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Give Light and the People Will Find Ther Own Way

HOW CRIMINALS GROW °° : THE story of another American tragedy, a story that touches the roots of our social structure, is told in The Times series about the four teen-agers who were involved

ent. brutal.m of a state policeman, BE a ie desk for years has come the daily news of the good and the bad in this community, left his normal duties last week to become a reporter once again. He talked to those youngsters in the jail. He visited their homes and parents and learned about their background. And he talked to the officials in law enforcement and probation. ) What he discovered, and what he tells so graphically and capably in his series—third of which appeared today— does not place the basic blame on the unfortunate children of broken homes, nor on their generation, ~ It places the blame on the conflicting currents which tear at them. On the admitted failure of the state’s social agencies. On the spawning of criminals by an inefficient, handicapped probation system. On the lack of co-operation between law enforcement agencies and probation authorities. And—this is one of his major conclusions—on the apparent indifference of the general public. As is so often the case, the public does not become concerned unless such conditions impinge upon its own personal way of living. The drama of the story Mr. Heinke tells emphasizes and highlights conditions which should be the concern of every parent, every young man and woman, every educator and churchman. It affects everyone who has mgre than a fleeting concern about the character of the America of the future. - | We recommend this series highly, not for its sometimes sensational content, but for its fundamental social significance.

COUNSEL FOR LABOR UNIONS

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1 OUR TOWN oh By Anton Scherrer poh et : Pachyderms Bathing in White River

FOR SOME REASON—probably the fault of my parents—I never got to see Jumbo. To make up for | it, though, T saw all the elephants brought to Indianapolis by Adam Forepaugh. At any rate, all those in the Nineties when George Arstingstall was Mr. Forepaugh’s animal -trainer. Which is to say that Iam one of the few still living who saw Bazil and little Pearl. y Bazil was the biggest thing Mr. Forepaugh had to offer in the line of elephants, and Pearl the only one of record born in cap#vity— at least, up to that time. The first time I saw Pearl she was no ‘bigger than a good sized dog. - As for Bazil, I doubt very much whether Mr. Barnum's Jumbo was any bigger. He just couldn't have been. g I even had the luck to see Mr. Forepaugh's elephants treated to a.bath in White river. Back in those days the circus always pitched its tents on W. Washington st. opposite the present streetcar barns which made it mighty handy for the elephants to reach the river. That: part of Indianapolis used to

be known as” Btrifigtowh because #f strung along the -

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Hoosier Forum

"Investigate Public Buildings,

Remove Potential Fire Hazards" By John J. Hines, 2443 N. Alabama st.

N and out of labor unions, few men who have achieved positions of leadership in the union movement have won greater respect for their stature and good sense than Clin- | ton S. Golden,, former official of the C. I. O. United Steelworkers. |

many years. He has been an official not only of the Steel- | workers, but of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen | & Engineers, of the International Association of Machinists | and of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers. | He is steeped in the organization, conduct and opera- | tions of labor unions. In addition, he has had extensive

director for the national labor relations board. And he served with the war manpower commission and the war production board. ; ; Mr. Golden is a solid labor man. And he is a solid | citizen. ‘Several years ago, Mr. Golden was co-arthur of a book | dealing with labor unions. Labor experts at the time described it as “must” reading for men concerned with industrial relations, both on the management side and on the union side. In that book, Mr. Golden and his co-author said: “Organized labor, in seeking fuller participation in the | affairs of industry and government, will have to be prepared | through an all-out program of leadership training. Events in the near future may prove this to be one of the most crucial pfoblems facing labor unions.” And so. it has been.

® LJ - » » » N a recent speech before the Labor Educational association in Philadelphia, Mr. Golden charged that many union leaders are not using their great powers “any more judiciously than management did.”

Five years ago, Mr. Golden told a group in Pittsburgh |

representing management: “This proposition that management should oppose whatever labor espouses is a specious doctrine. It is no less specious when it operates the other way around.”

What Mr. Golden said then was sound. It still is sound. |

And it will continue to be sound. The man’s experience and |truant officer draw unemployment | Washington public buildings ad-

|compensation during a teachers Ministrator, is in Europe getting! 8 bly wants to see how Statement that Rev. Niemoeller’s |

his intelligence qualify him to speak. He knows what he is talking about.

Yet union leaders, such as William Green, the A. F.

of L. president, look down their noses at Mr. Golden's counsel.

And that, in a word, sums up the main trouble with labor unions today.

GUIDE?

