Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 July 1946 — Page 18

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INADEQUATE CARE FOR MENTAL PATIENTS

HOCKING conditions at state mental hospitals are revealed in a Times series by Robert Bloem, second of which appears today on page one of this newspaper. Conditions have shown little improvement in the nearly four years that have passed since The Times first called attention to the fact'that Indiana's archaic system of dealing with unfortunates needed an overhauling. Less than three months after this newspaper had revealed conditions in state institutions—had said of a tragedy in another state “There, but for the grace of God is Indiana”—a flash fire ripped through. the Evansville hospital for the insane, taking its toll of lives. The legislature provided funds co rebuild that hospital, but the state administration did little to correct the appalling situation in.other hospitals. And in all of them, there is today serious overcrowding, low pay for attendants and other employees, bad working conditions, shocking inadequacy of medical and other care, And the load per employee has increased, it being the general rule that there are more patients and fewer attendants. i o Even in the new hospital at Evansville, attendants work 13 hours a day, many of them for less than $100 a month. Low pay and poor working conditions repel many better-type employees—at Richmond, more than 25 employees have been discharged for brutality to mental patients since last November. *

(GOVERNOR GATES has issued statements from time to time on improvements in the state institutions.

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But many have been planned, few completed. The situation is as disgraceful today as it was at the time of the tragic Evansville fire.

Hoosier Forum =: pri lh

“I do not agree with a word that you

In the name of humanity, the state should concentrate

our archaic structures where unfortunates are confined, making them safe and as comfortable as is consistent with

attract better caliber employees?

backwardness in this field.

ALLIES LETTING US DOWN

HE. British and French are letting us down by delaying action on Secretary Byrnes’ proposal for merger of the western zones in (Germany. - The plan has been shelved in London, and given the cold shoulder in Paris. Traditional British caution and conservatism may be

its building program on these institutions, Propaganda |, 4 si k . from the statehouse boasts of a $55,000,000 surplus. How When Labor Tal S of Buyers could a part of it be put to better use than'in overhauling | Strike, Consider Wage Factor" samen

By L. A. Beem, 5222 N, New Jersey st. | day? . : : : With great fanfare and assumed indignation the C. I. O. have, In our neighborhood from early modern medical practice, and paying decent salaries to|inreatened a buyers’ strike, directed, it seems, against the farmer and morning till 10 and 11 o'clock at his food products. Within reason, a buyer's effort to curtail and Huai | night children of all ages are play3 i wi _ | purchases of products excessively priced is legitimate and wholesome. | The next legislature Meets mn January, with all nem But why direct the so-called strike against food prices, which seems to|they have no respect for other bers of the house of representatives up for election this be the object of the union leaders’ wrath. With me it applies all down people's property. 'I have an enfall. Every legislator who favors proper care for the men- | the line (by having my hair cut every five instead of every three weeks), | closed back yard but still my grape : i i i i 2 the carpenter, painter, plumber, shoe repair man and all down the line arbor has been literally ruined. tally il should include a pledge in his platform bo vote for of high-priced merchandise and services, wherein prices have been| What they do with green grapes I the appropriations necessary to correct Indiana's shocking | poosted by reason of fantastic labor demands. Do not labor leaders|do not know. understand that prices are up by, reason of the cost of labor? |back injury from one. These are children to respect other people's 1 see where one of our prize labor the things that “bring it home to |property and not destroy fruits and leaders, Powers Hapgood, apologizes you” drivers, when someone near |vegetables or gardens. Today, somefor having recently sold a bunch of to you is injured or killed, and it|where along the line, something is| hogs at $20 per hundred. | may I ask, was to hinder Mr. Hapgood from selling his hogs a few days before, when under his beloved OPA controls there was no meat? I understand Mr. Hapgood owns a 600-acre farm. How on earth would a poor, down-trodden union

“PARENTS SHOULD PAY FOR CHILD'S ERRORS” By Interested Reader for Years, N. Sia.

