Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 November 1946 — Page 20

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| Thursday, Nov. 7, 1946 "HOWARD , WALTER LECKRONE

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Give Light and the People Will Find Their Own Way

NEW DEAL IN LAW ENFORCEMENT LAY ENFORCEMENT officers of Marion county elected at Tuesday's election are to meet soon to discuss their mutual problems. Participating in the conferences will be Judge Judson L. Stark, who will become prosecuting attorney Jan. 1; Sheriff Albert C. Magenheimer, who was appointed to succeed Sheriff Otto L. Petit and was elected to office this week; representatives of the Indianapolis police department, and the state police. We presume that. Juvenile Court Judge-elect Joseph O. Hoffmann and Criminal Court Judge William D. Bain, who was re-elected, likewise Will be invited to the conference. Responsibility for leadership in this ‘program of coordination falls on the shoulders of Judge Stark, who goes

can hardly avoid this responsibility, since & major part of his campaign was divorcement of politics from law enforcement. The manner in which the prosecutor's office, sheriff's office, juvenile court, and criminal court have been conducted in the past two years has not been satisfactory. Indeed theré has been a strong odor of politics surrounding too much of the county’s law enforcement machinery. And there has not been co-operation with the police department. There should be no difficulty about that co-operation pow. William H. Remy, president of the board of safety, and Mr. Stark, who served as chief deputy prosecutor under Mr. Remy when the latter was prosecuting attorney, have mutual confidence in each other. This situation unfortunately does not exist between the present prosecutor and the man responsible for the city's police department. The Times opposed election of Sheriff Magenheimer and Judge William D. Bain for reasons of which each is aware, and for reasons which members of their own party leadership indorse. We wish every success to both in their terms of office, if the causes of these objections are removed. We point out to Mr, Magenheimer that public confidence would be increased in his administration if he got rid of most of the men who were depyties under Sheriff Petit. And we point out to Judge Bain that among the many improvements that could be made in his field of law enforcement would be to expedite the handling of criminal

Judge Stark will be ina position to prod both of his associates; in fact, it is his responsibility to do so if they fall down on the job. He is carrying the ball for this promised new deal in law enforcement. Good luck to him and the others on the law enforcement team. It's time to clean up Marion county. a

NO OCCASION FOR ALARM | DENNY, reporting from London, finds con7 siderable apprehension among European statesmen, particularly in England and France, that a shift to the “Republicans in. Tuesday's congressional elections might bring a change in United States foreign policy, and also ‘might result in an unrestrained boom, which might mean higher prices for American goods. Neither fear is justified. Our bipartisan foreign policy enjoys such universal support that actually it was not an issue between Republicans and Democrats.

: ‘conceivably might mean higher prices for certain com-

satisfied. But few if any of these increases are likely to be reflected on the world market. Once the law of supply and demand resumes its normal

into office without any political obligations inasmuch as he was nominated over machine opposition. Indeed, Mr, Stark

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"War Is Over; How About Action On Bad Streets, County Roads?"

/ By V. F. P., Washington blvd, Now that the county commissioners have got this election out of their system, what are they going to do about the county roads? { They (the roads, not the commissioners) are full of bumps and holes, | and it certainly knocks your car around to drive on them. There is no | reason why a county as rich as this one is, and which spends as much jon upkeep of roads, shouldn't have a good road system. And while I'm on the subject, how about the city paying more attention to its streets? I'm told that some of the streets are state highways, or something like that. Whoever is responsible, these chuckholes {should be eliminated. Don't those guys know the war's over? Or that there's a municipal election next year? | a 2 # “STATE LAW HAS LITTLE {RELEVANCE TO FEPC ISSUE”

the other—by all minority groups, {and by what we sincerely believe to By iad B. Ransom, 46 N. Penn- he. majority of the American peo- : : read with a great deal of in- | Ple, it ever given a chance to raise | terest your editorial of Oct. 30 rela- | their voices over the hue and cry itive to the proposed FEPO ordi- of the press and the reactionary | nance vetoed by Mayor Tyndall, representatives of vested interests. | Obviously, the person writing. the a oars nd Mayer el | edi r Tny- . jesitaninl aa petheps Mayor sy nority groups can best serve their the state statute which both averred|.nterests by quietly and submis“covers” the objectives intended by sively awaiting the piddling conthe ? d ordinance. I quote cessions and puny ameliorations propose . {handed them by those in control.