THE C. I. O. has accepted as a guide, in its new campaign ; for substantial wage increases, the study prepared for it by Robert R. Nathan Associates, Inc. This study asserts that “total corporate business” can well afford to boost wages 25 per cent without raising prices. Memory harks back to Aug. 15, 1945. Japan had just _been defeated. Mr. Nathan, as deputy director of the office of war mobilization and reconversion, was giving the public the benefit of his economic wisdom. He was a principal author of an OWMR report, “From War to Peace,” issued on that date. Among other things, the report said this: “Unemployment currently is estimated at 1,100,000 persons. . .. This total of unemployment is expected to rise to 5,000,000 or more within three months, perhaps to 8,000, 000 before next spring.” hi Came Oct. 1, 1945. Half of three months had passed, and unemployment showed no signs of rising to anything like 5,000,000. But another OWMR report, with Mr. Nathan again as a principal author, said this: “High unemployment will persist through 1946. . . by, next spring . . . unemployment may rise to about 8,000,000.” The C. I. O. welcomed these dire forecasts as a guide in its first prewar campaign for large wage increases, holding such increases essential to prevent a disastrous decline of purchasing power. The great unemployment predicted never showed ‘up. Employment, throughout 1946, has re-

- mained high, far exceeding all previous records.

+ Wa recall this not-so-ancient history for whatever light

shed on Mr. Natay's qualifications as a guide

(“CLEAN UP RUBBISH AND

ards here.

One great hazard is the court house annex on E. Market st. This building has no fire escapes front or back, the ancient’ wood stairs have

Mr. Golden has been in the labor union business for |no stair wells. The elevators are of the open pattern and would act as

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

The recent hotel fire disasters will soon be forgotten and the “Don’t let's do anything—it will all blow over” policy of the “Glad Boys" who | “push trouble out of their minds” and who fear “too complicated prob- | lems” will disturb their air of tireless optimism, will report no fire haz-

a flue to carry flames from base-| ment to roof. The floors are of fast

“QUIT FOOLING FOLK

ABOUT FOOD PRICES”

burning pine. ‘The building is filled with juvenile court youngsters, old-age pension applicants, and the blind and crippled. Yes, the interior looks real cute,

| Brussels carpet on the court floor, you. all of this camouflages the lethal

By William Acuff, Bloomington . An open letter to Carrol P. Reece, than I had to this poor veteran's | Republican national chairman: Since you are a native Tennessean |

: . : : newly and I'm an immigrant far removed, experience as a labor mediator. He is a former regional painted and decorated and -new I am taking the liberty to write to

| milk, 12 cents; bread, 11 cents; oleo, | 18 cents. I had paid $1.42 for her! {75 cents worth of groceries and gave | | her back a quarter besides; leaving | me a net loss of 67 cents. I belong to the C. I. O. and if you fellows break our union as you have promised to do, I can't keep| on helping you fool the people. 1 see where you're going to cut in-| come taxes. That will be fine for| the rich, but the poor people like] this veteran's wife don't pay in-| come tax. The election's over now.| | How about rolling prices back to June 30 level? The people will ap- | preciate it and you won't be be-| tfaying the capitalists any more]

wife. And besides, I haven't many! more 67 cents. I don't care so much! (about this 67 cents, but too many’ repeat orders wouldn't help my finances. !

Let's quit fooling the people and

En route to the grocery today, a go to feeding them at prices they potential Hidden in the wooden |a4y asked me to purchase for her | can afford to pay. y

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By E. B. G., Indianapolis

|a dozen eggs, a quart of milk, a | loaf of bread and a pound of oleoShe gave me a dollar The eggs were 62 i cents, bfead 14 cents, milk 17 cents, No better time than now to begin oleo 49 cents. When I delivered

I've butchered my own meat an{nually: The farmér gets 24 cents (a pound for hogs, the packer gets 50 to 75 cents and the grocer gets a dollar and the poor go without meat and do most of the work.

a clean up of brush piles, tree trim- | the groceries she wanted her change 1et's eat crow, admit the Demoings and lumber scraps to help save Pack. I asked her how much she crats were right about food prices!

coal. A pile lies within a block that! 1d {which I gave her. would serve as heat for a week Or grocery ad of June

{should have, and she said a quarter,| ang quit fooling the people.

I can't

She had read a afford it, and neither can 125,000 -

5, before your 000 other Americans. so and this Is the time to push a Republicans in congress and a few

program to save coal and clean up. poll tax Democrats had wrecked “MRS. F. D. R. ERRS IN HER

| Many would prefer to get on relief OPA. Bhe showed me the ad, but CRITICISM OF NIEMOELLER"

so send those people out to clean since she had Bill Jenner's and | By George Maxwell, N. Senate ave.

a favor by helping clean up.

