Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 27 January 1947 — Page 12

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4 LEGISLATORS MEET TONIGHT IRS of the Marion county delegation in the general

action the legislature should take. © That is not good. And it reduces the other legislators fo a minor role instead of that for which they were elected. Ce r s = . PIHE loca legislators owe it to this community to take a + Jefinite stand favoring the following legislation: "ONE: Reapportionment of representation in the assembly so that all counties have representation commensugate with their population. : TWO: Reassessment of real estate so that the tax burden may be distributed more fairly and additional revenue obtained. : J "THREE: Amendment of the law so that the antiquated 1881 system of selecting jurors can be modernized to meet the situation in Marion county, where citizens are deprived of the right to trial by jury until next April, and of the services of a grand jury, under operation of the - present statute. FOUR: Amendment of the law to permit Mayor - Robert H. Tyndall to go outside the Indianapolis police department for a chief of police should he so desire in the attempt to break up the pay-off and protection racket of e gamblers. : B FIVE: Unanimous support of the bill to be introduced this week creating a personnel department for Indianapolis and placing a genuine merit system in effect in the city

"SIX: Decision to kill the “ripper” bill, a cheap political

gesture to handicap the Democratic judge of Marion county |:

juvenile court, which again changes the appointive power for the county welfare board. SEVEN: Revision of distribution of the gasoline tax receipts so that Marion county will receive reimbursement commensurate with the payments its citizens make in gasoline taxes. ~~ It can'be argued with propriety that every legislator ~ ghould look at every bill from the viewpoint of its statewide application. But it also is obvious that unless our legislators protect local interests, they will not; be properly considered. - » ® 2 = ~ . IN the field of broader legislation, the local solons should ~ inform themselves as to what the voters really want in the way of economy, veterans bonus, statewide primary, labor legislation, local option and liquor control, and many other questions. : . The special interests and special pleaders always are well-represented. It is up to the legislators to represent the public. As we see it, the administration is not following the national G. O. P. leadership along the economy path. There ‘fs no evidence of a deep desire to cut the cost of state government and to decrease state taxes. We doubt that the majority of veterans favor a bonus. At most, the legislature should not go further than to authorize a referendum on the question, with the specific plan, cost and method of meeting the expense set forth. As strongly as we favor extending the primary and breaking down the bossed convention. system, we do not believe this step should be taken unless the people really want it. Much of the sentiment for revision up to date is strictly synthetic, and the house elections committee should look further than the policy committee forvits orders ~—they should come from the people. The lobbyists are busy, too, fighting the bill abolishing the closed shop. Indiana should join the 12 other states which have taken this step to end a set-up by which the management-boss and the union-boss together can control 8nd regiment the worker. Many union men feel the same way, and the legislators should ascertain the real sentiment, not echo the arguments of pressure groups. Marion county is preponderantly a “wet” county, and therefore its representatives should not succumb to pressure and vote for. the local option bill, first step of the dry forces in a fight for prohibition. There is strong sentiment here, too, for extension of - the merit system, non-political selection of judges, increased

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"Teachers Should Know More About Child Psychology Factors"

By L. A. Jackson, Vernon

is said that we pay our garbage collectors more than we pay our

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teachels. This seems a stupid thing to do, but it is not first appears to be. ‘Thé garbage men are required to

deliver the goods,” and we know the kind of goods delivered. But when we pay a : physical, intellectual and moral development of our children, we can't be certain about the kind and amount of goods Good

far more thay they are now getting. But

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anything about child and teen-age training. Workers in many other fields are now being ‘chosen by means of psychologically devised tests of personality and natural aptitudes. ‘No person who has not inherited certain mental qualities should ever be entrusted with the

should not be given a teacher's license. - - s “WHY NOT JUST HOLD UP REMOVAL OF MUSEUM?” By Charles H. Mitchell, Indianapolis Lieut. Gov. James in- his opening address to the senate stated: “The highest economic and social welfare of our people should be our paramount aim in the 60 days ahead” TH * That word “economic” is intriguing. It is to be hoped that the present session will prove an economic one. On the program asking for its passage will be a resolution to remove the museum from the capitol to some room, there to await the construction of a .new building. This is undoubtedly false economy as the removal will total about $10,000 aside from the payment of rent for from two to three years. The objection to the museum in its present quarters is that being In the aisles it does not give adequate passage to trucks and that the basement should be redecorated. Why not mark time on the present setup until the new building is completed?

