Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 June 1946 — Page 18

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INDIANAPOLIS AND TAXES

olis Chamber of Commerce has made some

bulletin issued by its bureau of governmental research this week. Frankly facing the fact that we are going to pay a higher tax rate next year, probably the highest in Indianapolis history, this bureau has carefully analyzed some of ‘the reasons why this is necessary, and some of the solutions . proposed for the problem, ‘. We are by no means the only American city with financial headaches. In fact Indianapolis is in much better ‘shape today than most, Costs of municipal service have risen steadily, more and more services are demanded by the people of the community, and the number of people to be served has grown. And it is true, as the bulletin indicates, that real control of our city financing is held not by the people of the city but by the legislature of the state, heavily dominated by representatives of rural and small town areas in which such problems do not exist. We are autoriomous only within the narrow limits the legislature may set. Re

” » » » » » HE growth of suburbs to Indianapolis has barely begun, yet it already is a factor in any consideration of city budgets. Suburban residents generally derive their income from the city, use its facilities, but pay nothing, directly, for their cost. Cities like Philadelphia and Cleveland, whose suburbs have«developed to their logical fruition, understand much ‘better than we just what that can mean to a

p very sound observations on the city's finanees in a

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DO NOT EVER get the mistaken notion’ that the modern Hoosier woman preens herself with more care, or bédecks herself with more pride, than did her sister who was the first Hoosier woman, Thé modern one warms to the flash of a diamond, the beauty of a pearl, the elegance Sof silver plate, as any woman of culture and refinement may properly do. So likewise did the first one who loved | her pearls, which were buried with her; the necklaces that adorned her even in death; the arnaments that were as beautiful, as. précious, and as valued to Jer as those of the modern woman are in turn to her.

Know About Early Hoosiers IMAGINE WHAT A FRIENDLY, ' fascinating, knowing chat these two women might have over the lovely things that Helped to make them beautiful in their own eyes and those of their friends, and of the men who claimed their interest and their love. In like manner, in the grim memories of war, too, could a first Hoosier and a modern one easily meet ‘lon common ground. Every surviving veteran in the state, of any war, could readily understand an arrow point,. a, fortification, any instrument of war of a prehistoric Hoosier. Aims, weapons, strategy change, but beneath the surface and under the skin the struggle in each case is equally grim, bloody, and savage. Alike, the first Hoosier and the modern inexorably face death in battle, Reverently, each bury their dead—the great, with pomp and partial circumstance; the lowly, as best they may or can. Easily these two also, the first Hoosier veteran and the last one, in the common understanding of war, might chat with a knowing blink in the misty memory of a good fight. Also, the family life of the first Hoosier is a revealing thing. It helps to tie him into a better understanding by a modern one. For he, too, loved in

HARDENED THOUGH WE HAVE become by a succession of bad news, we Americans were shocked and deeply aroused by the revelation of the low estate to which our supreme court had sunk. There is a reason: We may break or flout laws, but we have a re-

municipal budget and a municipal tax rate. The time to consider that suburban problem is definitely before it gets too big to handle. Once suburbs develop municipal structures of their own they tend to

Hoosier Forum

"| do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.

spect for The Law as an institution which amounts almost to reverence.

We Revere Our Law

OTHER NATIONS LOOK UP to their kings, or

resist all moves toward incorporation into the metropolitan organism of which they are geographically a part. Although long ago granted authority by the Ohio legislature to form ans economical county-wide metropolitan government the city of Cleveland, for instance, has found it impossible to budge the 52 suburban cities and villages within its own county from their isolationist positions, and this has been the pattern generally elsewhére. Action is much more likely, and much more welcome, before small suburban communities have developed their own governments, courts, police and fire departments and vested political interests. This may be the ideal time to give consideration to creation of a sound system for metropolitan government of Marion county—before all these things exist in any important measure. A good many obvious economies appear, and a great deal of improved service for people both | inside and outside the city’s present corporate limits. A | merger of the police functions of the sheriff's office, for instance, with the city police could vastly improve county- | wide polide protection and reduce its cost. The duplicating | Junctions of many county and city offices could be handled more efficiently and less expensively if one agency-did them, | ~instead of two. And residents of greater Indianapolis who | now use those services could be assessed, fairly and eco- | nomically, for their just share in the expense, as well as | given their fullest share in the benefits, of the metropolitan | area.

