Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 June 1946 — Page 12

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Give Light and the People Will Find Thetr Own Way

TWO VITAL PROPOSALS

[DEMOCRATS convening here next Tuesday for their state convention will receive recommendations from their party's platform advisory committee on two matters brought to the fore by the bossed Republican convention

last week. The committee will recommend selection of candi-

dates for United States senator and for all state offices through the direct primary system instead of in party convention. The unshackled power of the statehouse dictatorship ruled the Republican convention, where Senator Raymond E. Willis was purged, in such a ruthless manner that delegates had no voice in choosing candidates for these

"offices. The G. O. P. also purged Judge Frank N. Richman, who sought renomination to the supreme court bench, because he refused to go along on a decision which gave the statehouse crowd further power. Attorneys who e. jealous of judicial integrity are alarmed over control of the bench by the politicians and will hail the decision of the Democratic platform committee to recommend non-parti-san selection of judges. The Times believes in a return to the direct primary method ef choosing candidates. Breakdown of the convention prodess was strongly demonstrated in the Republean convention. It also believes in non-partisan selection of judges. a! “It would appear that the Indiana Bar association could render a great public service if it were to prepare a plan for selecting judges in non-partisan manner. Such a plan, with the example of the recent G. O. P. gathering and with the indorsement of the Democratic party, might have a chance of adoption in the next legislature.

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GRIST FOR THE TREASURY

THE treasury’s annual list of big salaries always makes good reading.- People who never in a lifetime lay hands on such sums are interested in reading about the $1,118,035 income of Movie Director McCarey and the $201,458 of * singing-dancing Carmen Miranda, with the in-between payments to movie magnates, race-track kings, actors, and assorted industrial executives. But the greatest pleasure in learning of such incomes should eome to the treasury itself, and to all who depend upon the government for livelihood. For from such incomes come large chunks of what it takes to keep the

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at the expense of the taxpayers. At a recent board meeting a prisoner was given two years for

government going on the generous scale that has become its pattern. The salaries and bonuses lately publicized were on 1944 incomes. Under the 1944 tax law, a million-dollar net income yielded the government~-about $900,000 in taxes; half-million income, $442,985 tax; $300,000 income, $254,985 tax; $100,000 income, $68,565 tax. On all such astronomical incomes, Uncle Sam’s take-home represents the

larger share.

That, we may say, is as it. should be. But let's not forget that's as it is. And the more people that make more money the more the government will have to pay its bills.

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ENACT THE HOBBS BILL

i HE Hobbs anti-racketeering bill, twice passed by over- - whelming house votes, finally has been approved by the senate judiciary committee. That should clear the way for a least one sound and urgently needed piece of legislation against abuse of labor’s power.

Enactment of this measure, is essential because of a 1942 supreme court decision that the federal anti-racketeer-ing act does not apply to unions which use threats and violence to compel employers to pay money to members whose services are neither wanted nor needed. That was the famous Byrnes decision which brought from Chief Justice Stone, dissenting, the protest that its

reasoning “would make common-law robbery an innocent pastime.”

The Hobbs bill, a proposed anti-racketeering act amendment, expresses the definite intent of congress that union officers and members shall be liablé to penalties if they practice robbery and extortion. Three weeks ago the senate voted, 59 to 22, to write the Hobbs language in as section 7 of the Case labor bill. When President Truman vetoed the Case bill, he stated his “full accord” with that section's objectives, but said it should have stated clearly that it would not be made a felony to strike, to picket peacefully or to take other legitimate action.

Had Mr. Truman analyzed section 7 more carefylly, he would have found that it did—as the Hobbs bill does, for the wording is identical—just that, Nothing in it “shall be construed to repeal, modify or affect” the rights guaranteed to unions by the Clayton, Norris-La Guardia, railway labor and Wagner acts. Thus strikes, peaceful picketing and other legitimate labor activities protected ‘by these laws are specifically exempted from anti-racketeering penalties. The Case bill is dead, but the Hobbs bill has been resened from the senate committee pigeonhole where it gathered dust so long. It should now go speedily before the senate for passage, and be sent to Mr. Truman. Since he strongly favors its objectives, and since his one criticism when it came to him as part of the Case bill obviously was due to an imperfect understanding of its safeargs for honest labor, we think he surely will sign it into We

DON’T TRUST THEM!

