Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 December 1946 — Page 24

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[NVESTIGATION of the parole system and lack of cooperation between the courts, law enforcement agencies and state parole officers has been ordered by Gov. Ralph P.Gates... "5 li The inquiry results from revelations by Times City Editor Edwin C. Heinke in a series of articles concerning the four teen-agers involved in the recent ruthless murder of a state trooper. The committee, composed of men and women of high standing in the state's legal and welfare circles, will make " remedial recommendations to the legislature. We are proud to have had a part in furnishing the impetus for this possible overhaul of the parole system, which at its least will accomplish a tightening up of investigation of men out on parole. The governor points out that a number of these men have been guilty of subsequently committing vicious crimes. Gov. Gates is to be commended for ordering the inquiry.

ATOMIC CONTROL STALEMATE RUSSIAS insistence on further delay in setting up controls of atomic energy development is disappointing. The latest request for more time to consider the veto question suggests that the Soviets actually may not want an adequate international authority.

and it had appeared there was an agreement in principle on the subject in the general assembly, Now, however, Mr. Gromyko balks at surrendering the veto right in the punishment of violators. Without penalties for violation of control regulations, the whole system would be valueless. It seems inexplicable, too, that the Canadian delegate, Gen. McNaughton, should appear to go along with the Russians on this point, in the face of the wholehearted support given to the American program by Britain, Australia, The Netherlands, Brazil, China and Egypt. As Bernard M. Baruch pointed out, the subject has been debated long enough. Every nation represented on the atomic energy commission has given lip service to the ~ need for international rule over the atomic bomb, with the Russians the most vociferotis of all. 'Yét each time Mr. Baruch moves for action the Soviets find some new excuse for delay. Are the Russians stalling for time in the hope that they, too, can develop a bomb, and so no longer be interested in international regulation? Their tactics suggest this. Mr. Baruch planned to make a further effort to secure immediate approval of his plan today. The time element is vital, for the commission must report to the security council by the end of the year. If that report reads “no action,” the world will know where to put the responsibility for the failure to settle this all-important problem.

GOOD ADVISERS SOME people will be disappointed by the first a.aual report of President Truman's council of economic advisers. It doesn’t propose that congress pass a lot of laws, or that the government undertake a lot of heroic measures, to insure full employment and high production, It doesn’t predict that there will be a disastrous depression unless industry raises wages immediately without raising prices. It doesn’t call for starting a huge public works program —in fact, it suggests that under present conditions public works should use no more than is necessary of the materials and manpower needed by private industry, It doesn’t urge government payment of consumer or producer subsidies. ~ It says that 1947 probably will be a fine year, “barring international tension verging on war or a persistent round of strikes,” and that any business recession in the next 12 months will not be serious or long if there is “courageous and sensible action by those responsible for the administration of private business relations (including labor unions).” t says that the outlook for production and jobs should be more than ordinarily favorable for some years to come. It urges business planning and government thinking toward the long future, so that action may be taken to keep the country prosperous. And it suggests that “the impediments to prosperity in the near future are of the sort that must be worked out, without benefit of direct government intervention, through the practical wisdom of management and labor, farmers and financiers.” No, some people won't like this report. But we think it's fine, and we congratulate its authors, Chairman Edwin G. Nourse, Leon Keyserling and John D. Clark.

STASSEN SPEAKS OUT . HAROLD STASSEN broke a rule of politics by declaring

dential nomination in 1948. The young former governor of .Minnesota broke an- _ other rule of politics by stating flatly his views on the most controversial issue now before the country—Ilabor legislaHe féivors amending the Wagner act, to give employers the right of free speech and management a more nearly | equal status with unions by proscribing unfair labor prac- | tices, as unfair management practices are already forbidden. He opposes compulsion, opposes transferring union powers fo the government, favors legislation to break up

As for the C. I. 0.’s Nathan report, declaring wages can substantially increased without increasing prices, Mr. said it was based on “false arithmetic,” was “the ptive economic report ever given wide circulation,” to spiraling inflation of prices and injury to A may not win the nomination by talking so is likely to make politics more interesting, level of public discussion and thinking on

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Hoosier Forum

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"Teen-Agers Do Not Expect Future World to Be Crimeless"

