Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 February 1947 — Page 18

APOLIS is one of the few places in the state where board policy separates white and Negro pupils, of inconveniences caused to them and to their

: as oh board has the authority to establish or abolish segregation under existing Indiana law. "Reps. William L. Fortune and Wilbur H. Grant, both of this county, have introduced house bill 406 to prohibit such discrimination from kindergarten through college. The school board no longer could continue its present policy if - and when this measure became a law. House bill 406, in our opinion, should be brought out of the education committee where it now is held. Mrs. Nelle C. Downey and Mrs. Margaret Wyatt, also of Marion y members of that committee. : Ee ne of such a law would result in greater understanding between whites and Negroes, would work hardship on no one. And it would be in line with the official state policy enunciated in the administration's anti-hate bill which passed the senate unanimously and now is ready for final action in the house. Passage of the two measures would do much to promote understanding and unity. Legislation won't cure prejudice, but knowledge of the other fellow usually will.

THE PEOPLE PAY { "E have seldom seen a more cynical plot to mulct the ¥ public than the back-scratching deal between Indiana railroads and Indiana railroad unions Jeported yesterday. by Times Writer Jack Thompson. : This is management-union featherbedding at its worst. Unions and management are equally involved, and equally guilty. It will cost the taxpayers of Indiana and the people who ride the trains perhaps five million dollars a year. For several years this state has had an obsolete statute known as the “full crew law.” It requires railroads to keep on every train in Indiana one

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réads magazines, sleeps, collects pay at union scales plus overtime, never does any work. It was a make-work scheme put over in the guise of safety, back in the thirties when

_ 000 in wages paid for work not done last year. Other states which had such laws have repealed them. Senators Coblenz and Lane, at the request of the railroads, introduced a bill to repeal this one. It should be repealed. Under present laws railroads pay 20 per cent of the cost of grade separations to eliminate dangerous crossings. The taxpayers pay the remaining 80 per cent. There is a bill pending which would raise the railroads’ share of grade crossing elimination to 50 per cent—which is the division of costs generally in effect elsewhere. It should be passed.

2 » = SO here is the deal: The railroads agree to have the full crew law repealer withdrawn. The railroad brotherhoods in return agree to kill the grade separation bill. : Here is the pay-off: :

000 a year for work they do not do. The railroads save 30 per cent on the cost of every grade crossing elimination in Indiana, a possible $2,000,000 to $4,000,000 a year. : And here is who pays: You do. The taxpayers of Indiana and the people who use the

Five million dollars a year—for nothing. If the Indiana legislature can swallow that one it can swallow anything. / BRING IT OUT J ANGUISHING in committee, Huff-Downey house bill 877, enabling Mayor Robert H. Tyndall to go outside the police department to select a chief if he so desires, should be reported out favorably. Until the mayor has such power, and uses it, there doesn’t seem to bé much chance of cleaning up our police department and eliminating the bribe-takers who throw discredit on the whole department. The mayor scoffs at “rumors” of policemen protecting gamblers, even though t © the prosecuting attorney has announced that a list of such . policemen is available, The ideal situation would be to have civil service in the police department and in all other departments of city government. Lacking that modern tool of municipal operai tion, the mayor should quit trying to be a police head him"self and bring in someone with no commitments to clean up the force. This is Mayor Tyndall's fifth and last year as mayor. Unless he does something—and soon—about the police de- _ partment which he insists it is his prerogative to run, his . administration’s record will be badly smirched.

GEORGIA DOUBLES : LONG with her two governors, Georgia now has produced judicial ppinions on which of the governors is the genuine article. Superior Judge Hendrix, of McDonough, has ruled in favor of Herman Talmadge, son of the late Gene. Superior Judge Porter, of Rome, had previously ruled for M. E. Thompson. Thy judges of Georgia's remaining 157 counties yet beeh heard from. Maybe Dr. Gallup could be to pofl them, y e divergent judicial views leave public “about what it has been for a month and a t it seems likely to be until the issue gets m the state supreme court. Meanwhile, ee million citizens are having a fine opportunity he flaw in the adage shout two heads being

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brating the 14th of February, I can't help lamenting

old sixth ward, a geographical (and cultural) area on the South side, in which I had the privilege of growing up. Everybody in the neighborhood called him Mr. “Alles.” The nickname was the result of the curious patois spoken on the South side at the