§ 90 per cent of the pedestrians killed in traffic pre persons who never had driven autos, the commt finds. They simply didn’t understand ow behind the wheel was up to. Pedestrians, 2 profit from Dr. Charles F. Ketter-

parole violation, all he did was marry his wife while on parole. One member of the board told him that maybe his wife would forget him in two years, but if she didn’t, the board would give him two more when he came before the board again. | The case of No. 13776—This man | served two years for forging a small check and was paroléed and later returned for parole violation for drinking and served 12 years! Bear in mind, you the taxpayers, paid over $6000 to keep this man in prison 12 years for being drunk. Anyone not on parole would pay a small fine for the same offense. These hundreds of men in the state prison serving several years each for parole violation such as getting married while on parole, drinking, staying out after 9 p. m., driving a car, or getting in a place where liquor is sold. Does the governor know what this practice is costing us in taxes? After a prisoner serves his minimum sentence he should be paroled, if his record is clear. Prisoners wanted by other states should be turned over when their minimum is served. They are not. Why? They could be turned over to other states and we would not be paying thousands of dollars a year for their keep. . 8 9 “I'LL BET ROBERT RUARK WAS A STATESIDE G. 1”

By William Saymere, Camp Atterbury I noticed Mr. Robert C. Ruark’s, article a few nights ago about the ruptured duck not being a key to office, and as he said, he was burned

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"Prisoners Should Be Paroled After Minimum if Record Clear"

By P. R. Wheatley, Muncie

The governor and his appointed parole boards are showing complete disdain to laws passed by legislation, 1897, page 219, of Burns Indiana Statutes, which plainly states that every prisoner serving an indeterminate sentence whose minimum term has expired shall be given the opportunity to appear for parole at each meeting of the board thereafter. The law does not permit the board to give any prisoner over 30 days at any meeting. In disregarding these laws the board members are giving prisoners from one to eight years more than their minimum

charge button should be counted at the voting booth. For my part, and I think the majority of the veterans will agree with me, if the candidates have any way near the same qualification, the vote should go to the veteran, for God only knows what the vetewho went overseas went through, - fighting the enemy, disease, famine and mud and pestilence, while ‘the 4-F stayed at home and enjoyed the good things of life. If any favors should be passed out at the election, it should be the veterans who get them.

Mr. Ruark says he has an honorable discharge from the service and has a right to boil from the texts of his writing. I would bet he is one of the glorified stateside G. Is and only broadside he ever helped fire came from a typewriter. I spent quite some time in the southwest Pacific and was not drafted to go. And I feel that anyone who says the things he does about the veterans (and I don’t mean the stateside boys) is a disgrace to the uniform he wore, So my advice to you, Mr. Ruark, if you don't lke the V. FP. W. and what we stand for, lay off for a while and join the Boy Scouts— it is more your speed.

Editor's Note: No, Mr. Ruark wasn't a stateside G. I. He spent several years in the navy, in the major theaters of war, and for some two years was detailed as gunnery officer in charge of the armed guard on merchant marine ships, He's seen his share of the shooting.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

"Before starting in as your secretary, Mr. Jones, I'd like to ask do : you like lots

of commas?"

“FORUM WRITERS ARE ALWAYS RAISING HELL” By Regular Forum Reader, City I'm getting a bit weary reading all the gripes and complaints in the Forum. Doesn't anybody ever have a good word to say for anything or anyone? Your readers seem to like to raise hell with labor and capital, communism and capitalism, feeding the starving, President Truman, congress, the politicians and everything else. Sure, there's a lot wrong with the world. But much of it could be solved by trying to understand the other fellow’s viewpoint. I've been a Times reader for 26 years, and I think free discussion like you encourage in the Forum is a good idea. But I'd be a little more happy if occasionally somebody would include a pat on the back in his letters. Don’t get me wrong—I'm not talking about patting The Times on the back. I'm talking about saying a good word for some of the people and institutions that make this a great country, despite the reason-

| SAGA OF INDIANA . . . by Willam A. Marlow © ~~ | "First Hoosiers Roamed Over Continent

THE FIRST HOOSIERS were prehistoric men. It is the duty, and should be the pleasure, of every intelligent man and woman in Indiana, to know, as "intimately and as well as they Can, these first Hooslers. For no Hoosier can fully know what it means to be a Hoosier now, unless he knows what it meant to be a first Hoosier. R The pioneer in the state, for example, who prized his ax, and the modern Hoosier who razors the lather and the beard on his face, are both better understood, as viewed beside the first Hoosier, who wielded his tomahawk and chipped his flint in battle and in the heavy toil of the stone-age man.

