Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1947 — Page 12

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"PAGE 12 Te Welnwioy, A Aug. 6, 1947 ROY W. HOWARD WALTER LECKRONE HENRY W, MANZ ' President Editor Business ‘Manager

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Give LAght and the People Wili Find Thew Vwn wey

A Pat on the Wrist

E find it hard to follow the thinking of our police administrators in their disposal of the case against Claude Kinder. Accused of furnishing “protection’” to gamblers and racketeers, Capt. Kinder is given a hearing, apparently judged guilty—and reduced to sergeant. It doesn’t, somehow, make sense. Either this man was guilty—or he was not guilty. If he was not guilty he should not have been punished. If he was guilty he is unfit to be on the police force at all.

A SCRIPPS-HOWARD NEWSPAPER

HERE have been repeated charges of police corruption in recent months. Sometimes the charges have been proved, and policemen have been found guilty of accepting bribes—a felony—and other offenses, in departmental trials. Then—instead of the prison term and the fines and the loss of even the right to vote which the law prescribes for those who accept bribes—the offenders are given a reprimand, or a few days suspension, or allowed to “resign” briefly under fire and then be quietly reinstated later on. * Corruption is not likely to be rooted out of the police department so long as those responsible for is administration take a “boys will be boys” attitude toward this kind of offenses. : And if Sgt. Kinder has been found guilty of selling out his own police buddies—as his reduction in rank would indieate—how do you suppose the morale of an honest patrolman working under his command is holding up, these days?

Give It a Fair Trial

ENATOR PEPPER and other Democrats are proposing wholesale changes in the La Follette-Monroney reorganization act adopted last year to make congress mare efficient. The move has disturbing possibilities. Supporters of the law—and Senator Pepper was one of them—should remember there still are many im congress who would be glad to ditch any or all of the refopms except their own pay increase. These foes of modernization would be certain to seize any opportunity to try to weaken or destroy the law. Reopening the act to ame nt would provide the chance they have awaited. ! Senator Pepper says the law's success up to now is “questionable” and it should be improved “in lots of ways.” The act has been on trial for only seven months. All in all, its performance has been neither as good as its authors had hoped, nor as bad as its enemies had predicted. But where there have been failures, the fault has not been with the law, but with its administration.

THE act provided a business-like approach to fiscal policy —a legislative budget which would strike a balance between income and outgo. It failed because the two houses never were able to agree on the amount to be trimmed from Mr. Truman's budget. —* Again, the law reduced the number of regular committees from 81 to 84. But this effort to eliminate overlapping functions and cumbersome operation was weakened by creation of scores of subcommittees and independent investigating groups which the act aimed to discourage. Provisions for skilled assisfants were abused by appointments of political hacks and patronage hangers-on. The prohibition against secret committee sessions was violated repeatedly. If congress is sincere about improving its performance, it has plenty of law to support it. If is isn’t, amendments won't help. Fortunately, the Republican leadership has no enthusiasm for the Pepper move. Senator Taft, policy committee chairman, and Senator Wherry, party whip, say the experience of another session is needed before revisions should be considered. We agree that congress should use caution, may undo what gains have been made.

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Need for Reassessment

HE municipal budget for 1948 has been submitted to the city council and now is being studied. If the budget is approved, expenditures next year will be $16,132,000, or $589,400 greater than this year. The city tax rate itself, however, would be $1.93 per $100 of taxable valuation, a decrease of 10 cents: Reason for the lower rate is that the value of taxable property has risen about $24 million over that on which the current rate was based. Without that.jump, the rate would have been about $2.20, according to the ¢ity controller. « The «cut. made in the rate by inclusion of additional property suggests anew the importance of a general reassessment program which would spread the tax burden more

equitably and which undoubtedly would reduce tax rates.

No Fair

N honorably discharged dog from the famed K-9 corps got in trouble at Peekskill, N. Y., for nipping Boy Scouts, chewing other dogs and making himself a neighborhood nuisance. This dog, named Tige, did two and a half years’ sentry duty in the Nebraska theater and returned as gentle as ever, according to his owner, a woman. “But‘it's just that he hasn't a pretty face and might be taken as mean,” _ she added. That is the sort of thing that calls for tolerance, but the court sentenced Tige to be confined to quarters for the rest of his life, What we rue about the episode, however, is that therheadline over the news story referred to Tige as a “K-9 Vet.” We thought ‘headline writers had quit stigmatizing veterans asa class ‘just because ‘one of their number went wrong. And another thing, these

are dog days.

