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Give Los and the People Will Find Their Own Way

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY GOES HOME

bi THE FULSOME felicitations on its own outstanding achievements with which the general assembly has Tatler we beg leave to dissent. Just je weren't as outstanding as all that. The session did produce some good and constructive legislation, most of it dealing with relatively minor matters. But when the final gavels had fallen the things left undone still loomed larger than the things done in its 61 days of

meeting.

With the Biggest assignment of post-war problems an Indiana legislature probably has ever had, this one success"fully evaded most of them. Especially the controversial ones. Too many important issues got a lick and a promise, no more. Too many issues that should have been resolved bogged down in a deadlock between contending forces. Too many items the legislature came here-to decide are going _ back to the people to decide in 1948. Too many worthwhile measures died unsung in the hectic rush of the session’s closing days. True, 61 days pass swiftly, arid it has been argued that the legislature has too little time to act— although there did seem to be both time and inclination for adequate consideration of the musi¢ of tavern juke-boxes, breeding of mink, even state control of the atomic bomb. Having sent to the general assembly an overwhelming majority of one political party, with a more than ordinarily clear mandate of policy, we believe the people of Indiana expected, and had a right to expect, a great deal more than they got.

THE ACCOMPLISHMENTS of raising "teachers’ salaries, reforming liquor control to keep it out of politics, streamlining of various state functions for greater effi-

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Hoosier Forum

“1 do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say

Advertising Indiane’

THE MONEY INCOME of every family in the Hoosier state is increased at least to some extent by effarts of those Within its borders to sél the products and services originating here. * The higher the quality of those services and products and the greater the volume in which they are sold, the higher will be the average income of each family, Advertising has demonstrated itself to be one of the greatest factors of the 20th century operating. Lin behalf of a higher income level and a higher standard of living for all persons.

Seek New Industry, Tourists

THE 1045 SESSION of the Indiana general assembly in its wisdom saw. fit to create a division of the state government which is charged with the responsibility of doing an over-all job of selling the state in behalf of all its citizens, This division is the Indiana department of commerce and public relations, which will have been in operation two years this coming June, Just how can a department-like this do an overEditor's Note: At conclusion of the legislature, Lt. Gov. Richard T. James, presiding officer of the senate, was invited to contribute a column for today, by Donald D. Hoover, who writes “It's Our Business.” Mr. James chose a subject other than the legislature, writes instead in his capacity as director of the Indiana department of commerce and public relations. ;

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all selling job that will benefit all residents of the state? The answer to this question fs to be found if the purposes and aims 61 the department. One of its most important goals has been the attraction of new industries to the state of Indiana. New industries mean added wealth in capital invest-

WASHINGTON, March 13.~Twenty members of congress are having a pillow-fight with imaginary

pillows. The contest between 10 members of the house and 10 senators over whether the budget will be cut by $6 billion or by $4,500,000,000 is just about as real as that. The figure that finally comes out of this pillow-

it.” — Voltaire. fight_will be wholly arbitrary, having nothing to do

ciency, outlawing “hate” organizations like the ku klux klan, and standing off various determined -raids on the “treasury are excellent, as far as they go. There was just! go much more to be done, so much that should have been done, and wasn't. However much we may gloss over the susembly’ s finan-

Veto of Representation Bill?"

"Will Women Forget Governor's

By a Woman Veter, Indianapolis

cial program, including its vaunted economy, the fact re-

it will take in during the next two years. The deficit will come out of the non-refillable windfall of a reserve piled up | in years of wartime boom. It will be spent largely on day- | tosday running expenses. There just didn’t seem to be the | ~ courage there to levy a tax to make ends meet. } The session dodged all proposals of unions and of business for constructive labor legislation—and there were pro- . posals from both which had merit—and enacted only one, | probably unworkable, law. It shied away from a start on modernization of our ancient and ineffective system of prisons and correction. It fell short of an adequate program of mental health, It flatly refused to raise the pay of .. state employees from a level so low the whole structure of state government is suffering from it. It made no improvement in our moot and limping state personnel methods. It dodged the issue of our archaic horse-and-buggy township structure. It passed back to the people for decisions mest of the controversial issues which its members were elected by those Yer pepe to decide.