Past Gives Perspective IN THE SAME WAY, too, every Hoosier might better know the pioneer woman who peacefully smoked her clay pipe in her rude log cabin, and the smartly gowned modern who nonchalantly flicks the ashes of her cigaret in the quiet of her home, if he could glimpse them both in line with the first Hoo-

peaceful privacy. For it is a fact, whether you like it or not, that a few puffs of tobacco smoke can act as a great harmonizer. They do help to lessen the differences and to mellow the misunderstandings of men, even as between the first Hoosier and the last one. And every farmer in Indiana might likewise be a wiser, if not a more contented and better, farmer, if he could see the first Hoosier trying to cultivate a patch of corn with a hoe made from a mussel shell or the shoulder blade of a deer. For a modern Hoosier, for one thing at least, would know that no first Hoosier, in the crude fashion of his day, would have any chance at all to become the corn king of the world, as modern Indiana farmers so frequently do. In other fields of activity, too, these Hoosiers might understand each other better by comparing notes a bit. For instance, the mechanic who works with steel as he helps to make or repair an automobile in modern Indiana has much in common with

DES MOINES, June 19—What a lot of young men who came out of the war think of their elders in congress, who are fumbling us into inflation and greedy “normalcy,” and of their elders among world diplomats, who are fumbling us toward another catastrophe in the old power politics way, was revealed by delegates from all parts of the country to the first American Veterans Committee convention here last week-end. They spoke out bluntly in their platform.

Congressional and U. N. Action THEY DON'T LIKE what congress has dope to OPA. They condemned it bitterly. They don’t like what is being done about homes for their families. They want Wilson Wyatt, housing expediter, to do more expediting with the powers he has and they want congress to give him some more, as well as to enact the long-range Wagner-Ellender-Taft housing bill. They want the minimum wage increase bill, passed by the senate, jimmied out of the house labor committee where it. has been stymied. They want unemployment benefits increased to a flat $25 for 26 weeks as President Truman asked over a year ago. They want congress to enact a comprehensive health program, about which neither house nor senate has done anything, They fought side by side with Negroes and soldiers of other races, and they want an end of Jim Crowism. They don't want persecution of Japanese-Americans, some of whom fought so gallantly at their sides in Italy and Prance. They don’t wani-discrimination in jobs on account of race, creed or color, and they demand enactment of the permanent F.E.P. C. bill which has lip service of enough members of parties in congress to pass, but which still languishes. They don’t want the vote denied on account of race by poll taxes or “white” primaries or other devices. 3 They want the “un-American activities committee” of the house abolished and no more of its persecutions.

able grounds for the gripes. and complaints.

Editor's Note: Yes, there's lois of | controversy and criticism in the Forum. People who write for it usually are “het up” over what they write about. We'd enjoy reading some good words, too. Some letters do contain them. * - ” “MUST SEND FOOD EVEN TO GERMANS IN JUSTICE” By E. R. M,, Indianapolis Frau Elsa Jensen writes in a very moving way in her appeal in the Forum for food for the starving Germans. She is a mother and the wife of a Christian clergyman. Her children are outstanding among ‘German Christians. ‘ Surely mothers of America who are her sisters in the Christian family will be inspired to share their comparative plenty with her and others like her, In our prisons, we feed and give medical attention to persons who have proved themselves a menace to society. Germany proved a menace to society. But our code calls for justice and fairness to all. There are selfish reasons why America must share at this time, Starvation brings disease, suffering, rebellion, war. If we would have a world fit for America to live in, we must send food to starving Europe, even to Germany who planned and inaugurated the terrible conflict resulting in our stricken world. Such sentiments expressed in a letter like this read like a-sermon. And so what? Is there any reason why we may not preach to ourselves when we hear so many Say: “Let ‘em starve!” It seems a time for sermons and for listeners to sermons. » . » «pRIVE CAREFULLY AND WATCH FOR YOUNGSTERS” By Parent and Driver, City Well, school's out and the kids are enjoying their summer vacation. They're apt to be running in the street, riding their bicycles where they shouldn't and Just generally exposing themselves to danger. It's up to everyone who drives a car to be a little more alert and careful to watch for these youngsters. Running after a ball may seem to be the thing to do when you're an excited 10-year-old playing baseball,” and without regard for automobiles that may be coming. So I say let's keep our eyes open and our accident record down this summer.

DAILY THOUGHT

And who 18 he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good ?—Peter 3:13. ” ” » A good man, through obscurest aspirations Has still an instinct of the one true

"WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Jack Bel Dubious Benefits from Occupation

VIENNA, June 19.—“Papa,” said the 6-year-old Viennese girl, “when will the next war come?” —“I-hope it never comes,” replied the father. “You mean, maybe I won't ever have any more butter?” she asked anxiously.

