Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 11 October 1946 — Page 20

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' @ive Light ond the People Will Pind Their Own Way

PROTECTION FOR CHILDREN

MVERY so often you read of a'sex crime. * Once in awhile you read of a murder—like the case at Riley hospital where-young Alberta Green was murdered, possibly by a sex maniac. You wonder why police don’t solve these mysteries, | why they don’t get suspects. : 2 Well, here's one reason: alte For about a year, Indianapolis mothers have been concerned over reports that a sex offender was molesting children. Little girls, excitedly whispering about some dark fear they. couldn't quite comprehend, rushed home from school to worried parents who wondered when police would catch the pervert, : * On the night of Sept. 17, a couple of alert patrolmen got their man. They sent him to City hospital for a sanity "test. He was adjudged sane. The vagrancy charge against him was dismissed. He walked out of court free. In the meantime, another branch of our municipal jurisprudence, got up a couple of more serious charges against the man, hoping to send him to jail inasmuch as he was adjudged sane. » But by the time ‘the warrants were drawn up, the man had been freed, was not to be found. 1t was a case of bumbling inefficiency—the right hand not knowing what the left, etc. And no effort had been made to apprehend the man— that is, until The Times got interested. He was finally arrested again today. : : Those interested in protection of their children and efficient law enforcement, will agree that something is wrong in our politics-ridden police department and county prosecutor's office.

| THERE IS NO PEACE

2 GPOKESMEN for the great powers have marched to their : respective rostrums in recent days ‘to decry the probability of another global war in the foreseeable future. Yet these same statesmen, or their representatives, facing one another across the table, have been unable to agree upon a formula for the legal termination of world war IL Actual peace seems more remote’ today than it did on Sept. 2, 1945, when the Japs signed surrender terms in Tokyo bay. Indeed, we remain at war in much more than in a mere technical sense. There is more shooting going on in various parts of the world than there was before that September morning in 1989 when Hitler crossed | the Polish border. : : An all-out political war is mounting almost everywhere. Varying weapons are being used, but the opposing elements are the same everywhere: Totalitarianism and the western concept of democracy. a The Paris peace conference, so-called, itself a mere prelude to a projected major conference on peace terms with Germany and Austria, is nearing adjournment after more than three months of bitter debate, without material contribution toward agreements over Italy, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania. : Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, back in Paris from Moscow, where he went for new instructions, urges compromises, but is talking tougher than ever. Concessions to him would mean surrender of vital principles by us. | The United States has gone about as far as it can in compromising with the Soviet Union. “Any further retreat from our widely proclaimed peace objectives would endanger senate ratification of the pending treaties, or lead to their ratification with reservations which would put the situation back exactly where it is today. We may be near the point where we will have to recogmize the futility of further discussion of issues which cannot be harmonized. An agreement to disagree, expressed _ or ‘implied, would freeze the status quo and necessitate a new approach to the whole problem of future peace. Such a situation is not to be desired, but if the puesent deadlock continues it will be forced upon us.

OLEO OUTRAGE

To VEN since the OPA price increase of 21% cents a pound, oleo-margarine is a lot cheaper than butter. And, as millions of families know, it is a healthful, palatable food. It's an outrage, we think, that the federal government and many states deliberately make margarine more expen- _ sive, harder to buy and more troublesome to use than there is any good reason for it to be. : They do this by discriminatory taxes and license fees, imposed and maintained because of butter-lobby pressure

states which has no such tax.

colored margarine, 10 cents a pound on the colored product. Bach manufacturer of margarine must pay a federal license fos of $600 a year. Wholesalers must pay federal fees of

~ garine. . These fees jump to $480 for wholealers and $48 for retailers if they handle the colored product.

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on congress and state legislatures. Indiana is one of the.

The federal tax is one-fourth of a cent a pound on un- |

$200 a year, retailers of $6 a year, to sell uncolored mar- |

That's why almost no yellow margarine is manufac- | tured or sold. And why housewives have to go to all the| | - trouble of ‘working in the coloring material that comes a little packet or capsule with each pound of white | margarine. Butter makers and other food processors use | ) kind of material to eolor their products, and pay

‘Because of the fees and taxes, many small grocers | ll margarine. Those that do, of course, pass the customers. The consumers pay the penalty, | | - 0 grow the vegetable dils used.in making | \ penalized—all because dairy farmers ers demand and get an unfair ad- | the sale of a good competitive |

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"| do not agree with a word that you

will defend to the death to say it." — Voltaire.

