Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 7 April 1947 — Page 12
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POLICE SUSPENSIONS POLICE CHIEF SANDERS acted wisely, if a little slowly, : in suspending 15 policemen accused of taking part in the tow-truck shakedowns. , These men will, of course, be given full and fair hearings. Those, found guilty must never put on a police uniform in Indianapolis again. They will, indeed, be just plain fucky if they do not also face felony indictments and prison rms. We have very little patience with officials who want to laugh off this sort of thing because it doesn’t seem to inyolve much money. There is no moral difference—and the law doesn’t recognize any difference—between the policeman who takes a $1.50 bribe to wink at a traffic violation and the policeman who might take a $100 bribe to wink at a lottery, or a $1000 bribe to wink at a killing. And this tow-truck shakedown never was petty to the struggling little truck owners who had to fork over one-half of their
total ZF088 | income.
E HAVE "NEVER for a moment believed “that all, or Ww even any very great number, of the men on our police force are grafters. Of course they are not. : But there have been just enough men in police uni- . forms with: their hands out, palm upward, to smear the
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whole department. And to feed a growing belief that all you need is a little cash to get out of an arrest for speeding or drunken driving, or even perhaps something more serious. _ Stern and vigorous action by Chief Sanders, if he is backed up‘as he should be by the city administration, can .goa long way toward cleaning up the intolerable situation that has developed, and toward restoring to the police force the public respect it has to have to function efficiently.
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= AID’ GREECE FIRST THE senate foreign relations committee has amended the | Greek-Turkish aid bill so that the United Nations, at any time it is able and willing, can take over the program. _ This should silence objections that we are by-passing the United Nations. The action does not weaken the President’s proposal in its practical application. It does leave the door .open to the United Nations to accept jurisdiction, if and when it can. We should be realistic, however, on these points: ONE: We should not be, considering aid to Greece or Turkey if the United Nations could or would do the job. : TWO: There would be no problem in Turkey, and only a relatively minor one in Greece, if a very real fear of Soviet aggression did not exist. % The United Nations has been nullified as a-major facter in world affairs by Russian filibusters and misuse of the ' yeto. The organization is able to move effectively only in directions Moscow wants it to take. This situation will prevail until either Russia changes here attitude or the United Nations charter is amended to eliminate the veto. - - » » » - ECAUSE of this situation, Senator Harry F. Byrd (D. Va.) would put the Greek-Turkish case before the United Nations now and force an immediate showdown with Russia. That showdown may be inevitable, but to force it now would be most unwise. If we should dump the Greek-Turkish situation into the United Nation's lap, the Soviets, by resorting to their all-too familiar tactics, could stall off action for weeks, even months. Meanwhile, Yugoslavia and other Russian stooges in the Balkans could push through the weak Greek defenses and set up a puppet Communist government in Athens. Greece then would be another Poland, and there would be nothing but an accomplished fact for the United Nations to discuss. Prompt action on the Truman recommendations should prevent such a catastrophe. But promptness is vital. : In the second place, Secretary Marshall is in Moscow seeking an understanding on the German and Austrian problems. These discussions should produce an answer to the major question: “Is it going to be possible to do business with Stalin?” But that question should be answered by Stalin himself, and by what he does, more than by anything he says.’ If Mr. Marshall find that we cannot do business with him, we must try to discourage any war ideas Stalin may have .. by a determined, confident. peace offensive... This. wauld,. of
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These little fellows were very loyal. shivered waiting for the activities to start.
Hoosier Forum
do not agree with a word that you say, but | will defend to the death your right to say it." — Voltaire.
"Never Saw Such Disloyalty as Shown
At Morris St. Underpass Dedication"
By Mr. Scoutmaster, 8. B. C., Indianapolis At the dedication of the Morris st. underpass ‘there were quite a
lot of people that did not feel so enthused about the whole thing.
Pirst of all, our citizens of tomorrow, the Boy Scouts of America, stood out in the cold for at least one hour while some of the so-called |”
big shots and politicians of Indianapolis sat in the firehouse at .the corner of Morris and Harding sts, filling their stomachs with food probably paid for by the taxpaying public.
Second, the citizens a little farther in the future, the Cub Scouts. They stood there and shook and
Third, and last but not at all least,
the future wives and mothers of America, the Girl Scbuts bringing up the rear of the parade. They were beautiful in their green uniforms when they assembled. By the time they, started to march in the parade they had shook and shivered and marked time so long their hair was in strings and tney
public expect the juveniles to behave themselves when the men and women who have been put in office by these dads and mothers do not pay any attention. I am a Scout Master and am considered as a pretty good one by my| neighbors and fellowmen also’ by the council office. I have never in
out a flower of any kind.
