Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 July 1947 — Page 10

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i ROY W HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W. MANZ ' President :

Editor “ Business Manager

- A BCRIPPS- HOWARD NEWSPAPER

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3 A Speedy Trial... "Sometimes

AST March 1, a little more than five months ago, a young Indianapolis woman killed her insanely drunken hus} band who had attacked her with a knife and who was trying to rape her little 15-year-old sister. It was a clear case of self-defense, as a jury quickly ’ decided when it heard the case this week. prosecuting attorney of this county felt it necessary to press a charge of first degree murder without a single shred of evidence to support his case, Jut since he did feel that he should do so, he certainly | is to be commended for the promptness with which he got | the case before the court and finally wound up. Less than five months from the killing . . . His office, work that fast.

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YEAR ago last April, “ago, a voung dfanapolis tan, by his own signed cons] fession, killed a crippled youth, cut off his hands and feet and tried to burn the body so it couldn't be identified. He hasn't been tried yet. i The other day the chief deputy prosecutor joined with this killer's attorney in getting trial postponed again-—tifl fall this time—giving an excuse for doing so that promptly turned out to be a completely phony excuse. Meariwhile the delays work, as they favor of the defendant. chinces ol convicting him grows less. Just why the prosecutor's office feels it necessary to show all the consideration it has shown to this defendant, | quite clear to us, either. Howard Pollard, is a young plug-ugly addicted to crimes and brawlings since adolescence, times in this county alone, and even convicted several times | for felonies and lesser crimes, although for some inexplic- | able reason he had never paid any fines or served any jail He is supposed, however, to have “connections”

isn't

gentences, in the fringes

HE prosecuting attorney of our county, or any county, has wide discretionary powers. charges and press them—or he can withhold such: charges ~according to his own judgment. He is expected, however, and impartially, Maybe there's a good reason or pushing to swift and | vigorous prosecution a young woman who has no criminal record and against whom there is no case, and dallying over “the years with the trial of an habitual and vicious criminal | ‘against whom there is, at least, a signed confession of crime and considerable other evidence. If there is, we'd like to hear it.

We haven't heard any that sounded plausible yet.

Quiz Kids to the Right . er

: WHEN the quiz kids’ seventh anniversary radio program | was broadcast the other day, the Communist party's New. York Daily listened with sorrow.

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Just why the

is not quite clear to us,

and the trial is actually | it might be pointed out, doesn’t always | For instance: 2 : | » » " n |

more than FIFTEEN months |

always work, in| With every day that passes the

The self-confessed killer,

of our local political underworld.

He can file criminal

to use those powers wisely

?

Ted Tinsley, a writer

Worker, |

Several young people who had been quiz kids seven

‘Years ago took part.

They're all 16 or older now, and in

- or ready for college; one girls in fact, has won her master’

degree.

direction they

replies when the moderator asked:

They're still bright, still quick with the right answers to questions that have | By Lester ©. Nagiéy Sr. Nashville no social significance,

Comrade Tingldy “wig |

dition

He has been arrested 18.

Should Be in the White House"

down on the job, although 1 blame the President for his veto ©

pubeion, despite the opportunity he had ES of the United States. My Brown county

admiration tor the outstanding sen- and -more t ator goes to the gentleman from | tioners have signed petitions urging

| There is a statesman and a man |

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Letting The Cat Out of The Bag?

To brush off this threat, Mr. Wolcott ‘told reporters that congress has no intention of forcing tenants into the streets next spring. - If the housing shoriage is still bad, he said, rent controls won't be -permitted to expire Feb. 29, as scheduled. Well, could it be Mr. Wolcott is letting the cat out of the bag? The one-sided rent law, which brand"fshés “the threat of ‘eviction next spring over the tenant who refuses to give his landlord an immediate rent increase, was passéd under pressure of the real estate lobby,

REP: JESSE WOLCOTT makes some inRE I comments on the new rent law which he engineered through congress. The Michigan Republican advised tenants who feel their landlords aren't en-

titled to a 15 per cent rent increase to “git tight.” » ” ~ UT, under the law which Mr. Wolcott sponsored, such a tenant will face the possibility of an unlimited rent increase or eviction, come next March, unless he agrees to the rent boost now so he can get a longer lease,