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” 8.8 . T certainly is a time to consider every possible economy, | every possible method of getting full value out of all | the money the city has to spend. It is a time to go carefully over our appraisal situation, and to provide leeway enough to remove some of the grossly unfair valuations—both up ‘and down—of some of our real estate, another move temporarily barred by state law. And above all it is a time to avoid “panic” financing—such as municipal nuisance taxes that will hurt employment, and hurt business, and in the | end hurt the city. As the chamber’s study so clearly shows, Indianapolis is not in desperate straits, Clear thinking, of the kind someone appears to be doing in that organization, will solve any problem of municipal finance that now appears. And, | in our opinion, it has to start from the premise that we | “can’t have all the things we want without paying for them _+% . and there's nobody to pay for them but us, the citizens | of Indianapolis.

UNCLE SAM HITS THE JACKPOT NDIANA law says it's a crime to own a slot machine + + +» Just to own one, whether you use it or not . . . and provides appropriate penalties, Federal oy says if you do own a slot machine you pay $100 a year ta¥X on it. So, in Marion county we are treated to the remarkable spectacle of 47 persons, firms and/or corporations marching into the office of the collector of internal revenue and making affidavits that they are in violation of Indiana law in that they do own one or more slot machines preliminary

to laying on the line $100 for each machine.

have long been informing us, try as they might, they just couldnt find any slot machines around here, we suppose we'll have to assume that all these 47 self-confessed owners or machines are merely hobby collectors of rare Americana, and keep their slot machines locked away in vaults, or cocktail bars, or the like where nobody ever goes. o 5 Anyway, it shows what law enforcement agencies are respected around here, doesn't it? . Pa

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THE “UNPACKING” PLAN A constitutional amendment to “unpack” the U. 8. ~~ Bupreme court is proposed by Democratic Senator Eastland of Mississippi and Republican Senator Bridges of New Hampshire.

or Ie oud limit fo three the number Of justices any Presiden may appoint, and make the limit retroactive. _ The last four of the seven present Roosevelt appointees be retired from the court. President Truman, having

"Let's Do a Thorough Job of Divorcing Judges From Politics"

By Frank J. Murray, Executive Secretary, Indianapolis ‘Assessment and

to the selection of judges was very timely.

should they take part in political campaigns, if the courts are to be completely free of political domination. Missouri provides that no judge of any court of record in that state shall directly or indirectly make any contribution to or hold any office in a political party or organization or take part in any political campaign.

=~ Wi . . : s \ | ! : Since the city and county law enforcement agencies | : . i 4 ii},

a chief justice and one other member, could appoint

» Truman and all his successors—few of whom 0 have #0 many court vacancies to fill as Mr. temptation to play politics with the let the senate make sure, before it to the court, that they are men Judicial temperament, high

Tax Research Association. The article appearing on the editorial page of The Times relative

Judges should not be subject to nomination by political parties, nor

The new constitution of

“ | Tneidentally, the present judges in whenever 3 vasanty Shall geeur | issount are given the Might to file the office of judge (certain courts declaration: for office and run on mentioned in the constitution and their own record. If the people reall other. courts where the people elect the judges they serve for the have voted to come under the con-| established term, which incidentally stitution) the governor Shall an is 12 years for the supreme court

and court of appeals; six years for such vacancy by appointing one of | circuit courts and four years for

three persons possessing the qual-. oi. ong magistrate courts. Howifications for such office, who shall| ovo. <hould the judge fail to receive be nominated and whose Names , n.gi.rity of the votes, the vacancy shall be submitted to the gOVernor|is then filled by the governor from by a nonpartisan judicial CONUS: [1p nominees made by the judicial commission of the district in which

This modern constitution provides

sion established and organized as hereinafter provided. The judicial ip. court is situated. commissions having the nominating | power for state courts shall consist] 2 2. of seven members, one who shall “SOME TEEN-AGERS RUN be the chief justice of the supreme AROUND TOO MUCH, SMOKE" court, who shall act as chairman. |By Mrs. Pearl Bess, 3600 Hillside ave. “It includes one member from! Mother of three girls, I agree each court of appeals district nom-| with Mr. Lawcon in regard to these inated by the bar association of|bobby-soxers wearing sloppy shirts such district and one citizen not a and jeans rolled up. I know of member of the bar, to be appointed |some that smoke, drink and run by the governor from the residents around all hours at. night with of each court of appeals district.|boys, even men. Why don't the Each circuit judicial commission |juvenile authorities put those kind consists of five members, the chair-|in ‘an institution, instead of inno- | man. being the presiding judge of cént babies five and seven years, | the court of appeals of a district within which the circuit is situated: | two members to be nominated by say all teen-agers are this kind. the bar association and two citi- gs #4 zens not members of the bar but “WHY NOT CLEAN UP residents of the judicial eireuit-ap-' ‘TYNDALL'S : TRENCH'?" pointed by the goverhor. - The constitution provides that no member of any such commission other than the chairman shall hold any public office and no member shall hold any official position in a political party.”