What is wrong with parents to-

ing in the streets and alleys, and

In my young days parents taught

is then that you could rise up in| wrong. wrath at the idea of persons being! Juvenile delinquency is blamed, | allowed to drive at these insane but I'm wondering if the juvenile speeds, endangering themselves and | court isn't just a little to blame. everyone else. The boys get into trouble, they I am, therefore, very much in ac- are sent, home (brag ‘about the cord with the ideas expressed by |whole affair to other kids) and then the man who wrote in the other |in a few weeks do the same thing

behind decision of the cabinet to delay action until October or November, in hope ‘Russia will agree to unification of all Germany. But there may be an element of appeasement | “muscling in” (to use labor par-

a 600-acre farm?

lance) on the farmer by buying farm acreage and producing crops

There is admitted fear in Britain that temporary at lower prices. Now, what would division of Germany into two rival zones might become [labor say if the farmers were to

organize farm machinery factories, etc, with the express purpose of

But the practice of waiting for Russia to change her [eliminating some of the waste and mind hasn't paid dividends in the past. And the American | excessive cost brought about directmerger plan was advanced as a move to prod Russia into |!Y throush the unionization of pres-

ent industry? They would probably

* an early decision on complete unification, and only after |stand at the gates with loaded that, as the next best expedient for operation of that part |sticks and clubs. Actually there of Germany under western control. British procrastination is destroying the bargaining |.o way to get back to sane price value of the Byrnes plan. We had reason to expect the French to stall The |®ent control and interference and

is no difference. ts = To get back to prices. There is

averages, except to stop govern-

permit the country to get back to

French, like the Russians, are living off the land, and |uusiness and produce and produce. carrying home what they want. They would not have as |Prices will then seek their level free a hand if their zone were merged with the American |0mParative with other economic

levels.

and British zones under control of a three-nation com- ysis

“TRY STOPPING CAR AT

. “8 60; FAVOR 50-MILE LIMIT”

labarite get enough money to buy

I see union labor is considering

an hour is fast enough. I certainly do agree, and I am amazed to see that the governor's conference for trafic regulations even thinks ef a law which would make it permissible to drive at 55 miles an hour in the daytime and 60 miles an hour at night, Did they ever try stopping a car going 60 suddenly, I, as a driver of some twenty years’ experience (with no accidents charged to me) say again that 50 miles an hour is fast enough for any time of driving. You have much better chance of stopping a car suddenly that is going 50 than you do of stopping one going 60. Try it some time and you will see what I mean. Sure the cars are made to go that fast and faster, but so is iodine made, and yet I wouldn't drink it, would you? ” » » “GUYS WHO LIVE ON FARM LIKE HILLBILLY MUSIC”

By a Roughshod Hillbilly, Indianapolis

night to the effect that 50 miles

Maybe G. I. Paul doesn’t like

again. Parents should be the ones to pay the penalty. And I for one would like to see all mothers (who are not widows) home taking care of their children and know where they are instead of letting some person who can not control the children at all take care of them. ” ” = “MAN LIVES AND DRIVES FAST; 50-MILE LIMIT O.K.” By “Golden Hill,” Indianapolis I am a well-known surgeon in this ty, and naturally do not have time 0 take part in subjects under discussion in your columns. However, there is one in discussion now in which I as a physician think. I am doing right in taking time out to give my views on such an important subject. In our daily work we see accident after accident victims, and in talking to these persons, where it is possible, almost without exception the reason given is, “We were speeding.” The medical world knows that modern man is speed-

in their zones they look to us for help. Germany is a highly integrated community. When the

industrial regions which did not produce sufficient food for their needs. We have sought for an economic unification of the country to correct this situation. Failing in that, Secretary Byrnes proposed merger of American, British and French zones, = By delaying action on the American substitute program, the British are forcing us to drift toward another winter with the food problem unsolved. It will postpone development of a program under which industrial exports |

imports, the American taxpayer will be expected to supply the deficit, not only for our own zone, but for the British and French zones as well,

