Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 June 1946 — Page 12

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

*T LOOK NOW... RE not one bit surprised that Judge Mark Rhoads has decided to hide the records of juvenile court, and Jet anybody see 'em. If we had a record like the one Judge Rhoads has made in that court ... well, maybe we wouldn't hide it, but the urge would certainly be pretty Nearly all the juvenile crime in this town is committed youngsters who are regular customers of Judge Rhoads’ court. When police catch up with them they promptly, and | without hesitation, confess to a dozen or more felonies, | which include burglary, automobile thefts, and occasional . hold-ups. Then they are just as promptly turned loose by the juvenile court, and nothing more is heard about them until the police pick them up again, three or four months , with a brand new list of burglaries and auto thefts and so on to confess. There is supposed to be a probation system that keeps in close contact with all these boys “on probation” at all times and sees that they have proper home conditions, that they 20 to school, and that they keep out of trouble and develop into userul citizens. You can search in vain, in Judge ' Rhoads’ record or any where else for any indication that this cotirt is doing that job. That's the “record” Judge Rhoads doesn’t want the police . . . or the public . . . to see.

» » w » . ” THESE lads are not being cured of crime. They are being educated in crime. They are being taught that crime does pay, that there is no penalty for breaking laws. Any time a really tough adult criminal turns up with a crime like murdering somebody and cutting off his hands and feet, you can be reasonably certain that he's a graduate of that school . . . that he has been before our juvenile court 10, or 15, or 20 times . .. and has been turned loose without punishment and without correction, and forgotten until he's caught in another series of felonies. That's the record Judge Rhoads wants to hide. The motive he gives for closing those records to inspection is reasonably frank. They might be used against him in the elections this fall. Judge Rhoads was re-nominated at the Republican primaries, with machine support, but enly by a minority of voting Republicans, because two candidates split the majority vote against him, He hopes to ride into office again this fall on the straight party votes of Repub-

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . ByW Mounds Reveal Stories of

HERE IS SOMETHING ABOUT these first’ Hoosiers that should deeply interest everybody. in the state; they probably originated near the original home of their race in the westérn hemisphere. This sets them a bit apart in the entire picture

‘| of their race in the Americas. This home of the race

was probably somewhere in the section of North America, ‘roughly speaking, beginning a little north of the Ohio and Missouri rivers, and running south to the Gulf of Mexico, with the Rocky mountains on the west, and running east to the Atlantic ocean. From that area it spread, and developed in various

By William A. Marlow

None of this perhaps is more striking or moresubstantial than the mounds which they erected in the state, and which are part of its soil. In these mounds lie the bones of their dead. In them are things made by their hands—chipped flints, articles in bone, vessels of pottery, remnants of cloth. In them, too, are things that tell of their love for their children, of the games that they played, of the wars which they fought, and of the gods that they worshiped. Along the rivers of the state, which ran much .as they do today, they erected many ef these mounds, Along these same rivers were the forests where they hunted and the villages where they lived.

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ways and degrees as it spread, all over the western

Here, too, were the fields where they cultivated, in | crude fashion, crops that grow on modern Indiana |

Hoosier

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

Having been active in developi

government by the consent of the taxation without representation. Apparently there must be some

licans. . . . who already have clearly indicated they don't want him in that office. And he may do it, if he can bury the records of his own conduct of the court deeply enough ... if he can keep the people of Marion county from knowing, or remembering, how he runs that court, and the kind of language he uses to teen-age boys and girls who come before him, and the way he fills its payrolls with persons trained only in how to get out the vote, and the conspicuous failure of the court under his administration to do... or even to understand . . . the job a juvenile court is created to do. Anyway it's interesting to know that Judge Rhoads himself is ashamed of the records of his own court . . . ashamed enough to want to hide them. The rest of us

have been ashamed of them too . . . for a long time,

DANGERS THAT AREN'T THERE

]OBBYISTS for the C. L 0. and the A. F. of L. are demanding that President Truman veto the Hobbs anti-racketeering bill. :

violence. privilege which certain unions have abused grossly.

strike, to picket peacefully.