(QUTSIDE A "HANDFUL of administration measures, the real masters of this assembly were the lobbyists. No

In Shs eon of the legislature which closed this week, a bill intro- | {duced and ‘by the governor. Arguments against this measure were: (1) It was mandatory legislation. (Eighty per cent of bills passed thus far have been mandatory legislation). (2) Might as well state as one legislator said in the senate, “that {boards should have a Methodist minister on them.” (This is to remind! | you that women are not a class but a sex, representing all religions, all | races and all political faiths). *— (3) Another argument, that the y general assembly cannot dictate to “WAS IT REALLY the communities what they should NEW DEA... FOOLISHNESS?” {do. (Please re-read the legislative By 0. G., N. New Jersey st. calendar ‘in the papers and find, I read where one congressman out for yourself if this policy of tells the boys to be patient. The hands-off from home rule has been you pea) structure was built up)

fofigwes Sticians and some may- Over fourteen years and we can't fell

ors feel certain that women will ft with just one blow. We must tear take and forget this discrimination |it down section by section. I'm just against them when it is time to! waiting with childish glee fo see vote. the newsreel shots when they blow How about it, girls, are you going the dams up that furnished electo forget? _|tricity to help win a mere war— New Deal foolishness doesn't need them now. Ready to go into the

#AGRICULTURAL PROGRAM WILL END IN FASCISM”

BD aaiis that helped the farmers raise more We would like to hear from those food which made the American army! advocates ‘of free enterprise, espe-|the best fed in the world? - We don't

law of any consequence was passed over their organized objections, no important measure was enacted without their | approval. We don’t for a moment mean to infer that lob.byists and lobbying are. all bad. Sometimes the wishes of | these private pressure groups coincide with the interests of | the state and its people, and all benefit. Thus the teachers’ salary increase, a wholly excellent step, was made possible only because the teachers ro

But on the other side of the ledger, when lobbyists working | for the railroads and other lobbyists working for the rail‘road unions got together in a hotel room and worked out a cynical featherbedding deal to pay themselves millions out of the pockets of Indiana taxpayers, the legislature meekly underwrote it, and not even the little handful of Democrats raised a murmur of objection. There were, of course, some able men in both houses of | . this assembly, men who by all the rules should have been | its leaders. But this session was forever getting away from | those leaders—not to. enact legislation, but to block legisla- | Ty eyident, tog. much. tendency. fo. pass the. buck to the next session, to-let contending groups with oftheir own to grind stall vital proposals to a permanent

tators in the galleries and not enough to the three million | citizens of Indiana, for this session to attain my really out standing achievement. -

WE WISH WE MIGHT, out of this disappointing record, find reason to point with pride to what our own Marion county delegation had done. Bright spots, where the people who specifically went there to represent us - assumed leadership, proposed progressive measures, courageously fought the more vicious of the special interest pressure groups. Their detailed voting record appears olay on the page Just before this, - You can see for yourself.

voters, that record will be a handy reference for the next legislative elections.

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deadlock, too much attention to a noisy handful of spec- |

To us, and we trust to a good many Marion county |

and Austria, there should be little disposition on.

presents convindiug 7 reasons why we Sond | ial relief expenditures in the former admitting that such a policy is “some- | \ history for the Eonqueror to un-

t also. should: profit by a study of ference, it is eritical of certain | ,

cially the big land owners, who said need that now, makes sissies out| give no free enterprise. Production of the farmers, spend half their) will increase. Prices will level off, time in town? Spartan life, that's! in less than a vear since price con-|it—that old sink or swim’ spirit. We trol. . Food prices have risen 33 per are the retroactive boys, rah, rah, | cent, and still going up. The Times) rah. | said a person who believed 40 mil- | Labor unions—what are we going lion farmers could organize dnd|to do with the labor unions? We conspire to faise prices was foolish. | brought those German scientists They don’t have to conspire. Cong over here. Rudolph Hess—now | | gress does that. Then it seems we| there's a lad who knows how to,

selves had a strong and vigorous lobby at work for them. | have only about 6 million farmers, |take care of labor unions. Shoot a feeling whether well or ill-founded |

{60 per cent or more of them are|little mental health program to | absentees, who are in position of] {him, fill him full of saurkraut and | great power and influence. On the|let him go to town. other hand we think a person is a fool who would believe our dollar | employment insurance, old age will buy any more or even as much benefits, and calling in the gold—! | as today so long as the land owners more New Deal nonsense. Scratch | are doled, subsidized and in other {that off. ways paid to produce a scarcity of Scottie dogs—anyone seen assofarm products if over a minimum ciating with a scottie dog will have {is produced: The government buys his head shaved. it up and dumps or exports to the! [iernations black — market

by both senate and house asked that a woman be "mains that it has committed the state to spend more than placed on education, health and library boards. This measure was vetoed and Negroes being thrown together |

with "the obligations both at home and abroad that this nation must assume. It's astrology. It's numerology. It's fortune-telling with a little assistance from the ouija board.

