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A NULLIFICATION PROPOSAL ~~HE American Legion has weakened its position as a consistent supporter of adequate national defense measures by its surprising rejection of Secretary of War Patterson's ~ plea for a six-months basic training period under universal military service. re "In urging this program as the very least which Gen. Eisenhower feels the nation can adopt with safety, Mr. |

Patterson said: | “Below that (six months) we cannot go. I know from

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/ { (stow \ DOWN “A WARNING BYA f L A

REMOVING THE JUDICIARY from politics will come up again for, discussion before the board of managers of the Infiiana State Bar Association when it meets in Indianapolis Saturday.

‘| _Many attorneys of the state are concerned over | the degree to which politics intrudes upon the ju-

| diclary . . . but at the same time, many are re- | Juctant to stick their necks out too far ip condemna-

tion of the system. For years, the bar association has favored non-political selection of judges in its more or less academic. resolutions. But, as its leaders point out, they always have been balked in the legis- | lature when it came to doing anything about it.

Proposal Before Board THOSE WHO HAVE STUDIED operation of the

state's courts believe, as a case in point, that the incumbents of juvenile court and criminal court in Indianapolis would not have been elected if choice of

judges was not under political nomination, You and I, or anyone else who is over 21, can run for nomination to the bench . .. even though

we might have no legal experience whatsoever. And if we were popular enough . , . or could wanglg the political support . . . to get the nomination, we

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might be elected judge. That hasn't happened here yet, but it is a far-fetched example of the lack of care with which the legislature has surrounded selection of the judiciary. One of the legislative steps recommended in the report which will come before the board of managers Saturday is requiring that all candidates for judge-

discussion with many division commanders that they view

gix months’ continuous training as the shortest period in which effective training can be given. ... We cannot recom-

mend to congress that four months’ training will suffice to give the couritry the security it needs in trained manpower. |

We cannot in honesty give it as our opinion that men so trained will afford the nation the protection it should have | in return for the dollars spent.”

In the face of that statement, and without debate, the |

Legion convention rubber-stamped its resolutions committee's recommendation for four months of basic training. It

was a disappointing performance, by the most disappointing convention the Legion has held.

Many military authorities believe that a year’s training should be a minimum requirement. However, because of political opposition, the war department reluctantly agreed

to six months. Further to reduce the period tends toward complete nullification of universal training. An adequate reservoir of trained manpower is essential if we are to have genuine national security. Gen. Eisen-

oosier Forum

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

hower and the successful field commanders of the recent war are the best judges of what it takes to produce such a civilian army. Moreover, their estimates of our requirements * are not likely to be tempered by the vagaries of convention

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VOTING PAPER MILLIONS

HE reparations commissions at the Paris peace conference have agreed to recommend a total war bill of $1,350,000,000 against the former enemy states of Italy, Finland, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria. This may impress many Americans as just one of those things, since we get none of the money, if it could be termed that. It is apparent there has been no recognized relationship between assessments and ability to pay, cash, goods or services. All of the commissions’ decisions have been reached by log-rolling and appeasement, with Russia and her satellites on the receiving-end of most of the millions voted. However, unless we are on guard, the United States may find itself footing a substantial part of this fantastic war bill. Italy is expected to pay Russia, Yugoslavia, Greece and Ethiopia a total of $325 million at some future time. Russia is listed to get $100 million of that amount, and such a tough creditor is not easily to be denied, unless the claim is to be used as a lever to force Italy into the Soviet orbit. The Italians today are subsisting on American’ charity and credit, and borrowing our money to rebuild their industry. It will be some years, at least, before their economy will be on a self-sustaining basis. Directly, or indirectly, money we send to Italy is likely to be diverted to Russia. » » . » » INLAND, against which the Soviet Union has received "a tentative award of $300 million, even now is exploring the possibilities of an American loan to retire that obligation. Finnish credit here is better than that of some nations, for the Finns kept faith with their world war I loan. But there is a limit to any nation’s resources. Can Finland, impoverished by war and enemy occupation, pay Russia, and then pay us, and at thé same time live with Russia on Russia's terms? Hungary is another prospective borrower, if and when Soviet claims are pressed for collection. That nation’s econ‘omy is virtually paralyzed, and under continuing Russian occupation has made almost no progress toward recovery: Yet the log-rollers assessed $300 million against her, to be divided among the Soviet Union, Yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia. To their credit, the American representatives on the various reparations commissions worked to hold the awards.

