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INDIANA'S MENTAL HOSPITALS R a good many years The Times has been .fighting side by side with a lot of progressive and informed citizens to improve the shocking situation in our state care for the mentally ill. Some little improvement has been made. Not nearly enough. Our mental patients are still housed in antique fire-traps shamefully overcrowded, and are cared for by staffs of workers and physicians who are pathetically few and disgracefully underpaid. This is not the fault of any one individual, or of any single state administration or of either political party. It has been developing for half a century. It is principally the fault of public indifference, which is directly the fault of lack of information about conditions as they are in those institutions. True, there has been neglect of the situation by a series of state administrations. There usually is such neglect in the absence of public opinion that demands action. : So the only practical way to improve those conditions {s to tell the people fully and truthfully what they are. The series by Robert Bloem, now appearing in The Times, is a complete and objective job of doing just that. It isn’t a pretty picture he paints. It wasn’t a pretty picture he saw, as he visited these hospitals, nor was it a pretty story he heard from doctors and the superintendents and the attendants who work there. But unless the people of Indiana know this, for themselves, and demand that it be changed, it will go on as it is today. Quite often whatever administration is in office when such a situation is exposed interprets it as a political attack on its own office holders.

i 8» HAPPILY, The "Times doesn't care whether a Democrat or a Republican is in office. All we ask is good government, regardless of party label. So we feel no compunction whatever in criticizing Indiana's care of the insane under state administration of either party—and we have criticized it under both. This is a problem that far transcends state politics. We do not intend to let it be lost in a welter of petty charges and counter charges from little men whose only thought is of little jobs, or little party machines. Only one issue really counts: Indiana’s mental hospitals are a disgrace to US, the people of Indiana. Now is the time to demand that they be improved. -

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RED DESIGNS IN CHINA EE THE Moscow radio charges that “thousands of American ; troops” are fighting “an undeclared war on behalf of a reactionary and repressive regime” in China. Moscow knows better than that. Not a single American soldier is fighting anybody or anything in China other than the heat and the mosquitoes, and Moscow knows it.

> * 8 =» Tod wo. THE situation in China has not changed materially since last August, when Russia signed a treaty of friendghip and alliance with the regime the Moscow radio now denounces as “reactionary and repressive.” There was civil war then, as there is civil war now. Russia took cognizance of that fact by agreeing in a supplement to the treaty to render economic and military support only to the national government of China. Why, then, this sudden hullabaloo from the left? The change has been not in the situation in China, but in the attitude of the Kremlin. When the Moscow radio declares “the Soviet public cannot be indifferent to America’s policy in China,” what actually is meant is that we stand in the way of Russia's aspirations in China. American policy has not changed. It is Russian policy which has changed. Moscow radio does not speak for “the Soviet public.” It speaks for the Kremlin. The Moscow attack upon American policy in China was supplemented from China itself by a well-timed interview from Mme. Sun Yat-Sen, echoing the familiar demands of the Communist Daily Worker that American troops be withdrawn from China and that no more loans be made to the Chinese government. The widow of the famous - Chinese revolutionary long has been an active and potent influence in the left-wing movement, usually closely adhering to the Communist party line. The master minds in the Kremlin may believe they can stampede American public opinion into demanding what Moscow wants by an intensification of the familiar propaganda barrage from that direction. But the added noise is fooling only the boys blowing the trumpets,

” ” ” n . » UNCLE SAM isn't the soft touch he was at Yalta and Potsdam. The Soviet objectives have become sufficiently transparent that we aren't giving any more. We aren't so blind as to be led into another raw deal like the rape of Manchuria, nor are we to be bluffed into running put on our ally by threats or misrepresentation. We have a good man in China in Gen. George C. Marshall, the President's special ambassador. He knows war, |. and he knows politics, including thie Russian brand. When i | Gen. Marshall reports to the President, and through him to the American people, his evaluation of the situation will not be colored by fear, prejudice or self-interest. Attempts

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"Here Are Some Absurdities of ‘New York Fair Employment Law"