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THE NEWS

DANIEL M. KIDNEY

Most Americans feel quite com{fortable about sending a great U. |S. general to a Moscow peace meetne s # » If the 1948 Democratic ticket is Truman and Marshall it will be quite a victory for a national guard captain. . » ” His message to congress clearly indicated that President Truman doesn’t intend to run for re-elec-tion on a Roosevelt ticket. » » . | The senate was wise not to allow, its first session to be televised. The old “stuck-whistle” rules which prevent them from getting started wouldn't have looked good to the

taxpayers.

gs = = No matter how the budget is cut, we will have to be recenciled to {the fact that “free government” tstill costs plenty of money. = = = Some stores are advertising a |“lifetime easy payment plan.” | Seems quite a while to be in debt.

“HOW TO STOP CRIME? MAKE PUNISHMENT SEVERE” By John Adams, 2033 Prospect st. What can we do to stop this crime wave? How simple it is. Fix laws at once for severe punishment, life for robbery and hold-up, 10 yéars for molesting women; auto theft 25 years, and so on, with no exceptions through bribery. People at least would be safe again to go.out after dark. Let's try it and watch the results, society come Térward.

teacher salaries, adequate care for mental patients, and elimination of hate groups. All of these are covered by pending bills which deserve support. We rather doubt there is much popular demand for the administration plan, grandiose in character, for building a plaza for state office space. It would be more popular to reduce the number of state employees, curtail frills of government, and erect one tall office building to house the necessary employees who can’t be quartered in present buildings. We don’t need any more plazas in Indianapolis right now.

Another bill which affects many Marion county resi-

fonts is the so-called “motor vehicle safety responsibility

which was jammed through the last legislature b . y 3 powerful insurance lobby. It works a hardship on motorists, and does not cut the accident rate. It should be modified.

bi ® =» “THE public interest should be the controlling factor in any decisions reached by our legislators tonight, not the “wishes of the policy committ@ or the persuasive arguments of lobbyists. Th chose them to protect their interests and promote ‘the welfare of the state, The challenge is theirs,

BF THIS EXPLAINS IT PS on¢ reason for benighted conditioms in the may be found in revelation that in 17 Southern y of white school teachers is is $895. ‘had the lowest scale,

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Side Glaices—By Galbraith

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“MEN AREN'T ALL PERFECT DRIVERS” By Lillian Green, 5. Tremeni ave. You stuck your neck out too far, s0 here’s one right back at you in defense of women drivers. So you would like to have your way and deprive women of the right to

can't. After reading your dumb letter in the Forum I'd say you needed the whole street to get where you're going. = » For your information there are a few women who read something else besides the department store {ads and the society page. But I {don't think it is as important to ‘know all -the senators personally {as it is to know the rules of driving. You didn't mention that you read them. I'm not 60 years old and not quite as ugly as homemade sin (what do you look like) but I don't depend on my (feminine charms?) to get me through traffic. And many a time I have been driving behind a nitwit that -it would take a mind reader to know what he was going to do next. I don’t straddle the line as you call it because if I did I would be certain to meet a man (maybe you) straddling the line from the other side. And I would hate to have to stop and count the many times I have been driving behind a man and he has suddenly de-

jcided to make a right hand turn

from the middle lane of traffic or a left hand turn from the curb. And the many times I have had to blow a horn and wake them up to the fact that the light had turned from red to green. He was probably gawking at a young girl walking down the street trying to get puckered up to whistle.

I would never park too close to the corner becaufe if I did a man would be sure to try to park in front of me. You say women never give a hand signal. Is it supposed to be a signal when a man. opens the car door? You can't tell, maybe he just wants to spit. You say some men are rotten drivers, too (gracious of you to admit it), but you can tell them so. In case you should ever meet up with - yours truly and I do something that doesn't exsctly please you, cuss away. I'll probably hand it right back at you. Bo you see the men aren't all perfect either. If I were you I wouldn't throw slurs at women period. It would sound better to say some women and some men, I hope you notice I back myself up by signing my name, your initials show that you don’t have any confidence in yourself. I drive to and from work across town. every day and know what I'm. talking about.

