Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 October 1946 — Page 14

BRI Give Liokt and the People Will Find Thewr Own Woy ) ICAL JUDGES OSIER § go to the polls Nov. 5 to choose the judges of r courts—again on a partisan basis. | among the candidates over the state are some why the Indiana State Bar association seeks n to “induce abler men to seek judicial offices,” and judges “more independence from political parties ra

The Times strongly advocates non-partisan election of We agree with the eminent attorney who, pointing "that a judge should sit in judgment, not in party 1 says that “Indiana political leaders as well as Air lawyers should be willing to accept the concept that the judicial branch of the government is independent of politics.” This concept has not been generally accepted in Marion ¢ounty. Judges are nominated in the primary elections, usually by the dominant political machine, and cannot escape a certain obligation to that machine should it choose to exercise it. There was little opposition to the incumbent Republican judges in the primary, except for the attempt to purge Judge Judson L. Stark, who was nominated for e- ~ eutor in a major victory over the Bradford-Ostropy faction, and Judge Hezzie B. Pike, who nevertheless won renomi‘nation, as ". » * . ” ” »

WE find little to criticize—And little to arouse our enthusiasm—about eithey-the Republican or Democratic judicial ticket with the exception of the incumbent criminal and juvenile court . Judge Williary D. Bain, of criminal court, and Judge - Mark W. Rhogds, of juvenile court, should be defeated on the besii of their records. For criminal court, we feel Democratic candidate Jacob L. Steinmetz would be a distinct improvement. We feel even more strongly that Joseph O. Hoffmann, Democratic nominee for judge of juvenile court who is indorsed by a bi-partisan committee . of Republicans, Democrats and independent voters, should be elected. One reason we advocate Mr. Hoffmann's election—

Criminals” record—is that he is pledged to take the juvenile court out of politics. And the chairman of the Democratic county committee has pledged publicly that his party will keep a hands off policy toward the court, if Mr. Hoffmann is elected. The party platform states that the welfare of the children and the interest of the community will be best served by “relieving the juvenile court of Marion county from all political influence whatsoever.” + If just one local court can be completely removed from political interference and the possibility of political control, a milestone in the march toward a non-political judiciary will have been reached. it adit «no» . =» oNY the independent voters of Marion county, and those =" ywith the foresight to cross party lines in this emergency, can help the judicial system to that milestone. Justice is too dear to Mr, and Mrs. America and their children to permit it to become the tool of politics.

- THAT STRAW VOTE EEPING in mind’ that the postcard poll we are con- ~ ducting is merely one indication of how the election Nov. 5 might go, it nevertheless is interesting to note the aumber of voters who indicate they will cross party lines. The cumulative total published today shows that 40.9 per cent of those who sent in the postcards split their indi- . cations of preference, 81.5 per cent marked straight Republican and 27.6 per cent marked straight Democratic. The majorities shown, based on the number of cards returned, for Representative Louis Ludlow and Joseph O. Hoffmann, Democratic candidate for juvenile court, are largely accounted for by Republicans who indicated preference for these two candidates, while voting for the rest of their party's candidates. , : We perhaps are overly optimistic when we risk the implication that voters may pay more attention to their ballot this year. But it would be indeed encouraging to those who believe in selection of public servants on a merit basis if there were to be widespread scratching this election.

PAPA’S OPA

WE haye commented on mamma's responsibilities in the | matter of price control, now that OPA is practically . Do more. Today we have a job for papa. : ; Papa works his heart out at the shop or office while mamma hangs around home, saved from boredom by such minor activities as getting the kids up in the morning,

off to school, scrubbing the kitchen, ironing, sweeping,

it is that mamma does to kill time.

sities, including an occasional slug of Bourbon.

again, ponderous economic forces come into play

and it any too well ourselves. But, in short

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

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'Election of Democrat Legislative Candidates Only Way to Primary"

By Charles Stanton, Ft. Wayne As a Republican, a Times reader and a member of a distributing crew whose duties carry me into 25 Indiana counties, I wish to state I find great dissatisfaction in these counties against the state administration and the Republican members of the legislature who are now asking re-election, and there is strong sentiment for the state-wide primary. Many war veterans and their families, as well as many others, will not vote for these legislative candidates because they opposed and defeated a cash bonus bill, and then went on a spending spree by buying a new governor's mansion and granting a $3000 a year governor's

washing their ears, getting their breakfast, starting them

dusting, cleaning, making the beds, washing the dishes, standing in line at the grocery, getting lunch, darning socks, mending shirts, getting dinner, and whatever else