"Management: Seeks to Wear Down Workers by Shortages"

By M. R. Bender, Mooresville

I have been wondering, this long time, why someone did not speak up as Mr, Elmer Johnson did. Where are all those letter writers who kept calling the industrial strikers Communists and yelled that they should be thrown in the army and shipped across the water? But they do not have the farsightedness to see that these shortages of meats, fats, sugar, etc. is a strike against our government and the working man. Management intends to. wear him down to their way of voting by starving him into it, and a lot of the gullible ones<will be scared into it. During. the William Jennings | : Bryan campaign, every worker (in)aiready quite evident. the opinion of the management)| It destroys patriotism. Common was an anérchist. Today he Is a|citizens are not upholding political Communist, and the day before the | domineering and a law that canelection (in Chicago) every place not hold the respect of those who of employment posted signs saying sacrificed so much to save our freeif W. J. B. were elected President dom must be abolished or we perish. this place would shut down perma- = = » nently. And the banks posted no-|“LET PEOPLE NOMINATE, tices that should he be elected they [NOT BOSSES DOMINATE” would demand payment of all debts By George Maple, Terre Haute immediately or foreclose. So they It is deeply gratifying to, realize scared the people into voting the that we havea real statesman in Republican ticket. Indiana, who is really interested in Banks and management could not home rule government. It is as post such signs today—that would vitally and equally important the be coercing and against the law-— | electorate of our state have the but they can create shortages of privilege of selecting their candivital foods and really make some dates as electing them. A state people believe it is the fault of our convention. is supposed to be a reppresent type of government. resentative, deliberative assembly of Where would labor be today if it| delegates chosen from various secweren't for our present type of gov-| tions of the state—they should not ernment? Where was it imme- be subjected or manipulated as so diately prior to the F. D. R. era? much political machinery. In a dis,s =» =n rect primary election, the people “OPA 18 POLITICAL have the opportunity to nominate MEDDLING IN AFFAIRS” . the candidates, whom they feel will

“CITY FOLKS MISUNDERSTAND FARMERS’ PRICE PROBLEMS” By C. D. C, Terre Haute If some government bureaucrat should tell the working people of | the county who are members *of | such organizations as the A. F. of L. and C. 1. O, that they were getting too much money for their work and they would have to take a 20 per cent cut in wages, you would hear talk of revolution, dic- | tatorship and all the other names in the book against government bureaucrats. ‘ There would, of course, be walkouts, strikes, mass meetings, marching in a parade of protest against such tyranny and every effort would be made to gain public sympathy and support. The queer part is of course these same people do not seem to be able to understand why. when the same order was given to the cattlemen, the hog-feeders and all farmers by a government bureau¢rat, that the farmers do not rush their livestock to market so these same people can have plenty of food at’'a cheap price. The farmers of course are individualists. They do not create a big fanfare to gain the support of public opinion. They merely stay on the farm and have plenty to eat, which they produce by the sweat of their brow. As far as they are concerned government bureaucrats can set prices as low as they wish, but they don't have to sell. The only advice I would know

By C. D., Division st. serve their community and state to OPA has ceased to be price con-|the best advantage. trol. Tt is plainly political meddling| I am proud that the Republican in our private affairs. It keeps Party has such an outstanding pothousands on the payroll at our | litical personage in A. V. Burch. expense. It keeps G. Is homeless He has demonstrated his capacity | by letting less worthy people hold as an able and efficient official of {the apartments at too low rent. It our state. He has the courage of | makes it necessary that landlords his convictions. His deep sincerity, let their property to one or two | personal and political integrity are adults instead of giving a family highly commendable, Here is the a chance, man whose exemplary leadership, if

markets that producers must hoard tics in Indiana. Let the good cititheir products or risk bankruptcy (zens of our state rally to this proby having them ready when prices gressive political program and get are too low. A temporary lift of this much needed legislation. Let | OPA will not correct this situation. the people nominate instead of let- | It augments a crime wave that is [ting the bosses dominate.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

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“Now pleass don't embarrass me by telling the bus driverihow you always kept on schedule when you had this run