Views on the News By DANIEL M. KIDNEY

see if the court plaster will stick. . | hell! n ~

senate Republicans!

» Looks like the UN has decided to

adminstration to solve their surplus | cratic dictatorship.” chairman problem. ” » ” 8ocial security question: Can a

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strike? ” “ » U. 8. capitalism and U. 8. 8. R. communism have at least one

postwar production schedules. {reaction this Christmas.

- The postwar. “American Note for sports page: The ‘badly (seems to be based on three Rs— battered John L. is now waiting to Raise wages, Raise prices, Raise

might have to call on the war assets | Franco for not running a

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"They aren't really much help, but my new, book on child psychology : says if we. let them do things themselves, they'll reach

Niemoeller to speak in this country. If that isn't the negative of democracy, I don't know what you

would call it. Coming from an or-|

dinary person it would seem preposterous, but from a delegate to the security council of the United Nations, it is beyond words to describe. {It can't be too much emphasized that, whatever a person's opinion,

slap down he shouldn't be deprived of the “demo- right to express that opinion. It { |doesn’t augur well for the success |

{of the UN when one of its dele-

“W. E. Reynolds, 8ates publicly expresses such a

sentiment as that, . I question much Mrs. Roosevelt's

“lights are not those of the people lof the United States.” I would Lke

dq for some competent” authority to

{take a poll on this question. | It's worth coming thousands of {miles to express the sentiment that Rev. Niemoeller did in his speech in Seattle;"Wash.—"I have come to see that God's plan for Christian brotherhood doesn't stop short at the boundaries of nations, nor at the border of continents.” In the light of this, it isn’t surprising that Mrs. Roosevelt's son, Elliott, would talk about his country as he did in a public speech in Moscow. . ” ” “TRANSLATORS OF BIBLE ERRED ON LABOR'S HIRE” By D. J. Moran, Hammond According to the Bible, the -laborers in the vineyard got a penny a day for their labor, Now this is not what the old Greek editions of the Scripture said, They said “denarius” meaning a silver coin current in Palestine at the time of Chyist. It was actually worth more than the English shilling and had a purchasing power much larger than the English shilling. King James' Bible was translated during England's “Mercantile Age” and no doubt it was good business to make a laborer's day wage a penny rather than one shilling and six pence. You cannot make me believe that the translators did not know the difference between a denarius and an English penny. ’

.DAILY THOUGHT

‘Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, O Tyrus, and wil] cause many nations to come up against thee, as

up.—~Ezekiel 26:3. ., I. WOULD rather walk with God

In one of her recent articles Mrs. |

the sea causeth his waves to come. |

little kid, we talked a comparatively simple apd transparent language. Certainly less ‘obscure than the one used by the circus people at the time. ' For some reason, the circus people always billed an elephant as a *“pachyderm” when they came to Indianapolis,

A Drink Instead

WELL, AS I WAS SAYING, I even saw Mr. Forepaugh's pachyderms take a bath in White river. The first time. was a flasco (circus talk for “ignominious failure”). That was the year the river was low— so low, indeed, that after the elephants drank what water they wanted there wasn't enough left to take 'a bath. The following year, however, things took a turn for the better. On that occasion I was part of a crowd listening to a gentleman with a highly polished black mustache, He was selling a patent medicine from a sidewalk stand on Washington st. opposite the tents. From the look of his clothes and the flashy stone

[IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson G.OP. Asks Republican Appointments

WASHINGTON, Dec. 16—Republican National Committee CHairman B. Carroll Reece has taken a great big roundhouse swing at some of the Repub-’ licans appointed to fat federal jobs by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Speaking before the committee at its recent Washington meeting, Reece gave President Truman a nice broad hint to appoint some real, 100 per cent Republicans to government agencies as vacancies occur. The G. O. P. chairman mentioned specifically the federal trade commission, interstate commerce com-

| mission and federal communications commission.

