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“" 4 RETR ENC | “Give Light and the - Will Find Their Own Way “YOUR LEGISLATORS’ RECORD LAST November, the citizens of Marion county chose the ~*~ men and women who now represent them in the state

appears on the first page of this section of The Times. It deserves thoughtful analysis as a measure of the manner in which ‘these officials are reflecting the desires of their constituents, and as a basis of determining whether they ~ should be supported if and ‘when they seek re-election. Cr “ 1t will be noted that the solid Republican delegation "voted, almost always unanmiously, as the G. O. P. administration and its policy committee decided the party members should vote. It is fair to state that little independence “of judgment has been shown, All of the house delegation except Rep. Wayne O. Adams Sr. voted against a statewide primary for selection of nominees for U. S. senator and state offices, a reform opposed by the state house machine. ¥ # . » ¥ " I’ is a sorry commentary, on the interest of the local legislators in proper conduct of the juvenile court, that every member of the delegation except Senator John W. Atherton (absent because of illness) supported the ripper bill di- | rected against the judge of that court. ) This ripper bill, which would have been defeated if the Marion county members had lifted a finger of opposition, transfers appointment of the county welfare board from

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Hoosier Forum

\ Swell Kettle of Fish i SAGA OF INDIANA .

"I do not agree with a word that you say, but .| will defend to the death your right to say it.” = Voltaire.

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By | Free Education

general a regular gradation from township schools to a state u wherein tuition shall be gratis and open all.” ' :

to : This is-section 2, article IX of the Constitution of Indiana of 1816. It. took two generations of Hoosiers over half a century down to 1873, and much educational anguish to turn this article of the constitution into reality.

Story of Money, Ignorance

NOTHING IN the article says how the plan was to be carried out. However, it plainly implies that

foundation up rather than from the roof down. Thé,record shows that Indiana university, the roof of the plan, was ready to function tm 1828, But it was 1873, nearly half a cemtury later, before the founda-* tion of a common school system could even wheezily educate a child, ‘How come? This .is the story: Money, ignorance, and necessity. The ploneer folks of early Indiana had to think more about the law of self~pressrvation than a law to support public schools. Coming largely from the mountains and less prosperous sections of ‘the south, their taste for education, like, their taste for oysers, had to be cultivated. ? The vote on the “law of 1849,” which provided for establishing a common school fund for the &upport of common scdools in the state is a pointed instance of this. ’

What's Behind Tru

WASHINGTON, March 4 —A new secretary of state never begins with a clean blackboard. The record has been written by his predecessors and he must accept that record for what it is. As secretray of state, George OC. Marshall leaves for Moscow. In his briefcase he takes with him not merely the present but the past. Commitments have been made. Policy has been staked out, Gen, Mar-

shall will constantly find himself pulled up short by the long rope of the past. , .

A Threat to Our Defense TAKE THE matter of trusteeships. Here is one

the Democratic judge of juvenile court to the Republican judge of circuit court in Marion county. A proposal by Democrats that the law also apply to Lake county was de-

authority to appoint the board would have been transferred from the Republican judge of juvenile court to the Democratic judge of circuit court. Which proves the ripper bill

the Marion county delegation to have been frankly political despite the obvious desire of the majority of voters here to take the juvenile court out of politics. The house members voted unanimously to approve the cynical deal of the railroads and the railroad unions by

"of Indiana millions. The railroads will pay part of what this vote saves them to the railroad brotherhoods which helped them put it over, in “featherbedding.” There is no senate record. The bill was killed in the house. =: <4 . » » » » . F A FURTHER reflection upon the delegation was its willj ingness to let two bills of importance to Indianapolis die in committee. One of these measures would have ended segregation in the Indianapolis public schools and other schools of the

remove segregation, and has—unwisely, we believe—chosen | the former course. The other bill would have permitted Mayor Robert H. Tyndall to go outside the police department to obtain a chief —as was done by Governor Ralph F. Gates when he was forced to find a superintendent who would clean up the mess within the state police. Mayor Tyndall now must content himself with the limitations of the personnel of the Indianapolis department in which a challenge still is presented to him to clean up the protection racket and alliance betweén some policemen and gamblers. » s - =n » » » THE record of your legislators should be scanned with care. It is one which they themselves have written. At the end of this session the record will be brought up to date. ‘And if and when these officeholders are candidates again, it will be available for public scrutiny.