Wearied by his week's toil, papa fetches home the pay checkand tries to salvage what he can for personal neces-

80 now OPA, in taking its foot off the neck of comhas got around to decontrol of that item in the : of living which comes under the general heading of

bother you with technical detail because we

head skyward. And papa, looking at what hold out of his pay, installs his own pricebeginning with a painful process. of k, paps will switch to tap water , Will do him no harm despite

nary influence which should rye, Bourbon, Scotch, gin,

entirely aside from Judge Rhoads’ “Grow Your Own |widow's pension, and increasing their own salaries. Many are bitter

about the statement of Senator Taft made after the recent Nuernberg trial that the verdict would be a blot on American history, although among those sentenced to hang ‘were several who were responsible for the wholesale killing by gas of our American boys in German prison camps. On the direct primary issue, many Republicans in these counties told me that the Democrat legislative candidates should be elected as this is the only way we can hope for the enactment of the primary law, and I fully agree with them, 5 0» . “DIESELS ON THE MONON PREFERABLE TO STEAM” By C. H. Snoddy, Columbus : You seem to resent the fact the Monon is finally awakening to the needs of the traveling public, that they need better and faster service. Sometime at your leisure take a Monon train out of Chicago to Louisville. It takes only about eight hours which could be made in about five or six at most. Then and only then will you forget about the sentimental hocus-pocus about which you write. Of course there are a number of railroad men who resent my point 6f view, but when you ride on some of these would-be steam wonders until you are exhausted and compelled to lay on the floor of said luxury coach, then and only then can you speak out and tell the world the difference between the air horn and steam whistle. Yes, many and many nights I have been awakened by the heavy thundering whistle-blowing .of the old-time .steam locomotive, hours behind time, awakening’ everyone in each and every town and hamlet it passed through, Surely you can't call that sentimental, or, if you insist, these diesel streamlined trains that slip through cities, towns, and hamlets without any disturbance, or anyone jumping out of bed, bringing you to your desti-

VIEWS ON THE NEWS

By DANIEL M. KIDNEY Molotov announced he will appear

Olney and Nowland sts. as sort of 8 meeting place. Never during that} time has the owner of this drug store ever said anything about us meeting there. In fact, when the war came along and most of us fellows went in the service this druggist corresponded with us continuously during the war. All of us work now and again we are using this drug store for a meeting place. Nothing has ever been said against us by the druggist for hanging around here. But the other night a bunch of young kids between the ages of 11 and 16 were hanging around the corner pulling all sorts of Halloween pranks, when the police were called. Now here is our gripe. The police did not say one word to the younger kids hanging around. He came straight to us where we were sitting in the drug store and told us to get out and get the hell home. They

in a new role at the UN and foreign ministers meetings in New York— Russia will co-operate. 8 8 nn President Peron hds decided to become an “anti-Fascist dictator.” He announced a five-year plan for the Argentine.

progressive again. They are driving the Communists out of the C.I1.0, in Milwaukee. » » » Peace or war, winter brings a coal strike and the John L. Lewis strut. » » = If John L. Lewis joins the Republicans they had better pipe down on those talks against dictators. " » Maybe the cotton gamblers who broke the market should be sentenced to growing as many bales as they sold. » » . We hope our merchant. sailors don't get seasick going back to work. » » . It's easy to believe a movie press agent who advertises that the leading lady never acted before.

we: would like to see the diesel streamliners on the complete railroad system of America, including the Monon. » w . “POLICE TOLD US TO KEEP OUR MOUTHS SHUT”

By . M, C. H, J.D, RM, C 8, In. dianapolis.

Well, here we are, three of the most ‘embarrassed veterans in the city. Our story is this: For the last eight years all of the

nation safe, sound and your nerves in good shape.

It is no wonder

fellows in this neighborhood have used a drug store at the corner of

Side Glances —By. Galbraith

L comm. 1990 IR EAVIGE. 40. V. ¥. RED. 0. 6. PAT. OFF.