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Fear Blocks Recovery

(GARDN ER COWLES, who accompanied Wendell Willkie on his famous wartime tour, has returned from another global flight to report that Mr. Willkie's “one-world” idea is buried ‘“‘deep under growing economic chaos and Russian obstruction.” Inflation is destroying savings and wiping out the middle class,

THE trend is "ova statism in one form or another—Socialist, Communist or Fascist. Everywhere there is fear of Russian expansion and Communist infiltration. Talk of a third world war is universal. It is a gloomy picture, and probably not overdrawn. If we want the democracies of western Europe to remain free and independent, they must be given substantial aid to restore their productivity, and we must act now, “whether Russia likes it or not,” in Mr. Cowles’ opinion. “Only heroic statesmanship and a bold plan of lending and giving generous amounts of material aid and industrial know-how from the United States, allocated with great wisdom, can prevent a complete world-wide collapse,” he 'concludés in an article in Look magazine. But the world cannot be righted simply by more bol, generous and wise giving and lending on our part.

(An Editorial)

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We suspect too many people abroad are thinking of American aid in terms of a huge handout when they ought to be doing something for themselves. Moreover, even while knowing that Russia is working to defeat recovery, too many nations are afraid to join in a common recovery program because it may offend Russia. The respohse to the Marshall plan, after the initial burst of enthusiasm, hasn't been too encouraging. First the Soviets had‘to be consulted. Then serious -dissension arose over the part to be played by Ruhr industry. Now our motives are being studied. We have made a sweeping proposal to Ef®ope. But until it is accepted, we must wait, and recovery must wait.

R. COWLES recalls that in 1940 Mr. Willkie repeated again and again: “Only the productive can be Strong; only the strong can be free.” That applies to America as viel as it does to the nations of Europe and Asia. One-sided giving can weaken-us without strengthening those we seek to help. There can be no more piecemeal aid which does not contribute to reconstruction. Our resources will not stand the strain. We must remain solvent if we are to be strong and. free. must be our first consideration.

Self-preservation

Hoosier Fai

"l do no} agree with a word that you say, but | will defend Yo the death your right to say it."—Voltaire.

State Should Really Help

Veterans Solve Housing By L. 8, Carrollton ave. Why don't the state of Indiana give money to the ex-G.I1'’s and let them build a home? Or get a contractor to build these homes for us? Other states are doing it this way and it would put a lot of people to work, I always herd that Indiana was a rich state. .But maybe that doesn’t mean money. Should though, with all these taxes for everything. My husband spent six long hard years in the service, like so very many others, Now all we have is a two-room apartment (lucky perhaps) with roaches and fleas, no bath tub, Every time a washing is done, it's heat the water on the stove and hang the clothes in the kitchen to dry. some experience and how's one to

This goes on every other day as we have a month old baby. Theyre nave experience if they join the not too hard to dry now, but this|Service right tout of high school to winter will be something else. Sure |keep this “Grand Old Country Free.” is a lovely way to.start a baby in| Next time there's a war, I hope life. Not oyr fault, we've tried and people will remember this time. tried to find something ‘else. We'd| It will do no good to write this as leave this beautiful state of Indi-|we are poor people, but if I had ana if we had enough money to/money I'd have some power. go on. I'm very unhappy over it all.

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Gambling, Stop. Fuss

By P.EJ., N. Alabama St.

Since the Hoosier Forum seems a good place to let off steam and express your own opinion on most sub-

to the rest of them.

| jegts, I have decided to add my kick

My pet peeve at the present is at the newspapers, city officials and the

people who are trying

so hard to

stop gambling in Indianapolis. My ideas on gambling may be all wrong, but it is my privilege to give

them, so here goes.

In my book gambling is just a football that the politicians, newspapers and Church Federation are kicking around for obvious reasons. The newspapers, being hard up for good news items, expose some gigantic lottery operating wide open.

And then the Church

Federation,

needing something to do, adds their kick and the poor politicians and police are right smack in the middle.

It's my belief that

they want

gambling to continue, but with the heat on they have to make a few arrests to make it look good and calm things. down. ‘Then the gamblers

continue their cases in

court until

the charges are eventually dis missed. What good does all this beating {around the .bush do? It takes the | police away from their regular. jobs which naturally weakens this city's

Sixty years ago when I was wash day around our bi ing day; , Wednesday was sewing and mending (or Sally's day): Thursday was a kind of mid-week rest day, but so far as Mother was concerned it might just as well have been crocheting day. Friday was cleaning day, and, €f course, Saturday

Receives $1.50 a Day

SALLY RECEIVED $1.50 a day (and two meals) and furnished her own tools. She also brought her EE stamp of authenticity—if for no other reason than the fact that the plots of most of them grew out of he on which she herself, or somebody pretty close to her, had shared or suffered. One Wednesday night, at the supper table, Sally sprung what I have always considered the best story of her repertoire. This time Sally established its

authenticity by saying that the story she was about

to tell revolved around her brother Sam. Sam, riding late éne night in the Belgnborhood of

REFLECTIONS Cupid mpales G.I.