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ries ne no end, lie you old timers probably know, without As & rule, ing you, the practice of sending prehensive stock of comic valentines at least two gy comic valentines has fallen off weeks before the day set for distribution which, considerably; so much so, indeed, of course, gave us kids plenty of time to paw over. S J that it is practically impossible every item of his collegiion, He never failed to, have today to find one nasty enough A dosen or 80 in his collection that were such perfect ; to fit the person we have in mind. caricatures of people living in our midst that we just -. Sure, it's because there's no de- couldn't resist the temptation of making them the oN SSe mand for them. But do you know ‘beneficiaries of Saint Valentine's day. Which is to § ; | precisely why? Well, it's because say that Kr. Ahlders probably understood the frail- ne the comic valentine doesn’t work ties of human nature better than any merchant I Scatte anymore. At any rate, that is the ¢ _ ever knew. At any rate, Mr. Ahlders knew the ; Uni fon of those people blessed with an ear to count name of every citizen equipped with a big nose or | nits the heartbeat of Indianapolis. big fest and he was particularly good. I remember, The Indi Sixty years ago when I was a kid, the comic when it came to picking valentines to send to those valentine worked with the sureness of a chemical so- whose ears stood out more than they should, Commerce t lution succumbing to an acid precipitate. I never Even more surprising was Mr. Ahlders knowledge assembly nc knew it to fail provided, of course, that it was prop- of the misers, the mean, the sissies and the stuffed : Indianapolis erly picked and properly addressed. Of the two, the shirts residing in our neighborhood which came in In a state second operation was the more important. mighty handy when, on Saint Valentine's day, we set up scat Lost Knack of Selection Ra Tao St mg out uics tn oh THIS LEAVES me no alternative but to believe h i 08 i pointed ou and I still remember that he never charged more that modern people no longer have the gifs of picking, for a comic, which is‘something else stitue. will comic valentines, let alone the knack -of addressing penny » Whic ething e efficiently. that may have contributed to the success of the old- 3 them properly. And it isn't altogether because mod- fashioned Saint Valentine's day Under th ern people have deteriorated along with the comic ' i“ missioners valentine, although that would be the easiest and A Weapon Reversed tricts on pe accepted way of explaining it today. Rather, it's I ONE SUCCESSFUL Saint Valen: § the proper because people nowadays haven't the time of those tine's day in particular. That was the year Frank ? sewers and brought up in a less hurried age which permitted Baden and I (both of public school 6) pitched a penny Chargy | sufficient leisure to figure out just which one of the for the privilege of sending Mr. Ahlders a comic. many comics would make the recipient the maddest. Frank was the luckier of the two with the result that Principal We kids, I recall, always took a lot of time to pick he had the honor of paying the piper. Together we Chamber of the nastiest valentine to fit the person we had in went to Mr. Ahlders and, largely with his help and new bill mind. And I still remember what a great help Mr. advice, picked a powerful caricature of an undersiung 3 owner in t Ahlrich Ahlders was when the choice was a par- little man with enormously big feet and a beard so set up the ticularly difficult one. long that it swept the floor. A contributing factor itary distric Maybe, I've already mentioned Mr, Ahlders in this that sealed the sale, I remember, was Mr. Ahlder’s That me: column. In that case you know that he was the prediction that this particular valentine would make that city pr bearded, gnome-like little man who, 60 and more the recipient the maddest man in town. And, by for faciliti years ago, ran the most wonderful toy shop in the the Lord Harry, it did. In spite of the fact, however, have provid

that Mr. Ahlders knew perfectly well who the guilty ones were, he never held it against us. The only way I can explain it is that, deep down in his heart, he knew that we loved him more than anyone else In our bailiwick. ;

IN WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs

Hoosier

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consideration. _ Need for adequate psychiatric

the governor. There was no indication that than one psychiatric team do a prof of work, adequately eligible for during any

find recruitment sonnel difficult because

federal government and the maJority of neighboring states. : Indiana must develop an adequate program for the study, custody and release of those

havior. Such a program must start prior to conviction or sentencing or as early as possible and certainly before the inmate is eligible for parole. within the division of correc-

"Indiana Should Develop Program Of Psychiatric Study of Criminals"

By Interested Reader, City It is with considerable»personal interest that I have réad of the proposed “board of specialists” to help with parole and probation probemployee more than is needed lems in Indiana. Having had experience jn penal psychology as a

to run the train safely and efficiently. The spare employee civilian and in the army, I felt it necessary to offer suggestions for

study, treatment and disposition 3

persons convicted of criminal behavior is essential. A team program

; . as recommended is immediately necessary. However, as proposed, the ~ jobs were scarce. It cost the railroads of Indiana $1,800,- team could not operate effectively and would, in final analysis, be sub-

jected to an over-rule by a politically selected commission appointed by

cate and train them after their re-

pendent ways of living.