It makes so much uncertainty on |emulated, will eliminate power poli- |

to offer the gentlemen who think the farmers are getting too much for what they produce is, go to the country and produce it themselves. I have seen quite a num- | ber try it and they were usually | willing to go back to the city and {a 40-hour week. » . ” “PEOPLE MAKE COUNTRY OR IS IT VICE VERSA?” By Just A Citizen, Indianapolis I would like to emphasize two | techicalities because of certain mis- | understandings which seem to exist. First, often is heard mentioned the Russian government this or that, always lousy, and of course | rightfully so, But technically speaking, we are not dealing with the Russian government, but instead we deal with gangsters who dom- | inate it, The real government, the {will of the people, is-kept in ignor-

ance and subjugation, like a herd |

‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Frederick Oeschner :

of human cattle. | Second, you often hear Commies | say to the ones they hope to start {turning pink; this is not a free [government in the U. 8. AX .the | Communist government is alone the /free type. Technically speaking, (strange as it may seem, they are right. (Tn explain. The Russian govern'ment is free "to exploit and ma-chine-gun the Russian people, while

the U, 8. government is not free

to exploit we the people.

Commies are plenty tricky and know how to manipulate the English language to fool you, But they |are not intelligent, just plain agiBut I would like to make one statement to fool them. When they ask what is government or not

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democracy, which we should have to answer on American soil there's no answer to: it,

question; I would like to ask:

way or the other.

DAILY THOUGHT

Six days shall work be done; | but the .seventh day is the sabbath of rest, an holy convocation; | ye shall do no work therein —

Leviticus 23:3. » » »

» Take rest; a-field that has rested

Many founded a colony of his countrymen in Indianapolis, it was possible around here on the fingers of one hand. two—the Rev. John Giuegen and the revered Joseph Parisette, Both arrived in 1848. Father Guegen was brought here to serve as the fourth successive pastor of Holy Cross, the first Catholic church to be established in Indianapolis (in 1840), set up a French candy shop on E. Washington st.

| was a Catholic priest in Champigneul | France, with apparently enough time left on" his | hands to mix in politics, too. At any rate, in 1848, he became a candidate for the house of deputies on

conspiracy, and sentenced to exile. ca and arrived in New York in 1850.

No firing squads for me

But if a question could be answered with a Does | the country make the people or the | | people make the country?” It's one

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How Local French’ Colony Got Start

THIS STORY OF PUREST RAY serene comes to

you because of an implanted notion that Indranapolis was settled entirely by Irishmenvand Germans, a legend I may have helped to keep alive, want to make amends. The truth is that the French also played a part to make our town the exciting place it iS.

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Prior -to 1858, the year Gerard

to count the French

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As for Mr. Parisette, he came ta

(also the first of its kind around here). Of the

two, the candy shop had the most customers.

A century ago, back in the Forties, Uerard Many Ardennes,

the anti-Bonaparte ticket. It was a mighty risky thing

. to do. Soon as his candidacy was announced, he was | thrown into Jail,

After an imprisonment of more than a year, he was given a trial, found guilty of He chose Ameri-

Answer to an Invitation FOR SOME STRANGE REASON which I still have to fathom, Gerard Many found his way to Indlanapolis through Brown county where, believe it or not, he ran across a countryman of his. I haven't the least idea what became of his chance acquaintance. For all I know, his descendants may be perched on the hills around Beiment today. Be that as it may, things looked pretty good to Mr, Many after what he had been through in France;

good enough, at any rate, to inspire him to write a

SACRAMENTO, Oct. 11.—California has one of the most talked-about figures politically in the nation - —Gov. Earl Warren. He earned enough attention in his first two years as governor to be keynote speaker at his party's 1944 convention and to be sought after as vice presidential nominee by Gov. Thomas E. Dewey. He gained credit as a shrewd politician when he refused to ac-

| cept that bid. He foresaw accurately what was going

to happen in the fourth Republican attempt to beat

| Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Democrats Are Demoralized

NOW HE IS ENJOYING a new blaze of political glory by his amazing feat of winning both Republican and Democratic nominations for a second term as governor in the primary. This shook the Democratic party in this state, once so triumphant in Mr. Roosevelt's tenure of office; so that it is today shattered and demoralized. I asked him what everybody asks, about the 1948 Republican presidential nomination. “I don't want any job in Washington. It's hard for people to understand that and believe it, but it's true. My job is here.” Then he talked enthusiastically dbout his state. It's the joyous talk of pleased surprise. A year ago Gov. Warren and others here had gloomy forebodings. None materialized. It is natural for people to talk of prospects of call of Gov. Warren to still higher office, for the Republican party is looking for a man—and a vote-get-ter, such as he is. What about him? Is he presidential timber? On the record, he is in the progressive Republican tradition, perhaps with some modification here and there. But he has had trouble getting his progressive program through the legislature, failed on

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—You and I nice people, America, but we've picked up a lousy habit over the last few years—a habit I hope we grow out of pretty soon. We have become downright shameless bootlickers, favor-curriers, and seekers after the shortcut via the bribe, : Shortages and restrictions of war and its aftermath have made us a nation of moochers; timid, near-panhandlers who pay through the nose for the privilege of begging.