TUNIS, Aug. 6.—There is one relic of the late war who has escaped wide notice, and I propose to give him his due. He is the war groom, who has given up his native land for love. He has returned to the country of his bride because the little woman was unhappy in America, England or whatever. You will find little knots of them wherever you go—some living with their in-laws, some trying to make it on their own, and none of them very rich or happy. I have met them all over Africa, and only one, a forgl¥ "pilot, seems content with his lot. And he has plenty of mother-in-law anguish, because the old lady is a widow and runs the business.

Back Home to In-Laws THERE 1S A CLUB of returned war grooms in Algiers. They curse the climate—which is milder than New York in summer—they curse the French, they curse the Arabs, and they curse Cupid. But they stick steadfastly to their little French wives, who found that cattle ranch in the Bronx or the baronial tenement in London not to their liking.

the bad time a lot of transplanted girls have had back in the states. Post-war America has been something less than a Hollywood dream to the thousands of women who thought of the U. 8. only in terms of nylons, chewing gum and nightclubs. But what makes the groom minority unusual is that some of the men felt seriously enough about their wartime romances to toss over their homeland to keep peace in the lodge. The main beef of these dislocated aching hearts is that there is no business opportunity. for an American in French Africa. That is not quite correct—there is plenty of business opportunity if they were free to operate, but restrictions and cross-blocks by French bureaucracy work steadily against the American. Prom what I've seen this is true. The Casablanca area is relatively free to American enterprise, since

IN WASHINGTON

WASHINGTON, Aug. 6.—A great deal has been written about the activity of the swarm of lobbyists who hover over congress. Veterans on Capitol Hill say that seldom has there been such persistence coupled with such boldness on the part of the pressure boys. The reorganization act adopted a year ago required lobbyists to register with congress, listing the groups they represented and their salaries, To date about 850 lobbyists have complied with the law. What is more, the statute provides a fine of $5000 or imprisonment for not more than a year, or both, for failing to register. A year’s test has shown, however, that there is a serious defect in this provision. It's a defect, that is, if the law was really meant to put on record the lobbyists and their connections, Nothing is said in the law about initiating action against lobbyists who

fail to register. Applications Flood Congress 8 IS how it has worked out in practice. At least 20,000 applications for registration blanks have come to the senate and the house from those who apparently believed in the first instance that they came under the terms of the law and were required to register. Some unions asked for up to 50 blanks. But the total of registration blanks returned filled out is less than 5 per cent of the number originally applied for. Here is an example that ties in with today’s head-

WORLD AFFAIRS . Red Tape Delayed

GENEVA, Swijgerland, Aug. 6~Thanks to United States army and military government red tape, the United Nations special committee on Palestine played a frustrated rolé as the most distinguished group of displaced persons anywhere in Europe. Secretariat executives attached to the Palestine inquiry committee have been batting their heads vainly for almost a week against a wall of buckpassing, refusal to accept responsibility and confusion looming higher and more formidable than Mt. Blanc.

Army Blocks Transportation’

By Fokon Scherrer

"|Ghost Hitchhiker “Still Thumbs Rides:

. By Robert C. Ruark

This is, I suppose, a small measure of revenge for -

" & garage or restaurant, and never getting it. I doubt

By Marquis Childs

Lobbyists Just Foil to Register

. By Nat A. Barrows

Settle |

; + Suspect steadily and carefully to avoid the treacherous chuck Chase Th holes between Irvington and Indianapolis at the time. PRINCETON Even so, he knew that the girl could not possibly have P)—Roy T he escaped without his knowing it. Stricken with terror Md auto Te he didn’t know what to do next. Finally, however, on open charge: he pulled himself together, determined to see the killed a farm cc thing through. ’ grudge” and the Man Opens Door Ya Shir ae he HE at the addrdss the girl had given

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him and, after a dazed moment, up to the house and rang the bell. After several ringings, a only Bee weary-looking man epened the door ‘and asked him to ous breakdown. Sam had a chance-to tell his story, the old man went modest farm hon to the sideboard and fixed up a stiff drink of whisky. with his unmarri Without a word of explanation, he handed it to Sam. and Mr. and Mrs. The old man didn't bat an eye when he heard of both 55. Sam’s adventure. Hardly a month passed, he said, Came Ho without a visit late at night from some bewildered He shot the far young man who told the same story. 5 after he became Yes, he thought he could identify the girl. Un. Mr. Bateman “ci doubtedly, she was his daughter who, five years ago, Monday night. N had been killed by a train at the Audubon railroad '