MOTHER KNOWS BEST

A YOUNGISH mother out our way tells of the time she ~ had reconverting her G. I. son when he got home. First morning, before she and dad were up, into their room stepped son with a tray of breakfast for them and orders that they eat it then and there. The boy said held read of 1 L guys being babied by parents who insisted on serving meals in bed.. Said he'd stand for none of that. He'd reverse it and wait on the “old folks.” He'd : their breakfast for the rest of the week. blew her nose and winked awfully hard over lice and coffee. But she's a stern lady, Next appeared in the kitchen she was waiting. back to bed, with a switch in her hand. as she'd planned all those anxious

. ap 8 aps By Elsa Barne Smythe, BR, R., Indianapolis VW EAKNESS in the British and French positions, from Why I would rather drive at 50

hillbilly tunes but the guys who |iN8 100 much in every respec® inlive on the farms and raise the cluding the operation of his car. food to feed the large cities like it.| ne 50-mile-an-hour speed law sug-

our point of view, is that when they run out of food |miles an hour on the state roads: I have been in two. very serious ac- radio stations who make this pos-|! am for it, and 1 am sure that cidents in the past six years. In sible, and to Paul —you might get Many in my profession will agree, Til . each case we were the “innocent |yourself a talking machine and|S¢€ing as we do the countless viczonal divisions were made at Potsdam, Russia grabbed the |victim” of cars being driven too some recordings and play them til tims of speed. The Metropolitan

German bread-basket, while the western allies were given | 4st. My brother has a permanent |

Carnival —By Dick Turner Speed.” They know, they pay the

So we take our hats off to the local 8¢steéd 1s a sane and sensible one.

Insurance Co. has bulletins out at the present time stating, “Two out of every three accidents caused by

you get full,

claims, and we know, too.

from the merged zones can begin to pay the costs of food | imports. Until a balance is reached between exports and

» tJ " “BUSINESS BUREAU HAD ACTED ON COMPLAINT” By T. M. Overley, Secretary and Manager, The Better Business Bureau, Inc, IndianThe following letter has been sent to Mr. James L. Roth, 3163 N. | Capitol Ave. “We noted your letter published (in views of readers’ section of the | Indianapolis Times, July 8. “In checking this matter we find that the condition which you de- | scribed had been reported to us.at |a time previous to your letter. We {had taken the matter up with the { manager. of the store in question, 1 and he had disciplined this salesman so as to eliminate the objectionable features which you described. In addition to that, they had placed a sign near the display which helped to explain his capacity and to prevent misunderstanding. “We appreciate your interest and we are offering this merely by way of explanation that the matter had already been handled by the Better Business Bureau prior to your letter.”

DAILY THOUGHT Heaviness in the heart of man maketh it stoop: but a good word maketh it glad—Proverts 12:25.

"You don't have to

HAPPINESS lies _in* the consciousness we have of it, and by no

THE FIGHT WITHIN the Republican party to unseat the incumbent county chairman illustrates graphically the weakness of political reform movements. Those who are insurgents . ++ Such as the group which defeated “the machine which runs the Republican party, in the May primary . . , run heavily to “generals.” They boast few political pri-* vates . . . and therein lies their greatest weakness.

They can protest to high heaven against the lead: ership that was repudiated, but they can't do anything about it because they don't have the votes of the precinct committeeman,’ At least that's the way it looks from the sidelines,

. Wt Winners Have Few Committeemen CHAIRMAN HENRY E. OSTROM can sit tight, if he so wishes, and the candidates can meet and issue statements and view with alarth , . . but they can't change the picture unless Ostrom calls a meeting of the precinct committeemen who elected him, He still can control, despite opposition of the candidates, unless he releases the committeemen from their commitments to him, The trouble with the “outs” who by defeating the machine became in effect the real “ins” of the Repub-

*lican party is’that while they were busily berating Os-

trom and his leadership and advancing their own causes, they neglected the real spadework of politics. That is, filing of candidates for precinct committeemen and then beating the bushes for them as well as for themselves. ‘ After all, the precinct committeeman is the only eleéted representative of the” voters of his party. A machine always has its candidates , . , the generals of reform frequently neglect that all-important post to concentrate on major nominations, That may assure

WASHINGTON, July 25.—As long ago as August, 1937, derogatory remarks were made on the house floor about munitions maker Murray Garsson, “This man, I understand,” Said Rep, Taber (R.

