Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 21 October 1946 — Page 14

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Give Liokt and the People Will Find Their Own Way

HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN CRIMINALS 0 ! WE have seldom seen a better example of what's wrong or . with our juvenile court than the one the judge of 3 that court himself provided last week. ; A boy who has been amusing himself by turning in . false fire alarms is finally apprehended by police, and taken "to the county jail. A politician calls Juvenile Court Judge Mark W. Rhoads at 1 o'clock in the morning and the judge telephones to the sheriff’s office to authorize the boy's release, without a hint of correction. Judge Rhoads later explained that he'd do as much for-any boy, especially, it would appear, for any boy who has a ward chairman in the family, Eh This boy isn't a criminal—yet. But turning in false "fire alarms is too serious an offense to be laughed off as a boyish prank. Firemen risk their lives, and the lives of “others, every time they rush through the city streets on a fire call. They take out of service valuable equipment that might be needed to cope with a real fire, every time they answer a false alarm. Every fire run costs the city a sizable sum of money. ‘At best a false alarm is a costly and dangerous business. At worst it could be a tragedy. This boy confessed that he had turned in several such false alarms. Police report there have been a great number . from his neighborhood. What has he learned from his contact with the law, and with the juvenile court? hi : Well, mostly he has learned that you can laugh at the CL — police and ignore the law if you have a relative with a little | -—" tf 3 BURT

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political pull.

“influence” to “spring” him from arrest: ~The juvenile a

court has injured not only this boy but every boy in Marion ° : : county by letting a politician fix a case and teaching a "Nuernberg Trial Method Smacks

youngster who needs help that there is no penalty for | . “. ¥ " Wwrong-doing—if you know the right people. ‘Of Unsavory Nazi Criminal Code By Warrack Wallace, Fletcher Trust Building

criminal. Few criminals start their career with a Sel aeaiie

importance of the principle by'in-,

Molotov should stand before the

‘attack upon Finland and Poland. |

pathy for them, but with stern severity enough to impress | TRH ose who support it

upon them that there are penalties for breaking laws, and |are inclined to follow the letter of VIEWS ON _ with supervision enough to make. sure they grow in the jthes low Patiier than its “spirit” is righ directi invidious stuff. A Hon. . "5 Before Nuernberg, there was nei-| THE NEWS

Our Marion county juvenile court doesn't do that. [ther letter nor spirit nor law. The It considers itself an active arm of a political party, its four victors met on the battlefield, By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

: ; that d xist, as to th . been useful happy adults have passed through its mills [jaws oe} SH} 23 hie Nov. § .

. » . “ » - ” : WE have been publishing, recently, the case histories of |participation or advice of any but |Pricls Altered. : the victors. England and Russia »

little offenses, and getting no punishment, committing big-| This is what has been called slaughters a Jew {armas

ger offenses and being turned loose on “probation” which | “elaborate pains” taken to insure a

“fair trial” They are the same

suspicion of political influence. Too soon the crimes are by the court in the often repeated “18% bow) Sontest: -

aren't isolated cases. There are scores and scores of them. |i, accused a fair trial, then adIndianapolis police say nearly all the crime in Indianapolis [journ for lunch and, "thereafter, 19 abhi. HE is committed by boys and men whose records are in this file. A few well-meaning folks have criticized us for pub- | gee taken in the Moscow purge eyervini lishing these records, although we never identify the in- |trials and by the Nazi courts. everywing. “ou boy who has the record. We suspect they haven't read the records through to the end. Nearly all these “boys”

tnsavory quality of the Nazi crim- . =

jurisdiction, and no doubt have been amazed to discover, [70° = eed at any time which, as & team.

ais : : tm , fur- - appointments a reward for political party service, its grew Lair OWE ee ps ope purpose Eu Présijeny ru. Sound, gi Stacey Jreentents | | responsibility to the party rather than to the children Who |gs the sole judges, and fixed their keep the ballot box ‘from turning accusations in no way deters future to say well the things that the opposition is saying yet demanding it for themselves, which, of course, need its help. Too many boys and girls. who might have |cwn penalties—all on the basis of into a deep-freeze for Democrats |aggressors. No one at the San Pran- this campaign year, and to paint the New Deal as a is human nature, 100. _

