Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 October 1946 — Page 20

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Give Lioht and the People Will Find Their Own Way

SENATOR FROM INDIANA “WEEK from next Tuesday Indiana will choose one of two candidates for the United States senate. This year the voters have a reasonable number of clear-cut issues without complication or equivocation, on which to base their choice. Both candidates have plainly and frankly stated how they stand on those issues, and how they may be expected to vote on them if elected to congress. They're worth some careful study. On the very important matter of foreign policy they appear to be in full agreement. Both are pledged to support of the current bi-partisan policy developed by Byrnes and Vandenburg, which we believe to be the right policy

and which we believe a large majority of Hoosiers indorse. » » w » " .

HEY do differ on important domestic issues. them: LABOR. Mr. Townsend, the Democratic nominee, is for keeping federal labor laws as they are now, without change. Mr. Jenner, the Republican nominee, is for revision of those labor laws in line with the stated policy of his party which in general professes to aim at making employers and unions equal under the law and gorrecting some abuses that have developed undey present statutes. SOCIAL SECURITY. Mr. Townsend advocates expansion of the present system, promises to vote for the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill, and presumably the rest of | the “cradle to the grave” New Deal security program of

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ANOTHER MORTALITY is the vendor's cry. Of all the picturesque peddlers, each with his identified voice, we now have only the newsboy and an occasional huckster. wre : Considered both quantitatively and qualitatively, the old-time newsboy's cry was every bit as good as it is today. In all probability, it may have been even better, if for no other reason than the apparent fact that it had to be better. Sixty years ago when I was a kid, the newsboys didn't have the advantages of big bold headlines to help them sell their wares. , As for the modern huckster's cry, maybe it, too, is as good as the old-timer’s. But I doubt it. Certainly, no modern huckster can cup his hand in the er of the old-timer and produce the ear-split- | tthg sdunds that he did. To be sure, it didn’t sound anything like “Apples,” ‘or “Potatoes,” or Watermelons,” but there was no mistaking its meaning.

Vendors Carried Bells SOME OF THE vendors of my boyhood also carried bells—like the ragman, for instance, and the scissors-grinder, the umbrella mender, the baker and | the milkman, Indeed, our ragman carried eight bells. He had them fastened to an elliptical arch attached to and extending over the horse's neck. The arrangement was not unlike the contraption worn by Russian sled-horses in the pictures of my copy of Jules Verne's “Around the World in Eighty Days.” Except for the fact that I was identified with our ragman’s bells, I wouldn't have believed a word of Mr. Verne's utterly fantastic fable. Our ragman took no chances, however. In addition to his set of bells, he also had his individual cry. It was delivered in the manner of a chant repeating over and over the melody; “Any rags, any bones, any bottles today?” Sometimes when in the mood, he elaborated the chant to include a- little counterpoint. In that case, it embraced two other musical phrases: “Any old iron and any old gum boots?” The memory of the ragman’s counterpoint chant recalls another mortality; namely, the old-time “iron pile.” It was a place in the backyard, next the shed,

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which it is a‘ part. Mr, Jenner favors some improvement in the present social security system, but nothing so sweeping as the Wagner-Murray-Dingell proposal. GOVERNMENT CONTROLS. Mr. Townsend has fol-

Hoosier Forum

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

lowed thé Truman administration as it reversed itself on price controls. He now advocates rapid elimination of war-time emergency regulations by the government, up to a month ago favored keeping such controls, as President Truman then did also. Mr. Jenner has steadily urged that the government abandon such controls. NATIONAL DEFENSE. Mr. Jenner, a war veteran himself, favors an army and navy strong enough to back ‘ U. S. international policy, continued occupation of areas now held abroad so long as necessary to implement that policy. Mr. Townsend hopes the United Nations will become strong enough to handle that job on an international basis, withholds his own decision on U. S. military strength pending further United Nations developments, appears to favor earlier withdrawal of U. S. forces abroad than Mr. Jenner does. ‘ :

consider during the next two years. The way it decides them will directly affect the way every family in Indiana lives, and to a large extent whether we have peace and

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your flowers. That m after that. You go to operation from them. They laugh at you; you off the place.

"Why Not Have Safe. Halloween Just as Fourth of July Now Is?"

