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Time for Decision

RV JSSIA’S veto of the plan to establish a permanent United Nations peace commission in the Balkans means that the issue between Greece and her hostile neighbors— Yugoslavia, Bulgaria and Albania—will be decided by force of arms, But the implications of the situation go far beyond that. The world’s peace machinery has been set aside by Moscow. The Soviets have made it clear they will allow United Nations to be nothing more than a debating forum when their interests are involved. And Soviet aggression has become global.

The United States is supporting Greece, furnishing her,

money, supplies and arms. Russi is in the opposite corner, | ostensibly only seconding heér stooge states but actually the! principal in this undeclared war against Greece. - This isn't war between the United States and Russia. But it is the next thing to it. The deadly parallel between this clash and the Spanish civil war, which served as the proving ground for world war II, is all too evident. ” ” ”

THE Russians aren't ready to fight—yet. If they were they would be out in front, instead of using the Yugo-| slavs and the Albanians as stalking horses. And even the Yugoslavs and their associates are not officially at war. So| far they may have done little more than supply the guerrilla forces opposing the Greek government. This suggests that so far the Russians have been feel ing us out, much as Hitler was sparring with Britain and France during the Munich days. ‘But Hitler pushed his luck too far, and the Kremlin should not be encouraged to make the same mistake by an appearance of weakness on our part. We have drifted into this near-crisis with the Russians while sincerely seeking an understanding with them on some basis that would square with our sense of decency and! justice. That effort has been futile,

THE peace has been sabotaged. The United Nations has been left a hollow echo of its great expectations, But all has not been lost by any means. American ‘might is unimpaired and unrivaled. The moral leadership of the peace-loving part of the world is ours, if we assume it. All we need to do is to take the initiative from the Russians and push our, own program of |. peace and reconstruction with the same assurance .and| determination that characterized our war effort, Prompt settlements should be made with Japan and in western Germany. A popular government should be established in South Korea. Then if real life can be blown into the Marshall plan, our part of the world should be well started on the road to recovery. By then it may dawn on the Kremlin that it is to Russia's interest to co-operate with and not make war on the rest of the world.

Joe Isn't Santa Claus

THE Soviet Union has announced it will export from io to 50 million bushels of wheat from .its 1947 crop. ‘Britain has been negotiating for 17 million bushels of Rusgian ‘wheat, but balks at paying a price above the world market, In the face of this, the Soviet puppet government in Poland has denounced as “unjust” a United States decision to eliminate the Poles from our European relief program this year. Poland, its spokesmen assert, will need a million tons of grain in 1947, The question naturally arises; why doesn’t Poland get its grain from its good friend, the Soviet Union? Why? Because we are giving American grain away, as a relief measure, while the Russians demand cash or goods for theirs. Soviet charity, if afly, is a one-way street running east—behind the Iron Curtain,

Sponsored Silence

A’ MATTRESS manufacturer and a radio station in Cincinnati have come up with a great idea. The station sells the time it is off the air—7 p. m. to 6 a. m.-~to the manufacturer, who sends listeners 11 hours of relaxation and restful sleep with his compliments and, of course, the hope that the sleep will be on his firm's product. Since radio has long had unsponsored. programs, sponsored silence doesn't seem too illogical, possibilities.

: those who like to read without broadcast disturbance.

And so on. y gold-plated broadcasting hours.

Packed, but Not Ready

government,

No Austerity Diet

to have a fancy wedding, with almost all the trimmings. se the athe have béen in them.

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And it has endless

A book store will buy an evening hour of silence for! Al movie house will sponsor two hours of quiet in the hope that they will drive restless householders tq his theater. Stillness may creep deeper and deeper into the

PRESIDENT JUAN PERON has just accomplished a ‘court-packing maneuver by installing four of his own hand-picked jurists on Argentina’s five-man supreme court. Thus he now has complete control of all branches of the

“The unfortunate thing about the whole procedure is that although Senor Peron has finished his packing, there are no indications that he is anywhere near ready to leave.