” ” ” “WHAT IF YOUR BROTHER AS BEST MARBLE PLAYER?” By An Observer, Indianapolis. “Accidently” Overheard, or Party Lines Can Be Interesting. Hello .+. Yes, yes . ,, This is the Hawkshaw Detective Agency. The Hawk himself speaking .:. . What? Yes,

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gal marble games in the neighborhood . . . we-e-ell, not too hard < + « I used to work hard but things can get complicated that way. What? Well, what if your brother was the best marble player? Sure . « « Well, that’s the way I felt . . . no, no, the big boys didn’t like it either. . . seemed to. think I might foul up the works. Legalize it? Don't you have any religion? What an awful thing to say . . . besides how could I make any money? What? What! My men accept bri- , , , I won't repeat the word . . . no, they wouldn't dream of such a thing. Walk in their sleép? That's not

DAILY THOUGHT The secret of the Lord is with shew them His covenant.—Psalms 25:14, :

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NO MATTER how low your opinlap of editors may be, you ought to be prepared to tomorrow of the

marks the 135th anniversary of the fo first newspaper to be published in It took a lot of nerve to start it. More than anybody has today. The settlement was less than two years old at the time. As for the : 3 six no

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town itself, it was only a’ month-old baby. There road leading to it. No way of get- . ting out. Certainly, nobody in a mood to advertise. ; Everybody had been down with the ague and chills the summer before, with the result that nobody had raised any crops to speak of. Quinine was unknown, Starvation was held off only by supplies coming in occasionaly on horseback through the dense forgst or by flatboats up the river. There was no mail. No postoffice. No telegraph. No telephone. No radio. Goodness only Knows what moved George Smith and his stepson, Nathaniel Bolton, to start the Indianapolis Gazette on Jan. 28, 1822. A printing press brought from Kentucky was set up in a corner of George Smith's cabin on W. Maryland st, in the neighborhood of where the Kingan people now do business. Either by accident or design, Mr. Smith set up his press opposite David Mallory's one-chair barber shop. Mr. Mallory, a Negro who had arrived in Indianapolis the year before Mr. Smith did, was the first barber to practice his trade around here, Everybody agreed that Mr. Smith's choice of location was just about the cheapest way of collecting city news that anybody had ever thought of.

Suspended for Month

IN THE beginning, the paper was published when the occasion called for it, usually at intervals of two weeks. When it came time to get out the sixth number (April 3), the paper was suspended for a month. The heavy rains of that spring made it impossible for anybody to reach Mr. Mallory's barber shop. At that, the paper lasted eight years. In 1830, it was sold to Alexander F. Morrison who merged. it with the Democrat, a paper he had started that same year. After that, the Gazette lost its identity. During its lifetime, however, the Gazette let in a world of light. In its issue of Aug. 15, 1835, for instance, it reported “excessive heat,” but no thermometer in town to measure it. On the day before Christ. mas, 1824 (probably with malice aforethought) it advised its reading public that subscriptions could be pald “in beeswax, rags, deerskins or produce.” On

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—One of the blessings flowing out of Republican victory last November is that Senator Kenneth McKellar of Tennessee has been removed from a position of power. But this must be considered a mixed blessing, since it gives the 77-year-old senator more time to carry on his grudge fight against the Tennessee Valley Authority and everyone connected with it. = rsvp Somewhere back in the mists of time, Senator McKellar failed to get certain of his hencemen onto the TVA payroll. The .TVA is run strictly on a civil service basis. ’ ;

Raises Phony Issues

THE SENATOR HAS BEEN carrying on a running campaign of harassment against Gordon Clapp,whom President Truman named as TVA chairman to succeed” David Lilienthal when the latter was appointed chairman of the U. S. atomic energy commission. Clapp, for seven years, has been geheral manager of TVA. He came up from Knoxville expecting to be ques-, tioned about his personal qualifications for the chairmanship in senate committee hearing on his nomination. Under Senator McKellar's hectoring, he was patient but firm. Senator Chapman Revercomb of West Virginia, chairman of the public works committee holding the hearing, declined to let Senator McKellar take over the session. Now Senator McKellaris concentrating his grudge on: Lilienthal, Unblushingly the senator recounts his hatred of Mr. Lilienthal and his determination to wreak some vengeance on him.

ward sensitiveness seems to be afflicting our better hoodlums these days. Doubtless as & result.of reading too many effusions by psychologists, they have developed persecution complexes, and a great thinness of hide. Not long ago, in New York, our Mr. Prankie Costello held a press conference to protest his innocence over snide allegations which he felt demeaned him in the public eye. Mr. Costello, a gambler, was horror-struck at the suggestion that he might be masterminding some evil doings in Harlem.

