Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 3 April 1946 — Page 14

HENRY W. MANZ Editor Business Manager "(A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER)

- Owned and published daily (excépt Sunday) by Indianapolis Times Publishing Co, 214 W. Maryland _ st. Postal Zone 5. 5 ' Member of United Press, Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance, NEA Service, and Audit Bureau of Circulations.

Price in Marion County, § cents a copy; delivts a week.

Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

POSTOFFICE PAY

L&E other federal workers, the postoffice employees are entitled to a pay increase. The house yesterday granted an additional $400 per year to them, and the pay measure now goes to the senate. Until long after the defense program and the war had started wages upward in private industry, mail carriers, postal clerks and supervisors, postmasters and assistants got no more pay than they had in 1925. And they took heavy depression cuts in 1932-34. In 1943, congress gave them a cost-of-living bonus of $300 a year. Last summer, that was replaced by a permanent increase of $400 a year, with extra pay for overtime. The department has now returned to the 40-hour week, the overtime is gone, the cost of living has kept on rising, and postoffice employees find it much harder to make ends meet than they did 20 years ago. The bill ready for senate action provides another $400-a-year permanent rise for the postal employees, who hoped the figure would be boosted to $500. We don't know what it ought to be, because congress hasn't yet decided how much salaries and wages in other federal departments and agencies shall be raised. - But we know that the American people expect, and get, faithful service from the postoffice employees. We know that these government workers, though many of them are union members, wouldn't think of striking to enforce demands for more money. And we want them to have just treatment. ° ; We also believe, however, that while raising federal pay scales congress ought to use a keen pruning knife on administration plans to employ a great many more people in most government bureaus and departments, including the postoffice, than there were before the war.

RED THREAT IN GREECE

HE Greek elections were fairly conducted, according to * our staff correspondent, Parker La Moore. He visited 925 widely scattered and representative precincts in Athens and in Piraeus and six country polling places, and saw no evidence of fraud or intimidation. Ifthere were irregularities anywhere, they will be reported ‘and evaluated by the American-British-French commission of observers, when it completes its investigation on April 10. . Meanwhile all the evidence indicates that this first Greek general election in 10 years was not only much more honest, but also more peaceful, than customary in eastern Europe. Isolated cases of violence occurred last week, but there appears to have been little or none-on election day. This is a tribute to the Greek people and their government. It is also, of course, striking proof of the effectiveness of the system of international inspectors when general elections are held during a tense and chaotic domestic situation. This is the system which the late President Roosevelt bought and paid for, with major world concessions to Russia, at the Yalta conference. But Russia so far has prevented its operation in Poland and elsewhere. Moscow tried to block it also in Greece. When Moscow's refusal to join the international commission of observers failed to prevent the election, the Greek Communists and their left coalition party boycotted it. Estimates based on incomplete returns indicate that more Greeks went 0 the polls Sunday than the 62 per cent voting in the 1936 election, which is a severe defeat for the Communists and their attempted boycott. Already they are charging fraud and terrorism to invalidate the election, but the international report will take care of that. Unfortunately, the feeling between the victorious Monarchist-Conservative bloc and the Republican-Centrist group is so bitter, and the economic condition of the country is so terrible, that the Communists still have- plenty of explosive material to play with.

HOME PLANNING

ORE than 6000 persons have attended the Home Planners’ Institute meetings at Indianapolis high schools during the series which concludes tonight with a session at Crispus Attucks high school.

That number of families, at least, has been helped in this activity, believed to be the first such sponsored by a public schqgl system. Virgil Stinebaugh, superintendent of schools, and H. L. Harshman, assistant superintendent in charge of extended school service, say they will set up additional specialized courses if requests justify. This series of meetings has been an important forward step in adult education.

THE LAW PERKS UP

E like the way the supreme court and the justice department have expedited federal criminal court prosedure; - :

mons instead of a warrant in minor cases, thereby avoiding formal arrest and possible waits in jail. Defendants may obtain change of venue where local prejudice is demonstrable.- A court may subpena witnesses for indigent defendants anywhere in the country. A court may allow taking of depositions and may stand the expenses thereof Jor patuber defendants. Periods for appeal are longer. Time or requesting a new trial on the basis of newly discovered ir extended from 60 days to two years. the government's behalf, warrant service now i » * . . . 3 allowed outside the district in which the document is issued.

have left the state without going more the origin of the warrant.