By Property Owner, Indianapolis Each year Halloween vandalism causes & terrific toll in deaths, injuries and property damage. Yet very little has been done to stop it. are actually on the verge of a nervous break-

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There are other issues, but on the whole those are |“JAD. MORE AT FAULT the most important the United States senate will have to {THAN IS JUVENILE COURT” By Arthur ¥. Viocel, 1820 Lexington ave. I have followed with great interest your series of articles “How to Grow Your Own Criminals,” in

rse on Halloween night. Some are p their homes in good repair. You don't dare to ask some children will they please not break your fence down, or pull akes you an old meanie, you're a marked person their parents thinking you will get a little co-

Fourth of July published has been widely read by safe and sane, why not do the same young and old alike. The only refor Halloween.

“TRUCK DRIVER SHOULD BE TRIED FOR MURDER” / By Walter Dunn, E Kelly ot. I have expected this to happen for quite some time , . . truck driver, driving in middle, hogging the center of the street, suddenly turns to

elderly people

some get mad and order

sult accomplished is to show that juvenile court is not to blame for the majority of offenders released, because they are released by J. A. D. before being ordered into juve- | nile court; and to disturb the wellpane of young people who have unfortunately been before the court, by being confronted with their records published is not conducive to

right to crush you against a car or over the curb. Check 8. Meridian st. or Virginia ave. any morning. See the center-of-the-street drivers. » » ”

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes Kentucky GOP. Sees Congress Gain

LOUISVILLE, Oct. 25.—Any change nationally in

a political way usually can be forecast by atmospheric disturbances in the border states.

There are such disturbances in Kentucky, as reported previously in Missouri, President Truman's home state. They seem to mean no good for Democrats. As one astute political reporter put it, there is something in the situation here reminiscent of 1932 when the Roosevelt wave was getting ready ‘to hit— only now it’s in exactly the opposite direction.

Predict Senate Victory : REPUBLICANS LITERALLY ARE pinching themselves. They say the reports are almost too good to believe. Democrats here are okviously much worried, as they are, too, at national headquarters in Washington. For they are most anxious to win the senate seat at stake here, temporarily filled by a Republican appointee, to help hold what is beginning to look like a precarious margin—if any—in the senate. The senate race is reported now about 50-50. Republicans are backing John Sherman Cooper, state circuit court judge, a personable and forceful candidate, against John Young Brown, a perennial candi

gate for this and that, who served a term in the

house at the start of the New Deal. This reporter would deduce that Republicans have a more than even chance to win the senate seat and also increase their house strength, possibly by two seats, maybe more. Democratic jitters were manifest, among other ways, by sending their political man mountain, Senator Alben W. Barkley, over the state on one of his barnstorming tours. The Democratic senate leader,

a popular figure in this state, stretched his party for

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where the kids of my generation kept their booty—' the junk -they picked up in the street, such as old horseshoes, nails and the like, for which the ragman had a ready market. Once a year (and, strangely enough, always coinciding with spring house cleaning time), I had to get rid of my iron pile, no matter

whether it was a bull or bear market. It was Mother's

order. The most the ragman ever gave me for my pile was 26 cents, I remember. : 1 considered my financial haul a pretty good one until I heard about the iron pile of the West Side kids, a neighborhood gang led - by Frank Keeter, Prank Fox and the Zollner brothers (Mike and Al-

notoriety) some 50 years ago. ; To hear Mr. Keeter tell it, his gang was fooling in the neighborhood of Maryland and West sts. one day back in the Nineties when, all of a sudden, they spied a manhole in back of one of the houses down there, With the help of a ladder lent by Johnny Meadows, an accommodating fire laddie of Engine House 6, the gang descended into the hole and discovered it was a cavern at least 25 feet high and, goodness only knows, how big the other way. (Since then, modern research has revealed ‘that the boys had stumbled onto what remained of the first brewery of Indianapolis, the one started in 1834 by John L. Young and William Wernweg).,

Kept Booty-in Cellar WELL, FROM THAT day on the West End kids kept their booty in the cellar of the abandoned brewery. Mr. Keeter says they kept it filled with old iron, old bicycles and anything else lying loose in Indianapolis; with the result that the West Side gang never had to dun their dads for petty cash to see them through the week. And the funny part was, says Mr. Keeter, that, no matter how much the ragman bought, the cavern was always full of plunder. Mr. Keeter said that he forgot all about the West Side cache until one day in 1915, By that time he was a grown-up mean of 30 years or better. On that day he picked up a newspaper and read a sensational piece about the police ‘having discovered a subterranean thieves’ den on W. Maryland st. It was piled high with plunder, reported the police. Mr. Keeter says it was the best laugh he ever had.