By a Bobby-Soxer, Indianapolis In Saturday's issue, a certain J. S. Hovermale called Lewis a lawdefying ape. Where does he get that? I can't see where Mr. Lewis has broken any laws. He has simply fought for his rights like any true American should. Mr, (I presume) Hovermale spoke of our | growing outlaws. s : What are these people of tomorrow? Angels? I am one of those of the future generation and I don't expect it to be a crimeless world. There are going to be outlaws as long as there are people. Mr. Lewis has only fought for what he thinks is right. Mr, Hovermale also said, and I quote “The dumbest men we have would know what to do.” This | was referring to our government of | =~ CHART — | being incapable of punishing John few will find time to pray, give {L. Well, I think up until now our thanks and praise the giver of all government has taken care of de- | good gifts! tails without the help of any half-| During the past few months ‘it baked, would be, know-it-alls. has been my privilege to study the Let me say that if Lewis is pun- various types of prayers and I found ished for striking and the unions|two most outstanding which suffice are weakened, we adults of tomor-| for practically every difficulty or row might as well lay down arms| problem one might face. I give two against naziism—we will no long be of them for those who need comfree of anything. The government fort and peace, will be taken over by the same men| First, Is there any remover of|I who are making money at the little] difficulties save God! Say, praise people's expense, If the laboring|be to God! He is God! All are His men knows what's good for today servants, and all are standing by and tomorrow, he had better check His Command. some of those lies about Lewis. He! Second: Sav, God sufficeth all |had also better see no harm comes things above all things, and nothing {to men like. Mr, Lewis, iin the heavens or in the earth but # x = {God sufficeth., Verily, He is in| | “PRAYER BRINGS COMFORT Himself the knower, the sustainer, IF OFFERED IN HUMILITY” land the omnipotent, Since these prayers recognize the all-sufficiency of God they are well © adapted to our every need and may |

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gy st. | The wcrds of Jesus “Whatsoever |ye shall ask in my name shall be given unto you” have been sadly | misunderstood and misinterpreted [in the light of his own prayer, in and difficulties should recite these {the hour of grea: distress, “Fataer, prayers in the spirit of humility not my will bus Thine be done.” and faith. |On one occasion He rebuked His laltoopies woon He sald, “O, ye. .0i little faith, do you not know that | your heavenly Father knows what ia ha e& need 0i.' ACs Words oO. | Jesus make it quite clear that the obedient and faithful child of God should be so resigned to the will ‘of God that under all circum‘stances His prayer consist of praise and thanksgiving and recognition of | God’s love and providence. | This Christmas season will find {many homes where poverty, illness and sorrow Mave left their mark.

” ” ” “CATHEDRAL HIGH NEEDS GOOD ATHLETIC STADIUM”

By C. H, 8. Team's Admirer, Cily | I was glad to read in The Times|

“homeless athletes.” 7Tve been a rooter for the teams there for years, | and always have regretted they didn't have a place to call their athletic home. I'm sure that attendance, particularly at’ night! Many more will indulge in worldly football games if it was possible to pleasures, exchange of material hold these, would pay a big part of gifts and social functions. But how the cost of such a stadium.

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“SHARE WITH OTHERS IN TRUE CHRISTMAS SPIRIT” Marvel Vincent Ward, 3520 E. Michigan st.

have done, Today I bought al Christmas tree and all its glittering tinsel, and from every limb a baby face stares at me and cries for food. But I couldn't see.

have done this day.

at $3.50 minus tax, smelled so good and the cologne whose name I could “{not even pronounce or the gloves ‘at $6 that looked so like those at $3.

baby cries again, but this time it cannot reach me. And then I know. O’ Lord, forgive.

share,

Atlantic City. No one cared. But,

left, but there are thousands like me, who spent too much for so little. letter keep them from making my mistake and may I enjoy my own | Christmas in all humility,

|“KEEP STATE INCOME TAX, DON'T APPROVE SALES LEVY”

Forgive me, O' Lord, for what I

Forgive ‘me, O' Lord, for what I

That box of face powder, special

Why have they lost their charm? I glance again at the tree. The

I have so much and I forgot to The baby is dead. It died in do and it is too ‘late, Here is $1. It is all that I have