Congress Majority Is Basis

REECE SAYS THAT these agencies perform semilegislative functions in making rules and regulations for execution of acts of congress, and that when there is a Republican majority in congress, there should be Republican majorities on these commissions. His position applies to many more agencies than the three he named. i “ _ He points out that a lot of the Republicans appointed to these jobs in the last 14 years “have not been in actual fact real representatives of the majority viewpoint, even though they technically qualified for such positions.” In short, anyone who collabgrated with the Democrats is suspect and may be purged, or at least will have to prove his party regularity. The political affiliations and terms of service of members on all these agencies are open records, and Republican headquarters has been checking up. Take the federal communications commission. Everyone who has applied for a radio station license

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark | Another Frank Lloyd Wright Dream

NEW YORK, Dec. 16.—Every since somebody swiped my bound file of Capt. Billy's Whizbang, I have been forced to make dd with “House Beautiful,” a monthly portfolio which is always leading: by a neck in the race to complicate the wigwam. Tearing myself ruthlessly away from the fascinat- | ing headline: “Your Home Can Stay Cleaner if You Keep Dirt Out,” I suddenly stubbed my toe on a hunk of rock and discovered it to be Frank Lloyd Wright's newest castle. In a more or less blinding flash, the mysteries of fomorrow’s housing were revealed.

Starlings on Candelabra

ARCHITECTURE HAS MADE the full swing. | The man of tomorrow—when and if the building | materials shortages eases—will hole up in a rocky cave, chipped out. of the living stone with a rusty mattock and a set of stout fingernails. The American | moderns sing a song of simplicity—in order to make “a fine background for wonderful bits of _nature, rocks, driftwood, patterned leaves . . > Throw out the Louis Quinze loveseat, pet, and chop { up the Chippendale. I revere Mr. Wright, who has been architecting for 50 years, and who built a hotel in Tokyo which withstood both earthquake and the eager young men | of Curtis Lemay's B-20 outfit, but I think the old | boy has overstepped himself a bit this time.» Mr. Wright has produced a dwelling in Arizona which | has so far departed from the norm that the “effect is of a magnificent ruin” and as Mrs. Wright says “it looks more like something we have been excavating, not building.” Personally, my tastes run more toward edifices which are recognizable as houses. I should hate to wander in some night from the church social and attempt to place the key in the noon-existen door of the spadework for a new apartment. Fellow can get hurt that way. Mr. Wright's new longhouse is made of slabs of

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 16.—The virtually unanimous election of the venerable French Socialist, M. Leon Blum, as interim premier, is an admirable solution of France's political difficulties of the moment. But only for the moment. The stalemate brought about by the three major parties’ failure to agree on who should head the first. regular government of the fourth republic still exists. The principal job of { ‘the “emergency” cabinet will be to look after gov- | ernment finances until a president is elected in | January, when Mr, Blum wil] resign.

‘Reds Don't Have Majority IN RECENT ELECTIONS, "the Communists | emerged slightly in the lead, with the MRP (Popular Republicans) a tlose second, Socialists third, left bloc fourth, and moderates and rightists fifth. Where- | upon, despite the fact they polled only slightly more | than 5,000,000 popular votes as against 13,200,000 for | the non-Communiéts, the Communists demanded top place in the fourth republic. Said Maurice Thorez, Red leader: “By setting the Communist party in first place, the French people have manifest their desire to see it, assume a much more dominant role in the conduct" | of national affairs. . . . The central committee openly claims the responsibility of leading the government.” Others wholly disagreed with this thesis, ineluding

| sald in his newspaper, Le Populaire, it is simple. That party has the fight to form a government and

inthe dark than go alone in" the| to designate the premier, Or; if a coalition of parties

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has an absolute majority, that cealition has the right

“a toboggan slide,

WORLD AFFAIRS . oa By William: Philip Simms Democratic France Is. Vital to World

M. Blum. If one party has an absolute majority, he °

stuck in his shirt front, it ‘appeared that he travelled with the show. ' He hadn't got around to- selling the medicine, however. Apparently the crowd wasn't big enough to suit him and to attract potential customers he. used a technique the like of which I had never seeh before, He had three shells and a little pea which he kept juggling in the: most fanciful way, the big idea being to guess under what shell he had put the pea. He offered five dollars in gold to anybody who could guess right. Nobody had the sense to do it. The medicine man promised to show how tee trick was done if we'd stick around long enough. : Just at that moment the sides of the tent raised and, to my amazement,”I saw the elephants file out Indian fashion with Mr. Arstingstall leading the procession. They walked right past the medicine man's stand with the result that everybody followed the elephants, leaving the medicine man. without a customer in sight. I never felt so sorry for anybody in my life. (The only thing approaching its pathos: today is to see Alex Vonnegut walk out on Toner Overley when he produces his kit of parlor magic). When the elephants reached the river, they slid “down the steep bank just ss-easy-as kids go In the water, too, they behaved just like human beings, diving and splashing and ducking one another to their heart's content. Even little Pearl got ducked and seemed to enjoy it. As a matter of fact, they had such a good time that they didn't want to leave the water when Mr. Arstingstall] ordered them to come ashore. !