FATHER OF THE TELEPHONE

BACK in 1876, when Alexander Graham Bell filed for a patent on hig “improvement in ‘telegraphy”—an electrical instrument to transmit speech—few people saw any | «great future for that new-fangled toy. vue in VED the young inventor was not too optimistic at first. He thought that in time the telephone might be perfected” so that people in neighboring towns could talk with edch ‘other. His first commercial switchboard, at New Haven, ° Conn., in 1878, had only 23 subscribers, and by 1885 there were only about 160,000 telephones in the world. : But in 1922, when Prof. Bell died, the United States alone had more than 14 million telephones in service—that number has grown to more than 32 million and is increasing rapidly. : The people, with some eight million more telephones than all the other nations of the world combined, use them for about 40 billion converSations each year. Coast-to-coast calls became commonplace long ago, Calls to other continents go through almost as quickly and easily, . It is hard for most of us to imagine what life was like before the telephone and harder to imaginé the chaos that would result if this country were deprived of its services now. To the Scottish immigrant who gave it to us is due a debt of gratitude comparable to the one we owe Thomas “A. Edison, Pg " :

NOVELTY IN WARFARE Chinese Communists, who are at war with the Na- ~ tionalist government, have decided to keep open their nt offices in Shanghai, Chungking and Nanking which Nationalist territory. sy : his is a refinement of warfare with novel possibilities. 88 if the south, in our civil war, had maintained offices, Newspapers and run recruiting stations in New

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I hold no prejudic yellow, black or any other color, for if God wanted one color and one!ing race there would be just one kind of people. But we, by God's ownisuch as a true merit system that will, have a free will and I say aino political leaders will dare to man who says a word against the|tamper with as it is reported they people who are black, or yellow,’or have done in the past for all city against any religoin, let him say|employees of which there are apanything to any of us here in our proximately 3500; operating the presence and he will be told and|city, as nearly as the law permits, not be mishandled or beaten tojon a city manager plan of government; better street conditions; less juvenile delinquency; improved ash, garbage and trash collection; improve our traffic record which is one of the worst in the country; a reduction in crime which has reached new heights and, above all, the right of all the peoples of Indianapolis to express their thoughts without fear of retalia-

crossing separations. That vote will cost the taxpayers of 4 people who dislike others beMarion county hundreds of thousands of dollars, the people cause of their background. Well, we have men of German, though Japanese, Jewish and Italian de-iand spiritual, innocent though I scent, and all the rest too, over here/am, walk out where I am right now helping hold|limb and say the peace. “And if war were to start

they would die side by side. And|,;, 4 candidate for. the office of if by chance you doubt my word, Iimayor of Indianapolis in the prihave many men who are reading mary May 6; 1047, on the Citizen's, the article Hight Wow:-Amd many|Laborite and Taxpayer's Liberal who read this letter will tell you Dlrd UNCP (RE od Se jhe the same. We are all alike because at a tax rate they can afford to

state. The school board now has authority to impose or |e are all-humans, and. if color, pay.” 1 stand gn “My Blueprint race or creed means the difference|8nd Tentative between a job or a ride in a public cab, or words against-these people —then who did we fight for or what | are we doing over here? The Consti-

death for what he. says. I hope this letter gets in the paper or at.least a part of it because it is what an American soldier thinks of this kind of people.

’ » » ” “HERE'S MY PLATFORM AS A CANDIDATE FOR MAYOR” By John Alvah Dilworth, 816% Broadway Although the would-be Democrat, symbolized by the donkey, and' the Republican, symbolized by the elephant, candi-

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“I'm Against People Who Dislike feated, because in that county the situation is reversed and1Others Because of Their Background"

By Pvt. A. Hiver Jr, 6th U. 8. Army Division, Korea E I just read s story in the Reader's Digest and it made me so mad I thought I would write you and see if you couldnt straighten some to have been the rankest kind of politics, and the motive of people out back in the states. The magazine is dated January, 1946. And I know things like that are going on right now. . It is a story of a Japanese American, ‘ It told of how the people of the states treated a man who flew 58 missions for the army air forces. The people don’t seem to realize that we don't hold a grudge against the Japanese Americans, of whom a lot died for America and a great ideal. And I guess a few probably killed their own relations in the which the railroads evade paying their fair share of grade | gq i pattietronts. But that isn't what I am so much against. It is

“Ito ballot on their candidates, I will, political not economical

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thorough study of this issue as of yet and am not, therefore, ready to tution says, “One nation indivisible|offer special proposals regarding with liberty and justice for all”|this matter at this time, but I Not just for. the white, but for us|believe our tax rate could stand all - |a cut of 45 cents. Effecting against the|economiés does not consist of skimping on necessities and slash-

I propose many improvements

I seek to be mayor of Indianapolis, even though it is a thankTess task I ‘many ways, because ¥ bles because they are waiting, it is{love Indianapolis and have the] said, for the political party’s county | welfare of the peoples of Indianchairman, vice-chairman, precinct apolis foremost in mind.