Russian Families Moving In THIS 18S AUSTRIA, remember, which we're treating as a liberated country. So far as anybody here can see, Austria has been granted the right to elect a president and two houses—which Germany didn't get. But the elected statesmen can only go through the motions. “Often when we pass laws,” said a member sadly, “they're emergency edicts; something that's got to be done at once, And usually they lie on the desk of the four power group for so many weeks that the damage has been done before they're approved or rejected.” During the war, the Nazis took over every jndustry and rationed food, but had some transportation and necessary milk and butter for children. Came peace, confiscation of the cattle by the victors, complete breakdown of transportation—and ‘the official's daughter is one of millions who get no butter, Every minister observes ration rules strictly. They know what suffering is; the combined Nazi concentration camp total for the 17 ministers is 32 years. Vienna, all tales to the contrary, isn’t getting on its feet very fast. I was here a year ago, just after the

MILAN, June 19.—Various memoirs and diaries recently published are enabling the public to form some opinion of Italy's participation in the war and of the method by which she extricated herself from her alliance with the Germans and joined the allies as a co-belligerent. “The Ciano Diaries” give an excellent inside picture of the Fascist regime and events from the beginning of 1939 till 1943, when Ciano fell from power.

Mussolini Disliked Germans : THEY SHOW that Count Galeazzo Ciano was far more than a playboy, They reveal him as taking a far more sagacious and far-sighted view of world events than anyone else in Italy. He thought the axis pact a disaster for Italy; he was sure that Britain would fight on after the collapse of France and that she would never make peace with Germany; he never believed Hitler would succeed in conquering Russia; and from the moment the United States entered the war, he was (unlike Hitler and Mussolini) acutely conscious of that country’s immense war-making power, His diaries reveal in a most illuminating way the hatred his father-in-law, Mussolini, felt for the Germans, coupled with his contempt for the Italians, whom he always regarded as unworthy of his leadership. Unfortunate, Ciano's diaries do not cover thé steps leading up to the coup d'etat which brought about the fall of Mussolini. Though he was privy to the earliest plans for removal of Mussolini, dating back to April, 1842, hé never referred to these in his

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Thomas L. Stokes a Veterans Quest for Better World

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchil Politicos Did Not Depose Mussol

the first Hoosier who.cHipped his flint or fashioned a vessel out of tlay in the spirit and the tempo of stone-age men. Also, the first Hoosier trudged his slow way on foot, bent under the weight of the game he had killed. The modern truckman ‘moves his goods with the swift roll of a truck over the modern roads of the state, These two men are as wide apart as the ages. Yet can you not picture them, in memory or in imagination, chatting together with zest and interest aver the ways Hoosiers have moved themselves and" their goods about over the state since first its soil was trod by men? : But did these first Hoosiers ever do any business, you might fairly ask? Not in the manner of modern

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men. . But they did range widely over North America in quest of things to satisfy their needs or their fancy. This no doubt led them into a traffic and trans. Kept actions at least akin to modern business, At any c rate, we do know that they went to Missouri, to ong Michigan, to- Ohio, and to West Virginia for copper, linois and from which they made tools and ornaments. In the d 9 a rivers of the south, they found the fresh water pearls Sa > Te vy that were their prized possessions, as is shown by the a) countless thousands of these gems that dre found > paign to lu their mounds and graves. Undoubtedly they traf- Sa hid ficked in all these things, in their crude way, much Beswnm after the manner of men in the modern business ape head » w y orld, : Frank Hardy, First Methods Toilsome select the stre BUSINESS IS a dominating thin pare 4 pian 4 Hoosier life, as it Is everywhere in Americe a] OLSRiet tom every man and woman in Indiana who buys or sells a pun things, at wholesale or retail, or otherwise, and g be struggles daily for a. fair profit, can gather courage WYSRRE. Tush and vision for his work, if he will study this first sides of two 1 Hoosier In the ways of his scanty trade and traffic. Sxlending Ro Always his efforts are crude, his methods simple, his J] ron ior ways slow and toilsome. The whole state, and the in bgp wide stretch of America, were as freely. open to him Si3p0i8 tn as they are to modern men. It is indeed revealing Urged | and enlightening to watch his scattered, halting, un- The traffic certain trading change to the range and the volume committee of modern business. Safety counc the plan afte at the Hotel Capitol ave. the experim parking woul to 6:30 p. m. 16th st. The comm They want congress to make itself a more efficient liam PF. Milr body, more responsive vo pubic will. They want the neer, and Mi house to pass the La Follette-Monroney bill approved to overhaul by the senate, but they want it even broader, to do trol system. away with the seniority system. such an ove All these things are within the purview of the to the move congress now sitting, downtown ar On the world scale, they are concerned about the He said ne way diplomats are behaving, They want United connected to Nations developed into a real world government. They system cover shouted approval when Harold Stassen urged aban- town area a donment of the old fetish of national sovereignty, ment to act which he declared is “as dead as the divine right flow at indiv of kings.” Mr. Hardy They want international control ‘of the atomic asked the b bomb and atomic energy along lines of the Baruch clude funds proposal “to the United Nations. They want manu- 1947 municip facture of atomic bombs stopped and those we now Push have destroyed. They want control of atomic energy Meanwhile in this country for peacetime purposes, for promo- establishmen tion of scientific and medical research, by ‘a civilian parking fac commission as provided in the McMahon bill passed inted out by the senate but still not-acted on in the house. Pe to They want us to meet our obligations to feed starving main thorous people abroad and to help them rehabilitate them- John W selves. They want colonial peoples set free. the city play Are Impatient for Action - » iL yequast | THEY DON'T WANT our count: to ely ry Join any for the down alliances or blocs either against Great. Britain or matter probs Russia. They want United Nations to call a con- the attentio ference and amend the charter so that United Nations Monday can prohibit manufacture of weapons of mass de- Ty Burg struction by member nations. sembly emp They want, in short, action. ¥ vide such [ They are impatient because they are young. But revenue bone the world is moving fast today, as fast as young payers. Parl men can run, as fast as they scurried up beachheads to pay off ti all over the world, as fast as they fell before guns Mr. Athe of the enemy. sponsors of The young men are impatient, but they ge far Marion cou wiser than their years. bly