Mr. May, house military affairs committee chairman, is still confined to his home with the illness that has kept him from going to Washington to testify in the Garsson case in which he is involved. The senate seat.being contested has been occupied for the past year by Republican William Stanfill, appointed by Republican Governor Simeon 8S. Willis, to the vacancy created when” Democratic Senator “Happy” Chandler resigned to become boss of professional baseball. The term has two years to run. “Happy” has a crude stake in this race. It was Mr. Brown, the Democratic candidate, who spilled the story about the swimming pool built by a contractor friend on the present baseball czar's place when he was senator. . Mr. Brown has support of the United Mine Workers, which is potent in the ninth district, an otherwise solidly Republican mountain district in southeastern Kentucky which now has the state's only Republican houise member, Rep. John Robison. Democrats hope their senatorial candidate will be able to cut down the normal Republican majority, 30,000, that district usually turns in.

House Gain Appears Probable ASIDE FROM REP. MAYS’ seat in the seventh district, Republicans are pressing hard also in the fourth, now represented by Frank L. Chelf, where they have the best chance to pick up a seat; in the fifth, where the seat now is held by Rep. Brent Spence, chairman of the house banking committee; the eighth represented by Rep. Joe Bates, and the third here in Louisville, represented for many years by Emmet O'Neal. Here in the third, Republicans have an alert, aggressive candidate in Thurston Morton, young businessman, a war veteran, who is keeping close to the

prosperity—or not.

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which you place great emphasis on the so-called laxity of Judge Mark

Rhoads of juvenile court in dealing I believe

the welfare of the community. that the people of

“HOME FOLK KNOW BURCH, MUSIC WON'T ELECT HIM”

regularity to the nth degree when he even spoke

Rep. Andrew J. May, who is facing a hard fight. Issues.

ord Mr. Towsend may be expected to follow whatever is left in Washington of the now thoroughly discredited New Deal with which he was long closely identified. He sees no faults nor short-comings in our existing unfair, unworkable and lop-sided labor laws and has no intention of improv- - ing them. He will support the “socialized medicine” program, and other “security” features, proposed and pending

with youthful offenders. In this series you have shown the minority and have never given Judge Rhoads any credit for the good that he and his staff have accomplished in the great majority

of Sus which pass through he and his staff have accomplished people. I quote: juvenile court. fn the past. “A. V. Burch, state auditor, and A point of interest in the series n Tn the man who ‘crossed’ the organi-

Marion county have been satisfied with Judge Rhogds and his stafl. Credit should be given by you for Judge Rhoads’ untiring efforts to obtain new and modern quarters for juvenile court, as well as the juvenile center, and for the good that

By J. E. Campbell, Evansville The story carried in a recent issue of The Times about A. V. Burch being seen as the leader of the state G. O. P. ticket is one which presents a challenge to the American

TWA Strike Adds

NEW YORK, Oct. 25.—The poor old tired airplane people, battered on all sides, today have a brand new trouble to add to their woes of constant criticism and

* . which cannot begin without the federal government taking, immediately, another 8 per cent bite out of every pay-roll in

make it work.

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workmen and stifling the production of the nation.

America. He was in the past a supporter of federal “planned economy” which has so grievously failed, and has given up the tiny segment of government price control only after its complete collapse had compelled President Truman to do so. His position is sound on foreign policy, though indefinite on the armed strength this policy requires to

Mr. Jenner is pledged, both personally and by his party platform, to the kind of program we believe this country must follow if we are to be sure of prosperity at home and It holds the only present hope for a labor policy capable of ending the sorry epidemic of strikes that are ruining the living standards of American Itisa program designed to reverse our dangerous drift toward

is your failure to explain the abbreviation J. A.D. In the articles as published by yqu, one can observe with mueh repitition the phrase] “Released by J.A.D.” You should make it clear to the reading public that J: A.D. is the juvenile aid division of the police department of the city of Indianapolis, and that any youthful offender arrested by the police and then released by J.A.D, has not been released by juvenile court because the offender has never been ordered into juvenile court. : . An analysis of the articles published will show that offenders have been released by J. A. D. an aver- " age of six times before they are 8rgument arose

nile court has released or put on|

“AGREES TO KICKING REDS OUT OF U. 8.” By Just a Citizen, Indianapolis More praise to the 20-year union member of this city. To all C. I. O. members that attended the union meeting at the Antlers hotel in our city hardly two months ago. In the year of 1945 the chairman extended an invitation to the C. I. O. to send a delegation to the Soviet Union. This delegation made reports and progress that our U. 8. was striking against industry every time a small

concerning the

ordered into juvenile court. A fur- management of any. plant or facther, analysis will show that juve- tory in America ¥ : 1 believe like the 20-year memprobation not. more than three ber. Kick these Reds out of our times, any offender -hefore finally country before we have to fight and