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vented party lines. 1 could go on ad infinitum, but whether in |1 think I can get the line now. The dear neighbor has finally put the last stitch in her appendix, and I want to call the butcher. If he has an ounce of meat, T'11 smell it. Oh, ves, gripe number 16: People who write these silly letters to The

"Here's Real Pet Peeve List, Writers Have Place on It"

By Bushrod Beehunter, R. R. 14, Indianapolis There comes a time in our lives when we all feel the urge to write a letter to The Times. Comes now the urge.’ The other night you very innocently suggested pel peeves as a subject for us embryonic Now this, Mr. Forum, is something I can shall dispense with the formalities and let our editorial hair-do down under the heading of gentle gripes: 1. The OPA. 2. No meat. 3. One-dollar haircuts. 4. People who won't dim their lights. 5. The OPA. 6. Soap operas. 1,. 8. Sassy customers. lines. 12. People who have party lines. 14. The cluck who in- | 15. The OPA.

9. The OPA.

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ember of Local

AMOUNT OF UNION DUES”

By Ed Hanneman, Anderson I am not too sure you will print this: but it's my version on LinkTo a few so-called union people—you are not afraid to drop out for fear of bodily harm, you're afraid that if you did drop out supervision would soon find you out. here's their answer: kind of members are not good to the union and surely they can’t do us much good. You know there is a difference in union people such as one who gets into trouble with supervision and in order to hold his or her job joins the union; the other is knowing the strength Attending the meetings will help to broaden out people who don’t understand what is going on in their bargaining unit. - As for voting against the P.AC, you ‘can always spite your own face by cutting off your nose. So go ahead. And what's more, you red apple boys and girls go in there and fail to produce and see how When you put in the best part of your life for them and you slow up a little they don’t want you, and brother go out and try to sell what's left to some other company and see what their anSeniority is-alone worth $1.50 a month, forgetting wages, better working conditions and the right to speak back. I am a DelcoRemy employee, m

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“NO PART OF POLICY OF C. 1. 0. INDORSES REDS”

By H. H. McClintic, Recording Secretary, United Automobile Workers of America, Chrysler Local No. 371, Newcastle

In answer to a recent letter to the Forum signed by Union Member, Indianapolis, I wish to state that I wholeheartedly agree with him on one statement, and I quote: “The greatest majority of the members were scared into the organization.” That my friend (?) is quite the truth, but not in the sense you would have us believe. Fear did drive the masses into the C. 1. O. Fear of losing their jobs without regard of seniority; fear of sweat shop rules; fear of starvation wages | and fear of retaining working con!ditions unfit for an animal. { While not being entirely familiar |

Sassy wait10. No shortening. 11. Party 13. People who listen in on " - s | “PAYING AMATEUR BALL PLAYERS HARMS SPORT”

By Amateur Baseball Fan, Indianapolis. Some time ago a letter appeared

in your paper about more and bet- with the steelworkers’ organization ter amateur baseball. As it NOW| ang their policy, I am entirely fastands the Junior Baseball, Inc.|miliar with C. I O. policy and no and American Legion have what is part of that policy indorses the in reality amateur ball in the city, Communist. party. Even the great-| There is in town what is common- $x labor baiter of all times, Kalten- | |born, -has nothing but praise for ly called the I. A. B. A. which is «ppj]” Murray, international presisupposed to be non-paid ama- dent of U. S. W. A. and national teurs, but if you should go down | president of the C. I. O. the line and find out there are very| It B Sills vient us Dieter: | e stinal fortitude few learns that do not support & i, ¢ion his name, is ong who never, fair-sized payroll to its players. takes the time or the trouble to Now this does not give the real attend a union meeting or to read young amateur a very good chante | the constitution of his international |

of being on one of the so-called union which clearly defines. the al-|

location of each dues dollar he pays| better teams as they go out after|ine union and not one place can| the better players with a promise of he find one cent allocated to the play for pay and, of course, can get | Communist party or to any other | all the high class players. political party for that matter. This, I believe, is very unfair to| An individual of his type is of no the different firms and -organizations that would probably place teams in the amateur field if this were not the case. One factory, one of the oldest in the city, expected to have a team in the city leagues this season but when they started to organize found some of their very able players had been offered pay to play for other teams which this firm refused to do, so therefore, refused to put a team in the field, and will not again have a team until this very poor show of sportsmanship on the part of the other organizations in regards to amateur baseball is replaced with real honest-to-good-ness amateur baseball. I am hoping that in the very near future .we can have some real amateur baseball teams among the seniors and still whooping it up for the Junior Baseball, Inc.,, and the real junior American Legion