Yo produce a aeanitin of an] REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark ~~

. = . - ‘and grown up to be habitual, and serious, criminals. las to the Class 3 crime against hu-| The President made it clear that |“aggressor” which anyone else manity accusations, and all without from now on OPA will mean Old would agree to and, until an inter-

. . : "n » some of these delinquents. There is a certain monotony | C8 Ve reluctantly—each for| Stalin works it differently. When |from the mouth of the victor just about the records—they all start the same way, committing |entirely different reasons. ’ his city folks don't get meat he prior to the time he springs the

o Now maybe the G. O. P. Can fore the plunge, which has alwa ° . * . . ’ ys in this county just means turned loose, too often with a | porate pains which were taken ™™ the campaign into an empty |peen the first consideration ‘anyway.

serious crimes—burglary, car thefts hold-u ps. I hese story, ttribut judge or | Preventing inflation would be ’ 1 h rt wo v | pO facto ment, he is h This another, that the cou uld 8 . | easier if we could just quit the | P o 13c0 ele b, he rig t.

hang the so-and-so. They were the | Byrnes made Molotov angry by {same kind of elaborate pains which |. jetting the Big Four railroad |

» dividual, on the grounds that we thereby embarrass the| The whole business of trying the| P. A C. seems to be falling down Nazis. for aggression smacks of the on collections as well as elections. |

. inal code whose most a Just because there are nine

are in prison now. They have grown out of juvenile court [feature provided that any German | judges back on the supreme court, by 1 : could be tried for any act which he it doesn’t mean they will play ball: oF is Tol bY WUIYINg 8 few palu | ~~ | Ribbentrops in the wreckage. The

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Jot the defendants and the assess-|

|Goering had his Rotterdam and |

ment of the maximum penalty.! yore it does not seem to matter who the opponent zation bill thrgugh. The secretary 6f the Wyoming ®

nr : | OUR TOWN : ; J By Anton Scherrer tc

doesn't mean, of course, that Indianapolis didn't have its quota of red-heads. :

rare, indeed, that the number of red-heads never exceeded the number of white horses than which there was nothing more scattered in Indianapolis at the time. I know that to be a fact because when I was head. Right away, it had everybody guessing. They

establishes the right of the victor | lowed the senator's career closely—as the writer has to kill the loser as an Aggressor. It! ever since Joe O'Mahoney took his seat in the senate does not establish the right to try| a dozen years ago—and have observed first-hand any aggressor other than a losing | how. faithfully he has worked for the aggressor. If it did, Stalin and | plain people. Despite his support of many fundamental reforms

| survive—though certainly by a close margin. The

ito the limit for any violation by any ! best interests.

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The Gil Wih the Auburn Ha

I CAN'T REMEMBER ever going to school. with an paid position in an Indianapolis church choir. Occa-

auburn-haired girl, let alone a red-head. There were sionally, too, her te : lor » too, acher parts plenty of Blonds sy | a plethora of brunets but, for in Maennerchér congerts ROL Her fte Site wi some reason, the privilege of growing up with a red- Sometimes in the late Nineti es, Gra - haired girl was denied me when, some 60'years ago, cago where John J. Murdock billed Tr iden

attended public school 6. Which

at Masonic temple which he was managin time, Myr. Murdock had come upein oy a ne ment world by way of a wagon show. Grace madg S good with the result that Mr. M. built a vaudeville act" ; §iving her. He cdlled it “The Girl with the Auburn rr » = - To get vaudeville customers worked up, Mr. Murdock wouldn't reveal the identity of his star. As a matter of fact, the first bill posters he sent- out didn’t reveal anything more than the back of Grace's