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Hoosier Forum

detend to the death your. gn $ fo say it." —Voltaire "Vandenberg Makes Good Record,

ae with a word that you say, but | will

| his money. He has the Packing of us Brown county citizens. {

"Streetcar Patrons

. . I .. By HRT, Speedway - Are Disgusted Ones “1 suppose that by “(he time this is printed that congress will have gy sme Hamm, City ; adjourned and “its members gone home. _.I am’'shocked to see; fhe poor, My answer to “Disgusted” whose 1 bel jeve the Republicans ‘have fallen letter appeared in Wednesday's f the Times Forum regarding the fare raise controversy will be mostly tax reduction bill - | questions. The senators and representatives have slighted national defense, Quite naturally, disgusted. you including providing for universal military training. They have been, in sing the praises of your employer; iF many respécts, worse than the New Deal. (but let me 2% you: Loyal ‘as you As a Republican, I feel my party leadership has let me down. "1 are apparently wholly to your emdo not think Senator Taft has grown in stature as the result of this | ployer, who is it, please, that makes to thake a showing that ‘might your pay check possible? Is it the a oo | top executives or the more than or Pre nomination f desire such service, one nundred thousand daily pashan a thousand peti- sengers? Maybe you do not get far away Vandenberg. | that PSC grant thém such service. from Marion county. You would inot have to go very far away-—say Officials of

Indiana university (= 1 06 or four-dollar railroad fare and the Bloomington chamber of commerce officials, as well as many

—to observe better service. You could see free transfers, Sunday public spirited Bloomington citizens, ! believe that the Scenic Bus Lines

pass, express: service and take special “notice of this—the school should be permitted to pick up and | \agers are carried for one-half fare discharge passengers from. dOWN- |g, yng school season. ‘You would It 1s a shame!

record this congress has made

ing . him the

| Michigan, Senator

who should be in the White House. » » . "Scenic Bus Lines Aid Brown County"

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But | Transportation in- Brown county own Bloomington, (also see other service not in effect Sut he wanted to know “in .what | [has always been a vita] factor, and’ that the PSC does not- grant such... that invites more revenue for had moved.” And he was shocked by their | lone of the pioneering concerns has! transportation, service to the Scenic), company. This system I have

“Whom would vou like |

to vote for in 19487"

None of the ex-quiz kids named William Z. Foster or | and to Indianapolis.

Henry A. Wallace or showed the slightest interest in a | third party. One lad—"in a facetious vein,” Comrade Tinsley |

observes sadly didn’t even mention President Truman. choices-among Republicans Dewey,

sen! Well, the

moment,

things,

But the rest | They divided their Vandenberg and Stas-

did suggest Andrei Gromyko.

(The exclamation point is Comrade Tinsley's.)

comrade found that hard to swallow—for al

Then, he writes, he started thinking, and almost | of Bloomington at once he had the answer: including brains.”

“Money can buy a lot of These “middleclass children”

had been seduced by capitalism; doubtless by the $100 war

bonds they earned for being quiz kids. up “with a vested interest in things as they are.” But, Comrade Tinsley warns them, they'll pay up for

turning right have to learn

their college degrees, their quick minds and bright pasts, is taking in a world dominated by Deweys and Stassens and Vandenbergs and Tramans...and Harrimans and Dulleses

and Hoovers.’

Our view

the quiz kids will stay smart enough not to fall for‘a world dominated by

Discovery

HE treasury department's research analysts have come up with a profound discovery. telephone and telegraph services, they report, “probably reduce demand” This might be classified as a cautious mastery of the | obvious. It amounts to saying that, if people didn't have to pay a 25 per cent tax on long-distance calls and telegrams, they might make more calls and send more messages. Perhaps, in time, the treasury’'s researchers will get around to telling us what kind of tax possibly can fail to reduce demand for the thing taxed. may be too much to expect nek an mine worries constantly because the high cost of |

