Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 2 May 1947 — Page 22

ividuals who are running without organsr the Republican nomination for mayor are impressive number of votes, it is still very 1) H. Wemmer and Roy E. Hickman. ve , of them do have organized support. ~~ - "Mr. Hickman has helped to make this even more clear peal this week to independent voters to- ‘smash d-Ostrom machine”—an appeal strongly backed rosecutor Stark and Sheriff Magenheimer. ‘There you have what might, in equal justice, be called the “city hall machine.” It has been in complete control of ydianapolis city government for more than four years, he city administration we have now 1s ity administration. Mr. Stark, not then a member of this machine, was elected last fall as a completely independent candidate, Without machine affiliation. He joined this organization after he took office. Mr. Magenheimer inherited the political support of the late Sheriff Petit, who had quarreled with the county organization and allied himself with the city hall organization. Mr. Hickman has been the second man in the city administration through its first four years, in practical effect its vice-president, until he resigned to run for the "nomination a month ago. Throughout this whole period he "has been considered the actual “boss” of fhe city hall fac"tion, or “machine,” whichever you choose to call it. } i ae a x =»

THIS i just to set the record straight about political

There are two of them, not just one—in this primary There is nothing wrong, per se, about political organization. In fact you almost have to have such organization to hold any chance of winning an election, as this present __primary campaign very plainly shows. : A political organization goes wrong when it begins to boss the public officials the people have elected to office. When it begins, for example, to tell judges how to decide their cases. When it: dictates the appointment of police officers on the basis of their political hook-ups instead of on their own merit. When it loads the public pay-rolls with “imcompetent party hacks. When it induces a prosecutor

to wink at law violations in its own ranks and indict the political workers of its opposition. When, in short, it begins to misuse its power to build more power, and to operate a unit of government for its own advantage rather than the : Of such misuse of political power we believe both the . county machine and the city hall machine stand convicted. . And if one has been'leés successful than another at it, it has hardly been for lack of trying. : = em :. » NEXT Tuesday voters will have before them AN two candidates, each backed by a political “machine” which has some good, and many bad, spots in its record. - How then, to choose between them? ~~ Mr. Hickman is the candidate of the city hall organization which has been in power for four years and in which he has been a major figure. Whatever his personal desires, intentions and responsibility, he is nevertheless heir-appar-ent to its record. It is hung about his neck like the albatross upon the Ancient Mariner. Our unkempt city streets, our unchecked lottery racket, our half-hearted garbage and refuse collection, our listless city services, our disorganized and discouraged police force —all are part of that record. As a top officer of the political faction which wrote it, and as its candidate for mayor, Mr. ‘Hickman comes before Republican voters on the basis of that record. For the performance of the rival county organization faction: we hold no brief. It has far too often stepped beyond the bounds we consider proper for a party organiza- : + ion in its own struggle for political power. “4. But Mr. Wemmer has had fo part in writing its record. Cy While it was being written he was away, fighting, and i being wounded, in the service of his country. © * It was the county machine which climbed on the Wem-

county machine, He is not running for office on its record, jior 8 he committed to take its orders in office. And we do not believe he will take its orders. Republican voters can make doubly sure of an inde‘pendent city administration next Tuesday by nominating, i with Mr. Wemmer, an independent city council slate, and '. discarding the hand-picked slate of the county machine. We recommended such a-slate in these columns yesterday, and we will repeat it again on Monday.

We'll agree with Mr. Hickman that Indianapolis should {not be under “machine control,” or “boss rule.” No boss. 4 Neither machine. | de oe i We recommend the nomination-of Mr. Wemmer.

STOP THIS WASTE

documented report showing that “duplication and lack of co-ordination in supply activities of the army and navy

during the years 1942 through 1945 cost the United States an estimated $1,150,000,000. This report, prepared by Lt. Gen. Leroy Lutes, procurement director of the army, holds that $201 million could have been saved if medical facilities and pégsonnel had been

rt installations; $22,500,000 in over-lapping staging area ons; $17,700,000 in duplicating Paeific storage facili

y; 30,000,0000 in communication costs; and $2,000,000 at home and

in numerous adjacent facllities

that the material demands of any

subt for a moment that the three|

teal contest in the primary is_ between |

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Hoosier Forum

"I do not agree with 2 word that you

will defend to the death

your right to say it." — Voltaire.

“Truman Doctrine Meets Acute Need, but Causes Still Remain"

By Judge Wilbur A. Royse, Appeliate Court of Indiana

obstinately pursued a policy of obstruction, intimidation and aggression. Her unconscionable demands for territory, reparations ang unfair preferment are directly responsible for the almost total failure of every conference of the Big Five. Her conduct has wantonly and unnecessarily delayed. the negotiation of peace treaties essential for international comity. In the interim she is munism to the world. This 1 parieiily Sue in the vis} troled by her occupying forces. Asi - — “time marches on” she is growing Therefore, if they more strong and bold. Monday basis trea