Wheedling for Meat

THE SIMPLE BUSINESS of buying the daily fodder has become a shameful, sneaking paraphrase of bootlegging. We have been forced into trickery, palm-greasing,.and elaborate subterfuges in order to obtain things which should be ours by virtue of our right to pay for them. Somewhere in the shuffie we have mislaid our oldest and toughest American axiom, that a man could take what he needed for a fair price, and that one man's dollar was no better than another's. Our wives have wheedled and fawned on the butcher for a piece of meat to eat; a handful of sugar, a. hunk of butter, a bottle of milk. They give presents to the grocer in order to buy the right to pay him a profitable price for a commodity he sells to make his living. Even before the current food shortage, favored customers went through intricate plotting in order to buy special delicacies. Meat moved into the back~ | rooms and under the counter, and “No” was the | answer to the casual customer, while Mrs. Hep ordered a sirloin over the phone and picked it up in a plain wrapper. ~The degradation of the paying consumer has spread to every form of commerce. We openly con=

Foreign Groups

situation in this country.

regarded by Soviet Russia as provocative.

U. S. Should Be on Guard

the case.

warfare now going on throughout the world.

groups in ‘this country, 13 million born abroad.

many instances; they are

curity, militate against our political interests.

Many of

tential if not actual danger. - 4 Far-reaching political tolerance is a principle 0 the American system. It's one thing which distin

it is a liability if we are not on guard, 4 "In wartime, we provide drastio penalties for espion

gives a bountiful crop.—Ovid.

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Warren Strong in Political Picture

NEW YORK, Oct. 11.—The justice department's unusual action in requiring certain Russian, Polish, Czech, Bulgarian, and Ukranian delegates to the re-

cent American-Blav congress in New York to register as agents of foreign powers highlights an interesting

This, with refusal to grant Yugoslav -delegates visas to attend the congress, is almost certain to be

MAYBE THERE ARE, FACTORS undisclosed in But in principle the incident shows that somebody in our government is alert to the political

There are 25 million members of foreign-language » n

being used or influenced by foreign powers in ways which, while they do not | infringe on our laws or immediately threaten our se-

these 25 million are, naturalized. The big majority is doubtless loyal to this country-—often with the intense loyalty of converts. Their war record, as a group, was splendid. But for a number of reasons many of them as, individuals represent po-

guishes us from dictatorships, But at the same time

_agg, sedition and other subversive activities In

letter inviting all his brothers and sisters to join him in his new adventure. In a postscript he hastened to add that anybody outside his immediate family circle was welcome too. : Apparently, the folks back home took him at his word. When it came time to sall, the party consisted of 27 people, including 14 children. One half of all the kids belonged to Bazille Lendormi who had mar- | ried ‘Mr. Many's sister. It turned out, too, that quite a number of people had taken advantage of Mr. Many's postscript for when the party arrived in Indianapolis, it included not only relatives, but also old friends like Martin Turguin, for instance, and Louis Labarre, M. Fallli and Clementine Marquet. Well, that was the start of the French coiony in" Indianapolis. They settled in and around N. Noble st. and got along beautifully with the North side’ Germans who, strangely enough, had appropriated that district as their own. Which doesn't mean, however, that the Indianapolis French left their pride and prejudices in the old country. In support of which there is a story Charlie Dennis loved to tell: One day, Gerard Many and Carl Bergmann, an old German music teacher around here, got into a violent argument as to who was the better American. Finally, Mr. Many asked: “And when did you take out your naturalization papers?” ... “When I had been here six months,” said the German proudly. ... “Just as 1 thought,” sald Mr. Many, “I declared my citizenship the same day I landed in New York. That makes me the better American.”