“LEGISLATURE CAN'T PASS

.|EX POST FACTO LAWS"

By BE. Williams, Morgantown It seems the Indiana legislature is intending to pass an ex post facto law or retroactive measure in re- | gard to aged pensioners for the purpose of building million dollar poor houses in Indiana, Ex post facto laws cannot be passed by congress or by any state legislature in the United States. No

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“INDIANA IS THROWING INSULTS TOWARD VETERANS” By G. B. Coyle, Indianapolis After reading letters of LL. EB. L. of Anderson and R. E. H. of Indianapolis, may I add my two cents worth. The truth never was so well spoken. What kind of state government do we have anyway? It looks like Indiana is the only state in the union that is throwing insults and ks toward veterans who gave up homes, jobs and even lives to save these big-shots from’ getting their pants filled full of lead. Who was it that saved their lives? The veterans, of course. In time of war the boys in uniform sure were a nice bunch of boys. But after they fought a war, got wounded and butchered up to save lots of big-shots’ lives, veterans then are no longer wanted, after they have served so faithfully for their country, and are looked upon as a Pack of stray dogs. I'm sure no veteran wants something that isn't due him. How would these same men like to spend three or four years in a foxhole, mud and water up to their necks,

on the cold, cold ground, expecting any minute that your head would be going in one direction and your body~in another. Would you like this? We veterans had to give up everything while these same men had nice homes, good eats and soft beds to sleep in, and no fear of bombs dropping on them. These

person or persons in the United

sam® men say that they cannot

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{States can be held accountable by give a bonus to veterans. They a new law passed after his con- have to raise more tax to pay it viction by a previous law and an- off. Well, how about that big park-

nulled by the new law, Such seems to be the idea held | by some legislators who are now support was not 100 per cent. A discussing the passage of a new suggestion along this line would law regarding the old age pensionbe to establish behavioral diagnostic ers. centers where a minimum of quali-| The interest of all these persons fled personnel would do thorough|affected by this new law should be investigation and the report follow|aroused to the “danger of being the individual to his institution,|committed:to these poor houses. An where institutional personnel could ex post facto law would subject observe and record perodic progress. |their property to a lien and loss of The individual could be returned to|such by levy of the state governthe diagnostic center when 75 per ment. This fact should be widely cent of his minimum sentence was|advertised in Indiana that the peocompleted, to be evaluated for ple of this state are not taking the further consideration. - progressive attitude of other states One of the most serious problems {where fathers and mothers sacriof parole and probation is lack of |ficed their sons and daughters who adequate adjustment supervision.|might have been able to provide Most supervision at present appears |for them, such sons and ddughters to be superficial and clerical. Too |who preserved our democracy but many impossible restrictions are|perished in world wars I and II, placed on parolees. If we expect|These sons and daughters must be these men to adjust, we must edu- cheap at $24 per month.

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tions, this state was making progress along these lines by classification and treatment programs, but

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ing lot and the raise .jn the| Governor's salary, and a few oth- | ers they are thinking about. Where's | the money coming from for that? So, Mr. Governor, how about a fair deal. We gave you one. Do we veterans deserve something? The state government is like the U. 8. government. They hate to see the truth printed. All we veterans want is a chance to get back what we lost. So in behalf of L. E. L. of Anderson and ‘R. E. H. of Indianapolis, it was a great pleasure to read your letters. Let's have more like them. We have fought before and we can fight again for something that’s due us. n n s “MAJORITY OF PEOPLE OPPOSE DISCRIMINATION” By Jack Matthews, Purdue University I wish to commend you for your forthright editorial condemning discrimination against Negroes in Indiana hotels. American newspapers

WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—While the question of confirmation of David Lilienthal is important as an issue of immediate policy, it is even more important as & symbol. So much of the confusion and conflict of our time adheres around it. It cuts so many ways, On the political side, it puts an important segment of the Republican leadership in the strange position of following the lead of vindictive Senator Kenneth McKellar, Senator Kenneth Wherry would have it otherwise, but the facts speak for themselves.