Bill's Cost Unknown THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA is one of the few jurisdictions in the country that licenses fortune- | tellers. The fee is $250; and 37 fortune-tellers hold licenses. In announcing that he would not vote on the bulget ceiling when it was being debated on the floor of the senate, Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut told his colleagues that they ought to have the decency to take out a license before they voted. Even while the business was being discussed publicly on the floor,” the whole process was made to look foolish. --Chairman Arthur Capper (R. Kas.) of the senate agriculture committee brought in a bill with the unanimous approval of his committee providing for U. 8. funds to fight the epidemic of hoof-and-mouth disease in Mexico. Senator Capper said it was imperative the bill be passed at once by unanimous consent. No one could very well dispute the need for such action. The plague in Mexico will ‘certainly spread to this country unless it is stopped where it is,

SAGA OF INDIANA

“IL WAS CALLED A WEAK-KNEED PROTESTANT” By W. M. Ferguson, un Olive st. In answer to some of these people who are trying so hard to {appear as good Christians, please {don't blame God for the whites!

\here in America. He put an ocean

between us. We brought them here, remember? And speaking of | memory—how many of you, who! ‘now that it is fashionable, are want- | ing to sleep in the same hotels, go to the same schools, theaters and churches as the Negroes, were wearing the white sheet of the K. K. K's only a short. time ago, when it also was popular? I was not. I was called a “weak-kneed Protestant” by some of these good Christian people. But I say to you that the two races should always remain two races, no intermarriage, ino intermixing. I believe in good jcolored hotels and good colored theaters and good white schools and good separate colored schools. What better can a colored person ask than to associate with his own kind. Lincoln, the great emancipator,

: y idid not believe that the Negroes coal-oil lamp business when they!ghould be accepted as our social Thomas Lieyd. R. R. Ne. 6, Box 487, rip out all the rural electrification | equals.

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The elephant—now there's an ,¢ primary elections. of ‘animal known. for carrying powerful rope. This agricultural program pompons, potentates, surrounded by

In his reply to Stephen A. Douglass, he quoted a part of an

CABIN-DOTTED pioneer Indiana was a series of circuits. Roving Indians followed the trails to hunt, earlier: Bb he had dejvereq at} to steal, and to murder. Preachers and doctors blazed Peoria. It may surprise you, but] | their own paths to comfort the weary and heal the

here it is: ’ | “What next? .Free them, and. sick. The peddler, pack on back, followed them to make them politically and socially the housewife's door. our equals? My own feelings will So when law came to Indiana, lawyers and judges (not admit - 6f this, and if mine! followed these trails over the state to practice law would we well know that those of' and to judge it. the great mass of white people will The first circuit courts in Territorial Indiana covnot. Whether this feeling accords! ered 10 counties and three circuits. The first cir{with justice and sound judgment| cuits after Indiana became a state in 1816 had 19, {is not the sole question, if indeed | counties still divided into three circuits. iit is any part of it. A universal In the last days under the constitution in 1852, there were 91 counties and 13 circuits. The most famous—yet ‘typical—of all these circuits was the third, formed in 1824. It covered 10 counties—Allen, Randolph, Wayne, Union, Fayette, Franklin, Dearborn, Switzerland, Ripley and Delaware. From one end of the circuit to the other by bridle path was 150 miles.

|cannot be safely disregarded. We! cannot make them equals.” ” = = | “BEST GOOD 18 | GOOD OF PEOPLE” By Robert H. Davis, Indianapolis Since 1899 an overwhelming num-

‘ber of states have passed direct primary = laws providing for the nomination of candidates by ballot Indiana re- | mains to be one of the few who

Judge a Distinguished Lawyer THE PRESIDING judge of this circuit was Miles C. Eggleston. He served from 1820 to 1845, and was one of the distinguished lawyers and judges in Indiana. With the lawyers of the circuit, he rode horse- | back .over the route for 25 years. Mud and dust, swollen streams and bitter cold—

is wy far the biggest fraud ever |slaves crushing everything in’ their has retained the convention’ system | ‘these lawyers and judges. braved them all year after

| foisted on. the Amery can people. 1f | way: J Don eys-toth-—inglenificant ‘of selecting candidates * for public andrey ever BF TERSOS SONTMUR ELLE

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at administer justice and to serve Indiana. Aft Was a “closeup of ‘an Indiana of muddy une direct primary was that caucuses, | roads; of saddlebags “atid §Weaty horses; of taverns jand conventions were easily €on-| ,¢ chapby build and crude” accommodations; of a trolled by party bosses or machines | | population seldom keyed to their own more wholeand after candidates of the. two some views of life.