“Wet Peet,” East Indianapolis

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very similar arrangement for the|before they cause trouble?

appointment of judges has been es-| would take would be regular inspectablished. tions.

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“ACCIDENTS MAY HAPPEN _ WHEN BUS DOORS CLOSED” By “Hot and Bothered,” City 4 I suppose bus and trofley car drivers have a lot to contend with, but I wonder if it isn’t possible for them to be more careful about closing the rear door after passengers disembark. * Several times I have had to make a daredevil leap to the curb when the driver closed the door before I was all the way out or just pulled on away before I'd gotten firmly on the ground. It never resulted in any injury] because I'm still spry enough to Suad ‘ dodge clear. A friend of mine, how- | age man from going to court to avail himself of it. ever, once had her dress torn when | the driver closed the doors quickly. almost threw her down in the street | lette, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. and didn’t do much for her nerves.| Just Wednesday 1 saw an elderly| liberal when he saw the New Deal of the second

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson Governing Pacific Islands

woman getting off of ‘a bus Capitol ave and Maryland st. driver shyt the door and caught her| dress, tearing it. pulled away before he realized a passenger had been caught. the woman was, in downtown Indianapolis with a badly torn dress. What's more, she had just missed being injured more seriously by being dragged along by the bus. As 1 said before, the faultsprobably doesn’t lie.entirely with drivers. Their carelessness, however, coupled with the fact that doors perhaps aren't kept in good working order, may result in injury to some pas-

TRAINING IS TOO SLOW” | By Disgruntled G. I, This may look like a typical let-

and have never seen them since, ter in the overseas edition of Stars now 18 and 20 years old. I don't | & Stripes “B-Bag,” but it's one | way to air a complaint that many

returning servicemen are with the veterans administration]

and department of veterans affairs.| ., war department refuses to give any indication as According to the rules and by-| to what bases it considers necessary for ground and Ive just been looking at “Tyn- laws of the G. I. bill of rights, re-| ,i. ooyrity in the western Pacific. dall's Trench,” as we call Pogue lurning veterans are given the op- | Run out here, and I'm plenty burned | portunity of “on-the-job training.” The storm last night really|This is swell—-so far as it goes. But with water DOW about the case of one business If we are to divorce the judiciary| backed up everywhere because the concern applying for a training from politics then why rot do a| city didn't keep our local creek clear |Prosfam as much as a month or thorough job as has been done in of debris and rubbish. Why doesn’t | tWO Ago and still getting replies

Missouri and California where athe city find out about these things|{Tom the VA that the application All it has not been either approved or

disapproved ? : Twice new applications have. had to be submitted because, according to VA officials, former applications have been lost. Meanwhile veterans planning to take “on-the-job” training with this particular concern [their fingers—hoping that VA officfals will either rush the applica~ tion through and let them get the training they desire, or send them in search of something else, If it is a case of too many chan|nels, and G. I's are used to this,| |lets find out what's slowing opera{tion and either get applications for “on-the-job” training approved or disapproved. , . . No more “We can't {locate the application.”

” “CATS ARE SNEAKY AND MEAN, WANT NO PART OF EM” | By C. JN, Indianapolis

writer's statement that dogs keep people awake with their barking and {that barking dogs should be got rid lof. Last night, I lost at least three {hours' sleep because yowling cals | down the alley behind my bedroom screeched and moaned and made a commotion that at times sounded like » baby in pain, I'll take dogs every time: Cats ate sneaky and mean. them,

. For the needy shall not always be forgotten: the expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. | <Pomims 11:28, ©. :

“i wu 8 i “Thy promises are like Adonis’

% ; ny et - "lf we:play train (¥s do it right-=my pop has ta slip people“dough | That. ful were the next.

their dictators. We look up to our law. The court house is one of the biggest and finest buildings in the typical American town. The nation built a great and dignified building to house the supreme court in Washington. When Mr. Roosevelt tried a clever scheme to pack the supreme court, the people said: “Hands off.” He did pack it, nevertheless, but- not by the device he had proposed. Ours was set up as a government, not by men, but by laws. There was a time when the people of this country were rightly disturbed because some men were sO rich and powerful that they were above the law; because the impersonal corporation could hire brilliant lawyers to outsmart the law. . The law, made by lawyers, became so intricate that its delays and expensiveness dissuaded the aver-