: ‘speak against it.

another firm labor defender, Rep. Jerry Voorhis of Cali [ornia. No member of congress has been more vigilant t protect the legitimate rights of unions. Yes when th Hobbs bill was before the house last December, Mr. Voorhi

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“This is a bill which may be resisted and opposed b

the extent these abuses exist, its cause is terribl

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: Their contention that it would endanger legitimate labor rights is completely phony. Mr. Truman can satisfy himself of that if he finds time to analyze the bill and to see how carefully it is drawn to penalize only actual robbery and extortion accomplished by threats or use of force or

. What the labor lobbyists really object to is that the Hobbs bill, made law, would withdraw an evil special

But busy Mr. Truman, when he vetoed the Case bill, relied heavily on what labor lawyers and: lobbyists said against it. He may be too occupied with othér matters to study the Hobbs bill carefully. He has expressed “full | accord” with its objectives, but he may’ not convince himself «that it could not go beyond those objectives and punish union members for exercising their right to organize, to

E hope, however, that the President will remember |

that the house and senate judiciary committees have | both studied the Hobbs bill thoroughly ; that the house has | debated and passed it twice; that when it passed the senate last week such staunch defenders of labor as Pepper of Florida and Wagner of New York did not even attempt to

+ We also hope he will read what was said of it by

there. I am going to vote for it. I know that organized does not stand for the kind of abuses mentioned in for passage of the bill. I know that labor knows

¥ 1, cannot follow the argument that says, ta law passed saying those things shall the extent that the abuses are not not, then no harm can be done in that no person in the United by means of robbery or extortion physical or financial well-

other fellow. We might suggest that | the $600,000 in gas tax money that we all helped to pay be recovered instead of looking for other fields to raise needed revenue. It would seem unfair and sengelese)

to tax delegates to the several con- |

ventions that meet here or place toll gates at the several roads leading into the city to raise the needed money, but the plan suggested is much along the same line, As a suggestion, there are slums within two blocks of the city hall,

the court house and the state house. Why doesn't the city acquire them, raze the old buildings and create city parking lots, and do away with downtown parking, relieve the trafic congestion and meet the deficit with the revenue from these several parking lots? Such a move would be constructive. In conclusion. it might be well to mention that a. suburbanite is always an individualist. He moved out to get away from regimentation, smog, high taxes, and incompetence in city government. We have 25,000 such families outside of Indianapolis. They do their trading and bank their money in Indianapolis, pay their property taxes, gas tax to maintain roads and law and order. They subscribe to the Com‘munity’ Fund, Red Cross and all civie activities. They spend perhaps one half million dollars ‘a week in Indianapolis. They could, with little inconvenience, do their trading elsewhere to a great extent, and they will not stand for this highhanded illegal move without resorting to the courts for protection.

"Suburban Residents Have No Voice in Running Indianapolis"

By Bert Wilhelm, 2106 8. Emerson ave.

twenty-six years, I cannot let a suggestion of taxing the pay of a suburbanite who is employed in Indianapolis go unnoticed. We suburban. dwellers have no voice in the management or mismanagement of Indianapolis, Such a move could not be classed as 5 governed, but could be classed as

believe in government by remote control, providing it

“PASSENGERS CAN HELP

lt know, because it is the person

this is what I would do. .

suburban property for the last

New Dealers in the city hall who

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SERVICE BY CO-OPERATING” By One of the Bus Operators You have a point there, “Hot and Bothered,” I will agree. But have you tried to find out personally if it was the drivers who were closing the rear doors? You haven't,

alighting that closes the rear doors by stepping off and releasing the air pressure on the treadle. The rear doors close automatically then.

We get blamed for a lot of things that are not our fault, or might be. The operator can open or close the rear doors only by turning an emergency button on the dashboard. They work similar to the revolving doors. You don't tarry in them. The person getting off releases the pressure on the doors and if they are slow, naturally they might get caught. We try to be careful and nearly all the time (during rush hours) people will stand right in the front of the cars so that the operator cannot see in the mirrors placed so he can see if everything is clear to go on. If you had been| “Hot and Bothered” about the front doors, then you could have blamed it on the operator, but the rear doors—no! I believe the fault has been corrected, though, The company has slowed the rear doors down so that they won't close so fast. Please move back so Wwe can look out the front doors and see our mirrors showing us the sides and see if the rear doors are clear before we start.

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“HERE'S A PROGRAM TO BRING BACK U. S. SANITY” By “Queen for a Day,” Winchester

send them to Alcajraz. send Mr. President on a cruise ten

Third, take my eyebrow tweezers,

him the plucking of his life.