‘major parties had been selected Often they had, to be contént with a tree and she

FOREIGN AFFAIRS . .

ple to do but to choose between the two Sandidsies e general assembly failed to! ry with the expressed desires of the people in killing the at-| tempts of the few Republicans and! all Democratic members of the house of representatives in once! more revising the direct primary for | Indiana. They have fooled no one! in so doing, for when the wrath of democratic loving Hoosiers has | been compensated, the wishes. of | the people shall have been met. The lea ‘majority of the people do not wish to continue the convention system | of selecting candidates. However, at present, we have no!

WASHINGTON, March 13.—Unless the Big Four at Moscow make good their pledge to Austria and | establish her as a free and independent nation, she | either will rr a burden on American taxpayers for years or become a starving vassal of Soviet Russia. Herbert Hoover's report to President Truman, resed this week, does not use these exact words, but nis findings with regard to Austria—which he recently | visited—unmistakably lead to that conclusion. * “If Austria's land and industrial equipment were” | | entirely freed by a peace treaty,” Mr. Hoover reFew arson Spoke Mi i ports, “and the burdem of foreign armies removed | tunes of the re wy. | We might reasonably expect her to .. . become selfpublic. He sald, “We | \\norting in two or three years thereafter. Otherdo. not choose our own candidate Pp gm ® years '| wise, she is likely again to be the poorhouse of Europe

no, nor any other man’s first choice i for years to come and her people cdinstantly be de- | —but only the available candidate, pendent for life upon reign aid.” .

| whom, perhaps, no man loves.” U.S. Pays Cost

| Tq i members of the general \assembly, a word to the wise is suf-| og MB HOOVER observes, the allies, declared at ficient, and remember, the best good | noccow, in 1043, that Hitler's annexation of Austria was “null and void” She-was clas state.” As such she should be free of reparations. However she has been occupied as Nazi Germany has been occupied, by Russia, Britain, the United States and France. And, although the original understanding was that economic unity of the zones was to be effected, there .never has been any such unity.- Full use of Austrian resources, therefore, has not been brought into play. The result was to increase the load on American taxpayers. The people could not pe allowed to starve and UNRRA—98 per cent of Sort a ato fd for pris ROSY bY Msestad p Slen ih, :

DAILY THOUGHT

‘And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbor, or buyest ought of thy neighbour's hand, ye shall | not oppress ohe another.—Levit- | fous 25: 14.

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ment, more men ¥nd women employed, increased annual payrolls. . Another aim is the stimulation of increased tourtst and vacation business. Indiara by virtue of {its location holds advantages in this regard that many other states lack. Outstanding points of ‘historical

state park system which is unsurpassed are just a few of the selling arguments for a vacation in the Hoosier state. The significance of tourist expenditures may be grasped more clearly when it is realized that vacationists spent an estimated $250,000 in Indiana in 1946, twice the amount expended im 1939. Since V-J day in August, 1945, almost 300 new industries have been established in Indiana. These industries are employing almost 30,000 persons at present, with peak production schedules not yet reached, . Payrolls of these new industries alone aggregate more than $60,000,000 a year. Not nearly all of these were the direct result of advertising and other efforts of the department of commerce and public relations, but many of them can be attributed to the department's program,

Appropriation Increased . Ba. INCREASED STATE TAXES in various forms— _governor, di

gross income, automobile license, property, and gaso-line-derived as a result of the new industries have amounted to several times the amount of money spent by the department in its operations and its advertising. The 1045 legislature appropriated $20,000 a year for its work. ‘This has been supplemented by gifts to date of approximately $52,000 for advertising, The 1947 session of the general assembly, which