from. your editorial: “Everything p the ordinance undertakes to do al-| 70 i % um, 32 Ine fue we Nod ready is required by state laws . Ww yy raves I which have beens on ihe statute sive effort to implement and ac- | Whiel re o tually bring about democracy, in | “This fs pure chicanery; since the yore To of inet Loon, TU {only applicable state statute has lit- |, © supplication to the status tle, if any, relevance to the issue. quo, and beg for deliverance Buns ms See ig Won I trust that the council will have ec. - the decency to ov y= shall be provisions outlawing Tacial oy veto Ry i Overs te Se Jaye discrimination in contracts for Or|4emocracy., and not hypocri on behalf of the state. of Indiana | 1,,dianapolis. iad | or any municipal corporation, there- * rn |of, where the contracts. relate to| “poOES LANDLORD OR OPA | “the construction, alteration, or re- OWN RENTAL PROPERTY?” pair of any publi¢ building or pub- By Mr. Harrie Wikeoff, Indianapolis | lie work in the state of Indiana. Who said this is a free country? Thus it can be seen that thls|i¢ you think it is ask any landlord [statute applies only to a very lim-| who is renting his property. ited number of contracts. If you have a house for rent, you There are numerous other items have to consult the OPA to see what and prohibitions enumerated by|you can charge for rent and also {this proposed ordinance, which are register your rental with the OPA.

“I'M ONE LOCAL CITIZEN NOT PROUD OF HOME TOWN”

By Ray Burns, Indianapolis Well, I sure don't understand how | P. F. Rothstein could have been so | impressed by our great city. I could cause him to change his mind in ‘just a few ‘hours. I would invite him to dinner most any evening. | We would catch a trolley at Senate land Washington (a W. 10th Olin | trolley). About 5 p. m. we would, 'start waiting. About 6:30 we would {give up and get an eastbound car to Delaware and Washington. There one can almost always get on a westbound car. And as you ride back through town you will see dozens of people begging the operator to open the door, but no, the car is full up to the white lithe. Tonight (Oct. 31) it was raining and I sure felt sorry for the folks that had to stand while any number of their cars were forced to pass them up I rode a bus eight blocks east to get on a westbound bus. Well, if we got home that night, I would ask him to go back down for a show, We would get a neighbor to drive us down. We would spend an hour trying to find a parking place. Then we would find jone on W, Washington. Then Mr. Rothstein would say: “Why, from {the looks of these buildings and all |these drunks and beggars we must be a long way from the finest theater in -Indianapolis.” No, my| friend, just two blocks. What is! {that awful, awful smell he might {ask. That is a meat packing plant.

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IT'S OUR BUSINESS . . . By Donald D. Hoover "That ‘Starry:Eyed’ Sunday Pu

“IT CAN'T BE DONE,” said the professional politicians when a group of women, aided by a handful of male citizens, started out to defeat the incumbent juvenile court judge because they belleved he was

playing politics with the probation system and otherwise not running his court properly, _ “They won't do it, no matter who our candidate

‘| 1s “this year,” said the professional G. O. P. poli-

ticians when it was suggested that independent voters and Republicans would put over the veteran Louis Ludlow for a tenth term in congress. .

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BUT IT WAS DONE. . , and Joseph O. Hoffmann was elécted judge of juvenile court Tuesday. And “they” did do it, and Mr, Ludlow was retained in congress.

x ' The two contests were not related in any way,

insofar as workers for the bi-partisan juvenile court committee were concerned. They had rigid instruc tions to be neutral in all other races . . . and these women (most of the work was done by women) stuck to that approach. Republican, Democratic and independent volunteers worked for election of Mr. Hoffmann. And they put him over by dint of telephone calls, door-to-door ‘canvassing, being able to answer questions intelligently and to point out the weaknesses of the present system. And, above all else, by getting those who thought as they did to the polls, These “starry-eyed dreamers,’ these “do-gooders” won because they believed in their cause, spread knowledge that led them to make up their own minds, concentrated on precincts that were predominantly Republican or independent . . . and then didn’t quit working until the polls closed. In other

Truman Retreat

WASHINGTON, Nov, 7.—~One of the outstanding developments of the campaign was the retreat of Harry 8. Truman, President of the United States and leader of the Democratic party. Because of all that was at stake, it is somewhat of a mystery. This may be explained by later events, Herbert Hoover, facing similar odds, battled on to the end.

