes, cans and other rubbish in containers on tree banks or in the alley for convenience sake. But they are not left there very long. I know from traveling in thirty-eight of our states and living in a number of pities that most of them have similar systems. This, perhaps, Mrs. W. hasn't had a chance to observe, I happen to have lived in Los Angeles several years longer than Mrs. W. has and though I have been. away from there quite some time now (by choice) yet I cannot forget the smudgepots, the endless days of rain and those sun-baked days, to say nothing of a few earthquakes. © One thing I shall never forget is the lack of regard for pedestrians shown by motorists. I am not a Hoosier by.birth but can proudly say that I am a Hoosier by choice and a resident of good old Indianapolis. I was born in a state in the middle west. and lived a good part of my early life, so to speak, in a city much larger than Los

When I visit my hometown it always looks good to me. It is ‘true they don't do things quite like they used

making progress even though I deserted them. I am quite sure” that if Mrs. W will look around she will discover that Indianapolis still marches on; has a few schools; yes, and even a few shows, and is doing quite well in general. And in case Mrs. W, fails to come back to good old Indianapolis, I'll bet her one foot of dimes (to-the March of Dimes) that we'll get along somehow. Mrs. W, says that if the shows close we can call our fair city “Crown Hill Heights.” Well, my only comment is that that is an insult to both the living and the dead, but it should be overlooked.

DAILY THOUGHT Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end sfiould greatly increase.—Job 8:7. BEGIN; to begin is half the work. Let half still remain; aga

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS to demand that congress make it just as easy for the former enlisted man as for the officer to readjust himself to civilian life by

equalizing the leave privilege. An officer receives terminal leave and is paid the equivalent of the leave he did not take during the war, in addition to mustering-out pay of $300 if he was & captain or of lower rank. Thus, he usually has time to look for a job and to get settled, except in those rare instances where he has been able to take the 30 days of leave accruing to his credit annually. His army or navy pay check will continue to come until all his leave has been taken, at which time he is formally out of the service. The enlisted man, on the other hand, receives only his mustering-out pay of the same amount, with no consideration of whether he used all of the furlough time to which he was entitled. If he didn't, that’s his bad luck. He has no backlog during his period , of readjustment , . . mustering-out pay is barely enough to get clothed and go look for the new job! As it stands now, the officer has a great advantage, and an unfair one, over the enlisted man in the competition of starting civilian life anew. .

Tardy Consideration Now THIS is a late date indeed to face a basic problem that should have been considered when mobilization plans were drawn. But, like many another important point in converting our soldiers and sailors into civilians, it was left undetermined. .» .- A number of bills equalizing the leave privilege have been introduced in congress. One of them should be pushed through. It certainly is a legitimate cost of the war . . . and, for example, one which most taxpayers would meet much more willingly

WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Soviet Russia is expected to push her penetration of Iran, politically as well as economically, regardless of objections from whatever source, thus imperiling the UNO if not the peace itself. Moscow may base its case partly on treaties negotiated by former Czarist regimes with Tehran. This would be in line with Soviet policy, which is to reclaim whatever rights or territories Czarist Russia once possessed on the grounds that they were taken from her illegally or by force when she was too weak to prevent it. Russia has been actively reaching out toward the warm waters of the Persian gulf for the last 70 years. More than once she and Britain have been on the verge of war as a result. Since around 1890, she has been particularly aggressive in Persia, obtaining one concession after another,

Financial Concession's Made IN 1889, a naturalized British subject, Baron de Reuter, obtained a concession for the Imperial Bank of Persia. This became the state bank of issue. Less than a year later, the Russian ministry of finance founded the Discount Bank of Persia, camouflaged as a private concern. It set up branches all over the country, loaned $30 million to the Persian government, opened $60 million worth of credits to Persian. merchants so they could purchase Russian goods, did a land mortgage business and issued sizable loans to prominent Persians in key positions. As part of the secret agreement in connection with this deal, all concessions in northern Persia were to

Austria Needs

LONDON, Jan. 28.—"Hisiory repeats itself,” says Karl Marx, and adds, “Once as a tragedy and once as a comedy.” A study of the career of Dr. Karl Renner, president of the recently recognized Austrian government, suggests that history may pass this verdict on his career, Born in 1870 in a village near Vienna, he was one of 11 children of a poor peasant family. He studied law, became a Social Democrat, and a leader of the peasants and workers. . He soon became ‘a great figure in international Socialism But though Renner was an international Socialist, he was also p good German patriot in the Hapsburg Empire. During the first world war, when the Empire began to collapse, Renner tried to save it by urging the introduction of democracy and social reforms. But he fought a losing battle, and it was he who was forced to sign the treaty of 8t. Germain, by which the Austro-Hungarian Empire of 50,000,000 people was broken up.