If I were granted thé privilege

First, root out all communists and Second,

times around the Thousand Islands.

call on Mr. John Lewis and give Send him down in a coal mine and tell him to start digging. Fourth, fire one million federal employees. Send them to the cotton fields and tell them to start picking. Fifth, weed out all the crackpot senators and send them to Willow Run and tell them to start running. I believe I could bring Uncle Sam's blood pressure back down to normal, so he could take a new lease on life. The old boy has been going too fast. He should slow down. I like “Uncle” but I hate to see his head too big for his hat, a big head and a high hat. Well, they just don't jibe. However, he has always pulled us through, and I still pin my faith on “Old Glory.” - “ 8 = “WHY USE ANIMALS IN ATOMIC BOMB TEST?” By Mary Jane B., Indianapolis In your article under the caption of “Science” I note that every consideration and thought has been given toward the protection of the human beings connected with the atomic bomb test, and rightly so. What I should like to kfiow is how can these same human animals be so willing to see harm done te the unfortunate animals used in the test, even in the name of science? Humane officers the country over have appealed to those who are promoting these tests and have been denied even the right to send a representative to Bikini. The thought of such horror and cruelty is responsible for much torture to many, many people who still have a heart. Can you print anything in your paper which would help in this matter? Thanks to The Times for all the good articles concerning humane endeavors. » » Mi “HERE'S A GOOD WORD FOR BOTH DOGS AND CATS” By Mrs. John B. Rairdon, 7400 E. 10th st. Through the years we have had many cat and dog pets, and with the exception of one large seven-year-old cat, all were put out at our

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as.a gag writer you've been turning out jokes about wives * ._ denting fenders for years!

"| don't see why you’ should get angry about a dented fender— |

| place without our being consulted

| eight dogs. Five kittens just disappeared into nowhere, so all we need now are homes for six fat puppies. Our dogs and cats have always been tolerant of one another. The dogs have always made excellent watchdogs and pals, but you can have too many dogs. Our cats ha

ratters. They have caught many moles, weasels, and even snakes. The cat 18 a natural safeguard to health and is a clean animal by nature. Our seven-year-old “Judy Boy" deserves a whole string of medals, but I can't even find him a little hamburger now. Our dogs and cats prefer hamburger to medals, anytime. It is my opinion that the good in the greater number of dogs and cats

homes for six puppies!

DAILY THOUGHT Have not I commanded thee? Be strong. and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou

is with thee whitersoever thou goest.—Joshua 1:9. 3

| first. The count is now two cats and

V8 the town. always been excellent mousers and

far outweighs the bad .things we humans chalk up against them. So 1, for one, ‘would not want either one exterminated. But I still need Yes, they do some yapping—but who doesn’t? ————————————————————

dismayed: for the Lord thy God |

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.—

Tell Story of Love and War

HERE 1S A SITUATION, involving these first Hoosiers, that strikes deep and might tell us much about them. Was it chance that placed them at the original home of their race? Was 1t mere accident that led them, or their undoubtedly near kin, to do lasting or outstanding things in or near this home? How much did it signify, for example, for them or their descendants, to be in the midst of the unusual activities and people that produced the great Cahokia mound, in Illinois, the impressive Fort Ancient and the great Serpent Mound, in Ohio, among the greatest remains, of like kind, of this or any other race in the world? Is there any connection between this central location of these first Hoosiers, and the ambition and the admitted ability of modern Hoosiers to be at the center, if not at the top, of things artistic, literary, political, and otherwise, in modern affairs? Might it, in fact, not be that there is some such connection, as it applies to the first Hoosiers, and to all Hoosiers? In any case, these first Hoosiers share with modern ones the heritage of Indiana soil. There can be no doubt about this, They left behind them much evidence of it,

farms, t 2 So these first Hoosters were real Hoosier folk. In Expect | their rude, primitive ways of the long ago, they Drives tc lived and ‘died, loved and hated, battled and bled much as modern Hoosiers have done, and do. But Manp no modern Hoosler can quite so clearly know what manner of folk these first Hoosiers were, until he WASHING" glimpses them at as close range as it is possible ~The army ¢ to do in modern times. Thus he may really come that pay boo to know them. nel and new . elim : Contain Relics of Past Age Sioa us ONE GOOD WAY TO DO THIS is to stand beside Congress 1a one of their mounds some day. And when you do, the draft unt remember that in the mound still is the dirt which its members, they heaped thus in reverent spirit and with much scription pow toll. In the mound lie the bones that were part of be used. them, the ornaments that they loved, many of the The draft things that they made. All these reveal these first President Tru Hoosiers in striking fashion. They tell much of the tion, covers mind that ruled, and the spirit that guided these men, 19-through-44 Viewed so, these first Hoosiers are an interesting In a compa part of Indiana life. In the light of all they ever authorized pa wrought or did in the state, they add much to vary per cent for 4 the picture and to enliven the whole pattern of officers. Hoosier affairs, Anno Both Secret