Harm Feared by Leaders HARRY TRUMAN, at the finish stood muzzied— on advice of campaign managers who didn't want him to speak out for fear it would hurt rather than help. Instead, they put on the voice of his dead predecessor in the desperate eleventh hour. The party leader's silence was symbolic of the silence about him from party orators during the whole campaign. He was, truly, the forgotten man. They talked a lot about Franklin D. Roosevelt, most sparingly about the present President. In such a situation as the party faced this year there was need for someone to speak out strong and clear on the vital issues. It might be expected that someone should be the party leader in the White House. But, as the campaign progressed, the party leader dealt himself out of issues, week after week. In trying to please everybody, in trying to be everything to all men, he came in the end to stand for little to anybody. After making a courageous fight for the consumer against inflation some time ago, he gave way in the campaign on price controls, most conspicuously on meat. He had espoused before congress numerous social and economic measures. In the campaign in which these were fundamental issues he was not moved to speak up for them. ta During the last congress he fought hard and suc-

HE SAWED the double-tree nearly through. A little later, he saw a man walking to the top of the hill in thick mud, The double-tree of his carriage had broken near Mansur’s axe-shop, and he was walking

to the safety of a dry spot. The time, 1842. The place, Richmond, Ind. The

It's handy about telling the direction of the wind, and it carries over a mile, 2 { And that washboard effect in the | pavement as you come into an in-| | tersection is some deep waves in the surface which have been there for

es Oh yes, one more thing, if you {looked in the kitchen and behind |the counter of some of our best

operation, price levels should become stabilized. Production not covered by.any Indiana state

is the crying need at the moment, for markets both at statutes anywhere, such as the differenee ir penalties for violation,

If you have purchased your rental ®A!ng places, I am sure you would | recently and had to pay a high | Pring your lunch the next time you| price, and in lots of cases spend a NPPen up from San Francisco.

man walking up the hill was Martin Van Buren, exPrésident of the United States.

Punished for Opposition

A NATIVE of Richmond had sawed the doubletree nearly through to punish Van Buren for his supposed opposition to the National Road that had been extended through Indiana. This is a glimps# of the human side of this road. The road was of solid worth. It was utilitarian to the core. But there was always about it that human touch that lured,’ and has lingered on through these 100 years since it was gone, In its palmy days, many of the great men of

home and abroad, and production has been curtailed "by experimentation and efforts to achieve a planned economy which did not work according to plan. The flow of free goods to Europe cannot be continued, for neither the United States nor Europeans have a stabilized economy under such a system. The war is over, and sound business relationships must be restored. Special treatment can be given to alleviate hardship cases, but Pe wheels of industry must be oiled by goods exchanged or goods, or for cash or good credit, if the wheels are to continue to turn.

TRAINING FIRST FAR-SIGHTED educators will grasp the significance of the administration's refusal to approve approfriations for federal aid to higher education until universal military training has been set up for the nation’s youth. Budget Director Webb, withholding indorsement of the Murray-Morse-Pepper bill to subsidize colleges, said the administration believes a permanent program of universal military training must have first priority, with higher education then to be “considered in relation to enactments respecting military training.” We believe that most of the world war II veterans now attending colleges will applaud Mr. Webb's decision. a In the past, many educators have been among the most determined opponents of military training, partly because they shared the intellectuals fear of regimentation, but ~ largely, we think, because they wanted young men to enter

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colleges rather than training camps. Their views probably | were not uncolored by self-interest. . But if this were a different kind of world, we, too, would prefer to see youths go direct from high school into college, without the neces-

In the world that exists, however, it seems evident that national security urgently requires a competent reserve | |® of civilians ready for prompt military service. And we see D way to assure the existence of such a reserve except by | | ; { v eg

federal funds to expand and improve college | this time would increase the difficulty of | sal training law. It would invite stronger hose educators who, once they had ¢b- | plants at federal expense, |

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| nating policy te promotion policies {of franchise holders, the liability of {municipal employees for violation of . the non-discriminatory provisions, ete. All of these very important differences indicate that the attempted face-saving objections on the basis of applicable laws already in existence .are farcical.

charge enough for rent to break {even. : A | If you have undesirable tenants in { vour rental and wish them to move, [you have to see’ the OPA to get [them out. of your own property. So who does this said property | belong to, the landlord or the OPA. Who pays the taxes and upkeep and What is really present here ' is payments on said property, the OPA [something entirely different. cr landlord? | There are two conflicting philoso- | If the OPA continues to run our |phies of government operative in own business for us I think it is {this situation, one—espoused by [time for them to put some of their Tyndall and apparently {cwn money into it. Let's sell out to

Mayor | (though I hope not) by The Times, |the OPA.