Ps ELIZABETH and Lt. Mountbatten are going rs won't be required to wear all their robes and

DA i Pa and the police ‘department, as printed in The Times, stuck in my mind. Surely The Times will

some more or PRO hoodlum vs. police news items unless hoodlums and troublesome drunks cease: violating the laws or until law enforcement ugencies beat it out of |them, even though it conveys a kind of deadpan attitude towards human beings. That attitude com. bines interest in people's with what seems comparative indifference by drunks and hoodlums toward the moral implications of people's behavior and law enforcement, I am not altogether interested in what hoodlums and troublesome drunks do and why they do it. I am particularly concerned with the badness, goodness or the social value of what they do. Here was a bad attitude for youngsters, especially those , delinquently inclined, who have lost faith in older adults’ values, to imitate. Hoodlums and troublesome drunks may or may not have been the product of delinquent adults or suffering but, to me, seem Dora of industry, intelligence and skill, {rather than the kind of experience

that lends beauty, ethical and law. |

behavior |

HOOSIER FORUM

Shall Our: Policemen Use - Clubs to o Quell Drunks?

. “I do not word io ot will def your right Voltaire.

Drunks Just Get What They Deserve

we wih to the death to say it"—

I take it, this same editor is the one who asks “What is wrong with the world today?” Referring to the questions asked by the United

! was cubby-holed and waiting for

+| Donald Tooley says. he doesn’t pay

‘irfod. You and I pay them, think-

St Hagionis, £8, 6. 3% 404 this the American

warm-up before they really work him over in jail. this the way of post-war America, a place where freedom

the G. 1's when they got back? From here it looks more like Naz | Germany. And the boss of these policemen | (or is it Gestapo) keeps mum, fearing his boys might take it the wrong way if he says anything. But the police inspector says something.

his boys to get whipped. The truth is, he doesn't pay “his boys” pe-

ing we'll get protection. And what do we get? Excuses, alibis, attempted justification for sadistic acts and in the end a wide sweep-

INVESTIGATION, ] Brewster Fine

ANYBODY who can't identify the odor rising from

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the political bones of President That's fair enough: It's the way th fang of the Democrats are tempted “Thu” they should think back to he orey of ment ip which they indulged back in the era. Further, while a sexton's job isn't one under any conditions, it is a necessary one. There's no hole deep enough or sacred enough to Justify the concealment of political venality.

What Price Victory? MOST PEOPLE recognize that under the pressure of war necessity, waste is not only inevitable, but that it is stupid and hazardous to kiss off a proposed | short-cut to victory because of expense, or because it seems fantastic. Nevertheless, when the tumult and the shouting die, the people are entitled to know how wisely or how foolishly—how honestly or corruptly— their money was spent. There's no telling what this committee will dig up

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to catch headlines or to soup up the show. The relevant fact which has emerged to date is that back in 1942—when we were losing the war to German submarines—a man named Kaiser up with two schemes to destroy, or circumvent the

ing white-wash of everything unsavory. Our new ‘mayor will have a tough | Job, but he should bé smart enough |

underwater menace. One was to build some baby flat-tops, but quick, from which planes could be launched to bomb the submarines. The other was

to know that the real trouble is '© Pan the ocean in huge wooden flying boats able at the top and that is where he | © carry adequate cargo loads.

should start when he cleans house, |

Mr. Kaiser got the brush-off at first, but he per-

abiding insight. Times readers will Press of the veterans of the Civill png that's what the taxpayers sisted—"putting the heat of hell” on everybody in find familiar ingredients «An combi. war. As the son of a Union soldier, | want for a change—a good clean Washington, as Secretary Krug expressed it—and

nations reported. Whenever a drunk enters a business establishment—even a lowly tavern--and creates’ trouble he knows what he is doing up to the |time he “passes out” and therefore is responsible for his acts Yh drunk, a person's true naure crops out. Whenever anyone, a or sober, strikes at or hits {a peace officer who is performing