They had a

when they should have moved left: “They’ll for themselves what a nosedive the value of

is somewhat less gloomy. At least, we think,

Stalins and Molotovs. i

just | Federal taxes on

for those services.

been the Scenic Bus Lines. It has Bus Lines. It does not travel over|recently seen really caters to the | provided excellent bus service for any highway now traveled by t he! atone, | citizens coming to Brown county Greyhound Lines, and, would Boats] Do vou remember when we were In an effort ly serve the citizens of Brown coun- | eared cool off rides here for two to improve transportation for west- ty, who no longer can use the Illi- pico That “service appears to be | ern and southwestern Brown coun- Nois Central railroad to 80 (frozen up now—also the promise ty, the Scenic Bus Lines sought to Bloomington or Indianapolis. lof express service. Last year, I {obtain a franchise from rhe public! Gitigens are now “up in arms” think, the transit company vehicles service commission to extend Its goainst the PSC for denying them (carried announcements on double

service into Bloomington from In- the service of the Scenic Bus Lines. [der cards covering the “on ordianapolis, but has been turned It would seem that there is truly al der” plans for that speed-up servdown twice by that commission, on “Senumgambian in the woodpile” lice during rush hours. That espe-

the grounds that the Greyhound gomewhere that should be “aired.” cially fine idea too appears to be Lines afford adequate service out ray I. Allen, owner of the Scenic { frozen, Bus Lines, should fight this case to| You doubtless have heard CharThe fact is that hundreds of citi- the supreme court .to obtain his!ley McCarthy on the air. Talks

zens of western and southwestern rights as An American investor of Just like his boss doesn't he? rrr | BUL I do tegard your attitude

(of loyalty to your employer as being Side Glances — By Galbraith lquite in order. However, that word | | ‘Disgusted” belongs to the patrons. A \ “ nw» "Suggestions

‘For Better. Transit" | By Robert Stegimiller, 707 Shelby st. ! May I speak a few words through {the Forum both for and against [the Indianapolis Railways. Our street railway system is to be complimented on their equipment as it is far superior to that |of many other cities, However, with {this fine equipment they are still unable to give good service. If the following suggestions could {be. made actualities, I am’ sure | everyone would feel as I do that {their service would be worth a 10cent fare. First why not a loop bus service from Illinois and Squth streets east to East st, north to 10th and con- + finuing north on Central to 16th 'st., west to Illinois thence south to | South st. Then Central and Illinois {cars need not stop south of 16th st. [ We also peed crosstown lines on Rural, Sherman dr. and Emerson lave, east, and on 16th, 30th and {46th “sts., north,

nt en eR DAILY THOUGHT

; i people's buying bow

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| on the freshman from Indiana: {he is a | a regular fellow

| paign for the G.

The real estate lobby wullies no bones about this. In fact, it has been crowing about its “victory” in congress. + But Mr. Wolcott's statements are significant. It leads one to wonder whether this rent law wasn't just a gesture of appeasement to satisfy the landlord lobby and win the votes of the real estate men in the 1948 election. : Having sewed them up, the Republicans then could very well say to the real estate: interests just before rent t controls ¥xpire next February: “We gave you the chance to get a 15

(Ah Editorial)

per cent rent increase. Now we're going to extend the rent controls another year.” . ” . OF maybe Congressman Wolcott already has seen the handwriting on the wall if rent ceilings are lifted. For the housing shortage certainly isn’t going to be licked by next spring. And if rent controls are permitted to expire, thousands of tenants will face eviction with no place to go. Should this come to pass, the Republicans might very well find themselves with a housing problem of their own. They might have to move out of Washington.

THERE WAS ONLY ONE FRESHMAN from Indiana in the first session of the 80th congress, so 1 thought you might like a report on how he got along. As you know, he is Republican Rep. Edward A. Mitchell of Evansville. Briefly, he got along all right. > * : He took over about everything his predecessor, Rep. Charles M. Lafollette, left here—except LaFollette’'s New Deal ideas and his own very special LaFollette ideals, That is he took the extremely able Miss Emmaline “Pat” Rusche as his secretary, and also the efficient Miss Josephine Good, both from the LaFollette office staff.