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were chilled to the bone. One of the worst things I saw happen was to my own daughter (who is a Girl Scout). She had one of the carnations that was being given away in her hand when a woman (sorry I can't call her a lady) grabbed it out of her hand and said, “I want that.” The little these citizens of the future. girl wanted the flower to take home . 8 eH to her mother who had been iil all|“WHY NOT ENFORCE CITY winter long. She came home with- ORDINANCE ON CLEANUP?” !By Lyle M. Ward, 346 N. Holmes ave. The Scout Masters, Cub Masters,! I have noticed with great interest Den Mothers and Girl Scout leaders many items and pictures of the that gave their time free gratis to trash in the streets and alleys of the children of this city to teach] | Indianapolis. But before getting and train them how to be better any results from having the streets citizens in the future sure didn't and alleys thoroughly cleaned by| get much encouragement out of this|the street department, why not dedication for the effort put forth start at home. ; by them. | The citifens of Indianapolis will It seems to me that the so- called! proudly clean their homes and big shots expect too much of this yards, and where do they dispose younger generation for no more °f their trash? The majority will
co-operation than they get from |T8ke their yards into the street
: |gutters. Others will carry it into hie People: yi te public vous the alleys and leave if or scatter it
lalong their back fence and some To top the whole thing off when |i) even empty it in their neighthe parade came to the reviewing pars’ fence corners in the alleys. stand there wasn't that first man,| Ag 3 cure for this untidy habit, woman or child upon it to see how 1 suggest that the city ordinance in young America looked and it also gection 600 be very thoroughly enseemed too chilly for some men forced by the city. standing around to even remove Qthers will put-theit trash in bastheir hats while our American flag kets and leave it in the street or passed by. I can't say all men did alley for several days before their that for we had soldiers who have collection’ day. By this time this not forgotten the meaning of our trash is well scattered by young grand old flag. |hoodlums. But there is ‘no ordiWhen one of our juyeniles are nance governing it. I believe a taken into court all these big shots] tated, copy of “Notice of Violation | 3 to_hiame the parents. 1n.lof City Ordinance” "Bection 600 may | par bt case. Bit how Th’ be DHLAHIE “from “the city "street the name of high heaven ‘can the’ commissioner's office,
the past seen such disloyalty to any organization that was exhibited at this dedication. Let us have more good leadership, respect and cooperation with these juvenile organizations. May God help us all to get better co-operation from the public in all our future actions for
NOT DICTATOR—CO-ORDINATOR
HE contention that the army-navy unification bill would | {
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in that the President, under the constitution, is commander
cised through the secretaries of war and navy. The bill would make three secretaries—for army, navy and air—subordinate in certain respects to a new cabinet officer, the secretary of national defense. But the President would continue to be commander in chief. He would appoint | all the Secretaries, subject to senate approval.
tatorship. Four won't, even though one of them is a super-duper secretary with some authority over the other three. The President will still be the real boss. Congress il, still hold the purse strings. And, under the constitur congress can declare war. e President wants unification of the armed services
re as Pearl Harbor. We, alone among the great ave no co-ordinator of military forces. That, not
of effort, the confusion and the unhealthy Be piovel 80 costly in the past,
RAYE rake ! have been found concealed in
create a military dictatorship in the proposed office of | secretary of national defense impresses us as nonsense. =~ | There is “one-man control” of the armed services now, |
in chief of both army and navy. His “command” is exer-
Two secretaries have not brought about a military dic-
» efficiency and economy and to avoid future dé- |
is what the secretary of national defense would | ly, through: co-ordination can we Hope to avoid ;
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Side Glances—By Galbraith.