Teacher and Student

THE ONLY THING LEFT to tell, and possibly the strangest, is the fact that Gerard Many ceased to be a priest (and politician) after he arrived in Indianapolis. He spent all his time here as a private teacher, He was also the best customer our public library ever’ had. Up until 1879, when he was too sick to leave the house, he visited the library every day. ; : Indeed, there is a legend that he read every one of the 30,000 books our library had at the time. Show me an Indianapolis Irishman or German who can equal that record—let alone, surpass it. :

his state health insurance plane, first to be recommended on a state basis in the country. When the legislature got through with a full employment bill, proposed originally by Democrats but later espoused ’ by him, it was considerably emasculated. He did get through a disability insurance law, as part of the state unemployment compensation system, favored the army engineer dam building program, with emphasis on irrigation, flood control and navigation rather than that of the interior department reclamation bureau, which also includes power development as 8 major factor. Private power interests still are potent in California. : Yet the governor has, in his health bill, shown courage in combatting well-entrenched interests and some friendly observers claim he is not looked upon kindly by various powerful economic interests. He has spoken out bluntly, on occasion, against blind reaction in his party. . His critics make much of his failure with the legislature, complain his progressivelsm is not too deep. It is these who insist that he is anxious to become president, and is playing a cagey game.

Means What He Says THE GOVERNOR ALWAYS HAS been convincing in his frankness about his personal desires politically. He made it plain to newspapermen at the Hershey, Pa., governors’ conference in 1944, that he would not accept the vice presidential nomination. And meant what he said. jp: There is, always, of course, the “draft” which might come in his case for either the presidential or vice presidential nomination. No man can turn that down. It is human for a political leader to think of that, for the Republican presidential nomination in 1948 looks now like a ticket that would bring the prize.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark re People Forced to Sneaking Tricker

ceded that we could bribe our way into Pullman reservations; that pull would get you onto the next airplane flight, that a knowing wink and suggestive motion to the room clerk would find you a bed for the night. Prices of new automobiles went up and up, and delivery inside a year was considered impossible, However, nearly everybody I know who wanted & new car seems to have one. Housing is scarce; apartments are nil. But everybody eventually seems to find his hovel, for hideous rentals, initial bribes, indirect palm oil in the form of outrageous sums for shabby furniture, We have carried our self-abasement to the point where we now are grovellingly servile to servitors. We are pathetically subservient to cab drivers. We find it impossible to buy a ticket for a popular show here at the boxoffice, but the scalper does you & favor when he digs up a pair for $30. The American merchandiser, in many fields, has become an involuntary fence—a dealer in hot nylons, hot shoes, hot pants, hot food, hot car, hot éverything, with the customer eager to compound“the felony.

Practice Makes Chiselers OUR WILLINGNESS TO SCATTER coin and accept abuse has bred a whole generation of chislers, The black market is nothing but an offshot of our personal greed and unscruplousness. We, the people—the nice people, the sober people, the God-fearing people, the working people—are equally guilty with the profiigates and the conmen in building this national habit of chiseling and bootlegging. And there seems to be no antidote until such time as we are too broke to bribe or a return to plentitul production forces the sellers into the natural fight for the buyers’ favor, :

Retain Old Contacts

peacetime, we relax. Thbugh we are not at war, we are not quite at peace either. All the powers are engaged in political warfare in which propaganda and manipulation of minorities are principal instruments. Visitors sharpen interest of foreign-language groups in political events of their fatherlands, Study “of the 800 dally or weekly periodicals which serve them in 30 languages reveals how sensitively they follow every tremor that ruffies the political surfaces in Europe, the Middle East, South America and elsewhere. It shows how outspoken they are in criticism not only of foreign governments, but of our own, which because of citizenship, is also their own. ~ State department files reveal frequent attempts to influence our foreign policy by direct action. Almost every senator and. representative is sensitive to “the foreign vote” arid related pressure groups. That is fundamental, in, our political system, is outwardly manifest, and need occasion no alarm. z

Communists Pressure Foreign Born TWENTY-EIGHT OF ‘THE 30 language groups

ed newspapers.

regular surveillance over the groups’ political activities are purposeful but inadequate. These groups _ provide, ‘through huge membership in labor unions, t direct channel for alien’ political infiences on labor,

- Our authorities and private agencies are not in tegrating the groups rapidly or thoroughly enough

into American political and social life, nor using them

further our own policies abroad.

are served regularly, by Communist of Moscow -orient=

Efforts of our government agencies to exercise

- sufficiently in what would be legitimate ways to -

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