Lom

IS,

hr etna SAH

a a A gr ry

a PLLPLACE HIM UNDER Your cuslony ; IF 00 THINK You CAN MAKE HIM BEHAVE. How

i Sounds Like 2 Good dea ”

"| do not say, but | your righ

Hoosier Forum

agres with a word that you will defend to the death t to say it." — Voltaire.

"Why Not a Little Higher Tax, Decent Pay for City Workers?"

; By Marvin Walton, 48 W. 21st st. The Times and other papers have been publishing pictures and stories about {he appearance of Indianapolis. It's true things need to be done mbout the streets, ash collections and garbage collections. But it is pretty hard to get men tb work at the salaries offered by the city. In all fairness to the people, I believe The Times and other papers should publish the salaries of those employees. You see, whenever someone suggests or even breathes paying the city employees more money, the big /howl—we can't raise people's taxes. They won't stand for it. When the taxes are raised the people really howl. During the war our city employees. paid the same price for

groceries, clothes, rent, Shoe Lode etc, as you and I. It is means no more than that to an-

agreed that nearly everyone made pther. money during the war. What were| It was not two women on the the city employees salaries in com-|line as the paper stated. It was a parison to the defense worker? Of young girl talking to her boy course, the taxpayer didn’t think so|friend. My sister knew and could much about spending his money ofiihgve given the name to the papers, beer, whisky and so forth. That|pyt there was no such thought in was something he really wanted. her mind. None of that could How much money was spent foripring little Mickey back. Did these those items? people appreciate that? No! They 1 believe, if you figure it out, you came to that mother and father would find a raise for the eity/em-|ithe morning of the baby’s funeral ployee would be but a fraction of [and accused them of lying about that money wasted. How much|thé girl. The mother of the girl would you think the job of col-leven took it upon herself to tell lecting ashes and tin cans would why he was taken from us. pe worth to you, or would you "do Tam pestered night and day on it at all? You've passed a garbage|my line with people listening in, wagon in the winter. It smells, but children playing and long converhow about the one in the summer. |sations but I don't complain beWhat does it smell like to you?|cause I also have.children and I Then, of course, there is a small|also use the phone a lot. But, I item of manpower. They. say po-ican truthfully say, I do not listen lice and firemen have an/ easy go,/in because others’ affairs are none they are accused of being mooch-|of mine and of no interest to me. ers on down. The ones who say| I hope with all my heart that that are glad to see them whenever there is trouble. Their pay is about $45 a week afer deduc-|impolite as some people. tions. Firemen pay for their own nn

food while they work—same a8 YOU | ym ; and I." When things get bad who UNEMPLOYMENT PAYMENT are the first to get a cut in sal- IS NOT WORKING RIGHT’ By Mrs. N. P.,, Beech Grove

aries? It's that guy, the city employee. I always enjoy reading

squawk about, how about offering {many times to write.

I'll never be inhuman enoygh to ignore an emergency call or be as

the Instead of thinking, of things to|Hoosier Forum and was tempted Now I would

“JUDGE JOHNSON RULING ON FINGERPRINTING BAD”

By James Cullings, Indianapolis

and news statement that Emsley W. Johnson Jr. would again be candidate in the May primary election for the judgeship of superior court No. 3. I think the people of this locality should defeat Mr. Johnson; for the ruling in one case in his court in particular. This decision gave the police department a compulsory photo fingerprint law which I believe is unconstitutional and I believe Mr. Johnson erred when he rendered his decision. In the case referred to the defendant was arrested for gambling or suspicion of gambling. He was photographed and fingerprinted at police headquarters like any professional conVict. When his trial came to court he was discharged or found in-

nocent. Therefore the police did not have any legal right to take his photo or fingerprints and no legal right to keep same after he was discharged and he demanded surrender of same to him. He appealed his case to Mr. Johnson's court and Mr, Johnson ruled the police had the right to keep the man’s photo and fingerprints in their rogues gallery files. Now where every citizen comes into this ruling is that it makes no difference how law-abiding you may be, you can not get your fingerprints and shoto away from the police once they get them. .