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Hoosier pc Russians drove the 8. 8. out of town. Today it looks [fll 7°, 2% © a bit cleaner, but they've not gone far. according to “Nor can we do much in the next year,” admitted superintende another official frankly. “We'll get some roofs estimated tr patched, board up more windows before cold weather, $200,000, work on our railways, try to get more trucks. The Git polic Russlape have practically ordered us to rebuild the poli joine pers ouse. They're very artistic by nature, they after + sutcn “Would you be better off if we all got out-—French, a months Russians, British, Americans?” I asked. Col. Kill “We need some occupation,” he replied, “but not and county so'much. Our whole police force was Nazi during the counted for war. Now, we've 50,000-Nasis in jail, and still picking of the 322 them up. We need allied troops, say 10,000 from each month. Sta nation, until we get stronger. By May 1, we figure, cars, or 26 we had 200,000 Russians, 50,000 Americans, 40,000 Car thiev English and 20,000 French. Indianapolis Vienna Recovering Slowl where state “THE RUSSIANS AND FRENCH ate largely from op on

Austrian food stocks. Now, perhaps 100,000 Russians have gone home. But we see Russian families coming in from Hungary and settling down.”

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The gentleman sighed. “We seem to be in ‘a whirl- most thefts. pool,” he said, reaching for his cdse and taking out CAPA half of a used cigaret. x BIKINI “Here,” 1 said, offering mine, “help yourself” TAKE “There are occasional compensations,” he said, taking four. HONOLU! Veteran new tail party | route to t tests next I . . ishly for co] . which put | n | that the tes In red ty To understand the steps by which the fall of JOM ages Mussolini was brought about, there are at present @ Washington two sources which should be studied. One is a series danger lurk of articles by Count Dino Grandi, formerly Italian Suspicious ambassador in London. These were syndicated about peered mor 18 months ago and appeared in this newspaper. They small type give a lively record of the proceedings at the meet- “Meanwhile ing of the grand Fasgist council on July 24, 1943, when notable gro a majority of the couricll voted against Mussolini, tists and c Mussolini would have fallen whatever the council as you gO had done. " This is all made plain in a recently published book Toads: by Gen. Giuseppe Castellano, assistant to Gen. Vit- ME! torio Ambrosio, chief of the Italian general staff and LAY the man who played the greatest personal role in MET planning and executing the coup d'etat. Castellano’s book has not yet been published outside of Italy. Laymen While in Rome, I had opportunity of consulting at the se various impartial sources and am in a position to Methodist give an authoritative account of what took place, 7:30 in the which I shall do tomorrow. our Politicians Had No Part district lay IT'S ABUNDANTLY PLAIN that credit for get- ings from ( ting rid of Mussolini should be divided between Gen. frey Carn Ambrosio and King Victor Emmanuel. It may be leader, will argued that they should have acted earlier, but there's meeting wi no doubt that they were the effective personalities ' gan retital who took the decisions, shouldered the responsibility, Bransford, and did the job. { i host chure It's equally clear that no politician, Fascist or anti- m.. The co Fascist, played any decisive part. Grandi was not yesterday, informed until late in the day, and did not in reality through St

affect the course of events.