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didn’t even let us open our mouths in self defense. When we did try to stick up for our rights (thosé same rights we went ovérseas to [fight for we were told to keep our mouths shut or we would take a ride in the wagon. What we want to know now is this, is this the city police force that we helped protect while we were overseas? Are they trying to start a dictatorship in Indianapolis? Does the law say that we have to stand in a public place and be insulted? If this is the type of administration that Mayor Tyndall brought to Indianapolis, well, we don't want it. x In closing this letter there is just one more thing I would like to know: : Can't we do anything about the embarrassment these two so-called policemen caused us. : Please use our initials only everyone in our neighborhood knows of this incident and we don’t want to further embarrass ourselves. " » ¥

“KNOWLEDGE AND TRUTH ARE THE HOPE OF WORLD” | By L. A. Jackson, Vernon Man's. life is a mixture of pain and pleasure. Much of his pain results from his mistakes and unethical acts. Knowledge is the only thing that will reduce the number of his mistakes, altruism the only thing that will reduce the number of his unethical acts, knowledge not only enables man to overcome his

mistakes, but it also increases his altruism, There was a time when our ancestors killed and ate members of their own tribe. Later they | thought it wrong to eat members of their own tribe, but not members of another tribe. Man had become more altruistic. There was a time when piracy was riot considered wrong. The same can be said of duelling and human slavery. We have just now taken another step upward in the evolution of morality—altruism. For the first time in history, a world court has tried, condemned and punished the men who were responsible for a global war. Does ‘anyone think this step would have been possible without the knowledge which science has given us? Without knowledge, none of these steps would have been possible. Psychology has taught us that dltruism grows from a sense of honor and a feeling of pity, and it is now learning how these can be developed In the minds of young children. Two hundred years ago science had about as much chance against superstition as the average high school boy would have in a boxing match against Joe

turned. , Knowledge—truth—is the hope of the world!

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DAILY THOUGHT

Beware lest any man spoil you

ceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ Colossians 2:8, OR- shipwrecked, kindles on coast .

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: v feo ; Yon . + Indianapolita ' IT DIDN'T ESCAPE this’ department that Henry Butler, a féllow-scribbler, Yecently labeled Miss Ruth Page “a former Indianapolitan.”’ In case you don’t

| | believe it, I refer you to last Monday's copy (Oct. 21)

of The Times (page 18, col. 4, Home edition). Indeed, it might even pay $ou to preserve the paper for it may well turn out to be a document of historical significance. . It's high time somebody was getting around to finding a word to designate a citizen of Indianapolis. The appropriate word, if possible. Up until last Monday, when Mr, Butler courageously rushed into print with his answer, I didn't know

# | for sure whether I was an Indianapolitan or an

Indianapolisite. And neither did Henry L, Mencken,

‘| who, as you probably know, is emotionally fast

about making up his mind on almost any subject under the sun,

Covered Municipal Monikers

I AM DRAGGING the Sage of Baltimore into today's piece because, once upon a time, Mr. Mencken wrote a monumental monograph in the course of which he covered the subject of municipal monikers rather thoroughly. Sufficiently, at any rate, to reveal that with the exception of Indianapolis, almost every town in the United States went to the trouble, at one time or another, of finding the exact word with which to designate its citizens and do them justice. Indeed, in some towns the citizens resorted to a drag-out fight to find the exact word. Like the one in Camden, N. J, for instance. In that case, a newspaper of that town held out for “Camdenian” as the only reasonable -way to lbel its citizens, However, the citizens fought. for “Camdenite.” Sure, the newspaper got licked, I wouldn't have mentioned it except for a premonition that Mr, Butler is piling up a lot of trouble for himself.

POLITICAL REPORT . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

Democrats Ove

WASHINGTON, Oct. 28.—A mystery to anyone who travels about the country observing the congressional campaigns is why the Democrats failed to dramatize the basic foreign policy issue of continued effective international co-operation, On the other hand, many Republicans—on a tipoff from National Chairman Carroll Reece—have distorted a phase of foreign policy into what has become perhaps the single most important issue in the election, because it is an emotional one.

Raise Fear of Communism

THE STRATEGY is to bring up Russia as a fearsome prospect, delicately of course, and to go on from there to stress communism and then to charge the Democratic party with fostering it here. Mr. Reece called the tune some weeks back, and all across the country the visiting political reporter finds its echo. It is skillful and clever and it works with many people, especially with times good, and money in the pocket. This emotional appeal to fear and prejudice, along with OPA, strikes, and the obvious confusion with which the Truman administration has operated in the domestic field in recent months, has tended to obscure a basic, long-time foreign policy issue that relates directly to congress. And it is a congress that is being voted for Nov. §. This can be explained by pointing back to the fight in congress, some months ago now, over measures to back up and make real our pledge of international co-operation. Perhaps the outstanding achievement of the Truman administration thus far was the success in putting through those measures. For it was not an easy job, as those who watched it first-hand can testify. There was, first, the United Nations, and later the various implementing measures. These included the international bank and monetary fund to help rehabilitate Europe and Asia; the extension of our reciprocal tariff program to revive and promote trade; the British loan: the international food and agriculture organization; appropriations for UNRRA; provision for our contingent of military forces for the international police force.