POLITICAL REPORT... . By Thomas L. Stokes ~ Public Showing Political Ignorance

CHICAGO, June 26.—To the wanderer through the midlands these days—and in most ways they are typical of the nation as a whole—the country seems to be on a spree—figuratively speaking, of course. Everywhere people are celebrating the release from war, though they would not be conscious of it if you put it to them exactly like that. The American way to celebrate is to go out and spend. There's plenty of loose money, and it's going where we usually put it in normal times—into good times and vacations and gadgets and things we've been without a long time and think we just must have because we are geared to convenient living. Where these are not available, the “hot” money finds substitutes, and at steep prices.

Impetus to Remove Restrictions

SO THE STORES ARE CROWDED and able to sell most anything, and the night spots are crowded. As a traveler, you get the impression of a nation on the move, restlessly. And in the larger cities you get the impression of restlessness from masses surging up and down the streets and through the stores and pleasure places. Once things have started back to normal, it is an American habit for those who make a profit out of this state to demand more and more of it. Thus the ery for shaking off all restrictions, to be let alone by government and everybody else. This all has its impact on politics. From what is going on politically, in primary elections and in congress, we say that a conservative trend is setting in. hat is certainly the result, but it may not be the whole explanation, or even accurate. In good times such as we are having, politics becomes a minority interest and a minority business, chiefly of concern to practical politiciaiis and special

NEW YORK, June 26.—Before the war, when somebody poured the fourth drink and the girls slipped off their shoes and started to wiggle their toes, it was a pretty safe bet that the talk would get around to sex, religion and politics, in that order. These topics are still in the money, but the atom, as a burning subject when the hair is down, has pulled away out in front, with politics moving up swiftly into the second hole. It works considerable hardship on the casual conversationalist, because for the first time in his life he is supposed to know something.

Oak Ridge Hotter Than Hollywood

THE GAY BLADE with the fund of smutty stories and the latest details of a friend's infidelity has withered on the vine. The evening's lion, apt as not, is a bird-breasted victim of myopia with a mouthful of ripe scuttlebutt from Washington and a pipeline into the atom-busting business. Oak Ridge, Tenn, is hotter than Hollywood as a conversational potato. The most peculiar facet of the atom in the public domain is its relationship to alcohol. It is against the house rules to tackle this uneasy subject when sober. Our conversational scientists apparently must be verging on the fighting and falling ‘stage before they adopt the atom as their own true baby. It would never occur to a female to brood about mankind’s future while she is scorching the breakfast eggs, but feed her three drinks and shove the clock up to 10 p. m. and she becomes’ an oracle on nuclear physics. Atom-talk and politics are wedded on the public

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By . Trieste Is Not

PARIS, June 26.—Alarmist stories about Russian and Yugoslav troop movements toward Trieste may do more good than harm if they force public opinion to face the realities of the situation, Trieste is often referred to now as the inflammable spot where first sparks of another world war may be ignited. If Marshal Tito were ready to fight for possession of Trieste, he would surely have done so more than a year ago, when his Partisan forces were occupying But in response to an Anglo-American ultimatum, he withdrew and left Trieste to be occupied by the British and American armies, which had vital need of this port to supply their forces of occupation in Austria. In accepting the Italian surrenaer, Britain and America had made themselves responsible for future disposal, in consultation with their allies, of Italian colonies and territories. To have permitted Tito by unilateral action to jump the claim on Trieste would, have been contrary to their international obligations.

Tito By-Passed Yugoslav Town TITO'S OVERWHELMING DESIRE for possession

operations at the time of the German collapse. He concentrated all his mobile and armored forces to rush forward into Trieste, an Italian city, by-pass-ing and leaving in German hands the important Yugoslav city, Ljublijana, capital of Slovenia. In some circles, it has been suggested that it was British diplomacy and strategy which was responsible for the decision to evict the Yugoslavs from Trieste. This is not se. vs . The matter all came to a head immediately after President Roosevelt's death. For some days, there appeared to be some vacillation in American policy. American ground forces in Italy were at that time under the command of Gen. Joseph T. MeNarney. A majority of them was in the process of

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organized interests — business, finance, agriculture,

Patterson ani officers expres: pay scale wil unteers to needs. To gi gram a chan the army an “holiday” on July and Au

and labor. That so many ordinary citizens are no§ temporarily I concerned is proved by light participation in elections, ing draftees It might be illustrated this way: Army sourc