By A Small Businessman, City

I have read with much interest the comment in your newspaper Or not. from time to time about the fair employment practices proposal that is |

measure creates unnecessary emphasis on potential employees belong- | ing to minorities of our population.

whether a naturalized or native | born citizen or whether his parents are citizens, where the applicant VIEWS ON was during the first world war, inquiry as to birth of parents, maiden TH k N EWS name, ancestry, military experience unless it is limited to U. 8. forces, By DANIEL M. KIDNEY etcetera. And it also is “unfair Y ? labor practice” to ask for a photo-| Our South Amereas 800d Nes grap along with an application. bors an : reconverting p It is all right to ask a man aw whether he's a member of the Com-| Judging from the Garsson party munist party or the German pictures some of our generals had their arms full during the war, American bund, but you can't tell i va him “the following holidays are ob- After roundly condemning OPA served here and no others: Decora- | bureaucracy, congress added a detion day, Fourth of July, Christ- control board to price control. ’ vw’ : ® » 2 mas and New Year's day.” Oh yes, Primaries and general elections after a man has been hired, in New | offer two of the best ways to imYork it’s all right for the employer | prove congress. un

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“MOTORSCOOTER RIDER DISTURBS NEIGHBORHOOD” By Mrs. G. H., Indianapolis Really I do not know what fis wrong with the laws of our city, or rather the people who have been appointed to enforce those laws. For months now we tormented by a man who rides one of those motorscooters up and down He has decided that he | doesn’t like several people along {there, we're one of them. He stops {that thing in front of our house,

{ } {he swears at us, e bo aks Bs id ili NN Secretary of State Byrnes is all| oc - or i or or onal or of the em- | tw & : g |set to fight his way through an-| _. you out” Sometimes

drives around to the alley and car{ries on from there. My little girl, 5 years old, was playing in the back yard and when he started {swearing and talking so dirty she Various articles published in local | nyt her hands over her ears. He backward old capitalistic reaction-| newspapers lately have dealt with| yelled “I'll show you, you little (a ary in my thinking. But I still want | the gambling rackets in Indianapo- | ot of bad names), I'll catch you out, I'll show you—put your hands in my business if it has anything ‘have been checked, many were gyer your ears.” Now I'm afraid to do with the way he can per- found guilty. A so-called “Mr. X"|(; let the children out when he is form his job. Incidentally, I have has been busy doing undercover ground. In fact I'm afraid to walk Negroes, Catholics and Jews on my | Work for our local law enforcement out on the street myself. | He does not live in this nzighborI fall in one of those four cate- Police have openly stated they are hood but comes here from Speedway. Some of his actions have been brought to the attention of several How much of our judges, the sheriff's office, insistence on this FEPC stuff would | longer are we going to have to and the police. Nobody seems able [to do anything about him. This man has told several people, editorial, you can't legislate preju- of age lose 50 cents at a gambling | and I have heard him myself say, dice out of a man's heart. But you | joint just Wednesday evening on|“As long as I know the right people can stir it up by such absurd law |the Keystone ave. lot at a carnival and have the money to pay them, as they have in New York state.'sponsored by a local police organi-| I'll never go to jail.” He has actually harmed some of the people in the neighborhood. | Quite often someone demards this or that because they pay taxes. I am a taxpayer also but I do to have any rights.

“HERE'S A GOOD WORD FOR COUNTY INSTITUTICN” By Bud Kaesel, 2432 Central ave. 1 would like for the public to know about a certain county home where the old people are taken care of by the state. In the past years I have heard of so many bad things | about these homes, but didn't know | the truth. So last Sunday I was & | visitor of the county home at Dan« ville on an invitation from Mr. and

Souders who manage

home, and I was surprised to see how these people. were cared for. | Everything was so neat and sani(tary all over the place. And you | should see the fine wholesome food they served to these old people. | After seeing the people there and the clean rooms that are provided for them I want to take off my hat | to the Souders for the fine morale they have built up there, and also there'is a blind man who can play a piano like Harry Bason of this