At that, they were rare: so

kid, it was a part of every boy's credo to beliéve guessed every red-head they could think of including

that the sight of a white horse would be rewarded Anna Held, Leslie Carter, Am . , y Leslie and eve by the sight of a red-haired girl; if not immediately, Princess Chimay, a questionable character in a fe

certainly within the course of -the next half hour, ican vaudeville at the time. ) The title of the act also fooled everybody into beAnd Then a Change Took Place lieving that Mr. Murdock’s star was a naughty eon

WHENEVER THAT happened, it was a boy's priv- dancer. ' That's why everybody was so surprised to

ilege to make a wish. I didn't have much luck that discover that the act consisted of an ecclesiastical way, either; so little, in fact, that very early in my Scene with Lottie playing the organ and Grace singcareer I made up my mind that I wasn’t cut out for ing church songs including “The Heavenly Light” mysticism; at any rate, not when red-haired girls and especially composed for the occasion. white horses were,_involved. The vogue of “The Girl with the Auburn Hair”

You have no idea, though, what a change took Was sO enormous that women all over the country

place in the course of the next 20 years not only in went to work to make their hair look like Grace's. Indianapolis, but all over. the country. By the time Mr. Murdock played it for all it was worth and even 1900 came along, red-haired women were so abundant that ft*had everybody guessing where they all came ited to women who had the luck to be born with hair from: the more so, because the number of white the color of Grace's. By that time there were so many horses hadn't increased appreciably, Only those on red heads that the doorkeeper had to examine each the inside knew that Grace Akass of Indianapolis had °"° to see whether there were any wigs among them. something to do with revising the color scheme of ; the American scene.

advertised “Auburn Hair Matinees” which were lim-

Story Has Happy Ending Grace lived with her parents and her two sisters, I GUESS I ought to say, too, that eventually Mr.

Minnie and Lottie, in the 2200 block of N. Meridian Murdock married Grace Akass. Thank goodness, some st. -All three girls were gifted. Minnie had a talent of my stories have a happy ending. for art and Lottie played the organ. As for Grace, . (Timely Note: A recent number of The New she was blessed with a fine contralto voice and an Yorker (Oct. 5) reveals the comforting fact that an extraordinary crop of red hair, a combination of cir- octogenarian by the name of John J. Murdock is now, gr: .| cumstances that ‘didn’t escape anybody and, least of taking it easy in southern California; at any rate iO all, Prof. Alexander Ernestinoff who lived right across as easy as the modern instrument of entertaipment, the street at the time. Prof. Ernestinoff whipped the known as the radio, permits an experienced ald showvoice into shape and, in no time at all, Grace had a man to be.)

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

Close Senatorial Contest in Wyoming

CHEYENNE, Oct. 21.—It is a most ‘discouraging whole, all the way back, as something quite heinous,

"experience to come into the home state of an able rather than a benefit. Technique of Republicans is public servant like Senator O'Mahoney (D. Wyo.) and to damn the New Deal from hell to breakfast, cuss

. . sous »” That's lesson No. 1 in “How to Be a Criminal. . : "I do not agree with a word that you see that what he has done in Washington is twisted out the Truman administration and then tie the His politician-relatiye has done this boy a great and | soy: but J ill defend to the death aon and misrepresented to try to defeat him for re- senator up Ve 2 that, though Joe O'Mahoney was . os 3 : 3 : : : ' . it election. never a blind follower of the New Deal. ting injury by intervening in this case and using his | loos er ; orl 11 | \ re ig las injury by g > your right to say it Voltaire It is, of course, typical American politics. Senator O'Mahoney has been identified with some

It is particularly discouraging when you have fol- of the basic economic reforms of recent years. Outstanding among his accomplishments is his constant

fight against great trusts and mondpolies which squeeze the public. In doing that, of course, he made interests of the Powerful enemies now anxious to see him defeated.

that have helped all the people, he frequently is

- * ” # = 4 0, this boy isn't a criminal, yet. No boy begins as a | The branding of Senator Taft's criticism of the ex post facto nature nar in the matter of the Russian| Home Appreciation Lacking Re ER i fe ee bo of the Nuernberg trials as a mere contortion of a “legalistic” mind is