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he spends plenty of time at his employer’s expense expounding false and vicious propaganda to which he has nothing to base his charge. In closing I wish to agree with Brother Barber in which he offers the membership of his local to help release this member from their local, and I believe I can safely add.

should this member identify himself, will offer a very definite helping hand to his release. » ” » “TOO MUCH ATTENTION PAID TO OTHER'S VIEWS”

By P. M., Indianapolis. This country was in a mess long before Truman ever took over, You can't expect a man to take this country which is far worse than in 29 and make it look good in just a

al rather than economic advantages in the promissory notes they expect to get signed at pistol point.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

feels himself slipping and wants fo blame it on the President. of, today. 1f we had some of those little pigs

But somewhere along the line we should have it understood that we aren’t paying for any of these dead horses.

END JURISDICTIONAL STRIKES

JURISDICTIONAL strikes—warfare between unions at the expense of employers, employees and the public— are among the least defensible of labor's practices. They do tremendous harm to the cause of unionism. So we welcome the unanimous vote by which the A. | F. of L. metal trades department convention at Chicago | has adopted procedure aimed at preventing such strikes among its unions. This provides, first, for immediate consultation be- | tween local representatives of unions involved in a jurisdictional dispute. If the local leaders fail to agree within 24 | hours, the dispute is to be referred automatically to the unions’ international presidents. If the controversy still persists after 96 hours, a referee chosen by international |} § representatives is to have power to settle it by a binding in / That plan, so far as it goes, seems excellent. It will not k ver, to disputes between A. F. of L. metal trades | other A. F. of L. unions, or to disputes between » and C. 1. O. unions. i po r organizations should have machinery to settle isdictional rows, We'd like to see them create of L. metal trades have doné. | ve such machinery will be not suffer indefinitely in and fights internal wars rs shall do certain jobs.

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that were killed a few years ago to cat now they would taste pretty 200d. I am not one of these Democrats but I do believe Truman is in “office and we should all help him

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{ - . | DAILY THOUGHT | And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and let them have domination. over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon-the

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earthly use to his union or his em-| ployers for by his own admission |

the membership of the C. 1..0.|

_|vear or two. I suppose Mr. Wesley A. | Wise is one of those Democrats who |

instead of turning against him. Just what would you do if you were up there with everyone trying to cut

The trouble with America today is we pay too much attention to what someone else says and don't try to

Mr. Wesley A. Wise said he voted for Mr, Roosevelt, the greatest President we ever had. That must have been his his first vote or else he

call any man who will throw our country as far in debt as it is a very good leader . . . your so-called President Roosevelt never did honor you Democrats, he called himself a New Dealer, and boy what a deal he

| Yours is the Earth and evéry thing|

awyer Chiefs to Study Judgeships

ships have at least’ 10 years standing as members of the bar. Principal phase of .the judicial problem to be considered Saturday is recommendation of the use of a separate ballot for judges. This is at best merely "a step toward removing these high offices from politics, but it seems to be as far as the association is willing to go at this time. County judges still would be chosen in local primaries and state judges in the usually bossed state ‘conventions . . and the fall races still would be under party label. However, if that's the best recommendation the bar associition can make to the next legislature, it should be supported as a move toward an eventual separate ballot for judges and elimination of obliga=tion to politicians for election. The basic problem outlined in the report to be considered by the board is stated to be to “give judges more independence from political parties and leaders” and to “induce abler men to seek judicial offices. Greater certainty of tenure, a pension system, and increased pay are three other recommendations which will be before the board of managers,

Bar Has Responsibility

THE LAWYERS THEMSELVES are in the best position to remedy conditions. They not only know from day-to-day experience the harmful effect of the present method of selecting judges, but also are in a position to make their recommendations forceful if, in each county, they persuade the legislators of that county that the bar really demands this important reform. °

POLITICAL REPORT... By Thomas L. Stokes Close Races in State of Washington

_ SEATTLE, Oct. 8.—Still thriving out here in this northwest corner of the country is a rampant radicalism that once was characteristic, but is no longer, of sections farther east—Wisconsin, Minnesota and

the Dakotas. It is virile and lusty and often rough in its

methods.