Carnival —By Dick Turner

My job and my home are here, | s0 I suppose I will stay, but believe | me, I am not impressed. 5 » ~ |“IF WE LOOK FOR FIGHT WE'LL BE ABLE TO FIND IT”

{By M." K., Indianapolis I wonder if L. A. B. really thought | about what he or she terms “a war| crime.” If she or he had, I believe they! would have found that the atom | bomb was merely a way of saving! the lives of some Americans. ‘If we | had not used the atom bomb, we still would have sent hundreds of planes loaded with bombs over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Iristead of one crew, that would have meant hundreds of thousands. People thought nothing of that kind of raid. And by the way, as long as people exist who insist on seeing the pessimistic side; why should we be able to get along with other nations. As long as we look for fight, iv will be there.

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HAVE QUIT OLD CUSTOM”

By a Disappointed G. I, Indianapolis While in the service I had discussed the matter of how the city of Indianapolis roped off-the monument on Halloween for the merrymakers to display their costume and meet and make friends. To my surprise I found that it was quite an unfamiliar thing to happen in other cities, I was very proud of the old Hoosier custom, On my first Halloween home I find that due to the inconvenience of rerouting a few busses, the old Hoosier custom has been discontinued. I am very disappointed to say the least, and I am sure thousands of other peoplé in Indianaplis are also. :

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America, and some of the famous ones of the world traveled its way. When it was built, it was something new in its world. B80, very naturally, the top crust of that world traveled its way. Seven Presidents of the United States rolled over the road—James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, Martin Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, James K. Polk, and Zachary Taylor. When Harrison, Polk, and Taylor passed over the road on their way to Washington, for their inauguration, a brand-new coach, called the President, was provided for each and his immediate family. In his mellow years after he was President, James Monroe, as he was passing over the old pike, was entertained at a public dinner in his honor at the weather-hoarded log tavern of Charles McKinney at Monroe Springs, Pa. It was an exciting occasion. The

¥ NEW YORK, Nov. 7—The grizzled pioneers of

the picture business, who have sat so long in supreme command of the world’s entertainment supply, are not a notably carefree bunch at the moment. They are slightly edgy, like a star with a too-talented understudy. They are deeply grieved by, and hoping for the repeal of, the recent government decree banning block sale of pictures to g slave market. This cracked a cozy monopoly and forced a free sale of individual movies on merit, whereas formerly the exhibitor ‘had been forced to buy what the studio commanded or get nothing. :

Field Open to Competition

FREEING THE market for independent competition opened the field to practical competition abroad, especially in England, which has always represented the margin of profit to American movie-makers, That's to say, if a movie cost $4 million to make and ,grossed $4 million domestically, the couple of milHon it reaped in Britain provided the velvet. Foreign threats to Hollywood dominance today are vested chiefly in England's J. Arthur Rank. Mr. Rank, a man of vast holdings, slid swiftly in the back door, by allying himself with the newly merged International-Universal group, plus other American independents. It resulted in tremendous potentialities, merging Mr. Rank’s 1000-odd- theaters abroad with considerable distributing facilities here, plus a good fat 100 million bucks to play duck and drakes with, It has long been—and still is—the fashion iid ‘the principal , Incked the know-how, the

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of amateur enthusiasts that got results. There is a lesson in Tuesday's ‘election . . . in the rejection of the G. O. P, candidate for juvenile court. And that is , , , if the people get the facts, they can be trusted to vote intelligently, Of course there are some precincts where the background of the voters makes it difficult for them to understand how to scratch. But the workers of the bi-partisan Juvenile court committee wisely didn't ‘waste time on these.. They were angling for the independent voters, and with that support (“independent” includes Republicans who scratched, in this instance) Mr, Hoffmann won. The same type of campaign wasn't waged in Mr, Ludlow’s behalf, He hgd an honorable record as an individual, much Re can and independent popue larity, Times support and a mail campaign.

Democrats Not Active

IF I WERE A DEMOCRATIO candidate . . . particularly one who had received heavy independent support. but still was defeated . . . I wouldnt feel too friendly toward the Democratic county commite tee and the manner in which it waged its “jovial” campaign. ; I made ® trip around a number of precincts Tuesday afternoon to “see how things were going.” Biggest impression I received was of a hard-hitting Republican organization that was bringing out .the voters . . . and of phlegmatic Democratic workers who already felt they were licked. Some really age gressive work by the Democrats might have placed more of their men in office.