Beginning with the San Francisco conference, and continuing, through the recent Moscow conference, the Russian government has

night Gen. Marshall warned of the should danger of delay in these maters. “Truman doctrine” sential to meet an acute condition. It will not remove the causes Russia’ and

imperative. the. similar conditions from arising tianti “Ch ter elsewhere in the world. Unless A those causes are eliminated world

Russia justifies her conduct by FOOD FOR THOUGHT” the claim that her demands are | Jess Indianapolis in accord with the secref agree-| ‘ou ;.04 5 parent are you? This ments of Teheran, Yalta and Pots- subject treated by J. Edgar Hoover dam. If Stalin's version of these turnishes much ‘wholesome food for agreements is correct, they con-|.. teal Uravene the provisions of the Al. rin gris lantic Charter for which we be- delinquency, In the article he talks lieved we fought world war IL candidly President Truman represented this ,.ee in distinct parts; thus making nation at Potsdam. His predecessor yo whole He first begins with represented us at Teheran and parents, ~ both mother and Yalta. The full text of these al-|gaiper (and not a one-sided affair) leged agreements has never been | showing their shortcomings by be-1 made public. Consequently neither | 4,0 to socially inclined to put our people nor the people of the ine needs of the child before their world know the full import of these | joacure He also deals with dipurported agreements. | vorces, neglect, broken homes, bad It is a basic tenet of our form examples, lack of discipline, doting of government that the President parents, outside influence (such as cannot bind our government by & movies), radio and crime books. commitment to a foreign nation {Each soifject 1s so thoroughly without the consent of two-thirdsitreated I think a small pamphlet of the senate,

Every nation|should be printed and placed in|

Taf THE senate armed forces committee has before it a well- |

sonsolidated, It lists losses of $80,730,000 in duplicating |.

8 ! " the report contains this grave warp t be less than thos of the last. It may || ple matter of survival, Whether we use | |__ may well be the determining

dealing with our government is charged with knowledge of this limitation. If the conversations at Teheran, Yalta and Potsdam were considered as agreements which are to be the basis of thé peace treaties. and territorial changes, they ' should - have . been submitted to the senate for approval or re-

action could our government, Stalin's government, and the world know whether treaties founded upon such agreements would be ratified.

each edition free of all papers, also in public places where the greatest number of people go. Everyone has the highest respect for Mr, Hoover's sound judgment and if this article were read and the advice taken, it would help reduce juvenile crime. { He also wrote an interesting article {in this month's P.-T. A. magazine,

mer band-wagon, not Wemmer who was put forward by the | jection long ago. - Only by such and here is another good place to

| pat the pamphlet—in the hands of ieach P.-T. A. organization to be | atstriasiad to the parents, grandparents and guardians,

tional situation in the . work, and | didn't feel like : i Pilgrim.

Side Glances—By Galbraith

ING 7. M. REG. U.'S. PAT. OFF."

"After | read all about traffic deaths, murders, ‘and the interna per, thers wasn't much time for home.

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“WE COULD ALL ENJOY EQUAL RIGHTS”

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80 if my previous statements were practiced, we could enjoy with equal rights the ideals and standards our forefathers so freely gave. . ss 8 8 “PEACE IS OBJECTIVE {OF ALL PEOPLES” By H. W. Daacke, 2146%4 N. Hiinois st. In answer to “Forum Fan” of April 25. Not one point of his entire article has any bearing on the subject matter of peacetime training for our country. ' Pearl: Harbor's episode was pos-

isible ‘only because our srmy and

navy leaders at that station were either lacking in the necessary qualifications for their position or they were negligent in the performance of their official duties. Millions of the best trained men, thousands of the best of fighter planes and hundreds of modern naval vessels, under similar leadership, would not have changed thé outcome of this incident one iota. Peace, not war, is the objective of all peoples, that are not prompted by the greed for profits or power, by any method that it might be obtained, even to the extent of waging. entirely unnecessary wars. The mothers of the world have the power to solve this ever important problem. They could bond themselves into a world organization to the extent that they would refuse to give their sons and daughters to the’ god of war, to be used

the ; be used is carinon fodder. for the advancement of their interests. And then these mothers could see their sons and daughters develop

into the better things of life, to

which they are entitled, and which are “possible only in a state of peace. - i b

DAILY THOUGHT . Should 8 wise man utter vain

the east wind?—dJob 15:2. -

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knowledge, and fill his belly with

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WASHINGTON . . ., 8y

ASHINGTON, May 2.—Behind the warm-heart-

water to make the earth give forth in abundance. The U. 8. today has the greatest body of such experts in

NEW YORK, May 2—They buried an era the other day, when they buried Evalyn Walsh McLean, and I mourn the death of the ers even though I never knew the lady. Except, of course, by legend, and along those lines everyone who lived in Washington knew her very well. : » Mrs. Walsh's old man struck it rich, and graduated so swiftly from cabin to mansion that Evalyn never really had time to make a complete transition. Evalyn was a contemporary of her father, who clawed his

i riches .out of the ground, not from cartels and com-

bines. She never fully separated caviar from cold beans.