“IIs a 'Regular’ FEE

THEN THE NEW. CONGRESSMAN and his wife, | Betty, moved into the LaFollette furnished apartment famed Westchester: The Mitchells wor pronipt approval from he other ‘members of the delegation and what is sometimes even more difficult—their wives ’ i Majority Leader Charles A. Halleck put- his okay For pretty largely “regular Republican” in addition to being Mr. LaFollette, who conducted a lost cause camO. P. nomination for senater last vear, is in Nuernberg trying war criminals. The difference in the voting record of these two Republicans from the pocket part of the state, which constitutes the eighth district; is that on all major issues Mitchell has followed the party leadership. During his latter days here, Charley LaFollette was almost sure to vote exactly opposite from Charley | Halleck. So there is a full team of nine Repub- | licans from Indiana in the house now and they all

IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, July 26.—On half a dozen fronts, efforts are now being made to determine the economic strengths and weaknesses of the United States.

The President has three committees at work on the subject under Secretary of Interior J. A. Krug, Secretary of Commerce Averell Harriman, and Chairman Edwin G. Nourse of the council of economic advisers. He sent”’to congress a mid-year economic report, which, coming when congress was about to adjourn, could get scant attention. :

Studies Provide Basic Information THE JOINT CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEE on the economi¢ report ignored completely the Presi-

: dent's first message sent to the capitol under the

ull employment act. Elsewhere in -corigress, the house committee on agriculture is completing long hearings, preparatory to writing anew {sym prograni next year. And the house ways and means committee has begun studies

" Editor's Note: This is the third of a series of five articles by Peter Edson on the record of the congress which was to adjourn today.

on a long-range tax policy which, in final analysis, must be based on the country’s economic condition. All these studies are tremendously important. For if the United Statés is to determine where it's going, it must, first learn where it is. the answer to either question today.

It is important to make these determinations for two reasons. First, to find out how much aid the United States can give Europe under the Marshall plan. Second, to find out what the United States wants to do at home for its continued growth and attainment of still higher standards of living. In" the session’ of congress just closing, the Republican and conservative Democratic majorities have not had to worry too much about unemployment

SAGA OF INDIANA

“HIS PERCEPTIONS were quick and accurace and that quality with a sound, though aot strong judgment, and a generous nature that could bey no unfair dealing in anything, made him the oes! speaker that congress ever had, not excepting Henry Clay or Nathaniel P. Banks, who ranked next to Him. i This was an editorial comment on Schuyler Colfax | the day after he died Jan. 13, 1883, ot a heart attack in the railroad waiting room at Mankato, Minn.

No Grounds for Impeachment THE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL on Jan. 14, 1885, | commenting or the death, said: “About three weeks ago, Mr. Colfax spent several days in the city. H2 bought $30000 worth of stock #f the Indianapolis bank, and the bank diregtors elected him a director. At his death his estate was valued at $150,000. Of his connection with the Credit Mobilier affair of 1872, the Indianapolis Sentinel of Jan, 14 1885 commented: “Mr, Colfax was implicated in the charge of corruption brought against several members of congress who had received shares of the “Credit Mobilier of America.” The judiciary committee of the house of representatives reported Feb. 24. 1873, de: claring there were no grounds for impeaching Mr Colfax. This report was accepted and nothing more could be done about the matter.” It is revealing to note in passing that Mr. Colfax

WORLD AFFAIRS .

PARIS, July 26.—The ‘Marshall plan is still far from understood by most of the people of Europe. Indications are that an overwhelming majority still suspect the United States is more eager to help Germany than to help France; Britain and other victims of the Nazis, and that European | security is secondary to ending the expense of German occupation. *

"ik of German Aid - INSTANCE, the newspaper Soir, credited with

Nobody really knows -

|DEAR BOSS . . . By Daniel M. Kidney Freshman Congressman Fitting Well

“play ball’ That leaves Mr. Mitchell with no political strikes on" him here. But it is hard to tell what he may encounter back home. For he fought the Republican mayor there and lost the primary. Most congressmen never mess in such matters. But Mitchell is an amateur politician who loves a fight. In fact he was once & champion amateur boxer, He ‘went into the navy durihg the war from his food business in Evansville. But when he found he was saddled with the business of supplying groceries instead of fighting, he went back to boot camp and came out of the war a lieutenant commander who led his men in underwater demolition forays so courageously. that just this week he was awarded a silver medal in ceremonies at the navy gun yard here,

An ‘extrovert who also is an idealist in his own

special manner, Mr. Mitchell is going back to In-

diana to fell What congress Has done to him. He

will address tne Evansville Kiwanis club first off and he has been rolling his speech around in his mind.