In The Times was carried a photo

I do. not know the man in this case any more than I know Judge Johnson and Judge Johnson knows I don't know him. I supported Judge Johnson several times in election but I will oppose him because I consider his ruling a compulsory law and forwarding the regimentation of the people and a very unfair, un-

~ In behalf of defendants, courts now may employ a sum=1

Slippery defendants no longer may delay justice by demand- \ ; | ing removal proceedings—if the defendants have not left | }i CNR : > the state but merely entered another district; or if they | | A han 100 miles a nother time saving! in permission to submit technical Tain 2 ¢ Nod These pleadings long have wrought confusion | | iL ‘5480 ( = while lawyers and judges argued whether the Kr : should appear as motions to quash, pleas in bar

to help out. Or why; not accept a little higher tax so ‘the city employee can live too. = . » “PARTY LINE COURTESY NOTICEABLE FOR LACK” By Mrs, B J. Kellar, 1405 Sumner In answer to C. 'C. Miller's letter to the Forum, I want people to know the straight of the accident he's talking about. That child was

like to say what a laugh this unemployment insurance is. We apply for it and then they dole out what they want. My husband was out of work and reported every other day. As it happened, we had to go out of town to a funeral. He went in on Thursday and told them why he could not make a report on Friday. So he does not get unemployment- reimbursement for three days, while others who worked all during

unemployment insurance. It is always the woman who stays home and tries to raise her family right who pays.

gotten through on the party line. But, how terrible is the thought of what if he d have been. How awful to feel t your child's life

Side Glances—By Galbraith

eggs. Each

breakfast.

suit him,

COPR, 1988 BY NEA SERVICE INC. T. M. REC U8 PAT. OFF

"She charges. 50 Cents an hour for staying with “Junior. and when

4 she toe a baby | sat with her for nothing—when we get " home I'm going to send her mother a bill!"

of *

no: Piste Amati

“

HN a ee

gold mine.

-

“STREET CAR COMPANY RECALLS GOLD GOOSE” By Mervin McNew, 1445 Blaine ace. Once upon a time (so the story goes) a poor man awoke one morning to find a large, beautiful goose’ on his doorstep. Now this goose (so the story goes) had the facility of laying golden (Whoople.) and every day this wonderful fowl presented her adopted master with a golden egg for break(Wow.) But the old man got exceedingly greedy and decided he wanted more than just one egg per day: getting rich but not fast enough to

fn ion

».

4

believable decision. In the administration of Chief Morrisey people were arrested for the violation of parking and traffic laws and photographed and fingerprinted like convicts and I believe that condition still exists. It is no wonder there is so much crime and delinquency and disrespect for the law when the police and .courts allow a condition to exist that gives a rogue’s gallery

my nephew, his life could not have |the war and had fat wages are set- record to everybody contacted been saved if my sister could have ting home in luxury dre=ing their whether guilty or not. ” » ”

He was

So, lo and behold, he "grabbed his trusty little hatchet and proceeded to decapitate the paddling And, kiddies, do you know what happened? No gold at all. No, sir, not even a copper cent. Today in our fair city we have the same situation between the Goose (public citizens and car riders) and the Greedy Old Man (the Indianapolis Railways). ! - isfied with what the public can \ | | . stand they want to decapitate us all at once. That's dangerous ground. Remember what happened to the goose and the old man.

.'||° DAILY THOUGHT

: Then shalt thou prosper, if thou | takest heed to fulfill the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and. of good courage; dread not, nor be dis~ mayed.—Chronicles 22:13. "EVERYTHING in the world may be endured, except only a Succession LE

Not sat-

3

n -

HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH, who ran The Youth's Companion when I was a little boy, did as much as anybody to acquaint us kids with the facts of life. It’s another reason why readers of The Youth's Companion turned out to be the case-hard-ened creatures that they are. . There were two kinds of boys in Indianapolis whén I was a youngster—those who ftead St. Nicholas and those who took The Youth's Companion. To be sure, there were also those who didn't read either, but they didn’t count. We always considered them, more or less, hopeless. - Measured by the same standards, maybe, there were two kinds of girls, too. I'm sure I don't know. I remember quite .a number of girls who read St. Nicholas, but for the life of me, I can't recall ever playing with a girl who read The Companion. There must have been some, of course, because without girls The Companion could never have had its big circulation, However, they didn’t turn up in my bailiwick.