{the duties the tagpayers pay him |

|to do, it is time for the officers to beat him within an inch of his life Police Chief Howard 3andess and Police Inspector Donald Tooley were right in defending the actions of members of the police departfont, Especially was I interested in’ Inspector Tooley's statement: “Policemen when attacked by anyone they have arrested are not expected to lose the fight or get beaten up. The state has provided them with a club for their own pro- | tection.” and I say use it and cid | the city of hoodlums and troublesome drunks,

. By Al T. McPherson Why should the police go to all the trouble of taking drunks down to the police station to beat ‘em up? I've got a suggestion. Why not equip all our policemen with blacksnake whips and have! them beat up the drunks wherever | they find them? That would save a |" lot of time and trouble taking them down to the station, and besides it would be an example to everybody lelse on the street not fo get drunk. Bure, I know they'd get one once ih a while that was not drunk, but it's my guess they do that now, so what difference does it make? And if they object to it, beat them some more. That'll show 'em not to talk back to-a oop.

. LY JRT, Ar Think it'll be safe to come to Indianapolis and buy a drink? I don’t.

By T. M, ony . That kind of police pertolm- | ance is . .~ an outrage to our whole | city.

heading toward trouble. But it's about it.

A lot of writers and ne have been warning the re

seem to have made much The real estate, men criticism. They they are being picked on.

obviously needed, in blind “everything must continue j has been. This. is too bad. Sure rise tomorrow, there will

It's doubly regrettabl

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tressing circumstances.

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means. Many of them

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eviction.

nuisanees. with the landlord” —as

tremes of unfairness.

a lot of abuse. . Also,

frozen. . Everybody else

also was entitled to one. But, on the other hand,

T'S always unpleasant to see a friend

seldom you can do anything If you try to caution him, he usually pays no attention; resentful and you lose a friendship.

ests or lobby—or whatever you call them —that they're headed for grief. But none

they seem to have set their minds against any change, no matter how small or how

the real estate men unless they wake up and get more responsive to public opinion.

estate men really have a pretty good story and have been the victims of some dis-

ENANTS aren't all angels, by any

ty arrogant and defiant because they were being protected against rent raises and Some have been destructive of property; others have been downright In their desire to ‘‘get even

termed—many tenants have gone to ex-

Real estate owners have had to take ” at a everything else was going indie all factors that have to do with maintain. ing rental property—their income was’

raise, and in many instances the landlord \

off American citizens have also been havSova mE oF ties ae

I would like to express my opinion. | Since the devil does own and operate the liquor industry throughout {the world, he just naturally con-| 'trols, through and pursuant to the liquor power, the domestic and | foreign policies of every nation, and | the very last thing he wants is “peace on earth “and good will among men.” The answer to the question “what is the chief trouble with the world today?” which reads, “lack of religious training” came] nearest telling the whole truth. 1 hope the police will continue’ to beat a little. sense into all the drunks they must deal with; it is the only form of advice they can understand. The courts, politicians and newspapers seem bent on making it harder for our officers to enforce the law. ~ ~ | By LC. Johnson, City The glimpse we have just had of what sometimes happens to a | helpless prisoner in the hands of our police force makes our blood boil. Even worse is the fact that {nothing has been done about it, {and apparently nothing will done. Why are not these gullty| men Slcipiingg? » er GR T, hd . Hitler's policemen used to beat ‘the people they arrested. Do e¢ want to be like that ,.,, ? » . . By An Ex.G. L, Broad Ripple I'll never forget how the Japs treated prisoners they took. ... We don't want any here... . » ~ . By L. Wilmer Zwick, City Tooley was right to stand by his men when they were in trouble.. but he ought to crack down on them himself for what they did.