N. Y.), speaking of Garsson, “has been in trouble ‘several times and is very well known by the criminal circles of this country, due to the Lindbergh situation and many other things.” : Then, Garsson’s name was brought into a heated argument over whether the house should pay $7134 for additional expenses incurred by a house committee which had gone out of existence the preceding January,

Payment for Services Questioned MR. TABER OPPOSED the payment. He pointed out that of the $110,000 already spent by the committee approximately $8000 had been used to employ a man of Garsson’'s qualifications. The committee involved was a special one created to investigate real estate bondholders’ reorganizations. It was headed by Rep. Sabath (D. Ill), and Garsson had been employed as an investigator. Ex-Rep. Kramer (D. Cal), took the floor to answer Mr. Taber's criticism by pointing out that Garsson was a Republican. “That is quite a character the gentleman gives him,” Mr. Taber replied curtly. “We weuld rather he would have that kind of fellow. You gentlemen (Democrats) can have all of them. You are evidently paying them. It cost practically $8000 to have you carry that kind of Republican along. I am opposed to paying that kind of Republican.” Ex-Rep. Dickstein (D. .N. Y.), now a New York supreme court judge, then took the floor to tell Rep. Taber that he did not think he should have made the statement about Garsson’s “being a part of a criminal gang.” Mr. Dickstein said he happened to know Garsson “through the Republican machine

THE END OF THE TRAIL is the dead end street of the world. It becomes the rendezvous of baffled, disillusioned men. Out of the world’s possible selections, an artist chose the American Indian to illustrate this—James Earl Fraser, born in Winona, Minn., in 1876, 30 years after Indiana's Indians made the last tribal trek west. His statue, the “End of the Trail,” is a prized bit in San Francisco's 1013-acre Golden Gate park. Indiana's Indians were stone age men, so called because the only cutting edge they knew was made from stone. Men of the island of Crete, in the Mediterranean sea, passed from the stone age about 4000 years before the last Indian tribe officially left Indiana,

Eiected From Hoosier Home NO WONDER THESE INDIANS, 4000 years behind the pack, floundered hopelessly into oblivion as they battled with whisky, government officials, land sharks,

square foot of their land. What to do with them finally became a national problem, of national concern, and in spots and at times a national scandal. President James Monroe was the first to tackle the matter officially on a nation-wide basis. In his second inaugural address to congress in 1821, he

dians should no longer be treated as independent nations with sovereign power over vast stretches of land. Instead, he suggested that the United States government should take over all the Indian lands ih the country, and invest the proceeds in permanent funds to support and educate the Indians till they could shift for themselves.

PARIS, July 25.—~The “United States of Western Europe” is a project which is being much discussed privately in France today and one bound soon to become a topic of keen political discussion. At the moment, no French politician would care

to commit himself openly to such a plan, for fit would be sure to be denounced by Moscow and its French agents as an attempt to create a “western bloc.” But many leading politicians in both the Socialist ‘and’ Popular Republican parties privately consider that a European evolution in this direction is not only necessary but inevitable.

Bulwark Against Russia THIS VIEW SPRINGS not only from the obvious need of western Europe to unite to protect Christian and western eéivilization from the increasing dangers of Asiatic communism. : It springs, too, from an appreciation of the immense economic might of the United States and of the consequent inability of European countries to withstand American competition unless they themselves are as integrated economically as the United States. While American exports have been slow off the mark in tbe post-war world as a result of strikes and other difficulties, all farsighted Europeans realize that, once the immense competitive power “of Amerjcan mass production gets into its stride, the United States will be able to outsell the whole world in almost every type of commodity. Unless Europe can organize itself as efficiently as has the United States, all Europeans will be condémned to a progressively deteriorating “standard of living. What is more, situated between the two dynamic powers of Russia and the United States, no individual European na tion, with the exception of Britain, could hope to considered a first-class power.

pray before meals here, parson = the new, |means in the way the future keeps eook is pretty goodd!

its promises.—George Sand.