Meanest Comparison

ON THE SOUTH SIDE where I was brought up, it was generally taken for granted that The Companion wes a boy's paper; so much so that I heard

| it whispered on more than one occasion that St.

Nicholas was a paper run by a woman for sissies. It was the meanest thing The Companion crowd ever thought up about St. Nicholas, The two kinds of kids weren't anything alike which is the same as saying that they were very much like the papers they read. The Companion crowd, fér instance, still believed in the Alger-Henty doctrine that to amount to anything in this world one had to start as a bootblack or a newsboy. The St. Nicholas crowd had its doubts—énough, anyway, to eat up a story like “Little Lord Fauntleroy,” a literary performance that couldn't have reached first base in The Youth's Companion, ®

St. Nicholas had other defects, too. Its advertise-

‘Shoe Fly Pie and

NEW YORK, April 3.—In the next couple of months, an alleged song called “Cement Mixer” will be hurled at you by eight name bands over the radio. A half million copies of sheet music will be sold, and probably a million records—because a quarter million already have been peddled on the West Coast, and the song is only beginning to take hold in the East. ; . “Cement Mixer” is a very intelligent song. It goes like this: “Cement mixer, putti, putti, a puddle o' vooty, puddle o' gooty, puddle o' sooty, cement mixer, putti, putti, a puddle o’ veet—concrete. “First you get some gravel, pour it in the vout, to mix a mess, of mortar you add cement and water— see the melfow roony come out—slurp, slurp, slurp,” and so on.

'Marzie Doats' Was So Quiet! DURING THE NEXT WEEK or so, concrete mixers will be driven down Broadway, there will be drinks named cement mixers—one drink and you're plastered—Miss Cement Mixer of 1946 (the girl who looks best in a cement bag) will be chosen, and the sale of the song will be agitated until you’ feel like you can't stand it any longer. America, which has had some experience with completely screwy songs, now appears to be well away on an epidemic of tie things. Lately, by cleverlyengineered publicity stunts on the West Coast, the re-bop school of unintelligible singing has received a lusty push, and we are in for several painful months of gibberish, which cannot possibly be viewed as bad for the kiddies, because nobody except an idiot can make anything out of it, anyhow, and you can't corrupt: idiots.

Atom Research

WASHINGTON, April 3.—Dr. Norris E. Bradbury, director of the Los Alamos, N. M., atomic bomb laboratories, in Washington to confer on plans for dropping the fourth and fifth bombs on Bikini Atoll lagoon gives the lie to reports that the Los Alamos project has been deserted by scientists almost to a man, is practically out of business. Bradbury succeeded Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer as director of Los Alamos last October. Like most of the scientists on the job, he is a slender, soft-spoken, reticent young man. He. was professor of physics at Stanford university when the war broke out. Commissioned in the naval reserve, he was first assigned to the navy's proving ground at Dahlgren, Va. Then, in July, 1944, he was transferred to Los Alamos, and he has been on the bomb project ever since. Since Los Alamos-is the place where the bombs are assembled, Dr. Bradbury has a major responsibility in preparing for the deferred Bikini tests. Los Alamos laboratory has been and stil] is a restricted area, but any idea that the place is a ghost town just isn't so, according to Dr. Bradbury. There has been some reduction in the number of scientists on the job, but that number is still over 1000. Many of the men who have left had finished their work, or had trained other ren for their jobs.