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crossing. . Sheriff James When Sally finished her gruesome story, it left us Turpin’s sister ap all so stunned that nobody said a word. Father, I shots. recall, was the first to break the silence. In a most He sald his «

matter of fact way and utterly unmindful of the story's spiritual content, Father opined that Sam serially deserved more than one drink of whisky.

urgent call from for help but thal short. Found Dead Deputies who nm two miles northes why the call was Turpin lay dead She had been st and her head al a butcher knife. Sheriff McDon unable to run fo a broken ankle si

Grooms in Africa

French Morocco gives extra-territorial rights to the U. 8. and we do not bow to the French protectorate. But otherwise, in Algeria and Tunisia, there is a concerted effort to downhold our influence along the

African coast. “ dent. She mans Every sort of technical obstacle is tossed in front the telephone but of the foreigner—meaning non-Frenchman-—who tries made the call. to heave a little lusty enterprise into the rich export Shoot ( field that is North Africa today, As a recent victim Deputies chase of that bureaucracy, I can testify that it is potent. #2 his car. Tin

After a week of fighting futilely for a Tunisian visa— | a cute technicality of which the French consuls | abroad are not aware—I was ready to burn down the prefecture and murder the prefect. The American is treated stiffly and with: deep suspicion in the French-held territory, because of two things. The Arab would love to see-the Ameri- ° cans take over the country—after, of course, a certain amount of bloodletting to work off old grievances. 4 And many a colonial Frenchman, thinking that France will loose its footing in Africa, hopes that the Yanks will come in, if only to save his neck from 4 the Arabs. i I didn’t mean to stray away from my lovesmitten | expatriates into politics, but politics is at the bottom of their grief. There is so much back-bristling at the moment that they now impound cameras on the flight from Algiers to Tunis. And Lord knows what vou'd find to photograph, except maybe goats, in between the two cities.

Dismal Economic Future Ahead 80 THERE YOU HAVE my prisoners of love— hamstrung by politics, harassed by in-laws, and living from hand-to-mouth. - But they are so thoroughly skewered on Cupid's harpoon that they stay on and on, always hoping to get that import license or that permission to open

custody after sho in order to stop chase was throu business section. Turpin operate business here be; later bought a sin ver. Neighbors nervous breakdov returned here se to recuperate,

Boone Coun Set Institute

Times St: LEBANON, Ind nual institute school teachers w Junior High Sch beginning at 8:4f Paul 4W. Nicely tendent, said the teaching vacancie include a woman £1.s physical edt tie high school tewn Two iuby tary teachers a ana fourth gras ington township s ond grade at Ady also ss lacking at Er —————————

if they'll ever wriggle off the hook and come home. Love strikes hard in the Mediterranean. %

lines. Representatives of the leading airline companies lobbied furiously during thé last session both | wr and against the “chosen instrument” bill which would provide a single monopoly for U. 8. overseas i air operation. The activity of these men was fairly well known. They have been frequently referred to as lobbyists. Yet an examination of the record shows ¥ that not one of them is Tegistered with congress as | a lobbyist. g The law says specifically that “any person whe : shall engage himself for pay or for any consideration for the purpose of attempting to influence the “passage or defeat of any legislation . . . shall, before do~ | ing anything in furtherance of such object, Tegister { with the clerk of the house of representatives and | the secretary of the senate. ., .”

Analyze List of Lobbyists ANALYSIS of the statute in the Yale Law Review expresses the belief, however, that corporation executives would have to register even though lobbying was only one of their duties. ‘The department of justice is just now analyzing the list of lobbyists who have complied with the law. A law hat anyolls an conveniently nuts is HE worse than no law at all, § When congress comes back, the provision covering | lobbyists can be tightened. Means can be for enforcing the law. As it stands, it is li more than a well-meaning gesture. Such , usually end by making government and the laws. makers look pretty foolish, -

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The army said it “needs all its planes” and co not help out. Result was that Alexander decided # go to Berlin and appeal personally to Gen. Lucius Dy: Clay. Only available air route was via London. The! in London Alexander is trying to charter a plane from the British Overseas Air Our: ab a cost of shot $200 each for the 27 diplomats, and American newspaper correspondents pet to visit the D. P, camps. UNSCOP members | told by B. O. A. C. aly mat Bar cath on 4 line.

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