DAILY THOUGHT

Man goeth forth into his work | and to his labour until the ‘evening. —Psalms 104:23,

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toll for it; if food, you must toil |for it; and if pleasure, you must toil Ifor it: toil is the law.—John Ruskin.

life. It has

mood: or he gets A wspapers lately

al estate inter-

impression. have resented

ke the attitude that

Worst of all, insistence that ust as it always as the sun will

be ‘trouble for

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have been pret-

the process is

time when,

was getting a the great mass

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IF you want knowledge, you must |

ND here—unfortunately selves—the real estate interests have stepped in with eyes that refuse to see and ears that refuse to hear, and have stubbornly opposed every effort of government to relieve the housing shortage. Granting that many of those efforts

house.

top scheme,

Victim of Beating ‘Could Win Damages

By An Indianapolis Attorney The maltreatment of persons un der arrest, regardless of whether they are guilty or innocent, is forbidden by every code of law and

decency. Police officers are permitted |

to use violence only in self-defense from attack, and then only to the

‘ ‘extent necessary to protect their

own lives and persons and to prevent escape of their prisoner. The policeman who makes an arrest is not the judge of a man’s | guilt, nor is he allowed to fix the penalty for guilt.. He only makes the charge, and confines the prisoner until a proper trial can be had. Anything beyond that is criminal

in itself, on the part of the police-|

man, _ There is no distinction minds of most people, nor in the law, between hoodlums in uniform and hoodlums in ordinary garb. The attack on a person arrested tor intoxication reported recently, and largely sustained in court, is in my opinion assault and battery, even

men on duty, and they could, and I believe shauld, be prosecuted on this charge. Also their victim has what appear to be ample grounds for | filing a suit for personal injuries against the men involved. the liability of the city itselfy for

is not at all beyond doubt. No citizen can condone drunkenness nor disorderly conduct on the

‘| streets or in public placgs. The law

provides a proper penalty for such conduct.” It also provides a proper penalty for the very much wirse conduct of a police officer who beats or otherwise abuses a man who is under arrest. In my opinion both laws should be vigorously enforced. # -

By). CL, ony 5 Getting drunk is bad . . . but what these policemen did is plenty WOI'S€. « + »

made many people so irritable

and resentful that they are in'a dangerous

for them-

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though it was committed by police- |

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damages resulting from their action, |

finally got President Roosevelt interested in his flatThe President subsequently overruled. the navy and ordered the boats built. The result was a happy one: The flat-tops broke the back of; submarine warfare. The flying-boat scheme didn’t turn out so happily, {but in this instance, as in the case of the flat-tops, |it appears Mr. Kaiser had some support at the White | House. It is not clear whether President ‘Roosevelt /interested himself in the original plan to build the

DEAR BOSS .

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fee oy John H. Some

Meanwhile, we read an obscure little item to effect that the federal government has called off its campaign against draft dodgers who have made it impossible to apprehend them because of aliases, phony addresses and like devices. Sa one wonders if Mr. Kaiser and Mr. Hughes might not feel more comfortable now about things if they had put on false whiskers, assumed aliases, given fake addresses and “stood in bed” during the war, » » . P. 8. Another scheme President Roosevelt approved for winnnig the war was the atom bomb. Like the flat-tops it also worked.

. By Daniel M. Kidney

Look What Big Steel Is Doing

| DEAR BOSS:

Today I came across a priceless quotation from |Bantayana. It reads: “Those who cannot remember the past are Tondemned to repeat it.” That, so it seems to me, is exactly what we are doing, Big Steel has just announced new price boosts which will up the cost of everything, bring another round of increased wage demands and continue the inflationary spiral which every honest economist has predicted that in the end can result in nothing but disaster for us. After President Benjamin F, Fairless of the United States Steel Corporation signed the surrender to Dictator John L. Lewis he sailed off for a vacation in Honolulu. When President Truman pleaded that the wage {increase to miners not be reflected in coal or steel price increases, Mr, Fairless from far-away Hawaii was reported as saying that is exactly what his {company intended to do. Now it is explained that the steel price boosts are not predicated on the new coal contract. But the net result is that the steel barons, who first used 'a postwar wage increase to get an OPA price increase, |have done it again. So that seems to me to make

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{what Santayana said make very sound sense.