Pattern of Action

HE HAS LEARNED, he ‘said, that to bé’ a: congressman you must make up your mind about which of two courses you will follow. You can study the pfoblems as the facts are presented and then exercise your own best judgment, or you can keep one ear gued to the ground and find out first what the home folks are thinking and then vote their convictions—even if it is against your own best judgment. -Mr. Mitchell will tell] the Kiwanians that he has and will try to follow the first formula. course will make him. a real representative instead of a mere mail-meter. DAN KIDNEY.

. By Peter Edson

Republican Economic Policy Outlined

Employment has reached an all-time high of over 60 million jobs. In prosperity such as this, few people worry about anything. This boom has brought with it definite increases in price levels. The squeeze put on wages has been tremendous. While few people may admit it, the United States is actually suffering from a good dose

of inflation. This is its first real experience with the

disease, But if history is any teacher, spiraling of wages to meet prices and vice versa can end only in economic trouble.

In every U. 8. war—revolution, 1812, Civil, Spanish- °

American and world wars I and II—prices have gone sky high. But after the wars they have always gone down sharply, into a depression. The Republican philosophy today seems to be built on the belief that this time it isn't going to happen. the country has always gone back to approximately the same standard of living it had Before the wax began. Now the theory is that the United Statés is going on a higher standard of living.

Big Debt a Consideration THERE IS ONE GOOD REASON for wanting the U. 8. economy to continue for a time on a new,

- higher plateau of wage and price levels. It is based

on the fact that the U. 8. government debs is now $257 billion. Ten years ago it was thought that the country would be ruined if the debt ever got above $60 billion. It is purely a theory, but it may be that the only way to manage this debt and pay if off is in inflated dollars. To reduce prices and wages -by a third, to bring them back to prewar levels, would have the effect of making the national debt only that much bigger and harder to pay off. If a recession does come, its timing is important politically, If it comes Within the next year, Republican chances for a victory in 1948 will be lessened.. If it comes after 1048, the Republican victory may be short-lived.

By William A. Marlow

The ‘Credit Mobilier’ Charge Failed

was the first of four Indiana men—the others were Thomas A. Hendricks, Charles Fairbanks and Thomas R Marshall—-who became vice president of the United States. Only one state, New York with 10, has supplied more vice presidents, with Massachusetts match. ing with four. Before serving as vice president four years—18691873—Mr. Colfax had been in congress nearly 14 years. He served from December, 1855, to March: 1869, and was the first newspaper editor ever elected speaker. Mr. Colfax thus takes his place among a select group of men in Indiana and the nation.

Ancestor Was Washington's Aide MR. COLFAX lived in Indiana nearly half a century. His grandfather, William Colfax, born in Connecticut in 1760, was captain commandant of Wash‘ngton’s bodyguard, His maternal grandmother, Hester Schuyler, was a cousin of Philip Schuyler of Revolutionary war fame. Mr. Colfax was a posthumous child. His father, Schuyler Colfax Sr., died Oct. 30, 1822, several months before he was born March 23, 1823. For 14 years after 1841, Mr. Colfax was active in Indiana politics, He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1850. As a Republican, he was elected to the 34th congress which met in December, 1855. Here ne served for 14 years, the last six years us speaker. He became vice president March 3, 189.

. By William Philip Simms

Europeans Suspicious of U.S. Aid

America. But even in government circles a clear understanding sometimes seems lacking. fowever, if the American ‘position still ‘is not fully understood. over here it probably is not any one's fault entirely. Politics has much to do with it on this side of the Atlantic. ES

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