Independents Hold Key

SUCH RADICALISM, compounded as it is of leftist labor with -a Communist infiltration, is & heritage from the I. W. W. of old. It has allied itself with the Democratic party. As usual, it has its counterpart in the extreme conservatism of entrenched interests, still claiming a sort of pioneer squatter sovereignty, in many cases with roots in the east. That is allied with the Republican party. Between these two belligerent extremes, there are lots of people—orthodox New Deal Democrats, oldfashioned Democrats, liberal Republicans, independents. It will be what these people do in the forthcoming congressional election that will determine the result. On one side is the New Deal philosophy which advocates large use of federal funds not only for public power and irrigation projects, already well under way, but also to help finance, through RFC and other federal agencies, retention of left-over war industries and creation of new industries in the absence, thus far, of any effective private local financing. Political action is envisaged as the avenue to achieve this result, This philosophy is best represented in the campaign for re-election as U. S. senator of mild-man-nered, 39-year-old Hugh B. Mitchell, Democrat. He has the energetic support of the state Democratic machine, directed by Gov. Mon C. Wallgren. Hugh Mitchell was appointed to the senate by Mr. Wallgren when he was elected governor two years ago and resigned from the senate. Governor Wallgren and President Truman are close friends. On the other side, there is a mixed picture. Generally Republicans go along, as far as most leaders

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By Wiliam A. Marlow State's First Political Triumvirate

' SOMEBODY ONCE SAID that genius is the ability to put the grease where the squeak is. Grease to ease the squeak is needed in many places in life. In love, it is called courting. In business, they call it advertising. In war it is propaganda, and in politics it is patriotism. But always, when discreetly and skillfully used, it is the world’s great solvent for trouble.

Noble, Hendricks and Jennings

SIXTY YEARS BEFORE Christ was born, three | men met at Lucca in Italy, some 120 miles north of | Rome, to grease the wheels of Roman democracy, then wobbling close to its end, it proved. Caesar, | Pompey, and Crassus were the three, called from | this meeting the First Triumvirate. Nearly 1800 years later, three men met at Corydon | down near the Ohio river to grease the wheels of | democracy in the new state of Indiana. James | Noble, William Hendricks, and Johnathan Jennings | were the three, and whatever else they may have | been called. they were Indiana's first political triumvirate. . They were meeting with 40 other delegates to make the first constitution of the state. As the wheels of this convention began to turn, there was plenty of squeak. There was the growing | friction between the government clique at Vincennes, the territorial capital, and the newcomers moving into the state. There was the ominous struggle between this same clique and the anti-slavery crowd moving into the Whitewater ‘Valley from the south. There, too, was the question of the state capital; the size of the counties; the coming organization of the government—choosing or electing officers; revising the constitution then being formed; and, fundamentally to all these, the creation of courts as the foundation of all law and order in the state. But these contentious, rough spots of this conven-

tion never greatly atsturbed-or—deeply interested. In-

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

widespread everywhere, there is far more tal States than in Europe.

is this danger in the United Despite reassuring stateme such varying quarters as Jos Army Dwight Eisenhower, eign Secretary Anthony Eden, fon remains in a highly volatile state. commentator’s proadcast citing Gen. Gaulle's off-the would break out before

taken seriously by a American public. In many quarters,

held responsible for the ri Politics Affects U.S. View

the end of t

bilit public. And the geperal certainty is accentuated about the atom bomb.

plications of failure of the

world control. The political be sure that there will be new

we may new and Nov. 5th.

| excursions” between

“Meanwhile, it is interesting to consider what view taken by the great insurance of London. You can effect against the oute

of the prospects of war is ‘sompanies and by Lloyds 0 a policy with Lloyds’ underwriters break of war within the next three years, “at th

Lloyds Bets 400

” NEW YORK, Oct. 8.—While fear of another war k of

nts in recent weeks from ef Stalin, Gen. of the . and former--British ForAmerican public opinAn American Charles de .record opinion that another war 1946, has been considerable section of the this prophecy is ecent slump on Wall Street.