Side Glances—By Galbraith.

for the most fascinating plays in the international poker game. We find the Russians suddenly agreeing with us. Not just agreeing passively but agreeing with a firm, warm enthusiasm. : We cafi be sure there is a good reason behind this agreement. A bit of background hitherto undisclosed may have a bearing on the Soviet note giving the Kremlin blessing . to American trusteeship over the former Jap-mandated islands. While former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes was in Paris last summer, he had a long show-down session with Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov. One of the points Mr. Molotov raised . was the American proposal to exercise sole trustee-

“I'M JUST AS LOYAL AS THE NEXT FELLOW” By P. M., Indianapolis Quite a few veterans who have returned think they won the war themselves. .This war was not a oen-man war, it took all to win it. The boys that came back look down upon the 4-Fs fike they were outcasts. But 85 per cent of the men that were in this war were not in

there because they wanted to be

but because they were drafted to it.| Ship over those islands. I dont like for them say the Mr. Byrnes was ready for that one. He had been

n coached by the navy on what to say. In reply he ae ore as it con be. '*| asked Mr. Molotov what the Russians meant by their Iam a 4-P and was up before the sole occupation of the Kurile islands, which stretch board four times and turned down in a string of dots from the Siberian mainland down on account of my health. I donated to Japan, and also of the Japanese half of the island blood to the Red Cross and gave of Sakhalin, which before the war had been shared money to the Red Cross and bought by Japan and Russia, The U. 8S. navy takes the view bonds and I did it on ‘$35 a week that Russian occupation of the Kuriles and Sakhalin

or less. I think I am just as loyal American as the next fellow. Any money that the veterans can get in bonus or any other way they are entitled to, and glory be with them if they can. 1 think the government does owe these boys quite a bit for what they did because they gave up every- MEXICO CITY, March 4—I have been peeking thing to go on the battlefields. But! quietly into the life ‘of Jorge Pasquel, that great on the other hand if ‘the home emancipator of American baseball, who has been front hadn't done their part what! _ . : oo would have happened to the boys written up so fulsomely by some of the Ameéfican over there? A lot of you veterans| papers, and from what 1 see you can have Senor Pesquel, and all his brothers.

think the people are down on you, by Tine rung. don Me He is quite a boy, this great Mexican. Apart from Ria wel aod iy : being a gun-toting killer, a hater of cigarets and the possessor of an outsize Napoleonic complex, he is also

paper slurring : other people and A 4 e {hei handicae, and all ¢-Fs hav rich enough to be unpleasant to nearly everybody, and make it stick.

something wrong - that kept them out of the army. 80 from now on whenever anyone writes to the Hoosier Forum about the ‘4-Fs or anyone else, just stop and think that if the world is down on you it has a reason.

Man of Strong Views

YOU MAY REMEMBER all the commotion last year when Pasquel began raiding . the major league ball teams, flapping fantastic sums in front of American baseball players to induce them to jump their contracts and play for his teams. At the time Mr. Pasquel was represented as a sort of swarthy Abe Lincoln, leading the spike-shoed slaves out of painful bondage. It developed later that the emancipation failed to work too smoothly, due mainly to some erratic chinks in what we will describe as Senor Pasquel's personality, At the. risk of permanently paralyzing, from anger, such old-timers as Clark Griffith, I want to toss in the recent quote-from Pasquel that he and he alone was responsible forthe resurgence of interest in baseball in the U. 8, last year.” 8 Also, to further enrage “the patriarchs of the purely American sport—"there are. no more hal 10 anything ball ers worth hiring in the entire major leagues.” Sud otal} The owhs Selle thé passionate true-believers, the sports-

the Claypool? Why can they pay only 35¢ en hour? Why is it i] writers—“all American sportswriters are spies In the

as Indianapolis’ finest hotel? What's) pay of the major leagues,” and Senor Pasquel fo the answers Why have these people| longer has time to see them. His secretary will pass

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» . “EXPLANATION WANTED ON CLAYPOOL STRIKE” By B. H. §., Boulevard piace For the last 20 years my family and I have been Times fans and, have admired the civic improvement and political cleanup campaign crusades of a real fighting and alert daily. This is a simple request by a simple citizen: Would you write me a not of explanation in regards to the Claypool strike? Why hasn't The Times

ments, such as the proposed hiring of Ted Williams; or if the visitor sufficiently -important, he may be granted audience with Brother Bernardo, the vice president in charge of baseball. Brother Bernardo has come up in the world, too, since his halcyon days as ticket-snatcher at ‘a Vera Cruz swimming pool.

and full employment at hand? An admirer once said ip ‘full faith: “Anything you don’t understand and is confusing, just ask your editor.” Will you write an answer please?