Please, dear Lord, may my

JOUR TOWN ... . By Anton Scharmer ~ Salvation Army Lass and

‘ YOU CAN TAKE THE WORD of a connoisseur | (me) that Marie Andersen was the prettiest, certainly the cutest Salvation Army lassie Indianapolis ever had. If my memory serves me, she turned up sometime around 1897 and stayed a couple of years. In the course of those years, it was i worth anybody’s time to go down town of a summer's evening just to have a look at her, Boy, she was an eye-full, Marie came to Indianapolis by way of some place up in Wisconsin. She hardly Had her trunk unpacked when somebody spied her and labeled her “The Belle of New York” The name stuck all the time she was here. That was because everybody who had been east recognized in her the striking resemblance to Edna May, the actress who played the part of the Salvation Army girl in “The Belle of New York,” a play that was going big on Broadway at the tithe. Of course Marie didn’t know who or what “The Belle of New York” was or, if she did, she didn't let on that she was worldly-wise. Anyway, when the men around town told her about the lovely charms of Edna May, Marie just lifted her beautiful eyebrows and asked kinda innocent like: “Can any girl be so pretty?” The pay-off of which was, of course, - that she and nobody else was the girl in question. Marie had a bagful of feminine tricks like that and they went over big with the men. y

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APPARENTLY, MARIE'S CHARM and lovely looks didn't escape the Salvation Army people because, almost immediately after she got here, she was put to work making the rounds of the hotel lobbies and the downtown saloons soliciting contributions and selling coples of the War Cry. She was only 18 or 19 years old at the time, but she had the wisdom of an old woman than which there 1s nothing more impressive or more final in this world. Nobody got ahead of her and, so far as

Unions Are Em

WASHINGTON, Dec. 20.—~Impact of a rash of new

. private industry social security plans, such as are now

being demanded by steel, auto, electrical and other unions, is hard to measure. Present federal] and state social security plans provide only basic, minimum needs. They set a floor on benefits paid. They are not intended to be in competition with any private insurance plans which provide additional benefits,

Need Added Security

THE FEDERAL SOCIAL SECURITY system begun in 1937 has in general been a stimulus to the sale of private insurance policies. Additional union and industry insurance may be considered in the same category, stimulating rather than hindering private insurance. In high-risk industries such as coal-mining, railroading or heavy manufacturing, need for additional insurance protection is easily apparent. All private or industrial insurance must therefore be considered as supplementary to government insurance, or as a substitute for government insurance where there is insufficient or no other coverage. To get the measure of all U. 8. social security insurance coverage in force today requires consideration of a number of factors—federal and state gov ernment insurance and private insurance other than ordinary life insurance.. Jan, 1, 1947, will mark 10 years that the federal social security system has been in operation. Today 43 million U. 8. workers, out of a total adult labor force of nearly 60 million, are under old-age retirement and survivors’ insurance coverage. Over eight

back to New York, where things are cheap and quiet, You folgs who yelp about the high cost of living haven't seen anything yet. And nocturnal’ Broadway is an idyll

. W. Strother, Union City. In The Times of Nov, 30, 1948,

It seems to me that hair-brained person has

Now. don't get me wrong—I can

stand any taxes and still smile even © though it hurts.

My argument is this. If I make $3000 a year and spend

Wednesday that the new archbishop gagoo for my living for me and my! B. is going to get behind plans for a family then I am paying 28-30 of my! : stadium for Cathedral high school’s income in taxes under a sales tax See more 1946 cars on the street than in the United system, “John Doe works along\side of me and makes $8000 a year, He spends '$3000 on his living for him and his| Or about three grand Yankee-fashion. family. He is only taxed for % of | hig income, while I am taxed 28-30! €ggs, half of them apt to be rotten, slug you a couple uf mine,

Now if the public will see my view-

point and realize that the person! Price of Scotch runs tnat makes the most should pay the| inost then there would be no more | talk of communism, etc, (sales tax included), income tax?

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“PUBLIC BUILDING DOORS SHOULD OPEN OUTWARD” Julius M. Lonn, 3788 Broadway

Federal building doors open in. In

the name of common sense and pub-

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(tion to exist in a public building where thousands of citizens daily come and go?

Is there not some live city, state r federal official who will get some-

thing done about this hazard? Get these doors rehung so they all open out.

Then in case of an accident,

Stic practices of unions and dictatorships of unions. |

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1 | ! AN DOPR. 1998 BY NEA BERVIOR, WO. ¥. 1n.-20

"Can't you dress up in the evening? All that the children and I ever see of you, you're sitting around in your working clothesl

fire or other emergency, persons in the bullding have some chance of getting out of this building in a hurry.

DAILY THOUGHT

For it was of the Lord tovharden their hearts, that they should come against Israel in battle, that He might destroy them utterly, and that they might have no favour, but that he might destroy them, as the Lord commanded Moses.—Joshua 11:20, n ” n Lord, for the wicked will Betrayed and baffled still: For the heart from itself kept, Our thanksgiving. accept.