Be Nice to Little Girls

THAT'S WHEN MR. ARSTINGSTALL whispered something in Bazil's ear and rightaway that big beast got busy. Using his big trunk to serve as a persuader, he drove all the elephants, one by one, out of the water. For some reason, though, he permitted little Pear] to stay in until the very last. With sueh an example, I made up my mind, then and there, to be nice to little girls after that. I followed the elephants back to their tents hoping to pick up the medicine man where I left off, but he was no longer there. Which is why I know so much about elephants, and so lamentably little about the medicine man’s trick.

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and been turned down is sore at FCC, believing it should be investigated and reformed. FCC is a seven-man commission, the members’ terms running for seven years, as on most of these agencies. FCC has one vacancy, no one having been named to succeed James Lawrence Fly, resigned. So the heat is on here to appoint a real Republican for the term ending June 30, 1249. The six men now on the commission divide three Democrats, two Republicans and one Independent, E. K. Jett, a radio engineer who came up through the FCC ranks. The five-man federal trade commission now has three Democrats and two Republicans. Chairman William A. Ayres’ term ends next September, and the G. O. P. will no doubt be after his job. The eleven-man interstate commerce commission divides five Democrats, four Republicans and one Independent. There is one vacancy. If a Republican were named to this vacancy, there would be an even split of the major parties, with the Independent, holding the balance of power.

Hoosier Involved

REPUBLICANS NOW ON the commission include Chairman George M. Barnard whose term ends in 1950. He formerly served as Republican mayor and attorney in New Castle, Ind, and on the Indiana public service commission. First chance to replace a Democrat with a Republican will come when the term of Carroll Miller expires at the end of this year. Next in order will be Walter M. Splawn in 1847, J. Monroe Johnson in 1948, Charles D. Mahaffie and J. Haden Alldredge in 1951.

stone, gathered helter-skelter and piled haphazardly The rafters are above the roofing, instead of below it. The roof is of canvas, a material that is not entirely invulnerable to plunging meteors and aircraft It is a way, I suppose, of licking the famine in vital materials, but it appears impractical to incorporate the sun and shadow in the structure of a house. But there it says: “Shadow is as important a design element in, the building of this desert camp as the structural materials themselves. The result is a constantly changing play of pattern that makes the design an ever-moving, ever-living thing.” Call me a Tory, but I say it isn’t practical. Comes a hard rain, I want something mote water-repellent than a shadow over my head. And as for this businéss of the ever-moving, ever-living ‘thing, if there is one cardinal virtue a house should have, it is the knack of holding still. . Mr. Wright mentions, in describing his house, that “on a fair day ... birds flew clear through.” There are some mornings, for some people, whe this would be unbearable. I want no robins whisking between me and the tomato juice, no starlings on the candelabra. :

Where, Oh, Where?

ONE PARAGRAPH particularly intrigued me. H Where, in these staccato rhythms of rock and can-§ vas, is the living room? Does a wall inclose a roomy or hide a garden? Or isd just a wall? How does the delivery "boy find the kitchen? Why are some rooms like tents and others like caves?” You got me, pal. But under the stress of modern living, I need more security. A picture of the iceman barging into the bedroom, the grocer's clerk walking in on mddame in the midst of a shower, and master being unable to locate the furnace is too daubed with potential peril for my jagged nerves. Has anyone the address of a good cheap furnished room?

to form a government. In no .other situation, how-ji ever, does any such right exist. It cannot exis because it has no majority approved by universal suffrage. «Such,” declares France's new interim premier, “isji the correct application of democratic principles.” He concedes that the Communists, as the party receiving the largest popular vote, have the right to initiate conversations and compromises that must necessarily precede formation of a government, but only as a result of such negotiations between parties can ajl representative government be féimed. One thing is certain. France cannot afford to prolong her political stalemate. M. Blum has clearly indicated the only democratic way ou* That the country is overwhelmingly opposed to}

communism waé shown by the fact that out of BA 24,867,000 registered voters, the Communists were able [If | "to rally only 5,138,000. Some 13,200,000 voted against jf | them and there were approximately 6,800,000 who!

abstained. | Strong France Needed in Peace |

AND IT 18 WELL KNOWN that whereas the] rigidly disciplined Reds always deliver pretty close toi their full strength, all the others are notoriously lax about their duty at the polls. M. Thorez' talk of} having’ the “right” to top billing, therefore; is plainly specious.” i dey ; In Moscow, on March 10, discussions of the German and Austrian peace are to begin. France mus be there and her delegates should have the backing of the strongest possible government. A united, democratic France is vital to Europe and the world. . . ¥ J fle)

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