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OUR TOWN . 7. .-By Anton Scherrer ° ey “Jesse James as Tarkington Saw Him

TODAY'S RANDOM NOTES are set down for the

use of him (or her) who may one day write a history

of Indianapolis and tell everything there is to tell, including the goings-on in the barn back of Judge Tarkington's home on the afternoon of Saturday, June 10, 1882. On that day a gang of North

as any produced in Indianapolis, turned the Tarkington barn into the best ventilated theater this town ever had and staged the world premiere of a thriller labeled: “The James Brothers; or the Life and Death of Jesse James." Booth Tarkington, then a boy of 12, played the part of Jesse James described more fully in the handprinted programs as “The Terror of the Rails.” As for the rest of the Dramatis Personae (the very words used in the programs), it included. Frank James, the Bandit's Brother.......... Frankie Walker Cony geen Sree Albert Goepper Bob Ford, the Assassin Page Chapman Charley Ford, the Assassin's Brother... ... .. : . Willie Rhode +... Malcolm Jameson The “miners, sheriffs, ,travelers and barflies,” cryptically mentioned as such in the programs, turned out to be the small fry of the neighborhood who, because of youth or inexperience (or both) had not vet qualified as regular members of the gang.

Both Author and Actor

LEGEND HAS IT THAT the Tarkington kid turned in a first rate job of acting notwithstanding the fact that his audience, on that occasion, consisted ‘of a bunch of soreheads who strongly suspected that he had resorted to a trick practiced by playwrights at the time—namely, the habit of grabbing off the fattest roles for themselves. Booth Tarkington had, indeed, written the play. Even more reniarkable was the discovery that he had

%written all three acts in less than two months after

| the newspapers. had declared Jesse James dead. Thus

proving (in case there should be any doubt) that

Alabama to Get

CULLMAN, Ala, July 29.—'Big Jim” Folsom wanted to be governor of Alabama the worst way possible, as we say down here. Alabama wanted a new face. Each got what it wanted. But neither knows yet what it got. Other than seeing the show first hand, people here know little more about “Big Jim” as a prospective governor than folks elsewhere. It went on over and pover—the ambling six-foot-eight figure who talked ramblingly from the platform, an oversized Will Rogers without the deft and penetrating Rogers touch; the hillbilly band; the bucket that was passed

Doctors and scientists inform us| before the city council. Without debating whether or not I am a person | that to cure an ailment you must with prejudices, I would like to advance the viewpoint that a FEPC | first remove the cause. : The rides and other interesting | entertainment are among the best, I have before me a publication called The Employment Counselor, but they are down at the farther which advises employers that under the New York FEP statute it is end of the midway. All of the rack“unfair labor practice” to ask an applicant about the following: A birth ets are toward the front where they or baptismal certificate or naturalization papers, his original name, can get first play at the sheckels. In closing I would like to offer a suggestion to our city, county and state officials. How would you like to have some help in the form of a “civic league” or “law enforcement league” to assist you in enforcing the laws? Or even a seeing-eye dog?

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around for campaign contributions; the mop that he flourished as a symbol that he intends to clean up the state government.

Might Be Effective “BIG JIM” IS EQUALLY UNKNOWING about the job he assumes next Jan 20, though he has set out to learn all he can. He has never held public office. The only other time he got elected was as a delegate to the 1944 Democratic convention, where he persisted, with one other Alabama delegate, in voting for Henry Wallace for the vice presidential nomination. The delegation bosses argued with him and damned him. And when he refused to budge, they said he'd never get any political office in Alabama. But here he is. It took two elections to give him the victory this year, the second a run-off, He is the hero and the vietim of one of those not infrequent revolutions peculiar to our politics. All sorts of folks voted for him, from C. I. O. to ku kluxers, but mostly he appealed to the farmers, the

WASHINGTON, July 29.—The best story about Undersecretary of the Interior Oscar L. Chapman concerns rum, Back in the early days of the New Deal, Oscar was assistant secretary of interior. He had been

given his choice of jobs in government. He picked interior because it had a lot of minority-group problems. Among the ragtag and bobtail problems of the Virgin Islands there was an old sugar refinery that wasn't working. This was in the depths of the depression, and the administration was frantic in trying to find work for people to do.