Between the two wars, that great Frenchman and , ; ;

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election, but it rarely assures any change in political wirection or domination,

lasting accomplishment is to glect committeemen who §

do... mark their ballots for precinct committeeman,

IN WASHINGTON .°. . By Earl T. Richert Garsson Under Congress Fire Before!

mittee Tuesday that he had no recollection of any |

SAGA OF INDIANA . .. By William A. Marlow Potowatomies Trek From Twin Lakes

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For it is the precinct committeeman who does the |

basic work . , , seeing that the voters of his party in Censorship L his precinct are registered, that they get to the polls On Myster on election day, And he then goes to the county convention and elects a ‘chairman. The candidates don't By E. K. I do that . . . it is the collective committeemen. United Press St So, the only way to make any reform victory a| STOCKHOLM,

Swedish army im sorship today on missiles streakil speeds over this lar intervals for The mounting tivity over scatter navia produced and a crop of ri those of wartime Military author to have received ports on the rock or whatever the tually may be. they were meteor gone by the boar * Locations Most of the things shuttling the skies come fi den. They indica ment” was movir being concentrate den for the last The army issue to publish the e time of the appe siles. While it g planation, the of be aimed at ave to the informat eign power” ‘sus out rocket exy Baltic. The process o rows the field pretty well to tt British or both. the favorite test German V-weapx Soviet forces no regions.

In turn will elect a chairman acceptable to the so0-§ called reform candidates, It is not too tough a job «+ the arti-machine men can call on voters just the same as the machine workers, And if their cause has merit, they can persuade the voters to do what so few

the candidate who is identified with the statement-

issuing leaders of the ticket running in opposition to » machine, '

City Election a Factor

FEW PEOPLE ARE IN POLITICS for their health or because of any burning zeal for better government. There are some, and in the coming election, too. But most of them have other reasons. For ce, the Republican citizens committee which seeks to embrace all successful nominees of! the primary within its fold, is a group organized with | next year's mayoralty election in mind. And that is || one reason the committee seeks control of the party machinery. It would seem that the answer to the mess within the G. O. P. here would be selection of a county | chairman not identified either with the defeated , Ostrom machine or with the citizens committee , , Just a plain Republican who was not indebted to; either group and was concerned with success in the fall , . . not perpetuation of the old or creation of a new machine, '

in the old administration” and that he did not know that he had been guilty of all Rep. Taber had ch him with, ? Sharpe

(Judge Dickstein testified before the Mead com- |

telephone calls from his office to the Garsson combine's, Washington office. He said if there had been || any they “must have been purely social” Mr, Dick- | stein’s office had been mentioned previously in testi- | mony before the Mead committee as one of the congressional offices to which telephone calls were made.) | “Finland R Rep. Taber also brought out in the 1937 debate oO f the 1 that $500 of the additional $7134 to be appropriated | ry was to go to Henry Garsson, brother of Murray Bl © °° Sescrived Garsson and also a key figure in the Mead committee Ji 200ming over Sc fvestigazion, This 3560, 2 a brought ouf, was {jill ribly fast at an : ces rendered after the committ: f i had gone out of existence. mittee Tom BES isiule fore Rep. Sabath said in the debate that not a cent a4 Skyy ocket) of the additional appropriation was to go to Murray| forpedo™. wes. 5 Garsson and that “from the investigations I have. Syer Jurrisnd, made, Murray Garsson has not been indicted.” Sikhold. - Sir seen in the sal