zation over the direct primary, will lead the Republican state ticket next month.” Mr. Burch's single utterance in favor of the direct primary, however, i. not the main factor leading his “colleagues” to this conclusion. Strangely, it is his accordion band. Texas elected a man to the senate because he carried around a “hill-billy” band. Western states have done the same with politicians singing “cowboy” ditties. Such is not true here in Indiana. We pride ourselves on our ability as intelligent Americans to go to the record and examine facts and make cur decisions accordingly. Indiana voters enjoy entertainment but they are not going to be stampeded into voting because a politician's band is playing and singing his praises. Indiana voters respect principles. They respect courage and ask for that

the kind of totalitarianism that means a federal bureaucrat looking over every man's shouder and a federal finger in every man’s pocket. It is a sound, progressive, thoroughly American program.

A ® = = . un : N short, if you want more of the New Deal, Mr. Townsend : is the man to elect. We don't. So we recommend the election of Mr. Jenner. We don’t like the way a ruthless party machine's steamroller nominated Mr. Jenner. We by no means approve of everything he has done in Indiana politics. We don’t ‘expect him to blossom forth overnight as any super- | man of statesmanship. But we do expect him to follow the enlightened leaders of his own party, in support of the | program to which he, and they, are fully committed. We i believe his platform truly represents the wishes and the best interests of the people of Indiana, and that his elec-. tion will advance those interests.

1 MOLDERS OF CHARACTER } JNDIANAPOLIS is. host for the last three days of this : week to 15,000 members of the Indiana State Teachers 1 ge Selation, which was. organized here on Christmas day-| There is no more importarit gathering i i i r g in the city each, year than this one, When schoolmen and women gather from over the state to discuss their mutual problems, to better prepare themselves for professional challenges .to is one of the most important of the profes-

Teaching sions, and one of the most underpaid. We wish we ons, | . could point with more pride to the salaries paid to teachers in [ndianapoli and Indiana but we cannot. The appreciation | pupils

and communities means much in a teacher's can be no substitute for adequate compen-

on will be doing every community a service

committing the offender to a cor-; lose another million young Amerrectional institution. Following that line of thought, | read it for yourself. ~Russia-is menit will show that J. A. D. is more tioned more than our U. 8. A. at fault than juvenile court in deal- lam a veteran. ing’ with youthful offenders: The series of articles you have thick in our community.

kind of leadership. They will not permit the issue to be confused by such tactics. It is the opinion of the writer when Mr. Burch jumped his party and spoke in favor of a direct primary, he was expressing the senti-

licans. Get this Red literature and I My name will not |be signed either; the Reds are too

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ments in which most of us believe; but we do not think Mr, Burch has shown any courage by refusing to

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A carry through on that issue. With typical political cowardice, he is now 1 straddling the fence and no longer

opposing his party's dictation. Mr. Burch ran for mayor several times in our city and was unable to | pe elected. It would take more than a band to put him across here. We |say this after examining the record snd finding that he did not carry Evansville and Vanderburgh county when he was elected state auditor in 1944. This dictrict elected a Republican congressman, senator and governor, Evansville voters know Mr. Burch's record. Entertaining music and beautiful speeches cannot confuse Hoosiers.

DAILY THOUGHT And Ass cried unto the Lord

His God, and sald, Lord, it is.

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God move fearful fight! God send the women sleep in th long, long night,

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When the breasts on whose strength they leaned shall heave no

their late rash of accidents. Strikes are the newest lump in the mattress, with Trans-World Airlines being selected as the target. One hundred and nine T. W. A. aircraft are grounded domestically and abroad, on the pilots’ strike which began Monday, while de luxe pickets lounge in automobiles at LaGuardia airfield.

Strike Is Peculiar IT'S A PECULIAR strike, in many ways. T. W. A. officials charge that they have been trying to talk to David Behncke, head of the Airline Pilots’ association, for 10 weeks. They say that after steadily ignoring their offers to do business, Mr. Behncke blew into Jack Frye’s office Saturday with a 30-hour strike ultimatum. . Such are the nature of the pilots’ demands, officials said, that there was no hope of mediation except through White House intervention, which is possible pecause of mail contracts. Mr. Behnéke's men are asking an increase of 29.1 per cent over the President’s recommendation board's figures. Before the war, senior pilots for four-motored T. W. A. craft made about $10,450 a year. War risk clauses kicked the pay to about $13,200 annually. Mr. Truman's recommending board, last May, decided ‘on a figure of $11,000 a year for the post-war pilot. ~ Now Mr. Behncke is demanding raises to lift the salaries up to the $15,000-$16,000 bracket for domestic fliers, with 30 days vacation and 100 per cent