Because of such disappointments, the liberal t00| movement came into being. It rallied around TheoWhat's more, the pull! dore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Robert M. LaFol-

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WASHINGTON. June 21 —Efforts to arrive at a decision on how the several hundred populated and liberated islands of the Pacific are to be governed are getting nowhere fast. They now are administered by the office of island government. in the navy department. The U. 8. Commercial Co., a RFC subsidiary, is trying to nurse the islands back .to economic health, but it's a slow

senger if something isn’t done, process. # # . . r “ACTION ON ON-THE-JOB Nothing Done So Fa

SINCE SHORTLY AFTER the end of the war, the navy has been making statements as to which of the liberated islands it wants for permanent bases. Kwajalein, Eniwetok, Majuro, Saipan, Tinian, Manus and Palau are on the list, plus, of course, the old bases at Samoa, Midway, and Guam. Navy's wartime investments in these bases run close to a billion dollars. The navy is in the process of turning over to the army control of the Ryukyus. Okinawa and the Bonins are already under Gen. MacArthur, Aside from these,

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Last October, the President named a special cabinet committee to prepare a report on what the U. 8. policy for administration of the islands should be. On the committee were the secretaries of state, war, navy and interior. So far, nothing has come out, On Jan. 15 the President was asked whether these Jap-mandated islands would be retained by the U, 8. His reply was that islands not needed by the U. B. would be placed

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By King Backed

are twiddling

Ugo Cavallero from the position of chief of the Italian general staff at the end of January, 1943, and appointment of Gen, Vittorio Ambrosio in his place

had been conspiring to get Italy out of the war. Now it was possible to make definite plans based

that Germany was going top be beaten.

| Awaited Allied Ability to Invade

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blanca demand for “unconditional surrender.” would never have accepted such terms.

1 don't want any part of

prime mover in all the discussions so far, to prepare a detailed plan for arrest of Mussolini and for military and political measures to cope with any reaction which these events might provoke from the Fascist party and militia as well as from the Germany amry. Two copies of the plan were made and entrusted to Count Galeazzo Ciano, dismissed by Mussolini from: the foreigh ministry and ampassador to the Vatican. and the Duke of Acquarone, master of the royal household. who had heen instructed by King Victor Bmmanuel to study conditions which would lead to

overthrow of the Fascist regina sind

" DAILY THOUGHT

gardens. td one day bloomed and fruit.

|SAGA OF INDIANA . - . By Wilam A. Marlow ~~ * 4" Folks of Today Have Tie

ROME. June 21 Mussolini's dismissal of Marshal

marked a decisive turning point for those who long

on the certainty that the army could be relied on. Gen. Ambrosio was determined to break the alliance with Germany as soon as possible. He knew Italy could not continue in the war and he was convinced

AT FIRST, AMBROSIO SEEMS lo have tried to persuade Mussolini : himself to declare against the It 18 to laugh over that Forum Germans. Mussolinl seemed at fimes to he iipressed by Ambrosio's arguments, but there never was any real chance that he would agree, He knew ‘that, if he approached the allies, he would be met with the CasaHe

By March, 1043, Ambrosio and all who were congpiring with him were convinced that the only solution was a coup d'etat involving arrest of Mussolini followed by formation of a military government which. could break with Germany and start negotiations with the allies. Accordingly, Ambrosio instructed his assistant, Gen, Giuseppe Castellano, who had been a

® : Vith Past marriage and hated in war, much as modern men do. His children were born, played and died, were mourned and missed, exactly as modern Hoosier childrén are. Hunger and sickness, clothes and shelter, struggle and hope were as much of & family problem with him, as these things are in any modern Hoosier family. And as you see him in the little cluster of tamily Tife, he edges a bit closer into your fuller understanding of him. Viewed so, you can, and do, the more réadily share with him the rich heritage of Hoosier soil. y Every Hoosier, in his snappy, moving, modern world, ‘would be a better Hoosier, and a wiser one, if he knew more of those long ago first Hoosiers. They, too, he would find, left thejr bones, and many of their things, buried on Hoosier sail, where some of ; them still lie in almost perfect state. They lived and worked and died along the same rivers that still flow from the state to the sea. They roamed the forests and trod the prairies of the state, as modern men have done, and do.