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Assistant Secretary Chapman also served on the board which passed on public works administration projects. PWA was under Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, : At every meeting of the PWA projects board, Chapman would bring up the problem of the Virgin Islands’ abandoned refinery. He wanted to modernize it so that it could be made productive and provide jobs for the darn-near-destitute Virgin: Islanders. Nobody else cared. Every time Chapman brought it up, the others expressed extreme boredom. One day Oscar was invited to a luncheon, As he went to the luncheon from a PWA projects-board meeting, he carried his file with him. Coming out of the dining room he fell in step beside Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt at the luncheon. “What's that you're carrying?” Mrs. R. wanted to know, Oscar explained it was just some old PWA papers about a project nobody was interested in. Mrs. R. was immediately interested. By the time they had walked the length of Peacock alley, Oscar had openéd up his file and was showing photos. “I'll tell you what!” she said. “If you haven't anything else to do tonight, come on over to the

VIENNA, July 29.—Russia, in her struggle for future domination of Austria and the strategic Danube may win by indirection what she has failed to gain directly. : Her totalitarian methods have alienated Austrians and provoked a firm stand by the United States and Britain on the allied control council here.

Economic Recovery First BUT NOT ALL THE 95 per cent of Austrian voters who are anti-Communist, and the democratically inclined Vienlia government, plus the valiant efforts of Gen. Mark Clark here and Secretary Byrnes in Washington and Paris, can enforce the allied agreements for Austrian independence and democracy unless economic recqvery, conquers the present chaos and hunger. Nis Moscow's policy—s proved beyond doubt by her obstructionist tactics on every major issue here—is to prolong the chaos and perpetuate hunger.. If she succeeds, there is a good chance of creating such a confused and desperste situation that the populace will turn against thi/ir own democratic government, lose hope in American and British pledges. Whereupon Russia, with her effective fifth column preparing the war, could “rescue” Austria, that is, take control through a puppet regime backed by the Red army and secret police. :

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Mr Tarkington's indefatigability was not a matfer of later development . The play also providéd the first intimation that Booth Tarkington was a novelist at héart. In support of which I cite the fact that, even as far back as then, he took literary liberties to serve his purpose; to such a degree, indeed, that his version of “The Life and Death of Jesse James” wasn't anything like the one recorded by the newspapers at the time. According to the newspapers’ version, Jesse James had just had his breakfast (steak, fried potatoes and apple pie) on the morning of April 3, 1882, when he walked into his wife's sitting room where he found the Ford brothers (two new members of his gang) rocking nonchalantly in their chairs. He tossed off an irritating remark—something to the effect that it was going to be a hot day—and shed his coat. What's more, he removed his pistols. It was the only mistake A moment later, the Soot ume covered with their guns: Bord Bows had Ford (Page Chapman) was t the two brothers and shot Jesse ns vg ed o his head. Jesse swayed a moment, then fell face first on the freshly-cleaned carpeted floor, (Mrs James had just finished her spring housecleaning). Whereupon the two Ford brothers attempted a quick getaway through the backyard. At this precise moment, Mrs. James stuck her head through the open. doorway and said: ‘Robert, you done that.” Robert denied the indictment and looked around for help from Charley (Willie Rhodes). Charley the less impulsive of the two Ford boys opined that Brother Bob's gun had gone off accidentally, “Is that 80," snapped Mrs. James,

Why Mrs. James Was Out IT WAS AT THIS POINT that the kid departed from historic truth. For, one thing, he made no dramatic use of Mrs, James, let alone her utterly feminine remark, From which you must not co oe Tarkington's uncanny knowledge Od hat. Jui. matter of later development. His neglect of Mrs James can be accounted for by the fact that he had to write “The Life and Death of Jesse James” within the framework imposed by the laws governing the North Pennsylvania st. gang. It's membership was limited to males—see? :