Scientific Data Being Released

RESEARCH AT LOS ALAMOS is continuing, It is not carried on as intensely as in war years. There is no reason why it should be. Research projects now under way are not all military, either. As to the future of Los Alamos, Dr. Bradbury sees

TODAY IN EURGPE . . . By

MONTREAL, ‘April 3.—It has been a thrilling experience for me as an Englishman to spend a few days in Canada. The great self-governing dominions of the British empire—Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa—have shown in two wars their sense of unity' with and loyalty to the interests and ideals of Great Britain. But many students of the British commonwealth have wondered whether this free association of nations could long endure, with Great Britain so incomparably the preponderant power, # The population of the British Isles is about 48,000,000; that of Canada, 12,000,000; Australia, 7.000000; New Zealand, about 1,500,000; and the Union of South Africa, about 10,000,000. This disparity in population between the mother country and her daughter dominions has fnevitably given a paramountcy in foreign affairs to Great Britain. That paramountcy, in the last 30 years, has not been imposed but has arisen from the inescapable factors of wealth, population and military strength. :

Contrast in Confidence CANADA, howevér, is now beginning to show a strength beyond her numbers. Her immense wealth and her boundless future enable her people to march forward with a self-confidence that is perhaps lacking {n Britain today. The old country welcomes this fact. The stronger each dominion is, the stronger will be the empire, Bernard M. Baruch, the wisest American I have ever mat, said to me gecently that, if he were a young man, he would go to Oanada, 4s he considered it the land of the greatest oppOggunity, not only for material development but ‘for the preservation of freedom.

But there is another Canadian asset Which wii 2 ey vy Be i : ie

nt A oF.

2 3 a » z

u

| OUR TOWN . - Sy Roto Sefarst rae] rege rs ~ Fauntleroy Versus Alger-Henty Boys

ments, for instance, couldn't compare with those-in The Companion. : : I can't account for the superb quality of Mr. Butterworth’s advertisements—whether it was his genius or a matter of luck—but the way things turned out he, certainly, made the Indianapolis public school system look sick when it came to teaching us kids the facts of life—the fact, for instance, that electricity in the shape of magnetic belts, corsets garters and the like has the property of pepping up people,

Advertising for Children

I STILL RECALL the ad of Richardson's Mag-neto-Galvanic battery, an electric laveliere gtiaranteed to cure neuralgia, kidney disease, torpid liver and impure blood. Wilson's Magnetic Corset helped sleeplessness, nervousness, indigestion, rheumatism and paralysis. The Wilsonia, a charged garter, of all things, was good tor catarrh, dyspepsia, piles, locomotor ataxia and gouv. And I remember that Dr. Scott's Electric Corset cured all the ills this miserable world-is heir to and in addition used the back pages of The Youth's Companion to advertise that it could improve the elegance of figure, make the muscles and tissue more plastic and. yielding, and mold the figure to any desired form without tight lacing—all for the price of $3. By far, though, the best ad Mr. Butterworth ever had the luck to run—and, certainly, the one MI remember longest—was a portrait of Thomas A. Edison’ looking like a boy of 18 with his hair brushed carelessly down his forehead. The portrait, I remember, was placed in a circle around which were pictures of an electric battery, a telephone and an incandescent light bulb. Then came the breathtaking text, even more surprising than the art work. EDISON'S POLYFORM CURES RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA, SCIATICA AND ALL NERVOUS PAINS, PREPARED BY THE MENLO PARK MANUFACTURING CO. PRICE, $1—SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. T'll bet you never knew Tom Edison went in for that at Menlo Park.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

Apple Pan Dowdy’

At the moment we have “One-sy, Two-sy,” “E-Bop-A-Leé-Bop,” “Hey-Bop-A-Lee-Bop,” “Ashby De La Zooch,” “Shoe Fly Pie and Apple Pan Dowdy,” “Prim Fram Sauce” and “Chickery Chick,” which has sold a million copies of music, still holding on. It makes the good old days of “Marzie Doats” and “Music Goes Down and Round” seem almost intelligent, while “Yes, We Have No Bananas” was a miracle of lucidity. Sidney Mills, of Mills Music, Inc, which inflicted “Hold Tight” and “Straighten’Up-and Fly Right” on the public, currently sponsors “Cement Mixer,” and he says he feels a little apologetic. “But if we didn't print ‘em, somebody else would,” says Mr. Mills, who figures that a “puddle o’ vooty” will be lisped by every babe in the nation very shortly. “There's no explaining it,. but the public will go for anything that doesn't make sense. You have to go along with the public.”