Money Spaded From Earth WAS A TIME in this country when a man could take a pick and dig into the sod, and iI his pick hit pay dirt he was Just as good as a prince, even if he chawed tobacco and wore the same red underwear six days every week. Those people’ had a royal carelessness about money and a vulgarity, I suppose you might call it, about dispensing it. If wanted to buy a gold crib for the baby, they bought a gold crib for. the baby, and if they wanted solid silver spittoons they had solid silver spittoons. Money barons bought the awfullest houses with their money, but they loved the fringes and doo-dads and bad statuary. They hired butlers and if the butlers sneered they hauled off and kicked the butlers tail-over-tincup. They went abroad and were exploitéd by the furriners, and didn’t care. ‘They brought back the furriners’ castles, piece by piece, and if they knew that they were sneered at, they didn't give a damn. Gay Paree was a place to drink champagne and pinch the pretty girls. They were never effete. They were, perhaps, the perfect prototype of the American as he used to be known abroad. They were sons of pioneers, grandsons of immigrants, ‘uncouth, generous. antl profligate.

* WASHINGTON, May 3~Diplomats and other officials here attach the utmost importance to Secretary of State Marshall's phrase that world peace settlements can not await “compromise through exhaus-. tion” \ Soviet Russia, one of Europe's best-posted envoys sald, is kiiown to be stalling off peace in the hope of things “happening” to the United States, the British commonwealth, western and southern Europe, Asia and the “colonial areas. . Reds Expect U. S. Collapse A’ SERIOUS DEPRESSION in the Unjted States, disorders arising during adjustments in the British, French and Dutch empires, and civil war or unrest in the Orient and western Pacific, would play into the hands of Soviet expansionists. Events of such nature might be expected to soften up the U. 8, Britain, France and China for the kind of peace desired by the Kremlin. :

munist thesis that While, world revolution remains the goal, it is stupid to strike before the iron is hot. OF; to use Stalin's metaphor, to ride with the tide and wait out the ebb, 7 a

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Remusphere, Where Shey would help to bylld the prod-; REFLECTIONS . . . By Robert C. Ruark \ . Evalyn Walsh's America Is Dead’

riches into paper profit, and so became financiers. -

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U.S: Can Aid Mexican Water-Land Use

uctivity of a good neighbor. President Truman thought well of the suggestion and passed it on President Aleman. - Mexico already has an extensive program of dam building and irrigation, with her own crops of technie © cians. Expansion of this program would mean an ime mediate demand for more men with the proper know how, and such men do not grow on trees.

The financier sons had children who, knowing nothe ing of money but the spending of it, too often developed weak chins and an ingrowing futility. Evalyn Walsh Mclean was all Walsh. She wore

“the Hope diamond around her neck like a glass bangle, and lost it frequently. She used it once as

a blackjack when she was angry. She bought it because of its implied curse, and flaunted it in defiance

pappy spaded out of the earth, and she spent it as

nuggets,’ or bullion, or lump bg money as she wore her wig, slightly askew, and with:

the assurance that there was plenty more in the

No woman ever had more bad luck—husband died

sleeping tablets. No woman was ever more careless« ly, ‘lavishly generous. She collected celebrities con« temptuously, the miner's daughter hauling in the gentry and laughing at the gentry for its eagerness to kneel to money. She gave up her estates during the war for the soidiers to enjoy and for Washington clerks to jive in, It was only money,

Laugh and Lose EVALYN WALSH'S AMERICA is dead; its locale

ized lustiness swapped for international responsibility, The grandsons of its buccaneers are easily mistake.

able for Oxford graduates, and piracy is against the law. I think she wrote in her will that the evillydestined diamond be locked away for 20 years because she lacked faith in the ability of her heirs to wear it and laugh at it or lose it and regard it as she did—an amusing hunk of ¢rystalized coal, not half ag important as a beefsteak when your belly growls

WORLD AFFAIRS os By William Philip Simms Approval for Marshall's Russian Stand

strategic period which may occupy years. And in its course there will occur, nay, must occur, ebbs and flows iA the revolutionary tide. .'. . But it is during that ebb that the forces of revolution must prepare for the final victory.” : : Befqre world war II, Stalin expressed the view that the “period of ebb” had given way to a “period of

lull,” and that once again “the revolutionary tide”

would begin to flow. He believed a depression was about to hit the United States, and that throughout Europe and the colonies “conditions were ripening for new revolutionary events.” World crisis, he observed,

“cannot but affect American capitalism. And the mil- * lions of unemployed in’ America are the first swallows

indieating the ripening of the economic crisis.” Stalin and the men about him believe that war«< time employment temporarily “saved” the U, 8. from

crashing but that it is once more on the tobogan, The. ; American

Moscow press and radio is again ballyhooing

unemployment and probability of an early collapse in tones indicative of joy over a long-promised great day

ahead. In anticipation, Stalin has said “It is essential that the American Communist party be capable of

meeting that historical moment fully prepared (to.

assum) the leadership of the impending class struggle in America.” .

‘Unite Those Who Agree NO STATEMENT of American foreign policy since” -¢hé war has won such wide a as tary Mar-

‘shall’s indication that we won't wait on Russia forever. Diplomats

here widely agree with Senator Vanden-

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