SENATOR LA FOLLETTE (R. Wis.) did the same circles, for the way he would look out for local

; : > a . : Or, were those wars of defense!’ interests hi tive" —i fii t major crime. They begin, almost always, with little things | "x do not know of any more important principle than that a HAR rather than wars of aggression? —and they threw him out this year. - Joe O'Mahoney Inierests neve — 8% PROVE © O08 £} With general breaki int i t pett fts, false fire [should not be hanged for an act which has become a hanging matter | Class 2. the real 5 ? [is bucking the same sort of wave of reaction. The Uration pational POBCY. An example 1s his reaking windays, playing truant, petty thefts, a s¢ oily by virture of those in power so deciding at some later convenient qn a 2 ie peal yap Srimes, ee | consolation in his case is that he may be able to constantly recurring battle against the administra-

is right here, while the youngster’s | alarms, maybe. It is right here, while young |Gaty. The principle is a vital part of our own constitution and one of |ang customs of war existed, and | (ge tc running strong here as elsewhere, a tide washed , Men in his state. .

tion's reciprocal tariff program on behalf of cattle-

character is being formed, that the juvenile court should |ine solid foundations of morality and law in the United States and ENg- | were recognized by all, at the time | * | up by accumulating dissatisfaction with the Truman Cc . . ontradictory Attitudes

! 3 3 i i .} 1 not by edict. To malign the i , do its job, with understanding of boys and girls, and sym- |land where government is by law and y alig of he sels commitied and everyone | ag. i stration. This seems to take no account what|would heartily approve prosecution ever in the case of so many people, of their own YOU FIND THAT local interests for whom he

; . battled so vigorously are complaining. Sheep men In the case bf Senator O'Mahoney, as in some complain because he didn't get the wool price stabili-

is. It is an “agin'” vote. His opponent happens td Wool Growers association, however, lauded the sena<

‘each of the defendants his OWN |. Harry B. Henderson, Cheyenne lawyer, who ran tor for his efforts on behalf of this measure~and

prosecutions would have established

national legislative body does define it, the only definition will come

based upon a concern as to the ex

| has nothing to do with partisan { politics. It can, and no doubt will be, tortured. into fantastic political shapes but its kernel is the solid] American and English principle of { morality, accepted without question {by all of us until Nuernberg, that {an ex post facto law is a device of | tyrants and has no place in a gov- | ernment by law.

The way to stop wars of aggres-

world requires desperately an inter-

. too late, that adult courts do not look upon burglary and |in the opinion of prosecutor and

political connections, won't always fix a felony charge. {that the penalties should be such ~ Our juvenile court should be entirely out of politics, (as the court decided were appro-

|killing by Nazis of their own people, people in the United States.

His opponent at the election two weeks from tomorrow |munists of their own people, and it [to convictions for a

robbery and auto stealing as boyish pranks, and that |court, was inimical to the interests is well to remember that such mas- | 8 o luw; an international court to adof the National Socialist State, and [sacres were accomplished largely judicate controversies; and an in-

by the device of ex post facto law A ’| ternational executive body to promade up to fit the political unde- | 4, conotions for the court's de-

entirely divorced from political parties. It should be staffed |priate. This was the perfect ex post | sirables. It is a melancholy thought |... . thats : facto law as it completely shut out|that the principle behind this : completely by men and women trained for their jobs, and any opportunity for the “legalistic” method receives solemn approval by | We shall regret tacit adoption at

allowed to do their jobs without any political influence. mind to become an annoyance. | our government at Nuernberg and Our present juvenile court judge has been unable or un-| No one can doubt the wholesale commendation from responsible

willing to make i i g to make it that kind of a court. lonly exceeded by the Russian Com- | The precedent Eginernbly, 93 facto law 1s 3m ession, merely | cept

{national legislative body to enact

Nuernberg of two of the prime formulas of every revolutionary party; first, that the end justifies the means and, second, that the ex post ere “legalistic” con- |

has pledged that he will make it that kind of a court. The ‘political party of which he is a member has pledged that Side Glances —By Galbraith

| Editor's Note: Mr. Wallace, mem- | . ber of the Indianapolis bar for 25 years, was on Gen. George Patton's

i it will stay completely out of court affairs, offer no appli- | : i cants for appointments, and attempt no influence on its | PRU operations. | = For the sake of. the boys and girls of Marion county 1" that's worth a trial. Without regard to party lines, Jo-| ~ seph 0. Hoffmann should be elected juvenile court judge.