FBI Report on Record Wl successive night; (THE FBI REPORT on Murray Garsson showed Helsinki disp he was arrested in New York in 1915 and received {lili rocket bombs w a suspended sentence on a disorderly conduct charge JERP!#ces over Finl later he was accused of grand larceny and dis A -typical ace charged. Two other minor arrests followed and thelfill *d the “big FBI reported additional information “reflecting that Jj 02221ing light @ Garsson was connected with Owney Madden and J move fast at hi others” in the operation of a prohibition brewery.” eh Garsson also conducted investigations in the Lind. NOTED DR

bergh kidnaping while employed by the labor department.) FACES N Rep. Sabath, in the 1937 debate, praised the work DOWNINGTO done for the committee by Murray Garsson. He also P.).—Grover C.

won house approval fof payment of the additional $7134 for expenses incurred by the committee, which included $500 for Henry Garsson.

thy world war | held in $2500 ba of threating his and punching hi the servant's ba Arraigned bef Peace George asked and was ance of the 1! Monday night | counsel, His bail for him. Bergdoll was home near Th wife was repo Police said he o

President Andrew Jackson, in his second inaugural address in 1830, supported Monroe's suggested Indian policy, and quipped that the Indians were better off under Monroe's policy than a lot of whites who went. west, bought their own land, and fended for themselves while they paid for it. Thus the Indian policy of the United States government was set for 128 years, and on indefinitely— great things being thus often molded with a casual’ touch. An intimate closeup of all this you may get by eye- | ing the Potowatomies (or Pottawattomies) as they were shunted out of Indiaha. The lease on their land expired ‘Aug. 5, 1838. When the time came for them to go, they refused to budge—persuasively, defiantly, with stubborn determination. Awed by government forces called in, they finally yielded. ¢ On the night before their scheduled departure, in | 0 the sob-broken silence of their little burial ground, they bade goodby to their dead, to their past, and

and settlers impatiently waiting to grab the last. {,.yndiana.

Departure From Indiana AT DAWN ON Sept. 4, 1838, the goods of 858 Potowatomies were loaded on army wagons, and the tribe moved out from Twin Lakes, in Marshall county,

frankly discussed Indian affairs stating that the In-%for their destination on the Osage river in Kansas

About 175 of them died on the way. Thus one of the gPat Indian tribes of Indiana and of North America came to the end of the trail. Including the 100 odd years that have gone sinoe the Potowatomies were eased out of Indiana, every other tribe of Indians in the Western Hemisphere has

—~ Iw down a similar trail,

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchil Western Europe .Must Unite to Grow,

great European, Aristide Briand, worked untiringly | to popularize and inaugurate a “United States off Europe.” Unfortunately, he met with little en-} couragement. Every nation stuck blindly to th selfish concepts of nationalism and paid the price’ in a second world war. i It's clear that it's not going to be much easier; to realize this ideal today than in the time of Briand. Yet the need is far plainer today than then. Europe has the experience of the second world war behind her, She has seen the Asiatic mass of Russia thrust forward into her very heart. And the rise of the United States to a position of unique power and wealth, has reduced the relative power of all nations, notably, those in.Europe. I A federation of western Europe that Included) Bi’ the three western zones of Germany would consti-|| | tute a group numbering elose to 200,000,000. The] area is one of the richest in the world and has within! | its borders all the historic civilizations and culture of European Christendom. If all these people could Jil find a method of living harmoniously together, there is no reason why they should not be strong enough to ‘defend themselves from outside aggression and provide a standard of living second only to that enjoyed on the American continent, A

Would Affect Balance of Power, | THERE WOULD BE NOTHING in this project which’ would in any way conflict with the ideals and aspirations of the United Nations. Indeed, the «charter of the United Nations specifically provides EI “ for it. It would only be a corollary of the “regional BE agreements” which Russia has entered into in the Balkans and eastern Europe. >». From the obvious blessings whith a United States of Western Europé would confer upon its own popu-~ lations, such a federation might well restore the world balance of power which has been so fatally deranged by two successive wars