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“TOO MANY PARENTS SPEND SATURDAY NIGHTS IN BARS” By Mrs. C. M. Darby, 1513 E. 70th st. As we read the daily papers, hear
the news broadcasts, we realize something is sadly lacking in the home life. In a home where children are reared I believe true
LChristian prayer becomes an anchor for them. If the word of God was read daily in family devotions, with emphasis placed on true character building, I am sure we would have less crime, especially among the juveniles. Too many parents are neglecting the Christian training they should give their children. The law compels parents to send their children to secular schools in order that they may be educated, but it is" up to the parents as to | whether the child will be educated in the things of God. We must admit we have too few ‘Christian parents. In Christian education we learn the truth of obedience and gratitude. How lacking these characteristics are today. The child who gets away with disobedience in the home will soon practice it elsewhere expecting to get by with it as he did in the home. Too many boys and girls care nothing about obedience, gratitude or respect for their elders, be they parents, teachers or neighbors. Also there are too many parents spending their Saturday nights in ‘theaters, taverns, dance halls and around the card table. Sunday morning they wish to sleep instead of taking their children to Sunday school and church. Oh, that we would have a world-wide revival of home altars, where the Bible is read daily and the family goes forth fortified with prayer. Can’t you see the rising tide? What is your assurance your boy or girl will not be caught in the tide? It is time for the parenthood of America to awake and made a Leovenant with God, “As for me and my house, we will worship the Lord.” I am a mother of a son
and daughter and have mothered many not my own. n » » “MARRIAGE IS THE LAW OF LIFE FOR POSTERITY” By T. McGuire, 1126 Eugene si. Divorce with the privilege of remarriage is the one outstanding evil of our times, and in its wake are a multitude of attendant evils. Marriage until death do ‘us part was instituted for the protection rand permanence of “the--family: Wedded life carries with “1580s responsibility of rearing children in the way they should: live. The heart and soul of our government as an organized social body is dependent on thé integrity and honor of the family. The roots, trunk and branches of the family tree are the anchors of civilization to hold our ship of state steadfast against the barbarous storms of this life. The married state is not alone for personal gain on the gratification of our senses. It is the law of life for posterity. & In my short -57 years of life, I have witnessed the trail of lives misspent, wasted, defeated and destroyed because people did not have the moral courage or stamina to make a go of rearing a family. Today we have the juvenile courts trying unceasingly to fill the void of worthless fathers and mothers who had not the manhood or womanhood to stay on the job and make a go of the best and biggest job in the world today. It is my firm belief that if we had today in this United States of America a uniform federal law that divorce would only be granted on the grounds of adultery without the permission of remarriage, $10 billion of federal and state expenditures could be saved every year.
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He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbor; but a man of understanding holdeth his peace. —Proverbs 11:12,
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an a voicano, I find it kind of comforting to note that the Indianapolis Public library (the one under the thumb of Marian McFadden) is pursuing the even tenor of its way. Indeed, it begins to look as if the library people intend to stay in business, come hell or high water. In support of which I cite the fact that tomorrow marks the T4th anniversary of the foundation of that institution. Seems, though, that we had something on the order of a free library before we had the type of institution run by Miss McFadden. Anyway, in 1868, the Rev. Hanford A. Edson (Second Presbyterian church) preached an 80-minute-long sermon (“A Plea for a Public Library”) with the result that, in the time it takes a sermon to soak in, the Indianapolis Library association was organized. In this case, it required no more than a year or so for the sermon to soak in.
Backers Wealthy and Literate THE NEW CONCERN was a private enterprise composed of 100 well-tdhdo and literate citizens, a combination of qualities more common around here 80 years ago than it is today. Each of the stockholders promised to hand over $125, payable in annual installments of $25, at the expiration of which it was decided to make the next move W see whether it was worth the effort or not. The stockholders of the daring venture never got a chance to sweeten the kitty by more than $75 apiece —for the reason that, at the end of three years, a real-for-sure public library was organized as part and parcel of the school system. When the stockholders got wind of what the school board was up to, they put nothing in the way of the new enterprise. Indeed, they donated their entire collection of 2000 books to the new outfit. , They were applauded for their selfless behavior by Judge Addison Roache who delivered the longest of six speeches on April 8, 1873, the day the Public Library opened for Busine in the only high school we had at the time. The judge was a member of a special committee (along with Dr. Harvey Carey, Dr. Thomas Elliott and Austin H. Brown) appointed on May 34, 1873, to figure out a way of starting a public library in Indianapolis.
WASHINGTON, April 7.—The bill adopted by the house providing a 20 to 30 per cent tax cut came out of closed sessions of the ways and means committee under the iron rule of Chairman Harold Knutson. Treasury tax experts insisted that such a cut could be highly inflationary and they presented detailed studies to prove their case. “You people study too much,” one of the Republican members declared after hearing this testimony. “The way to write a tax bill is not by studies but by votes.” Observers who follow economic trends are almost all agreed that a tax cut at this-time would contribute more than anything else to the upwird: spiral of prices. And certainly in the lower-income brackets it will take away in higher prices any tax savings.