POLITICAL REPORT « + . By Thomas L. Stokes

\ Peoples’ Governor

dirt kind. People here who followed the campaign closely said it wouldn't have mattered what he stood for or what he talked about. A majority of Alabamlans wanted a change. They were tired of the professionals. He likes to call himself “just a country boy"—and he is that. There's lots of “country” in him, which can be a healthy influence. There is shrewdness and common sense. He might easily become a harmless sort of southern demagogue, not the ruthles Huey Long type, nor the devious Gene Talmadge type, nor the mean Bilbo type. There appeared no trace of any of that in this big, genial, friendly fellow who overflows with human kindness. ’ He might become a very effective fellow. He wants to be a good governor for all the people of his state. He carries a mandate of a kind from the plain people and seems conscious of it.

Does Have Platform THOUGH NOBODY SEEMED to pay much attention to it, he had a program that could carry this state forward in a progressive way if he can get any of it done—long needed revision of the state constitution; reapportionment to give the city folks more representation in the legislature; increased old-age assistance, tax reforms, and abolition of the poll tax. In that respect his election was progressive in instinct. His chief handicaps are lack of experience and a naivete about the processes of government. Much will depend on how well he can measure men and motives and what kind of advice he takes, and how well he can manage his legislature. There are those ready to trip him, to use him, and they are clever and experienced.

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson How Uncle Sam Got In Rum Business

White House for dinner and explain it to Franklin. I think he'd be interested.” Oscar didn't have anything else to do that night, so he went to dinner at the White House. Nothing was said about the old sugar mill during the meal. But right after it, Mrs. R, said to Mr. R., “Franklin, Oscar has an idea here I think you'd be interested in. The President stretched out on a divan. Oscar brought out his file. He showed a photo of the mill “Do you know who built that mill?” asked the President. Oscar hadn't the slightest idea. Finally the President said, “Oscar, my grandfather built that old refinery! But look! You can’t get anywhere making sugar for today’s market, What you've got to do is make rum. Put a distillery beside that old sugar mill and convert the sugar into rum. Then sell the rum.” Chapman was floored. “How much do you think it would cost to put a distillery there?” the President asked. Oscar hadn't the faintest notion, but he made a wild guess of $100,000. “Better make it $300,000,” said the President. “Put in a request for that and I think it will go through.”

And So Does F.D.R. . NEXT MORNING AT NINE a phone rang on the desk of Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes. Mr. Ickes was wanted at the White House. Shortly after 10 a.m. there was a meeting of the PWA projects board. What projects were there before the board this morning? Assistant Secretary Chapman spoke up. He had a project to build a distillery next to the old sugar refinery in the Virgin Islands. He wanted to make rum, It would cost about $300,000. And it should be done soon. Mr. Ickes cleared his throat and said, brightly, “I think I'm for that this morning.” That's how the government got into the rum business.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Ludwell Denny Hunger, Chaos Are Austrian Problem

industries; separation of the Russian occupation zones and refusal to treat the country as an economic unit, which is necessary for recovery; Moscow's blocking of trade with Germany on which many local industries depend; Russia's refusal to permit opening of the Danubian lifeline to internal and international traffic; Moscow's effort to bankrupt the country and undermine its financial structure and currency by huge monetary demands for upkeep of the oversized Red army; Russia's failure to co-operate with U, N. R. R. A. and the western allies for agreed alleviation of distress while stockpiling large, secret hoards of Austrian food in preparation for a later show of “charity.”

Soviet Gains in Disorganization MOSCOW has carried its policy to the extreme of creating a food shortage in its own zone, which is the Austrian breadbasket, normally supplying the rest of the country. So U. N. R. R. A. food from America and from lean, bread-rationed Britain is now actually keeping alive Austrians in the agricultural zone occupied by Russia and whose food was stolen by the Red army. : . ‘The general situation probably will improve after the September harvest which may permit a 1200 calories daily average in Vienna next winter. But that is only about one-half the minimum health requiremerit, according to allied medical experts,

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