—William Dean Howells,

{ This is a rich country, bubbling over with oil and | gtill on the gold standard. The almighty American | dollar is a hunk-of debased paper down here. The | natives are rude about accepting our paper, and flatly refuse to consider our silver.

be recited by every one regardless there was an article under the head- | of creed. People who wish to find |ing of “Hoosier Politics” which sug-| Horns Are Blowing solution for their many problems |c ested that the state was needing more money. some thought up a sales tax.

CURRENT RATE OF EXCHANGE is three bolivares, called “B's” for the dollar. Under the | local gold standard, a B buys about 10 cents worth of stuff. A minimum weekly wage for fairly decent | living, as we know it, is about $200 American. One | of our wittier members, regarding ‘his’ dwindling cash reserves with alarm, remarked caustically that his mother had caught him up on the activity of the | birds, but she had neglected to tell him about the | Bs. There are few consumer goods shortages here. You

| States. Only trick is that, when you've finished with | the exchange rate, freight and a little local profit, a | Ford will cost you in the neighborhéod of 9000 B's,

A pair of shoes costs around $30-$40. A dozen

A man with a thirst needs a down payment The

| of bucks. | on a mansion to spend an evening in a bar. from $20 to $30 the fifth. Cab drivers are bland bandits who attempt to assess you about $30 an hour. There are plerity of white shirts if you wish to buy them for the price of a good suit. Many Venezuelans pay the plane pas-

‘WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By Wiliam Philip Simms Es Added Impetus for U.S. of Europe

' WASHINGTON, Dee. 20.—Count Richard Couden-

done immediately about this above hove-Kalergi, chairman of the board of the Pan-

mentioned condition. Who is re-| European conference in New York, has just asked |sponsible for allowing such a condi-!

| the 4000 members of western European parliaments their views regarding a united states of Europe within | the framework of the United Nations. Those favoring the idea will be invited to send | delegates to a permanent European congress in Ge- | neva in 1947 where they would propose a charter to be submitted to the governments concerned.

Churchill a Major Proponent

THIS DREAM of a united Europe simply refuses to die. In the opinion of Count Coudenhove-Kalergi, it is more alive than ever, thanks largely to Winston Churchill. In speech after speech, Mr. Churchill has urged that “without a united Europe” even the United “Nations is “futile and only a diplomatic simile.” Mr. Churchill blames Europe's plight on “nationalistic morals,” and warned of dark ages yet to come unless there is a marked change for the better. Even 50, he said, “over wide areas a vast quivering mass of tormented, hungry, careworn and bewildered human beings gaze on the ruins of their cities and scan the dark horizon for the approach of some new peril, tyranny or terror.” : The remedy he urged “is . . . a kind .of United States of Europe. In this way only will hundreds of millions of toilers be able to regain the simple joys and hopes which make life worth living." ! Recent speeches of Mr. Churchill, Gen. Smuts. of

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Peter Edson

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark \ Venezuelan Noises Sound Like Hell

CARACAS, Dec. 20.—It sure will be nice to getsage from Caracas to Puerto Rico to go shopping and

I know, nobody ever tried to. To be sure, Marie had to stand a lot of good natured joshing because of her resemblance to Edna May, but she knew how to handle that, too. Either she went about her business: unmindful of the flirting or, if that failed, she shot back a witty rebuke. One was enough to wither the smart aleck. It was on the Levee, so runs the s Marie Anderson first met Gus ae legend at natured jolly Gus dressed up to fit the Dart of the professional gambler he was playing at the time. His make-up was complete that morning ine cluding the biggest diamond owned in Indianapolis, Gus dropped a silver dollar in Marie's tambourine and sent her singing on her way. After that, he repeated the performance every time she came around, Gus was one of the first, if not the first around hers, os Feastice He Sota doctrine of redistributing the 0 world equitably, vided oA Of ne ve pro the situation