Consumer Credit Was Doubled
BUT IF THE TAX cut is finally approved by the senate, it will not by any means be the only inflationary force threatening to convert a boom into’ a bust. Since 1944, outstanding consumer: credit, most of it for, installment buying, has doubled. The total now equals’ the pre-war peak. Nevertheless there are powerful political pressures to expand the volume of consumer credit. During the war the federal reserve Board and the treasury helped to hold consumer credit down. More important, there were no automobiles or washing machines to buy. The total volume of consumer credit dropped to about $5 billion early in 1944. Today the total is $10 billion. When government restrictions are removed,
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NEW YORK, April 7.—By the time this sees print they probably will have found poor old Langley Collyer, -either dead behind his own debris or coWwering in an alley somewhere, but I hope they don't find him. I hope they never find him. There can: never be a logical answer to the Langley Collyers of the world. It is fitting that a 38-year recluse, who hoards autos and pianos, tons of newspapers and bicycles, go winging off somewhere into the haze.
Many Others Like Them IP THEY find this poor old man alive, a lot of starchy sociologists and red-jowled cops will shove him into an institution somewhere and you will have an unnecessarily pathetic end to one man’s effort to hide away from the world. There is much of the Collyer brethren—they, who rich and educated, chose to hide themselves from the eyes of their neighbors for 38 years-—in every man, from the $30,000 a yeéar advertising executive to -the hookwormed sharecropper. If you will search the drawers of a. desk, prowl the bulging innards of a closet—look, for that matter, into the pockets of -an old suit—you will find in minature a duplication of the Callyer household. ‘The average man, finally hounded by a wife into excavation of his personal shards, can generally dredge up a good half-ton of old hotel bills, crumpled letters; ~cérawled messages, scorecards; cid hunting
creased clippings from papers, tarnished lodge in- | signia, school pennants, browned photos and a vast "hoard of unidentifiable trivia which he is at some loss to interpret. The psychiatrists, hovering vulture-like about any
WORLD AFFAIRS
ment, world police, Greece, Turkey, the veto and practically everything else connected with the United Nations, its secretary-general, Trygve Lie, has be-
come a controversial figure. In and out of the United . Nations, here and
ency to exceed his authority. Some seem convinced that he has revealed a pro-Soviet bias, citing cases, while other laud him as the most impeccable of diplomats and pre-eminently fair,
Appealed to Greeks THE LATEST allegation is that the secretarygeneral appointed a number of pro-Russian members to the Balkans commission of inquiry some of whom are said to have tampered with official documents, rifled the rooms of other members and generally sabotaged the work of the commission. Mr. Lie, it is said, will probe these charges. But this is not the first time Mr, Lie has been the object of criticism. In April of last. year he intervened fin the security council's debdté on Iran.
| He told the council that it might not have authority
to keep the case ‘on its agenda after both Iran and Russia had asked that it be withdrawn. This he did at a time when the “council was publicly divided on the issue, 8 to 3—the Jthree being Russia and her friends.
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WASHINGTON, April 7.—Like the atom, disarma-
abroad, there are those who say Mr. Lie has a tend-
Mr. Lie’s action aroused Speculation, It was widely agreed that he believed it to be ‘his duty to inchdrter as he saw it, but others sugRi “because within bls ‘proper role. Others. say his
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Apparently, the¥ committee got busy at once. In less than six weeks from the day they were appointed, they persuaded the school board*to adopt a catalog’ of 8000 books carefully combed for purity by William Frederick Poole who, at that time enjoyed an enviable reputation as city librarian of Cincinnati Mr. Poole who is now revered by writers because of his compila-
tion of “Index to Periodical Literature” (Poole's In-
dex) also recommended the appointment of Chatles Byam, a trained librarian, to start the Indianapalis pro Most of the books recommended by Mr. Poole were bought through the Indianapolis bookshop of Merrill & Field (the “lowest and best bidder”) which Teaves one no alternative but to believe that our library started off with something like 10,000 volumes including, of course, the donation of the defunct Indianapolis Library association.”
Struggle On W On Without 'Amber’ FIRST 10 YEARS under the leadership of Mr Evans and his successor, Albert Yohn, the collection was whipped up. to236,689 items. Since then the collection has grown at a faster pace, Otherwise, it wouldn't be possible to account for the more than 700,000 books now on its shelves, The growth is all the more remarkable when one considers that Indianapolis doesn't pander to the prevalling taste as some libraries do to make a showing. Believe it or not, the Indianapolis Public library has achieved stature without ever owning a copy of “Forever Amber.” Even more remarkable is the discovery that our library has maintained its reputation for circulation without the help of “Férever Amber.” Today Indianapolis has one of the biggest turnovers of any city in the country—something like six books per capita (5.71, to be exact). Compared with which Chicago has a record of 3.04. And Brooklyn, an integral phrt of the cultural life of New York which thinks itself s0 smart, reads books at the rate of only 148 p. c. As for Boston, the citadel of culture, the beat it can show is 3.17 (haw! haw!), On the other hand, Springfield, Mass, has a cir-’
culation of 8.68 p. ¢. And in this category also belong ~ Cleveland
Ft. Wayne, Ind. (6.70); San Diego (6.48); (6.46) and Wichita (6.39). They're the towns we've got to watch. Maybe not, though. It may be possible that these. towns have profited by stocking “Forever Amber —which is what I strongly suspect.