Finished Economy? w THE UNORTHODOX Henry Kaiser told a senate investigating committee this week that steel is sufficiently organized to prevent. building of new plants to meet uriprecedented demands. Throughout the Willkie campaign in 1940 the one thing that the G. O. P. candidate stressed was the alleged Roosevelt New Deal attitude that this country’s: economy was finished and we should not {continue to expand. Now It seems that steel, the | country’s most basic industry so far as manufacturing is concerned, has adopted the policy that the man from Indiana preached against. That the stockholders don't exactly share the

The ie Real Estate Business Is Asking For Trouble .

iiave been bungling and unsound, the intent at least was good. And the real estate men, who best know the real estate " * business, might have helped to correct and guide and modify them. Instead, they have given the appearance of unbending and unreasoning opposition to any change. In this they have been like the union leaders, who might have escaped the Taft- " Hartley bill had they been willing to admit that a union ever could be wrong, and that

management view that this is a good 1 term attitude was shown by the fact that steel oe fell

"When the price rise of $5 to $7 a ton was announced. :

~ Low production at high profits used to be

- considered un-American. For the thing that made

the U. 8. A. what it is today was just the reverse procedure. Mass production in America was predicated upon high wages, plus fair but not fabulous profits. And the ufit cost price reduction was one of its constant goals. That made every worker a possible customer for all the mass-production ftems of merchandise. It took considerable courage and imagination, on the part of Henry Ford and other such industrial pioneers to establish such a system where prosperity was to be shared by all the people. It was anti-monopoly for sure. It was genuine free enterprise.

They Didn't All See It

TRUE, SOME OF the monopolies, such as power companies, hadn't adopted that view. They were

protected by law from competition and kept rates

up and consumption down until the Tennessee Valley Authority was created as a yardstick to test what could ‘be done for farmers and ordinary folks in the power field. Post-TVA times have brought a complete

' reversal in the power field. All the private companies

‘preach expansion now and are helped along by such governmental aids as thet Rural Electrification Administration. Since the steel magnates have apparently fost some of the imagination that makes for dynamic force in the business field, maybe they need a yardstick.

Should public oninion became consolidated sufficiently - enough, however, maybe it could apply a sort of .

steel rule to the steel rulers and see that they suffer slightly instead of all the rest of us suffering a great deal. It seems to me that any economics which endangers prosperity and might end in a disastrous depression is playing right into the hands of those Stalinists who hope it will come soon.

By E. T. Leech

(Editor The Pittsburgh Press)

some modest reforms might be in order. Or the utility interests, or the Stock Exchange—which took the same attitude until the people finally slapped them down. Just ‘one little incident shows the fanaticism of the real estate men’s opposition to change. Senator Taft of sponsoring socialism—because he’s one of the authors of a housing bill which involves public assistance. When you're so dead set against change that you look on Senator Taft as a Socialist for suggesting it, then—well, words fail me.

PRIVATE enterprise in the building industry has been unsuccessful over the years in providing low-income housing. Senators Taft, Wagner and Ellender propose government help in this field. The real estate men are solidly against it. They fought for scrapping all rent con-

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trols—knowing that this might mean un-"

conscionable raises in many cases. ‘They fought to end all building con-

trols—knowing .that this would send ‘scarce materials into many structures lose ;

needed than hones. They have opposed every form of Hove ernment assistance or direction. They have even opposed a central housing agency to

prevent overlapping and to make any ° such efforts more efficient and sensible.

They shout for private enterprise. Yet

recently in Pennsylvania they: fought

legislation which would let insurance com-

They have even accused

panies—which have vast funds crying for

investment — use them in building projects. Having failed to provide houses and to modernize practices in the construction and - financing of building, they have fought every effort of other interests— public or private—to do these things.

This can’t go on. 16 will load tora ox > plosion. The ‘American people arg going 0. geChutin a ents scum yu cr fo

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