Public Welfare Basic Issue IT WAS McKELLAR'S GRUDGE FIGHT, abetted by the Hearst-McCormick-Patterson press, that set this policy. The Republicans who follow along are merely saying, “Me, too.” Except in a glancing way, the fore of this controversy has not really been touched on. Behind the noisy clamor over “communism” is a struggle to get all power production back into private cogtrol. Not Lilienthal but the Tennessee Valley Authority is real target of at Back of that is an even more significant triangle of conflict. Private control over atomic power is the objective of a little group who, if the whole story could be’ bared, would be seen to be inspiring the fight against Lilienthal. That helps to explain the otherwise inexplicable anger with which certain senators turned on Undersecretary of State Dean Acheson when he went before the atomic energy committee. Their anger was directed at Acheson for releasing the Acheson-Lilienthal report which recommended putting control of atomic energy under an international authority. The~group that helped to draft that report included distinguished scientists and businessmen who worked. under chairmanship of Lilienthal. , They concluded, in effect, that this power was so

if other people want to go out and fracture their spines under Actic conditions which would give pause to Adm. Byrd. But what I cannot understand or forgive is their insistence on ringing innocent bystanders in ‘on the torture. A ski-addict cannot rest until he has tyrannically introduced all possible acquaintances or victims to his own personal form of self-torment.

Avid Ski Fan BKIERS ARE like Indian fakirs who are not content to lie on their bed of spikes but want the passers-by to cuddle up on the nails, too. I know a lady here; her name is Mrs. Frankie Foster. She is the wife of an editor friend of mine. She is a good mother. She is a gracious hostess. She is very attractive, and everybody likes her. But Mrs. Foster is a skier. That is to say, as soon as a stranger heaves into her ken, she cannot sleep or eat until she has dragged the poor bum. up to the highest peak she can find, strapped him into skies, and pushed him over a precipice, She has become so passionate an addict of this outdoor vice that poor Mr. Foster has resorted to spraining his ankle, dn purpose, the first day of the ski season, and is thereby enabled to limp skiless through the winter. Otherwise he'd never get out

have a real responsibility to keep us informed. Our entire democratic | process is based on the notion that! only a well-informed people are capable of making “the good de-| cision” I am convinced that if) the majority of people knew of the undemocratic practices that minority groups in the United States are subjected to and knew the damages these practices constitute to our democratic society, they would not long permit such conditions to exist, : Your editorial helped inform many people about conditions they did not know existed. I hope you will continue to supply such information and to point out that not only is it illegal in' Indiana for a restaurant or hotel to refuse service because of color, but that such practices are serious threats to the successful operation of a democratic state and the respect the United States will receive from the rest of the world. Keep up your good work.

DAILY THOUGHT But the Lord said unto Samuel,

“Lord seeth mot as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.—I Samuel 16:7.

THINGS are not always what they seem; the first appearance deceives many; the intelligence of few perceives what has been carefully

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the paper. I came to Denver and was resting comfortably in a bed when Mrs, Foster and her limping spouse came to call. Frankie had a light in her eye. “Tomorrow,” she sald, “we are going to take you skiing.” “I don't want.to go skiing,” I said. “I just want to be here and be happy.”

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip Simms i

True Liberty WASHINGTON, Feb. 14—Mrs, Eleanor Roosevelt's statement that “the whole cause of human gjghts has; been advanced” by the United Nations commission %f which she is chairman, not only is true. It is an understatement. The objective of the United Natons is world peace. And the one thing aboveggall others which peoples everywhere must enjoy if Wars are to be prevented is that foundation of all human rights, freedom of speech and of the press for which Mrs. Roosevelt is now so valiantly fighting.