Conversion in the Nineties

THEN CAME THE memorable morning when somebody saw Marie pedaling her bicycle up Central ave. Asked where she was going in such a hurry, she .said she was on her way to Gus Rahke's place opposite the entrance to the fair grounds. The army she sald, was in sore straits and needed money to pay a month's rent for their hall. Later that same day Marie showed up with a wad of bills big enough to pay at least a half-year's rent. Marie's wad of bills, I remember, was always designated as big enough to choke a horse, Well, Marie got to be so good around here that sometime ‘in 1809, the Salvation Army transferred her to Salt Lake City where, apparently, she was needed more. And then, one day, came a letter from her asking about Gus Rahke's health and welfare. She sald it was too bad she had to leave Indianapolis when she did, because had she been given just a isle wer tima she might have converted Mr. Rahke, “I had my eye on his soul the first tim n she confessed. SY: uss

phasizing Insurance

million workers have paid in enough premium by deduction from their wages to give them permanent protection. Slightly over 700,000 are now retired and drawing benefits averaging just under $300 a year. Every state except Mississippi now pays workmen's compensation benefits for injuries sustained while at work. Rhode Island and California pay benefits for both non-work and work-connected disability. In spite of the impressive foundation in governe mental social security programs, it is the contention of most union leaders that they do not provide the working force with adequate security. This is the basis for their present ‘demands that supplemenfary benefits must be provided through collective bargain ing and new union contracts which they are now preparing to negotiate. Such supplementary insurance as in force in private insurance, industrial insurance, group health plans and voluntary sickness and accident insurance is of varying character.

Broader Coverage, Greater Benefits

ONE STRONG ARGUMENT in favor of broader coverage is that it can be provided at less adminis« trative cost, and therefore provide greater benefits to the insured. Rhode Island’s disability insurance is operated at 3 per cent administrative cost, with 97 per cent of the funds going to the insured. Blue Cross administration is 10 per cent, private insurance 19 per cent, commercial casualty 39 per cent and ine dividual industry systems 45 per cent, A case can be made that if industry in general had supported broadening government social security, i management today would not be faced with unions} demands for increased coverage by employers,

save money in the process. Hotels are just as jammed here as at home, and even a fleabag is apt to ask $15 a day. Apartments, if | you can find them, start at $125 a month and soar upwards with the vultures. Send me no more dollars, bossman. I'm a B-chick from here in. We come now to noise. I have been conditioned to ‘Broadway noise; taxicabs, sidewalk roisterers, clanking trucks, crashing ashcans, doormen’s whistles, I know that in other Latin countries the horn is used by drivers as a synonym for caution, brakes, and the stop-sign. But I think the good citizens of Caracas are the horn virtuosos of the-world. No man, apparently, is so poor he can neither own nor borrow a car. Each car is equipped with a squeeze-horn, and they lift your licerise if you do not blow three blasts three times in every 100 yards. The net effect is a sort of aural approximation of hell. The grunts, the groans, the shrieks, the screams, the gurgles, the yaps, the barks, the moans, the sighs of those horns brings an immediate picture of 10,000 damned souls, equipped with hand mikes, voicing their eternal torture from the pits.

And Chickens Crowing

THEN THERE ARE the chickens. I have heard chickens on the farm. I have heard chickens in Cuba. But I have never heard chickens like these chickens. These chickens roost on your windowsill. Even the hens crow. They never even stop to lay an egg. They tune up at dusk, and knock off at noon. They think they are feathered Carusos, and that their maternal ancestors were kingsized canaries. Bew tween the horns and the street fights and the chicke ens and my companions I have had no rest,

South Africa, and others have given a tremenduous 8 new impulse to the movement. Non-partisan coms g mitteées have been set up in London and Paris, A Like Mr. Churchill, with whom he is in closed touch, the count seriously fears for Europe's future.d The continent cannot survive, he said, in its present’ state of disunion. 3 It is ‘no longer a question, he observed, of whether Europe shall be united or divided, but whether Eue rope shall become a United Btates of Europe or a] Union of Socialist Soviet Europe. . Majority of Eu-j ropeans of all nations favor the federation of states, he sald. 3 Russia is hostile to the idea, with all of Europe's] Communists, Reaction of French Communists, for example, was that here is just another attempt to form a bloc against Russia. : Fear of Soviet’ imperialism may well be influencing the attitude of many Europeans, but to imply that the U. 8. E. movement is primarily anti-Soviet is to disregard history. Well before world war I—not to pursue its origin any further back than that—many distinguished Europeans were outspoken in its favor. Among them was France's great liberal statesman, the late Aristide Briand.

No Limit to Benefits

UNDERLYING THE DREAM of a U. 8. E,, there. fore, is something healthier than hate or fear. “If Europe were once united,” Mr. Churchill says “in the sharing of ts common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity and the glory whioh its 300 or 400 million people would enjoy.”

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