Nazis Left Renner Alone RENNER became the first chancellor of the tiny Austrian republic centering round Vienna, with its population reduced to 6,000,000. : He became an ardent advocate of an anschluss, or. unfon of Austria with Germany. So devoted an advocate was he that, when this union was achieved in 1938, not by constitutional means but by Hitler's brutal conquest, Renner, though condemning the Nazi methods, saluted the anschluss as “good his"Thus it ‘came about that, while meafly all “of

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emerged, he announced that Mr. Leverton wasn't what it was cracked up to be. Jerry enjoyed the dubious distinction of being the first humorist in Indianapolis. Just to give you another sample: When the first telegraph line was completed in Washington st. in 1848, Jerry broke out in a sort of apostrophe: “There! they're driving lightning down the road and with a single line at that!” (To getl that one, you have to be old enough ‘to remember how some of the old-timers used to drive a team of horses around here.) * Our second jail was the one on the east side of the courthouse. It was a big improvement. For one thing, it was less inflammable. It was built of brick and, this time, the specifications provided rooms for residence which left a jailer without an alibi,

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than that of maintaining numerous bases and head quarters in the Pacific, whose need is not readily | understandable. The war department estimates the eventual cost of a program which would include leave equalization for the enlisted men would be $2,788,000,000. The navy cost has been fixed at approximately $1,500,000,000, Of course, the total of more than four billion dollars | is a startling one, but so are the other expenditures | of war. And the sum already required to compensate officers for terminal leave i included in the estimates quoted. I have not read the bills in question, nor do IX know the basis on which the war and navy departe ments propose to make payments.

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UNDOUBTEDLY, consideration has been given to the importance of spreading ous the payments for former enlisted men as is done with ex-officers, That would restrain unwise spending and give cone tinuity of income for at least several weeks or months, It would require 3000 clerks three months to sét up a system for paying demobilized soldiers, says the war department. What of it? There are thousands of G. Ls reportedly not being used effectively | J. . if credence is to be placed on the many letters received by The Times and other newspapers. These 1 men would be glad to have something to do until they had accumulated sufficient points for discharge. 3 Perhaps the solution is to provide for payment of |

an additional sum to every enlisted man . . . and it |i}

should be at least $300 . . . in monthly installments § after his separation. Those who have returned to | civilian life would be willing to wait until those now being demobilized were cared for. That would reduce the amount of immediate paper work. This is NOT a bonus proposal.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms Long Russian Relation With Persia

go exclusively to Russians. In 1891 all transportation | and goods insurance in that area became a Russian monopoly. This was to last for 75 years. Normally, therefore, this would not expire until 1966. In 1893, Persia gave Russia the postal service concession. Next came railway right for a line between Enzeli-Tehran-Hamadan. Then the Ashara-Ardebil | road was built. A ' Some of these concessions carried other privileges with them. For instance, the Julfa-Tabriz concession

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were also telegraph, fisheries, forest, electric power § and light, steamship and other concessions to the | Russian government,

British Empire Threat Looms THERE ARE reports that a new regime at Tehran may be more “friendly” towards Moscow than the one which this week lodged the complaint against Soviet interference. But while this might ease the Russo-Iranian crisis by Iran giving in to her powerful neighbor, it would not exactly lift the prestige of the UNO. Nor would it lessen anxiety in London. In all the broad anatomy of the British empire the tenderest spot is the Middle East. A prod there would bring from Downing street the promptest out cry of pain. For Russian domination of Iran and Turkey—and Turkey has been warned of Soviet dis pleasure over things as they are—~might well mean the beginning of the end of the- British empire ‘as now constituted.

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Economic Alliances

died at Dachau and Buchenwald, he himself was not molested, Under the Hitler reign of terror, he lived undisturbed in his village near Vienna, 80 it was that, when the Red army entered Vienna, a Russian general discovered Renner. and installed him as head of a provisional Austrian government. Now government has been recognized by the western allies, following his recent: election as the first president of the new Austrian republic. If Austria is ever to achieve a successful independent existence, she must in some way or another federate herself, at least economically, with some of her neighbors, A customs union between Austria and Bavaria would be a logical and practical step.

Austria Claims Bolzano er THE PEACE conference will certainly be confronted with a demand for the return to Austria of the province of Bolzano, which was ceded to Italy in 1919. It seems likely that Russia will suppor this demand. ' ‘ Italy, which is reconciled to loss of her colonies and certainly of parts of Venezia Giulia, will resist with all her power any proposal to cede Bolzano. The Italian army fought with considerable distinction in this provin¢e and contributed a notable share in driving out the Germans,- They would feel. they had been ill-rewarded by the allies if they were to lose Bolzano to Austria, which is, after all, still a Gérman state. ; It 1s to be expected that Britain and America will support the Italian position and that, here again, we shall have a complete split between’ the western and eastern powers. pi ; l n he ye J

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