Built a Common Heritage IN MANY PLACES, and in many ways, they have left their colorful, tangful bit to become the common heritage of the state, have these first Hoosiers. True it is that they have no modern radio to broadcast their deeds. They have left no literature to picture their lives for modern men to know.and understand. They did not speak our language, live our lives, think our thoughts. But you cannot blink away, nor ever forget or alter the fact, that they were the very first of men to live and struggle and die on Hoosier soil. To know them intimately and well, as might be measurably possible, would be a helpful thing to men and women anywhere. For a modern Hoosier to know them so, is a rare privilege, and perhaps a plain duty.

REFLECTIONS . + . Edward J. Meeman Supreme Court Trouble Shocks U.S.

Roosevelt become more® and more a government by

men and not by laws! . First he saw the bureaucrat, making law through rulings, directives and orders, and changing law from day to day at his own whim. Then he saw the rise of labor leaders to vast powers through one-sided laws. He saw them bring the: country to the verge of disaster, using their vast power ungoverned by any law. As much as rich men and corporations were once above the law, so now labor leaders and unions were outside the law and beyond its reach. . This nation will fulfill its destiny only if its gov_ernment is truly one of laws. We need better laws—laws that apply. fairly to the rich as well as the poor, to the poor as’ well as the rich; to ‘management as well as labor, to" labor leaders as well as managers. i We need simple laws, carefully made, laws that can ‘be understood. 4 g We need a simplification of the practice of law. A man ought to be able to get legal service promptly and at low cost. : This country is on a mass .production basis on almost everything but the practice of law. Here the service can be afforded only by the few, like automobiles in 1905. Everything is streamlined, except court procedure. If lawyers and judges would cut the verbiage, we could get more and better justice for more people.

Protection of Liberty THE CUYAHOGA COUNTY court house in Cleveland bears this inseription: =~ “Obedience to law is liberty.” When we perfect our laws, when we make this truly a gavernment by laws, and not by men, when we obey those laws and see that others obey them, then will our liberty be secure. tm

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under United Nations trusteeship. For those islands needed by the U. 8., applidation would be made to the UN for authority to establish American trusteeship. While it ma¥abe literally true that the our secretaries” never met, it is known that there have been conferences on this subject of island government at lower and more expert levels. The state, war and navy departments were apparently able to agree, but interior dissented. Hope of breaking this stalemate now lies in the fact that there is a new secretary of the interior on the job, Incidentally, he is an ex-navy officer, Cmdr. J. A. Krug.

Would Place Islands Under Krug IN THE MEANTIME, two bills on this issue have been introduced in congress, by Andrew J. Biemiller of Wisconsin and Henry Jackson of Washington. Both would transfer responsibility for government of island possessions from the navy and war departments to the interior department. Those portions of the islands used for military bases would, however, be left under the armed services, y Biemiller's bill goes a little farther. Any time onefourth or more of the inhabitants-of any island group except Hawaii, Puerto. Rico, or the Virgin islands

signed a petition requesting it, this bill would author- °

ize the secretary of the interior to issue to it a charter for local self-government, with guarantees of American civil liberties and rights included. In effect, this would put the secretary of the interior above both the President and the secretary. of state,

Randolph Churchill

Allied Plan in ltaly

Meanwhile, Mussolini, casting about. for any expedient that might saye him, met with Hitler fn Salzburg. He urged that the only way defeat could be averted was for the axis to try and negotiate a separate peace with Russia, Hitler refused absolutely to consider this proposal, The way to win the war, he said, was to beat Russia first, Ways could then be found of dividing Britain and America and negotiating with them separately. . a8 Meanwhile, the conspirators were studying the military side of the coup d'etat. Generals Ambrosio and Castellano became convinced that Italy could not break with Germany without being attacked, that nothing could be done effectively to take Italy out of the war until the allies were in a position to land in Italy, On May 18, the allies entered Tunis, and even the most timid of the conspirators began to think the time was ripe for action, : " King Victor Emmanuel decided to get In touch with chiefs of anti-Fascist movements secretly organized all. over Italy. A leading figure was Ivanoe Bonomi. At the beginning of June, thé Duke of

Aoquarone arranged a secret meeting between him -

and the king.

Gained Support of Army and Police BONOMI ADVISED THE KING to proceed with a change of government and simultaneous breach with Germany. He favored formation of a political government of anti-Fascists. The king favored an interim military government, to be followed by a political administration as soon as terms had been reached with the allies, j Li Meanwhile, adhesion of the chief of the cardbinieri had been secured. Still more important, the undersec~ retary of the interior; who had the police under his orders, was won over by the conspirators. The plot

embraced the army, the carabiniéri, the police, leading civil servants, King Victor Emmanuel, and even so

prominent & Fascist leader as Ciano, Mussolini's own son-in-law. , : Ba :