LONDON, Oct. 28.—Europeans generally have little faith in the United Nations, and much less interest than Americans in the fateful assembly sessions in New York. Britons are an exception but they are more interested than hopeful. . Traveling on the continent and talking with all sorts of people, one rarely hears the United Nations mentioned though the world crisis constantly is discussed. If you raise the question of the United Nations the typical response is a shrug of the shoulders, or a deprécatory “Oh, that!”

Fatalistic About War

THIS WIDESPREAD negative attitude is easier to report than to explain. Logically the average European’s stake in the United Nations is even. greater than that of the American. Also Europeans never are able to afford the luxury of isolationism which long blinded many Americans to the necessity of an international organization. Since the European is accustomed to thinking of foreign relations as an integral part of domestic af~ fairs and of his personal fate, he might be expected to take a more realistic view than Americans toward the weakness of the infant United Nations. But he doesn’t. The chief explanation apparently lies in the European'’s almost completely fatalistic attitude toward another war. His fear is so great that it tends to paralyze his will to prevent catastrophe. He is so acutely conscious of many obvious forces making for war all around him that he is unconscious of peace forces. Perhaps this is temporary.

'N.Y)s Old Gree

NEW YORK, Oct. 28.—The word is out that Greenwich Village has reverted to its post-world war I status of rampant Bohemianism; the sky's the top, and everybody is off on a great big orgy. Could be true, but not to my observation. I spent about eight hours in the vicinity of Washington Square the other night, and the closest I.came to an orgy was a sidewalk fight between gentlemen who seemed intent on beating each other's brains out with verbs,

Brooding Not So Intense AB ONED in a column of some months back, there is still a scattering of long-haired young men who are content to draw their G. I. unemployment pay while m fs playwrights and poets. They live in cold water flats and brood on the state of the world. But even the brooding is not as intense as in the 30s. . The village used to. have a corner on brooding. All the first-chop, Grade A brooding was done there. Outside the village was commercialism and broad

the cognizance of all the world’s evils, But the village dwellers have been cheated, now, to a point whére preachers and grocers and shoemakers brood just as hard as poets. The atom is bigger

tensely, while dawdling in.the Stork club, as a freethinking fellow with a dirty neck and blue jeans in a West Third street garret. ' : About the only thing that smacks of old in the village is the whisky. It is nearly as bad as during

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. re “Ye 0 or Indianapolisite?. And except for Mr. Mencken, I, for one, would still be in the dark regarding the fate of the two Richmonds—the one in Virginia; the other, 'in Indiana. . To hear Mr. Mencken tell it, a citizen of Richmond, Va. is a Richmonder; but, for some scholarly , & citizen of Richmond, Ind, demands to be known as a Richmondite. You'd suppose, of course, that after having Mencken wouldn't have let.a mere 70 miles stand in the way of pursuing the subject still further. For some reason, however, Mr, Mencken never got to Indianapolis on

that occasion; or, if he did, he arrived and departed Crime inc incognito which 1s just too fantastic to believe. bandits who ° : a business place: Mr, Butler an Indianapolisite? One of th AT ANY RATE, Mr. Mencken's treatise doesn't bine In eritica say a word about the proper designation of Indian- 3 Same ¥ apolis citizens. However, his investigation in other th Hog it: W areas reveals enough to give me a funny feeling — aha

that the day isn’t far off when Henry Butler will be called an Indianapolisite, notwithstanding his belief to the contrary.

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A good many signs point that way. For one arising Mr. 2 thing, there is Mr. Mencken's discovery that the - 31st | names of most American towns ending in d, f, g, Watch and $65, 1, m, r, and s almost invariably tack on the letters BS yer “ite” to label thelr citizens. As a matter of fact, * Boldup. :

egough of them do it to make it appear in the - nature of a law. To be sure, there is the disturbing case of Richmond, Va, but to offset it there is the exemplary behavior of the Richmondites of Indiana,

James Burr was badly cut abdomen by ¢

a law-abiding community if there ever was ane. him of $40 at There is the heretical case of Annapolis, too. To sts. early yeste look at the termination of that name and flter it Fred Nichol through Mencken's law, you'd think, of course, that reported he w a citizen of Annapolis is an Annapolisite. Well, he dit who took isn't. He's an Annapolitan. was walking o ..It may turn out that I'm an tan after Harding st. all; in which case Mr. Butler may be elgvated to Another ki robbed Joseph