TODAY IN EUROPE . . . By

“what are the British going to do with the money? Why do they want so much?” . This was the most difficult to answer of all the questions directed at the sponsors of the American loan to Britain during.its stormy passage through congress. Bernard M. Baruch was the most influential of all the critics. On one occasion, in 1945, when he was visiting England as the personal representative of President Roosevelt, Mr. Baruch asked this very question at a meeting of the British cabinet which he had been invited to attend. The reply he got was far from comprehensive,

Credit Not Used Unsoundly LET US SEE HOW Britain has made use of the loan. Out of the total $3750,000,000 available, she has so far drawn only $400,000,000. It is estimated that she will draw another $150,000,000 by the end of this year. Many Americans, and some optimistic Englishmen as well, thought that part of the money might be used to raise the British standard of living and to alleviate the present. austerity. This led many Americans to fear that Britain would purchase goods which are in short supply over here, and so encourage inflation. Some of the money admittedly has n used to maintain the already reduced wartime rat ns of the British people. But the greater part of the credit so far drawn has been spent on raw materials, such as petrol, cotton asd steel, to supply Britain's industries. With these raw materials available to her, Britain will ‘regain her position as a solvent nation, will be “gble to earn her daily bread and, by no means least important, will be in a position to pay the interest on the loan and, eventually, to repay the capital. | Though it has been disappointing for the British

standard of living, and though there are complaints

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Cripps’ policy of “austerity for austerity's sake,” there

public that there has been no improvement in the. about President of the Board of Trade Sir Stafford

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

to Airlines’ Trouble

expenses while the fliers are away from base. For trans-oceanic pilots, the monetary demands are the same, but Mr. Behncke has struck his men without informing the employer of the nature of an additional clause applicable only to the over-water boys. T. W. A. bosses are very bitter about this. They charge that Mr. Behncke's refusal to talk business * is unfair; that his striking on a 30-hour notice given over the week-end is more unfair; that his striking over an additional stipulation which he has not seen fit to reveal is a great deal less than cricket. Another odd aspect is that the financial argument between airline and union doesn’t concern all ofT. W. A's 1400 pilots. Only some 400 of that number—the four-motored plane pilots—would profit if the strike is settled on Mr. Behncke’s terms. T. W. A. is the only airline affected, momentarily, but what happens in this case is a definite pointer to the financial fate of all pilots of all companies.

Troubles Galore THE GLOOM in most airlines is a foot thick today. They have been lambasted by the daily press for inadequacies in their service. One of the more widely read weekly magazines has just sanctified the scattered gritioismt by .a damning article. A heavy whispering campaigir is in progress. The railroads are attacking their competitors with something less than delicacy. With that recent background, Mr. Behncke's walkout is just about the final kick. I've taken my share of pokes at the airlines, but as of today I'm beginning to feel sorry for ‘em. Nobody should have that much trouble, all in one hunk.

Randolph Churchill

Loan Helps Britain Regain Solvency

is ho doubt that Chancellor of the Exchequer Hugh Dalton’s policy is much to be applauded. Though the Labor government can be criticized on many scores, it deserves praise for resisting the temptation to gain

easy popularity by using the loan to purchase the

extra food and manufactured goods which have been absent from the British market for so long. But if Britain has used so little of the loan up till now, does that not show that it was more than she needed? The answer is that there are nations all over the sterling area with huge credits in London which must somehow be met. And in spite of the success of Britain's export drive, she has so far only been able to satisfy these creditors to a very limited extent. The loan, however, puts her in a much stronger position. It is as if an individual, sorely pressed by his creditors, succeeded in raising a substantial loan from his bank. Once this fact is known, his creditors immediately become more patient; and in breathing space thus afforded him, he can reorginize his business and set himself up on a solid basis -once more. So it is with Britain. The empire is an enormous . trading concern whicH, though far from being bankrupt, is temporarily financially embarrassed. 'Austerity’ Still in Effect a IF ANYONE IN ‘THE United States fears that the British are luxuriating on American charity, let him go to England and see for himself, He will find the diet worse, if anything, than during the war years; and even the minor. conveniences of, life are conspicuous by their absence. de ine SL

It is steel and cotton, machine tools and tractors;-

that Britain is buying from America; not refrigera= tors: and automobiles; nylon stockings and radios. That the British people accept this state of affairs is a tribute to their character, and bodes well for the future of Britaln as a great world powes,