To the west of here, agricultural, cattle and dairy interests are predominant. They don't like OPA and its regulations and, in some instances, it must be said that OPA has shown a lack of understanding of some

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of their problems. They are organized interests, vocal out of the 1 and powerful politically. You get the impression of a ready combed minor revolution against OPA, as well as against reached 18, labor. There were Yet a majority of people in that area, according able men in t! to reliable polls, are for continuation for a while of 14,000 in the adequate price controls and against inflation, They cording to s

so say when asked. But they don’t bestir themselves to do much about it, excepting labor and consumer organizations in the cities. This is perhaps partly because OPA legislation is so confused in so many technicalities that they can’t understand how their representative in congress stands, partly because they don’t know what to do politically, and partly because

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Conservatives in the Saddle

REFLECTIONS .. . . By Robert C. Ruark

strength of 1947.

IT 1S POSSIBLE THAT the conservative reaction Army stren of which we speak is due to the fact that conserva- scheduled to tives again are directing events. They know what charge progr they want, while the unorganigzed people generally its wartime | are doing little about it for the reasons stated. navy plans This may go on until] the November elections and sonnel by Se bring a Republican victory. On the other hand, if its top war the average fellow is squeezed, if he gets pinched in 3,500,000. the pocketbook, most vulnerable nerve to react May army politically, and if he finds out who did it, something 48,000, and else may happen. ] first seven d department upward trend the problem short-term pc ginning in

‘Big-Talkers Give Me Atomic Ache’

tongue, and it is high fashion to start out with a de= nunciation, of all politics and politicians, before proceeding to the weepy, or what's-the-use stage. The speakers have kept their old characteristics, and merely substitute the atom for baseball or gossip. The verbal cut-up who once was enthralled with “wo0o-woo” as an example of sparkling repartee now fills his mouth with phrases like “let's go fission,” or “so-and-so’s got atomic ache.” . Enjoying considerable vogue is the stern realist, usually a former member of the military, who says: “Let's face it: Lef us take all our bombs and drop them on Russia tomorrow, It is the only way out.” He gets into violent arguments with the lady who sees the atom chiefly as motive power for the new, super= charged baby carriage. ¢

Home-Grown Power Experiment MOST POISONOUS BORE is the pseudo scientist who gives ydu protons and neutrons and heavy water until vou wonder if he founded the Manhattan proj= ect. It develops often that he is a former filling-sta~ tion attendant who once investigated the fascinate ing reaction of gas tank to lighted cigaret. This thwarted Vannevar Bush currently wallows in the possibility of a tidal wave which will erase the North American continent. 5 Atom or no atom, I intend to be alive on July 4 and I am going to shoot off a firecracker. It will be filled with that archaic Chinese invention, gune powder, and I am going to start my private chain reaction with a match. A kitchen-type match, scratched on the seat of the pants. >»

Randolph Churchill a Vital Peace Issue

moment when Field Marshal Harold R. L. G. Alex« ander, supreme allied commander in the Mediterranean, was working out with his staff what measures would be necessary to evict Tito from Trieste in case

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of Trieste was shown by his handling of military

he refused to leave, Gen. McNarney received orders from Gen. George C. Marshall in Washington that under no circumstances were any American troops to become involved against the Yugoslav forces. This order complicated Alexander's military prep= arations. It also introduced serious political difficulties. ‘The British government had been so severely criticized for its action in Greece, not only by Com munist-inspired opposition at home but also in Amer= ica, that it would have been extremely distasteful to them to tackle the Trieste matter single-handed. For three or four days, it looked as if Tito might “get away with” Trieste. : Credit for what followed belongs largely to President Truman. On his own initiative, he reached the conclusion that the whole purpose of the role the United States had taken in liberation of Europe would be discredited and frustrated if the allies failed to react to Tito's action. He proposed to the British government that the combined chiefs of staff be instructed to take whatever steps were necessary to gain control of Venezia Giulia up to the Morgan line,

Why Fight Over Trieste?

THE WESTERN ALLIES informed Moscow of : their decision, and Tito, receiving no encouragement: Bi from that quarter, bowed to the inevitable. BR If neither Tito nor Moscow was prepared to fight for Trieste a year ago, when the Yugoslavs were in | possession of it, why should any one suppose they would fight for it now, wher it is occupied and guards ed by British and American forces? Secretary of | State James F. Byrnes and Foreign Secretary Ernest Bévin certainly have all these considerations in their ‘minds In the firm attitude they are maintaining in Paris for aust solution of this difficult problem.

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