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THOUGHT FROM MOSCOW ‘HE Moscow radio in its first editorial comment on the Nuernberg hangings says they are a condemnation of |’ aggressive war and ought to be a warning to “all” who today harbor any plans of aggression. Stet.

ELECTION POLL | results of The Times postcard poll on major races the Nov. 5 election are published as a political sidefure today on Page One,~ { the poll is NOT presented as a prediction or an authorive forecast. Results of the survey may change from jo day as additional cards are received.

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t encouraging inference to be drawn from the cards at this early date is the: possibility of widespread party lines and. voting for candidates on the ations rather than party affiliation. Of the ted for today’s announcement, 36.1 marked andidates, 84.1 per cent were straight

ho my husband is for. and vote way we'll be fair to all the can

Ll find out w dt ! thas

i 3 —1 flow, « for the other man— | Too ne didatesl” = > | % Deal,

staff during and subsequent to the Normandy invasion. His other assignments during the war were with anti-aircraft, OSS and intelligence units, His argument, it should ‘be observed, deals with method of trial and not guilty of the criminals. Mr. Wallace also is a veteran of world war I. » ” » “NUERNBERG TRIALS ARE GOOD FOR WORLD PEACE” By Robert Inman, Crawfordsville. Of all the good things that our country has done, I think that I am safe In saying that’ holding the | Nuernberg trials is one of the best [things that could happen to human | ature, By these trials the root of all evil will be stamped out and the world can keep what our boys had jo fight and die for. The Nuernberg trials should prove to the world that

to overrun the principles of mankind and the laws of the lands.

——————————————————— DAILY THOUGHT | ‘Thou, O Lord, art in the mjdst 4 | of us, and we are called by Thy" name; leave us not.—Jeremiah 14:9.

there, ‘Cleave thou the wood and there

type of criminal activify. Such |. cessfully six years ago for the Republican sena- others for the sheep man. torial nomination. Irony of the complaint about wool 48 that youll

mé down from here in as a confirmed indorser of the frequent feline boast than a woman can do anything she wants, as well or better than the old man.

Sorensen of Stamford, Conn. I was up to see her

the other day. Mrs. Sorensen has been a tycoon since

June, when her husband, a brilliant electrical engineer, spun-a plane into the ground and made a widow Just Let Men Keep the Vote out of Mrs. 8. and orphans of her three youngsters. IN THE MIDST of a deepish conference, while

even flow of electric power for such things as frequency modulation radio stations, sound movies, air-

‘bilities of his lieutenants, and has cut out some of popularity since they t

iv 1s a very useless thing of trying|

\..... The ‘government has a su

: INI | servatives ‘are numerically ‘too inferior to survive a “Raise thou the stone and find Me

Mr. Henderson is a polished speaker and is .able id them damning OPA and price-fixing in general,

He. Is Ready to_Shout Uncle-Loudly

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—All right, girls, 1-quit. I Sorensen into this bliepririt maze. She took over

loser’s trap. This merely recom-| cry uncle. Hand me the dish towel, and tell me how with a bang. mends some certainty of victory be-| to have the babies. =~ She infused what is called the “womans touch”

The world is yours, and I anv sorry if I once in- into the dreary sterility of an electronics plant. Her

ferred you were a silly tribe; giddy in the head and tame scientists feed from her fist. Her employees are Insofar as Taft's statement is overfond of frippery. _. ~ nuts about her.