” ” . “CUT OUT BEER RADIO PROGRAMS ON SUNDAY” By Chas, E. Faulkner, 1518 W. Verment st,. city It sure is disgusting to turm on the radio and try to get a church program and have to listen to a lot of foolishness hindering the reception of some good church program. Why can’t they leave off cigaret and beer programs and stuff like that at least on’ Sunday anyway? We have enough of that kind of| a week from Monday. ; foolishness on week - days without The condition of the great mass of the German having to listen to it on SBundays| people, the report makes clear, is now at “the lowest also. by level known in 100 years of western history” in terms Why can't soft drink, candy and| of food, shelter and warmth, Thus, Mr. Hoover food firms sponsor some goad! warns, “aside from any humanitarian feelings,” we church program instead of jokes! must do something about it. - and silly songs and such like? | / Someone will call on the phone! Food Inadequate Muss

BOQ A wy Jou lis: ening to YOUr\ MR. HOOVER is not speaking emotionally when. ing you can’t hear the kind of pro- he says we must. act “if we want to ‘preserve the grams that you care. to listen to health and safety of our.army of occupation” and : '| “save, the expense of even larger military forces to

WASHINGTON, March 4.—Herbert Hoover's report to President Truman on his economic mission to Germany and Austria constitutes a tragic prelude to the Moscow peace. conference scheduled to begin

huh? “ preserve order.” | wy j Fours Jor. Jere church progr ums The report - deals exclusively with the British-

; American zone of occupation... Into this area whose ‘my prewar population was approximately 34 million, anDAILY THOUGHT other nine million uprooted persons from Russia and And Jesus came and. spake un- | Polish annexations and elsewhere have been added. to’ them, ‘saying, All power is | The average housing space is between three and four given unto Me in heaven and in '

to a room 12 by 12 feet. earth.—Matthew 28/18, !

THE world’s a stage where “| God’s omnipotence, :

The food supply is eqially inadequate. Before the war 25° per cent of German food production came from what is now the Russian zone. Now nothing ‘| comes from thete. To make matters worse, agricul-

His fugues, knowledge, love ] an ie a a rs ry "1 Doact’ al uke ml loa As a result, children behts : __/ ftween 9 and 16 of age are five pounds or more s. | under wei 20 pounds. Actual

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“IT SHALL be the duty of the general assembly," circumstances will permit, to provide by 90 counties then in the state, less than half the votes . system of education ascending in in 31 counties favored supportin ns Orange county, where only 8.8 per mon schools, Incidentally; the state favoring free ‘schools was in St, Joseph county . with a 93.8 per cent favoring vote, A that cast the vote, is this: The sp-called refrom legislature of 1848 that launched the drive for free schools also voted to charter the Morse electric telegraph. Every one of these men were defeated for re-election on the ground that they voted for an No wonder it took over half a century to get free

the system of education should be bulls from the Schools in Indiana.

was like a school boy fitted out with coat, hat, and a pair of new shoes, but no pants, no shirt, no socks,

tribution of school revenues by the state was unsatisfactory; (2) methods in levying and distribution of taxes and building funds were loose; (3) no legal provisions for free public schools in cities and towns;

education. For the first time in

IN-WASHINGTON . . . By Marquis Childs. ~~

"foreign policy.

REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C: Ruark Nice Guy, This Senor Jorge Pasquel

had to go on strike with inflation | vat mimeographed -sheets outlihing Jis- lofty, sents...