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Thomas L. Stokes

Still Holds Mystery

cessfully for measures to implement effective inters national co-operation. He knew those who had tried to kill them. Most of those were up for re-election, Similar issues will come before the new congress, Yet he left it to Senator Barkley (D. Ky.) to point that out—and very late. It may have been, of course, that nothing could check the trend against him and his party. The American people seem to want change periodically, But it would have meant much to progressive ele« ments in the party if he had spoken out for progressivism, They are shattered and the election leaves them in worse confusion, The election served to throw in bold relief what has happened to the Democratic party,

Progressives Must Wait

IT IS NO longer the fighting progressive political instrument that Mr. Roosevelt created. This change of complexion was due partly to the fact that, under President Truman, the conservatives gradually moved in and took over direction of the party here at the top, in the cabinet and among his advisers, Dynamie New Dealism disappeared. r The progressive elements suffered from this change in management, for party policy is made, day by day, in the inner and upper councils. : What has happened has provoked the usual talk about a third party, and there will be more rather than less of that. Observation of the confusion of council among the various elements that might be expected to organize such a party leaves the convietion, however, at least at this stage, that such is not likely to happen, or, if it does, won't mean much. Progressives in the Democratic party seem, rather, to face the hard realities again, another uphill fight to recapture the party. And perhaps must wait for another such occasion as the depression that gave it the opportunity 16 years ago.

SAGA OF INDIANA . . . By William A. Marlow Notables Traveled National Road

dinner was “substantial ald superb.” Its memories linger down the years. Out of one of the old taverns of this road in Pennsylvania came Mrs. Sarah Beck, a tavern keeper, to Springfield, Ill, where she ran a boarding house. Her most distinguished guests were Abraham Lincoln and his wife. In her house, Lincoln's oldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, was born. Mrs. Beck and her husband, James Beck, before he died, had both been tavern keepers on the old road. Undoubtedly Lincoln heard much of the old days and ways of this old pike. Many of the colorful characters of the American scene hover in tradition over the National Roed, Jamés G. Blaine and “Sunset” Cox were born on it— Blaine at West Brownsville, Pa., and Cox at Zanese ville, O. Thomas Corwin, rambunctious Ohio politi« cian, was a wagoner on the road, which in modern parlance would be a truck driver. With the raucous ery: “Hurrah for Tom Cowin, the wagoner boy,” they elected him governor of Ohio. Jenny Lind, famous Swedish singer, and Phineas T. Barnum, her manager, he of the “greatest show on earth,” made an overnight stop on this road near Uniontown, Pa., during a tour of America. They fed them fresh trout from a nearby mountain stream for breakfast next morning.

Governor Was a Hatter

IN INDIANA, at Centerville, on this road Gov, Morton worked as a hatter, and Gen. Burnside, born at Liberty, Md. was an apprentice tailor, Here, too, Lew Wallace went to school. George W. Julian and Nimrod Johnson, railroad president, lived there. Thus came to the National Road in the heyday the great and the near-great of its world. It once was in fact, and in memory will always be. the great landmark of Indiana, and a cherished memory of the nation,

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REFLECTIONS... By Robert C. Ruark U.S, Film Supr

emacy Threatened

I’ think they were wrong. It may be that the pupil has outstripped the master. Our cousins caught on fast, and momentarily are up there on what certainly is an equal, possibly a higher, level of skill. As long as 10 years ago the British were turning out slick cops-and-robber stuff, superior spy stories, and smoothly-honed comedies with considerably more deftness than their Hollywood contemporaries. They fell behind when it came to the super spectacle, but recently they've about passed Hollywood in that respect, too. If you think they haven't caught on here—one neighborhood movie listed three successive British films last week. A young man named James Mason, one of the hotter British commodities, is apt to be appearing simultaneously in four or five different pletures. Hollywood itself is full of borrowed British actors and actresses. During the last year the English have rung the bell in America with. such ambitious efforts as “Caesar and. Cleopatra,” “Henry V,” “The Seventh Veil”. “Brief Encounter,” “Notorious Gentleman” “The Wicked Lady,” and “The Raider,” plus a flock of lesser stuff. Hollywood might have to sweat come siderably to match, in quality, that list.

Film Is Years Ahead »

UNRELEASED TO date is a flick called “Stalrway to Heaven,” which had me talking to myself after 1 saw a preview: In subtlety of direction, in the use of color, for dramatic effect with ordinary black " and white, in imagination and scope, it's years phead of anything I've seen. J ol There 1s the possibility of staying too fat and smug,

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