This momentary contrition—tomorrow I may be She has reorganized the sales and distribution

beating your brains out again—stems from my first departments on major lines, and business is rocketing. meeting with a she-tycoon. Purely professionally, I She took one look’ at the old Instiytional adyertisehave. mét lots of ladies—f{emale tiger chasers, strip- ments, and screaméd in horror. teasers, and members of the Women's Christian Tem- “There are nothing but figures and specifications perance union. in them,” she squealed. “Nobody can understand

them but a Ph. D. My 8-year-old boy ought to be able

A Confirmed Indorser Now ' to understand any advertisement he sees—any ad

put about anything.” So Mrs. Sorensen, woman-like, now tranélates electric power control interms of burning toast. A vital patent in weatherproofing: transformers is owned by General Electric. Mrs. 8, somehow, sweettalked permission to use it, and G. E. 1s not noted for excessive concern for its competitors.

BUT SHE-TYCOONS are a rarity in my set.

My mistress of industry is named Mrs. Helen

This left Mrs. Sorensen with about five million Helen is talking about the necessity of fostering

pucks worth of annual business on her hands—a transformers, the phone will ring and the assembled business so technical that ordinary engineers have to engineers will hear her say: SAN hire uppercase engineers to explain it to them. Mrs.

“No, junior, you must not put peanut butter in Sorensen makes electronic power regulators. ~ sister's hair,” and then she will continue: “Regarding

These little numbers are necessities in assuring an the order from Wright fleld. . . ." . In a world where attractive, slim young ladies

speak casually of baking electric widgets in pressure field controls and other complicated gizmos which cookers, I give up. . trade in the never-never land of higher electrical All I ask, girls, is please let us keep the vote, and conjure. leave u$ our pants. Wind gets up those skirts some-

In the midst of baking a cake, fate forced Mrs. thing awful.

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By Randolph Churchill wr No Big Change in British Scene

NEW YORK, Oct. 21.—The British parliament pursue, in the main, its avowed course of nationaliza-

reassembled recently for the autumn session. There tion of industry. {3 The Tories, in formulating their long-term plans,

have been no significant changes in the make-up of must bear in mind that, when they eventually regain the parties since the house went into recess three ,m., they will have to contend with many altered months ago. : circumstances, most, of which they. will have to accept Prime Minister Clement Attlee's cabinet reshuffle as permaneht. - was a routine affair of adjustment, based' on teh That this is so is considered by many Conservaresults shown by the ministers concerned during tives as a very great -tragedy. But. what was the the past 15 months. > alternative? Even with their great majority and Mr. Attlee has had a chance to gauge the capa- their famed “mandate,” We Laburties have lost some |, ook office. Had the Tories scraped in with a small majority, ? they would have been faced with one of the most difficult periods in English history.

the deadwood and perhaps eliminated some minor sources of friction. It would be a mistake to oud into his changes any indication of serious trouble within the anges of Sine Labor party. It is quite possible they would have failed to : survive these unquiet post-war years, and would have Conservatives Want Letup lost a subsequent election with far more damage CONSERVATIVE circles hope Herbert Morrison, . their prestige than they suffered in 1045. : lord president of the council and leader of the com- “Sees Parallel in U.S. mons may let up a little on the speed with Which . .rygRE 18 a direct parallel to this in the United he forced important measures through the house gtates today. The country is suffering from post-war during the last session. . reconversion troubles. The Truman administration | Mcient majority to enable is’faced with unusual difficulties and, as a result of the : ways in which these difficulties have been handled (or mishandled), it appears likely .the Republicans. next month may gain control of the house and maybe of sustained series of all-night sittings and still mdintain the senate. : their relative strength on the floor of the house. .But if this happens, it, wilk.not, of course, autoThe government boasts of the overwhelming “man- matically put an end to the current unrest in the

it to work under a system of shifts, and still be assured of carrying through legislation. * The Con-

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t00 far, for me to know.

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i = not constitute the right fo bludgeon aside opposi- . congress: might disappoint the people during the next ‘

‘ date” given to thém by the people in 1945. But victory country. Faced with the same difficulties which in a general election, by however imposing a margin, proved too much for the Democrats, a Republican

tion by sheer wefght of numbers. two yeas, and so jeopardize Republican chances of

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