It Was All Marconi's Fault THE GENERAL TREND of pdblic idiocy in entertainment has finally proceeded to a point where a jingle called “Chiquita Banana,” a radio commercial which urges the harried listener never, under any circumstances, to put the banana in the re-frig-er-a-tah, soon will be brought out as a legitimate song. : With “Who Put the Benzedrine in Mrs. Murphy's Chowder” ringing in one ear, and “Hey-Bop-A-Lee-Bop” pounding in the other, in a general haze induced by the voiced information that “gnats” is “stang” spelled sideways, it is hard to forgive Signor Marconi for inventing the radio, and the American consumer for making it profitable.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

Not Solely Military

a continual turnover of top personnel, the laboratory and the universities exchanging scientists all the time. Los Alamos today is the world’s greatest physics laboratory. Scientists can be brought in here for research, then go back to the universities to teach what they have learned, training new men to send to Los Alamos. for still further work. And vice versa. The idea that everything is still under wartime security regulations is an exaggeration, Dr. Bradbury says. Material is being declassified- al] the time, and reports on nuclear physics research are being gradually released through scientific journals. They don't make much of a splash in the newspapers, because most of the stuff can't be understood by laymen. More will be released when congress passes the atomic energy control laws.

Congress Inaction Impedes Research IN THE LIGHT OF this report, it appears that-the-atomic research bottleneck over the past half year has not been so much military control as congressional inaction. By monkeying around for seven months, unable to make up its mind on the most fundamental principles of government organization, congress has set back atomic energy development just as far as has the war department, with its silly hush-hush rules. The fear of military control has been stirred up, in large part, by scientists taking their first plunge into the political pond, Make no mistake about it, they themselves have been doing a terrific lobbying job. They have blasted at the war department lobby, and, under the leadership of Dr. Harold OC. Urey of the University of Chicago, they have made Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the Manhattan district engineer commanding officer, their personal devil,

Randolph Churchill

Canada Empire Bridge With. America

not so often stressed. That is. its system of government. Canada has made an outstanding success of the parliamentary form of government which she inherited from Great Britain. There is agreement upon fundamentals between all the parties, And though they fight in a lively fashion among themselves, the overriding interests of the nation and of the empire are always uppermost in the minds of all their politicians. It would be hard to find any state, great or small, in all ‘the Americas whose government Was more efficient, economical, highsminded and humane than that of the Dominion of Canada. Here In Canada, liberty and law march hand in hand. Tradition and progress support each other, and although Canada is compounded of various races and religions, there is a true sense of nationhood.

.. Moral Courage Makes Nation Great MUCH OF THE credit for this is due to that wise statesman, that subtle politician, that first-class administrator, W. L. Mackenzie King, who for 20 out of the last 25 years has been Canada's prime minister. He has shown himself a -great wartime feader. And this recent handling of the espionage fifth column has added new stature poth to him and to Canada, T There were Cénadians who doubted whether Canada was’ wise to embark on ‘an exposure . of

Soviet Russia from which even the mighty United .

States had recoiled. But Mackenzie King has shown that he believes the smaller states, too, have rights in the world. And by proving that, he has raised Canada among the nations. . i For it is moral courage more than any other single factor which makes a nation great. Britain

proved that during the battle of Britain. Canads

is dally confirming this. truth. re

THON

7

WED

AU Wrote

‘Birt

RALEIG] -Thomas Clansman,” age of 82: brilliant o produced. Mr, Dix years. He & year progr activity ma “A man ° three caree preacher ai is best kno This was n to be the | tures unde:

_ a Nation.”

Although including and “The claimed th: his work o “I have manuscript the presses couldn't be my books,’ In the la author ten tention fro communism “The Flar in 1939. Mas During Dixon, a v year-old G of Clevela doing rese more than Despite I sidered his federal co which he c of support to ‘the art A Demo fender of at one tim of the New ed to the Meekins, a Although writer sin Johns Hop on wrote b ard’'s Spots As he once is plenty of what I war One of ti concerned which calle of his earl “Man in G . In 1943, resign fror as well as publie figu

GATES RET

An und rolees fro reformator home to It rder issu el The ord comment, parole age sion to pa Effective board of stitution o authority 1 Orders | governor t paroling where a p state farm the parole cated suck made in a