IN WASHINGTON « « « By Marquis Childs Fear Tax Cuts Would Spur Inflation
will be possible ‘to liberalize installment terms. Thus a family that might not be able to manage a onethird down payment on a car costing nearly twice what it cost before the war could manage a one-tenth payment. The payments could be spread out over 24 months, instead of 15:months. Most auto dealers still have waiting lists for new cars. But if auto production through 1947 continues at the present high rate, prospective purchasers will be pretty generally supplied. In February of this year, 266,237 passenger cars and 106,339 trucks came off the assembly lines, This compares with 57,784 and 34914 for February of a year ago, when strikes had shut down a large part of the industry.
Pressure From Bankers THE NATIONAL Aytomobile Dealers association, at their convention in Atlantic City, estimated that 3,600,000 passenger cars and 1,100,000 trucks and coaches would be produeed this year. Barring strikes, the total by.the year’s end may be well over § million. Part of the pressure to lift installment restrictions comes. from the bankers. In" recent years & great " manw banks have ‘established _ their own deparfments of ‘installment credit. These ‘departments, the bankers argue, cannot be probitable unless they handle. alarge volume of credit. Of the total consumer credit outstanding, the banks have $3,700,000,000 or-about a third. Of that amount, $¥700,000,000 is in auto installment credit. The banks are also pressing for a rise in government interest rates, which is being resisted by the administration. Expensive Propaganda for this purpose is going out.
. By Robert C. Ruark
It Isn't Odd to Hide From the World
happening which offers an opportunity to reap a creditline in the press, have said that Langley and Homer were maladjusted victims of mother-complexes, ill-tuned to the times, and othewise afflicted. I am not the man to say that Homer and Langley were not better adjusted to their times than you or I. Selective service touched them not. Their phone was never out of order, on account of no phone. Broadway writhed under a blackout. The Collyers’ electric lights never went on the bum. . They owned their house, and upder the old saw,
.which says man's home is his castle, they were free
to fill it with whatever they pleased. If that included 14 pianos, a hunk of dead tree and a boat, well, it was their tree and their pianos and their boat. They got by for 38 years without being hailed into court to defend their idosyncrasies. te The Collyers missed Mary Margaret McBride, Jack Benny, singing commercials, Frank Sinatra, Mairsie Doats, Open the Door, Richard, . the Music. Goes Round and Round, television .and the quiz show. Is that bad?
They Weren't So Queer ° UP UNTIL old age moved in both Collyers—one
as blind as justice—played Robinson Crusoe success-
fully. With the N York record full of suiciding financiers, amoral play-people, nightclub exhition-
ists, .petty feudists, clamorous seekers after shoddy. fame--andpitiful--viotims of Iame’s - oP PeIUIR ed wad
RE RRETES De EYEE. SITE TAPAS YEFEI Serie Ne, Sado: not NIE THe Collyer. warp Very queer.
I know people who collect stamps -and blonds,
celebrities and paintings, esoteric verse and whisky
labels. Salv ador Dali once had a cow in to tea. I hope old Langley stays hid and leaves ‘em all’ panting, with the Collyer story forever unfinished.
By William Philip Simms, Mtr. Lie’s Action Arouses Criticism
out solicitation from the council, Mr. Lie sald he re- .
served the right to make his own inquiry into the Balkan situation, and again, in Octobér, when he called on the United Natiofs to act against Franco. Last February Mr. Lie directly appealed to the ‘Greek government to postpone the execution of guerrillas convicted of trying to overthrow the Athens regime. This came only a few hour§ after the Greeks had protested against interference in their domestic affairs. Last week he was widely understood to have aimed an indirect slap at the United States for “by-passing” the United Nations, as some called it, on Greece and Turkey. Whether Mr. Lie has overstepped the bounds, therefore, is already a matter of debate. Possibly it may receive official attention. Chapter XV of the United Nations charter creates a secretary-general. It makes him [the chief administrative officer of the organization,” He appoints his own staff. That is why he is held accountable for his appointees to ie Balkans commission,
Opinions Vary on Mr. Lie : THE SECRETARY-GENERAL has the duty to act in that capacity in all meetings of the general assem-
‘bly, and of the security, economic and social, and
trusteeship councils and to “perform such other functions as are entrusted to him by these organs.” He reports to the general assembly and “may bring to the attention of the security council 4ny matter which -
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