Toughies Can't Ply Their Trade

SOMETHING OF THIS new delicacy has penetrated Chicago, which has always been famed for the blunt forthrightness and blitz, devil-may-care attitude of its tougher citizens. y For instance, Mr. Ox Ochs and Mr. Paul Labriola, a couple of the city's well advertised hoods, have just sent a statement to the press. Through their mouthplece they have announced that they are d--- sick and tired of being accused of everything all the time, and as far as they are concerned, Chicago can struggle along without them until the end of time. Concerning the Ox, his lawyer said: “Every time some incident occurs that makes the police think they should pick up suspects, he is arrested for it. There is always the risk that 1s will be identified ipant in some. crime, = Joe Tare a het “He will move out of Chicago as soon as the charge of resisting arrest is -dispofed - of.. . (This refers to a 75-mile-an-hour game of hide-and-seek through the loop.)

WORLD AFFAIRS

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27.—Published in full, is thé blistering story of the betrayal and death of independent Poland at the hands of her allies—Russia,

Britain and the United States. * It is told by Jan Ciechanowski, wartime Polish ambassador to Washington, eyewitness and a leading figure in what is destined to become one of the great tragedies of history. In the cast are Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Trumafi, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, Viscount Halifax, Josef Stalin, V. M. Molotov, Wladyslaw Sikorski, Stanislaw Mikolajczyk, Harry Hopkins, Joséph Davies, Averell Harriman, Cordell Hull, Ed Stettinius, Jimmy Byrnes, Sumner Welles, Joseph Grew and a host of others.

Behind the Scenes YOU SEE THEM on the stage and behind the scenes at Tehran, Yalta, Moscow, Po London,

Washington, Cairo, Casablanca and els , " «Defeat in Victory”—which is the title Mr.

'| Clechanowski befittingly gives to his report—is not

just another book. It is a news story and scores scoop after scoop on the world's press. Written in a quiet conversational tone, it is bound to create an international sensation. : Briefly ‘it is the life-and-death story-of-a-nation, from 1939 when Poland was invaded by Germany and Russia, to July, 1945, wher Washington withdrew recognition from an ally to bestow it on a Communist regime imposed by Moscow, It reveals down‘right, premeditated villainy and double-crossing on the part of some/of the Big Three; timid betrayal of

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CHICAGO, Jan. 27.—An alarming tendency to- ~

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: ‘reported that Indianapolis had 11 stores and “nearly” 1000 inhabi-

‘George Smith had the makings of & great editor

- And the necessary eccentricities that go with the job,

t0o.. He had learned the printer's trade in the office of The Observer in Lexington, Ky. and had worked on Cincinnati papers—-at a time when Charles Hammond, an editor of contemporary fame, had the public eating out of his hand. With such ease, indeed, that his subscribers always voted the way he said they should. Wonder why editors can’t do as much today. It would appear, however, that Mr. Smith started the Indienapolis Gazette with the sole purpose of getting his stepson established. He was the apple of his eye; to such a degree, Indeed, that in no time at all Nathaniel Bolton was allowed to run the paper, This left Mr. Smith enougls time to serve two terms as associate judge of the circuit court (1825-36),

He Was a Busy Man

EVEN THAT didn't take all this time for there is a legend around here that Mr. Smith was the first man in Indianapolis to open a real estate agency. Several years before he died, he bought and ran a big farm at Mount Jackson, a part of which is now the ground upon which the Central hospital is located. As for his eccentricities, Mr. Smith wore a wig and queue like that of George Washington all the time he lived in Indianapolis, which is to say up to the day of his death. Tradition has it, too, that he was seized with a sneezing fit every morning-after he dressed and went out of doors. The sneese could He heard all over the mile square at exactly 6 o'clock every morning. It was a lot more accurate than a clock or a rooster for starting the day. In which connection, it may not be amiss to note the laments of early itinerant peddlers who always complained that Indianapolis was a mighty poor place in which to sell timepieces, Mr. Smith didn't live long enough to learn in what esteem President Franklin Pierce held his stepson. In 1853, the President appointed Nathaniel Bolton to be U. 8. Consul in Geneva, Switzerland. He served four years and died a few months later. Mr, Bolton's greatest achievement, however, was his courtship of (and eventual marriage to) Sarah T. Barrett of Madison. Sure, the lady who wrote: “Paddle Your Own Canoe.”