WORLD AFFAIRS . . . By William Philip’ Simms U.S. Urged to Act in German Crisis

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Had a Rough Start At the August election of that year, in 31 of the

g public schools. «The low mark lr the state in this vote was in - t favored comest vote in the

Tying in with this vote, and revealing the Indiana

bility,

In 1850, the state educational system in Indiana

System Corrected in 1852 THESE WERE the gaps in the system: (1) dis-

(4) no provision made. for school libraries, state superintendent_ of public instruction, or state bard of

The school law of 1852 corrected these deficiencies, the history of the state, Indiana faced the world foursquare on its stand that: is the duty of the state to educate the children of the state.

teeship Agreement is a threat to ou defense lines between the Aleutians and the mid-Pacific. : : Mr. Molotov, in his turn, said that the Kuriles and Sakhalin were a closed issue and not subject to dis cussion. Theretipon Mr. Byrnes reminded him that this was contrary to a previous agreement. specifying that no territory was to be considered permanently acquired until after the peace treaty with Japan had been agreed to. The navy is primarily responsible for the Ameri- ° can stand on trusteeships in the Pacific, For good or for {ll, this is their intrusion into the fleld of It is their contribution to the past, the burden of which Gen. Marshall must carry as he goes off to this latest meeting of the so-called peacemakers. The Soviets have said America is entitled to sole trusteeships because American sacrifices were so heavy in those islands. Interestingly enough, that is just what the navy has been saying. The Ryssians are certain to make use of this same formula where their own self-interest is concerned. Practically anywhere in eastern Europe the sacrifices of the Soviet Union were overwhelmingly great. The other allies were not fighting in eastern Europe. In the same way, the allies other than the United States were not fighting on Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Breeds New Suspicions: .

HAVING INVOKED the formula of “sole trusteeship” on the basis of greatest sacrifies, the United States will be in no position to resist Russian “request” made on the same formula, You can't have this sort of thing both ways. If the world is to be divided up into *sole trusteeships,” it will aot be essentially different from the pre-1939 world or the pre-1914 world. That is the way to feed new-suspicions and breed new wars. It it hardly the way to peace. ¥

In addition to his double-ruby cufflinks, Senor Jorge P, still wears a large fat gat, the same one, or brother to one which he employed to rub out an humble little customs inspector two years ago. It may be said that Pasquel was, and still is, the official customs broker for the country of Mexico, a job he acquired as an indirect result of marriage with old man Plutarco Elias Calles’ daughter. When the old president got unhorsed by President Cardenas in 1940, Jorge shed the wife but hung onto the job, which he currently maintains by a close relationship with the new boy, Mike Aleman. This customs thing is a job that packs a lot of latitude, since everything that the .government buys passes through Jorge's claws. Returning -from Laredo, Tex., Jorge was enraged when a little customs inspector started to leaf through his baggage. He was so annoyed that he called the inspector’s superiors and got a swift permit to pass unsearched, but the inspector's devotion to duty moved Jorge to some rough words. The conversation ended in a mutual pact to square the argument away as man to man in the new Plaza hotel in Nueva Laredo, on the Mexican side of the border. The customs inspector got shot rather permanently, and there were some who claimed that he never saw it coming. Senor Pasquel’s avowal of selfdefense was allowed, and nothing ‘ever came of the case, although there was a large and indignant flap in the local journals at the time. »

'Gunners' Made Good .

AS A FINAL ROUNDUP you could say that Pasquel was blacklisted by the U. 8. during part of the war, unti] special intercession was made to lift him off the list. Also that, probably as a result of his early association with President Aleman, his station wagons bear special government labels denoting un-

smoke :is $0 great no one-is-allowed-to indulge in the vice in the great. man’s presence. That is just about all I know of the savior of American ballplayers, unless you want. to count the fact that in the old days, back in Vers Cruz, the Pasquels ‘were known as “The Gunners.”

starvation is in progress in some sections and death and disease is rampant. ie Mr. Hoover's report. makes specific recommendations with regard to relief. And he shows how the cost eventually can be met by Germany herself. ! Much of Europe's post-war misery could have been * It is now almost two years since VE-day, yet peace with Germany--the key to European reconstruction—is still a long way off., The Big Four foreign ministers will meet in Moscow but all signs. indicate that agreement will be far from easy. Their deputies, meeting in London, had to adjourn with few, if any, of -the major problems-even tentatively settled. : ‘ HN ; After world war I, peace was signed within eight months after the armistice and the processes of . healing had begun. Whether thé treaties were good, bdd or indifferent, the defeated peoples knew the worst and could adjust their lives accordingly.

Millions Cold, Sick, Hungry.

DELIBERATELY, however, the world war II sets tlement. has been postponed. Chaos has gone on ine creasing. Power politics has been the great inter national game and certain countries have done well for themselves fishing in troubled waters.” But millions of People are” hungry, cold, sick and dying in consequence: yf nd : of While Secretary Marshall “goes to Moscow seeking to end this state of affairs, politically speaking, over resident Hoover is urging action on ‘other front. “If western civilization is to survive Eurepe,” he warns, “our flag . + » must

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