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just completed its wark, saw fit to strengthen the de- FRANKFUR partment by approving an annual appropriation of —Gen. Josepk $91,150; The Increased funds wi De used almost in rejected a cha © their entirety for additional advertising. Minister V. N Yes, it pays the state and each of its 3,500,000 resi= of German tre dents in dollars and cents to advertise the advantages tained in the of Hoosierland. zone of Germs “We compl

cusation,” Gen asked for com: reported asse 9000 German: tained in aux the U. 8. zone ' Gen. ‘McNa military gove can zohe. H post Saturday Clay, who -is position of dey He:said thal zation of the way toward major tasks a Those he des cation of the setting up a German econ Gen. . McNa protest by ti on the mai guard units” armed to guar installations,

But no one in congress has any ‘idea how mueh the attack on Mexico's hoof-and-mouth disease wil cost. The bill rushed through to available passage— public law No. 8—merely says that funds shall be made available to do the job. One witness estimated there were a million head of cattle in the infected area in Mexico and the cost of eradicating them would be between $50 million and $60 million. That is just one item above and beyond the estimates of the experts who drew up President Truman's $37,500,000,000 budget. Until congress gets down to cases and decides how extensive our obligations will be in the coming year, the argument over cutting the budget is like the medieval argument \ about how many angels can stand on a needle point. Take another and more formidable example. Thus far this session, 150 bills have been put in, by Republicans and Democrats, covering veterans. No one either in the veterans administration or in the veterans’ committee of the house has had the time and the patience to find out what it might cost the government if even half these bills become law, But it would undoubtedly run into hundreds of mil- ; lions of dollars.

Bound to Be Pierced

AN ARBITRARY budget ceiling adopted by cone gress at this time is bound. to Be punctured. Those engaged in this sham battle are counting on the fact that people have short memories. At the next session of congress, the department of agricule ture will ask for a deficit appropriation to cover the cost of eradicating the hoof-and-mouth disease in Mexico. It's a fairly safe bet that no one will remember that this little {tem was ignored when congress was contending angrily over a purely fictitious budget ceiling,

bank of a creek for a roof and bed; cornbread, boiled squirrel and sassafras tea'for a dinner. They suffered long absence from home; the steady grind of hard riding, petty lawsuits, and the crudities of pioneer living. In the face of these difficulties, the circuit-riding courts were orderly and hard-working. Their judges and lawyers were outstanding, and generally speaking all of them were prominent if not leading citizens of their communities. In the larger view, law in a democracy measures the height of its civilization. Literature is the product of the gifted few, Medicine; sculpture, painting, music are of the elect. Even the machine age bows to law for its protection and orderly progress. So it comes about that law is the essence of alt these. Millions of every grade and kind tug at ite skirts; wail into its ears their grievances, in angry complaint; rub into some of the grime and the glory of men at their st and their best.

A Marvel of Democracy THAT ALL this could’'come to Indiana within a scant half century after it became a state is one of the marvels of American democracy. Thaf it could come in the mud and dust, rough log courthouses, and under a new civilization that could be as sordid as it was fine, brings to Indiana a touch imperishable, Hoosier folks cannot very well forget that all -this came to the state.as law rode the circuit in Indiana. ~And to clear the perspective, it should also be said that this was the fruit of a’ tree of law rooted back some 600 years to the NAPRE Chart which tHe ar ; barons wrested from King John at Runnymeéds, ” = a June 15, 1215. Perhaps subconsciously, but without doubt, all this helped to mold the men who rode the circuit with the law in early Indiana,

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But the relief job is far from finished. Mr. Hoaver estimates that another $155 million at a minimum or $248 million at the maximum, will be needed to tide over until July 1, 1948. “All this, however, has to do with what might be called first aid. Only a constructive Austrian peace treaty by the Big Four at Moscow can cure. At best this will not be easy becuse, by the 1919 peace: treaty, she was shorn of so much, territory that she could not feed herself and so large a part of her industry that she could not buy food with her exports, Now her situation is far worse. Russia. not only has requisitioned a large amount of Austria's most fertile land, but also many» of her remaining industrial 1 plants. J

Alternative Is Clear MR. HOOVER does not attemot to say who le right and who is wrong, but he does. make it plam what will happen if the situation is not soon cleared up in Austria's favor. If-the produce of these lands -were released to Austria, he says in his report. itwould decrease her food imports by 70,000 tons a year, And if the Red army in Austria were reduced to the level of the other armies of occupation, that also would help. In ary event, he concludes: “If the requisitioned asfets are to be removed or operated for other than Austrian economy; or by other than the Austrians themselves, there can be little hope that Austria- can tkcover self-support for many, many years.” She will likely become Europe's “poorhouse.” Cee

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