Information Bottled Up WRITING IN THE MAGAZINE Logistics, former Undersecretary of State Joseph C. Grew says today the preservation ofvinternational peace “is the paramount issue.” And then he adds one of the most profound of modern truths. “In approaching this most perilous subject, our th will be clarified if we proceed from the basic fact that the great wars of this and the last generation were not led up to and brought about. by peoples. They were led up to and brought about through the spread pf hatred and lies by small groups

of insanely jealous men holding the reins of “power

and lusting for greater power.” ' \ Hitler was such a,man. Yet even he never could have launched world war II had he not first abolished freedom of speech and the press. first act, therefore, was to seize con-

Lilienthal Attack Has Selfish Motive

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark !

10-Ft. *Schuss’ Ski Champ—He Quits

DENVER, Colo, Feb. 14.—1t is all right with me.

"free only where there is freed

ls entirely free could start a war of aggression. .

overwhelming it could not be left to the exploitation of private interests. Private competition would inevitably mean private monopoly. And a monopoly of that kind would finally be a dictatorship. Under the plan they proposed, atomic power would be available to private business just as TVA power is avallable at a low cost to private business throughout the Tennessee valley. TVA is grounded in a natural resource—in the rivers that run to the sea. In the same way, atomic power derives from the very stuff of life and from the complex knowledge and skills of thousands of ‘men and women. Incidentally, the atomic power project that is a going concern today cost $2,000,000,000 of the taxpayers’ money. It would be interesting to be able to identify those who are exploiting the attack on Lilienthal. They know how to employ the technique of the smear and the irrelevancy. This controversy demonstrates the way “communism” can be used to distract and divert. It can condition decisions that should be made on the basis of what is best for us as a nation. The reality of communism is one thing." But the hysteria provoked by the smear is something quite different, can corrupt decisions so that we act in fear and not in reason.

Worangling Hurts World Position PROBABILITY IS that Lilienthal will be confirmed. If he falls of confirmation, then the possibility of finding other civilians who would be willing to submit to this form of Indian torture is slight. Shadow of stalemate between a Republican congress and a Democratic chief executive has already fallen across this critical year. If the next 18 months are to be given to futile wrangling, our position and prestige before the world will rapidly vanish.

“Jack’s pants will fit you,” she said, ignoring my : statement completely, “We can -get skis for you up CE on the mountain.” x § The next day it came snow. A happy little blizzard, surely, I thought, not even an Alpine skitrooper would crawl out of the sack on a day like this. I was never more wrong. Mrs. Foster, chortling happily, was on deck early, with her old man’s pants for me to wear, and about 70 pounds of shoes, socks and stuff. I expected to see nothing but mountain goats at Winter Park, but the slopes were seething with half-frozen children, obviously insane men, and sharply tailored women. They were running up the hills crab-fashion on their skis, and tumbling joyously down again on their unprotected anatomy. -We walked miles through the snow. I made one 3 short “schuss,” or straight run, on my skis, after 3 one lesson. I did not fall down. They tell me I am J champion of the 10-foot “schuss” league, and I quit. & still champion. But today, I am frostbit all over, My sniffles have swollen to a king-sized cold. My muscles ache, and my bed is no longer comfortable.

Not Even in Summer MRS. FOSTER says she is sorry I am disappointed in Denver's wonderful winter sports. She sald maybe I would like Denver better in the summer,

I am not coming back to Denver in the summer, Frankie Foster climbs 14,000-foot mountains in the summer, and from the gleam in her eye, I knew she already sees me wearing a rucksack, clutching an alpenstock, and falling 7000 fees to the bottom of the handiest crevasse,

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trol of the German press, radio and sources -of information. Thus, uncontradicted inside Germany, he was able to spread falsehood, hatred and suspicion against the rest of the world. Raising an iron curtain around his borders, he likewise prevented outside information from coming in, Had the world of information been free to the German people, and had the German press, radio, pulpit and platform been free to discuss it, Hitler probably would have remained just another funnylooking polifico with a small following. There probe . ably would have been no war. At least he could nov have started it. : In Germany's last free elections prior to Hitler's rise, the Nazis won only 196 seats in the Reichstag as against 388 for the other groups. It was only after he had got his foot inside the door, and had organized his gestapo, that his rocket soared. :

His Vote Went U BY THAT TIME EEDOM of information had been suppressed and Dr. Goebbels was using the press, radio and lecture platform like a maestro plays on an organ. Then it was that hé polled 94.4 per cent for the Nazi ficket—the only ticket there was. z= Where the human mind is free—and it can be of information, speech and press—there is. no such unanimity on any subject, not even on God. Certainly no country that

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