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REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark

bourgeois stupidity—inside the village lived art and

than Bohemia, and a banker can brood just as in-

night. Mr. Br \ on the arms. k . A Tool a Claude Park ; 5 $ id a bandit rlook a Basic Issue ®)f@:: x: While the United Nations was ratified easily, due the B. and O to the excellent spade-work of President Roosevelt Ohig st. last 1 and Secretary of State Cordell Hull in enlisting Re- Mrs, Katie | publican help, some of the others were won only after ave, reported hard battles, with stiff Republican opposition, This dragged her does not always show so much in the final votes, as robbed her of in various attempts beforehand to cripple one or other as she was wa of these projects, with which only those who covered W. 14th st. | proceedings closely are familiar. ’ Schoo These are all matters of record for the congres- Dale Maxwe sional campaign. It is well to remember those up for st., reported t re-election who fought them, mostly Republicans, but his filling sta some few Democrats. For international cosopera- igan st., of $30 tion is a continuing business. Similar and related last night. matters must come before the next and succeeding Burglars re congresses, as President Truman indicated in his schools, No. § address to the United Nations assembly. We would be set back, or could lose much of what already has been accomplished, in the next few years if there is not real and sincere continued co-operation in a.

congress, Yet this issue virtually has been lost in the campaign. It is something in which veterans are keenly interested, as well as the rest of us. One could imagine that if Franklin D. Roosevelt had lived he would have made this the predominant issue, raising it to the level it deserves. 3

Lip Service to Co-Operation

THE SILENCE was self-imposed by a sort of gentlemen’s agreement among Democrats and” Republicans that foreign policy was not an issue. This was because of the co-operation represented, for example, by the partnership of Republican Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg and Secretary of State James F. Byrnes at international conferences. Republicans give lip service to this co-operation, loudly proclaiming their support of the Byrnes-Van-denberg policy as they call it, and' then go a step further to accuse the administration of wanting to appease Russia, for which they find the Wallace incident handy. From then on they go into their spiel about how the Truman administration is riddled with communism. Politics is a strange business.

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Ludwell Denny Europeans Talk of War, Not Peace

The European heritage of world war II is not only fear but also a certain brutal, dog-eat-dog spirit in human and social relations. This is intensified by post-war poverty, suffering and frustration. It stimulates more nationalism than internationalism, more reliance on militarism than on world co-operative agreements. This is true among victor nations, while among the vanquished it takes the form of wanting to get on the winning side in “the next war.” The prevalent cynicism regarding international machinery for peace and justice of course has been fed—and still is—by the experience of the past year Russia overshadows everything else in the European mind. And most people—Communists and non-Communists alike—are impressed by the fact that Russia has dominated by force and threat of force. i While success of the Soviet force method may be

only temporary, more apparent than real, the Euro- Made of pean is so close to it “he is convinced by what he liquid lati 3004 t08aY. : stitches. Cynicism Compounded waterproc RUSSIA'S USE of the Paris peace conference and ventilated the United Nations security council for obstruction extra larg

instead of co-operation, her ability to break agreements and defy the United Nations charter pledges and get away with it, all compound cynicism. Her misuse of the direct and indirect veto has occurred so often it is now assumed as a matter of course, Whether a change in Soviet policy and methods, or a general assembly challenge of those methods would inspire European faith in the United Nations as an effective security body is anyone's guess.

nwich Village Dead

legitimate Scotch bottles, is only a little worse than what they sold for Scotch in the era of Harry Kemp. If T was a nasty man I would suggest that the law take a look at what's being peddled under false labels in the last outpost of the unshorn chin. 1 am in error on one thing: More than whisky remains constant in this world of casual confusion, where 12th st, intersects 4th, ind Waverly place is a figment of the imagination. The entertainers still intersperse their boxoffice filth - with social significance, and the naughty-song still serves as a front for somebody else's ideology. . Beards abound. It is against the law for a resident of Bohemia to wear a necktie. Shirts are made only of flannel, and the sweater is still the right clothing for the well-dressed poet to wear next to his bare chest. There is also & local ordinance banning the wearing of anything but denim pants for the ghe-painters and poets and composers of unfettered music. But it is a feeble gesture to the pash

It's Just an Act THE VILLAGERS, like many apother way of life, “has had its day. Its unconventionality, once bizarre and picturesque, is shallow and false in the face of & global unconventionality which is apparent to everybody. oN The beat-up bourgeoisie—the bankers and the butchers, the Morgans and the Murphys—are just as soapless, meatless, clothesless, and as devoid of mental certainty as the lost soul of the 30's. Move over, villager, and make way for 130 million people, The whole USA is Greenwich Village now, and that act you're running downtown belongs in vaudeville. - » 1‘ x . . :