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IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs McKellar Is Typical Petty Demagog

In his attack on Mr. Clapp, the senator wanted to know if TVA had sent engineers to Russia. The answer was “no.” Facts behind this particular bit of anti-TVA propaganda are simple. In 1942, the Soviet purchasing commission in this country asked the lend-lease administration to furnish plans. for dams to be constructed behind the ‘Urals, to replace installations destroyed by the Germans. The request was passed on through the procurement division of the treasury, and TVA complied. This was at the time when everything possible was being done to sustain.the Soviet armies. Presumably this will be part of Senator McKellar’s attack on Mr, Lilienthal. This bit of bogey-waving is so absurd that no one can take it seriously.

Good Men Resent Sniping

THERE IS, HOWEVER, evidence of a concerted campaign to frighten the public about dangers to the atomic “secret.” Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut, who sponsored the act giving civilians control over atomic energy, was compelled to deny on the senate floor that his point of view had changed on this important issue. President Truman had difficulty in persuading competent and trustworthy men to accept places on the U. S. atomic energy. commission. Prospective candidates knew that they would be subjected to the kind of petty vindictiveness in which Senator McKellar specializes. That is perhaps the chief reason why it is hard to get good men to take Washington jobs.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark Tough Criminals Are Getting Delicate

The repeated continuance of the case got to be an awful nuisance, even though nothing comes of it, since the clouted victims don't return to prosecute. . Another local citizen with a great grievance against the unreasonable law is Mr. Dolly Weisberg, a legatee of the Capone era, and once an operator of the old, notorious Club 885. Poor Dolly is just a-sitting and pining in the jail house, awaiting the day when they will put him on that seat and give him a little electro-therapy. Dolly's sin—unforgivable in his set—was shooting a character. in. a saloon so severely that the character died, and in front of witnesses. This was said to be at least the second time Dolly had committed this social error, but the first time the spectators clammed up. . But the smart money in town says that poor Dolly is a cooked duck, because he had the .poor judgment to rub his chum in front of a couple of navy guys. They brought these boys all the way

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back from Okinawa to put the finger on poor Dolly.

Dolly Waits for the Electric Chair

THE MAN ASKED the boys if poor Dolly shot this citizen, and the boys, who were going back to Okinawa anyhow, and didn’t have to fret about Dolly's friends, said simply; “Yes sir.” Not even a Chicago jury, trained in administering the maximum benefit of doubt, could ignore this bucolie insistence on fact. So there you have poor Dolly, waiting for the men to shave that little spot on his head, and it is all a ° sad commentary on the unreasonableness.of the

‘times. It is getting so a guy can’t croak a competitor

without going to jail, and I do not blame the Ox and Mr. Labriola for giving Chicago the chill

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‘Defeat in Victory’ —Poland Betrayed

allied unity”: and, on the part of some top-Ameri-cans, an unbelievable gullibility, While Polish fighters were giving their lives to the allied cause the American and British statesmen are shown closeted with Mr. Stalin in partitioning the country without Poland's knowledge. The first that Polish Premier Mikolajczyk knew of the deal was at a meeting of himself, Mr, Churchill, Mr. Stalin, Mr. Molotov and Mr. Harriman in Mos~ cow late in 1944. At this conference he was asked, pointblank to cede the territory. He replied that, as a politician, he could not give up what Polish soldiers were dying to preserve, At this point Mr. Molotov tossed a bombshell. He said he saw it was necessary to remind those present that at Tehran President Roosevelt had agreed to the Curzon line as the Soviet-Polish frontier, and that it was a just solution, But he (Mr. Roosevelt) wanted to keep the matter secret for the time being. -

‘Turning to Mr. Churchill and Mr. Harriman, he

bluntly challenged them to deny his statement.

Book for. Every American THERE ARE 40 chapters with startling revelations of goings-on about which the public never heard or, if they did, only a vague rumor. You will see your

.own and allied leaders in action at secret confer-

ences. At times you will be proud of them. At others you: will blush «+: ° ~ : . 3 ~ Jan Ciechanowski’s book is one which every American should read. For, like no other authoritative report since the war, it throws a dazzling light on the. an at

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