REASSURING STATEMENTS about the impossi~ { war have failed to convince the American atmosphere of fear and unby all the ‘current discussions

Here in America, there is a far keener realization than exists in Europe of the sinister and deadly im.atomic warfare and of the complete United Nations atomic energy commis sion to find any basis for agreement on a plan of atmosphere is further

joaded by “the approaching November elections, and “alarms and .

and rank and fille are concerned, with public power and irrigation. Throwing in heavily behind the Republicans in this election, are interests with really big stakes,

controlled, which look askance at the gradual exter sion of public power. Eastern-controlled industries other sorts do not relish the competition of new industries here. This diversity of interests behind the Republican ticket probably explains the talking from both sides of his mouth by the party's alert candidate for the senate, 40-year-old Harry P. Cain, twice non-partisan mayor of Tacoma, war veteran with widely varied experience with the military government in Europe that gave him a rather far-sighted view of world probe lems. He ran a strong race two years ago, in absentia, He represents himself as a liberal Republican. Strategy of his campaign managers is to make him attractive to both elements in the Republican party. Just as Republicans have - their embarrassments from the extreme right, so Democrats have theirs from their extreme left. This is symbolized in the brilliant Hugh Delacy, former Washington university professor, who is running for re-election to the house from this city. Accused of being a Communist, he is -one of four Democratic congressmen from the state. Republicans now have two members in the house. Senator Mitchell, in his campaign, has found hime self constantly on the defensive because of such is sues as OPA and continued government restrictions.

These include private power interests, largely esr 10

Republicans May Gain IN THE SHOWDOWN, the result in the senae torial race will depend upon Democratic success in getting out its, labor vote. Republicans seem sure to pick up one house seat, that held by Rep. Charles R. Savage, protege of Rep. Delacy. His Republican opponent is Fred Norman, former member of the house. If enough anti-Coms= munist fever is whipped up in Seattle, Mr. Delacy also might go down before the rather colorless figure who is opposing him—Homer R. Jones. This is admittedly a close race. .

diana. The triumvirate of Jennings, Hendricks, and Noble saw to it that every squawk was smothered and every wheel was greased into silence, and smooth running approval of their plans. The last word to be said on this matter is this: Meshed in with all the activities of the convention was the burning question of who was .going to organize and run Indiana when the convention adjourned. The boil cgme to a head and was lanced on June 26, the 15th Yay of the 18 days of the convention. This was done by an amendment to a section of the constitution, as follows. “provided that nothing in this constitution shall be so construed as to prevent any member of the first session of the first General Assembly accepting an office that is created by this constitution, or the constitution of the United States, and the salaries of which are established.” The vote on this amendment was 22 to 19 in favor of it. This included the full membership of the convention except 2: Daniel Grass, ill and absent, and Samuel Milroy, not voting. It was a close shave, the odd one of the 43 joining the “ayes” to nake the 22 majority.

Sound Hoosier Beginning

THUS THE GREASE won—no sand, no rebellion, no squawk, and democracy in Indiana went hopeful! to work to build a great state. When the atmosphere cleared after Indiana first constitutional convention adjourned, there was no valid complaint in the state. The politically astute three—Jennings, Hendricks, and Noble, had managed it so. The constitution was basically sound—a secure foundation for good government in Indians. "Phe thought obtruder: Perhaps it is better to grease democracy's wheels, as we do in America, than to pour on gritty sand, as they so often bit= terly do elsewhere in the world,

Randolph Churchill

0 to 1 Against War

comparatively modest rate of sixpence per hundred pounds. In other words, Lloyds are prepared to bet '4000 to 1 against this contingency. In contrast to this reassuring statistic, there is the extraordinary fact that, for the first time in the long history of life insurance, the standard policies provide no cover for the insured person in the event of death taking place during “organized hostilities.” THis is an amazing and disquieting fact,” During the first world war, the death toll in the Bfitish forces totaled nearly 1,000,000, and all the insurance companies were seriously affected. In spite of this, ail standard policies issued prior to 1939 still protected the insured party against death in war. The-casual~ ties in world war II were only one-third of those in world war I. Now, in spite of this decline, the insurance companies specifically exempt death in war from the c¢over provided in their policies.

War Would Be All-Destructive

THIS 18 NOT BECAUSE the, insurance companies regard war as either imminent or inevitable. It is be cause of the uncertain factor introduced by the atom bomb. They cannot begin to make any estimate as to how many people will be killed in world war, III, The Sun Life Insurance Co. has worked out a provi glonal estimate that, even on the basis of policies ready issued, each atom bomb dropped on Lonc would cost this one company alone 750,000 pounds, 1t is natural, in these circumstances, that the insurance companies should not wish to add to their com« mitments. . ; : What does all this add up to? The view of ine surance companies is plainly that war is not immi« nent; but that it is- likely in the long run and, if it does come, will be incomparably and incomputably more destructive than anything previously experienced.

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